The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. Financial Movements in Europe. People on this side the Atlantic, who see with what trouble a huge corporation like the Erie Railroad raises some thirty-five to forty millions to carry out an enterprise which is certain in the long ran to pay at least some- thing on the investment—-or who remember the anguish of mind and State embarrassments caused by the necessity of raising a hundred millions or so for the last war with Great Bri- tain—can hardly form aa adequate conception of the financial movements of Europe at the present time. Ina recent article we bad e@ eseion to sam up the various amounts which, ap to that time, had deen raised by the beNige- xents for war purposes. Since then, some slight additions have been made, and we now give the list, as corrected up to the present time:— English loan, Lo JAMHS GORDON BENNETT, PROPRUETOR AND EDTVOR, OFPVIUE N. W. CORNER OF NASEAU AND FULTON Bit No, 229 MORROW BVENING, BROADWAY TREATRE, Broadway—Satawita—Macw aurri—JorKe. WIBLO’S GARDEN, Broatway—Miss Pyxe—Onromnms BOWERY THEATRE,’ Bowery—Ixm.anp AND AMERIOA— OuK Gai—Harey Man, METROPOLITAN TEBATRE, Broadway—Kine Haney W. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanic's Hah, “a Browlway. ~ New York, Saturday, Augeast 19, 1855. ‘The News. ‘The Hon. Abbott Lawrence, of Massachasetts, + + £16,000, 000 . 3 000 @ied at Boston yesterday. Mr. Lawrence was bor | French loan, at Groton, Massachesetts, December 16, 1792, amd Me? was highty successful in trade. His great wealth { ‘rurtish ican rave him a commanding position ‘in the old whig Po party; and/he was twice elected to Congress from | Total,......cccsscsesseeecseveeseerreese the city of Boston. In 1848 he was a prominent candidate for the Vice Preshdency of the United States, and on the first ballot Mr. Fillmore only led him ten votes. A compromise was effected, and Mr. Lawrence wes rent to the Court of St. James, where he remained as United fitates Minister during wearly the whole of Mr. Filtmore’s term. ince 1852 Mr. Lawrence had been living a retired life. He had been ill for several weeks of a discase of the stomach similar to gout. He was distinguished for his practical business abMities;his political sa- gacity, his bLonhommie and grace of manner, his public and private charities, and his liberality to literary institutions. He was one of the firmest pil- lars of the-old conservative, high tariff, bank whig party, and.of course a firm Wnion man. Tn our cotumns to-day will be found a large batch ef correspondence from the principal «European cities, which will be read with interest, from the dif- ferent views which they present of the.political questions now ayitating the Old World. Whilst asserting fearteesly and -independently our own opinions, we leave to our correspondents the full en- joyment of theirs, convinced that by s0 doing we best consult the interests of our journal. Their let- ters would-be valueless did they not represent accn- rately the etate of public feeling in the cities from which they-write. They constitute the safest ele. mente on which we can form our opinions of Puro- pean matters, inasmuch as they are freer than the European journals from the taint of partizanship. We therefore givethem without alteration or cur- taihrent, just.os we receive them, in order that the public may profit by the same opportunities that we have of accurately informing themselves on ull questions connected with the war. ‘The letter of our Shanghae correspondent, among other interesting matters respecting affairs in that wemote region,.contains some strictures on the man- Ber in which American interests are represented in Ohira, which are deserving of serious consideration. There never was.a per od when ft was more im- portant that this country should be-efficiently served in that quarter. We learn that Merlin rock, in the harbor of St. Johns, Newfoundiand, and an obstacle to steamers entering that place, is fast disappearing under‘the efforta of Messrs. Huested & Krochl, of this city, who have contracted to blast the same to the depth of twenty-seven fect mean low water. Up io 3 P. M., August 8, five charges had been fired of two hundred pounds each, and with great auccess, the operations Raving commenced.at 12 o'clock same day. It was expected that the rock would be entirely removed before the arrival of the James Adger, with the sub- marine telegraphic excursion company, at At. Jobns, We have received by mail brief details of the news fom Mexico to the 8th inst., from which it appears that our doubts as to the truth of the reports that the revolutionists were in the neighborhood of Vera €ruz, and had captured a specie train with a couple of millions of treasure, were well founded. Vera @ruz papers of tt® Sth inst. contain no mention of anything of the kind. The President has officially recognized the ap- pointment of Den Ramon F. Valdez as Consal-Gen- eral of Mexico for the United States. Our accounts from Virginia show no mitigation of the terrible scourge with which the inhabitants are afflicted. Thirty new cases of fever were reported @ Norfolk on Thursday. In Portsmouth the deaths average cight a day. The deaths at New Orieans from yellow fever a@uring the past week numbered 138. It is conaider- ed that the epidemic in that city has now reached its climax, and a rapid improvement in the public health may be looked for. There were 633 deaths inthe city last week, as we learn from the report of the City