The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1855, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1855. . 7 Southern Slavery as a Domestic Institution— ‘True View of the Subject. _ The most hopeless bondage is that of the JAMES GORDO" BENRETT, PROPRIETO! R 4°D EDITOR. mind. Enslaved to half a dozen radical ideas— ree pent up within the sphere of a few impractical DrmICR 1%. We CORNES 00 A Se ies leat ih dreamy and vagrant devices— Pokame HK... cee ceeereteseees ++-No- 209 | the world of progress is narrowed toa circle of pt fictions, to which all good is confined, and out- NIN ee, ee side of whieb all is evil. s BROADWAY THEA’ Porvinc THE QuzsTion—Wuo Gur or PLace ~Tae Penson arto} FeRvVORMANORS— JUMBO JUM. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broséway—Fua ravous. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Sarix iy Panis—Tux Bepiovs Famity. WOOD'S MINSTRELS -Mechanics’ Hall—472 Broadway. Wew York, Monday, July 30, 1855. SSS 750—_—OOOoo Mails for Europe. NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. The Cuvard mail steamship Cansda, Capt. Jadkins, will leaye Boston on Wednenday, at noon, for Liverpool. The European mails will close in thia city at a querter ‘There are popular remedies for all sorts of diseases; popular doctors, preachers and an- thors, and also popular subjects. But there is no remedy capable of curing all maladies any more than there are preachers and authors suit- ed to all minds. There is a tendency of the mind to run into channels, to fiad its favorite subjects as well asits favorite writers and moral remedies, Sebastopol is now the great centre ot European thought and anxiety. The politi- cal slaves of the Eastern continent have anchor- ed their hopes on the suczess or defeat of the Allies before that city of terrible assaults and te two o’clock to-morrow afternoon. The Henan (printed in Foglish and French) will be published at ten o’clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New York Heraxp will be received at the following places in Europe:— ers aancy, mee s ‘No. 17 Corel. peice Wm. Thomas & Co , No. 19 Oatharine street. PARIS....65 Livingsten, Wells & Co., 8 Place de Ja Bourse. The contents of the European edition of the HxraLp will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of publication, The News. John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania, has been ap- pointed by the President Governor o’ Kansas, in place of Governor Reeder, removed. Thus the pet!- tion of the members of the Kansas Legialatare has been granted. Mr. D. was a member of the last Congress, voted for the Nebraska Kansas bill, and ia strongly in favor of giving homesteads to actual retilers. By our special despatch from Washington it will be seen that there are still a few New York politi. cians lingering in that city, and that Preston King arrived there on Saturday. It is stated that one of their ideas at present is to patch up a truce betwean ‘the hards and softs, 80 as t> catry the State this fall. The movement is eaid to be approved by Gea. Pierce, who thinks thereby to improve his chances for the succession in ’56. . We understand that the temperancs mon are aboat to start a new organization to take the place ef the Carson League andthe Temperance Allianse, as the last named bodies have lately fallen into dis, repute, and have proved unable t> cope with the liquor interest in this city and State. This new mevement isto be avowedly political, and is de- signed to rally the temperance forcss for the ensuing fali elections, to maintain the Maine law intas!, and preserve it from the assaults of its enemies. A general committee is to be appointed with organi. zations in every ward inthe city, with power to collect funds, and mon are to be chosen to fill the offices; and it is ramored that Mr. Nathan Nesbit, a yourg and active lawyer of this city, will be the ehsirman, and James Harper, exMayor, the treasurer of this new movement. Among other interesting intelligence relative to the Prohibitory Liquor law, we publish to-day a fall scoount of a trial at Astoria, befora Justices Boyd and Srediker. The defeniaat, Mr. Jamieson, appeared fot trial, having Mr. T. E. Tomlinson for counsel, and the prosecution was instituted bya Mr. Blackwell, a member of a temperance leagus of Astoria, for whom counsel also appeared. The case was tried before a jury of six, to which the @efence objected, Cemanding twelve jurors; bat the objection was overruled. It appeared from the witnesses that the defendant sold bittera—‘ fever and ague bitters ””—and “ imported liquors,” and upon this ples the defendant was the victor. The view taken by the Court was precisely the samo as that taken by Recorder Smith ia the trial of Smith and Dowd, namely, that it wae no offence to sell imported liquors. The deienjant was discharged by the Justices, the jury being usable to agres; and the prosecution, finding they had uodertakea a bad job, abandoned the case. The remains of the late Rev. John H. Hiliott and hie daughter Mary Aun, who lost their lives iu tho late melancholy catastrophe on Coney Island, ware interred yesterday afternoon in the Cemetery of tho Evergreens. The foneral obssquiss took place not in but outsida of the First Methodist Episcopal Mission church, Williamsburg, for the crowd in a‘ terdance was so large that it was deemed