The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW Y,ORK HERALD. JAMES, GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. pide 55 hmong OFFICE M. Ww. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. FE AP er amore mnie Se RE NMR ALD, ot cise Fi pr mato ° Pe fof Gras Briain, or % ‘0 any part of the Continent, one ereracd witn neamness, cheapness and des _AT WERTISEMENTS renewed every day. ‘We ame XXI........... vesesesee NOs 176 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. eames CARDEN, Broadway— Young HENGLER ON THB Fioxa amp Zerayn—M. DEecHaLcMnav. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Hoxzrmoos— Buwian Sra. BROADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadway—Six DeckEms 92 Canes—By vor Woon & Mansa JUVENILES. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Ermiorian Min- fenmugt—Twe Miscuievous MONKEY. RELLER'S EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—B:eticat 4™D MupemuiaNrous TasLEscx—Macicar ap Mysicat Sores. DUSGELDORF GALLERY, 497 Broadway—VaLuasum ‘Paamruigs anv StatUARY—Makry kom oF Huss, &C. —< — New York, Wednesday, June 25, 1856. Mails for Ei NEW YORE HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. Fee Cunard mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone, will eave this port to-day, at noon, for Liverpool. Me Furopean mails will close in this city at half-past ten o’ciock this morning. Tee Herat (printed in Englich and French) will be (Published at ten o'clock im the morning. Single copies, ‘wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the ew Youu Huns will be received at the following piaces pean a European Express Corabitl . Co., 17 and 18 ' ram do, do 8 Place de la Bourse, tavmrca— do. do. 7 Ramiord street. Ssvenroci—John Hunter, 12 Mxchange street, East. @ The contents of the European edition of the Hmnarp iB embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at fhe Office during the previous week, and to the hour of padiicaLion. The News. ‘The programme of the second day of Mr. Fillmore’s visit to New York consisted of a procession from the St. Nicholas to the City Hall, an address from the Mayor, and a reply by the distinguished guest, the return of Mr. Fillmore to the hotel, a private dinner by the Committee of the Common Council, a visitation from the Whig General Committee, a speech to them, and a closing oration to the men who broke up the Van Riper meeting in National Hall. To-day the Ex-President will pay his respects fo the city of Brocklyn, when there will be another * procession. Read our report of the sayings and q@oings, and keep cool. A rich scene was enacted last evening at the Na- tional Hall, in Canal street. The members of the National Club turned ont a strong force to repudi- ate the action of the pretended Club meeting held Jast Saturday evening, and its alleged going over to Fremont and Dayton. Mr. Van Riper, the President ‘of the Club, narrowly escaped violence at the hands of his infuriated former coadjutors. The gas was fortunately turned off in the excitement, and during the temporary darkness he made hisescape. A fall report of the exciting scenes attendant upon the occasion, and all that was said and done, together with the repudiating resolutions and address, will be found in ano :her column. In the Senate yesterday a meszage was received from the President transmitting the instructions sent to Mr. Buchanan, while Minister te England, upon the subject of free ships and free goods. Our readers are already familiar with this matter. A joint resolution appropriating $40,000 for the par- chase of the British Artic exploring ship Resolute was passed. It is designed to refit the vessel and restore her to the British government. Mr. Geyer introduced a bill providing for the faithful execu tion of the provision of the Kansas-Nebraeka act in Kaneas. Apnanimated discussion then ensued upon the Sumner case and collateral subjects, in which Messrs. Hunter, Seward, Butler and Pearce took part. In the House the debate on the bill authorizing the people of Oregon to form a State government was continued. The Congressional Kansas Investigating commis- sion meet in this city on Wednesday next, when they will examine several witnesses and conclude their labore. The steamship North Star, from Bremen and Southampton 11th inst., with one hundred passen- gers and a moderate cargo of merchandise, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon. Her European dates are not later than those brought by the Atlan- tic. The steamship Alma was expected to leave for New York in a fortnight. Our Havena correspondent, writingon the 19th of June, states that a good supply of coal had been forwarded to the Spanish squadron at Vera Cruz, by means of which the vessels would make a stiff attack, or aclear retreat, just as policy or the exi- gencies of the case demanded. The United States ship Susquehanna had brought advices from Nica- ragua to the efiect that Walker's influence was fast extending in the other States,and that his military position was improving. Freightsand trade dull. By the arrival at New Orleans of Mr. Morling, our Minister to Guatemala, we learn that when he left, on the 23d ult., the Guatemalan army of two thousand men had been ordered to invade Nica ragua. This fact has revived the rumor that Gua- temala, San Salvador and Honduras had formed a Jeague against Walker. The failure of the cam- paign of the Costa Ricans, however, has, in all pro- bability, induced these governments ere this to abandon the enterprise. A trot between the famous horses Flora Temple and Chicago Jack came off yesterday on the Centre- ville Course. The match was for $1,000—mile heats, best three in five—Flora to wagon, Jack under sad- dle. The mare won the three first heats. Time— 2:30}, 2:30, 2:30, Am anusually large number of epectators were present. The case of the United States agains: several par- ties engaged in the alleged slaver Falmouth, was ‘commenced yesterday in the United States Circuit Court, bet adjourned to this morning. It is a suit for $2,000 penalty under the statute, instead of prose- cuting the accused criminally. The habeas corpus case of the three childrenof Mr. Jarvis, of England, whom he seeks to obtain from his wife, who clandestinely left her home with them, for the purpose of proceeding to join the Mormons, at Utah, is pending before ex-Judge Pea- body as referee. Some investigation was made yes terday morning at Castle Garden, respecting the character and conduct of the Mormon passengers, ‘The examination was set down for five o'clock last evening, before the referee, but before that hour it was further adjourned to this (Wednesday) morn ‘ing. E The French socialists, residents of this city, met Jast night to commemorate the Paris insurreetion of June, 1848. These philosophers appear to still re- tain their objectionable doctrines respecting the rights of labor, the abolition of individual property and the like. