The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1854, Page 4

‘The Buropean War. A change in the position of Earop2an affairs is fat approaching. Every mai! Turkey’s in- | PROPRIETOR AND ED(TOR, terestin the war gr ws lo-8; a short wbiPe hence, one passa ay FuLroN her quarrel with Russia will be forgotten in se eee rig the tumult of @ ;eneral stragz e for the eu- | premacy of the Continent. Th two r vals in ‘at 634 conte per co, or %S per amnum; the European ti erow . the struggle are France and ‘Russ‘a; the result ‘eany, part of Great Britain, and $10 any partosMe | 41) oxtarlish the supremycy of the ove or the een Gonvs ent Bah to taclute posta vou Gr Poonndsr dence aentainiye Gtsra | other throughout Eurep.e, Th other powers, though less directly ncerned in t e contest, YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON (EAs BT, wes ue, cash iu advances Ih DAILY HERALD 2 cents eT GENET, fur WEEKLY HERALD oery BEETS ARE PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SEAL ALL ‘ Mhe Veto of the Strics River and Harber Bul~ | Hell on the Tu'lc Safety and the Spolts, | ree teemyy aed “waxed exceeling wr, th,” and rush ng indig- The Rive and Harbor bil’, w ba prompti- Prwrseptapgrtapect dtr i pie'ger | tude which must hove excited the admiration | .. 9 pase @ resolu ons denoaneing McKeou of the strictest construc ion ats o tution, was crucified by the Bx cutive veto. General Pierce returned he bil as soon as porsible to the House, mr ly ugges ing hie | }erore, in council, John Cochrane hai declared exposition of his view onthe ice distinctions | y4. arms,” and Grand Sachem Purdy, both of the subject against the reas em ling of the hends a oft, had cried oat, in loud voice, two houses on the first Monday in Dicember the consti- | the admi.istraticn, and all concerne}, in very | legal bretbren be weak in their back, 8 gym- savage terme. Everybody was astonished at | nerium should be attached to the new City such doings, considering that, only afew dsys! Hall, and the examiners “under the Code’ present | should not only inquire into the learning and eae t, ba promis ng ® full | that old Tamm any mos: “hold the PresiJentia | moral character of the applicants for admis- work, especially when we coD‘der that they | corder will conclude the business of the August carry no weight, have free access to Bless- | term with as little delay as possible, consistent with ing’s, and can exbibit sa much or as little justice. hair as they please, Besides, indeed, if our The Common Counctl. The Board of Aléermen will mect this evening for the transection of business, the most important of which will be the reception of the report of the Councilmen on the plans and specifications for tha building of the vew law courte. The semi-annoal re] of the Comptroller to the Ist of August is sion to practice, but should also investigate Plage probably will be presented some time their muscular strength and proportions. Let | guring the present session. The chamber in which us try the new rale, any how. It will be re | the Board meet has undergone a thorough Bie Beralty past or on Pousion COMROPON a> | Will of necessity find themselves involved ee CK AGRE RENT US ™ next. “She wili! she will!’ But the sober second Adver~ PEEL LETPERY by Mail for Subsertptions or with ita to be ees paid, or the JOB PRINTING executed TISEMENTS renewed every day. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVRNIN: CASTLE GARDEN—MAsanixcco. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery ~ Javt Suzvranp—Tronr Rors. owe —Diverrireweyt ~ NIBLO’S—Tux Varica: ‘Maw-Ka. MATIONAL THBATRE, Chatham ste-et—Sru oenT's exes—Lapy awp tux Deva. A Lao wn tHe Wor ‘mmarur Laur. therein for the protection of the r commerce, postage wilt be deducted from | their colonies or their political inetitations. with neatness cheapness, and | Thos Eng’and ’.s forced to side with Napoleon in order to preserve the route to the East, and the ties whixh unite her As'atic possessions to the rest of the empire. Germany wil be com- pelled to participate for the safety of her several monardaies and principalities, In auch a war as that new commencing,neutrality is only possible in Wee ease of insignificant States such as those of ‘Baly, or decrepit monarchies like Spain. All ‘the leading powers must bear @ share of the burthen. Austria may procrastinate, and Prus- sia vacillate between national duty and dy- AMERICAN WUSEUM —afternoon, From Viziace ro | Bastic sympathy; but the fall and winter can— Wovrr Rvering, Tne Ov *aewery. * pret thant ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 444 Brosdway—Ernroriay ‘Minereersy avy Buaceeque Urea, BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. 699 Broadway.