The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1855, Page 4

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NEW YORK HbRALD—EDITION FOR EUAOPS. ‘Fhe Collins mail steamship Pacific, Oaptain Nye, will leave this port to day, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close im this city at balf-pset ten o'clock this morning. ‘The HeRALD (printed in Pagli#h sod French) will be pablished at ten o’clock in the morning. Single copies, im wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and sdvertisements for say edition of the New Youx Henatp will be received at the following paces in Europe:— *RPOOL,.Jobn Hanter, No. 12 Richange strect, East, .. -Sandiord & [., No. 17 Corabitl, bd ‘Wm. Thomas & Co , No, 1% Casbarine street. Paris,,.... Livingston, Wells & Co , 8 Place ce la Boaree. The contents of the Furopean edition of the Hpratp ‘will embrace the news received by mai) and telegraph at the effice during the previous week, and to the bour of pablication. The Aews. The steamship Atlantic, from Liverpool 14th imet. for this port, is now fully dae. Sae bricga a weeh’s later European news, and will no doubt ar- sive scme time during to-day. ‘We are still without late newa from California. Both steamers are pow somewhat behicd time, but one of them will probab'y rach port to day. The report of the Committee on Annual Tax:8 (signed by the chairman only) was presented i2 the Boaré of Supervisors isst evening, and s'izbt.y cow mented op, when it was withdra sn for amendments, the principal amesdment beirg for the commi tee to show why personal estate of non-residents, t> the amount of fsurteen millions and a half of doliare, was not assessed, inaccordance with the recent act of the L«gislature, which rendera it liable to a rate- able impost. It appears by the report that $2,393, 600 are required fcr the heads of departments, the Jargéat item ($613,450) being for the Almstonse. By the table of the relative value of the real and personal catate in the city and county of New York, farniched by the Comptroller, it appears that the tote] aceeeament on real estate for 1855 is $336,975,- 866, being an increase of $8,412,337 over 1854, The personal extzte js $150,022,412 13, show- jpg an increase cf $22,361,595 40. Tho imeresze in real estate appeare in all the wards ex- cept the Becond, Sixth, Twelfth and Twenty-second. ‘The increase in personal estate appears in all the warca but tre Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, ®ixth, Sventh, Highth, Tenth, Sixteenth, Nine teenth and Twentiet?. The total decrease in real estate in those wards is $2,000,923 50, and the total deeresse on persoral estate $4,060,529 41. The tetal valca'icn in the county is $186,998,278 13; in the I:mp district, $452,206,087 23, and south of Forty-+econd street, $444,133.372 23. The per cent- age on every $100 is within o fraction of $1 21—the highest rate, we think, ever paid in this city, no’- withstanding the large incresge in the amouat of Fertoval and real estate taxed. The argument on the application to adml: to bail Paudeen, or Patrick McLaughlin, charged as prin- eisal and as accetsary in the murder of Bill Pool, wae continued yesterday in the Supreme Cyart, be- fore Judge Cowles. The points on whish the ap” piicaticn is based are:—that the prisoner, not hay- img been brought to trial at the Oyer aud Terminer Tact April, or at azy of the terms of the General Beenions since, without legal cause b:ing showa, is by the twents-eighth, twenty-ninth and thirtieth sections of the Revised Statutes, entitled, if not to bedizcharged, at least to be admitted to bail; thattie ex parte teatimony takea before the coroner's jary is ineofficient to convict him of the charge; and that competent security being given, the ends of jastice will he promoted by admitting him to basil. The argument wae able, and well reasoned. A decision will be rendered on Thursday. The Ten Governors want 9 new prison built in Eighty-sixth street, in which to incarcerate the prisoners brought to the Fourth District Court, recently opened. It is proposed t> use an old school Douse for that purpose. The other topics that oocu- pied the attenticn of the Board at ita meeting yes tarday, were straw beds and fleas, with which members appeared perfectly familiar, and which @excited a lively diccustion, acd the visit of a thoa sand Massachusetts schcol teachers, who will come to the city in September. ‘The slave steslers at Philadelphia have committed another act of viclence, in some respects similar to that perpetrated in the case of Col. Wheeler. The Philadelphia Bulletin thus describes the occur- wence:—‘‘A young Cuban, who was ‘under a cloud’ with the Spanish government, made his eacape from * shat island a short time since, and reached this port on Saturday isst,in the brig Gen. Taylor. The Cuban put up at cme of the principal hotels, and yesterdsy a slave, by whom he was acvompanied, wae brought ashore at South street wharf, by the eaptain, for the purpore of having him join hie mas ter. On the wharf a party of negroes met the captain and the alave,and told the latter be was free. But ‘the Cuban negro d'd not understand them. Several white men came to the aid of the captain, anda sovffle ensued. Finally the negroes triumphed, and earried sway their Cuban friend, since which he has net been heard from.” The Kaneas Legislature organ'zed at Shawnee Misalon on the 16th inst. Among tha first acts paesed was s bill to prevent the eale of intoxicating dnnks and gambling within one mile ofthe capital. Notice was given of a bill requiring settlers from