The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1854, Page 4

NI"W YORK HERALD, | pepueueeneeee enon JAMES GORDON BESNET oC, PROPRIETOR AND ED:TOR. "pep ich N. W. OOANER OF NASSAU AMD FULTON 878. per 60} per annum, my Salary Gt 644 conta wuropean Edition $4 per aw ash in asdoanee, ¥ HERALD 3 conta on EKLY HERALD per copy. or 8 per annum; the wom 60 an) Goettient 30 BP to tnelude postage AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. SASTLE GARDEN.—Masanisiro. ‘YHEATRE,Bowery—Gaxev Busuee~Aurive eters sea DEBLO'S. Fienznwan’s Daxam - Raovi. La reread THRATRE Chatham street Dow Ceasar es Bacan—s Da: its Gaon Joxe—Youne Svamr. VrnacE To AMERICAN MUSEUM:—Asterncen, Pao FR ag rag rth oF MunsTER- BURIED Alive, MINSTREL BALL, 444 Broedway—Ermorian (iiebatar aro Buncasace maa. ¥'8 OPERA HOUSE, 589 Brosdway.—Bucu- pan o Byeiovias Orens Taovra PRANOONYS HIPPODEROME—Mavuwon Sauans, Rew York, Friday, August 4, 1854. The News. FROM WASHINGTON. ‘Fhe first session of the thirty-third Congresa is @xawing rapidly to a close, and if there is one thing ‘more than another for which the people of this re- poblie should give thanks it is this event, Asusual ‘aa ihe close of the session, the action of both honses yesterdey was rapid and attended with disorder. A ‘Yaet amount of business was transacted, and we can- met do better than refer our readers to the reports of fhe proceedings given under the telegraphic heal. part of Great Britain, and $5 to any purt of (ae; RINTRNG executed svith noatners,cheupness, and | Lescay mornlug, was examioed yesterday. fully commited fur trisioa toe charge of marder. The prieowes atated that he acted in self Setense aguicst a violent and usexpochsd personal sstaul> THE BROODELYS TRAGEDY. We give iv another column some ad%iijonal par- licwars respecting the bloody tragedy perpetrated in Brooklyn on Wednesday evepmg. It is setdom we are calle’! upon to record an event so freezingly tersible. The #retched individual who committed ; this shocking deed was undoubtedly the victim of | that awfal, yet, tothe minds of many, unpardon- able, apecies of insanity, superinduced by strong drink. | eo | The Recent Awfal Pragedies—The Maine Law | Advecates. The three awful tragedies which we recorded in our paper of yesterday will no doubt furnish fresh themes tor the sophistries of the Maine law advocates. Unfortunately, however, for the moral which they may seek to draw from theee examples, in two out of three of them the most stringent provisions of the severest mea- sure of legislation that has as yet been framed on the subject would not have averted the ca- lamitous results by which they were attended. They fall precisely within those exceptions which even the most fanatical supporters of the law are compelled to admit as inevitable. In- stead, therefore, of proving the value of avy general legislation on the subject, they only serve to still further demonstrate ite absur- dity. The truth is, that the advocates of arbitrary restrictions on the sale and.use ot liquor have gone the wrong way about effecting a reform. The masses of mankind will never concur in the justice of a sumptuary code which strikes r at the indulgences of the poor man, and leaves ‘These reports are brought down to a late hour las! { the excesses of the rich maw untouched. What aight, at which time both houses were still hard at work, and there ia no doubt but the adjournment sort of legislation is that which would shut up the grogehop and leave to hotels and drag- will take place at the hour agreed upon—12 o’clock | gists the undisturbed distribution of the pro- teday. The continnation of the proceedings will } pipitcd articles? ‘be given in our evening edition. The investigating committees of the House on ‘the Colt patent exiension, the Minnesota railroad Jand pi)! fraud, and the alleged charges of corrup- tion preferred by B. E. Green against Mr. T. H Is it because the education, the refinement, or the superior morality of the privileged classes who can afford to frequent the latter, render the sale of liquor in those places innocnons? The fearful occurrences to Bayly, made reports. The chairman of the com: | which we allude are in themselves sufficient to mittee on the Colt business made a report, which, @ogether with reports by other members of the negative this assumption. Here are murders committed under the in- @emmittee, was laid on the table and ordered to | fluence of intoxication, by two men of educa- be printed. The contents of these documents have ‘aot transpired, but one of them states that no im- Yeper means were used in obtaining the Colt patent. Inthe case of Mr. Bayly, the committee weport that Mr. Green failed to substantiate his Begations of corruption in regard to the Mexican Sndemnity bill. The charges against certain par- tion and intelligence, and from whom, under the provisions of the Maine law, it would have been impossible to withhold the means of self- indulgence. Let us take the average of out- rages of a similar character committed through- out the different States of the Union and we will ties respecting the interpolations of the Minnesota | find that a large proportion of the authors of land bill were fully proven. It seems, however, that the alteration of bille before Congress has be- ‘ome a common practice, and the committee, while e@ondemuing