The New York Herald Newspaper, July 10, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROFRIETOR. Oprics N. W. CORNER OP NASSAU AND FULTON 88. pancetta caramel ates Bessie oes Pachentl -: heeeah haa AAA Aa RAS SOA SAIE SSS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIRLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Mus Eumta StaNuey 18 wun Seven Ages or Woman. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Mases axp Facus—Tae Biers or FREEDOM. BROADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadway—Incoman, THE BARIAN, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 BroaPway—Ermorian Mux- ¥—YB-LoarEk TORYE. 22'S EMPIRE HALL, 96 Broadway—Parriotio AkD McELLixgocs TaSLEUx—Mesic, DUSSELDORF GALLERY, No. 497 Breadway—V aLvaBLe Parwrincs anv Statcaky—Masryepom ov Huss, &c. ° ATLANTIC GARDEN, Broadway—Coxcert sy Dop- ‘wouta's Bann. New Yerk, Tharsday, July 10, 1856, ‘The News. ‘The steamship Africa, from Liverpool 28th ult., for this port, is now fully due. She brings three cays later news. The proceedings of both branches of Congress yesterday were exceedingly interesting. In the Senate the Committee on Printing reported in favor «f printing twenty thousand copies of the slave State Kansas bill, but adverse to the motion to print the amendments thereon, and the yeas and gays. This brought out the nigger worshippers, who charged the majority with designing to send forth an unfair electioneering document, and in the course of the debate the Kansas question, in all its phases, was brought under review. The discussion ‘was a very spirited one, and lasted until nine o'clock im the evening. In the House Mr. Ball offered a re- solution providing for the appointment of a select committee to investigate alleged charges of corruption in connection with the awarding ef contracts for the erection of public buildings. The greatest consternation prevails among the officers of the Treasury Depart ment, and the revelations will, it is believed, impli- cate parties whose integrity heretofore has been unquestioned. The resolution will be taken up to- day, and will undoubtedly be adopted. The report of the select committee on the Samner assault was taken up. The committee recommend the expulsion of Mr. Brooks, and censure Messrs. Edmondson and Keitt for their participation in the affair. Mr. Cobb moved toamend by declaring that the House had no jurisdiction over the subject, and that, there fore, it was improper to express any opinion there- on. An exciting debate ensued, in which the fire eters on both sides took part. It is feared that personal collisions may occur before the subject is finally disposed of. By telegraph we have important news from Kaneas. The Territorial Legislature assembled on the ith, and, when about proceeding to business, Colonel Sumner, backed by two hundred dragoons, marched into the Representatives’ Chamber, and af- ter a speech in which he deplored the necessity that impelled bim thus to act, ordered the members to disperse, which they did. He then proceeded to the Senate Chamber, where a similar proceeding was gone through with, with like result. A Convention of free State men, embracing eight hundred delegates, all armed, met at Topeka on the 2d inst., and passed resolutions calling on their friends in Congress to withhold the supplies of government until Kansas is admitted into the Union under the Topeka constitu- tion. Marshal Donaldson and Judge Elmore at- tempted to break up the meetipg, by reading the proclamations of the President and Governor, and announcing the fact that Col. Sumner intended to prevent the meeting of the Legislature. The free State men, however, gave ro heed, but continued their deliberations. Our city politicians are hard at work. The Hard Shell Genera! Committee met last night and agreed to merge with the softs in one organization, com- posed of three hards and three softs from each ward, making a general committee of 152 in all. Sixteen delegates and the same number of alter- nates were chosen to represent this city at the Hard State Convention which is to be held in Syracuse on the 30th. These names were reported by a com- mittee of five,and a large minority of the hards protested against what they deemed the undemo- eratic action of the majority. Henceforth the dis- tinction of hards and softs is obliterated. ‘The Republican Central Committee also met last evening. They adopted a resolution inviting their German fellow citizens to hold a mass meeting to express their views on the present condition of pal Tie affairs. a ‘Tne committees of Frenchmen, Americans and of the Chamber of Commerce, engaged in raising funds in aid of the sufferers by the inundationsin France, met yesterdoy at the Mayor's office, and united in one body, for the purpose of carrying out the phi- lanthropic object in view. Mayor Wood was chosen President of the joint committee. An address ap- pealing to the public for aid was adopted, which, to- gether with a letter from the United States Consul at Paris, describing the ravages by the flood, may be found in another column of today’s paper. ‘The Board of Supervisors held a special session yesterday for the purpose of receiving the assess ment rolls. The Comptroller sent in a commanica- tion detailing the expenses to which the city has been subjected in certain suits with contractors, and which were submitted to arbitration ander resola- tions of the Common Council. In two or three cases the damages amount to over $35,000. The Comptroller asks for $162,422 to pay interest on stock for one year, and other obligations on account of lands taken for the Central Park. A report was printed in favor of appropriating $15,000 to defray the expense of completing the