The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. eC SE SER EEINEEEY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROrRIETOR, eS OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AXD FULTON SYS. LILY HETEALD: 2 cone $7 per annem. THE WeEKLY HERALD, cerry Baer at centeper Yo PG mat Briustn, oF $0 to ung part of the Contin, VOLUN TAK 1 CORRESPONDENCE, containing impor: neice, solicited from amy quarter of the world —Y weed wilt be MARTICULARLY RRQUESTED TO SBaL aLL LETTRS AND PAck- SF HORT ten of onenynresconmaiatins We mot return s 5 Jos PRINTING cxecuted wits neatness, cheapnoes anil fee- OUIDVERTISEMENTS renewed-<every day. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Broadway—Younc HENGUER ON THE HIBLO'S GARD! TSSEMENT OF DANCES—PONGO. Sieur Rore—Drv: BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Siursex & Co.— Fouoon ror Scaxbal—RGren D1awoND—!OrNt OF HoNnon BROADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadway—Loan or 4 ‘Lovex—Toonies—by ree Woop & Mansi JUVERiaES. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Ermiorian Mrn- Qraxisy—Tuxr Miscureyous Monkey. 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By an arrival at New Orleans we have San Fran- cisco dates to the Sth inst. The news is important and exciting. The murderers, Casey and Cora, were hung on the 22d ult., the day of the burial of Mr. King. Yankee Sullivan, the pugilist, who had been arrested by the Vigilance Committee, committed suicide in his cell, leaving a confession containing some important revelations respecting the elections and political movements generally. Throughout the State the greatest excitement prevailed. Martial Jaw had been proclaimed in San Francisco, and it ¢was reported that the Governor had determined to pat down the popular reform movement. He had not, however, taken any measures towards the ac complishment of that purpose. The opponents of the Vigilance Committee attempted to hold a meet- ‘ing, but were prevented, aud it was said that they had armed and intended attacking the committee zooms. This counter-revolutionary movement had aroused the people of the interior, and aid of arms and men in support of the committee were tendered from all quarters. Four vessels from Atlantic ports had arrived at San Fransiseo during the fortnight preceding the Sth. In Oregon the Indian troubles had somewhat abated. From Costa Rica we learn that the army is disbanding, and epidemics were prevailing to an alarming extent. There is nothing new from Nicaragua. The steamer Illinois is now due at this port, with the semi-monthly California mails, a million and a quarter in treasure, and niae hundred passengers. The arrival of the Asiais looked forward to with great interest. Her advices will, in all probability, decide the question as to the dismissal or retention of Mr. Dallas. There isa fact connectéd with the tast despatches sent out from here by this vessel which is deserving of remark. The Asia, it will be remembered, took to Europe on her last trip the ex- clusive announcement in our paper of the decision ef our Cabinet in regard toMr. Crampton, and the two despatches of Mr. Marcy to Mr. Dallas—the one ‘mforming him of the intention of our government in that matter, and explaiming the reasons on which it was based, and the other giving him full powers to negotiate a cettlement of the Central American question. The Asia arrived at Liverpool on the 9th, and on the 10th or 11th Mr. Dallas had an interview with Lord Clavendop, in which he communicated to him Secretary Marcy's letter of explanations in regard to Mr. Crampton’s dismissal, and also his instructions on the Central American question. The Atlanti: left Liverpool on the 11th, bringing us the speculations of the London press on the anticipa‘ed dismissal of the British Minister, the articles of the London Times being, a8 usual, virulently abusive of this country. The Anglo- Saxon steamship, which left Greenock on the 13th, with advices from London to the 12th, brought us the positive announcement, by the Times, of the dismiseal of Mr. Crampton, and of the instructions to settle the Central American question, with edi- torial comments thereon, greatly modified in tone, and qualifying its previous high position on the Crampton difficulty. Now, as there was no fresh arrival from the United Sta'es, this information could only have been derived from the government in the interval between the departure of the At- Jantic and that of the Qnebec steamer, as is evi- denced by the precision with which the contents of the two despatches are set forth. We state these facts without remark, leaving our readers to draw their own conclusions from them. The Kansas Investigating Committee closed theie labors at the Astor House yesterday, and will leave for Washington to-day. The object of their short session in this city has been to procure authentic evidence relative to the doings of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, about which there has been good deal ot dispute. For this purpose witnesses were telegraphed from Boston, and testimony ap- pertaining to the subject was yesterday taken from the following gentlemen: Amos A. Lawrence, Eli Thayer, and G. P. Lowry. The witnesses were not examined publicly, but made out written statements, which were sworn to before the committee. Mr. Oliver, the pro-slavery member of the committee, who left them at Missouri, was notified of the in- tention to take testimony in this city upon this point. Gov. A. H. Reeder, who is new in the city, also far- nished the committee yesterday with some evidence in regard to other subjecta connected with the in- vestigation. The majority report of the committee will be presented to Congress on Monday or Tues- day next. The cotton market was firm yesterday, but quiet. Sales were confined to about 500 a 600 bales. Deal- ers were waiting later European news. Floar opened firm and tolerably active, but closed with less animation, and was rather heavy for some grades at the previous day's pricea.s Wheat was heavy for inferior and common grades, while very little of choice quality was offering. The ckie¢ sales consisted of Canadian and Western cargoes, at prices given in another column. Cora was yather firmer for common grades, with moderate sales. Rye was firm, with sales of good Northern at S6c. Pork was firm, with pretty free sales of mesa at $20 50. Lard was firm, with sales at fail prices. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 1,500 a 1,800 hhds. Cuba muscovado, at steady prices, and 630 boxes brown Havana, at Sjc. Coffee was more active, and the sales footed up 2,300 bags Rio, 1,500 mats Jawa and 800 bags St. Domingo, at rates ajoted in another column. Freights were quite ac- tiye, and firmer for English ports. To Liverpool, avout 100,000 buabelg of wheat were pngaged, chioly at 8d., in bulk and bags. Rates were also steady to the Continent, and rye was engaged for Bremen at 1ic., in ship’s bags. ‘Rates to California were steady gt 20c. per foot measurement. The chief articles | ‘going forward this month have consisted of butter ‘amd liquors. The Sune butter, to endure so long & voyage, is well pecked in firkins, and those again packed up im barrels, being enclosed with salt, which preserves the article from any detrimental change. The Sendte.yesterday took up the resolution pre- viding for the adjournment of Congress ea the 2%h of July mext. Messrs. Douglas, Brodhead and Eale advocated an adjournment at an early day. Mr. Se ward was im favor of continuing the session until some of the important subjects before Congress were disposed of. Without taking a vote on ‘the Tesola- tion the matter was dropped. The Jediciary Com- mittee were directed to examine the laws respecting the succession to the Presidency in the event of the Ceath of both the President and Vice President, and report what alteration, if any, is mecessary in rela- tion thereto. A praiseworthy effort to put a stop to the gross personalities which have recemtly charac- terized the debates was made, by adopting an amendment to the rules, making it the Caty of the presiding officer to call Senators to order whenever they violate parliamentary decoram. A bill authoriz- ing the construction of a military roa@ from Mis- souri, via Great Salt Lake City, to Carson Valley settlement, on the California frontier,was passed. In the House the discussion of the biti for the ad- mission of Kansa3 with the free State constitution adopted at Topeka was resumed, Mr. Dunn pro- pored to withdraw his motion to refer the bill to the Committee of the Whole, with the understand- ing that the general debate shall continue till ter- minated by the previous question. Mr. Grow pro- mised to move the previous question on Saturday, The Committee on ‘Territories reported « bill provid- ing for tie punishment of polygamy in the Territo- ries, by a penalty of five hundred dollars and impri- sonment for not less than three or more than five years. The bill passed in committee with but one dissenting voice. Col. Benton opened his gubernatorial campaign in Missouri at St. Louis on the 21st instant with a vigorous speech—a regular Paixhan gun, in fact— which we have transferred to our columns. Read it, by all means. By telegraph we have a budget of reports of bloody doings in Kansas. It is reported that Col. Sumner has had a fight with a party of Missourians, in which several were killed on both sides. It is also reported that Mr. Gay, the agent te the Shaw- nee and Wyandotte Indians, has been murdered by thesavages. It is likewise reported that Mr. Brown, the editor, has been killed; and it is farthermore re- ported that Governor Shannon has resigned his post. This last rumor is perhaps entitled to some credit. Late accounts from the Plains state that the Na- yajoand Apache Indians were quite troublesome, and it was thought nothing but the presence of a strong military force would keep them in order. The Legislative Committee on Tenaat Houses re- sumed their investigations yesterday. They looked through the Ninth ward, taking in their route the Reception House of the Juvenile Asylum. The Board of Health met yesterday, and appoint- ed a committee to report at its next meeting upon the sanatory condition of the streets of the city. The Late Fremont Ratification Mecting— ‘The old Furore of 1840 Kindling up Again. The signs are thickening fast about us of a most desperate and exciting struggle for the Pre- sidency. We are admonished of it in the enthu- siastic reception of the nomination of Fremont in every quarter of the North. Every dispassionate spectator at the ratification meeting of Wedaes- day evening, at the Tabernacle (by way of a striking example), judging from the pulse of the multitude there assembled, was doubtless con- vineed that this campaign will be no child’s play to the adininistration democracy. There is a battle impending—a fierce, earnest and d battle—upon two or three practical issue: tinetly and sharply defined that there can ne be incidental half-way expedients or compro- mises Letween the contending parties, This Tabernacle ratification was largely com- posed of the great reserved corps—that is, of men who have heretofore taken little or no active in- terest in the party politics of the day. It was gathering without the usual adjuncts of artille bonfires and transparencies, and yet we believe that on no occasion since the tremendous anti- administration furore which signalized the cam- paign of 1840, has there been exhibited in any political canvass in this country such a sponta- neous outburst of wild, electrical enthusiasm as that which marked the spirit of this The frantic cheerings, over and over again, w every mention of the name of Fremont—th qu approving response to every allusiox against the mischievous administration which has brought this © upon us—impressive cated him as the true man for the opposition forces, and that the true issues between them and the Pierce democracy had been singled out. The campaign of 1840, in behalf of General Harrison and a new administration, opened with many songs in doggrel verse, one of thom start- ing off with this inquiry -— What has caused this great commotion, country gh? An inquiry which is at once suggested by these Fremont ratifications of 1556. Whence