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

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NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Cunard steamship Africa, Captain Shannon, will Jeave this port to-day, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails wil! close in this city at half-past ten o'clock this morning. ‘The Hxnatp (printed in English and French) will be published at ten o’clock in the morning. Single copies, ‘m wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New York Hexarp will be received at the following places m Furope:— ss Pa a 8 Vinee de a Bourse, Lrvmrroor— do. do. 7 Rumford street. Lavaxroo1.—John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, East. The contents of the European edition of the HmRatp ‘will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of The most exciting feature of to-day’s news is the ‘contemplated but interrupted affair of honor be- tween Col. Preston 8. Brooks, of South Carolina, and Hon. Anson Burlingame, of Massachusetts, growing out of the attack upon Senator Sumner. The immediate incidents of this affair—the remote causes are too familiar to require recapitulation— are that Col. Brooks on Monday forenoon] despatch- ed Gen. Lane to Mr. Burlingame to inquire where and when a meeting should take place, urging that afternoon or the next morning as a favorable time. Mr. Burlingame responded by designating the Clif- ton House, Niagara Falls, at noon on Saturday next, as the place and time. The reply did not reach Col. Brooks until a late hour on Monday night. So the matter rested until ten o’clock on Tuesday forenoon, when, at the instigation of Mr. Francis C. Treadwell, of New York, Col. Brooks was arrested by the police, taken before a magistrate, and requised to give security in five thousand dollars to keep the peace. Mr. Burlingame’s whereabouts are not known, but it is presumed that he set out for Nia- gara to fulfil his appointment. Colonel Brooks, in a statement to the public, which may be found un- der the telegraphic head, gives his version of the circumstances under which the quarrel originated, and its progress up to the time when, by the inter. ference of Mr. Treadwell, hostilities were frought to an abrupt termination. From this statement it ap- pears that General Lane regarded the proposition of Mr. Burlingame as a mere subterfuge, and there- upon advised his principal to take no further notice ef the matter. Colonel Brooks, however, holds himeelf ready to meet his antagonist whenever in- vited so to do. The steamship Persia, due at this port with a week's later news, had not been tele. graphed at Sandy Hook at one o'clock this morning. Both houses of Congress have agreed to finally adjourn on the 18th of August; there are, therefore, twenty-three days left for the transaction of busi- nese—ample time, if it is made good use of. In the Senate yesterday the Committee on Manufactures was instructed to inquire as to the extent to which iron may be used in the construction of public build- ings in place of other material. A bill was intro- duced allowing members of Congress $3,000 for each regular session, and $8 per day and 20 cents per mile each way for travelling expenses for éxtra sessions, in lieu of the present per diem and mile- age. The bill continuing the improvemen of the harbor of Racine was passed by a vote of 24 to 12, ‘The remainder of the session was taken up in dis- cussing the constitationality and expediency of the harbor improvement projects before Congress, at the conclusion of which the appropriation for the harbor of Konesha was agreed to. In the House the resolution declaring Mr. Chapman, delegate from Nebraska, not elected, was rejected—63 to 69. The State Convention of the Executive Commit tee of the Order of United Americans for the State ef New York met in this cityon Monday. Fill. more and Donelson were unanimously nominated for President and Vice President respectively, and a committee of ten was appointed to commanicate the action of the Convention to the candidates The attendance is said to have been larger than at any meeting of the committee held heretofore. We bave news from Belize, Honduras, up to the 29th ultimo. Our correspondent furnishes an inter- esting historical synopsis of the movements of the British officials in the territory from 1942 down to the period when the six islands were suddenly trans” formed into an English colony by royal decree. The mahogany trade declining, the writer thinks that American activity and enterprise would make the place more valuable than the exertions of any other settlers could. A nomber of emigrants from the United States were arriving. The retail trade was more active, but in other respects business was quite dull. The rainy season had fairly set in. We publish today some additional news from Havana, in a letter from one of our correspondents, dated 17th inst. The Captain General was in better health. The Spanish Admiral had arrived from Vera Cruz. The weather was dreadfully hot, and crowds of the beauty and fashion of the capita! were at the different watering places. Crime was very rife. Senor Herez, who went up in a balloon some time since, had not been heard from as late as the 17th inst. It was supposed he had crossed over to Yucatan. Barly Monday morning a fire broke ont in Mal- Jer’s lager bier brewery, situated in Forty-fifth street, between First and Second avennes, and ina short time the flames extended to the Turtle Bay brewery, and the brewery of Mr. Clements, on Porty-fourth street. The three establishments were entirely consumed, together with six dwelling houses, involving a loss of property estimated