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday footed up about 1,100 bales, chiefly in lots to spinners, based upon middling uplands, at about lic, The falling off in receipts at Southera porte rendering it probable that under no circumstances can the supply exceed 3,500,000 bales, which fact was not known in Eng- land at the last advices, induced holders to refuss the concessions demanded by buyers, on the receipt ‘of the Atlantic’s news. Many persona engaged in the trade at New Orleans and Mobile, at last ac- oounts, had left for the North or for Burope, con- sidering the season ae pretty mach over, Flour was firm for medium to good Western brands, while ales were pretty freely made, inclading purchases for xport Wheat wae largely pold, especially ‘NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1856. Canafian and Western redand mixed or club lots, ‘with Chicago spring and some red Southern at ‘prices given in another columm. Corn was an- changed, while sales were to a liberal extent, chiefly ‘Western mixed, at 45c. for heated, and sound for shipment to Eastern domestic ports at 50c. @ 53c., with some cargoes Southern yellow, at 58. a 60c. No prime or choice Southern white was offered. Rye sold at 84c. for Northern. Pork advanced to $20 per bbl., while prime was held at Ivc. Lard was firm, with sales in bbis., at 11 jc. a 12c., and in kegs, at 12jc. Sugars were firm, with sales of 800. 900 hhds., at fall prices. Sales of 3,300 bags of Rio coffee were made at auction at an average of 10-54c. per !b., with a fair amou nt of private sales at steady prices. Freights to English porta were firmer. To Liverpool wheat was freely shipped in bulk and bags at 7d. a 74d., and flour at 2s. 43d. to 2s. 6d. To London and Glasgow, rates for flour and grain were also firm. They were also quite steady for the conti- nent. The Union and the Constitution—Parties and their One of the small sized organs of the self-com- placent democracy, printed somewhere in this locality, in reply to a late article of the Heratp, undertakes a discrimination between the several parties in the field for the Presidency, and their respective pledges of loyalty to the Constitution and the Union, to the prejudice and condemna- tion of all concerned, except the great demo- cratic party. We are told that “there are parties who pro- fess great devotion to the Union, and profess to love it, while laboring to rend asunder every tie which bindsg that Union together’’—that the Northern anti-democratic organization is a sec- tional party—that its success will drive theSouth to revolt and secession—that in the election of a sectional President “the South is reduced at once to the condition of a subjugated province’’—that with sectional parties the only remedy would be some constitutional check to restore a sectional equality, “like Mr. Calhoun’s project of two Pre- sidents” or a dissolution; and, finally, that a “no- toviously Northern geographical party is already formed,”’ dangerous to the Union, and “deemed by Washington worthy of especial caution,” and that a newspsper article will “hardly weigh much against this solemn counsel.” This is the substance of the argument of our little democratic organ against the Fremont re- publican party. It is a sectional party—danger- ous to the Union, and unworthy the confidence of people. The democracy alone are national, loyal and conservative. But we gemur to this mere party opinion and snap judgment. What are the facts?—the “facts are what we want.’ It is a fact that the democracy have placed them- selves upon a platform of inflexible loy- alty and attachment to the Constitution and the Union—it is a fact that the republican party have done precisely the same thing. It is alsoa fact that these two parties are as widely sepa- rated upon the slavery question as Massachusetts and South Carolina, They are divided upon a different construction of the constitution. That’s al}, But who shall decide when doctors disa- gree as to what is the constitution? Mr. Web- ster, “the great expounder,” has construed it one way, and Mr. Calhoun, another great expounder, has construed it another way. So with the two principal parties before the country. According to the Calhoun explanation con- cerning the Territories—accepted by Judge Douglas as the true interpretation of the Kansas- Nebraska bill—the constitution carries the insti- tution of Southern slavery with it wherever it goes—has carried it into Kansas, and protects it in Kaneas against squatter sovereignty and against Congress. Slavery thus being constitu- tionally established in Kansas, the people thereof cannot disturb it until they shall have assumed the rights and prerogatives of a sovereign State. The constitution, therefore, as interpreted by Mr. Cal- houn, and as accepted by Mr. Douglas and the democracy, upon being applied to Kansas, makes it a slave Territory, and will be very apt to make it a slave State. Governor Wise, of Virginia, feels so well satisfied upon this point as to pro- mise his constituents, substantially, that with the election of Mr. Buchanan a stout healthy nigger worth now a thousand dollars, will be increased in cash value to five thousand. The republicans, on the other hand, contend that the constitution does not carry slavery into the Territories—but excludes it from them; that Congress may pro- hibit its introduction