The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. | rcs iepemeay on Eapteren © 42> | PROPRIE(OR 4ND £DITOR, | FASSA0 AND FULTON 978. $7778 M. W. COANER OF $5 to any part of the } [NCR mectning baer | wpe solicited from ony quarter of the worid—is used Wherely pate for ag Don Forrion Conrsaron | , PAbm@ecULAbuD Suqueerey 0 opal art | Tr! wasn PACKAGES Se~T 8 | > NOPION taken of anomyinons Convmunioations, We do o 8 return hone reject | | ~ 218 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. DOWBRY THEATRE, Be y Jack Susrrany— Trent Rove NiIBLOP—Tuw Wuwsw NATIONAL THEATRE, Chetham stroet—aLDREN WT | wie Waod-hi bap ax rk Wowvensuu aur PLOT Ay 2 Punnon anion, pager fy AMERICAN WUSRUM —afternron FRom VICUA® ¢ ro Gounr, Rveping Jue Irv PREWHAY, Wood's MINSTREL WALL. 444 Broadwsy—Etw jopian Sorernerey Avy Bunirsqus UPena. BUCELEWS OPBRA HOUSE. 580 Broadway | _pyox- cars’s Rrmorian UrzRA TROWPe, PRANCONDS BIPPODROME—Mamwon Sq vane, New Yosk, Thurs@ay, August ¥ 0, 1954, oe The News. THE STATE ELHUTIONS , From Missouri we: Karn that The mas H. Benton ‘Bos been defeated in the St. Louis iseri t by Lather M. Kenvett, whig, dy a majority ¢ of from 600 to 400, Wr. Kennett'ie kwewn to be & remarkably stron man if the district, and it ie #>s ted that he received the entire vote of the Know Y.othing party. the defvat of Me. Benton proves td.at there is a strong f-cling jn Misgouri im favor of the Nebraska bi!. @ur deepated states that a Wot was going on in St. Louis, but no particulars aro given as to its cause. Fram Nerth Carolica the returns are of a most conflicting character, although it ia almost certain tat t e-democrats bavesuccceded in electing thoir eandfdate for Goyetncr and a majority in the Howe of Delegates. = From Towa we bave sews 'but from one county, ‘which had gone whis, anti-liguor and anti Nebraska. OUR FORBIGN CORRESPONDE: We publish to-dey, a mass of communications from our correspondents in various parts of the world, such a8 is sarely to be fonnd, even in the eolumne of our-own journal. The completeness and ‘universality of the arrangements which we have ef fected in this department, enable us, as it were, to presiut our readers at one view, with a correct re flex of the facts, opinions, speculations, and pros- pects of the countries interested in those great questions whith are now conrnlsing not only the hingéoms-of Europe, but the old exclusive empires of the East. They have faithfully mirrored out be fore them, within the compass of a single sheet, mot objy all the various oonflicting interests which have evoked these struggles, but the local impressions gathered by experienced avd cautious writers as to the probable issnes taey will assume. In this power of condensing a maltitade of ‘acts and observations, gleaned simultaneously from different pmts of the globe, and presentiag them in such a clear and intelligible form to the public mind as that the hambleat capacities may be shle to appreciate the importance of the interests involve? in the great political qnestions of the day, we Lehold the triumph of molern journalism. Half @ centary ago, such feats would have been impossi- ble; ia snother balf century, they will have been thrown into the shade by the further developement of the faciiities offered by steam and telegraphi -eommunicatien. VOREION FILES. We have received our files of the Singapore Bi Monthly Civeutar of the I4th of June. Tho im ports of gold ard gold dust durlag a fortnight oa that day, consisted of three hundred aud seventy bunesls, from the Archipelago. Rates, as reported, were from #29 to $29} for Australian bara, and #2 to $23) per buncal for dust. Exports, as above, four hundred and twenty-three buncals. We have fitesof St. John’s, Newfoundland, papers to the 25th of July. They do not contain any news ot interest. The Morning Post of the above da:o sayer—The New York, Newfoundland and Londoa Telegraph Company's steamer Victoria, Cuptala fMuyder, arrived on Sunday last. The information which she brings is, we understand, to the effect that theworks of the company ate progressing well. ‘The same journel, inallading to the postponement of the Regatta Committee meeting, observes:—In the present depressed state of onr trade, and the gloomy aspect of the fisheries, it is doubtful, not orly whether a regatta could effectively be got uo just pow, or even if practicable, whether it should teke place at a time when every day should be availed of to follow up the fiehery while the season lasts, CITY APYams. Yesterday, it will be seen, was a busy day for the fl:emem--no less than foar fires occurred. The 9 took’place at 4 o’clock in the morning, in Eldridge street ; the second one bettyéen 1 and 2 o’clo -k in the afternoon ; the third, at the corner of Elizabeth and Snring streets, about o'clock ; and the fourt>, a Kittle aftr $ o'clock, the latter consuming the Rev. Dr. Patton's church/in Broome strees. The loss of property by these fires may be estimated at upwards of $20,000, not one-half of which is said to be ec + ered by insurance. A report of the tires will be found elsewhere in to-day’s paper. In today’s paper will be found a do Judge Philips, of the Marine Court, in the the first Glerk of the City Inspector's office, who brought a sult against tbe city foran increase of salary granted by the Common Council, and which the Comptroller bad refused to pay. It wil shat Jadge P. decides against Mr. F z’a pecoliar construction of the resolution of the Common Council. The Board of Aldermen transacted a good deal of routine business Jast evening, which will be found in the report, and then adjourned to meet