The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1856, Page 4

GARDEN, Broadway—Tas Cooruss—Yours peeuaes tae Ticut Rore—M'tiz Rosget w Two GraxD Pas—ltaves BriGasps. \WERY THEATRE, Bowery—Prmarss ean res pe Deux sy MULE). HEpvaRpE—Poca-HOn-ras. BORGER CHRISTY'S AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, No 444 Bronaway—Ou> FAasmiONED SC¥Le oF Kraorran MIN- BYREL=Y, ‘LLER'S EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—Parniorio edb lisceuassous TaBLECx—Mousical SORER. SSELDORF GALLERY, No. 497 Broadway—Vatossie ? pny AND StaTuaky—MantrRpom OF Huss, £c. Wew York, Thursday, July 31, 1856. ‘The News. proceedings, full reports of which are found else- where in our columns, passed off harmoniously. The reunion of the long separated sections having deen duly consummated by the softs going over to the bards, the ballotting for a candidate for Gover- commenced, and on the fourth trial Judge Amasa G. Parker, having received a majority of tbe votes cast, was declared unanimously nomi- nated. The nomination of Judge Parker is a de- cided vietory for the Central Railroad interest. He was the candidate of Corning and Company, and is of soft antecedents and proclivities. Fernando Wood's partizans, perceiving there was not even the shadow of a chance for their favorite, withdrew his name after the third ballot. Horatio Seymour received a very handsome complimentary vote, but he peremptorily declined being a candidate. After the nomination of Mr. Parker the Convention ad- journed till this morning, when the balance of the State ticket will be completed, anda list of names for Presidential electors agreed upon. The news of the destruction by fire of the steam- boat John Jay, on Lake George, on Tuesday after- noon, created great excitement in this city, as it was known that a number of New Yorkers were on board. It appears, however, that six lives were Jost. namely: Mrs. Belknap, of this city; Mies C. A. Fleet, of Brooklyn; Mrs. Twing, of Boston; Mr. “Metcalf, of Cherry Valley; Miss Sherman, of Al- bany, and Miss Renshaw, of New Orleans. ‘The Arabia's mails reached this city from Boston last evening. Our Enropean files contain little news in addition to what had already reached us by telegraph from Halifax. We have, however, full details of the revolutionary movement in Spain from ‘the moment when, on the 14th inst., General Espar- tero resigned hie official position, up to the period of the proclamation of the restoration of quiet in Madrid. It is asserted that Espartero did not resign, but that he was ignominiously dis- missed by Queen Isabella, acting under the influence of political intrigue directed from Paris by Queen Christina. Very bloody scenes were enacted in the streets. The slave trade—particular- ly in Cuba and Brazil—had been noticed in the Bri- tish Parliament. It isthought that the action of the United States government in relation to the Sound @ues would have a good effect in Europe. The militia riots in Ireland had ended, but a dreadful party fight had taken place between Irish Orange- men and Ribbonmen in England on the_12th of July. Reports from Italy were still alarming. The Commissioners of Emigration, at their meet- ing held yesterday, took action to make public the extent of the yellow fever at the Quarantine. Here- after the Resident Physician is to report the number of cases, together with particulars, daily, at the Commissioners’ office in this city, for the public in- formation. It appears that two persons, a Castom House officer and an Inspector, from this city, caught the yellow fever on board am infected vessel in the barbor, and died. Several of the employés on the island also have died, a cargo of rags from an Ha- vana vessel being the instrumentality by which the infection was spread. The rags were sunk in the harbor yesterlay. Every precaution is being taken ¥ confine the disease to the Quarantine grounds. In the United States Senate yesterday, a substitate to the bill to regulate the compensation of members of Congress, proposing that they shall receive ‘twenty-five per cent additional to what they are now entitled to by law, wae referred to the Committee on Finence. The bill authorizing tne Postmaster Gen- eral to contract with Mr. Vanderbilt to carry the mail between New York and Southempton, was reported vack, with an amendment making it the daty of the contra:tor to extend the tripe to Bremen and Havre, or alternately t those ports, without addi- tional compensation, and made the special orde: for Monday next. An animated devate was had on the bill to continue the improvements in the harbor of Newark, without disposing of which the Senate ad- journed. In the House of Representatives the bill providing for a settlement of the clatme of the offi- cers of the Revolution. and of the widows and or phans of those who died in the service of the coun- ‘wry, was discussed and passed. The Kansas elec- tion case was postponed until today, when Mr. Washbarne, of Maine, gave notice that he should move the previous question. The California land bill was laid om the table by three majority. The for- tification apprepriation bill was debated during the alance of the sitting. The evening session wae de- voted to the usual political discussion. In the Straite of Belle Isie, om the Ist inst., during a violent hurricane, thirty-two vessels were wrecked, and nearly all on board perished. Indeed, the entire coast of Labrador was visited by a storm of unex- ampled fary, and the fishing vessels of New Eng- jand have doubsiess been severe sufferers. A terrific storm of rain, thunder and lightning, passed over the city last night, about twelve o'clock. ‘We hear by telegraph of similar storms in various parts of the country. In several instances consider- abie damage has been experienced. The Secretary of the French Relief Committee acknowl] edges the receipt by him of $10,175 up to date of July 29. There was a fair supply of animals at the varions cattie markets yesterday, with » moderate demand, owing to the excessively hot weather, at prices about the same as reported last week. Beef cattle ranged from 7 to 10 cents per pouni ows and calves, from #28 to $75; sheep and lam! from #2 to #5, and veais from 3 to 7 cents per pound—all according to quality. A drove of cattle, all the way from Texas, bronght 10 cente per pound—the highest price paid during the day. