The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1856, Page 4

Mexico as tt Was and Is. The high and patriotic position taken by Gen. Comonfort in the conduct of his government, gives the sincerest pleasure to the friends of liberty in the United States, The hearty sup- port he receives from the people at home, is also a subject of congratulation, and it is easy to per- ceive that if this state of things can be main- tained for a year or two, Mexico will at last take her true place among the nations of the earth; and, indeed, it is high time that this most beauti- fal, fertile and rich of countries should realize a sense of its dignity, and emancipate itself from the fetters of ignorance, superstition and venality, with which it has been so long enchained. The difficulties which have hitherto proved so serious an obstruction to the onward progress of that State, are to be attributed entirely to the overwhelming power of the Church. Never was there such an imperium in imperio as this. The governments which were not pleasing te the priests had no stability. When there were two parties contending for the supremacy, whichever the Church inclined to succeeded. The Archbishop, with nine bishops under him, all having cathedrals and chapters, except the prelate of Sonora—with 185 prebendaries and canonries, 1,200 parishes, and a regular and secu- lar clergy amounting to 10,000 persons, was no inconsiderable personage. Of the regular clergy, 2,500 reside in the capital, and the orders of the Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites and Merce- arians possess 150 convents. The salary of the Archbishop is $130,000 per annum, that of the Bishop of Puebla was $110,000. The remaining bishops receive altogether about $200,000 more. Ithas been extremely difficult to ascertain the real value of the general property of the church. No administration has yet been able to getat the truth. Some years sinee the following was admit- ted by the Archbishop te be the value :— Real estate in town and countr; Chur bous onvents, furniture, je precious vessel Floating capital.. eer JAMES GORDON SE BDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, pen areinrnee @WFFICE M. W. CORNER OF KASSA0 AND FULTON #78, —————e 13, cash os advan. RALD. 9 conte per 87 por annum. FEE serene eee or oe EE ene rns oe Wir at BG, Telume XX1.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, +++ -<sMe. 213 GARDEN, Broadway—TY on ta8 mB! louno Huxaues ent ‘Karey, THE VivaNpipRE—VoOL-a0- VENT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Pimates or tap Mussis- @rri—Po-ca HON TES. GRO. CHRISTY & WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broad) Oww-Fasmionep stYLe oF Ermioriam MIBsTAELST. DUSAELDORP GALLERY, 497 Broadway—VaLvams Paawnnes 4Np StaTUARY—MaztrEpom oF Huss, &e. New York, Friday, August 1, 1856. The News. The union Democratic State Convention at Syra- euse yesterday nominated the following ticket for State officers:— Governor... Amasa J. Parker, soft shell. diet. Governor John Vanderbilt, of Kings, hard shell. nai Com’r.. .Jobn L. Russell, of St. Lawrence, soft shell. Prison Inspector Mat. Brennan, of New York, soft shell. Clerk of App’s..H. G. Warner, of Monroe, hard shell. The ticket for Presidential ele:tors is headed with ‘the names of Addison Gardiner, soft, and David L. Beymour, hard. The district delegates, a list of whose names may be found in our report, are nearly ‘equally divided between the two factions. Resolu- fions as Jong as the nursery ballad eulogis- tie of the exploits of that marine hero, Captain Kidd, and ringing the changes upon the stereotyped party catchwords with a mo- notony equal to that for which the ditty alluded to 4s distinguished, were adopted with “ enthusiastic applause.” A telegraphic message from Mr. Ba- ebanan was read, announcing that the union of the ards and softs is one of the “grandest events in our history!” It will, however, be perceived by our re- port, that this “ grand event in our history” was at- tended by some circumstances leading irresistibly to the conviction that the democratic factions are yet bitterly hostile to each other, and also that by the merest chance the Convention was saved from ‘breaking up in an old fashioned Tammany Hall free fight. In the Senate yesterday the bill directing the payment of the California war debt bonds, upon erder of the Commissioners, was passed. The Secretary of War was requested to communicate in- formation respecting roads running into the inte rior of the country from the Military Academy at West Point. A number of river and harbor im- provement bills were passed, among them appro priations for Newark harbor, Big and Little Sodas and the Delaware Breakwater. In the House the day was spent in discussing the merits of the Kan" sas contested election case. Pending the readiag of @ paper on the subject from Gov. Reeder, who is ly- ing sick in Philadelphia, the House adjourned. 1: ia believed that Gen. Whitfield will be rejected, but ‘that the seat will not be given to Reeder. The main question will no doubt be decided to-day. The ceremonies attendant upon breaking ground for the erection of a reservoir and water works for Sarnisbing the citizens of Brooklyn with wa‘er, took piace yesterday, six miles from Brooklyn, near the Cypress Hills plank road. John H. Prentice, Mayor Hall, Drs. Storrs, Bethune and others, made appro priate addresses, which will be found elsewhere fully reported. The Commissioners of Health, a3 shown by a re- port of their yesterday's session in another colamn, are beginning to close up such slaughter houses in he city as are deemed prejudicial to the safety of the public health. It is a good moye in a right di rection. Meanwhile, the Commissioners wish no official announcement as yet of the progress of yel- Jow fever at Quarantine. It is sufficient