at about $95,000, but a trifling portion of which was covered by insurance. No clue has yet been discovered of the murderer of Burke, the porter of Mr. Joyce. Mayor Wood has offered a reward of five hundred dollars for the apprehension of the assassin. Read the graphic sketch of the proceedings of the spiritualiste, at (their picnic at St. Ronang ‘Well, yesterday, which we publish elsewhere in our columns. The regatta of the Yacht Clab yesterday proved a failure, for lack of wind. The contest will be re newed today, and the yachts will start between eleven and twelve o'clock. The course to be ran is from Harlem to Throgs’s Neck and return, a distance of twenty-one miles. See our account of yester. day's sport, in another column of to-day's paper. The commencement of the Free Academy was held last evening at the Academy of Musio. A dis tribution of prizes and medals was made, a report of which, with the other proceedings of the evening, will be found in another colamn. A fire occurred on Monday at Amsterdam, N. Y. which destroyed the American Hotel and several stores. The lows is very heavy. In the absence of later Earopean news due by the Rpsia, (be soles of gotion yesterday Wane aabualey NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1856. Southern sold at $1 85; but old common to good Canadian, Western and Southern, were sold at easier prices. Corn was without change of mo- ment, with fair sales. Pork was dull and lower; meas opened at $20 25, with other sales at $20 12}, and one small lot was reported at $20. Sugars were active, with sales of about 1,300 hhds. Cuba mus- covado at prices stated in another column. Coffee was more active; 3,600 bags Rio, per White Cloud, sold on private terms, and 3,000 bags be- side, to the trade, at steady prices. Freights were without change ot moment, with fair engagements of breadstuffs for British ports. ‘The Democracy of the Empire State in a Stew. The democracy of the Empire State begin to exhibit symptoms of a lively effervescence in the camp. The soothing syrups administered by the quacks at Cincinnati have done no good to the foul stomachs and disordered livers of the breth- ren. They ‘have come away from the great Democratic National Convention in a worse con- dition than ever, and are undergoing a hard purging. When they went to Cincinnati they were divided into two factions; now they are split up into three, and each has called a separate State Convention at the same place, the newest, which is also the oldest and most radical division, leading the way. The third division of the radical democracy, with their time honored leaders of the old Jack- sonian school, meet in convention at Syracuse to- morrow; the softs assemble there on the 30th, and the hards gather together there on the same day, but not in the same hall to begin with, although the design isareunion, upon the principles of bro- therly love for the sake of the plunder, before the two fuctions finally adjourn. These are the three divisions of the loving democracy—radicals, hards and softs—all three intriging for the ascendency and the spoils, and all perfectly indifferent to the soothing mixture of honey and whiskey applied for their relief at Cincinnati. The question arises, what has caused all this difficulty, and this wrangling and discord, where all should be harmony and union? The moment the hards and softs came so near to kissing and making up as to agree to meet in the same city on the same day, out comes a startling mauifesto from the old Jacksonian radicals, for an indepen- dent democratic convention at the same place, six days in advance of the stultified hards and softs. The truth is, these old line radical demo- erats are ahead of the Cincinnati Convention managers, candidate and platform-they have had enough of your superannuated old fogies, who ought to be upon the retired list; and these men, therefore, of the honest Old Hickory stamp, re- gard with the coolest repugnance the nomination of Mr. Buchanan upon the Cincinnati platform as fashioned by Southern democratic nigger drivers and Southwestern filibusters. The nomination of Mr. Buchanan thus falls worse than still-born upon the New York democracy. It has given us three democratic factions instead of two, and likely enough there will be several -more before November. Thus we see that one of the causes of the pre- sent discords among our democratic brethren may be rightfully attributed to the old fogy nomination of Mr. Buchanan—an old gentle- man, cold, phlegmatic and timid, yet easily led by the nose by the designing managers who have him in charge—Mr. Forney, chairman. Another cause of these family jars is the apple of discord thrown among the brethren by the conspirators of the great Central Railroad Con- solidation scheme. This monopoly, with its over- shadowing influence, radiating from Wall street, has its agents scattered about the State, working among all cliques and parties, for the control of our November State elections. If this railroad coalition can secure Erastus Corning, Addison Gardiner, Dean Richmond, or some such useful man, as the Union democratic candidate for Go- vernor, they will only be too happy. In fact, in view of this important desideratum the election of Mr. Buchanan is a matter of perfect contempt. What would Mr. Buchanan's success or defeat amount to with these Central Railroad confede- rates, compared with the millions of money to be pocketed, and the Camden and Amboy despot- ism which will be placed in their hands by se- curing a proper Governor, State ticket and Legis- lature for the State of New York? That's the question. The plans of the conspirators for the establish- ment