The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1854, Page 4

a eee ew os NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIEIOR AND EDITOR. TERMS, cach in advance IL'Y HERALD 2 conte - $7 per annum. TSR ile kry HERALD every Hoturday at 0x conte ger Dow! 27 48 per annum; the Buropean fer an som, Wane pert of Greet Britain and $5 te any part OVQLUNTARY. Coneilspdwpavoy gertaining inner vale pd m= Fonssen Commesron- Sere ane Fauviovuanny RxqUEeTED £0 SRAL AL levees test U NO NOTRE tahen of onowmous Communications. We do net return ie ree “EL LETTERS by, Mail for Subseriptions or with Adver teen Be pnt pad or the postage will be deducted from SDE PRINTING executed with neatner,cheapness, ani AMUSERENTS THIS BVENING, BROADWAY.- Scxog, OR Scanvar~Loven 2¥ OXY. the signific-nt roceedings of .he Anti; Javer Qrrice *. W. CORNER OF NASEAU AND PULTON ®7 | Cision Convention whic) was held on Northern Wh gs abosttioalzse |—Sourwera Yer oluton of te M eac us:tts Whig | State Conven ion recently h Id ia Boston, aad =, Common with all parties in that section, they the same da at S ratoga Spri ge, satisfar’ (.i19 esta ih nour udgmen,t e suture ® icy of the whi jary of al the Northerm, Geots in ref rcngo t the via gu 8 OD of gonthern slavery, Tie N th rn WDE 4 ty is Seward- ized, abolitionize , an', ba" ~ng cast all com- prom’s.s to she w nds, it f@ , ldly throwing it- self orwao as 1¢ M9,n army in the new and general crusade res(fy.d upon sgiint the Sout. In one woud, he Northers whig party is Henceforth the great anti-slavery party of the Ne. 230. | North. The Wading o.ators at the Massachusetts Whig Convention w re right. No new organi- zation for the whigs in the Northen St.tes is ROWRAY THEATAR, Dewery—Rowno axp Jormt— | required to “enable them to make head against Roven Diawore NIBLO’2—Poon Prasoowor—Tux Toorirs. ported NATIONAL THEATRE, Chathaw street—Maiiscr— A ‘user DEVILICN cs Lap o Tus Wowpsaru: oon Joxx. mansv nom Bream @firo ao tie aaa the agure-siins o' the slave pvwer,” as they call it. They hare any to :banion the con- servative principles of Daniel Webster, and the relucta.tly a opted doc rine- of the Beltimore Scott pla:form of 1852, and they are ready for the work. It only then remains for the outside 7200'S MINSTER). HAR /i Bresdway—Ermoram | fron aoj', abolivion, socialistic and ‘infidel fao- Beooramzy anv BUaizsque Oren. Lah 7's Ra aav's Dfwortas Grena Taourm, MECHANICS HALLy Wo, 472 Browérsy—Nucno Min wm ELEY. ——- PRANOCONI'S HIPT DROME, Madicon equare.—Equae war PeRrcaMan< ass. TRetie for Kurope. REW YORK WERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE, The Onzard 1 wil steamship Arabia, Captain Judicins, ‘Will eave Jers sy City, to-merréw, st 12 o’clock M., for Lberpoo. + ‘She mails wil close ic this'¢ity at half past 10 o'clock 2» the moruing- Tho Hest, (printed im French and English,) will be pobliched st, if: past nine o'clock in the morning. Single popies in ) sreppers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any cilition ef | tho Nrw “York Henato wil be received at the following ineee 1 # Burope:— Lrvenr 00. . John Humter, No. 2 Paradise streot. Lorn m....Edwarda, Safidford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill. “ Wm, Themao & Uo , No. 19 Catherine street. Paney,....Livingston, Fells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse The contents of the Zuropean edition ef the Hmatp will embrace the pewe received by mail and telegraph at ng tho previous week and to the hour of the office du “publication. 'The News. LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE NEW FIREMAN’S HALL. Yesterday will long be remembered by the New York Fire Department, as the time of the laying of fhe oorner stone of a Hall to be erected for their con- A fall acount of the ceremonies wil! be Sound in another column of this day’s paper. Owing ‘te the heat of the weather the turnout of the firemen was not aa large as it otherwise would have been, a). *ongh the procession that formed was well worthy An oration was delivered, and an tmteresting description of the new Hall read, both of which are included in the report. In atdition to there we also publish a history of the Fire Depar’. ment Fond, not included in yesterday's ceremonies, Dat especially prepared for the press. Tois has been e@ompiled with a due regard to atatistical informa tion, and will well repay perusal. Tue Treasury of ‘the Depariment is shown to be in a healthy cond > tion. “The old veterans of the Department, those who have grown gray since the alarm of fire called them to the post of danger in defence of life and property, tarned out in ful! force, and were appa yently mucti interested in the ceremonies of the weniene. @ the occasion. pecasion. POLITICAL MEETINGS. An harmonious democratic county meeting was held st Easton, Pa., yesterday. Strong resolutions in favor of the national and State ad- 3, and of the Kansas and Nebraska bill. ‘The Governor of Kansas, A. Ll. Roeder, was present, and addressed the meeting. The whics and free soilers of Androscoggin eounty, Me., met on the 1Sth inst., and made an ‘wasuocersful attempt