the custom, exonerate the persons fepplicated in the case uncer consideration fom any improper or corrupt intent. A re- solution to remove Mr. Forney from the of fice of Clerk of the House—he being regarded by some as the person responsible for-the fraud— them are men belonging to the better classes of society. What do these facts prove? Not that the use of wine or spirits ia in itself bad or de- moralizing when it is kept within its proper limits, but that we have yet to arrive at that high degree of refinement and civilization which enables the moral sense to control the appetite for sensual indulgences, and preserves wae offered, debated, and rejected, by a vote of | 08 from forgetting what we owe to society as eighteen against one hundred and fifty-four. The | Well as to ourselves, Bil) which has caused all this trouble was repealed Tostead, therefore, of conimencing our reforms Dy the Howe, and in the Senate, sfter considerable | with those who are not as well educated aud @acuzsion, it was also repealed. Those two important posta, the consulships at London and Havana, have been awarded, and may Bow be considered out of the market. General @ampbell, formerly Consul at Havana, supersedes George N. Sanders, at London. Sanders’ Young America and red republican proclivities have been ‘We death of him—he is decidedly in advance of the fogies in the Senate. The consulship at Havana falle to Roger Barton, of Mississippi. Whit ad- instructed as ourselves, and who are conse: quently not supposed to weigh with the same nicety the results of their actions, we should begin with the offenders who have no such ex- cuse to plead, and who, we are sorry to say, comprise a large proportion of the better classes of our society. In no other country in the world is the practice of tippling, as a daily habit, carried to such extremes as in this. In vantoge Jefferson Davis derives from this arrange- | no other country are the professional man, the ment remains to be seen, merchant, and the merchant’s clerk, to be seen There was all sorts of work with the various ap- drinking, aaa general practice, before dinner propriation bills, but we cannot attempt to follow their progress. Among the amendments to the eval Appropriation bill in the Senate was one al- Bowing the officers of the Texan navy the pay of effivera on leave of absence, from the time of an- in the bar rooms of hotels, and unfitting them- selyes for that cool and patient attention to their business which is essential to suc- cess. With such examples befere him, how pexation to the present time, and another increasing | Can It be expected that the poor man the pay of the non-commissioned officers and pri- vates of the marine corps at the same rate respec- will exercise a strict control over his own in- clinations, or pay any respect to a legislation tively as those of the army. A proposition tocreate | which ignores the indulgences of the one, whilst em examining board of officers, with the view of oulling out the useless timber in the shape of Broken down and used-up old halks of commodores, was adopted. It was stated that the Navy Depart- ment had furnished a list of officers of high rank, who had been tor twenty years incompetent for duty from habitaal intoxication. Mr. Mason, Chairman of the Committee on For- sign Affairs, presented a report on our relations with Bpain. The report says that full reparation for past @utrages, and adequate guarantees for the future, will alone satiafy the expectations of the country. Up to the jast accoupts the House had refused to fore consider the Homestead bill. A motion to euspend the rules, and appointing in December for the con- ideration of the latter subject, was defeated. The River and Harbor bill was taken up and the Senate’s smendmen‘s concnrred in. LATBR (ROM HAVANA. We publish elsewhere letters from our correspon- @ents at Havana, giving the Istest intelligence from the Island of Cuba. The advices are to the Bist ult. A large force of regular troops had arrived from Spain, and more were daily expected. The Deaith of Havana was improving rapidly. With the exception of the publication of statements re- @pecting the desire of the government to suppress it secks to repreas and punish those of the other? Let us begin the work of reformation, then, by discountenancing and frowning down this unbecoming and demoralizing practice; and by showing to the masses that there is a moral penalty attached to itin the estimation of all prudent and well conducted men we will be likely to do more in the way of prevention than the mosé severe laws can effect. By the force o' public opinion alone can this growing evil and its fearful results be abated, and it is there- the duty of every man to contribute the weight of his own example to it, Tue Saratoga Convention. A LovpCauh— The following call, with the signatures attach- ed—free soil whigs, iree soil democrats, and free soilers and abolitionists proper—has been laid upon our table:— MASS COUNTY CONVENTION. ‘The undersigned respectfully invite the electors of the county of New York, without distinction of party, who disapprove the repeal of the Missouri Compromis:, to assemble in mass meeting, in the Park, on the 8th day of August, instant, at 6 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of Appointing five delegates from each of