Massichusetta and other nullifying States to take an oath to support the laws of the Territory. A list of the Commissioners appointed ia the seve- yal States by the Judges of the Court of Claims, to tM deporitione, &c., may be foard under the tele- grephic head. Among those in Massachusetts we obeerye the name of Edward Greeley Loring, Unite1 States Commissioner, whose connection with the celebrated Barns case, ani sabeequent persecution hy the abolitionists of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Legisisture, attracted much atten tion last winter. Im accordance with the law pasied at the leet seesion of the Pennsylvavia Legisiature, tha main line of the pubiic works of that State was put up for sale st auction in the Merchaate’ Exchange at PhiladeJphia yesterday, but no bid being offered at the minimnm price of seven and s halt millions, as required by law, the sale waa stoppol. Our correspondent at Port Spain, writing on the ‘26th ult., states that trade was very doll, with bot limited demand for flour, ig to-the prevailing bigh prices. A deficit in the engar crop of quite fifteen thousand hogsheads is anticipated. It is stated that C. L, Chspmen, porter in the banking house of Riggs & Co., at Washington, has confessed to rovbing his employers of drafts, &c., to the amonnt of ap 8 of ten thousend dollars. The sales of ba in lots sexterdsy reached about 600 a 800 8, the market closicg steady. Molders were not in:lined to press enles, while bay- ere in many cases were disposed to await the re ceipt of later foreign news. Flour was easier for common grades, with a fair amount of sales. Free sales of Southern wheat were made at stesdy pricee. Among the tranesctions were 1,100 Deahols NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1855. of handsome new Maryland white—the first of the reason—st $197. Corn was some firmer, with fair sales at 90c. a 91c. Pork was firmer. Sugars were active ard firm, with aalea of about 2,500 bhis. and 600 boxer. Coffee was ecld at full prices, including 1,000 bags of Maracaibo. Freights were heavy, with a little more doing for Europeso por's. A private Jetter from Cincinnati, dated July 20, saye:—‘ Yesterday freight to St. Louia waa thirty cents per hundred. There is a good supply of water here, and hkely to continue s0.” Late dates from Texaa mention continued trouble with the Indiane. The crops of all kisds prom'sed abundantly. A rencontre had occurred at San Antonio between E. D. Connelly and T.J. MoKey, in which the former was shot and kiled. Upon a legal investigation of the ciscumstances McKey was dkecharged, having acted in self-defeace. The Great Issue Before the Country=The Designs of the Abolitiontats. Chate in Obio, Seward in New York, Wilson in Maseachueetis—an illuetrious trinity—the nucleus and sou) of the republican party now in progress of organization on the distiact bases of abolition—-occupy @ most promi- next position before the country. Tae work of these men is complete in Ohio—the issue there ie fully made vp. Abolition ia backed and eustained by the coalition or fusion of all the extremes of the pact. There is not a sign in the political heavens that does not portend a storm. The barometer ‘of public sentiment is fall of warning and of solemn admonition. The ship of State, which bas ridden so far in triamph, and has borne ita precious cargo in safety, is threatened with mu- tity by its ungrateful crew. These are no mere forms of rhetoriso—no words of idleness; they are signals raised by the hand of patriot- iem, prompted by conviction of impending dan- ger. They have their source in the movement of men and of parties in this country. Never before has it been deemed possible to bring on a direct issue between the North and the South. Efforts have not been wanting within the last fifteen years to precipitate a trial between the great sections of the Union; but the existence of two controiling parties, wastained respectively by enlarged and states- Manlike views, constituted a breakwater capa- ble of resisting the angry surges of fanaticism. In the rapid movement of opinions in the United States it is difficult indeed to keep an account of the past. But a day has elapsed siace opinions, now sounded in bugle notes of tri. umph—now avowed as a basis of party organi- zation—now proclaimed as a necessary condi- tion of union between the North and South— were uttered only in secret places, and their authers ecreened from the penalties of treason only by the utter contempt in which they were held. ‘ The end proposed nowisrevolution. It is no longer a disguise; its purposes are distinctly avowed. It is a fusion of all the fanatical elements of public sentiment in the North into 8 great party, witha view of forcing the abo- lition of slavery in the District of Columbia— the prohibition of the slave trade between the Statee—the limitation of slavery to its present State boundaries —and, finally, its total aboli- tion by Congress. The machinery which is to effect this ead is in motion. It has been operated in Ohio in the nomination of Chase, and a few weeks will witness a kindred movement in New York, Pennsylvania, and in the entire North. Itis time that the subject should be under- stood. It is a plan of revolution, and it needs only to perform the first part of its programme to assure its success. The integrity of the republic can be maintained only on the basis of protection to all its material interests, That its existence is wholly incompatible with the existence of two rival parties, embraciag the free and the slave States, ought to be obvi- ous