The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1856, Page 4

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No. 654 Broadway—Drawixe PALAMENTS, BY Mass Fanny Deane. ‘New Vort, Saturday, August 9, 1556. ‘The News. We refer our readers to the first page of to-day’s paper for the latest returns of the recent State elec- ‘tions. Yesterday was a dull day in Congress. The Sen- ‘sate passed the bill giving Mississippi 1,500,000 acres of land for railroad purposes, and also several pri- vate bills. Mr. Weller made an attempt to have the Pacific Railroad bil] taken up, but was unsuccessful. ‘The House passed a resolution allowing Gov. Reeder pay and mileage. The Lighthouse Appropriation ‘bill was then disenssed nntil the adjournment. There is great excitement at Quarantine and re- gions round about, growing out of the fact that there are now lying in the bay some one hundred and ‘twenty sail of vessels, most of which are from parts where the yellow fever existed at the time of their sailing, or usually does at this season of the year. All persons engaged in these vessels are obliged to land at the Health Officer's wharf, and from ‘thence they pass out of the gates into the village, or come up to the city, as they may wish. In conse- quence of this loose arrangement, one or two fatal eases of yellow fever have cecurred outside the walls, and the inhabitants of the village have held ® meeting, and formed a Vigilance Committee, whose duty it shall be to prevent al! persons from passing out of the gates into the village, and oblig- ‘mg all thoce employed inside to remain inside or ut. They are resolved that, if necessary, they will fearricade the gates, or use such other means to @erry out their object as shall be deemed proper, in justice to themselves, their familes and the inhabi- tauts generally. An interesting statement of the Commissioner of Streets, touching the present exhaustion 0° the ap- Propriation for cleaning the streets, will be found elsewhere, in a report of the proceedings before a special conmnittee of the Board of Health. The state- ment shows that, with the money due parties for work on the streets up to the close of the present week, an excess is already due of $11,500 over the ‘rigival appropriation. The Comptroller, who was summoned before the committee, announced the fact that he should pay no appropriations ordered ‘by the Board of Health or Common Council for cleaning the streets or for other sanitary purposes when the specific appropriation has been exhausted, aniess an epidemic should visit the city. In such an event, he declares that he shall honor drafts for bills incurred. Commissioner Ebling says that the work of cleaning the streets shall meanwhile goon. He ‘avers that he can get the work done oa credit, and ‘that he will trust to the Common Council to pry. Ts was authoritatively stated before the Commis sioners of Health, at their meeting yesterday, not- withstanding adverse rumors from Staten Island, that but some thirty cases of yellow fever have oc curred altogether at Quarantine. In every instance where deaths from the disease had occurred outside it could be traced to communication with infected vessels or their crews. The disease was declared on the decline, and that no ground whatever existed for alarm in the city. The special committee of the Board of Health upon the application of Capt. Hallock for indemnity for loss of furnitare, beds, bedding, &c., barned on board his vessel on uccount of deaths from yellow fever on board, met yesterday, when it was decided ‘to investigate the facts of the case on Monday, in connection with the Health Commissioners. The particulars in relation to the applicacion of Capi. Hallock were published in Friday's Heras. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday. A com- Munication was received from the Street Commis- sioner relative to the charge of dereliction of daty preferred by one of the clerks of his department ‘against the Comptrolier. The Commissioner protests against the reception of communications from his mibordinates as official papers, and requesta the Board to send the one in question back to its author The report of the committee confirming the tax rol! was taken up, and the section authorizing $200,000 for the Central Park was stricken out. The report and resolutions confirming the tax levy were thea upanimously adopted. In the Board of Councilmen last evening severe! bills were passed, among which was one directing that the names of streets and aveaues be painted on the lamps at the corners of the streets; several for the construction of sewers in different street ‘one in favor of paving Canal street and Park plac ‘with the Relgian pavercent: and one increasing th pay of the Health Wardens to three dollars per diem. The Superintendent of Repairs to Public Baild ings, Mr. James Irving, sent to the Board of Alde: men jast evening a communication, replying t) the Complaints of the Comptroller with reterence to thr manner in which the business of bis (the Superio tendent’s) department ix conducted. Mr. Irving says he bas only followed in the footsteps of his pre decessors, and that whatever wrong or irregularity he may have committed is chargable to the system fm vogue, which sy+tem bas been sanctioned hereto fore by the present Comptroller and his predeces- sore, A report in favor of the ordinance to create @ fund to pay for lands required for the new Croton reservoir was adopted The American Deutal Convention adjourned