this re- action, which thus seems to have stirred up “fountains of the great deep” of the opposition masses of the North? It is partly due to the nomination of a fresh, popular man, whose life is full of those daring, perilous and romantic achievements which make the name of such a man among the people “ familiar in their mouths as household words ’—it is partly due to the fac that, though born and cducated at the South, and heretofore identified with the democratic party. he is now the freely consenting champion of the Northern republicans against the Southernized democracy—in favor of making Kansas a free State, in opposition to the democratic policy of making it a slave State. But this is not all. The State elections of the last three years have developed a great revo- lution in the popular mind concerning the mal-administration of the government by Mr. Pierce and his bad advisers. The old whig party was crushed to fragments in 1852. Mr. Pierce, with the invincible democratic party which brought him into power, en- tered upon his high office with scareely the sha- dow of an opposition party in the country. But led astray by false notions of security, by evil counsels, and pernicious expedients for another election, this great democratic party became dis- tracted, demoralized, divided, and for three years has been rapidly crumbling to pieces. Thus a host of democratic deserters have been added to the floating materials of the opposition. But they have been adrift. The mysterious rise and rapid growth of Know Nothingism afforded a temporary lodgement] to a vast body of these loose materials. The device was novel, and at- tractive from its novelty—the organization was secret, and this very secresy invested it for a time with a defusive show of popular strength, by which hundreds of ‘cunning and scheming politicians were led astray. But Know No- thingism was not the thing. It was extreme, extraneous and impraeticable fn its organization i principles and ite purposrsy, Jt lagled the lesperate % dis- a NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1856. ersential elements of liberality, equality, con- sistency, constitutionality, unity, simplicity and common sense; and hence, though ¢# grew up like Jonah’s gourd, in a night, # withered, like Jonah’s gourd, in the sun. From the opposition debris of the two old | parties another organization was formed, purely sectional, of the ultra anti-slavery type. It seized upon the Kansas-Nebraska bill—declared that the Missouri compromise must be restored— that the Fugitive Slave law must be repested, &c. But thie programme, also, overshot the mark in some vespects, and in others failel to reach it. It is strange, indeed, that evem the telling elections of the last three years, down to this very hour, have failed, in a great de- gree, to tél to the opposition forces the secret of their aggregate strength. Clashing and discordant as were the Know Nothing and anti- lavery: opposition factions, they contrived. upon thecommon ground of hostility to this administra. tion, to carry into the House of Representatives at Washington an overwhelming opposition majo- rity. This triumph should at once have dictated the course of the opposition for the Presideney— the concentration of all their forces upon th: ple programme of new men and anew policy, foreign and domestic, in the governient at Washington, as in 1840. But what the opposition factions have failed to perceive, with their aggregate popular majo and filibustering proclivities—the Jate party Conventions and the necessities of the hear have brought into bold relief. The Cinciunati Con- vention have planted their candidate upon the platform that Kansas shall be a slave State—that the ‘oreign policy of Mr. Buchanan, as declared in the Ostend mani esto, shal! be the poiiey of his administration, and that in all other resp< cluding their extravagant end wastefi:] expendi- ture of the public money. the policy of Pierce and Forney shall be adhered io petuated. With this chart before them, ¢o: democracy into a Southwestern sp Republican Conventien was pretty broadly indi- cated. It is not surprising, therefore, that this latter party has planted it- self on the bold Northern ground that Kansas shail be a free State; that we have had enough of outside filibustering experiments for a season; and that both the foreign and do- mestic policy of the Pierce administration must be superseded and set aside. With a little more stress upon this third point, pushing it home to the convictions of the people, the general issue between the Southern democracy and Northern republicans will be thoroughly filled up and com- plete. As yet, the Sumner assault and the atro- cities of the “border ruffians’’ appear to engross the attention of the Northern party; but the main question of anew administration and the practical prudential considerations requiring it, will doubtless be brought forward into the fore- ground as the contest is shaped and sharpened into a close and doubtful fight. The last few days have given us develope- ments quite sufficient for the opinion that the Northern republican party, with Fremont at its head, and with the stirring popular enthusiasm which his name and history inspire, will swallow up. at least throughout the North, all the anti- administration elements yet adrift. There is no room in this struggle between the Northern re- publicans and the Southern democracy for Mr. Fillmore and his exploded American party and Know Nothing platform. Before six weeks shall have elapsed our worthy ex-President will learn that during his long absence in Europe the busy hand of revolution has been actively at work here among parties and factions, and among the people; that Know Nothingism is extinct, and that it would be ag wise to run for President at this cricis upon the platform of the annexa- tion of China, as upon the programme of the Philadelphia Know Nothing Convention of Feb- ruary. There was but little of that party left in the North with the nomination of Mr. Fillmore —there will be nothing of it remaining by the first of September, if we may judge from the spontaneous enthusiasm