The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1856. saesitl — BM. | lS... not AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENTNG. GARDEN, Broadway—Touna HENGLsR ON TEE Tron ees Winuts— Govern! BOWERY THEATRE, Sowery—Practes or ram Misses- BEPri—PO-CAeON TRS. EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—Parnrerig Pedy Ae ‘Vanumsux—Musicat Sorrexs, £0. DUSHEDORF GALLERY, «% Srosaway—Vatvams plunnse ae orate ant MantYaDoM OF Has, Be. New York, Wednesday, July 30, 1856. ‘The News. The eteamship Alps, frem Havre 15th inst., ar- wived & this:pert, and the city of Baltimore, from Liverpool 16th, arrived at Philadelphia yesterday, bringing us ‘fol! details of Burepear news up to the @ates mentioned, and enabling us to lay before our readers the important debate in the British Parlia- ment on Italian affairs, the points only of which, received by telegraph from Quebec, have hereto- Piscecxe was but little business transacted in the Senate yesterday. The bill appropriating $75,000 amendments reported from the Committee ef the Whoie on the Army Appropriation bill were taken up. The amendment declaring the laws of Kan- as null and void was rejected—85 to 80. Mr. Sher- man’s amendment that no part ef the military force of the federal government shall be employed im Kan- sas inenforcing the existing laws there, and other- wise carrying owt the doctrines of the free State party with regard to the Territory, was agreed to by a vote of 1 t» 86, and the bill was then passed. On motion of Mr. Dunn the bill annulling certain acts ofthe Kansas Legislature wes taken from the Cammitiee of the Whole. Mr. Dann then offered a substitute, embracing various measures for the paci- fication.of the Territory, including the restoration of the Missouri compromise, and the bill finally passed —88 to ¥4. Theevening session was, as usual, de- voted to the discussion of political subjects bearing on the Presidential campaign. The steamer J. H. Larkin was destroyed by fire oa Monday morning, when about ninety miles below St. Louis. The boat and cargo are a total loss. After an exhaueting heated term of some two weeks’ duratiou, throughout yesterday a drizzling, unsatisfactory sort of tall of rain, slightly resusci. tated the parched earth and thirsty humanity, tor which small favor doubtless every one was daly thankful. But in the course of the evening the flood came down for abrief space in one copious, soil-seturating, gutter-cleansing volume, imparting a delicious and grateful coolness to the atmosphere, and allowing the sweltered bipeds of this blistered metropolis an opportunity toenjoy a night of calm repose—a blessing second to none of the many con- ferred upon sinners by a benificent Providence. It was a rain to be proud of and thankful for, and as ‘the wind while we write comes from the right quarter, we trustingly hope for more of the same sort. The Commissioners of Health advertise in this morning's Herp that the city is entirely free of contagious disease,and that the Board will meet every day at the City Hall, to deliberate and take action for the preservation of the public health. At the meeting of the Board yesterday the barks C. Thompson, John Griffin, Robin, Leo, Brunette, J G. Anderson, Lodebar; brigs Orizimbo, Col. Wm- Caggins, avd schooner Jobn Castner—vessels at Quarantine—were ordered to discharge their cargoes im lighters, and proceed tothe city. A resolution was adopted, directing that the slaughter-house of Mr. Jacocks, in-Niuth avenue, between Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets, be thoroughly parified, and Croton introduced therein. The house was repre” sented as being in a filthy condition. ‘The hard and soft shell sections of the democracy ‘meet to-day at Syracuse to bury the hatchet of strife, smoke the calumet of peace, nominate Presidential electors and State officers, and creite an excitement generally. The telegraphic despatch of our corres pondent gives the latest information from th> scene of anion and harmony. We have Havana dates to the 25th inst. There was nothing new in political circles. Sugars had slightly de iined. A very severe thander storm passed aver Boston and its vicinity on Sunday. At Watertown the steeple of the Orthodox charch was blown down. Buildings were struck by lightning in West Cam- bridge.and other places. The engine house of the Worcester Railroad Company was strack by light ming and set on fire. Up to yesterday afternoon thirteen persons had died from the effects of the boiler explosion on board the steamer Empire State, and five more were not expected to survive their injuries. A severe etorm of thunder and lightning prevent- all telegraphic operations soutk of Philadelpbia last afforded no reliable criterion of the state of the mar- vket. Flour opened firm, at about 5c. per barrel ad- vance an common grades, with fair sales: but bayers for export were inclined to await the receipt of their Jetters, and bence the market closed at about the fall prices of the previous day. Prime to choice Ca nadian and Southern new white wheat sold at $1 85, which was 5c. per bushel sdvance. Lower grades were also firmer. Corn was.in good demand, espe- cially for prime lots. Distilligg cargoes ranged from 66c. a 59¢., and sound Western mixed, including car- goes for axport, sold at 6l}c.a jc. Mess pork open- ed at 220-27}, and closed at $208.420 12). Lard was firm, withagles of 606 tierces to errive, at 12)c. Sa- gars were firm, with aales of about 1,100 a $1,200 