The New York Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1856, Page 4

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She ‘Drings four day? * later news and ex-President Fill- more. ‘The most i” portant political movement since the nomination © f Colonel Fremont, took place at Na- ional Hall, on Canal street, last night, in the trans- fer of the ¥ ilimore American Club, in the most for- wal and orderly manner, to the republican party and the ticket of Fremont and Dayton. This is probeb) y the beginning of a break which will carry ever “to the Rocky Mountain and California pats- fer the whole Fillmore American party of the Sewth, from Cape Cod to Kansas. This move is caitgo intended, perhaps, as a gentle hint of the real rift and texture of the contest, to Mr. Fillmore, swho may be expecied at any moment now to arrive 4m the Atlantic. At all events, this movement of the ‘ational Club is in the right direction for an earnest eand-to-hand fight with the democracy, as if the opposition were really fighting to win. Let it be followed up, and before six weeks are over there will be a spirit of anion and activity infused into ‘the opposition ranks scarcely surpassed by the stir- ying campaign of 1840. Read our report, in another eolumn, of the tramsfer of the National Club. We publish elsewhere an extract of a letter dated Granada, Nicaragua, June 1, which states that a eommunication had just been received from Costa Rica acknowledging ‘the government of Rivas and Walker; also declaring the war at an end, and offer- img to be responsible for all expenses growing out of it. Our telegraphic despatches from Washington an- nounce that General Persifer Smith has been ordered to Kansas te take eommand of the regular troops there. He has, itis said, imperative ordera to put an end to the troubles in the Territory. In the House of Representatives, yestorday, Mr Burlingame, of Massachusetis, made a telling speech im defence of his State, and in condemnation of the Sumner essault. Mr. Keitt, of South Caroliaa, en- @eavored to obtain the floor to reply to the remarks applied to Mr. Brooks, but the Speaker awarded it to Mr. Washburne, of Ulinois, who declaimed for some | time in favor of a union of all opposing factions | against the administration, and in support of the re- publican platform and nominees. Mr. Keits gave notice that he should replyto Mr. Burlingame on Monday. Mr. Evans, of South Carolina, will pro- bably, on Monday, address the Senate on the Sum- per affair. ‘The steamship ‘Quaker City arrived at this port with Havana dates to the 17th inst. There was nothing stirring in political circles. The sugar market was inactive, but prices remained firm. Another cargo of coolies, numbering nearly five hundred, bad arrived, making an aggregate of ten ‘thousand of these unfortunate people that have been introduced into ©uba within the last four years and ahalf. The steam frigate Susquehanna arrived off Havana on the 16th, and after communicating with the American Consul proceeded to Key West. She reported everything quiet at San Juan. ‘We publish eleewhere several letters from San Prancisco in relation to the murder of Mr. King, and the extraordinary and eventful movements to which it.has given rise. It will be seen that our cor- respondents take different views of the measures adoptediby the Vigilance Committee , which in the eyes of come amount to.a complete politi zal revolu- ion, with very different objects from those which they have put forward as .a justification for their proceedings. We give these opinions for what they are worth, leaving it to future events to decide how far they are well founded. The remarks of one of our correspondents in reference to the promotion of Mr. Dillon to the Consnl Generalship of Port au Prince ‘will be sead with interest. They show how steadily the French Emperor is maturing his schemes for future intervention in the affairs of our continent. Taken in.connection with the Spanish demonstra- tion against Mexico, they have a significance that cannot beatistaken. Notwithstanding the prevalent hot weather, the eonditian of the public health is quite satisfactory. According to the report of the City Inspector there ‘were 324 deaths in the city during the past week, viz.: 50 men, 67 women, 113 boys and 94 girls, ex- hibiting an increase of 15 on the mortality of the week previous. Of the whole number 4 died of apoplexy, 5 of bronchitis, 4 of congestion of the dongs, 36 of consumption, 10 of inflammation of the Jangs, 7 of diarrhea, 3 of dysentery, 8 of inflammation of the bowels, 2 of congestion of the brain, 12 of dropsy in the head, 5 of inflammation of the brain, 4 of erysipelas, 5 of palsy, 15 of smallpox, 21 of scarlet fever, 10 of all other fevers, 2 of cholera infantam, 19 of convulsions (infantile), 9 of croup, 6 of debility, 16 of marasmus (infantile), 8 of measles, 1 of hooping cough, and 2 of teething. There were also 13 premature births, 38 cases of stillborn, and 12 deaths from violent causes, including 6 drowned. The following is the classification of diseases:—Bones, joints, &c., 1; brain and nerves, 55; generative organs, 3; heart and blood vessels, 5; lungs, throat, &c., 75; old age, 4; skin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 33; stillborn and premature births, 66; stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 51; uncertain seat and general