with which the anti-ad- ministration masses, of all parties and factions, accept the ticket and platform of Fremont. Shall Mr. Buchanan be elected or defeated ? is, briefly, the only question left for Mr. Fillmore to answer. The battle is narrowed down between the Southern democracy and the Northern repub- ticans—between this administration and a new one—between Kansas as a slave State and Kan- sas as a free State—between filibustering and a suspension of filibuetering. Secession, disunion, Know Nothingism, and “ all the rest are but leather and prunella.” The Credit Mobilicr of France. There are a good many points of resemblance between the Credit Mobilier of the present day and the United States Bank of twenty-five years ago. In 1830 the United States Bank began to assume a political character. It mixed in all kinds of business, It undertook the construction of railroads and canals ; it bought and sold cot- ton; it established newspapers, In a few years it broke down under the load, and the whole country broke down with it. A political revo- lution followed, and the Jackson dynasty, strong as it was, was broken down by the shock. The Credit Mobilier of Frence began its opera- tions at the commencement of the empire. Its managers at the first, as now, were all Bonapart- ists and imperialists ; all, like Counts Morny and de Persigny, not very long since were adventur- ers, often without a shilling in the world, and moving from place to place in order to defeat their creditors. Now the whole credit and finan- cial affairs of France are under their control Their career, especially that portion of it which remains to be acted out, will exercise a powerful influence on the destiny of France during the next ten years. Louis Napoleon has proved that he is a man of very remarkable political sagacity, very superior to all his rivals in Europe, and to his predecessors. But he has shown that he is a man, erring, like all men, by this financial blunder of his. In general politica affairs he has avoided the errors of the three go- vernments which preceded him, with uncommon address. Not one of their mistakes or their pre- judices has done him any injury. He noticed that the empire of the first Napoleon was ruined by too great a dynastic ambition, too much ne- potism, and too reckless a disregard of the wél- fare of the world and his allies, in the haste to raise his own family and carry out his own views; and he was careful to avoid this danger. He saw how the monarchy of the restored Bourbons, and that of fhe usurping Orleans had failed from ignorance of the ; rinciples of parliamentary go- alo an inaptitude among the vernment, Frongh for Englich forms, aad be steered glear of of three huadred thousand against the adminis- tration,.and its spoils squandering, nigger driving bustering party, the poliey of the Philadelphia there perils. For the rest—the imbecility of such men as Charles X. and Louis Philippe—na- tare has saved Louis Napoleon from such a peril. @e knew he was no fool. Nor did events in which he was fereed to pur- sue an original policy lead to any particular er- rors on his part. We embarked sagaciously in the Eastern war, won all the laurels that were to be won, and came out of the war not only with credit, but with the good will and esteem of his antagonists, as well as his allies. At the close of the war, having impaired his position by no sin- gle error of policy, he stood, by universal consent, at the head of the European coalition. He com- manded the regard of the people, and in some instances their affection. The peasantry in the South appear, on the occasion of his late visit, to have testified a good deal of admiration and re- gard for his person, The devoted attachment of ihe army is notorious. There is but one point which he has neglected —that is, the financial condition of the Kingdom. ‘ It will be the heel of Achilles to his dynasty History should have taught him that financial as well as political causes helped to bring about the convulsion of 1789; that the Mississippi scheme and the projects of Law shook the old régime as powerfully as the misgovernment of the Regent, or the tyranny of the Royal Council, or the ab- surd remains of the feudal system. The Credit Mobilier and the extraordinary developement of the speculative mania among government offi- cials, from the Prime Minister down to the cuvriers at the palace, betoken a state of things which-cannot but lead, sooner or later, to convul- sion and revolution, financial as well as political. The rich will be made poor; the poor will not be made rich; nothing will grow out of the mania but universal rain, Corruption in Congress—Waste of Public Lands—Gigantic Speculations. The present Congress, thus far, has not gather- ed many laurels. It has resembled a primary s- sembly, where there is hard scrambling for a petty offiee, rather than a dignified legislature looking to the bonor and welfare of its constitu- encies. Weare not aware of any real good to the country which has been derived from the pre- sent session, but much that is evil. The conduct of the members of the House and of the Senate, with some honorable exceptions, has been so bois- terous, reckless and rude, that the people at large, seeing there is no shame left in the minds of their representatives, are actually beginning to inquire whether we could not do without any Congress whatever, or, at least, whether if they assemble but once in seven years, and were to be called together only on imminent occasions, the country would not be better off. When the peo- ple ask themselves these questions it is time to take alarm. The truth is, there is a deep seated evil in this part of our national representative system, and it is time it was exposed to the pub- lic eye. We do not hesitate to state our belief that cor- ruption most foul and infamous exists at Wash- ington, and that one half the clamor and noise which occur at the Capitol are raised on purpose to divert the public attention from the actual frauds that are perpetrated there. During the present session of Congress about ten million six hundred thousand acres of the public lands