The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. pueepeteenenneNeerane JAMBS GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. tion of doing so, whatever politicians may scheme or blusterers imagine. We are growing & larger breadth of wheat this year than usual, and a few bales more cotton, on purpose for the English, We have a few railways @PFICE NH. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. ne NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1856. on she would havve been captured. She was in imminent dan‘ger of ¥inking, and with difficulty reached por’, In ‘our own service, under the command ¢f Lieutenant, afterwards Commodore Jones, they rendered valuable aid at New Or- that of 1840. The same localities have been sub- merged—Lyons, La Guillotiere, Vienna, Roches ‘@e Coudrien, Tain, Toumn, Valence, Avignon, Montelemar and La Pakxd—whole villages have been swept away and many lives lost, At Or very little chort, if, indeed, it does notexeed (BRB LATEST WOEWS. too, on hand, that will pay from twenty-five to ‘im adeance. 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New York, Monday, Fane 23, 1856. ‘The News. ‘Thesteamship Atlentic arrived lastevening from ' ‘Liverpool, with advices to the 1)th iast., four days ater than faose previously received. The news of the ‘@ismissalof Mr. Crampton, which¥as published ex- elosively<n the Hensxp of the 28th ult., and carried oat in tho Asia, was received aa a fact by the lead- img London papers, and commestted on by themin a Yone indicating-hut little excitement. The Morning Post, the orgaz of Lord Palmerston, repeats, “‘ that there is neither war nor cause for war; it is feirly a question of teriper. The Engiish people are on the best terms; the English gevernment is disposed to be ‘most ‘amiable ‘and pelite; the Waehington Cabinet alene remains in the suiks, and till % comes to its better self we must bear with its pettish ways as well ae we can. It would be folly to kick when all the dudgeon is on one side.” ‘It is generally conceded that Mr. Dallas will not be sent home. In the meantime the ships ef war Nile, 91; the @bannon, 51; the Pylades,21,amd the Co:- ack, 21, bad been ordered to proceed to the North Amerisen station with all possible despatch. An attempt to assassinate the Queen of Spain is rep ort- ‘ed. Phere has been a ministerial crisis in Portugal. The inundations have done fearful damage io Franee, and subscriptions for the relief of the suf- ferefs were being taken up in Englani. Consols shad declined since the 7th inst. frem 94}a 945 to 94.094}. Cotton was a shade better, and bread- wtaffs had improved. Me. Fillmore arrived last night, about twelve clock, by the Atlantic, and was received by the <Mommittee of the Common Council and the Fillmore weception clubs. He made a speech in reply to alderman Briggs, and another tothe crowd in front of the St. Nicholas, where he is at present stopping ‘as the guest’of the city. A full report of all that ~was done and said will be found elsewhere. ‘The intense heat of the last three days, which oc- easioned several cases of coup de soleil, was brought ‘oan abrupt termination yesterday afternoon by a syiolent thunder sterm, which lowered the tempera- véore most refreshingly, and did something towards -eleaning the city. The squall was very severe in the say, and several boats were upeet. Three persons, «© young man and two girls, were drowned by the upeetting of a sailboat in Gowanas bay, and a brothe: and sister who-were in the same boat narrowly es- +@aped the same fate, and were -caved only by the strenucay exertions of the brother. A fall account of ‘the disaster-will be found elsewhero. Wegive in another part of todsy’s paper some interesting items from Beaver Islands, the Mormon . settlementin Lake Michigan. The statement which is mace by Mr.J..Atkyn, and copied from a Cinvin- mati paper, may be taken with some grains of allow- ance in regard to its -trath in every particular, as ‘Mr. Aticyn is spoken of by the Mormons as aman wpon whom it will not-do to place too much reliance. The United States government have shipped a Jarge-number of Colt’s revolvers to Panama, for the arming 0‘ the crew of the sloop-of-war St Mary's. "This is asiovelty in navel equipments ; and they are so be ased in the event of any further attack on ‘American , property at that point. The pistols left 4m the laststeamer. In the meantime, Commander Bailey hasorders to remain at Panama. A continuation of the esearch of the alleged slave ‘brig Braman,.at the Navy Yard, has led to the dis- eovery of.articles tending to implicate her as a alaver. The total value of foreign goods imported at the port of Boston during the week ending the 20th fmst. amounted to $614,496. ‘The cotton market.was very quiet on Saturday,and gales were confined to about 400 a 500 bales, with: eat change in prices. Not much aaimation was expected until farther news sheald be received from by the next.steamer due, as it was be- Bevet that she wauld probably bring accounts of a favoraile change {a prices. Flour was in fair de- mand, vithout change of moment in qnotatione.. The gmrket, howeser, under the force of large receipts, closed dall. Inferior and common grades of wheat were dail ead irregular, while prime lots were scarce ond firm Indiana red sold at $1 40, Southern, <itto at $1 37, and Chicago spring” at $1 224 A ale of 60 boehels of new red wheat, growm,,this season, near Charleston, South Caro. ina, wes,.acd to go out of marke’ at $2 per bushel -Prime white Southern and Canadian were at $1 90. ; Distilling Western mixed corn sold: freely st 4bc.; sound ditto, for Eastern ship ment, st 630, and souné Southern yellow at 566 57c. Rye sold at 83c. éelivered. Pork was &rmer,.With sales of moss at $19 25. Lard was firm, with sales in barrels at 1ljc and in kegs at 12jc. Gagars were firm, with sales of about 1,000 9 1,208 bhds.Gcba muscowado at fall prices. Coffee was «eady, with moderate transactions. Freights were.atiffer, wich large shigments of grain te Liverpool, at fall rateg; with engagements giso of Gonr at steady quota&ens. Whiskey advanced 294. a 30¢. per a«zlion. ——$——_— The Effect of the Crampaan Case tu England. The papers by dee America evince rather a sorences than an asperity of feeling on the subject of the Crampton case, The Beglish are grieved with us, net angry. They’ are nef resolved wheth- er to dismiss Mr. Dallas or no ; byt any way, they will spare ue a