The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HFnarp. JAMES eorpon SENNET®, PRAME, cashing’ Ea Le ttnerate kam | g~ <Eutopeam ecition $4 per an cae sates Grech Brass or io any art te mt goth to le postage. a ile LRAT ERS oy Mi or aoe rio etch a containing impor- the wor: ys “Bite TISEMEN I'S renewed every day. Wolame XX..... ....- cee eee neces MO 207 asUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY TUEATRE, Breadway—Parny Orncir— anya Is amp UuT or ftaceimaem funven, MEBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway—Tue Toonnes—Wan- pening MinsTRAL. DOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Winvi4n Ter. —Firnys won Buman Form, WOOP 5 MINSTRELS Mechanics’ Hall—4/2 Broadway, New York, Saturday, July 28, 1855. The News, We present to our zeadem to-day’a mags of corres yenderce from various pasts of the world—South aga Centra! America, China, Havana, the Sand- wieh Islands, &e.—on heterogeneous sudjecta, A perusal of its contents will be found qaite in- wtructive scd intereating: war, politica, history, markets, trade, Jove, fighting, and current events geuers))y, are touched upon in some one or otber of these communications, so that the most opposite wand varying tastes may be gratified, We learn that the United States sloop ofwar St. Mary’s has een ordered frcm Panama to the Fejse Islands, ‘ead that the John Adams was to follow ber ins day ertwo. The service on which they ars ordered Is wappoeed to be important, but its character had not tuanepired on board. Oovr Centra) American correspondent at Granada, writing on the 10th and ilthof Jaly, furnishes vome additional particulare relative to the Walker fmvasion of Nicaragua and his defeat at Rivas, which are highly interesting. Intense hatred ex. iated towards the filibusteros, and the people were seady io die for their country. It is made ciear, ‘ey tbe papers found ov the dead, that Castillon de- erived Walker aad sold the interesta of his country ai the same time. Colonel Walker was wounded, and was supposed to have marched the remusat of his shattered party to the woods on the Costa Rica wide. All communication with the sea was cut cff by the government troops. We publish an official sxccouut of the progres of this disastrous project frem the date of the first contract between Cas tllon and Byron Cole to its transfer to Colonel Waiker, and thence to the tragic finale. The United Biates Cabizet ie osiled on to explain how the ‘bocies of Mr. de Bresso! and Captain Hornshy— who srrived in the country as attachés of our lega- ton—were found amonzgit the dead of the invaders. ‘The Accetsory Transit route to California was in excellent order. ‘The steamebip Granada arrived yesterday from with dates to the 224 inet. Our corrze- Astter will be foung to embrace every- thing of interest in Cuba in th® way of news. An arrival a} Baltimore, trom Rio Janeiro, brings ‘mtelligence of the horrible murder of Capt. Frazier, of the ship Sea Witch, while on the voysge from this postio China. The particulars of the subsequent ecurrences are given under the telegraphic head. Th poems tha’ the surgeon of the ship suspected the chief mate, E. W. Spencer, of committing the mar dey. He was piac:d under arsest at Rio, wien he attempted to commit suicide, but failed to accom- Plish his design. The ship continved her voyage, wader the command of a captain appointed by the United States Conm!. We have news from Mexico to the 19th inst. by way of New Orleans. The report that Santa Ansa was willing to mske concessions to the revolu- ‘Moniste is & sure sign that he is nearly at the end of hie career. There wes a report that Gen. Almonte, ‘Whe present Minister ai Washington, is to be su- perseded by Sante Anna's father-in-law. Affairs at the cspital were tranquil , The Kavsas Legislature have adopt:d s memorial preying the President to remove Gov. Reeder. Is ‘a Bow On the way to Washington in charge of a apecia) meseenger. The quarre] between the Go- wernor and the Legislature certainly calls for exe- @utive interference, but it is not Ikely that the Presideat will interprse his authority, and, there: fore, the belligerente will have to fight it out as ‘bent they may. At Philsilelphia yesterdsy Judge Kane, of the United States District Court, committed Passmore Wiiameon, alleged to be the ringleader of the gang who seduced away the slaves of Col. Wheeler, for @ontem pi of cour:, in making a false return to @ rit ef hatess corpus. The Judge slso stated that the Grand Jury could bring an indictmeat ageinst Wil ‘Bamron st ary time for the perjary alleged to have been committed by him. There ssema, therefore, a probability that this individual, if gailty of the of fences charged sgeiast him, will meet sis deserts. The Albsny Jc states that Gov. Ciark has soceeded to the on in debalft of Mra. Roo “meon, snd bas commoted her sentence to imprigon- ment for life im the Eling Sing prison. ‘oueof the ew Academy of Music was laid yesterday sfvernoon. Tae @eremonies wore gone through with in ths midet of & henvy shower of rain. Mayor Comrad dolivered am approprisic e2dress oo Lae occasion. Capt. Low, formerly of the bark Kiloy, who yr waed seme of the passengers from the ete. Paarcisce, strived at this port on Tuursday ove: thom Baltimore, in & very handeome new clipps bark, of 311 tons, u@med the Helen Mar. Whe amount of treasure brough: by the stesmer Sear of the West, on her late pssssge, was $955,285, mot $655,285, as stated. The Gsorge Law broughs $860,213, making the total received by the two steamers, $1,805,498. