The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1854, Page 4

So cme oe aie coming inelow'y. Dockery, the whig candidate for | and insufficieny of tle administration as the Governor, will undoubt dly be c osen by ahand- | besis of the dem-cratic party. Bore the some ma jority, and there will be also 4 whig Legis- | meeting of Oqzgro s in D cember, according to lature, thus making the clec::on of a whig to the | ihe signs of the times, North and South, East NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON nae er, MPPIGR M. W. CORNER OF N4940 AND FULTON STB. ——— PER MS, © Pay THE HERALD P conte per per aanum. TRE pay HERILD coory Saberday at Oh¢ conte rr 7 oxy or BS per omen; the European Edition $4 per a fem loany pat of G7 a! Britain. and $8 to any part of the Can ti, evt 4th Pee de ae VOLUNTARY COJ-RESPONDENCE. containing ivnpor ‘ent news solicited From any ter of the world—if' used soll be berally po! for —ggr OuR Foreran Comnseron OENTA ARE PARMIOULARLY REQUESTED TO 8BAL ALL Lerrees syp PackaGes sunt vs. N@ NO’ ? aken of anonymous Communications. We do net return those reject, ALL LEU MERE by Mail for Subscriptions of with Afver- its Te We: post paid, or the postage will be deducted from rev JOB PRINTING executed with weatnens cheapness, and TISEMENTS renewed every doy. LATER FROM EUROPE. The advices brought by the Atlantic ad4 but little @ the sbape of pos'tive facta to the intelligence Previously received as regards the war.. Late com. Munwations from Vienns, corroborated by the de- clazations of the English ministers in Parliament on the 24th, would lead to the conclusion that the Czar had decided upon maintaining the occupancy of the Principalities by force of arms, and that Austria would, if necessary, expel him. A coloring of probability {s given to this view of the intentions of he two powere by the statement that the Austrians ‘were advancing ‘into the Principalities, and that the Russian General, Gortschakoff, had announced his determination to hold possession of them with 200,000 men. It is even said that he had given erders that in all offictal documents in which the mame of the Czar is used, the title of “ Protector of the Principalities” shall be added. Notwithstanding these statements we are stil! in- lined to think that the Russian Emperor will not commit so egregious a strategical mistake as to a*- fempt to maintain possession of Wallachia, with fhe prospect of having his forces hemmed inon Poth sides by the armies of the coalition, and his hain of communication with his sources of supply @hrough the Moldavian territory cut off. If he really contemplates such a step, it argnes the couscious- ness of his being able to concentrate sach an over whelming force on the points immediately monaced a6 will enable him to defy the combined efforts of his enemies. This view of the case is, however, Bardly consistent with the hesitation imparted to his operations on the Danube, by,the doubts inspired by the vacillation‘of the Austrian Cabinct. The new credit of £3,000,000 demanded by the Ragiish government for tho expenses of the war, has been agreed to by Parliament without any ©pposition. In the debate incidentally raised by d@emands in both Houses for explanstions the im- Portant declaration was extorted from Ministers that in the settlement of the quostions at issue, whehever it might arrive, there was no intention y their part of returning to the status quo, and LordJohn Russell even went so far as to intimate ‘that Rassia would not be allowed to maintain the ‘menacing attitude that she had hitherto done, by Keeping so large a fleet at Sebastopol. There is no doubt that this tardy but still vague statement of the ulterior views of the cabinet has been influ- enced by the more decided disposition recently evinced by Austria to concur to the fall extent in the’ licy. Late despatches from Madrid announce the com- umph of the insurrection so far as the over- of the government is concerned, but it yet remaips to be seen whether the movement is home- eneons in its character and objecta, or whether the elements of which it is composed will not now as- wame different flags. We fear that Spain is only in the first stage of another long period of politicul ‘anarchy and confusion, whieh will be fomented and perpetuated by the action of external infinences. It is said that the Queen, who is stillat Madrid, hhas sent for Espartero to form an adminis:ration; and there is even some talk of her abdicating in favor of her infant daughter. So far the indignation of the people scems to have been directed against ‘the Queen-Mother and Sartorius, the most unpopn- Jar member of the late Ministry. They have both fled from the capital, and the palace of Queen Ghristipa, as well as the mansion of the Count De an Luis, have been sacked and destroyed by the populace. In the meanwhile, the Conde De Monte. molin has entered Navarre, and is actively gather- ing around him his old adherents. What chancehe will have in pushing his pretensions will depend as mavch on the amount of pecuniary support he will re- eelve from Rossia as on the degree of weight which still attaches to his mame. Gold is an all-powerfal argument with the modern Spaniard. Abbas Pacha, the liberal and enlightened Viceroy of Egypt, is dead, and ia succeeded by Said Pacha. ASSAULT ON THE PRESIDENT. Our despatches from Washington furnish the particulars of an assault committed on the person of the President yesterday. The “ invisible spirit” of rom has, since the extreme hot weather set in, proved productive of direful consequences, both here ‘and eleewhere. In no city in the country is the sin of intemperance more’rampant than in the national capital, particularly at the close of a