The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YOK HERALD. sAMES © oRDON BENNEP®,, ED’ 40R aND PROYRIETOR, scocataabenmanemmaneetenee SEMICE B. % 4, gonNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS rv) Bi EERE weer cm on Burpee ality if ime $e nese omy part aft ONT «Ry CORRESPONDENCE, co caining impor Me Nyy Gy Ty ah Ra rer} 70 SRAL Al, Larreas and Pace: Sr Pa NC conte per i er ena te the Continens, Pornscand ‘anacesrm RFP sy 7 meer ommenitoe We do MOL PRINTIOG covculed woiun neainess, cheapaces and dem ADVERELSEMENTS renewed every day. Se _________} Woulmae DLL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GARDEN, Broadway—Mus Euma STANLEY IN aan evan Ava or Wows, BOWERY THEATRE Bowery—Pimates or THE Missis- wry SINGING AND DanciNG—Daviv COPPERFIELD. BAO! DAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadway—Forty THIEVES —-By rue Woop & Marsa JUVENILES. WOOD'S MINSTPELS, 444 | 44h Sroadway—Oup-F asuIoNED vig or Eruioria® MINSTRELS Y. KELLER'S EMPIRE HAll., 596 Brostmep—Passiome wp Mesceitanco.s Tapisca—Mosicar Son BUSSELDORF GALLERY, No. 497 Broadway—Varoan MOFMINGS 4ND STATUARY—MARTYRDOM OF Luss, fc. DEON, Williamsburg, Fifth street—Tae FReemason— Rosext Hvaer seroxz Loxp Noxscxy—Tew Staanara —Rmmlor AN isa. Kew York, Trursday, July %4, 1856 The News. By the arrival of the steamship Persia st this port we have une week's later advices from Europe. ‘Pheir contents ure notot much interest. The Lon- don Times gives the text of the memorandum drawn up by the representatives of Honduras, and to be submitted to the representatives of the different Ea- popean Powers accredited to Great Britain as expla- natory of the policy of Honduras en the subject of the interoceanic railway. In another column will also be found a remarkable article from the Paris Pays (government organ) declaring the expediency of the intervention of France in Central American affairs. Our count'ywen, Mr. George Peabody, the London banker, celelrated Independence Day by a grand banquet at the ‘ar and Garter, Richmond. The proceedings were rendered unusually interest- img by the presence of a number of distinguished English and Canadian guests, and the cordial feel- img of rejoicing which was manifested by the pros- pect of an immediate ettlement of the differences between the two countries. Our Minister, Mr. Dal- Jas, made a most excellent speech on ihe occasion, which is highly praised by the English press. The English subscription for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations of France amounts at present to six handred thousand francs. This does not include ‘the towns which have placed themselves in direct commnnication with the French anthor'ties. We pablish elsewhere an account of a fearful riot which took place at Nenagh, Ireland, on the 6th of July, a the occasion of the disbanding of the Tipperary militia. The regular troops were called in to sup- press it, and several lives were lost. The news by the Persia yesterday imparted greater firmness to breadstuffs. Flour advanced from 5c. to 10c. per bbl. on common and medium grades of State and Western. Wheat was very ac- tive, and advanced from 3c. to 5c. per bushel. Among fhe sales was new Tennessee red, the first of the sea- son from that quarter, which brought $1 65 a $1 65. Corn was steady and without chanve of moment in prices. Sales of cotton were too limited to afford any test of the market. Holders continued firm, while buyers were unwilling to meet them, Pork wae dull, with small sales of mess at $20 a $20 12, and prime at #17 374 a $17 50. Sagars continued in good demand, with sales of 1,500 bhds. and 218 boxes Havana at full prices. The sales of coffhe embraced 2,000 bags Rio, at 10c. a Lec., with smal! Jets of Maracaibo and Laguayra at steady prices ‘There were large shipments of grain to Liverpool, which amounted to about 160,000 bushels, chiefly wheat, at 6/4. in bulk, and 7d. in bags, with flour at 2s, To London, flour was taken at 2s. $d. By the Persia we have Sydney (Anstralia) cates to the 17th of April. The excitement of the elec tions was © bsiding, and the new Parliament was to assemble on (ue 28th of May. The Parametta Rail- road was advancing rapidly towards completion. An abundant harvest was expected in Western Aus. tralia. New gold fields had been found, and the exports of the precious metal continued large. From South America we have later advices. © Gates are: Buenos Ayres 28th and Montevideo } th of May, Rio Janeiro 14th, Bahia 17h and "ernoa- beco 19th of June. Nothing exciting had recen'ly happened in political circles. Flores’ influence was s@ili in the ascendant, and tranquillity reigned on both sides of the river Pte. Rio wae healthy, bat the coffee trade was very restricted, and the new crop wonld be late. The dry goods trade was quite active at Bahia. At Pernambuco, owing to the heavy rains, the receipts of sugar had been light, and prices consequently bad advanced. The members of both houses of Congress have been invited to visit the new steamer Vanderbilt on Saturday next. In the Senate yesterday but little Dasiness was transacted. Bills providing for the im- provement of the Suvannah river and Sheboygan harbor, and a resolution anthorizing certain naval Ofiicers to accept medals from foreign governments in acknowledgment of important services rendered to science and humanity, were agreed to. A long and frivolous debate then took place as to the pricrity