into a Territory, but cannos introduce it; and this party further demand that Kansas shall be admitted into the Union at once as a free State. Both the democratic and republican parties, therefore, practically, are sectional parties, for thus they respectively stand :— Democratic party—Kansas shall be a slave State. Republican party—Kansae shall be a free State. Tf, then, the republican is a Northern sectional party, the democratic is a Southern sectional party, and the contest is a battle of the sections, Such being the case, if Buchanan, or if Fremont be elected, we shall have a sectional President, the one being pledged to the South, the other to the North—the former to the extension, the latter to the restriction, of Southern slavery. How ri- diculous, then, to be prating of the South asa “subjugated province,” “with the election of a sectional President,”’ when there can be no other result than a “sectional President,”’ one way or the other. Returning to the main issue, we maintain the ground that the only question upon slavery in this canvass being this—shall Kansas be a free State or a slave State?—and all parties being pledged to the constitution, whatever may be the result of the contest the Union is safe—perfectly safe, Our small sized democratic organ under consideration, says that there are parties who profess great devotion to the Union, while labor- ing to destroy it. This may be 60. We know very well that there have been speeches in Bos- ton, in Charleston, and in Alabama, and else- where, North and South, and in both houses of Congrese at Washington, threatening disunion, revolution, sedition and secession, and that anti- democratic nigger worshippers, and leading democratic nigger drivers have vied with each other in this species of seditious oratory. But when these bold, mouthing disorganizers and demagogues are brought for- ward for the suffrages of the American people, there is no more preaching of treason. Seditious abolitionists and fire-eating secessionists feel that they are upon their good bebavior—that they must respect the popular sentiment of the coun- try, North and South, if they would obtain the popular support. Hence, these Union-loving plat- forms on all sides. We dare say that in all these partisan and eectional professions 0° overflowing patriotism there is a prodigious amount of hypo- crisy and clap trap; bat we cannot admit that, while all the opposition platforms are sheer hum- bugs, the democratic article is the “pnre Orange copnty milk.” There ie also mixed with it a good deal of the ewill of the distillery, and a liberal infusion of chalk and water. We adhere to the point, however, all partiee having signed the pledge of loyalty to the consti- tution, that the Union is safe whatever may be’ the issue of this most singular, exciting and mo- mentous gectional struggle. There is nothing extraneous in this fight to endanger the Union, excepting, perhaps, the Cincinnati foreign plat- form, Forney and his filibusters, and the Ostend manifesto, On the subject of slavery there is nothing but Kansas, and unless the democracy are playing a false game upon popular sovereign- ty, there is a very simple remedy ordained for the trouble in that quarter. It is shirking and begging the question ‘o urge the election of Mr. Buchanan on the plea that, with the success of a sectional candidate, the South will secede from the Union—that her forbearance is exhausted—that she has already been driven to the wall by Northern aggressions. There have been aggressions on both sides, The Northern aid societies have made some pretty bold aggressions upon the Territory of Kansas; but we think they have been completely eclipsed by the aggressions of the “border ruffians.” Senator Sumner made an aggression upon the revolutionary antecedents of South Carolina and upon Senator Butler; but, in return, Mr. Brooks, “the nephew of his uncle,” made an aggression upon Senator Sumner, at least balancing the ac- count between the parties. The Southern ultras of the democracy made an aggression upon the North for their Presidential candidate; and the Northern republicans, by way of striking a ba- lance, have selected a South Carolinian as their champion. In fact, upon the score of aggressions the two sections and the two parties may well agree to drop the subject. The Northern organs in the support of Mr. Buchanan, bugles and penny trumpets, should take higher ground than South- ern threate of secession in the eventof his de- feat. We hold the South to their Cincinnati pledges to the constitution and the Union. In the North, the Union pays too wel! to admit of the remoteet idea of its dissolutior. Tuk Incwpations i¥ Francu.—The private letters received by mercantile bouses in this city represent the extent of the losses caused by the late inundations in the South of France, as being much greater than those occasioned by the floods of 1840, The latter were set down at sixteen millions of francs, or upwards of three millions of dollars, whilst the amount of property des- troyed by the recent visitation will fall very little short of, if indeed it does not exceed, twenty millions of francs, It is true that no very exact estimate can as yet be arrived at, but a compari- son thus far of the two events would seem to justify this calculation. Within the last sixteen years a vast number of new manufactories and industrial establishments had sprung up in the districts which have been most flooded, more es- pecially in La Gullotiere, and these have been almost entirely annihilated. The capital invested in those establishments was immense, and when the results of the recent calamity come to be told up wé are afraid it will be found that the above estimate is rather under than over the mark. But it is not the losses incurred by capitalists which at present address themselves to our sym- pathies. It is the condition of the thousands of human beings who have been entirely dependent on them for support, and who being now thrown out of employment will be reduced to a state of the most deplorable destitution, unless gene- ral efforts are made for their relief. ‘The Emperor and the departmental