long and ar- @uous session of Congress; and eome of its victims have at last,’in a moment of deep inebriety, inflicted an outrageous assaalt upon the chief magistrate of ‘the Union. Fortunately, no bodily harm was done, and the magnanimity of the President, in declining ‘to prosecute the uufortanate individuals engaged in fhe disgraceful proceeding, may make them here- after wiser, eoberer and better men. FROM WASHINGTON. ‘The Senate met yesterday, and motions were meade to act upon several propositions, but they were all overruled by the presiding officers, as the ‘terms of the resolution of adjournment specified ‘that no business of a legislature character should be transacted. The President of the Senate was ‘busily engagedin signing bills, and among them ‘was the Army and Post Office Appropriations. Af. ter a short executive session the Senate adjourned ‘to eight o'clock Monday morning. In the House, the President's veto of the River and Harbor bill formed the subject of discussion. Colonel Richardson, of Illinois, expressed his views 4m opposition to the grounds taken in the message of the Executive, with undisguised bitterness; and ‘Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, spoke in a similar strain, ‘Mr. Hibbard, of New Hampshire, defended his friend, the President. It is evident that the vetoing of this bill will operate powerfully against the ad- ministration in the West. As the President has prom'sed to give his views and opinions at length on this important subject, his next annua] message ‘will be looked for with no little anxiety, and un- em some topic arises sufficiently exciting to absorb Ppoblic attention, the question of the im provement Of the rivers and inland harbors, iu all its aspects, will form the prominent feature of the next ses sion of Congress. ie) COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS, ‘There was no change in the prodace markets yes- terday deserving of specis] remark. The general featares of the markets were dull, owing to the dis- position manifested by many to await the receipt of ater news due by the Atlantic. MISCELLANEOUS. There seems to be something wrong about the Philadelphia Mint. Not long since a larcesy was perpetrated at this inatitation, and now we hear of another, said to be toa pretty heavy extent, com mitted by an employé, who, it is reported has been llowed to escape. Mayor Conrad, of Philadelphia, yesterday decid @d the cases of the tavern keepers charged with gelling liquor on Sunday, Fines of four dollars were inflicted, cxcept in cases where disorders were proved to have occurred, and in those instances the parties were bonnd over for trial. ‘The returns of the election is Nosth Carolina are United States Senate cer'ain. The 5th of September is set down #8 the time for the meeting of the Canadian Pa liament. MORTALITY OF THR CITY. The official report of the City Inspeogor shows the total number of deaths during the week ending the th instant, to have been 1,148—an “increase of nine on the week previous. Of this nuvaber 614 were un- der ten years of age. There vere 302 deaths by cholera, being an increase ef 61 over the former week. It may safely be waid that the disease has now reached its height; hereafter we look for a di- minution in the number of victims, The report gives 70 deaths of diserhees, 65 of dysentery, 11 of in- flammation of the bowels, and 12 of debility. Con- samption carried off 48, marasmus 55, bronchitis 5, congestion of the brain 14, g@ropsy im the head 40, inflamssztion of the brain 19, typhus fever 10, and cholers inorbus 30. The children suffer terribly this season. There were deaths of convuisions 85, cho- era infantum 149, croup7, teething 14, and mea- sels 11. Twenty-six cases of still born, and 9 pre- mature births are reported. From external causes 8 died uf casualties, 12 were drowned, 4 murdered, 8 suicides. One hundred and fifty-nine died in the public institutions during the week. Of the whole number 707 were natives of the United States, 238 of Ireland, 137 of Germany, 35 of England, and the balance of varipus other countries. — The Summer and Fall Eleetions—North Caro Mna—the Beginning of the Work. North Carolina has bravely led off in the summer elections. According to the returns of the election in that State, which took place on Thursday last, it is highly probable that Dockery, the whig candidate for Governor, y has been chosen, by a good round majority, over Bragg, the demecratic candidate; and it is very likely, too, that a whig Legislature has algo been elected, which will secure the return of two United States whig Senators to fill the vacancies occurring from the expiration of the terms respectively of Mr. Mangum (who has been some time out,) and Mr. Badger, who goes out in March next. The triumph of the whigs in North Carolina is a result which nobody has expected. It was universally supposed that the whig party was dead beyond resuscitation in that State. If the North Carolina whigs have carried the day, therefore, it is the most strik@g illustration which has yet been given of the impetency of the administration at Washington, and a very significant warning of awhat may be expected in the elections of this year, yct to take place. Missouri holds her State election for a Legis lature and members of Congress to-morrow, the 7th instant. The Legislature to be chosen will also have to elect a United States Senator in the place of Atchison, whose term will ex- pire in March. There are three parties in Mi : souri—the Benton democratic party, the anti- Benton democratic party, and the whigs. The two democratic factions are fighting each other with the animosity of the Guelphs and Ghibel- lines, or like the Kilkenny cats, they