—Buon- ‘anv’e Eruiorian Ovene TRovurr. PRANCONI’S HIPPODROWE—Manwor Squanz rE New York, Monday, August 7, 1854, CONGRESS ADSOURNED. ‘We ‘presume that, a cording to agreement, the “two houses of Congress will have adjourned sine dir ' ‘this morning at eight o’clock—that is, till the first not elapse before both shall have been com- pelled to make a choice between the West and the East, and march their armies into the field. Indeed, our last advices render it quite likely that @ few weeks may solve the problem. The story that Russia was prepared to evacuate the Principalities is exploded by intelligence to the effect that Prince Gortschakoff declares his intention to occupy them with 200,000 men, and proclaims the Czar “ Protector of the Danubian Principalities.” This is a practical and expli- cit refusal to accede to the terms of pacification which Austria is understood to have proposed. Monday in December next. Upon the whole, the | Should the accounts of the concentratioa of a @osing scenes of the session, from all that we :an Warn, as compared with the ending of other ss ons, were marked by-decorum, good orde-, and a +@ecent rspect ‘or tie Sabbath. There were no Violent o1'bre-k+ in the Senate, no pugilistic kn ck- @ewn arguments in the House; and members of both Russian army on the Austrian frontier be well founded, it is difficult to perceive how the young Emperor or his advisers can hesitate much longer. Indeed, it was confidently anticipated in England, when the steamer left, that orders houses on Satarday closed up their work, gathered | would be despatched to the 250,000 Austrian up their papers, and retired to their lodgings at a wespectatle hour. These things lead us to hope that ‘here will be a decided reduction in the Galphin and Minnexta amendments and bills, which are s0 apt te stip through amid the “‘nof-e avd confusion” of a weshing adjourament. Notwithstanding all this, it troops in Gallicia, Bakowina, and Transylvania to march on the Principalities, 60 as to antici- pate the threatened movement of the Russian reserve against Vienna. ; On the other hand, though the conferences be- thought came upon the General Committee oa cleansing freshing for its novelty, if for no other quality. | during the last recess, the wall being newly painted. It is due to the present incumbent o” the White House to recollect that in this veto (bow- ever inconsistent it may be with his opinions upon other subjecta,) it is per ectly consistent with his votes in Congress heretofore upon all measures involving the issue of iuternal im- provements by the federal government. He even opposed some bills that were ap- proved by General Jackson, the very founder of the strict construction party upon this and other subjects, So in the em- ployment of the veto General Pierce goes be- yond Old Hickory in the halr-splitting dls- eriminations of his constitutional scruputosity. In fact, our present Executive bids fair to eclipeeeven Captain John Tyler, not ovly in the distribution of the epoils in his peculiar style, but in the number and pungenoy of his vetoes. In the veto of the River and Harbor bill General Pierce admonishes the House that he has not had time, during the expiring mo ments of the session, to illuminate the House touching those delicate microscopic distinc- tions, which are to be found only by dint of the most powerful magnifying lensea in the letter and spirit of the constitution. He intimaces, the Public Safety and the Spoile; and their meeting, the other evening. had for its object a set of expunging resolutions, #0 a8 to restore the President to the arms of the old wigwam ‘They had a hard fight, however, and a long one, upon the subject, for McKeon was a hard phell, and they bad called for a soft. Besides, itis reported that there was a leaveniag of Know Nothingism im the General Committee, and McKeon was a Catholic of Celtic descent. A sort of compromise was at length effected. ‘The odium of McKeon’s appointment was tarown upon McKeon himself, an1 the Preaident, during good behavior, was let up. We suppose that even this would not have been done had not one or two appointments been recently made softening the soft shells. Perhaps, also, thirty members of the General Committee, in the en- suggestion or two from the Kitchen Cabinet on the subject. But it was a desperate struggle upon a doubtful issue, and the result was very funny. Not one of the Sachems can tell where they left the little joker, or whether John McKeon or Franklin Pierce is under the thim ble. Itisenough to know that the old rats stick to the cheese. though McKeon is among Some very nice questions may arise as to | and the ceiling regilt. whether the obligation to stand will exist in cage of crose-examinations, and whether resting one knee on a chair, or the hand on a table, or being kept up by the aid of the “learned asso- ciate,” will be a violation of the rule. The } on streets in favor of the opening of Albany atreet,. lawyers will, no doubt, as we have said, com- | ang the minority report adverse to the project, will, plain; but practice makes perfect, and from what we know of their education, habits, and | From the best information, we are led to believe endurance, we think, on the whole, that they will be able to stand it. So let us bave up-| of Aldermen, adverse to the opening of this right lawyers as soon a8 possible. Amen. ‘Tue AssavLt on THE Prestpent.