of business, Mr. Weller stating that the day had been assigned by the canous of democratic members for the consideration of the Pacific Railroad bill. Se- veral of the minority members expressed mach indignation at the majority meeting in secret to decide upon the order of business. In the course of the discussion Mr. Clayton announced that for the remainder of his public life he should always vote as he pleased, without being the slave of any party. Inthe House, the New Mexico contested election case was debated by the contestants, and a resolution ousting Padre Gallegos and declaring Mr. Otero entitled to represent the Territery was adopted. A resolotion from the Committee on Printing was adopted, authorizing the publication for the use of members of 20,000 copies of the re- ports of the Kansas Investigating Committee, to gether with 100,000 copies without the journal and evidence. There documents, which are intended for electioneering purposes, will cost the government $11,120. The House then went into Committee of the Whole, and, as previously agreed upon, took # recess till seven o'clock, when the Presidential question, slavery, Know Nothingiem and other topics, were dlisenssed, f&The latest intimations regarding the Brooks and Burlingame affair may be found ander the tele- graphic head. There are reports that Mr. Bur- lingame has received a challenge from Mr. Boeock, of Virginia; also, that he has been advised by hiv friends to proceed to Niagara to await the expira- tion of the period assigned for the meeting with Mr. Brooks; but in all probability neither has any foundation in fact. It ie stated that the ex-President of Santo Do” ‘mingo, General Baez, sailed from Havana on the 12th instant for St. Thomas, from whenve he in- tends to make a descent apon Banto Domingo. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday and adopted precantionary measures to prevent the spread of contagions disease beyond the Qnaran- tine grounds. During the past week 2,266 emi- granta arrived at this port, making 68,522 for the year. The debt of the Commission has been redoced ‘to $34,385 1. cattle of very fair quality, and prices, with an active demand, improved a trifle, averaging 6a 10 cents per pound. Cows and calves sold fer $25 0 $65; NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY JULY 24, 1856. eo Ce enw ee nn Cn | protected from this constant avalanche of travel- veal calw.a 4)@ 6} cents per poumi; sheep and | The Sreeks ami Burlingame Afair—Barbar- on in New Jersey, here in New York the Know lambs #2 $5 each. Hogs are arriving in large num rs from the West, bat we do mot hear of any rater, indicating their market value. ‘Uommodore Robert F. Stockton has withdrawa rom the contest for the Presidency. ‘The News by the Persia—The Central Ame- rican No The news by the Persia, though not of unusual importance, is in several particulars very inte- resting and gratifying. The Peabody Fourth of July dinner and the conciliatory international feeling which marked the speeches on this occa- sion on both sides, and especially the neat little speech of Mr. Dallas, will be heariily accoptable to the lovers of peace .and friendly intercourse between John Bull aud Brother Jonathan. The firmness in the Liverpool cotton market and the advance there in breadstuils, will have diffused considerable satisfaction among our mercantile and speculating classes; but among all sensible classes of our people the intelligence of the progress of peaceful negotiations in the settle- ment of the Central American imbroglio will be received with particular pleasure, as au omen of continuing peace, and of better times before us than even those of our present prosperous and flourishing condition. As a manifestation that the late belligerent feeling in the British cabinet concerning Mr. Crampton has enttrely subsided, we understand that it is highly probable that in a very short time another Minister at Washington, in the place of Mr. Crampton, may be confidently ex- pected. We are further informed that, should Lord Stanley (son of the Earl of Derby) consent to serve the Palmerston government, he will most probably be the man. We presume that Mr. President Pierce had made up his mind that the Crampton vacancy would remain open to the inauguration of Fremont, Buchanan, or Breckinridge, on the 4th of March nex® If, therefore, a new British Minisier should fresent himself at Washington in the interval, we have no doubt that he will be received with pecu- liar unction and cordiality. ‘The particular matter of interest to us, how- ever, in connection with this news hy the Persia, is the progress making in London to a pacific solution of the Central Ameficaa controversy. The treaty in hand had not yet assumed a devi- sive shape; but the good offices of Senor Herran, the regular Minister of Honduras to France, and special ambassador to England, had undoubtedly resulted in a protocol of peace. There were cer- tain stipulations proposed, to which France, aswell as England, would be admitted as a contracting party; and these stipulations are probably sug- gested in the official memorandum which we re- publish from the London Times. But, whatever may be the details of this European and Ameri- can convention upon Central American affairs, having no doubt that it will reswt in an amica- ble adjustment, and satisfactory to all concerned, we are disposed to discuss it rather as a thing accomplished than