safer t> celebrate them in the open air. We give a fulire- port of the interesting proceedings. Alexander McFarland, an eccentric individual, hmown throughout the city as the “ Lime Kilo Man,” died at the City Hospital yesterday morning. A notice of him will be found elsewhere in oar paper to-day. Judge Ingraham, in the Court of Common Pleas, on Satuiday, decided that the city Corporation is not liable ior personal injury occasioned by the ne- gligence of ite contractors or their employés. The opinion of Judge I. wili be found in our columns. We publish to-dsy a general order from the War Department, giving a list of the promotions aud appointments in the army made by the President of the United States since the publicaties ef gene- val ordera in March and Jply last. It ia a most im- portant document to the aspiring officars of the army, and will be found very usefal for reference to the public generally. We publish to-day a copy of the treaty concluded between the British government and that of Japan, on the 14th of October last, which will be found ia- teresting in many points of view. First, Sir James Stirlirg negotiated with the Empress, acting for the Emperor, who evinced high diplomatic talent. Second, England wished to get only an equality of privileges with other nations, and Commodore Perry’s treaty covers all the points of that of our neighbors; and thirdly, the English boast that they secured the right of entering the newly opened porte before the Americans. By the letters of our correspondents at Saratoga it will be seen that there was quite a negro row at the Syrings a few days since. It seems that som> wegroes, no doubt instigated by the nigger wor- shippers of the place, attempted to violate tie rules of Congress Spring, and to assert their equal sosial righta with the whites, bohaving ina most impertinent manner to the ladies and children present. The firmness of some gentlemen present tettied the difficulty for the time, but a riot may be expected any day. Vessels from New Orleans are quarantioed 26, cording to law made and provided. Hence it was only necessary for Acting Mayor Barker to declare Norfolk and Portamouth, Va., “infected districts,” We give a communication in another column con. taining the law on the subject. Among the transactions in cotton on Saturday ‘was the purchase cf about 800 bales of middling and ‘alr qualities tor export to Spain. The entire sales for the dey amounted to about 1,500 bales, closing at 10jc. for middijg uplands, while higher grades zdvanced about 44. per pound. Flour was steady, at the previous day’s prices. There was an vetive basinesa done in Southern wheat, inolud- ng Tennessee red, on the spot, at $1 804 $1 824; and Georgia good red, part to arrive, at $1 80; and 40,000 bushels of red Tennessee, to ar. ive before the lst of November, eeller’s option, at $1 O5— it was supposed to have baen engaged for .xyort. Corn was easier, with moderate sales, at Oe. & 9040. Pork was firmly beld, with fair sales, > fhe continued firm, with sales ot 1,100 a 1,200 age Rio st fall prices, Sugars were active, witha gbt improvement in prices; the sales embraced sb ut 1,500 hogeheads Cubs muscovado, and 2,400 ~ ®, at prices given ia another column. Freights vere 20} defences, while slavery is the point of Western interest. It is the American subject. The time has come when not a constable can b> elected without involving the opinions of the caniidate upon this all engrossing question. It makesno difference that the subject is one of no possible interest to the voter or the candidate. enough that it is the popular idea of the day— It is that it has been thrust into politics by desiga- ing men. How it came there and what possible good it is to do—how the slave is to be benafit- ted, the master enlightened, or the cause of truth and justice advanced, are points of no interest to those whose business it is to agitate the subject and to reap its fruits. Men of broader views and more practical and philo- sophic ideas would look to the past to discern the, effect. and value of a remedy. Tested by this principle, it is certainly not easy to see any good that has resulted from the flerce anti- slavery agitation of the last fifteen or fifty years. Extremes, indeed, are seldom found practical or useful. It would be diffi- cult, in our judgment, to justify the ultra North or the ultra South. Toere is this difference, however, in their positions— the latter is assailed by the former. Not quite 80 much philosophy and discretion is expected of the man who is assaulted in his legal rights, and is sought to be divested of his property on the mere plea of philanthropy, as of the med- dling fanatic who acts the double part of self- constituted judge and moral teacher. It is cer- tainly enough to exercise the powers of the former without inflicting the lessons of the latter. It is not strange, then, that the South has been driven, in the spirit of retaliation, to oc- cupy extreme ground. Slavery is an institution of their own, and is as old as the government, which was organized in distinct recognition of it. Fifteen States of the Union legalize the rela- tion of master and slave. The class ia subjec- tion is ignorant, and generally regarded as mentally and morally aa inferior race. It isa plan of servitude, however, andis not with- out its evils, es no system