again this evening. Inthe Board of Gonnci!men, last evening, quite a spicy debate sprung up on a motion to make the report of the committee in favor of cpening Albany street the spevial order for Friday next, A ‘ter the rejection of the motion, the Board transacted ons! derabie busiress in Committe of the Whole. The Board of Education met last evering, but uring the whole session there was barely a yoornm present, and but little buiness war transacted MISCELLANEOUS. Two gongs of conaterteiters were arrested ia the woods n Canada on the Ist instant. The band was perfectly organized, and wer: possessed of every: © ing necessary for carrying on their nefaridus bast ness on & mos; «xtensive scale, It is thought to he the most ‘mportant arrest of the kindever mide on this continent. They were confiaed in the jail Montreal. Jddge Norrie, 0° Ohio, has dovided that brought info that State, by or with t his owner, and ofterwards ¢scaping into a State, je free, and cannot be remanded to s!av The steam Dorado arrived at Now 0 on Mondsy, bringlog Caifurnia dates to | ult. He: news has been antic pated by the the West a° this port. ip lw. John, Ni B., the cholera appears t amsking fearfal ra For the three day ig August 6,there bad been one hunds ing Peale in view of the 8 wHing proszramme Felons The grand anti) } very coa ition © 444 meet- \ lng inthe Park, pn Tu day afern 46 sor the | appointment of relegat stot eA gortion Sara ' {nga State Corventon, WAS ® gost dishearten- | of the projected Holy Av . gi very Alliance of the North, A Vrothely combi" seton of such names as W. ©. Bryant, Jobr, A, King, Jobn Jay, A. C, Flagg, ’xobert "gmmet, Wiliam V. Brady, G. W. Bir nt, Her,ry Ward Beecher, Thomas M’El- rath, and co"mpany, co-operating in the eall for thi? wast “meting ! From the mere curiosity to s¢ » suels a wonderful and funny amalgamation of wigs and democrats, free soilers, abolition- iste, poets, philosophers, preachers of the Gos pel, and teachers of: ocialism and intidelity, one might neturally suppose it would suffice to at- tract a multitude of many thousands. The wea- ther was fine; the place wasconvenient; due no- tice had been given to the public, far and near; the gathering was to be an extraordinary one,in the fusion of so many diverse materials; and yet a more inglorious and unexpected fizzle it has never been our melancholy duty to record. An impromptu dog fight, a quarrel between two apple women, the sndden death of an ompibus horse on Broadway, the arrest of a plustering Jeremy Diddler, the blist of the trumpet of she Angel Gabriel. without prewous notice, would have atrrac ed at the time ofday at which the meeting occurred a more imposing zathering of the sovereign people than this mass mnveting for the appointment of delegates to Saratoga. But the meagreness of the as © eemblage was not its most diccouragiog feature. Whrn a political crowd, ia such o place as the Park, is very smal!, it is generally very select, apd the purposes of the gathering are carried out with harmony and unanimity, But the case was otherwise in thie instance—decidedly otherwise. Mr. Joseph Blunt had vo sooner defined the general objects of this convention of five hun- dred. and Mr. Benjamin E. Buckman had no sooner read the anti-Nebraska and anti-slavery resolutions, than there was open mutiny in the camp. A gentleman, named E. P. Childs, promptly stepped forward and proposed other recolutions, which, among other things, repn- diated “ the convention called to meet at Sara- toga, on the 16th of this month, asa trick to advance the politics} interests of certain men, at the expense of the principles and interests of better mon;”’ and not content with this, Mr. Childs further proposed, “that we deem it ia- expedient to send delegates to the said Sara- toga Convention.’ Of course, the resolutions of Mr. Childe were not the thing; but from the eports of the ‘‘yoice of the people,” it is by no mesns certain that they were rejected, thongh declared so to be by the President. A list ofsome seventy-five delegates, of all sorts of political, poetical, e¢clesiastical and socialistic ant cedents, was then proposed— Yan Buren Buffalo plat‘orm soft shell demo crats, Seward whigs, Old Clay whigs, Taylor whigs, Scott whigs, Castle Garden Union Safety Committee whigs, abol:tionist Maine law men, and Know Kotbings, all mixed up together,*| like green corn, string beans and tomatoes in a dish of succotash, and the question was upon adopting this astounding list as the New York city and county delegates to the Saratoga con- vention. When the question was propounded, the people were confounded, the reporters were astounded, and there was everything to fear that the delegates were grounded. Such a mingling of incongruities as J. Phillips Phe- nix, J. G. Snodgrass, W. F. Havemeyer, Henry J. Raymond, Joseph Hoxie, Sheppard Knapp, Benjamin F. Butler, A. C. Kingsland, and Chauncey Shaffer, was, for the moment, in- conceivable, Iccomprchensible, and incredible; and the sovereign people stood aghast. But soan, appreciating the drift of the grand idea, they very naturally protes'ed against thé omis- sion of such men as Thurlow Wted, Horace Greeley, and Thomas K. Downing, (black man.) The “voice of the people” called for fair play; but the li:t of delegates was declared to be adopted as it stood, the President, Mr. Wedge- wood, diclining te wedge in either Weed, Greeley, or Downing. Thus the programme of the dey was cut and dried and adopted, by an inside clique, against the wishes of the inde pendent Union end law and order Ioving peo- ple, who were present under tho general inyi- tation