war. They are #rong enough, great enough, to forgive as. ‘They can afford, on the grand eminence they oeaupy, to bear our puny assaults with equanimity and treat owr ravings with commiseration. They, who know not what it is to have an uoprincipled statesman, lay all our faults.at the doer of the abandoned Pierce ‘and the wretched Marcy, and pity rather than condemn us. in consideration “for the better classes” of Americans, whom, nevertheless, it is proper to reprimand and ehastise for not keeping a etter lookout, we—the reckless, senseless, va- poring masses—are graciously spared this time, in recollection of breadatuffs and in memory of cotton. But the British lion must not be poked op again. Such ig the tone of the Britsh press, from the Times down to the Morning Pos. We must be forgiven by our transatlantic readers if we fail ‘o perceive the drift of this Bobadilian sort of talk. We have every desire to remain on good terms with our Britis cousine apd indeed every inten- bonds likewise. We shouldn’t mind if he sent over a few of his first rate engineers, with a few of those sterling pounds, which are inereasing iu his great bank—so the returns say—at the rate of six or seven hundred thousand pounds a week, to open some of our coal mines. Also, a'copper mine or two, a few silver, and likewise some gold ‘and lead mines, Nor should we object in the least if he builé a few more steamers like the Great Eastern, and sent them to Portland or Ner- folk, or wherever ese they could go, and asked, usto load them. Having these views in our; ‘mind, we say wedo not ‘understand John Bull when he puts on an air of dignity, and intimates that it is only wecause-he is‘ tig and we are little —out of pity, in short—that'he does net knock us about thetiead. This is ohild’s talk, quite un- worthy of a sensible nation, or a sensible ‘press. Mr. Crampton’s “dismissal was perfectly right and proger—that is the sentiment not only of fhe “moity raMole,”” but of the “ conservative classes” of America, almost without exception. He hed violated the laws. He had written in- sultingly of fe government. He hed placed himself in ‘hostile ‘eollision with “Senators. Any of these were ~cufficient to render him an unsuitable minister of a friewdly power near this government: the firet rendered his dirmiscal a necessity. Had “Mr. Cramp- ton been a Pressian, or had he been an American, in France or Germany, and acted as he did, no journal would have been prompter to advocate his dismissal than the London Times; for no journal has~2 juster know- ledge of history, or a truer reeollection of the numerous cases in which mischievous ministers have, by their errors and their spites, caused great and calamitous wars, Mr. Crampton contemned this country’s laws. Mr. Creaypton derided and sneered at this country’s government, Mr. Crampton groesly belied honorable Senators. Mr. Crampton did what in him kay to nurture a feel- ing of hostility against this country among the governing classes in England. And for these things Mr. Crampton was most righteously dis- missed—most properly dismissed. We are not the friends of Mr. Pierce—far from it: nor are we given to chaunt the praises of Mr. Marcy—God help us! But we are boend to‘say that both of these gentlemen are at this time receiving most harsh and unfair treatment at the hands of the British press. The greatest fault that can be laid t the charge of the Pre- sident and Secretary is want of nerve and promptitude, as evinced in the failure to dismiss Crampton the day after hisroguery came toligkt. But it muet be borne in mind that the British were then in the thick of a war. They were get- ting the worst of it;-or at least people thought so,and their own jearnale said so. There they were, lumbering up the ground before Sebasto- pol, and doing no sort of good: for the which they—government and -governed—were sorely distressed. If at this crisis the President had dismissed Mr. Cranspton, what would have been the consequence? The embarrassment of the British would have been terribly increased, and we should really have seemed to be seoretly but effectively laboring in the cause of Russia. In view of this consideration the President tempo- rized, resolved towait ; did wait, in fact, til! all fleet was free to.crush us. If we may blame him for this, the British may not. He may have act- ed weakly towards us, but he acted like a gentle- man toward them. And it shows their press to be really in the hands of men of the class to which they asertbe the direction of onrs, when they wholly overlook this generous and manly action of the President’s,.and meanly ascribe his whole conduct to Cincinnati considerations. Mr. Pierce may be a very bad President, Mr. Marcy a bad Secretary ; that is our affair, not that of England. They.are good enough, at all events, to hold their own against the practiced statesmen of England ; Lord Clarendon, we ven- ture to say, wi not risk a second tilt with old Governor Marey. Nor are they in any wise ple. Lord Palmerston is in fact a more unprio- of Caleb Cushing er:Soulé. He does not tell the truth. He doee not.care for peace, or prosperity, the British troubles were over, and their great | inferior to their English rivals in point of princi- cipled man by far than Mr. Marcy, and leés re- epectable in every~way ; he is nearer the calibre leans, 2,04, if we mistake not, in the Chesapeake, in an affair with a British 74. Jefferson was violently assailed by the federal party for his recommendation. They accused the democrats of having opposed a navy in the time of Adams, and now inconsistently advocating it. The polity was one of the disturbing issues of the day, and party violence used every weapcn agatast its consummation. Indeed, thePresideat waso hard pushed that he employed Thomas Paine, who had returned from France, to use his pen in his defence. It was ably used, but did not “nich change public opinion in favor of the scheme. Almost all our naval officers were nimicable to it; they liked large and comfortable ehipe, and it was said of ‘them that they were arked to give up a richty capariconed horse to g0 riding about on a donkey. The force never emounted to much, Acti- Gents and decay thinued the little fleet, It fll into disuse, and some of the best of them were cold for lighters, The gunboats of those days, while they depend- ed upon the principle laid down by Jefferson for their utility asa harbor.and coast defence, were moved by