of labor is. While the blacks are held in subjection, they are at the same time guarded, clothed and fed, and generally kindly treated. It is something more than a question of interest with the master—it has worked itself into the very texture of society. It has its kindly so- cial aspect as well as its severe feature of de. pendence. There are no interests, passions or affections that are not, §to some extent, influ. enced by it. Inthe domestic economy it is often seen in a spirit of Christian brotherhood which might well put to blush its ignorant assailants. We view slavery in the distance only in the light of abject submission by the weak to the demands cf the strong. We see in it dominion and subjection, and we infer from these pre- mises not only an antagonism of races, but continued and watchful resistancs This is the great error of Northern men, except, p2r- haps, that class who have sought the agita- tion of the subject as a medium of politi- cal preferment. Slavery is thus made to as- sume the character of a hateful oligarchy, sus- tained by ceaseless oppression. The social bearings of the relation are care- fully kept out of view, or their existence denied. This may be well enough for the Sewards, Wilsons and Van Burens, who expect to derive personal advantage by exciting a Northern furore against the South, but it is in the highest degree disgraceful that men whose character and pursuits disconnect them from the honors and rewards of office should be led to adopt such partial views of a subject of so much importance. That the most prominent feature of slavery is found in its social and domestic character is evident in the fact that the relation is alto gether a peaceful, happy and religious one. It bears no disturbance, no fueda, no insurrec- tions. All is qaiet, happiness and con- tentment. ~While Europe is distracted by revolutions and delaged with blood, the “slave oligarchy” seems to work oa peacefully and harmoniously. The products of the slave States are constantly increasing, their internal trade flourishes; and these are very good tests of order and of the peacefal operation ot aN the interests involved. The moral atmos- phere of the South is not overcharged with ma- laria, They have not exported more Schuylers than we—their catalogue of crime is not longer. Is there no evidence in all this that the sys- tem of domestic servitude so bitterly denounced by the Tribune and its crazy adjuncts, is some- thing besides a mere exaction of labor from the weak by the strong? Is it not apparent that slavery in the United States, excusing the paradox, is, to a great extent, voluntary ? It is a plan of subsisting two opposite races in usefulness and harmony, and the only means of accomplishing such a profoundly interesting result which can be conceived of as at all likely to be effective. Viewed in this light, the question of Ameri- .can slavery becomes one of surpassing magai- tude, not as a system of oppression, but as an ordinance of Providence under which two ap- parently irreconcileable races are made to exist in almost absolute concord. It is needless to touch the origin of slavery—it is enough to re- Gard its existence. The freedom of the inferior race, for some cause wisely ordained by the Governor of the Universe, has been compoand- ed. It has lost or eurrendered a portion of its rights, as would appear, in order to secure its advancement, its fafety and its existence, all of which are attained by the present system, and neither of which could be if the two races were left in absolute freedom to setile the question of dominion between them. All Europe, with scarcely noticeable excep- tions, ere in political bondage. The very doo trines of monarchy—the vaunted divine right of the king to reign—denote a system of depan- dence, and it is well known that it signifies ayso- jute submiseton to the will of the soveret ern. Now, of the three classes of slaves—mental, Political and legal—the most abject, the most Fernicious as an element of society, is unques- tionably the former. They are mere agitator:, slaves to ideas, mental negroes, sea lawyers and crazy reformers, who, while they eternally prate about freedom, seek by every means to control the acte of their neighbors. It is not enough that they guide the slavebolder; they must also dictate to the free mind of Kansas. The right of self-government, with such minds, signi- fies :ubmission to their silly schemes of policy: Kansasis in horrid disorder influenced by the South, and in sublime order if controlled by the North. Tae Crry Taxes—Fiaca Fioceep.