The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1852, Page 4

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The yon half past ten o'clock (0 mortow morning. The New Youx Weerry Hevaxp, printed in French and English, will be pub Yihed at half past nive o'clock, Single copier, in wrap- Evrepesn mails will close i yere, eixpenee. The Rew ‘The great feature in tho United States Senate, yesterday, was the debate on the amendment of Mr. Douglas to the River and Harbor bill, proposing to guthorize the various States to lovy tonnage duties for the improremeut of their different chaanely of navigation. The contreversy between Truman Smith and Demglas, at one time, was particularly gharp, the word “false” being freely used; and, throughout, it was cutting and severe on both sides. ‘Pde proposition was fivally rejected by seventeen to ‘twenty five. Numerous other smendments wore dispased of, and at nearly ten o'clock the commit- tee rose, the bill was reported te the Senate, ond the body adjourned—every xe being greatiy fa- tigued and excessively hungry. Asoording to our xpecial correspondent, the cppenents of the bill are determined to talk against it till the close of the acstion, and thus compel it to go ever with the un- finished business. Should it be put to a vote to-day, the struggle would, doubtless, be very eloso, owing to the fact, that its most ar friends have com- pletely overlodded it with amesdments—indeed, they have piled so much weight upon it, that it is extremely preblematical whether it would carry, avy hew. The Civil and Diploma’ ie Appropriation bill oeeu- pied tho attention of the Sevate during tho early part of yesterday. Among other amendments aqreod to wes one raiging the salaries of ali clerks in the departunents, who reccive between $1,200 aud $2,000, ten per eent—thoze who receive over the lest named sum are to have five per cent additional. Tue President yesterday transmitted to the Senate all the official correspondence relative to the Lobos Isiauds dispute. It is understood that the instrue- tions to Commodore McAuley were not seat in, but will be prior to the adjournment. Business commenced in the House of Reprosentie tives, yesterday, with a debate as to what disposi- tion should be made of the Senate bill for the recurity of humen life on board of stcam vessels. From preecnt indications, it is feared this measure will not pass this sersion, notwithstanding the ro- cent wholesale destruction of life occasioned by the burning of the Menry Clay sud the sinking of the Atlantic, not te mention the frequent ¢ sions, &c , on the weatern waters, by which thousands of persons are annually destroyed. Congressmen are juet political capital to pay attention to the wants of tho people. Tbe House, yesterday, by the enormous vote of 142 to 28, suspended the rules in order to allow Mr. Olds to present a resolution asking for the appoint- mont of a committee to investigate the rumors con- corning the allowance of supposed fraudulent blex- ican claims, including that of Dr. Gardiner, and the eonnoction of Secretary Corwin, 28 counsel, &c., in the last named case. After a short discussion, the resolution was passed ; so, there are now tro committees at work in this matter—the other being from the Senate—and between - them, it is hoped they will be able te bring ont all the facts in the ease, and expose Galphinism, (if they chould dis cover it, no matter in what form,) in all its politi- eal and financial trickery. The reports of these committees will be looked for with intense interes, by the people throughout the country, but it is hardly probable that they-will be seon till the next eossion. After the adoption of an amendment ndred and fifty-eight thousand de renting lars to liquidate cumers, the House passed the Occan Postal bill. res were aleo parsed for the relief of the widow , end the orphans of Captesin erve that Mrs. Worth is oaly to ndred and sixty doliars @ year; the uable services render y lamented hu ur General Worth, nd should have prompted our representatives to give her at loast twice this sum nth gut House Appropriation Dill closed the day's work. We publish elsewhere ail the addit 2} informa- tion that has been gathered relative to the destruc- tion of the Atlantic Ivis reported that some fif- tecn more bodies baye been recovered, upon whom there are no marks by which they can be identified. ath Again we are called upen to record the deaths of | probably twelve or fifteen persons, aud the scalding of thirty others, by the explosien of « steamer on thio western waters. Bee the telegraphic dospatch, giving the brief particulars. When will our repro- sentatives in Congress lay nside their political dis- putes, and pace the Senate bill for the suppression of theve awful occur: bi Some intere cer the telegraphic head. The whigs and democrats of Philadelphia are busily engaged in selecting tLeir candidates for the approaching election. An eivetion for a member of Congress, in place of the Humphrey Marehall, who has been appointed joner to China, will take place in the Seventh disisict of Kentucky, on the 2th of No- vember The whige of Boston held a convention dest evening, at which both Scott and Webster wore a@hosen to attend the State Convention. By telegraph, we have accounts of two or three guicides of @ rather singular character. In Ken- ducky, last week, two young sisters deliberately | ssicd their hands together and walked into the Onio | siver. In Springfield, Massachusetts, on Sunday, a Germen poisoned bimeelf. Coneiderable excitement appears to exist among | the firemen at Buffalo, in consequence of a clause {ante per capy—$7 por annum. | eat Gent aoa cecry Saterday at Og cents | to any purt of Great Berepece pot coe now too busily occupied in manufacturing | ¢ contract with the Collins line ef | principles of common cense. dto the country by her | | ment. Thay showld at least be allowed tho privilege — of selnetiog their own officers. Isis