thoir Assembly districts, to represent the county in the great State Con. vention ‘to bo held at the village of Saratoga Springs, on the traffic in slaves, the public journals contain no- | Wednesday, the 16th day of August, instant; and for thing of interest. APFAIRS IN EUROPE. Letters from our correspondents in London and Paris, the latest detailed reports of the progress of the Spanish insurrection, comments and editorials ef the English press on the Schuyler frauds, copies @f the notes forwarded to the Czar by the Austrian ‘smd Prussian monarchs, with other entertaining | wr. C. Bryant, Matter, received by the late arrivals, may be fourd in another part of to-day’s paper. NAVIGATION OF THE AMAZON. We have translated from the Jornal do Commer. cio, of Rio Janeiro, the correspondence which pie 04 last year between the Imperial Legation of Bra- ‘ei at Washington and our gevernment, with regard to certain intelligence published in the newspapers, ofa North American steamer being about to stext for the Amazon for the purpose of exploring its tr'- Duteries and finding some Bolivian porta, This cor wespondence, which we publish clsewkere, will be ead with interest as being immediately connected fe mg . ‘with the free navigation of the Amazon, a snbject Of no little importance to the whol. commercial world. COMMERCIAL AFTAT..8. ‘There was no change of moment in the market for breadstaff: yesterday. Pork #aa dull and prices favored parchavers. Cotton was firm for all grades above middling, and steady for other descriptions ‘The sales within the past two days have exceeded two thourand bales. THE STEAMER sha The steamer Sea Bird, from this jx Norfolk, ona trial trip, met with a slight accident, and had to put into Absecom harbor, where she repaired thy @amage anf proces ied. THE DOWNING COURT MARTIAL. The naval court martial upon Capt. Down'ng whieh has been in session some three weeks, in Philadelphia, terminated its labors on Vodnesday. end the finding agreed upon war trauemitted te Washington on Thursday. THS RECENT HoMICTIDS. BR. bert M. Grabam, the peravn cherged with kill. the purpose of expressing. their views in relation to the growing aggressions and assumptions of the slave powor ABRABAM VAN NEST, Chairman of the Anti Nebraska tien. Com’ te. Suevarap Kearr, ) Joskrn P. SIMPSON, Exuarr Riewrmr, Vice Chaicmen, Jamks M. Boy, BRAT COMMITTEE, M. Ti Grinnelt, RB. N. Havens, — James McClave, Theo. McNamee, Jose Avezzani, Alfred Pell, Sigiom'd Kaufman. W. Alunt, John A. King, M. Tompkins, o, Brnee, John Jay, J. McMullen, © Whiting, A © Flagg, Wm. V. Brady, higbee, Isaac Seymour, Daniel Lord, Charles King, John Paine, A. J. Shultz, Cyrus Curtiss, B.atterihwaite, D. D. T. Marshall, Wan. Whitloc®, Jr., Edmund M. Young,John Badie, . Ward Bee. ier, f. C. Tucker, John EB. 9, Thos. McEirath, Geg, M. Titus, ©. R. Miller, C. E. Whitehead, Un L. Everett, M.B. Bryant, Nathan Bangs, John MeKeeson, Joseph Blunt, A. G. a Faward Prime, Henry B. Dawson, Chas. H. ‘ball, Kobert Emmett, T. K. Minturn, David es Horatio Alen, Joseph Hoxie, =D. M. G@ i. T.B. Stillman, John J. Phelps, ‘Thos. Vermil; 0, 4. J. Coda Wm. Tucker, E. D. Hurlbut, Thos Addig Finmot,Zebedee Cook, —_R. M. Hoe, ‘Geo. H. Williams, E, H. Chapin, Wm. C. Sturges,’ J. F. Bee, oth, Smith A, Whiting, John P, Simp oa. Samuel Leeds, This will give cur readers some idea of the Anti-slavery Alliance which is to rally to the rescue at Saratoga on the 16th. When we find such men as W. C. Bryant, A. C. Flagg, Tho- mas Addis Emmet, William V. Brady, Joseph Hoxie, Henry Ward Beecher, aad Thomas McBireth, all rallying together like a baad of brothers, depend upon it there is something very surprising in the wind, A grand mass meeting in the Park on the eighth day of August, at six o’clock in the afternvon! The fug-ends of ali the old potitival parties who have no particular vocation just pow, will do well to Lethere. There may be some spoils in the movement worth looking after. No telling now what they may not accomplish in the No- vember election if they only stick together at Saratoga, We lve in the midst of cevolutions, and this is one vf them. Tue Sth of August. og Crh Loring, at the Sh Nichvias Hotel, oa Wea | Remember, He was | Van Bor”, an Awolition Delegate to Man- cheater t ! We published yesterday a most astounding | article from the London Advertiser, trom which | it sppears that “ the Abolition Convention to be holden at Manche ter, (Hngland,) on the lst of August, will receive an additional interest in the presence of the Hon. John Van Buren, a prominent American politician, and son of Mar- tin Van Buren, ex-President of the United States.” This makes the identity of the indivi- dua) c'ear as the noonday sun. It is Prince John, of Tammany Hall, and no mistake. The fact of hie having agreed, as he may have agreed, to be present at the Meachestér Anti- American Abolition Convention, however, would not of itself signify anything, because it is not unlikely that a Southern slaveholder or two may have attended the same convention, to see what was in the wind. But mark what follows. The London peper aforesaid goes on to say thet “Mr. Van Baren visits this country (Eng- land) to be present at the forthcoming Anti- Slavery Convention, and to advise with his fellow-workera in the noble cause of negro emancipation in the United