—We are under the necessity, this morning, of ex- plaining somewhat at length how the business of thesCity Treasurer’s department is bangled, and of administeriog the usual flogging to that old delinquent, Mr. Comptroller Flagg. It appears that on June 24th the report ofthe Committee on Annual Taxes was presented by the chairman to the Board of Supervisors. The report was of course based on the assessment rolls, and other documents laid before the com- mittee by the Comptroller. At the first ghance Mr. Alderman Ely perceived that from some motive or other ‘the assessment ‘roll of non- residents liable to taxation under the act passed February 27, 1855, was distinct from the ordi- nary assesement rolls,” and that “if the report had béen adopted as at first submitted’—that is to say, in accordance with the Comptroller’, tables and suggestions—‘the omission of the non-residents from the crdinary assessment rolls might have seriously involved the au- thority of the county to collect taxes on: nearly $15,000,000.” He therefore moved the recommittal of the report to a new committee onthe stated ground that “there did not ap- pear any taxation on the fourteen millions and ahalf of personal estate owned by non-resi- dents and which by a recent act was liable to taxation; and it was so recommitted. The committee reported at the next meeting of the Board that they had amended the resolutions #0 as to inclade the omitted property, and exonerated the former committee from respon- sibility for the error. When the omiseion was first noticed, we drew public attention to the fact, and animadverted upon the Comptroller’s carelessness or unfair- ness in running a risk of jeopardizing the county’s claim to the tax on go large a sum as $14,491,130. We likewise observed, as a curious coincidence, that the non-residents who so nearly escaped taxation happened to include among them a number of the so-called munici- pal reformers of 1853, Very naturally galled by the exposure, Mr, Flagg attempts to justify himself by a reply in one or two cotemporaries, over his own name :— In regard to the assessment on non-residents of pA ap Rheaticalin pepaoeciety pred aay, su] 8 the F sup ) for yarpose Of screentog the ‘old municipal reformers’’ from teeatien, it can be seen, by an examination of the table signe: “4.0. Flagg,” and published in the Hematp of Wednes- day, that the following item is inciuded at the bottom of the table, viz.:—‘ Non residents, $14,491,130.” And the Comptroller also presented to the Board of Supervi- tors a list of all the names furnished to him, with the sums attached to each name, which make up the above total of $14,491,130. A. C. FLAGG. If this be 20, how does it happen that Alder- men Ely moved the recommittal of the report It is quite true that Mr. Flagg did add that item to his table, but how could the addition o that or any other figure to a mere statistica memorandum affect the tax levy? Mr. Flagg might as well have written the figures $14,491,130 on any odd corner of his desk as on the peper in question, The proper place for it was on the tax levy and the assessment rolls; and it was because Mr. Fiagg did not write it there, that the city would have lost $170,000 but for Mr. Ely’s vigilance, and that the Heratp called him to account in a manner which has wounded his sensibility. This however ig only a sample of the manner in which business is conducted in the bureau over which Mr. Flagg presides. On the 24th of July, the report of the meeting of Supecyi- sorr, for which Mr. Flagg’s subordinates and therefore Mr. Flagg himself is responsible, stated that the committee recommended ‘that there shall be raised by tax on estates real aul pereonal of the freeholders and inhabitants of the city and county of New York a sum not exceeding $2,393,600;” and this sentence of the report was copied into all the daily papers next day, making it to appear that the city taxes fell short of two millions anda half. How the blander arose, it is hard to say; we simply state the fact of the blunder. We are free to confess that in no department of the federal government, éisorganized as most of them are, could so many and so gross blua- ders have been committed, or so general a sys- tem of bungling be tolerated. Any other man but Flagg would be overwhelmed with shame at their exposure. Wueat From Texvessee.—New Facts iv our City Trape.—The market report of Satur. day bas a rather curious item, to the effect that a large quantity of Tennessee and Georgia wheat, part to arrive, was sold at good prices, It appears that there is an extensive and valu able grain growing country in Eastern Tennes- see, between the Cumberland and Alleghany mountains. The produce of this district his heretofore been almost shut out of any market, but now Tennessee has a railway communica tion with Charleston and Savannah, and can send its wheat direct to Atlantic ports, from whence it may be shipped direct to Europe. Over one hundred thousand bushels of this wheat have been sold in New York. The capa, city of supply of this district has been estimated as high as 300,000 bushels. An offer, it was said, had been made within a few days, to deliv- er 30,000 bushels on the railroad, in a certain brief period, at $1 per bushel. In addition to the supplies from this fruitful highland valley, the crops of wheat in the upper parts of Georgia and the Carolinas have been good, and are finding their way to New York for a market, from whence large portions will York is receiving large supplies of wheat from Tennessee, both flour and grain are finding their way from Iowa and various points on the Upper Mississippi to this city. Wheat is also on its way from Southern Illinois, a sample of which has been exhibited on ‘Change. The fact is, New York is rapidly trenching upon the trade that has hitherto centred at New Orleans, and must continue to do so. The extension of railroads, South aod West. ap pears to be merely the extension of the avenurs of New York trade. New Orleans possesses no means of defending ber trade against these encroachments, excep; by epeedily building up lines of railways, cen tring in