preposterous 40 wrertmpe that emch men would ehooss other thaa the most intelligent and experienced engineors to superinterd their Iebors. Yet, at the same time, it doty, 23 war tho ense in this. city some years ago, | whea the Commen Oonneil elected a Obief Eagineor | jw opposition to the wishes of the firemen; aud the | pesult was thot an immenee smount of property was | borned down in consequesce of the incapacity of greee hands to subdue tho flames in their incipioney. Frem the West we have the p'ensing amnounse- wont thet Captain Marcy and his command, about whose reperted massacre the telegraphic wires and newspapers have heen kept se buay of late, are posi- tively alive and well, at Fert Washita. Lotrors from the Gaptain, te tho Ist instant, havo bea ro- ecived. The Canadian Parliament opened at Quebes on Thureday, the 19th ivst., with all the pomp, pa- geantry, and formality, nsua) on such occasions The Governor General passed to the Parliament bnild ings through a double line of soldiery, followed by what is termed a brilliant etafl. Hoe informed the Avvembly that ho should not give Parliament the reason why they had been called together uotil afver the cleetion of Speaker. A Spoaker was ascordingly elected, after which tho two bodies adjourasd over until pext day. On Friday, his Dxceitency dediversd his speech, which is not very longiby, 29 it only gives the heads of = few items of intorest for tho consideration of the legislative assemblage. Ho in- formed them that he would have a change in the system of franchise ; tbat he would givo the agri- cultural interests mature consideration, probably with a view of abolishing the feudal tenure ; and that he weuld also have the Parliament look after the welfare, prosperity, and happinces generally, of the poople of the two provinces. After the delivery of the epeeeh, from the throne, they again adjourned until Saturday, when, wo snppose, the business ef legislation will commence. The mortality return of the City Inspeeter fo the past weck, which we pablish this morning, shows a pleasing decrease in the number of deaths, when compared with that for the week ended ou the Mth instant, The gross reduction amounts to thirty eight, and is observed to take place in a class of diseoses which aro more likely to extend and prove fatal at this season. Thus, the number of children éying from 8 infantum is less by seventeen, and the adult mortality from diarrhoa and dysentery is reduced by five. Under the various classes of fevers there is an increase of two deaths; but those which occurred from fevere of the typhus, typhoid, and others of a eontagious type, are a shade diminished. Three hundred and fifty- nine children under ten years of age died up te last Saturday, whieh ie less by thi x then the num- ber of the eame class for the week before. The deaths among the tender iniant population, under one year, is Jess by thirty-four. Thore is an inereare of four deaths reported under the heads of cholera and eholera morbus, but no specific information has been received of the ex- istence of true cholera. Tigre is no doubt but the gratifying total of thie report is produced by the very slight action taken, in a right path, by our sanitary officers lately. How much of that move was cauxd by the continuous articles in tho HERALD, upon the subject of hoalth reform, we do not pretend to say; but this we are assured of, that if it be persevered im, with singlencss of purpose and unity of counsel in the Health Department, the mighty reduction. Forty-six people died of con of such @ huge city as ours. ments ef every description, our inside pages this mornimg contain very interesting letters from Parise, Peru, Canada, Panama, Niagere, a @aoslation from a leading Fresch paper iclativa te the connection of Mexico with the United States; the latest from Ha- lifax conceming the Fisheries; description of the late Beg atSaratoga; Meeting of Spiritual Rap perites; article from the Boston Z'imes descriptive of the Nnw York Herarp establishment; Roviews of New Booke; Disgraceful Scere at Tammany Hall; Theatricu! Notices; Communication concerning Sailors; # large number of Local and other para- grepbs; Financial and Commercial Reparts, &e The Presidential Campatgn—Revicw of the Field, “Stand firm!” When, in the midst of a pitched battle, we hear the leaders upon ono side cheer- ing forward with the confidence of victory, and upon the other calling upon their diminished forces to “‘stend firm !’’ tho odds are decidedly in favor of the supposition that the latter are wavering and ex- pect tc be put to flight. The calito “stand firm” is eseoviated with danger—a position of disadyan- twge, & combination of unlucky circumstances, and the hoavy pressure of a superior foree. It iz eo, at least, in the ease immediately before ns, which is the cali of the leading organ of Gen. Sostt in this city, cpon the whig party, to “stand firm !” This particular call, and the very fitnsy and trasby argument upon which it is sustained, we propore briefly to put to the practical test of histo- rical facts, paet and present, and to that indepen- dent sort of reasoning based upon the elementary hh; and can have no motive to shirk the responsibililies of fair argument. Abse- lutely and completely independent of either party, all parties, we are just ia the high position to exbibit them to our readers as they are. How aro they, then? How stands the canvass? What is the prospect—the real prospect! The New York Tribune edmits there ie danger; but it ap- peals to the whigs to ‘stand firm,” urgiog the lame apology that the democrats are playing the gameof to Lelieve that Scott has next to no chunce.” our philosophers say that This game does not always win, this Etute Bat It wes (ried out In 1808, when the whigs were brogged down with offers of “Two to one on Blarey » bets on five d majority for Marcy!” &o , yot eward carried by over ten thousand majority, Zhe whigs did d to match their adversaries