to form «@ coalition ticket. A Oommitice fof Conference formed a Union ticket which was agreed to by the whigs but repudiated by the free soilers. ‘The Native Americans of Philadelphia met in con- vention yesterday, and nominated candidates for Recorder, Clerk of Quarter Sessions, Prothonotary and Revorder. A \arge meeting of democrats was held in Louis- ville on the evening of the 14th inst., aud resola- tione expressing disapprobation of the Kaow Nothing organization were passed. AFFAIRS IN BRAZIL. ‘We have received our files of the Correio Mercan- af from Rio de Janeiro to the 23th of June. Nothing of interest has transpired since the date of previous advices. MIBCELLANBODS. ‘The ship Connectitnt, Capt. Welch, arrived at ‘thie port lact evening from Havre, on her passage ‘was becalmed thirteen“days, during which time the @mallpox broke out on board, and thirteen persons ‘Texas dates to the 12th inst. state that consider- able dissatisfaction existed against Gen. Smith for not calling out the Rangers to defend the frontier Gov: ernor bad determined to take tho responsibility, and ix companies would be mustered into service. The Austin Times says that Mesers. Walker and King made the only legal bid for building the Pacific from the depredations of the Indians. The Railroad through Texas. Mr. Secretary Marcy has gone on a visit to Berkeley Springs, Va. The individual pranks of this man. The deaths in Baltimore last week were 113, of which 71 were under 10 years of age. COMMERCIAL APPALRS, Cemmon State brands of flour advanced yesterday Choice pnd extra brands were rather dull, without change in quotations. Indian @orn advanced lc. a 2c. per bushel. Good red Bouthern new wheat sold at 176c. a 187¢., and new Beuthern white ditto at 205c. Rye was held at 120c. ‘Cotton was firm at the quotations given in another @clomn, with light sales. Whisky again sold at 36a. Pork closed firm, with moderate transactions, 224 ceute per bbl. ‘end prime lard again sold at 11c. A Coytrast ron Farwnrs,—Last year, the rope on the continent of Europe failed on every side. Famine stared France, Germany and Italy fin the face. We were growing unheard-of quan. tities of wheat and grain; and, between the farmers and the merchants we must have made on the year’s crops full two hundred per cent profit. Now the case is reversed. The show of fall wheat on the Continent is good, though the eonstant rains have injured some of the finer qualicies ; and the price of breadetuffs {s falling rapidly at Paris. Here on the tontrary the continued drought is destroying the harvest Unless we have heavy falls of rain within a very short time, acres of wheat by the million wil) Be dried up. It would be s'ngular if we should ave no surplus, and France should Jorge guantitios of grain. SE. 589 Broadway —Bven- styling himself the “ Angel Gabric},” it will be seen, has been arrested in Bos ton, and committed to prison on the charges of dis- turbirg a religions meeting and blowing nis horn anBundsy. Ths people have become weary of the tions of the day to hitch on ag mercenaries, skirmishers, forugers and camp-tollowers of the whigs, to render the projected boly anti-slavery alliance complete inal! its appointments, from | stem to stern. In the abandenwent of ali the conservative ‘| resolutions which have heretofore served to anite the whigs of the North and the South, * the whigs of Messachusetts, with an emphasis which admits of no armistice, have led the way in their anti-slavery declaration of -war. It is substantially as tollowa-—- 1 fs potoadom, ed the Northern whig party rems'ne true, as to liberty, coustitution and vae Union, it Wg "that the palicy of tee Ceonvers of LJ c) founders of cur me D1 ‘as evinced in. thelr oenstitution and ordisanoes, mae averse to slavery and uncompromisingly hostile to its extension. 3. That the Nebraske, act terminates the era of com- promisee with s'avery. 4. Nemmore slave States, noertencion of slavery over territory now free, 5, Vicidioation of the rights of Northern citizens in Southern Btates. 8. The repeal or essential modificstion of the Fugitive Slave law. 7. Enoouragement of free emigration to the new Ter- titories. 8. As& means to all there ends tho overthrow of the * present unwise and unecrnpuloas administration. ‘Commenting upon this platform, the Roches- ter Democrat, a leading end influential whig paper of Western New York, says that “to this platform all whig conventions must come back,” Meaning, of course, ali Northen whig conven- tions; and that ‘‘there is no other alternative if the party is to be preserved.’ The meaning of this is plain enough. I¢simp'y means that the whig party of the North is so thoroughly dyed in the-wool in the anti-Netraska bill and anti- slavery sentiments that it will be broken to pieces on any other than a thoroughly aboli- tion ploform. The deca ation carries with it also the consoling suggestion that in an out- and-out snti-slavery war against the South, the Northern whiga will secure euch a fusion-from all the outside anti-slav. ry ‘actions as to ren- der the party a'l-power‘.l in the approaching Northern State e ections, and in the Presiden- tial campaign of 1856. Hence the Massachusetts whigs hold on to their party organization, fully satisfied that the anti-slavery societies will be content with the adoption of their principles. Hence the Sara- toga Convention waved the nomination of a State ticket, awaiting the action of the New York Whig State Convention ai Syracuse. Should that convention appoint a satisfactory State ticket upon a satisfactory platform, the second convention of the Saratoga coalition (appointed to come off six days after the whig affair at Syracuse,) will have nothing to do but to ratify the action of the whigs, and fall into line. but if the whige should fail, they arc to be coerced into submission. Will the whigs at Syracuse revo't against the dictatorial dcings at Saratoga? From all the indications around us, no! They will sur- render—they wil! nominate a State ticket, and adopt such resolutions as will be acceptable to the Saratoga coalition, Th: rame agests of Seword, and his grand programme of secticnal agitation, sedition and disunion, that) uled the proceedings at Saratoga, will rale the roast at Syracuse, whatever may be the consequences to Seward or to othera. The Saratoga Conven- tion was a preliminary wh’ g movement, for the especial benefit of the Van Luren softs of the Buffalo stripe, and other outside c iques and coterics, Having secured them, under the plausible disguise of a new pary, the whole batch ere to be turned over t» the whiga at Syracuse, with the simple cond tion that the whigs of New York sha } fe!low in the wake of the whigs of Massachusetts, or of the Saratoga Convention, which is the same thing. Will the silver grays at Syracuse rebel and secede if this programme should be adopted? The Rochester Democrat (whig), says that “some dry and d+ad wood will break off under the weight of such strong sentiments; bat ihe tree will siill be sound at the core, sturdy in its trunk, and shoot out in vigorous growth. When whig administrations endeavored to ig- nore those sentiments (Mr. Fillmore), and pro- scribed those who held them, there was no more unity; nothing but defeat and disgrace.” And so the New York whigs are resolved to have nothing more to do “with men as expo- nenis of their principles; but to define their po- icy in unmistakeable language.” And we ex- pect this language will be spoken in the wl platform of the Syracuse Convention. We have already adverted to the proceedings *f the whigs in other Northern and North- western States, as foreshadowing very distinet- ly their hearty co-operation with the Boston and Saratoga conventions. Eaough has been done to justify this inevitable conet #s'on, that the Northern whig party is henceforth to be the great Northern anti-slavery party; that its movements are to he entirely seotional, and directed to the acquisition of the spoils and the humiliation of the South, through the rein- forcements to the anti-slavery whig camp of all the loose and revolutionary materials of the North. The whigs of the Soyth are insultingly and ignominiously cut ad: already. The Massachusetts resolutions, the Saratoga move- ment, and various other movements, all over the North, tosay nothing of the general tone and drift of the Northern whig press, are quite sufficient and conclusive upon this point. The ominous fact that not a solitary Northern whig in either house of Congress could be found bold enough to vote for the Nebraska bill, was well adapted to open the way for this comprehensive anti-slavery and disunion pro- gramme of William H. Seward, hie agents and his organs. What, then, are the whigs of the South to do? What are they doing? Or what do the Wigs Ovtracized—What Comes Next Ig The Whig Party, North and foute—Cho ! they” coe? All hopes of their reunion with | from Philadelphia,” _ Northern whigs are cut ff for they of the | the busy seasons oémmence, our neighbors Bvery year, whenever | Auth are repudiated and o-tracise 1, aad, ‘a | in the habit 7, oireula ing the belle’, 99 Tar ag have been urging an independent organ 2 .tion | of the Southern whigsas a party to themselves; | while others, w thout consu ting the p esent distractio: s and incongruities of the the dem » cratic party, in a general sense, propo=2 4, fy. sion with the national democracy. The Tampa (Florida) Hera’d Ul ges the amalgamation of the Southern whigs, with “the national democratic party” as a © gsnre of po- litical {and social safety. In t4¢ course of a ject, ‘el suggested a Soutbern whig @attion, for the purpose Rear ag 2 UPC 4 the future course to be yarsued dy the whigs of the™ geth Well, we have no ob- ection to such a conyentir, Dut we do object to the zation of a sections’y’ party, for 10 do this will,be to turn our backs T pom those Northern democrats who bave stood by the “somstitution and the -outh, and mrss them, we do rot appreciate your fitelity. Ail this is very vgelf; but our Fiorida cotem- porary ehould be ‘a fittle more explicit touch- ing the “national democratic party.” Who -are they? The Richmond Enquirer supposes them to be the spoils demecracy, which, North }, and