indéxing of the titles of real estate. $60,000 has already been ap- propriated for this work. The subject was laid aside till to-morrow night. In the Board of Aldermen last evening Messrs. Varian, Valentine, and Fox were appointed a spe- cial committee on the subject of an ap towa Post office. Petitions respecting the railroad and omn- bas lines on the Ninth and Bieventh avennes were printed and referred, for the particulars of which gee cur report elsewhere. In the Board of Councilmen last evening the only business transacted was the reception of the veto messages from the Mayor on subjects of an unim. portant character, which were laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Committee of the Board of Councilmen upon the proposition to widen and extend Reade street held their Inst meeting yesterday. They will submit their report at an early day. There is ittle opposition to the contemplated improvement. A ‘earful tornado passed over a portion of Frank- i sonnty on Monday, doing an incalculable amount of damage, sweeping down forests, scattering ences, destroying all manner of buildings and other property, and leaving nothing bat desolation in ite rack. There Were 364 buildings of all kinds in- ured, inclading 12% dwellings, 4 stores, 2 charches and three echoolhouses. The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday, when their special committee made a report ree pecting Jean F.Galmiche, who charged that his property was stolen at Castle Garden, and that he had been abused by one of the clerks when he made inquiries after his missing property. The commit tee admitted the objectionable conduct of the clerk, who was diecharged o9 account of that and other sim lar complaints; they deny, however, that proof exists of any robbery having beon committed at the Carden. During the past week 5406 emigrants have arrived, making 59,916 s0 far this year. For some time past emigration has been quite large, and as a consequence the debt of the commission is rapidly dixappearing. Not long ago the overdraft in bank was nearly $100,000, and it has been reduced to $47,266 60, and there is a probability that before the year is 00 , it will be paid in full and the com- mission sta’ 1d in a better position than ever before, as the lack, of money has taught them many useful lessons ir, eeonomy. ‘There, was a fair supply of cattle on market yes terday , with an active demand; but prices did not adva'ace. The average rate was about 9}c. per pound. There was no material change in other descriptions of stock. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to a few hundred bales, based upon middling uplands, at about 11jc. Flour continued quite steady at the previous day's quotations, with a fair amount of sales, including some lota for export. Wheat con- tinued firm, with fair sales, at full prices. There being no tow in yesterday, the sapply of corn offe. ing was light and the sales limited, while prices were firmer, and sales in some cases were made at one cent per bushel advance. Pork was again firm, with sales of mess at $20 75 a $20 874, closing at the latterfigure. Lard also continued firm, wi.h sales at 12c. a 12jc. Sugars were firmer and held at higher prices. The sales embraced about 1,200 a 1,400 hhds., at rates given in another column. Cof- ee was quiet. Freights continued firm, but with less doing for English ports. To Havre flour was at 75c., and grain at 15¢. The steamship Asia left this port yesterday for Liverpool. She carried out one hundred and sixty passengers and upwards of $1,600,000 in specie. A despatch from Albany states that it is ander- stood that the complaints preferred against State Treasurer Clark have been dismissed by the Go- vernor. Important News from Washington—The New Kansas Compromise. Our special advices of last evening from Wash- ington, upon the Kansas question, are very curi- ous and of the highest moment. It appears that the Senate bill of Mr. Toombs, adopted by Mr Douglas, was not the result of a hasty conclu- sion, but of a deliberate and comprehensive scheme; that the administration is a party to the movement; that Mr. Buchanan is thoroughly identified with it, and freely consents to the ces- sion of Kansas to the South as a slaveholding State, in consideration of the advantages which ‘this new compromise is to secure to himself and the democratic party in this Presidential cam- paign. Our correspondent says that there are two leading objects involved in this bill, each of the greatest importance—that the first is to remove the existing causes of the Kansas excitement, and to leave Fremont and the Northern free State agitators without a visible excuse for complaint. This, it is supposed, may be done by a bill so fair, impartial and conservative in its provisions and regulations that the most rabid free soiler can utter no reasonable objection against it; while, on the other hand, it may be used by the Northern democracy as a splendid illustration of the disinterested patriotism of the demo- cratic party. Thus much for the North. In the second place, it is understood that the agents and discretionary power of the Pre- sident in the execution of this new law, are to be given him for the express purpose of securing a pro-slavery State Conven- tion in Kansas, a pro-slavery State constitution, and the admission of the Territory into the Union, under these arrangements, as a slave- holding State. It further appears that the Presidential esti- mates of the democratic politicians at Washing- ton, from the passage of this bill, are very encouraging. It is supposed that in snuffing out the present Northern Kansas agitation this bill will give a new impetus to the cause of Mr. Buchanan in this section, and leave the