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4 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1855. NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. BUTE N. W. CORNER OF NASGAU AND FULTON 878, MS cash in advance ar 'Y HERALD 3 conts ~er per annum. KLY HERALD evry Saturday, at 6% cents per annum; the European cditton #4 per an. at Britain or $5 to any part of the postage. Maui for Subs postay riptions or with Adver- aetnents to post pad, or the 2 will be deducted from new remitted. VULUNT4KY CORRESPONDENCE containing impor- dant news ry fe any quarter of the world—if used will be libcrully prt ‘ee Oun Fonriom CORRESFON- Dexrs ARE PARTE LY REQUESTED TO SEAL ALL Lxrrens 4xp Packs ENT US. NOH PIin TING exeouted with neatness, cheapness, and bay iT URTISEMENTS renewed every day. ceeevee ecetedesseee cess Qe BIL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NTBSLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Breacu ov Promise aWeinise wie rn : BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Asmonxas—Tue Waite Money o> THE PEPPERS. Woopd’s MINSTRELS—Mechanice’ Hall—472 Broadway. Mew Yook, Wednesday, August 1, 1855. The News. Neither the steamer Washington, from South- smpton Joly 1S for this port, nor the Asia, from Liverpoolf July 21 for Halifax and Boston, had ar- rived up toa late hour last night. The former will briag three days’ and the latter one woek’s later imtelligence from Europe. Both are fully due, and either may be telegraphed at any moment. The Ariel, from Havre 2let ult. for thia port, is now in her eleventh day out. We bave news from Cuba to the 25thult. The decision of the tribunal in the case of the political offenders had been rendered. The particulars are given elsewhere. Our Havana correspondent, states that seven hundred and sixty-two Chinese Mborers had been landed there in two days, and gold at a rate of $170 for each fall grown healthy ene. The scene was melancholy. The Asiatics were downcast, many sick, and all half naked. A great many Yucatan women and children were also jm the market,sent by Santa Anna’s agents. Ten eeptured Bozals, from the coast of Africa, were for sale; but one of them, who spoke Portuguese, made some revelations respecting the slave trade which eaused much excitement. The United Staces sloops Cyane aud Falmouth were in port. The steamer Wnited States had bsen scold for nearly $150,000. Beakb of the city and port good. The Liquor Dealers’ Association and the hard shel democrats both held their primary elections last evening, of which an account will be found elsewhere. This is the first time the liquor dealera heave appetred in the: field as'dn exclusively poli- ‘ical party. Tne Hard Shell State Convention will ba held at Ayracuse, on September 6th, and that of the liquor dealers at the same place, on the Sth inst. a z Kt is stated that President Pierce will visit Old Point Comfort curing this week." Among the nota bilities at present rusticating at Old Point, are Szc. retary Marcy and James T. Brady, of New York. An interesting report of the trial of Mr. George E. You Beck, an extensive manufacturer of lager bier, at Rondout, on Monday, is published in to day’s paper. This case involved property to the amount ef nearly one handred thousand dollars, and result- ed im the discharge of the defendant by the court. ‘The decision of the Justice was received by the large crowd of spectators in attendance with the Bveliest demonstrations of satisfaction. Lager bier avery popular beverage in these hot timss, ani a formidable opponent af the Prohibitory Liquor inw. On the 234 ult. the cupola of the court house in Taylor cougty, Va., was struck by lightning while the court was in session anda large number ot persons within the building. One man, Rev. Heze- kiah Donham, was instantly killed, and ssveral ethers prostrated, some of whom were saverely imjored. In the sume county, a few days previous, Mr. Alexaader Williamson and four of his sons were binding wheat in a field, when the entire party were prostrated by lightning. Fortunately Mrs. Wiilismson witnessed the occurrence, and through ber exertions her husband and children recovered from the effectsof the shock. {t may ba usefal to know that thoroughly drenching the suffsrer with water is the best method of restoring to conscious Bess persons stunned by lightning. ‘Three sailor: are supposed to hava bzen mur dered on board the ship Colchis, of Philadelphia, while on their way from New Orleans to the Belize. ‘The authorities had refased to allow the the vessel to proceed to sea, and an investigation into the af- flac was in progress. ‘There is great excitement at Portsmonth, Va., owing to the prevalence of yellow fever. Upto Monday evening there had been sixty-eight cases, ‘twenty-six of which proved fatal. In Norfolk there had been twenty cases and four deaths. The in- fected districts had been fenced in, and other pre- cautions taken to prevent the spread of the con- tagion. ‘Phe Ohio river is now in fine navigable order, and the Cincinnati and Lonisville boats are running at dow rates. Forwarding is said to be very active for Me searon. At the meeting of the Classis of the Reformed Dateh ¢ ch of this city yesterday, Ezekiel C. and Jaco W. Sculdsr were examined and daly autho- rized to the work of the ministry as missionaries in dedia. ‘The defalcation of Tuckerman, late Treagurer of the Eastern (Macsachnsette) railroad, is found to amount to the sum of $245,300. The cotton market was quite firm yesterday, with ssies of about 1,500 bales. Four was steady, and in good demand, without ciange in prices. The sales of Tennessee and other Southern wheat reached about 10,000 a 12,000 bashels, at full peices. Corn slightly fell off im price, while sales were made toa fairexient. Pork, for new mess and prime, wasrather easier, with moderate sales. A Boston order, received from abroad, for 2,000 bbis. prime mess, was filled at $17 50. It was aup- posed to be intended for the seat of war at the East. Coffee continued to be in good demand, and firm.