The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1856, Page 4

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New Sore, Tucstay, July 29, (556. —————————————————————————— Mails for Europe. NEW Y@RK HEKALD—ADITION FOR KUROPE. Me Ourard mail steaowhip Niagara, Captain Leach, wil Jeave Boston on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpoel. te European maiis wit! close im this city at balf-past two o’clock tus afternoon. fhe Exact (printed in English and French) will be pubiiahed at ten o’olock in the morning. Single copies, tm wrappers, sixpence. ‘Padseriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Mew York rest will de recetved at the foilowing a ee BaD 17 and 18 Cornnill. eee do. 8 Place de ia Bourse, will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of ‘pabsication. The News. The sorew steamship Indian, which left Liver pool on the morning of the 16th inst, arrived at Quebec on Sunday morning, and the steamship Arabia, {rom Liverpool morning of the 19th inst, ‘arrived at Flalifax yesterday, thus placing us in pos- session of a week's later European intelligence. ‘The news is interesting, and in some respects im- portant. The papers state that the questions at issue between Great Britain and the United States are ina fair way of adjustment. Spain has agaia been convulsed with one of those popular insur- rections which are so common in thatcountry. The revolt grew out of the opposition compelling Espar- tero and his colleagues to resign, and the formation of anew ministry, with Gen. O'Donnell at its head. In Madrid the Nationa] Guard and citizens fraternized. Gen. Infante and Pacheta, a bull fighter, headed the revolntionists, and for thirty hours kept up a bloody fight with the troops, but were eventually overcome and the government remained triumphant at every point. Except in Sarragossa, at last accounts the imsurrection had been crau:hed out, the national guard bad been disbanded, and the country deciared in a state of seige. As soon as the sews of the in- surrection reached Paris orders were issued for the dispatch of an army of observation to the Spanish frontier. There had been dis- turbences in Copenhagen, incited by the Mor- mon emissaries, which required the intervention of the soidiery to quell them. Lord Palmerston had stated in Parliament that the English government was not prepared to explain what lime of policy it Would purese wita respect to the affairs of Italy, as suggested by the Congress of Paris. Late accounts from Italy represent the condition of aifairs there as anything but satisfactory. Signs of discontent bad become manifest among the army, and a revolt was Likely to oocur at any moment. The Duke of Cam bridge hus been appotnted commander-in-chief of the Rritish army. King Otho’s abdication of the throne of Greece was «till spoken of, and Prince Adalbert of Bavaria peinted to as his successor. The Empress of Austria has been confined of a daughter. The cotton market at Liverpool had fluctuated during the week preceding the 19th, bat closed firm at the prices current at the sailing of the steamer of the 12th. Brealstuffs, owing to the prevaleace of wea- ther anfavcrable for the grain harvest, had improved. Consols are quoted at %5ja%{, with no material change in the money market. Previous rates for American stocks were maintained, but the demand ‘Was inactive, By the Arsbia we have a.so later dates from China, India and Australia. The insarrection around Canton had beea suppressed, bot aifairs gene- rally had pot materially improved. In India another revolt of the Santals was apprehended. In North- ero Madras all was tranquil. An active export of cotton is reported. Melbourne dates are to the 25th of April. Trade was active, and gold had declined to 76s. 6. There is nothing new in politic. The ship Royal Charter had made the voyage from Liv erpool to Melbourne in the remarkable short time of fifty nine days ouly. ‘The Furopean news received yesterday by the In- dian came to hand too late for its effect on the mar- ket to be felt. Before the news 300 a 400 bales of cotton were sold at unchanged prices. After its re- ceipt no vales were reported. Flour was heavy, and comnon to medium brands were about Se. per barre! lower. 200 a 300 bbis. new Virginia, Petersburg, “ Noith Side” and Hope Mills brands were sold at $9. Wheet was pretty active, and quite firm for choice qualities. Handsome new Mary- land sold at $11, and choice Canada at $1 52. The sales embraced lower grades of Canedian, Western and Southern, quotations for which will be found in another column. Corn was in good demand, with free sales, but at rather easier prices, which ranged from 56c. from the slip, for distilling cargoes, to 58c. from store, and sound ‘Western mixed at 60c.a6lc. No Southern yellow was on the market. Prime Southern white was held atc. Pork sold in a moderate way, at #20 37} eae. Sugars sold to the extent of 900 a 1,000 hbds., 300 of which were Porto Rico, 50 New Or- Jeane, and the remainder Coba muscovado, with 90 boxes, all at stendy and full prices. Freights were lack for Liverpool, and rather easier for shippers; while to London and the Continent they were un- changed. By the arrival of the bark Maraval, Capt. Perry, ab this port yesterday from Turks Islands, we have received papers to the 16th inst. They contain no Bmperor Sonlouque was about to acknowledge the S imdepenience of the Dominican republic, and that sa treaty of peace will shortly be concluded between $the two parties who inhabit the island