to the public. The specific chfects of ihis grand sponta- Heous mass meoting in the Park, (otter tendoys advertising ) being thus carried oat, Mr. Ryek- man put in a hard lick for the homestead scheme, and against the Congressional ratlroad lund jobbers and speculators, which was adopt- ec. But Mr. Watson was very cavalierly set p atiempting to dispense with delegates to Seratega aliogetber; and Mr. Van Riper, while insisting apon his “inalienable rights” to Lo henad, wasent off by an abrupt adjourn ment. Had the meeting been at night, in the Tabernacle, its Larmonious proceedings would Coubticas have enced in the Tammany Hail ex- pecient of shutting off she gas. Thnes it will appear, that n twithetanding the ovelty of the occasion, the favor condi. ion of the weather, the elivible locatity, th: convenient time of day, the thorough notifica- tion given to the public, the importaace of the Nebraska question, the extraordinary amalgama- Von of merchants, parsons (mi poviticians, which he Soratoga programme bod brought about, the dislocation of all tbe old political aries of pest days, that this combined anti cting In the Park was out and ». It is to be followed evening by a cimilar anti-Nebraska tion, over In Brooklyn, for the appoint- ent of delegates to Saratoga, and by another i ‘vg this evening, for the same pur- pore, at Stapleton, on Staten Jaland, Nor is this ai], Last evening, Stephen Pem broke, (black man,) “the last New York victim’ of the Fugitive Slave lew. « in con anction with his brother, Dr. Pennington.” men,) addresed a me t tional eburch on Wash which a ey 1 meeting ec gates (free vention red Americans) to the Sara hie is closing up the rank ities of the and th: it Slovery ho L6th » and extra- toya co} gocd and strong. Must of te have oppoirted their del te eo vention of the new H Allionce to be held at Sarate 1 ers, be a} the he on & me 1 history of the i esplts the ® It will be voky Dlere ¢ erry cla-e of tana every varlety of the Intdel trib:, of every sebco of 8 cal:ts, spiritual ra per. and land | veformers, avd of variou: ‘aces of men—the wh test to t e blackest—Gerrit Smith, Fred. Douglars, snd the stro g-mnded women, in- eluded. In contem lating the avful array of this formi abe ali nee, cur first gen ation is that of dismay. But, on recurrin: to the late muss mee‘ing in the Park, we ure rather ‘nclined to think that the beterog neous el-ments to be collected at Saratoga will not coalesce—that there will be “noise and confusion *—much noize and great confusion among them, and jealoustes and rivalries, in view of the spoils, which will scatter them like the confusion of *tongues at tne building of Babel. The o:nission of Horace Greeley from the list of delegates savors of rank rebellion. The appointment of Bevjamin F. Butler and Comptroller Flagg indicates the band of thie administration in tre game, which is tignificant of certain defeat The day of the saturnalia is close at hand, and the couutry with impatience is awaiting the lifting of the curtain. Ladies and gentlemen, make rocm for the delegates, ComwprroLer FLage AND THE New Yorx Press ~The ebject of corporations has been defined by a legal writer, (Mr. Gilbert 4 Beckett, law adviser to Punch,) to be the depletion ot that tendency towards plethora invariably exhibited by the public purse. Generally speakiog, all the municipal officers that we have been blessed with, have faithfully and conscientiously acted up to the spirit of this definition; but there will occasionally arise, even in the best rezu- lated bedies, would-be reformers, who, from the love of making themselves singular, and every- body else unccmfortable, will persist in carry- ing ont their own peculiar crotchets, Of this class of eccentric minds is Mr. Comptroller Flagg. A very singular man, indeed, is Mr. Comp- troller Flagg. Some love the accumulation of movey for the pleasure which it gives them- elves; but it would seem as if the Comptroller loved it solely for the diepleasure which it gives others, His charity, carious to say, neither blesses him that gives nor him that takes, Neither those from whom he receives, nor thore whom he ought to, but does not pay, speak of him in the overfullness and thankful. ness of their hearts. Faithfulas a house dog to his trust, there is this distinction in the simile—that our city Cerberus shows his teeth and growls as readily at his masters,when they attempt to appropriate their own, as if they were in reality pilfering interlopers. Had the Comptroller been cotemporaneous with the Antwerp blacksmith, Quintin Matsys,we should no doubt have had @ pendant to his celebrated picture of the miser, in which the passion of avarice would have been represented under a corporate phase, with Comptroller Flagg as its embodiment. What a pity it is that great genuises should be given at euch rare intervals to the world! There has been but one Cocker, and we are afraid that there will be bat one Flagg. In fact, the appearance of such men on the stage of life at sll, is a sort of mathematical paradox. They would have been more in‘ their place squaring circles in the spheres described in the new fpiritual philosophy, than calculating vul- gar decimals in this common-place routine world of ours, Mr. Flagg should, in short, have been Comptroller to the Moon, where contracts are paid jn shadow, instead of substance. Had this great corporate economist been born but a century fooncr, what sums of profli gately expended treasure would have been saved to the citizens of New York! Nature would still have reigned undistarbed in many of her favorite haunts, and the invasion of brick walls