have been voted away to abouta dozen railway companies, and the public is hard- ly aware of the fact; and other similar land echemes are before Congress which will absorb as much more. And this is brought aboutin a man- ner which prevents the possibility of timely oppo- sition and detection. Let us trace the system from “the egg to the apple.” The city of Washington was never more crowded with adventurers, speculators and black- legs than it has been during this session. You see them at the hotels and on the avenues, and you may nose them in the lobby. Most of them are engaged in getting up Western railways, the success of the schemes of the Illinois Central hav- ing given them audacity and confidence. These become the associates of members of Congress, and the intimate friends of those of them whose services they most require. Every art is used to familiarize these personages with the free and easy manners which characterize their entert: ers, and before he knows it many a simple mind- ed, honest Congressinan is corrupted by a process so gradual as scarcely to be observed— First to endure, then pity, then embrace. The next step is to “get hold” of the committee who may have charge of the particular subject in view. If this is accomplished the main difticul- ties are obviated. And here we may as well ob- serve that the people at large are not aware, per- haps, that the long and shameful delay in organ- izing the House of Representatives was nothing more or less than the result of a struggle to obtain possession of the committees, those which would control the patronage of the House, and grants of the public money. This was the cause, and the only cause, why we were £0 long without an organized House. The spirit of plunder pre- sided in that cabal. The commie then, after having been pro- perly approached, reports a bill to grant to the Great Sandy Central and Interoceanic Railway, or some other equally grandiloquent corporation, five millions of acres of Mand, within a certain distance along the line of the road. No explanatory report is made, no rea- sons are assigned for this munificent grant, nor are the names of the parties who applied for it known. Not a single reason is given for this waste of the public property. The bill is placed on the calendar. On some day devoted to hurry- ing private business through, it is called up and passed, literally with railway speed, and no one to ring the bell as the monster rolls along. Should some honest blunderhead get up and in- quire into the matter—should he desire to know why this immense tract of land is to be given away so blindly and hastily—his mouth is shut by the previous question, and he sits down, swearing an oath or two in his sleeve at this mode of doing business. The bill is passed, the innocents who have not been let into the secret voting aye, or not voting at all. It goes to the other house with a pile of others, and the Senate, leaving all the grants of moneys and all the public expendi- tures to be originated in the House of Repre- sentatives, swallow it down, Without winking, without blinling, and the speculators make their fortunes. To be a prominent member of a committee at Washington is like hging in our immaculate Common Council. It @sures great pecuniary results to those who know the advantages of op- portunity; it is worse, in this, that we are nation- alizing this rascality, while here, after an alder- man or an official is gorged he becomes very honest and capable, fit to be Mayor, or to occu- py any local place of honor, without doing any geeat damage to the Union. But the corruption at Washington is more or less connected with our natiousl politics, ous national bonor, our foreign policy; and it thus becomes frightfully dangerous, As we have already stated, one-half the agitation and commotion in Congress is got up in order to turn public attention away from the schemes of plunder aimed at the public lands amd the national treasury. The Crampton diffi- culty and the Kansas war are perfect godsends to the railway and contract speculators who have been passing the winter at Washington. They have had a perfect immunity from obeervation— not a press in the United States, except the Henraxp, has denounced their proceedings. It is high time that, with every reported spe- cial bill in Congress for granting money or lands, a report should be added giving the reasons for its introduction and the names of the applicants. Perhaps all private bills should be given notice of in the Washington papers for six weeks before the meeting of Congress. In this way we should ‘know what rascality is projected. Now, the most daring ptculations are attempted without hesita- tion. Norecord of their progress is kept, the journals of Congress afford no clue to them, and the people are swindled to the tune of millions without remedy, and, in commercial phraseology, “‘withont recourse.” And while we thus specu- late on the only apparent remedy at hand of a parliamentary character, we must not forget that this whole system of corruption originated with the administration of Mr. Pierce, and we hope for the honor of our country, it may end there. Tur Loxpow Press on America.—We notice that some of the organs of the British aristocracy are congratulating themselves on the prospect of the breaking ap of this confederacy, in corisequence of the Kansas troubles. They are of opinion that the Americans will go to war in Kansas about slavery shortly, and that they will kill each other to a great extent, leaving a few survivors to erect monarchies on the ruins of the State go- vernments, This amiable impression appears to give pleasure rather than pain to the aristocratic organs, We are sorry to destroy it, but we have the honor to state to the British Peers that there is going to be no war in Kansas, There has been a row or two out there about slavery, and there will be a few more rows, as befits Anglo-Saxons who differ in opinion; but of war, nothing. The Englich noblemen have been reading that class of American papers whose editors ought to be in a madhouse, instead of a newspaper office; who go mad at the approach of an election, and