fo bots, but when to working and voting. they were there—as, wo ently trust, they will be again Now, thisis a very deceptive plece of historical comfort. The popularity respectively of Marcy and Seward had precious little to do with our State slection of 1 The groat and overwhelming finencial revulsion of 1896-7—brought about by the deeiruction of the United States Bank, the reniove ofthe government funds to the Steie banka, the excestive infistion of their paper circulation, and next, the removal of the deposits to the Sub-Treasu- ry, ard the consequent suspension of the State benke—wae just beginning to tell upon the country in the popwler elections of 1838. That same re-ao- tion of popular opinion was thoroughly developed in the politionl evalanche of 1840. I was the fiaan- cia] revaleion of Van Burer’s administration which brought General Harrison into the White House with such a whirlwind; and it was the same thing which astonished the whigs with their good luek in the election ef Seward as Governor in 1833. The rearen they did not bet upom him was thot they did not oxpect to elect him, which im the new eity charter, which provides that the fe © velid reason, no doubt, for refusing te bot at any ©hief Engineer shall be clooted by the people at | time and upos any man. It will excuse the “ faint- large, instead of by the department. It is reported ing whigs” of '52 from betting cven open Con. ‘that the different companies to-day intend to band. As in thie, and in almost every other city in ‘tho country, the firemen work as volunteore—re- eeiving no remuneration, except exemption from militery end jury duties, for risking life and limb, @ry and night, in battling with vhe devouring ole dis- | Scott. But, eays our wise philosopher :— forthe caret of Cees wero aire of elsetiog hima the canvass, aad would have bet ony —— cuit, They ridiculed the idea of Gen. Tay: = a bony ax 9 fg in the backwoods as an oon ny They . civilian and diplomatist, enti a dor but half doven Stater, and chill: nyt bee ce tee, mortality of New York city will still sustain a sumption is every week during the last three, a co- incidence ig number rarely observed in tho register of the largest hospital, and very surprising when it it opours among patients scattered over the surface In addition to 2 great many business adveriise- Kentueky, and bragging and betting, to induce the “faicting whigs / facts, and to make a fair comment upon them, drawing such inferences, or deductions of reason, aa the facts will warrant, and pointimg @ moral for fu- ture improvement from the errors and disasters of the past. A journal, thus conducted, is not only @ relinble medium of political intelligence to the peo- ple, but affords cound instruction to all classes of the community. Butinstead of becoming thns “the beat possible instruetors,” as they might be, the party Dewapapers ave degenerated into vehieles of filthy ‘Whe Pewnrylrepia elected Johnston in eto ber. vy only 302 msjority over an unpopular and atthe seme time ebore the Case Canal NK ‘Comunisetoner 2634 they econted the idee of Ucn Taylors osrry!ng the Stwe Jobneton they said had boen elected by free jor Van Buren io November , | 43 majority for Taylor over Qas ond Van Buren—though tases vote was heevier je party had ever before thrown in the State. is evly ball the story. New York is entirly omitted, although ber veto was oast for Genere) Taylor, and was necessary to oleot hi Yer iv vss & minority vote; for the combimod vote of the demo- trais, which wae divided betweea Cass and Vao Buren, exeecded by gome eovesteen thougand tho vote for General Taylor. It was Van Bares that eleeted Taylor, by his treaohory to General Cus. Otherwise, there was a popular majority and an electoral ecole; ajority against General Taylor, as there was against Genera! Jackson, and against Genera) Harrison, the first time they we-o pus upon the track. These are facts, and they distinoly show how really insignificant is g2a¢swde avail ability when left to iteelf. Jack? +, ari oa, and Taylor, were each elected fron. argu bina tion of circumstances, princigk au 9, >-+ ting causes, far beyond the reach o} were gany swder popslarity. Genera) Taylor, it is trae, would never have loen thought of, nor would he have been elected, but for his splendid eampnign ia Moxivo. But then bo was fresh from the war—his name was in every man’s mouth—he was the boast of the re- gulare, the glery of the volunteers, and popular with everybody, as the plain, uupretending, simp'e- hearted, honest old Rough and Roady. Ho was ran, alee, upon 2 no-party platform, or rather upon two platforsos—ene in the North and one in the South Me was vot tied up te the record like Gen. Sout; but in the ono section he was declared to be op posed te the extension of siavery, while in the other he was 2 slayeholder, amd that was enough. How is it with Gen Seott? The war with Mexico bas become an old story, and the Inet war with Groat Britain stili older Tho gloss was takon of both by Jackson, Harrison and Taylor. Mititwry chieftains have censed to be a novelty, aud are next thing toa dreg in the market. Besides, Gen Scott has not the elements of porsomal popularity of Gen. Taylor. Thore isa vast difference between the so- briquet of “Fuss and Feathers” and that of “Old Rough and Ready ” Gen Scott is very extensively regarded as an aristocrat, and avery pompous aad self important aristocret. He is believed to be 2 hard-shelled whig, of the native stripe, which is bad enough; but, worso than all, he bas had the great misfortune to be bronght forward as the specia! champion of Seward and his organs, so luto- ly opposed to the “bloody butchers” ef war, aod Fo troasonably hostile to the institution of slavery that they ‘‘execrate and spit’? upon the whig plat- form, for simply reeog g our honest obligations to the South. With these striking contrarts before us, ia refer ence to General Taylor and General Scott, how the chances of the