and paving stones would have been restricted within narrow limits. The grass would to a dead certainty, too, be still growing in our streets, for with Flagg at the head of affairs they would not have been flagged at all, Comparing great things with small—retro- epective resulia with present ones—we cannot help deploring thatthe tenure which we have had of Flagg’s services should not have been sufficiently long to have filled up a greater space in the annals of our city. What he has already done during his brief period of office, in spite of the undiscriminating opposition thst he has met with, proves what he might have effected had he had his own way sooner. We trust that there are more of the ‘ami'y to per- ; perpetuate the system and the f«me of our worthy Comptroller. The city should never be without a growing crop of little Flaggs. The Mlagg system! Talk of thore of Coper- nieus, Galileo or Newton, why, they cannot be compared for a moment in importance with the greater modern discovery of Comptroller Flagg. We hold that the man who has found out the way of making everytoJy work for nothing, deserves greater credit for ingeuuity than all these star gazers and philosophers put together, The only diffeulty. which the Comptroller has yet experienced in the experimental appli- cation of his system is with the Press. But even this obstacle he has partially overcome. The truth is that he is one of the longest headed «f corporate fanctionaries, and knows the exact difference between a spike and a handsaw. When we received his circular inviting us to send in proposals for advertising the redemp- tion sales, and to forward with them affidavits as to cur. circulation, we decliaed taking any trouble in the matter, knowing well that the requirement as to the latter was all humbug, and that the advertising would be given to th» lowest bidder. One of our contemporaries, with a respectable circulation, was dupe enough to put in his tender, backed by a formal affid.- vit,and the result turned out to be just what we expected. The contract was given to anotier paper which hal not complied with the requirement as to the osth, snd the circulation of which docs not amount to more than three thousand copies Had we, with a circulation of eighteen times that amount, been fools enough to respond to (be invitation, we shonkd have found ourselves in the mortifying predicament of the first of three candidates, and got laughed at for our smplicity. It would be useless to waste arga- ments in demonstrating the comparative value of advettisements in papers of large and small cirendation, even at the highest prices charged the former. The Cemptrolier js as well we wre that the high priced adver t is the cheaper of the two, if the object be advertiser bein r ty pabiicity. We sere therefire rightin regarding bis ci only un experiment to eee how far could he brought within the real plan of mak The ti enlar e Pret yperation of Wis every body ar- prend wnty honest shifts of one of the very few living au- Cooereurcersteh phlei thr peel coparions | to's! Rerceuican Ixstitetions.—Ove of the most euyion- phaser ip our rysten of government is tbemuvver in which popular favorises are ex- alted cr depr sed in the politioal wurld, ac- cording to we fancy of the people. The Con- greseman who bas, perbaps, served several tirms at Wathington, retires gracefally for feme more )outhtul aspirent, aud serves his -coustituents in tue State Leyislacure or sits on the bench of the county court, or is elected to the oiguity of an alderm: nic chair, or one ata county ecmmiesiovere’ board. He must accept any of there, or nortally offend his towns peo- ple. Of courte there is no positive infraction of dignity abou, the matter; it ouly seems o Jite singular. and very democratic, when com- pared with the precedents of older and more aristocratic governments. There are many fustancea extant of this levelling system; and in the late election in Norh Carolina, Gov. Graham, late Secretary of the Navy; Hon. D. M. B.rringer, late Minis- ter to Spain; and Hon. Kenveth Rayner. late a mcmber of Congress, were chésen members of the State Legislature; and we have ne doubt that the y will fill their seats with credit to them- selves and their constituents, It will be re- membered that John Quincy Adams, after serving one term a3 President of these United States, accepted a seat in Congress from his district, and served it for many years, until he died “with ermor on.” So with Mr, Benton after serving thirty years in the Senate, he has now returned to the lower Hense. John Tyler, after the expiration of his Presidential term, was chosen Overseer of the Roads in the neighborhood of bis estate, and faithfully executed the. duties of bis office. There are ecores of instances where Vice Presidents, Senators and Ambassadors, have returned to the practice of the law, and we often see Judges pleading before the bench where they formerly presided. Among the names ofthe delegates tothe Whig State Convention shortly to be holden in Boston, we notice those of Edward Everett and Robert C. Winthrop, late Senators from that State. On the other hand, the way to political pre- ferment seems really to be open to all, and we frequently find practical mechanics occupying those seats which men educated as law- yers alone expect to fill. Here is a queer inci- dent growing out of something of this kind :— Asingular exchange of courtesies took place a short time since between Judge Pepper, of the Seventh Judicial District of Tennessee, aud Governor Johason, of the same Btate. Judge Pepyer, who wae a blacksmith, presented to Governar Johnéon a fire hovel, made by the Judgu’s own ds. The Governor accepted the present, und, being a tailor by trade, returned the compliment by pre- senting toJudge Pepper ‘a black cloth sack coat, which was drafted, cut, rewed, and pressed, with his own banes;” and the Judge declares that he ‘never bad 80 good a fit in his hfe.’ The Governor Johnson above referred to was & poor boy, and had no opportunities to obtain even the rudiments of an education. He tri- umphed over all difficulti+s, and taught himself. What a forcible lesson should all these things teach to the youth of America! How dearly should they prize the educational advantages now almost universal, when they read of the Gifficulties under which their fathers labored. Other peopl: and other governments might alco learn something by the application of that part of our political economy which makes a public officer truly the public’s servant. Newsparer Scanpats.—It is very fortu- nate for the New York press that the monarchs and notabilities of Europe decline to avail themselves of the laws of libel in force in this country. Crowned heads have not always been so patient. A legitimist news- paper formerly published in London once irri- tated Napoleon to such a degree that he ha‘ the editor, Lepeltier, indicted, and- punished, in spite of one of the most famous speeches of Sir James Macintosh, who was counsel for the prisoner. The experiment has not had many imitators. One joursel in this city draws an elaborate picture of the social irregularities of the Queen of Spain ; another harrows our fee! - ings by a description of the merciless cruelty of the Caar Nicholas ; @ third publishes a story of Prince Albert locking up his old tutor in a madhouse to prevent his disclosing his know- ledge of the Prince’s early peccadilloss ; and e fourth entertains its readers with an absurd tale of the financial embarrasaments and dis- thors who is far beyond reach of the one or nted of the other. The object of these titbit: of scandal is too iransparent to need a second inquiry ; and as falsehood, when covered with an air of plausibility, is likely to command as ready a sale .as truth, we must not be surprised to find that nine ont of every ten stories of the kind are stamped as false the moment they reach the ear of any one who knows the real state of the case. It often happens of course that the falsehood cir- culates uncontradicted, because no one thinks it worth while to deny it, There are organs of public opinion here as elsewhere which might give utterance to any vile calumny, without any ene noticing it. But where the source of tales of this class is not beneath attention, we may rest assured that their publication, in nine cases out of ten, will be followed by an anthor'- tative denial of their accuracy. Nor is the re. traction necesearily a sacrifice to the journal in whose eclumus it appears. o the original falsebood, it arrests public attention for a m ment, the paper fells, and thus one picoce o/ gossip eerves the journalist’s purpose twice. This fs u doubtedly a fine business opera- tion. The practice is further commendable ax it is quite clear that the progress af the world affords no topics more deserviag of general at- tention among the American people than thr private follies and squabbles and vices of foreiga kings, queens and celebrities. It is uzesul to know that Prince A. beats his wife; highly edifying to be made aoquainted with the amount of Count B.’s debts; and remarkably instructive to be informed of the liatsons of a qu:en or the meals of an emperor. At a glance every one can discern the immens ad vantage the Amer.can prople cannot ii d+sive from the diffusion of knowledge on those all important points, The sheets which enjoy @ monopoly of this kind of matter could not be | better employed thao in performing the office of seavengers for the European courts; aud the public thanks are due to them for the zeal with which they discharge the functions of the office, An cccasional ash of trath would cer- tainly impart variety ‘0 their scandalous ebronicles; but we must be thankful for what | we can get, In course of time, as clvilization extend: | from this contineut into Europe, we make no | doubt but that the custom will find its way | there. The Times of London will instruct ita | readers that Mr. A B., a member of the Am ri- «s, has been forced to rate from | Yaris can Congre cn the p'yuant and startling develops. Poxrricat: Cuaxces—Levettixe Evrscr or merte ip the family of C. D., who was s member of President so and s0’s cabinet. The Morning Herald will found « ponderous argument against democracy on an account of the debts of the American statesman E F.; ia- cluding *0 many dollars for washing, and 60 many for sherry cobblers. And Louis Napo- Jeon’s organ wil] devote a feuilletoa to discuss- ing the private babits of some of our distin- gvithed licrary men. We soy that we do not doubt that thes» things will come about, when civilization bas thorougbly penetrated Europe. But, for the present, we are bound to admit that we see no signs of anything of the kind in foreign journabs, They have stupid prejudices, abroad, against meddling with the private bu- siness or habits of individuals. Editors think they ean fill their paper with more useful mat- ter than personal scandal and gossip. Foreign joarne)s do not trouble themeetves much about the private life of American citizens: consid- ering obtusely that it concerns themselves and not the public. Time will cure this delueion. Meanwhile, and #0 long as foreigners abstain from libel suits, we hope our cotemporaries will continue to amuse us with the servants’ talk in the noble families of Europe. Tae New Laxp Repvction axp GRapvation Biiit.