The New York Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1853, Page 4

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Revoil, Ne. 17 Rue de le Banque. ‘The Buropean mails will close at hali-past ten o'clock Wemerrow morning. ‘Sem Wau ena will be published at half-past nine @eleck to merrow morning. Single copies, in wrappers, stupence. The News. Ro tidings of the steamship Pacific, with four @ays’ late advices from Europe, had been received at the time this cheet was printed. The delay in her asrival has somewhat added to the anxiety to ascer- ‘tain the purport of the news she will bring, especially wnth regard to the Russe-Turkish affair, which, at Jest aceounts, was daily assuming a darker and more threatening aspect. The P. will, it is probable, weach her dock to-day, and set at rest the minds of ‘the people. Two hundred and ninety-five interments are re- ported to have taken piace in New Orleans on the ‘20th inst., being at the rate of sixteen hundred and eighty five, in a city whoze population probably does ‘Rot at this time number fifty thousand. We regret to learn that the yellow fever is gradually spreading to the cities and towns on the'line of travel from New ‘Orleans, and that it is prevailing to a moderate ex- vent in Natchez, Vicksburg, and Mobile. Full de- ‘tails of the awiul ravages of the epidemic are given elsew here. Three thousand persons are reported to have loft Cumberland, Md., in consequence of the increasing prevalence of the cholera at that place. Late advives from the fisbing grounds state that q@mother American schooner, the Starlight, was eaptared on the 5th inst., in Magdalen Bay, by the English steamer Devastation, and taken into Gaspe. ‘The schooner Highlander was also seized, but was afterwards released, and two other vessels were chased out of the bay bya British cutter. These proceedings on the part of Her Majesty's squadron have natura!ly added to the excitement already ex- isting in Gloucester, and other down-east fishing towns. As yet, however, no positive demonstra- tions of armed hostility against the British hae been made by the Yankee fishermen, althongh threats are ‘bundant, and may eventually be partially put in force. The American naval vessels should be on the alert, and, while extending adequate protection to their countrymen in their lawful pursuits, warn the latter of the probable consequences of encroaching upon the alleged rights of their colonial neigkbors. Secretary Marcy and Minister Crampton, it is hoped, will soon perfect their arrangements for a satisfactory and fina! settlement of this vexed question. Onur last advices from the Danish West Indies, are to the 12th inst, The news contained in the St. ‘Thomas journals is of an interesting and important character. A sanguinary popular revo't had oc- ured at Tortola, during the existence of which Many people were killed, stores were broken open, the arsenal attacked, and the laws of the country set at complete defiance by an enraged and sxe'ted multitude. The primary cause of the tamult was the endeavor of the government officers to vollect an add'tional tax of twelve cents a head upon cattle, in order to raise a fund for poor Jaw purposes. From the moment the law was pasted—frst of June—it was obnoxious to the peo ple, avd the levy was resisted so strenuously as to end in an appeal to arms. The civil officers do not seers to have managed the first malcontents with eitber tact or temper; but during the crisis the mill- tary authorities—headed by Colouel Chads, govern- mevt administrator—displayed both energy end courage. The rebels fled to the country, but many citizens have been left honseless and pennyless by th ‘r violence. Tlie origin of the quarrel, ruptare, tics, ond incidents of the_scenes attendlog each, are given in foll in this paper. ‘The brig Addy Swift, Captain Berry, arrived at ‘€his port yesterday morning from Maracaibo, bring- ang ws news from Veneznela to the 20th July. As anticipated inthe Hrnarp, from previous advices, «op recent earthquake at Cumana had completely dispersed the revolutionsry party. Tho General-in- Chief had left the country, and gone to Curscos, and General Castella was unuble to hold out when separated ‘rom his command. The commercial in- teljigence does not present any new fe: The weather was pleasant, and without ex From Washington we learn that the Congres library has been re-opened. J. R. Marriott has ac- t of Secretary of Legation to Peru, eepled the 7 and F.M. Ringgold has been appointed Conan! at Paita, Pera, In order tbat al! ave on impartial hearing with regard to the ed abuuses in the management of the Custom Huwe business at San Pravcist we today @ place to an i wommunication from e tor