of a New Jersey Railroad oligarchy over New York are comprehensive and minute in their ramifications. Funds will not be wanting to carry them on; for we learn that August Bel- mont, the wealthy Jew of the financial house of the Rothschilds, has added this Central road movement to his other speculating amusements at the Hague, and is pre- pared to furnish supplies for “ the cause” as they may be needed. Still there is danger that the speculators will fail unless some- thing is done upon the spot with these radical democrats who meet in Syracuse to-morrow. Then, again, we understand that along the South- ern tier of counties, and also along up the river, on both sides, certain impracticable anti-monopo- ly hards and softs are resolved to send delegates to Syracuse that will insist upon some new and untrammelled candidate for Governor. In this view, we are also informed that along the South- ern border counties, Fernando Wood has been indicated as the proper man to bring forward against the speculating railroad democrats. In this city, too, a very large proportion of the hards and softe are resolved that the Central Railroad clique shall not carry their point, and are realy to unite upon Wood against them. ‘Thus, our readers will perceive that the New York democracy are involved in a most beautiful, intricate and desperate game—three separate fac- tions upon the nigger question, and a fourth, or speculators’ faction, mixing in with them all. Beyond the Cayuga tridge the Presidential con- test is between Fremont and Fillmore; this side of the bridge, it is between Fremont and Bu- chanan, for poor Mr. Fillmore east of that bridge will hardly be heard of in November. But thie Central Railroad monopoly is operating from Wall street to Buffalo, and among all parties and all factions, and for the State election, utterly regardless of the Presidential result. The anti-monopoly de- mocracy say that the only way to defeat these railway intrigues is to secure the nomination of Fernando Wood as the anti-monopoly democratic candidate for Governor—no matter whether Corning, or Gardiner, or the soft editor of the Atlas ond Argus himself, should be foreed upon the hards and softe as the reunion nomination at Syracuse. bj omwopiaily pol ip byiling and baby some of the fat is already in the fire, and the rest is in imminent danger. Perhaps the radical democracy at Syracuse to-morrow may point out some way of escape. We don’t despair. A Frayeu. View or tae Prestpentian Exzcrios—Granxp CHANCE FOR A SPECULATION. —A great many newspaper editors in various parts of tbe country seem to entertain very queer notions as to the motives that prompt the politi- cal course of the Heratp. The party organs, having politics for their stock in trade, and de- pending upon this or that clique of wirepullers for their bread and butter, cannot possibly see how any one should take any interest in the af- fairs of the nation without an expectation or a cer- tainty, either present or remote, of making some money by it. The independent press has made tad havoc among these penny trumpets, and almost entirely neutralized their influence. The downfall of the present administra- tion, and the great popular revolution now sweeping over the country like a West India tornado, is the result of the search- ing criticiems of a free, bold, untrammelled, out-spoken, unshackled, unbought independent prees. The time has gone by when party organs could keep the people in the dark, and it is no wonder that they should be, even im the present warm weather, slightly enraged. Some of them say that we have received a bonus of fifty thou- sand dollars in hand; othersset it at a hundred thou- sand; and again, it is supposed that we have taken to speculation in some live or fancy stock, there- by expecting to realize vast sums in case the election has a certain result. In fact, there is no end to these amusing stdries, which are appa- rently quite as interesting as the terrible details in relation to the early love affairs of Mr. Buchanan, the religious principles of Colonel Fremont, or the precise place where the late Miss Fillmore was taught the alphabet. Now, if we had any disposition to make money out of politics—which we never had—we believe there is a very fine opportunity for investment in aquarter which has not yet been mentioned, and which would be much better than any of the fancy stocks in Wall street. Governor Wise, of Virginia, in a recent speech in support of the Cincinnati nominations, estimated that the result of the election of Mr. Buchanan would be a vast improvement in the price of one of the most important and interesting staples of old heroic Virginia, formerly the breeder of patriots, now the breeder of oysters and of niggers. Gov- ernor Wise estimated that the election of Mr. Buchanan would make a good stout nigger worth three, four or five thousand dollars, instead of eight hundred or a thousand, as at present. This calculation was foun upon the belief that Mr. Buchanan was secure, and all his friends were secur&, and the democracy was secure in favor of the policy of Kansas coming in as « and thus opening an excellent niggers of old heroic Virginia in. sew and ter- tile region, where the climate is favorable to the increase of the nigger stock. Governor Wise is, no doubt, well informed upon this subject. He has studied the nigger stock of Virginia with the same care that he has examined the oyster stock of that chivalrous Commonwealth. The results of his research are apparent in his calculations. He seems to have as perfect a knowledge of the value of the modern productions of old heroic Virginia as any Wall street operator has of