election of 52 can be compared with the results of that of "48 itis difficult to imagine. There is no point«f resemblance between them Then all the advantages were on the side of (ieneral Taylor; but now, a combination of adversities, bad lucls, defections and misfortunes, sueh as never be- fore confronted either party, since the time of John Tyler, stares the whig party in the face. Bat evea in the face of these extraordinary obstructions, our philosophers of the 7vibune thus console themselves by falling back upon their corps de reserv ‘There are two or three hundred thousand voters ia the Union whom notiting short of a Presideatial contest oa bring to the polls—we regret the fact. and they enght to be ashamed of it—but it fe a fiet nevertheless, Of these voters, nine-tenthe are whige. The oaly way to baa! General Scott is to persuade them that their votes oan ayail nothing this fall, and to persuade oarlive whigs taat it isTruiuese to make the nepeseary effort to bring them out. If this impreseion ean be diffused and walg opsthy shall open the way to the polling of illegel votes sa the strong Pierce districis, they may beat us. And this i- what thoy are now working for Of course, they are working ‘to beat us.” And, to tell the honest truth, wo are afraid the odds are in their tavor—vastly in their favor. Lot us glance over the field. Where is the reserved corps for Gen. Scott to come from in Georgia, with Webster fairly on the track through a regular whig State convention? And look at North Carolina—it is the home of Mr. Graham, the Scott whig candidate for Vice Presi- dent, and the most popular whig in the State. At the late election, the Jargost vote was polled that wae ever given in the State, and the oloction was made to hinge upon the Presidency. Yet Reid, the democrat, is re-elected Governor by five or six thousand majority, and Webster has alnce been publicly put forward as the ticket ef the anti- Seward whigs of the steady Old North State. Ten- nesseo, Maryland and Louisiana, are decidedly shaky, and Ohio, since the Pittsburg convention, is fuirly given over to the enemy os a hopeless case Here in New York, too, though divided upon local questions, the bunkers and barnburners are joined together like man and wife in the cause of Pierce and King. Besides, there is no trusting the silent forbearance of the Webster men of Wall strect. They can hardly be eounted as a reserved corps for Gen. Scott. Lastly, is there any certeinty for Scott of the vole of Massachusetts. We think not— wo fear not ; the persevering offorte of the Webster men wake the prospect black enough, evenin the old Bay Siate. And yet every one of there States voted for Gen. Taylor—Goeorgia, North Caroliaa Maryland, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts, and yet, with all of them, tLe loss of New York or Pennsylvania would hare boen the logs of the election. Such are the stubborn facts we Lave to deal with. It is high time, then, to say to the whiga, ‘‘Stan1- firm!” General Scott is in danger already from whig deserters. If there is a corps of two or three hundred thousand good men etill in reserve, we aro gind of it—they will be wauted—and they will make the fight interesting. But we are fearful thoy wili not come out, even when they are wanted Men and brethren! do look after them—do circulate th® documenta, especially the pictorials; and, above all, don’t run afler the Pittsburg convention—don’t run after Webster—don’t go over to the enemy; but stand by us, and “ stand firm,” and we may yet tub through the election. Bat the corps de reserve mavet be brought out, or General Scott will bo ewol. lowed upin Novestber life a“ hasty plate of soup.” Congress will adjourn in a few days. Then let every man, on both eides, take a fresh start, and come into line, and “ stend firm.”’ Nothing like leather Tux Decrapation or tue Party Passs —With the exception of a few independent journale, the two thousand newspapers in the United States are divi- ded between whigs and democrais, and, on either eide, are filed with the most absurd trash, aad every description of lios, in reference to the pending struggle for the possession of the White House and the spoils of fifty millions a year. Kulogietic histo- ries of General Scott and General Pierce, revamped from the stale accounts previously publiehed, and interlasded with various fabricatious—tirades of abuse cxhausting the vocabulary of Billingsgate and the Five Pointe—misropresentations of fasts, and calumnies of persons, constitute the staple of the articles published in these journals. The New York Tribune, Boston Atlas, and Albany Evening Jour- nal, are ‘first among the feremost”’ in the degrading task of outrageous puffing and defamation. Tho ro- sult is, that even their own party readers have be- cone diegusted, and are boginning to lose all confi- dence in them—and the effect is felt, and will soon bo etill more felt, in the diminution of thoir oircula- | tion. The proper course for a newspaper is to publish { | and most malignant cbrracter Jt waswith the whig ander and vulgar abuse, corrapting aad dobatsh- ing the pablié mofals, by their example, and mar- desing and mangling truth, so that one knows not where to find evoa her severed limbs, scattered a3 they are to the four winds of heaven. There is one portien of the whig prosa which is regarded a8 respectable, and does not sinz to those depths of degradation; but it does not act up to tbat bigh senso of honor which becomes the public journalist. Tt is narrow and one sided, and though not guilty of actna) falsehood, loaves itself open to ihe charge of euppreesion of trath. For instance, the Crurier ond Inquirer, 2 few doys ago, assailed the Jocal democratic crgan of this city for its unjust assanit upon the charavter of General 800%. In this the Courter was porfectly right, as tar a3 it wont; but it ovght to have gene further, and not confaed itedenuaciation to one side. It ought to have come out