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to abéut 500 a 600 bales, based apon middling Uplands at about Ilfc. Floor was firm and active, at about the previous days quotations, including parcels for export. Sales of wheat were more limited, but prices were wel! supported, especially for choice jote, which were scarce. Corn vas firm, with fair sales, closing at higher rates for lots of Western mixed, in good shipping order, which sold as high as 624. Pork was heavy, with soles of mos at $20. Sugars were firm end active. The sales embraced about 1,500 hdds., 800 of which were . and Too do. were Porto Rico, at prices stated in another colamn. About 1,100 bags Rio coffee were sold at 10je.a 110, The Hannah Thorn’s cargo, of 3.500 ‘bags of Rio, advertised to be sold by auction on the Jat of August, was disposed of yesterday, for export to the Mediterranean, on private terms. Freights were rather easier for grain to Liverpool, with more oferieg. ‘The Presidency—T" se sewth—The Slavery and Dist ton Questions. We lay before or ,r readers this morning three interesting letterr from the South, on the Presi- dency, the slav’ ry question, and the ultra Seuth- ern policy of. secession and a separate Sorthern confedersty. ‘The first is from Mr. Senator ‘Toombs; the second is from a prominent Georgia politician, emplosing the note of Mr. Teembs; the third is freasa Virginia farmer. The particular point in the note of Mr. Toombs is his declaration Or ipse din, that « the election of Fremont would be the end of the Union, and ought to be.” His Georgia friend adopts this opinion, and appeals to our patriotism, in a very complimentary man- ner, to support Mr. Buchanan. The letter of the Virginia farmer is an able, comprehensive, at- tractive, plausible, and logical argument, but, we apprehend, a most delusive one, in behalf of se- ession as the true policy of the South. We shall not undertake to answer this deliber- ate essay of our “ Fauquier Farmer” in detail. We have other customers just now to deal with. ‘The presentiments which we entertain, and which, we believe, are entertained by the mass of our readers, in reference to the consequences of a dis- ‘olution of the Union, we are content, for the present, to rely upon, as the antidote against this fascinating, but deceptive disunion appeal. We are sorry, however, to learn from a source so in- telligent as our “Fauquier Farmer” that “disuni- onism, which, at one time, was regarded as a leprosy, confined to South Carolina, is now a sentiment sown broadcast through every individual slave State.” We cannot think so. On the contrary, we do think that our corres- pondent is here as wide of the mark as in his opinion that the world is on the verge of the millenium, “ when the lion and the lamb sball lie down together,’ and when wars shall only exist in history and tradition; and that secession, and the organization of the South into an independent republic, would be to such republic the inaugura- tion of a long career of uninterrupted peace and unrivalled prosperity. Nor do we hold the exist- ing European balance of power, and peace, to be synonymous terms. The present condition of affairs in France, Austria, Italy and Spain, would rather admonish us that a pacific, self-sustaining balance of power in Europe is still a problem to be solved by war. Nor can we recognise the ap- plicability of this European system of checks and balances as a reliable medium of peace between the North and South in the eveat of the division of this Union. With these general remarks, we are constrained to avoid the broad field of argu- ment into which our « Fauquier Farmer” would invite us, and to turn to Mr. Toombs and his Georgia friend, and their concurrent opinion that the election of Fremont would and ought to be the end of the Union. We agree with our Georgia correspondent, and have always maintained similar views in regard to the African and to Southern slavery. The African is a child of the sun, is incapable of self-government—is adapted to the cli- mate and the field labor of the tro- pice—has been socially and morally elevated under the slavery system of the South, beyond any advancement of his social or moral condi- tion in any other country, under any other gov- ernment, or in any other age of the world. ‘These are historical facts; and it is also true that under our Southern system of slavery the Afri- can (useless, and worse than useless, as he is when left to himself.) has been made a powerful agent im the developement of the prosperity and power of this republic, North and South, and in the diffusion of the blessings of civilization throughout the world. We are inclined to en- dorse the especial logic of our Georgia corres- pondent—that Providence has ordained the civili- zation of the world—that the first step in the civilization of a savage is to put a cotton shirt on his back—that slave labor is indispensable to the production of the cotton—and that, consequently, the institution of Southern slavery lies at the very foundation of the great work of civilizing the “outside barbarians” of the human family. In admitting all this, however, we do not ad- mit that « the election of Fremont will and ought to be the end of the Union.” Here Mr. Toombs and his Georgia friend sheer off from the high read of safety and common sense. and here we part company. This disunion sentiment of Mr. Toombs is but the echo of the same absurdity from Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Buchanan, the Presi- dential