that city. New York seeke n> undue edvanteges, and would fee) no regret the advarcement and prosperity ©! her sist ee. Scuth, North, and Weat. ‘Dhe Central Park=A Report Wanted. In Jnuty, eighteen hundred and fifty three, the act of the Legislature authorizing the tak- dog of certain land on this island for the pur- pose of a public park, went into effect, and five very respectable gentlemen were appointed Commissioners under it. They accepted the trust, with the per diem compensation of four doliars each, annexed. The law declared that all the land situate in the Twelfth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-second wards of the city of New York, bounded southerly by Fifty-ninth street, northerly by 106th street, easterly by Fifth avenue, and westerly by the Eighth avenue, was thereby made a public place, and the Commis- sioners were fully authorized to take the land and estimate the damages. Then they were to report to the Common Council, and await its action. This is simple enough, any one would think ; probably be re-shipped to Earope, While New |: and we have no doubt that a great many people outside of this city will be surprised to learn that nothing has been done about the matter. We have the same respect- able Commissioners, with the same highly gra- tifying stipend. A map has been issued, and that ia all, and two precious years have been wasted in doing nothing at all. The Commis sioners are all wealthy men; they can afford to live in the country during the hof months; and £0 long as they can hold a meéting occasion- ally, to that the four dollars per day remain . good, they do not care how long they keep the sweltering thousands of poor men out of the breathing place which has been gained for them, in the face of a determined and powerful mer- cenary opposition. Some of the papers think that such men as these Commissioners do not care for the per diem. This is absurd; for the Corporation Counsel set them the example of liberality by declining to aceept any com- pensation. They did not follow it, which fact proves conclusively that they do care for the dollars. If they do not intend to do the work, they should resign. At any rate, they are culpable in neglecting to fual- fil the duties so clearly laid down to them by the law, and for the performance of which they are so liberally paid. It the Commicsioners think to keep back their report until after the election of a Legis- lature which will repeal the law, they will find that they have made a mistake. The question is one of the most vital importance, both ina local and a national point of view. The peo. ple of New York must have their park, and the people of other cities will follow the metropoli- tan example. Man, whether considered singly or in communities, is imitative. Oar Central Park will be an imitation, on a small seale, pf the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, the Phoer& Park of Dublin, Hyde Park in London, and the Prater of Vienna. So soon as we have carried this into effect, every city and town of any consequence in the Union will have its Central Park. This tendency to imitation has been displayed in small as well as in large matters. Things with purely local designa- tions have been widely imitated—for instance, there are hundreds of Astor Houses, Revere Houses, St. Nicholas Hotels, and Tremont Houees, in various places, where those names have no particular meaning, except as the titular designations o popular taverns. When the present Mayor of this city opened his complaint book, halfa dozen other Mayors seized upon the idea; and it is true that every new thing here is eagerly copied in almost all the minor cities and towas in the Union. We may learn something at times from peo ples whom we are apt to consider not quite so “smart” as ourselves. In most matters, govern- ment eepecially, we consider ourselves superior to the Europeans. We ought to be not only a free and enlightened, but also a happy people. But the essentials to popular enjoyment are al- most altogether overlooked in the United States. In all the European capitals the poor and the rich mingle together in the great pub- lic parks, and indulge in rural bliss in the heart of gre.t cities. The Fre.chman enjoys, with- out money and without price, the great garden of the Tuileries, the woody Elysian fields, the immense Bois de Boulogne, the grove and flow- er gardens of Versailles, the pleasure grounds at Fontainbleau, and then returning he may lounge for hours in the leafy groves of Saint Cloud, regaling himself with the odorous per- fumes of thoueands of flowers, and basking in the sunshine of myriads of happy, joyous faces, That’s despotism ad /a Louis Napoleon. The New Yorker can only look at the loafers ina dfied up’ little Park, or watch a fountain that never plays, in a ten acre lot, dignified by the name of a Parade Ground. That’s republican— ism @ /a Commissioners of the Central Park. We are not improving in this respect. The movement seems rather to be a retrograde one. In eighteen hundred and seven, the Commis. sioners of Streets and Roads laid out the follow: ing public parks:— Market place, from 7th to 10th street, 1 to East river, containing. The Parade, between 23d and 7th av Acres. 63 1.2 242 1-4 to « 18 th 18 5-6 22 5-6 68 1-2 18 210 201.2 462 What a beautiful Park the parade would have been now!