against the free soil and abolition section of its own press, Which hasoutstripped the democratic pa- press in this city that the onslaight originated, the Tribune having, at the vory start, held up General Pierce to public scorn, as a drunkard and a coward, of the eye of a demooraties paper, ought to have seen ihe beam in the eye of tho pres: of its own party, and made some effort to extract it. Tho scurvility aud blackguazdism of tho whig press have cast in the shade the worst and foulest effusions of the party papers on the other sido. ‘This is moss degrading to the public prose, and shows that its condactors are loat to all sonse of tho digui ty of journalism, and their own true iaterests. pregg ought to be an engine of moral power, which wold be respected by the whole community, fearless in expos ail that ie base, and scrupulous in giv- ing publicity only to what is true, as fares facts can be aseertained. The press, thus managed, would Db come an inetitution of the country, powerfal in preserving it from despotism on one hand, and auareby on the other. It would be the palladium of the rights, and hberties, and interests 0 che poo- ple—chevking corruption, and wasteful expenditure ofthe public money, infusing patyiotism isto all ranks of the community, and elevating the tone of public morality aboye the Dead Sea level of party epirit, avd the low grovelling desire for the posses- son of the spoils of office at every sacrifice of cha- racter, principle, and trath. When will even fre hundred of the two thousand journals in the United States assume this high ground, ond place themselves in an attitude to com- mound reapeet? We fear the day is yet far dis- tant. In fact, the party preas is retrograding, and were it not for the few independent newspapers, which are the salt of journalism, the wholo would become one mass of putrefaction. Ixcngase or Printing AND Paper Bosrxxss.— The Presidential campaign has given an impotus to the printing and paper trade of this city, to 9 oar- tain extent, in a way which will not mach improve the taste or intellect of the reading com- munity, nor Jeave any lasting impression behind. It is estimated that the two great parties of the country, through their committees, organs, and juntas, have already issuod, each, a million copies of cheap pamphlets, containing the biographies of Gen. Scott and of Gen. Pivree—statements of their difierent polisical opinions—definitions of their oppo- site characteristics. and a varity of othereuch trash The oxponses of publication are generally defrayed by the politicians, who are oxpectants of office, and appreciate the advantages to be derived from finger ing fifty miliong of dollars annually, when they get iuto power. The works aro disseminated in all di- rections, throughout the country, North and South, East and West; but tho only benefits which ariso from the vast addition to the pamphlet business of this city, are those which the printers and paper makers derive from it. The people generally—so far 23 we can learn, and as, indeed, wo may readily sredit— very seldom think of reading these tracts, and convert them to more practical usc, by making wrapping or wiping paper of them. The Presidential campaign has thus far produced only an effect on the pamphlet line of business, and on the paper and printing trade. Its effect on the newspaper trade has been very flat and dull, and has even teuded to give it a push backward, rathor than an impuize in the opposite direotion. We do not ro- member, within the last twenty years, a Presidon- tial clection in which the nowspapers figured so slightly, so meanly, aud so contemptibly, and in which their efforts to add to their circulatio: getting up an oxcitement, have fo signgy fe Not a single new journal has started fato life on ac- count of the election, of any consequence or note. Some two or three campaign papers—as they call them—are issued once a week in Washington, and a few in Now York, but they are all mean, miserablo abortions, and have little or no cireulation in any part of the country. Indeed, more party journals have been materially injured by the course that has beon pursued im this Pre- sidentiol campaign, and by the violense and indig- nitios with which cach candidate has beon assailod by the organs of the opposite party. We are credi+ bly informed, and we believe the statement to be true, that the daily circulation of the Tribune and Timer bas materially decreased sineo the nomina tion of Scott; and we also opine that: the same might with truth be said of the Evening Post d the National Democrat—partioularly the latter —since the nomination of Pierce. In fact, the De- mocrat—the only Tammany Hall organ now in ex- istence in New York—is indebied altogether for tho preservation of its being, thus far, to the contribu tions of some of the friends of a gentleman nainod Curtis, who has been ambitions for weeks past to be considered a candidate fur the governorship of tho State. But while the mage political journals’ attached to either party are endeavoring to abuse the oppo- rite candidates, and are thus depreciating them- selves in public opinion, itis gratifying to kaowthat the higher order of newspapers, distinguished a3 tho independent press, and even those who have only some slight tendencies towards the whig party, but which do not lead them to assume any position of partizanship, have beon, in the same period, more flourishing, and have beon augmenting their circu- lation in greater proportion than at any other time for many years past. We can say thus much for the New York Herp, that within the lest yoar ite daily circulation alone has increased by nearly one-third, so that our prosent circulation is con- siderably over forty thousand perday. Our Wockly, Sunday, California and European editions, have now 4 circulation about doublo what they had a year ago. The same gratifying ascount might bo given of many of those other journals of the city that take