hhds., inclnded in whick were 300 khds. Porto Rico. ‘The remainder consisted of Caba masoovado, which old at full prices. Coffee was in feir demand and quite steady. Sales of 1,008 bags Rie and 5600 mats Java were made at foll prices. For particulars of stocks, sales and prices in greater detail, we refer to the circular in austher columa. Freights to Liver- pool were easier. Flour was taken at le. 6d., and grain in balk and bags at 5id.a6jd. To London, flour was engaged at 2s. \d. Tur Times Axo TUP It has deen noticed of late that the 7imer bas been wuch exercised about the choice of a site for a Post Office, and has evinced a very earne iro eet to have it one or two places tha ve been sug. gested. It is not generally known that the pro- prietorw of the Times, finding their newspaper an anprofita.We business, have late ‘ly turned their at tention to r2al estate and the purchase of corner lots on spect lation. One of these, on whieh the OM Brick Chuteh stands, they want to sell to the government for a Post Office. Talk of bonest newspapers! "The last accounts from C alifornia show the San Francisco Vigilance Committee to be as vigilant, gs numerous and powerful as ever—extending the sphere of its operations to the seizure of the State arsenals in the city, and the arms in transite from General Wool, of the United States Army, to the State authorities. These proceedings place the Committee in the position of an insurrection- ary'force against both the State and federal gov- ernments, and hence it is that the question where is all this to end? becomes a matter for the gravest consideration. There are two local governments existing in California—the one the regularly constituted government, which is utterly powerless for the time being, and the other the revolutionary gov- ernment of this Vigilance Committee, which, within its circle of operations, is a perfect des- potism. Admitting thag¢ the causes resulting in this spontaneous revolutionary organization had expanded into mischiefs, atrocities, crimes and dangers beyond longer forbearance, the difficulty still reeurs as to the point of safety for the disso- lution of this Committee. It appears to us that the objects of their organization into a Supreme Provisional Directory have been accomplished— that justice against a horde of impudent crimi- nals and scape-gallows of all sorts, has been satisfied ; and that the time has come when the Committee should dissolve, adjourn, and return to their allegiance to the legitimate State and federal authorities. They may readily conrmand, as a condition of their dissolution, an absolute am- nesty for all that.has occurred, including all con- cerned in the transactions of the Committee; but we bave reason to suspect that there are restless and ambitious spirits among them whose ori- ginal ohject—the punishment and expulsion of murderers, ballot box stuffers and gamblers—has been enlarged into a great political revolutionary enterprise. Some:six or eight months ago we published a letter from San Francisco exposing the pro- gramme of a new party there upon the revolution- ary platform of the separation of California from the Union, and the establishment of an indepen- dent republic on the Pacific coast, to be formed of the Stute of California and Oregon and Wash- ington Territories, and such annexations—upon the Ostend doctrine of self-preservation—as it might be deemed expedient to make fram the helpless republic of Mexico. There are symp- toms that this scheme is not a stranger to some of the aspiring politicians who are mixed up with the management of this Vigilance Committee. Ii is not only a fascinating scheme to reckless ad- venturers, but to calculating political managers, from its appearances of practicability. Should the Central Committee of San Francisco resolve upon this plan, and proclaim it, while yet the prevailing confusion of ideas and fe of un- certainty exist all over California, it is probable that the movement for secession and a separate republic could only be arrested by those strong arms of the federal government, the army and navy. If the project of s sion and an indepen- dent Pacific confederacy e adopted and car- ried out in California, we all know from what was attempted by Count Boulbon, and from what was accomplished by General Walker in Lower California and Sonora, that California could instantly raise a body of volunteers which, in less than three months, could overrun and con- quer the whole of Mexico, and that in three months more they could carry their line of an- nexation toa junction with General Walker in Nicaragua. Some such magnificent ideas as these, we sus- pect, are seriously entertained by the more am- bitious and reckless leaders of this San Francisco Vigilance Committee; and the further mainte- nance of the Committee as the supreme directory of the city and the State, is, therefore, fraught with dangers of the grandest dimensions. At this crisis, the destiny of California rests entirely upon the conservative character of the masses of her people, and upon their “ sober second thought.” The Vigilance Committee was, we will admit, the resort of necessity; but the imme- diate objects of this last resort having been ac- complished, the Committee should resign its revo- lutionary assumptions of power back into the hands of the regular authorities, and trast to a decent administration of the laws, in a sharper attention hereafter to the State and city elections, and the ballot boxes. We fear that