sin die yesterday afternoon. A public dinner was gi them in the evening, at Dodworth’s City Awe Rooms, by the den:ists of this city and Brooklyn, at which toasts and speeches were the order o/ the evening. A report of the closing proceedings of the Convention will be found in another colamn. The coroner's investigation of the alleged myge- rious poisoning case in Roosevelt street commenc-d in Brooklyn yesterday. A report of the medical ‘testimony is given eleewhere. As yet uo light hes been obtained with regard to the affair. The treasurer of the committer to raise fv the relief of the sufferers by the inundations in France acknowledges subscriptions to the amount of $9,649. With regard to the ultimate disposition to be made of letters det d for postage we learn that Postmasters are instr to retarn them quarterly to the Post Cffice Department, in the came manner as by ite regulations they are required to return ad wertived dead letters. Heretofore unpaid letters have been sent to the dead letter office monthly. We have received files of Cape Town (0. G, 4) papers up to the 17th of May. They contsin nothing of interest. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to » few bandred bales, without change in prices—the foreign news having produced no effect. The stork in American seaports is only about 75,000 tiles, about 150,000 last year; and nominally 21,000 in this city, or, counting the lota contracted Dy spinners, abont 35,000 or 40,000, against 56,000 Jost year, We have already exported to Borope he. - WEW YORK HE%ALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1856.1 64c. for sound shipping Western mixed. Pork was inactive at $19 94a $20 for mess, and $13 a $18 25 for prime. Sugars were more firmly held, with sales of 1,200 a 1,300 hogsheads and 300 boxes, at full prices, About 800 bags of coffee sold at steady: prices. Freights were without change of moment, with moderate engagements. Kansas tn Congress—The Artful Dodgers of the Administration. The Senate of the United States lately passed @ resolution calling upon the President for infor- mation in relation to the instructions under which Col. Sumner, with his dragoons, hes been acting as the guardian of law and’ order in Kan- sas; and, in reply, the Presidert has transmitted to the Senate the official correspondence, which we publish in another part of this paper. Mr. Jeff. Davis, in his letter enclosing to the President this correspondence between the War Department and Col. Sumner, says that no orders have been issued from the department “to any military officer in command in Kansas to dis- perse any unarmed meeting of the people of that Territory, or to prevent, by military power, any assemblage of the people of that Territory.” This statement from a Cabinet officer, in ordinary times would be generally considered satisfac- tory and conclusive. At this extraordinary cri- sis, however, our Washington officials are weak in the knees, and this statement of the Secretary of War is but a quibble, a catch, an attempt at artful dodging, which is knocked in the head in the very first letter of the series trom Mr. Da himself to Col. Sumner. In that letter the au- thority to sustain the illegally established Mis- souri government of Kansas is broad and gene- ral, Col. Sumner is directed to obey the requi- ition of the Governor, and to employ the United States army in Kansas, when he may deem it necessary “for the suppression of insurrectionary combinations or armed re- sistance to the execution of the law.” Here the distinction is clear between armed resistance” and “insurrectionary combinations,” but both are to be put down. The Missouri-Kansas govern- ment having been accepted and declared by the administration the legal and regular govern- ment of the Territory, was not Col. Sumner right in construing bis instructions as applicable to tle Topeka free State Legislature as an * insurrec- tionary combination?” There can be no doubt of it; for surely a Legislature set up in defiance of the pet concern of Mr. Pierce was properly regarded by Sumner as an * insurrectionary com- bination.” The denial, therefore, of the Secretary of War of any authority from him to Col. Sumner “to disperse any unarmed meeting of the people of that Territory” is a contemptible quibble. It is of a piece with the Greytown bombardment and the instructions to Captain Hollins. In both cases the instractions were adapted to eflect the object proposed, and yet so shaped as to afford a paltry pretext for the plea that the officer, in the very business expected at his hands, tran- seended his authority. In reference to these Kangas transactions there is another letter of Mr. Davis which stultifies his declaration of inno- cence to Congress. In his instructions of May 23 to Col. Summer he says, that «for the great purpose which justifies the em- ployment of military it matters not whether the subversion of the law arises from a denial of the existence of the government, or whether it proceeds from a lawless disregard of the right to protection of person and property for the security of which the government was or- dained and established” —meaning the Missouri government of Kansas and the rights of the bor- der raffians, we suppose. The moral of all this contemptible trickery is a fear of public opinion. The administration has been pursuing a policy in Kansas which, when called upon to account for, it denies, It ix the Greytown affair over again, with this difference only—that the President