of St. Do- ‘Dmiago. Commissioners are to he appointed hy both for the purpose of fixing the boun- . @aries, and the English and French consuls are to 9 @t ae umpires in any dispute which may arise. fh ‘opes ave entertained that the peace may be lasting, and that much good will remit theretrom to ail ‘ties conesmed. By the arrival of the bark Ariel, Captain Chese- man, ‘we have received advices from Portan-Prinec to the 14th inst. Captain Cheseman reports that it was perfectly healthy at that place; that there were not, nor bad there beer daring his stay,any cases ‘of sickness among the shipping. A heavy storm prevailed last evening west of Pitte- bor and Baffa,o, causing a suspension of telegraphic bueiness. For the ame reason we were unable to ob- tain onything front Halifax yesterday afternoon, putil about six o'clock, pod during the whole even- ing it was extremely difficult to do any business over the wires east of Boston. seasion yesterday. In the Senate tre bil! amenda- tory of the diplomatic and consular system was forthe: considered and passed. A resolution, call- ingon the Preadent to communicate whatever in- formation he may have respecting affairs in Califor. nia, with reference to the opera ions o! the sam Francisco Vigilance C smumittee, and whether appli- cation has been made by the G vernor of that State for aid m enforcing the laws, was adopted. A peti- tion from Commodore Vanderbilt, ‘hat @ con’ tract be made with him for carrying the mail ‘petween New York and Southampton, was pre. sented. A bill was also introduced autherizing a* contract for menthly trips between te wo ports for ten years, at $16,69¢ the round trip, the service to Senate® North @ majority in the Mouse sufficient for all Congress entered upon the thirty-fifth week of the be increased to semi-monthly trips if cousidered ne cessary. Bills maktng appropriations for the im- provement of the herbors at the mouths of Grand river and Black Lake, Michigan, were passed. In he House the bill providing forthe improvement of the Des Meines Rapids, in the Mississipi river, was passed. Aw unsuccessful attempt was made to take up the Senate bil! for the admission of Kansas. A mo- tien to suspend the rules, in order to enable the e- lect Committee to report on the Pacitéie Railroad bill was negatived, and subsequently ten thousaml copies of the report weve ordered to be printed. Phe House weut into Commit*ee on the Army Appropria- tion bill. Anamendment that no part of the mili tary force of the tederal goverument shall be eu ployed in Kansas in enforcing the existing laws there, and otherwise carrying out the doctrines of the free State party with regard to the Territory, was adopted by a vote of eighty-eight aguinst forty. The evening session was devoted tu the discussion of political questions generally. Colonel John W. Geary, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Governor of Kansas, in place of Wil- son Shannon, removed. The Health Commissioners, at their meeting yes terday, took action to secure, in the preseut ab sence of rain, a thorough cleaning at night, with | Croton water, of the gutters in the streets. This is one of the most important steps taken yet for the preservation of the health of the city. The Kansas Question at Washington—Patch- ing up a Compromise. We understand that among the republicans of the House of Representatives, of a practical turn of mind, a new scheme for the pacification of Kansas has been projected. It is to be of a com- posite character, embracing some of the spé cations of most of the various other heali measures proposed, including even some of provisions—in a modified form—of the Senate bill of Messrs. Toombs and Douglas. The new bill to be brought forward will, ac- cording to our information, declare the Missouri- Kansas Legislature an imposition, and ‘te statutes null and void; will provide for a new census of the Territory; for the submission, subsequently, of the Topeka free State constitution to a vote of the people; and for a supervisory commissioa, &c., over the required elections, but not to be appointed by the President. We are farther ad- vised that this bill will secure the support of the Fillmore men of the House, which will account at once for its close shaving and hair splitting “he- twixt the south and southwest sides.” It is not arepublican measure; it is not a democratic measure; it is not squatter sovereignty, nor is it executive nor Congressional sovereiguty—the measure is simply a mixture compounded ea- pressly to suit the peculiar and very delicate stomachs of the Fillmore mea of the House, who hold the balance of power between the democrats and republicans of that body. This balance of power is composed of Southern Know Nothings, and we know that the strength of this party in the South depends mainly upon their hostility to any further encouragement to foreign immigration, because it supplies a powerful stimulus to the anti-slavery agitation in the North. A Kansas bill, therefore, that will suit hoth the Fremont and the Fillmore men of the House must necessarily be a curious piece of patchwork, and will inevitably result in cheating the one party or the other. All the world knows that the policy of the democrats is to make Kansas a slave State, and that the policy of the republicans is to make the Territory a free State. The sympathies of the Southern Fillmore men are also inclined to slavery; and this plea constitutes the peculiar availability of Mr. Fillmore in the South, to He is as good for slavery as