tbe high and indopondent position which the H#RAD does in all national and politioal mat- ters. It will always bo found true, in journalism as well asin mercantile and other walks of life, that tho strict obscrvance of an ey ht and independent lino of action will, in the end, bo sure to bring its own reward in prosperity and public estimation. Yuvontant Excuvetve Ixte..icpxcs —-The Journal of Commerce, yesterday, announced tho ar- rival, by the Atlantic, of Madame Sontag—the Coun- toss de Rossi. No other paper had the news. Thig piece of intelligenco must have cost that onterpri- sing concern, under its new management, on im- menso sum of money. Personal Intelligence. Arrivals at the Irving—W. Young, Californie; Mr. Wolfe, Savannah; M. Ham) Pittsburg; Me. ‘Tyler, Montreal; Gen. Cail, Va. Hastings, Vambridgo; G. Hi, Dunlap, Alabama; D, A. Jannary, Be Louis; and 160 ames Ci ‘alpelo; J. A. Mercer, Phil.; Trout, arleston; Gon, Duff Green, Warhington 10 others. , the Astor—W. Grant, Ithica; Dr, Cohen, Charics- baton cer" Whit tabu” Pein pers in ribaldry, and per-onal attacks of the grosseat | The Cumer, thereford, while taking the mote out | Se Primary Elections and Rewdyism in | ‘Tammany Hall. “> Jz another part of this day’s paper wo publish a | pl account of a disgraceful scene of rowdyism at | ‘Tammany Hall. This is the most daring outrage that it bas yet fallen to our lot to record, in connection with our city politics We have been long familiar with similar coenes of violence at our primary cicc- tions; but if we ar” 0, greatly mistagen, this is the first time that on organized band has committed an act of burglary in breaking into the committee-room, and threatening the lives of the members of the General Committee, if they did not vote as the gang dictated The next thing, we suppose, will be to assail and wreck the private houses of every man of independent mind, as the mob did at the recent élections in the city of Limerick, in Ireland. Under this system of terrorism, the elections in New York have been controlled for years, both in the democratic and whig parties; and now, em- boldened by impunity, the rowdies proceed to such | length as make the most sacred right of American | citizens a mockery and a farce. The free and | uncontrolled right to exercize the franchise, either at the primary elections, or at the fival polls, is rendered as null and void as if we lived in a country | where tho right to vote was denied by tho laws to | the great body of the people. Our Revolutionary ancestors fought and bled, and threw off the British yoke, in contending for the principle that there can be no taxation without representation. But the citi- | zens of New York are taxed—overladen with taxation —withont having any more voice in choosing those who levy it then if they bad no votes at all, It is ot the primary elections the candidates are se- lected, who afterwards fill those officos of honor, trust, and emolument, the aggregate of which are called the city government. But those elections, for several years, have been taken possession of by blacklegs, and bullies, and rowdies, and ‘fighting men,” and respectable citizens have been driven away from them, rather than como in collision with rufianism, so that practically, and in effect, they might as well have no votes atall. The result iz, that the nominations have been of the worst possible character. So bad were they two years ago on the democratic charter tickot that the candidates for the most important offices were de- feated by the independence of dethocratic voters, who either erased these candidates names and did not voto in their case at all, or inserted instead the names of the candidates on the other side. If the rowdieg succeed in making nominations at the ensu- ing primary elections, wo trust the same course will be adopted, and that another lesson wil! be taught the roffians, or rather those who hire them, and stimulate them to deods of violence by the use of intoxicating diinks. The Temperance Alliance never bad a better case against the grogshops than now, and never had a better chance of success. Irk- some as the yoke of a liquor law would be to thefree spirits of American citizens, it would be light and easy compared with theiron dictatorship of mob rule and grogshops. But it isto bo hoped that one ty- rappy oan be crushed without resorting to another tyranny in the opposite extreme. Demagogues talk of helping the Hungarians to free themselves from the Aus trian yoke, the Cubans from the Spanish power, and the Irish from the dominion of Great Britain; but here is a despotisi in our very midst worse than all these—worse than the autocracy of the Czar of Russia. It is every day growing more odious and abominable. How lopg will it be endured’? Disgrace is brought upon our institutions, our elections are a by-word nnd re- proach, and strangers are continually making com- parisons with other countries less free in theory— comparisons by no means fluttering to our national vunity. But thoy will bo doing this country a great injustice if they judge of the practical working of its institutions from the city of New York, which, from its position as the Empire City, and from the intel- ligence of its people, ought to set an example to all other cities aad districts in conducting its elec- tions, but has the unenviable notoricty and the bad pre-eminence of being the political plague spot of the nation. How long, we ask, will New Yorkers tolerate such a state of things, and allow mob des- potism to prevail over law and order, and their votes to be practically wrested from them by the in- timidation of a set of hired desperadoes? To ua it isa matter of no moment which of the two par- ties—whigs or democrats—succeeds in an clection: but it is of the highest importance to all classes of citizens, that the best men, instead of the worst, should be eelected as candidates from either party, and that the freedom of election should be