authorities have nobly discharged their duty, in hastening to the aid of the sufferers, and the benevolence of the French public, always active in its sympathies, has also done much towards alleviating the im- mediate pressure of their wante. But it will be weeks, perhaps months, before these establish- ments can be again set going, and in the mean- while it will be necessary to provide against the exhaustion of the funds which have been voted by the legislative body and raised by French subscriptions, Thousands of people cannot be fed, clothed and lodged, even for a few weeks, without’a vast expenditure of money, and the burthen will fall heavily upon those who are themeelves in a measure sufferers by the calami- ty. Itis therefore the part of every generous and Christian nation to contribute its share to- wards the mitigation of so dreadful a calamity; but it is more especially the duty of this country, which has old obligations to discharge towards a people who assisted it in the hour of its own ne- cersities, We are certain that this sentiment has already found birth in the breast of every one who has read the thrilling narrative of these disasters. It requires merely the opportunity to give it effect, and in order that that shall not be wanting, we beg to state that this office will receive subscrip- tions for the aid of the sufferers, the same to be handed over to the French Consul, or some other suitable person, for transmission as soon as they reach a sum sufficiently important to send. If our citizens generally will contribute some- thing, no matter how small, to this fund, the amount of money which New York will be able to forward them will serve at once to provide for their wants, and to prove to them that on such occasions the American people have only a memory for past benefits and none for present provocations. Axoruer View or THe CenxtraL AMERICAN Qvestion.—We publish this morning a report of the debate in the Senate on the 19th inst., in re- lation to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Mr. Clay- ton re-opened the whole subject in order to reply to the statements recently made in the British Parliament by the Earl of Clarendon. As the debate gives the American view of the matter in extenso, we have no doubt that it will be quite interesting to the Heranp readers at home and abroad. Tne Brooks Arram.—Is it not disgraceful that the press of the country should find no bet- ter theme for discussion than the rowdy assault committed the other day in the Senate Chamber? That Congress, with all its responsibility and all its position, should do the like, and waste ona police case energy and time that are due to the nation ? We had thought that the violence of most of the Northern journals on the occasion of the assault was the sublimest pitch of folly; but the Southerners have found a higher pitch—a lower deep. There, in the South, in the infgriate blind- nese of their partizanship, respectable men are heard openly to applaud a brutal breach of the peace, and to reward its author. Even the nig- gors are waked up to give a testimonial to Massa Brooks, We have indeed heard it suggested that the Southern men—wwho are noted for their fine sense of humor—have intended a double-entendve by their presents to Brooks, and have delicately conveyed to him their impression that if he do- feryed enything, it was aganing, However wie may be, itis certain that the North has not 60 read the manifestations; whatever Mr. Brooks may infer from his canes, they are understood here to be compliments. It is a positive disgrace to the country that people, North and South, should have nothing better to write or talk about than this miserable affair. Vast Ramroap Monorouies—Tue I.uwos CenrraL.—We find in the newspapers an adver- tisement of the Iinois Central Railroad Compa- ny, notifying the public that they hold valuable lands for sale at from $5 to $25 per acre, and in- viting settlers to prefer their lands to Iowa and Kansas or Nebraska. It is well, now that the mania for granting public lands to railways to aid in their construction has “become so general, that a glance should be cast at the manner in which the system works. The Illinois Central road was the type of all the subsequent enterprises of this cha- racter. In September, 1850, the Illinois Central re- ceived, by act of Congress, 2,595,000 acres of land on condition of building the railway. This amount of land, in one of the most thriving and fertile States, was taken out of the market and denied to immigrants at the regular price. The company mortgaged 2,000,000 acres to raise mo- ney in England to build the road; 250,000 acres to secure the interest on the same, and 345,000 acres to secute the payment of certain bonds of their’s called “Freeland Bonds.” Since that time they have sold or contracted to sell, in round numbers, 530,000 acres, about one-fifth of their whole land. One-fifth of thisamount sold, name- ly, 106,591 acres,-was sold to pre-emptors, at about $2 40 per acre; the balance, say 425,000 acres has been gold at pricesranging from $11 75 to $10 90anacre. The balance unsold, 2,066,136 acres, is held, as was mentioned, at from $5 to $25 the acre, the large bulk being at from $12 to $15. The company urges that theState is increasing in wealth and population, and claims the credit of the developement of its resources. No doubt the railroad has had much to do with opening the interior country between Chicago and Cairo; but if, as is stated, the population of Illinois has in- creased from 800,000 to 1,300,000 in the last five years, while the price of good farm lands aver- aged $10 an acre, what would have been the in- crease had the lands been retained by the United States and sold at the standard price of $1 25% To us it seems pretty clear thatthe developement would have been greater without the railroad than with it; for the land, befhg cheap and fer- tile, would have been settled if the company had never gone into existence, and a road would have been made under any circumstances, as soon as there was produce to carry to market. The Illinois Central Company, complaining that people will go to Iowa and