to all. Itis not necessary to go farther than to secure the organization of these parties upon such a basis, to assure the overthrow of the government. Pretexts will not be wauting in such a decline of patriotic sentiment, under the influence of sectional hatred, for a move- ment having in view the dissolution of the Union. Indeed, we regard that event as sure to follow such a division of public sentiment in this country. At precisely this point we view the move- ment of the abolitionists at the present time. They bave uttered the war cry on the Kansas pretext—the repeal of the so-called Missouri compromise. That compromise which never had the merit of either legality or coatrol; which is a mere historical record of a criminal contention between the Nor:h and the South; which exercised no earthly influence upoa the queetion of slavery, and was adopted only as a convenient means of escape to the ou of 1820, is now magnified in an aggressive assault by the South upon the freedom of the North. The Missouri compromise was a great political fraud, and the use now made of its repeal clearly enough shows that it is still performing its legitimate services in the work of mis- obief. The object of the coalition is the subversion of the government—the overthrow of the con- stitution. That compact is in the way of their cherished purposes. They regard it as of less value than the abolition of slavery. They pro- sent the iseue of the government or slavery—not both. There is but one process of reaching this result, and it is to this that all efforts are now directed—the organization of two great parties on a strictly sectional basis. The Mis- souri compromise and its repeal are matters of no actual moment in themselves. This is seen in the remedy which the act of repeal carried with it—the highest and most satisfactory re medy known to a free people—the right of the Territories, the only point in dispute, to settle for themzelves the question of slavery. But this right, so perfect in itself and so in harmony with the whole system of our government, is discovered as scarcely lees an outrage than that of the repeal of the act of 1820, That the whole subject is a wicked device, by the aid of which it is hoped to witodraw public sentiment from the hellish designs of the agi- tators, none can question. That they purposed to confine their efforts to the limitation ot slavery to its present territory, no one should be s0 ignorant as to suppose. The question of itsextension fs altogether secondary—it is that of its existence which is in issue, and which pats in issue and upon trial the present govern- ment of the United States. . We are no alarmists, There are Many men in this country exercised “hy the fatal idea that the government is indestractible—that the con- stitution of the United States exists by Divine appointment, and can be overthrown by no act of folly on the part of the people, This is indeed a comfortable and a careless faith, but it is one which if relied upon to sustain thas compact in the hour of oppression and Wrong, when ita remedies and protections ebal) be withheld from those entitled to invoke the one or the other, will be found to possess no exemption from the effects of such injustice. The constitution is a compact of anion with thirty-one parties. It is impossible not to see that these parties have various and conflicting interests and opinions, and that iastrament was adopted, after long and anxious con- eultation, with a view of harmonizing those interests. Slavery existed, and was the sub- ject of deliberation and compromise. There was neither necessity nor excuse in sucha gov- erpment as was formed, to give it the power to legislate on the subject; and hence Congress was confined to the single point of providiog means for the eurrender of slaves who might escape into the free States. It was a govera- ment of limited powers, and its foundations were Jaid as such, in the rights of popular sov- ereignty, which in iteelf gave ali needfal guarantecs that the States would submit coly to the exercise by Congress of the powers dele- gated to that body by the terms and condi- tions of union. Now, it is propoecd to overrule these provi- sions of the compact of union. The eurrender of slaves, though enjoined by the constitution, is declared a subversion of that instrument and a truckling submission to the lave power. The repeal of the Missoari compromise—which at most is no more than a declaration that Congress can neither make nor abolish slavery—is declared an act of faithless deeertion of the North—a casus belli to the fa- natics, a justification for demanding the aboli- tion of elavery in the District of Colambia, and finally throughout the Union, by act ot Con- gress, 4 This revolutionary programme, which is the only basis of the eo called republican party, is now fought to be nationalized by the Tribune. It is declared to be a pervading truth—a great necessity, epringing from the counsels of justice, enforced by reason, ard sustained by the highest end noblest impulses of men. It is the holy a)liance—a moral disinfectant—a conventional regenerator of men. Policy is thus raised above the constitution; which it has supplant- ed, Itisawork of open treasop, made bold by convictions of strength, self reliant, confi- dent of victory, and utterly indifferent to con- sequences, The material interests involved need not be presented; they are obvious to all. Their sacrifice in such a crusade would seem to be imposeible. Who has calculated the consequences of form- ing two parties respectively limited to the free and the slave States? Is not the idea itself pregnant with warning? When successful, will itleave room for retreat? Will it be a season for negotiation? Will it soften asperities? Will it release the slaves? Will it enlighten the master? Will it add to production? Will it secure peace? *Will it bear any of the fruits which now so bountifully supply the people of the United States? Tux Josers Warker Case—Municirat Mo- RaLs.