to know that thus far there is no ground for the slightest alarm on the part of residents in the city, Advices from Port Louis, Mauritius, of 12th of May, swy :—The cholera, after carrying off nearly 1,500 victims, may now be said to have left the town ; in the meantime, it still continues its ravages im certain parts of the island. The shipment of the last sugar crop is drawing to a close. The next crop promises to exceed that just completed. The weather continues fine, but rains would greatly benefit the plantations, which are generally forward. If they are so favored the crop will be commenced early, which means in July. The semi-annual meeting of the Know Nothing Grand Council of the State of New York wil be held at Syracuse, on Tuesday, the 26th of Aug ist Among other business to be transacted will be t). .: of appointing the place for the State Convention of the American party, which is to nominate candi dates forthe State offices to be elected next Novem ber, and also a Presidential electoral ticket. This Convention will be held on the fuurth Tuesday of September next. The following table exhibits the number of killed and wonnded by railroad and steamboat ac idents during the month just closed, the number of lives Jost by fires, and the amount of property destroyed by conflagrations. Fires which have not destroyed property estimated at twenty thousand doliars are not enumerated: — Sp Tere Patent 90,000,000 fully believed this sum is not more than one quarter of the true amount. The Signor Lendo de Tegada, who is now at the head of the finances, asserts with perfect confidence that the real property of the clergy is of the value of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred mil- lions of dollars. In the city of Mexico, containing five thousand houses, worth eighty millions of dollars, the church owns one-half, and the in- come has been estimated by the Minister at twenty millions of dollars, The estates in mort- main alone, amount to fifty millions of dollars. Waddy Thompson, our former Minister at Mexico, was of the opinion that one-quarter of the whole country belonged to the priests, The quantity of gold, silver and jewels in the churches is great enough to pay the whole foreign and domestic debt. A single balustrade, about three hundred feet long, in the cathedral of the capital, is sup- posed to be worth a million of dollars. Is it any wonder, then, that the people of Mexico have been one of the most wretched among ci ed nations? What would we think had we a religious body among us owning one- quarter of the United States, with a larger reve- nue than that of the government, interfering in every political movement, and exercising special authority in all cases of deaths, marriages, wills, education, crimes of the clergy, and putting the canen law before the civil on every possible oc- casion? Suppose, too, the power which claimed all this authority was not only irresponsible tothe government under which it existed, but should be able to cut off, by interdict, any obnoxious indi- vidual, by church discipline, from any intercourse with his fellows, and that they could be made to , have no transactions with him, andavoid him as they would a leper—what should we think of a country where such things were permitted? Yet this has been, until now, the condition of Mexico: and the struggle is not yet over be- tween Comonfort and the clargy. They will not part with their ill-gotten wealth without a etrng- gle. When the patriotic Gomez Farias, in 1834, during his brief Presidency, proposed the seizure of the church property, and the measure was likely to be adopted, he was very soon upset by a counter-revolution excited by the clergy. Gen, Comonfort must take warning, and lose no time in making his policy irrevocable. The church property should be disposed of in tode- rate parcels and at moderate prices, and as many proprietary interests should be established as possible. at once. In this way, the people, from tuotives of interest, if nothing elee, would stand ly the government in the struggle for entire emancipation from church oppression. Let him look ot Sardinia, which is going through the same difficulties. The Church ‘there has inter- dicted its religious offices to all those who take open part with the government. This inter- ference with a superstitious race is one of the most dreadful of evils, and the stateemen of Turin find themselves greatly embarrassed by thie powerful spiritual interposition of the clergy. In both cases, however, the experiment of liberation, if persisted in, will succeed. The mind, once emancipated, becomes endowed with more than mortal strength in its opposition to priestly tyranny. Let those who seek models in moments so criti- cal, read the history of the brave Hollanders, who resisted for so many years, amid seas of blood the horrible tyranny of the bigoted Philip oi Spain. Among the plans which the government of Mexico entertains for benefitting the country, ix one for establishing four colonies of emigrants on the line of road between Vera Cruz and Ja- lapa. The decree of 10th of May contains the following articles:— Article 1. That there shali be established in the terri tory on the sides of the road between Vera Cruz and Jn. lapa four colonies on thore points where the soil is most fertile the climate healthy and excellent, and which parts the governor of the department will designate with the approbation of the supreme government. Article 2. The territory that shall be designated for the four colonies, will be cecupied for the public good, and the proprietors who bold \t now will be indemnified ae is bed 4 by] Article 5. For every colony there will be destined 11,600 sores, tu oF ich 1,000 Will be reserved for the pince where the future yi or cit 0,000 will be given for culvration’ eet Article 4. From every 