as a thing projected. We are entirely satistied that between our min- ister and Lord Clarendon there exists what his lordship would call “a happy accord” upon this new programme for the settlement of the Cen- tral American controversy, as suggested by Se- nor Herran. Should the difficulty concerning her Majesty's lately proclaimed colony of Rua- tan and the Bey Islands be thus adjusted, there will only remain a treaty to be made with Nica- ragua vpon the basis proposed by Lord Claren- don himeelf, in order te wind up the whole of this business, Honduras, Buy Islands, Mosquito pro- tectorate, Clayton-Bu) ver treaty, Monroe doc- trine, King Sambo and all. The article which we transfer to this paper from the London Time: of July 10, upoa the subject of this extreordinary English mission of Senor Herran, embodies a confession or two which throw a blaze of light over the whole quesiion. The says that “ Great Britain bas no wish for territory on the Central Ameri- can coast,”’ hecause her “ own West India Islands are fast riiupsing into primilive savageness.” Hence, we are told that “it is not likely that England wil! care to extend her sovereign: y fur- ther over tropical territory, which can only be brought into use by a system which she has solemnly condemned”—that is to say, having ruined her West India Islands by negro emancipation, England does not care to extend har experiment of free labor in the tro- pics any farther. She has tried it fully; has sig- nally failed, and is heartily sick of what she has done; and if shecannot retrace ber steps, she will go no further in the work of negro philan- thropy. We take this to be the reason of the conciliatory disposition of England concerning her protect Times America. Without A%ican slavery, she can ne- ver turn them to any colonial advantage. With the African ar a slave she could make them ex- ceedingly valuable. A tropical sun is the na- tural climate of the African. He flourishes up- on tropical fruits, and upon the very heat and malaria which so ‘rapidly destroy all the white races. But Cuffeo, under a tropical sun, is laxu- rious and lazy. and if left to himself prefers starvation to labor. Put a master over him, and he proepers—advances to a higher moral eleva- tion—inereases, and becomes highly useful to himself and to mankind. Emancipate him, and he relapses to idleness, barbarism, destitution disease and death. This is the history of Hayti and the history of Jamaica—firet, as a slave colo- ny: and secondly, as a colony of emancipated ne- groes, free to work or sleepin the shade, as they may think best. England corfesees the mischiefs of her mistaken philanthropy; but having re- nounced African slavery, she is redaced to the necessity of renouncing all farther acquisitions of tropical territory, and even some of her late seizures. from having abandoned the only system by which such territories may be turned to any profitable acconnt Here we have a very instructive leson upon abolition philanthropy; bui if it should result- as we are confident it will—in the peaceable set- tlement of the Central American entanglement, from first to last, something will have been gained to the interests of peace and commerce, as well as something concerning the manifest destiny of the African race, If the beautiful and fertile island of Jamaica, so long the pride and profit of England as a slave colony, is fast re- lapeing into barbarism under the later dispensation of negro freedom, it is no wonder that my Lord Clarendon is willing to surrender all the claims and pretensions of his government to the coasts and islands of Central America as a peace offer- ing. This is a new view of the case, and it covers the whole ground. J® The controversy got ap about Col. Fre- mont’s religion, charging him with being a Catholic, is, we learn, making a prodigious inroad upon the affections of the citizens of Lrish birth. tom at Washington. Some farther intelligence on the recent affair be- ‘tween Mesers. Brooks and Burlingame will be found ‘under the telegraphic head. The latter gentleman, 5 the public were aware yosterday, having fixed the place of meeting to be the Canadian side of the Falls of Niagara, left for the North, arrived here, and was stopped en route by the letter from Mr. Brooks, which he read in the Heraxp of yesterday morning. On perusal of this document, Mr. Burlingame and his friend instantly retraced their steps, and took the afternoon train for Wash- ington. Ii appears that the selection of Niagara as a place of meeting was an error due to the in- experience of Mr. Burlingame, who, we have no doubt, will be prepared to meet Mr. Brooks when- ever and wherever he chooses, and the law allows. The latter has been arrested and held to bail ; the former will probably be arrested on arrival. They have the choice, therefore, of waiting till their re- cognizances expire, or voluntarily forfeiting them. The former course would probably allow their heated blood to ceol ; but in the excited state of the public mind, a few thousand dollars will not be allowed to stand in the way of the gratification of their resentment, and it is quite possible that ere a day or two has clapsed we may hear of a fatal duel between them. Such is the state of things at Washington. One cannot think of it for a moment with- out inquiring in terror where are we tending? What is to become 6f us? Is the duel here- after to become the cornerstone institution