T. Batl reyly to the charges prefere ls beid 2 the Seoretary of the Treasury, by Mr. f Ward, Read thé document. flons, Jon Anderson, for a tong period ay of Congh*s from Maine, died in Portland on 3uad LVENIOG. A tt 2 Auburn announces that the cas of Beymoin, 2.ccoutly pardoned ont of tho prison, in vonsry of falve representations made fo thé’ Governor, wat yesterday postponed till Taos éoy, at which time Governor Seymour will bo present ‘Tpore is a0 abatement of she intorest <3 4 ce seecccescee cess MMe BES | man‘fested in the aflair, particularly among she legal fraternity. Recent accounts from Texas represent the crops a mt promising. ‘The reported death of Gen. Lamar is not con§frmed. We elsewhere publish an interesting statement of the observations made on th- top of Mount Washing- ton during the warm weather of the second week of the } resent month, from whick the -c ¢ tide as well as general reader may derive mach carious and valuable information. The journeymen bouse-painters who are on strike Peraded the streete in public procession yesterday. They intend to have a similar parade to-day, attend- ed with a band of music. Our pages to-day contain a variety of letters from our watering place correspondents ; translations from Santa Anna's official organ relative to the Henatp and the notorious slaver Lady Suffolk, and a cor- rect list of the delegates thus far elected to the Thirty-third Congress—to all of which we have made special reference in succeeding articles. Also, description of articles in the Crystal Palace; a high- banded attempt at murder and robbery on tue bigh- way; avariety of political, commercial, local, legal, and other interesting matter, to which the want of apace will not permit us ig Tefer in detail. The Pacific Ratlroad and Its Effect on the Democraue Party. It will indeed be marvellous if the existing politieal parties survive the next session of Congress. Disunion impends gloomily over both the factions into which politicians are di- vided. The autopsy that is being held on the mutilated corpse of whiggery has not disclosed the prospects of its friends or the intentions of its successor. A year hence, whigism may sig- nify anything you please. from a belief in Ro- chester knockings to an aversion to spirituous liquors. Nor are the signs of the times less pregnant with menace for the united democracy. A few weeks ago, disaffection broke out in the camp, in consequence of the free sotl and reces- sionist appointments, Hunkers and Unionists stood aghast at the preferment of men who had been open foes to the Constitution and the Union, An outcry arose throughout the len zai and breadth of the Jand, which appalled the ad- ministration. It was evident that a policy of general conciliation would end in alienating from the President all, or nearly all, the ad- herents who had elected him. Mr. Pierce was not deaf to the hint. A change of policy was resolved upon; and for some time past we hear fewer rumors of dissen- sions among the democracy out of this State. The hunkers are in the ascendant ; and for the present. Mr. Pierce seems to have renounced his design of distributing the spoils of war equally among all the heterogeneous sections of his party. How far this tardy recognition of the rights of the “Old Guard’ will satisfy the grumblers, we shall not know till Congress meets. Meanwhile, it has sileneed the most noisy, and supplied a much needed testimony to the loyalty of the cabinet. We apprehend, however, that a much more formidable danger is in store for the democrats. The Pacifie Railroad is a rock on which it will require a skilful pilot to prevent their splitting. At first blush it would seem that one of the cardinal points of the democratic creed would oblige all true democrats to set their faces against this, as well as all other schemes of in- ternal improvement. But, on a closer view, the project stands out in so distinct and peculiar a light, and bears so little resemblance to any other public work, that one can well conceive how a consistent democrat might except it from the general rule of his party. It would not he impossible to reconcile a vote against a canal or a bridge in New York, Ohio, or Georgia. with a speech for a railroad across ihe conti- nent. The one obviously concerns but one sec- tion of the country; the other would benefit the whole. Hence it is that opinions have been loudly expressed by influential members of the democratic party in favor of the construction of the road through the territories, by the federal government. This ground has been taken, among others, by the Charleston Mercury, erst the organ of John C. Cal- houn, and a determined foe to the ex- penditure of the public money for