1,000 that shall be reserved for the — a ban «| of the colony, each colonist shal! receive for bie residence twenty meters and one bungred length, to build upon. Tr Article ¢ ten thovsand acres will also be divided between the colonists, #0 that every emigrant ebail re ceive for his use one hundred acres Article 6. For the first three years the emigrant shall pay no duty whatever, or no contrilvutions of any kind All emigrante will be permitted to introduce tothe colony, tree of duty, al! kinds of grain, field and agricultural io struments, and whatever they bring for their personal use or for that of the place of their residence. Offices are being established in New York Philadelphia, Boeton and Baltimore, for the purpose of assisting emigrants to reach these colonies :-— Any person desiring to emigrate must apply to the agent, ano he is immediately taken to the Mexican Con. who gives him a certificate on @ printed letter of recommendation, This certificate he presents on hie ar- Foal atthe port of Vera Cruz, and immediately receives ® free parenge to the place of hie destination. He ha also the privilege of importing, free of duty, all articles Jor egricaltoral or personal use The beet plan to opt in going to Vera Croz ie to go py GE Poguar uke eetebushod Yelween New yuk aud Wounded by tire + +44481,121,000 It is aid that the water in the Ohio river is present lower than has been known for years, © ing an almost entire suspension of navigation to al! points above Cincinna’i. The sales of cotton yesterday were limited to a few bundred bales, without change of importance in prices. Flomr was firm, with fair transactions, At the opening ales were made at an advance of 5c.a lOc. per bbl. The market, however, closed tame,and the advance was scarcely maintained. Wheat was quite firm, with more doing in New Southern, at $1 80 a $1 86 for white, and $1 70 a $1 75 for red. Canadian was also firm. Western common to medium and good qualities were 3c. a Se. per bushel higher. Corn was in good demand, and sound ebipping Western mixed reached 6%c. a Géce. Rye sold at 5c. Pork was lower, with sales of mess at $19 624 a $19 75. Sogare were steady, with sales of about 1,500 8 1,600 bhds. Cuba muscovado, at prices given in another column. The wtock embraced 66,133 hhds. against 309,649 at the same time last year; and 14,006 boxes against 22,846 last year. It will be perceived that the eup- ply of bhds. are largely in excess of the let of Angust, 1855, while the number of boxes last year greatly exceeded that of this year. Coffee was in fair demand, with sales of 2,000 mata Java nd 1,100 bags Rio, also small lots Laguayra @nd St. Domingo at steady prices. Freighte were heavy, and engagements moderate. Byoors axp Kerrr.—These gentlemen have bean xeturned unanimously to Congress by their respoctive constituencies. They go to Washing- ton with a cleaned record. It now devolves upon thent 40 win new characters for themselves. Be- fore Mr. Brooks committed bis unjustifiable as- sault on Mr. Samner, and engaged in his dispute with Mr. Burtogame, which, according to the code of honer, terminated as disastrously for his reputation as the former affair, he bore a fine charneter and was generally esteemed. Mr Keitt, too, enjoyed a large measure of public es- term. They have now lost this, It devolves wyon them, fn the eighteen days which are le. th: m. to try and win hack what they can; we be. ew or them a fair trial, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, i856. Vera @roz, which leave tho former port monthly, and make their passages in from fourteen to twenty days. The government bas published a decree that all ves- sels currying immigrants to Mexico shall be free of tonnage taxes. This liberal policy caunot be too much com- mended. If little North American ¢migration is to be expected, Italy, France and Germany will contribute largely. But one thing is certain, Unless the secular power of the church is entirely brokea up in Mexico, it can never hope for stability. We hope sincerely that the pes eat 0: the country will adhere inflexibly to it policy. Exrrosioy oN Boarp THE Expire Svare.—We have received from our special reporter the pro- ceedings of the coroner's jury, held at Fall River, over the victims of the unfortunate explosion o. | board the Empire State. The report contains all the testimony taken up to Wednesday night, and will continae to be published as fast as it is re- ceived. The most rigid scrutiny should take place in seference to this calamity. We believe the line to which this steazuer belongs carries more freight and passengers than any other on the Sound. Large numbers of ladies and chiléren are always on board, and public confidence has been placed in its good management. Buta great calamity has occurred, and the causes of it must be thoroughly investigated. It will be seen by the testimony that the starboard chimney was heated red hot | at its top, and that the circumstance caused some | alarm, but that an engineer who was spoken to on the subject stated that it was not dangerous | nor unusual. The testimony df Mr. Hill, the local Inspector for the district, attributes the ex- plosion to a defective sheet in thesteam chimney, which had been overheated for the last twomonths, although iron becomes red hot at 1,000 degrees, and loses its strength at 600 degrees! Lhe tes- timony of Mrs. Sarah A. Douglass was important inasmuch as she deposed that she had heard Mr. Ketchum say to his wife, that the boat was not fit to goin; that there was a hole in the boiler; that he did not wish to go that trip, and that the boat would prove a coffin for all on board. This testimony was confirmed in its important parts, by Miss Cook, who was present at the conver- sation. It is also in evidence that a number of boilermakers were on board for the purpose of making usual