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday reached sbout 1,200 ‘wales, based upon about 10jc. for middling uplanda. Common grades of flour were firmer, while the Rights grades were changed. Sales of red Geor ei wheet were made at $1 75 4 $179, and Canads white s: $213; Maryland white wis held st #1 96 8 $2. Balen of corn were limited, with a firmer mar- Wet; Western mixed ranged from Whe. 910. Pork ‘was firmly beld, but satce more limited. Coffes ‘Was active and firm, with ssles of about 5,000 bags Rio at fail prices, and 4,000 mate of Java at pri- vate terme. Scgors were also active and firm; the sales ¢mbrsced sboat 1,800 hhds, Cuba muscovado and 3,000 boxes brown Havana, at rates stated ia another colomn. Fre'ghts were beav7, with moder ste engagements st rates eleewhere. Tue Temperance Mex Nor to be Brorrep Ove,—The State Temperance Alliance have imned a call for a State convention in Utica on the 27th of September, for the nomination of their Stateticket for the November clec- tiene, This convention will thus be one day after the Seward fusion conventions at Syra- ease, and this call is intended as @ warning to them not to attempt to shirk the temperance question a* connected with our new Liquor jaw. The Seward fusionista will have to stand by their work of the last Legislature, or repa Giste it, and we are glad that the temperance party intend to hold them to it. “inhe irae to the doctrine of prohibision ’” is the shibboleth “ef the State Alliance. No dodging We moet have this Liqnor law upheld or repealed by therext Leginlatn-e. That fr the enue NEW: YORK - MERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1855.. Bolttical Cries mm the United States— Rise an@ Progress of Abaltuen, It wss a common matter twenty years age te hear etateemen declare that the two great par- ties were mecessary expounders and watchmen of our pecuiiar plan of government. In the present condition of public sentiment, North and South, there is wuch to justify such an es- timate of the value a d uses of the old rival parties. At all events, it is avery curious fact that their decline has ccem signalized by the rise of every species of folly which could be allied to politics, until the constitution has be- come the subject of habitual ridicule and con- demnation. Instead of clinging to that compact with the faith of the Apostles to the religion of the New Covenant—instead of regarding it as avant courier of civilization and of pro- —ae the ark of political salvation to the whole human family—it has become a byword and reproach in the mouths of the myriad in- fidele of the day. We have either sprang upon the wisest generation or upon the weakest. If the madness that threatens to preside in our political schools bears the seeds of regeneration if the follies of the hour conceal some greater political blessing than that of the almozt uni- versal prosperity which has marked our ex- istence as a nation—then, indeed, we can aver from experienee that the declaration to which we have referred was only a bit of egotista—an excusable misapprehension of the weight of constitutional freedom when put into the ba- lance sgainst the rotten carcass of abolitionism. The old whig party, as re-organized after the defeat of General Jackson in 1824, under the leadership of Mr. Clay, whatever may be thought of its economical tenets, was, in the highest degree, conservative and respectable. It embraced within ite range, and for many years almost exclusively consolidated, the great banking, commercial and manufacturing interests of the country. These classes, what- ever may have been their interests in connec- tion with the legislation of Congress and the economical policy of the general government, were essentially national in scope and orderly and conservative in purpose. Mr. Hamilton, in 1791, deeming these elements necessary to the stability of the government, introduced them to the notice of Congress, and inaugurated @ system of legislation caloulated to unite them together asa counterpoise to what was then deemed the possible evils of popular sovereignty. Mr. Clay added to this echeme of Mr. Hamil- ton his famous American System—a plan ef in- terial improvements by the general govern- Mment--and thus was perfected in one great party the four most powerfal and controlling elements of opinion. Time was required to show in the operations cf industry that all in- texests were best promoted by leaving each ia absolute freedom—that the office of a law is not to make money, but to effect distribution between capital and labor. The constitution, which inaugurated a system of free trade amongst the States, and thus indicated the general policy to be purened, has triumphed. The mercantile class, released in time from its dependence upon the banks, at length discov- ered the necessity of the freedom of commerce. The msnufacturing interest, grown into colos- sal proportions by the fostering legislation of Congress, frightened by the vicissitudes attend- ant upon periodical changes in the policy of laws, has withdrawn its appeals for protection, and itself from the arena of politics. Private enterprise has vindicated its right to the exclu- sive construction and