to whatever extremities of revolu- tion the Committee may go, there is no hope of any saving intervention from this Pierce administration; for Mr. Pierce is in the hands of those Southern democratic ultras who believe that the right of secession is a State right, and that the intervention of the generai government to arrest the movement would be a flagrant invasion of State sovereignty. This view of the matter in no small degree enhances the importance of the crisis in Califor- nia, and of the Presidential election; for the sacrifice of California, Oregon and Washington— a free State and free Territories—if euch sacrifice should become a question to Mr. Buchanan, as the successor of Mr. Pierce—is a secession which would, probably, be encouraged rather than ar- rested. The lows of the whole Pacifie coast would be a political gain to the South in the United States Senate; and the same influences which have driven Mr. Pierce into the service of the Kaneas border ruffians, would undoubtedly con- trol ge policy of Mr. Buchanan's administration. SuBb are some of the reflections arising from the present anomalous condition of things in California; and the further continuance in power of that Vigilance Committee will be very apt to reeult in some such developements, Kansas, California, the Ostend manifesto—suach are the fruits of modern democracy. A revolution at Washington is the thing we want. Meantime, we shall await with lively interest the next intel- ligence from California. Cuevatier Ween axp tae Deena Cone.— Everybody was wondering why the redoubtable Chevalier of Wali street was eo silent in regard to the Brooks and Burlimgame affair. Whenever fighting or blood is the order of the day, he is always true to his instincts, and takes part either in stirring up difficulties, getting other people into scrapes, or getting out of them himeelf. Wonderful in his sensitiveness and authoritative in law and goepel. But the Chevalier cannot stand the smell of blood very long, unless, per- haps, such as flowed from Snmner’s face and head; and eo he has delivered his views with the gravity and self-complacency of a Thurlow or a Mans field. The Chevalier says truly, perhaps, that no one has studied the code of honor more attentive- ly than he: he hae even had a little eccentric practice. particularly on that memorable occasion when, with a bludgeon, 4 /a Brooks, he attempted an onslaught on Duff Green. some years ago, at the entrange to the gapitol, Lngtyad of frightgu- ing that personage he was only frightened himself, and nade off in double quick time when Duff levelled at his ambrosial locks pistol harmless in lead or powder. The Chevalier thinks that Brooks, in this affair with Burlingame, has shown the white feather, but he has not the courage to say so openly. One of the most curious opinions ot this mighty man of duels and duelling laws is the recorded belief and positive conviction of his own mind that the affair of Sumner, and all other similar affairs in which order and decency are violated in Washington, are attributable solely to the existence of the institution of slavery at the South. Pray, was it slavery at the South which was the cause of alike barbarity and violence exhibited in Wall street fifteen or twenty ye w= ago, by the Chevalier, in his attempt to put down the independent press? Was it slavery at the South which loaded his bludgeon or sharpened his bowie knife? He did not quite succeed at that time, however, either in his attempt at violence or inti- midation, nor in frightening those who value the freedom of the press or their own righta, and who still maintain them with unfaltering fearlessness and unrepressed vigor. Any Chevalier who at- tributes solely to slavery in the South the scenes occurring at Washington deserves only tobe known hereafter as the Chevalier Jackass. The dis- graceful scenes at the Cap‘tol with bludgeons, pistols and bowie knives, brandished all the way from the chambers of Congress to the hotels, and from the hotels to the gambling houses, are occa- sioned by and originate with the corrupt scoun- drels who seek to govern public opinion, and style themselves the democratic party. The Insurrection in Spain. It appears that a new rebellion broke out in Madrid, and some of the provinces of Spain, on the 15th instant. Our accounts are as yet very meagre: we only know that on the resignation of the Espartero cabinet, a new ministry was form- ed with O’Donnell at its head: that the people, apparently dissatisfied with this new government, instead of recognizing it, took up arms, the Na- tional Guard being the first to raise barricades ; and that thirty hours fighting had taken place in the capital, besides some collisions at Saragossa, when the mail left. We are further informed that the rebellion was entirely crushed, and the O'Donnell ministry firm}y settled. This portion of the news must be received with caution. It may be true; but governments are so prone to believe that insurrections are suppressed long be- fore the belief is justified by the facts, and are moreover, so notoriously in the habit of controlling the telegraph, so as to prevent the dissemination of news unfavorable to themselves, that it will be well to wait another mail or two before we arrive at any settled conviction on this point. We are left in the dark as to the canse of the outbreak. But whatever its immediate occasion was, it requires no divination to discover that it flowed naturally from the attempt that is being made