main- tained against every attempt to overthrow it, or im- pair its efficiency. It is the poople’s own fault that this evil is por- mitted to gain such an ascendency; and they have the power of putting down rowdies and rowdyism if they will only exert it. Lot the independent and respectable men of both parties come forward, and hold meetings, and denounce these scones of vio- lonee, and repudiate the primary olections when swayed by euch influences. Let them, in every ia- stance, refuse to vote for the nominees of the bul- Jies, and, either decline voting at all, vole for geod men of the other cide, (if there should be any,) or set up independent tickets of their own. A fow lecsons of this kind would be productive of the best results. Far better to lose an election, and to look forward to future triumph, as the censequence of temporary defeat, than to submit to the dictation of the very scum of socicty, in order to socure a present victory, not only not worth having, but positively a disgrace to the party. We have vo doubt that the democratic par- ty will cuffer serieusly from this quarrel in the fall elections for the county. A sim- ilar feud broke out in Albany, a fow days ngo, and it is very likoly to extend all over tho State, and will probably affoct the result of the State election to an extent not now anticipated. Bat it will not injuriously affect the democrats in the Pro- sidential campaign, as might at fires sight bo sup- posed. On the contrary, it will serve their national ticket. Itis all a strife for local oficos, and influence, and powor, between the hunkers and barnburnere; | and those members of the party who do not care for local plunder, but look more to principles than the operations of cliques, and te the geveral triamph of the party rather than to more local victorivs, ought to feel rather gratified than otherwise at all these equabples. In 1628 a local quarrel had a most favorable effect upon the election of General Juck- son, and he gained the State of New York by a very large majority. We have no doubt that the result will be tho same in the case of Genoral Pierce, and that ho will have a sweeping majority in the State of New York. This is the uniforin and invariable effect of local schisms. They seom to draw out the whole energies of every member of the party, and to etir up the magees to action, and thon it is only necessary to give both factions a direction towards the cemmon object, about which they agree, when thoy lose sight of their differences and vie with cach other to see who will do moet for the success of the party; and they aro thus fired with an onthusiasm that coukl not have been enkindlod in any other way. Under this stimulus they aro sure to whip the com- mon onemy, and to vent on him the venom intonded for eaoh other, like a husband and wife, who, in high life below etaire, quarrel and come to blows, when some unfortunate spectator, oF perhaps & policeman, interferes, the effect of which is that thoy forget their animosity, and concen- trating thoir wrath upon the intruder, vory epeedily expel him from the premises. Or tako en flustration® still more germain to tho matter. At an Irish fair, two factions from the tame neighborhood commonce fighting and beating each other in dreadful manner. The police make their appearance to put down the riot and arrest the rioters. As if by magic, tho combatants unite their forecs and make @ deadly onslaught upon the of- ficors, Tho hunkors and barnburners may fight about their domestie affairs, but whon the whigs take the field they will beth go at the enemy with a shout ands rush that will carry terror and sonfusten into his lines. Let not the whig party, therefore, ley the flattering unetion to their souls, that they will gein anything in this Stato, forthe Presidential election, from tho internal broils of the two wings ot the democratic party. It will be all the other way! But, with regard to the local elections, they remain a source of disquietude and anxiety to all respectablo citizens. Is there any hepe that the primary meetings will be better than usual? On the contrary, is there aot every indication thot matters will be werse than ever, and that the rum interest will carry all before it? What hope is there from the whigs? Have not their primary elections hitherto been the scenes of the most horrible dis- order and outrage, and have not pugilists been em- ployed by them to put down the expression of freo ‘opinion through the ballot box? Whatis to be donc? Now is the time for action, and now is the time for independent men, of both parties, to come forward and denounce the corrupt and incorrigible system of the primary elections, and to issue a declaration of independence, cutting for ever all connection with the rowdy influences, and going in for a registratioa of voters, or some other feasible plan by which the real sentiments of the people can be asvertuined, and honest, upright, and intelligent men may bo selected for office. The men who have the moral courage and the patriotism to eot this ballin motian, will not only confer @ lasting benefit upon the oom. munity, but thoy will specdily find themselves elo- vated to so Migh a position in tho esteem of their fellow-citizens that any office in their gift will bo opento them. There aro thousands upon thoasands of quiet and respectable voters who never go to the polis, or take part in the city elections, who would gladly seize such an opportunity of putting down tho rowdies, if it were only presented to them. Tho great mass of our citizens are burning to prostrate this jyranny in the dust, aud they only want to see how it can bedone. Who will poiut out the way, and lead on to victory 7 Tne SEASON CLOSING AT THS FasHionABL? WarertnG Praces.