fevers, 25; urinary organs, 2; unknown, 4. The nativity table gives 234 natives of the United States, 47 of Ireland, 27 ot Germany, 3 of England, and the balance of various European countries and British North America. The cotton market yesterday was very quiet, and sales were confined to about 400 a 500 bales, with- out change in prices. Not much aaimation was expected until farther news should be received from Europe by the next steamer due, as it was be Aieved that she would probably bring accounts of a favorable change in prices. Flour was in fair de. mand, without change of moment in quotations, The market, however, under the force of large receipts, closed dll. Inferior and common grades of wheat were dull and irregular, while prime lots ‘were scarce and firm. Indiana red sold at $1 40, Southern ditto at $1 37, and Chicago spring at 91 22, Prime white Southern and Canadian were at 41 80. Distilling Western mixed corn sold freely at 45c.; sound ditto, for Eastern ship. ment, at 53¢., end sound Southern yellow at 562 57. Rye sold at 83c, delivered, Pork was firmer, with sales of mess at $19 25. Lard was firot, with sales im barrels at 11jc. and in kegs at 12jc. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 1,000 @ 1,200 hhds. Cuba mascovado at fall prices. Coffee was steady, with moderate transactions. Freights were stiffer, Se ae eee grain to Liverpool, at fall rates; with engagements also of ous ot ntpady quotations, The Three Par deg tor the Presidency and , Three Platforms. The democ” tic, the republican and the Fill- more Amer’ jean organizations, for all practical purposes, may be considered as the only political parties now before the country. Into one or anoth’ » of these three discordant organizations all f ge outside party fragmenta and factions of the 4 jar, excepting a few scattering ultra abolition- ssts, will be absorbed. In the consideration, then, of the politics of the day, we may safely limit our observations to the three aforesaid parties. These three parties, separated as far as the North is from the South upon certain abstractions, and as widely as the poles upon others, have yet, in their respective platforms, betrayed what is the most remarkable feature of this peculiar canvass —a perfect unanimity of sentiment upon one all- mportant point—the preservation of the Consti- tution and the Union. The Cincinnati democratic platform speaks with the holy fervor of religious enthusiasm the attachment of the party to the Union: the Fill- more Americans, placing it above all possible contingencies of sectional aggression, declare the Union “ the paramount good;” the republicans, with inspirations of patriotism “as ardent as a Northern sun can make them,” rest their pro- gramme of principles and measures, their pur- poses and their hopes of success, upon the pre- servation of the Constitution and the Union. Nor do we find in the platform of either of the oppo- sition parties any design expressed or implied to disturb the Fugitive Slave law, the Nebraska bill, slavery in the District of Columbia, or any law of Congress upon the subject of slavery. This, we say, is the most significant, remark- able and satisfactory feature of this canvass— this spirited rivalry between these three hostile parties, in their generous, patriotic and religious devotion to the Constitution and the Union. Jt is but a short time since that secession was daily paraded before the fire-eaters of the South as the universal panacea against abolitionists and Northern aggressions, while rifles, revolu- tion and disunion were as boldly preached in the North; but when these fire-eaters, secession- ists, and free soil disunionists are brought for- ward and present themselves for the suffrages of the country at large, they become as amiable and tractable as Bowery boys or border ruffians ad- mitted into decent society upon the promise of good behavior, Hence the first thing in the Cincinnati platform, and the opposition platforms for the Presidency, isa gracious asseveration by the party concerned of its fixed and unalterable devotion to the Constitution and the Union. It is, however, an extorted declaration from all these politicians, extorted by the pressure of the universal sentiment of the solid masses of the American people, which is a senti- ment of honest loyalty to the Constitu- tion, and of honest attachment to the Union of these States. These party platforms, first, se- cond and third, thus afford us convincing evi- dence of the perfect soundness of public opinion, and of the necessity devolving upon all parties and conventions to respect this public sentiment if they would command the public support. The Union is safe; for when all parties are thus bound and pledged to preserve it, there can be no dan- ger. There is, however, a constitutional issue, a Territorial issue, and a slavery issue between the democracy and the republicans, which places them as widely apart as South Carolina and Mas- sachusetis, It is Kansas, Kansas is the diffi- culty, and the question whether Kansas shall be a free State or a slave State, is the absorbing ultimatum of this momentous struggle. The republicans, clearly and emphatically, in o many words, declare their purpose to be “the mmediate admission of Kansas into the Union as a free State’—a State from which slavery is ex- pelled and excluded by the organic law of the eommonwealth. On