are tear- ing each other into finders, tooth and nail. Benton is the ruling spirit of the fight—it is a struggle between him and his enemies for life and death. He is a candidate for re-election tothe House in‘the &%. Louis district, and also acandidate for the Senate, in the place of Atchison. At the last Senatorial election Ben- ton was ruled out of the Senate by a fusion of the Atchison democrats with the whigs upon Geyer, (whig,) who.was thus elected. The game this time will most probably be a Ro- land for an Oliver, in the cleetion of another whig in the place of Atchison. In fact, the democracy of Missouri are in the position of the same “happy family” in New York, with this difference—that the rage and the wrath be- tween the hards and the softs of Missouri are in- tensified and exasperated by the savage spirit of Benton and the deadly hate of Atchison to the fighting point. The trouble in the family is comparatively a mild form of cholera morbus in New York, while in Missouri it is the cho- lera asphyxia in its worst type. A day or two will determine whether Benton is extinguished or still holds the field. The following is the schedule of the summer and fall elections for the aaa All these States elect representatives to Congress this year. The Legislatures of Cali- fornia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Wis- consin, each choose a United States Senator, also, at their next meeting. New Hampshire will elect two, or try for it; but her State eleoticn does not come offtill March next, The ousting of Mr. Williams, however, from his seat in the Senate, as constitutionally ineligible, precisely as Mr. Phelps, of Vermont, was declared to be. may induce the Governor to call a special ele § tion to fill the vacancy. Every man that can be had may, perhaps, be wanted in the Senate, to vote, next December, for the proposed war with Spain. In Iowa, whose congressional and legislative elections come off to-morrow, the democracy are somewhat crippled by the Nebraska bill and the administration; but still they seem to be in good spirits. The opposition there have always been in a feeble minority. In California the administration has effected a sort of New York feud among the democrats, and the result is doubtful. In Vermont and Maine the anti- administration coalition will, no doubt, sweep the field. In Pennsylvania the Cabinet, the Kitchen Cabinet, and the example of New Hampshire, have been weakening the spirit and the harmony of the democrats, and the opposition are pricking up their cars and marshalling for the fight, as if camfident of a great victory. In Ohio, we venture to say that scarce a veétige of the democratic party will be left to tell the tale of the October election and the expiring glories of the administration. In Indiana, of tate years almost overwhelmingly democratic, there are symptoms of an approach- ing political revulsion. Massachusetts is so hor- ribly cut up on the negro question, and so cer- tainly anti-administrative, in any event, that it is a matter of indifference whether the whigs coalesce with, or cut loose from, the free soilers and abolitionists proper. New York is about as likely to sustain the administration as Vermout. We should not wonder at it at all if the next Congress were to be left without @ solitary demooratic member from the Empire State. New Jersey is not safe; Mlinois may require it of Judge Douglas to stump the State from stem to stern; Michigan is ia a mutinous condition, and the Germanic forces of Wisconsin are reported to be in arms against the administration spoilemen. The unexpected returns of the North Carolina election are ominons of the elections yet to come, and expressive of the utter imbecility mh and West, there is every prospect that the Ca- Wnet : poils coalition at Washington will be left in the independent position of Captain John Tyler, with a party of its own, consisting of the Cabinet, the Cabinet organ, John Cochrane, and the officeholders. This reaction of public opivion will go on until the administration is abandoned. We are now in the midst of the revolution. Nerthern Slavers and Abolitionists. It is rather singular that, while so many merchants and business men have been induced to sign protests against the possible extension of the area of slavery, the slave trade should be mainly kept alive by the same class in New York, Philade)phia and Boston. One after another, the slavers which are captured turn out to be from one of these ports; fitted out, manned, and cleared by some one or other of the highly philanthropic firms whose name may figure at the foot of a call for a free soil meeting, or an anti-slavery demonstration. The Gray Eagle is .one instence in point. In her case, the real promoters and authors of the ne- farious enterprise on which she sailed were Northern merchants, men of high character, religious antecedents, and beautifully philan- tbropic tendencier. The case of the H. N. Gambril, the slaver that was taken by the United States vessel Constitution, was precively similar, She cleared from New York, and was vouched for by an eminent firm: whose mem- bers busied themselves actively in seducing young sailors to ship for the cruise. No rea- sonable man, possessing ordinary experience, could have entertained the smallest doubt of the object for which she was sent to sea, had he examined her at the time of her clearance. In fact, the circumstantial evidence in her case was so strong and so varied as to furnish a comparative certainty that her agents here fitted her out and engaged her crew for the direct and sole purpose of prosecuting the slave trade. These are only two out of scores of similar cases. Four out of every five slavers that are captured may