The New York Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1856, Page 4

4 WEW YORK HERALD. Ji BS GOR’ yo0 SEREBUE, DITOR 4 gp PROPEIZTOR ———oe OFFICE M. We COR gy oy NASSAU AND FULTON OT OO ry Seah ie Ee oe H Bap ry sheet anor She Erte Britain. oF Bio. My YS continent, ‘a TORRESPONDENCE, containing Wah rom amy ema of or une be at fe ey To Seat alt Larrmas anv Pace: “iio Notiie taken of anonymous communications. We do ADVERTISEMENTS renewed evory day. Welume XXI .. ... ~ ee Mies B14 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, RIBLO'@ GARDEN, Broadway-Sue Stoors ro Conquer —Tex Crock maxmn's Hat. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery—Pisares or raz Missis- warri—Pas pe Devx by MULES. HERRARDE—PO-Ca-HON-TAS., ‘WOOD'S MUNSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Ermioriay Mins- empisy—Harry Max BROADWAY ATHEN BUM, 654 Broadway—Dnawing Roox ExTERTAINMENT BY Miss’ PaNxy DEawE, ‘SSELDORF GALLERY, Broadway—VALvssue Phases 4x Tuscan Masereno or Huss, &e, New York, Sunday, August 3, 1856. ‘The total number of deaths in the city during the past week, as we learn from the official report of the City Inspector, was 746. Compared with the week previous the figures stand thas :— Week ending July 26... 85.76 205 631 Week ending Aug. 2 90 Me ols 259 746 Increase... > ‘= .& oe —as compared with the previous week, an increase of thirteen adults and one hundred and two child- ren. The following were the principal causes of death during the two weeks:— Week nding Week ending duly 26 Aug. 2. Diseases. Consumption. 2 45 Choifra sufant 3 199 Coolera. 4 1 Choiera 6 u Convulsions (infantile). 53 63 Diarrboa......... a 4l y t 23 10 16 aaenaes 8 5 (infantile) + 37 45 In addition to the above there were 8 deaths of apoplexy, 6 of bronchitis, 22 of con- gestion of the brain, 31 of dropsy in the head, 11 of croup, 6 of typhns fever, 19 of inflammation of the brain, 7 of smallpox, 9 of sunstroke, 11 of teething, and5 of old age. There were also 12 premature births, 39 cases of stillborn, and 5 drowned. Of the whole number 44 were in- mates of the public institutions. The followmg table gives the classification of aiseases and, the total number of deaths caused by each disease, during the two weeks ending Aug. 2. ** 165 5 BM Mt 6 : 33 * $1 Organs... .... 290 349 Uncertain seat and general fevers... 36 36 Gnknown to the jury. a i Urmary orgune + - The increase of mortality last week over that of ‘the week previous was caused by the deaths of chil- @rep under five years of age, asthe figures of the repert show, viz.:— Children wader 5 years, last week....... De. de. do. week previous. eaths in each ward during the last fortnight:— —Deaihs week ending Wards Tuly 26 Aug 2 | 2 7 2. 5 3 3. 5 o 4. iv a 6 (welades City liospital) 2 ae 4... toneee a4 a2 7 a8 59 8.. aL aT %. 238 2 14, 19 4 n 10 a9 12 (nciades Rad | and Wrd lela iipu.19 a Bo... a ss u 32 5 10 36 a 56 7 ‘ eee 8 bi 19 (wncludes Blackwell's Is). llosp ls. .19 imelacdes Bellevue Hospital i 4 2! eee ese : 8 23 1s ‘The nativity tables gives 608 natives of the United States, 85 of Ireland, 30 of Germany, 9 of England, 5 of Scotland, 2 of Prossia, 1 of France, 1 of Aus- tria, 1 of China, 3 of British America, and 1 un- known. It would seem, from our Washington correspon- dent, that Mr. Burlingame’s little affair is still an open question. Who is the antagonist? Where is Burlingame? “York, you're wanted.” The Senate was not in session yesterday. The Bouse did a good day's work. Six Senate and eleven Honse private bills were passed. The bill ap- propriating $1,900,000 for repairing and otherwise putting in order the fortifications on the seaboard and northern frontier, was also passed. This is the first oppropriation of a general character for fortifi- cxtions that has been passed for several years. The money is wanted badly,as many of the most in portant public works are in a sadly dilapidated condition. The bill making appropriations for legislative, executive and jadicial exper. ditures was discussed, and finally laid aside until some more definite information with regard to the expensive items included in the term “miscell , can be obtained. It is understood that this bill will be sent to the Senate hampered by the ultra Kansas men with some such amend- ment as was tacked to the Army Appropriation bill. ‘The Naval Peform bill was taken up for dehate da ring the evening session. The discussion, however, ‘was entirely upon topics connected with the Presi- dential campaign. We publieh today some additional news from Mexico, taken from our files of the Merican Extra- ordinary. That journal states that immense plicers of pure gold bave been discovered in the southern portion of the State of Guerrero, Attention is called to tbe sulphar beds which exiet at and around the volcano of Popocatepel, and which are said to be inexhaustible. The United States pays $15,000, 000 annually for sulphuric acid for mechanical uses, and it is said that if Mexican energy could be stirred op by some American capital to work these mines, we wou.d have a much better article of sulphur at leas coat than what we now get from Italy. Some of the papers think that the Spanish difficulty is fax from being permanently settled. Differences in the Comonfort Cabinet are deplored. We give an extract from the Archbishop s letter in defence of the church property tenure. The city of Mexic» was to be lighted with gas. The French Minister having refused to preside at» meeting held to de- vise means for the relief of