shrinks from calling the free State settlers of Kansas “a camp of savages.” He has been treating them as savages, but dares not call them so. He not only throws the re- sponsibility upon Col. Sumner for what he was instructed to do, but cowers before Congress, and says we shall call Col. Samner to account for this —he bas exceeded his instructions, and we shall *o inform bim. In the history of Kansas affairs there is nothing more contemptible, excepting. perhaps, those remarkable negotiations with Gov- ernor Reeder. We think it high time that there should be at leart a clear understanding extracted from the Pierce-Bachanan democracy in Congress of their exact position upon Kansas affairs. The i upon the appropriation bills are not ning. We hold to the opinion that th have a constitational claim to Kansas but it ie none the less essential that there shoald be an end of this border war, and that causes of it shonld be reached and removed by this Congress, if posible ¥ If peace can only be obtained by the abolition of the Missouri-Kansas Legislature, let it be abolished. At all events the conservative members of the Hoy cnforee rome definite settlement or during this session, and upon these appro: bills; and we trust that they will make t the paramount question. Let as have Mr. Pier smoked ou Sire oF New Post Orner.—It is com monly reported in the city that the Postmaster General and the Secretary of the Interior have expressed themselves in favor of Hudson square ae the site of the new Post Office, and are ready to give a million of dollars for the property This will be a splendid windfall for Trinity Church; but whether the merchants of the city will approve of the movement, remains to » seen, Several other sites have beon spoken of and one in particular—a larg magnificent block on Broadway and near Canal stroet—which has been offered the Post Office Department great deal less money. Under such an ad will be done. No doubt the plunder is already divided in expectancy. Tar Late Exections.—The late elections show that there is a political revolution at work all over the country. In Kentucky and North Ca- tolina, it is developing itself against Mr. Fill- more. In Arkansas, strangely enough, it appears to have gone against Bochanan, and given Mr, for a | minis tration as that of Mr. Pierce no one can tell what uri, the election Cf Blair to Congress, free soiler, is a remarkable sign of the times; and the overwhelming victovy of the Fremont party in Towa is a living iilustration of the tremendous popular furore for Fremont. Altogether these elections, as thus far reported, show that the Wattle is between Fremont and Buchanan, and ‘that wherever he is tried, Fremont is equal to the crisis. Let us wait a little longer. The tide is just setting in. The Saxon and Latm Races—Ihe Fate of Mexico, &. Among the many problems that time and the rapid growth of our country in material pros- perity and power are urging upon as as a nation for solution, none possesses more importance than that of our relations—politival, social and industrial—with the countries lyiag beyond our Southern boundary. This problem is one of im- portance, not only in regard to the future rela- tions of contiguous nations, but it involves the further developement or the extinction of one of the European races upon this continent, with all its theories and traditions, its lepes and its aspirations, The Saxon and the Latin raes of Europe colonized in America—the one ftom England and the other from the Spanish pesinsula—each establishing institutions under its own peculiar theories, and each pursuing the lineof develope- ment which the genius of the race pointed out io it. The British colonies developed the germ of freedom which existed in their municipal in- stitutions, and founded communities which. in the rapid acquisition of physical and moral power, have surpassed ewrything that the lights of history open to us, Eliminating from its the- ories and its institutioss all the clogs which, in the shape of primogeiiture, privileged classes, and a limitation of tle freedom of thonght, had delayed the true devilopement of man, the Saxon race in America has exhibited a vitality and at- tained an energy of progress that have been with- out a parallel. The Latin race, on the contrary, founded com- munities in which the only aim was to perpetuate the state of things as it had existed for ages un- der the Catholic kings, and change either in reli- gious belief o7 political opinion was rankest heresy. Devebpement was a thing unknown and unsought for, and progress was only another name for ruir. While under these different sy- tems the onerace grew and waxed strong apace, the other continued the same unwearied round, clinging tothe old traditions, each generation be- ing nothing more than a repetition of the one that preceded it. The growth and territorial ex- tension of neither race interfered with the other, for there vere vast solitudes and little intercourse between them.