rivals of Fremont. And who are these disunion gentlemen, and what are their antece- dente. that they should thus boldly assume to dictate the point of revolution against the will of the majority of the American people? Mr. Fillmore rose into political life over the dead body of a counterfeit Morgan. and upon the humbug of anti-Masonry: he bas subsequently flourished upon free soil and whiggery, and now is he col- lapsing upon the humbug of Know Nothingism. Mr. Buchanan entered the political world as a fe- deralist, and flourished upon federalism while it lasted. and in his old days he has become the prince of filibusters. Mr. Toombs has teen a whig, a Georgia unionist; but has lately joined the de- mocracy of the secession school. Such changea- ble chameleons are hardly to be relied upon asa standard of color. Yellow one moment, they may be green the next. Mr. Toombs, however, no less than Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Buchanan. has his reasons for deciaving that the election of Fremont will and ought to be the end of the Union. With Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Buchanan, this thing is a competition for Southern votes. With Mr. Toombs it ix the bigh- way to the continued favors of his slaveholding constituents. He believes, perhaps, that the election of Fremont will be the entering wedge to the abolition of slavery in the South—in the establishment of an anti-slavery administra- tion, We believe no such thing. He thinks, most likely, with our “ Fauquier Farmer,” that the seeds of secession have been sown broadcast throughout the South. We believe on the contrary, that there is an overwhelm- ing conservative body of Union men in the South that have been entirely overlooked by Mr. Toombs and al! other secessionists, as we shall presently show. First, however, in reference to Fremont. His platform may not be quite so attractive to South- ern secessionists as that of Mr. Bachanan or that of Mr. Fillmore. But Presidential platforms are Presidential cheate, They amount to nothing. Look at that of Polk—54 40; look at that of Pierce—“No further agitation of slavery. Our only reliance is the man, and our only guarantees his pact history, instincts, education and assncia- tions, In this view we have shown that neither Fillmore nor Buchanan are anything more thon temporizing politicians; and Mr. Toombs nee not be told that their instinets, education and as sociations are those of Northern men. On the other hand, Fremont was born in the Sonth, eda- cated in the South, and all those associations and ineting ato the fixed character of NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1856. the man, in the case of Fremont, belong tothe South. He may be opposed, like Mr4Clay, to the extension of slavery into free territory; but let him reach the goal of the Presidency, that highvst aspiration of the American, and let him thus be free from the partizan divisions of a Presidential canvass, and we dare say that the South will find him, from his early instincts, edu- cation and associations, true to their constitutional rights, and his administration of that broad and general character which covers the whole Union. Next for this point of secession. It strikes us that our secession correspondents, to whom we devote this article, are as much deceived in their estimates of the feasibility of disunion asin the advantages which the South are to derive from a separate Southern republic. Let us bring a few statistics to bear upon this question, According to the census of 1850 there are 347,- 525 slaveholders in the Union. Of these the num- ber holding over five slaves is 165,000. Deduct ‘women and minors, and the aggregate of voting slaveholders owning over five slaves will proba- bly be reduced to 75,000. Taking this number as the political basis of that party in the South which regards slavery and the extension of slave- ry as the Alpha and Omega of the Union, and as the test of secession, we have 75,000 men at the back of Mr. Toombs and his secession pronuncia- mento, We assume that with those persons owning only five slaves or less, the Union is more important than Kansas or the defeat of Mr. Buchanan. But taking the whole number of Southern voting slaveholders, large and small, at three hundred thousand, and as secessionists, there is yet, of Southern men who are not slaveholders, the pow- erful force of five hundred thousand voters, ac- cording to the Presidential returns of 1852. ‘These five hundred thousand men are not of the Southern aristocracy of slaveholders. Butit is this aristocratic minority which speaks for the whole South. The non-slaveholding white population have no newspaper organs, no electioneering agents, no vent, no voice in the politics of the day except their silent vote. Yet a late Charleston pa- per has let us into a most important secret, to wit— that not only is there a large body of Southern men opposed to the secession extremists, but op- posed to the institution of slavery, or at least to its further extension. Why should this not be thecase? Do not the non-slaveholding Southern whites hold ihe same relations of antagonism to the slaveholders that our Northern laborers do to capitalists, banks. railroad, manufacturing and other monopolies? Let the problem be brought to a practical test, upon a direct issue of seces- sion. for example, and Mr. Toombs will find, in this element which he has overlooked, the certain defeat of his calculations. We have an inkling in the way of a practical illustration in the Fremont electoral ticket of Kentucky—a ticket of highly respectable men, and some of them slaveholders, we understand. We may expect more enlarged illustrations of this sort before the expiration of the next six weeks. Indeed, we should not be surprised if Fremont were yet to prove more popular in the South than Fillmore, At all events, this ery of secession in the event of Fremont’s election is sheer claptrap