in Spain—as in Prussia and other Enropean countries—to reconcile a democratic and repub- lican people to a form of government whose demo- cratic element is overslaugbed by aristocracy, mo- narchy and tradition. For forty yoars the people of Spain have been on the eve of revolution. More than once actual outbreaks have taken place. From the fall of Napoleon to the year 1820, Ferdinand was retained upon his throne solely by the menaces of intervention from the Northern Powers. In 1823, nothing but actual interven- tion from France, and the military occupation of a part of Spain by a French army, saved him. At his death, the civil war between the Carlists and Christinos alone averted a democratic upheaval. No sooner was the Carlist war over than revolu- tionary juntas began to be formed and attempts at insurrection made. We do not think we exag- gerate if we say that the people of Madrid have risen half a dozen times in arms during the last twelve or fourteen years. Besides the stimulus to disaffection which they derived from the incon- sistency between the system of government and popular opinion, they have been spurred on by loathing for the person of the Queen. It is, we believe, generally known even here that the female who oceupies the throne of Spain is re- markable for her dissoluteness, and that she has, on many occasions, outrageously shocked the feelings of her people and seandalized the civilized world. So long as these causes operate, it matters not what outbreaks are suppressed, the revolutionary spirit is sure to make headway. It will be found truly bydra-headed; each revolt tha is crushed will facilitate succeeding ones. We regard it, therefore, as a matter of very little ultimate consequence whether the affair of 15th July was a failure or not. If it foiled, we are so mnch nearer th revolution that is to succeed. We-were, we confese, better prepared to expect a revolution in Italy than in Spain. But the an- ticipation was founded rather on the peculiar at- tention that happens to have been lately directed to the Italian peninsula than to any radical dif- ference in the condition or political prospects of the two countries. Both ruled by surviving and decrepil branches of the Bourbon family, both sunk in ignorance and brutalised by tyranny, political as well as religious, both lately thrown off their level by a violent Freneh domination, the Two Sivities and Spain occupy, in fact, sub- stantially the same ground. Stable government, a lengthened enjoyment of tranquility or peace- able progress, is impossible in either. In both, chronic revolution is a paramount necessity, and its advent is a mere question of time. As might be expected, the first news of the out- break has pointed attention to France. A cor- reepondent of a London paper is already assured that Napoleon haa directed the formation of an army of observation on the Spanish frontier. To all who have studied the man and the times it will appear very unlikely that the French Em- peror contemplates repeating the blunder made by Louie XVIIL Whether he designs to repeat his uncle’s experiment is not so clear. It has been noticed more than once that Queen Christina, who occupies a country house in the neighbor- hood of Paris, has received much attention of late from members of the Bonaparte family, and has seemed to be very intimate with the Murats and the members of the Jerome branch. Hence a belief in the salons of Paris, many months since, that Napoleon contemplated treading in the steps of his uncle with regard to Spain. It is, perhaps, more likely that he will leave events to bring forth their natural fruit let the rotten Bourbon governments break dowa of their own weight, and only advance his own interests when it can be made to appear that he is merely yielding to the popular will and the sentiment of Europe. This appears to be the course he is following with regard to Italy. If it be ad- hered to, fresh revolutions and a fresh 1848 may be quite confidently expected at no distant , cried, RevovaL or THE Quarantive.—At various intervals dering the last few years attempts have been made to remove the Quarantine station from Staten Island to some place near Sandy Hook. These have generally been defeated by the political influence of those persons who make their living out of the station, either as boarding house’ or tavern ‘keepers, small stores venders, boatmen, State officeholders, whose convenience is best suited by being near the city, and the subor- dinate employés of the Custom House. Pro- perty holders in immediate contact with the Quarantine grounds have also had the idea thata removal of the station would be injurious to their interests, and so, though the Legislature has been frequently occupied with the question, nothing has been done. The intense heat of the weather, however, for the last two weeks, the arrival of large numbers of vessels from infected ports, the deaths among those on the island who have been in.contact with the clothes of the sick, and the condition of the city itself—unprece- dentedly filthy—have naturally led, not only to the idea of precaution, but that of entire pre- vention. It is difficult to speak of the yellow fever with- out setting the contagionists and non-contagion- ists by the ears. The controversy between them has not yet been settled; but we always think or the saying of the learned Dr. Parr, which was, that those who have suggested and disseminated doubts as to contagion are not only answerable for the