South, “upon the cehesive power of the public plunder,” are clustered around the spoils coalition at Washington, Does the Tampa Herald recommend an a'liance of ihe Southern whigs with those democratic epoilsmen, o- with that party which in Néw York is familiarly known as the hardshell hunker democracy? Aseuming the Richmond editor to be right in his understanding of the subject, whai will the Southern whigs gain by the proposed alliance? Nothing-—worse than nothing. The administra- tion ispewerless, and is becoming weaker with every succeeding election. It is condemacd— it will be abandoned, even by tie spoilsmen, when iis spoils are exkauated, No, there is no safety with the demoralized democratic party of the administration. The only way of -afety to the Sonth and to the Union is through a new national, Union and constitutional party, re- gardlesa of the edministration. the spcils demo- eracy, and all the old swindling broken dowa party -plat‘orms of the last twenty years. Let the’Southern whigs move in this direeiion, and they will soon tiod efficient allies ia the North. Otherwise, they will ere long be adrift upon the waves, and out of sighs of land. The great battle to be fought is for the Union and the constitution. rhe'Health of Our Chy—Philedelphia Turn- ing a Penny by the Chorere—Hraggerated xtc ports Throughout the Couatry. Just at this time, beyond the limits of the city, North, East, South and West, the reports of the cholera in New York are such a3 to lead thonsands to believe that this metropolis is one vast sink of pollution and deeth, the very air of which is mortal to any one who has the te- merity to venture within its range. These false or greatly exaggerated rumors are espo- cially circulated in the South and Southwest, the great trading districts of the Union with New York, and upon whose ‘custom thousands and even millions of capital inthis great city is depending. Were thesestories true, how- ever much the commercial interest of this place might be affected by them, we should be quick m giving them corroboration, and warning eve- ry purchaser to keep beyond our reach. But when, upon the other hand, they are entirely false, and so abeurdly exaggerated that they car ry with them the evidence of being born of malive and ill-will in cities which vainly set themselves up a3 our rivals, we shall be equally as quick in giving a refutal tothe fabrications. We speak plaivly, for we intend that we shall be under- stood. Philadelphia and Baltimore during the present season have been assidupusly at work in spreading the falsehoods to which we have alluded, and of which we complain. The effect of these stories is now being felt in mercantile circles, There are single houses in this city whose trade has been dimicished to the extent of one or two hundred thousand dellars already this season, as the result of the groundless fears entertained-b; Southern traders; and all com- mercial relations bave been more cr less affect- ed by o general depression of business. At the door of Philadelphia we particularly lay the charge of being the main author of ali this That city, and the State to which che belongs, have always made themzelves antagonistic to New York interests. This is reasonable enough, where the opposition wars in a reasonable way. Charity begins at home; and it is the duty of every State to look to her oh interests first. But with Pennsyl- vania and Philadelphia, it would seem ti opposed New York not so much to benefit themselves as they do to injure the commercial interests of this city, regardless of themselves, or even to their own injury. Thoir State Lo- gislavure apparently convenes more to legis- late against this metropolis than for the beneiit of their various constituencies. As an instance of their illiberality we need refer ovly to ove law they have, making it an act punished by fine and imprisonment for a New York mer- chant, through his agent, to sell goods in Phila- delphia by sample. We have here no retalia- ting law. Philadelphia merchants every day send their agents here with their sample cards, who eell to us thousands of dollars worth daily; but the moment a New York agent displays a sample card of his stock, and transacts a sale in Philadelphia, he is @ transgressor of their Jaws, and fine and imprisonment await him. This Jaw is on a par with another one that was, apd we believe is yet, on the Pennsylvania statute books, which is only one among many of the kind, making it a crime subjecting the offender to punishment, to tender in payment within the State a bank note under $5 upon any bank out of the State. But to the cholera. Philadelphia merchants, we understand, have sent circulars all over the South, Southwest and West, to all traders in those sections of the Union whose names conld be ascertained, in which the horrors of the cho- Jera in New York are dilated upon with much pathos, and the Healthy condition of Philadel- phia made a prominent point. These circulars invariably wind up with : “And feeling assared that you cannot deem it pradent to visit Now York this season, while the cholera is making such