—It must be very gratifying to Mr. Peter Cooper and the Reform Association to read the evidence that is being taken before the Special Committee of the Board of Aldermen on the Joseph Walker case. Men who reaped so mach glory from the concoction of the law agaiast municipal corruption—who endured so much mental angui-h ig consequence of the profligacy of the last Corporation under the old charter— must perceive with feelings too ecstatic for ex- pretsion how pure and epotlees are the charac- ters to whom their enactment has transferred the government of the city. The Joseph Walker case—which appears to have been the first oc- casion on which a disappointed politician fan- cied he had found an opportunity of “giving Jesse” to the Mayor—is full of instruction. It is an admirable commentary on the city charter of 1853, which pronounces such heavy penalties against the giving or receiving bribes in Corpo- ration matters. It shows us clearly how far penal enactments avail to prevent corruption so long as there are people to be corrupted, and interests large enough to pay for corrupt- ing them. Now we leave it to the Municipal Reform Association whether anything more corrupt or more contemptible than this transaction was ever brought to light in the old days of Broadway railroads and injunctions. It is impossible to say whether Mr. Jones may not have been humbugged to some extent; but his evidence is plain and straightforward; it bears the impress of truth; he is himself a man of business and of the world; and the inference is so strong as to be almost irre- sictible that had no untoward circumstances oc- curred, bad the matter been kept a secret from Alderman Herrick, and had Jones paid his thousand dollars, the business would have been smothered in the Council and no one would ever have heard of the Joseph Walker job. Theinference, we say, from the evidence and proceedings on Monday is that a portion of the Board of Aldermen are ready to sell themselves for money. It is not denied that their practices are not those of gentlemen; that they are in the habit of dividing their leisure between the council room aad the grog shop; that they make no scruple to accept civilities in the shape of champagne and suppers from the persons who have favors to esk of them in their official capacity. The interval which separates this sort of conduct from actual corruption by means of money, is remarkably short. Nor is it at all to be ex- pected that a class of men whose headquarters are at Sherwood’s, and whose custom it is to solicit invitations to eat and drink from those with whom they are thrown {fn contact in the discharge of their official functions, will exhibit on all occasions, or even generally, that rigid integrity which is the only safeguard of the public, and which Mr. Peter Cooper assured us he would secure by the aid of his new charter. Ot the men who figure in this disgraceful farce, and of their acts, we have not patience to tay a word. But there is a lesson in the story. That lesson is the same ag the one the prohibitory liquor law is teaching us every day—namely, that penal enactments cannot check vice or promote virtue. Crime is their proper aim; they may attain its punishment, and in a great measure its prevention; but when they mttempt to go further, to regulate conduct which, though vicious, is directly hart- ful to no one, when they endeavor, not only to interfere between man and man, but to step in between man and his conscience, between man and his God, they must universally fail. If corruption is to be stopped, we must begin by reforming public sentiment. We must teach the young to loathe dishonesty, not to smile upon it when it is successful. We mast render it disreputable to be @ knave before we can ex- pect to exclude knaves from places of bonor and trust. A Frency Viscounr Raisivo CappacEs IN New Jexsty.—We yesterday received a com- munication, written in the French language, re+ counting a very romantic and interesting histo- ry of a member of the old French nod/esse, whom the narrator, himself a marquis, recently found living in quiet retirement and humble obscurity on a little farm in New Jersey. We can do no better than append a translation of the letter of our aristocratic correspondent, and invite to it the attention of our readers in both hemis- pheres. The letter ia literally as follows:— 70 THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD, Scorcn Puaiys, Jaly 20, 1855, Being rendered a traveller by causes waicn must at present remain hnown only to myeelf, I nave croaved tee ecean and to travel, a silent observer Ubrough your beautifal country, waowe great destiaies are xo lopgera secret concealed ia the mysterious te ytas of the /uture, but are everywhere revealed as s formid- able indiscretion Paes teen adent doubtless —from teh the irresistio the bigh epberes in w! le ama sovereign power of Providence resides, acts and moves. Permit bi x, to abandon the pompous and intl le edipg phrase, and come dowa to ti ataral style of parration. If you thi to publish im the columns ofyour journal asd fm your ten- guage the following tacts which | pring to your knomieige ve facts, although crcumscrived wituin the lim:te of an interost us to Jesrn and to seize in parsing - centric incidents of which the vicissitudes of human life often—alas, too often—present the spectacle. ‘On the bighlends overlooking the village of Westfield, New Jeraey, and from whence the eye, taking in s pros- pect of more than twenty five milea round, parcrives in the immense plain, covered with iva verdant forests, forming ap it were naturel and original barriers to the cultivated fie the towns of Brunswick, Rahway, Eoizabetbtown, Newark, anc up to New Yor bay, lives ‘a poor farmer, already respected by the inbaoitants of the neighborhood, but hnown to them only under tue pame of ‘‘theforeigner.’’ This foreigner is dwelli e since about a yesr ago, and is proprietor cf a charming little farm of thirty-two acrer, which he himself cultt- yates with the aid of a single boy. There is notnivg to Gistinguieh this man from the common grade of far: mers, (xcept, perbaps, bis working clothes, which are by the earth or Hec- Pe to even mose impaired and more so! ei the dust of the fields, Quantum muiatus ab illo tore:— (Hew ed from that Hector!) Bat at vill recount to you in a tew words the governing fas! the life of this man. A Frenckman, born of one of the moet nob! of France, so néble that its ancieat tings bi rticn of their palace—the palace of tl le riew—the name of the family (the Pavillon de Marsan) — 1 map, this tarmer, turning the soil with his own bends, and hving by the aweat of his brow and the la- dor of his hands, leit one day the Polytechnic sshool of Paris, an officer, at the age of 18 years. After having made the Belgian campaign, and aesisted at the takt of Antwerp, he was rent at the beaa of a company of maries to the Island of Madagascar, with the mission to regulate some differences with the Queen of that coun- try. Notwithstanding his mena years—he success- folly fulfilled bis mission; then visited the Island of Bourbon, Pordicberry in Indie, Senegal in Africa, and ‘other colonies, always by the order of his government. ‘When, to bis family title, he thought to have added another title—that of having served his couatry—he re- signed bis commiavion, and has since refused all offers that have been made to him by a governmeat in whose itical opinions he does uo: participate. A i Hoo conviction, as well es by descent, he threw himself aiter that time into newspaper polemical discussions, ard became, at different epochs, one of the principal editors, sometimes of a Guyenne, of Bordeaux; some- times of the Gazelle du Midi, of Marseilles; times of la Gazette, of Lyon; sometimes of the idienne, of Paris, ali legitimist journals, His writings had great weight among the men of his party, and often cast al into the camp of their adversaries Besides his political articles, ke bas produced literary articles perfect in taste, charming in atyle, of an undefinable style of poot- ry. His fewilletons in the Univers Religieuz on Madagas- car, Senegal, &c , give interestiog and curious sketches op ‘the customs, manvers and religicn of the families or tribes whem he haa bimeelf visited. There is a short Tance at the life of this man—this farmer. The year $48 arrived; the republic forced bim to fly; he came to America. banking house of Paris whero he had de- porited the greater part of his funds, failed. Disgusted with the world, disgueted with life, disgusted with every thing, he bought with the little remnant of his propert; the small farm with which I hav» mace you a Ie i e4, and which he is obliged to cultivate for a livelihood. Chance alone led me to discover the retreat of this isn 1 had gone to spend some days on the estate of an American gentleman, a friend of mine. One morning 1 set out toward the mountain; I turned, and I had be- anoramas of Amori- my attention; there fields of pota- fore me one of the mcs} beautiful ca. A small white house attrac! was French cultivation—fields of maize, tots, orchards of spples and peaches enter. I hesi- tated before the little men who received me. He has no longer the manrers of a forrer day: ‘he is no longer the man sovght by the most fashionable ladies of Paris, He is a countryman—e regular countryman, but whose ¢: and broad’ brow till bear the impress of a noble and chivalrous past. Imagine to yourself this man—alrea- dy olé—this man, whose life bas been so well filled, is rot yet forty years of age; and this poor farmer is other than the Viscount Henry If you pablish this article and it falla under the eye of spy of the jourvalista of Paris, it will prodace, through the publicizy it will receive, a prodigious effect of astonishment among the old friends and co of the Viscount, as well as in the literary and f ble world. G. pe G. And £0 the representative of the noble house of de Marean—probably the last of his raee— has silenced within him the aspirations of am- bition, and devotes his faculties, not to war, or diplomacy, or love, but to the raising of muize, potatoes, apples, peaches, and, of course, squashes and pumpkins! Well, we don’t know but that he has made a sensible moveg It is far safer than, and quite as honorable as, heading columns of Zouaves at Sebastopol. But let not the Viseeant cherish his disgust for the world over much. We warrant there are scores of pretty New Jersey maidens who will undertake to put him in good humor with it and himself again. His lot is only that of many famous spirits of the Old World. Not far from his pre- sent abode Joseph Bonaparte passed some years of exile. It isa good example, that, for the Vis- count, albeit coming from one of