Mr, Buchanan, When we hear, therefore, of the republicans framing a Koueas bill to suit the taste of the Fillmore Know Nothings, the outside world will suspect that there is a Presidential movement of some sort at the bottom of it, and that possibly it may involve the first decisive step to the with- drawal of Mr. Fillmore from the contest. Per- haps it may have been discovered that there is danger that even in the South Fremont may yet supersede Fillmore as the most popular anti- democratic candidate, and this projected fusion in the House upon a Kansas bill may be but the signal for » general fusion upon Kansas and Fremont throughout the South. hatever may be in the wind, the provisions of thie newly projected Kansas bill, as they com o means likely to become a law during this session. The bill will be rej 1 by Mr. Toombs, Mr. Douglas, and the democratic ma- jority of the Senate, because it leaves the “ mani- fest destiny” of Kansas in doubt. Mr. Douglas ve too fur to turn his back upon the border ns at this stage of the game, and Mr. Toombs knows too much to consent to deprive the Presi- dent of the executive and supervisory power granted him in the Senate bill. In fact, all ex- pedients in Congress at a doubtful compromise between the admission of Kaisas asa free State or as aslave State must fall to the ground. There is, however a large majorivy in the Senate which may be relied upon to resist all half-way measures involving the probable or even possible loss of Kansas to the South ; while there doesnot appear to be anything like a satisfactory majori- y, even of one, in the House for Kansas as afree State by positive legislation. It is easy, then, to perceive that there is no prospect for the passage in reference to Kansas of any milk-and-water or half-and-half pacification of Kansas this session. What, then, should be done? The democracy of the House should insist upon the adoption of he Senate bill of Mr. Toombs as their ulti- matam,’ and make it a tet with the Fillmore Know Nothings of the South of their fidelity to Southern institutions. The Senate bill is satisfactory to the leading Southern ultra elavery men of the Senate—they know all abont it, and particularly how the President has promised to administer the powers with which Mr. Toombs and Mr. Douglas propose to invest him. Mr. Pierce understands as well ae Mr, Toombs, that the drift, intent and expectation of the Senate bill ie that it will result in making Kansas a slave State, And again, we ask, and yet again, why not? Is not the South entitled to it, in view of an equilibrium of power in the And, in any contingency, has not the he tous, are by purposes of wectional protection against any pos ritle contingency of Southern with the surrender of Kangas to the South? Let the pro-slavery democracy in Congress put these questions to the Southera Know Nothings, and demand of them an explicit answer to the ques- tieun—Are you for Kansas as a free State or as a staveState? Answer us yea or nay, ia your vote upon this bill of the Senate, even We are aware thet since the defection of Mr. ‘Burclay, of Pennsytvania, there are other North- ern Buchanan men who shrink from any further recognition of the doings of the border ruf- fians, We know that the report df ‘the Kan- sas Committee has created some sonsidera- ‘ble fluttering in the democratic camp; but these signs of fear and trembling should in- euce the real Southern democracy to spur up their weaker Northern. brethren to the work while yet the coast isclear. If the pro slavery party in Congress act this session boldly and yet sagaciously, they may get such a law for the pacification of Kansas as will secure her ad mission as a slave State. Amy scheme with any pretensions to squatter sovereignty and the popu- ar vote of the actual settlers of Kansas—any scheme of this sort, we say, which proposes to ake away from the President the important dis cretionary and executive power embodied in the bill of the Senate, will hazard the less of Kansas to the South. From this time to the close of the present ses- sion we may expect all sorts of Kansas impedi- ments in, the House to the annua) appropriation It is quite possible that seme-of these bills may be defeated froma deadlock between the two houses upon a Kansas amendment or two. To } avoid all such obstructions, let the pre-slavery bills, party of the House move to tack on to some ap: | propriate bill (say the Civil and Diplomatic bill) the Senate scheme for the admission of Kansas as a slave State, and make the Southern Fillmore men show their hands upon it—pro-slavery or no- slavery—and the scheme may yet be passed. Let it become a law, and the South, satisfied with ibeir prize, will be in a condition to regard all further agitation of the slavery question as the ‘dle wind; for, with the new Senate bill in the hands of the President, and with the United States army at his command to enforce law and order, Kansas, as sure as fate, will come out of her chrysalis condition a full blown Southern State, niggers and all, with margin enough for all the surplus vigger stock of Virginia. at the rate of twenty thousand niggers a year, for at least twenty years to come. The South are entitled to Kansas; but this is their last chance. All half-way measures are hazardous. The only safe plan, upon a plausi- ble footing, is the bill of Mr. Toombs, with or without the amendments of Mr. Douglas, and now is the crisis of the game. THE Hey xp THE Drovent.