coatrol of works of im. provement, and thus has been removed the very foundation upon which was organized one of the great parties of this country. It had its evils, in an economical point of view; but it had also ite great uses, in the conserva- tive influence it exerted upon public sentiment and upon the integrity of the constitution. So Jong as it exercised control, it constituted a perfect ehield against the inroads of fanaticism —and this was peculiarly necessary, because a great share of its supporters outside of the Classes referred to, were wanting in those traits of charity towards and consideration for the opinions of others which are so important in the operation of the various and often conflict ing interests of this government. Precisely as the whig party has declined and The its supporters have been released from alle. | giance to it, with the exception of the great mercantile, banking and manufacturiog inter- ests, and a large clase of its more thoughtful men, it has leaned towards abolitionism. This of course is confined to the North. The whole tendency of things now is tqwards the organi- zation of a strictly sectional or geographical party. The very ideas entertained, and ali the efforts made, and the arguments and devices used, are in their nature sectional, There wae e& predisposition amongst the Northern branch of the old whig party to em brace geographical views. Mr. Ciay’s speech at Raleigh in 1844, im opposition to the an- nexation of Texas, and Mr. Van Buren’s letter, which followed it on the same side, gave a powerful impetus to the abolition movement in the North. The first operated as not oaly a release of the whigs from their party, to the extent that the Texas project involved the question of slavery, but it also held out the idea that it was possible to reform that organization on the conservative basis of Soathern and Northern opposition to slavery extension. Thus wes the poison of fanaticism infused into the system. The South yielded its feeble op position to Texas annexation; and although it ‘wae powerless to defeat that project, it was not £008 4 means Of giving sanction to the whigs of the North, who, on its basis, were in rspid process of forming an abolition party. Mr. Van Buren, defested in 1840 by the people, and by the convention in 1844, still exerted a powerful influence over the demo eracy in the North. He had been an extreme wan. He reorganized the demacrasic party in 1827, when Mr. Cathoun was the Vice Presi- dent—a position then regarded as in the line of safe precedence. To lessen avy chance for the overthrow of so powerfal a rival, and to place himself before the country in @ favorable Vigbt, he found it necessary to become a “Northern maa with Southern principles’—a designation he never failed to be proud of so losg as the rewards of the Presidency were before him. By admitting the justice of such a detcription of his character, Mr. Van Baren assumed a sectional position, and it is not strange that the North and South united in his Proscription at the convention of 1844, His letter of that yeor, in opposition to the annexa- tion of Texas, was purely a matter of calvula- tion. Mr. Clay had opposed it, aud as he was certa'n to be the Candidate of the whigs, aa he (Mr. V. B) was of the democrate, there could be ~ iseue — om the subject before the pre, and offer >fs Teration ¢) tha P ve ' Cency, pretexts we 41d not be wanting to justify bis approval of tat project. But Mr. V. B. was not Bominated, He attributed his defeat to the weechination’, of Genera’ Cass, and when that gentlemap, was nominated in 1848, after Texas had bees incorporated into the Unien, Mr. Vaa Borers, still in power over aNorthern division of “he democratic army, following the example of Arno}d and Hull, suddenly capitulated to the abolitionists, by whom he was elevated at once to the command in chief. This was the second great error of the old Parties—what may be termed the second na tions] impetus given.to the cause of the nigger worthippers, by the mistakes and treason. of the whig and democratic leaders. The de- cline of the whig and democratic parties re- leased their followers from allegiance to their tenets-—hence it was easy to an. active eystem of recruiting by the old officers, high and low, toenlista large portion of the rank and file into the legions of the sectionaliats. It is well known that traitors make the most noisy and vindictive enemies. The demoéracy bas lent the cause of the abolitioniste, Van Buren, Chase, Hale and King, and there are hundreds of others that only require release from the onerous service of the government, imposed by that imperishable mustang statesman Pierce, to swell the throng of deserters and elicit renewed peans of praise from his Union organ. The abolitionists having been thus raised to the dignity of a party by the blunders ard treachery of the old school politicians, and hav- ing filled their ranks chiefly from that class who buy and sell, were peculiarly fortunate in the election of General Pierce to the Presideacy. Without expecting favors, they have been the chief recipients of the bounty of the govern- ment. Thatfunctionary, if in nothing else rea- sonable, has appesred to be so by imposiag only one condition upon his appointees—that they shall profess on all public occasions that they are administration men—an easy penance at first, but