and nonsense. There is arich mine in the popular vote of the South, which we have indicated, but which, still, in regard to this can- vass, remains to beexplored. Let Mr. Toombsbear in mind that there are 500,000 non-slaveholding voters in the South, against 300,000 voting slave- holders, at the highest estimate, and he will pro- bably lower his voice when he speaks of secession as the consequence of the election of Fremont to the Presidency—a man who is neither abolition- ist nor secessionist, nor yet @ slaveholder; but who is for the constitution and the Union, and who, though adopted by the North, is still a Southern man, representing the bulk of those five hundred thousand voters of the South who own no slaves, When Mr. Toombs shall have digested this branch of our argument we shall be happy to hear from him, for the benefit of Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Buchanan. Trautan Arrarrs.—The debate in the British Parliament on Italian affairs, which we published yesterday, has doubtless been very generally read, as it affords the only inkling we possess of the designs and attitude of the great Powers on the Ttalian question. It seems that Austria and France have both expressed a wish to withdraw their troops from Italy as soon as they can with safety. France and England have also applied to the King of Naples, demanding that his Ma- jesty provide some security for persons and pro- perty in his dominions; but, according to the Earl of Clarendon, the King’s reply has been “ most unsatisfactory.” No doubt King Bomba has insisted on his right to imprison his subjects and seize their property as often ax he chooses. The Parliamentary opposition, by the mouth of their spokesman, Mr. Disraeli, have availed themselves of the obvious opportunity to twit the government with their alliance with the Em- peror of the French. Mr. Disraeli exposes with some effect the absurdity of talking about enfore- ing the evacution of Italy, when England's great ally and coadjutor is the chief invader of Italy and the actual occupant of Rome; and further sneers at the talk about wresting liberty of the press from Austria, when. as the conferences showed, the greatest enemy the press had in Jg- rope is the Emperor Napoleon. But all this mere oratory. The point of the affair is, that Louis Napoleon and the British government are committed to a line of interference in Italy. Where that interference must tend it ie not very difficult to see. As the British statesmen very properly remarked, the establishment of red republican governments in the States of Italy would only render fresh interventions a necessity; and as between the other forms of yvovernment and a revival of Muratiem, there can be yury little doubt that the last would be the bret. Lonis Napoleon will not be the man to announce this truth. Thatduty he will leave to hie ally, the British government. Men in Fagland will pro bably discover that the best iterests of the Italian peniusula require the consolidation of a government of the Bonaparte stamp, just about the same time as the Spanish turn in disgust from their revolutions and resign themeelyes to the plocid control of a depot. As we said yerterday, a new ists pending in the horizon: bnt thie time ¢ ment will have a head. for good or for evil, seeme im P moVe- | Heserw ov rae Ciry.—The showers of Them day and Teed night were followed by an- other scorebing day, and no great change of ait bas heen obtained. More caution than usual must therefore be taken to gnord against the moisture which is followed by an intensity of heat, Our city authoritic:. including the Super- intendent of Streets sud Lamps, must do their duty more theronghly than ever, and if they are io bwy to hunt up the pools and stagnant | waters, the sunken logs and the dirty gutters, the taxpayers must do it for themselves, We understand that since the publication of Tuesday’s article, the Street Inspector has, very properly, stirred himself in the Twenty-second ward in amost lively manner. It is hoped that the piles of dirt heaped up by the sweepers in that quarter will have been removed ere this, or the sweeping will have been useless. At the gable end of 267, in Forty-third street, there re- mains still a most abominable nuisance, which should be attended to. We are informed that large holes in Forty-second street, corner of Ninth avenue, require to be filled up, being com- mon receptacles for stagnant water. Between the Fourth avenue and the East river, above Twenty-third street, there are many tpots which might as well be put in order. Our authorities must go and look at these places for themselves. It is a scandal that nothing can be done with some of these worthies, as with some police officers, unless you go and do their work for them. If a complaint is made, hey require the complainant to become evidence, prosecutor and attorney, while they (well paid, too, for this very business) sleep in their arm- chairs, or go in for another round at dominoes, It is a matter well worthy of consideration, whether the offices of City Inspector and Health Wardens, twenty-two in number, should not be filled by medical men. The public health is the public safety, and how can those men be trusted as its guardians who not only cannot learn, even by following their own noses, where nuisances exist, or when found, do not know how to abate them. A correspondent would like some of these officials to tell him what constitutes a healthy atmosphere? When is a house properly ventilated? How is air affected by large masses of people, and why? Why has personal and general cleanliness a decided effect on the public health? How do diseased meat and decaying ve- getables produce disease? We understand that these questions would puzzle some of the incum- bents considerably. In the meantime we insist upon it that the citizens should unite. as one man, in requiring our sanitary laws to be fully and faithfully carried out. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Melancholy Catastrophe on Lake George. BURNING OF THE BTEAMBOAT JOHN JAY—FIVE LIVES ‘Lost. Worrenart, July 30, 1806. The steamer John Jay, on Lake George, was destroyed by fire, near Garfield, yesterday afternoon. A number of the passengers and crew perished. The following bodies have been recovered: — Mrs. Belknap, of New York city. Miss Repshaw, of New Orleans. Mr. Metcalf, of Cherry Valley, N.Y. Mrs. Twing, of Boston. Miss C. A. Fleet, of Brooklya. Five in all. ‘The following passengers were saved :— George Bell and lady, Miss M. P. Bell, S. T. Roberts, and Miss Mary Roberte—all of New York; Wm. G. Angell and lady, Providence; C. A. Harrington and lady, Shrews- bury, Mass.; J. H. Palmeter, Glenns Falls, N. ¥.; Miss Palmeter, do.; F. J. Arthur and daughter, New York; Thomas W. Adams and lady, Newark, N. J.; J. A. White and wife, New Orleans; Aaron D. Weld and wife, West Roxbury; J.S Crafts, C. F. Young, Mrs. W. F. Herbing, Mrs. W. H. Harding, Miss Helen W. Blanchard—all of Boston; Miss A. H. Weld, Miss Alice Weld, R. H. Weld— all three of West Roxbury; J. E. Sheffield and two daugh- ters, New Haven, Conn. ; Samuel Fleet, Robert Spier, Jr., Laura A. Spier, Samuel F. Spier—all of Brooklyn; D. M. Babcock and lady, J. C. Babcock and lady, of New York; W. R. De Garmo, Fort Miller; A. G. Crowell and lady, New York; Albert Van Winkle and sister, New York; George Hicks, Brooklyn; James W. Kins, do.; J. Pritchard and lady, Miss C. Goff, 8. C. Thwing and son, of Bosten; Miss Fila Kent, Roxbury, Thomas Belknap, Mary Belknap, Miss C. L. Metcalf, M. V. Metcalf, of New York; J. H. Braggs, Miss Todd, of Harrisburg; Miss Susan FE. Spangler, York, Pa.; James Potter, Glenns Falls; Hugh Hamilton, Fort Edward; J. P. Phenix, w three daughters, and the captain and crew were all saved. It is supposed that one other body may be under the wreck, but it is merely supposition. The vessel is burned to the water's edge. The fire is said to have been caused by the burning of pitch pine wood, which choked np the smoke pipe #o as to drive the fire and smoke into the firerom, compelling the freman to retreat to the deck for air, without giving bim an opportunity to close the doors of the fire boxes. The eparks quickly ignited the wood work overbead and the boat was fonveloped in flames almost instantly. The pas- sengers blame the captain for not rumning ber on shore immediately, as she was near a sandy beach at the time, inetead of allowing her to go on, for the purpose of trying to put out the fire and savieg the boat, and at last being compelled to rum on some rocks. Others attach no blame toany one, and say that the captain did everytuing in his power to prevent the catasiropbe. A fuil investi- gation of the affair is to be bad. Ainexy, July 30, 1856, Mise Sherman, sister of Josiah J. “herman, of this city, is one of the killed on the steamer John Jay. The Empire State Disaster. Farr Riven, July 30, 1856. To-day, Increase 8. Hi), Inspector of Steam Boulers for the District of Boston and Charleston, testified that he ex amined the boilers of the Empire State on the 27th of May last, when they were in perfect order. He thought the immediate qauve of the accident was a defective sbect in the steam chimney; the sheets show imperfe weld. ing, and appear unsound, the bojlers appear to have been gradually weabened by overheating of the steun chimneys within the last two monthe: if there had been no defect in the iron, and the chimneys bid been staid by rocket belts aad washers, he did not think they would have given away, be did not think the heatiag alone would bave caused the accident, but regarded the defective sheet as the primary cage’; be cou! ! not gather from the engierers and firemen that there was any ew. cers of pressure at the time of the accident beyond what ‘eae allowed by the Inspector; did rot think the en. ra bad, or could have bad, the slightest idea of William A. Douglase, examined—Occupied part of the house in which Mr. Ketchum, who was killed, resided. In iy Ay questions by Mr. Borden, the witness said that he bad bad merely familiar “how do you do” con verrations with Mr. Ketchum; had been told that his (Ketchum’s) wife wanted to go to New York the night cf the accident, but ber husband dissuaied her. and gave oe ® rensen that the boat was not safe for any baman being: bis wife and aunt told bim this, and they obtaine! their information of Ketcham’s wife; had never heard from ony otber source of the boilers being unsafe: heard it ea! that Retebum bad been to the twice that day to get ou from that night: he scemed to feel vad about going; did not of his having cnid that bavirg been absent from home two Sab- athe he should like to remain at home that trip he had been spoken to several hundreds of times on the subtect of the report, but did not repeat it more than bali @ dozen times; he aid not [a] the mpression tant he had the report ‘rom Ketchum himeelf but betieved that ne made the statements, and eo expressed himself; from ibe same source he was informed that Ketchum said he ‘expreted the boat would be bis coff A nrday night last, when he eald that he had York night, bot did not want to; said be 10 go to New hac been to the efhee twice that day, and Brockway would not let bim eff; his wife said ehe would hike to go, bot he replied, © Woman, the boat i not ‘it for you or any Woman being to go in; if it was not for thet, you might go,” he salt there was a hole ip the boiler as big as thal, (making a sign wtih his ban’, ndicat., about f : fT inches) and sh patch as bis table; he grid be did not ro fir rs right out of tis Foung out of the go at all;tont boat will mak: a witness never saw him so anwill ay Seturduy might, *t several po. © umes he eid the bot wag pot safe to go in, nut 0 reawon Why che wae wasafe; withers had wid othing mote than Ketehum raid bis wife was pro-ont wl the time; sbe did pot manift any fear