States, and with which his father, as well aa himself, has, for several years, been identified.” Here the startling fact is announced that the object of this visit of the Prince to England, “ig to be present” gt the Manchester Convention. He goes over, in other words, as a volunteer delegate from the United’ States to this Manchester convention ofthe British aboli- tionists, Truly have we been Widely mistaken in our conjectures of the objects of this jaunt to Europe, if this news be true. We had sup- posed that, clothed with some confidential and extraordinary diplomatic duties from his old friend Marcy, the Prince had gone over the water upon a roving European com- mission, like that of Major Borland in Cen- tral America, with no particular functions to any particular place, but with unlim- ited supervisory diplomatio. powers over the continent generally. We had supposed that he was at least commissioned to look aiter the practical working of those circulars from the State Department of a year ago touching the important subject of diplomatic knee- breeches and shoe-buckles. Indeed, we did think it quite possible that “the Hon. John Van Buren” might, also, be officially charged to inquire into the progress of the spiritual relations between the “ex-President’” and the Holy Father at Rome; and we did imagine, also, that the Prince before his return might run down and drop into Constantinople for a week or two, to ascertain the exact state of the health of “‘the sick man” of Turkey, for the special information of the Cabinct and the Kitchen Cabinet at Washington. Such were the conjectures which we had en- tertained in reference to the official and politi- cal objects of the present visit of the Prince to Europe. But all these flattering suggestions, if what we now hear be true, are scattered to the winds. He visits England, we are told, on purpose to he present at the forthcoming Anti- elavery Convention at Manchester, “ We had supposed that in adopting the soft shell Syria’ cuse platform of last year, that the Prince had Practically abandoned the Buffalo free soil abo- lition coalition. Of course we had not forgot- ten his opposition to the Nebraska bill, both at the White House, at Washington, and in Tam- many Hull; bat who could have dreamed, on his departure from these shores, that John Van Buren was en route as @ volunteer delegate, iu the place of Garrison or Fred Douglass. to th: British Abolition Convention at Manchester? Yet the tact is stated so precisely by the Lon- don Advertiser, and the editor scoms to be so intimately advised upon the subject, that, with- out eome direct and authentic information, we can hardly venture to put in a denial. We are further admonished that of ail the subjects to be discussed at this Manchester Con- vention, “there is none of such vital import- ance as that proposing the discussion of the fea- sibility of dissolving that gr-at_urfion of States, which it bas too often been s:' the hearts of a free people, «. in its greatness an example to the world.” Well may the London editor say that “ the dis- cussion of this momentous topic will form a new phase of the anti-slavery movement” in England. But what a sense o, pride, delight and satisfaction will warm the bowels of the sachems of Tammany Hall, and the whole free soil soft shell administration party of New York, in being informed by a metropolitan organ of the British abolitionists, that “with such compatriots as George Thompson, W. Wells Brown, (black man, the ceicbrated Box Brown.) and Parker Pillsbury, Mr. Van Buren cannot fail to render good service to the cause of freedom, by instracting his fellow- workers on this side the Atlantic.” Is not this most astounding inielligence? Can it be that a son of a man who has been honored with the highest positions in the gift of the American people—can it be tlat John Van Buren, who has himself enjoyed some offices of high distinction in his native State, and who is still young cnough, and with talents, experience, reputation, and popularity enough, to aspire to still higher political achievements —can it be that he has thus deliberately re- solved to blast and sink himself forever, in that blackest of all infamous charactérs, an un- grateful traitor to his country, consorting and conspiring in a foreign land with foreign ene- mics for the overthrow of his own government, through the dissolution of this “ great union of States.” We ask for information. In spite of the positive terms in which the London 4drer- tiser associates John Van Buren with George Thompson, we must hear from the Prince him- self before we can venture on his condemnation. Should the proceedings at the Manchester Convention bear out the representations of the London paper in question, better would it be for the Prince had he perished in mortal combat with Daniel E. Sickles; better had he received a compound fracture of the skull ina Tammany Hall row; beticr he had never been born. “With the anti-slavery furore which followed the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the ad veut of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stewe in Enz land, we predicted that there would soon be an active alliance formed for the dissolution of the Union between the British Stratford Louse negro philanthropists and our, American abolitionists; but the news