be regarded as working on account or for the interest of Northern ship- owners or merchants: and to those who have paid attention to the subject it is clear that the only substantial promoters and participators in the slave trade to-day are men of capital in Boston, Philadelphia aud New York. We make the assertion broadly, on the strength of no or- dinary researches into the subject ; those who care to trace to the bottom the recent cases of captured slavers will find reason to corroborate our statement. Couple with this the fact that, since the sup- pression of the slave trade, not a single vessel engaged in that traffic has ever been known to clear under the auspices of Southern merchants, or even we believe to sail from a Southern port, and a very instructive moral will be evolyed. In Boston the merchants head a riot to prevent the surrender of the slave Burns to his master, and strive hard te-violate the constitu- tion soas to interfere with slavery in the South. In New: ¥ork and Philadelphia the same class protest lustily against the Nebraska bill, and threaten the Union with dissolution if the area of slavery beextended. But with these treason- able doctrines and foolish threats on their lips, these very same men, it seems, secretly advance the money to fit out slavers, and seduce young sailors on board of them, in the hopes of making money by kidnapping negroes on the African coast and selling them into slavery. Here is practical philanthropy with a vengeance! Oa Monday the solid men of Boston, the pillars of Wall street, or the Quakers of Philadelphia move resolutions rating the South soundly for its toleration of slavery, and characterise that institution as the “sum of all iniquity.” On Tues- day individuals of the same cities draw cheques on their bankers to pay for the equipment of a slaver to sail from New York or Philadelphia; or use all their powers of persuasion to obtain an unsuspecting crew to ship for the infamons voyage. Matters are somanaged that the capi- talist escapes legal responsibility; a moral cer- tainty of his complicity is all that can be ob- tained, and the press and public opinion the only tribunals to which he is amenable. Even these ean generally be deceived or silenced. Who would suspect that the eloquent assail- ant of the Nebraska bill had invested a couple of thousands in a ship to be sent to Africa to kidnap slaves? or that the eminent Christian whose piety shines with such effulgence in the church of which he is a member, has spent his Saturday in engaging a crew to go,on a slav- ing cruise, beguiling them into the trap by lies, misrepresentations, and bribes? To men- tion 2 name, with or without legal or moral evidence of the truth of the crime charged, is libellous; and the law screens the Northern elaver from public execration. Thus wags our philanthropy. Dealing in the slave trade in the morning, and denouncing slavery and the South at night—such is the occupation of many of the pillars of the North. There is yet a character for the novelist to sketch that will make a name for whomsoever will paint it to the life. That character ie the Northern slaver and abolitionist. Tue Senate Homesteap But. anp THE Sovtu- ErN Democracy.—Our readers giave been ad- vised of the provisions of the Homestead bill of the House, as transmogrified by the Hunter amendment of the Senate. It provides condi- tionally for ceding the public lands to the States in which they lie, for gratuities to rail- road jobbers, for a reduction and graduation of the prices per acre, and for farms to actual set- tlers at the lowest rate, of twenty-five cents per acre for a quarter section, to every bona fide squatter. é This is Mr. Senator Hunter’s compromise. And who is Mr. Hunter? A Southern strict construction State rights democrat; but of late years considerably tinetured with the progres- sive doctrines of Douglas and the school of Young America, But the Richmond Examiner, the central organ of the Virginia State rights democracy, calls the attention of Mr. Hunter tothe violent disagreements between this bill of his and the plan of Mr. Calhoun, providing for the simple cession of the public lands to the States in which they way lic. The Examiner says that— We have said enovg! to show that the two bills cannot ad b} bad, pure and corrupt new bili has 2 curs eoseme for every conceivaie ¢ i erors. The other hase frown for them al! hes ae many phases as there were colors in coat. Theother was clear, sirgle and pare in and abject, The new bill ia as f ollow anc ous aa * Aveher’s Report,” in it# siyle and a ! adulteration of spurious metals in its compor 8 & BuEdeRM in its purpose, dollar in ite principles. But this fearless Virginia exponent of State Fights and honest democracy bas something © other isas clear «* sound ase silver farther to say, and thus hiu’s the corrupt po- litical bucks e sofbots house: ¢ger the ooals:— ‘Those demoersts who support this Senate Land bill de- sn ee er fet caggeeg ror e democratic part ee juestion, on ground that if the mongrel ill is not enkoted the origi. nal Homestead will be, “his ia the sum and substance expee%ed deliuquency on his part, and to save themselves the necessity of administering a righteous rebuke for his anticipated short-coming, the whole democratic party are coolly invited to anticipate bim in the noble art of ratting. Fatal policy! Lame and impotent conclusion! It is positively refreshing, in these daya of servile Southern spoilsmen, to have an organ of the State rights democracy of the South speak out ao plainly and roundly the truth that is in him, But this mongrel railroad land stock-jobbing homestead bill of Mr. Hunter, has failed in the House. Before the meeting of the next session, with