eails, Steam has added vastly to their capacity and utility to manceuvre. They can place themselves in airy position, and carry shot between four and five miles, At that distance from a large vessel they present.a target of about twenty-two feet by eight, and will be hard tohit. It will be like bringing a bird down on the wing, to do it. In case of a war we can build five hundred in four months’ time, and at any distance from the seaboard we think proper. We therefore need not fear these English musqui- toes when our gallinippers get ready. We have outstripped the world in the construction of ships and firearms. Perhaps we can do it again. The Inundations in France—American Ald for the Sufferers. The late fearful visitation which has carried devastation and ruin into the most fertile dis- tricts and richest manufacturing towns of France, has naturallyexcited the attention and sympathy of the civilized world. In an age in which art is made to control, successfully, most of the irre- gular operations of nature, men naturally ask themselves if nothing can be done to avert alto- gether these catastrophes. It will be seen from what we are about to state, that althowgh barriers may be opposed to these periodical everflowings of the great rivers of the earth, the force of a power greater than that of man will occasionally overbear these artificial obstacles, and cause only greater destruction from the feeble resistance op- posed to them. Lyons, the chief acene of these disasters, is, a8 our readers are aware, situated at the eonflaence of the Rhone and the Saone. The appearance of the city, as the traveller approaches it, is the most picturesque that can be imagined. Seated on the right bank of the Rhone and on the two banks of the Saone, it ascends the flanks of the heights of Saint Just, Fourvieres and la Croix Rousse, covers their plateaux, and then descends again into the plain through which the Rhone ‘winds. Previous to the year 1776 the Rhone and the ‘Saone effected their junction at the vast esplanade called the Cours du Midi. A little farther on existed an island called the He Moquiat. Being commissioned to reclaim from the two rivers that-bathe Lyons the space ‘which now, forms the beautiful esplanade above named, the architect Perrache, by a long em- bankment, turned the course of the Rhone, car- ried back the confluence of the river about ff teen hundred yards to the south, and thus reunited the Ile Moquiat to the main land. We mention these facts to give our readers a correct idea of the situation of Lyons, and-of the pecn- liarities of position which render it liable to the visitations under which it is now suffering. With the causes of inundation in general our readers are as familiar as ourselves, They are occasioned, we need not tell them, by heavy and continuous rains, and by the melting of the snow on the tops of the mountains by sudden and violent changes of temperature. When the temperature continues moderate the snow dis- solves gradually, and the waters slowly find their level. The immense quantity of rain which fell in France during the last few months, not only precipitated the usual slow operations of nature in this respect, but added immensely to the-volume of the river by direct contributions. The rivers of France which are most subject to or honor. He thinks. of nething but the glory of being Prime Minister of England, and making a fine speech in the House of Commons, in which he will avail himeelf.of his age and rank to gross- ly insult and bully better but weaker or more modest men than himself. To gain these ends these debordements are those which'take their rise in the spurs of the Alpine and Pyrennean ranges, such ag the Rhone, the Garonne, the Adour, the Rhine and their principal affiuente. The Seine, which has its source in the plateau .of Langres, schemers need not fewa comparison. England. The idea is nothing new. It hae long been pracGsed on; and if we are not mistaken, one of the. very vessels wed in the Baltic was ac- tually builtin England ow a Prussian model, and for foreign employment. The Ruseians and Danes long ago used guubsats with success, and as eavly as 1803 the American Congrese passed an act to buildend employ them in our naval service. Presidgnt Jefferson was friendly to the system fuom the siart, and in bis message of 1803 urged ite adoptien warmly. The subjcet was ceferred to a committee in Congress, and a re port was, male, in which the required number was.estimated to be two hundred and fifty, the cost of construction fuur thousand dollars, and the annual maintenance eight thousand dollars. An wppropriation of sixty thousand dollars was voted. In 1807 Mr. Jefferson communicated a special message to Congress, urging, under the unsettled state of our foreign relations, their im- mediate attention to the subjeet. His views were fully dctaileg, the system was advocated, and on this cecasion he offered the commendations of General Gates and General Wilkinson, Commodore Barron and Capt. Tingey. He referred to the utility of these vessels at the siege of Gibraltar, and the destruction of the Turkich fleet in Liman bay in 1788, by a Russian flotilla. If we mistake not, Congress voted one hundred and thirty thousand dollars for a freah expenditure. Other instances might have been mentioned. In 1800, off Ceuta, two Spanish gunboats captured an English 16 gun brig, after awarm engagement. In 1808, off Malmo, the Danes, with twenty-five gunboats, attacked the Africa, 64, bomb vessel, and two briga, and tore ibe Jarge rhip to pieces, Hadnot the night come he will sacrifice anything, from his friends to his country. With such.a politician our Cincianati TasGennoat Sysrem—An American Poutcr. —Theg possession of a large number of gunboats, moved by steam, has been deemed a powerful and a dangerous accession to the naval power of and the Loire, which takes its rise in the granitic flanks of the Cevennes, are.also subject to these periodical inconveniences, From time to time the inundations arising from the above described causes have been attended ‘wigp a vast destruction of property, though hap- piky, owing to the judicious and energetic precsu- tions adopted by the French authorities, with a comparatively small loes of life. The most ox- tensive disaster of this kind which has occurred 1840. ‘The Saone poured an accumulated -mass* of waters into the Rhone, ‘which burst its banks’ and covered sixty thousand aeres of the land.; All