—The attack upon the President on Saturday was the third instance we believe of an assault being msde | nfier may be brought up, too; but no definite on our Chief Magistrate. Before Mr. Pierce, General Jackson was the only President we joyment of the spoils, may have received a | recollect who was personally attacked during his official term. He was twice molested ; 6nc¢ by a lieutenant in the revenue service wh», be- lieving himself aggrieved by the conduct of the administration, pulled th, General’s nose in public; and a secop”, time by a poor lunatic who snapped tw~, pistols in his face, and was | thing to say about it; tie papers are fall of accounts: knocked den by him with a walking case The s*ault on President Pierce is a more | Convalsed with controversies in regard to the best: however, that there are come objects in the | 4.1, Wise old Sachems those of Tammany trif'ing affair than either of these. Throwing a bill which are constitutional, though there are others which are otherwise, and that he will sign a River and Harbor bill if it is only limit- ed to objects which are unquestionably consti- tational. And here the question arises, what are they ? The constitution cays that Congress shall have power to regulate commerce, to lay and collect taxes upon imports, and all the powers necessary to carry out the intent of these spe- cific powers. The collection of duties and other Hall. Tue Bencn, THe Bar, axp THE Copk.~-The learned judi¢iary have just completed their an- nual sezsion at Albany, where they convened “under the Code’ to revise the rules of prac- tice, and, in eonstitutional phrase, to provide for “the common defence and general welfare” of the State “against the vices of litigation.” Their labors have on this occasion been attended with one crowning glory. They aiopteda rale hard boiled egg at a man and knocking his hat off neither endangers his life nor ioflicts a wound upon his honor. Such injuries may be | perally end, in a to‘al failure. They could notagree forgiven by people who are not otherwise pat- | upon the important question, whether it was an terns of meekness: and it is not surprising that | epidemic, and each had an entirely different mode of the Attorney General should have declined to | treatment. The meeting lasted four hours, during prosecute Jeffards. Comparing these three attacks on our Presi- dents with those which are so frequently made nents, upon European sovereigns, one is forced to The Board of Councilmen will, according to law, commence their August session this evening, and as they have had nearly three weeks vacation, the people may expect something startling from them this week. The mejority report of the Committee it is said, be taken up this session and disposed of, that the minority report, concurring with the Board thoroughfare through the barying ground of Trinity Charch, will be adopted, and the ‘majority be thrown overboard. Such ie, we believe, the feeling at present existing among the members of this branch of the city government. The new City Hall action will, we think, be taken thereon. According to the umended rules, the Board will weet every night consecutively until che busines. ia finished, cotminencing at iout o'clock P.M. teats, The most absorbing sabject of the day is the cho- lera; if you meet a friend in the street he has some- of its ravages, and the whole tribe of physicians is: method of treating the patient who is afflicted with it. A few days agoe mesting of doctors was held in some part of the city, to take the subject inta consideration; bat it en‘ed, as all such meetings ge- which a warm discussion took place between the contagionists, the non-contagionists, the calomel » the prescribers of opium and ite oppo- and the believers in styptics, astringenta, emollients, &c. Some were in favor of a certain ‘would be a good thing on the part of Congress if | ‘Ween the two great German Powers appear to ‘they were, at the outeet of the next session, to pass be harmonious, and advices of fresh conventions a stringent Hquer law, for the benefit of the city of | and protocols reach us by every mail, the atti- Washington, including heavy finea and imprison- tude of the King of Prussia has not been taxes from our commerce carries with it the | Which we deem higbly important, and which obligation of providing for it certain securities | Cannot fail to promote the true objects of juris. and facilities, Hence lighthouses are established | Pradence, improve the administration of jus- and maintained by Congress, hence buoys are | tice, and advance the dignity of our beloved admit that in this respect it is better to be © | quantity of brandy and water being administered ; President than a Monarch. Queen Victoria | while others held the opinion that calomel was all ment for the sale or gratuitous dispensation of | changed. According to the French and Haglish abcoholic drinks within the capitol, especially | newrpapers, his sympathy for the cause of his located upon dangerous shoals, and hence, too, rocks and sandbars have been removed, aod country. That it will increase the “standing” of the bar, no one will question. has been shot at, struck, and otherwise attack- ed at least half a dozen times since she ascended | that he had a most elaborate and comprehensive the British throne. The late Louis Philippe wasso | $Y On the subject, but ss it was too long to read. frequently attacked that during the later years ot his reign he never dared to go ont in the streets powerful. One gentleman informed the meeting tothe meeting, he had condensed it under fifteen. heads for the benefit of all who might be attacked @uring the last tree days of the session. Let it be tried; and at the same time. let the water works be eompleted. Fa “LIST OF ACTS OP CONGRESS. We centinue the pablication of the list of acts pamed by the Thirty-third Congress in another part af to-dey’s paper. DETENTION OF THE MAILS, The train from Philadelphia did not arrive at Jersey City last night until about 12 o'clock. Mii- way between Newark and Elizabethtown, the“ ec- -@entric shaft” of