Inspector, Bamely:—78 men, 65 women, 270 boys, and 220 girls —beipg an increase of 41 on the mortality of the week previous. @ the whole namber, but 46 were mmates of the public institutions, showing a very satisfactory state of bealth in those establishments. Aas wiil be observed by the figures given above, nearly five-sixths of the deaths were among children, and the principal direaces to which they have fallen victims, were— Cholera infantum, 114; convulsions, 59; de- bility, 8; scarlet fever, 10; hooping cough, 17; m ; measles, 7; and teething, We find ¥4 premature births, and 27 cases of stillborn re- ported. There were also, of consumption, 43; in* flammation of the lungs, 7; bronchitis, 2; con- gestion of the brain, 14 ; inflammation of the brain, 11; diarrhea, €2; dysentery, 34; dropsy in the head, 15 ; disease of the heart, 8; inflammation of the bowels, 9; palsy, 5; and apoplexy, 4. The fol- lowing is the classification of diwoses :—Bones, joints, &o., 6; braia and nerves, 125; generative organs, 4; heart and blood vessels, 13; lungs, throat, &c., 81 ; ekin, Ac., and eruptive fevers, 13 ; still-born and premature births, 39 ; stomach, bowel and other digestive organs, 309; uncertaiu reat aud gencral fevers, 25; urinary organs, 6; old age, 4. ‘There were eighteen deaths from violeut causes, in- eluding 7 drowned, 1 poisoned, 1 mardered, and 5 fatal fracture, The nativity table gives 519 na- ‘tives of the United States, 66 of Ireland, 30 of Mer- many, 8 of England, and the balauce of varions other European countries. A coroner's inqnest wos heid yesterday apon the body of Bridget Murray, who died from the effects of a stab received on the “th inst, The jury ren- dered a verdict that the deceased, came to her death at the hands of her husband, Owen Murray, and the accused was forthwith committed to the Tombs to await an examination. ‘The receipt of the America’s advices at New Or- jeans knocked down prices of cotton a quarter of a ent. The receipts at that port up to the present time show a falling off of 178,000 bales as compared with those of last year. Accounts from Natchez, Mississippi, state that the staple if that vicinity was rapidiy deteriorating from rot and rust. The sales of cotton yesterday were limited to a few hundred bales, 'n emall lots, made at a conces- sion of about {cent per tb. These were considered somewhat in the light of forced transactions. There were no large parcela pressing on the market. Common grades of flour wore dull, while fancies and. extras wore quite steady. Wheat was easier, and corn with active sales, wae 1 to 2 cents lower. Pork advanced; new mess to $20 on the «pot, and prime to $17 a $17 50. Lard continued firm. 1,200 hhds, Cuba sugars were sold at full prices. Coffee was quict. Owing to the loss of the ship Soc\oe on the coast of Sumatra, a epecniative movement took To thesemust be added the leans effected by Prussia and ‘Austria at the commencement of the war, some fifty millions more; and a small loan recently effected by the King of Sardinia under the guarantee of England. Altogether independently of the Russian ex- penses which must have been enormous, the cost of the war, in money actually laid out for soldiers’ pay, provisions and munitions of war, has already exceeded six hundred millions of dollars; nearly all of which has been raised within cighteen months, .Nor has any diffi- culty been experienced by the finance ministers who have raised these loans. The narratives of the subscription for the:last French loan of seven hundred and fifty millions of frances re- mind one of the old stories of the financier Law and the Rue Quincampoix. People slept in the street, in, about, and opposite the house where the loan was to be opened on the mor- row. A large police force were employed to keep order among the throng, and enforce the regulations respecting ques. That the amount tendered was six times as great as that want- ed is no wonder, as the (riage was #0 ar- ranged that each man received an allotment in proportion to bis subseription ; and those whe wanted 50,000 frames therefore sub- seribed prudently for .300,000. But even making a)lowance for this, the bare fact that the people of France subscribed in one day $150,000,000, after having paid a similar amount for war purposes during the fifteen months previous, evinces:a state of feeling as well as a state of prosperity wholly unprece- dented. No nation ever gave such tangible proofs’ of ite readiness and its ability to con- tinue the war; and certainly until some equal- ly tangible fact has been adduced on the other side, the inference which all unprejudiced persons will draw will be unfavorable. in every light, to the Russian cause, The fact isthe more startling when we ex- amine the indebtedness, credit, and financial standing of the various European nations. England who has just added £46,000,000 to her debt, owed the enormous sum of £773,923,000 before : the interest on her debt is larger than the whole United States revenue. France owed £233,000,000. In the year 1815, when Napoleon returned from Elba, the British funds ell to 56, and the best men despaired of the State ; though the only event that had occurred war the arrival of a stray Corsican on the shores of France. In 1848, when the French’ republic was established. the Minister of Fi- nances of the Provisional Government found it wholly impossible to obtain a loan of a franc. Commerce having been overset by the political convulsion, a decree was passed to grant to makers