internal improvements in general. Cerlain publicists have placed a similar interprotation on speeches delivered here on a recent occasion by Messrs. Guthrie and Davis, and have inferred that the administration was prepared to recommend the construction of the work by the general government. On the other hand, we may safely say that the bulk ofthe democratic party make no dis- tinction between the Pacific Railroad and other works of internal improvement, and op- pose the interference of the administration in the matter. Strict constructionists—such, for instance, as the Virginia democracy—with finger on the constitution, forbid the President to notice the enterprise by word, look, or deed. They place it out ct the pale ot federal sympathies. If, cay they, the general govern- ment build a railroad across the desert of Cali- fornia, why not another to Nebraska, another to Oregon, and half a score of others, which would nnquestionably confer tangible benefits on the whole country? Private enterprise is not £0 dead in the United Slates that a work of this nature, which could not but be prodta- bie in the end, will fail to find capital for its construction among private individuals. Mil- lions will pour into the treasury of a com- pany which undertakes it boldly and ona solid basis. Such Is the ground taken hy the adversaries of a government road. How they can he reconciled with those who demand that the federal government shall forthwith vote money and commence to eleor the track for the rails, we cannot ima Nor can we conceive ofany other termination to the than the creation of a new faction, compo: the remnants of the old whig party, with a ro» peetable aecession of pro-reilroad democrats, Opposed to these would stand the democrats of the old school, in whose e the coustruction of the road through the territorios, by the fede- tal government, wonld appear unconstitutional, Much, of cc depend on the policy ed by the istration. For our p e not i netrue the longu Meser othe broadly as 7 tr epooches any- thing from end some two hur mor think that ef allowed themeels nT build, could ev a wy to California, The w ‘ 3s cannot afford to ic btw 1 fifty miliions In r vis; and California afford to wait six y for nilitary Without wy opinion with regard to the constitutionality of protect United § a hundred ¢ anno wes defeuce exprossing the step, we have reason to believe that, when the matter comes up My. Pierce will say, as he said in Mareh last, that he is President of the United States and not President of a railroad; and will, so soon as the reporte of the several surveyors are received, send them in to Con- gress, and leave to that body the responsibility of legis'ating on the matter, Alternate conces- sions of Jand on either side of the line may be recommended to he granted to any company that will engage to. construct the road: but, un!ees we are much mistaken, those who expect that; the general government will grant sid to the enterprise, in the ebape of money as well as land, may find themselves sadly diseppointed. The Shirty-third Congress—State of Particr— Prospect of a Mighty Good Time. We publish elsewhere in this paper the roil of the Senate and the House of Representatives, as far as determined, for the Thirty-third Con- gress, Dividing the free soilers and Southern rights men between the two great parties, ac- cording to their political antecedents, the Senate stands thirty-six democrats to twenty whigs, with six vacancies to be fliled—one each in Alabama, Maine. Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Vermont. The House ef Representatives consists of two handred and thirty-four members and five territorial dele- gates, of which two handred and eleven repre- sentatives have been elected, and they are thus divided :—One hundred and forty-two demo- crats, sixty-five whige, and four abolitionists, The States yet to elect are Maryland, Georgia, Miscissippi, and Louisiana—twenty-three mem- hers in all, which, when chosen, will probably leave the general result very nearly as it now stande. Giving the whigs, therefore, the four free soil abolitionists of the House, the demo- crats will have a round majority of seventy in that body, and in the Senate, dividing the out- siders as fairly as*pogsible, there will be, per- haps, not less than a democratic majority of fifteen in a full Senate ot sixty-two. What a magnificent prospect for the adminis- tration! No necessity here of buying up a re- fractory member or two, to eke out a suecess- ful vote upon a Presidental recommendation. A score, and half a soore to that, may go over to the enemy in the house, and still the administration can get along smoothly and comfortably, it the remainder ere “true to