—We publish this morning, the new law for the reduction and graduation of the price cf the public lands in favor of gctnal settlers and cultivators, It provides that all lands which have been in market for different terms of years shall be eold at the diffrent reduced prices, as fullows:— In the market. For ten yeors and upwanis, Fifteen years and upwerda Twenty years aud upward« 9 ‘Twenty five years and up wenty-five conta. Thirty years or more.... ‘welveand a hulf cents. This does not include the mineral lands or railroad re-ervations. It will also be observed that the bill grants the right of pre-emption to equatters on the public domain, with certain limitations and conditions—for which see the bill. This act will have no effect in Kansas, Ne- braska cr Minnesota, for none of the public lands in these Territories have been in the market for ten years. In the said Territories, there- fore, the mimimum price of the public lands will continue to be as heretore—one dollar and a quarter per acre. The law, however, will have a good effect in peopling the poorer lands still belonging to the g-vernment in the new States of the West and Southwest—lands which, from their inferior quality or ineligible location, still remain on hand after having been for more than ten, fifteen or twenty yearsin the market, This is quite a letting down from the original Homestead bill. Dreanrot State or Tuxes.—The organ of “the bards” of this city, informs us that orders have been received here to turn no more demo- crats out of office ; and thea it goes on to say of the Custom House, that— There are now at responsitle Posts in that. place fort or fifty thieves, boxers, shoulder-bitters, thimble-rig- gers, pueilists, assassins end common blackguards, who would lick all creation if their masters are disturbes, If the President were to attempt to put other men in their B ies they would have their eyes knocked out, if, indeed, the Custom House were not burnt down over their heads No: Governor Marcy dare not recommend the removal of Cocbrane, even if he were desirous of doing it, at the present time; for the Short Boys would take his breeches off of his body and ride the whole Cabinet on a rail before they will allow themselves to be astarnes In their “responsible poste under govern- ment, | Dreadfal state of things! Tue Newport Reeatra.—The annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club will take place to-day at Newport, R. I. Asthere isnoallowancejmade for dif ferance in tonnage, we find maay large ya:hts en- tered, including the sloops Maris, Una, Julia, (new, 80 tons,) Gertrade, Irene, Ellen Jane; schooners Cornelia, Wave, Mystery, and others. So with good weather and an eight knot breeze, come sport may be expeted. As yachting is a most innocent as well as inepiritiog amusement, we have no doubt that a very large number of “ outsiders” will be at Newport to-day, and we trust that the members of the club will be a little more liberal and courteons in their arrangements. They are generally exclu- sive to a great degree, declining to give information relative to the time of starting, moans of convoy- ance, and other little parti alars which it could cer- tainly dopo barm to make public. Ia England a regatta by any of the clubs is a holiday for a!l classes, and the noble sailors do not assume disgust- ing airs of superiority, but gladly give the people every opportunity to enjoy the sport. So it should be here, and the New York club men would find their popularity very much increased by the infaston ofa little gentlemanly courtesy into their “ rales and regulations.” The Park Meeting. New Yorx, August 9, 1654. TO THR EDITOR OF THE NEW YORE BERALD. The use of my name asone of the vice presidents of the meeting last evenirg in the Park, was with- out my consent. My abhorrence of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise can find expression in other iesves than those’ purely sectional. Yours respectful: THEODORE SfUYVESANT. vy, Marine Affairs, For Evrork—The British steamship Africa, for Li- Yerpool, and the Indiana, for Southampton and Havre, sailed yesterday. The former had 86 end the latter 55 paneengers, Police {ntelligence. Five Against One —Frve individvals, pamed John Doyle, Foward NeKinley, Henry MeKirley, Susan McKinley, and Mary Reed, were charged with making a violent assault vpcn lerence O'Hare, with their bands and celal hich the comp!sinant alleges tboy used protty freely, with the intent to take bis ve. susan and Koward M and John Doyle were arrested on the above charge yesterday, and beld to ball in the eum of $500 eaeh, to anawer for the offence, by Justice Clarke Captain and Grew of a 8! Arrested on a Charge of River Stealing —Cuptain, Walling of the Etyhteenth ward police, arrested six men on Tvesday night, charged with Pemag ceveersed in stesling twe bnudeed bushols. of wimet, valued at more than $200, from on board the sloop Olivia, lying at the foutef Twentieth street, aod Copositing it on bosrd another *loop called the Mery Jone, with the intent to appropriate the same to their use, Who gave their names as Terenoe Hussey, Jo oph Gorman. Jacob Henry Jacobs, Taomas ¥, and Ubailes Cooper. It that Captain Todd, of the sloop Olivia. missing bis ®heat, gave infor- Mation of the robbery toCapt Walling, #o, with a posse of men, went rown on beard the «° Sarah Jane, then lying in the stream, 4 succecded in arresting the above mentione? persone, who, on being taken before Justicr Clarke, at Jefferson ‘marker, stated, ta