+ Sugars were firm, with moderate tranmactiong, at full prices. The stock of hhds. was slichtly in excess of what it was last year at the same time. There was more doing ia Preights for Liverpool, though at low rates, with some engagements of coffse, &c., for Antwerp, at rates given in another column. Governor Re Removat ty WASHING ‘ToN.— It appears that the removal of Governor Reeder bas excited a sensation in the Kitchen Ca- binet at Washington; and it is supposed that Mr. Daweon, of Pennsylvania, will refuse to stand between the indignation of the free soil demo- cracy of his State and the administration, and will accordingly refase to take the place of his friend Reeder. In that case, trouble to Mr, Pierce and Marcy may grow out of this basi. nees, to their damage in the Pennsylvania Octo- ber election, which, it is to be hoped, Col. ¥or- ney will use his influence to prevent, notwith- standing he may be the loser by Reeder’s dis- charge. There was, however, no help for it; they were using the retention of Reeder ia office to the prejudice of the democracy ia Ken tucky, North Carolina and Tennessee, and the near approach of thoee elections admitted of no other alternative than the head of Reeder “in a charger,” a8 @ peace offering to the South. 1f it fails of @ good effect, then something must be done fur the ox Governor and tho free soil democrats of Pennsylvania. The Cabinet have te take the elections as they come, and work Bas Wiis avcordinglys The Pretex(s of Political Agitators—Progress ofSegro Worhip. It is a remarkable fact that of all the devices and pretexts adopted by the negro worshippers, as instruments of egitation, not one, save that of the Fugitive Slave law, involves the fate or can seriously affect the existence and attributes of slavery. The abolition campaign was origi- nally opened upon the question of the recep- tion of its various petitions by the Senate and House of Representatives; and the South, con- stitutionally sensitive, as all property holders are when their interests are menaced, mistak- ing impudence for influence, unwisely, as we think, met the fanatics at the door of the capital, and entered into a contest with them. This was necessarily a Northern anda Southern combat—it became a battle of the sections. The people of the free States had nothing, in truth, todo with the matter. They regarded the abolitionists with contempt, and could not understand how it was that they were deemed worthy of the consideratioa of the South, as evinced by an array of its entire representation in Congress against the reception and reference of their harmless petitions. By the policy pur- sued by the slaveholders, the abolitionists were enabled to bring on a sectiona} war; aad it was one of its inevitable consequences that they should enlistip their favor a large class of weak and visionary men in the North to aid them in beating back what they never failed to denounce asthe aggressions of the South. For many years the reception of petitions was the only bone of contention between the two extremes of the Union. The success of the one or the other party had no practical bearing—it was a pre- text for agitation—it wasa sectional strife, and was seized upon by local politicians, who, by pandering to the prejudices of the parties, re- spectively, were enabled to secure their own advancement, and to make the issues involved a source of perpetual discord between the two great sections of the Union. Next came the proposition, under general Jaws of population, to annex the young republic of Texas to the United States. It had been carved out of a neighboring nationality, and was the conquest of superior enterprise. Whatever it possessed of slavery had been sup- plied from the adjoining States of the Union. There was, to us, nothing new in the existence of the rebel republic, either in its conquest over the Mexicans, its people, or its institutions, We had supplied all, having added to the recogni- tion of slavery there, perhaps every negro that was, or is now, within the State. The North had advanced its frontier limits over the whole plain of the lakes—it was natural enough that the South should move also in the direction of the Rio Grande, in obedience to its own laws of industry, It is evident at once, then, that the fierce denunciations of the abolitionists agaiast the incorporation of Texas into the Union, though capital means for agitation, were wholly without point or justification. Neither the fate, the existence, or attributes of slavery were in- volved. Successful resistance to annexation would have released nota single slave, or modi- fied the condition of his bondage. There was no extension cf slavery, for it existed before; and, indeed, it is difficult to understand how slavery can be extended on this continent, so long as the foreign slave trade is prohibited— how it can be extended, in