a few more such trench- ant blows at the democratic log-rollers of Con- gress as those administered upon this Homestead question by the Richmond Examiner, we shall probably begin to see the work of fumigation, purification, and reorganization of the demo- cratic party fairly commenced with reference to the campaign of 1856. With all its tricks and shuffling expedients the democratic party will continue demoralized, broken up, and ut- terly impotent, as long as it perseveres in the vain labor of making this administration the nucleus of its national organization. The democratic party must be reorganized upon a round constitutional national platform, abso- lutely free and independent of the administra- tion, or it will be frittered away in. the elec. tions between this time and the Presidential campaign, till nothing is left of it but the Cabi- net, the office holders, and the spoila, - Let our Richmond cotemporary keep up the fire. His cause is good. If the democratic party is past all remefy, we must have a new national Union party organized; and as soon as possible. The Augean stables at Wash- inton are becoming overloaded with manure, and the democratic party must clean them out, or give way to the Hercules of public opinion. That’s all. Tae Sort-SHent Stare Coxvention—Tae New Van Boney Piatroru.—The Albany Atlas, the central organ of the administration Buffalo soft shell democracy, gives the following Van Burenieh advice to its party, in reference to the position which they must take on the Nebraska question at their State Convention of Sep- tember :— We hope and trust that the Democratic State Conven- tion, to assemble in September next, will proclaim their repounsiice to the whole policy in which the Nebraska eme ovate and stigmatize the measure as a mis- chievous, sectional contrivance of ues, originat- ing in intrigue and_ proscription, whig in its main fea. tores, (for Senator Dixon first ned the of the Missouri clause, and Senator ‘ton added the proscrip- tion of alien white settlere,) end disclaim the responsi- ay of beet test eI ‘We hope that they will speak thus, use We ve that such is the - mentof their constituents. sas At the sume time, however, we hope they will not in volve themselves in any pled fen foe the: repeal of this act and the restoration of the uri line. It is idle to labor to give life to dead compromises. Let them Kansas and Nebraska are likely to be made free by & very acts that sought to give them an opposite bias. This is a wonderfully ingenious platform, to be sure, and somewhat on theplan of Fowler’s octagonal cottages—it fronts all sides of the compass. It proposes— 1. To stigmatize the Nebraska bill. 2, To charge it upon the whigs. 3. To disclaim all demecratic responsibility for it. 4. To make no pledges for its repeal. 5. To let the thing go. 6. To assume that Kansas and Nebraska will be free. 7. By the very acts of Congress. 8. Intended te secure them to slavery. Such is the proposed Nebraska platform for the soft shells in our fall campaign. We pub- lish it, im order that the sachems of Tammany Hall may have an opportunity to study it out before the meeting of the September eonven- tion. It is the very climax of ground and lofty tumbling. Cuarvan my THE Freup—AnorHer Scar? Lerrer.—Chapman, of Indiana—the celebrated crowing Chapman—announces himself in his Chanticleer as an independent democratic can- didate for Congress, ‘‘ subject to adecision by the votes of the people.” He is anti-Nebraska to a most violent degree, and cuts away, right and left, in his paper against the administration and its Nebraeka supporters. Among other choice discoveries which he has recently made, he has reproduced the following extract of a little “ scarlet letter,” addressed from the Hon. Jobn Pettit (at present our Indiana administra- tion Senator in Congress,) to the Hon. John Cochrane, and hearing the date of July 18, 1848, the time when Master Cochrane was chairman of the Van Buren Free Soil Central Committee of Correspondence of this State. Here is what Mr. Pettit then said : I am devoted to free soil and free labor; and no vote of mine shall ¢ ever Anowingly be given ato one the ‘power to prohibit the introduetion of slavery into our Territories where it does not exist, must be to every one who bas investigated the subject, and is capa- bie of reasoning.’’ Is it eurprising that this same Mr. Pettit should now be a wheel-horse in the Senate, of the Van Buren spoils coalition of the adminis. tration? Not atall. Or, with all the scarlet letters which our enterprising Surveyor of the Port has in his possession, including the great ecarlet letter, is it wonderful that John Coch- rane should rule the roast in Tammany Hall, and “hold the President in his arms?” By no means. Let Chapman continue his explorations. Pavt Jcuxe.—Our young friend, Paul Julien, whose performances on the violin have so often charmed our citizenry, is about leaving us in company with Mr. Gockel, the celebrated pianist, to give concertaat different places in the interior of the State. We trust that wherever they go the public will receive them with the favor they deserve. Julien has been occupied of late in the com- Position of a lament on the death of Madame Sontag, in whose company he has so often distinguished himself. It is @ duet written for the violin and the piano, and will probably form one of the prineipal morceaue of the ar- tists’ programme during their projected tour. The piece Dears on its title page a warm tribute of the composer to the memory of his deceased friend, and will, we believe, find a ready sale among the admirers of the late Madame Sontag, as well as among the lovers of the divine art. ‘Tat Nationa: Tumates Ar Bostow will open