of promissory notes and bills of ex- change a delay of thirty days to pay them ; but this unstatesmanlike measure of course failed in its object, and the merchants at last flying for aid to the government, the pitiable truth was at last told to the people, that no one would trust the republic. If Garnier Pa- gés and Achille Fould ever write their me- moirs, the reading public will be astonished to see to what straits great kingdoms and impos- ing governments may be reduced; and the financial distress of the old Continental Con- grees and the Madison Cabinet will cease to ap- pear severe or unusual. At the present day, as indeed was always the case in a greater or less degree, not only the sinews but the bone and flesh of war are money. Minnie rifies are good, Todtleben earthworks are good ; Lancaster guns are not bad, and bra- very is excellent; but better by far than all these are dollars, good hard doHars of pure gold, or paper sold for dollars at a premium. There are no Sebastopols which dollars will not take, if there are enough of them, and they last—no fleets they cannot destroy, no armies they cannot wear out. The old fable—the shower of gold which rained through roofs and ccilings and walls into the warm bosom of the Vlushing Danae—is after all the type of all possible wars. Gold, gold, gold is your only conqueror. Tue Sevtan anv wis Financiar. Dirtomacy— Ow tae Rieu Sipe oy tar Wowen.—It has been generally supposed that the treasury of the Sultan had been cleaned out by the Russian war; and that the late loan to Tarkey, passed by the British Parliament, was for the purpose of relieving his immediate necessities. But upon reading the following among the news items of the last steamer, we are led to a dif- ferent conclusion :— A leter from Constantinople, of July 19, says = The Sultan has ordered magnificent necklaces in brilliante to be made, ar prospnts fur Queen Victoria and the Emprena Fugenie; and saddles, all embroidered in brillianta, to be made for the Emperor, the King of Sardinia, and Prince Albert. The value of these presents will be about 2,000. 000 france. Four hundred thousand dollars or so in pre- sents from o bankrupt is rather a cool opera- tion ; bat ft is doubtlees intended as bait for another impending loan of ten or twenty mil- lions ; and it will it, or jewelry will have ‘ost its charm am fair sex. The Sultan ought to know, A Ksow Noruixe S1ex mx Soura Canorna.— At a late Council of the South Carolina Know Nothings, they repudiated the doctrine of the proscription of Catholics, and provided for the admission into the Order of all eligible natives, of ali religious creeds, upon a declaration dis- claiming any binding allegiance, political or ecclesiastical, to Any foreign power. The Live Oak letier by George Law to the Pennsylvania Legislature, of some months ago, foreshadowed the repudiation of both the extreme native and place in pepper yesterday, and the price advanced | eligious tests of the American party, And 4 cent per lb. The cargo of the Seo'oo belonged to | they are coming round, State b; ate, to his @ Baiem house, and it was expected to have been | ideas. They will occupy his pra ul platform the last of the eenson. Tt wan ond that shont it an n 1850. or ther bine in the The Capitulat‘on of the Seward Whigs— ‘Triumph o ¢ Gerriecn and Fred. Douglass. The Boson “republican” convention thua re-affirme, the old creed of the abolitioniste:— Resolved, That the time has fully come for the people of Masachusetts to act in eoncert with the friends of freed m throughout the Union, with a view of restrain. ing ‘che alarming encroachments o1 slavery. It is no more than was said at Portland, at *Warhingtoa, Columbus, in New York and Penn- sylvania, in the same week, and by the eame It is the capitulation and surrender of the whigs and the democratic free soilers It is the union of Seward, Garrison, Fred, Douglass, the black man; Downing, the oysterman; Van Buren, the Arnold of Ameri- can politics; Hale, the mouatebank; Wilson, the trader; Butler, the evangelist; Chase, the Rev. Antoinette Brown, et id omne, &¢., into one It is the triumph of Garrison and Fred. Douglass, The surrender is made to absolute. The -old temples of Clay:and Jackson have been demolished, their altars defaced, their worehippers transferred, body and breeches, to the mosques of these Arabs of modern poli- “The alarming encroachments of sla- very,” which hasn’t moved a peg since the Texas annexation, have frightencd this de- lectable band of patriots to abandon their old fields, and take to the brush of negroism. In the Portland meeting, “freedom was para- mount to all political questions;” and every men in that body knew that by uniting with the abolitionists he put to hazard the noblest achievement of freedom ever effected by man. “The Union was not worth the sacrifice of its first frinciple,” and its “first principle’ was sacrificed, in the view of the meeting, by the existence of slavery in the States, The Union is valuable; but it would be more so if it had the power to eject from its bosom the whole Arab crew of “republicans” and negro wor- shippers, who malign its character, and fatten “Congress is false to itself unlees it abolishes slavery in the District of Columbia, repeals the Fugitive Slave law, the Kaneas act, and restores the Missouri compro- mice,” and thus makes “slavery sectional, and These are the terms of men. to them. geand phalanx of negro worshippers, the black man. them, and it is unconditional, tics, on its