the line;” and a half a dozen refractory gentlemen may desert the good old cause in the Senate and yet, upon a pinch, the administration may still be streng enough to squeeze through its measures and its budgets. Looking at this gratifying complexion of things in'the House and in the Senate, looking at the November elections, and at the late elec- tions,’and at the apparently hopeless prostra- tion of the poor, outlawed whig party, may not Gen. Pierce and his cabinet rub their hands together, in the fulnees of their satisfhotion, and bidg defiance to all anguries of evil, to all opposition, internal or extraneous, and safely count upon ruling the roast with a high hand and an outstretched arm, for at least two years tocome? Peace or war in Turkey, Mexico or Cuba, is not the administration go strongly entrenched in both houses of Congress, in the State Legislatures. and among the people, that it is absolutely impregnable, for half its ap- pointed term, if not for all? At the first glance we should say yes! at the second we should. say no! Let us look a little into this subject. In the organization of the House it will be necessary to elect a Speaker and a Clerk; and before any considerable amount of their print- ing is given out, it will be incumbent upon both houses to elect 2 printer or printers. The standing candidate for Speaker is Hon. Linn Boyd, of Kentucky; for Clerk, Col. John W. Forney, of Pennsylvania; for printer to both houses, General Robert Armstrong & Co., of the city ef Washington. These gentlemen having tasted the sweets of these respective situations, have, with Oliver, a decided liking for the soup, and are waiting patiently for a little more. And we should pronounce them perfect- ly safe, were the democracy perfectly harmo- nious. But they are not—with tears in our eyes, we must confess they are not. Night and day, rain or shine, in season and out of season, through good and evil report, we have labored for democratic harmony; but elas! we have la- bored in vain. Hence we have our forebodings concerning Mr. Boyd, Col. Forney, and General Armstrong. Here we are. Rumor has it that Mr. Breck- enridge, the popular young member) from Mr. Clay’s district, of Kentucky, is the administra- tion favorite. If this be so, Mr, Boyd is at once superseded. But if it be not so, there are half » dozen or more candidates in the field for the speakership. Among those we have heard mentioned are Thomas WH. Bocock, ‘Thomas H. Bayly, and William Snith, of Virginia., David T. Disney, of Ohio, George W. Jones, of Tennessee, W. H. Bissell, of Diinois, Francis B. Cutting, of New York, and Hendriclas B. Wright, of Pennsylvania, the gentleman to whose good management, as Pro- sident of the Baltimore Convention of 1844, it is said, we are indebted for the administration of James K. Polk. the war with Mexico, and the gold mines of California. The whigs will pro- bably have @ nominal candidate; bat will stand prepared to cnt in for that democrat whose election may be best adapted to damaze the party. The young demoeracy and the Southeru rights democracy are tired of Mr. Boyd; and with the whigs in the back ground—to say no- thing of the complaints concerning tho last Congress—we may set down his re-election as exceedingly doubtful. Colonel Forney has had the” House clerkship for two years. With a salary of $3,900 per annum, an indefinite amount of little perqui- siles, in addition to the patronage of from twenty to thirty subordinates, this is an office ‘worth having; and there will sarely bo not, one, but several formidable candidates on hava for tho snceession. The friendship of General Pieree may be advaniageons to the Incumbent; but it may alsg he da for the old ers may make it the occasion for an obx resistance, and the whiga will doubél themeelves in rea © bring up thor ve mpon any other man, Everything in the outset, however, with reference to the Speaker and the Olerk, wil! depend upon the su of the democrats to harmor prese nt the eancns system will will be apt to be there, friends of Col. Forney thi cess or failure And that we are afraid, from pp vork. Old Bullion he holds his rancos, nous 1 in the baeket It wonld te the Crys i profit apen both houses, of from one bnndre thousand to one landred gud fitty, wevonty fret premium or two hundred thoasand dol'ars a year, is worth having. Gen. Armstrong will not stand alone in that opinion, We are in expectation of the establishment, in Washington, of two or three democratic organs before the movting of Congress; and there will be from the South a large force of democrats, and from the Norih not @ few, who will think that the Union has been sucking long enough. and ought to be taken from the teat, for fear that