his suffering countrymen at home, and having subscribed only one hundred franes to the fund, was hissed and booted, and had a@ regular charivari from the French residents for hia pitiful conduct. Gen. Henry Stanton, Sr.g Assistant Qaartermasier General of the United States army, died at hie resi dence, near Fort Hamilton, on Friday night The special committee of the Board of Councilmen having in charge the subject of redistricting the city, met yesterday and agreed opon the boundaries ‘of the several districts, with the exception of those of the Eighteenth ward, about which some difference of opinion exists. The particular lines of boundary of the new districts are described ia another colamn Yesterday morning a destructive fire occarred at te seventy thousand dollars. At the same time a fire in Paterson, N. J., destroyed property estimated ‘at twenty thousand dollars. Both conflagrations are attributed to incendiaries. The sales of cotton yesterday were limited to about 300 @ 400 bales, scarcely sufficient to teat the spirit of the market as to prices. While some brokers claim easier rates, others contend that they are unchanged. Trade in this staple is always inac- tive at this seagon of the year, as stocks are light, while the present month falls between the winding up of the old crop and the introduction of the new. Flour closed dull at the previous day’s quotations, with fair sales, including parcels for the Continent. Wheat was firm, especially for prime and choice lots. Sales were made at fall prices of sound prime Western mixed. Corn sold at 64c.a 65c. for export. Pork was higher, and sales of mess were made at $20 12}—an advance of 25c. per barrel. Sugars were firm, with moderate sales, Coffee was in fair demand at prices given in ano- her column. Freights were rather stiffer for grain and ftour to Liverpool, while moderate engagements were made to other European ports generally, aud at unchanged rates. The Slavery Question—Political Journalism in the North. We refer our readers to two articles in another part of this paper upon the South and the slavery question, upon which we propose a few passing remarks. The first of these articles is from the Boston Atlas, an able and respectable journal, though samewhat infected with the views of abo- litionism, occasionally; the other extract is from Thurlow Weea’s Albany Evening Journal, and isa very extraordinary production. The article of our Boston cotemporary is based upon the confession of the South Carolina Times, elicited in the discussion of the claims of the New York Heravp to Southern support, not- withstanding its support of Col. Fremont. The confession alluded to is as follows:—* The truth is we have more abolitionists at heart residing in the South than most persons are aware of. Let them feel that they will be safe, and many that are now regarded good and true friends of the South and her institutions, would be found not only constant readers and devoted patrons of the Heratp, but ready toespouse its teachings and advocate its principles, purely in opposition to the at present seeming prevailing sentiment in the South.’ The gist of this confession is in the sentence in italics, “all the rest is but leather and prunella.” The Boston Adas, however, takes another ex- tract for its text from the same article in the South Carolina paper, referring to a fussy and fidgetty little nigger driving democratic organ in this city, as seareely entitled to Southern con- fidence; and from this lesson our Boston cotem- porary reads a rough lecture to all our Northern democratic organs who are endeavoring to carry water on both shoulders. We, too, are of the opiuion that they must bend the knee a little lower if they would not be kicked out by the Southern driving leaders of a spurious democracy as unceremoniously as Mr. Pierce was shown the door at Cincinnati. Thus much for our Boston cotemporary. We have now to deal with a tougher subject—one of the slyest, smoothest, but most unscrupulous of party spoilsmen of the present century. We refer to Thurlow Weed, of the Albany Zvening Journal, and to the article aforesaid, which we give from the columns of that paper, under the caption of “Slavery an Unsafe Banking Basis.” This text, and the argument upon it, are nothing more nor less than a disgraceful attempt to in- jure the business relations, financial secu- rities and credit of the South. It appears that most of the banks of the State of Wisconsin, for good and sufficient reasons, have rested the secu- rities of their circulation upon the stocks of Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Geor- gia, Louisiana and North Carolina; whereupon, our Albany nigger worshipping philanthropist and speculator cries out substantially, “Hands off! don't trust in stocks that rest upon the Southern basis of slavery! They will ruin you all.” The very words of Master Weed are these: “History, reason and instinct teach usall that the unjust and oppressive relations subsisting in those States between the white pro- prietors and the black laborers will at some time come to a sudden end;” and that when those black laborers rise in a general insurrection, “the money bonds issued by the States in which they are will sink to zero in five minutes’ time.” These atrocious sentiments and suggestions are not without their object. But what can this ob ject be? Surely the calculating Thurlow Weed does not calculate that such firebrands and libels as this are likely to be of any service to Fre- mont. Ob. no! Fremont