Nebraska or Kansas, is merely grumbling at the consequences of its own conduct; it has raised the price of lands, and wonders that people will go elsewhere to spots -that have not been developed by the aid of a grasping monopoly. The effect of the railroad system exemplified in the Illinois Central is not only to deprive the United States, needlessly, of their pro- perty, and future generations of what ought to be theirs: it is to render this country a less desirable home for immigrants, by shutting them out from cheap lands, Nothing can be more prejudicial to the best interests of the country. If one thing more than another has made the United States what they are, that thing is the abundant supply of raw labor furnished by im- migration. And it cannot be denied that she chief incentive to Europeans to come hither has been the abundance of cheap and fertile land. Concerns like the Tllinois Central are rapidly destroying that incentive, and will necessarily themselves be the chief victims of their own mistaken policy. It is, then, with regret that every right-minded person must see the reckless manner in which the future wealth of the country—the public lands— are being bestowed on railway companies and used as the basis of stock operations. No ad- ministration has been so fruitful of these schemes as the present one; not, perhaps, from the personal tendencies of the President, but because his boon companions, his advisers and his tutors, have almost invariably been connected with these lucrative enterprises. A few years more, at our preeent rate, and the United States will have no more land to sell, and no more immigrants to oc- cupy it, if they had. Grorce Law w Rermement.—* Live Oak George Law” has retired for a season to private life. Ina splendid palace in Fifth avenue, with all the accessories of luxury, art and refinement, with a picture by Powell in his parlor as large as life, High Bridge, railroads, steamships and all, and with a bust a little larger than life, he thinks he can pass the next four years with soine- thing of resignation. He likes the more open and commanding situation of the White House at Washington, but is resigned to give it up to Fremont (if he can get there) till 1860. The fact is also worth knowing that “Live Oak George” has not been idle all this time; but has been, and continues to be, employing himself by gaelight and daylight in the study of the old masters, preparatory to his taking the field in the next Presidential campaign. He has been, and is, poring over histories, beroes and languages, and is making great progress ag’ astudent. Living subjects are his especial de- light, for he has no particular fancy for things that are dead and laid on the shelf. A parcel of old fogies, in February last, laid him on the shelf at Philadelphia, but he soon showed them that “two could play at that game.” His friends, upon the nomination of any other candidate, should have nominated him on the spot; but per- haps the weather was too cold for that, We must make some allowance for the weather, And so there he is, in his palace on Fifthavenue, sixty feet brown stone front. There, like a ship in dry dock, he may be thoroughly overhauled, and with all the barnacles scraped off his sides, and with all leakages aud breakages repaired, he will be ready, let us hope, in 1860, to put to sea, en- gines puffing, drums beating and colors flying. ‘Thus endeth the first lesson. Fremont’s Reviciox.—The most contemptible of the sheets which disgrace New York has opened the campaign on behalf of its candidate by asserting that Fremont is a Catholic. This is denied, doubtless with good reason, But ean anything indicate a meaner, more outrageously pitiful spirit than an attempt to disparage a man on this ground? Why did not the Fillmore organ say he had been brought into the world by a Papist midwife? Why not inquire whether or no he deals with a Romanist butcher? Let the Fill- more man hurry to see his tailor, and ask how Fremont’s coat is cut? Also, what he cats for dinner? Whether he smokes? Whether he ever cvoeses his legs or folds his arms? One should b> consistent, cvem a the part of un ase, TEBLATAST WAS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, In from Washington. BENOR SALAZAR AND THE MEXICAN PAYMENTS—COM- MERCIAL TREATY WITH RUSSIA—COM. VANDERBILT ON DECK—WORK OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS, ETC. ‘Wasnrnctoy, June 24, 1856. Senor Salazar, the Mexican Boundary Commissioner, $s here, together with a number of Mexicans. It is shrewd- ly suspected that there is some difficulty in reference to those three million dollars paid by our government to American bondholders. 1 was informed this evening that a rigid examination would be made into those payments. Gen. Gadsden, who is now here, could, I understand, make some important disclosures. Important despatches haye been received from our Minister at St. Petersburg, dated May 17, touching a new commercial treaty now being negotiated with Russia. Gen. Stringfellow, of*Kansas, is here, and by personal explanations is correcting the erroneous impressions about outrages in that Territory. Commodore Vanderbilt arrived here to-day. He is looking after that Transit busincss. ‘The Attorney-Gen- eral is preparing an opinion on this subject, which, it is thought, will relieve the old Commodore, Gen. Walbridge arrived here this evening. It is gen- erally conceded he will, if he desires it, be returned to Congress, It appears from the report prepared by Chief Justice Gilchrist, of the Court of Claims, giving an account of the business transacted by that tribunal, that they hope to present to Congress, before the end of the present ses- sion, their final decision on one hundred and twenty-five cases, and they will have examined and ordered testi- mony in two hundred cases, and drawn up nearly one Lundred elaborate opinions as questions of law. ‘An Executive message was communicated to each House to-day, asking further legislation, the better to carry out the intercourse law in the Cherokee nation, and keep therefrom white intruders, who put law and order at defiance, and also to prevent interference