blessings. freedom national.” the capitulation—the conditions upon which Garricon, and Douglass, and Downing, the oys- terman, will consent to receive into their ranks Seward, Van Buren, Chase, Wilson, Hale, Greeley, Butler and the Rev. Antoinette Brown. It is the Holy Alliance of American politice—the omnipotent Latter Day Sainta, who are to think, speak and act for the Ame- rican people. “The sacrifice of the first prin- ciple of freedom” will be found in the fulfil- ment of the first obligation of the constitu- tion. It is moral treason to be faithful to the covenants of union—slavery and the consti- tution are incompatible: the one or the other must give way. Heretofore the constitution has been regarded as supreme; but now, “po- litical questions’”—the opinions and caprices of the coalition, for instance—are paramount toit. It has sunken down below the moral standard of the “Holy Alliance,” and the go- vernment, therefore, in the language of the Port- land fusion, must ‘ge to pieces.” The patriots of the Revolution were not good enough to be favored with an association with Seward, Fred Douglass, the black man, Garrison and Van Buren, of the Holy Alliance of negro worship- pers in 1855. Times have changed as well as moons. There wasa period when treason to the government consisted in efforts to over- throw it; when men were jealous of its honor and States were scrupulous in the discharge of all the duties imposed upon them by the cove- nants of union. There wasa time when the white man was superior to the black man. It is not so now. Treason to the constitution is the normal condition of American politics, Everybody is collating the evils of union— everybody is complaining. All is contention, and bickerings and strife. We no longer hear of the blessings of the constitution, but its curses, its inequalities, its immoralities. It has become a weak, insufticient, immoral compact; it recognizes the institution of slavery and that is enough to set against it the Holy Alliance of negro worshippers: a class of men who would reign in hell, but willnever serve in heaven. No blessing can be conferred upon such a people, except the glorious privilege of disturbing the public peace, securing anarchy and its fruits, and the curses of civil war. The happiness which comes to others through peace and charity, with them is submission to a grinding tyranny —a hateful “oligarchy of slave drivers.” The government of the United States is a leagne of man hunters and slave breeders—a deep grinding despotiem, which sinks freedom into alocal dependence gnd slavery into a nation- ality. It isa great sink of moral iniquity, to be a party to which is to assent to robbery, a violation of the rights of man, Widnapping, and a great many other very wicked things. The constitution is the warrant of the Devil's right and claim to the exclusive management of American affairs, until the saints of the Holy Alliance shall bring about the millenium of negro ascendency and white dependency. “Slavery is sectional and freedom is national,” an assertion, unlike most others of the howling pack, which is half true. Let us look for in- stance to this matter for a moment. We receive and recognize the constitution of the United States as the bases of our politi- cal existence. We know nothing of slavery or anti-slavery any more than we know of the domestic arrangements of our neighbor's house. We care not for the mere opinions of men up- on the subject who have no power to control it. What we want is obedience to the general agreement by which we exist as a nation. We can have but one fundamental law at a time. We have a constitution for instance, or we have not—and in this spirit when men undertake to overthrow the government, to subvert its terms and conditions, we prefer to call it treascn, and it is ne less treason because the effort is widely sustained and openly and vigorously prosecuted now under the government we have, Freedom is national, and so is slavery, The latter is so in its existence previous to the adoption of the constitution by the original thirteen States—in its acceptance as a basis of representation in Congress—in the agroement entered into to surrender its fugitives—in the sale of slaves on executions {ssued from the federal courts,and the titles assured by it« ministerial and executive officers. Thus, if in- dividual property which is the subject of con- stitutional recognition and of legislation by Congress, can be considered national, then sla- very is national. We like to look these questions in the face. It will do us no harm to understand the trath among ourselves, and we shall A little by NEW YORK BERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 1855. SONNE SELMER PRES et EIT ANE OD HEP IT ea earn NB Ea 9a een ad Sa eT Tue Marswars ann THe Census—More Com- PLaints.