the other hand, while it is morally certain that the fixed purpose and policy of the democracy is the exelusion of Kansas from the Union until the free te propaganda shall be overwhelmed by superior numbers of pro- slavery squatters, to the end that Kansas may be e a slaveholding State, we see nothing of this iplatform, The truth is not told, 2 in the equivocal Cincin- m tpon that exploded humbug of reignty. On the, contrary, as the demoeracy had not the m courage to nomi- nate any living embodiment of ihe Nebraska, bill, but fell back upon an absentee from the country, who could prove a satisfactory alibi—so they have fallen short of the boldness required to de- clare, in white and black, that from their pecu- liar obligations to the South they are pledged to use their best exertions to secure the admission of Kansas as a slaveholding State. This is the living, predominant issue of the contest; and the Cincinnati Committee on the Platform, with all their experience and dexterity in “keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope,” have failed to cover up in equivocal ab- stractions and vague generalities their Kansas policy, as accepted by Governor Wise, of Virgi- nia, and as universally understood throughout the South. We congratulate the honest masses of the peo- ple that whatever the issue of the November election may be, the Union is perfectly safe, tight and sound, all parties being solemnly and reli- giously pledged to love it and cherish it. We also congratulate the conservative body of the voters of all sections that there is to be no dis- turbance of the Fugitive Slave law, no attempt to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, nor any effort to restore the Missouri compro- mise, should the anti-slavery republicans be elevated to power, their present domestic quarrel with the democracy being confined to Kansas, Stripped of all verbiage, the foreign and domestic issues between the democracy and the opposition are simply these:—The foreign policy of the democratic party, as proclaimed at Cincinnati, in the unmistakable language of the confident filibuster, means nothing more nor less than Cuba, Mexico and Central America, “peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.” The foreign policy of the opposition is a suspension for a sea- son of the work of annexation, for the sake of a more vigilant watch upon slavery. The domestic policy of the democracy is the admission of Kansas asa slave State; and the republicans, taking up the glove, declare that Kansas shall be a free State, and as such shall be, if they triumph, admitted without delay. “ Men and brethren, choose ye thie day whom ye will serve;” but don’t be frightened by Con- gressional harrangues of disunion. All parties are pledged to the Union, and the protestations of one set of politicians are as good as those of another. None of them are to be trusted out of sight; but these pledges indicate a power behind all these party tricksters and their conventions, abundantly able to keep the ship on her course, Theory are but two living questions before ue the truth is n¢ nati ve squatier soy NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1856. houses‘on bulks and vessels built so as to lie at | The Isms of the Day—Spiritualiem and In- | guide us as little children in His own way and in frst, shall we filibuster abroad, or confine our quarrels and border wars within our own tetrito-’ ries and among our own people for a year or two; second, shall Kansas be admitted as a slave State or asa free State? For this contest these two propositions cover the whole ground. New York Cattle Market—The Supply of Cattle—Abattoirs. The New York cattle market is in fact of more vital importance than the stock market, Capitalists and fools are apt to frequent Wall street; but all classes, rich and poor, find a visit to the butcher's stall indispensable. A third mortgage railway bond is a thing of fancy, but a joint of meat is a happy reality. We keep no minute record of the droves which come down the Fifth avenue, to the horror and disgust of the fashionables who inhabit that quar- ter. We do not imitate the example of some of our cotemporaries, and send round our Solons to lift up the tail of every sheep that comes to the city and make a note of it, nor have we any ar- rangement with any class of dealers to put up or put downjthe price of meat. In fact, we are neither interested in phalansteries, brick churches, nor bulls’ heads; neither can we foretell the price of beef. Nevertheless, we enjoy the usual pleasures of mastication, and while engaged in this duty always regret that we cannot realize for the pub- lic at large the happiness which the great Henry VI. of France wished for his people—that every one when he wanted it should have a fowl in his pot. It is this feeling which interests us in the New York cattle market; and an acquaint- ance who has made a large fortune in the sham- bles has furnished us with some of his experience in the business. The cattle which come to this city are chiefly from the interior of this State, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, gathered into droves by purchasers who coastant- ly visit the grazing districts. But there is a great difference in these, of which the innocent consumers know but little. Nothing is more tempting than a fine sirloin piece for roasting, or a juicy and