the lower parts of Lyons were submerged; in: Avignon upwards of one hundred houses were’ swept away, two hundred and eighteen henses were carried away in La Guillotiere, and upwards: of three hundred at Vaise, Marseilles and Nismes. The Saone had not attained such.a height for # period of two hundved and thirty-eight years, ané | the loes occasioned by it was estimated at little hort of sixteen millions of francs. It will be asked how it is that she well known kill of the French engineers has sot made some effective provision against the recurrence of auch calamities. The anewer is, that firom the ecartiest ages efforts have been made to arrest them, andas yet ecience has been unable to derive any ef fective barrier against their overwhelming force, In France they have always formed a mbject of the most anxious consideration and attention on the part of government, and vast sums have from time to time been voted for the construction of works to hem in the rebellious waters. In their solidity, however, the population of the districta thus visited do not place much faith. The re- turn of spring is always with the Lyonnese a period of the greatest anxiety and watchfulness, and a visiter at such times can say to them in the words of Dryden :— Your cares about your banks infor a fear Of threatening floods and inundations near, Althongh the precise amount of damage done by the recent visitation has not as yet been esti- mated, there is reason to fear that it falls buy in France, was that which took place in the year} leans, at the last accounts, the sufferers were flocking by thousands into the city from Le Val and other places. One of the worst features, however, of the calamity is, that the numerous and prosperous manufactories which have been erected within the last few years in the district of La Guillotiere, have been entirely annihilated. Thus the fruits of years of patient industry and enterprise have been destroyed at one fell blow. This isa great national calamity. It will be years before the industry of France recovers from the shock. When we take into account that the manufactures of Lyons are those which con- tribute most to its commercial riches, we can form some idea of the effect which such a whole- tale destruction of her industrial establishments muet have upon her interests. But this conside- ration is of small account compared with the re- flection that by this lamentable event thousands of pereons will be reduced to a state of extreme privation, and that many will in all probability sink under the pressure of want. A sum of twelve millions of francs have been voted for the relief of the sufferers; but this will go but a short way towards the alleviation of their distress. Double that sum would not repair the losses which they have met with, These facts remove the visitation out of the domain of ordinary oc- currences affecting only the people on whom it has fallen. It addresses itself to the sympathies and benevolent consideration of the world at large, which cannot but feel affected at the spec- tacle of so much unmerited distress. Under euch circumstances there is but one part for the American people to take. Let Europeans say what they will of them, it cannot be charged against them that they have ever shown cold hearts or turned a deaf car to the misfortunes and sufferings of others. We have abundantly proved the contrary by the generous efforts which we made for the relief of the sufferers during the famine in Ireland and in the Cape de Verde Ielands, and on various other occasions. What- ever cauge we may have for feeling indignant at the irritating and unbecoming tone adopted to- ward us by the French press; whatever distrust we may feel at the conduct of French diplomat- ists in this country and Mexico; whatever suspi- cions we may entertain as to the views of the French Emperor in regard to the affairs of this continent generally, it shall never be said of us that in the presence of such a calamity as this, we allowed our interests or our prejudices to interfere with the dictates of humanity. We will show by our conduct on this occasion that we are not influenced by the paltry jealousies and hostilities which the enemies of republicanism attribute to us, and which, in fact, only find their origin in their own minds, As we are firm and uncompromising in the assertion of our rights, we will prove to them that we can be magnanimous, forgiving and gen- erous when the opportunity presents itself. These are the characteristics of a great nation, and on this occasion we shall not be found deficient in them. The suggestion, we are convinced, has only to be made to find a prompt and enthusiastic and liberal response from all classes of our people. Let, therefore, a subscription for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations be at once opened in-every banking house in every city, town and village throughout the Union. Let the move- ment be spontaneous, energetic and national in every sense of the word. Let the leading men of the country head the lists in each locality, and let the government be made the vehicle of the popular benevolence. For this movement to be effectual, there must be no delay. The aid that is timely is alone appreciated. Political Gossip. ‘The Boston Aas, one of the oldest of Massachusetts whig journals, says the Convention which has just nomi- nated Fremant recognizes the wishes of the people, and haye but given yoice to the sentiment which has been long entertained in favor of the young and gallant hero valio first planted the American flag upon the Pacific coast, ¥t is rumored in Washington that in case Mr. Buchanan should be elected, Mr. Slidell will be Secrotary of State, and Gen. Quitman Secretary of War. What a glorious time the filibusters would then have ! The old line whigs of Maine will hold a State Convention at Bangor, on the Ist of July, fur the purpose of nomina- ting a candidate for Governor. The New Haven Palladium, which was one of the few journals who favored the nomination of Fremont, is now juhilant over bis success. It thinks he will ride over all opposition. “ Buck and Breck,” the rallying cry of the democracy, is suggestive. The following satirical hit is from the Berkshire County Eagle :—‘‘We know what to look for when Arnold Douglas drives the democratic team, with a ‘Haw, Buck! Gee, Breckf! G’lang there, dang ye!’ ? ‘The Delaware Republican, a Fillmore paper, intimates very clearly its desire to support Col. Fremont, and it even expresées its belief that Mr. Fillmore, on his return home, ‘will withdraw from the contest, in order to unite ail the opponents of the administration. ‘The day (June 18) on which Fremont was nominated ‘was the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. ‘The Buffalo Courier sneers at Fremont as an ‘‘exploree’’ and “engineer.’? What else was Gen. Washington when called to the service of his country ? ‘The Washington Intelligencer likes Mr. Buchanan’s lot- ter accepting the nomination, and thinks nothing has come from his pen which was conecived in terms more appropriate to the occasion, or more worthy to the rank he occupies among our living statesmen, A furious republican clergyman of Detroit used the following language in a recent sermon—as reported by the republican organ of that city — Before I would see popular sovereignty wrested by force from the people of the Territories, I wonld have the plains of Kangas silent with universal death. Before I would haye the lips of our Senators and representatives: sealed in craven silence by the hand of Southern violence, Jowould see the halls of Congress ankle deep in blood, The New York Republican General Commitee held a merting at Albany on the 20th inst., and passed ¢he fol- low.ng resolution:— Resolved, That we, the General Republican Committee of the city and county of a#bany, do most heartily re- spond to and approve of the nominations made at Phiia- delphi, of Johu C, Fremont for President, and William .L. Layeon for Vice President; and that the platform of reedom adopted by that body meets with our hearty and unqvalixed approbation, ‘The Baton Courier, Webster whig, and without sufi. Gant streagth to break its thread which binds it w the dead carcase of whiggery, is determined to wait to learn up what plausible pretext Col. Fremont is presented for ie suffecges of the people. The Courier is a slow coach. At Waterville, Maine, the announcement of Fremont’s nominatian being made to the Waterville Republican As- sociation, Ahey imamediately adjourned to Elmwood Hotel, where Hon Jot M. Morrill, last year the democratic speaker ofthe Maine Senate, addressed them. Much en- thusiom was saaniferied. ‘The Louleville Journel says Franklin Pierce was elec- ted to the Preskiency iy an overwhelming majority of the nation, because he was not known. He has been dropped by genordd congent, because he is, ‘The Sewer organ of the administiation at Washington thinks to injure the proepects of Col, Fremont by publish- ing paragraphs like the following:=-We take it for granted that among the informal pledges extracted by delegations in George Law’s Convention, from Coi. Fremont, there was not one against the Catholic chureh, ingomuch as up to the recent birth of his aspirations for the Presidency he always passed in Washington for a good enough outside Roman Catholic—that being the church in which he was reared, He was married in this city, it will be remew- bored, by Father Vap Horacigh, a Catholic clorgyman, BV MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Desertion of the Grapeshot’s Crew. Puuapeirma, June 22, 1856. ‘The bark Grapeshot, of Poole notoriety, which cleared ‘yesterday at*this port for Buenos Ayres, is detained in the river, off Chester, by desertion of geven of her crew. Captain Robbins came up this afternoon, and has suc- ceeded not only in procuring the requisite complement of able seamen, but in capturing four of the deserters. Proywence, June 21, 1856. Cotton is steady and firm,with sales for the week of about 2,600 bales, at last week’s prices. Wool—Prices continue the same, with ratherg light sales, amounting to 41,300 Ibs. for the week. Printing cloths—No change in the market; sales 46,000 pieces. Se Our Washington Correspondence. ‘Wasuinctoy, June 17, 1856, The Danzh Sound Dues—Marcy at Work—The Sumner and Keating Affairs and the Grand Jury. Since the administration has been relieved of all anxiety growing out of the Cincinnati Convention, Mr. Marcy has gone to work in earnest and has pitched upon the Sound dues question as the first to claim attention and the most pressing at this particular time upon our government. Several translators are engaged in rendering into the Queen’s English every newspaper article and paragraph, official and otherwise, contained in the last batch of Da- nish papers. Some of these translations are very inter- esting and important. In connection with this subject, also, I find that numerous translations are being made, from Danish and other journals, on the subject of mari- time law. It is believed, however, that the administra- tion, actuated by a spirit of magnanimity, will continue to pay these exactions for some months yet, but under solemn protest. Such is Mr. Marcy’s policy, but strongly objected to by Secretary Davis, who contends that nota dollar should be paid wrongfully. In view of the important position of affairs in Washing- ton just at this crisis, Mr. Marshall Hoover has exercised avery proper discretion in the selection of the Grand Jury for the present term of the court—a jury which will be called upon to take cognizance of matters and things which have excited and exasperated a large portion of our country—I refer to the cases of Messrs. Herbert and Brooks. To place the disposition of these cases above all suspicion, the present Grand Jury embrace the most emi- nent and ‘upright citizens to be found in our community. The following is a list of their names:— Grand Jurors.