repairs, and, according to the chief engineer, the accident was owing to the great heat of the fire, which “ took the life out of the iron,” melted the rivets, doubled up the sheet (of the flue) in the chimney, preventing the es- cape of the steam up the smoke pipe, and drove it through the furnace and ash pan. This expla- nation is not satisfactory, and further examination will be necessary. A defect in the flue is admit- ted to have existed by an engineer, and one fireman testified that he was afraid of the flue! If this is so, it was criminal in the owners and officers to have ran the vessel at all until it was repaired. To carry thirty-one pounds of steam pressing upon a de- fective flue was a dangerous and an unwarranta- le experiment. The steam chambers (an Ame- rican idea) which surround the lower part of the smoke piper on board of our steamers, are con- sidered an economical contrivance—they heat the steam to a high degree, increase its elasticity and power, and give more effect to its expansion. But as they are not surrounded with water, and are heated intensely in the inside, they soon lose their toughness and strength, and require con- stant care and watchfulness. A very few weeks’ service weakens them materially. Under these circumstances, it is of the utmost importance that the public should know all about this casualty, in order that they may understand what are the risks they run in travelling in steamers. The American practice of carrying high steam in low pressure bojlers—for itis nothing else than this—may give speed. but it is the cause of most of those dreadful accidents we are 80 often called on to record. The system of United States inspection does not seem to work very well. Explosions fright- fully increase,.valuable lives are continually lost, and nobody is to blame. We will recur to this subject again when we have obtained the remain- der of the testimony. Tney arn To Have ax OnGay.—It will be seen from our Lancaster correspondence that the demoeracy are really to have an organ in this metropolis, and that Hon. Robert J. Walker is to be maestro of the troupe. This new organ, under Lis control, is to start upon a capital of $100,000— more or less. We presume that the chief aids of Mr. Walker will be Mr. George Sanders, Mr. Daniel E. Sickles, and the sachems of Tammany Hall. Occasionally, we shall also look for a con- tribution from Kinderhook and from the Ki:chea Cabinet at Washington, with reguler official in- structions from Col. Forney. Mr. Walker, since leaving the Treasury Department, has occupied himself in various extensive land and railroad speculations, and, if we are not mistaken, has failed in all. We fear that in this newspaper enterprise he and his assistants will more sig- nally fail than in lands or railroads, and that they will soon swallow up the hundred thousand upon which they are to start—that is to say, if they get it. But we shall see. Undoubtedly, Forney is frightened; unquestionably, the democracy here are sadly in want of an efficient and circula- ting organ; but we await the solution of the ex- periment of Mr. Walker & Co. to supply thie hiatus, Pacific Railroad stock will hardly do for paper makers, compositors, pressmen, &c.—there must be some money in the outeet. To this end, we have no doubt, that contributions, large and small, will be thankfully received by Col. Forney To give a democratic organ. in this city, at this day, a large cireulation, it must be largely ciren- lated “ without money and without price.” Joux Mrrenen ox mis Sits Agars.—Our old acquaintance, John Mitcbel, the Irish refa- gee, who pined #0 long in these latitudes for a plantation with plenty of fat niggers on it, is understood to have obtained the gratification of his desires in Tennessee; and is now beguiling his idle hours by discoursing on Presidential affairs. John, like many another man, has been converted hy Governor Wise, and on the strength of the proepect of the rise in the market value of niggers that is to follow the election of Bucha- nan, comes out boldly for the democratic candi- date. He sneers at Fremont—pool-poohs Fill- more—no one will suit John but the candidate who is to make his fat buck niggers worth five thousand dollars hard cash. Sut there is no rose without its thorn—no Presidential candidate, whatever his views on niggers, without hie blemish. John has an ol» jection to Mr. Buchanan. He bears a grudge against him in hie heart. The reason is, that once upon a tine. when Mr, Buchanan was in England, he wae asked to dinner by the Lord Mayor of Lo:.d nd there. in the presence of great scp aod Women, and lords aud ladies; be actually (we shudder to write it) behaved him- self like @ gentleman, and did not tell these Britishers, of both sexes, what villains and wretches they were. He did not once insult them. Wor this manifest want of principle John has met forgiven Mr. Buchanan. Had he but called one lord a rascal, sworn-once at a noble marchioness, or thrown but single salt cellar at the Lord Mayor's head—had he, in short, but for one short minute allowed his Trish blood to guh out in the Mitchel fachion—he would have een a perfect man, the beau ideal of » Presiden- tial candidate. We sympathize with Mr. Bu- whanan on the faux pas which prevents his re- ceiving the unqualified support of so great a patriot as John Mitchel. Tue Great Grog Question at WHEATLAND.