—For the past fortnight we have endured a spell of unexampled heat. thermometer has risen above 90 degrees Fahren- For fourteen days—more or less—the heit in the afternoon ; and during half this period, it hes risen above 95 degrees—these figures ap- plying. of course, to the shade. A like period of time has elapsed since we had any rain. The last shower we had was a mere bucket full, which was hardly felt by the thirsty fields; a month may be said to have passed since we had a real, wholesome, copious fall of rain. The consequences of this misfortune stare us in he face on every side when we go into the country. Far and wide the eye roams vainly in search of any green thing. The fields are brown, the trees a dirty, dim color. Clouds of dust defile the face of gardens, and taint the foliage. Houses look hot and ready to burn up; a match, it seems, would kindle them from basement to chimney. Streams have long since run dry; and now the wells are beginning to fail. In several parts of the neighboring country people are already obliged to send their servants and cattle a long distance—over a mile, in some in- stances—in search of water. ‘This is, thus far, a repetition of the scene of 1854. In the autumn of that year, as every one remembers, America was visited by one of the most severe droughts ever known in this coun- try. The whole face of the land was dried up; the corn and various fall crops were almost wholly destroyed. In many parts of the West cattle died by the hundred for the want of water—every stream, pond, spring aud well for miles around them, having dried up. The earth became so hard, and dry, and baked, that finc, healthy trees died for want of kindly soil; and as to digging, it was mere shovelling of dust. The drought of 1854 lasted several weeks That of the present year has only lasted a fort- night, and there is every reason to hope that it may be drawing near its conclusion. On Sunday morning there were clouds that betokened rain in the west; on Sunday night the sun set in astorm cloud. But, alas! neither rain nor storm came, and the earth grows drier and our throats more parched. Very few people think of a drought as it ought to be considered. Another fortnight without rain would cost this country over twenty millions of dollars in actual lost produce, while it would enhance the value of necesearies of life very considerably. If we have no rain for a week, even, we shall have to pay much dearer for our corn, our pork, our potatoes, our garden produce. it is a painful reflection, but one cannot con- ceal the fact that droughts are becoming more frequent than was usual formerly in this country. No doubt the general and reckless destruction of trees, and clearing of wide spaces of land have had much to do with the phenomenon. Whenee- soever it arises, it is a subject that may properly give rise to great sorrow. Farmers ov tae Ustrep States Mars—Cram ror Iypemerry.—Mr. J. W. Sullivan, well known formerly as a newspaper vender of this city, now a resident of San Francisco, has petitioned Con- gress for indemnification for losses sustained by him through the neglect and bad management of the Post Office Department. The failure of the mail contractor to perform his contracts has been the cause of these losses, and Mr. Sallivan, in the memorial which he has sent in to Congress, aseerts a legal and equitable claim to this indem- nity. It is a just and equitable demand. The government has taken charge of his newspaper packages for a consideration, and they have not delivered them. The etatement is verified under oath. The account accompanying the petition begins with October, 1854, extends down to March, 1856, and shows a loss of 49,407 papers, which, at the cash value to Mr. Sullivan, amounts to $12,951 75! We think he has done right to seck redrees at the hands of Congres, and it ix hoped that it will lay aside for the time the law of the duello and the schemes of the railroad speculators, to do a little common justice, anc thus compel the mail contractors to do their duty NEW YORK: HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1856. ‘The State Conventions and State Officers. HEALTH ov THe Crry.—Notwithstanding the ‘Yo-morrow the first of the State Conventions of the numerous parties in this State opens its ses- stons at Syracuse, for the purpose of bringing for- ward candidates for Gevernor and other State officers, and nominating electoral tickets, Two conventions of the two democratic: factions will be held, and an attempt will be made, preliminary to action, to unite their elements in one conven- tion before proceeding to work in the matter be- fore them. We have already stated, in various forms and shapes, the peculiar character of the election in this State, as it applies to local officers. The Presidential contest will take care of itself; but in our coming State elections a new power has been developing itself, and seeking to control everything cenrected with State policy, railroads, canals, and other matters of public interest. We have shown hat the great Central Railroad monopoly, with vast schemes in future, has been meving heaven and earth to control the nominations of the democratic twin conventions, by putting up their own candidates, such as Corning & Ce., and put- ing down the popular candidates, such as Fer- uando Wood. A day or two will determine the is- ue of this struggle between the. monopoly and the remaining portion of the democracy in this State. Another State Convention has been announced, under the’name of republican, forming that part of the constituency of New