of re- publican America? Can we no longer discuss politics without billingsgate and pistols? There must be something very singular in the atmosphere of Washington. Here we find a man like Mr. Sumner, who, as his friends tell us, was distinguished before he went to the capital for the gentleness of his manners, the refinement of his feelings, the decorum of his language, es- sentially a gentleman and a man of fine mind: well, he no sooner finds himself in the Senate than he begins to belabor his fellow-citizens and their States, and ends by discharging at their heads a philippic which is, perhaps, unrivalled as a model of vituperative eloquence. How was he transformed? This was the same Summer, who was so gentle, so mild spoken, so amiable; how came he to acquire the ferocity which his speech reveals? What made him sink the gen- tleman to assume the garb of the browbeating pet- tifogger? Again, there is Mr. Brooks. According to all accounts, Mr. Brooks was a gentleman of kind, conciliatory manners; opposed to violence and fighting; as pleasant and genial a man on his plantation as one might wish to meet or dine with. Yet he no sooner resides for a short while in Washington than he becomes @ perfect bully and ruffian. He attacks a United States Senator as a Five Points bully might fall upon a fellow blackguard; beats him as no Southern gentleman would venture to beat his own nigger. Nor is this all. When the whole country—except the crazy Southern editors—is up in arms against the outrage, Brooks does not iry to excuse himself or to account for what he did by saying that the bratal act was done in a fit of passion. On the contrary, he justifies, glo- ries, boasts of it. He telis the Senate and a court of justice that he would do it again. Nor does he even stop here. He insists on every one elee doing the same and praising him, or at least holding their peace. When a man—as who would not, being in his right mind?—says the act was brutal, cowardly and dastardly, Brooks claims the right of calling him to account and shooting him, by way of proving that he is not brutal, cowardly or dastardly. He does this not in one instance, but in several. He announces, with a grand flourish, that he intends to “cut” every member of Congress who dees not think the felling and stunaing of a Senator a laudable act; and winds up his performance with the un- speakably foolish declaration that he holds revo- lution in his hand, but that out of pure kind- ness and benevolence be will spare the Union for a while! The picture might be enlarged. We are credibly informed that all the Northern mem- bers of Congress, and many of the Southern, are crazy for fighting—that they are all jealous of Burlingame for having had the good luck to fall a prey to the devouring Brooka—while Keitt, on his side, is dying of spite because he allowed Brooks to beat Sumner and reap al! the glory of the act, when he might have done it himeelf. We hear that no man walks the street without a revolver—that no mah makes a speech without making a will—that Northern rs and Southerners cannot meet without scowling | upon each other—that daily street fights are rates, and colonies, and what not, in Central | anticipated. Now, is this the net result of republicanism in the capital of the United States? Hage it come to this, after eighty years of struggles and patient progress? Are we actually going backward over the road, declining, not advancing in the scale of civilization? It looks very like it. Why federal politics, and association with federal officebolde:s and persons doing business with de- partments of the federal government, should naturally tend to deprave the mind and degrade the manners, one cannot easily discover; but such undoubtedly is the case. Men worthy of esteem so long as they reside in the States, be- come worthy of contempt only when they settle in the District of Columbia. The air of Washing- ton transforms them; like the enchantments of Circe, it turns them from men into swine. Whether any Ulysses is to break the charm heaven only knows; but it is certain that if it is not broken, the whole federal government, and Congres itself, will soon fall into general and well merited contempt. Cuntows Nyow Normtva Movewents.—The following is the latest pronunciamento of Com- modore Stockton, of the Camlen and Amboy line. Heads up: To Mesers. Avtex, Jorn, Rownuwrrt, &e., &c., Committer GxnTiawes—Our efforts to prevent the great American party from bet asia Or abolitionized have been eneorsefal. Tt gl my ‘Red of ail sectional and abo. lition men aud dogmas. The national camp has endorsed Mr. Fillmore’s Americanism, and ue is pledged to uphold the integrity of American principles and tho y pA | ee organization. asoke ant been at ry and Tam po Tr acany for the Prosidency. Your friend and vent servant, R. F, STOCKTON. In the last proclamation before this from the same source, Commodore Stockton wished to see a nomination made for the Presidency upon the broad iseue of a vindication of the Missouri compromise, “unmixed with baser matter.” But they didn’t hit upon the man in the Commodore’s eye, and so, after trying his weight apon an independent ticket, he relapses into the lodge and the mysteries of the third degree. He the very man he appointed first United Governor of California, for the very man nomination he rejected les than two monthe ago. While this ground and lofty tumbling is going Nothings are rapidly