Fremont party a tub without a bottom to stand upon. Meantime, to make all sure in the South, the arrangements with the Fillmore Know Nothing members for the passage of the bill comprehend, it seems, the adoption of these gentlemen into the ranks of the first creditors of the democratic party, in the event of Mr. Bachanan’s election, It does not appear to be considered necessary that the Fillmore party of the South shall be turned over to the democracy. All that Mr, Toombs and Mr. Douglas ask is the vote for their bill of the Fillmore members of the House ; for without their support the democracy are as powerless jin the House as are Seward and Sumner in the Senate. Let the bill pass. Asa measure for quieting the Kansas excitement and for securing to the South a balance of power in the Senate—we re- Remove this Kansas trouble out of the way, and the Fremont move- y extended thronghout every State in the Union, upon the more practical plat- form of hostility to this Pierce administration, its demoralizing corruptions, its rapacious spoils men, and their wasteful expenditures of the pab- By reducing the isene to a question between a new administration, new men, and new measures, against the perpetuation of this Pierce dynasty. and iis domestic corruptions and rufian- iem and foreign filibusterism, the Fremont party would be able to make a much more vigorous campaign than upon the single issue of Kansax and the border rufflans. With these views, we cheerfully recommend the paseage by the House of the new Kansas compromise of Mr. Toombs, Mr. Douglas, Mr Pierce, Mr. Forney and Mr. Buchanan, peat it—let the bill pas. ment will be rapi: lie money. A Pura ron Lamantive.—We direct attention to copies of circulars, published elsewhere. in re- lation to M. Latmartine’s ‘ Familiar Course of Li rature,” for which subscriptions are now being re- ceived by the Appletona. M. Lamartine writes toan American that the enccess of thie scheme is to him a matter of life and death. He has suffered since 1848 distressing pecuniary mis- fortunes, and now labors to redeem himself from an oppressive load of debta. No French author les been more widely read or more enthusiasti- cally edmired by the American people than Al- phonse de Lamartine, and his appeal will no doubt be cordially responded to—not that there will be any particular merit in so doing. Every one that subscribes for the work will get the full value of hie money, in two octavo volumes, of five hundred pages each, written entirely by La martine, and sold at six dollars. If the poet md no claim or bold upon our sympathies, hie project could not fail to meet with euccem, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1856. Col. Fremont’s Letter. Col. Fremont’s letter of acceptance, which we published yesterday, completes our collection of Presidential documents emanating from the can- didates. We have seen Mr. Buchanan’s letter, in which he not only identifies himself with the past policy of the democratic party, but announces that he has transferred the future keeping of his public conscience to the leaders of that party—the Soulés, the Forneys, the Sanders, the Sickles ; and we have read those convincing speeches of Mr. Fill- more, in which he sets the American public on its guard against the insidious snares and the terrible menaces of the wicked old Pope of Rome. Now, we have before us Colonel Fremont’s letter —the last of the trio—a modest, unassuming document, in which the writer sets forth his views on subjects of public interest, without partisan leanings, without sectional bitterness, without any of the party characteristics one is used to see in similar documents. The chief point of interest in the letter to the bulk of Col. Fremont’s supporters will ‘ho doubt be the reference to the slavery question. Colonel Fremont openly avows his anti-slavery opinions. But this merits a little examination. Colonel Fremont, like every other man in this country, is entitled to hold what opinions he pleases: he does not become a just object of re- mark even, until he adopts some measures to give practical effect to those opinions, In judging of slavery as he does, Colonel Fremont merely shares the opinion of the bulk of the peo- ple of the North, who are in the abstract opposed to slavery, and are not, on that account, justly obnoxious to censure from the South. Now, when we come to inquire what practical measures are likely or possible to be taken, either by Colo- nel Fremont or by those Northern men who agree with him, for the purpose of giving effect to their anti-slavery views, we shall find that in reali- ty it matters very little what those views are. For the Conventions which nominated Colonel Fremont—being themselves covered by the rush- ing current of public opinion. aad acting under the peremptory dictation of the neutral presses throvghout the country—adopted an anti-slavery platform, but provided no means for giving it vi- tality or vigor. They did not demand that slavery should be abolished in the District of Co- lumbia. They didnot insist on the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Jaw. They did not even call for the restoration of the Missouri compromise. These questions, which have so largely occupied the attention of anti-slavery minds, and have con- stituted the staple of anti-slavery speeches and writings throughout the North during the past two or three years, were entirely lost sight of, or, rather, deliberately set aside, by both of the Con- ventions which nominated Fremont, and also, by tacit consent, by his leading extra-conventional supporters throughout the country. The only question to the practical solution of which their anti-slavery views were attempted to be applicd, was that