tender beef steak, and there are many delicacies concealed in the carcass of a bullock which need no commen- dation at our hands. But half the time we do not know what we are eating. It would recuire, indeed, the indefatigable Mayhew, of London, to trace all the peculiarities which attend the pro- gress of the animal from the stall to the dinner table, aided, too, by a confidential Board of Com- missioners appointed by Mayor Wood—repcrters not excluded. Thougands of cattle are brought every week by railways and steamers to this city, where they are killed somewhat on the Bobadil principle. Fifty? Kill them. Fifty more? Kill them. They are kept in pensin the upper wards, and generally sold to the New York butchers on time. Their notes are shaved by brokers of a particu- Jar class, who make fortunes by the business, and hang round the drovers. Where the carcass is, there eagles gather together. Large numbers of cattle are slaughtered in Albany and Troy, and are brought here in sides, prepared to be sold to the stall butchers and se- cond hand dealers. The hides and hoofs are re- tained there for local sale; the eatable parts come here to be sold at retail. These hides and hoofs are very important artiobes—they contain ele- ments of usefulness—they are valuable in the do- mestic arts, and fortunes are made out of them. One may stand at a particular point in a cer- tain avenue, and see two of the statelicat mansions in New York, the one built of sole leather and the other of gelatinized hoofs, We were surprised to learn that the cattle brought to this city are generally bled once or twice before they are knocked in the head. This is done to make the meat white and pleasant to the eye. It is not ie American taste to have too much of the red juices at the dinner table, “following where the knife is driven.” We pre- fer a drier preparation, and have a Christian no- tion of “abstaining from things strangled and from blood. But this bleeding by the butcher must he care- fully done. Many a noble ox when he loses too much of his vitality lies down and gives up the ghost. The anxious phlebotomist watches his pa- tient carefully, and just before the last breath es- capes he gives hima regular coup de grace, and finishes him before he has time io die. This makes the whole business regular. The cattle brought from Ohio are generally un- sound in the liver, which is supposed to be owing, to the grass they feed on. This disappears after they ‘have been for a time on a New York -grazing farm. Those which come from the south side of the Potomac are considered of the finest quality. Those from Indiana are highly prized; so are those also from Kentucky, which have hitherto borne away the palm. The county of Delaware, in this State, successfully competes with all. There are slaughter houses on the island where for a fixed fee, or the perquisites of tongues and feet to the owner or lessee of the ground, the drover may have his cattle killed and dressed to suit himself. This animal per centage is in fact equivalent to 4 pretty round charge, and fortunes may be and have been made by this means, The Jewish butchers are a class by themselves. Their customs and religious observances compel them to a more formal mode of slaughtering than practised by their Christian friends, They whet their knives, they feel the edge, and make ready to kill as if it were co “nominated in the bond.” The animal is then tied by his fore feet and his hind feet, turned on his back and hoisted up by a tackle, the body scarcely touching the floor. His nose is held down; and while in that position the follower of Moses approaches and cute the windpipe through, without touching the neck bone. That would be a fatal error. The legs are next skinned, and hole is made at the point of the breast bone. A penknife is then inserted, to separate the case containing the lights, and the hand is passed in to see if they are not grown or stringy and attached to other parts within, If so, the animal is good, and fit to be eaten by the faithful. Two seals of lead, with Hebrew inscriptions, are placed on the beast, and additional seals on every part of the animal, if required by the scru- pulous. The rapid increase of New York gives im- portance to this whole business of cattle driving and slaughtering, and it is fast becoming an eco- nomical question. Some of the upper parts of the city are almost uninhabitable from the nwn- ber of slaughter houses in activity there, Blood flows in streams through the gutters, and the air is tainted with impurity. What shall we do? How shall we dissipate this atmosphere of death? In Paris the abbattoirs are outside the walle, In New York they are in our midst. It has been suggested to us that an active remedy for the evil may be bad in constructing our slaughtey archor in the North and East rivers. These should be fitted up as pens, killing” houses and ice houses. The cattle brought down in barges could come alongside and be taken on board. The animals could be kept clean and comfortable till they were ready for the knife. All the blood and offal could be washed away by the tide, the meat could be packed in the ice, and the hulk might then be warped to its berth at the dock, the carcasses be disposed of, and then ite place on the river be regained. Or it might be made a regulation that all slangh- ter houses should be built over the water, at lo- calities