now grown into a most mortifying service. No matter, General Pierce, without accomplish- ing anything elee, has consolidated the aboli- tion party. He has used the patronage of the government to reward its supporters—he has wielded the power and character of his office to strike down its enemies, Justice is defeated when treason is thus at a premium. The elec- tion of Mr. Pierce was the third grand event in the rise of the abolitionists. What was so well begun by the whigs in their blunder of 1844, by the treason of Van Buren in 1848, has been more than completed by the imbecility and treachery ot Pierce in 1852. They have alto- gether conspired against the constitution, to form the repubjican party, with Wm. H. Seward at itshead—to insure the destruction of all the great interests of the country, by arraying the North against the South. The seeds of discord have taken deep root: Are there patriots enough leit of all parties to remeve them? ‘The Progress of Kansas. Letters from Kansas speak favorably of the Weegrees of the Territory and hold out strong probabilities that it will bein a condition to claim admission as a State sooner than has been anticipated. The land is found to be very fertile, and the weather delightfal, cool and perpetual breezes counteracting the heat of the sun. Settlers have flocked im from ali sides, and in view of the admirable adaptation of the country for slave labor, many of the Northern men who went there determined to vote for free soil, have aliered their minds and deserted to the pro-siavery party. That this faction now conirols the Legislatare is well known. Though no test question was brought before it during the session which has just ter- minated, the political complexion of the body was notorious, and the antagonism which has already arisen between the Assembly and the Governor shows that the members are for no half measures, It reflects little credit on Mr. Reeder’s judgment and discretion that he should so soon have embroiled himeeif wit the people over whom he was sent to adminis- ter authority. A question on tke location of the seat of government can hardly, one would fuppose, fall within the provisions of the “higher law’; and however bitterly Mr. Reeder may be opposed to the institution that is taking root in the Territory, it does not follow that he should seize every opportunity of harassing the people and throwing impediments in the way of practical legislation. It is diffi cult to repress the idea that this Mr. Reeder is afoolish, ill-tempered man, who has taken a grudge at the people of Kansas, and is trying, right or wrong, to do them all the mischief he can. The organs of free soil are vociferous in their abuse of Mr. Stringfellow, whose conduct in the chair of the Territorial Legislature ap- pears to have been jadicions, moderate, and dignified; but the facts are more impartial in their coloring, and throw the chief blame of the troubles which have occurred upon the Governor himself. Indeed, no other Presi- dent but Franklin Pierce would ever have al- lowed Mr. Reeder to return to Kansas, after he bad so thoroughly proved his unfitness for the Governorship by bis conduct in Pennsylvania and at Washington. Nor would any other Pre sident eubmit to see the progress of the Terri tory retarded and its peace disturbed by inces- sant and needless quarrels betweea the people and the Governor, without settling tne diffical. ty by removing the latter. Anything more manly or more energetic than the movements of the Kansas people at this crisis is not to be found in our history. It neete no sme)) courage to settie in that region as a slaveholder, when the certain reward of such an adventure is the abure and calumny of the Northern free soi) press; but ihe men of Kansas have stood the storm of malignant misrepre- sentation without budging a hair's breadth. They knew that they were right, and that time would ebow them to be so; that their opponents were wrong, and shat al] that was waated to convince them of the fact wae experience of @ practical kind. So, while the free soil immi- granis were roaring and bellowing, and the free soil press bebind them was rolling in phrenzy at the prospect of another slave State, the pioneers of civilization om the Kansas calm- Jy met, discussed briefly the real bearings of their position, decided what was heat for them to do, end went to the Legislature prepared to vote without wasting time in talk. They did 80 vote; and having performed all the business before them, adjourned to their flelds without the loss of an hour. There was no bravado er noise in their proceedings; they said simply they had made up their minds what to do, and they did it. The North will need to agitate for rome time yet before it can send settlers acrose Mieeonri thet can compete with this class of men. Qnictly and unostentatiously thes Kaneas geborn Reder ‘ba tey ei revere, Sar net be hie toole or the toole of his land compa- By, proceeded to show the Gommonwealth of Massachusetts that its endeavors to use them would be equally fruitleea, They adopted a rule that every settler arriving in the T-rritery must teke an oath to support and obey the laws of the United States and those of Kansas. At first it might be conjectured that this was in- tended for the benefit of aliens. But it was otherwise. The mem aimed at in the enact- ment are noé the Iri-h and