does not enter into this affair at all. To Mr. Weed it involves a great speculating scheme, of more importance to him than twenty Fremonts. Perhaps, however, som precious individual may say that Weed is really disposed to save the banks of the North from swamping themselves in Southern stocks, the se- curity of which is Southern slavery. All gam- mon. Mr. Weed knows very well that the stocks and credit of the Southern States are sound and solvent, (excepting Arkansas and one or two others, and excepting Mississippi, whose great financier has been Robert J. Walker.) and that there is no shadow of danger to Southern institu- tions from a negro insurrection. Our Albany spoilsman knows that the social relations of Southern slavery are of such an intimate charac ter between whites and blacks, as members of t!» same family, that it would be absolutely impose ble to array the two races against each other, without first dissolving the existing relations be- tween master and slave. Emancipate the élave, relerse him from all the social bonds which at present bind him to the family of his master, and turn him loose, and thus draw a broad line of *paration between the two races, and a black insurrection, sooner or later, will follow, as the canse is followed by the effect; but thie ie not the theory of Mr. Weed. His theory ix a speculation, his policy is spoils, and his scheme, in this instance. is a magnificent plot for a most glorions logrolling joint stock operation. He is interested in the great New York Central Railroad consolidation scheme, which, if perfected, will not only put millions of money into the pockets of the managers, tut place over the State of New York the supreme despotism of a railroad monopoly like that of th: Camden and Amboy concern, which has enabled Com. Stockton to carry New Jersey in his breeches pocket. In view of the success of thie New York scheme, Weed and his confederates are casting about for markets for their paper; and if they can only get the State stocks of the South ex- pelled from Wisconsin and all the Northwest, it will open large field for New York Central Railroad stocks We apprehend, however, that the authorities and the people of Wisconsin and the West are not to be frightened off from Southern securities hy sch ragged scarecrows as negro insurrec ‘West Troy, involving a loss of property amounting | tions; and if Weed dove not conduct himself bei- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1856. ter for the future as an organ of Fremont, we shall be compelled to turn him out, and turn him over among that outside clags of impracticables, such as Garrison and his Liberator, and other abolitionists who prefer the election of Buchanan to the success of Fremont, We shall not consent to any abolition claptrap, nor permit any such scandalous proceedings as this bank article of Master Weed in the Fremont camp. If our Albany spoilsman wants to filibuster and get up @ row on slavery in the South, let him join Gar- rison and Phillips in the support of Buchanan. That's all. Frese Aim axp Summer Resorts.—The present month generally finishes up the cum- mer travel, although September is often as warmas August, It is not considered prudent to come back to the city from a country residence until the warm weather is nearly over ; indeed, many thousands of our citizens do not return permanently umtil October. The conveniences of getting out of town are now very great, both by rails and steamers, subject, however, to the con- stant danger of being crushed or burned to death in the cars, or blown up or drowned in steamers. This is one of the greatest drawbacks to the plea- ures of tourists or the hopes of valetudinarians ; but until we have a more enlightened adminis- tration of railroad and steamboat affairs, those who require air must run the risk of locomotion. It is noticed in our bills of mortality in this city, as in large cities generally, that the greatest number of deaths occurs among children. They are delicate plants, and require good nursing. To them pure air is absolutely indispensable. Unfortunately, the poorer classes are rarely able to enjoy even this common gift of Providence, and few of their children arrive at maturity. One of the most powerful and unanswerable argu- ments in favor of the Central Park is, that it will afford a convenient and healthful place of resort for the young, where they can breathe a pure at- moephere and gain fresh vigur as they advance in years. “ Pure, brisk air is, if possible, more im- portant than food.” We are struck with the great number of places of summer resort which are to be found ia the United States. Books are beginning to be pub- lished devoted exclusively to their description. In the possession of mineral waters the United States are very rich. Even Germany, with its celebrated spas, is not more fortunate. We have saline springs (some of them in combination with minerals), alkaline, sulphurous, chalybeate, acid- ulous and hot springs, slightly mineralized. At the head of all these stands the Saratoga water— asplendid combination of the saline with the chalybeate, containing 318 cubic inches of car- bonic acid in agalion. The German waters, even those of Kissengen, or the Spa, do not surpass them. We have also all the other varieties of springs, and next to our own State comes Virginia, with her sulphur fountains in every form and variety, placed among the most beautiful scenery and poeseesing the highest medicinal qualities, We have, altogether, in the