—George W. Riggs, foreman; George MeCeency, John P. Ingle, 8. P. Franklin, J dy, G. Ennes, William A. Bradley, Geo. miah Orme,’ Wm. B, Scott, Samuel Pumphrey,’ Selby Scaggs, Henry Haw, Wm. Selden, Peter M. Pierson, Jen- kin Thomas, Benjamin Beall, Aaron W. Miller, Z. W. McKnew, Robert S. Patterson, Wm. F. Bayly, Robert White, B. J. Semmes, John R. Queen. With such men as’ Riggs, Kennedy, Bradley, Gideon, Scott and others, the country may rest assured that Messrs. Herbert and Brooks will be dealt with “without fear, favor or affection,” and at the same time strict jus- tice will be meted out to them. The Criminal Court is now in session, and in a few days we shall know the re- sult of these cases. ‘Wasmoroy, June 19, 1856. The Tariff—More Troops for Kansas—Col. Fremont’s Nomi- nation. Mr. Campbell, after making two visits to Ohio, has returned tothe city, and informs me that his tariff pro- ject will be ready for Congress as soon as a quo- rum of that body can be got together, The schedule features of 100, 30 and@0 per cents are to remain as at present. The free list is to embrace raw materials, home valuation principle will be tried, out of considerati to some members on the committee, including Campbell, of Pennsylvania, but will not be insisted upon. The re- port has not had the benefit of the committee’s delibera- tion, but the principal features of it, as represented by Mr. Campbell, have Feceived the individual approval of a majority of the Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Campbell does not count upon the passage of his measure during this session, and considers himself relieved from further duty by the presentation of his report. Should it pass the Hougee, Senator James, of the Senate, stands ready to shape it in accordanee with his own views—so that there is hardly a possibility of any tariff reform tor the public before the next session. Isee report contradicts the statement of the President having sent to Col. Sumner additional force. My author- ity for the assertion that more force had been ordered by the President is Gen. Cass and James, of the Senate. To show the correctness of the statement, it is only necessa- ry to refer to the one hundred and fifty army soldiers that passed through Buffalo, on the 7th or 8th inst., on their way to join the forces of Col. Sumner, in Kansas. ‘The nemination of Col. Fremont is variously considered, the Californian Buchanan politicians are forced into the ad- mission that he was a good sight for that State. Inquiries are frequent, within the last twenty-four hours, to know what State north of Mason and Dixon's line can’ be relied upon as sure for Buchanan, The South has one hundred and twenty votes ; and supposing that Buchanan should get every Southern State—which he can’t do—he will still want, to clect him, an additional twenty-nine votes, Penn- eylvania, if secured for him, which is now doubtful, will balance, as necessary to his election, of two votes. Dela- ware must ceme out of the estimate of the Southern states that are to cast their yotes for Buchanan, which will make the odds against him greater than above suggested. A policy by the administration that would restore peace and confidence to Kansas would materially aid in benefit- ting the chances of James Buchanan for the Presidency. Wasmxetox, June 19, 1856. Interesting Claim Cases£ Work and Kanzas in Congress— Observatory on the Highest Peak of te Rocky Moun- tains, dc. A case having been submitted by the Secretary of the Interior which is of consid@rable importance to the relics of Revolutwonary times, and which has just been decided by the Attorney General, I make a brief abstract f it. It is the question of the right of the adult children n such a case to the arrears of pension claimed by the father in censideration of Revolutionary services, but not in fact claimed. It is the question beyond that: how far a pension not claimed, and of course neither certified nor adjudicated, but which, it is now seen, if claimed, would have been allowed, is to be considered as a yested in- terest of the party as property demandable by represen- tative persons. Still, after a continuous series of uniform decisions on a point, in numerous cases, and for many years, under successive administrations, of the subject matter, it seems tome hardly worth while to recur to doubts of mere statute construction, not involving any question of the constitutionality of grave public or pri- Time and tide cannot pause long enough to. admit of the re-examination and settlement of all these ary administrative matters. Besides, it tends to jevous fluctuations in the executive business of the government. There is another question before the Attorney General whieh will be decided ina few days, and which is of equal importance. It is this;—Whether the children of the widow of a deceased Revolutionary soldier, by a se- cond husband, are entitled to receive what their mother would have received as pension under the act of 1836, There will nothing done inthe shape of legislation for some tim ome. The Kansas Committee will be here in a few days, and the discussion which will follow their report will absorb at least a month, Mr. Campbell has given natice that he intends to call up the report on the Sumner and Brooks case on Monday next, which will lead to a very angry and exciting debate. Large num- bers of gentlemen are preparing to speak on this case, and I would not be surprised if more trouble and diffi. culty were to grow out of it. The nigger worshippers in- tend to say some pretty hard things, and they will be anewered on the other side ina manner that will give them no advantage. Col, Weller, of California, a few days since, submitted a memorial praying an appropriation to build a national scien- tifle observatory on the extreme summit of Mount Washing- ton, the higheet accessible point in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Professor Henry, of Smithso- nian Institute, and Professor Bache, of coast survey, are both extremely anxious that Congress should take hold of this matter and dispose of it at the earlicst moment. The following isa portion of a letter recently addressed to Congress respecting the establishment of a system of meteoroligical observations:—‘A system of meteoroligical observations established in the Slate of Maine, the most northern portian of our Union, would not ouly afford re- sults valuable in themselves, and immediately ap- plicable to practical and local purposes, but in connection with other syetems founded on the same plan, and pursued with similar instruments, would afford the means of dis- coyering the general iaws and peculiar characteristics of he climate of the continent, and of making the most in- ane additions to the physical geography of the globe.’ vate wrongs. 