Germans, who usu- ally obey all the laws of thie country except those against fighting and drinking; but the people of ‘New England—Maseachusetts esp2- cially—who take delight in nullifying the laws. It wos for the benefit of the framers of the Personal Liberty bill, and the res- cuers of the slave Burns, that the sensi- ble men of Kansas provided that all who ceme to share their home in the West should swear before Aimighty God thet they would not postpone the laws of the land and the eonstitution of the United States to their own particular whims and notions of right and wrong. And we are bound to ssy that herein they have furnished farther evi- dence of their excellent good sense. In Kansas at all events nuliifiers must begin by being perjurere. In the meantime their material progress, as we said, is sufficiently rapid to reward their labors and their enterprise. Is has already been decided by many of the leading settlers to endeavor to effect @ purchase from the State of Missouri of Platte county ; and from the most reliable information it appears that no difficulty is likely towbe presenied by the latter State. The possession of Platte coanty would give Kansas both sides of the river; and the acqui- sition of Buchanan county, which would be sure to follow, would give the future State com- mand of the whole bend on the Missouri. Let- ters from the new settlements state that all the timber claims have been taken up; and that, though there yet remsins & quantity of fine prairie land unclaimed near the settlements, settlers are coming in freely. This fall there will be very little good land lefi unoccupied in the vicinity of the river and the border. “Ploughs,” says one letter, ‘are the chief ar- ticle that is needed ; ploughs and men.” In 8 moral point of view, the progress of the new Territory is equally gratifying. Accord- ing to the free soil prints, it would ‘be correct to believe that Kansas was peopled by bandits whose only baggage consiste of a revolver and @ bowie knife. According to the facts, no new Territory ever began life on its own account with so much regard to moral considerations, Laws against druvkenness and laws against gambling have already beém passed; police regulations have been made; the rights of Property vigorously asserted; brawling sup. pressed ; and altogether, it is probable that the touch berated people of Kansas over whose vil- lanies the free soilers go into convuleione periodically, are living under a government of their own making, betser in all moral respects, than either our own or that of the plous and moral city of Boston. Utah—Crickets, Grasshoppers and Locnsts— Dreadtul Prospect ror the Mormons, According to our last advices from Utah it is quite porsible that the kingdom and the institution of Mormondom will be extinguished, or expelled, from our Western Territories within a few years, by causce and instraments which have nevez entered Sato the calculations of eainte, philosophers, or politicians, Grass hoppers, crickets and locusts threaten to do the work which bas confounded alike our states- men who believe im the supremacy of ‘‘squattcr sovereignty,”’ and those who maintain the supremacy of Congress over the Territories. ‘The intelligence which we published yester- day represents the crops of the Utah peaple, sover all that vast region—a limited district here and there only excepted—as in process of abso- Jute extirpation by grasshoppers and crickets, and that a new ally, in the shape of a locust, was eppearing in some localities to sid ia the work of famine. The poor Mormons were naturally alarmed and bewildered st the fexr- ful prospect before them; for with the consump- tion of theiz crops by those voracious insects, rising out of the ground in swarms, and eating up every green thing within their reach, there can be no other alternative to the Sainte thaa starvation, or a rapid exodus *o som: moze favored region of the we among the waste places of some other centinent, or the unap- propriated islands of the rea. The history of the Mormons is the living wonder of these Jatter times. Ja their origin— in the abeurdities and sbvomicaticns of their religious faith—in their perseoutions from place to place—in their rapid multiplication by reinforcements from all parts of the civiliz world—and in their astonishing perseverance, industry and snceess, the creed, the prophet, and the followers of Mormendom, are, in many respects, without a parallel in the his religious delusions. Certainly, the m traordinary anomaly of modern *! kingdom of the Mormon chief—an imperium in imperio—an establishment of poly gamy of the epoch of Jacob and Esau in the midstof the institutions of the highest civilization of the nineteenth century of the Christian dispense tion. The causes, too, whieh threaten the ex- tinction or expulsion of these Mormons from our coutinent will be regarded by many as scarcely less than miraculous, though perfectly natural. In 1844 Colonel Fremont, as the firet re- corded white man who had ever penetrated to the fabulous Salt Lake, gave ua she first infor mation of that terra incognita of the Great Desert Basin. By reference to his reports of that, and of all his sabsequens explorations, and upon referring to the reports of ail other travellers, official and unofficial, in thet region, from that day to this, it will be seen that these crickets aod