thelr ex- amination, that they followed the water for a living, and were not gulity of the ebange A boy, named Charles Farley, wes aleo srrested; but it is suppored that he will ‘be used as State’s evidenoe, a be no doubt can tell ali shout the river thieving business lately carried on in thet arighbahece JIndye Carke fully committed them siltor trial, in defantt of $1,000 bail, Stealing a Horse and Wagon —Baldwin Fawards was charged, on the affidavit of Andrew Garrison, of No. 895 Ses, with stealirg hie horse and wagon. valued at . Tht property was found in posseseion of the ao ed, nt Rabwny, N.J., whore ho wes arrested while & to dispose of the ramo, Judge Clarke commitied to prion fur trial, in defawit of 81.000 bait Charge of Receiwng stolen Goods —Patrick Hughes, wae ‘nircsted on 6 charge of reooiring $18 worth of stolen and hoxwood, knowing the same to have teen stolen from Joseph B Serceart, 85 Beekman atrect, by Terence i empsey. Justice Bogert commitred Hinges for an examination, Arrest (f a Girl in Male Atti Nise —Yesterday morning, corps, arrested a girl 5 at thee orner of th street anc Seventh avenae, where sue lay of Intoxfeath n, hirdly able to give ber name. essed ina wide awake bat, Unen coat, fancy 8 pair of patent leather boots, rhe stat f he came to this eity from War time lived sith amen named pants and bat Jobn Gi Kecping a liquor store in the Seventh ave- poe; th e's sere deas, bat thet she had a bro- tler diving at ber native place, Word was sent yesterday to him, to come om here to take bis trnant sister home. at Br'dgeport, stone on shiot on Suturde d strvek hivo in the breast ; auuther plece we.t Uroa, the Laickh wall of the ubop. The report of cholora yesterday was as follews:— Hospitals Received. = Died. = Cured. Frar blip treet eee : ; Mott street. 4 2 16 Total. eG % 33 Jobn Stay ed of ebolera on the steps of a shanty im 109tb street, near Fourth avenue. He died while 9 woman was absent to procure medical attendance. ‘ BROOKLYN. ‘The moat gratifying announcement which the "“gerror Health bas m-de fora considerable time is "age of yes- terday morning. Acoording to the retarg there wore. bnt seven cases, and not » single death, TELFCR AHI, RAVAGES OF THE C@@@%@y, IN NEW BRUNSWICK. Boston, August 9, 1654. The St. John Newt seys that now the Reciprocity” Treaty is confirmed by the United States, they shall advocate its adoption by New Brunswick. Though * Brother Jobathem bas got the best of the bargain, the editor thinks tbat it opens a new and vast field for the ‘trade of New Brunssick, CHOLERA IN ALBANY. AunaNy, Aug. 9, 1854 ‘The Board of Health report ninety four cases of cholera. im this city since saturday last, of which twenty-four terminated fatelly. These include eleven cases at the Almshouse and Cholera Hospital, of which twe proved fatal. PROVIDENCE. Provipence, Aug. 9, 1854. We had here to-day ten cases of cholera and four: deaths. : BALTIMORE. BALTIMORE, Ang. 9, 1854. The eholera at the almabouse was subsiding. There. ‘were but four new eases and but one death to-day City In ‘e Annt-Neppasxa Ware avert” o'clock yesterday ~ + mase meeting conwned in the Court house, at White’ Fiaing, for the purycee of appointing five delogates from. each Assembly district to represent the county in the State Convention to be held in Faratoga on the 16th of August On motion of Horace Greeley, a committee of three from each Assembly district was ted Lomipate delegates to the Saratoge Con’ ion. At P.M, the President in the ehair, the came tc order, The Committee on Nominations ted the folowing list of delegates to the Saratoga vention. The report sar scoryted end adopted :— ea from the First Greeley, the- Hon. Wm Robertaon, Jesse Ryder, J. J. be gee ‘rum the Seoond District—Col. H. B. Todd, Wost Farme; Joreph H. Jennings, Yonkers; John C. ‘on, Mount } leavant; W. H. Ireland, Maroaroneck; Botler, Sen., Westchester. joined - initiation fee. After. desul following putes: were. by the Cheir as the officers of the a President, Hen. Charl-s King; Vice it, Alanson. Nash; Roe Lockwood; Directors, Marshall 3. Bidwell Thadeus Hyatt, WG. West, MeNamec, J. R. Berber, Arthur Bailey, and John MeMallen. Soon after the officers were announced the mecting ad- ¥, Company I, was buried, t-om tl terdey at 1 P. M. The deceased served te Mexican war, with credit and gallentry, and it that he died of the chol-ra In consequonee ef the es rea. tbe Nelsohs wee to keep his body until Sunday nex: assemblage of bis eeraoea’ ‘te pny the lust rites eporby hisre- mains, was not numerous, and with in nt steps wended their way ta Greenwood, not kno aii it might become their fete to be similarly and buried A meeting of the Volunteers took place up stairs, in a room of the ‘ercer House, te protest against the whole proceeding, when Wa. Peel was appointed Chair- man, and Tr. Hsmilton, fecretary. It was resolved to calla meeting of the command next Saturday night, to take the matter into ideration. ‘ Boat Carevxp.—the steamer John Birkbeck, yerterday afternoon, ran into and upret the U. 8. revenue barge, in the Fast River, completely cestroying the barge, the: crew barely pester oe) with ‘thelr lives. particulars of the sffaira:e:—W hile the steamtug Mereury was towing the Havre prcket Puvaria into the Enst River, the reve- Bue barge boarded ber, and the officer on board, in dircharge of hiv official duties, leaving his boat towing ina projyer manner ulongsice. In the meantime the steamer John Birks, with pitch dior te i: runners, ovme up, for the purpose on ‘Dboard the +hip, and ip oy most careless and wanton manner ran the barge down. Pwo of the men jumped on board the stermboat, the others passing her. ‘The nowerour :mull tugs plyieg about the harbor are, one renee, a convenier but they area terror toall +mull boatmen. We bore the government will nave apiris. nough to prosecute in this instance, being the second ! erpe destroyed ina month from the same cause Tisrexsary Micrion.