United States one hundred and three well known groups of mineral springs, nearly all of them places of resort for in- valids and tourists, and having very good ac- commodations. Besides these, our country—though with some exceptions, it has a very level grade—abounds with the most picturesque and beautiful falls and rapids. Our own State claims at least half of the Niagara; it has Trenton, the Cohoes, Hadley’s, Baker's, Genesee, Portage, Taghcanic, Ticon- deroga, and others of great beauty, though of less importance. New Hampshire comes next in number and variety. Georgia possesses some beautiful cascades, such as the Tallulah and the Tockao; and New Jersey has the Passaic. We have, altogether, about fifty of these natural curi- osities in the United States, and they are all places of resort. . Our mountain scenery will not equal that of Switzerland, nor in many respects that of Scot- land, “land of the mountain and the flood,” but what we have of it is very fine. The White Mountains of New Hampshire, rising 6,000 feet above the sea, eight giants, overlooking the val- leys of the Saco and the Androscoggin, and tow- ering above other mountain ranges to the west and south, (the highest in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, except the Black Moun- tain of North Carolina,) are beyond all descrip- tion. They must be climbed—they must be seen, to be appreciated. New Hampshire has other lofty elevations, but none to be compared with there. Massachusetts has some lovely mountains, such as Holyoke, Mount Tom, the Saddle, and the Wachusett. Vermont boasts of her Green Hills, of which the Camel's Hump is the highest —its peak 4,188 feet above the level of the sea— and havingf sublime and extensive prospect. New York, great in everything, excels in moun- tains. The noble Adirondacks, rising more than five thousand feet; the Catskills, nearly four thousand; the Highlands, sixteen hundred feet; form three great divisions, with twenty-one dis- tinet elevations, all of them imposing, if not sublime. North Carolina boasts justly of the Black Mountain, 6,476 feet high, with the neighboring summits of the Grandfather and Grandmother, the Roan Mountain, 6.000 feet high, crowned with rocks resembling the ruins of an a.- cient castle, and with a panorama of vast extent. Virginia has ber Blue Ridge and the Peaks of Otter, all justly celebrated; and most of the Mid- die States, and those east of the Mississippi, have either the Alleghanies or some spurs from their sides to give diversity and beauty to their se- nery. There are in the United States thirty- eight localities of mountain scenery visited by travellers, and affording them the usual accom- modation. Our watering places are innumerable. The guide books do not tell us one-half their names, New Hampehire is rich in marine bathing places, although she has but little coast. Maine has a large number of beautiful resorts. Massachu- setts has fourteon marine watering places, some of them unrivalled. Conneoticut has several. Our own State has a large number, well known to our readers, along the sea. the sound, and amidst the numerous inland lakes; and Virginia and the the Carolinas have several. In all, there are seventy-four well known places of resort of this description in the United States. A very novel trip of pleasure may now be taken. by railway, from Toronto, in Canada West, to Lake Simeoe and the Great Georgian bay. This latter sheet of water is one of the finest in all North Ame. rica, and it may be reached from New York in three days, though lying far away in the north- west In short, we have places of summer resort iu- numerable, within easy striking dictance from the city, end attainable at moderate expense, Na- ture has been most bountiful # us, and the idea that this beautiful country, with its endless va- riety of soils, climate, wholesome air and valua- le productions, shall be any other than a seone of fraternal concord and indissoluble unity, passes our comprehension. Ye fanatics! ye fools! ye knaves! who seek to break up “this Union of Stutes, this union of hearts,” cease your profane and wicked machinations! It is too glorious a land for such wretches as you to inhabit and to destroy. The Position of Austria and Her Itailan Relations. . We learn by the last arrivals from Europe that Austria, one of the most curious of nations, is making serious efforts to increase her navy. An old line-of-battle ship, of 90 guns, to be fitted up with a screw engine of 800 horse power, hag been put upon the stocks at a place called Pola, and is to be named the Emperor. The other ships of the line, of similar dimensiens, are to be im- mediately commenced and urged rapidly forward. Two screw frigates—the Adria and Danube—are being finished in the shipyards at Moggia, and so is a screw corvette at Venice, called Dandolo, after an Admiral, recently dead—not the “blind Dandolo,” the greatest of the Doges. Were he alive there would be few Austrians in Italy. Another screw vessel—an armed despatch boat— is also nearly ready; and, to crown all, there are to be two maritime arsenals—one at Fiume, a seaport at the extremity of the Gulf of Juarnero, on the Adriatic, thirty-six miles southeast from Trieste, with a commodious harbor and 12,000 inhabi- tants; and another at Lussin, an island in the same gulf, with a population of 7,000. fn 1839, Austria possessed a small navy, consisting of eight ships of the line, eight frigates, four cor- vettes, six brigs, and other small vessels—number- ing thirty in