too much of the rich milk of the Treasury may give it the cholic. Upon the whole. we are very much afraid that the re-election of Boyd, and Forney. and Arm- strong, are positively uncertain. ‘The doctrine ofrotation, now that the party is so large that the spoils won’t go round. is getting to bea mighty powerful doctrine among the democracy; and the idea that the new administration ought to commence work in the House with a new set of officers, will have considerable force in the re- organization of that body. It will be best for the administration to have nothing todo with this business. An administra- tion candidate for Speaker, or Clerk. or Printer may result in trouble to the administration. The elements of mutiny are plentifal among the Cass and Dickinson and Cobb and Foote democracy of the North and the South. There will most likely be some trouble in organizing the House. Let Gen. Pierce and his cabinet stand cautiously aloof till it is over. Les tiem see where the danger lies before they attempt to control the machinery. In the Senate, we presume everything will go on smoothly for some time. After the high compliment received at the last session by Mr. Dickens, the tried and reliable secretary of that body. we suppose he will be returned without a show of opposition. There will be no party troubles and rivalries to adjust in the organi- zation of the Senate. It will resume its fanc- tions already organized, and wait the develope ments of the House. In both houses we suspect the whigs will hold back, leaving all questions between Congress and the Execu- tive to be setiled among the democrats, and only putting in as a body where they may strike tosome ymrpose. This is so manifestly their policy that we have but little doubt they will adopt it. And mark you, the mutual jealousies among the democratic cliques, the disappointments of some, the aspiration of others, and the general distrust among all,in regard to the President, the cabinet, the spoils, and the succession, to say never a word of those great radical mea- sures which will have to be discussed—mark you, democrats of all stripes, that these things do not so cripple your heavy majorities in Con- gress as to render them worse than useless to the administration, to the party, and to the country. The mecting of Congress will solve the question. The democracy may be required to mount a new platform. The old one is get- ting a little shaky. And let every democratic member of the House be sure to be in Wash- ington by six o’clock, P. M.,on the Saturday preceding the first Monday in December next, There will be work to do; and we desire @ fair fight upon the Speaker and the Clerk, and no cheating in caucus. We look for great things of the coming Congress; and we expect a mighty good time for the newspapers. Shall we stand by the Union? Yea, verily, through thick and thin, \ Tun CLose oF THE FastionanLy SEASON—As- ToxisHIne DisPLay or Coma“on SeNsE aT THE WarterinG Praces.—In the Hrratp of this date we give several letters from our correspondents at the fashionable summer resorts, and on the principle that “blessings brighten when they take their flight,” these favors will be found unusually piquant. It is a very sad fact for the fast young men and women that the sencon is nearly over. It closes with this week. By the 29th Saratoga will be deserted and Newport return to its usual winter state of blasé stupidity. Fathers and husbands will growl at hotel bills—small flirtations between young gentlemen who trade on the capital of a brief mustache, tight trowsers, bizarre shirt studs, petite walking canes, tremendous coats, and young ladies whove attractions are made up of ringlets, bad French and exquisite lingerie —will be abruptly broken off; while in other quarters the most desperate endeavors will be made to secure the great object of the life of a helle—a rich and good natured husband. The scriptural injunction that “one shall be taken and the other shall be left.” will apply to these conquests, though we are not aware that the banks of the Jordan were ornamented with fashionable hotels, or ihat the pool of Siloam was the Congress Spring for the Fifth Ave nucites of Jerusalem. } Will Layard ascer- tain for us? He * found @ great many wonderful things at Nineveli, and he might pick up a piece of a bathing house at Acre or a billet d’amour from the belle of Bethichem. The experiment would be worth trying. /~ The signs of the times display very pleas- ing and astonishing fact in watering place an- nals. The close of the season is no more to be celebrated with the bal costume, which is very amusing in Burope, but is a great bore here; the characters are never well sustained, or well dressed. Your