— While yet the democratic and Know Nothing organs are discussing the nativity and Catholi- city of Fremont, the baptism of his children, and the wealth or poverty, as may be convenient, of his Mariposa purchase; and while some of the antiquaries of the republican school are inquiring into the Irish Catholic antecedents of the late Mrs. Fillmore, and the Cathalic education of her amiable and accomplished daughter—now also in the grave—a new question, and a question more apropos to the Presidential issue, has been started up among the party journals at Lancas- ter, near Wheatland, in Pennsylvania. This question, as described by our Lancaster corres- pondent in Tucsday’s Heraxp, is the great Wheatland grog question, and the specifications of the anti-Buchanan journals are so very plau- sible, and sustained by such credible testimony, concerning the administration of the domestic government of the old bachelor’s hall at Wheat- land, that we cannot dismiss the eubject without a few passing remarks, The Laneasterian and Intelligencer, now the home organ of Mr. Buchanan, declared in 1852, that “for months past it is notoriously known Mr. Bu- chanan converted bis residence into an unlimited _ tavern stand, where all were invited to call and partake of his liquors, the qualities of which he was by no means modest in extolling, free from any other charge save ‘the health of Bachan- an’ In this manner,” it adds, “night after night has he sought, by making men drank, to secure from them in their drunken moments pledges to support him.” This is positively frightful, and gives us a shuddering redollection of Forncy’s letter to Roberts, touching the For- rest divorce case ; but the same Lancaster autho- rity further declares that “these things have repeatedly been transacted, Sabbath after Sab- bath,” and defies an honest denial. Who could have believed it? and yet the very fact that Mr. Buchanan has lived all his life a respectable old bachelor, affords at once a substantial ground of belief. The philosophy of the case is very simple. Anold bachelor, living in a retired country house, cannot flourish upon bogks and newspapers and his three meals a day. He needs something more. Man is a social animal, and cannot exist as a rational or useful man without society. Put him in a house as the master and mistress, and the administration of ite affairs will inevitably run into disorder, and he must necessarily fall into outside social substitutes to supply the absence of wife and children. He will gather about him a circle of jolly good fellows, vagabondizers, wild young chaps, and free and easy old codgers, of the par- ty to which he belongs, who will drink his wines, flatter him, humbug him, and mawage him. just for example, as Col. Forney and his set have managed and are managing Mr. Buchanan. A wife in the house admits of no euch family ar- rangements. But how could we expect a genial. well-to-do old bachelor, for twenty years, more or less, a candidate for the Presidency, to escape such associations and amusements? It is said that Mr. Buchanan, in the flower of his manhood, was crossed in his first love, and never had the courage to look after another. It is said that the young lady, driven to despair by the despotic course of a hard-hearted mother. took laudanum and died. It is also stated that, with this lamentable result, Mr. Buchanan, in his desperation, attempted his own life, and that the consequence was a contraction of the muscles on one side of his throat, which gave him that kink or twist in his neck which he carries to this day. At all events, according to the reports of his own friends, his love affair was badly managed, and a case of criminal folly on all rides. The young lady, failing with one beau, should have resolved to succeed with another; or the young gentleman, to eave her from the cruelty of her mamma, should have plucked up the courage of a cavalier and carried her off and got married, even by a Catholic priest, rather than fail. That's the way Fre- mont did, and he had “Old Tom Benton” to bat- tle with, a more terrible enemy than a legion of old women. Had Mr. Buchanan done 0, he might have been President twenty years ago; but having failed, he may be defeated in the only possible opportunity that can ever be offered him for winning the White House. The position of Mr. Fillmore, as a widower, is better than that of a bachelor; but not so good as that of a man with a wife and children around him. Mr. Fillmore, however, if rumors be true, is casting about him for a lady to do the honors of the White House by authority, should he be elected. While at the St. Nicholas Hotel in this city, he presented, ina very suggestive way, a splendid bouquet, of the largest size and adorn- ed with ribbons, red, white and blue, to a most charming little widow, the very person for the office to which he aspires. This lady, too, like the late Mrs, Fillmore, is of Catholic descent, and hence there may have been something in that bouquet besides the roses. Who knows? But Fremont, as a married man—married to the woman of his choice, too, in spite of her father, and that father the terrible Benton—holds, from thie great established fact, a mighty advantage with the people over both the bachelor candidate and the widower. Jessie has been woven into the poetry of the campaign—men, women and children sing the praises of Jessie, and her popu- larity gives a warm and romantic freshness (o the popularity of Fremont. How much better all thie than the solitude of an old bachelor’s hall, or those demoralizing scenes so graphically described by Mr. Buckanan’s home organ, as having trans- pired at Wheatland. In fact, a man qualified for matrimony, worthy of a wife, and able to sustain a family, in failing to make the contribution of a family to the State, as an example to his fellow citizens, has failed in a most important duty to society, to his country and to mankind. Finally, as every one of our Presidents, up to this time, has been a married man, thas marking thg established Presidential policy of our people, we ‘hink it safest to adhere to this rule, at least until tie great grog question at Lancaster shall have beert fettled to the complete acyuittal of Mr, Pughevan, Oox Foxnicn Visrrers.