all. This patchwork nation is very curiously composed. Politically and physically it is what a geologist would call a pudding stone—a conglomerate of everything in general and nothing in particular. Its geographical extent and position give it importance in all European questions, and it has long been the battlefield on which neighboring States have chosen to decided their quarrels. The House of Hapsburg, during its five hundred years of ascendancy in Germany, was always noted for its violence and tyranny, except in the in- stance of Maria Theresa, and the House of Lor- raine has not been much better. The Austrian Empire consists of the hereditary States proper, the hereditary States of Hungary, the Kingdom of Dalmatia, the Lombardo-Vene- tian Kingdom, Galicia and Lodomeria, with the province of Bukowina. It contains 300,000 square miles and thirty millions of inhabitants. ‘The races are Sclaves, Germans, Italians, Hunga- rians, Wallachians, Jews, Gipsies, Armenians and Greeks, an incongruous, and one would think an ungovernable medley. On the contrary, how- ever, this very incongruity, existing both in blood and language, enables the government to sustain itself, since there is no unity of feeling to make the population move on together, and no identity of interest to create a friendly co-operation. If they grumble it isin detail, and in detail they are put down. The Lombardo-Venetian King- dom is the most populous portion of the empire, the inhabitants being 237 to the square mile. The maritime commerce of the country is not very great. In 1834 the registered mer- chant shipping only numbered 516 vessels, of 123,890 tons; but there exists also a large number of coasters. Trieste and Venice are the principal ports. The entire value of ox- ports is estimated at twenty-two millions of do § ars per annum, and the imports at about thirty millions. The whole commercial system is how- ever badly arranged. The government has the monopoly of salt, gunpowder, and tobacco. The duties on foreign articles are oppressively high; even on the necessaries of life they fre- quently amount to a prohibition. The internal commerce of the government is much burdened with government monopolies, and the consequence is that smuggling is become an “ established in- stitution.”” The public revenue, which is estimat- ed at sixty millions of dollars, is chiefly derived from taxes, rates, crown lands and mines. The standing army is usnal!y 270,000 or 300,000 men, but can be increased on emergencies to 700,000, and Austria is therefore a very formidable mili- tary power. At the Congress of Vienna her predominance in the affairs of Italy was fully secured to her, and after fifteen political revolutions in twenty- six years, the Peninsula was more enslaved than ever. When the Spanish revolution of Jnuary, 1820, broke out, there was a sympathetic movement in Italy, under the form of Carbonarism, but Aus tria, appealing to her despotic allies, sustained by their decisions at Troppau, Laybach and Verona, and successful after a short contest with the liberals and patriots, in arms, re-established her own power and her position as protector of the monarchical principle in Italy. Englaad herself was a party to all these arrange- ments, except at Verona, where she demurred to the principle of intervention—urged by the allies as proper—in the internal affairs of foreign Powers, when they endangered imminently a neighboring State. The King of Naples, return- ing to his kingdom in 1823, violated all his pre- vious oaths to support the constitution, and bis reigy has ever since been the promoter of gross tyranny and political and domestic misery. Austria probably feels herself perfectly safe by these decisions of the old Congresses, in any de- monstration she may make in the Peninsula, ex- cept from France; and the English minis- try find themselves in an awkward position, for however decidedly the principle of non-interven tion was urged by England at Verona, it hae since been overlooked in the case of Turkey. If France entertains any desire to cénciliate Aus- tria at the expense of Sardinia, and to the injury of the other Italian States, it ie an unwise feeling. No Austrian alliance ever did France any good. We presume thgt Italy, at the first start, will have to do for herself. And it must not be forgotten, that in 1848 the imperial family of Austria had to run away from their capital, and Metternich to leave the country. But for the interference of Russia, with an im- menee army, and the defection of Georgey, Aus- tria, pudding stone as she is, and only cemented by force, would have fallen to pieces. Should Vienna again be in the hands of a revolutionary party, there is no danger of Russia making a diversion in favor of her ungrateful ally. Removal or THe Quanantine.