the Napoleos dyvasty. Some of the Murat family, too, settled in Florida when France was no longer an eligible place to live in. This is an hos- pitable land, which opens its arms to legitimists, Bonapartists, and republicans alike. The old aristocracy and the ouvrier of the Faubourg St. Antoine, in turn seek the shelter of our iustita- tions: and they seck it not in vain. We have had Garibaldi candle making on Staten Island. We have the old Governor of Comorn, General Ujhazy, raising grapes in Texas. We have Jobn Mitchell raising cattle, with a prospect of fat negroes, in Tennessee. And if we were to try to name the presidents and magnates of the South American republics to whom we have from time to time given domicile, our memory would not supply half their names. And when the time ripens, we may have Prince Albert engaged in the pork trade in Cincinnati, King Cliquot competing with his German subjects in producing the sparkling catawba, and heaven knows what other funny changes among their compeers. It is a topsy-turvy world; but they who, like the Viscount de Marsan, light on their feet in the United States, may well felicitate themselves on their good luck, and devoutly exclaim: “Allah is Allah—Bis Allah!” Tne Covurrer Exriains.—Our cotemporary of the Courier explains that he did not intend to charge the “insult” of the repeal of the Miseouri compromise upon the “Senate,” but upon the “South’”— that the word “ Senate,” as it appeared in the article of the Courter, was a mistake of the printer, and that we of the Heratp, must have known it to be so. We are satisfied now that it was so, since our attention has been called to it; and in proof of it we Te- collect that precisely the same mistake has been heretofore made once or twice by our own printers. But our comments upon the ar- ticle of General Webb as printed, charging the “jnsult” of the Kansae-Nebraska bill upon the « Senate,” were bona fide, We had not the remotest suspicion that he meant anything but the Senate; and we concluded that he had thrown the responsibility upon that body as the originators of the bill. Assuredly the North and the Senate, and not the South, are responsible; because the bill was the offering of a Northern man, and could not have passed without Northern votes. But let that pass. We ore sorry that the youthful ardor of our venerable Wall treet cotemporary in behalf of the anti-slavery coalition is received so coldly by our Seward organs. They shrag their shoulders and tarn aside, as did the laborers in the vineyard all day, at the eleventh hour man when he too came forward for his penay. Sewarp Krow Norminos—Magerine or THE Stare Counci.—The following is a copy of a printed circular that bas been sent to all the Seward councils in this State for an extra ses- sion of the bogus council of Know Nothings:— SecretaRy’s Orrice oY TH New York Stare Counci., Atwany, July 16, 1855, A regsion of the New York dtace Council will be held in the city of Rochester. on the la+t Tuesday ia July, 1865, (the bist inst.,) at 12 o’clock, noon. All reg seenee to the convention held at S:he- nectady om the 10th and 11th deys of January, 1855, ho have since that time acted in good feith with the bt embodied in the dill of righte end the plat. i) ny and there adop'ed, will be rece:ved as dele- ates. yi Fach Council that bas been duly forme’ uaer, and by authority of the New York State Council, is hereby re- querted to elect three delegates to represent said Coun etl im th ww York State Council, at the above epecitied spectad ion. & Council is furthermore requested to elect three alternate delegates, who, ip case of the imposni- bility of the attendance of the regales delegates, shall take their places aa elegatae, #0 toat bo Council in tne State may fai] of a full representation—wnich 1s ear. 7, requested, 2 Notice ban been given, according to the provisious of section 22, art.cle 2, of the constitution, that amend- ments thereto will te proposed, embiacing, if ceemed necestary, the entire constitution. All delegates wii), immediately on their arrival, re- t themselves to the State officers, atthe Waverley louse, near the New York Central Railzoad depot. prompt and full attentagce of all authorized dele- earnestly desired, as business of iaportance to eof true Americanism will come be‘ore the Ne “Given under my hand and the seal of the New York State Council this 16th day of July, 1866. B, F. ROMAINE, Secretary. New Yerk Stare Covnoit, Inst. Ost. 27, 1854. It is pretended that there are one hundred and fifty councils of this abelition concern in this State, but as near as we can ascertain, the real number is very much below that figure. This Rochester call is but @ re-hash of the Utica Convention—s body composed of all the factions of all the American parties that ever existed in the State of New York. Controlled by Seward, Weed, Greeley, Clark and their confreres, the distinctive tenets of the party are abolition and temperance. Foiled in their Utica machinations—the entire body fa that city having seceded from them and joined the Allen organization—the wire-pullers have con- cocted the Rochester scheme. In imitation of the regular Order, by means of printed circulars professing to emanate from “the New York State Council,” they have called a conven- tion, &. This shallow device may impose upon the unwary to some extent, and may induce the incautious to fall into the anare so cunningly devised ; but it is not thought that very great mischief will ensue from the meeting in Ro- chester. Goro anp TENNESSEE Pouitics——Among our political intelligence of