designated, in the upper wards. We might in this way free ourselves from the nuisances which at present exist, deodorizing the air, now full of fevers and infection. We should not so much fear the approach of pestilence ; we should have wholesome meats, and we might cat, drink and be merry in a reasonable way, without the present inconveniences and risks which we encounter from our city shambles, We should certainly gain in once more being able to walk the avenues without alarm, or hav- ‘ng to jump over iron railings to escape being gored to death. In every way we should be gainers by the proposed change. A Mexican Pvzzie yor THE MEXICAN Press. —It seems that an article in our paper respect- ing the letter of the Bishop of Puebla on the subject of the church property, has created some excitement in Mexico. The opposition journals —the Sociedad and the Patria—translated an edito- rial from the Extraordinary, headed “ Sin- gular Coincidence,” and remark, “there are some things which appear to be miracles.” The Socie- dad calls the attention of the Siglo to this unac- countable coincidence, and desires an explana- tion. But we will give the mischievous com- ments of the Extraordinary, and the answer of the Siglio:-— [From the Extraordinary of Mexico, of May 26.) SINGULAR COINCIDENCE. Our readers in this city will remember the surprise manifested by the friends of Senor Payno on his abrupt resignation as Minister of Finance, and also the many speculations and doubts as to his probable successor, Therefore, it may geem somewhat strange that on last Monday, the day on which Senor Lerdo de Tejada was sworn in as Minister, tve mails by the steamer from New Orleans arrived, bringing files of ERALD, in which paper it is stated that Senor Payno would resign and Senor Lerdo would become his successor. This is equal to the best specimen of gpiritual manifestations, and we advise this paper to consult the same mediums in future. But this is not all; the New York Herat date of April 18, in its column of * Inte! ly into the qu sting from of the title is held. Therein hop of Puebla are ity coena Domini, of the holy Council of Trent, and other bulls and Councils of the church are fully examined, and the practice of every Catholic kingdom in Europe as to the temporalitics of the clergy are minutely explained. Quotations are alsi ute froin. the writings of the fathers, from St. Joro! prose, St. Augustin, and others. The prece the kings of Spain as to the Jesuits and other orders whose property was contiscated, are also cited. ss than one column of the HERAtp the case is clearly, historically, logically and conclusively stated. But the circumstance which renders it somewhat remarkable is, that on the very same 18th of April the answer of Senor Montes, the Minister of Justice, 40 the Bishop, is also dated, but which was not published in the Siglo until ten days thereafter; and this answer is precisely the argu- ment of the Hrmazp, historically, logically, but not quite so conclusively. In many instances the same expres- sions are used, the same quotations from the Saints, and ‘agraphs, in fact the exact translations of particular p: word for word. This reply of the Minister ov long columns of the Siglo, and is ‘“‘leagthene long drawn out,” while the argument of the paper is as solid ag a lump of sugar, more compact, and consequently more forcible. I evident that both pro- ductions are the emanations of the same b but if they are not, the coincidence is worthy of ce in the next edition of the ‘Curiosities of Literature.” [Translated from the Siglo of May 31.) COINCIDENCES. The Merican Extraordinary has noted in its last number the coincidence that the letter which the Mi r of Jus- tice passed to the Bishop of Puebla, dated the 18th of ‘April, contained some ideas that are seen also in the Herat, of New York, of the same 18th of April. The Sociedad has translated the article of the Eztraor of Justice, dinary, and instead of addressing th it desires that we should explain lence. We do not know if the Sociedad believ nor Montes edits the New YORK Hurt, or if the editor of the HekaLp writes the letters which the Minister of Justice signs. The letter of the Bishop is of the Sth of April, and as it was hot gent by mail the government received it only on the Sth, when it was examined in the Cabinet, and the Minis- ter dictated his answer on the 16th, sending it on the 1sth. From this, it will be perceived that it was not in any manner possible that this letter could be known on the same day in the United States, &c., &c. If the Socte- dad does not believe these explanations sufficient, we hope that in all frankness it will tell us its opinion. It is evident this explanation came from the Minister, or else the Siglo must be in the Cabi- net secrets. But they must try again to explain this mystery which puzzles the Extraordinary (an American editor), and the opposition press. It is absurd to suppose that in March, when it was decided to seize the church property, the law officers were not called upon to know if the act could be defended on legal grounds. The Minister would have us believe that the church property was first seized, and afterwards he hunted up the argument to defend the seizure; that they executed the Bishop first and tried him afterwards, in true Jedburg style. This will not explain the mystery. But it is not true that the Bishop’s