—We published a:cou- ple of days ago a petition from a number of Italian exiles, setting forth that they had been tricked into leaving their-country by the Italian authorities and the American Consul at Leghorn, Mr. Binda, and praying that the representatives of Tuscany and the Pope be condemned to sup- port them till they were masters of the English language and had learned a trade. As the peti- tioners were Italians, natives of a land where no-decent administration of justice, of civil or political liberty has existed for generations, we must not be too much surprised at the prepos- terous character of this request. But we may feel surprise at the premises on which it rests, The petitioners allege that our representative at Leghorn was a party toa conspiracy got up by the Tuscan authorities to get rid of them; that he deluded them by stating that they would get $2 or $3 a day in America. This isa grave charge, and from our knowledge of the character of Mr. Binda we have no hesitation in pronounc- ing it to be false. That gentleman may have in- formed the exiles that wages as high as $2and $3 a day were paid to skilled mechanics in this country; and he may, seeing the wretched condi- tion of the poor fellows at home, have promised them that with industry, economy and rectitude, they would soon be better off here. And if he said this, he spoke the bare, the obvious truth. More we do not believe that Mr. Binda ever said. The degree to which this country is victimized by these foreign exiles is becoming alarming. Not a fellow comes here with the badge of out- law, or refugee, or runaway convict, but he ex- pects us to throw our hats in the air about him, to feed, clothe, lodge and honor him. It seems to be a settled principle in certain minds that the best qualification for the dignity of an Amurican citizen is insubordination and intolerance of es- tablished authority; that a man has only to prove himself a bad Englishman, or Frenchman, or Italian, to prove that he must be a capital Ameri- can. We must beg to be allowed to wait a little longer before we can admit this; and as for the exiles, a little hard work on the roads or the canals will do them all the good in the world. City Intelligence. Coxmissionrns or Hrart.—The Commissioners of Health met yesterday, at noon, at the City Hail; the Pre- sident, Isaac O. Barker, E'sq., in the chair, and Walter F, Concklin, Secretary. The following vessels, just arrived at Quarantine, were ordered to vend their cargoes to New York, on lighters, within fifteen days after their arrival. Brigs Philadelphia, from Port au Prince, and Eudora, from Cienfuegos. Scheosers Pollux, from Fagardo, 1’. R.; aud Harriet Neal, from Narguabo, and Thomas Bradley, trom Ja- maica, Park Juliana, trom Trinidad, Cuba. ‘The crews of the above vesecls were al! reported well by the Health Cificer. In the case of the Thomas Brad ley, the allotment of fifteen days was stipulated in case the crew remained well. The fotiowing versels were directed to send their car- goes to the city, immediately, on lighters, the vessels to remain at Quarantine for proper ventilation and fumi- gation. Steamship Tennessee, and schooners W. C. Merschon, from New Orleans, and H. bps port from Matanzas; ana brig Emily, from Turk’s Island and ‘The brig Wm. R. Kibby, from Rio Grande, with a car- go composed of hides, bones, horns, hair and wool, was ordered to land its cargo on lighters, out of t ie State. The brig Osceola, from Humacoa, was directed to be wlowed to come up to the city within ten days. ‘The steamer Isabella, from Charleston, $C, was or- dered to remain at Quarantine thirty daye. The passen- gers were directed to be detained at Quarantine several cays, until it was deemed judicious by the Health Officer to permis them to come to the a: A petition of the Captain of the bark P. Thompson, fom Matanzas, to be permitted to send on bis eamgo forth- with to New York cr Brooklyn, was granted, the instruc. ticns ef the Commiseicners as to the proper ventilation of the cargo having beeu complied with. A similar petition from the capta‘n of the bark Geo. Leshie, from Cienfuegos, was laid on table. The following resolution was passed :— Whereas, The slaughter house 218 Mott street is in a filthy condition, the blood and filth running from beneath the door and into Resolv. ed to uiters, therefore |, That the City Inspector be, and is hereby direct ve the killing of ea tle on the said premises discont. diately, the premises thoroughly cleansed and pu- slaughter house closed fortiwith, until the first of November. The slaughter honee at 161 Second st ect, and others on whe tame street — complained of as nuisances, and Prejuciial to the public health, similar to the above, ‘were referred to the City Inspector for inquiry int» their condition, prelimiary to deine action thereon by the Com mirricners, Cesthat Paws Morrers.—The Central Park Commis sioners propose to rae the rents of the tenements within the Park grounds, making an important additional re- venue therefrom over the present amount received. There are, at present, in the vicinity about five hundred houses on the grounds, all of which are occupied. The vocation of a sufficient number of them, is however, ex cted to take place to to make room for policemen elenging to the Central Park Corps, a part of the stipula ics with whom were, tenements to occupy free of rent. As yeta majority of the policemen have no such tencments. Notice to vacate the number necessary for wre by policemen was mace some time since—the vaca tion to be made today, Tt is stated that such vacation ¢ place, from rej ntations said to come ‘omptrolier, that the eave of notices of vacancy from the Commissioners 1s illegal. The propo- # tion to raine the rents, anticipated, will also be op posed on similar grounde. Meaowhile the whole work ofthe park laying out i# delayed—the policemen get