of hie ¢ ag bythe boat: beard hie wife say on Movtay that i: would always blame Mr. Brockway forthe death of ler Lrsbond, as be made bim go. Miee Roth Cook ubstantially corroborated the for go ing withers. lw 1 ,ard to the eummoning of Mre Ketchum, it wax stated that she was nearly insane, and the inquest ad- jow at 634 o’clock till to-morrow q deck passenger, died of his injuries this Ini from Washington. BAD PROSPECT FOR THE PACIFIC RAILROAD SCHEMES —DEFEAT OF THE CALIFORNIA LAND BILL—COM. VANDERBILT AND THE MAIL CONTRACTS, ETC. ‘Wasmveroy, July 30, 1856. Thurlow Weed left here this afternoon, disgusted with the turn affairs have taken as to his Pacifico Railroad scheme. It is eald an effort is to be made to get the Com- mittee on Public Lands to report the bill, and probably Weed has gone after more ipilnence. But Congress will never agree to a bill giving forty milhons acres to @ particular company, especially one con- trolled by the New York Central Railroad monepoly. Great indignation was manifested to-day by the parties interested at the Henarp’s expose. The facts were cor- rectly given, and hence the squirming. It is dueto Mr, Washburne, of Illinois, to say that it is not his brother- in-law who is one of the corporators, but his intimate friend, Corwith, of Galena. There are two or three mem- bers of Congress large sharcholders in the New York Central Railroad who take an uncommon interest in the Pacific sebeme. The California Land Bill, to do away with the super- visory power of the Courts, and, by a sort of ex post Jacto legislation, confirm some four bundred decisions of the California Land Board, was de‘eated to-day by ade cided vote. The Hexatn’s explanation of this affair, some weeks ego, ca)led the attention of members to it, and hence its defeat. The House majority are in hopes of prolonging the session by delaying the appropriation bills. The Senate, however, is firm, and will adjourn on the 18th, and let the issue go to the country. Gen. Webb is understood to take a great interest in pressing Vanderbilt's application ‘or a majl contract. It will doubtless fail. Commodore Vanderbilt appeare? before the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads yesterday, asking them to report a bil! for him for carrying the monthly mail between New York and Southampton, at sixteen thousand dollars the round trip. The com- mittee, after a long session, tailed to agree. They bad another meeting this morning, and after hearing all the facts from the Commodore, finally agreed to report abil. Itappears there is considerable opposition to the old Commodore in committee. The bil] will come up for consideration in the Senate next week, on Wednesday. The committee propose several amendmente—one ex- tending the round trips to Bremen cr Havre, without ad- ditional compensation, Antwerp to be substituted ¥for either at the pleasure of the J’ostmaster General: and an- other directing tne Secretary of the Navy to give the no- tice provided for in the act of June 13, 1852, to terminate the arrangements for the additional allowance for trans- porting the mails between New York and Liverpool in the Colling line of steamsbips. Mr. Forsyth, the new ster to Mexico, arrived here yesterday. He left to-day, and will bo absent for a few days, until his instructions, which are being completed at the State Department, are fully prepared. ‘The state of things in California alarms the authorities bere a good deal. Quite a number of gentlemen who ar- rived in the last steamer called on the President to-day, to ascertain whether or not something cannot be done. ‘The President, ] am informed, refuses to interfere at present. The sparring between Senators Toombs end Benjamin to-day, on the constitutioual powers of the ,overnment, was bighly exciting, able and interesting. Mr. Broom’s bill for the benefit of the children and grandebildren of Revolutionary officers was passed by the House of Representatives to-day, and sent to the Se- nate. This bill, being identical with the one which has already passed the Senate, with a few slight amend- ment, will be taken up by that body and passed with- out delay. It gives half pay during the )ifetime of those officers whowreceived commutation of five years’ full pay, deducting the atsount of commutation, The bene- fits of the act are limited to children and grandchildren. The Fortifics tion bill was discursed in Committee of the Whole, but no vote taken Congress is favorable to for- tifying all seaboard towns and cities, but it is feared the bill will be killed by amendments ooking to local in- terests. ‘The Senate is still on the River and Harbor bills, ‘The Senate to day agreed to the amendments made by he Houte to the bill for the relief of the ofilcere, seamen and marines of the ill-fated sloop-of-war Albany, and the same only awaits the approval of the President to become a law. The Secretary of the interior has recommended to Con} gress the passage of a law Gxing the time within which the maps of the definite location of certain railroads may be fled at the general and local land offices. He suggests that the period of twelve months be designated for that purpose, applicable to the grants of land made at the Present session of Congress for railroad purposes. Other- wise, that immediate steps be wken by the proper de- partment for restoring any lands to entry and location which may have been withdrawn for such railroads, At Present there is no time fixed for fling maps or complet- ing selections of lands; and bence the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, made at the suggestion of Mr. Joseph Wilson, the acting Commissioner of the General Lana Office. Penni ani Politics. Westeunsren, Pa., Jaly 50, 185¢. The Democratic Convention assembled here yesterday. ‘The Hon, John Hickman announced his adhesion to the Cincusnati platform and to Mr. Bachanan, a proceeding which staved off the rupture for the present. Mayor Halloway, of