letter was dated the 5th of April; for in the Siglo of the 27th of April this letter is published, and dated on the 2d. When it was in fact written is still unknown. The only conclusion which we can draw from the facts in the controversy is, that the ammunition for this paper war was prepared on both sides while the siege of Puebla was progressing, in the month of Mareh, to be fired off when the attack on the property of the church commenced. Will this hint help to enlighten the Siglo, or must we say more? But will the Minister inform us how we knew on the 26th of April, that Payno, the Minister of Finance, would resign, and that Lerdo would be his successor, when the Mexican press were not apprised of either event going to happen for nearly a month afterwards, and which took the Mexican capital by surprise, as is evident from the editorial of the Extraordinary? The papers of Mexico will find many mysterics to wonder at in our columns so long as the events in that country are interesting to our readers. Will the author of Junius please call at this office. More Fou.y—All aroma we hear of ratifica- ion meetings of the republicans, and rejoicings, fireworks, &., in honor of Fremont. In the course of the next month it looks as though a hundred thousand dollars would be spent in gunpowder and flummery. All this is mere folly and nonsense. As things look now, Mr. Buchanan will walk over the course. If the republicans and Americans can be awakened to a sense of their forlorn condition and ridiculous chances, let them unite for a grand movement: otherwise the game is lost, and the less powder they burn, and the less noise they make, the better will it be. Waar 18 Fremont?—Some journals are say- ing that Fremont is not a statesman, but an ex- plorer. This does not appear to mean anything. If it means that Fremont has not the abstract qualities which fit a man for government, it is not true, Mr. Buchanan is a man who answers to the name of statesman, no doubt; yet, with all his statesmanship—and we do not deny his good qualities—Mr. Buchanan would have got the country into no end of trouble at Ostend had Mr. Marcy not kept bim in ¢heck, and made him revereG his etepa, The number of the spiritualists is gradually increasing in this country, if we may judge from the number of the journals which are de- voted to its interests. There are nine weekly newspapers and six monthly magazines engaged in defending its principles and maintaining its cause, They are neatly printed, and abound in confident zeal and overwhelming hopes. They predict the coming overturn of all present opin- ions which are based upon the Scriptures, and everywhere, in the end, they expect, in spite of scepticism and criticism, to have the tables turn- ed completely in thee favor. As spiritualism has advanced, it has, as the geologists would say, be- come more conformable. The varieties of the upturned media are assuming parallel forms, These spiritual newspapers keep believers well ad- vised as to the course of spiritual events and the dizection of the investigations, so that something like harmony begins to prevail in the develope- ments, The media also begin to turn their talents 10 good account; seventeen of the principal of these advertise their business in the Spiritual Telegraph, published in this city. Seven practise the heal- ing art, their pharmacopia being a collection of recipes from the spirit land. Some merely describe the character of diseases, leaving to unconverted druggists the task of pre- paring the remedies, Some of them make use of the electro-medicated baths, which are made ready by females. We find too, that the psychometrists do not disdain the use of the enema in their spiritual derangements, and that new elastic instruments, with manuals of instrac- tions, are advertised in their leading journals. Other media remain at the threshold of the science, content with the first steps of induction. These tip tables, write the letters from the other world, describe persons “ out of the form,” and set chairs and bells in motion, and phosphorus on fire. They are the advance guard of the army, skirmishing with the skeptics and taking prisoners in pairs and singly. Others test the truth of their claims by communicating with the dead, whose awful and mysterious fate is developed to anxious friends, not often in the language they were wont to use when living, or with much regard to orthography, etymology, syntax or prosody, but who, in dim allusions to etherial vastness, seem still to retain individuality of condition and calculation, with prospects of beautiful plains and cottages, aromatic glory, and whose diet is kept in “ phials full of odors sweet.” In the back ground are the Lord Ba- cons of the philosophy, with each a No- vum Organum in hand, arranging, directing, ascorting and concluding. From these emanate the standard works of the spiritualists, and the catalogue is increasing. A society exists for the diffusion of spiritual knowledge, which is in full activity ; and there are eighteen lecturers, of both sexes, who are recognized as authorities in their peculiar vocation. There are initiatory circles for the conversion of unbelievers, and others where things unutterable are witnessed by the spirit communists. We do not know what is the number of the faithful in the United States. We presume it will not be long before we shall have a