- With the progress of the Saxon race came re- yolution and the overthrow of many of the cherished and time honored traditions of Europe. Greater individual liberty was demanded and attained for man, The wisdom of the Latin race foresaw the danger which these triumphs of hu- man progress involved for the never changing system of their institutions, and the Count Aran- da weged upon Charles IIL, of Spain, the impo- licy of recognizing the newborn independence of the British colonies, It is but thé type of what will occur in our own coloniesif allowed to succeed, he said. But it did-succeed, and the Latin race in America saw with wonder the rapidity of our developement. Wonder begot admiration, admiration was suc- ceeded by longing, and this very soon produced adesire to imitate our example. The Spanish colonies threw off their allegiance to the crown and in numerous fom and protean shapes have been endeavoring for nearly forty years to engraft our institutions upon their political and social theories. Republics of all kinds have sprung up and disappeared among them. and one generation has passed away in the vain attempt to unite forms of government to political theories, while between them repelling forces only have existed. The example of Mexi- co is the example of all of them. Believing that some of the laws of her social organization were opposed to the harmoay of the new order of things, peonage or the bond of labor was abolished, Instead of the unmix- ed happiness she had thought to cvente by this step, her material interests were de-troyed by it, and a nation of idle leperos was brought into being. Intellectual developement, w! immediately dependent upon material pro-peri h i ty, began at once to decline instead of advance and while the nation sought for the cause of this decline, it was unwilling or unable to recor ite trne source. Still seeking to find it in th social organization, they have continued th effort to assimilate dissonant «nal races—the Latin, Indian and the African—and such measure of hoped-for al! viation has only tended to inewease the evil it was desired to remove. Not only have the ari« and sciences continued to wane among them, but each attempt at social and political amelioration has carried them farther from that liberty have sought to attain. Yet one by one the threads that formed the web of society have been drawa from its texture until little else remains buta tangled soar! Dis integration is the law of her political as well ae of her social being. The second generation of free Mexicans bat grown up in the belief that their failure to attain the prosperity we enjoy is the owing, not to the fact that they have not under- stood and truly adopted our principles and insti- tutions, but to that that leatroyod sufficient of their own. So the work of elimina- tion goes on, and nerve after nerve of the body politic is drawn out or deade Radicaliem usurpe the place of freedom nates with tyranny in the rule of mis and the work of destruction. Gradually the bonds of soolr have heen loosened by | conociasts until it is ready to fall to pieces. Still on go thee (the pure) they call themeelves—iearing down all things and building up noth Finding that the object of their hopes is still unaitained, they radicals—puros believe that it must be because they are not suffl- ciently free, and they shout for red republican. ism and the rule of reason. Eulovies upon “that great philosopher, Robespierr pronounced in legislative hails, ae has rec occurred in one of the republics south of w The universal brotherhood of the white, Indian. negro, zambo. mestizo, mulatto, and all the other numerow races which amalgamation ha: produced, is pro- claimed. and universal happiness j« supposed to be but another name for universal freedom from restraint But let as fellow the eonree of these destrac- tive tendeneire« Hittle fcrther, Trae ft is that nnder their infine olety hes toon shaken and the unity of the newon dest 3 4 Osjaca cares little for Tampico, Vera Cruz feels no tie with Chihuahua, and Puebla has no sympathy for So- nora, Still there existed power of cohe- sion in the nation—one that is found un- der all governments, be they autocratic, monarchical, constitutional or radical. In Mexi- co it was dual in its form; but that only in- creased its strength. This mutual attractive force is what Mr. Calhoun described as the “‘co- hesive power of the public plunder.’ One band of vultures gathered round the national trea- tury, consuming its reverlue and leaving the creditors of the State to starve, while another assumed the garb of religion, and, gathering round the bed of the dying Mexican, with holy unction swept the choicest parcels of national wealth into the sleeve of the cassock. While the State vultures have been squandering, those of the Church have been thrifty; and as a natural consequence, the one has become poor while the other has waxed rich. The lean kine must eat the fat kine, and the latter days of the Church of Mexico are at hand. When it falls, the last rem- nant of the Spanish social system in Mexico is swept away, and the process of dissolution will rapidly proceed to its end. Of the political fabric there little or nothing now remains, and the present effort to construct a new panacea in the shape of a new constitution is but one of the galvanic throes of the public corpse. Yet even this effort recognizes the coming fate of the country, and provides in one of its stipula- tions that neither President nor Congress shall have the power to sell, give away or alienate one foot of the Mexican territory. But Presidents, Congresses and constitutions are powerless to avert the coming destiny. We have sketehed this view of the past and present of Mexico because it illustrates the con- dition of all, or nearly all, of the Latin communi- ties on this continent. We do not regret the de- cline of their theories—rather do we rejoice at their destruction; for the systems they estab lished coniained no germ of developement