no pey—ca‘tie and boys roaim about freely over the grounds, doing serious injury to the shrubbery and grounds gene- rally. A® a settlement of the legality of the position and instrnetions of the Commissioners, they propore to sub: mit the case to Mr. Shepard, the Corporation Counsel, for bw legal opinion. The optmuion will be given in a few ays. Demwy Excixes on tue Hepsow Riven Rannoap —The dommy engines, some time tiuce in uve on the Hudson River Railroad in drawing cars from the Chambers street #tation to Thirty -first street, and reversely from Thirty- firet to Chambers street, it is stated are again to be in- troduced in afew days. In this case, it is said, the use of horses, as at present, will be done away with entirely. The present number of borses necessary to be employett tre not far from one hundred. The reason why dammy engines have 'not been used Le J is uncer to be on acceont of an ordinance prohibiting their use by the Common Connell, the restrictions of which have now been removed. ‘The great objection urged against these dummy engines, is the increase darger of running over pedestrians, particularly ebiidren. it is claimed in their favor that their use is a great 1g of horse flesh—a saving to the railroad company. last,"ut not least « saving of time to partengerr. Tax Frexen Scrrennes.—The Joint Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, French and American citizens, announce that they are desirous of cloring the collections for the eufierers by the innadations in France by the 15th of Avge, intending at that late to remit the fands which ma: wwe been collected. The absence of many citizens, other causes, bave led to delay in procuring sub teri . and those who intend to aid are requested to send their donations to Lewis Curtis, Eeq., Treasurer, at No. 15 Broadway. It is hoped that citizens, now at the 78 and wat ring places, will rend in their donations, lew York has never backward in responding to claims upon ber sympathy, and it is desirable that on this cecasion &@ sum should raised in keeping with her wealth and commercial importance. Mr. w 8. Root is authorized to solictt subser’ . FERNANDO WOOD, President. Ecorse Lestiino, Vice r t ; H. Gruxwent ) Presidents. nraer Leary A. Hoover, | secretaries. Lewes Crete®, Treasurer, 73 Broadway. Avotien Prize Fiowt.—A gang of disorderiies left one of the docks of the Seventh ward on Wednesday, in a steam boat which they had chartered, to attend a prize fight on Riber’s Island. The police did not seem to be aware of what was going On, as no efforts were made by them to intercept the rowdies, and it is supposed the pugilists bad their Hight uninterrepted. Pony Recovaren.-The body of John Devlin, who was drowned while bathing in the dock foot of Bast ‘Twenty-first street, on Sunday aflernoon, was recovered yesterday, and conveyed to his late residence, 206 Fast ‘Coroner Connery held an inquest “Accidental death.’’ Decsased and 21 years of age. Fouxp Drowsp inquest was held on Wednesday ‘upon the body of known man, about 35 years ot age, found drowned in the Fast river, near the foot of Stanton tirect. Deceased was low in stature, had short brown hair and corly whiekers, and was dreseed in a black frock coat, blue cloth pants, check sbirt, &e. Verdict-- “Death by drowning Free is Cnarttoy Strerr.—Betweon 1 and 2 o'clock on ‘Thureday morning « fire broke out in a German bakery, kept by Henry Sheets, at No. 67 Chariton etreet, The firemen very eoon ext neuiehed the flames, The fire was caused by a defect in the top of the oven, which the floor over it. Parmage to the bakery ‘about $28, and to the building abovt the same amount. The premises are owned by Mr. Daniel Wileon, ard insured in the Pa- cife Insurance Company for #1,000, The bakery was not ineured the choice ot ite resident citizens merely bocas bad reported « resolution that the contestant was enti nn THE LATEST NEWS; BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPKS, Interesting from Washington, CALIFORNIA WAR BONDS—INDIAN TKEATIES—THE KANSAS CONTESTED CASE—RETURN OF BROOKS AND KEITY, ETC., LTO. Wastixctoy, July 31, 1856. 1 advised you that Secretary Davis refused to ackuow- ledge the war debt bonds of California, until the original evidences of debt were produced, To avoid this difficulty, the Senate passed an amendment to the army bill, re- quiring those bonds to be paid on the order of the Com- missioners appomted by California. They amount tc eight hundred thousand dollars, Mr. Broom’s bill for liquidating the accoun‘s of Reyo- lutionary officers, which paseed the House yesterday, was read in the Senate to-day, and referred. ‘The Senate is grinding through river and harbor bills, Nineteen passed to-day, involving an expenciture of hal a million. The total amount proposed to be appropriated for these objects,is upwards of three million dollars. A message was received to-day from the l’resident, covering several Indian treaties. ‘The House has been the theatre of an excited debate to-day on the Kansas election, which will continue during to-morrow. Ata late hour a written speech was reccived from Gov. Reeder, with a uote from Dr. Greeu Wat Reeder ‘was lying dangerously ill at the Merchants’ Siotel, Phila- delphia, The speech was partially read by the Clerk, when the House adjourned, Reeder assumes that the scat in Congress is vacant, and it is competent for Con- g-ecs to admit a delegate under an expression of pepular wit, without any of the forms of law, and urges that he be thus admitted. I understand that the game of the republi- cane will be this : Gen. Whitfield is to be rejected; but lest he thould go home, and be immediately returned again to Congress under the existing laws of Kinsas, the re- solution proposing to admit Reeder is not to be fully acted on, but laid on the table. Under strict parilamentary Jaw this