—We have received a considerable number of communications from our fellow- citizens in \arions parts of the city complain- ing that they have been omitted in the enu- meration of the census, by tens, twenties, fif- After the defence, how- ever, which has been put forth in behalf of the marshals, we must await the conclusion of their work, and then, to such of the inhabi- tants of the corporation as shall have been left out of the enumeration, it will become a duty to take such steps as may be necessary to sup- body and strength in the American govern- It is not a caprice. It has the bases of adistinct agreement, assented to by all its members, and is supreme within the sphere of its action and its powers, Within this sphere are fifteen slave States, equal in all respects to the sixteen free States of which the Union is This attempt, then, to render im- possible the recognition of slavery by the American government, because it derives its existence from State laws, and on account of its supposed conflict with the principles of free- dom, is bat a mean device to shirk responsi- bility, and to originate a quarrel between the North and the South. Whether it is a good or an evil, a blessing or a curse, an expense or a profit, it is a fact that it was an institution re- cognized by the laws of twelve of the thirteen States which in 1788 formed the compact of union. Even a majority of those States legal- ized the foreign slave trade; and Massachu- retts, the only one in which slavery did not exist by law, was more largely engaged, by the employment of its shipping in that trade, ment. compored. than even Georgia or South Carolina, Union. one of its proprietors, and positive recognition. republicans now resolve that it is sectional. Its products constitute the bases of a large portion of the present employments of the poo- ple of that State. The great staples of rice, cotton, tobacco and sugar are its exclusive productions, They employ the shipping of the free States in their transportation everywhere. They lie at the foundation of our great com- merce with foreign nations, and sustain and uphold an internal trade between the States which has no parallel in the history of man. If these facts do not fix the general character of slavery—if they prove it to be sectional, and thus liable to proscription—if they justify as- saults upon it, under color of constitutional authority—then, aside from the forts, arsenals, public buildings, lands, and the chattels of the army and navy, no property is national and no federal obligation is binding. When an American ship having slaves on board was driven by stress of weather even into a British port, Mr. Webster, in behalf of the President of the United States, denied the legal jurisdiction of the local authorities, and asserted that she came there, and brought with her, and retained for her government and protection the laws and jurisdiction of her own country. This was the strong arm of the nation protect- ing parties in the possession of a species of property not recognized by Congress. Was it sectional or national ? a connection with those who aided to rescue it from tyranny? Jcper Dovetas on THE Kansas Borver Trov- BLEs—Stimnine News rrom Wasurnotoy.—Our special Washington despatch in this morning’s Heraxp is exceedingly interesting. It professes to give the substance of a conversation at the late White House dinner between President Pierce and Mesers. Mason and Donglas of the Senate, on the Kansas border troubles, and the proceedings of Reeder, Atchison, Doniphan, Stringfellow and “ the border ruffians.” Upon one point our correspondent is very positive : He is certain that at the aforesaid dinner Judge Douglas substantially delivered himself in no flattering terms concerning the proceed- ings of Atchison and Doniphan, the two rival pro-slavery Missouri candidates for the United States Senate. We had supposed, from the si- lence of Judge Douglas on this interesting sub- ject, that he was in the same boat with Atchi- son and Stringfellow; but it appears that in this weigave been wide of the mark. We still think Wat our correspondent may have mis- placed the remarks of some other person— Marey, perhaps—as those of Douglas; but if any of our interested politicians are aggrieved at the position thus assigned to Judge Douglas, there is a ready mode of arriving at the trath, in a direct application to the Senator himself. There can be no doubt as to the position of Mr. President Pierce. Having gone off to the Virginia Springs under the pilotage of Mr. Senator Mason, he may be considered as having abandoned the Marcy and Van Buren free soil- ers, and joined his fortunes with the Southern secession movement for the succession. In this view of the case, Mr. John Cochrane is fairly entitled to bring out the Scarlet Letter, and authorized to prepare the soft shells for a pub- lic repudiation of Mr. Pierce, at the Soft Shell Convention of the 29th, The hards will lead the way on the 23d. Tie Women’s Rrouts Association—The late Women’s Rights Convention at Saratoga elect- ed as their President Martha C, Wright, of Au- burn ; Vice-Presidents, Rev. Samuel J. May of Syracuse, Lydia Mott of Albany, Ernestine L. Rose of New York city, Rev. Antoinette L. Brown of New York, Susan B. Anthony of Rochester, and Augusta A. Wiggins of Saratoga Springs; Secretaries, Emily Jaques of Nassau, Aaron M. Powell of Ghent, and Mary L. Booth of Williamsburg, These officials, it’ will be perceived, with a few exceptions, are the same old set that have been flourishing at our social, infidel, abolition and women’s rights societies for the last ten or fifteen years, The leaders among these feminines are getting old and un- interesting, and in the course of a few years must go the way of all things. Meantime the association, if not more rapidly replenished than at present with new recruits, will rapidly die out, and women’s rights will be limited to the usages of civilized society for an indefinite time to come. As fusion is the order of the day, why don’t these women’s rights women fuse with our New York Free Love Society? It eeu Last chance The relation of master and servant then was universal in all the