splatter nonsense till it is over; who, like the Courier and Enquirer, yesterday morning, talk of appealing from the ballot box to the battle field, and grasping the rifle if the favorite candidate is defeated. These fellows are our jesters; we don’t give them a cap and bells, but we only keep them to laugh at. Political Gossip. There has not been s0 much enthusiasm manifested throughout the North and West at the nomination ofa candidate for the Presidency since the Harrison campaign of 1840, as there is at present ower the bringing out of Colonel Fremont, the great Rocky Mountain pathfinder. Salutes of hundreds of guns are being fired, ratitication meetings are held in every city, town and hamlet to which the action of the Philadelphia Convention has spread. Clubs are forming with the most astonishing ra- pidity; glorification assemblages seem to be got up in a Jess number of hours than on former like occasions would require days. The time has evidently arrived’ when the masses demand another change in the management of affairs at Washington. The Utica Observer has private information that Rev. Theephilus Fisk, recently pastor of the Church of Recon- ciliation in that city, has been called to the editorial chair of the Philadelphia Pennsyloanian, Forney and Buchanan organ. The Freeman's Journal, of this city, Bishop Hughes’ Ca- tholic organ, has declared in favor of Buchanan for the Presidency, as it believes the republicans are strongly tinctured with Know Nothingism. ‘The New Orleans Dela, which in politics is something of the guerilla order, says that Mr. Fillmore wiil in due time regret that he accepted a nomination from that resi- duum of Know Nothing conservatism, the Rump Parlia- ment of Philadelphia, and of having connected his respec- table name with the descending career of a party which has subsided even beneath the importance of a faction. He ought to see that the Presidential fight will be be- tween black republicanism and the nigger driving demo- cracy. We see by our exchange papers that in Virginia the candidates nominated for electors on the Fillmore ticket are declining to run since Mr. Buchanan has been nomi- nated. $. S. Weisiger, of Amelia; J. H. Gilmer, of Rich- mond; R. B. Davis, of Louisa; W. W. Cosby, of Goochland, and G. W. Bolling, of Petersburg, decline to act as Presi- dential electors. In Mississippi, Amos R. Johnston, Ksq., one of the candidates for elector on that ticket, for the State at large, has also declined. ‘The old line whigs of Cecil county, Maryland, have de- clared in favor of Millard Fillmore for the Presidency, on a conservative platform. In Alabama, twenty-two papers—four daily, one tri- weekly, and seventean week!y—support Millard Fillmore for the Presidency. The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian, John W. Forney’s or- gan, thinks that in the event of Fremont’s election there will be a power behind the throne composed of Seward, Sumner, Wilson, Hale and Greeley. One of the Vermont delegates at Philadelphia wrote home as follows :—We tell them that the land of Old Ethan is good for 20,000 majority on any man the Convention will nominate, and that there won’t be Buchanan men enough left for gnideposts. The Louisville Courier, formerly a whig in politics, now supports James Buchanan for the Presidency. ‘The democrats are making heavy .calculations on Ken- tueky. The Louisville Democrat, speaking of Brecken- ridge, remarks:—Without his nomination we should have carried the State by a small majority—say from four to five thousand. With his name upon the ticket we shall probably increase the majority slightly—perhaps to twelve or fifteen thousand. James Lockhart has been nominated for Congress, in the First Congressional district of Indiana, by the demo- cracy. It is now represented by Smith Miller, democrat, The St. Lawrence Republican, printed at Ogdensburg, in this Stato, formerly free soil soft shell democrat, bas raised at the head of its columus the names of Fremont and Puyten, and is ready to do battle in the republican cange, The Dayton, Ohio, Gasetle says the ‘Fremont fever’ is prevailing as an epidemic in that region of country. A large number of democrats have taken it in a mild form, and others are actually down with it, past recovery. ‘The Democratic State Convention of New Jersey, to se- Ject an electoral tisket and a-candidate for Governor, will meet in Trenton on the 6th of August. There were five thousand persons present at the Fre- mont and Dayton ratification meeting in Cincinnati, on the 25d inst., a great number of whom were Germans. The teetimony taken before the Kansas Congressional Committee establishes the fact that the free State men had 536 votes out of the 816 cast at the Legislative elec- tion. TuawRR, the eminent European pianist, will arrive here in October, and make a professional tour through the United States. The opera season at the Varieties has been indefinitely postponed on account of the illness of Vestvali. Boat Racixc.—We sce that the Metropolitan Regatta Club, of Williamsburg, offers to row the winning feur oared boat in the late regatta at Harlem, another race for a wager of five hundred doliara. There are at present lively times among some of our oarsmen, Board of Health, ‘The Board of Health met yesterday, at3 P.M. at the chamber of the Board of Councilmen, Mayor Wood in the chair. Reporters were not admitted, but it was as. certained that the subject under consideration was the rtreets of the city, and seme plan to improve their cc dition. It was stated that the police captains of the ¢ ferent wards, under instructions from the Board, ave en. gaged in making out a list of the filthiost streets’ in their Toepective wards. A eommittee was appointed from the Board to report upon the sanitary condition of the city at the next meeting. Their report, it is undorstood, is 1) be honed vpau pe Tovar of buy péhive captaina, : THE SLAVE TRADE, The Case of the Braman. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Before Geo. W. Morton, Esq. June 26.