lives of thousands, but in many instances have paid the penalty of their own. At all events, we see that without contact, either through an impure atmosphere or by the touch, yellow fever is not communicated. Tke mere passing fora few moments into a part of the city fenced in, during its ravages, has caused many deaths both in Baltimore, Philadelpkia and this city. But whether the yellow fever is contagious, communicable by contact (substantial contact), or by infection, which is the communication of disease through the air, precautions have been taken in all commercial countries exposed to pesti- lential visitations against their fatal consequences, and Quarantine stations and laws have existed for four hundred and fifty years. Among other things, the time of detention was graduated ac- cording to the character of the disease suspected as it was found that the latent poison of the plague was sometimes not developed after contact until the fourteenth day, though more frequently on the third or fourth day. The usual precau- tions consist in fumigating, ventilating, cleansing bathing and washing, but strange to say, we have hitherto in this country paid no attention what ever to the well known distinction made in Eu- rope, particularly.in France and Italy, between susceptible and non-suseeptible goods, or those which transmit diseases and those which do not. Thus, in the former case, they are usually un laden at the lazarettos, exposed to the air, and undergo depuration or cleansing. All ani- mal substances, wools, silks, leathers, cotton, linen and paper are susceptible ; but vegetable substances, as well as metallic, are not so. Wi however, noticed yesterday, that the Health Onti- cer has given warning in relation to come halos of rags which were lying unattended to at the wharf. New York has, in former years, suffered greatly by the introduction of the yellow fever, but the losses sustained by those visitations, would bear no comparison with what it might suffer now. A it increases in population and commerce, so much the more will it suffer if attacked by epidemics Contact is more unavoidable, and the air becomes more miasmatic. Under this state of things and these reasona- ble probabilities, it would seem indispensable to our complete protection that the Quarantine should be removed to some suitable place in the lower bay, and that it should be arranged on a grand scale, commensurate with the trade of the port and the wealth of the Empire State. The farther from the city the better, if not too far. From the lower bay, telegraphic communi- cation can be had with the city at any hour of the day or night ; and, indeed, most transactions in relation to detained cargoes could be carried on by its means, just as they are now in our in- land trafic, When the first line of French steam- ers began, in 1834, to ply between Marseilles and the Levant, Quarantine was at first performed by the return steamers at the former port; but this not preventing the plague from entering the city, the French government decided that Qua- rantine should be performed at Malta, more than five hundred miles distant. A Quarantine station at Sandy elsewhere in the lower bay, would undoubt- edly furnish the city all the security within the power of maa to devise. It would give a new impulse to the improvement of Staten Island, certainly the most magnificent along the whole American coast, not surpassed, indeed, in many respects, by any in the world. At present its inhabitants feel they are all the time in dan- ger, and if yellow fever should become an annual visitant the island would be depopulated. We therefore recommend most strongly that our lazaretto be removed as soon as possible from its present situation, on their account as well as our own. If the yellow fever should get a foothold in the city at the present time, a hundred millions of dollare would not make good the injury. This is the calculation of some of our leading mer- chants. It is the part of wisdom, if we shall hap- pily eseape the scourge this season, to take im- mediate steps to remove the Quarantine station to the lower bay. With our admirable Croton, our extensive sewerage, and good men in office, we should escape the only drawback which can ever stay the progress of this great and splendid city. ‘The only good and solid objection to the proposed change is, that the same clique of speculators who are making fortunes out of their political influence at Albany would rush in to secure fortunes out of the job; but they would be most signally defeated by the election of any such candidate as Fernan- do Wood. Heatrn or tie Crry.-We gratefully record the copious showers which have fallen during the last twenty-four hours in various parte of the country to the north and west of this city. Yesterday the heat was essentially mitigated, even by the slight pouring forth from the clouds which rested over this island ; but, unfortunately, it was not in sufficient quantity to do us much good. It has laid the dust, but it has only turned it into mud. It has not washed the gutters, or created current enough to flow freely through the streets into the sewers. Evaporating nearly as fast as it eame down, it has only added to the mass of vapor which overhangs us, and brings into closer contact the various exhalations and emella of which there has been eo general a com- plaint. In fact, it is doubtful whether it has no: heen prejudicial to health “ip to this moment. The cuthorities need not fatter