States forming the federal It was the normal condition of Ame- rican society. It lay at the foundation of the great agricultural districts of the South and the centre. It was one of the most valuable and important sources of our material wealth and prosperity. It existed without diminution during the whole contest of the Revolution, and was a source from which was drawn means to maintain that great struggle. It was up- held by the Father of his Country, who was It wag sustained with differing opinions by all the leading statesmen of that period; and during the confederation, and up to the adoption of the constitution it was the subject of national discussion, delibe- ration and action. The first compromise be- tween the North and the South was in reference to the treatment it should receive by the na- tion—a compromise made in season, incorpo- rated in, and not drawn from the constitution. It is indeed doubtful if the colonies could have achieved their independence without its mate- rial aid, but none at all that the Union could not have been sanctioned without its distinct The Massachusetts Does freedom revolt at | Ritch, arehiteet; Stewart and Smith. maron Der ties and hundreds. ply all the omissions of the marshals. destitute of foundation. believe this. connected. sible to do so. and thoroughly done. “Yankee Doodle.” scountry for the Irish. On Mr. Fillmore’s return, our Irish fellow-citizens will probably give him a public dinner in honor of his travels among the old folks at home.” What a fanny thing it would be! A Democratic SiGN tN MARYLAND.—At the late State convention of the Maryland demo- cracy, they had nothing to say of the glories of Pass him. Model Tenement Hoase. A party of influential gontiemen of this city—Mr. Grinnell, of the firm of Grinnell, Minturn & Co., being, {tis said, one of thenumber—have just had erected for them a large, substantial and very handsome brick building, ex- tending from Mott to Elizabeth street, a few rods north of Walker street, for a tenement house, It is generally understood to be intended for the accommodation of co- lored families, although the owners and architect re- frain from acknowledging fuch to be the case, or giving any information on the subject. From an examination of the structure, and the facts elicited from various sources, it is evidently intended for a tenement building—and ® model one it may certainly be considere¢—and as such is worthy the inspection of all who ferl interested in the erection of establishments of that description, ‘The building is «1x stories high, and one huntred and cighty-cight feet long by about thirty-five wide, On the first, or ground floor, there are two spacious stores, one fronting on Mott street, the other Elizabeth street, and fourteen suites of apartments for families, each having their own hall entrance, a good sized and well furnished room, two bedrooms and pantry, the lat- ter provided with sink, Croton water, and other conve- niences, On each of the second, third, fourth and fifth floors, there are similar apartments for sixteen families; and on the sixth-story thero arc two spacious school coms, one for boys and one for girla, besides apartmenta or eight families. The cellar is divided off with brick Partitions into eighty-six coal and wood vaults, for the use of the families; and under the sidewalks in Mott and Flizabeth streets there are spacious vaulta for the use of the storekeepers. In the front of the building there fs « fine open space of about eighteen to twenty feet wide, af: ording ample light and ventilation to the prin- ipal rooms, The entrances to all the dwellings are rom the corridors in the rear, which run the whole length of the building on each floor, and are reach- ed from either Mott or Elizabeth street by flights of iron steps six anda half feet wide, The corridors and stairs being built entirely of fron, stone and brick, afford the very best means of escape incase of fire. ‘Tndee, the greatest precaution a) to have been taken to guard against lors of life by fire. On each floor, in the rear of the corridor, there are sixteen water closets arranged upon an po BA plan, wtioae the idea of them becoming nuisances. It will be observed from the foregoing that be building contains two stores, apart ments eighty-six families, two school ' rooms, eight vaults, vaults for stores, ighty: eight wat closets, each occupant having ir own coal vault and water closet under lock and key. The building makes quite an imposing appearance: the rooms are well lighted, admirably arranged and wontilated for the health, comfort and convenience of the occupants, reflecting grent credit upon the gentlemen who have caured Ite ereetion. It wan erected under the enpervision of Mr, J. Mr. Pierce's administration. it coal Ww. dane When the work of this State census was com- menced, it was charged that the Secretary of State had sent out a lot of enumerators who were in the interest of Seward; and that, in addition to counting the people, &c. they would be required to sell Seward’s life on a commission, and otherwise to electioneer in his behalf, Subsequently it was said that the life and speeches of Seward, being an excessively dry book, could not be made to go upon any terms, and that some of the marshals had ac- cordingly fallen back upon other book peddling experiments, including the life of Greeley, the life of Barnum, and the controversy on church property between Senator Brooks and Arch- bishop Hughes. As far as we .can ascertain, there