of Kansas. If, therefore, Col. Fremont is to give effect to his anti-slavery opinions at all, it must be, it can only be, by using his power as President—however that can be done—to further the admission of Kansas into the Union as a free State. But long before Colonc! Fremont enters the White House—if indeed he is destined ever to occupy that mansion—the question of Kansas will be dead and gone, settled, ended, laid on the thelf, as much so as the compromise of 1850, or the Nebraska law. In the course of a few weeks the House of Representatives will pass Mr. Doug- las’s bill. The President is pledged to approve t: it will become a law, and before the Presiden- ial contest has fairly become warm, Kansas will be secured to slavery. All the clamor that the North may make—all the efforts of any Pre- sident they may elect—all the wails and lamenta- tions of the anti-slavery presses and orators will not then avail one jot. Kansas will be a slave State ; and from that time forth, the South will possess an equal share of representation with the North in one branch of the national legislature, and—-the North may rely upon it—it will never lose that footing of equality. Such being the prospect—the inevitable pros- pect—what could Colonel Fremont do if he were elected Presidentin November? Obviously nothing. And what do his anti-slavery profes- sions amount to, on the whole? Absolutely nothing, for they must necessarily remain mere speculative abstract opinions, from the want of opportunity to put them in practice. They would be of no more consequence to the country or the Territories, or the President himself, than his private views on the subject of the plurality of worlds, or the Greek Digamma. We feel justified, therefore, in passing in silence | over that portion of Col. Fremont’s letter which refers to slavery. We regard it as unimportant, and as irrelevant ; for the only question to which the views advanced by the writer could be use- fully applied, will be beyond his reach, and be- yond the pale of Congressional or Presidential interference, when the time would arrive for the gallant Colonel to redeem his pledges, In our view Colonel Fremont stands before the people on much higher ground than he would occupy as the champion of a sectarian school of economists. He appears to us to be the leader of a great sweeping and radical revolution against the wick- edness and the corruption and the profligacy of the late, and especially the present federal admi- nistration. We expect that every honest man who is disgusted with the landjobbing, and the trickery, and the bribery and the wholesale bar- ter of principle, and the sickening sacrifice of everything that is worthy of honor or esteem, and the odious worship of everything that is con- temptible and vile—that are now witnessed, and have been witnessed for the past two or three years at Washington—will take this opportunity of placing on record his protest to say that this is not his idea of the example which the freest government in the world should set to mankind --and by way of giving practical effect to that protest, will choose that one among the candi- dates who has had least to do with the infainies he rebels against, and who, were he elected, would be least likely to tolerate them as a mat- ter of couree, and best able to put them down n a word, will cast his vote for John C. Fre- mont. Nor do we consider it of much less importance that € el Fremont should have taken occa- sion to refer to our foreign policy in the way that he did. That he would set his face against the Ostend manifesto was of course to be ex- pected; the bait too tempting not to be ewal- lowed. But credit is due to him for his bold de. nonciation of the system of secret diplomacy under which we have eo often been unconsciously drawn to the verge of war. At the beginning of the Englieh dffficulty about the enlistment mat- ter, for instance, the London press, under the tutorship of the government, aggravated the querrel, and gave rise to much bitterness on both cides the water. The London 7¥ne abso Tately tried to stir up a war feeling, This was all done in ignorance of the real facts, and to suit the government df Lord Palmerston. The moment the real facts of the case were known, the London journals spoke of them as the United States press had done all along, and the difficul- ty was settled at once. Any reflecting person will easily satisfy himself that if Colonel Fre- mont’s plan were adopted and all diplomacy were conducted publicly, every despatch pub- lished in the papers when it was sent out, and every public department accessible to the public, there could be no possibility of misunderstand- ings or quarrels with foreign countries, and the business of our own would be conducted in an honest manner. The suggestion is equally creditable to Colonel Fremont’s judgment and to his boldness, Tur Prestpency AND THE NewsPAPER Press.