would suspend matters only, and no vacancy could be declared by the Governor ; but under the prac- tice of the House I doubt not the Governor would regard the regolution as defeated, and order another election. ‘A daughter of Gen. Cass is lying dangerously ill, though something briter . Governor Garey was conilmed by the Sezate to-day without opposition. Hy procecds forthwith to Kansas under instructions froin the Presi ent, Gen. Lane says he does uot intend to padli-b a card im reply to Burlingame’s. Brooks and Keitt, I understand, will be here «> Sxturday, to be sworn in, They have made eight bunired detlar apiece by resigning, inconetrvctive milage—laying at the springs during the time. Indian Commissioner Moneypenny fs out in a letter th morning§ in which he compietely*annihilate: ex-Govern Reeder. ~The California land scheme was defeated by thirty maa, jority, not three, as the assozieted press reporter says. The Senate will come toa direct vote on Mr. Dunn’ bill, re-establishing the Missouri Compromise, and rejec| it. It was supposed they would dodge a vote on it. Colonel Richardson bas returned from Illinois, and ports that State good for Bucaapan by thirty thousand Teast. ‘The whole number of land warrants issued ander thi act of March, 1855, to thia date, inclusive, amounts 168,475, embracing more than 19,000,000 of acres; 9, warrants were issued during July. The Navy Dey ment are gending out new commissions to the naval ficers recently contirmed by the Senate. The United States steamship Minnesota left the Nay Yard this morning, and is now uchored off Alexandr’ She will leave on Friday for» .“elphin, THIRTY-FOU2. it CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Senate. Wasuinctox, July 21, 1856, CALTORNIA WAR BONDS, The bill directing the wanner of payment of the fornia war bende, was passed. Roane 4: WEST POINT. On motion of Mr. Skw.nn, (vigger workhipper) of 3 Y., a resolution was adopted, calling on the Secretary War to report Whether the public int-reste require an i rovem ent of the roads connecting West Toint with tl nterior of the country lying westward thereof, and it what is the moet practicable and expedient inode of ng fuch communication, and the expense thereo:. RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENT ‘The following bills were then passed :—Te improvement of the Des Mois Rapids in river; to continue the improvement in the bi Newark, New Jersey, Conneaut, Huron, Fairport, As ula, Sandueki, Cleveland and Black river; to contin] bors of Buffalo, Hunkirk, Sodus and Littie Sod pletion of the breakwater at Burlington, Vermoat; also bite providing for the continuation of the improv of the Miseourt and Arkan<as rivers; also the bill to tinue the construction (1 the breakwater on tae cast 5: of Keedy Island. Adjourned. pan ee House of Representatives. Wasinsetow, July 31, 18! ‘TAR KANSAS CONTESTED ELECTION CAs Was taken up. Mr. Wasineny, (nigger worshipper) of Maine, tended that the election of Mr. Whitfel! was wit! authority of law, and be comes here as th choice of the minority of the resident citizens of K vasas; th fore he is not entitled to the seat, The clotion un which Mr. Reeder claimed was equally witho | au of law; but inasmuch as he is the chow o & number of residents than those who voted for Whitt the committee recommend that he be admitty to seat. To deny to Kanens the right to be heard ts choice was manifested outside of legal forms, and enrily £0 tecause the law making power was dew by foreign violence, is to deny Kanras the riglt te heard at all on the floor of the House, Mr. Sworm, (dem.) of Tenn., called attention to the that the Committee on Elections in other centesied o to the Feat, bot in in they poouenanen at tes be admitted. Was right or mi en te preva! Mir. Waster repeated Meat aenher Whi ner Reeder bad been choren by exiting In the present case, the committee bad folk wed the cedent set concerning Wisconsin and the Miunesots ritories. It was competent for the House to admit Reeder as a delegate, Mr. Smrrv said that Mr. Reeder had no legal right, yet be would admi; him. Srermmex«, (national) of Ga, taking | urn, remarked, where there is @ torial ly entitled. ia the case by the gent jved government, bet in Kansas provision is by law for the election of a delegate; 1 Ca did not ly. in the course of his alluded to the en of Mr. Sherman's a to the Army bill,eaying that a majority of te thue evinced thelr desire to strike down tho main of liberty, namely, the right of the to bear ae secured by the constitation. he saw things he despaired of anything being @ bebaif of law and order—the constitution beg ey hipper) of Ohi ir. ni i'r worshipper, in, Mr. Oliver's, (isin Mo., report of the ay rating C and matntained the trath of ths regrees, was an upoa truth Inatond ot acl the major't, anras ® und of groesest tradicted b; record in thecase. The statement Vane and we the fictitious stories of Mun Culliver and the Arabian Nights, To the locdy movements of the Congressional Aid Seciot: erp men say tl 5 tore than the South, be wae willing to tell them from the very bottom of their shoes. Mr. OvivER, of Missouri, contended that under tl lation providing for the Kansas Investigating they bad no authority to inquire into the validity legialative Assembly it was @ violation ci ever: pie of law, and degrading in bis colleagues on nittee thus to transcend their powers. He ask ther the House was willing to trample on law by ti g Mr. Reeder? Were men to far lost to justice ceney a8 to war ofaech a monstrosity? He elieve nmtil it was eo recorded, and then he t with ehame and mortification. Wasrnvnry, of Maine, asked that the # Reeder be read Mr 5 Scveral objections were interpoeed, but were withdrawn, A letter from Dr. H Green, dated Philadelpbia, was fret rend, etating that Mr. coulned there by eickuess, and wishing some