was no truth in these reports, and we in- cline to think that the last and most serious charge against the marshals may be equally It is this: That the census marshals, especially in this city and vicinity, are the political partizans of Seward, and that as such they are desirous of making the population of this anti-Seward Manhattan island and neighborhood as small as they con- veniently can make it, for the purpose of diminishing the .anti-Seward representation in the Assembly. Now, we say that we do not On the contrary,we are informed that there are among our census marshals hard shell democrats and silver gray whigs who could not possibly be interestedin any Seward project of the kind alleged. Nor can we sup- pose that the young men of the census takers, even with their predilections and principles in favor of Seward, could lend themselves upon any terms to any trickery involving treachery and perjury, in the discharge of a duty of the high importance of that with which they are We suppose that the omissions of our mar- ehals complained of by our fellow-citizens, will yet be supplied, and that before they shall have closed up their books they will glean up every family and every individual residing in this city on the first of June last, as far as pos- Jn the interval between that day and this, a large number of our citi- zens, including many entire families, have gone off into the country, and at their uninhabited homes the marshals, of course, haye been una- ble to get their returns. But under the im- pression that the marshals are sincerely devot- ed to their work, and ambitious to do it fully and honestly, we think it only fair to give them a little more time for the completion of their reports. There can be no difficulty about their compensation ; for if the Legislature or the Corporation should both be inclined to badger about a few shillings, the people of this city will cee that the marshals are liberally paid for their services, provided their work be well Mr. Fintwore in IRELAND aNp AMBRICA— Very Fuxny.—By our last advices from Ireland, we perceive that Mr. ex-President Fillmore had been received at the lakes of Killarney in the most exquisite style of Irish hospitality. Among other things, as he came out one day to look at the scenery, he was agreeably smitten by the buglers stationed among the hills playing In fact, the ex-President seems to have been making in the Emerald island a splendid electioneering campaign for the Irieh vote; while at the sage time the New York Express and other rabid organs of excessive nativism, who believe all the Irish at home and abroad to be involved in a conspi- tracy with Archbishop Hughes and the Pope for the overthrow of our own blood-bought instita- tions, have proclaimed Mr. Fillmore as the very man of all men for carrying out the doctrine of America for the Americans, and any other from St. Thomas, Int {natant, arrived yest There are on heard the month, N THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Very Curious trom Washington, THE LATE DINNER OF JUDGE MASON, JUDGE DOUGLAS AND GEN. PIERCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE—DOUGLAS DOWN UPON ATCHISON AND SPRINGFRLLOW, BTC. Wasnixeroy, August 18, 1855, You are aware that very letely Mr. Senator Mason, of Virginia, and Senator Donglas, of Illinois, dined with the President at the White House, and you were right in supe posing that they had something at the diuner besidet bacon and cabbage. Since Judge Douglas has gone off to the North, and the President and Mr. Mason have deparied for the Virginia white, red, blue, salt and sweet sulphur Fprings, the secret, in part, iy out. ‘The leading conversation st that: dinner was upon Kansas, Reeder, Atchison, Stringfellow, &c. Mason approved the removal of Reeder, but said that a Southern man ought to have gone to Kansas im the first place—not a compromiser, but a regular fire eater. Mr. Pierce smiled, and said that he had to con- sult both sections. He didn’t like to remove Reeder, be- cause at tho Pennsylvania October election it might do some damage to the party; whereas, thero was otherwise a hope, this fall, of saving Pennsylvania. Goukd not Reeder have been spared till the middle of Ooteber? Mason raid no! Virginia would desert you if there were any farther temporizing, You are with us or against us, Let Reeder go, and we will provide against the desertion of Pennsylvania. Keep up the excitement, and while we break up the Know Nothings on the rock of slavery, we can get the democracy together again. Make Stringfellow Governor of Kansas, after the fall elections, and we shall thus secure a distinct understanding on the slavery issue upon the meeting of this new abolition Uongress, Let us see where they are. Judge Douglas demurred. The whole of our difficulties in this Kansas imbroglio had resulted from the oute fageous proceedings of Atchison, Doniphan, and that ret. Stringfellow was but the Stringfellow of Atchison, doing his work fora prospective consideration. Between Do- niphan and Atchison, in their desperate rivalry to secure thd suffrage of the pro-slavery party of Miesouri for the United States fenate, in the next Missouri Legistatare, all these Kansas border troubles had been created. The Proceedings of those men had brought popular goves reignty in the Territories into contempt, and the whole country on both sides to the dangerous issue of a most vio~ lent and virulent sectional contest for the Presidency. Nor can we hope torally the Northern