— We give elsewhere in these columns a table of the different party newspapers of our exchange list, and of their politics, past and present, as far as practicable. In summing up, it appears that Mr. Buchanan has 105 of these newspapers in his support—of which fifty-five are in the North and fifty in the South; that ninety-eight of these are old democratic papers, and seven were formerly whig. For Colonel Fremont there are upon our list 122 papers—120 in the North,‘and only two in the South; that of the whole number sevent-eight were lately whig, twelve democratic, fourteen Know Nothing, and eighteen are independent papers. For Mo. Fillmore, of our exchanges there are forty-seven papers— forty-two originally whig, four Know Nothing and one democratic—and of the whole number, thirteen are in the North, against thirty-four in the South—the rump of the old defunct whig party in that section. We also give a list of the German press and their party affinities. When we consider that the German papers were unanimously for Pierce in 1852, this list presents a very curious and re- markable feature in the revolution now going on in our national politics, Nor is this all. There is much instruction in these figures, and but little trouble is required to find it. Since the arrival home of Mr. Fillmore, some eight or ten newspapers, lately among his organe, have shifted their saddles to another horse, and Fremont is their man. It is still more remarkable that all the independent journals of the country are for Fremont. They are unani- mous in the idea that he alone is the proper can- didate for an earnest hand to hand fight with the “fierce democracie.”” Very true, he is supported by the anti-slavery sentiment of the North; but his anti-slavery policy is limited to the single object of securing the admission of Kansas as a free State. Nothing more. Bat most remarka- bie of all, several democratic newspapers which in the outset hoisted the flag of Buchanan, have since hauled it down, and ran up the Rocky Mountain flag of Fremont. Who could have be- lieved it a month ago? This is pretty good for the beginning of the campaign. Indeed, it will only require a month or 80, at this rate of speed, to put Fremont so far ahead of Buchanan as to leave no hope to the latter of winning the race. At the bottom of all this enthusiasm for the new man, lie the elements of a great popular revolution; and these elements are at work in the present anti-administration movement of an independent people, supported by the active independent press. This is a new power—this of the independent press; for as late as twelve or fifteen years ago party organs, under the control of party regencies and cliques, dictated to the American people, this way or that way, the course they might pursue, and how they were to think, speak and vote. But the rapid growth of the popularity and power of the independent prees bas destroyed the malign influences of par- ty regencies, cliques and organs; and so the peo- ple are going their own way. The present revolution in the popular opinion of the country against all the old parties and old party hacks of the day is not without its paral- lels in history. To some extent it resembles the English popular movement resulting in the re- form bill of 1832—or that later movement re- sulting in the repeal of the odious corn laws. This popular reaction here also bears some analo- gy to those popular movements in France culmi- nating in the overthrow of Charles X. and Louis Philippe. It is not Kansas—it Is not Fremont— that we regard as underlying the present popular rising for Fremont and free Kansas. Fremont may, perhaps, be defeated—Kansas may be admitted as a slave State; but still this popular reaction, commencing in 1853,will goon until itsmission of a revolution in the government at Washington, and the utter destruction of this rotten and de- moralized party is fully accomplished. Our exchange list of newspapers is but one of the instructive signs of the times in this direction. Oh! yee, the democracy will have something to do before November. Tue Meerixe iy Tue Park on Tuesday was a very weak, tame affair. The democracy are now reduced to Captain Rynders and his big gua— the former as their chief, the latter as their mouthpiece—and it would be well if they never had any other. The best speech of the meeting ly far was Rynders’, who is really a practical man, with a straight, keen eye for the Custom House and the Marshal's office, and keeps very clear of bewildering abstractions about slavery and other foolish questions, Rynders, by the way, begs to state that he is not acquainted with Thomas Hyer; the public have been in error on this point. ‘The next speaker, Mr. Brady, the lawyer, made a fairish republican speech in favor of Fremat. Some of the points were pretty well taken, espe- cially the raps at Fillmore, for wanting, like Sameon, to destroy the party and himself to- gether out of spite. The poor old democrats did not know what to make of this queer speech at first, but after a time they made up their minds that all must be right somehow, and so went on applauding as before. Jobn Van Buren threw in the jokes as usual, but Harlequin was not himself. His allusion to Fremont not being a good enough equestrian to ride two horses together was fair. Wasit memo- ry which suggested to John the consequences of getting between two stool? But indeed we have said enough and too much of the affair when we mention that the meeting took place, and that it was tame, weak and stupid. The democrats should advertise for enthusiasm. First ron THe Croton Waren Boarn.—There are a great many millions of gallons of water running to waste over the Croton dam ; and in view of that fact we suggest that the hydrants should be open for an hour every morning, and the water allow- ed to flow through the gutters. The dirt usually works frem the crown of the street to the gutter, and to cleance them will have the effect of puri- fying the street. Axommes Great Evousy Swivoie.