fearful ratages in that city, we hope to see you in Philadelphia, where we can supply you with the best of fabrics—lowest prices—great as- sortment,” &c., &c. Thia closing sentence is “the cream cf the joke;” and what is astonishing, shousanda into whose hands these miasives fall are simple enough to believe them. Some of our principal New York houses have been flooded during the past month with let- ters from old and regular customers, say- ing “You need not look for me in New York this season, on account of the awfal mortality by the cholera. I shall not dare to visit your city during the prevalence of this {ential malady, Lat shall Jay in my fal) stock | poesible, th at New York fs a charnel ‘noase, and | are involved in the Northern whi; declaration | the sligh gest appearance of avy disease is ia» | of war. Some of the Southern whig journals medi ,tely magnified, if it can be, into = devas ta’ my epicemic. The appearance of the cholera this eammer bas been a windfall to our would-be rivale, but whose nmans of success give little hope of victory, galumny and false- hood being too poor a peg npon which to hang the commercial claims of a city. That all parties intewested in the matter may be “oweenay Scors m rue Pret von Taz Pae- swpxcy.—The rumor that General Scott is again to be brought forward ia covjanction with Bell of Tennessee as candidates at the coming, idential election gaias ground and eeliemeand: With General Scott's me- rite e@ demerits the American public have long been familiar. Nothing could now be said that would improve or extend their koow- ledge of bis character or appreciation of his abilities. The only change time has wrought in him since he came before’the people BS © candidate for the highest office in their gift know how much truth there is in the reports of | bas been an increase of wisdom from the teach- the cholera in this city, which have been circu- lated througheut the land, we have been at much trouble to compile the following tables from the @ovuments in the City Inspector's office, whore province itis to record all the deaths in the metropolis. These tables show the full scope of the disease, and any one from an ex- awinatios of them can cee ita rise and fall, the class it affects, the districts it hangs to, and decide for himself whether it is to be feared or not -— TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS EACH WEEE DURING THB CHOLERA SEASON, UF TO SATURDAY, AUGUST 1978 INBT. iuolera. _ 1565 Total from eauses besides cholers..7 600 ** NUMBER OF DNATHS IN BACH WARD DURING TER WHOLE SUMMER FROM CHOLERA. Deaths. Ward. F + 40 80 Ssserseee : AGE. ++ 192 From 80 to 50...., 129°“ 50 upward Total... aA seeeene 7 The above statistics show that the cholera has been at no time, even at its highest, a disease to be feared by any who live with a proper re- gard for to the laws that govern health. At the clo.e of the-month in May last the first case was reported, and it went on increasing slowly till the 5ih of August, when it took a turn the other way, and nowis going down as rapidly as it went up in numbers. From other causes the total number of deaths have been the usual ratio of our population. We come to the second table, which gives us the deaths in each ward. Four wards, it will be seen; have hospitals, which make their number’ comparatively large. From the other wards it is shown what districts are in- fected, and we find that to those in which foreigners congregate, living in filth and dirt, the disease bas been confined. In the First ward there is a large population of emigrants, and there the deaths have been seveuty-one Tn the Second and Third, directly adjoining but containing a cleanly, respectable native po. pulation, the numbers are only thirteeen and eight. In the Eleventh ward there is again a large foreign population, and the deaths are seventy-one; but in the Tenth and Fifteenth, only a third of that number of deaths, although theae wards contain a population of about 25,000 each. This difference arises from the social condition of the inhabitants of the respective wards, In the one they live crowded together like pigs in a pen, and about as filthy, inviting any disease as well as cholera, and in the other they live respectably and cleanly, and suffer from the cholera a mortality of twenty-five (twenty foreigners and five natives) to 25,000 population, in thirteen weeks time, The death of one in a thousand in about three months, or a mortality of four to a thousand ina year! Verily, the cholera is much to be feared. In the next table we have the nativity, and we find again that only about one-sixth of all the deaths are native-born eitizens, The other five-sixths are of foreign birth, landing here in most cases with disease contracted on ship- board, and Hable to drop off at any moment. It must be remembered that there is an emigration to this port of about 200,000 per anvum, These poor emigrants arrive here in most cases ina statving, ragged; filthy condi- tion, Add to this annual emigration several hundred thousands of residents of foreign birth, and we have asum total which has a