the precise value of New York Central, or any or all of the live and fancy stocks on the crowded list of the Board of Brokers. The Richwond Enqui- rer concurs with Governor Wise in his estimate of the happy result of Mr. Buchanan's election, and believes in the policy of enlarging the mar- ket for, and increasing the price of, the staple production of the Old Dominion. Now this is very tempting. How glorious is the prospect! How the great operations in Wall street sink into insignificance compared with this splendid speculation in Virginia niggers, sug- gested by the Governor of that glorious old Commonwealth, and endorsed by the organ of the democracy! If we had ever been bitten by the speculati¥e mania, and were in favor of ope- rations in live stock, we might be induced to in- vest a round sum in good sound “ ebo-shin, gizzerd-foot niggers” from the plantations ve State or the of Governor Wise and others of the highly respectable first families of old heroic * Virginia, Only think of the pros- pect! It far surpasses any thing that was ever projected in Wall street. The prospects of the Central Railroad monopoly, with ite forty millions of consolidated capital—with its over- whelming political influence—with one hand grasping at the Hudson River Railway, and the other stretched forth to swindle the State out of the canals at half price—are certainly very fine: but they pale before the prospective profit of a snug investment in sound Virginia niggers, cal- culating upon the election of Mr. Buchanan and the triumph of the democracy. The road to for- tune is often a hard one to travel; but the specu- lator in Virginia niggers would find it as emooth as Broadway, swept and garnished. He could soon retire and enjoy the fruits of his toil under hie own fig tree, attended by his own Virginia niggers, and eating his own Virginia oysters. ‘The temptation is really very great. We some- times think that we shall tarn around and sup- port Mr. Buchanan and all the great principles of the democratic party, for the sake of the speculation. We earnestly beg Governor Wise and the Chevalier Pryor, of the Richmond Enquirer, to give us some directions as to the proper man- ner of laying out one or two hundred thousand dollars in sound Virginia niggers, calculating upon a prospective profit of three or four hun- dred per cent, If they will help us in thie, the first speculation we have thought of since we have been connected with the prese—a period of nearly forty years,—we shall have the highest opinion of their friendship, and the most profound reverence for the chivalry and unquestionable democracy of Old Virginia. And we will further promise to advocate their principles for the rest of our mor- tal existence. Senocas on Law.—We epread before our readers this morning the philosophical letter of Gen. Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs, in reply to the ate characteristic manifesto of Live Oak George Low for the Presidency. Law goes for Fremont and against Fillmore—Scroggs goes against Fre- mont and Law, and in favor of Fillmore, Live Oak George Law gives his reasons in behalf of Fremont, and rivets them fast to his argument. Gen. Gustavus Adolphus Seroggs advances his rebutting testimony in behalf of the gentleman from Rome. Law has come out from the mid- night ledge, and having thrown away hie dark lantern, works by daylight—Scroggs is still in the lodge room, with the door guarded, with the third degree before him as the paramount law, and with the K..ow Nothing mask over his face and the dark laatwn by his side, sputicring ia ity socket, and diffusing all around a villainous smell of fish oil. Law writesin the matter-of-fact style of a man pleading a good cause; Scroggs labors like an advocate convinced that the jury are against his client. Law is plain, but vigor- ous; Scroggs is scholastic and deceptive. It will never do, however, for Law to give up the caee to Scroggs without another crack at him. Live Oak George has his adversary new to the leeward, and can run him down or blow him out of water with a single broadside. We there- fore call upon Live Oak George to fire up—put on all the steam that the boilers will bear—fasten the valve down, put the ship in motion ‘head on, and dash into this long, low, suspicious looking craft of Scroggs, at the wheelhouse, and leave Booby Brooks to pick up the fragments of the wreck. Scroggs has spoken; Law is entitled to the floor. Down in froat. No more bobbing or ducking, Brother Scroggs. Pitch into him, Live Oak George. Governor Reever’s Testimony ConceRNING Mr. Prerce’s ManaGement or Kansas AFFAIRS. —In another part of this paper our’ readers will find the testimony, under oath, of Governor Reeder, concerning the extraordinary course of action of Mr. President Pierce, in reference to the said Governor and the affairs of Kansas, Read it, and then let each man ask himself the question, could anything be meaner or more truckling and mptible than this conduct of the President of the United States towards his subordinate in office, the Governor of Kansas? It must be borne in mind that by and with the advice and consent of Mr. Forney, the witness in this instance was made the first Governor of Kansas; and no doubt his nomination was part of a plan for a series of Kitchen Cabinet land speculating operations in Kansas; and that to this end the free soil squatters were to be encouraged to come and settle in the Territory. The rest of the story is told by Governor Reed- er. The President was informed of all the pre- parations of the border ruffians in season to en- force law and order in Kansas. But he took no step to prevent the fearful, bloody, savage