by the func- tionaries of the federal courts with the decisions of the Cherokee tribunals, thus invading the privileges of the Indians, From Albany. THE STATE TREASURER IN POSSESSION OF HIS OFFICE —NO SUSPENSION AS YET—REPUBLICAN RATIFOA- TION MEETING—REFUSAL OF THE AMERICANS TO UNITE WITH THEM, ETC. The report circulated in the columns of the Courier aad Enquirer, stating that Stephen Clark, tate Treasurer, bad been suspended from his duties as such, is incorrect and unfounded, Yesterday, Governor Clark transmitted to the Treasurer, Lieutenant Governor Raymond’s charges and specifications upon which he demands the removal of the Treasurer. They are the most frivolous, trivial and inconsiderable imaginable, haying no reference whatever to the Treasurer’s conduct with regard to the public funds, or even as a member of the Canal Board. The Governor’s constitutional adviser is Marius Schoonmaker, late Canal Auditor, whose ulti- matum is expected to-morrow. As there is no law carrying out or specifying any par- ticular act of malfeasance, and no means provided by which the Governor, the Lieut.-Governor, or the uni- versal black republican party, can obtain the keys of the treasury, or even oust the Treasurer, it seems quite doubtful whether they Will, under the circumstances, and in view of the fuct that no evidence exists of his having ‘<yiolated his duty,’? undertake to suspend the Treasurer at the behest of the ** little villain,”’ and sweep the canals of the present office holders. A day or two will de- termine. The meeting of the republicans here this evening to ratify the nominations of Fremont and Dayton was spirit- ed, 0 far as the burning of powder and tar barrels were concerned. The meeting, however, was evidently got upto draw the Americans into the support of Dayton. Goy. Ford, discovering that no consummation of the pledges given to the North American Convention had been made touching the Vice Presidency, declined to go into the meeting or speak at all. Jt is now said that a proposition is to be made to throw up both candidates for the Vice Presidency, and agree upon one acceptable to both Americans and republicans. None of the leading Americans took part in the meeting. The ropewalk of Boltus Pruyn and two dwellings ad- joining, on Lumber street, in this city, were destroyed by fire this afternoon. Wm. Pruyn was severely, if not fatally burned in endeavoring to rescue the property: Senator Sumner and the Republican No. minees. Bostoy, June 24, 1856. ‘The following letter from Senator Sumner, intended for the American republican demonstration in Faneuil Hall, last evening, was not received till this morning — Tam not strong enough for public speaking, even if] were strong enough fora journey to Boston.” Besides, my duties in the Senate have the first claim upon me, and to them I must give my first returning strength} Therefore am 1 constrained to decline the invita- tion with which you have honored me. But I am strong enough to send from my present re- treat a brief expression of my cordial concurrence in the nominations made by the people’s Convention at Philadelphia, aud also of the gladness with which I shall support them by voice and vote, with mind and heart. I have long honored Col. Fremont for his genius in geo- graphical enterprise, for his mnanly fortagyde, for his per- fect integrity, and for his easy command oPnen—swaying to his own beneficent purposes even the savages of the forest while nature herself,in her winter fustnesses, bowed before his march. Itig well, at this moment, when a crime is instigated and’ sustained by the national uimer t, that such a man, with a courage which will hot be questioned, and with a sensitiveness to right which will not sleep, should be summoned to grapple with the wrongdoers. And, permit me to say, that I find no force in the objection taut he has not been a politician. Your candidate for Vice President is worthy to enjoy the sane enthusiastic support. As a lawyer, ag a judge, us a Fenator, Mr. Dayton has been conspicuous for cha. racter and ability, and I rejoice to believe that he will soon a larger field’ of activity, where they will be ewployed for the good of ‘our common country; while the Senate, which is the stronghold of human slavery, will be compelled to receive as its pre- siding officer a representative of human freedom, But better even than the candidates is the declaration of prin- ciples under which we now go forth to conquer. Such a deciaration, promulgated by sua a Convention, is in it- self the beginning of victory. Strong in its simplicity and truthfulness, it must prevail just so soon as it 13 compre- hended. It expresees objects which must enlist the con- servative, and also must enlist the reformer—which must rally all who turn with respect to the example of the fa- thers of our country, and alxo must rally all who are filled with aspirations for abrighter future on earth. It pro- posses to wave Kansas from the revoltixg usurpation Which is now establishen in that fair territory; and in this good work it joins issue with the slave oliflarchy which now sways our whole country; so that in saving Kansas we shall necessarily overthrow this despotism and save ourselves. For its support it appeals wo ali, without distinction of party, who love their country. It appeals to the democrat whose democracy is founded on a recognition of human rights; it appeals % the true whig who is animated with that hatred ¢ spotic power which inspired those who earliest wore the name. It appeals to,the true Amorican, who is ready to forget all other questions for the sake of union to save liberty now endangered, and i; appeals to the foreign born, who, rejoicing in the privileges of American citizens, will not hesitate to join in this koly endeavor to vindicate them against the aggressions of an oligarchy worse than any tyranny from wnich they have fled. In this consest there is every motive to union, and also every motive to exer tion. Now or never, now and forever!” Such was the ancient ‘war cry which, embroidered on the Irish Hag, streamed from the Castle of Dublin and resoundod shrough the whole island, arousing a