on the 28th inst., under the management of Mr. W. M. Fleming. ‘The company will be composed principally of the fol- ningham, Miss Julia Daly, Mrs. Fleming, Mra. Marshall, Miss M. C. Boyce, Misa Arnold, Miss Melville, Miss Flo- rence, Migs Carpenter, Miss Emmons, Miss Taylor, Miss Mannering, Mr. P. C. Cunningham, Mr. Wm. Hield, Sen., Mr. J. Hall Robinson, Mr. G. W. Stoddart, Mr. W. M. Flemitig, Mr. C. W. Hield, Mr. James R. Paullin, J. B, Studley, Mr. Lingham, J. A. Lord, J. G. Reed, George A. Pardey, Mr. Sylvie, M.D. Lacy, James Taylor, J. H. Brown, L. H. Verney, Mr. Adams, Mr. Wilson, J. Jones; Mr. G. Holloway, leader of the orchestra; Mr. James E. Hayes, scenic artist; Mr. T. Harrington, prompter, and Mr. Briggs, machinist. Alexander Bailey. a mason, employed 1 the Utica and Black River Raliroad, yas instantiy killed on Wei ner Doon, D e ‘train on . tal foiled, He aah teaming, Covet the old freight house when the train approached, and although he was off the track once or ‘ton he became #0 fused that he was Sineldy caught by tae cow catenes, eS ________ ASIATIC CHOLERA. First Appearance and Progress fm Amer! . ween teuse masta Tislative te tts Origin ?.0d Progress in Asia and urope. , ‘The first appearance of the Asiatic cholezg on this continent was in Quebec, Lower Canada, on the 8th of June, 1832; it reached Montreal on the 10th of the same mon th, and the city of New York on the 24th. There is some doubt whether it was intro- duced into this city by way of Canada or direct from Europe, as the ship Henry IV., from Havre, arrived at this port late in June with the cholera on board. In Albany the eholera made its appearance on the 34 of July; in Rochester, on the 12th; Troy, on the 16th; Flatbush and Gravesend, 1. I.,on the 15th. At Sing Sing it made its appearance in the State prizon on the 17th; at Philadelphia, on the 5th; Baltimore, on the 22d of August; and Wash- ington City, on the 28th. It was also preva- Tent on the St. Lawrence and tributary streams. Among other places in the interior, it exhi- hited itself at La Prarie, St. John, Buffalo, La Chine, Caughnawaga, Chateauguay, Cornwell, St. Regis, Prescott, Ogdensbargh, Brookville Kingston, York, (or Toronto, Chambly, Platsburg and Three Rivers. In the Southern States, it visited Baltimore, Richmond, Norfolk, Edenton, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and various other cities, towns and plantations, In the Eastern States, a limited nam- ber of cases occurred in Boston, Providence, New- port, New Haven, and a few other towns. At New- port, it was ascertained to have been brought from the city of New York. During the year 1832, some thousands of persons were attacked in the localities referred to. The ave rage mortality was fifty per cent, and the genera duration of the epidemic from two to four months. The deaths in the city of New York, by cholera, in 1832, were 3,513. It is important to mention that the brig Carricks arrived from~Enrope on the 3d of June, 1832, at the quarrantine ground, Gross Island, on the St Lawrence, thirty-nine miles below Quebec, with the Joss at sea of thirty-nine passengers out of one hun dred and thirty-thrée, by a’ disease afterwards established to be cholera. The two first cases at Quebec and Montreal were immigrants landed from a steamboat which plied between the two places, In 1833, the cholera commenced in the month of February, at Havana and Matanzas, in the island of Cuba, and prevailed for several months, with severity—the deaths in the former place reached ‘upwards of ten thousand, in a population of about one hundred thousand, including in the catalogue of deaths many distinguished men. In July and August, the same year, it visited Tampico, Vera Cruz, Campeachy, and the city of Mexico. In Cen- tral America it attacked the army, and destroyed large numbers ef the officers and men. In the United Stales, it appeared at the South— in Apalachicola, and Amelia island, in Florida; also in Alabama, at Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, and other place; in Mississippi, at Natchez, Vicks- burg, Claiborne, Jackson, &c.; in Louisiana, at New Orleans, Baton Rouge, St. Martinsville, Thibo- deanville, Franklin, Alexandria, Contrell and other places; in Texas, at Brazoria and a few other localities. Inthe Western and Southwestern States it was at Little Rock, Helena, &c., in Arkansas; at Nash- ville, Pulaski, Memphis, Shelbyville, &c., in Ten- nessee; at Marysville, Georgetown, Fiemingsburg, Lexington, Lancaster, Paris, Frankfort, Bardstown, Cynthiana, Danville, Mount Vernon, Jacksonville, &c., in Kentucky; at Alton, Quincy, Carrolton, Rasville, Galena, &c., in Illinois; at Salem, Wil- Mamsport, &c., in Indiana; in the State of Ohio, at Cincinnati, Steubenville, Bridgeport, Zanesville, Gallopilis, Chilicothe, Senecaville, Fulton, Rich- mond, Coluasbus, Dayton, Lebanon, &c.; in West. ern Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg, Allexhany, Browns” Ville, Claysville, &c.; in Maryland, at Hagerstown and other western towns. It also appeared at Wheeling, Charleston and other towns in the west. ern parts of Virginia. In 1834, the cholera again made its appearence at Quebec and Montreal, and from thence spread to the contry parishes through the valley of the St- Lawrence. It was fatally prev#fent at the towns of La Chine, Prescott and Kingston, at Oesdenburg village in the State of New York, and at Toronto, and some other places on the north side of Lake On- tario. The village of Galt, in Upper Canada, was nearly depopulated. In Nova Scotia, it visited Hali- fax with severity, and some cases and deaths oc- curred at St. Johns in New Brunswick. : In 1834, it also reappeared in the city of New York. The deaths here by cholera