mortality of 1,566 in thirteen weeks. From the above tables, then, we learn that the cholera~-what little there is of it—is con- fined almost entirely to the filthy, the reckless, and the previously diseased, with hardly worth recording among the native po pulation or among those who live with a proper regard to decency. In the last three months 291 have died in this city, of an American po- pulation of something over 500,000, being a ratio of one to 1,700 souls. But what most particularly interests the class for which we write are the deaths among visiters to the city in our hotels. Upon strict inquiry we have heard of only one case of cholera in them among our transient population. This is the summing up of what our Phila dolphia friends call “fearful ravages,” Having given the facte in the case, we leave it to the public whether it is dangerous to visit Now York at present, or whether it is best to obtain their fall stock from Philadelphia, and by her merchants be muleted of the protite of the second seller. A ComPLiment To THE Presé.—It has often been noticed that while no public dinner could go off here without a toast’ of “the Press,” drank with all the honors, and replied to in an exhilirating speech by some enthusiastic mem- ber of the fourth estate, our transatlantic cousins never pay a similar homage to their journals. Hence it has been argued that the press is either valued too highly here, or too low there. The last news from the East shows that the only difference between the British and ourselves is in the manner of paying compli- ments, The Commander-in-chief has jast issued orders that commissariat rations shall be issued to the correspondent of the London Times, and forage to his horse. We drink toasts to our journals: the British give beef and bread, beer and onta to theirs, We don’t know on the whole whether their plan d es not indicate a higher regard for the well-being of the fourth catate than oure, Fiality |& ings of misfortune. In other respects, Winfield Scott is still what he was—the hero of our army, and one of the noblest of our veterans, We express no opinion as to his qualifications for the office of President; but looking back on the past, and reflecting upon -the immense majority of citizens who opposed him and sup- ported Mr. Pierce in 1852, remembering like- wise what bright hopes were aroused by the promises of the latter, and how ungratefully the services of the former were forgotten, we, can well understand how thousands among us should seek to repair the wrong inflicted upon Scott by offering him now the rank he sought two years'ago. It does seem utterly ineom- prehensible that we should all have turned our backs on the gallant old soldier to espouse the cause of the reckless political adventarer who now sits in the Presidential chair. The former had eo much, the latter so little to re- commend him. ‘The one, we may be sure, would as President have sustained the charac- ter he has borne as a citizen; the other has de- graded the office to such @ point that it is ques- tionable whether an honest man could succeed him without scruple. Altogether the desire to repair the injustice done to General Scott in 1852 isa very natural one; and we dare say some active steps will be taken before long to carry the intention into effect. Tae Raroay Convestion—Frre Passes.— The Railroad Convention which met in this city on the 15th instant, unanimously adopted the following resolution :— Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that all free passes should be abolished, and that the proai- dents of the companies bewitched poeoniee be reqzeated to oorrespond with other rail to effect this object at the earliest period; and that here- after no annual passes shall be given by the companies here represented. This half-way measure proves that the story of mismanagement on these railroads has not yet been told. It is plain that tho members of the convention desired to cut off the free passes, and do away with the odious “dead- head” system altogether; but they do not dare to take such a step at present. They fear that the large number of editors, freight forwarders, runners, express conductors and others, whose pens and mouths have been stopped by courte- sies, so called, wili tell the truth when their free passes are discontinued. We have always opposed the system of free passes, for various reasons, In the first place, the giving of a free pass to an eii- tor, reporter, or anybody else, is a robbery of the shareholders—taking a great deal of money out of their pockets every year. The reason is equally good with regard to presidents and di- rectors of other railroads. Dry goods mer- chants are not in the habit of presenting others in the trade with specimens of their goods, nei- ther do grocers send chests of tea or boxes of sugar to editors, or to their neighbors who hap- pen to be in the same business that they pur- sue. Why, then, should railway shareholders be obliged to submit to such a tax? In the case of journalists the public frequently suffer. The worst lines are the most liberal with their favors, and many