fizzling out. They have ‘an organ that is in the market; but there are no buyers, The smash up at Philadelphia has been followed here by a progressive system of deser- tions until scarcely a third of the original “great American party’’ remains; and we are in- formed that a general bolt over to Fremont has of late become the leading question among the lodges of this city. In their late Congressional primary clections in the several districts of this city, it was pretty clearly disclosed that the frag- ments which rewain of the original American or- ganization here are largely composed of movea- ble materials, and may be had for the money. We are credibly iaformed that one of their Con- gressional favorites, a gentleman with no visible means of support, offered to sell his claim and good will to a respectable man, for the low price of a thousand dollars. In faet, there is such a general fermentation going on among the Know Nothing lodges of this city and State, that before two months are over we shall not be surprised to see them all go over —members, officers, door keepers, newspaper or- gans, bag and baggage—the bulk to Fremont and the balance to Buchanan. Furthermore, we should not be surprised, if, before the expiration of the dog days, Com. Stockton himself were to come out with a new manifesto for Fremont and free Kansas. The leaven is working, and the effervescence among the Fillmore lodges is tre- mendous. They have been overdoing the thing, according to the old corrupt system of Tammany Hall; and having destroyed their own party, they are debating a bolt. They are even now ready to sell out at less than cost. Inquire in Wall street. ‘The Central Railroad Monopoly—Next Gover- nor and Legislature. If the people of this State do not awaken in time to a“knowledge of the policy oi the Ceutral Railroad, New York wil! soon be known as the Kingdom of Corning, as New Jersey is ky the Kingdom of Camden au’) Amb« Me have been already so taken, that wiict wins the November election, the railro will control the Legislature. For covetous men, it has bribes; for place hunters, it has offices; for operators, it has stock privileges. By some means or other it is ready to buy them all; and no one who witnessed the last session of our Legislature can doubt but it can. Among the democracy, the monopoly is particularly opposed to Fernando Wood as next Governor, because he is inde- pendent and popular among the people—bat especially in favor of E. Corning and others like him, because they will be under its influence and power. Nor is there in point of fact any wender in the pursuance of this policy by the railroad com- pany. It now stands with a long road—or rather a collection of short roads—froma Albany to Buffalo, on the credit side of its ledger, and forty millions of dollars in round numbers on the debit side. Those forty millions being nearly two-thirds stock to one-third bonds, it is less burthened with interest than most roads—the Erie, for instance—but it requires a larger sum to pay dividends. Were it managed with strict in- tegrity—that is to say, were the market value of the stock disregarded by the managers, and their whole mind given to making the most of the road—this peculiarity would be an advantage; for where such a road as the Erle is bound to pay seven, the Central could content itself with pay- ing four, if no more were earned. But as, far from this, the managers of the Central—like those of nine-tenths of our rail- rvads—have always kept a close eye upon, and taken a lively concern in the market rates of the stock, being themselves always interested in stock operations therein, they have felt themselves bound to pay dividends excceding in amount the current rate of interest. The Central has, for ine stance, regularly paid 8 per cent per annum on something like twenty-five millions of stock. We venture to say that no respectable person, versed in railroads, can assert henestly that this sum has been really earned. We all kuow that it has not been earned, and that financial tricks have been resorted to in order to pay it, so asto keep up the price of the stock. Now, how long can this go on? Not long, ob- viously. The day is even now impending for the Central, when the public shall call for receivera— as they did twelve months since for the Erie—and the very existence of the company shall become a problem. What then is to be done? Ob viously nothing but what the managers are doing —to obtain the control of the Legislature, witha view first to obtain some peculiar grant or privi- Jege, which may give them a fresh lift, and se- condly to scheme for the future acquisition of the New York canals. No doubt, if a consolidation of the Central and Hudson River roads could be effected, as both are in a bad way, the wise men of Wall street would conclude that the product would be good. The first consolidation buoyed up the stock at 125, since when it has only fallen about thirty- three dollars, on the strength of regular half yearly dividends of four per cent. A second operation of a like nature would no doubt add ten per cent to the present value. But the canals are the great aim of the man- agers of the Central. Unfinished as the canals are, the road has already felt their competition. When the enlargement has been thoroughly car- ried out along the line, it will hardly be possible for the Central ta compete at all in the freight business. It will not pay its