the engine was broke, and anether ‘was procured at Newark. DROUGHT AT THE WESY, brother-in law is undiminished. The feeling of the Prussian people would seem to lean to the other side ; and it is probably to the straggle be- tween his personal predilections aad his fears as a sovereign that his hesitation must be ascribed. Should Austria embrace the Western alliance with spirit and cordiality the course pursued by Prussia would not be likely to ex- ercise a very material -influeuce upon the issue of the war; but till the Coart at Vienna has taken a decisive step Prussian influence will continue to be formidable, and tne prospect of At Louisville, Ky.,on Wednesday. the river was | the Czer winning Germany to his side will be mt a lower stage than it was at any period last sea- sufficiently strong to afford the Western allies son, with only twenty-five inches water in the canal { serious ground for apprehension. ‘by the mark. On the Portland azd New Albany dar there were about thirty-two or thirty-three inch @ So far as the wur itself is concerned, the At- lantic brings no news of any actual progress water, and in the lower Ohio less than thirty iact 8 | In the Baltic, on the Black Sea, and on the were reported. A Lonisville paper says:—‘T @ | Donube, Bowg continued dry weather at this period of the weason haa been of almost incalculable injury to the growing crops, particularly corn, throughout this wegion, and we hear of greater complaints else an inactivity, which in this case seems anything but masterly, is the order of the day. Sir Charles Napier has won a victory, not over the Russians, but over the cholera, This for the channels have been deepened in onr navi- | _ The public have offen observed in our courts gable rivers and harbors, including a large | that refined and useful practice called “‘ badger- number in late years tabooed and vetoed by | 28 witness,” and must have felt Incensed at Col. Polk and Gen. Pierce. easy assurance of an able and acute lawyer Now, can anybody tell what {s Gen. Pierce’s hunting and persecuting an unfortunate citizen, line of demarcation as'to constitutional appro- | because the latter had committed: the atrocious priations for rivers and harbors. Is it limited | Time of attending to testify in a cause, to the ‘with the disease. Another said that it had its ori-- gin inthe genglions of the nerves, and that it was of Paris without a guard ; and Louis Napoleon has likewise ran some risks from the same cause. produced by the electrical affinity which existed be- The escapes which the other European sove- | tween the diseased body and the nervous systems of reigns have hed from the knife or the pistol of | others. The war of the Titans was mere child’s. the assassin will at once be remembered ; and | play in comparison with the desperate encounter the state of anxiety in which they live can | that took place between the followers of Esculapius. readily be pictured. Our Presidents have no | 0M this occasion. They did not, it is true, receive: to the point where the salt water ceases in our detriment of his business, and in obedience to a seaboard rivers? If so, the overslaugh at Al- subpoena. This exercise often continued for Dany is an unconstitutional sandbar. Or does | Hours, during which time the subject the constitution run up as far as the tide runs? | W88 compelled to remain on his legs, If co, the overslaugh is covered by the con-{ While the operator enjoyed the comfort of a stitution, and may be removed by its authority. | clalr. The time consumed in such cases was Or does the constitution, preprio rigori, pene: | frequently. dreadfully prolonged by the tedious trate to every custom house and port of entry | Process of writing down the answers of the wit- by the river, lake, or canal line, by which such | 2€88, the counsel occasionally laying aside his custom house is reached. If 80, the Missisaippi | Pen to fertify himself with a fresh quid of An- is a constitutional river all the way up to St. | 1eT#on’s “Soluce,” this being a habit to which Louis, and the Ohio all the way up to Pits. | Many on the bench and at the bar are addicted burg; and the great Missouri, though not so The Judges have reformed the mode of exami- now, may become constitutional hy and bye. | 2#ion, but have not yet preseribod any rule Establish a port of eatry and a custom house | 9% to “ chewing.” They require that the coun- at the Gates of the Rocky Mountains, and the | ®! shall, while examining a witness, stand up ghere. In confirmation of thie we have heard ver- } Didable foe vanquished, and his sqnadron re- ‘belly, and from correspondents, that the farmers of | ‘forced by the vessels which recently sailed ‘this State now do not expect to make more than | from Calais, it is possible that we may hear of Jhalf the usual crop of corn. Ths season has too something more worthy of the expectations he far advanced now for the most favorable rainaand | raised than the bombardment of Bomarsund. ‘weather to bring them out.” TESTRUCTIVE FIRES. A fire occurred in Wiliiamaburg on Sunday morm- The fleets in the Black Sea and the armies near Varna are said to be waiting for the move- turbid Missouri becomes clearly constitutional ull the way up. Gen. Pierce, we apprehend, however, is a little tighter than this, or there would have been no legal difficulty in signing the House and ehall not take notes of the testimony with- out