Toptka, and Lieutenant Governor Roberts, of Kansas, addressed @ large and enthusiastic audience last night opon the wrongs of the free State settlers in that Territory. Unanimous Re-Election to Congress of Messrs. Kettt and Brooks. Cont §.C., July 90, 1858. The elections in Meeers. Ke wud Brooks’ districts have resulted in the wnanimous re-election of both A very large vote was cast. Ternado at Cincinnatl, &. CQwawxan, Jaly 30, 1856, Almost a tornado occurred here yesterday afternoon. Rain fell mn torrente. Trees were uprooted and awnings demolished. On Third street some buildings were blown Gown, killing one man and wounding five or six others. General Tom Thumb bas bad his valuable box of jewels and presents stolen, valued at $20,000. Terrific Storm and Martac Disasters Provixcetowy, July 50, 1856, A letter from Green Island, Straite of Belle Isle, dated July 7, speaks of a terrific storm which occurred there Jaly 1, during which, at that place, twenty-nine vessels went ashore, and three vessels off Dog Island were lost, with all on board. Only two of the vessels that went ashore are named—the brig Samuel Cook and the schoon. er Sarah Louisa. Three bundred and fifty four men were living in tents on Green Island. Only one vesee! there had ridden out the gai safety. Severe Storm at Carlisle, Pa. Cannisir, Pa., July 30, 1856, A very beavy rain and thunder storm occurred here last pight. Five barns and one dwelling were destroyed by lightning. The barns were filled with the entire crops. The losses are heavy. Other losses are reported in the county. Storm in the South, Wasmsctor, July 50, 1866, A terrific thunder storm raged here for an hour this evening. The only damage as yet known is the striking of the engine house of the Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, the frame projection of which was en- . tirely burnt, Rarrworn, Jaly 30, 1856, ‘The storm hae also been very severe here, but we hear of no damage. Sentence of Death, ernnat, July 13, 1956. Corrivesa, who murdered Mies Todd, at St. Homar, in Jonuury, 1966, was this morning sentenced to be hung at Quebec on the 26th of September. ‘The Niagara Outward Bound. Poros, July 30, 1856. The royal mai! steamehip Niagara sailed from here at noon today, with 18 passengers for Halifax and 83 for Liverpool, She takes out $871,332 in specie. The Fire in Boston, ‘The fire in North street, rendered elebty poor families hemeiess ani oar te all their bouse bold effects. Two more dend bodies baye been ro covcred from the ruins, making nine in all, TMMRTY-FOURTH CONGRE®S, FIRST BESSION. Senate. Wasmaton, July 50, 1866, ‘The Senate took upthe bill to regulate the compensa- tion of members of Congress. Mr. Collamer proposed a substitute, providing that they shall receive for attend. ance at the sessions twenty-five per cent additional what they are now entitled to by law. ‘The bill was referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Yuuex, (dem.) of Fla., from the Post Office Com- mittee, reported back the biil authorizing the Postmaster” Genera! to contrat with Mr. Vanderbilt for carrying the- mail between New York and Southampton, with the: amendment making it the duty of the contractor to ox- tend the trips to Bremen or Havre, or those places alter- mately, whenever required by the Postmaster General, without additional compensation for the round oa od also viding that Antwerp may at any time Substituted for either of these places. Another amendment directs the Secretary of the 'y to give the notice, provided in the act of June, 1852, to terminate, the arrangement of the additional allowance for the trans- portation of the mai! between New York and Liverpool. im the Collins line of steamships. ‘The bill was made the special order for Monday. ‘The bill continuing the improvements in the harbor of Newark, Now Jersey, gave rise to an onimated lebate, involving the entire scope of such questions. Without disposing of the bill, the Senate adjourned. House of Representatives. EVENING SESSION. Wasineroy, July 29, 1856. Mr. Corrax, (nigger Worshipper) of Ind., was made chairman, Mr. KELSEY, (nigger worshipper) of N. Y., opposed ‘ery and its extension, and favored the admission ol’ 8 with the Topeka constitution. Mr. Horrman, (national K. N.) of Md., insisted upom the importance of extending the time of natnralizationm probation to prevent political huckstering on foreign capi- tal, and to preserve the republic. Mr. CarvTmmns, (dem.) ot Mo., justified the repeal ot! the Missouri compromise. The only political act of bis life that he was asbamed of was his having joined the Know Nothings, whom he now repudiated. As anol? line whig, be gave tbe reasons why he preferred Mr. Bu. chbanan to Mr. Fillmore, who, he ssid, had no chance of an election. Mr. Tarra, (nigger worshipper) of N. H., iu opposing: slavery extension, said the Fremont party are only con- tending for the application of the principle to Kansas which Jefferson proposed to all the Territories of the United States in 1784. The democracy are now leagued: with the slave power aguinst freedom. About a dozen members were present throughout the » evening, and fewer persons than usual were in the galle- ries. Adjourned. WasninGtoy, July 30, 1856. ‘The House discussed the bill providing ‘or a settlement: of the claims of officers of the Revolution, aad the widows: and orphans of those who died in the service of the country, apd the bil! was then passed. The Kansas contested election case wae postponed until to-morrow, Mr. Washburn, (nigger worshipper) of Maine, giving gotice that he should then, at three o'clock, move the previove question. The bill expediting the issuing of patents for confirmed Jand claims of California was debated, and tabled by three - majority. The Fortication Appropriation bill was taken up and digcussed, and pending which the House adjourned. Yale College Commencement Exercises. NeW Haven, July 30, 1856. ‘The Yale College commencement exercises opened last night. The first was the Concio ad Clerum, given in the North ~ chureh, by the Rev. F. C. Jones, of Southington, Connec- ticut, of the clase of 1851. Advent.” The Rev. Joseph Thompson, of the city of New York, delivered an oration in the College Street Church, betore* « the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, on “Literary Culture for - Educated Men.’’ The poem was by the Rev. E. Johnson, « Iiinois. ‘The alumni meeting took place in Alumni Hall, at & o'clock this morning. John A. Rockwell, of the class of 1822, presided. Speeches were made by Professor Silliman, Professor Olmsted, Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island; Judge Wiiliams, of Detroit; Messrs. Lewis, Robinson, andC. |.. Thomas, of the class of 1853, snd several others. At eleven c’elock, Professor Tana delivered toa great eudience an address for the School of Science to be con- 1 ected with Yale College. At balf past two o'clock. Professor Park, of Andover, Jacnsonyille, delivered an oration in the North Church, on * Taste and * Religion as auxiliary to each other.’’ Jt was a remark- able production, and is universally commended. The Sootety meetings were held this afternoon. Linonian, Professor Tyler, of the Fast Windsor Seminary, presided. fnthusiastic speeches were made. ‘The class of 1853 have an all night supper ai the Ton- ‘pe Hotel. Joel 8, Sraith, of this city, takes the silver cup for bis Fon, the firat baby bov of the class. To-morrow the graduating class perform in the Centre + Choreb. The city is full of strangers, the hotels are al! overrun, . and the private bouses flied up. Arrival of the Sloop-of-war Plymouth. Posto, Juty 30, 1856. The United States sloop of war Plymouth, from Nor- folk, Va., arrived here this afternoon. The Alabama at Savannah. Savannan, July 29, 86. ‘The steameb!p Alabama, from New York, arrived here * to-day (Tuesday). Markets, PHILADELPRIA STOCK BOARD. Stocks dull. Pennsylvania State 5’ gl: Reading al al}. "8, q \- Poad, 45°%; Morrie Cana! 1414; Long Isiamd Railroad, 13. Pennsylvania Railroad. ON, New Ornrixe, Jaly 90, 1868, Cotton dull; sales to-day 1,600 bales; middling 100, 10Ke, Flour, $6 25, Corn’ 620. India bagging, 1910, Gupnies, 12%0. Sagar, 840. Tard, in kegs, Mie. Freights scarce and qi oted at 7-164. for cotton to Liver- pool, Sterling exchange 10 per cent premium. Atnany, July 50-1 P.M, Cort —Sales of 12,000 burhels Western mized, at 0c. Oate—14,000 bushels sold at 42c.. for State aad Ohio. A #mall lot of Genesee new wheat «old at $1 Kentucky new brought $1 $4. Whiskey, 37 Oxwrdo, Jul The supply of choice brands of flour is I mand is good. Sale of 00 bbis., at $7 a Canadian and Oswego. Wheat inactive—Sales 5.000 bush: els Canadian club, at $1 39 afloat. Corn quiet. Canad freighte— Flour, 29¢.; Wheat, 12c. a 124,c., and Corn 106, to New York.’ Lake ‘mporte—648 bbie. flour, 20,87 bushels wheat. 1.079 bushels rye. Canal exports—1,316 « bbls. four, 22.921 bushels wheat, 15,650 bushels cora, and 7,800 bushels rye. —— Bowery Theatre—Ernestine and Annie Hen rarde, the Danseuses. A well filled house greeted the second appearance of Mademotselles Ernestine and Apnie Henrarde at the Bowery last night. These are the young ladies whose romantic adventures and misfortunes have already beer: recorded in the Hrranp: and from the success of their: début betore a New York audience, we are justified in: Predicting their assumption of a high position at no very” dietant day. Their personal advantages are very great. The elder sister hae all the dignity, stately grace and re- pore of Soto, while the younger has a delicate coquetey and spiritvelle grace which was perfectly bewildering tor the sympathetic Bowery boys, who cheered them most: vociferously. Their “ getters over the ground" are got ‘p in magnificent style, and the ancles and ecco mpanl+ ments are perfectly bewitching. A Spanish pas de dewe was charmingly rendered, the elder sister taking the wale part. Every motion of tho younger sister is a study for an artist, with a form which might serve asa model for Venus—a piquant, betwiching: style, which aroused the audience toa hgh pitch of en- thusiasm. The face of the elder is more classic in ite vegular beauty, and she is an accomplished and gracefad Contevte, but she has pot the abandon, the enchanting grace of the younger, which makes every a picture, | seemingly but the natural ofa artietic peture. We sincerely hope and last night's success ie but the precursor of a series {triumph which wil! drown the memory of the an- leasent events which preceded their introduction American t atds. ‘The “Pirates of the Mississippi,’’ which hes provedi ulte @ card at thie estabiteh was played firet, and # exciting incidents ond really justifies the: uceess it lias attained, The Snnset on the we of the nicest things the “Father of Waters, by Moonlight” ig» good. Steamboat Explosion, at ther close, is alone worth the price of the performal as it giver a vivid representation of that too frequent phenomenon, without Wuiting one under the oupleasant: necessity of being persovally thixed up init. The plot ir ttartiing, and the incidents ce ye cme fe and naturally. The loca bits, relative to crime tn hig! places and the necessity 0: vizilaace committees to rectify great public evile, were received with gromt favor and ap. plavee, “ Pocahontas, * reaily one of the best of modern bari . ched the eveping’s entertainment. it baw been slightly altered. and several new local bits !nterpe- lated, King Powhatta: objurgation to bis quarreing savage subjects, ‘* Peace, haye done, pre think you'r {n Washi ” bae received af ditional poiat ince the play was fret produced, and made a great bit. AN the Bowery may now be set down ae @ success under the new management. The — is ordef of the day, aed foil naa good, prem, Ht s 8 plethoric trenenev. of course, follow. ight Dight’s bil wil be wot aye: His subject was the ‘Second - Tn the +