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Despatches have been received from London in regard to Central American affairs, and the negotiations are progressing favorably. ‘The statement in regard to the claim of some New York -peculators to certain guano islands belong- img to Perv, will command attention. The rumor of Mr. Dobbin’s appointment as Minister to France, is without foundation. He will mot leave the Ca binet. Senator Fish, it is reported, will be out in # few days in favor of Fremont. In the United States Senate yesterday « joint re- solution accepting a portrait of John Hampden, presented by Joba McGregor, Presidentiof the Board ot Trade, England, was passed. It is to be snitably framed, and placed inthe Executive mansion. The bill for Ube improvement of the Des Moines Rapids, with the President's objections, was considered, but failed to pass—two-thtirds not voting for it. The bil making appropriations for varions civil pur- pores was debated at length, and the proviso against employing military superintendents for public buildings stricken out. An amendment appropriating $100,000 for the purchase of three stores at Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn, was adopted. Inthe House of Representatives a com aanication was received from the Postmaster Genes), in answer to & resolution, saying that no pains would be spared to discover and panish per- sons who may unlawfully abstract books or docu- ments sent by members of Congress through the mails. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial ap- proprietion bill was discussed at leagth, and the Senate amendments rejected. A bili establizhing uamerous post roads was passed, and (he Seaate bill pprepriating mear a miliion of doilars to boud- hoiders for movey expended in the (California In tabled b? a majority o e Convention of old line whigs assembled ia Albany yesterday. About eight houdred delegates were ip attendance. Hon. Francis (ranger was se lected to preside, assisted by a number of Vive A report and resolutions were adopted cir intention to support Mr Fillmore, as ithout endorsing the American thetr determiastion to return to their A report of the telegraphic Presider # choice platioru 9 of evils, an Lion a8 soon a8 C71 will be found unde: their d ee head. Hy the arrival of the steamship Dauiel Webster at New Orleans, from San Juan, we have a few items of news fugn Nicaragua. Gen. Rivas, assisted 4,000 Guatemalans, was fortifying Leon, and was expected shortly to march to attac) a force of one thonsand Americans. d, would again invade peut dowa the rev by alker him, wi From Havana, by way of Charleston, we hive ad » the loth fustant, Yellow fever was raging « Havena. Sugars were unchanged in price, aad o\ders firm io the'r demands, From Key West we jeara that there had been no deaths by yellow fever since the 27th ult. The ship Maid of Orleans weat e*bore on the 6th ult., but had been got off, and would eal) for New York after paying salvage. The bark N. P. Talmadge, from Cienfuegos, pw jato Havana on the Sth, with all hands sick with ihe yellow fever, except the captain. Our files from the Sandwich Islands are {rom Uo- solalu to the 12th of June. Prisce Kamehameba bad entertained a large number of the aristocra foreign officials and Preach naval officers at a bril }rant ball. His Excellency Mr. Allen and daughter ad taken their departare from t) thaake giving bigh maas bad been offered up on board one of the French war ships on acgount of the birth of be Prince Imperi: Tu isieture had passed any important measures. We give further extracts this morning from our ‘ alifornia flea, relative to the coudition of afluirs in Fon Praw which will prove fateresting to var waders Averything was quiet daring yesterday at Statea island. No attempt was 1 replace the barri cade demolished the evening previous, it was ramored that the Stepleton Board of Health were to meet last eveuing probably Girect its reconstruction. Warrants of arrest were wued fo eral of the parties engaged jn te wring jown the barticade, Taere (¢ no in nomber of caves of fe low fever ander rhe bospital. Before the Commissioners of Heath yesterday was agitated the subject of the removal of tho in te-ted vowels anchored at Gravesend Bay. A peti tion was submitted asking Chat they be removed to Amboy channel, The matter is to be farther con videred to-day, whep it is expected final action will be taken. The Health Commissioners atate that n> veesel haw been added to the uamber there for the past ten days. The Chamber of Commerce met yesterday, and after an animated debate passed a resolution devlar- ing in favor of the present site of the Post OMe ‘and appointed & committer t confer with the gow ernment ond induce it, if possible, to bay the ground on which it is located, with a view to ow ng a more commodious edifice therenpon, A mo Lion empowering the committee to vezotiate for the jower end of the Park aaa site for the Post Orica wae voted down We learn that there tremendoug rain orm between Motile and New Oreans. The rain ‘ell for one hundred and ten conarcutive hours, and i) ia feared great damage has been done to the crops. The telegraph being prow rated, we ave Cnt particniars. A large fire occurred at Chic yoght, doring the progress of wi i the! they wou ease in the pai ment at with ago on Wednesday ich the fret ght de. pots of the Reck Isiand and Michigan and Sonthera railroads, containing numerons loaded cars were totally consumed. The total loss by the fire is esti- mated at $150,000 to $200,000. The United States frigate Independence, for whose