special leave of the Court. This rule is very udicions, in many respects. It produces greater equality between the witness and the awyer. Both must be on their feet when their euch fear. Two out of the three attacks that | %@Y bodily injuries, bat the huge words they flung we have enumerated were made by individuals bereft of reason : one of those apon Jackson being the deed of a lunatic, and the assault upon Pieree being by @ drunken man, time, and showed his remorse in a ridiculous | ed; way afterwards. It was discovered in England that most of | Jearmed and tne unlearned. A friend, who had he attacks on the Queen were prompted by an | ® Severe atta:k of tne diarrhea, gave us so absurd craving for notoriety, and it was found necessary to enacta law imposing a severe confinement upon individuals of unsound mind who indulged in the recreation of endangering her Mojesty’s life. We do not think it will be requisite to procure an act of Congress here to | to meet with favor protect our Presidents’ noses from being palled, or their hats from bard boiled eggs. At all events, unt a few more cases of the kind have occurred, such offences may well be punished | *Mecteof both brandy and diacrucea, “ you look very bill. Mr. Richardcon, of Ilinois, has expressed { Counter occurs; and, to use the language of | by public ridicule. The gentleman who at- the ring, they ure hereafter tohave a “fair stand ments of Austria betore taking any decisive destroyed d thei ie afta snap Sern cbr ce be ane step. British writers recommend the blockade and of comparatively little value. So rapid was | Of Sebastopol in terms which indicate a lively dhe coufiagration that many of the inmates barely | impatience at the over-cautious tactics of the -eacaped io their night dresses, leaving their house- | allied Admirals. In fact, the whole matter— dnold goods a prey to tie flames. A full account is | the movements of the allied forces in the field given in another columa. NEWS FROM EUROPE. We publish elsewhere, received by the stoamship Atlantic, the letters of our correspondents at London, Paris, and Alexandria, giving accounts of the state of affairs abroad. Ihe report of the debate in the British Parliament on the war will be found exceedingly interesting. One of ou Sandon correspondevts farnishes a graphic history ef the misunderstanding between John Van Buren and Daniel E. Sickles, which we commend to our democratic friends of every shade and stripe. The eommercial intelligence brought by the Atlantic is wafavorable for dealers in breadstuffs. Cotton was auchanged in price; dut trade in the manufactariog @istricts was dull,anda decline in our great staple may, tLerefore, be anticipated. NBWS BY TELEGRAPH. and at sea, and the movement of public opiaion in the British and French capitals~-may be sumined up in the remark that the war is at a stand still, and the Western nations much an- noyed thereat. All the fighting hitherto has been done by the Turks. Should this continue to be the case much longer, the value of the Western alliance will be questioned by every one. : Whatever is done by the allies, the prospect of a termination ofthe war was never more distant than at present, The extremities of Russia may be crippled by a change of tactics on the part of the allied troops; but her vitals cannot be reached. Behind her lies a continent of balf-civilized races which she can traia under Yesterday muat have been an exoredingly quiet | ber banners and bring into the field, half a mi'- @abbatn throughout the country, if we may judge by the mengrenessa of the telegraph intelligence. ‘The only items of iaterest are an accoant of a ter sific storm on Thursday near Fairmount, Va, which destroyed the crops, uprooted trees and un- Teofed builaings ; some additional returns of the election in North Carolina, which are fayurable for Bragg, the democratic candidate for Gover por; and the announcement of the es-ape of four eonvicts from the jaii at Albany, for whose appre ‘beusion a reward is offered. STREBT PREACHING. The itinerant ex, onaders of the Gospel held forth in this snd the adja ent ciths yesterday as uanal. In the Park, the mobocrats made several attempts fo create a disturbance, but their efforts were promptly che ked by the police. In Brooklyn and Williamsbarg the p eaching wae not interrupted, MISCECLANBOUS, It is stated that Jobn B. Warren, of Troy, has Deen ap ointed Attorney General of Minnesota Ter- sitory ip pla.e of Mr. Dustin, deceased. Among the prominent politicians in Canada who bave been defeated at the :ecent election are Hon. Makem Caweron and Col. Prince. William Lyon | yj Mackenzie has bren elected to tLe Provincial Par Yament by a amall majority. lion at a time, Her only vulnerable points might be surrendered without involving any fatal injury to her power. St Petersburg might be abandoned, and the Gulf of Finland given up to the allied fleets: Moscow and the heart of the empire would still be inaccessible from the north. In like manner the capture of Sebastopol would involve nothing more thaa the lors of that seaport. It would require a force which all Europe could not supply to force a passage to the north. Even supposing that uniform success attended the operations of the allies, the Czar could cali army afier army ivto the field, and supvly each battalion tha: fl with another as strong And aa brave. What rerult might attend any attempts at aygression on the part of Russia, it is iffpossible to say ; tut it seems certain that so long as the Czar rmains on the defensive the war may be carried on for years without weakenig his re- sources, Such a contest as this—for such a stake— ght well Jast a whole century, with intervals fer breathing time. Gray hairs may cover the beads of children yet unborn b fore it is Jony Vax Bunsx Riont Stor Ur Agax.