any just sense, with- out adding to its numbers from without, Na- tural increase is just as probable and certainin one place as another. The diffusion of slavery snotitsextension. In fact, the Texas contro- versy was a device—a mere pretext for agita tion—and the end sought is the total extinction of the institution by act of Congress. The labor of the fanatics is pointless on any other bypothesis. If there is any positive goodin their ideas, it can be made available in no pos- sible event except by the abolition of slavery by Congress. The next point of agitation, passing the fierce controversy of 1850, was on the repeal of the Missouri compromiee. ‘There are few or none of the negro worship- pers who claim that that compromiee had any legal force as a final eettlement of the slavery question, in connection with the formation of new Territories and States. It did not, be- cause to make it so would be to raise up a law to the level of the constitution, and to surround it with all the sanctities of aa organic com- pact. But it is something—a resnls of congres- sional action, growing out of a great exvite- ment between the two sections of the Union. It is not a law, because a statute has not the power to bind the people and control future legislation at the same time. It is not a treaty, because there is needed necessary parties, there being no national North and national South. Well, it was a moral compact—a kind of sacred understanding ; not a plain legal obliga- tion, but a conscientious faith, such as boys in- voke when they say: ‘I hope to die,” plighted one to the other—a kind of tavorite invalid that exacts everything and performs nothiag Nobody knows where to place it, or how to con- strue it. It is definite enough nowin its name, and it must be very attractive for that, as it is the only compromise which has found favor with the abolitionists and free soilers. [t was a statute much like the Maine law—destined to create a deal of trouble, and to do nobody any good. It was legislation by Congress for the Territories thirty or forty years in advance an act of presumption and folly which no fron- tiersman ever thought of as binding upon the people sought to be affected by it, It was a joint stock investment of a lot of trading politicians in a machine patented by Congress, which was to manutacture public opinion for the Territories. Its first bril- liant thought was to run up a wall on the pa rallel of thirty-six and a halt degrees of lati tude, and build up slavery on one side and ut- terly demolish it on the other; aod thus, in imi- tation of the supposed arrangements of aaother world, form the hell and the heaven of our re public. It is quite immaterial whether the compro- mise of 1820 was what is termed a law, and binding as such; a treaty aad in force, or aa un- derstanding, and still obligatory. In either contingency it is a law, in fact, permittiog and inhibiting slavery, and it is impossible to with- draw from the conclusion that Congress may au thorize or abolish slavery. and, accordingly, we expect to see the act of 1820 quoted by the negro worshippers as conclusive that as early a9 that date Congress exercised sovereign power over the whole question, Indeed, it ie impossilee, jest@Hing the legali- ty of the Missouri compreanime, to deny the power of Congress over the whole matter of American slavery; and this is the point now being forced to issue by the Seward « republi- cans’ of the North. The question of slavery in Kansas is an abstraction, utterly useless ex- beets & yehig.e ho carry rouud Whe dewuagia tions of the abolitionists. The repeal of the Missouri compromise was nothing in itself, be- cause it never controlled the movement of a slave, and it never would. It exerted no infla- ence, nor was it discovered to posses3 any vir- tue till after its death. Not even the utter pa- ralysis of all its organs, by the pa:sage of the compromise measures of 1850, was suffisient to excite the slightest interest in its character and fate. The rights of popular sovereignty which were carried into force as a substitute for the act of 1820, amounted to nothiog. They did not reet upon an act of Congress; they existed in the people; were inherent and necessary in this system of government. The people of the Ter- ritories never have been and never will be gov- erned by foreign legislation. It is impossible that “fifty years of practical non-intervention by Congress in the affairs of the Territories, and the same long period in which the full and unrestricted rights of popular sovereignty have been exercised by the people, should not be considered sufficient to settle the question be- yond controversy. The agitators do not expect to control slave- ry in the Territories; they intend only to use the undecided question whether it can go there or not, in convection with the repeal of the Missouri compromise, which, they aver, render- ed possible such an issue, to keep up the dis- turbance, and ultimately to drive the North and South to the organization of two parties, limited reapectively to the free and the slave States. Never, tili that event occurs, will the negro worshippers reap the solid fruits of agi- tation, All other matters are preliminary— mere introductions. Their work is mischief— not benevolence; they seek disturbance and civil war, and there is no field for such pro- ducts, save that upon which is planted the seeds of two parties based on geographical lines. Excirement my Wat Srreer—A Great Fuss asout Nornine.