democracy together tilt this Doniphan, Atchison and Stringfellow Legislatare of Kansas ia set aside, its acts declared null and void, and provision made for a government of the Territory by the bona fide people thereof, according to the law. We must, do this before we can hope to rally the Northern demas cracy to the support of the Nebraska bill. Magon did'nt care for the Northern democracy—did’nt want them—the time had gone by for that. A sectional contest is inevitable. If Mr. Pierce is with us, we shall sustain him+if not, where clse can the administration, look for «upport ? , Sueh, T understood, was substantially a part of that dinner conversation at the White House between Mesars, Pierce, Douglas and Mason. It may be overcolored, or it nay not be colored sufliciently high. Of one thing I am positively assured, and that is, that Judge Douglae makes no secret of his denunciations of Doniphan, Atehi- son and Stringfellow, in consequence of the odium whick thelr proceedings bave brought upon the great raving territorial doctrine of squatter sovereignty. Death of Abbott Lawrence. Bostox, August 18, 1856. The Hon. Abbott Lawrence died at 11 o'clock thig morning. ‘The merchants of this city will probably meet on Mom. day noon, for the purpose of paying the customary marka of respect to the memory of the dead. The time of burial has not been definitely fixed, but it will probably occur on Wednesday next. The interment will take place at Mount Auburn, in the lot where repose ‘the remains of his children and of his brothere—Williang, and Amos, On the post mortem examination of the reroains, it was found that not omy the liver, but the stomuch, kid- neys, and part of the intestines were greatly diseanet. Dr. Clarke, on the part of the examining wurgeons, will prefer a statement in detail. The Yellow Fever in. Virginia. Baurore, August 18, 1855. The deaths from yellow fever at Portsmouth now aver rage eight a day in a population of 2,000 persons. The official report at Norfolk shows nine deaths from. the fever on the 16th inst. The accounts of the fever, from Norfolk, are very dia tressing. Thirty new cases were reported on Thursday, Capt. Barron’s daughter in dead. Contributions in aid of the sufferers are coming in frouy all quarters, The fund raised in this city now amounte to over six thousand dollars, Yellew Fever at Now Orleans. New Ontmans, Auguet 18, 1855 ‘The fever here is now at about a stand. The deaths ig the hospital for the past week were 138, and tae number of enses enred 132, New Ontxas, August 18, 2866. ‘The majority for Winston, the democratic candidate for Governor in Alabama, is about 11,000. Mortality of Boston. Boston, August 16, 3855. ‘The deaths in this elty for the past week have heen one hundred and nine, of which sixty-two were those of chil dren under five years of age. Sentence of a Murderer. Warertows, N. Y., August 17, 1835, Michael Cavanagh was yesterday convicted at Martins- burg of the murder of Mr. Cooper, at Lyons Falls, in May last. He was sentenced by Judge Allen to be hung og the 5th of October. ‘The Cotton Crop in Missinippt. New Onveaxs, Auguat 17, 1865. A letter from Natchez, Misstssippi, states that the cots ton crop was suffering from rot and rust in thet region, and that the prospects are 15 to 20 per cent woree than they were two weeks ago. Markets. Stocks firm; Reading, 4¢: Island Railroad, 17; fenoe Pennsylvania State fives, 87 New to-day 1,400 bales, at Oc. a 9% middling. The sales for week ndd up 4,000 and the 6,500 bales, including 1,700 bales of new, t 1, bales for the same time last year, incl Go hated et Tira tee, s0celas up Se. ee pramems fall short 178,000 bales thore of last year. The stock on hand is 27,000 bales. The sales of coffee for the week have bees 2,600 bags, at 11¢e. a 1134c. for prime Rio. Mes pork $18 50, "Sterling exchange 01; per cent premium. Burvato, August 18—12:30 P. M. Flour Fair inquiry; supply of new, good: bbls. including 300 bbls. new Oblo in choice lots gt 88; 100 bhia. Wisconsin at $8 26; 360 bbls. new Ohio at SOB235 ; 100 bble. Michigan st 90; and 160 Li southers at ‘ it—In good request ci jaales bushels red Keatucky at e108; 2,800 bushels red a on private terms; and, 200 bushels at $195. Corn quiet and a shade casier; sales 15,000 bush- els at 77e. “Onie“n good demand ‘and lea/y, salen 2,600 bushels at 460. ipte to-day—flour, 3.00 bole: wheat, 9,000 bushels; corn, 28,000 bushe!s, n pane . M. jour in demand and rates main'y ui « Salen 1,100 bbls. at $8 25 for good Wiseonsin : $8 a 8 75 for cholce to oxtra new and 69 for choice Mich- in. Incladed in the above ‘sales are 000 bbls, of sr oh yp rete yt bbis. extra Southern at, 25. Wheat active im! with no in quotations. Sales 1,000" ‘bushets ‘wilte Tiling and 2,800 bushels red Indinna on private terms ; 6,000 bushels new red Kentucky at $1 300 bouhela white Wisconsin at $195. Corn quiet and oasicr. Sales 25,000 bushels at 76c 0 Treslosing dull. Oats duit; salen 2,600 burhels at 460. ince noon to-day, Flour 000 bbla; corn 16,000 bushels ; oats 600 busheix. dO, Al Our flowr market ia without cl sells at $6 873¢. Wheat mi M4 t per Lake at $1 65 0 $1 68. Freights---no sitoration ig rates, —_—_—_— Supreme Court—Special Term. Before Hon, Judge Cowles. THE NINTH AVENUE INJUNCTION Cash. Aug 18—Judge Cowles made an order this morning = #0 far modifying his former decision ae to direct @ re argument on certain points, — Frow St. Trowas.—The Br. brig Ada, Coptain Gandy, lay morning. sof Jobn 0. Vail, Gi ¥ 9, and ¢ died Jnty