and scandalous acts with which those ruffians have since affticted the Territory. He kept his infor- mation to himself, while people were wondering at his ignorance of Kansas affairs. But he was not ignorant. He was thoroughly and officially posted up in advance of the newspapers— knew all that was going on, all that was projected, and yet he persisted in seeing nothing, hearing nothing, and doing nothing, for fear that it would cost him a Southern vote or twoat Cincinnati. Will not the blood of the murdered people of Kansas, on all ides, and the shrieks of those poor women driven insanity there, from the desolation of their hearts and homes, rise in judgment against this vacillating, imbecile and skulking little politi- cian, and his criminal neglect of duty concerning these things? Not a man need have been mar- dered, nor a widow driven to lunacy, nor a house reduced to ashes, nor need a single emigrant have been pat in chains, had Mr. Pierce acted as he should have acted upon the early information of Governor Reeder. The President could have maintained law and order had he been faithful to his oath. All the lives forfeited, all the homes and hopes of men, women and children destroy- ed, all the bitter sectional feelings stirred up by there acts, were but the human sacrifices and burnt offerings of Mr. Pierce to the Moloch of the Cincinnati Convention. Yet the monster reject- ed the suppliant with all his bloody gifts, and cast him out. Pity they did not submit him to ihe judgment of the people. Governor Reeder, however, explains why his information passed unnoticed by Mr. Pierce, and how the Governor's removal was managed. Mr. Atchison commanded, and Mr. Pierce was dumb. Mr. Atchison said we will not have this free soil emissary Reeder to rule over us in Kansas, and Reeder was dismissed. The President approved all that Reeder had done, complimented him for it, did not see that there was anything wrong, even in his land speculations—he really liked the Governor—didn’t wish to offend him; but be had to get rid of him, by hook or by crook, and told the Governor so. The President of the United States cringing to Atchison, became a suppliant to Reeder. He begged Reeder to resign; he tried to frighten him into a resignation, and then he tried to bribe him. He would send Reeder to the end ofthe world—even to China—and pay him well to go, ifhe would be good enough only to get out of the way of Mr. Atchison. But Reeder was cruel and implacable. He was neither to be begged, frightened nor bribed into a resignation. Then it appears that the President, having no other alternative, told Reeder he must be dis missed; but an apology was given in advance of the act, and to make the blow as light as possi- ble, his Excellency told the Governor he wonld be discharged for his land speculations, Shame on the pitifal little trick! Why not at least “confess the corn,” and say, “I must obey the command of Mr. Atchison? I am President, but I am under bonds for my good behaviour to Mr. Atchison; and if not careful, the South will re- ject me at the Cincinnati Convention.” Read the testimony of Governor Reeder, and then let every man answer for himself what he thinks of the present democratic nominee, pledged to follow in the footsteps of this Pierce administration, with Forney still at the helm. Cor. Fremont’s Reictox.—Now that we have the certificate of the Episcopal clergyman who baptised Col. Fremont’s children, and the letter of our correspondent I. E. F., blowing Alderman Fulmer eky high, it is to be hoped that Col. Fre- mont’s soul may be let alone. For our part, we have said from the first that it seemed to us no manner of consequence where Col. Fremont pray- ed, and that our preference for him depended in no degree on the manner in which his devotions were To us it seems that the re- ligion of a Presidential candidate is of no more concern to the citizens at large than his views on the plurality of worlds, the age of the old red sandstone, the developement theory, as applied to aceri, or any other highly interesting and warmly controverted question of science. His religion rests between him and his God. To in- quire into it, even, is to prove that the intelleo- tual and moral developement which we claim for the age in which we live is not by any means uni- vereal. In this connection, we will take leave to observe that our highly respected cotemporaries, the 7ri- tnine, Times and Courier, seem to us to be display- ing very little discretion and jadgment in the de- fence they are making of Col. Fremont’s faith. In their hotheaded zeal for the interests of their candidate, they seem to have fallen completely into the trap which the cooler partisans of Fill- more have laid. It would have made very little difference to the prospects of Col. Fremont if the obscure and contemptible print which as- gals him had ecgused him of all the erimes in im your judgment, may require settlement + outside Ne eer rnin Gn anee tae “a wwe the houor ¥ bedient Your it ser Hon, P. 8. Brooks, A. BURLINGAME:. In order that the public may fully understand thy whole matter in relation to Mr. Burlingame and mynelf, it is mecessary to revert to events antecedent to the lass correspondence between us, Some time during the lass. month he made a speech in the House of Representatives, acd when referring to the assault upon Senator Sumner- he applied this language to myself:—‘Stole into the Senate» chamber, and struck his brother as Cain did Abel.” When the sentence was uttered, my friend, Mr. Keitt,. who knew that I was absent, pronounced it fulse, under: which imputation Mr. Burlingame quietly rested. 