—A week or two more will al most close the summer season, and disperse the fr- ehionable crowds whish have been spending the warm months in Saratoga, Newport, Cupo May. Lebanoa Springs, avd whorever there were strong attractions to be found, either in point of company, the beaw monde, the sea air, or the mountain broezes, Ta Saratoga and Nowport. it bas been customary for years past to celebrate the approach of the annual dispersion time by a grand fancy dress ball, in which all the fashions and follies of che seuson are, aa it were, condensed und concontrated into ono focus, where tho young bloods and the old bucks some out in the ne plus ultra of style,'and where the long- robed matrous, and the maidens whs ure as yet urprovided for, deck themselves out in their best, put on their most winning Jooks and courtly graces, and glide’ majestically through tho ball-room, bent on conquest, and intent on astonishing and eliciting the admiration of all beholders. Some yoars bacx a fancy dress ball at Saratoga was @ brilliant afair, and worthy of being resorded by eloquent pe-s. But sitice, the reputation of the plavebas duflered in diverse ways—through gamblers and black legs—through greedy, rapacious hosts, who care nothing for their guests, excupt as to tho extelit of the depletion to which their purses may be subjected—and through diabolical looking. nig- gers, who conspire to defraud and levy blac: mail. on strangers,; under the penalty of pro- bable death from inanition—since ull those bave combined in depriving Saratoga of whacever attractions it once poseossed, the funvy balls have, of course, felt the operatio of the same influonces, and have lost theis--high polish, elegance, and brilliancy. The’ ball ushering in the olose of this scaton at Saratoga, was celebrated last Friday in the salons of the United States Hotel. Evory taing calculated to give éclat to it, aud to reinvest it with somewhat of its old glory, was resorted to,but without effect. The managing, suppor, and floor oommittecs, were composed of judges and lawyers, who would. Lave been betvor employed in endeavoring to un- derstand Biacketone and Lyttelton, or eoive the mysteries of the ‘ New Code,” of which their know- ledge is as circumscribed as it isof the intricavies of Yerpsichorc—-of professots of tho heuling art, ail whose boasted ecience is. now asknowledgly unablo to grepple with a child’s distemper, and who could as little preseribe for ® eafe delivery through the equally unexplored mazes of * heel and toc?— and of joily captains of tho navy, an? martis! geno- ruls of the army, who should bayo been studying navigation aud field exercise for the fish campaign —and of other literary and scientific mon, who wero as little qualified to make arrangements for a fanvy- drees bali as they were to preside with dignity over & mane gerie of monkeys. The affair itself wae, as might well be imagined, from such ® management, o ridiculous, solemn farce; and the cbronictes of the event, as composed by the united wit, wisdom, and learning of this picbuld sanhedrim, and pubiished officially in one of the Saratoga papers, should be preserved with the utmost care, aud transmitted down to posterity as one of the literary wonders of the nineteenth century. In this official bulletin, directed to the fashions- ble throughout ali lands—(and that there may be no failuro whatever in its penetrating to the utmost limits of civilization, we republieh it in this moro- ing’s HeRaLp)—our sympathy is fires appewlod to for alady who, in fashionable parlance, is styled Queen, and whose absonce from the gay seune wad caused by indisposition, which even prevented her getting tothe parlor. How very annvying, to be sure! But how delighted all the loseer luminaries must kave been at the non-appearance among them of this regal star of fashion. Ahen we aro most se- lamnly aseured, on the veracity—implicdly—of tie whole commitleo--lawyers, generals, and horee mas rincs—that Mre Loliypops hold e largo bow her hand, and kept a cleze look out on the ments of hor “ stylish daug What aa amio- blo taste for the flowers of the earth must dwell in the gentle bosom of Mrs. L ! And what a flood of materpal eolicitude is suggested by the bare mention of hor ‘stylish daughter, dressed ix white!’ And then the description of the va- tious costumes worn by the ladios, if not very intelligible or dazzling, has the quality of uniqueness and simplicity of style to recommend it. Miss Kittlebury, we are told, was dreseod in bo usual style of elegance—but, as hor style has pro- bably attained a world-wide celobrity, it seemed quite unnecessary to partioularize if sho was attired bla mode or dla Turqu—snd up to the present time we confoss to be in total ignorance of the im- portant point, whother pantalettes or petticonte en- caged the tair Indy’s gracefallimbs. The paragrapi appropriated to the ladies concludes with the abrupt announcement, that Miss W., in black, ‘was the most beautiful of all.” Prodigious! as Dominie Samp- ton would eay—who could have thought that a black lady, or @ lady in black—we hardly know which is in meant—would have borne away the palm from suok ‘a collection of well dressed beauties, even in the ab- eenco of the ‘Queen of Philadelphia.” It may have been, howevor, that one of the Haytien princosses, of the blood royal, condescended to join the “hop” at Saratoga. Under the “supper” head we are asked to believe what partakes too much of the incredible to bo easily swallowed, ever though offivially cortified— via: that the beaux and belles, wonding their way from the ball room, actually found seats at the woll filled board. If there bo any truth in this new miraclo—of which we are very scoptical—we would feel most anxious to learn when it was that a fit of such unusual extra , a8 @ “well filled board” is meant toimply, attacked the propri8tors of the United States Hotel, and if thero is any ehance of the complaint becoming chroniot And whether the African Rob Roys, who wait at table, wore bought off for @ day only, or for all time? These are questions on which the future oxistenes and prosperity of Saratoga depend, and if agewored in the way in which honesty and