York which supports Colonel Fremont for the Presidency. The self- elected dictators of this portion ef the people have issued the following manifesto for the meet- ing of a convention in the city of Syracuse, ou the 17th day of September next, for the purpose of nominating their candidates for Governor and other State officers:— REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. At a meeting of tue Republican state Committee, hel atSuratoga Springs on the 24th day of July, 1856, tbe of September was agreed upon as the time for bold ing the next State Convention, as will be seen by the fo) lowing notiwe — TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. The perple of the Stave of New York, wichout regard u past political differences or divisions, who are opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the policy o the present national administration, to the extension 0 slavery ino the Territories, in favor of the admission 0 kh. 5 as a free State, and of restoriug the action of the ‘al government to the principtes of Washington ane erson, are reqvested to choose two delegates frow te J each Assembly district, to. meet in State Convention ix une city of Syracuse, on Wednesday, the 17th day o september next, at 11 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of forming a P esidential Electoral Ticket, aud for presen: lug candidates to be supported for the office of Governo: and Lieutenant Governor, Canal Commissioner, one State Pason Inspector. and a Clerk for the Court of Appeals. D. MORGAN, New York, JOHN L. SCHOOLORAET, DEODATUS WRIGHT, JOSEPH DAVIS, J. McB. DAVIDSON, ©. P. WILLLAMS, A. G. RICE, El SM. BURROUGHS, Medina. SAMUEL I. ALLEN, Rochester. CHAS. 0. SHEPARD,’Arcade, Wyoming Co. Kepublican State Commitice. We perceive in this list of names several of the managers of the railroads who are in the in- terest and combined with the great Central Railroad monopoly, and whose purpose is to bring forward a candidate calculated to subserve the railroad interest exclusively, whatever may be the fate uf the nominations made to-morrow at Syracuse. One of the candidates named for this party is Edwin D. Morgan, a manager in the Hudson River Railroad, and who is supposed to be in the interest of the vast schemes matured for future action, provided the Central Railroad monopoly carry their purpose in any party in this State. Other names at the West have been mentioned in connection with the republi- can nomination; but those among the ranks of the republicans opposed to the vast schemes of the railroad monopoly have, we understand, ex- pressed some desire to adopt the novel purpose of taking hold of Horace Greeley’s white hat, old great coat, cowhide boots, and all. Good—try it. In the manifesto of the republicans no time was specified for the election of delegates. This is done under the evclusive advice of that Tal- leyrand on a small scale, Thurlow Weed. They mean to keep the time and place of returning the delegates secret, in order to effect their ob- ject, nominate their own men, and carry out the railroad schemes before the people are aware of their designs, We trust the notice we now give will rouse the republicans to watch the popular interest in these approaching meetings. We have warned the democracy of the same danger, and we now warn the republicans that the time of action ap- proaches. Mr. Herpert’s Cask.—Some weeks since, Mr. Herbert—a member of Congress, from Califor- nia—entered a Washington breakfast room late in the morning, and demanded breakfast. It being contrary to the rules of the establishment that breakfast should be served so late, Mr. Her- bert’s request was refused ; whereupon he assailed the waiter with violent language and threatening gestures. Having attacked the waiter first, Her- bert, when the waiter and his friends gathered together around him for the purpose of meeting the fire eater, drew a revolver and shot a waiter dead. For this Mr. Herbert was arrested and tried. The first jury could not agree, and were dis charged: the second found him not guilty. When the verdict was brought in the whole audience applauded loudly. The tone of the press of the District has also been rather favor- able to Herbert than otherwise. Now, a question arises—what could prompt this singular apparent general approval of an act, which, if it was not murder, was surely manslaughter? It is shown that Herbert pro- yoked the affray; and it is not shown that he stood in danger of his life, or in any reasonable fear of such danger, when he shot Keating dead How, then, can he be not guilty? Examine the subject as we may, we can come to but one con- clusion, and that is, that society at Washington is so utterly debased and degraded that people think nothing of a murder, if the murderer isa man “of condition” and his victim a nobody. In olden time, a noble could kill his vassal, and be quit for throwing four sole on the grave; though, if he kifled a man of his own station, he was liable to find himself in serious trouble. The question in thove day turned on “the sort” of the parties. It seems that these old times are being revived at Washington, and that men “of the better sort” may beat, fight, challenge and slay as they please, without fear of the conse- quences. The only inference we wil) draw at present is this;—We strongly advise every one having a neck to be broken, or a skin to he perforated, to keep far away from Washington; for he may be beaten or killed there, impunity. at time, with any report of the City Inspector, we