that John Van Buron ts the boasted delegate to the Manchester Dieuaion Abolition Convention is too treasonable and ineredible for. be- lief. Let us hear from the Prince himself: The charges against him are explicit, specific aud of the gravest character, If true, the long- er he postpones his return to New York the better; if false, they cannot be too promptly put down. The news which we have been discussing Spon ws Ht & Very Waortunate time. bord ebello apd: soft ets are reported to be concocting the “erma of re-union for the spoils of our November election; but unless the report concerning the visit of Prince John to England be promptly and satisfactorily denied, it will fall like a wet blanket upon the shoulders of the free soil soft shell spoils democracy; and it may utterly def,at the plans of John Cochrane and the tration at Washington. Let us hear from the Prince. ‘The Straggle for the Supremacy of the Seas. It wilt be perceived by reference to our London correspondence that the superiority of the Pacific and Panawa route, as the medium of communication between Great Britain and her Australian possessions, is now generally admitted in that country. It is now twenty years since the British government first began subsidizing large steam packet companies for the conveyanee of mails. The object was to have English packets with admiralty officers on board, to watch what was doing in every part of the world, to provide for the exigencies of commerce in the quick transmission of cor- Ttespondence, and, in case of war, to have a large fleet. of steamers ready to be converted into armed vessele, Bt was thus thought that mails could be conveyed cheaper, and that a large navy could be kept up with less expense than a government flect would entail. Two steam packet companies alone, at the present time—viz.: the Peninsular and Oriental, and the Royal Mail Steam Packet companies—receive $2,500,000 a year for carrying the mails. These companies, owing to a variety of causes, have become unpopular. The English are a nation of grumblers—besides which the compa- nies themselves have behaved badly. After get- ting contracts they cared nothing about the mails—their sole concern was about the passen- gers and cargoes. The foreign postage also ne- ver paid for the mail ket service. Rival companies in embryo, attacked the mail compa nies in the papers at length; and it was also found that the mail packets would not do for steam- ers—so that now mail steam packet companies wre in bad odor. The British government have declared against them. They will showno favor towards them, nor will they any longer subsi- dise new companies. With all this it must, however, be admitted that the rapid, frequent, and regular conveyance of mails has promoted commerce, and that the mail packets have been found indispensable for troop ships. ‘When gold was: discovered in Australia, a general cry was raised for steam packet com- munication between England and her gold colo- nies. But mail packet companies had then done their best to disgust the government and the country with the service. Ten or twelve years ago, the government would have unhesi- tatingly granted a million of dollars a year to any company that would have undertaken a frequent steam packet communication with Australia; bat three years ago they gradgingly allowed only $150,000 to one company. At that period the troubles of English steam packet companies commenced. The strike of the Eng- lish engineers took place, seamen’s wages rose, aud tho freight for conveying coal to distant parts became frightfuc’ expensive. The Aus- tralian Mail Company, via the C=ne of Goud Hope, broke down; another Australian com- pany, whose vessels were to traverse the Pacific and run with the West India Company, was refused a government contract, and, after build- ing ships, they sold them, and relinquished the undertaking. The General Screw Company undertook to run s steamer to Australia, but they could get no favorahle mail contract; and though their ships fill well with passengers and cargo, it is questionable whether the traffic pays. In fact, that company has already turned ite at- tention to the United States. Their first ship, the Indiana, has already made her first voyage here, and there is no doubt but that the compa- ny will be obliged altogether to relinquish the Australian trade. To show the condition to which the English steam packet companies are reduced, it is only necessary to state that the Peninsular snd Orien- tal Company, which was once the largest and Tichest in the world—a company that has the complete monopoly of the traffic to the East Ii $ dies and China, by way of Egypt, and which never paid during late years less than eight per cent dividend—has suspended payment of a dividend, and is now before the English government praying for compen-ation for losses. Their coals cost them one million of dollars annually more than formerly. Some idea of the enormous expense to which these companies will be subjected may be formed from the fact that the Royal Wost India Mail Company consume 140,000 tons of coal a year, at @ cost of twelve dollars a ton. There is now only a monthly mail communica- tion with Australia from England, alternately by way of India and the Cape of Good Hope. The communication with Australia by way of India is performed