grasehoppers are among the fixed natural iastitutions of Usab. From time im- memorial the native Indians have been accus- tomed to regard them as par’ of their subsis- tence, They make cakes of grasshoppers and crickets, They drive them into trenches with a hot fize at the bottom, where their winge and, legs are burned off, and they are roasted after the faehion of the locasis of Atrica. These American insects thus bear the same relation, and serve the same purposes to the wild native tribes, as the locusts of the deserts of Asia and Afrioa in their respective locelities. They are a bar to the cultivation of the soil; they exist where there is no soil for caltivation, and where animal life is limited to tusects and reptiles, and they ere all eaten from necessiiy. ‘The Utah grasshopper is the African leoust of a emaller size, and the Digger Indian is bat a lower type of the desert Arsh, be forge wv! iby Mw woty Kom TE nois, and their long and dreadful journey to the Great Salt Lake, took place in 1846, and our readers will remember that their first crops, upon which the advanced guard of the colony and the main body of the community in the rear, depended for the ensuing winter, were assailed by the crickets—great goggle eyed, crook-legged, bottle-bodied monstera—eating the green fields to the ground, and leaving a track behind them as blank as if wasted by fire. It will also be remembered that when the Saints were in despair these orickets were dis- covered by the little white gulls which breed among the islands of the Jake, and that they came out from those islands every morning, and kept up the war upon the crickets during the day, and from day to day, From morn till dewy eve, until the crickets were destroyed, and the crops were saved. The Saints looked upon these little gulls af o miraculous interposition for their deliverance, and they could scarcely re- gard them in any other light. Since that day the Mormons have been troubled but little with crickets or grasshop- pers. On the other hand, they have had a suc- cession of bountiful crops; they have multiplied by immigration and reproduction beyond all precedent; they have established flourishing branches of the parent colony in all the oases of the great desert basin, over an area of three hun- dred thousand square miles. Yet they are isolated by dreary wastes and frightful and desolate mountains, a thousand miles from the frontier white settlements on the East, and from five to eight hundred miles from the whites of Califor- nia; while on the north and on the south they are flanked by an illimitable wilderness of volcanic mountains and sandy deserts. Thus cut offand inaccesaible to outside relief, there can be no other alternative to the Mormons, with the de- struction of their crops of a single season, than a large emigration in search of bread, or star- vation if they refuse to move. There is no security against the return of these crickets and grasshoppers in still larger swarms next year; and in the event of such a calamity the second time, the extinguishment of Mormon- dom must inevitably follow. Neither the gov- ernment nor private charity in the States can subsist for a single winter a community of fifty thousand people removed from six hundred to a thonsand miles from apy extraneous supplies and apy available means of transportation. ‘Thus it will be seen that the ravages of these grassheppers and crickets in Utah involve the contingencies of life and death to the Mormons— removal or starvation; and considerations of the highest importance tothe whole American peo- ple, and our enlightened and Christian institu- tions. Mormondom is to usa living stigma anda reproach; and yet it appears that the government capnot reach it. It is squatter sovereignty carried to licentiousness ; but still it ie squatter sovereignty. It claims to be a religion, and ours is» country of religious liberty, especially in the Territories. If, therefore, this unexpected ca- lemity which hss fallen upon the Mormons should result in driving them beyond the seas, or in breaking up their organization, and in dispersing its members among our own people, subject to the laws and usages of American so- ciety, the result will be a general and perma- nent good at the expense of a temporary and local miafortune. Meantime, if their crops of the present year shoukd be destroyed, Jet the Mormons who would not perish prepare for emigration ; and let their Prophet make up his miud to disband his society, and recommend its dis- Pertion and fusion among our people, subject to the laws and restraints which govern them ; or order the necessary steps for a general exo- dus to spme of the South Sea islands, where the earth aud the skies are more bountiful, and where the Sainte will cease to be # reproach and a nuisance to their neighbors, Fourrerism at Avcrionx—Tae Last or THE PuAtanxes ConLarsep.We copy to-day from the great organ of the socialist movement, (while it promised to pay a dividend,) an arti- cle on the subject, etartiog from the last living Fourierite phalanx, the property of which, fixed and moveable, is advertised for “positive sale” ox the third day of October. This estab- lishment is in Monmouth county, New Jersey, some thirty-five miles south of this city, and the property is thus described in the opening peragraph of the advertisement:— The domain containe mearly seven