today, will be found the letter of Garnett Andrews, accepting the nomination of the Know Nothings as their candidate for the Governor of Geor- gia; and the letter of Senator Jones, (whig) of Tennessee, on the party aspects gene- rally of the present political crisis. The letter of Mr. Andrews is adapted to the Georgia American platform, which is strongly Southera on the slavery question; and upon the whole he makes out a pretty strong argument in favor of the Know Nothing movement in the South. The letter of Senator Jones is a bold, inde- pendent, conservative document. In many ersentials bis views bear a remarkable resem- blance to those of the editorial columns of this journal of the last six months. I+ will be seen, however, that Mr. Jones has no faith in the Know Nothing organization, none in the demo- cratic party, and none in the whig party, or, rather, the remains of it; and is consequently in favor of an entirely new conservative national party upon a stiff Southern platform. He wishes euch a party aa will be strong enough to elect their President by the popular vote and the electoral colleges; and he desires such an election, for fear that if the. issue be carried up to Congress on the three highest candidates, Seward will win the day, because the anti- slavery Northern coalition already, as he sup- poses, hold a clear majority in the House, which will have to make the election. Mr. Jonea need not be alarmed upon that score. Does he not remember that the consti- tution provides that when a Presidential elec- tion is carried up to the House of Representa- tives at Washington, that the delegation from each State, in behalf of the State, casts but one vote. What have the South to fear from this arrangement? Suppose the whole thirty-three members of the House from New York to be violent fanatical Seward men, they can only cast one vote—all of them pat together; and the single member from Florida, in behalf of bis State, is thus equal to the whole thirty-three New York members in a House vote for President. See the constitution. If, then, the election is carried into the House, what have the South to fear? Our impression is that they and the Union will’ be perfectly tafe in the House, notwithstanding the anti-Ne- braska fusionists msy have a majority of the members. Let us see. There are fifteen slave States, and there are sixteen free States. Sixteen votes, then, In an election of the House, will be a majority! Sup- pose, now, three candidates from the people are carried up to the House for an election of one of them—either the candidate of the Seward coalition, or the spoils democracy, or the Ame rican conservative party. Is it likely that Se- ward can command every vote of the sixteen Northern States? No, Is it likely that the democracy will be able to control the vote of every one of the fifteen Southern States? No. The third party will bold the balance of power between them; and,a fusion being utterly out of the question among men of suzh hostile prin- ciples as those of W. H. Seward and R. Bara- well Rhett, the two extremes, of course, will compromise upon the middle ground of the third party and their candidate, Such is our view of the inevitable result of a ecrub race and an election by the House. In spite of any anti-Nebraska majority that may be in the House, great or small, the result must be the triumph of constitutional principles, and the election of the most conservative Union candidate of the three from whom the States tn the House will have to make their choice, State by State, each one vote, and no more. Conse- quently, if we are to have a scrub race, let it come, and the more the merrier. Tue Crors or tan Usirep States.—Tae GeyeraL Harvest or THe Presest Yean— In another part of this paper our readers will find a valuable letter on the probable returns of the general harvest of the present year, inclad ing come agricultural statistics of a very inte- resting character. The writer of this letter, was one of our numerous fintelligent volun. teer contributors of that extensive series of let ters which we published last fall frou all quar. ters of the Union, on ‘'the drought and the crope,’—a eeries which, we believe, eperated materially to prevent'a general panic apon the bread question. From the continued interest which he feels in bis subject, both as a farmer and a political economist, our correspondent. referred’ to bes been induced to send us this present communication, His remarks upon, end estimates of the crops, of the New England States particularly, are the results of travel and extended persons) observations; and alto- getber, his Jetter will he found seasonable asd instructive to all classes of our readere. Tue Curtositms or Parry Pourrics—-Wuar ARE WE Comiaa To?—Aiter Mr. Botte, of Vir-~ ginis, and Captain John Tyler had slept togeth- er under the same blavkets, it was thought a remaskable cbange on the part of Botts that he: should declare war upon Captain Tyler, an® solemnly ewear to “head him or die.” Bat greater changes than this, from affection to ani- mority, from fraternity to fisticuffs, are coming. oft, as the Scuthern August elections draw nigh. For exemple, Prentice, of toe Lou- isville Journal, has quarrelled with a son of Henry Clay. The former is a Know Nothiag> the latter made a speech against the Order, and forthwith the Journal pounced upom Mr. C. about his dead father and @ pile of old lumber. This rupture was brought tO the crifical point of the “lie circumstantia),’? Whether it is happily cooled down with the late “heated term,” we cannot say. In Tennessee, as wil] appear from an extract which we give to day, Gen. Gideon J. Pillow and Maj. Andrew Jackson Donelson, have interchanged the “lie direct,’? and other belligerent compliments, including a sortie or two from the hero of Chepultepec. Look, too, at the Russian war sort of a feeling subsisting between Mr. Dickinson of New York,. and Mr. Marcy, after all the hard battles they have fought together, side by side. Sach are the ruinous consequences among friends and brethren, of a faithless and treacherous admin- istration. Truly have we fullen npon evil times. Prentice against Clay. Pillow fighting Donel- son. Who come next?. Tus American Strate Convention.