themselves tha: Hook, or they are relieved of their responsibilities by these partial showers. Far from it. In fact, they should be more active than ever, for the streets are now in a good state to be thoroughly swept and cleansed, and the operation will not fill the air with dust and particles injurious to the lungs. We say, then, turn out your armies of sweepers, employ the able-bedied laborers, who are now supported by the munificence of the city, let a small portion of our millions of revenue be employed to secure the health and safety of the taxpayers. If this is perversely refused, then we must take care of ourselves, and organize without delay these Committees of Vigilance which the crisis and the danger de- mand. No half way measures, no long apologies, no wordy excuses will answer. Let us have more action and fewer words. Moxey ror ‘THE Exxcrion.—Mr. Forney’s paper, the Pennsylvanian, has exclusive intor- miation that the British government has sent $100,000 to this country to aid in Mr. Fremont’s election, We are very glad to hear it, and we hope that the money will be handed over to the needy politicians of the republican school. The Pennsylvanian does uot say how the money came; whether Mr. Dallas sent his check for the amount, or Lord 'almerston sent his man Friday with the sovereigns in a bag to the oilice of the Fremont Committee. Nor does it explain how it is to be distributed, or on what conditions; but, we hope Mr. Forney will get his share, for he, more than any other man in this country, is helping John C. Fremont this day. To be serious, every one but the veriest asses knows that the British government would not give sixpence to aid any of the candidates for the Presidency. We might just as well be expected to vote money to help this or that candidate for an electoral district in England. That money may come from Europe to be used in our election, we think highly probable; but it will come from the Rothschilds, not the British government, and it will be used for Buchanan, not Fremont. Four years ago, when Mr. Buchanan was a candidate for the nomination, Mr. Belmont, the Rothschilds’ agent, offered to contribute quite a large sum to the expenses of the election if Buchanan was no- minated. Failing in this, Mr. Belmont did advance a large sum in aid of Pierce, though a less sum than he had spoken of before; and in return therefor he obtained the mission to the Hague, which has enabled him and his princi- pals to realize a handsome fortune. It is under- stood that in the event of Buchanan's success, Belmont goes to Paris: this is a prize worth pay- ing for, and we think it likely that the Roths- childs will bleed freely to effect it. For the rest, so far as money is concerned, Fre- mont seems the worst off of all the eahd’ Buchanan has the Rothschilds to back him, Fillmore has Corcoran of Washington, through whose aid, by the way, he obtained the nomina- tion at Philadelphia; but whom has Fremont? No one, seemingly. He is poor—without money to buy his election. The supporters of Mr. chanan charge this upon bim asa crime, and sneer at him for his poverty. They are responsible for the good taste and the delicacy of these allusions; but it would have been more seemly, one would think, for the democrats to have held their peace on this subject, at all events until Mr. Pierce had paid back the $17,000 he borrowed before elec- tion, and the $10,000 he has had since from George Law. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The Hard and Soft Shell State Conventions Srracusm, Jaly 29, 1956, The democracy has assembled in full force and ready for the fight to-morrow. The hard and soft delegates in clude all the distinguished men in the State of hoth sec. tions. There is a strong lobby, particularly from New York city. We have the Corporation Counsel, Shepard; the Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies, Selah; the Surveyor, John Cochrane; the Mayor's clerk, Alexander Ming; the resident physician at Blackwell's Ieland, Dr. Sawyer, besides a host of small fry postmasters, col- lectore and so forth, from different parts of the State. The hotels are crowded, and the town is presumed to be ina state of excitement. Somewhere about twenty ‘men are named for Governor, Fernando Wood is stead!!y opposed by the railway tnterest, which is not confined to either section. The story to-night is, that Wood is “play. ed out,’ and John Vanderbiltis the man, John Cochrane and bis set are working like beavers to beat Wood. His brother Ben is here as a delegate from Queens county. A strong effort is being made to unite both delegations from New York city on Wood. Horatio Seymour is here. He don’t want to run for Governor, but only desires to harmonize the party. A heavy and refreshing rain bas cooled off the poli- ticlans The programme for to-morrow te for each seo. tion to meet in conventicn separately and choose a tem porary chairman apiece and then rush into each other's arms, like Damon and Pythias on the ecaitold. ‘The Cochrane party think of putting Addison Gardner and Vanderbili on the sane ticket. Others insist upow Horatio Seymour, who will take the notaiuation if it is forced upon him. A Buchanan meeting is now in session at Market Hall. Among the speakers are Judge Tremain and Horatio Seymour. Tres o’Ctock, P. M. ‘The hards, to the number of thirty or forty, are caucus. sing in their old quarters at the Globe. Beardsley and others have made speeches, but no bu- siness has been done. Most of the