hundred acres, com- Prnng a diversity of good culture, of easy lsge, and bay: ‘ensive improvements and great pstoral adv: nd resources, such as. arable uplands, (upon which bave been distributed within the last twelve yes: uz 40,000 tons of marl,) about 315 acres exceedingly ening and fra:t culture; two crops a year are cat, about seventy acres; ands, well Umbered with oak, hickory, chestnat, 3s ada ted to farming, market gar- jatural meadow, from wach ood- Tosust, (nativ cultivated groves), about 220 orepard: prising the usuel variety and su: of peach: me seventy varieties of the choiceat (treee Of remarkable thrift sad vigor, four to tw: jears? growth, the cider ozes hearing quite fresly); 5 ® ra and .on quince stocks; plas, necte- ¥ nines. erepeny &e all bomntifully ‘and brooks, together with ly watered by tensive mar! beda, ook ani’Iry Bank); buildings, comprising a Jarge central edifice, with large dining room, kitchen, laundry with steam engine, dciry, ize house, and all the appointments of a complate seteclianment, lodgings and repezate tenements, outhouses, » large briek bailding (40275 feet, two and a half stories, with cement celiar floor) for sgricultural Darposes, and Atted up with ap- for preserving and drying fruite and vegetables. bave water distribu hrough them, supplied ‘by force pump and water bmsent Is admirably adapted the use of an association or for am = wheel to and prepared for agricaltural college. The estate is to he sold ia the lump or in par- cels to suit purchasers, And thus all this ap- parent wealth, solid comfort, thrift and pros- perity comesto thehammer. Why so? Is this fine and well cultivated domain of seven hun- dred acres, within two or three hours of the New York market, incapable of sustaining one or two hundred Fouzierites, all in the same “happy family,” or what isthe matter? Have they failed to “make labor attractive,” or to sink the individual in the community, or what fs it? Simple enough are the causes for the decay and dissolution of these Utopian establish ments, They were made up, we suspect, of a few hopeful and industrious philosophers, and of many ‘ranscendental loafers. The industrious members soon found out that they had all the attractiveness of the labor to themselves, while the loafers had all the luxary of the profits Accordingly, the first class became disgusted, and the loafers being thus reduced to work or to starve, the phalauxes, one after another, have had to be sold, till only this one of New Jersey, among the regular Fourierite institu- tions, remained in operation. And it seems to us somewhat remarkable, that after having struggled through the hard times of the last winter and spring, this Jersey community should now be compelied to sell out, with the most abandant year for the far- mers with which this country has ever been blessed. We suppose, however, tkat the phalanx hes run into debt, acd that pay day is coming round, with 10 megus on Aaad, excep tho veal eetate and the moveah¥s, with whion erat wk greavors, £ wi tras, we } give them the benefit of our columns free of charge. With the deeline of these communist estab- lisbments eur Seward philosophers have been brought to rest at} their hopes for the referma- tion of society upon the abolition of Southern slavery. They bave di-covered that the “slave oligarchy” of the Seuth are the great eyer- shadowing evil, without which we could soon all be perfectly bappy. Fourierism, Graham- ism, Mesmerism, spiritual manifestations, and the Maine Liquor law, having all been tried to. Ro purpose, everything {now must give way to ® regular war of extermination against this Southern “oligarchy.” When, from the pres- ture of this grand crusade, the Union ie des- troyed, and law, order and civilized society are superseded by civil and servile war, amarchy and. the perfect freedom ot barbarism,the field will be open for more numerous and larger experiments. in social philosophy. Such is the drift of the new programme of our Seward philosephers. Onr civil, religious, snd political institutions must be destroyed before they can be re-organ- zed upon the Fourierite platform. Ovr NarionaL Dest.—While we are boasting of our surplus of twenty-two millions in the Treasury, and our small debt of fifty millions, it is well enough to note the fact that the amount of claims already prepared for the Ceurt in Washington is over three hundred millions, ex- clusive of the French Spoliation bill, which - claims five millions. We opine that many. claims will be thrown out by the Court, which ‘was established, not for the purpose of spend- ing the public money by satisfying imaginary claims, but merely as an expeditious vehicle for the settlement of disputed accounte. Trovpis AMone THE Onto Fusioxists—We perceive that rank rebellion is breaking out among the old whige and the Know Nothings of Ohio against the anti-slavery fasion ticket of Chase, Ford and Brinkerhoff. The party is too cumbersome, the spoilsmen too many, and the fat places too few in number for the pur- poses of harmony and cohesion, and so there is & good prospect of & breakdown of the Seward coalition in Ohio. Let the conservative Know Nothings take the field on their own account, and they may yet astonish the nigger worship- pers. THE LATEST NEWS, BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washirgton. WILL THE PRESIDENT FILL THE VACANT OFFICES!