Under them, man was to be but a repetition of the past; Spanish society knew no progress, for it is the China of Europe. What the past said, did or believed, only was orthodox—all else was heresy or treason. While these things are passing within her borders, there is a people in contiguity with her, and with whom she has a daily inter- course, that is striding along the pathway of progress with giant tread—one whom she has long striven to imitate—and every. effort has resulted only in a complete failure. Distrusting her own efforts, and despairing o relief, there has grown up in her midst a party that gains strength as continually as defeat fol- lows effort. This party believes that society can only be reconstituted, government established and happiness secured, by calling in the assist ance of her more fortunate neighbor. Such a course is at war with the sentiment of nationality and the self love of the race, but it exists and grows daily. No band of filibusters has ever crossed the Mexican boundary except in co-ope ration with Mexican citizens. General Walker was invited to Nicaragua by one of the native parties, Even Cuba has participated in the feel- ing, and the great filibuster of them all, General Quitman, was invited and anxiously hoped for by the people of Cuba. Such is the condition of the Latin communities on this continent at the present time ; and while they are looking wistfully to us, no mag can dis- guise to himself the fact that there is @ growing sympathy and tendency toward them in the American heart, It is not sufficient for us that we are free and happy. We wish others to be so too; and it is a part of the genius and tendencies of our people to extend the institutions we have so successfully establish- ed. The greater the disintegration of the Latin communities south of us, the greater will be the call and the tendency of the young, the enter- prising and the ambitious among us to respond to it. How soon the solution of all the problems that attend this state of things and our own pro gress southward may be forced upon us no man can tell, The energies of our people have reach- ed the shore of the Pacific and must have vent, which it is move likely to seek in the genial lands southward than in the frozen climate of the North. There dissolving communities await our coming, and though sectional strife may for a while blind us to the tree direction of our national march, it will keep on with silent but steady tread. Al- ready some of the European nations are, begia ning to contemplate it in ite tr ight, ax the march of civilization and progress. Mexico, Central America, Cuba, the isthmus routes, com- munication between our Atlantic and Pacific em- pires, and many other issues, are bound up in it, and every suecceding administration will be com- pelled to judge and to act on some of them. Anu American policy has been instituted by our people and our progress, and cabinets must act under and in conformity with it, or fail. It is here that the imbecile Marcy-Pierce administra. tion have failed, and sunk into utter contempt. They were blind as to the march of the nation, and vainly sought a re-election through internal strife. The country has passed them by with scorn, and a like fate may be anticipated for any administration that follows their example. The Affairs of Spain—French Intervention. We consider the statement of the Paris Moni- tr that the French Emperor would intervene in the affairs of Spain in the event of any at- tempt, by the Duke of Montpensier to obtain the throne. or in the event of the establishment of a republic. as one of the most important political declarations that has been made in Europe since the peace. Taken in conjunction with the announcement by Lord Palmerston, that Great Britain would not interfere, it appears to con- tain the kernel of the policy to be pursned by Western Europe during tke next year or two. Tt is a settled thing, now, that the counter revolution in Spain has achieved its purpose, and that the sem+liberal constitution which was in force there will no longer suit the temper of the Queen and her party. They are resolved on governing Spain upon the Napoleon model: they intend to make a final effort to introduce centralization into the country, and to beat down snch olvtactes as the Cortes and the Na- tional Guard might interpose in their way. In fact, the work is already done. The Guard is reorganized, and the Pi of the Cortes is already placarded as th ‘of a factions, iile- gal body. Ove tho mes in the street of Madrid are considered to have sealed the change there; a2 for the provinces, their subjec tion is & mere question of time, money and booed. Queen Irabella now enters up on # new reign—as an abeolute, not a constitutional sovereign. She now realizes what Carlos the Fourth threw away, and what even foreign hayonets could not retain in the greep of the imbxgile Ferdinand the Se EE EE venth. Henceforth she is to be the Napoleon of Spain. For @ moment, in contemplating such events, and the successful issue of such plots as these, one is apt to grow dizzy, and to feel flashing doubts of the truth of all political principles: one inquires whether there can be such a thing as right—in the face of such wrongs? There are now left in all Europe only two governments over which the people exercise any direct contro!