expenses, and the stockholders, rather than lose the forty millions they have already invested, will be prepared to pay a farther round sum so as to effect a third consolidation, and unite the canals and railway, as has been done in New Jersey. That that consummation would be injurious to New York we need not be at the trouble to show. No one who has ever seen our neighbors, the Jerseys, can be at a loss to know the conse- of allowing a State to fall into the hands of a ed corporation. The people of that State not call their souls their own, their Legislature is a farce, which only serves to record the decrees of the monopoly; their freedom of action and even of speech is a mere delusion, New Jersey is the railway, and the railway is one of the worst managed and most expensive and most dangerous to travellers in the country. If the Central Railway Company be allowed to their scheme of securing the control of our Legislature, we shall soon be in the same po- sition. If they be allowed to put up such a man as Mr. E. Corning for Governor, and put their foot down upon every independent democrat such as Fernando Wood, then we may expect to emu- late New Jersey in our meanness and want of pluck. Our great lines of internal communica- tion will be in the hands of monopolists, so will our Legislature, so our Governor; we might as | tion of one well be mere railway serfs, Health of the City—What is to be Done? However it may be asserted by interested parties that the health of the city nevar was bet- ter at this seazon than now, the contrary is the fact. The bills of mortality for the last week show a large increase of deaths from that of the previous week—nearly fifty per cent, Sudden deaths have occurred, followed by a rapid dis coloration and decomposition, and the yellow fever is in the bay. The report of the Board of Health states that vessels having cases on board have been ordered to Gravesend to unlade; eight more from Southern ports have been compelled to undergo ventilation and cleansing before they can come up to the city, and the steamers from Havana are under surveillance. Be the disor- der contagious or not, it is very certain its pro- gress is aided by hot weather, uncleanliness and bad air; and at present we have all of these. Indeed, the condition of our city is deplorable. In the upper wards the sireets are green swamps bordered by stagnant pools, where children and animals wallow about like alligators in a bayou. On the East river side, the cross streets are canals floating with garbage and emitting the most pes- tilential odors. Between Twenty-fourth and Thir- ty-sixth street, the air is almost unendurable in the evening, and a dense population snuff up contagion at every breath. The south part of the Twentieth ward and the northern part of the Sixteenth ward are in a shocking condition. There are many other lo- calities equally infected, as every reader will ac- knowledge. Nothing but personal observation will enable one fully to understand the extent of the mischief which is brewing. Dead animals, vacant lots full of stagnant water, decomposing vegetable matter and piles of unremoved dirt meet the eye in every direction. There seems to be no one to look after and remove them. The truth is, we heve no practical government in this, city. It isa hydra with ten heads and tweaty horns, curious to look at, but destitute of useful power. We have several departments, which have various authorities over the streets—their regulation and their repairs—but they amount to nothing. We have superintendents of all sorts and degrees; but to the public they are invisible. We have Health Wardens at three dollars a day, and many of these do little except attend to their own business, We havea police—excellent play- ets at dominoes, and a terror to little boys and girls, but to few else. Complaintsare unattended to, and the city groans under seven millions of dollars of annual taxes, expended heaven and favored partizans only know how. A more neglected city than ours does not exist in Christendom; and we appear to be, as the lawyers say, “remediless in the premises.’ The press and the public utter the voiecs of remon- strance in vain, and the Common Council spend their ¢ vo lng away thousands to unprinci- pled r in metamorphosing their places of m nto pugilistic arenas and political shambles. We have, however, a Board of Health in ses- sion, and to them alone must we look for safety. They are clothed with extraordinary powers for extraordinary occasions, and these have occurred before, and are now occurring. We call on them to do their duty. If the Superintendents of Streets and Lands, and Street Repairs, are apparently so much engaged in electioneering-—— if so many of the Health Wardens are occupied with their private business and cannot attend to that of the public—let the Board of Health take action and protect us from the impending dan- ger. We have lost all hope of redress from any other quarter. If they, too, falter--if they shut heir eyes to the condition of the city—we shall be compelled to adopt the short method of the San Franciscans, and organize a Committee of Vigilance to protect ourselves. With some such energetic man as John. N. Genin at its head, we should not fear miasma or pestilence. We should have our streets thorough- ly swept, our gutters cleaned out, the stagnant waters drained, the green pools filled up, and the atmosphere purified. Whether the