safety some fears were entertained, has ar- rived at Valparaiso. ‘The Bentonites of Missouri have withdrawn their electoral ticket im favor of the anti-Benton de- mocrats. Mr. Lacien Birdseye was yesterday sworn in as Judge of theSupreme Coart, of the Second district, in place of Judge Rockwell, deceased. The sales of cotton yesterday were cazfined to about 600 baies,without change of moment in prices. Flour was rather firmer for common ané mediam grades of State and Western, while other descrip- tions were unchanged. Wheat was active and quite firm for good mew red and white Southern. Corn ‘was firm, with sales of sound’Western mixed at 6lc. a 62}c., and Southern yellow do. at 64¢.a65c. Pork was dull, at $19 624 for mess, on the spot; and 1,000 bbls. of mess sold, deliverable in all September next, seller's option, at $19 25. Sales of sugars were con- fined to 500 a 600 hhds., at steady prices. Coffee was in moderate request, awaiting the auction sale, to come off next week. Freights were less active, owing to a reduction of room, while rates were steady at full quotations of the previous day. The Political Press of the United States and the Fremont Movement. We spread before our readers this morning, a carefully prepared table (including the name. place, politics, antecedents and circulation of each particular paper,) of the political newspapers on our exchange list, North, South, East and West, State by State, together with such other journals as we have been able to pick up, and all the German party papers in the country. The figures of the circulation, respectively, of this extensive list of our political cotemporaries, are derived from the publishers themselves, or from the offi- cial returns of the last federal census. In con- nection with these newspaper statistics we also give a table of the official returns of the latest State elections of which we have any complete report; and the object of all these facts and figures we shall now proceed to define. In the outset, we do not pretend that this list of the party journals of the country is a complete one. We have stated what it is, and with the further statement that the Heranp exchange list has been made up with the most perfect indiffer- ence to the party politics of this or that journal; and was made up, too, with afew exceptions, be- fore the present organization of parties, our readers will perceive that it affords a pretty fair test of the relative strength of the three Presidential parties of the present day. Wholly independent of parties, ates and politicians, the New York Heratp ange list, we dare say, affords the fairest terion of any journal in the Unioa of the re- spective newspaper strength of our different poli- tical organizations. From what we have heretofore published upon this subject, the reader will anticipate the appli- cation we propose to make of these newspaper and election statistics. Our purpose is simply to show that the Fremont movement ig but the working of a great spontaneous popular revolu- tion against the Pierce and Forney democracy and the Cincinnati legatee of this Pierce admi- nistration. Look at our newspaper figures. Here we bave 354 Fremont papers against 296 for Ba- chanan and 125 for Fillmore; but the important distinction lies in this fact—that the whole of the Fremont press, excepting half a dozen, are Northern papers; and that, excepting those half lozen papers, the political pross of the South is divided between Buchanan and Fillmore. In the North the Fremont press largely exceeds in num- bers the Puchanon aud Fillmore press combined; and in point cirenlation the Northern Fre- papers cre as four to one against the wh the Fillmore press of the Union, and nearly two to one against the Bucha- 1an newspaper circulation, North and South, put together. Again, by reference to the autece- dents of this list of papers, it will be seen that while the Buchanan journals are almost exclu- sively of the Pieree democratic school, and that while the Fillmore organs are almost entirely. limited to Southern whigs and South Americans, the Fremont newspaper press comprebends whigs and democrats, hards and softs, Kuow Nothings, natives, and adopted citizens—journals and men of all pre-existing parties, all sects, all classes— enibracing reinforcements fresh from Buchanan aud from Fillmore. Consult thie lit of papers in connection with and enthusiastic adoption of Fremont sce of poople of all parties, all na- reeds, and all classes, that have rallied are still gathering around him, and then an mont the quick by the tions, a sWereus, good t, if this does not look lik general revole ry movement upon the eu ime popular instincts of spontaneous combs tion? We think it does, and that the issues em- braced in it are as i ge eal as bie ca There is something more in it than Kansas, th border ruflians, and Fremont’s popularity. We look. in fact, upon this Fremont movement as com prehending nothing less than a general wholesome revolution in the government at Washington, in the politics of the country, and » sanitary clean ing out of the party hacks, hucksters and spot! men that have brought priaciples and men to t hammer, and that bave reduced the public tros- e mercy of a league of plandere:« he great facts that underlie this mag- aificent groundswell of public opinioa in favor of Fremont. Aron % By reference t ol the last ofticia reported State ele appears that thi groundswell against the Pierce and Forney democracy had cleared the track for a sweeping victory to the opposition forces before Fremont was mentioned or thought of a# their candidate