1 didi not at that time feel it my dutyjto hold Mr. Burlin- game responsible for his language, and might. perhaps have permitted him and his words to pass. It was not long, however, before intimations from: divers sources reached me that the friends of Mr. Bur- lingame were boasting of his valorous assault upon me—. of his expertness with the rifle, which they more than in- sinuated had come to my cars, in explanation of my for- bearance—and that he himself was making capital at home in consequence of his courageous conduct. In. regard to the insult given him by Mr. Keitt, it was said that he (Mr. Burlingame) would not send, but that he» would accept a challenge. Under these circumstances, I felt that furbearance» was no longer a virtue, and requested my friend, Mr. Bocock, onthe Ist day of July, to go Mr. Burlingame- with the simple question, ‘Would he receive a call from: me?’ The reply to this short question is to be found-im: the following extract from a written statement made to- me by Mr. Bocock:— “Mr, Burlingame then commenced which led to : long conversation seine a ae course of which he made many statements which’ he said. were confidential. Omitting these, the answer which he- desired me to bear to you was substantially this: that: he bad no unkind feelings whatsoever for you, but, om the contrary, regarded you as aman of courage and am man of honor—that while he disapproved of the assault, on Mr. Sumner, and felt bound as a Massachnsette mam to condemn it, he bad designed to discriminate between: the man and the act. Let it be remembered that this language was used on the Ist of July, and he had said no- more on the subject than his sense of representative duty required. Under these circumstances, he was surprised. to find that you had taken exception to anything which he said. In relation to the boasts that been thrown out in his name, he stated that they had been authorized by him, but on the contrary he very strongly condemned them and their author: and if, after’ all this, you were not satisfied, and wanted his blood, he: stated fi he could do nothing Jess than accept, and. would dogo. Before leaving Mr. Burlingame | recapitu-- lated what I understood to be his answer. He agreed. that J was right, and added, ‘Describe me to him as*you see me. Do justice to my kind feelings to him, and do - justice also to my manhood.’ * 1 did do justice to Mr. Burlingame, in thonght, bearing: - and speech. I was pleased with the report of his bear- ing, and impressed with the belief that he was an eleva- ted gentleman, and when next I met him | respectfully - oftered him my hand, which he as respectfully received. On the day that the resolution for my expulsion was to be taken up in the House, intending to be severe in my remarks upon certain of its members, as also upon the State of Massachusetts, I requested Mr. Bocock to submit his written statement to Mr. Bur- lingame for his approval or rejection. In relation to this point Mr. Bocock says in bis last statement'—‘‘On the morning on which you made your speech and resigned your seat in the House I handed Mr. Burlingame the - statement which I haa prepared, and he has never re- turned it to me.’’ 1 informed Mr. Bocock that I must and should bave an acquittance from Mr. Burlingame; and on the evening of the day on which my speech was made my friend Mr. Bocock brought me the memorandum which was appended to my speech, and which is in the bandwriting of Speaker Banks. The memorandum was, in all essential points, the same as Mr. Bocock’s state. ment, the original of which Mr. Burlingame had retained, buta copy of which I had fortunately kept. This memo- randum I accepted under the advice of friends in lieu of Mr. Bocosk’s statement, and was told that it was generous todo so, I did it to save Mr. Burlingame’s feelings, whose associates, I was informed, were pressing him. And yet, after all this—after five days of delay—Mr. Burlingame had the effrontery to embarrass his counsel- ling friends, and to repudiate, on the 19th of July, because. of an assumed false instruction ‘“ in some quarters,” an instrument which contained apologies which ne had made on the Ist of the same month, and which apologetic onstruction he had repeatedly admitted to de true, and also in the presence of his friend Mr. Banks. He now even affects the Chevalier, and defiantly says, “1 leave my speech to interpret itself, and hold myse!f responsible Jor it, without qualification or amendment.” He requires me to meet him in Canada, a distance of near seven hundred miles by the mail roete—a route unning through the enemy’s country, and through which bo man knows better than Mr. Burlingame that] covid pot pass without running the gauntlet of moh« and assase sing, prisons and penitentiaries, bailiffs and constables, He knew that J could never get to Canada, and that wero Ito do #0, and he were to fall, that] never would get back. He might as well have designated Bostoa Com- mon. His proposition ts of 80 preposterous a character, that the public will appreciate it without comment from . me. When he repudiated the memorandum which was: prepared by bie friend, and delivered in his own pre- rence, 1 felt some sympathy for the agony of a proud man driven to doing wrong, that he might retrieve the bonor of a State which had been tarnished by unworthy representatives. But bis last condition is worse than the former, and I deliver bim to that condemnation waich. honorable men in every community will sternly inflict. I have no further demands upon him, but should he be screwed up to the point of making demands upon me, E will yet treat him as a gentleman, and meet him at any convenient and accessible point upon equal terms. I respectfully ask that the subjoined letter from Gen, Jane may be read, and submit my conduct to the intelli~ gent and epirited people of every State in the Union. P. S. BROOKS, Wasmscron Crry, July 22, 1866, Dean Sin—I have deemed it proper and just to make the following statement — At your request I called yesterda, at near 3 o'clock, as your friend, upon Hon. Mr. Burlingame, that being the firet opportunity I had of meeting him and of delivering your note. After he had read it, I informed him that I was requested by you to urge that a meeting should take place at the earliest practicable moment, suggesting thad afternoon, or this morning at 4 o'clock, and hoped that it would suit bis convenience. 