census. The final object at which it aims is not yet clearly revealed. It is shadowed forth in gene- ralisms—such as goodness is the end of all thinge—God is goodness, and goodness is God. The internal life is the boon, not exterior life, with its eating and drinking, wearing clothes and getting married. When our souls are free,” ‘ays a writer in the Spiritualist, “ our reception of influx will be sensible and sweet.” With regard to the respect paid to what is called the Christian religion, we are unable as yet to ascertain what is its reality or its sincerity. In some of the journals and newspapers the Bible is quoted whenever it serves a good turn. The Saviour has some eulogists left, but not very ‘warm ones, if we may judge from the following ex- tract in a leading article in a spiritual journal :— Jceus appears to be a straightforward, common sense sort of a man, not disposed to mysticism or over cre- dence, who thought works were as good as faith any da} 5; and we imagine, therefore, that he was not etherialized enough to originate spiritual intercourse. We presume this is the average opinion enter- tained of that personage who, as God manifest in the flesh, claimed the love and the worship of men. Spiritualism has not, as yet, done much for literature. The departed who have communica- ted their ideas to their anxious friends have evi- dently fallen off in their style of composition and deteriorated in the use of language. The effect of spiritualism on individual charac- ter has thus far not been happy. In most of the cases those persons who have given themselves up to it appear to be completely disorganized. They leave their former pursuits in life, they sink from their professional and business standing, a strange and wild expression fastens upon their countenances—“ they seem to walk in a vain shew, disquieting themselves in vain.” Suicide has attended in the train, and every few days we hear of departures for the spirit land of the most singular and melancholy character. In a philosophical view of the subject, it may be seen that spiritualism is ofall the theories pre- valent in the world most adapted to the American people, and most likely to succeed with them. In the first place we are areligious people—the general introduction of the Bible has led to gene- ral comment—and the “ mystery of mysteries” which “ within the sacred volume lies,’ has at- tracted universal attention. In the next place, with our extensive systems of education, we na- turally pass from under the bondage of supersti- tion. In old countries, where religion and educa- tion have been used to keep down the people, and to make them subservient to their pastors and masters, miracles and vulgar witchcraft, and the pricking of thumbs, and rides on broomsticks, and old fashioned ghosts in sheets were the out- ets of credulity. But in our own country we are above such puerilities. No cats and broomsticks for us; no witch gatherings in the glens; no fairy circles on the green. We are a fast people; inventive, daring, speculative, excitable, reckless, We have thrown off all the rusty shackles of the past. Our flesh melts in this spiritual heat. We become ethe- rialized. All the practical parts of our nature evaporate. We have new inspiration, new lords, new laws. To live is pleasant, and to die is gain. Ifspiritualism pervades the country extensively we must expect the present foundations of society to be upturned, and for a while, at least, disorder to be triumphant, Revelation has long warned us of very remark- able disorders to take place in the human mind; even the very elect are to be deceived. In the meantime let us not forget that fanaticism, like superstition, has at times shaken nations to thei, centres, They have desolated Asia; they have cansed rivers of blood in Europe, while the clear, simple, moral, hope-inspiring doctrines of tho Crom beye semalned untouched, uargfutel, to ON ee His own time to our Heavenly Father, who is stilt “our life, our breath and all things.” Harps np Sorrs.—The attempt of the Cincin- nati Convention to reunite the hards and softs of this State don’t seem to take. It was no settle~ ment, nothing more than a truce patched up to secure the vote of New York in the democratic nomination. Judging from everything visible and transpiring around us here, the temper and the animosities of the two factions against each other are as violent and bitter as ever hereto- fore. They will unite, we dare say, upon a com- mon,Presidential electoral ticket; but there ap- pears to be no possibility of any agreement upon a State ticket for our fall elections, It might be supposed, prima facie, that this division upon our local politics would weaken the junction upon Mr. Buchanan; but it is just as likely that a se- parate hard and a separate soft set of candidates for our local offices will strengthen the Uniom vote upon the Presidential ticket, In this city we also may expect two separate democratic tickets for our Corporation offices and public plunder—one under the trained bands of Mayor Wood, and the other under the trained bands of the Custom House. At Cincinnati they attempted the reunion of the hards and softs upon a basis of representation according to the vote throughout the State of each faction. This was the great mistake of Mr. Polk, and especially of Mr. Pierce—the division of the spoils in the outset, according to the