— | decided whether the ruling Power in Europe The letter of our London correspondent in re- ference to the troubles of our protegé, Jobu Van Buren, in the British metropolis,is inter eet: g. Itexplains the affair wito the Secre- tary of cur Legation ina satisfactory wiy; and shows th t “. friend in need is a friend ia- de 4,” from the impor!ant services rendered by George Sanders in regard ‘0 the aboli ion con vention at Manchester. With the aid of Sander the Pr noe secu ed ao exp'anation in the London Advertiser, and by the dvice of Sandera, no doubt, he dido’t go up to Manchester. For his fellow countrymen in difficul y, Sanders is the man. We hope that he will keep a friendly eye apon the prince. and se him at least safely Bhipp d for the o her side of the channel, before he leavesbim. We rejoive that throagh the wise oui rels of Sanders, the Prince kept away | European democrats aud and the master of Constantinople is to be Rug-ia or France. While the straggte lasts all other contests sink inte obscurity. Kossuth and simi Jar idle theorists may talk of popu ar revolutious and democra ic movement-; bu no sign of any realization of the propheci. s of these dreamers can be found on the horizon. A great waris ao admirable safety valve or politcal passions The men who might excite au insurrection io Germany or Itsly are now ab crbed in the thoughts of fighting the Russiaug or the West ern Powers. Even Parisis loyal. So of dynas- tic revolutions, Who cares abou. the Spanist braw!, or thinks about the prospects of the shameless har ote who rule that wretched country? When Russia and Trance are en- gaged in adeath struggle, the aspirations ol! the jewlougjes of stom Manchester, Let it be sees to that be is | hereditary monarchs seen, positively frivolous gui inveigled into Stafford House and he is safe, and paltry, the opinion that Pierce is a salt water constitu- tionalist, or that at the very hes’, he rises and | UP fight.” Weare right glad that no provision is falls with the tide; and that like a regular old | ™9¢¢ for age, rheumatism, or sore toes. but we salt, he has @ constitutional prejudice against | Wish care had been taken to prevent the all fresh water craft and the landlubbers who | ‘@wyer leaning against any support. The new pull the oare, This is perhaps the trae ground | leis also important as a judicial tribute to which our present scrupulous Executive ooca- | the benign influence and cause of temperance. plea, Else why are the Mississippi and its tri- | The familiar saw, “sober as a judge,” retains butaries and the great lakes cut off from the | ‘difficult application, considering the extent of Treasury by the merciless veto? our coustry and the varieties of characters and But there are others who think that General | babits amongst those who occupy the beach, Pierce will agree to Mr. Calhoun’s idea that | This legal fiction has never been ex:ended to the Mississippi and two or three of its tributa- | ‘he lawyers. Unfortunately eome of them rics are inland seas, and are therefore within | Make “side-bar motions’ out of court,- and the reach of Congress in removing the know of other ’stoppels than those of record, by and sandbara, Gen. Cass has also ventured the | 2eed, or in pais. Such gentlemen must be opinion, after frequently travelling over them | Careful for the future not to disturb their equi- in rough weather, that the great lakes are also | !ibrium when they are to engage in a trial; for, inland seas, because they will make a man sea | 0 borrowanother graphic expression from the sick in a gale a good deal quicker than the | Hyer and Morrissey vocabulary, they must sluggiish current of the Mississippi. But it is | Dow “stand up to their work.” very likely that the harbors of the great lakes | The advantages of the new reform do not had much to do with the veto of the bill of | stop here. The bar andthe public have some- the Honse, times indulged in the delusion that the courts Upon all these delicate points Congress and | did not belong exclusively to the Judges, and the country must continue in the dark tillnext | Were not invented entirely for their use and December. Then we are promised a flood of | Comfort. The practice, from time imme constitutional Jight upon the subject; and we morial, shows this to be an error. I hall undoubtedly get it, extending back to|® Juror appear a few mioutes after the the reeolutions of ‘98 and ‘99. Everything | Court has convened, he is ecometimes fined, depends upon the interpretation of the funda-| @Md often reprimanded for his delay; mental, for it isas comprehensive or re-trictive | but if his honor keep a whole panel and upon internal improvements as upon squatter | me hundr-ds of citizens waitiog an hour, no sovereignty, having not » word to say directly | N¢ ever presumed, nor has any one the right apon either subject. One President may | fT Means, to complain. If, whes the court is stretch it like india rubber to cover appropria- addressing counsel. the latter should