1 further stated that you bad supposed that all diflerences between you and him- self had been adjusted; that he (Mr. Burlingame) had re~ opened the matter, as you supposed, for a personal dif- fioulty, and that you were anxious to have it ended with- out delay. ’ He replied—“‘ That is the feeling of a gallant man, an@ Brooks is a brave man,” that he would have to look oud for a friend, and bad noue in his mind at that time, an@ perhaps be could not be ready for a meeting at as early ‘an hour as you requested. lalso impressed upon him the necessity of entire se- cresy, eave with his friend, and further requested that be or bis friend would communicate with me at my seas while the House was in session, or at my room after ite adjournment; and as "he had the right of selecting the place for the meeting, and such other ag are usual upon such occasions, that he would have the the decalogue; for, besides that, a charge from such a source would deserve no notice until re- spectably authenticated: the twelve or fifteen hundred persons who see the journal in question could not do much harm, even if they believed the trash it contains; whereas by repeating its gabble, and stopping to answer it, the Times, Tri- bune and Courier have given it a currency which it could otherwise never have obtained. They have advertised all the Fillmore trash, gratis, and in the most conspicuous part of their papers. This is helping Fremont with a vengeance. The political ragpickers who make a living by lying, on the corner of Walland Nassau streets, have never had such a chance of selling their souls as is now offered to them, and they are not the men to miss it. The ten thousand dollars whieh they lately demanded for the entire con- science of the concern and of the family, is now doubtless swelled to twenty; and if they perse- vere in their course, some weak minded Fremont committee will no doubt be found to pay it. In the interest of the public morals and of the New York press, we cannot but desire that they may find a purchaser, but we admonish them for their own sake not to impair their market value by lying too andaciously. Mr. Bucuayan’s Love.—We republish, from Harpers’ Magazine, an account of an adventure of Mr. Buchanan’s youth; according to which it would appear that about fifty years ago, or per- haps forty, the democratic candidate for the Presidency fell in love, lost his love very sadly, and entered a vow—which he has always kept— never to marry. We have no hesitation in as- suming that this romantic story was furnished to the complaisant editor of Harpers’ Magazine by some friend of Mr. Buchanan; for we find it copied from thence into every prominent Buchanan paper ;.and the Pennsylvania organ of Mr. Forney, which gives the story the benefit of its circulation, intimates that parts of it are untrue—but does not say which. We conclude, therefore, without affectation, that the story is published by the Buchanan party as an elec- tioneering document. Now, far be it from us to wish to raise the veil that covers, or ought to cover, the private life of Mr. Buchanan. He and his rival candi- dates have no doubt had many love adventures, and other adventures of various kinds, which it would, to say the least, be very unseemly to dis- close to the public to-day. We should, there- fore—though well acquainted with the story— have had some delicacy in referring to Mr. Buchanan's first love had not that gentleman’s friends, no doubt with his connivance and ap- proval, forestalled the indiscretion of the world, and used it ingeniously as an electioneering paper. Under these circumstances we feel bound to in- quire, very respectfully, how it can be pretended that a man is qualified for the Presidency by having been crossed in love? It is admitted that Mr. Buchanan loved, that the object of that love long ago—say thirty-five years—perished; that he loves her still. Again we inquire whether this is a recommendation ? One of two things: either Mr. Buchanan shows that he had no taste for matrimony, which plain- ly implies a lack of some essential quality—as, for instance, was the case with John Randolph of Roanoke; or Mr. Buchanan has signified by his conduct that there was not in Pennsylvania or in Washington a lady fit to be his bride. But there is another view to be taken—no man who has not been married can thoroughly under- stand human nature. Female society has always been considered essential to politicians; just as bachelor society has always been detrimental to the morals of all who have frequented it. All our Presidents have been married men. Some of them have had two wives. Nor would they have been as able officers, undoubtedly, had they never seen that peculiar side of human nature which is revealed by matrimony. Mr. Buchanan, it seems, never had the nerve or the pluck to re- cover his first love; if he is elected, he will be the first President who shall carry into the White House the crude and possibly the gross tastes and experiences of a bachelor. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Affair of Honor Between Col. Brooks and Mr. Burlingame, THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWKEN THE PAKTIES—~ STATEMENT OF COL. BROOKS. Wasuxotox, July 22, 1856. Francis C. Treadwell, of New York, yesterday made affidavit that, from publications in the newspapers during the past and present week, and from conversation with various individuals, he bad reason to believe that a chal- lenge to fight a duel bad passed between Messrs. Brooks and Burlingame, and that they were making preparations to fight, in violation of the peace of the istrict of Colam- bia and the act of Congress in relation to duelling. He prayed that the parties might be arrested and put under bonds. In pursuance of this Mr. Brooks was arrested, at 10 o’clook this morning, and taken before Justice Hol- lingehead, accompanied by his friend, Mr. Beel, of Texas, and gave security in the sum of five thousand dollars. ‘The police officers are in search of Mr. Burlingame, who left the District late last night, or early this morning, as it is supposed to receive the challenge. Groat excite. ment exists among Congressmen. ‘The following is Col. Brooks’ statement of the aflair:— TO THE PUBLIC. It is with extreme relustance that I am constrained to transfer a private quarrel from ite legitimate field into the public press. The fault, however, does not properly rest with me, as an impartial public will decide after reading the following card from Anson Barlingame, member of Congress from Massachusetts — ACanp.—I am informed that the memorandum of a recent conversation of myself and friends with the friends of Mr. Brooks, bas ved, in some quarters, from its position, as to Mr. Brooks’ speech, an inter. | kindness to let me know at as early an hour as was con~ ee injustice to its real meaning and to | venient when and where, and what it would be. aa etait 1 ny, and have said, tn relation to my | 1A#tevening, about 11 ¢’clock, the enclose note from Mr. Burlingame was placed in my hand by the Hon. Le D. Campbell. The place of meeting designated in said note is so far distant, and would subject you to so many bazards of arrest, and also to @ jurisdiction without the limite of the United States, that, as your friend, I advise you, without hesitation, to take no further notice of the matter. 1am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JOSEVH LANE. speech —That I observed in it the rules of personal and ‘iamentary decorum; that I could not qualify or re- portion of it, and held myself responsible to an ‘gentleman aggrieved by it is the only constraction which! supposed would be placed om the memorandum, which my friends re- duced to writing, that theres might be no ing. But, inasmech as attempts, not unsuc: cresful, have been ba LP sgl ie ginmeny I now withdraw it. And that there may not be any mis- apprehension in the future, I say explicitly, that I leave my specch to interpret itself, and bold myself responsi- bile for it, without qualification or amendment. Wasmxeton, July 19, 1856. A. BURLINGAME, This card was firet published in the Intelligencer on Monday, the 2ist inst., though it is dated July 19. As soon as I could procure a friend—which was in Jose than two hours after I first saw the card—the fol lowing message was sent to Mr. Burlingame — Wasntwotow, July 21, 1856. fin—Will you do me the kindness to indicate soma place, ontside of thie district, where it will be convenient to You to negotiate in reference to the difference between us. Very respectful lly, &e., i ‘ P. 8, BROOKS. Fon. A. BURtrneame. Apprebending an arrest from the officious interference of Mr. Burlingame’s friends—I knew that no friend of mine would lodge information—at nightfall I lef my own rooms and went to the house of a friend for greater secu rity, At about 12 o’clock Gen. Lane called and delivered Mr. Burlingame’s reply to my note, which reads as fol Hon. P. 8. Baooxe. The following appeared in the Intelligencer of this morn ing, and is referred to by Colonel Brooks in his s:ate~ ment — ‘Tun “Cann ‘=It is proper for the right understand of the sourd of the Hon. Mr. Dortgume, whieh 4 published yesterday, and in justice to all parties, that we thould ineert the statement to which the “Card” refers, and which Sapertes as an appendix to the Hon Mr. Brooks’ speech. We, therefore, copy it from the official: report of the speech, as it bas appeared in the Congres~ sional Globe— A lia. ‘The imprudence of ah crepeece persons, ay ou newspaper articles and in private conversation, have done injustice both to the Hon. Mr. Burlingame and my- self, rendered it necessary that the subjoined memoran should be — to my speech — “Mr. Bor! —, in a fair and manly way, admitted his responsibility for any language used in his speect and disclaimed any intention to reflect upon the perseu character of Mr. #, or to impute to him in any re~ epect a want of courage; but, discriminating between the man and the act to which he was called npon to all he had characterized the latter only in soch a manner his representative duty required him to do.’ ‘The above fs a statement made by Mr. Rorlingame im reference to the 6 in his late epeeeh which referro® to Mr. Brooks. It ie in the handwriting cf Mr. Sporker Banke, and wae acknowledged by Mr, Burlingame im owr owe oe Wasmivotoy, D.C., July 21, 1856. Srn—Your note of this date was placed in my hands by Gen, Lane this afternoon. 1a reply, T have to say that I will be at the Clifton House, on the Canada side of Niaga fa Falla, on Saturday next, at 12 o'clock, M., to ‘‘ negoti- ate’ in reference to any “ diflerenge betwoen ug” which,