—To the list of fraudulent bangruptcies in Ludoa, oceur- ring within a short period—such as those of Paul Strahan & Co., and Sadlier—is added the name of Joseph Windle Cole, who has failed for an enor- mous amount, and ruine. a good many people. One of the most usual securities among a class of English merchants are warehouse warrants, which are in fact official certificates that goods are in the Customs, of such or such dutiable value. The person who lends money on these easily possesses himself of the property, and has a title against the world. But suppose the goods are not there: Somebody is swindled. It ap- pears that this Cole forged warrants to the amount of more than a million and a half of dol- lars, which were palmed upon the house of Ove- rend, Gurney & Co., and other parties have also suffered greatly in a similar way. One of the modes by which inquiry was met by Cole, when a party was desirous of seeing the merchandise which the warrant represented, was to send them to his own wharfinger—who was an agent in the swindle—and he would take them un- blushingly to some warehouse near by, and point out the property—this, too, when jit belonged to others, Two noticeable consequences of these frauds are now the topic of the London press, The one is, the necessity of there being such an office created by statute, as public prosecutor; for at present all these swindlers must be followed up at the expense of the victims. Messrs. Laing and Campbell, who are heavy sufferers by Cole, are pursuing him to a conviction, but at an expense thus far of four thousand dol- lars.) Both France and the United States are in many respects far in advance of the English in their jurisprudence. Our District Attorney and the French Procureur General answer to the official who is now sought to be created. The other is the deep disgrace which is obscuring the honor of English mercan- tile life by these frequent frauds, Indeed, fortunes are no longer sought to be ac- quired by the exercise of industry, patience and economy, either in England or America. Weare all on the high pressure principle. The more at- mosphere we have pressing on our safety valves the faster we go, till at length an explosion takes place and ruin overtakes us, and all on board either go to the bottom or are left waddling with mangled limbs, crawling up out of the ditches where they are blown. A Sten In tHe Sovrn.—The Richmond (Va.) Whig, (Fillmore organ,) in answer to certain charges of a democratic neighbor against Mr. Fillmore, says:— The Examiner tells us that the positions of Fillmore and of Chase, Hale & Co., are identical, and the Enquirer tells us that the positions of Fillmore and of Fremont are iden- tical. If that be ©, it makes po difference with us whether we support Fillmore or Fremont for the Presidency. Just prove your proposition, gentlemen, and you will rue the day that you ever did. Prove tt, illmore men off the South and of the North will withdraw Fillmore and Unite at once upon Fremont—that is, if you make out Fre- momt as gol, as true and as @ man as Fillmore. And where, in such event, would be Buck and Breck, and the canting democracy generally? You would be an PN pa concern. You would be ruined and undone forever. This Virginia editor appears at length to be getting the right idea through his hair, and it makes his head sparkle with electricity like a cat’s back rubbed against the grain. But we have always remarked that orators and writers are most brilliant when they hit upon the happy thought by inspiration. Now we shouldn’t won- der if the aforesaid idea of our Richmond co- temporary were to. keep working away in his mind, and among the minds of the opposition party of the South, till Fillmore is dropped as a ruperfluity. Let us wait a little longer. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING FELEGRAPHS, VERY IMPORTANT FROM WASIIINGTON. Prospect of an Early Passage of the Senate Kansas Bill. THR ARRANGEMENTS IN THE HOUSE FOR THE NEW COMPROMISE UPON THE KANSAS QURSTION—THE NORTHERN AGITATOR TO BE RORBED OF THEIR STOCK IN TKADE—PROJECT OF THE FUSION BE- TWEEN THE DEMOCKACY AND THE FILLMORE MEN f OF THE HOUSE—MR. BUCHANAN ACQUTESCES—EX- CITING DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES ON THE SUMNER CASE, ETO, ETC. Wasinwarox, Wednesday, July 9, 1856, Tt ls understood amorg the democratic members of the House that they are to hold themeelves in readiness for a coup état at any moment, upon the Senate Kansas bill of Mr. Toombs. That bill has not only been fathered by Mr. Douglas and the adimjnistration, but it is understood that Mr. Buchanan has authorized Lis Northern friends to give it their cordial support. The bill covers two great objects —the -ettiement of the Kansas question and its removal trom the canvass, and the speedy admission of the Terri- tory as a siaveholding State. The tive Commissioners to be appoiuted by the President, and the Judges of the Fiections, &¢., are all that the South requires, whatever ise may appear upon the face of the bill. This accounte for the late pregnant remark of Mr. Buchanen that this Kaneas excitement will be ended in six weeks. Therecan be ro doubt that he is fully pos- sessed of the whole plan, and approves it. The bill itself will be so shaped that Norther nagitators cannot use it— it will be so smooth and fair; but Mr. Pierce will see to ite execution, and that will be satisfactory to the South. They ray eo. To snatch from the republicans the weapon which Licey are gow Using 80 powerfully against Buchanan ip the North, and to make sure work of thw in a fina) settiem of the Kansas issue, upon a general ais of tairness and impartiality, negotiations have been entered upon between the leading democrats and some of the judicious Fitlmore Know Nothings of the House, in the way of a political bargain. If these negotiations tre carried out—and I have no doubt they will be—the Gret result will be the pasrage of the Senate bill by the House, with the aid of the Fillmore members; the next reeult, it is expected, will be the dropping of Fillmore in the South, and a turning of the tables in the North against Fremont, and in favor of thie new act for the pacification of Kansas It is supposed that the Pennsylvania Dutch democracy will