take upa tions of fifty or a hundred millions to river and harbors, and canals and turnpikes; another newspaper, or turn away his face, every ,one w cold consider that a preach of politeness, to may prove to the satisfaction of a Philadelphia 1 *y the least, But when counsel are speaking lawyer that there is no power in Congress un- der the constitution to touch either the mud bars of the Balize, or the granitic gridiron in Hellgate. to the court, the Judges have a common right, and many exercise it, to read journals or novels, drym on the desk with their fingers, look through the side window on estates “in nuli- But our present official expounder has also bus,” or keep up protracted conversations with promised us something in December upoa the their brethren. These peculiar prerogatives of expediencies operating against the River and | *he bench are increased and confirmed by the Harbor bill. He will probably show that the topograply of the new rule; for, while the ten millions of the Gadeden treaty, the land Judge remains in his casy fauteui? on the ele- grants to squatters, the propose i grants to railroad stock-jobbers, the bill of costs arising from the Greyt wn bombardment, and the pro- babdilities of a war with Spain, imperiously de- wand retrenchment somewhere, and that no better beginning could be made than with luna- tics and rivers and harbor . Well, having adopted the Gadsden treaty and the railroad stock-jobbers, the administration has been as liberal as could be expected. The addition of the log-roliers upon rivers and harbors would bave run Guthrie com pletely aground, leaving him without penny either for the purcha e or the invasion of the island of Cuba. What a monument of wis- dom is the constitution of the States! Tammany Hati—Jony McKgon anv THE Presment.—When the official announcement ofthe appointment of J bn McKeon as our United States Distric A'orney was made in vated ais, sometimes refreshing his feet with an altitude equal to that of his head, the lawyer must forego any such “otium cum dignitate,” and be made to feel that it ishis duty not only to understand the Judge,but to stand under him This is a wholesome method of illastrating the distance and difference between superior and inferior station. Scme of our lawyers will gramble about the change of practice, and suggest that it is hard- ly fair to let their adversaries take notes while ley are standing and prohibited from even waking a memorandum of “chops and to- matto sauce ” suggested in a letter from some new Pickwick to a new Mra. Burdell. Bat such complaints must be disregarded, both oa principle and authority. The authority or pre- cedent is farnished in the British practice, where the barrister stands while probing a witness, ond that, too, und: r the snperincumbent weight of huge and heavy wigs. We must see whether tacked the President on Saturday bas already punished himself sufficiently by sticking his I penknife into his knee ; the additions] penalty of being laughed at from Maine to Florida will Probably restrain him from similar exploits in future. ‘The Law Courts. The summer vacation, which commenced in July, will not terminate until the end of this month, and consequently little business has been or will be | procure, transacted in the courts of law for the past month or coming few weeks, exc*pt some decisions in special terms, and an occasional ex parte motion. The greater number of the courts will commene operations on the first Monday in September, bat the Superior Coort trial branches will not sit natil October. Pending the erection of the new baild- dispelied by another friesd, ings the Superior Coart will be held at the corner of the Park and Chambers street, where the rooms recently oecapied by the Prote:tion, Mutual and Pearl Fire Companies are being converted into halls of justice. Miserably small and insafficient as they | ne appear to be, we should not even have had them bnt fd the indefatigable perseverance of Mr. Gao. H. E. Lynch, the Clerk of the Saperior Court, who has at last succeeded in locating tre justices in this nook until the new building is completed. The old ruivs are now being razed to the ground, so that we may soon hope to see a suitable structure reared as a temple of jastice for the city of New York. Many changes will have taken place before the re- assembling of the courts. Nathaniel B. Blant, in the prime of life, and in the fall vigor of his us2- fulness, has been snatched away withouta moment's warning. Full of hope, of energy and promise, he ceased from hia official labors to gain new strength to encounter the phalanx of criminals who now fall to the lot of hia successor to prusecnte in the name of the people. Toe recent tragedy at tie 8t. Nicholas Hotel, snd the many other Lomicides which have delnged our city with blood, will prove a sorry task for the first efforts of a crim- | said the suffer r; ‘for if I follow the advice of my inal prosecater. Lorenzo B. Shevard, the successor ef Mr. Blont, has appointed Mr. Parsons as aasia- tant District Attorney, Oakey Hall baying decline) to continue in that office, which he so faithfully d's. charged under the late lamented in-ambent. The offices of the District Attorney are still draped in mourning in respect tothe memory of Mr. Biunt, Join McKeon, who, upon the special nomination of the President, succeeds Cuas. O'Couor as United Btates Attorney for the