by the Peninsular and Orientaf Company, who would gladly give it up if thev could; and the other, by way of the Cape ff Good Hope, (the homeward route of which 1s by Cape Horn.) is performed by the General Screw Company, who, there is reason to be- lieve, will relinquish it for the sake of the New York trade, In fact, om Anatralian steam packet communication is too much for the English. The pretensions of the latter to be the steam packet carriers for the world, and round the world, have not been realized. The Americans have successfully competed with the English in Atlantic steassing, even in their own port, Liverpool; and in the British chan- nel America bas monepolized the steam truilic. With all the boasted capital and enterprise of England, she has never dared show herself in Atlantic mail or mercantile steamers at Bre- men, Havre, or her own crack port of South- ainpton; and even the present speculation of the General Screw Company, of running steam- ers between Havre, Southampton and New York, is done ander American auspices. The steam traffic of the Pacific, like that of the American continent, must eventually be- long to America. England cannot grasp it. Australia can do nothing of itself, It must de- volve on the United States soon to stretch away from Panama to New Zealand and“Australia. A steam line there would have mugnificent feeders in the West India Company, and the New York and England and New York and Aspinwall companies, Already the United States bas the monopoly of the steam line from New York across the Isthmug to California. The Sandwich Islands will soo be ours, which will give us 9 better footing in the Pacisic than New Zealand gives England, because it is not sc distant from the seat of government. We ro- peat again, that England ia not equal to estab- lishing a communication with Australia. She has tried it and failed. England is indebted io America for sending the first paddle-wheel steamer ta Australia from an English port. She had sot, the pluck to do it herself, The long war in which England is evidently engaged will crip- ple her, and enable a rival, America, in every revpect her equal, to take perfectly fair advantage of her, and secure the great carrying traffic of the seas. Even the steam communication to the Cape of Good Hope, England bas abandoned, and her great colony in Africa aud half-way station to Australia is cut off from the mother country’through the poverty of her reeources. When the present large English mail contracts expire, they will not be renewed, and America will then be able to compete effectually for the steam traffic to and from the foreign dominions of Great Britain. Cieaxrxc oF THE SrrEETs.—We perceive a faint show of vitality among the parties to whom the responsible duty ef ridding our streets of their superabundant filth is entrust- ed. Last night a meeting of the street contrac- tors of the several districts of the city was held at the Weeteliester House in Broome street, (appropriate locality !) but we have not heard the particular nature of the business for which it was convened. An excellent regulation has, we see, heen adopted by the contractors of the Seventh, Eleventh, Thirteenth and Seventeenth wards—namely, that of leaving in each station house of. the above wards abox for the recep- tion of letters or complaints. The example is worth imitation. The St, Nicholas Hotel Tragedy. COMMITTAL OF DR. GRAHAM FOR MURDEB. The examination of Robert M. Graham, charged with the man killing of Col. Loring, took place yes- terday forenoon at the Toombs, in presence of Coroner O'Donnell. To the usual questions asked him by the Coroner, he answered, through his counsel, that he was 33 years of age, was @ practical physician,and has been connected with a drug store in New Orleans. In re- gard to the charge, he said:—“I am aware a state- ment made by me cannot be used as evidence in my favor. The circumstances I would wish to explain could have been easily proved by the facts which might have been elicited on the cross-examination of the witnesses against me. As the Coroner refas- ed to permit me or my counsel to cross-examine upon the case, I respectfully decline to make any statement of the particulars of the case; bat I do most solemnly declare, that whatever I did at the unfortanate and melancholy occurrence which has placed me now before you, I did it in self-defence, against 2 most sudden, violent and unexpected per- sonal attack upon me by the d Me The Coroner then fully committed Graham for murder, and refused all applications for bail. The prisoner then took leave of his friends,and was con- ducted to his cell by the officers. Suppression of Sunday Traffic in Williams burg. A Jarge meeting of the most respectable citizens of Williamaburg, was held last evening at the hall in the Savings Bank in Fonarth street. The object of the meeting was for the purpose of tendering a public expression of gratitude to Mayor Wall, for the prompt and efficient action hé has taken for the suppression of Snoday traffic. The hall was crowd- ed to excess, and the meeting was most enthusiastic. Mr. Nathaniel Briggs was called to the chair, and Messrs. Edward Driggs, John Hamilton, Samuel Groves, T. Clark, James Lynch, Daniel Manjer, and John 8. Burr, were elected Vice; Presidents. Mr. ‘Wm. L. Haskins acted as Secretary. ‘The following preamble and resolutions, which were adopted; were spoken to by Rev. Dr. Baker, Rev. Dr. Church, Mr. 7. 