—We aro informed that one indi- vidual bas undertsken to meet tbe whole expense con- rected with the Livcenesty Mission, eoroer of Centre: ud White streets, and that no further applications wil © wade to the public for supporting the same. ‘Terni k Casvai TY —Officer Holmes, at Harlem, reports the upeetting of a bout at7 o'clock last evening, in the North river, at the foot of One Hnpdred and Wty eighth: street. The boat contained eight persons, of whom two young girls and two chil ren were drowned, Oar re * ter made every effort to ascertain names and parties- jars, but without success. Brooklyn City News. ‘TAVERN AXD GROCERN’ ices -—he Boand of Excise held a regular meeting yesterday at the City Hall, for ihe purpore of acting upot applications for tavern and grocers’ licenses. Tney orgasiz ed at 10 o'clock A. x, and remained im reesion until 6 o'clock in the ovening, Having in the meantine granted the follow Townes! in addition to the thirty three heretofore granted: Those yr 4 taver F rt Was . Costigan, Michaol Flanagan, George: Devrich, B. a (arecer.) E. W. Dunham. Second Ward—E. V. W. fnegiker, Wan, Martin, 3. se- Namee, J. 8. Suydom, (grocer,) J. M. Cbristelier, (do.,)> Arthur Monraban, (do.,) Robert Foster, Jobn MeElheney,, James M. Towle, P. Haines, George Pearson F we * Third Ward.—Kicbard Boerum, Philip Schmidt, J MeClorkey (grocer), Chas, C. Watts, Dominick ‘ David Fal My ‘Toys bee ai ea crac arg Tuurth Word Sohn ©. Farce, George Ti. King, Thos. 8. Stoobe, Arthur Meavoy, H. Maherry. Fifth Ward.—Jacoh Webber, John Braham (groser! Simms & Bune Bell,’ Martin Snyder Ha Cath srine MeLargblin, J. Reiley, H, Donohoe. ine aii 2 en Join ag P.. rown, G. Mullincer (grocer ‘aneis Gorman, Heary Meyer, Jobn Cornell bites Seventh Word.—H W. Jonke, John Nucent, Luke - O’Reilley, Caspar Urban, Chas. D. Butler; P. Mo- eeRk Word —Wn, &h rence, Nini ‘ard.—Wm. fimonson, R, W. Law: BL Menisen, Jobn Storms, Thos. NeGuire. _Etecenth Ward.— Join Dovgherty, Wm. Laugh'in, P. . C. Jobnsen, Miles Wood, Jobn Wheeler, Edward Lang- staff, Joby Hawkins, Chas, Giddings, Jaws Richardaon, Rebert Foster, Hugh Fi cpatrick, Joha O'ReMey, Follt Evans, H. B Perkins, farocer.) Eighth Ward.—). J. Adams, Felix Dalty, Paware Hughes, E &. +t-Henwert, Wm Burnett. The licence: ted at this meeting number 73; with - thore heretofore gravted, 106. Axtrmrt To DRowN —A man, Who gave hi Joba Ne a Was yesterday arrested by officer Cullen, of the Thud district, ebarged with intendiu to take the life of Hugh Hambie, bs attempting tu tures himoff « beat into the Atlentic dock. StrauuxG Leap —Officer Phelan, of the Seoond atatrict, yesterday srrested » man vemed Henry bp mew charged with stealing lead from the premices of Sami Brower. Two otber persons were arrestod in the seine ~ district, ebarged by otber parties with tho same offence. A fire occurred in the store of Charles @astill, 228% Fulton siseet, op Tierday evening, at about tan o’elock. Tt was extinguished without the assistance of the fire- men, who, however. were promptly in aitendanee, The - camage Was very umall, Boaup o¥ Strenvisens —A resolution was adepted at the meeting of the Board om Tuesday last, that che com- mittee op the Per itentiary should ‘consider whetber ar- jargements could not be inace to empl y some of the }risopers cop tine d (Leve, eo us to reduce the expenses of that establisbm: nt. GREAT BEV URE OF TG8.—A multiiace of Ghese very use- ful but éirty aptmels, perbaps not less than 120 ther, were jester ay teken up by the fhiird district po- Jice and put in the pound. They belonged to different Forties. The kevping of hogs within tho limita ot the- city from the first of June tothe itrst of October is & vViolaticn of city ovdmance. But, strange tosay, ther lace where tleae hogs are now congregated, and they may rewain for several days, is in ths heart of t ity. nome as Personal Intelligence. Mr. Paxoto, Brazilian Seeretary of Legation, with his fomily, and M. end Mme, Apua Thaillon, left for Rurope yesterday, in the steamship Africa. His Excellency Governor Seymour, of New York, ar-. rived at Neepert on Mondsy, and took rooms at the Ocean Hoare. Sir Charles F, Grey, ex Governor of Jamaica, was in Now Haven on the Sth instant. Ex President John Tylor, Vinclola, his Psootiency air Cherler . Gray, Montrent; Gen. ODonvell, Bal wore, Gon. W, doves, lowa; 6. F' Hont, Mise; 1. © Watson, do.; Col. Pearrons, California; Join Q Adama, Boston; Wilism Vandew rth, Buftato; J.C. Lingwaik, Cm. ; Robt, T sevders, Mo 8. Gilbert, Phil; samuel Snith, New Orleana; E, Lanier, Baton Rooge, Lag F. Almy, Bos ton; 8 H. Gilman, New Orbans; Judge Cole, La: ira C. Lyon, Baltimore,’ were smovg’ the arrivals at the St. Nichclan yesverday. Bon. W. J. White, Philadelphia; Rev. H. A. Coir, lalman Fiteh, Cleve: Obio; Hoa. L. ir, Phi hia; Dr. H. a , Drancon, Miss. ; York, were among the arri- vals at the Irving House yostarday. Hon. © 1, Munbam, Todlana;: Mrs. Prof. Kly and ehild. Woshingtop; Chek A. 8 Boston; John Baker, Cirdevitio: DM. Ferguse York; Jono Berger, Bal tin pre; ho T. Parker, Ghio; 5 L Ogood, Boston, emeng the orivela at the Prescott House yeateruay, Tow. John B. Weller. U. 8. tgnator, California; Hoa m. D. Ta Jonrh Weaver, lo Disney, Ohio: Hoa. A, Lopes. Cate; W A. Dora, #. Louis, VH, L. Peugliaton, Bcitlah Arua,