— those of England and Piedmont. There is less practical democracy in Europe now than there was ten, twenty, or forty years ago. Where there were fifty millions of men concerned in po- litical affairs, and managing their own govern- ment—a few years ago—there are now not five. The tendency of French legislation is more anti- popular now than it wasunder the republic, under Louis Philippe, under Louis XVIII: Spain is entering upon a period that will doubtless recall the worst age of Ferdinand : Naples is sunk lower than ever in despotism: there is not a spark of liberality in the policy of the legislation of Aus- tria, every trace of 1815 and 1848 has died out: Prussia is gradually passing into the hands of the party which for want of a better name we may call high tories. In all Europe, Russia alone seems imbued with a progressive spirit: and there one-third of the people are incapable of owning property, and so far as we can see now, in almost irremediable bondage. These are sights which warn us to fall back upon our own history, and strengthen our con- victions and refresh our hearts by large draughts at the pure fountains of principle. It is not, it cannot be the design of Providence or the policy of wisdom to undo the work of 1789, and to es tablish absolute monarchies in Europe. Such a scheme is opposed to the whole spirit of the lite- rature and philosophy of the day: it is at war with the convictions of every distinguished mind: itis abundantly proved that it would be injurious to national prosperity, and fatal to commercial, industrial and agricultural well being. What we see is no symptom of permanent retrogression: it is merely a temporary reaction. It is in this view that the declaration of the Emperor of France—that he would intervene in the event of the establishment of a republic in Spain--becomes significant. The reaction that is seating Isabella on an absolute throne must be followed by a movement in the opposite direc- tion. Her government will last a certain time: till her creditors execute her, or her funds fall too low to pay soldiers, or she gets into a war, or a new generation grows up hating her and fearing nothing; then she will fall, and nothing can take her place but a democracy in some shape or other, And this event cannot be very far distant. France has always possessed a government machine so perfect in its subordi- nate details that, the flurry of a revolution once over, any man of intellect and nerve was pretty sure of holding his own for a generation. In Spain, the case is different: centralization has never gained a foothold in many provimces: the government is chronically weak. Hence we find revolutions in Spain following each other at inter- vale of four or five years. There was one in 1837; another in 1843; another in 1848; another in 1854; and now the last in 1856. There is no reason to suppose that the O'Donnell system will last any longer than that of Narvaez. or any of the other constitutions. If it stands a Instrum, it will be doing very well. We conclude therefore that Napoleon will have a chance to perform his threat before he is himself overthrown; and we conceive that a French armed intervention in Spain for the pur- pose of preventing the Spaniards setting up the form of government they like best, would be an event of very marked importance, and could not but lead to strange complications, How Great Britain would act, when the case occurred, neither Lord Palmerston nor any one else can now tell. We cannot even be certain how we should be affected by it. In the event of the fili- busters holding rule here, it might alter our destinies materially. Police Intelligence. Aripcrn Assacta witn betext vo Kint.—Peter McLaugh lan, a betcher by occupation, was arrested oa Thursday night by officer White, of the Twenty second ward police, on charge of having feloviously avsaulted Andrew Schai ner, of No, 88 Wegt Forty ninth street, The accused, it is alleged, m company with another man, My. Sebaituer while be was walking In Sever near Forty ninth street, and stabbed him in Mieting a deepand dangerous wound A friend of Febafiner'#, who ned tobe with hin at the time, was badly benten about the head and body by the assal apts. Mclaughian bas been identiied by the complain ant as the man who aseanited him with the knife. The other assailant bas not been arrested, but the police are at bie heels, Mr. Schaffner ow lies tn a dangerons con dition from the effects of bis injuriea, which may yet prove ta YeLanghlan was committed for exativa tion by Justice Davison, of the Jefferson Market Police Court. No cause can be assigned fur the outrage upoo the above parties. Scsncox oF Steative.—At an early hour yosterday morning, Officers Sadler and Cornell, of the Niaeteenth ward police, observed two persons, aman and woman, emerge from oue of the Third avenue cars. Tae police men, thinking that they were suspicious characters, ar rested them, and brought them to tho station house. Here they were searched, when upon tho p*rson of the female was found the following articles: —Fifteen gol i breast pins of various patterns, ten ‘inger rings fourteen ear rioge, three gold chains, three gold crower, three watch keys, «large tized cameo broo $15 41 im gold and silver, and a Bumber of small bills The male prisoner's pockets did not present an una appearance. The privoners their names ae Pliza Smith and John Miller. Justice Pearson of the Fourth District Police Court, committed them.to privon for ex ration CuAnce oF Fares Prevexcnt.