generous people toa new struggle for their ancient rights; and this war cry may be fitty inscribed on our standard now. Arise no inexorable slave-driving tyranny will b you; urise new, and liberty will be secur CHARI Kansas Affairs. REPRESSIVE MEASURES OF COL. SUMNER—TROUBLE WITH THE INDIANS. Sr. Louis, Jane 23, 1856. A letter from Westport, June 17, to the Republican, says:—Col. Sumner has put the California and Santa Fe routes and all the principal roads leading through Kansas, under blockade, He has driven Buford, Jones, Shelby ‘and all leading emigrants desirous of becoming peaceable settlers, out of the Territory. Ancther letter from Kaneas City, 16th inst., says:— Col, Sumner intends to arrest every person under in dictment in Kangas, and has declared that neither Lane nor anybody else shall come with an armed force into the Territory through Iowa, Nebraska or other routes, except over his body. On the night of the 13tb, an attompt was made to murder the new sheriff of Douglas county, who lives at Frapkiin. Three men came to his house and fired into the window at his bed, and then broke opon the coor, when the sheriff shot one dead and the rest fled. ‘The same letter statee that Col, Sumner had received despatches from Fort Kearney, giving him information that a bank of Chezenen Indians bad joined a party of Sioux, and had again prociaimed war. “One white hat been killed. Col. Sumner immediately despatched a company to Fort Kearney from the camp near Westport.« Prize Fight in Massachusetts, Boetow, June 24, 1856. A prize fight between John Mackay, of Liverpool, and Jobnny Roberts, of Chicago, teok place at Baker's Island, near Salem, yesterday wfternoon. They fought forty seven ronnds in fifty-two minutes, at the end of which Kober to Wie Cbs ed Vouguedvd, ‘Wasmisaroy, June, 24, 1688, PURCHASE OF THE BRITISH EXPLORING SHIP RESOLUTE. Mr. Mason, (dem.) of Va., introduced a joint resolution appropriating $40,000 for the purchase and restoration to the British government of the ship Resolute, late of the Brkizh navy, which was abandoned in the Arctic seas, and found by the crew of an American whaleship, by wham she was brought to this country. Passed. REE SHIPS MAKE YREB GOODS. A message was received from the President, in respons@ toa resolution asking for a copy of the instructions Mr. Buchanan, late Minister at England, on the subject of the invitation to the British government to enter into @ treaty similar to that between Russia and the United States, recognising the priuciple in favor of neutral come merce that free ships make free goods. [The letter of instructions referred to was published i yesterday’s Hana.) In resenting this ‘subject to Lord Clarendon, [(August 30, 1855,) Mr. Buchanan says:—‘It is scarcely necessary to observe that the present proposal does not proceed from any apprehension that Great Britain will ever here- after reverse the precedent she so recently established. It has been solely dictated by a desire to give to the prin- ciple of her Majesty’s government the solemn sanction of both governments, and thus by their combined influence to recommend the adoption of them to other nations of the civilized world.”? No response from France or Englang@ accompanies the Prosident’s mossage. KANSAS AFFAIRS—THE SUMNER ASSAULT, FIC.) BTC. Mr. GxvER, (national) of Mo., introduced a bill, supple- mentary to the act organizing the Territories of Nebraska. and Kansas, and providing for the faithfal execution of said act in Kansas, according to the true intent and meaning thereof. Mr. Hunter, (dem.) of Va., replied to the allusions of Mr. Sumner to the State of Virginia, and commented on the resolutions of the Massachusetts Legislature concerning the late assault. He knew of no previous instance in which the Legislation of any State had stepped forward to prejudge = case of this kind, and he thought it could result only in increasing the exatpcration of that unfortunate sectional feeling which is now threatening the peace of the whole- country, and endangering the perpetuity of its institae tions, “Massachusetts had nothing to say by way of re- buke to Mr. Sumner for his offensive personalities, butso far from that she had actually endorsed that speech and thanked him for having made it, He (Mr. Hunter): repelled the attack of Mr. Sumner on Vire gibia as being a State where human __ bein; are bought as cattle at the shambles, where little- children are sold upon the auction block, and a du rewards the pious matron who teaches a negro to read the Word of Life. The foundation upon which the Sena- tor from Massachusetts rested was the fact that slavery and the slave trade existed in Virginia, that negroes were held in bondage and liable to be sold from one place ta another. But he (Mr. Hunter) argued that slavery wag the best condition for the colored race, and that no com- munity was to be blamed for the inseparable incidents of a necessary institution. He also essayed to prove that the attack of Mr. Brooks upon Mr. Sumner was not @ breach of privilege, but merely a matter for the exclu- sive jurisdiction of the courts of law. Mr. Sewarp, (nigger worshipper) of N. Y., in reply to Mr. Hunter’s argument relative to the Brooks assault, said the remarks of the Senator had tilled him with pro- found surprise and deep regret. When the assault was made, the personal and political friends of Mr. Sumner were silent, and his colleague (Mr. Wilson), ina few calm . and temperate words, simply Stated the facts as they oc- curred. A motion was then made for raising a committee to examine into the matter, and report their opinion. Their report was concurred in by almost the entire Senate, and although the report was condemned by many at the North - as net coming up to their ideas of what ought to be done, yet he (Mr. Seward) was satisfied with it, and wag glad to have the subject drop there and not be again men- tioned in the Senate, as freedom of debate bad been vin- dicated. But now, the Senator from Virginia had taken = position contrary to the decision of three-fourths of the » Senate and a vast majority of the eon of the country. » Mr. BuTier, (dem) of 8. C., said Mr. Sumner