—from Twenty-third Thirty-foarth streets, and from the Third to the Seventh avenue! But it was abandoned, as come people seem desirous to kill the Central Park. Look now at the area used for parks at pre- senti— Blomingdale equ: Manhattan #q quere, COth to 68th street, 2d to 6th Now, the area of Central Park, exclusive of the Arsenal and Reservoir grounds, is six hun- dred and twenty-four acres, or about three han- dred acres more than was set apart fifty years ago, when the city population was about eighty thousand. When we reflect that quite a mil- lion of people will be waiting for a park | before the Central is ready for them, it | does not seem too much té ask these solid and respectable Commissioners to hurry up @at report. Why, every pelty Spanish town | bas its grand ploza—iv’a a good cnstom, bor rowed from the plessant backsof the-Eaphrates —while the great city of New York, with ali its wealth, population, fotelliyence, common to | schools, libraries, colleges, newspapers, and other elevating institutions, has not a green spot big enough for the boys to play at leap- frog upon, without the risk of dashing their braine out sgainst a lamp-post. We must have the Central Park for our dren and their children foreyer, as Cwsar le! his gardens on the Tiber to the Roman people. Will the Commissioners remember Cwsar, and give us that report? Tue Germans IN THE PouiticaL Frevp— Our friends the Germans, or a portion of them out West, are trying to see how ridiculous they can make themselves, and we are bound to say they are succeeding to perfection. We pub- lished yesterday the constitution of a union of free Germans, which seems to have originated at Louisville, Ky., and to comprehend most of the German population in the cities of the West. Its object is of course to revolutionize the country. The free Germans are convinced that the United States are going to the dogs, and that nothing can save them but energetic action on the part of the German immigrants. The plan they propose to purene is to obtain control of the federal legislature, as a preliminary mea- eure; then to put down slavery gradually; to throw open seats of honor and trust to athe- iste, to abolish the laws for the observance of the Sabbath, to get rid of the Bible; to abolish the “ruinous traffic in the public lands” by giving them to all who choose to settle on them; to give any “poor colonists” who desire it a sum of money out of the national treasury to start in life with; to establish a new State department to look after the immigrants; to render citizenship as easy as possible to immi- gtants; to establich a minimum of wages for labor, and to declare by law that no man shall be compelled to work more than ten hours a day; to give ali State contracts to associations of workmen, or, where no associations com- pete to oblige contractors to give security that they will pay high wages to their men; to appoint German teachers in the free schools; to abolish fees in.courts of justice; to render any citizen eligible to office in any State or county; to establish free trade with nations whoWd' the like towards us; to abandon the principle of international neutrality and get into trouble with foreign na- tions on the earliest pretext; to concéde to wo- men the same rights as men; to give the fall right of suffrage to the blacks; and finally to abolich capital punishment. _ Here isa pretty fair platform for Fritz and Hans to work upon. Jolly good fellows, how they will slash and hash at our rotten old instita- tions and what a splendid government they will” set up, when they have accomplished their pre- liminary object of obtaining the control of Con- grees and electing a thoroughbred Dutchman to the Presidency. The Free Germans of the West are entitled to the thanks of the country for having proved conclusively the truth of the principle for which the Know Nothings contend—namely, that a residence of five years does not fit a man for American citizenship. No man, properly imbued with the spirit of American institu- tions, would think of organizing an isolated German nationality in this country; or would seek te abolish the Sabbath laws; or would want to give away all our public lands to Germans; or would seek to embroil the nation with fo- reign powers; or would desire to see legislative nterference between capital and labor. There are Americans, we believe, who advocates these absurdities; but they are men who have shaken off their Americanism, and become imbued with the very spirit which is innate and apparently ineradicable among the Germans. As to the latter, they may thank themselves if Congress puts it out of their power to do further mischief by quietly pronouncing them what they show themselves to be— mere foreigners. Tue Mayor Gone To Saratoca.