—The facts of this matter are as follows: Sometime since an application was made to the State government to remove the Quarantine station from Staten Island to some more convenient spot. A com- tmilitee was appointed to search for a place that would answer ae a substitute; it made a thorough examifiation of the harbor and the vicinity, and reported infavorof Sandy Hook, as possessing all the advantages of Staten Island and some which that Island did not possess. Application was made to the general government for the neces- rary grant; that also was obtained without dim- nity. All was ip readinces for the, transfer, when, at the last moment, it appeared that New Jersey pos essed certain proprietary or justiciary rights ov the land required, which it was ne- cessary ‘jo extinguish, The difficulty of extin- guishir g these rights proved greater than had been? anticipated, and after some negotiation the matt er was dropped for the time. T be thing to be done now is to push the mat- ter through the New Jersey Legislature. That S‘iate can make no serious objection to the pro- Tgosed removal; all that is required is that the matter be properly laid before the Legislature and the requisite sum of money paid. This, it seems, should be done without delay. That a Quarantine at Staten Island is futile, absurd and dangerous, is quite evi- dent. The residents of that island are in almost as close communication with the city as the people of Williamsburg; so far as conta- gion is concerned, the Quarantine might as well be on the Battery. The principle on which the establishment of Quarantines rest is isolation of the sick from the hale, in order to prevent conta- gion; and however this theory may consist with modern science, so long as it is acted upon, it ought to be acted upon honestly and reasonably. At Staten Island there is and can be no isolation of the sick. The hospital is surrounded by build- ings tenanted by the very class of persons who are most likely to take an epidemic; and when- ever fever occurs in the hospital some of these persons take it. This year there have been some half dozen cases of yellow fever outside of the hospital; and, of course, these patients are in no degree shut out trom the population around them, or from the city. 7 We have a robust faith that the alarm of yel- low fever will not be realized. But so long as our Quarantine is planted in the midst of a popu- lous suburb of the city, contagionists, at all events, will argue that it will be our own fault if the disease does not become epidemic among us. And all—whatever their opinions on this knotty point of medicine may be--must admit that it would be desirable, in view of the peace of mind of the citizens, and the healthiness of the growing suburb of Staten Island, to remove the Quaran- tine to the point which the legislative commit- tee indicated as its natura? die. Pierce’s ApuinistRation—Is it To Be Re- rEATED!—The people heve hitherto generally en- tertained the opinion that the President of the United States, in the simple execution of his con- stitutional powers, was at all times competent to preserve internal peace and to maintain our friendly relations with foreign nations. The natural pride attending a high position, the con- trol of the great official patronage of the nation, the line of safe precedent, and a conscientious fecling of responsibility, have also been deemed to be ordinarily sufficient guarantees for at least a respectable administration of the governgsest. These expectations and opinions have had weight with most of the former incumbents of the White House, but with Mr. Pierce they have had little or no influence. A small New Mampshire law- yer, from first to last his career has been oue of the most shallow and profitless intrigues. He has not only lost what little public character he had, but he has jeoparded that of the nation, and we have been on the verge of the most se- rious difficulties, all of them not yet overcome, by his want of statesmanlike views and his own overflowing conceit and vanity. One of the follies which he fell into was the idea which has been put into his head by unprin- cipled politicians and pretended friends, thatevery administration should present some issue to the people, whether they wish it or not. The ex- amples of Jackson, Van Buren and Tyler are, therefore, constantly paraded before such small lights as Pierce. He is made to believe that the restless spirit of party requires a constant addi- tion of fuel to its flames—that the voters must be kept up to fever heat—and that if there be no real cause for excitement a fictitious one should be found. On this principle the Crampton affair was kept alive, and procrastinated from month to month; the Greytown bombardment ordered, and the Kansas difficulty nourished, till at last a burst of general dissatisfaction has noi only dis- mounted the President from his hobby—a re election to the Presidency—but has followed him with general disapprobation. The English gov- ernment has luckily taken such a course as to leave no room for apprehension of an immediate war. Whether a regard for its own concerns, or its unsettled European difficulties, or its belief that if we are let alone we shall destroy ourselves, all or either of these have given a favorable turn to our negotiations with England. We are fairly out of that scrape, and we are glad of it. How the Kansasaffair is to be settled remains to be seen; but there is no doubt that an honest, independent and fearless Executive would, ere this, have com- municated to Congress some plan of adjustment, and some means of pacification. Nothing of the kind on his part has taken place, and the Presi- dent sits with his finger in his mouth while the most exciting and bloody scenes, both in the Ter- ritory and in the capitol, are going on before his eyes. Nothing shows the utter imbecility of Franklin Pierce more than his management of this Kansas business. Acting secretly for the South, and at the same time endeavoring to hum- bug the North, he has, between two stools, come pretty flatly and roughly to the ground, and there he is likely to remain. In the meantime, not without hopes that he will still have influence with the powers to succeed him, he