—There wasa little flurry in Wall street yesterday morning, caused by an exaggerated report of some trouble in the Mechanics’ Bank. The facts are fully set forth in the money article in to-day’s Heratp, and it will be seen that there is no occasion for any particular alarm. It appears that the cashfer had some difficulty with the assistant cashier relative to an appointment in the bank, and from this a story was circulated that the former was a defaulter. Such a story was eagerly taken up and spread through the street. Ia addition to this, the cashier resigned and left the bank, because his appointee was not con- firmed. This gave additional currency to the rumor. The alleged error in the accounts of the cathier, Mr. . W. Edmonds, who is Chambor- lain of the city, and a director of the Harlem Railroad, amounts to seven thousand dollars; and the facts in the matterare very well kaowa to the President and directors, although kept secret in the bank for good reasons. It is well known that the city funds are deposited in this bark, and the expenditure of seven thousand dollars, charged to no particular account, it is aseerted, is owing to the political feature in the affairs of this financial institution. If it is de- sired, we have no doubt that Mr. Edmonds will give the stockholders and the public a full ex- planation éf the matter. The officers of the bank are fully acquainted with all the facts, and know that ‘the money has been expended on their account. Mr. Edmonds, tnough often requested, refuses to retura to his post unless the person nominated by him is confirmed by the directors. Jn paseing, we may say that Mr. Edmonds has been connected with banking institutions all his life. He is always referred to in dis- puted points, and no man has or merits more covfidence on the part of thoee with whom he comes in contact. Boris anp Bears on THE Corn Excuance on THE Wueat Crop.-Our article yesterday, regarding the estimated aggregate product of wheat for the United States for the present year, with all due allowance for the deleterious effect of all the rain which has fallen, and its ecncomitants, assisted in giving fresh grounds for disputes between the “bulls” and “bears” on the Corn Exchange. There are bulls and bears in all trades. The former profeesed to be pertectly well posted, almost up to the last shower, and its results in the Genesee Valley. One had just returned from thence, and had en- jeyed ocular demonstration of the disastrous ef: tects of the rain. The uncut wheat was beat down, and that which had been cut and shock- ed was sprouting, while the straw was turning black as acrow. It would take long days of clear, hot sunshine todry it, and it would not be fit to grind tijl late in the autumn, and then would only make inferior flour. He had heard from other places, all over the North- west, where affairs were equally as bad. Per Contra.—The ears argued that the rain, so far, had inflicted no damage anywhere worth naming; that the wheat crop everywhere was good; that the wheai on the oakiands ot the Genesee, c., would stand rain without hurt almost ad libitum; that nothing short of a week or two of unremitting rain, or a sort of Nowh’s flood, could tonch the kernel of wheat; that the berry was eurrounded with a husk, which turned off rain like the feathers on a duck’s back, and when cut it was made doubly secure by having the heads of sheaves well covered from rain in “shocks.” After listening to the arguments pro and con, it was difficult to tell which bad the best of it. We came to the conclusion that the truth lay somewhere between the two ex- tremes, and, so far as we could judge, the mar- ket for flour came to the same conclusion, for it neither went up nor down. Tue Ranpaut’s Istanp Cninpren ayy tie Snakers — We stated last week that a deputa- tion from the Shaker village of Lebanon had visited Randall’s Island and selected twenty children for the purpose of taking them to their settlement. Yesterday was the day on which they were to call and take them away; but we Jearn the Ten Governors have conclud- ed to look a little further into the matter be- fore they will give their assent for their depar- ture. They have concluded to depute some of their number to visit Lebanon, and make them- selves conversant with the mode in which chil- dren are treated by the Shakers; and if they find matters as they have been represented, they will then raise no objection to the chil- dren departing for their new home. We under- stand that the Shakers, in selecting the children, do not press upon any one, however small, to go with them, but leave it entirely to their own inclination to decide. The children who are brought up in these Shaker villages are taught @lcanliacss, and the most strict mozali'y aud virtue. They are never overworked, as the stoutest are required to labor but six or seven hours ina day, and that ‘with the exception of farming, of the lightest kind of labor. Their principal occupations are gathering and put- ting up seeds, preparing herbs, making brooms, psils, tubs, and other descriptions of light wood work, and tending to their farms, which are always of the best, and kept in the finest order.’ When their juvenile charges grow up to years of judgment of discrimination, they have no restraint placed upon them, and are at perfect liberty to leave if they feel so inclined; but they are not allowed to take any of the accumulated wealth of the settlement, which is held in common with them. Two Grorce Laws—Tus Baurivonr Oup Focy anp tHE New York “Live Oak Groraz.