His bomiustion wee the result of a later popular inspiration, and he rans like the prairies on fire, ctions, He entered apon the campaign with a recorded opporition majority against the spoils democracy of the popular vote of the Union, of upwards of (wo hundred and fifty thousand; and this ma- ority is a Northern majority, which has increased wnder Fremont, and ts still increasing. The only impediment to the triamphant election of Fremont by the people, is Mr. Fillmore, and the balance of power which the Know Nothings in his support (like Birney or Van Bureny may able to control in the general result, ft is possible that the Fillmore diversion may give Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Buchanan be hat also possible that Fremont may be more | fan a mutch for Buchanan, in spite of Pill- } nore facfon, We know that Forney and his Central Committee are badly frightened ; and as one proof of the charge, we may refer to the late | resolution of Mr. Bigler in the United States senate calling upon the President to rammage | Over the executive departments for all the off- | cial documents on file that mayde used or abusod ; 10 damage Fremont in Penneylvania, and to NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1858. tave the State to Buchanan. In answer to that resolution we hope that the President will not forget Marcy’s official report of the conquest of California ty Fremont. We betieve that, with proper energy and dis- cretion in his bebalf, Fremont can be elected. We think he ought to be elected; be cause, as in 1840, we bave everything to gain and nothing to lose from the defeat of th® de- moralized democracy. They want a clearing out as badly now as they did then; and the majority of the people have already so declared. Elect Fremont, and it this seces- sion and abolition nigger agitation for twenty years. The Southern secessionists feel it, and are loud and bhustering for secession, only because they feel that with Fremont’s election their occu- pation will be gone. The abolitionists of the real Garriconian disunion and revolutionary ‘chool oppose Fremont, because Buchanao will better answer their purpose of a continued and more embittered disunion agita- tion, The liberal and enlightened spirit of the age,not only in the United States, but throughout all Europe and the civilized world, is in favor of Fremont. No Presidential candidate of ours, since the time of Jackson, has had a higher European reputation than that which now belongs to Fre- mont. Savans and statesmen, courtly politicians and republican reformers recognize in Fremont the conservator of peace, the champion of liberal principles and of progress, the guardian of com- merece, the advocate of good faith at home and abroad, and the promoter of the arts and sciences, which are the crowning glory of this enlightened age. On the other band, the filibusters of the Cin- cinnati Convention have sunk Mr. Buchanan in a party platform which is the essence of inter- nal discord and external disturbances. It is agitation at home and filibustering abroad, from the beginning to the ending. Mr. Buchanan's election will only serve to give a new lease to the Picree and Forney spoilsmen—to rekindle the slavery agitation with new excitements, and to unsettle all our commercial relations and @nan- cial and business affairs, in filibustering forays. Now is the time, therefore, for our solid men, our conservative commercial and business men, with whom peace, law, order and prosperity are para- mount—now is the time for them to act to some purpove. Of the three candidates in the field, the only conservative, national, coustitutional and practically available candidate for a wholesome change at Washington, is Fremont. Finally, we say that these newspaper and elec- tion tables indicate the existence of the necessary materials for a decisive defeat of the spoils and secession democracy. They also indicate a popu- lar movement afoot, which, even with Fremont’s defeat, will still go on, till the general and sweep- ing revolution involved shall have been fully ac- complished. But the materials are at band. Why not finish the workin November? The idea, at first, of the Fremont movement, was the organization of a new party tor future operations; but the weakness of Buchanan clearly indicates that Fremont is already strong enough for the decisive battle. Let his friends actively organize, look about them, clear away the rubbish, and pull together, aud the work is done. ‘with the Ostend Manifesto Annexed. whig, stands particularly conspicuous. own peace, honor and concord.” nomination, Read what Mr, Brown says:— LETTER FROM HON. A. G. BROWN. Wasnincron CiTy, June 18, 1856, your favorite candidate for the Presilency. and beard him » one, waited on the national democracy to request his acceptance of it in the from the North aud the South, the Fast and the West, that he stood uzon the Cincinnati platform anit eniors cury part of it. He was elected, be would make it the great aim of his administra peace and fafety to the Union, and security to the South, in terms’of decided commendation of the Kansas agitation to get up a national conilagration on question. After the paseage of the compromise reg of 1850, the Kanens bill was, be said, necessary to barmovize our legislation in reference 10 the lersi- tories, and be expressed bis surprive that there sliould bil, after the general acquiescence which the whole covntry had expressed in the measures of 1560. A ter thus epeaking of Kansas and the slavery issues, Mr. buchanan passed to our foreign policy. in generat terms of the Cincinnati resolulions on Quis si) But sald that while enforcing our own policy we Bust et al! time proper poliey of other nations. territorial extevsion. All other acquisitiona fairly and bonorebly made. @f Cuba as very desirable now, and @ notional necessity. Whenever we could obtain the me to sanction 4D) country. interview was over, Mr. Buchasaa said e presence of the wuole sudienve, “J/ Jal in setiling the slavery question upon + nomed, and then add Cuba jent, Le witling to give up the ghost, and let ake the nment.”