yellow fever in itself be conta- gious or not, it is certainly propagated by im- pure air and unhealty exhalations. We have witnessed its ravages under these conditions elsewhere with dismay, and have seen our South- ern cities depopulated with no hotter weather than we now endure, New York, in its present filthy state, would give contagion wings cud spread it in every direction. Its commerce and business would suffer to the extent of millions, and industry would be paralyzed. All this, too, becanse our authorities neglected their duties. Of what earthly use is our municipal organiza- tion, when its most sacred duties are thus wicked- ly neglected? What advantage is it that John Jones should be Mayor, or Bill Jones an Alder- man, or John Smith Recorder, if it is at the ex- pense of thousands of valuable lives? Who cares about the views of this or that politician, if we are to get them at the loss of health and the destruction of property? It is time that some- thing wasdone, and that our public servants should be held to the extreme of responsibility for this shameful disregard of that confiding public who feeds and clothes them, and receives no protec- tion, no care, no justice in return. AwericaN Presentations at tHe Courts or Evrore.—By the last accounta from Europe we learn there has been no new phase at court of an alarming character. The peace of the world not having been disturbed by the contre- temps of the West Point Professor, there is reason to believe that the Secretary of State will not be called on to communicate with Mr. Dallas on the inherent old clothes rights of mankind in general, and Americans in particular. The embarrassment of Mr. Dallas is over, and the West Pointer has retreated, By this time he has learned the value of a chapeau and sword. Since this memorable event, however, things have goneon as usual. Nothing daunted, our coun- trymen abroad still crowd the offices of the lega- tions in London and Paris, and demand an introduc- tion to majesty. Gen. Cadwallader, of Pennsylva- nia, has been presented by Mr. Dallas, and made hie appearance at court in full military costume, wearing a badge of the Order of Cincinnati half- a-yard long. No mistake about him! Another personage has also had his card en- dorsed by the Chamberlain—Mr. Hart, of Phi- ladelphia—and he had the Ingenuity, doubt- lease, to obtain a court dress from the costumers, at the usual price. Though not a military man, like Professor Mahan, he was not afraid to have a sword dangling between his legs. Pro- bably the amiable Master of Ceremonies did not know what an honor he was conferring on his sovereign, nor did the Queen know it, either, She was probably not aware that in her presence stood a very respectable bookseller, and a “ He- brew of the Hebrews.” Grub street, though itself excluded from the deeving rooms, rooms, migat on this aan Ly lorified iteelf upon the recep- Really, itis > tone our forcign legations were _—_—_—_—_—___ _—_—_—_—_ ters, who, having acquired money enough to spend six months in Eusbpe, seek every opportu- nity of ruffling it at Court. Codfish and old clothes have been sufficiently represented abroad, and the dealers in these articles should now hold up. The truth is, we are running our privileges into the ground. Our foreign minie- ters should decline presenting any but those who, by their public services and position at home, are fairly entitled to the distinction. An eminent man, or an accomplished and beautiful woman, might very well expect this attention— though, in some cases within our knowledge, even when it has been intimated to such that. their appearance at court would be agreeable, they have declined the honor rather than enjoy, it with so many of the impudent and unworthy. We propose to publish, as far as possible, the names of those Americans who, when abroad, succee.] in their struggles to encounter royalty, and who anaoy our ministers with applications for tie privilege. A curious list it would be. It is not very creditable to our country to be. thus known through our tuft hunters, and it is time we should cease trespassing on the good nature of our legations, and the regulations whieh all other natioas conform to without hes tation or incivility. Tue Press AND THE Prestvency.—The list of newspapers, their circulatioa and politics, pub- lished in the Herarp afew days since, is at- tracting the attention it deserves. Several of our cotemporaries find fault with the circulation af- fixed to their names, and we have received the following notes on this subject:-—- TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. In your table of newspaper exchanges and their circu- lation in this day’s Henarp, I find the circuletion of the Cambro American set down as 600, whereas it should read 6,050, and that number circulates among a large number of intoliigent Welshmen, all of whom relly under the re- publican banner, and are ready to ‘ut for the true de arene principles of the repub'ica platform. ‘Yours, J. HENRY PUSESTON. Tit Beem srrert, July 20, 1 TO THY EDITOR oF The ciroulation of the New Yor: Indapenden at $s 25,200, and noi 2,500, as you have it We gave the circulation of each paper as fur- nished by the census returns of 1850. If there were any errors they were not ours. We desire to obtain a correct list of the daily, weekly, semi- weekly, monthly and semi-monthly publications of the country, with their circulations and poli- tical proclivities. We want to arrive at the pre- sent position of porties in this country, and know of no better way than the one indicated in our statement in regard to the press. We intend to repuvlish our list, and if editors and proprie- tors of papers throughout the Union will send us the politics of their papers and their actual circu- lation, in good faith, we will endeavor to make a_ fuller and more complete list, not of our ex- change papers alone, but of the press of the whole Union. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From the Natidual Capital. THE EXPLODED DUFL BETWEEN BROOKS AND BUR- LINGAME—THE DISAPPEAKANCE OF BURLINGAME —THE CARD OF BOOKS, ETC., ETC. Wasuixaton, July 23, 1856. The topic to-day is the card of Mr. Brooks, It is the excitement.’ There are two sides, of course, to the affair; but Brooks has rather the advantare. The idea of takin him all the way to Canada, through the enemy's country, is against Burlingame. But we must await Burlingame’s) statement. Ibaye made considerable effort to get at the trath this affair, It appears that if any mistakes have been made on the part of Burlingame, they belong to bhi friends, and not to him. | About a week ur ten days after Mr. Burlingame mad his speech relative to the Sumner affair, or on the 1s! inst., Mr. Bocock called upon him, as a friend of Mr. Brooks, to talk over the mettue and see if Mr. Barlin game had not gone too far in some of his remarks af fecting the courage od character of Mr. Brooks It was understood i have been a con fidential conversation. Mr. Barlingame 4 anything personal, and stated that he spoke in a mentary serve only, About the time Mr. Brooks rose make his speech, when the vote of expulsion was de clared, Mr. Bocock again called upon Mr. Burlingame and desired a cerd from him removing the charge of cow ardice from Mr. Breoks. ‘ir. Burlingame reiterated hi former remarks that he spoke in a parliamentary and stated that he could dono more than be had ‘and that he held himself responsible for his spocch as i was uttered, with the explanations already tendered! ‘The result of this conversation was the following card] appended to Mr, Brooke’ speceh, in which you will see ij stated that jt is in the handwriting of Mr. Speaker Banks » The imprudence of evil disposed persons, pty articles and iu private conversation, done injustice both to the Hon, Mr. Burlingame and m well, rendered it necessary that the eubjoined memo + be appended to my speech — yg fw a fairand manly way, otenet ming tor wage used in his ‘speech, aud spa any inte to vet ny rea Ge poree character ‘Mr. Brooks, or to impute to courage; but, diseriminating between which he was called upon to allude, he had characterised ia ly tm such @ manner ea hie representative duty “The above is a statement made by Mr. Burlingame i reference to the age in his late speech which to Mr. Brooke. It is in the band Banks, and was acknowledged by Mr rewence, and was Ju 15, 1856, TH. 8. BOCOC ‘There is a mystery about this card which I ca clearly explain; but as near as | can ascertain, the assigned to Mr, Burlingame was coped from the oi by Mr. Banks, at the request of Mr. Bocock, and nished to Mr. Brooks. I think the pointof the affair hangs on this card, and the manner in which made its appearance. Mr. Burlingame, it will be by Mr. Brooks’ statement, retained the original. Now to the challenge After the publication of Mr. Brooks’ speech, with above card, Mr. Burlingame saw, or was told, that bi motives and actions were misunderstood and m’ strued by the public. Thereupon he published the in which he took back all he had said to Mr. and placed himself squarely on his 4 and assumed all the responsibility of what bad said on the floor of the House. the day of the publication of this in the Intelligencer—the 2st inst.—Mr. Brooks sent friend Gen. Lane to Mr. Burlingame, and desired him name a place where he could be found to ‘a and settle the affair between them. This, I think, Place at noon on the 2ist. Mr. Burlingame applied Gen. James, of Wisconsin, to act as his friend, and, aft consultation with Senator Wade, Mr. Ashman, Campbell, Speaker Banks, and roveral otviers, was decided to meet Brooks on the side of Magara Faille, and there “ negoti and settle the affair on Saturday next. J learn that Burlingame did not insist on the “Canada side’? as ultimatum, but that he had decided on that region cool place, where the difficulty could be arranged sat} factorily, without interruption, and with the cool spray the Falls to make the affair pleasant aud agreeable the parties interested. Butas Mr. Burlingame wi to avoid arrest, he took a carriage immediately to Mr. Brooks, and met supposing it would be satisfactory; and he did not to ascertain whether Mr. Brooks was willing to go sev or eight hundred miles into the enemy’s country, at season of the year, on a target excursion. Impresved what I hear, that Mr, Burlingame is desirous of satisfy} Mr. Brooks in any way, | presume that it will be ari for them to meet somewhere south of the Canadian but at a respectful distance from the District of Col ‘There is a report that Mr. Bocock Intends to cha Mr. Borlingame on his return, ae Mr, Brooke ie bonds to keep the peace. 1 do not suppose that the versations on this subject, the cards, notes, ¢! the barroom talk, &c., &c., will tend to calm the ment in Washington. Congress has only threo more 0 bid; the dog days will eet in uext week, and