—The United States vs. J. Pedro da Cunha,—The District Attorney appeared for the government and Mr, Benedict for the defendant. ‘The Rey. J. Langton Wilson deposes—Be has been a missionary eighteen or twenty years on the coast of! Africa; is acquainted, to some exteat, with tae slave trade, and the trade on the coast of Africa; the principa points were Cape Lopez and other ports; the slaves are: brought down in boats, and over the land; slave factoriess are culled baracoons; slaves are also purchased ut Cama,, or St. Catharine's, and sent to Cape Lopeg; there is a la~ goon running trom Cama to Cape Lopea, along which,, when the cruisers are outside, the slaves are tiken to» various points, as circumstances require, when the slavers come in and take off the slaves wherever the sig- ral is hoisted; there are a few taken from Mayumbab Bay; Loapgo, Kabenda aud the Congo river are also dé- pots; large numbers are collected on the Congo, slavere» oing up fifty or sixty miles, where they are in a mea- sure screened, as the men-of-war find it extremely dit- j ult to follow them up, the current being very strong anda he traders hiding under the mangroves; there is very ittle, if any, lawful coumerce on the Congo; the facto- ies for the awful products of the country and tie slayer factories are often located nearly together; the neat slave epot is Ambriz; then comes St. Paul de’ Louw, which s the largest European settlement on the whole coast of Guinea; it is a Portuguese colony, with a mixed popula-” tion of black and white; there has been a large tra:fe there in both lawful produce and slaves; the only plaice to the south of that which I know of, where slaves are procured, is Penguela, a small Portuguese settlement. On crogs-examination by Mr. Benedict, witnoss said that he had been at the Island of St. Thomas twies during his residence on the Gaboon; I was thero in 1847, and I touched there in 1848; I spent two or three day~ there, at: St. Anna de Shaves, the priucipal settlement on the Island: of St. Thomas; I have never been at St. Paul de Loando, nor at Penguela; I have never been present when slav were transported from Gabon to Cape Lopez, 1 have never seen slaves 6n their way to St. Thomas; during the time I was at Gaboon I never saw a cargo of lavas taken. + from St. Thomas; my testimony is from personal contact with men who deal in slaves; a native man ou the Ga- boon, who had been in my employment, was taken from . my premises, carried across the river, old, and taken te Cape Lopez; ‘he was not a slave, but a British subject, who had been taken by the cruisers out of a siaver; tried to effect bis release, but failed; Thaye econ ships which were reported to be slavers; {have seen the ves- gels come in where I knew slaves ‘were, and the. slaves were not there after the vessel had left;’ [have been in a slave barracoon, on the south side of the Gabon river, in 1842 or 1843; "I was in no other barracoon; the barra: coon was about fifty or sixty miles trom Cape Lopez; the: articles of lawful trade on the coast south of the equator: are ivory, redwood, ebony, |) , gum copal and can- tones, small quantities of Palm ql, and from one point: copper ore; the imports are dry goods, powder, ram, and small quantities of provisions for the Europeans, and some-* times a little plank; palm oil is only dealt in on a smal? part of the coast; they have pretty good water on the coast; I have geen a great many vessels from the United States on the coast, and haye had dealings with them; tha: lawful commerce ‘on the coa t, so furas I know, is not carried on by the same part al in slaves; the slave: dealers and the lawful trade y different i racter: the slave traders purchase sometime: from lawful traders, and then supply the them; there are only two places where there are for supplying ships with water—not in our facility—except $t. Thomas and Prince’s Island; vessels of war get their water there; there are no places on this coast where vessels can obtain an outtit of provisions; never knew or heard of a lawful trader batiasted with. water; I have personal knowledge of the slave trade be- ing carried on; I have seen slaves in irons, carried to and fro, and have often interfered when I could accomplish. anything to effect their release; I lived right among. them, and could not avoid knowing about the business. - Direct resumed—There is but one place on the South Coast, on the Camarsons river, in 4 degrees north, where 1¢0 asks of palm oil could’ be obtained; at Batanga, fifty miles south of that, they are just introducing it, - and 50 casks might be obutined; 8 degrees north of the equator paim oll may be obtained in very large quan- tities. Alexander Isaacs proved that when discharging railroad, iron from the ship Amazon, in the early part of the pre- sent mouth, he saw ba Cunka, with hat box im Rand, go~ ing towards the steatatug Young America; a mau and boy followed him carrying a trunk. Abrahem Delano, Jr., examined by the District Attor- ney, depored that he js native of this country; was Capt. of the brig Braman at the time she was seized in the port of New York; first aw Da Cupha at the St. Nicholas Ho- tel, in De Cos ta’s room, about the 7th of June i introduced to him by M. Reisenburghy, his int introduced me as captain, and Da Cunha as supercargo; I had been first introauced ty De Costa by M. Fraxar, who gecmied {0 be interested in the vezse!; ine be was_. a carpenter, or shipwright; T Saturday ut the St. Nicholas, and on Monday, the day ve sailed, £ met him at Mr, Machado’s cllice; met Mr De Castro and)» Mr. Da Cunha there; no onc else was there except the- jcople that belong to the otice; I went from there on Voard the Young America with Da Cunha, De Costa and Castro; I went from thers on board of tho’ brig Braman; | our first point to be made alter sailing, was Gurdiner’« Pay, on the east end, north side of Long Island; we were | to mect another vessel there; 1 do not know her name, a8, | I never saw her; we were to know her by a signal she | was to give; I got the instru m from Dir, Fiagar, who. | interpreted for De Costa, and translated the bu 23; ‘nha was not present; the directions were, 1 sarge of the brig Braman, take her round to Gardiner’s Fay, and there meet this other