in that year were 971. The disease also exhibited ithelf in the villages on Lake Erie; also at Buffalo, Rochester, Salina, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Brooklyn, Staten Island, &c. The same year, it appeared in Newark, Bergen, and vther places in New Jersey. In Pennsylvania, at Port Carbon, and other places on the ‘line of the Schuyl- Kill Canal ; also, at Beaver and in Washington county, in the western part of the State. In Mary. land, there were afew cases at Baltimore, and in the District of Columbia. In Virginia, at Richmond, Peteraburg and Wheeling. In Ohio, at Cincinnati, Batler county, the Miami country, also at Huron, Lower Sandusky, Cleveland, Columbia, Anderson and Fulton. In Michigan, at Detroit. In Kentucky, at Mills Point, the mouth of Sandy River, and Princeton. In Mississippi, at Rushton. In Llinois, at Pekin and — In Texas, at Austin, and various other jons over @ wide extgpt of terri- tory. In Florida, it was introduced into Amelia Island by the United States ship Falmouth. In Georgia, it appeared at several points on the Sevan- nah and Ogeechee rivers. It alao visited St. Jago, on the island of Cuba. In 1835, there were cases in Tennessee, at Nashville, Murfreesborough, Franklin, at plante- tions on the Duck River, in the neighborhood of Jefferson ; at Williamsport, Memphis, and in the neighborhood of Jackson; also, at several points on the rivers and on board of the boats. “The cholera also continued in Georgia, on the Savannah and Ogeechee rivers, and prewailed to some extent on the Rio Grande, in Texas, and the Mexican Territories, In the year 1836 the cholera was still at Havana, in the Island of Cuba, and for the first time appeared at Charleston, South Carolina, During the previ- ous years it had not approached the last named city nearer than Edenton on the north, Spvannah river on the south, and the island at the month of the barbor, where it had been brought, as was believed, by a brig from New York, in October, 1832, The cholera also appeared in the Mississippi in 1836, but did not assume an epidemic character. After the year 1836 the disease so rarely appeared in this country as to excite bat little attention, until its recurrence at the Quarantine ground, Staten Idland, in the month of December, 1848. On that occasion the first introduction of the maledy was by the packet ship New York, which arrived at this port from Havre, with about four hundred French and German passengers. A few of the passengers had died on board, and some were sick when landed at the public buildings on Staten Island. From these buildings the disease spread to the hospitals, and about fifty deaths oo- curred. It was alleged that several of the passen- gers were from Bremen, where the cholera prevail- ed. In April and May, 1849, large number of deaths by cholera occurred at the hospitals on Staten Island. ° In the early part of December, 1848, two deaths by cholera occurred in the city of New York—one was traced to the Quarantine—the other was that of a person who occupied the same room in # board- ing house. With these exceptions, the first cases occurring in New York city were on the 11th of May, 1849. These were in Orange street, from whence the disease gradually spread from ward to ward, and continued to‘prevail in the city until the last of September. The number of deaths by ch> lera was 5,161. The comparative pumber of deaths by Axiat) of clera in the city of New York, at the three vial ‘ations of the malady, viz., in 1832, 1834 and 1849, was as follows :— Deaths in 1832 by cholera. ik yoy Bow o 149° Total .......... ¥.29 The population of the 210,000, in 1834 about 265,000, im 1849 about 500,- 000. It was computed that about one-third of the inhabitants left the city in 1832, but a much fewer number left in 1634 and 1849. Therefore the mor- tality by cholera was ntwch greater the first year of its appearance here than in the subsequent years. It ia alao to be observed that a much larger propor-. tion of the cases proved fatal in 1832 than in the other years. The mortality was then stated at about fifty per cent of the cases reported, being greater than in Europe. In the city of Paris, in 1832, the number of deaths was about one-third of the whole number of cases reported. The deaths exceeded 18,000, and the number of cases was over © 55,000 in 1832. On Long Island, the cholera appeared in 1849, at Brooklyn, on the 26th of May ; in Williamabarg on the 29th ; in Jamaica, on the 4th of June ; and about the seme time at Bergen and Newark, in New Jer- sey. In 1849, aleo, it prevailed at Albany, Troy, and on the line of the Erie Canal. It was peculiarly Hbalignant at Buffalo, likewise at Chicago, in Mlinois.. In Quebec the deaths up to the 23d of August, were 943; in Montreal, 499; and in Toronto, to the 9th of August, 380. At Boston, the deaths from 29th of June to the 13th of October, were 602. Ina few other cities and villages of New England, there were: cases and deaths by the disease, but that section of the United States has escaped with lighter visita-~ tions from the Asiatic cholera than any ether part of this country. In Philadelphia, eight cases were announced on the 22d of May, 1849, The number of deaths re ported from the 2d of June to the 22d of September, was 1,022. In 1832, to lst of September, it was 740.. In Baltimore, it appeared on the 22d of May; in Norfolk, Virginia, on the 29th, and in Richmond the legislature adjourned to Fauquier Springs on the 30th of May. At ‘New Orleans, the cholera appeared in De. cember, 1848, from emigrant ships. It soon spread’: through the city, and from the 11th of December,. 