2 ABINGTON, June 20, 1856, The Opposition Element—Seward’s Opinions—The South Geting Alarmed—Conspiracy by Southern Aspirants Against Western Men—The President, dév., de., de. ‘There is a decked panic among thinking men from tho South, in regard to the movements of the black republi- can party, The idea is gaining ground that the contest this year is merely one of organization, to be followed in 1860 by a decided, earnest and invincible onset against ue, It is conceded privately, even by those who openly hold to the contrary, that the Kansas-Nebraska issue in fact, will be dodged before the Northern people, and more politicians than one consider the success of the democratic party a8 a mere success of forces, without a real triumph of principle. Itis openly asserted, that Vir- ginia voted for Buchanan upon the understanding that Pennsylvania would go in 18°9 for a Virginia man. Wise is enspected as being at the bottom of this bargain. The truth will of course come to lightin due time, us Hunter and Floyd aro both aspiring, and Piorce cesirgs to know whiy be was throws over by many imagining that he will sweep the country. Some of give him twenty-seven out of the twenty-nine, leaving a the State on which he lavished bis executive favors. Seward has ex] himeelf rather carelessly about the. election of Bue! .. He considers it as certain that the: democratic party will abandon the issues raised. by the: Kansas Nebraska act before the people of the North sim- ply to secure the spoils. This tub to the whale, will so demoralize the Northern democratic mind, in his ‘Tourlas that they can never be brought to support cither or Bright, or Allen or Pugh, or any of the Western men» on the Nebraska side. In the meanwhile the second question, equal in impor- tance to any other (that of the succession), is busy in the- minds of the Southern leaders. Already the undercurrents which is to sweep away Douglas is in'motion. ‘The first’ object of these party traders is to kill off the Minois Se- nator, and then for a grand fight among themselves. . Developements are daily coming to light in regard to ther course of certain Southern politicians at Cincinnati, which: shows clearly that nothing was to be done there to defeat the success in the Convention of 1860 of cither Davis, , Hunter, Rusk or Fitzpatrick. Each played et gore through his friends, looking more to the spoils the- “hereafter”? than to the triumph of principles now. This state of things must become known ere long, and it will lead to very strange combinations at the South and ~ ‘West. The far-secing moderate men of the South will not’ much longer sanction the conduct of men who make false~ positions for the South to stand on, and rally the country «n immaterial or purely personal issues. e men whe». aye for a long time represented the Southorn States ab Warhington have become too partizan for the progress cf theage. It may be, indeed, doubted whether thew Southern States can produce a ‘man now possessing the~ confidence of the people, and who can place her right be- fore the country. Titre is in this state of things a new- rarty springing up—of which the Zzaminer, of Richmond,, and the of ‘New Orleans, are the leading organs—— looking to an alliance between the free States west of the Ohio and the Southern States. This party look to the eleva- tion of cither Douglas, Bright, Aer eee in 1960, to the~ Fresidency. Against them is arrayed the old fogy, or rather cid partizan clique at the South which surrounded Pollo +nd Pierce, and will no doubt have the ear, more or I <fMr. Buchanan, The war has already commenced, and. will break out so soon as the present canvass is ended. ‘There is a move on foot to establish a new daily: demo- cratic paper in New York, as the harmonious organ of the» hards and softs. Whether it is to be hard on one side and soft on the other is not known, but I feel justified in. saying that the Hon. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, will be secured, if possible, as its ‘letter writer.’? It would be quite instructive if there was space sufficient in ther Herarp to reproduce the leading articles of the anti-Ne- braska democratic press throughout the North, simply for the gratification of those simple minded individuals at + the South who look for the solution of sectional. difficul- ties by means of paper platforms and verbal promises in. conventions. The number of ‘original Buchanan”? men who have- suddenly turned up, under the nose as it were of the: President, must be very astonishing to that high function- ary. Itappears now, ‘that nearly all the office holders under the President, were really for old Buck! A gentle- man the other day said that the President remarked that. ‘*he was rather begining to think that the New Yore HERALD was not so far wrong after all,”?_ There are one or two things which astonish these old fashioned, hide- Dound party politicians very much: they are, how the- deuce Morse ever thought about the magnetic telograph ae all—and what a deuced mysterious power the press has. Our Albany Correspondence. Arpaxy, June 19, 1856. Attempt to Suspend the Stale Treasurer—Doutts whether the Constitution Justifies it—It is Demunded by the Lieut. Governor. * Within the last week rumors have been afloat that the- black republicans were about undertaking a measure which, it was expected, would greatly aid' them inthe en- suing election. Nothing definite was announced until- yesterday, when the fact publicly appeared that Ray- mond, the Lieutenant Governor, (black republican,) and» Seymour, State Engineer and Surveyor, (anti-Fillmore K. N.,) had applied to the Governor for the removal of Stephen Clark, (Fillmore K. N.,) from the office of State Treasurer. It seems that ever since the nomination of Fillmore the deuce has been to pay in the Canal Board, because Seymour, the Engmecr, bolted that nomination... The consequence has been that the Engincer’s depart- ment has been thrown into a state of disorganization andy confusion by the conduct of a majority of the Cana} Board, including Treasurer Clark, disconcerting the plans of the Chief Engineer, and appointing subordinates im whom the chief professes to have no confidence as to their experience or skill in the profession. Complaint is made that Mr. Clark has violated his duty as State ‘Treasu- rer, on account of his voting against the State Engineer: when the Canal Board was in session, and the Governor 4s requested to suspend the Treasurer, by virtue of the: following section in the fifth article of the constitution —- ‘The Treasurer may be suspended from office by the Go- verter during the recess ‘oF the Legislature, and until’ thirty days after the commencement of the next session of the Legislature, whenever it shall appear to him that such Trea~ surer has, in any particular, violated his duty. ‘The Governor: shall sppoint a competent’ person to discharge the duties the office during such suspension of the Treasurer. It is contended, and with great reason, too, that no con- uct, action or vote