fat man always dresses for Robert Macaire, or a débardeur, while your thin, lantern-jawed fellow essays bluff Harry the Eighth, or Napoleon; your Charles the Second thinks waltzing immoral because he can’t do it, and your Cromwell gets very blue on bad champagne, flirts with all the women, and is carried to bed by four servants. The women axe equally*gauché, the blondes always elect characters which should be sustained by branettes, and vice versa. For these. and many other reasons, we are glad that the fashion is changed. The Saratoga season is to be closed with a regular old-fashioned Sir Roger de Coverley, chorus jig. Virginie reel, Hull's Vic tory dance, where every one can participate, and where fat old stockbrokers can astonish the weak nerves of their affectionates heirs hy the display of a degree of vigor which makes the demise so soon expeeted appear mneomforta- hiy fax off in the perspective. That’s the sort of thing. A polka, mazurke, waltz, or r va, is we enough, but we prefer “Rory O’More” to ald the quadnilles of St , Lanner, La ky, or Jullien, for Terpischorean 1 » It is alla matter of taste, a8 was remarked oa a certaty sion In Northern N York, at some of the lala i they wiod up with @ grand deer hant, Old Virginia, at the White Sulyhn s, a tourmament in the ordre du jour wpert they might have a pleasing d rertissement, hy executing the Maine Liquor law on oll the hotel proprietors who have charged too high for wines through tho season. Let us have no more of the fancy balls busi neas; the thing is old; oh tho thing We have had too much of the thing. ir A special edict. Read, mark, and obey! SE Ea eS aS A ES see ene ae ON Lee SER AE SD VY Aa SL ET SIR MRR BS! LEE AE ts Generar Santa Anna avy THE New York Henaio—We give place elsewhere in our columns this morning to the translation of an article published in General Santa Anna’s spe- cjal organ in Mexico, El Diario Oficial, de- fending the Mexican administration from charges or imputatione alleged against it by one of our correspondents, on the subject of the ar- rival at a Mexican port of the notorious slave veese] known as the Lady Suffolk. Ti would seem that in publishing the letier of our correspondent at Loguna de Terminos, de- tailing the cireumatanees of the Lady Suffolk's arrival and stay at that port, and hazarding the opinion that she would be permitted to escape thence with impunity, we have inewrred the displeasure of General Santa Anna to such a degree that he hes even permitted himself to indulge, through his organ. in an insinuation against the veracity of the New Youe Huraro, and io attribute our statements to the ranco- rous feeling we entertain towards him and his nation. But yet, how fully have subsequent facts proved the veracity of our correspondent in relation to this matter. and justified his pre- diction that this now celebrated vessel would be allowed to effect its departure from the port unmolested! The Lady Suffolk is again at liberty te pursue her unlawful mission, notwithstanding that the attention of the Mexican government was officially called to her character by the British Minister, as well as by the New Yoni Henatp. In the face of such a fact, how utterly contemptible are the assurances given in the Dierio Oficial of the determination of the gov- ernment to effect a thorough investigation of her, to bring the guilty to condign punishment, and to contribute all in their power to put a stop to the infamous slave trade! Did we wish to retort aguinst Santa Anna, we might ask him tocompare the statement of the Heraup and the Diario with what hes since taken place in the matter, and say on which side lie the evidences of greater falsehood. and which of their statements bave been more accurately verified. ‘We are not the unreasonable opponents of Gen. Santa Anna and his nation that his Excel- leney affects to believe. We are willing to give him eredit wherever he gives proof of deserving it. We are willing, for instance, to laud the resolute and creditable course pursued by him on bebalf of the Yucatan Indians who had been kidnapped to Havana; and if he can exculpate his government employes, from the charge which now attaches to them in the face of the world, of connivance at the escape of the Lady Suffolk from the Mexican port of Laguna de Ter- minos, we are ready to hear the evidence and decide fairly and impartially as to his and their guilt or innocence. What saith the Diario Oficial? Bring forth the evidence. Watt Srreet anp Mr. Secretary GuTanre. -—We have been informed that the Secretary of the Treasury hae concluded the purchase of building in Wall street, which building is to be used for the purpose of an assay office, agreea- bly to an act of the