was the first man who bad ever abused his privilege as a member - of the Senate, to Jay his profane hands upon the Reyolu- tionary history of one of the original thirteen States. Mr. Peace, (national) of Md., Chairman of the Commit- tee who investigated the assault on Mr. Sumner, defend- ed the positions laid down in that report, and replied to - Mr. Hunter’s arguments against it, ‘Mr. Hunter brietly rejoined. ‘Adjourned. Howse of Representatives. ‘Wasinsaros, June 24, 1866, TERRITORIAL BUSINES. The bill establishing two additional land districts nu Minnesota was passed. Mr. Wurrszy, (K. N.) of N. Y., introduced a bill to pre- serve peace and protect public property in Kansas. Re- ferred to the Committee on Territories. The consideration of the bill authorising the people of ~ Oregon to form a constitution and State government, wag hen resumed. ‘The Oregon bill was debated and laid aside. The bill explanatory of the act of 1854 establishing ade ditional land districts in Minnesota was passed. Adjourned. Fremont Ratification Meeting at Cincinnati, . Civcxxati, June 23, 1856. Edward D. Mansfield presided at the republican ratifi- cation meeting in this city to-night. Resolutions wer passed endorsing the nominations of Fremont and Dayton, . and the meeting was addressed by Caleb B. Smith, Chas, Riemelin, Judge Hoadley and others. It is estimated that ten thousand persons joined in the ~ procession, among whom were many Germans, with + transparencies. The Benton Democracy and Buchanan. Sr. Louis, June 23, 1856, ‘The Benton democracy met in mass meeting on Satur- day evening to ratify the nomination of Buchanan. Ben- ton madea speech. According to the Democrat ten thou- sand men were present, and great enthusiasm manifested. On the contrary, ‘the Republican and Inielligencer state - that the affair was a grand fizzle, and assert that not over- fifteen hundred persons were present. Governor Reeder at Buffalo. Bvrraro, June 24, 1856, Governor Reeder and suite, and Messrs, Howard, Sher- man and Upton passed through this city this morning on their way East. Republican Ratification Meeting in Boston. - Boston, June 23, 1856, ‘The nominations of Fremont and Dayton were endorsed - by the republicans of Boston and vicinity this evening. Delegations were present from some of the neighboring. cities and towns, Bands of music were in attendance, and rockets and other fireworks were used, The head quar- ters of the Fremoat Club and the office of the Chronicle. newspaper were illuminated, and much enthusiasm was- manifested. Faneuil Hall was packed at an early hour, and at eight o’clock the assembly was called to erder by Hon. J. Z. Goodrich, on whose motion John & Tyler was- chosen President, and Hon. Franklin Dexter and eleven: others Vice-Presidents. In returning thanks, the President said the present state of affairs in the country demanded the holding of mectings by the people as much as in the days of Bunker Hill. For himself, he said, he had been an old fashioned, old line. “Webster whig. (Chcerivg.) He considered that in the- Present campaign, disregarding men, we must look solely. to principles ‘for success. He then introduced Hon. Thomas G. Eliot, chairman of the Massachusetts delega- tion to Philadelphia. Mr. Euior, in giving an account of his stewardship as chairman of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republi- can Conyention, alluded to the causes which necessitated. the calling of the Convention, and animadverted severely. upon the present administration, saying, if the policy now? pursued by our government should prevail in the futare our loved republic would soon be a byword, a hissing and reproach throughout the civilized world. In relation to the manner of the nomination of Fremont, he gave the: credit of great magnanimity to the New York delegation « in big > their claims to put New York's favorite son—~ Wim. H. Seward—in womination. (Cheers for New York.)» He also complimented the Ohio and Illinois delega- tions. In support of Mr. Fremont, he cited thes nomination ef Colonel ‘Washington over older cficars in the Revolution to lead the patriotes to victory. He was then an engineer—a civily «ngineer. (Cheers.) Just so in regard to the next Pree- tcercy we have done, We haye nominated Col. Fre:- mont, @ civil engineer, to lead us fo victory in the coming: ampoign, He claimed that Fremont lacked none of the: uatities etvential to make a good President. He ther eferred to the nomination of Vice President and said when the Convention came to that duty then it was the Diner achusetts delegation bad to say “hands of."’ There was Charles Sumner (nine cheers), ard Henry Wilson nine more but Massachusetts told the Convention sha wanted Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson where they Were (cheers); that Charles Sumner occupied a better fu the Senate; that N. P. Banks could do more for reedem in the Speaker’s chair than as nomince for the Vice residency, and Henry Wilson declined in person. Shen when the time for the nomination came William L. ived it unanimonsly, ge Hoan was next introduced, and gaye a graphic nt of the proceedings of the Convention. orsing the Philadelphia nominations nd Unanimously adopted, Hon. Nain\L Hawtin, of Maine, on invitation, ad- drersed the meeting. On taking the stand he was re- ecrved with a storm of cheers, He said—These shouts aseure me that the epirit of the Paritam fathers still per~ the bosom of their descendants. Within these hal- Jowed wails, where the infant form of liberty was cradled, weare assembled to protect it now, Then it was a revolu- tion of foree; vow it Is a revolution of the ballet box. iG heers.) ‘These rliouts shall carry dismay into tho Peart of every hunker democrat ‘in Massachusetts. (Cheere.) The question js net that the Sonthy chall be abolitionized, but whether the whole free North shail be Africanized; not a question whether the slaves of tre South shall be emancipated, but whether the freemen of the North shall be marie slaves; aud be who is not ready for such a question would have beep a Cowboy in che Reyolicton. (Chere) He PEI LLY lewdbiunmns gree h) sat chely dive o pani ayy nila & 3