of the State Treasurer, as a member f the Canal Board, can be construed as a violation of uty as such Treasurer, The proceedings which occurred n the Convention of 1846 seems to justify such conclusion. he section above quoted was introduced by Mr. Nicholas,, delegate from Ontario. Mr. Harrison suggestes royision ought to be more general, and made to apply to ‘ther State officers, Mr. Nicholas replied, and stated ‘he made it applicable to the Treasurer only, because he was the keeper of the public funds, and that the only ob- ject of the rection was to enable the Governor to urn over to the Legislature a Treasurer suspectod of mal- versation in office, that he might be either impeached or estored to office.” This is the substance of the whole Cebate on inserting the above clause in the constitution. It relates exclusively to the duties of the Treasurer as the: ‘keeper of the public funds,”” and has no reference what~ ever as to votes of the Treasurer as a member of the Canad Board. If the constitution intended to restrict one of the members of that Board, the whole would equally have been put under the care of the Governor. A But there is an important matter connected with this movement. The Canal Board now stands five Fillmore Know Nothings to four black republicans and anti-Fillmorites. By displacing Treasurer Clark, and substituting a black republican, the political complexion of the Canal Board be- comes entirely changed. An excoedingly interesting elec~ tion is approaching. Raymond is on the slate for Gover~ nor. The canals support tens of thousands of partisan, yoters. They have been the entire strength of partios. ever since the adoption of the present constitution. Make achange in that Board, and every canal officer in the: whole State will be changed in less than ten da; the wheelbarrows and crowbars and picka’ converted into suppliant politicians. The canals are the only power which can now be wield~ ed for the benefit of ambitious demagogues, and as politicians are not over scrupulous in the means they employ to accomplish their objects, and as much worse things haye been done than the suspension of a Treasurer, the people need manifest no great alarm should Raymond’s application succeed. ‘The matter would probably have been disposed of by thie time had his Excellency been in the exegutive chamber, He has been absent geveral days visiting the Southern tier of counties and the coal mines of Pennsyl- yania. Upon his return, and the de facto governor from Philadelphia, the application will be gravely considered, and aclose calculation made as to the loss or gain of votes. One thing is certain, that if Stephen Clark is re-. moved from the office of State Treasurer on account of his action in the Canal Board, it will be regarded as poli- tical persecution, and nothing else. But it is a mattery resting entirely between the black republicans and a pore tion of the defunct Know Nothings. The Weather Yesterday. “A WARM DAY AND A THUNDER SHOWER—BOAT CAP# £17ED IN THE RIVER, AND THREE LIVES LOST— HOVER STRUCK BY LIGHTNING—DEATHS BY COUP’ DE SOLEIL. The weather for the last three days has been exceed- ingly warm. It seemed as if the thermometer, alter having got started, ran up as rapidly as. Buchanan’s yote at the Cincinnati Con@ention, after the first ballot. At: noon, yesterday, the thermometer stood at 92 degrees, at three o'clock in the afternoon at 96, and it is impossible to tell how high it would have reached had not the thun- der shower put a damp upon its ardor, which made ik run down even faster than it had gone up. The squall was terribly severe in the bay and riversy. and much apprehension was felt by those who were: caught out in open boats. Several painful accidents oc~ curred from the upsetting of boats, and in one case three. young persons were drowned. It appears that a party off five, consisting of two men and three young females,, ventured out ina small sailboat from Gowanus bay, be- low South Brooklyn, and just as they had passed the Long: Dock the squall struck the boat, and the party were pre- cipitated into the river. Three of them were borne down. by the tide and drowned, and up toa late hour last nights their bodies had not been recovered. The other two, a brother and sister, were saved, after the most strenuous. exertions on the part of the fermer. It appears that the- girl clung to her brother with all the desperate excite- ment of a drowning person, and actually tore the coat sleeve from his arm, Fortunately for them both, the bro-- ther succeeded in keeping his sister off, and partly shoy} and partly dragging her after him, he finally succeod in reaching shore in safety, though dreadfully exhausted. She sank twice, but he dived after her and bronght her to the surface. The names of the parties saved are Ed ward Sullivan, aged twenty-two, and Margaret Sullivan, aged nineteen. The names of the drowned are, Rober’, Hanna, aged twenty ; Catharine Sullivan, aged fourteen, and Margaret Crane, aged about twenty. ‘All the parties: lived in Van Brunt street, South Brooklyn, and the friendge would be glad to hear of the missing persons there. Hanna was a marble cutter, and would have been out of his time in a few months, Catherine Sullivan was the: younger sister of the partios who were saved. It is to be: feared that several other such melancholy affairs tool place, as several boats were seen to upset. Yesterday will be remembered as the “hot Sunday.’ The atmosphere was intensely oppressive; not a breath of air disturbed the bnrning, Dead Sea calmness until about. five o'clock in the afternoon, when a violent wind sud- denly enveloped the city in a thick cloud of dust, and forced the pedestrians to beat a specdy retreat to the hearest place of shelter. ‘This was, followed by thunder’ and lightning, accompanied by a pouring rain, whicky Sm J rendered all attempts to prevent becming. drenched abortive, Crowds of people thronged Hoboken, Harlem, Brooklyn, and the suburbs of the city, and were “caughv’ in such a manner that few escaped a thorough soaking. Distressingly ludicrous was it to see ladies rush hither and thither, helter skelter, some secking the shadow of rocks and trees, while cOurageously threw tho skirts of their dresses over their new and fashionable bonnets, and made for the nearcat shelter with what baste they might, Now, that warm weather has come in earnest, there should be some ar- rangement made between master m\ and their