—His Honor Mayor Wood has gone to Saratoga, to try, for @ week or ten daye, the virtues of country air and Congress water. Very well. We hope they will do him much good, after his late se vere labors concerning our dirty streets, and street contractors and street sweeping ma- chines, that “haven’t got a vote.” Jus. tice to the Mayor—even handed justice— Tequires us to say, that he has left the streets in a much better condition than he found them. We respectfully suggest to our vigilant Mayor, meantime, while at Saratoga, the expo- diency of investigating carefully the working of the new liquor law up there, It has been al- leged that the general effect and the leading virtue of the Congress water is the thirst which it creates for French brandy, ard that a boitle of the ove before breakfast creates a vacuum for a bottle or two after, in broken doses, before dinner. In this connection, we are assured, that the liquor law at Saratoga Springs is look- ed upon with unmitigated contempt and disgust, and that more liquor, from Scotch whiskey down to lager bier, is drank there than ever before. Let our active Mayor, therefore, make out a report as to the relative and com. parative consumption at Saratoga of Con- gress water and distilled and fermented liquors, before and since ‘the glorious Fourth,” for the enlightenment of our fellow citizens in the November election. It will be very interesting. AMUSEMENTS OF THE PoLice.—Very Funny --Our model policemen, under our, present beneficent city administration, have a right Jolly time of it, after all. By way of amnse- ment, once in two, three, four, five or six weeks, an agreeable surprise is planned for the benefit of some particular establishment or two among “the fancies” of the respective districts. On one night, for example, a general descent is made upon the Cyprians in the streets, They are captured by scores, tried, convicted, and sent to Blackwell's’ Island, to return agala the next day. The alarm subei the frail beau- ties are more numerous thao: on Broadway; and people are beginning to wonder what has become of the Mayor and his police, when, presto! a detachment of our city sentinels pounce down upon a nest of gambling shops, and arrest the parties in attendance, and carry them up for examination. Next morning, for lack of evidence, they are acquitted, and the gambling saloons flourish more openly than ever. They have been tried; they can’t be reached, and they go bravely on. Next we hear of the arrest of a lottery policy dealer or eo, or afortune teller or two, or a lot of “baggege smashers,” or emigrant ranners, or something of that sort, and that is the last that we hear of them from the authorities, They slip through the meshes of the law like eels, and go on with their respective contraband pursuits ae tefere. We can only conciude thas these eudden surprises against the dens and re ceptacles of Cyprians, gamblers, and other land pirates, are intended as occasional amusements for the police, They add zest and spice. to the heavy and stupid business of ar- rests for over-drinking under the.new liquor law; and they give an air of activity and enterpricee to the police department, of the most refreshing description. But the initiated Jaugh in their sleeves, and from the mock auctioneer to the wharf rat the idea begins to, prevail that ‘those fellows at the City Hoh are only making out,” What wilk - all this come to by November next—can any~ body tell? THE LATEST NEWS3 BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHY, From Washi . REMOVAL OF GOVERNOR BREEDER, AND APPOINTMENT" OF JOHN L. DAWSON, GOVERNOR OF KANSAS. Wasurvaton, July 29, 1855. ‘The President has appointed Hon. John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania, Governor of Kansas, in place of Hon. A. H. Reeder, removed. Mr. Dawson was an effective mem- ber of the last Copgrers, and voted for the Nebrasks- Kansas bill. He is also known as a strenuous advozate of the polisy of giving homesteads to actusl settlers, and introduced # bill for that purpose, which passed the House of Representatives, but failed to obtain tae sanc~ tion of the Senate. NEW YORK POLITIOIANS—ARRIVAL OF PRESTON KING— PIERCE MOVEMENT, ETO. Wasuineton, July 29, 1855. ‘There are atill a few New York politicians hovering around the flesh pote. There were fresh arrivals lart night, among whcm was Preston King. There are va- rious stories in regard to thelr mission. The most plausible one is, and my informant is s distinguished hard sbell, to patch up an armistise whereby the two Sections can be united, so as to carry the State this fall, which wili pave the way for ’56. This is a Pierce movement, as he thinks his chances for the succession superior to any man’s in the thirty-one Stetes. My “hard” informant says they would as soon think of coalescing with the evil ore as with the softs, DON. Sad Accident, Naw Haven, Conn., July 28, 1855. Two Irishmen, named Blakuslee and Sheridan, wero billed this afternood by the poisonous gas of a well in St. Johns street. One of them being overcome fei] into the water,and the other descended to his relief, when he algo was prostrated. A third was near sharing a eimilar fate.. Both the deceased have large families, one severs children, and the other five, Non-Arrival of the New Orleans Mall. Bartimore, July 29, 1855, ‘The mail, this evening, brings nothing south ef Mo~ bile, and the papers at hand contain no news. Markets. Paovipence, July 28, 1855. The sales of cotton for the past week add up 1,500 bales, without any materie] change in prices, the msr- ket closing with a Orm feeling. Wool—Stock rather in- creasing, with fair'demand and better feeling at tho close; sales 84,400 lbs, Printing cloths—Sales for the week 41,00 pieces. Brooklyn City News. ‘Tur CoLonsp CauRcHRS.