—The purpose of calling an earlier session of the American party of this State the one autho- rized by its constitution, has, we learn, been abandoned, and consequently the regular semi- annual eeseion which convenes on the fourth: Tuesdsy of August ensuing, at Binghamton, will be the only authorized one. THE LarksT NEWS, BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ° The Expected Steamers. Sanvy Hook, July 24—Miinight, ‘The steamebip Atlantic is now in her eleventh day out, and about due at this port, with ome weck’s later news from Earope. teamers George Law, from Aspinwall, and Star of from San Juan Nicaragua, are both fully due, with California dates to the 1st inst. Neither of the above versels have yet reported them- selves, but as the weather ie quite thick, it is possiblo they may be hanging off till the morning. From Washington: COMMISSIONEBS APPOINTED BY THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF CLAIMs. ‘Wasuinton, July 24, 1855. MAINE. John W. Dava, Portland, Jas. T. McCobb, Portland, Jas. O’Donrell, = Daniel Willams, Augasta. 10. Charles 8. Davies, NEW HAMPSHIRE. A.R, Hatch, Portsmouth, J. D. Sleeper, Haverhill, a F. Ayer, Manchester, H. Hubbart, Jr., Charles- William L. Foster, Concord, [town, ‘VERMONT. Chas. L. Williams, Rutland. MASSACHUSETTS. Fawd.G. Loring, Boston, Oliver, Stevens, Boston, Danl.8. Gilchrist, do,’ W. Mitchell, New Bedford, Chas. L. Woodbury, do, W.B. Morton, Quincy, Geo. 8. Hale, -do. Joseph B. 8. Osgood, i, BHODE ISLAND. Lavi Selisbury, Providence. CONNECTICUT. D. W. Pardee, Harttord, John T. Waite, Norwich. W. &. Catter, Middletown, NEW YORK. J. C. Devereux, New York. Aaron hate) New York, Ira Baker, J.B, Develin, do. ; do. Louis N Glover, do. Chas. E. Soule, do. , do. Robert J. Hilton, Aloany. do, jacob J. Werner, do. go, “Bmo Fiteh, Buffalo, OY 0. . Bostwick, Auburn B. do. Robert Delhi, Job: do. 0. C, Beatly, Newb as So: Chase Hughos, Sandy Fiat, i 0. a T. Bailey Myers, "do. ‘Aug. A. Boyes, Utica. NEW JERSBY. L. A.Chand’er, Morristown, P. Dickinson, Jr., Paterson. G. W. Casstay, Jerney City. 8,0. P Phitadelphia, C W.G rrigan, Philadel) . C, Perkins, elphia, Cas iladelphia,. TE lnclow, do.’ RJ, Neveos’ Pitsburg, A. rt, do. Alex. W. Foster, do. H. McCrae, éo. Jacob F. Slagle,’ do. D. Webster, do. M. Swartewelder, do. MABYLAND. Cha, B. Key, Baltimore, Thos, Martin, de. C. Marshall; — do. G. RH Hughes, do. W. H. Hope, = de. J-8pevcer,” do. B.B Daniels, 00. [au ‘anhing D, a ae! toms. D. Ratelile, | ec ae CS, Wallace, do. ‘VIRGINIA. a Lf Payne, Warrenton. J. Lyon, Petersburg. Ciurkey, Martinsb’g. W. Lyons, Richmond. Charles Sharp, Norfolk. | &.T. Bayly, do. J. M. Brickhouse, do. JB. Donovan, Math’ we co, J. Young, Portsmouth. W. H.C, Ellis, Norfolk. J. Barron Hope, Hampton. ALABAMA. J. A. Kennedy, Mobile. FLORIDA. G, R, Fairbanks, St, Aug’e, K. B. Gibbs, St. Augustine, LOUISIANA. W. Cornelius, N, Orleans. C, A. Taylor, N. Orleans, R M. Laaber, TENNESSEE. Hume F, Hill, Memphis, John E. R. Ray, Memphis. KENTUCKY. Jobn Bullitt, Louisville, —T, B, Monroe, Laxington, Jobn H. Harney, do, Henry Waller, Maysville. OHIO. Wm. P, Baron, Cleveland, T, Ewing, Jr., Cincinnati, Francis Collng Columbas, Hunter Brooke, do. . R. 1, Warpole, Indianapolis, Sat). 0. . Warp is, . 0, L Joba A, Liston, do, ? James jal Malivon? R, E, Liewing, Fort Wayne, C. O’Brien, Lawrencedars, pind A ag do, — W. Barbour, Terre Hauto DO} ipson, vansville, ‘ringtoo, Conrad Baker, a regal shea Kaw. A, Rucker, Chicago. W Dillar A. Rucker, . R. Diller, Springfield, Peter Sreat, Peora., Jobn Fineh, Bep}, Howard, Galena, ita Pine, Aa MICHIGAN. Richard 8. Bagg. Detroit, David A. Bt Sh, Dan'l Goodwin Jr. do, nl yaart, Detroit. J. @, Meketlas, 8 Lowe, ©. Tilson, "do. Sem’| Simmons, St. Louie, lows. Jobn Johar, Davenport. —W. A. F Gurley, Davenport, J. A. Wille, San Francisco, Win Ha cinco. . A. Wills, Bam ™ cinco, Tally R. Wise, do. PredayDeuioy dectoonee Hugh O'Neal, —éo. NEW MEXICO. D. Sheetz, Santa Fe. Vincent St, Vrain, Socerro, nike, Law Luceros, Jas. A. Lucas, Las Oruces. ENGLAND. Samuel Meredith, Londen GOV. KKEDBR'S POSITION—THE NEW COMMISSIOSER, OF PENSIONS. Wasuinotoy, July 24, 1855, Various contradictery rumors and speculations aro sfloat concerning the administration's course towarda Gov. Reeder, It inasnerted that it in not correst thet any conclusion bas been arrived at for his revention ia office, Judge Minot, Fifth Auditor of the ‘Treasury, will wuc- ceed Judge Waldo as Commissioner of Pensions. & <8 so rays that Charles Lewis Chapmsa, porter in the banking house tected robbing thom of traits, abapoas and moles tats value of apwarca of ten thousand re—that he was arrested and confessed the crime, amd that the tressuro bas been recovered, The Kansas Legtslatare, Burvavo, Joly 24, 1855, The Kavsss Legislature metat Shawnee iiesoo om she 16th ivat., pursuant to the adjournment, Mr. Marshal gave notice of » Wil) requiring citizeng Lewin ET.