— TROUBLE IN THE PENSION BURRAU-—OON (TINUED ILLNESS OF SECRETARY DOBBIN, ETC. Wasnincron, July 27, 1855. The cutside pressare on the President to 1} the va- cancies ip tremendous. Gen. Pierce, however, tries to atave them off till after the elections in the South. ‘The applicante say he wis] succumb. We shall nee. The appointment ¢f Mr. Minot has thrown the Pension Office imto great comfusion. It is rumored that Mr. Cole, chief clerk, will resign. A letter was received to-day from Mr. Dobbin, Seore~ tary of the Navy, whe is at Red Sulphur Spriegs, which saya hecoes mot seem to be improving. He will re- main there & moxth or two yet, and if he gets no better will take s trip to Cabs. Intelligence was received here this morning that Com- missioner Manypenpy was in Detroit for the purpose of holding & conference wich the Michigan Indians in re- lation to their remaining ia that State. Horrible Tragedy at Sea. MURDER OF OsPTsIN FRAZIER, OF THE SHIP SEA ‘WITOH—ATTEMPTED 8U101DE OF THE MATS, ETO. Batimorn, July 27, 1856. The bark Lapwing srrived here this morning, with dates from Rio Janeiro to June 21. Captain Kelly reports the particulars ef 4 brutal mur- der committed om board the ship Sea Witch, Captain Frasier, bound to Ching from New York. The Sea Witch . arrived at Rio om the 16th of June, and om being boarded by the officers of the customs, it was discovered that the captain had been murdered, The officers immediately sent for 2 guard, which took charge of the ship. The American Consul, accompanied by Captain Rowan, of the United States brig Bainbridge, repaired on board, and the men were all put in irons. An examination was isstituted, and from the evidence adduced, it appears tbat on the night of the Sth of June, between twelve and fou: o'clock, the first mate, who had charge of tke deck, went to the room ocoupied by the sbip’s surgeon, Dr. Brolasky, and harriedly re- quested him toget up, saying he believed;the Captain war murdered. The Doster entered the Captain's apartment, and found him bathed in blood. He immediately gave the alarm, when the watch on deck came dowa, and as sisted him to raise the Captain. On the examiaation ef the Captain’s wounds it was discovered thit his soul) had deem fractured by three distinct blows, and that the skull wae absoluvely driven in om the brain, The Captain died the next cay, and hin body was placed ia a bogebead of spirits ve de preserved. The Doctor then imalated on going into Rio, the ship being thom 900 miles distant, amd it being the nearest port. The mate wisbec to keep off, but the Dector told him that he suspected him as being the murderer, and that if he maniiested the slightest sympiom of treachery he would shoot him. The conduct of the overawed the mrte, put into Rio. On ex the apartment of th , @ marling spike was found eorresponding with nds given. A deep indenta- tion in the wood of the n just above the captain’s head, was alo discovered, to which the marlin «pike also corresponded, On the examination being concladed, the Consul or. dered the first mate, Syivanun W. Spencer, to be arrest ed and placed in irens, Previous to being taken ashore, he requested leave to dress himself, whem he drew a knife and etabbed himeelf in the left breas:, but the wound he inflicted upon himself was very slight. All the men arrested were liberated excep? three. Messrs, Maxweil, Wright & Co, agents of \ As pinwall & Co., have charge of the ship. The consul ap- Pointed Capt. Long to command the ship. The body of Capt, Frazwrwas to be sent to New York by the abip Union, about to #xil, Late and Interesting from Mexico. New Onueans, July 25, 1855, ‘The steamer Orizaba bao arrived at this wilh Mexico to the 10th inst, Affair the cap:tal were quiet. Semta Ansa’s father-in-iaw, it is reported, has beso appoiated Minister to ‘he United States, vice Senor Al- mon’ Th ‘ily of Sante Anna were to leave on the 2th inst. in the wer steamer Iturbide, Tt wee reported tha: Santa Anna was willieg to make certain concessions to the inwurgents, —$—$ rom Kansas. MEMORIAL FOR THE REMOVAL OY GOV. KERDER, Sr. Loris, Jaly 27, 1855, We heve received Kansas dater ¢o the 20th iast. The Committee appointed by the Legislature to draw up a memorial, praying President Pierce to remove Governor Reeder, reported yesteriey. The memorial ssts forth ‘the complaints agairs: Reeder from the beginaing of hie administration, calls bie 4 clog to the wheels of govern ment, and asks for bie spredy removal, ¥ Mejor Andrew Molwnald, member of the Council ia Kansas, formerly of Virginia, wae yesterday appointed Dearer of the mesorial to President Pierce, requesting Governor Read/t’s removal, Mr. Huento:, the only tree soil member of the Legiala tore, in abet, and ct in thought will be so for the ro mainder 4 the sersion, He was present bat two days, fede Oe tenet ’ Boston and Cape Cod Telegraph. Boston, Jaly 27, 1855 the first section—~from Boston to Plymouth—of tne <ape Cod magmetic telegraph line was opened to-day, and will be continued thence to Holmes’ Hole ( Martha's Vineyard,) and Provincetown, without dolay, aad uiti- mately, by eudmarine cable, to the island of Nantucket, Mr. Elia Smith, under whore suspices this very aupe- rior line in being eonastrocted, deserves mach cresit for the energy and judgment evinced in this enterprise, ip the mnorere of which the sbipping tnterent nf the whole a