last. Congress. The price is stated at over half a million of dollars, The probable reasons which induced this purpose are, first: that the United States assay office, for this city, must necessarily be located in Wall street ; second: that a site could not be purchased in this street fora less sum. Let us look at the first proposition. We say without hesitation that the assay office might as well be in any other street, and it might be as conve- niently located for one half the money, perhaps one fourth. Wall street is a thing of the past. It hag reached its culminating point. If there is any change in Wall street it will be a change for the worse, and we may yet live to see the great money mart deserted. Do we not datly observe that banks and insurance offices are located in other streets, and who shal! dare to say that they are not as prosperous as if their business was conducted in that avenue, which has been (becauee it had the prestige) the great temple of mammon. We can point to an hun- dred examples to prove the trath of our words; but the merchants of New York, and others in- terested, are too well aware that what we say istrue. If Mr. Secretary Guthrie has made this purchase, he has been led away by a set of financiers. But wo don’t believo it. If Mr. Guthrie has lived all his life in old Kentucky. he must be familiar with the monetary affairs of the Union’s metropolis. Let us all hope that he has not spent halfa million of our mutual Unele’s money, when a quarter of a million would have answered the seme purpose. Let us all pray that Wall street has not proved too much for the bluff honesty of old Kentucky. We shall see, anon. Srarrstics or Marrracxs any Brrris-—Ix- TeRESUING TO TUK Lapres.—The Legislature, at its recent session, passed an act making it incum- bent on the part of all persons authorized to per- form the marriage ceremony to register and re- port to the City Inepector the names, ages and conditions of all pergons joined together by the holy tie; also, an act for the registration of births. The report for the city of New York has been made up, and we give it below. There is. no doubt, some difficulty at the commence- ment, but we have no reason to fear that the system will not work well. As wil} be seen below, the ladies are all quite young. a& compared with the ages of the gen- flemon. This may arise from those little inno- cent deceptions which the fair sex indulge in relative to their age; while many men who think that wisdom and godliness must of ne- cessity accompany gray hair or no hair at all, endeavor to make theinselves as ancient as pos- bible, But these are the exceptions, and the number of such eccentricities is aot particularly large. Here are the returns ;— MABRIAOES. Moles. Whole number. White tone . Black Agea— Under twenty . Twenty to twenty-five i twenty five to thirty 1 Thirty to thi Reis ve Thirty-five to forty ; u Forty to forty tive. R rty-five to fifty. one we 4 Pitty to fifty-five ‘ re L Filty-tive to six Sixty to sixty fis Seventy to sever le number ary | | White, Black. ’ oo cove THE 6 That the above list i we do no doubt bot that fact shor The | a pevally is exacted Tho statistics will | should bo made so 4 complied with, 2 most teresting and ugefal, as show ¢ city, and by-nnd-by, when the roe hell be collected and footed up tn t of the israwp, we shall be able to see how the of o —— great buman account stands. There certainty * can be no advantage obtained in the registra. tion of deaths, unless we can also ascertain how many people commit matnmony, and what are | the resulta of their obedience to the command to inerease and multiply. Yes, let ue have all the statistics. eiacoeatat edly Se The Mortality of New York. OVEMATION OF THE NEW BANATARY BILL — u | OF THE CITY INSPECTOR, “Pac eng We submit to our readers to-day, a copy ot a most important document, in the shape of a monthiy moy- tality return, which has been made out by the City Inspector, for transmission to the office of the Seon tary of State, in compliance with the recent act ef the Legislature, which went into force upon the 1st day of the past month. The tabular record exhibits ata glance the aggregate number of deaths which occurred in the city and county during the month of July from the operation of all the chief and most fatal diseases; the gross amount of deaths amongst persons of each sex, and the different periods of hu man life at which they died, arranged in quinquen- nial terms up to vigorous manhood, and in decadea during the middle and decline of life, from whick our many medical readers muy easily make up theix usnal tables for future reference. The diseases front which less than ten deaths resulted are not inserted = MONTHLY RETURN OF THE CITY INSPECTOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, OF DISEASES DURING THR MONTH OF JULY, 1853, Diseases. Hivoping Cough . Inflammation of Bowels.. EREHRe nentlatunnabtbnesceusliurtacek a Bak aolSRaah Shak | el Bad oon! aSS~ 2 ry NUMBER OF DEATHS AT EACH QUINQUENNIAL PERIOD AND DECADE O¥ eon LIFE. e Ages, Keaales, Under 1 Dacontte Sle Yrom 1 2, 180 “2 5 35. “6 to 10 » “10 to 15 u “ 15 to 20 36 20 to 25, a “ 25 to 30, 55 “30 to 40, oy 40 to 50, a * 80 to 60, i “| 60 to 70, a ‘70 to 80. pt “88 to 90. w 100 & toward i nowards Unknown ... 