find that the most unmistakable nuisances exist in this city Notwithstanding the alleged fact that the Health Wardens report at his office every morning for duty, it does not follow that they perform ‘any other services. We do not believe they inspect every house and premises in their Uietricts, as the Inspector insinuates, On the contrary, we know a good many places they have not inspected at all. We onr- selves, within a week, during a stroll along the East river, between Twenty-eighth and Forty- third streets, found the gutters of the cross streets reeking with filth, and the air almost insupporta- ble. . A few days ago, Ann street, between Broad- way and Nassau, was a quagmire of mud and nastiness, and some of the most respectable inha- bitants there said it had not been attended to for a long time. We were informed yesterday that ia Fifty-second street, between the Niuth and Tenth avenues, there is a large number of lots in the most shocking condition—occupied by cow sta- bles, filled with excrements, garbage and refuse-— they infect the air, and make it pestiferous. Lu Forty-third street, between the same avenues, the gutters are reeking with stagnant water, and in particular in the rear of No. 163. In the same street, privies remain uncovered, exhaling their odors to the hot sun. In Thirty-seventh, Thirty- eighth and Thirty-ninth streets, near Ninth avenue, the gutters are also full of dirty water. On Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets, in the same quarter, on the north side, the lots are filled with garbage. In the Sixteenth and Twentieth wards, the same state of things existed up to within a few days, if it does not exist now. Passengers going up to their country residences by the Hudson River Railroad assure us that between Chambers street and Thirty-first street the smells are overpowering. In the rear of the Exchange, only the other day, the same thing was observed. In Twenty-eighth street, between Fourth and Madison avenues, the washing of a large number of carriages in the street, the stoppage of the gutters by builders, and their inattention to the complaints of the neighborhood, causes the water to set back, partly to overtiow the strect, and in a few hours it is covered with green slime, the swash of dirty car- riages and reecking horses. In Twenty-sixth street, between the Seventh and Tenth avenues, the gutters and sunken places in the street are entirely unattended to, as we are informed on the best authority. Even the Board of Health ad- mits there are 150 sunken lots required to be im- mediately filled up. We have no doubt, that upon further inquiry it will be found that hundreds of other places equally neglected may be found, and ~ when found we widl make a note of them.” The Inspector's report shows, we admit, that the ge- neral health of the city is better this year than it has been for years past. This is owing to the in- creased use of the Croton, and the extension of the sewer system. The City Inspector can claim no credit for this. On the contrary, he is obliged to acknowledge the large increase in the bills of mortality for the last two weeks, And as regards the strokes of the sun, which he reports as the causes of the sudden deaths, we would ask one question:—Have not four of these cases died of the black vomit, removed to,Staten Island from thiscity ? At all events we have heard so. It is all nonsense for the Inspector or any of his subordinates to blow and bluster. is not in a cleanly condition, and everybody knows it. We do not. say these things to alarm any one, butan ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Nor will our readers wonder that we had so seriously considered this subject, when we inform them that we learn from an official personage, whose duties compel him to remain at the Quarantine station, that eight deaths have occurred there within the last thirty-six hours of yellow fever, among the employés at the station. A laundress, whose business it was to purify the clothes of passengers from infected ports, is dead; her husband, in the vigor of health, has followed her; and two young children, also, have fallen victims to the disease. Nor is this all. Persons are constantly coming up from the island who have been in the neighborhood of the disease, and who have had personal intercourse with the sick. As we have already intimated, we are no alarmiste, but it is the most dangerous and the most wicked of all deceptions to keep back the truth when by promulgating it in time we may spare the city a great calamity. Association Trimp axp Provep Wantixa.— Within the last few weeks quite a number of a - sociations that were formed years ago have bro- ken up and gone to pieces. Some were formed on one principle, some on another; bat all, more or less, were intended to illustrate the truth of ihe pretended axiom that ass ciated labor was pre- ferable in every way to individual or isolated en- terprise. One of these associations was the New Jersey Foureirite Phalanx, an experiment intended to prove the practicability and soundness of the thieo- ries to which Monsieur Fourier contrived to attach hisname; it failed some months since, and the cor- porate assets were sold at auction for the benefit of the remaining shareholders. Quite recently we received accounts of the failure of the Icarian establishment in Texas, founded by that amiable but weak headed philanthropist, Monsieur Cabot, It seems that he and his disciples quarrelled about the women and wrote pamphlets against each other, and