has become a Buchanan man, and the officeholders are made to understand his wishes. But are the. people ready to adopt his views? Are they willing to elect in his place any one of his own stamp—a hack horse of party, an Ostend conspirator, an insincere and procrastinating diplomatist, pledgemaker and a pledgebreaker for the last forty years? Are they willing to be rode over by any steed that has received his last grooming at Cincinnati, well balled to give him a gloss, and well peppered to make him lively ? Appearances do not justify the belief. There is a general desire to cleanse the Augean stable out of which such old nags are spurred by political ockies, to run these four mile heats. We have had enough of the trainers and their broken down coursers, A new and better state of things is de- manded and at hand. We have before us for our consideration and support an eminent man, fresh, vigorous, untrammelled, just, conciliatory, ta- lented and heroic, and the administration of pub- Nic affairs in his hands will be conducted in a manner worthy of the times, of the country, its progress and ite destiny. This conviction it is which is wniting 40 vast a number of votes, irre- rpective of former party connections, and is rousing the American spirit to action in every State of the confederacy. It is the conviction that our domestic troubles will be allayed, har- mony in hitherto conflicting interests be secured, our foreign relations placed in abler keeping and 1 entrusted to wiser heads —that our representa- _— tives abroad will once more do honor to the na tion, which has lately been so disgraced at foreign courts, This conviction it is which is spreading from city to city, village to village, and State tor Stete, and which, as for as human foresight cum» determine, will succeed in’ revolutionizing our political affairs, Live the republic! THE LATEST NEWS; BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From the National Capital, PASSAGE OF THE FORTIFICATION APPROPRIATION: BILL IN THE ROUSR— SCHYME TO STOP APPROPRIA TIONS FOR KANSAS—BURLINGAME'S ACOOUNTT STILL UNSETTLED—AnMy MATTERS—A NICE DIS+ TINCTION IN A COURT MARTIAL CASE, PO. Wasutsarox, Aug. 2, 1866 After disposing of a few unimportant private dils, they House of Representatives passed the Fortideation vill, ap- Propriating nineteen hundred thousand and put in order the various furis along t the Northern frontier, This is the frst which bas passed for several years. ‘The bill making appropriations tor the excontive, legis- lative aud judicial departments of the government, wager next taken up, and partially discussed. It appropriates bear tcp millions of dollars. An item of two hun tredan: fifty bousand dollars, as miscellaneous, wae objected t¢» by wany members, They wauted the objects specified. One item was one hundred and cighty taousand dollare yeted to members in books, Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, has an amendment which he, intends to offer to the bill, torelease the prisowers now ip cuetody in the Territory of Kancae, and other pereens ebarged with treason and other crimes. There are other » amen: ments of similar character, which will be intro- duced by Mr. Grow, and among others, one refusing to allow the government the necessary appropriations for that Territory. Without coming to any vote the bill was + nid aside informally, and the Navy bill taken up for dis cussion to-night, when we are tohave a few more elec tioneering speeches. From what I learu, I am satisfied Mr. Barlngame’s return to Washington is aus‘ously looked for. He lef> immediately after the « of bis card. The storm. cloud is still abroad. Some rich developements, I om mace by the Investigating Committe iug revenue cutters. They will | nected with that bureau. Col, Lee has been ordered to the commead of the troope on the upper Missouri, and the two companies or dered to garrison at Fort Pierre are to be withdrawn circum stances will permit. Inspector General Churchill renders a bad accour ibe volunteer force in Florida. Most of their time iss at their homes, and they are no more effective thax never mustered into the public gervice. Corn purchased for the horses js used for domestic purposes, and many infcrmalities are common among: * these troops. It is a common saying that ‘ike people of the upper St. John are in greater fear of Captaln Jernagin - than they ara of the Indians.”” The following general ordera, just published by the - War Department, draw a nice distinction between what is due from an officer and gentleman. From these it would” eppear thata gentleman may do what an olficer should « not: - Gyxrrat Onpers, have been gard to puild- Anuvtayt Gr: Oner, No. 8. Wastuxetoy, J) 856. The following remarks in relstion to tae proceedings a general court martisl, convened at Fort Pierre, Ne- braska Territory, pursuamt to ‘Special Orters,’’ No 27, of June 3, 1856, from the headquarters 0” joux EXx- pecition, and before which First Lieutenant > Smith, of the second regiment of Infantry, was arraigned and’ » tried, have been received from the War Department, and are published to the army :— First Lievtenant Caleb Smith, of the 2d Regiment ot infantry, bas been tried by a general court on the charge of ‘‘conduct unbecoming au officer and a gentleman.” The court bas returned special dnd- ing upon Specification, the ‘ollowin, ding upon the chargo:—“Not guilty «f .he charge, but guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer, and to the prejudice of good order and military discipline.” There is nosuch vflenee known to the Articles of War 48 conduct upbeconung an ofticer, The unbecoming con- cuet of a commissioned officer, of which the law takes * Lotice, and author 4 court martial to take cognizance is, “conduct und ng an officer aud gentleman.’ bere is no minor Indecorum, no unbecoming conduct ot unbecoming an officer and @ gentleman that the law vbmits to the jurisdiction of a court martial, and the - ‘ourt, in pronouncing the conduct of Jievtenant Smith ‘not unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,’’ have ac- quitted bim of the legal charge before them. At the - same time they give judgment against bim under the - 20tb articleof War. He was not charged with soy of- ence under tha‘ article. i charges are so drawn as to - po I them expressly and exclusively under particular « articles of war, a court martial caunot convict under - other articles. The sentence of the court martial in this cave is, there- fore, void. Ry order of the Secretary of War. 8. COOPER, Adjutant General. War Derartueyt, } THIRYY-FOURTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION, House of Representatives. Wasminetox, August 2, 1956. PRIVATE BILIS PASSED. The House passed cleven of its own and six of the ~ Senate's private bills, TED FORTIFICATION APPROPRIATION IRTL, The House then when into Committee oa the Fortifica- Mon Appropriation bill, Alter the bill had been amended, it was reported to the» House with a recommendation to str'ke out the enacting claure, with a view to its defeat. ‘This was disagreed to by a vote of 60 against 96. A point was then raised that the first businees in order was to vote on the amendments, includiag Mr Benson's, appropriating $100,060 for fortifications at the mouth the Kennebeck river, and $62,000 for the purchase of ditional land on Staten Island for defensive purposes. ‘The Speaker decided that the only thing reported from the Committee ef the Whole was the recommendation te - ' strike out the enacting clause, and thos that all the amendments were cut off, and the vote must be on the Dill as originally After ab parsed. The bill appropriates $1,583,000, including $75,000 for Fort Richmond and $25,000 for Fort Montgomery. TUE BAN FRARCISCO REVOLUTION Mr. Hexrert, (dem.) of Cal., made an effort t> introduce a resolution authorizin tion of the United States land and na’ fore Trancisco affairs. ‘THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION Wi't. The House then wept into Committee of the Whole om. the bill to defray the expenses of the Legislative, Execu- live end Judicial departments of the goverament. a Mr. Hexrert made a personal explanation, sayiog thate ‘various charges had been made ast him both the Vecific and Atlantic coasts. He branded them ac- faleeboods, and declared that not one of his acc sers could: compare with bim, in potnt of purity, honor and ty. The charges, he said, came from political be pon aac thera complimentary rather than dis- era The bill was discussed at considerable length, whor- the House took # recess until 7 P. M. RVENING SESSION. Mr. Lewrxix, (dem.) of Ga., spoke of the black. republican party as being. organized on sec~ tiona! principles, and said its success would ber the commercement of a revolution, for that party: would condret the goverrment in accortance with: the views of the tiumphatt majority, aud nog South- thern man could accept office uncer it, He charged that- the politicians of that party intended to bring about # cieruption of the Union, and said to the rabid epirit of Anti slavery might be attributed the existing evils. Mr. Wane, (nigger worsbipper) of Obio, while in bis avowed object Lfonn | men’s minds to the and purer days of the republic, said if the constitution was tobe used as an instrament to propagate human a it could not endure, nor was it desirable that It hold. 'It has not beem possible to construct a Union ov he sentiments declared by the modern sham black de- mocracy, Who would substitute for the constivulon @ ma bine for slavery extension, without limit, time or space. Mr Lercmmr, (dem.) of Va., characterized Mr. Wade's peech ag the inost ultra he had ever heard from any quarter, and wae inclined to think the gentleman's affeo- tion for the Union as grote 00 the devil's love for holy {ij water, (Laughter.) He (Wade) no or than Tues- day last, voted for the Fugitive Slave law, embodied in Mr. Dunn's bill. Mr. Wann replied it was a bitter pill, hut being dri¢en. into the corner by the stmm democ*acy, who are engaged in an effort to engra® slavery in Kansas, be was willing they should baye the law he could get @ fair lick ad it” (Langhter.) Mr, Lar resuming, said the gent with bis republican friends, voted for a la bad over and over denounced in the face o Jation of the constitution. He regarded the tionary times, and aliuded to the movements publ can and free State mon of Kansas as tre able, ‘Mesars. Valk, Petit, Pelton, Reade, Branch and Unter- wood gave notice thet they chould print their sposclos without consuming (10 time of the committee delivering them, | Mr. Revrin, (dom.) of N.C., spoke of Mr. Fremont ae a mere adventorer and lend crabver, and ar the dt expo- nent of the republican party. The people had not sual ‘80 a& to Clect @ Manakin, moved wa wires fp the bands of political mountebankes. These abolition Det ms wt are plotting the destruction of the governmont, while they ao% the part of landsbarks, marauders and polltiea! gamblers. He seid that the conduct of the black republicans wae re