persons connected with emall city and country papers are willing to wink at mismanagement and extortion for the petiy consideration of a free pass, In this manner many travellers are deceived, when if no outside influences were brought to bear on the press, the faults in the management of the mis-called liberal corporation might be exposed. At any rate, we should have no more puffs for commodious seata, ice-water in the cars, gentlemanly conductors, able firemen, vigorous krakemen, magnificent steamboat cap- tats, or gentlemanly clerks, things which Should be maiters of course. We trast that such a system will be iniro- duced fn all public conveyances that some need- ed reforms may be adopted. Then there will he no necessity for any increase in the rates of fare or freight, and directors may sleep quietly after decapitating all the dcad-heads, and cut- ting off all the free passes. _—____—_—_—_——— Arrams or DenMatix—Prosrect or ANeraEn Corexnacey.—The memory of the unjustifiable destruction of the Danish fleet by Lord Nelson at Copenhagen rankles still in the Danish mind, and matters in that kingdom are taking a rather serious turn. The refusal of the Danes to sup- ply Sir Charles Napier with pilots will be recol- lected by every one: the King now positively refuses to allow any portion of the aliied flect to winter in his harbors, By way of strength- companies, with 2 view rening himself, he has abolished the House of Representatives, in which the Western Powers bad many friends, and has chalked out a quict little constitution for the monarchy somowhat on Louis Napoleon’s plan. The people scem quiet under the change, no doubt awaiting tho advent of scenes which can hardly be far dis- tant. Englishmen defend the battle of Copen- hagen on the ground that if Nelson had not destroyed the Danish fleet, Napoleon would have seized and used it for his purposes; the same reasoning would justify similar tactics at precent, as the danger of Nicholas establishing himself at Denmark is quite as great as, the danger of Napoleon taking the old flect. We think it by no means unlikely that the present domestic crisis in Denmark may be used by the allied Admirals as a pretext for interference in the affairs of the kingdcm. A Cxose Saave ror Gtppives.—The Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer publishes the follow'ng des- patch from the Free Soil Congressional Conven- tion for the district of which Josbus R. Giddings has been for so many years the free soil and abolition representative :— nominated on the a the nomination having been made, it is sup- poeed that the whigs, having no candidate of their own, will aid in his election. In fact, they mnst do it. It is the firat bill they are re- quired to pay for their reunion with the free soil party in Ohio—the first lesson of the new whig anti-slavery coalition in that State. We commend it to the reflections of Mr. Crittenden, of Kentacky, and other Southern gentlemen aspiring for the whig vote of Ohio for the Presidency, THE Qgio Dexocracy AND THE NorHiNGe—A Dueanrvs. Srectacis.—The| port which we publirh to-day, of the proc’ ings of the Carthage Democratic Convent! for the county which includes the popa city of Cincinnati, will be read with great] terest, much pain, and considerable apprel sion by all our democratic readers—hards! and softsbells—in the city and State of York. ThatCorthage convention was fully| to Tammany Hall in its darkest eclipses, attempt to follow the exemple of Old Tammi in reading the mysterious Know Notbings of the democratic soft shell church, was sigpal for the trouble which followed. A mendous excitement was instantly kind) which led tohard words, hard swearing an scene of miscellaneous fighting which broke the convention ina row. They met with harmony, and suddenly dissolved withou ticket and without a platform. George E. Pui the new democratic Senator for Ohio, was thi dead against the Know Nothings; bat “noise and confusion” were too much for bh’ It was a dreadful epectacle—a disgraceful hibition of the democratic harmony and mocratic profanity and violesce. If the ministration cannot manage ity affaira w| better discipline and in better taste among Buckeyes, it had better abandon the fled ence. Such scenes as those at Carthage | positively shocking in a Christian country, peace with all the world except Greytown. 8 painful to record them, but we must pub! he news, Marine Affairs. nia, sailed yesterday afternoon for Aspinwall, wit large number of passengers. ; Lauxcy.