called each other hard naimes just like so many common mortals; and so the thing broke up, poor old Mr. Cabet declaring in his last manifesto that his heart strings had broken with it. We note, also, that the Ebenezer Socicty, of Erie county, has recently been sold out; that the Beaver Island Mormons are being disbanded and driven away; and that the Rappites, who made such a noise and attract- ed #0 much attention in Pennsylvania a short while since, are rapidly diminishing in numbers and looking as though they would not last long. It can hardly be pretended that this uniformity of failure is the fruit of accident. It must be the consequence of a general rule operating ani- formly upon the various associations, Nor can that rule be long sought for in vain. Associa- tion necessarily gives the death blow to private enterprise, which has always been the source of every great work that mankind has achieved; necessarily deprives the individual of that inde- pendence which is essential to the conception and execution of great designs: and crushes society under a despotism which is none the less grind- ing because it is wielded by a corporate body and not an individual. Thus stripping men of the best stimulus to exertion, the best guarantee of ability, and the very power of acting, it neces. sarily leads straight to fai —There was but twenty of th nio river at Low Warne tx tun O inches water in the oh; Pitteburgh on the yours The city* I THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Interesting from W: . SOME DEVELOPEMENTS RESPECTING THE PROPOSED- PaCIFIC RAILROAD AKKIVAL OF GEN. GOICOU— RIA—REMOVAL OF GOV. SHANNON AND APPOINT~ MENT OF HIS SUCCESSOR, ETC. Wasinnaron, July 28, 1856. Thurlow Weed and bis clique met witlr a terrible dis~ appoirtment to-day in the refusalof the House 1) take: up the Pacitle dailroad bil. They will dovbtless return, to the charge; but your expose of the scherawill wilt it completely, Although osteusibly for three rowis,yet the» Northern route » in reality the bon Louche.; On the other routes the states are permitted to designate what com~ paries shall build them. The Northern route, however, is given by name to tac Northera, Lakes and Pacific Rail- roul Compony, of which Alexander Ramsay is President, ‘This is a company whch bas been gotten up under ther general railroad law of lowa, und its corporators are~ prineipally the chief operators of the New York Centra} Rajircad monopoly, wit u few outsiders, whose connec tions with men in Congress are supposed to give them: influence, As the artivies of incorporation are still left open, changes in che names of the corporators are made to suit the occasion, and, 1ke rats in a bara, they run in and out with weuderful rapiiity. The following list, however, comprises the principaS operators:—Orvilie Robiason, of New York, Thuriow Weed's friend. Mr. Schoolcraft, of Albany, 0, B. Matte- son's friend; Eras.us Corning, of New York; FE. B. Mor— yen, of New York @ brother-in-law of Ehu Washburae,. | of Illinois; Mr. Bennett, brother of the member of Con press from New York; George Ashmun and ex-Goyernor Boutwell, of Massuchusets. friends of Mr. Speaker Bauks =, Moses A Grinnell, of New York; ex Chance!ior Farns- worth, afriend or Senator Steart, of Michigan; Michaed Bright, brother of the Vice President. The amount of tand sought by the grant is about forty million acres. The great object lo be secured is the elec-- tion of either Co or Morgan as Governor of New: York; and it is beli the immense amuunt of property” the bill would give the company, and the number of con- tracts, would secure this resuit. A glance at the namee of the purities is sufficient to unveil the scheme, They supposed they were sure of a two-‘hirds yote this morn ing, The result was beggarly in teed. Mr. Campbell. Chawman of the Commitiee of Ways ‘and Means, bas prepared an elaborate report on the tari” and firance generally. It is probable he will ask leave to» present it avd make it the special order for an early dayr next session. Gen. Goicouria, Walker's new minister to England and France, arrived here this evening, and is stopping at Willard’s. He brings important news from Nicaragua to our goverument. He wili call on Secretary Marey to-mor- row, and post him up in regard to affairs in Central | America. He purposes leaving here to-riorrow evening: for New York, from thence to England by tirst stea ner, 80a to be there at the final settlement of tho Central American imbroglio. The general theme of conversation about the city to-day was the Burlingame card. It is thought there will ve some difficulty grow out of this affair yet. The President has nominated to the Senate John W. Geary, of Pennsylvauia, to be Governor of Kansas in the place of Shannon, removed. Mr. Geary, for many years ‘a civil engineer, was elected Colonel of the second Penn sylvania Regiment in the Mexican war, He was appoiut- ed by President Polk, in 1849, to proceed to California as: Postmaster of San Francisco. He was subsequently ap- pointed by General Riley, Judge or Alcalde, He was the: first Mayor of San Francisco under the city charter, an@ ‘Was appointed by the State Legislature a member of the Board of Commissioners for the funded debt. He is re presented as being forty years of age, aud adinirably fitted for the discharge of the duties of the office to whict the President has appointed hii. General Houston has just completed a letter to his con stituents, defining his political position aud declaring for Fillmore and