5. Ouray, Rov. Me; Fax. and Mr. Fellows:— raha ta a aman ea our Chief Magi: yy vindicate jest} of the laws, and to effect within his jurisdiction a otal suppression of Sundsy traffic, entities him te « public expression of that gratitude with which bis public acts have inspired those who delight in the ec of law and Cedi ae & just and fitting estimate upon public and tranquillity and happiness; therofore Resolved, That the citizens of Wi burg, in town meeting assembied, hereby tender to William Wall, mayor of the city, a public expression of their warmesi thanks for his manly efforts, and for that moral courage he has so signally displayed in atemming the tide of [aa nd evils, and of pursuing a course of measures cal- culated to enforce corrective lews that prohibit the vending of merebandive on Sunday. Resolved, That the success which bas “nas far attended the adoption of those measures th about the suppression of Sunday traffic and the effect of which may be dy seen throughout the whole week, both by day and moonlight, in the quiet, orderly condition of our city, ‘Ss compared with former periods, when immunity claimed @ prescriptive sanction to set law and decency at defiance: while it is but the prelude to that new era of better things which has thus ogee tn dawu upon us, is also deemed powerful incenti: the rigid con:iou ance of those measures until the evils against which they are directed shall be at last and forever abolished. Fesolved, thet the position of our worthy Mayor, be- bind the law, and his fall acknowledgement of the ma- jesty and the power of that law, commande our profound ‘adumration, expecially when it is contrasted with the conduct of those who presume apon a species of tive legislation, in au preasing those laws which they do not approve, or which they find it impolitic toenforce. In jort, we hail bim as the ‘good and faithful servant,” and as a “terror to evil doers.”? In view of whicl the citizens cf Williamsburg, as aforesaid, hereby tender to their chief magistrate their hearty and active co-operation, concurrence, sympathy and support, in all the measures he has «een fit, or may yet see Ait, to par. sue, tending to bapish from among us the prevalence of evils of such fearfol magnitude and consequence as to have entailed a blemish upon the fame of our city that will require long seasons of repentence and more orderly fature Jeportment effectually to wipe away. hesolved, That the traig tforward and independent course tbus marked out, and so fearlessly and impartial pursued, by the Mayor, in the administration of the high and mh op oe aaosein te hi the most unqual a] 16 for whose benefit Siellawe are simian ma ere, snd that man is the man ‘or it le who knows no mo man, this save law und duty—-whe ie te al respecta the servaut Of that people, nor seeks to be their master. ‘Western Emigrating A«soctetion, ‘This society held one of its regular meetings last evening at No. 68 East Broadway. There were some fifty persons present. The object of this meeting was to organize formally the society, and adopt a constitution. This constitution was drawn up in a series of articles, establishing the society uuder the title of the “ Western Emigrating Assuciation,” and its principal object is to settle emigrants in the West by the Spring of 1855. The constitation requires weekly meetings of the members, regulates the offi- cers—a President, Vice-President, and six Trastecs, and constitutes them @ board of Directors, An en trance fee of twenty-five centa, aad weekly dues of Asean cents are required —_ oe momber ty jc be altered by a three fourth vote ofall the members at a regular meeting. ’ We oon the following extra:t ombodied in the constitution :—~ The manner by which we, the members of this associa. tiov hope to accomplish oug object First. We wish to acctfhulate a fund, by monthly ayments, on a plait similar to that of building asso. clations, but shall svoid the namerous oxpenses attend- ing them, such as lawyers fees and the like. Secondly. This fund is to be devoted to the purchastug of provisionn, tools, and sueh other artieles as will be of general otility to the members, as a grist mill, &e. Thirdly. We intend to organise into a military com- pany, for mutusl protection, before starting, ani conti- nno in such a company for s limited time aftor jocaliug. Fourthly. The Froposed trast of land on which we Theate, shall be divided into farms of one hundred and sixty acres, or lese, roserving the centre of tho tewnship for 9 village, ‘on which shall be placed tho school and meeting bouss, saw mill, grist mill, and other publie buildings: viter reserving a sufficient number of Scres for those pnrposes, the dalauce shall be divided into lots of about one acre each, aud each member ou be entitled te one faym apd one village tot. Tifthly. The numbor of members te be unlimited, bat Not less than fifty. Sixthly. Gur great aim ix to form one of the most re- #pectable and best com; that have ever emigrated to the West, and our object of uniting is to obtain all the advantages that cam arise from a well'regulated co- operation. The committee which drew up the constitution Were continued for another week, to make any ad- ditions that might be thought necessary. Lhe meeting then sdjvurned. Mar! A Prate oy Tar Weer Ixpnm.