—Heary Crantet!, of Cay. aga county, New York, was brought belore Justice Connolly, at the Lower Police Court, on charge of having detranded the Orm of Wesson & (o., boot and shoe dealers, of No. 9 Park place, out of $1,400 worth of goo te hy means of faise pretences and {raudulent representa tions. The accused was brought here by the shorilf of Cayrea county, and on being conveyed to the court was held to bail toauswer the charge proterred against bimm. A Scccessret Prexrocker—On Thursday afternoon, Mr. George S. St. Jonn, of No. 246 Front stroet, nad his pocket picked of a wa by aa apple girl, who came into Li Piepose Of selling her fruit, The Fourth @ Are endeavoring to find the shrewd dameel. dersey City News. Seupey Deata—Seericios or Fort Piay.—For two or tbree days past there bas been a drinking frolic in the family of a Mr. Parker, residing in Newark avenue, in the city of Hudson, which resaltved in a quarre! on Thurs: day afternoon between Mra. Narker and one of the gue rts of the lamiiy, named Walker, who had been enge res tn the frolic. It is alleged that Walker choked Mrs. lurker in the melee, and abe died immediately alverwards. He ig under arrest, and on investigation is proceeding to aecertain whether she died in conscquence of inflicted upon ber by him, or from congestion of caused bY liquor and excitement reonal Inteltige . Robert J. Walker is at Rockaway, it is exit, writing campaign documents for Buchanan Isane Adame, Keq., of Boston: Major Chase, U.S. A Hon. Addison White, the last House trom Kentucky; Hon. Sai of Pa: Hon WB. Joel White, of Ci, and fumi'y, of Va., are in Washingten, ARTIVA Walker and family Hon. Joba Wilson From New Orleans, in ep Marn <Mee Hiltye (four children; Mis PW Perry, JH Perry, Jr Verte From Ifavre.in stesmship Vigo—Mr and Mr« Krieger, Me John Staftord, Mr Daperier, Mr Cogniat Prem Aas Cayes, in schooner D Davidson—Cay' Doyle, of the brig Gen ely eunk in part DECARTUREA. For %. 7 and St. Johns, Porto Rico, in the steamehip ‘Teoneasce:—J. J. Pardo and Indy. Carl Habbo. N. Cipriant, Mr. . Rrown, Laguira; Mrs. Howe, Cohn Chrishoim, P. Ht. fre wire, Beron' Vou esenkrauts, 1: Thomas; Mary Leslie. jenn Wetman New fe a a RS at ed nen, Porto eg Le = ne, New G: sot and ny | 5 , joupe: Robt, BM wore, Layenes Curnosale, wy reed ea iby weerage. THE LATEST NEWSI1 BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRaPHg, From Washington. THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR AND POUND 8TER~ LING—MAPS OF THE PACIPIO EXPLORING EXPEDI- TION—DR. THOMPSON'S CLAIM--CAPTAIN GIBSON ONCE MORE, ETC. Wasinwaton, August 8, 1856. The Senate adopted a resoiution this morning, directing: the Committee on Finance to report upon the propriety of correcting by law the present erroneous statement of the: relative value of the dollar and pound sterling, and uporm the feasibility of some mutual plan whereby the relative: value of the unitary coins aforesaid can be made easily and exactly commensurable, The committce will report at an early day next session. t In reply to a resolution from the Senate, the Secre- tary (of the Navy reports:—“The maps of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition wil be ready for publication in a month or two.” The mape will exhibit the Yellow Sea, Ochotsk, Behring’s Straits, the shores of Siberia, the Aleutean or Fox Islands, Gaspar Straits, the islands adjacent to Loo Choo, and other points frequented by our whalemen, Besides several private bills, including the claim of Sturgis, Bennett & Co., of New York, claiming the re+ funding of duties paid on liquors lost by leakage, the Senate passed the Mississippi Land bill, as it went from ihe House, granting fifteen hundred thousand acres of and to that Statefifor the benefit of the railroad com- anies, ‘Ihe Senate then proceeded to the further examination: of, and consumed nearly the entire day in discussing, Thompson’s Indian claim. Mr. Pugh, of Ohio, the youngest Senator in the chamber, defended Cominissioner Mavypenny, and exposed the character of the claim, Governor Brown, of Miss. and Vice President Bright de- fended it. The resolution only’asked to disebarge the commaittee from a further consideration of the claim, as it is provided for by existing law. This will avail the claimant nothing, as the executive government does not recognize the right of Cungress to construe the law; ant @emm'smoner Manypenny and Mr. Guthrie difer with the Senate's committee in opinion, The House of Represcutatives spent the day on the Civil Appropriation bill, whic was taken up ia Committeo of the Whole yesterday. Au amend ment of three hundret | thousand dollars for the Washiagton water works waa voted down, while millious were squandered in vast | schemes of private aud political speculation, ’ The Committee on Claims reported fayorubly on the — claim of Mary Recside, for $130,000—thig sum having been allowed by the Court ofClaims, This i the amount of a judgment rendered some yoarsago against the United States in favor of claimant's husband, who was an exten- sive mail contractor. Mr. Pennington’s Congular and Diplomatic bill is now in print, and being proof read by its author. Itis very — lengthy, and differs widely from the Senate bill. The Committee on Engrayings will report in favor o£ publishing five thousand copies of Captain Waiter W. Gib- son’s map of Netherlands-India. The resolution of the Committee on Foreign Affaire, directing negotiations to be re-opened concerning Captain Gibson’s cleim against the Dutch government, meets Mr. Marcy’s approbation. A treaty was signed yesterday by the head men of the Creek {Nation and the Secretary