not hear of the admission of Kan: a slave State until a year or two after the event, and that, as far as New York is concerned, the Fillmore diversion will se. cure the State to Buchanan, From the frequent consulta. lions of late between Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, (elected asa free soil Know Nothing,) and Mr. Douglas, it is supposed, «ven among the republicans, that the mine is nearly ready to be fired. Mr. Crittenden, of Kentacky, is an ctive supporter, also, of the new echeme, and Mr. Clay- ton, of Delaware, is anxious to kill off Fremont. Foreign muisrions and fat offices are to do the reet. What would .you say to the appointment of Mr. Fillmore bimself as Mr. Buchanan's Minister to England, by way of inaugu- rating another “era of good feeling?” ‘The moat intense excitement prevailed in the House to- day during the discumpen on the report to expel Brooke. ‘At one period a personal collision would have occurred between Mesers, Keitt and Hickman, but for the prompt intervention of friende, Col. Orr's spooch was exceed ingly able, discussing the power of the House to take cognizance of affairs occurring elsewhere, and showing up vigorously the exaggerations of the majority report, Agreat many members are prepared to speak on the question, and {t will probably oceapy two or three days more. ‘The most strenuous exertions are being mado to pre. vent any collisione, yet it is plain that there is a good deal of tinder lying about, and the slightest spark will kindle it. It ie not supposed the necessary two thirds vote can be procured to expel Brooks. Mr, Campbell declares his intention not to cal! the pro- vious question until the speeches are exhaneted. Mr. Clingman quoted Dr. Franklin, who thought freedom of erecch and freedom of cudgel should go band in hand, and also alluded | “he attack on Mr. Churchill by Mp, Cullom, since elec | Clerk of the House by the republ can party. Mr. Ciingman, as well as Colonel Orr, avowed their responsibility, in or out of Congress, if any gentle- man was electioneering for a fight. The republicans use many harsh epithets in debate, but invariably declare when called to account that they do not mean to apply them to the party present. Senator Butler was in the Bouse during the discussion. ‘Theannouncement of Mr. Ball’s resolution, of which B made mention yesterday, caused considerable stir in the House to-day, and most intense exofement exists in and: about the Treasury Department. They have discovered more bribes given for awards of contracts, backed by affidavits of five or six gentlemen. The committee will be appointed to-morrow, aud the investigations will com- mence immediately. A rumor prevails here that several Northern States in- tend to bolt Fremont’s nomination, and call a new Convention for the purpose of nominating McLean or some other well known man. A great deal of bad feeling is felt towards Fremont by a large number of prominent republicans. The charge thad he was educated a Catholic is also injuring him, Herbert's trial commenced to-day. Taking testimony will occupy to-morrow and next day. The general im- Pression is, be will be acquitted. Messrs. Bradly and Per- «ey Walker and Senator Weller defend him. The Northwestern repu blicans, and many from the New England and Middle States, deny the truth of the state- ment that the party in caucus thought best that Messrs. Dayton and Johnston should withdraw as candidates for the Vice Presidency. They say that no fears are enter- tained but that the whole matter will be harmonized tor the satisfaction of all concerned, and that they are op- posed to the withdrawal of Mr. Dayton. Secretary Dobbin is much better to-day. Important from Kansas. MEETING OF A CONVENTION AT TOPEKA—ASSEM- BLING OF THE LEGISLATURE—THE SITTING DIS- SOLVED BY COL. SUMNER, AT THE HEAD OF TWO HUNDRED DRAGOONS. Sr. Louis, July 9, 1856. Advices from Topeka to the 4th inst. state that a Con- vention met there on the 2d, and passed resolutions im favor of the republican party and denunciatory of the- democracts, appealing to the friends of free Kansas in- Congress to stop the supplies unti! Kansas is \dmitted un- der the Topeka constitution. ‘i Marshal Donaldson and Judge Elmore read to the Con~ vention the President's February proclamation and Gov- erpor Shannon’s proclamation, and one from Mr. Wood~ son, Secretary of the Territory, also a note from Col. Sam~ ner, saying that he would prevent the mecting of the Legislature. They were unheeded. About 800 persons were present, all armed. The Convention was preparing resolutions endorsing the. State government and the Topeka constitution. Fears of invasion had kept large numbers from attend- ing. Col. Lane had not arrived. Both branches of the Legislature met on the 4th inst. The roll was called and a quorum found to be present. About noon Colonel Sumner entered the town -with two hundred dragoons and planted two cannon at the head off Kansas avenue, The troops were drawn up before Con~ stitutional Hall, when Colonel Sumner told the citizers: that he would not disarm them or break up the Conyen- tion, but be had orders to dissolve the Legisiature, and- would de so, Colonel Sumner then repaired to the Hall of Represen- tatives and informed the members that be had orders te disperee them. He said: “I am called upon to perform- the most painful duty of my life. Under the autuority of the President, I am here to dissolve this Legislature. In accordance with my orders I command you to disperse. God knows Ihave no party feelings in the matter, and will have none while I hold my present position in Kan- sas.41 have just returned from the borders, where I have~ been sending home the Missouriads, and Jam now bero with instructions to disperse this Legislature. 