Donelson, Pennsylvania Democratic Convention. Wrest Cursren, Pa. , July 28, 1*54, A split in the Democratic Convention which is to as- semble here to-morrow, seems at preseat inevitable. Ther rumors afloat that special ia,tructions have been given from headquarters not to endorse Hickman, but his friends are active in his detence, and both parties Ubreaten to withdraw. ‘TY-*O0URTH CONGAES&#, FIRST SESSION. Senate, Wasany July 28, 1866. REVISION OF THR DIPLOMATIC AND CONSCTAM SYVCRM. The bill amend the diplomatic and couswiur systom was taken up and considered and passed. ‘THE REVOLUTION IN CALIFORNIA On the motion of Mr. Pvox, (dem.) of Olio, a resolation ‘was adopted requesting the President to inform the tonate whether any application has been made to bita by Wwe Governor ot Caifornia to maintain the laws ani peace of” that State agaiost the usurpec authority of the Vigilw Committee of can Francisco, and also to co nmunivate whatever information he may have respecting the ¥is!- lance Committoe. OCRAN POSTAL FACILITIES, Mr. Crayrox, &. N.) of Delaware, presented the peti- tion of Mr. Vanderbilt, praying for the paseage of» law authorizing the Postmaster General to contract with biar for carryirg the mail in steamships trom New York to pron, Yr. CLevrow also introduced a Dill, which was referred, Proposing monthly trips for tom years, at a compessation Of $16,050 the round trip, the goverament having the power to increase tue same to somi monthly service by giving sufficient not'ce, an roprinte to ite use muy or all of the steamehips, ata price to be agreou upou oy the Secretary of the Navy and Mr Vanderbilt, and pn case — their price to be determined by valua- HARBOR DAEPROVEMENTS. ‘The bills making priations for the conat-ugtion of barbors at the mouths of Graud river and Bick lake, Michigan, were passed. Adjourned. House of Representatives. Wasinxcrox, July 28, 1856. RIVER IMPROVEMENTS. ‘The House paseed, by a vote of 117 pgainst 48, the bili appropriating $200,000 for continuing the imp-ovement Of the Des Moines Rapids, in the Mississippi river. TUK ADMISSION OF KANEAS. Mr. Dexx, (nigger worshipper) of Ind., moved to take up the Senate's bill providing for the admission of Kansar into the Union, his intention being (> offer a subsuitcte re-organizing the Territory, restoring the Mirseuri Com- Promise, and dismissing indictments for treasos, & ‘The motion was negutived by a vote of 100 against 72— not two thirds Mr. Dexven, (dem.) of Cal., from tho select committer, Moved a s nsion of the rules, in ores to Wie hin to make a report on the Pacific Railroad bill. Motion negatived by 77 agaivet $7 CUSTOM HOUEE HCTLDINGS, The Senate's resolution appropriating $2,000 for a mod) ication of the plan of the Custom House at Kusworth. Maine, was passed The House then went into committer Tih ARMY APPROPRIATION Mr. Snenman, (nigger worship) nent, that no part of the United States shall be employed to aid in the enforcement of the alleged inwe of the Legislative A:sembly convened at Shawnee Mission, until Congress deciares whether those laws were passed by ae Legislature chosen in com- formity with the organic law, and until Congress so de- clares that it shall be the duty of the President to ase the military forces to preserve peace, suppress insurree- tions, repel invasions, and protect the persons and pro- of the citizens of the Territory ou the highways of ourt and elsewhere, against unlawful woardh and set- zure, and that the President diturm the prosent militia, recall all United States, arms and prevent armed men from going into the Territory to disturo the public peace or enforce reat or pretended laws. The Cuamway, (Mr. Leiter) decided the amendment out of order, but was overruled by a majority ot two. Mr. SHeRMAN said his amendment was jot, fir and) hovest. and would do more for the settlement of the Kan- sas diffieuiiies than ali the bills for tha: purpose pur —. Ir. SrKPieNe, (omtcoal of Ga., contended that Con. grees had no right to decide on the validity of the laws of Kansas, That was question for the Judiciary. He wae: ople of the Territory governing thomeel yes. i (nigger worsbipper) of Pa., insisted that it, bounden daty of Congress to protect the citizens: in all the rights querantood them in the organic act ‘They were controlled by a he was not willing that the federal @ whole on bio, offered ar y force of the and usurpation, and troops should cuerce: them after they had been trampled down by marandors, Mr. Srevoxe, reply said he believed that the | Nebruska-Kansas Dill was a proper one, and would bave admirably answered the purpose for which it was designed had its operation not been eb strneted by thore who oppored in the begining aud clamored against it throughout. Mr, Precrs, (dem.) of Mo., remarked that Mr. Shor. man’samendment was violative of the constitution, whict instrument guaranteed the right of the people to bear arme, and provided for the maintenance of militia. Mr. Gionaxes, (nigger worshipper) of Obio, was opposnd to giving the Fxceutive funds to support despoviem and neurzation. He would pot vote a dollar for ihe army without limiting the appropriations. Mr. Senin, (ik. N.) of Va., wished the country to know that a party inthe Honse deen to stop the wheel of goverpment, ond free the Senate into co-operation with & measure not practicable, and the ouly ofivet of whi wil be revolution. and, he would add, moral yenagon Mr. Davivsox, (lem. ) of La., said the republ rased pttaching te tht 1 an objectionable are saute could not, aud dared