—ihe accounts published here of a British sloop haviug been taken possession of ys pirate vessel tu the Mons Paseage, ie condrmed by | an arrivalatii@iifex, from St. Joln’s, P. R. In the Fall | fax account It is stated that after secrching the veesel | ‘and taking some rope, two other merchant vessels hove | ip sight, when they cut adrift and made all sail in chase, weather and the “Know vemen will be produced, which will be caloulated to keep pulse of the politicians up to fever heat. Srumer CONTRACTORS. —The Street hela private meeting last night ct the Westchester House, m™ ity of the contractors were present, amd some Jat oS Glasier of violation of con- tract with , which resolutions they withhold for the present. The meeting adj2urned till this evening, the same time end place. Hermon, where d the day. tothe society at] Dasked for Mount 5 e and returned home in the best of humor. ioral pier ter’s Point, where she lay till the ter. There being no apperaias 5 dutstt ed apd Fourth ward, in quilt enveloped the lamp acd ¢ ‘No damage was done to the pr the cam: Officer Maher, of store, and with a bed ed the flames. ‘¥,—The whole number of 480; in Englana, 11; other country, 1. Number Joopital, 0; vecchosied, dy tied iam whole number of 6 the month was, 1,6 Apoth Department du: pi ot number ip one @ay, 107; average, 60. Easrznn Disresazy —The showing. is the rapert this ges tee eh month Ce, ag re tended at the office, , mules, 643; females, 873; ts otiended at’ thelr dwellings, 18; maise, U0;) males, 124; number of pereons vaccinated, 20; males, females, 11; total, 1,649. There were cured or relien 1 822; sent to hospital, 18; remaining under treatmer ; and died 9, the whole oi there were born the State of NewY, 812; oe ee in foreign countries, 1, advice and furnished number of preser in the Zone put up: foc, the aerate | Be "396; the larg ut up for the 3 number in one was 142; the Micinet’ seme average per diem, ' Norraxxn Drerexsazy.—The monthly institution for J shows the ite 4 number Seiee DeEatus.—We are sorry to learn that the i Eliza Totten, who was badly hurt by sempine ye second story window, at the time of burnin, Bay yeaterda; were oe of July last, by a man nsmed John nesday night at the City Hospital. ‘The an inquest to-day. A young man, Damed Peter A. Hefferts, feuterday a New Brighton, Staten Island, w g at that place. He was a house carpenter tion, and was in the employ of Estebrook, ‘Dusiness at the place where he lost his life. List of Americans ‘registered at the banking of Livingston, Wells & Co., Paris, reported for the i A one : if s2 i nMoghngzns 5 HHOPNE RHODE H yt = sso ons as 2 BP pts . La 3 lon. F. Follett, Batacia; Hon. A, . W. Clendum, St. Louis; Judge French, Troy; Lt. Gov. New Orleans; 2; ws Obio, were among the arrivals at J heck Hornby and farafh E }. Horn! m2} : rt tet family, West Point; Jones's Teewion: vaN. Abijsh Mauford, Missisnippi; Lewis McGregor and [> Texas, were among the vals ot the Us Place. Miss.; J. M. Saunders, T G. P. Watson, New Or! ton, were among the arrive » 3 . Barber, De Ficbard-on, Raitor Texas; ‘anderson, Jacksonville, Florids, were among th raters YO The aon Era, of the inst., says- Tresident Fillmore and son arrived in our city on £ day evening last, and took at tho Ame Hotel, where they remained antil yexterday. The now Visiting the early friends and neighbors of Mr more, in the southern part of thie county. Havas; tt eteaimal aval in steamship Cre City—Col JK Grymen and vorvant. © Burke, be Waldo and niece, G V Moody and lady, W C Davi dy, 8 A Shumway and lady, Misa C Wi |, Misa | ins Coit, WP Converse, H Du J Blood an Mrs Garnier, daughter and xou; Rey B Jones and f: Mire Magruder and family, A’ Winder and fowil Semon, L Blumenthal, Ten ter, G W Goi Jand P Ww Lepeyss Sea "Robert end perro tak iad Rol servant Bar: we Foster. G taraah, F Lacroix, Mee Lewis Gari chit A Boll and servant, 8 Burnet, H Blam, and others > teerage. From Norfotk, in steamship Jamestown—James ! Jesse Giffors, M Mocely, James, Wilkinson, Net a rs Al From New Orleans and Misa 8 a'Alden, Mian Field, Mise Mra B, Pen} Morris, Tay at dita. Drab, ete, ire aghte Ekelilas and two hllien, irs Dellige anid tee von A Lieut Wayne and lady. A Vine: and two ladies, and twonty- sterrage. Ox From st hk Wi p—C 0 Bra jon tgoatiog’ assim oh od DEPARTURES. ie Palermo, in stearushig Sicilla—E M Stowo, U’ sul to and vervant, J Molinyi, lad three cbildren, Cimonet, Bartolet Benven’ regnatel Genero Quivos, V Focussich, Total, yor Liver pool mship Niagara, from ton Mrs Daven, Wan Read, Jey Rey Ty Anvervor an, loner, of Boston; Ge. of Fall River; J @ Moore, of Woreest 4 xf ler, of Roxbury; BB Titcomb, of N ets Cal.welt, of Bangor, Me, Ms Snow, WoW tiaide Baldwin, DrJ Boainer, Mr Dering’ Jos Le Campbell, Gordon, Mellen and wife, s B Hoon D Si, Mas Dean and two chikires, Mrs Randell, of > Mra Chevey, two Misses Cheney, seth Cheney, Eth ritt and netce. John Cheney oF Voninesticut os ler, Mra Whistler and two children, of iowa; 3 ¥ ger, of Virginia; J J Haleell and Wi Feruay, of etphia; J Gilmore and sun, W of ‘olne Robert Laird, of Mobile; rat, Mr P Herch ner 5 Prederick Fai Joseph Higgins, of New Orleans; WM Miss 8 Carty Kingston, Canady Wor purse five chikiren; Miss M Cartwright, of