delegates have gone to the African Opera. The railway candidates are said to be ahead. Rievew o'Ciock, P.M. ‘The bard caucus has just adjourned, to meet in con- vention at Corinthian Hall, tomorrow at noon. The speakers generally were in favor of an unconditional union with the softs. Judge Beardsley, however, was in favor of making demands upon the softs, insisting upon the Governor and the organization. The Judge is a hard old Roman, but he did not seem to have any one with him, The union of the sections seems to be @ tact al ready accomplished. ‘The Empire State Explosion. NAMES OF THE DEAD—CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED. Boston, July 29, 185%. The explosion on the Empire State has resulted, eo far, nthe'death of thirteen persons. Those who died yes- erday are:—Joseph Doseman, New York; Jos. Richards, Bengor, Me.; Henry Ketchum, master of the boiler work, Fall River; Timothy Mahony, deck hand; John falters, deck hand. The eight survivors of the accident are faithfully attended to, and, it is hoped, will recover, Fart River, July 20, 1856, ‘The inquest was adjourned this evening unti! 8 o'clock nthe morning. It will not be finished to-morrow. More of the ured have died today. There are thirteen deaths in all, and five more, it is supposed, will die. The ames of the dead are: — J, C. Beach Henry Ketchum, Joseph Dorman, Hiram Peachey, William MeGee, Frederick Boardman, Joseph Reed, Kara Williamson, Charles Kline, Jobn Smith, Joseph Richards, John Salters. Timothy Mahony, ‘The injured are receiving all possible attention at the hands of physicians and murses, The excitement in this town continues unabated. Destruction by Fire of the Steamer J. 4. Larkin. St. Loui, July 20, 1856, ‘The steamer J. H. Larkin was destroyed by fire abont ninety miles below here yesterday morning. The boat and cargoare a total lose, The boat was valued at $100,000, and is insured in the St. Louis offices for 960,000, Value of the cargo unknown. Wasmntom, July 29, 1856, ‘TRE ATMOSPHERIC TELEGRAPH. ‘The Senate refused, by a vote of 14 against 23, to or- dor the engroasment of the bill appropriating $75,000 te teat the practicability and usefulness of Richardson’s at- mospheric telegraoh. HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS, ‘The internal improvement bills on the calendar were» then contidered. That for the construction of a new har-- bor at New Buffalo, Michigan, was rejected; and those» for the construction of a new harbor at the mouth of the». Clinton river, for completing the harbor ce St. Josepus,, and for completing the piers of the barbor of Monroe, Michigan, were, after debate, Adjour ned. House of Representatives. Wasninctox, July 29, 1856. ‘THE ARMY APPRORIATION BILL, The House proceeded to act on the various amendmentes reported frm the Committee of the Whole w the Armyr - Appropriation bill. Mr. Barbour’s amendment ra the clause appropriating: , $3,27%,000 for the pay of the army, by adding a disup- proval of the code of the alleged laws of Kansas in the manner in which they are enforced, expressly declaring: ¢ Untii they shall be confirmed by Congress no part of the ¢ jederal military forces shall be employed for their en-~ forcement, &c., and the amendment to this amendment, , declaring the laws of Kansas null and void, were read * and rejected vy yeas 88, nays 89. ‘The House concurred in Mr. Sherman’s amendment, offered yesterday, by yeas 91, nays 86, as follows:— | Yeas-—Messrs. Albright, Allison, Ball, Barbour, Bennett of N. Y., Benson, linghurst, Ws shop isa, por Mey ‘Bren- fell of Penne Clawson, Colfax, Le ‘ragin, Way ‘uraback, ‘Danirell, 4 , Duriee, Edie, Buurie, Flagler, uloways iddings, Gilbert,’ Granger, Grow, Hall of Mas Marrent, Holloway, Horton of N. Y., Horton of ‘Ohio, ‘Hous ton, Kelsey, King, Knapp, Knowlton, nem: Kunkel, Leiter, + Malteson, McCarty, Miller’ of N. Y., Moore,’ Morgan, Morrill, Mott, Nichole Norton, Oliver of N.'Y., Parker, Pelton, Perry, Pettit, Pike, Pringle, Purvianes, Ritchie, Sabin, Sage. Sapp, Sherman, Simmons. Spinner, Manton,’ Stranahan, Tappan, Thurston, Todd, Trafton, Wade, Wakenian, Walbridge, Wai burn of Me., Washburne of Til, ar urne of ys. Broom, Burm Caruthers, Caskie, Col ob! Crawtord; Cullen, Davidson, Davie of Md., Deniver, Dowdell, Edmundson, Engiish, Eustis, Faulkner, Fé Puller of Me., Goode, Greenwood, Harri Ala. of Haven, Hoflman, Houston, Jewett, Jones of Tenn., Kennett, Kidwell, Kuiiht, Lake, Findley, Lumpkin, Mardhall of Ky., Marsball of [iL Maxwell, Miller ~ Puls of Ind., Millson, Packer, Peck, Phelps, ‘owell, Puryear, Quitman, Keade, Ready, Ricaud, Rivers, Ruin, Savage, Se~ Wa eborter: Stati of tenn, Suiits of Va., Smith of Ala., Seed. Btew eward. Swope, Taylor, Trippe, Tyson, Une derwo lk, Walker, Warner, Watkins, Whitnev, ve s, W inslow, Wright of Miss., Wright of Tenn, Zolli coffer. The bill was then ordered to be engrossed, by 9S aguinst 80. Befere the vote was announced, Mr. Camp, (nigger worshipper) of Ohio, said—Having been assured by Mr. Washburn, of Maine, that the Senate would amend the - bill by taking out the obnoxious feature, he would © record his uame in the affirmative. Ile should feet. constrained to separate from those with whom he-.