1 again command you to disperse.”” Judge Schuyler asked if they were to understand thate they were driven ovt at the point of the bayonet ? Colonel Summer replied, “I will use the whole forco- under mf command to enforce my orders.”? The House then dispersed. A similar scene was enacted» in the Senate, which also dispersed. THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Senate. Wasinxcroy, July 9; 1856. THE RIVER AND HARBOR HILIS—A PRECEDENT ESTABLISHED. | On motion of Mr. Brxsamix, (¢em.) of La., resola~ tions were adopted directing the Secretary of the Senate to take the three bills passed over the President's veto: tothe Secretary of State, in order that they may be de- posited in that department. Mr. Bexsamiy remarked, with reference to the question~ raised the other day, whether two thirds of the members present or two-thirds of all the members of the Senate, were requisite to passa bill over the President's — eg Ny EO ese: t Con, a thowe who were menahers ofthe Convention ebich framed: the constitution, that eleven amendments to the consti- stoped by two-thirds of the Mmotibers presctty and Bot two- mem! Sectininee of the whole body of — ‘dem.) of Va., and PRINTING THR KANSAS NiLL—AN INTRRESTING DRRATE, Mr, Jonson (dem.), of Ark., from the Committee on Printing, in favor of the thourknd extra Senate, but adverse), —_ L yey yeas Fre pays Ir. Tree er worshipper the send this ing document, was 0 action taken on the various amend~ seats ee et 80 as to present a lair view of subject. rtof the Mr. mpeg of Cal., wished the committee in. The positions by a ma- Jority of the Senate had been very much misrepresenved, and they desired that the public ruind should be ret Mr. Witsox (nigger worshipper), of Mass., was wil to send to the nrg many copies of the bill as the majority desired. regarded the bill as intended to carry on the work which the border ruffiaas of Miseourt commenced in 1865. The ag a ge A under- derstand it. Why was not this bill browght in in the eariy part of the session, before Kansas was conquered ¥ Since that time Kansas has been twice or .brice invaded. Houres have been burned, cities sacked, and some free State men murdered. while othere had been driven out of the Territory, and those on their way thiter arrested, dis- armed and sent back. The ition Ly yl forwara this time took positions precisely contrary to those as sumed six months ago, holding out the appearance of fairness and justice, but keeping the word of promise w the ear and breaking it to the Mr. War, (nigger worshipper) of Ohio, took similar to thove of Mr. Wilson. He was willing to ecatter- the bill broadcast over the country, for it showed that the doctrine of a sovereignty was repounced and entirely given up by the democratic party. The bill also virtually admit the Territorial lature was a frand, for it legislated right over their heads, and an hulled many of ite acte Mr. Doveras, (dem ) of Til, vindicated the Senate bill, and said the republicans did not want peace until after the election, for it was all the game they for political etiect. Thelr capital for the coming Presidential olecuon. was blood, and an angel from heaven could not frame s bill to settle the Kareas difficulties with which the black a would be satistied previous to the Presiden- tial election. Applause from the galleries, which the Chair checked by calling for order. Mr. Dovetas resumed. The bill presented was fair, just and equitable. They could not deny it, yet they Were not ratietied with it. He thought it a little remark- able that the republicans, after contending that nine tenths of the Lena, whabitants of Kamsas were freo State men. up to the hour when Mr. Toombs presented tion, should suddenly turn right about aad the free State men had been driven out of the (nigger worehipper) of N. H., opposed the , drawing @ vivid picture of burning buildings, mourn. widews and weeping orphans in Kanga:, attributing nll the devastation and uilering there to the removal oF old landmarks by the repeal of the Missourt restriction Mr. FReeenves, (nigger wosehipper) of Me., argued that the design of the repeal of the Missouri compromixe was to make Kansas a siave State, Mr. Looms, (national) of Ga., det ied that the measore: introduced by him had avy otter object than — on its face, It was to protect the inhabitants of Kansas and restore pence, There was no dosign to make ita slavo State unless the inhabitants should ¢0 desire. Mr. Oxrrrexven, (K. N.) of Ky.. vindicated the conais- tency of his course on (he Kansas Will, Mr. Witeox denied that he had ever misrepresented the bill, Tre adoption of that bill would close the question, and make Kansas a slayeholding State, He had never ut tered) a sentiment calculated to excite violence in Kanaas. ‘The free State men would gain nothing by violence. They only desired peace, order, se2uri y and protection in their rights, It was not true that the Emigrant Aid Society caused there troubles. That was a poaceful and inwia} organization, and had spent cighty thousand doliara in erecting hotels and sawmill# in Kansas. He bad heard so mueh abont chivairy that with bim it was another name for ecoundrelism. During the debate, Mr. Broren, (dem.) of Cal., in rey ply to allasiona in regatd to Mr. Buchanan's political orthe. doxy, denied that he ever said if there was a particle of democratic blood in his veins he would let it out. If Mr, Buchanan had tried the experiment, he would have bled to death, for he was a demrat allover. Mr. Bigler in- sisted that Mr. Wilson misrepresented the Kansas bill, which warranted no concivsion that it intended making Kaneas a slaveholding State Mr. Srvant, (dem.) of Miph., said the discussion of