vessel; and il bo danger to be apprehended, he was to give me a s\, 1 was to run in land, take from that vessel whatever she Yad, and put it on board the Braman; I was to take pro- | Vieious, and a six-pounder un encased in @ box, six inus- kets aud six swords; beef, bread, pork and rive, besides some liquors for dessert;1 was to take from the other ves- sel whatever was on board; I to take those things trom Gardiner’s Bay, becatise we should there be out of the way of cutters, and not liable to be seized; as soon as se things on board, I was to set sail tor the coast to. stop anywhere not to go to St. Thor was togoto the coast of Africa. and land Da Cunha as supercargo; I was to xo a to bis orders, to get negroes for slaves; I was to ini coast of Africa; it was somewhere on the South coast, in about latinude 20 degrees, between Cape Frear and Cape Cross; Iwas to cross the line westward of the Caye de > Verdes, run the southeast trades out, therf take the varia~ Dies and work up to the coast of Africa; I had a large flag with a red ball on it on board; this I was to hoist wien of | the island of Cuba; I was not to stand in unless the signal | Was answered from the shore; on the coast of Africa T was to obey the instructions of Da Cunha, standing off and on just as he directed, (paper handed to witness); |, that was signed by De Costa; I do not know of whom this vessel was bought, when, nor whose money paid for it; Mr. Reisenburgh told me Pir. De Costa. was the owner of the brig; we had sixty five or seventy casks af water on Doard; we had also oil casks and shooks on boar; nothing else on board, that I know of, except stores; there Were” some new studding fails made; Perit, the second mate, with four men, were on the brig when I took her, on the “ 2d of June; I shipped five men, thatis, they xiguet the articles; the second mate produced afl of tac men—the rest were to meet me clxewhere; on the day of sailing .. there were six other sailors on the vessel; on the day we were to sail, while the steamboat Only Son was coming ; towards uz, the second mate came and told me there were six other sailors on board, in the forccastle; they were to be part of the crew after we got outside—so Mr. De Costa said; none of the crew were Am I was. the only American on bcard; my compensation was to be about $5,000; De Costa said, through Da Fragar, that he had . pial ax igh as $4,000 or $5,000; Da Costa told me I could ,” have the money when I got to Cuba, after the slaves were landed, or a drafton New York, whichever I choose; 1 was never ‘before engaged in a slave voyage, ani’ don’t wieh to be again; I was told by De Cozta, through Reisenberg, that Da Cunba and the second mate had been in the business before, and understood it; the second mate was recommended as a good doctor for the slaves; , the muskets were for us to defend ourselves against the ; blacks, who sometimes come off in boats and annoy slavers; the gun was for the same purpose; these arms were also to defend ourscives against the crew in case - they mutinied; the breakwater on the deck wus to keep. the deck dry, Where the blacks were to be carried; Mr. Da Cunha was buy the negroes; I heard him say’ that he had £245 sterling on board; I don't know what he was going to do with it, nor if he had any more money on beard; as soon as the cl was likely to bo taken a Cunha threw a handkerchief full of papers overboard, with some@ing to sink it; he went down anq got them before the officers got on board; it contained my letters of instruction and his, which were to be opened when we got outside; they were both from Mr. Da Costa; the handkerchief contained other papers—a handkerchief full; those papers were thrown overboard because we saw that we should be taken; I was in the cabin, and Da Costa came and called me to look at the steamer: 1 went, and although ] knew she was after us, I told ther it was. nothing, and returned to the cabin ;' 1 could not rest, however, but walked to and fro, and soon after the offi. cers seiaed us. During the examination of one of the above witnesses M. De Castro entered the Commissioner's room, upon, which the IfMtrict Attorney called on Mr. Morton to ar- ext him, as he had conclusive evidence against bin, his the Commissioner refused to do, as he was already ut on Dail, and he had nopower to re-arrest hin then, During the coversation that ensued De Costa lett the fi and has not since been heard of, JUNE 46,—The direct examination of Capt. Delano waa continued by the District Attorucy:;—All the water om oard was not necessary for ballast; Mr. Fragar told. me there was a sloop running between here and New Lon- don that was to meet me at Gardiners’ Bay with the sup- plies; I saw the captain of that sloop at Mr. Fragar’e. Louse; I have forgotten his name; he was a man about five feet ten in height, and light complexion; Mr. Fragar,. the captain of the sloop, and myself, were present; the: ay of the sloop said he had done it before for othow Versels. ‘The District Attorney stated that, by the records of the District Court of the United States, {t appears that Manuel J. Fragar is the claimant of the Braman, aud be now in~ quires of the counsel for the defendant and for the claimant, whether or not said Fragar resides in this city, as it Was important that the proceeding should not be de~ feated by a tictitious person representing himself as Fra~ gar, the owner of the Braman, Mr. Benedict makes no reply. Witness continued—There were farther conversation between De Costa and Reisenburgh, Da Cunha being pre~ sent; the conversations being in Portuguese, were trans~ lated to me by Reisenburgh; De Cunha was in tho sama: room; the conversation jasted twenty minates; Mr. De Cunha wos to do the business on the coast, and I was to, obey his directions; the flags were to be brought to me ia the sloop—the flags of Spain, Portugal, Eugland and, France; tome Portuguese charia, with the corfrse marked on them, where De Costa had been before, were to bo sent to me in the loop; beeides fhe charts there waa no- tbe hy a to come; the route he seid he ren was acroyp, Whe line about longiaude WO, run the squthougt Brady wird