| usually acted in the vote on the amendments of Mr. Barbour and Mr. Sherman, with reference to Kaa~ sag, as they were introduced in violation of the rules and | ueage of the House. It was the duty of the Committee y o¢ Tervitories at an early period of the ave introduced a measure proposing a proper y for the difficulties in Kansas. Now, seventeen thousand men were employed io defence of the Panta. coast, meeting danger in every form, yet, goutlemer, proposed substantially to withhold supplies from the army, because ip 1804 a legislative miswke wat made, Why Was pot such a proviso as that on which the Howe was now about to vote attached to the Deficiency pill, which contaixed an appropriation for the supo lies o members’ Why had this matter been postponed till he end ofthe sess on? He wished it distinetiy understoog he would go as fur as those that would go fartnest for timate legislation relative to Kansas, bat he onsent to the accomplishment of the objec’ ct manner proposed. Ns explained why restriction in the Deficiency bil. did not move a cimilar aying it would not have been germane to attach it to a measure providing for the pay oft members of Congress; but tbe House was now for the support of tho army which the Prasi« using to overthrow the constitation, The nt which Mr. Campbell complained of was to the constitution and the rights of we people executive usurpation. Would his cotleague aid sident to overthrow the liberties of his country? A pood hit. reas replied that Mr. Giddings knew well that appre ‘iativus for the army were in the Deficiency bill. (Campbell,) understood taat some similar provie eiont were to be attached to other appropriation Dilla, the effect of which would be to defeat them. He was un- willing to take the respovsibility of withholding supplies from the various branches of the public service, until the House shail bave done its duty in sending vo the Senate ome bill by which all the troubles in Kansas bs be settled. He would favor it upon its own merits. If the Senate, in defiance of the public will, should refuse ac- qmescence, then he would favor withholding appropria- Uons as a last resort. Mir. Gippies again wanted to explain, Mr. LDsON objected, Mr. Gupmiace—I wish to know whether the gentlemam from Louisiana (Davidson,) has taker whe geardiansuip| f my coileague. Mr. Castymet:—I can inform my colleague no man has) the guardianship of me. Mr. Grppixos—1 want my colleague to understand he propose! to yiell the floor like a gentieman, bet the gentieman from Louisiana (Davidson) anicrtoos w cons tre! my colleague. Mr Camrnete expressed his belief that the laws of Kane| sas were founded .o fraud, and said it the Committe om| ‘ary bring in a bill to repeal them he woald vot if the repeal of the Kansax-Nebraska act, for organizing shew and restoring the Missouri comp ase a political party had one a he Executive exercives bis functions Pirit of usurpation, he should nct embi apriation bills. quence of the wires being interrupted by storm aid lightaing, we are unable to get the ovacius of our report. Ret} WasimoRN ewid bis faith was in a committee conferences rather (ban in the Senate, The vill then passed, by a vote of 60 against 50, ‘THE VACIFICATION OF KANMAM On motion of Mr. Dexx, (nigger worshippar): of Inet the House recomsidered the vote by which wae reterr to the Committee of the Whole on the State of tt» Uni sion is mace for freedom of speech and the pre oaths, of whatever kind, are prohibited, and eragl or vsval punishments are notto be allowed. All Grim Prosecutions now pehding in any of the of Vansas imputing to any person the crime trearon , and all crimipal prosecutions fur violation or disregard whatever of what aro known as the laws of the Legislature of Kanena forthwith be dismissed, and every person thus of his liverty releaeed.’ The bili ako restores the e reatriction, provides for the encouragement ot ut and of education, and repeals ail of as Nebraska and other acts in confliet with this oti Mr. Syeep, N.) of Tenn., moved that the bis be on the table. Motion lost, by 77 against 93, Mr. ner nh substitute waa then agreed to, and the thu jed pagwed, by & vote of 58 against 74, as Bishop. Tradsha: Brew » Brathan: Gecapeel radehaw,” Brenton, on, Penasylvenia, Campbell of Ohio, Chaifee, Clawson, Comina, Covode, Cumback, Damreil, a Dunn, Dariee, Bale, Rewards, ir Gilbert, Granger Grow rison. Haven, Holloway, bn jughston, Kelsey, Kine. 7 Reni kel, Mattenct, Korri Nichols, Norton, 01 Pring! Cart aan 7 eaud, Rivers, ‘Ruthn, Havers: Shorter, mnith ‘of Tenn. Va.. Peed, Stephens, Stewart, Swope, Taylor, Tt wood, Valk, Wniker, Warner. Wathlng, Wisieow, W Misa. | Wright of Tenn., Zollicotfer. Recess til 7 o'clock. From Washington. Wastiseros, July 2%, 1856, ‘The young man, Jarboo, tried tovtay in the ourt for the murder of Nalley, by shooting him for eduction of his sister, has been acquitted. The were on y out about fifteen minutes, and on the arnoa ment of the verdict the crowd expressed their joy by ersive applause, and eagerly pressed forward to pratolate the av ‘Wrer Cresren, Pa. July 20, 1866, A large and enthusiastic democratic meeting was in this place to day. Bloquent speeches were made Judge Bell, Dr. Worthington, R. E. Managhan aad oth Large Fire in Boston=Several Lives Bostow, Jaly 29, 1866. A destructive fire occurred in North street this ‘noon, destroying Jefferson block and se vera) tet in the rear, aod at the corner of North and Ciark also, a stable owned by John Seaver. Jelferson ‘was occupied as a grocery and clothing store, and several families, ant was owned by Cornelius ‘The buildings destroyed were mostly occupied by families and an sailor boarding houses. By falling Charles A. Warren, @ fireman, wns Killed, aod oibers batly injacd, The bodies of & a,