1848, to the 7th of February, 1849, the number of deaths was nearly twelve hundred. After that time, the Board of Health ceased to report, and declared the epidemic at an end. The disease, early in 1849, visited Vicksburg, Cincinnati, Memphis, St. Louis and other places in the valley of the Mississippi. It aleo appeared in Mobile, and in a severe form at Texas. At Fort . Lawson forty deaths occurred in one night among the United States troops. Subsequently the malady resumed its fearful ra vages in New Orleans and in Cincinnati, and conti- nued for several months. It prevailed throughout. the valley of the Mississippi, with sad havoc on the plantations, and extended itself te Indiana and IHi- noig. At St.Louis ita duration and violence was unsurpassed-on this continent, and in Texas it raged. with unabated and destructive fury. We are indebted to the authentic sketch of Dr. A. F. Vache, now health officer of this port, made toa legislative committee in February, 1850, for some of the facts inthe foregoing summary. We are not aware that any accurate record exists of the number of cases and deaths by -cholera in the Uni- ted States, from its firat appearance, in 1832, to 1849; but the preceding statement, in which we have included many facts collected by ourselves, will gerve for a general chronology of this disease, and ita progress on the continent of North America and in the West Indies. It remains to give a few statements with regard to the progress of the cholera on the other side of the Atlantic. In England, cholera, having ceased in November, 1832, reappeared partially in the summer of the following year, and again partially in thesummer of 1834. Bot subsequently it was not epidemic in Great Britain, until October, 1648, alk though two completely isolated outbreake of a similar disease occurred in hospitals in 1837 and 1838. After the cessation of cholera in 1949, it did not reappear in Great Britain in the following years. The most remarkable fact, perhaps, in the history of the epidemic cholera, is its progressive march. ‘This is obvious in the dates of ita first outbreaks in the different countries lying between the Delta of the Ganges, where it originated, and the western: partsof Europe. Having spread over the valley of the Ganges in 1817, it crossed the peninsula in 1818, and reached Bombay in August or September of that year. It was not till Jhly, 1821, that it appeared at Mus- cat, on the Persian Gulf, but in September it was at Bagdad, and extended through parts of Persia and Turkey in Aria, in 1822. It passed the Caspian Sea im 1828, and in the month of September appeared at Astracan, It made no further Progress in Europe until the year 1830. In that year, having again ap- peared at Astracan, in July, it extended rapidly through the eastern part of Europe, reaching Mos- cow in September. In the following year (1831) it extended to Riga and Dantzic in May, to Bt, Peters- burg in June, to Berlin in August, and to Sunder: land, in England, im November. So again, in the later invasion of Europe, starting as before from: - Astracan, where it appeared in June 1847, it was. felt at Moscow, in September of the same year, at Berlin, in June 648, at Hampurg, in August, in London at the end of September, and at Belfast, in December, 1848. With regard to the introdaction of the disease into the American continent, high medical sutnori- ties attribute it to immigrant ships from Great Bri- tain and the continent, but opinions are still divided. on the subject. The Late Honduras Minister. Tne funeral ceremonies over the body of Don. José Barrundis, late Minister from Hondaures to the Dnited States, were celebrated yesterday in St. Peter's church, Barclay street, at 10 o’clook, A. M. ‘Only a few friends of the deceased were present— the funeral being wrivate and unostentations. Among those who assisted im the obseqaies, we noticed Senor Molina, the Minister from Guatemala; Mr. Edwards, Coneul-General of Nicaragna; the Minister from Venezuela, and Dr. Whiting, the phy- sician of the Inte Minister. High mess. was cele- brated; and a few remarks in eulogy of the deceased were pronounced by the Rev. Mr. McCarthy, who said “that his country might well mourn his loas, for he sacrificed all in its service. He would not venture to depict the loss to his family—God alone could give them strength and console them under- their affiction. The noblest sentiment that haman tongue could utter over the deceased was that he - died in the service of his and therefore: it was that Holy charch bestowed upon him these. marks of extraordinary honor. May God grant him- eternal peace !”’ After the ceremonies in St. Peter's church wore concinded, the deceased was taken to the Calvary Catholic cemetery, near Williameparg, where he was interred. « Marine Affairs, DsPaxrcne oF STRAMERS.—At noon yesterday the Col- lina steamer Pacific, Capt. Nye, sailed for Liverpool, with. 121 passengers; and at the same time the British iron. screw steamer Glasgow, Capt. Craig, dropped down on. her way to Glasgow, with sbout 260 passengers. They wore followed in the afternoon by the mail steamer George Law and the indopendent steamer North Star, both bound to Aspinwall, with a large number of pas- fengers bound to the Pacific and California. Eanmqvake at ©ma.—The bark Susan Jane, arrived: from the Coast of Africa, reports experiencing two dis- unet shocks of earthquake, at half past 6 P. M. of tho 1eth ult., when in lat. 15 08N., lon. 45 11. ANOTHER STEAMER PoR THR PROviNCES.—We understand ‘that the friends of the Eastern City residing in St. John are about raising stoek for the sehas of aaa sieemer now lying in New York, which was intended for California route. She is a thorough sea-; boat, tons burthen, and can be purchased for 000, contemplated that balf the stogs oan be paleed ig 328 gE