popu- lar strength each, of the hards and softs. We know that Mr. Buchanan disapproves of this plan, and perhaps the hards and softs may also be possessed of this valuable information. We state with confidence the fact that Mr. Buchanan’s plan is to recognize that faction as the regular democracy which gives the strongest vote, and to give to that faction all the offices, upon the philosophical ground that though a few leaders of the repudiated fac- tion may stick out, the mass of their followers will be quick enough to go over to the side that has the loaves and fishes. This is why we expect asplit between hards and softs upon State poli- tics, Each faction is preparing for a separate State ticket, to see which is the stronger, the issue be- ing the loss or gain of all the patronage of the federal government. If the softs beat the hards upon their State ticket, though the latter may cordially unite upon Mr. Buchanan, the softs will be accounted theregular democracy of New York 5 and if the hards would have a taste of the loaves and fishes they must then come over and knock under to the softs unconditionally—and vice versa, In this life and death view of the matter we anti- cipate a more violent, venomous and savage split. between hards and softs, upon our local politics, than any split with which the people of thisState have heretofore been afflicted. Weshall standby and see fair play, and take a lively interest inthe fun while the two factions are devouring each other. Fun! yes, there will be fun enough. Two State Conventions, two State tickets, two tickets for Mayor and Corporation officers, will furnish any amount of fun to the happy family of the New York democracy. Wait alittle. They will open the ball before long. American Socrery.—Whoever has had the pleasure of mingling with good society abroad could not but be struck with its high and pleasing tone. To be introduced into the best English or Continental circles is to make the acquaintance of intelligent, intellectual and well bred people, whose conduct is perfectly natura), who entertain no petty jealousies of their friends, and whose aims in life are some- thing more than the acquisition of money, or ite silly expenditure. In the best families of Paris or London, of education and position, there is no absurdity of manner or affectation of style; the men are gentlemanlike, the la- dies accomplished, frank and rational. The subjects of conversation are of the highest order. It would be rare, indeed, to find any ignorant of the history of their owa country, of general politic, the career of eminent per- fonages, the progress of the arts, and the ele- gance of belles lettres, Thus, in our inter- course we are exempted from the necessity of diecussing the merits of a paletot or the price of point lace, A deep interest is shown in all the interests of humanity; and if worth is not always sure of success, it never goes without appreciation. Indeed, a sortof literature has arisen abroad of a peculiar character, arising ‘entirely from the contributions of society, and exists in the shape of Ana and table talk. Some of the most pleasing works in French and English are but the records of conversa- tions and anecdotes of good society. In our own country, we are sorry to say, itis notso. None surpasses ours in the elegance of the mansions of its rich. Our Fifth avenue is almost unrivalled. Bat what do we see in ite interiors? Costly furnitare rarely used, din- nere, stereotyped copies of each other, the same courses, and unfortunately the same con- versation. We know beforehand what is to be our bill of fare, and what cook and confectioner prepared the viands; we retire from the ban- quet fatigued with its length, without having made much advance in information, formed any new and agreeable acquaintance, or Lata up any pleasant memories of a happy ime. Particularly may we regret the small in- fluence which our American ladies exercise in improving the tone of our society. While the female sex hasno more ardent admirers than it finds in the United States, yet it does not use its power in the right direction, or else is in- disposed to do so. We see in the evidence made public in a recent will case, how mach club life and the dissipation of late hours en- ter into the enjoyment of the wealthy and fashionable, Riches are not worth having without good feeling, taste and education to dispense them ;: and our American women seem to regard them as the mere advantages they afford ta procure a “love of a hat,” or a moire antique, or jewelry from Ball’s or Tiffany’s. The educar tion of our children at fashionable publi¢ echools, although many of them are perfect of their kind, results in the attainment of ®& rmattering of the languages, « little unskilfal music, and vague general ideas of history and, the arts of life. When the school is finished, then come dress and Broadway, the onsy flir- tations of American youth and galety, mare riages, intense love of dress, forgetfalnoss of thoee early acquisitions 0 rapidly made, and vacuity of mind, only relieved by dissipation of s most dangerous character. The topios of conversation, under such circumstances, oan- not be very varied. Our really intellectual circles are few, and the charms of social life diminished. It is owing to thie paucity of Terources that our women are 60 fond of talk. ing about thels ministers and ghurobes, It ty