5 Total. .ere-secsisesee 1.200 1,133 Pnobliehed at a moment when a terrible epidemis is decimating the population of a sister city, and when disease is gradually creeping upon us from many quarters, this table is par:icularly valuable, as jt will direct attention to the inflaencing causes of death, which arise daily in this great city, both from our social position and our negiect of sanatary pre cautions. For ¢xample—we find .that two hundred and tbree pereons died within thirty days from con- sumption; of whom one hundred and ten were females, and ninety-three males. Now, every physi- cian, every physiologist, is aware that the smallest seed of pthisis or tuberculotes is nurtured to a fatal luxuriance in the vitiated atmosphere of a crowded lodging house, ora sweltering work room. The rents here have ron up to such a pitch that tenements are built with a view to shelter as many human beings as possible, without regard to their health, comfort, or mortality; and the industrious female who toile to support a widowed mother or an orphaned sister, has not only to pay for inhaling the poisoned air of such a house during the night, but also sit ina like atmosphere during the day, in order to make up the landlord's money every month. The enervated male artisan with delicate Jangs ia regularly poisoned from like causes, and thus we see that of all the deaths from consumption, ona hundred and six of the deceased were between tha ages of twenty and forty years, the periods at which Kile is most valuable to the reproductive wealth of a city, and the happiness of its people. How many of them could have been saved by more airy apart. ments, ample public parks, and cheerful workrooms, it is not for us to conjecture. Kighty-five persona were taken off by the various fevers, the typhus fe ver alone killing twenty. It ia clearly demonstrated that in fevers of the typhus, typhoid, and remittent type, the crisisia often rendered mortal, or a fatal result is hastened by the operation of the causes we have alluded t. Two hundred and ninety-cizht persons died of dy- sentery and disrrheea, of whom one hundred aut fifty-two were females. Although the prevalence there affections is not wonderful, at a season whe the markets are glutted witb unripe fruits, and wher an unusual quantity of vegetable food is taken, stil there are no diseases more difficult of cure when the patients ore located in damp cellars, ill-ventilated roome, or inhaling the carbon arising from neglestes cess pools, filthy streets, or unwashed sewers. Cou gestion of the brain and lungs took away sixty persons, and different violent inflammations one baw dred and ninety. Twenty-six of the former, an eighty of the latter, were females. Fourteen womer died of direase of the heart, of whom seven were be tween twen!y and thirty years of age. Threc hun dred and eigist children, under ten years of age, died of cholera infantum, and ninety of dropay in the head, none vt whoin had reached fifteen. Twenty one were lost by small pox, and twenty-eight by croup. Thirty-two persons were drowned, and four: teen dronkards expired in delirium tremens. Marag mns, which may be denominated as an infant per sonification of impure air, bad nursing, improper food, and filth, killed one hundred and fifty-two in fants. If space permitted, we would extend our analysie of Doctor Downing’s return, fur whom wo beg the assistance of the medical practiti mers of the city in the fortherance of his endeavor for health improves menta amongst us. Perhaps there is no class of mer which possesses more abie vr accurate staticiang in its ranks than the me? cul body docs, yet it is lamentable to see how often they entertain a repugs nance to the a neo of mortality recerd, by which, if energetically attended to by them, they would convince vnr lazy corporations of tho value of hus the simple means by which it ean be preserved and extended, and ofthe absolnte sanatery regulation 1 fixed social rule, yrs of the pross, or We hope the dostorg uv h other nor. | will 0 qa wale a Move soon. & ow "Change, the pemeiss ted to obecte oo ee. 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