—We find the following paragraph ia the Richmond (Va.) Whig :— The Lynchburg Aepublican has spiked the cannon of exe George Law, by pubiishing bis naturalization pa- pers, which show him to be # mative of Ireland, and copaequently ineligible to the Presidency. We do not know that this isthe ‘Live Oak George” of the New York BERALD; and, from the date of the naturali- zation, (1805,) we infer not. Will the Herat explain ? The ineligibility of Mr. Wise has been discassed and ex- pounaed, Let “ Live (ak George’? enjoy like advan- ‘tages. We have seen this thing floating about in our exchanges for some days past, but have consider- ed apy notice of it as searcely worth the candle. However, to satisfy our Virginia cotemporary, we shall put the matter right. This Baltimore George Law, presuming that he was twenty-one years of age, as appears to be the case, when he was naturalized in 1805, would now be seveaty- one years old—a respectable white-headed or bald-headed old gentleman,in “the lean and slippered pantaloon,” with still a touch, per- haps, of the “rich Irish brogue.”’ Now, “Live Oak George Law,” on the other hand, is in the prime and vigor of life—a strong, solid, robust man, about six feet in his stock- ings, and two hundred pounds weight. He has the frame of a Hercules,a large head, and a suit of thick, brown, bushy hair, sufficient to make three or four common sized wigs. Thin haired men look on him with envy, barbers with undisguised admiration, and dyspeptics with absolute amazement. He has the loek of @ matter-of-fact American of solid, practical sense, and that genial glow of satisfaction natural to a man who, setting out in life with a good will and a pair of empty breeches pockets, has built railroads, canals, acque- ducte, bridges, ocean steamers, and a residence on the Fifth avenue. Phreno- logists would undoubtedly say that he has not only the organs of @ sound financier, politician, and executive officer, strongly de- veloped, but also the normal qualities essen” tial to the succeseful military chieftain. In fact, his inclination that way has been to some extent betrayed in his extensive business opera- tions in muekets and artillery. But, to give a more specific account of the discrepancies between the old Baltimore Irish George Law, and the New York American “Live Oak George,” we refer all concerned to the authentic biographical sketch of the latter, “after the manner of Plutarch,” published in the New York Henatp of June 2, 1855. We annex the opening paragraph of that sketch, which is as follows :— George Law was born in the town of Jackson, Washing- tor oounty, State of New York, on the 20ta of October, 1806. His father, John Law, Wasa farmer, and owned about one hundred acres of ond at the time George was born. George bad two brothers and two visters, He was the yourgest of the three boys, ‘These children aro ail dead except George and the youngest sister, who is married, and resides at and owns the old homestead, “ Town of Jackson,” ‘‘ Washington county.” Washington and Jackson! Won't that do? If not, inquire in the neighborhood of the contem; poraries of the father of “Live Oak George,’ an honest farmer, who was known, from the good quality of his butter, as “ Butter John.” And so, from the record, it appears that the Baltimore George Law can’t possibly be our New York “Live Osk George,” from the chronological fact that the former was natural- ized in Baltimore one year before the latter was born in New York. Within the last three months, the increasing public curiosity inall sections to know some- thing about this “live oak” candidate, who has taken such a hold upon the popular miad, is very remarkable. His home is thronged by vieiters from day to day, and his daily receipt of letters can scarcely be less in number than those sent down to General Taylor at Baton Rouge in 1848, to inquire whether he had or bad not accepted the Philadelphia nomination. Of late, we have noticed several daguerreo- types and photographs along Broadway, of “Live Oak George.” Yesterday, a friend of his presented us with an excellent engraved likeness of the “ great contractor,” and we pre- sume that copies of it, and of other engravings, will soon be distributed throughout the coun- try, to let all his triends see for themselves that they are not mistaken in their man. If the Baltimore George Law be still alive, and the editor of the Lynchburg Republican will in- form us of his present whereabouts, we shall rend him a copy of his New York namesake's engraved portrait, free of charge. Let the old chap be hunted up. Tue Emigrant Ai Socrerr Tae New ExGianp CLerGy to THE Rescve.