ofthe Interior, by which the former are to receive for their Alabama land claims, &c., a million of dollars; two hundred thousand of this to be applied to agricultural purposes and the balance per | capita, The celegation leave to-morrow for the Weat THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Senate. Wasmineton, Aug. 8, 1856. LAND FOR RAILROADS IN MISSISSIPT ‘The Senate passed the House bill granting a million and a half acres of land to Mississippi for railroad par- poses. VRIVATE ‘The Senate several private bille, acd then dis cursed nearly five hours, adopting it, the repert of the Committee on Indian Allaire that no further legislation waa to enable R. W. Thompson to receive $42,000 for eervices rendered the Menomonee Indians. THE PACINIC RAILROAD BILE. 4 Mr. Weiter moved the consideration of thé Pacific Rail- | a there being no quorum present, the Senaie” ped. House of Representatives. Wastunoroy, Aug. $, 1856. GOV. REEDER'S PAY AND MILAGR. Mr, Wasnacry, (nigger worshipper) of Me., reported; & resolution to pay Gov. Reeder mileage and per diem to, the time that his claim to a seat as delegate {rom Kansas was decided. Adopted by 23 majority. APPROPRIATIONS FOR LIGHTHOUSES, ETC. The House then considered the bill making appropria- tions for lighthouses, coast surveys, custom hoaxes, ma- ripe boepitals, Ac. An amendment appropriating $300,000 for the continua- tion of the Washington aqueduct was lost by 25 ae a The ph seceys enad dull, and without despoeing of Dill the House ironed. * Michigan Democratic State Convention. Derrort, Mich., August 7, 1856. ‘The Democratic State Convention met yesterday, and | nominated Alpheus Feich, formerly United States Senator, for Governor, and E. H. Lathrop for Lieutenant Governor. Presidential Electors and the other State offwers were alec |. The Convention adopted anti Maine law res0- | The Ohio River. Prerencne, Augyst §, 1856. There is twenty inches of water in the cdaune) of he Ohio river, and it i falling. q Markets, PHILALELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PiMLADRLPHIA, Ang. 7. 1866. Pennsylvania State fives, 85, Rendiog’) Long Is aud Railroad, 13% ; Morris Canal, land Railroud, 45%. 4 Cmicaco, Aug. 77 PM. Corn firm: receipts light; sales at 60e., ant some at Sic. | for futore delivery. Shipments to Baifalo, 43,600 bastois ~ to Oswego, 49.000 bushels: and to Ogdensburg, 16,000. Western «bite wheat is scliiug at $1 40.4 $1 40 BUFFALO, AK F r is very stermy and interfer =i rations, Fiour umohanged. Sales of 500 bole. at $6 6 for extra Obio and new Michigan. Wheat fs lowar. Saler of 8.000 bushels of Chicago spring were made $118. Corn was dull and nominally lower. Cats it. Canal freights unchanged. Receipt: yer day —4,702 bblx. flour, 70,287 bushels wheat, 54,632) bushels’ corm, 11,400 Dushels oats. Cena! exports — 16.687 bushels wheat, 7,180 bushels corn, 29.4 bushels omts. Stocks dull, Bevvara, Angast $9.4. | Flour closed with a fair inquiry. 2 of the day % Lold Michigan, and $6 76 for new food WERE Iilinois, and $6 75 for extra Wheat lo ver. 10 00C bushels sold at $1 18 for Chicago spring, £1 35 for rey Indiana, $1.55 for prime Kentncky. Bayers;| towards the close, would not _ocTer over $1 69 for die lat ter, Corn dull and lower Sales 14,000 bushels, at te. @ 60);c. for sound, and 48\;¢. for unsound. Oats firms) atebout Ste. Kye, 64¢. Canal freights firm, at Me. 1440. for corn, avd 18c. « 18 se. fur wheat ty New Vouk. Receipts for the twenty four hours, ending at Boon to-+ da 7 bbis. flour, 42,057 bushels whear, 62,4464 15,000 bu-heia onts, Canal exports for the | 16.678 bushels wheat, 114,202 ourhels cora, cats, Oxwnao, Angast 8—6 P.M. Flour—Stock light and demand moderats; sees, L004 barrels, at $7 for good fancy Canadian. Wheat aad cord quiet since the receipt of toe Agia’s news, Canal freyghtel] firm and boats fearee, Flour, 406.; wheat, 12%¢0., and corn 106. w York jour, 9,104 Wuebela whe: exporte=1,805 barrels flow 16,670 bushels corn, 2,8*2 burhels onta, 4 ALmaxy, August §—6 P.M Whr at—Salee,"8,000 bushels white Canadiana, at $i 7£ and 700 bushels white new Kentucky, at $1 83; oat: 44c. for State and Chicago. saies, 9,000 bushels. Barley —£nles, 400 bushels on 6,109 hashel: Lower Canada to arrive 1 209 bustle coro Lake imports to-day — +90 A 4 Writ of Habeas Cor sas (From the Cincinnati Gazette, August 7.) We announecd some days since that an apoliostion fry A writ of habeas corpas bad been made to Judge Mole wm «n beball of Governor Rubinsom, Me. Broan e#od othors DOW prisoners tn the hanris of the Territorial avthoriies charged wth high treason. That application is ray torted by the affidavits of the Rev. Mr. St. Clair aod Mr Brown, in whieb it is alleget that if the Goort writ, a large force will be required to bring before it, beeanse United States Marshal Dmalson wool) probably give the jordes of ruffians and jrrates whit infest the Misgour! river om opportunity of marderin them Fbowld the writ be allowed, the expenses atvending f will be enormous, and cast vory far into the shate th expenses 0 the tate fagitive trinls in this city. We hav beard that Judge McLean has invitmated that it may } necessary to have the vase argued belore him by the At torney Gener: NEWS FROM ECROPP, SOUTH AND CENTHAL AMBRIC NICARAGUA, MEXICO, RTC. ‘The Werety Haran will be published at tem o'eloe morning. Among ite contents will be fhiha WW Titent fom Knrope, South ond Central America, Wexiea, Ona, Ae. 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