—The colored congregations of this city and New York assemblod in mase mesting yes- terday, at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in. Bridge street, Brooklyn, the object being to collest funds for the purpose of sinking the debt on the church. The building cost $12,500, and there is yet » debt of $8,700 remaining, Bervices were held morning, afternoon and ¢vening; aud sermons were preached by Rev. Mr. Gra- ham, Freewill Baptist Church; Rev. Dr. Sbidoh Presbyterian Church; and Rey. Mr. Morgan, Second street Methodist Church—all of New York. The bagel the Briggs c'seet Cnurch ie Rev. Mr Willinma, rviees in other chuichrs were suspended for the day, and there was consequ:ntly @ good attendance. PicninG Pockgrs.—A young man arrested at the Fulton ferry, on Saturdsy, by officers Frost an! Wright, on the charge of relieving the pocket of Mra, Margaret Swan of a portmonnaie containing some change. Fear- detection, he dro; the parcel, but being per- ceived, he war taken tao custody and locked up to await a bearing. He gave no name, stating that he thought it best frat to consult counsel. DanGsrovs Baruinc Puack —A little boy, named Pat- rick Boyle, went in the water to bathe at the foot of Harrison street, on Saturday evening, and becoming fast in the muddy bottom, be was unable to extricate him- felf, He wasrercued by William Shannon, and offi sera Reynolds and Holbrook, of the Third ward police, ia an insensible condition, He was resuscitated and taken to his home, on the corner of Nevins and Columbia streets, On the 28d inst , a procession was gotten up in Alle- ghany city, Ps,, to show the indigns! of the citizens against some act of the City Council. As it passed the Anderson street Catholic church, the Ty forming it an attack on the building, di out the win- dows with stones, anc otherwise injuring it. The pa sere of both parties there denounse the outrage ia revere terms. The Lafayette Hall Affair.Having seen. an article in the Sunday Dispatch in which my name has been freely used by that paper, and that artisle having contained numerous faisehoods, I have taken this method to answer the Diépatch:—In the firet place, Mr, Somerndyke bas, on sundry occasions, folloved me from place to place, using the most profane laugaege— call mean ‘Irish son of a 2 @ “ thief,” and in fact everythirg that a man could’ be called, he has also visited my place of business im company with o'hers, in my absenvre, and used the same language about me to those in my employ. Now, I ask the pub- Me whether a man, having the least spark of feelin; about him cap at all times eadure such treatment On the night of my difficulty in Lafayette Hall with Mr. Eomerndyke, I went there alone, and hii been there one hour previous to Mr Leen iped com there. I bad been conversing with a friend of mine; was sitting by the window, and Mr. Somerndyke was talbing to a gentleman; he turned round and aitting there; and the first salute that I got falee ewearing Irish son of & ;? he came towards. and up in a position to hit; I immedi- ately got up to dofend gmyself. . Now, I ark an whether be? would not have done the rame as The above statement is correct, and there is mo gen! man who was present and saw the regen dl ‘taat will tay the whole is not a true statement of the facts. Subscribing myself, JAMES IRVING. F poranra Galley atte ae oe nee he for Barnum’e Gi of Beauty at one third on his oeneains. Pay elegant ed are at the corner of taken in all weathers. ee ee a etl Invention, for ir dozen, ma, electricity and machinery against all one horre ents. Pietnre factory and sky pariors of the New York Artist’s Clab, 280 Broadway. Knapp’s Daguarreotype Gallery Removed entire, to477 Broadway, between Broome ani Grand tovrult “the ‘ines, Licadaaes eta teat Feet 5 eneares . deceased persons taken, ie ee nats Pianos.—Florace Waters, 333 Broadw: hae the sole agency for the sale of f. Gilbert & Coe Hal- lett & Cumeton’s, Woodward & Brown’s, aod Jacob Pianos; and his is the only house celebrated modera improved ings. Prices lem ih defy com petition wed on pu ie. Pianos for sale on monthly its. Sole agency for 8. 0. & G. W. Smith’s eelel melodeons aed the equal it. New Se me bona with iro frames) Pianos to rent, and rent ler $160. Second Pianos from $30 to $140 x Marsh, of Cherry Vai- ley.” fone and chorus. Words by G. P. Morr, Esq.; music by Thomas Baker. Price 25 cents. A jit fared beth words and music charming for their rimpllcity. The melody is exceedingly pretty, and essi! azht. Tt must soon be as Popaae “Our Boys,” “fay ‘composer. ACE WATERS, 823 Broadway. Horses at Auction—We Desire to Call the At- tention of our readers to the sale of two va'u to be made this day, Monday, at 12 o’eloc: BLN rt F, in fropt of his sp, oem, No. 11 Broad . For full partion! to his advertirenent in another column, te Albert H. Nicolay’s Regular Semi Weekly auction sale of stocks and bonds will take place this Mondey, at half past twelve o'clock, at the Mer-na Exel . For farther sulars nee his advertise: in column. Catalogues can be obtained at office, No. 11 Broad street. all of whieh are of o will be #old at the lowest market price, by the aceann A, LELAND & O0., 171 Pear! street. Sunday Boat tor Albany and Troy... cox, leaves %ne feot of Ko $e at 6 o'clock. Passengers «-v for. ind all porta North aad West, Novelty of th cansimere suite, $10 ite 3 f fine woolten cassimere rhouls + rold for $ ' 508m ble treo ro. Still, EVANS, Of (6 and O8 F, the oply mam that can pa do it