Southern District, has not, we understand, made any alterations in his offive. Mr. B. F. Danning has always evinced a solidity aud ability which well befit him for the office of Asso, ciate Attorney, and Mr. James Ridgway, a8 cried clerk or Assistant District Acto-ney, has been seve ral years in that position, and has become as it were @ neceasery and indispensible incumbent of that important office. The otuor geuslenen of this de partment being appointed under tne present govern, ment, will scarcely be removed by Mr? McKeon. The Const of Seasions opens to day, at 11 0’ lock, it being tre first Monday of the mouth of August, His Honor Reorder Titlou will preside. The oaicadsr isan unusuaNy heavy one, the following summary of cases being sct down for trial :--Murder, 8; arson 5; attempt at arson, 2; forgery, 10; stabving, 2; burglary, 11; larceny, 18; attempt at graud larceny, 3; rubbery, 2; carrying slung shot, 1; false pre- tences, 4; bigamy, 2; embezzlement, 3; receiving stolen goods, 5; felonious assault and battery, 3. This makes a total of eighty cases, which can scarcely be concluded before a fortnight’s tim. | it, and he is now in the @ajoyment of excellent Owing to the heat of the weather and the sickuess thie city, the General Committee of T amman | gur barristers have not the muscle for the same | prevailing in the city, we havo no doubt that tue Re- at each ether in the heat of the struggle would have- overthrown a whole army of Titans. opposite natures are preacrib- trandy, salt, Cayenne pepper, eggs and vege- table have their zealous advocates among the amusing account ot bis experience in the dif- ferent kinds of treatment, which will be: by those who have brea afflicted with that disease, ‘He had suffered from it for four or five days, daring which he tried every remedy that was recommended. He firét reaorted to brandy and water, as it seemed from the majority, but instead of curing him, it only made the diarrhoea worse. “ What ie the matve- with you,” said a friend to him while he was suffering under the combined ill—take care you are not going to have a fit of the cholera.” “ Taw a victim to the diarrhea,” he repited, “but have just been taking a most effective remedy for- “ What is It,” eagerly inquired the friend. “Brandy and water, which, I am told, is the best medicine I conld take.” = “ The best medicine, indeed; if you continue it, it will be the death of you—*hy you could not take anything which would briug on the cholera sooner.. Take my advice, get some of the best rice you can have it well boiled, and my word for it, if you stop taking all other kiad of food, you will be, quite recovered in a day or two.” He did take the advice of hia friend, procured the rice, and followed the prescription to the letter, © congratalsting hiawelf onthe immediate prospect of returning health; but the pleasing illasion waa who informed him that. “You must diacostinue it at once,” said he, “or the conseqnences may be most serious. Boiled rice!” exclaimed, in astoniahment—I would as soon think of taking @ dose of arsenis. Allow me to pre. scribeTor you. Take « glass of sherry wine, with a raw egg.beaten up in it, und I promise you that every symptom of the diarrhoea will disappear in a} few hours. Theie is no mistske about this; it is a capital remedy, ani has been attended with the most signal success ta nearly every case.” He had hardly time, however, to follow the pre- scription of his tbird friend, when he met » fou:th, wh> had sumethivg entirely diffrent to propose. “Sherry wine and egg,” said he; “why yon a3- torish me; itis n> wonder you look so wretche3, and I merely wish to tell you that if you continue taking your sherry ant exg¢ you will be in your grave ina few days. Do.’t you know that wins or apy kind of liquor is death to @ man with the «iar heen?” “Well, I should Ike t» know whit Tam to take,” friends they will not allow me apything to cat among them. Ihave alreaty grown so weak that my lege are hardy able to enpport me, and if I don't get somo eff-ctive remedy before long, the cholera will claim me for snether of ita victims.” “The beat thing you can do isto take some opiam, and if that don’t cure you 1 will give you my head for a penny.” This certainly as risking » great deal on opium. It, too, was tried, however, but with the same suc- cess; the patient, instead of improving, found him~ self growing worse daily. He at length de- termined to ‘parsue his own course of treatment, satisfied that if he coutinued to follow the advice of his numerous friends he would cer- tainly be attacked by tie cholera, “I have tried brandy and water,” said he, “rice, sherry wine, eggs and opium, wit)out the leasteffect; and row I will see what viitus there is in some good roast beet, mutton chops and ale.” Now, if he had called a council of his friends to decide upon the propriety of indulging in such snbstavtial condiments, they would ail doubtless save ex laied against it; aud as for the doctors, it is more than probable that if allowed tneir wil! they would have had him confined a8 ® Innatic. Bot he followed the dictates of his own judgment,“ went into” the beof and “ fixin’s” with a gusto that would have astonished an English ~ man, and, thus fortitied, prepared himself for the approach of the cholera. But the cholera did not attack him, the rowst beef proved too powerful for heelth. Now, let us give our readers our adyios:—~