—The three thousand clergymen of New England who sent in their protest to the United Sates Senate against the passage of the Nebraska bill, de- claring the bill an outrage against God and man, have not given up the ship. A move- ment is on foot to make these three thousand political parsons life members of the “Kansas Emigrant Aid Society,” each upon the pay- ment into the common fund of the sum of twenty dollars, which will give anaggregate of sixty thousand for the cause,—“‘ this sum to be expended in settling Kansas with Christian men and women from New England.” “Christian men and women!” There can be no objection to them. Fromall accounts, they are sadly wanted among “ the border ruffians” on both sides, in Kansas. But we conjecture, from the antecedents of these three thousand gospel politicians, that the © Christian men and wo- men” they want are such ag Lloyd Garrison, Parker Pillsbury, Lucy Stone and Abby Kelly Foster, fanatical nigger worshippers, who are prepared to sacrifice every principle of Chris- tianity to their malignant hostility against Southern slaveholders aud the institutions of the South. Such are the “Christian men and women” wanted by our three thousand New England abolition preaching parsons. What a | pity they can find no better employment! In the last speech of John C. Calnoun in the United States Senate, he very pointedly re- marked that in the separation of that great religious community, the Methodist Episcopal Church, into two churches—the charch North and the church South—one of the strong cords. together, wad snapped asunder! A church North and @ church South! Slavery or aboli- tion, by @ geographical line, made the lead- ing clement ofa mah’s religion! Was not the sagacious South Carolihian right? Do we not see that the evil has become @ chronic disease— that in the North a Protestant clergyman must be an abolitionist in his teachings, and that in the South be must be “Southern in his feel- ings!” There are the bitter fruits of the anti- slavery agitation—tarning into mockery the doctrines of the Gospel--briaging sectional and party politics into the pulpit, and changing the great law “of peace and will among men” into seething hate, discord, and sedition. And now our three thousand delectable anti- Nebraska protesting ‘clergymen, are to raise a fund of sixty thousand dollars to aid in settling Kansas with “Christian men and women from New England.” So be it. The Territory is open--the public lands there are not all yet taken up—plenty of room in Kansas for even the abolition neophytes of the three thousand—the philanthropic three thou- sand—the amiable, nigger worshipping, and most godly three thousand New England preachers, of a mixed religion of loyalty and treason—good will and intense hate—love and vengeance—order and anarchy—union and se- dition—domestic peace and civil war—concord and bloody revolution—harmony, and fire, and slaughter. The Territory is open. The glove has been thrown down—the South have taken it up on the issue of “squatter sovereignty,” and will certainly outsquat you if they can. They have made very little clamor with their Emigrant Aid Socicties; but they have been sending in, and are still sending in their squat- ters to contest the question, face to face, and side by side, with our abolition societies and their colonists, parsons and philozophera, saints and sinners, The best thing, in this view of the case, which the New England evangelical three thousand can do, is to buckle up their traps, settle their accounts, and take up the line of march for Kansas ina solid body. With such an invasion surely the “ border ruffians” would “flee the wrath to come,” or bow down in absolute submission to the three thousand. Perhaps in this way the three thousand might christianize Kansas. We don’t know; but we say perhaps. Suppose they try it. Good cli- mate—fine soil—only requiring a little hard work. Send ont the three thousand. Tue Josern WALKER Case—Monrat Procness. —On Monday last Mr. Covert, an ex-Alder- man and a gentleman of undoubted respecta- bility and financial experience, gave evidence in the Joseph Walker case which is likely to secure for his name the honor of becoming a proverbial expression. He was the gentleman —it will be recollected—who, according to the evidence of Walter R. Jones, agreed or pro- mised, or was to have agreed or promised, to “stop the discussion of the Joseph Walker cage’ in the Common Council, in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars from Jones. Being called to the stand, and interrogated, this virtuous man confirmsy in the fullest manner, all that Jones swore. “I thought,” says he, modestly, “I could stop the resolution in the Board of Aldermen. Now understand I make no secresy as to what I did. I told Mr. Lane I would like to see Mr. Jones on the subject. I didn’t say much to Jones anyhow. Mr. Lane did all the talking. Only when there was a remark by Mr. Lane to Mr. Jones that it would take some six or seven hundred dollars, I said it would take a thousand. I was in the market or anything of the kind.” He declared— hard working Covert— that the thousand dollars were for “ his services;” but when asked what these services might be, he prudently replied that that was “in his own mind after he had the money secured.’ Being further pressed, however, his ingenious nature could no longer be controlled, and he said: “I would have gone, for instance, to you, Alderman Ely, and said it would be impossible to have that ship raised in sixty days, and that it could not be done in sixty years. In this way I would have endeavored to have kept out the report.” What other means he would have employed we can only conjecture from his oft repeated avowals that, “if he had achance he would make a thou- sand dollars out of any man.” This is not the first occasion on which an af- fectation of candor has been resorted to in cases like this, The trick isan old one. And though it is not easy to perceive the motive which could have induced such men as Barnum and Burnham to step out of their way gratui- tously in order to exhibit themselves to the world at the confessional, there are