—Thero will be Inunched from the yard of remiah Simonson, foot of East Nineteenth street, « , 1000 toe boriien. “they intended fF 6 Pandit Independent Line to California. Homa Bopsga Fouxp at Sa. tho ship Hindoo, whioh arrived at this port ation a since from Bremen, met with quite an on passage over. When forty cays at sea, the weather bc clear, an open boat was Jercried in the distance, with it wat supposed, no one in it, The eaptain immedia' bore down upon it, when, or examination, it wae fo: to contain four bntan skeletons, the flesh having b stripped entirely from the bones. The boat was & with water, but, being of » light structure, had co nued to float for perhaps movths upon the waves. the boat were a large number of fish.. A fow of clothing were found in the frait bark, but orn as to precluce the possibility of telling whet ng seamen or There can bo doubt that the bodies Hagin of some. of mapy unfortonates who vere wrecked in some one of miss} ing vessels, Captain Klockgether still Ddoat. It cam be seen on board his ship, at Chaso’s whi Tho remains of the bodies, on the arrival as 8 Police Int ligenee. SERIOUS AFFRAY AMONG THE NEGROES OF THO» STREET. On Saturday night avout 113{: o’elock, a quar tcok place at the house 41 Thomas street, betwee parcel of negroes, emanating from dog fight that t: place "here, and the respective merits of cach dog. 1 brawl ended in a regular knife fight, in which John Wh was stabbed in the hip, and Charles Atherton in the ne by aman named Francia Roe. Immediately after { occurence took place, the Fifth ward police arrived tke scene of the disturbance and arrested Roe, who ¥ Jooked np in the Tombs to await'an examination. Char Aiberton was injured s» byély. that 1¢ was thought! cesaary to convey him to the h | Examination: Frederick W. Kerner.—The examinati of Frederick W. Kerner, charged with having swind! several segar apd liquor mereuante out of various su’ of money, took place jetercay at the Tom’ before Jndge Clarke. Six persons affidavits, co plaining thatthe prisoner had bought articles at th stores, and had then given in payment for the san worthless checks on different city 8. The chee! to the nvmber of nearly twenty, were examined, a were found to have been nearly every one of them sig ed under a difterent pame fom that of the prisoner, though there is no doubt he was the person who utter them a), as ha is idevtitied by seven or eight individua to each and sll of whom he gave a different name. Grand Larceny.—Yestercay officer Bedell arrosted young man named Pedro Cartello, chi with asteali 2 gold watch and several pieces of allt Fosting, valued about $00, It aopears that the officer, seeing the prir ver jn the jewelry store of 8. Moulton, 46 Chaths street, suspected be was not there for a go pupae, and going ¥ . poe aie et onder his arm a piece of -ilk ves' iog ho! his wido awake Nat, thovgut it wage litte heavier: ty the article uavally is, whivi caused him to examine i apd upon doing 80 found stowed away in the Md watch that he bad e*oleu from Mr, Mon!! e was being shown sume jewelry there. The a: of the theft astonished the proprietor of the estadlis iment, who bad no idea be was in such close contact wii such an adroit thief. Held for examination by Jud rhe. Rotbing a Foreigner.—Txo black named Ell Hamilton and Anve Pesle, were arrested ‘yea! 1 officer Slater, of the Fifth ward, on a charge of. German, named Papiat Knoldel, of $200 in geld and silv: coin, and a watch and chain vaiued at $40. It appear: that Knoldel was induced to enter a vile den of prostit: tion in Anthony street, near Chui after robbin 68 whi bim of all be wed excopt ibe aiotuice on his bac! they ejected him from the premises. The bowover, came actors cfficer Slater, who, on searchin the premises, fcund there girls here, and a colored ma to whom @_ portion the money was give by Fiza Hamilton, whi-h he immediatery handed ove: tothe oficer. Bothof the girls were identified by th = lainant asthe two who robbed him. About one hal o le money was recovered, the other half being n' Gonbt in the hands of ‘ano‘her woman who etcaped. bu Larceny.—Twe men, named Thos. Hickey ane . Gilligan, were abserved yesterday by, office: Files at the corner of Franklin hea ony West ras witha ae of very fine docskin in their 5 charged with having stolen $61 from Am! ‘ while be was drinbing in house No. 300 aye: | nue. The prisoner, it fs a! while he was there, put her arms around his waist, and, it ie supposed, abstract ed the wallet from his pock ‘Ihe prisoner denied all) knowledge of the affair, that no transaction of the” kind ever eoaend tt lertoone Judge Rtewart held — the defendant to bail in the sum of $500 to anawer the | ing being honest and industrious people been a mistake of the officers ia oan the honse, Any Person or P:rsons who Witnessed the suicide, or noticed the who leaped from the steamer Hunchback, from Staten Island, on Saturday afternoon, the 19th inst., are requested to leave thelr names and address at this office. Anson’s merreotypes, Large Size, for pr Room Fa |, avd ip a case, and twice the size that ia taken elsewhere, for Sty cents, and equal im size and yaality to thore that cost $2 at other places. ANSON, ito Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel, Large 50 cent Dagu: 'pes.—If you wish & clear, beautifnl ours, to HUTCHINGS, 395 Broadway, ard procure one of hie Jarge size daguerteo- types for fifty cents, inclading » handsome case lined with velvet. “Ali acknow to be unequalled in quality and price. R ortginel head fron of the teent Sor eane business in Ameri- ca, exists only at ing pictures le by patent dake on Felt men’s hsts on Friday, 25th instant. way, opposite St. Paxi's, i i A il : i | ei : ; i i