and have been cases in which seif accusation presented at least the small advantage of taking the edge of novelty off the public indictment. And in like manner, the gentlemen who endeayored to promulgate a new theory of honesty and corruptioa in their evidence on the Colt investigation be- fore a committee of Congress, did so in ail probability from the same principle which in- duced the Roman to commit suicide rather than fall into the enemy’s hand. I+ is clear, however, that such unblushing avowals of im- morality constitute, in themselves, a distinct and eeparate offence. It is not fitting that men inthe position of ex- Aldermen, or in any other conspicuous rank, should be allowed to say pub- licly that they are ready to commit any im- proper act for money; and that the sayiag should go into families, and be read by the growing youth without a word of antidote. Loudly enough do we hear complaints of the conuption, of the mercenary tendenc es, of the want of principle displayed by our city boys: but what can we expect if such avowals as that of Mr. Covert, and such books as Barnum’s are put into their hands? Can they read justifica- tions of every species of deceit and dishonesty from day to day without being contaminated? The thing is impossible, A New Scmwer Resont.—Some of our enterprising pleasure seekers have discovered a new summer resort ‘at Budd's Lake, New Jersey, eight miles from Schooley’s Mountaip, and easily accessible by the Morris and Essex Railroad. We hear that is « beautiful «pot, and the: the lake is fullof fish. Messrs. J. M. Sharp & Co, have opened the Forest House there, and will, no doubt, take good care of ali their guests. People who are diase ef the old places willdo well to take «run down to Budi’s Lake for a day or two, Brooklyn City News, Fires.—Shortly before 2 o’clock yesterday morniag & fire was discovered in the lime sheds of Voorhees & Sjencer, at the foot of Amity street, caused by water | leaking into the barrels filled with lime. About 150 1. destroyed. about $200, Officer pastel of abe Third ssteist police, with the neighbors, uceeeded in suppressing the flames. ‘About the same time » stable in Schonck street, near De Kalb avenue, was found to be on fire; bat it was speedily extinguished without causing mach damage, ‘Tae Avover VacaTion.—The Brooklyn Common Coun- ei] adjourned for the season on Monday night lest. which to that time bad beld ous political Uuiow . mez meet opin om ths reepay Mow ’sy iy sp smyec, the: poss Ce Sales 1 ood. 1 SA: W Haven: fi A b. rn Bi i SA,'W Hon 7 Si 5 sh i ise Jones, Mra Trav R Th Mill Tho wrd Mi ‘ iY d r u m y. Mr N a“ fom 7 THE LATEST NEWS} BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Bon-arsival of the Asia. Haurax, July 31—11 P.M. ‘There are as yet no signsof the Asia, now im her eleventh day, The night is very dark, and it has been raining all day. The weather isdoubtiess thick outside, and if the steamer is oi! the port itis scarcely likely that ehe will venture in to-night. The Epidemic ta Virginia. YELLOW FEVER AT NORPOLK. Norroxk, Juty 31, 1855. ‘The aggregate number of cases of yellow feverin thio city up till to-dsy, bas ben twenty, and of deaths four. ‘The Mayor and Hea!th Commissioners of Baltimore have visited Nogfolk, and ordered that skilful physicians be placed on board both the Norfolk boats, to prevent apy sick persons being brought on board, and with power to detain the boats or passengers at quarantine if Recessary. YELLOW FEVER AT PORTSMOUTH. Poxtsmovta, VA , July 31, 1855. The whole number of cases of yellow fever in this city, up till Monday eveniog, was sixty-eight, and the deaths twenty-six. Great excitement prevails in the community. The infected districts are fenced im, and the occupants beve removed, Steamboat Collision on the Ohio. LO&S OF FOUR LIVES AND DESTRUCTION OF ONE- STEAMER. Crxctsnxati, Jnly 31, 1855. Y The steamer Kentucky, bound from Pittaburg to Louis- ville, came in collision Inet night with steamer Telegraph: No. 3, bound from Louiaville to Cincinnati. The fermer sunk almost immediately in twenty feet of water, and four of her crew were drowned. The boat will probably prove a tote! loss. She is reported to have been insured in Pittsburg for $12,000, Commencemect of the Wesleyan University, Mippietows, Ct., July 31, 1855, The annna!l commencement of the Wesieyaa Univer- sity takes plaee to-morrow. The city is thronged with strangers, The poem before the Philotheroin and Pathologian seciaties was delivered this afternoon by the Rev. John Pierpont, of Boston. His subject was the ‘Scholar's Hope.’? The junior class of the Wesleyan University partook this evening of a very fine supper at the McDonough House. Shipment of the Foreign Legion trom Halle fax. Bostox, July 31, 1855. The American ship Wm. M. Rogers has beea chartered at Halifax, to ecnvey the foreign legion to England. She: will sai) about the 10th of August. Navigation of the Ohio River, Waureiina, July 31, 1855, The Ohio has risen thirteen fect, and business is quite active. Freights to St. Louis are brisk at forty to fifty cente, and the Cincinnati and Louisville beats are run- ning at low dgures, Testimonial to Commissioner Waldo. Wasuixcton, July 31, 1855. This afternoon the employes in tho Pension Office presented the retiring Commissioner, Mr. Waldo, with an elegant silver service of plate, in token of their re- spect for him as an oilicer and courteous gentleman, Suitable addresses wero made, Quite a numver of citi- zens were present during the ceremony. Naval Intelligence. Portsmouta, July 31, 1855. The frigate Potomac eailed on Saturday, and the Con- stellation dropped down to the naval anchorage, Boston Weckly Bank Statement, Boston, July 21, 1855. The following are the footings of our bank statement’ for,the past weel Capital stock. loans and discounts, Specie in bank ‘Amount due from other ba bank: Marnets, P Burralo, July 81—12:60 P. M. Flour in fair demand: Sajes 700 pbls. at $5 25 a $8 46 {ar good to extra Wisconsin; $8 60 $9 for gool to extra Southern, Ohio and Michigan. Wheat in good de- mand tor the interior, for milling, Sales 3,900 bushels Upper Lake spring at about $1 50, and 3C0 new Ilinois winter at $1 85. Corn lower, and dull. Snpply large. Sales 7,00 bushels at 7c, part delivered. Canal freights unchanged. Lale imports yesterday 1,870 bbls. ; corn, 50,000 bushels; oats, 17,992 exports, same time :—Fiour, 1,223 bbls.; whe bushels; corn, 1 2do Berrato, July 30, 1858. There was a fair demand for flour to-day, for the inte> rior trade, but we have no change to note in prices. : 000 bbls. at $8 a $5 15 for good to extra Upper Lake; $8 50a $9 for Michigan a: Wheat firm and demand good. Sales 3,900 bushels Upper Lake spring at $1 50; 3CO bushels new Illinois at $185, and bushels old do. at $1 9. Corn rather quiet and low- er; holders reluctant to hold. Sales 25,000 bushels at 7Se. Osta held at 48¢. Canal freighta easie-—corn 10e. Ohio. &103c tO Albany and Troy. Lake imports for the last 24 hours—flour, 1,283 bois; wheat, 4,380 bushels; corn, 29,£94 bushels. Canal exports for the same time— flour, $50 bbls ; wheat, 10,981 bushels; corn, 32,912 bushels; oats, 7,000 bush Personal Intelligence, Hie Excellency General Almonte, Mexican Minister, with his family, have arrived in the city, and taken rooms at tle Brevoort House, Fifth avenue. ARRIVALS. At the Astor House—Chas D Stewart, John Fou a; BA Botts, Tex: BO Major Mck U A Hi ; 6 Hinn w * Baltimore; E on, beston; Eran PM Tittanys Mh pt Gres Charleston; U Hastu eld, Enoch Train, Ragland, Va; $8 , Amos Dawe, Farrar, D Miles, Vortemout! At the Metropolitan Hotel—W Stockel, Hon JM Wood, Maine; Hon WM Chureh Hon J Wardswortn, Buffalo; Jadze Meek or HS ‘Turner, Saint Lo Merry, US A, Bo Detroit; Antonio Salvad , At te Irving House—Hon, Amos Kendell, sshingto Gen Rhodes, Obio; Rey RH Ford, Va; Judge Kell ene Conn: Capt Peters, U SA; Dr Kenny, Va; A Bazgerby, R Madison, N C; C W Bently, M At the Smithronian House: Pane Trapin, Rev R Me- Murdy, Mrs and Miss Burns, on, $C; TK Haghes, St Louis; E A Crawley, Cincin Binisdel!, NB Mass; Hon T Stanin ell, ‘T D Lowther, Florids; Sir o W Bayne, Dr Pryor, Mem- Mary Davis, Miss M_A Hop! Freeman, Miss Brown, M Lh Footman, G B kis 0 8 oodbury, Col a ham and daughter, Alex Aikem, Mist dobi: Reed, Robt Carroll, SM Nicker 5 tus, Haskin. Major AC Welton, Mra Wel- ton and two children, Mre Savage, N Grosmeyer and lady, Mre J W Webster, four children and nurse, Justin Snow, Chas D Stuart, Master James Shorter, Theodore Nichels, Jobn K Thoms Smith, jr, Mies Mary Scudder, WH y ieorge R Burke, John Fountai B TE Reynett, JG Robert W. Woodly Byrd, Sire D Ladd, infan' a irs ME Shorter, Misses M E and J Shorter, Isaac So- in steerage. Trem Charleston, in steamship Marion—Mra F A Parks, cbild apd nurse, JB on. Moses Jt i lady, W Carrington, iy, two children and nu P Lecke CF Jackson, A ¢ Wagver, 1B Vans, J. Kovberiock, H ¥ Gray, M Cohen, D © Clarke, Jno Kinlock, and aay, W C Dukes, KD HG, E vemen i 6 Gray, TM Horse Duker, Pr Elrath, CC Cartie,| Master J W Cald: Mist A'A Borns, Miss JB Barne, Ie 7, D Miln, R Minnis, and ten in the jon, in ship Woodcock—Miss Kate Walton. my Ligezprol, in ship Andrew ‘Mr W Smart and th. jickelly, lady and . Mr d o From Bordeaux, in hild. DeatH oF THE Marr or tHe “Kivsy.”—Wm. Thompson, first mete ot the bark “Kilby,” who Was sxsaulted by Henry Armstrong, the s'c ward, on the 21st inst., with a hatchet, by which horrid gaa. ea wae inflicted on his head, breast and arms, died this morning at the Marine hospital, Chelsea, whither he had been conveyed. Armstrong is now in ai) awaiting trial.--Boston Bec, July 30. ‘The Allies at Fault —Whatever may be the issue of the Crimean campaign, this much is certain, that Knox has about forty styles of summer hats, fron: which the most difficult to cult are sure to succeed in a seiection. Ifyou want a hat as isa hat, goto KNOX, at 212 Broadway, corner of Fulton street, or 533 Broad: way. Why Pay $5 or $a Pair for Boots. When Can get just on good for $276 at A. BAKEA'S, 16 rect. Best Vrench patent leather boots, $5 to'$7 sboes and gaiters 25 to 50 cents cheaper than ere, eeniponsbepacenmecapeasetiens Daguerreotypes by a New Invention, 25 cents or $2 50 per dozen. Steam, ee po machinery against all one horse arrangements. Picture factory and *ky pariors of the New York Artist’s Club, 280 Broadway. ‘sina Planos.—Hlorace Waters, 333 Broadway, has the sole agency for the sale of T, Gilbert & Co.'s, Hal- lett & Cumaton’s, Woodward & Brown's, and Jacob Ghickering's Boston pianos; and hia is the only house where can be obtained the celebrated modern improved Horace Waters’ pianos, with over atrings. Prices less than ean be had elewhers, and wisich defy com petiti ieee reat, and rent allowed mJ pare! ri ‘en monthly ta. W. Smith's cole! a melodeons erament, New 634 octave we 1G, Second baw panos ‘y for 8. D, the equal with irou framenj 0nd $44 30 BLN