? Cyuld there be amore ! You'may well be proud of yoar carly choice of a candidate, and congratulate yoursell that no adverse inti ever moyed yon sn inch from your stern purpore of giving the great Pennsylyauian a steady, earnest ane cordial support In my judgment ke is as worthy of Southern confidence and Southern votes as Mr. Cal.cun ever wat; and in saying this Ido uot mean to in timate that Mr. Euchanan has apy sectional prejudices in our lavor. lonly mean to say that be hes none against vs, and that we may rely with absolute certainty on re ceiving full justice, according to the Coustitution, at his bands. Kuowing your long, laborious and faithfo) adherence to the fortenee of Mr. Bachauan, | have thought :t proper to Address you this letter, to give you assorance that you had not Mistaken your man, nor failed tn the periorm- ance of a eacred and filial duty to the § In dolag so I violate no contidence. Very truly, your friead, To Hew. 8 RB. Avame, AG. BROWN, the terms 1 hy shalt, of F Breck inrtc nelle aml Tue Auwy Buw.--A bill has been brought into Congress hy Mr. Faulkner, of Virginia, for the better organization of the army. The second, third, fourth and fifth sections provide reepec- tively for a small increase of the pay of the army officers, a boon which is well merited and will be gratefully received. Under the present system of training, which we owe to the existence of our Military Academy, the officers of the United States army have no superiors iu the world, either in education, practical skill, or bravery. To pinch such men is unworthy of the republic. They should be at least as well paid as the great mags of officials who, for a few hours work a day in our numerous custom houses, and in the vari- ous bureaus of Washington, receive more at pre- sent than the most gallant and faithful men in the army. The bill also provides for an accountant in the office of the Secretary of War, who, it is con- sidered, is not the proper person to settle army accounts, however skilful he may be in the per- formance of his general duties. It gives the en- listed men of the ordoance the increase of pay provided for other enlisted mon by the act of Congress August 4, 1854, wnd aleo secures the poy of military storekeepers, To these provi sions there can be no reasonable objection, aud struck, at 2 glance, with the remarkable resem- blance between the peculiar views and the pecu- iar language of that document and the style and sentiments of this letter communicating the re- marks of Mr. Buckanan on the Cincinnati plat- form to Mr. Brown. We have not the slightest doubt that Mr. Brown has given us here an am- brotype (equal to Brady's best) ot the democratic candidate; or, in other words, we are entirely satisfied that the views of Mr. Buchanan, as re- corded by Brown, are most faithfully and exactly reported This fact being established beyond all contro- verey, from the position and responsibility of Mr. Brown in the premises, we see at once that Mr. Buchgnan is fully committed, not only to the general home policy of the Cincinnati Conven- tion, but te every part and particle of the fili- bustering branch of that platform, with the Os- tend manifesto annexed. ‘That robber's manifesto declares that, should Spain refuse to sell Cuba, aud should we consider the island necessary to our safety, “then, by every law, human and di- vine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain, if we poveess the power.’ Mr, Buchanan said to Mr. Brown, in accepting the Cincinnati they should be adopted. nomination, that “our necessities might The first section of the bill isnot soaccepta%le. | Tequire us to make other sequisitions,” Ii declares that “brevet commissioas shali not | %@ that “he regarded the acquisition | take effect either for command o: rauk or pay, | of Cuba as very desirable now, and it was to become a national necessity. thing move likely, with the transfer of Mr. Bu- chenan to the White House. and the installation ol Mesere. Forney, Sanders and the Cuban Junta in the kitchen as the privy council of bis admin- istration When the highway robber meets an unarmed traveller in a convenient place, it inva- riably becomes “a necessity” to rob him. That the acquisition of Cuba has already be- come “a necessity’ in the mind of Mr. Buchanan, is pretty clearly set forth in the Ostend procla- mation; bat still more clearly in the enthusiastic terms in which he states the case to Mr. Brown. Hear him: Mr. Brown says, “after the formal interview was over, Mr. Buchanan eaid playfully, but in the presence of the whole audience, ‘if I can be instrumental in settling the slavery ques tion upon the terms { have named, and then add Ouba to the Union, I shall, if President, be wil- ling to give up the ghost, and let Breckinridge take the government.’ ** Whereapon, Mr. Brows exultingly asks, © could there be amore noble ambition?” In reply to Mr. Brown, we utust say that a de- finite answer here depends very materially upon the ways and means which Mr, Ba chanan proposes to employ to effect the desired acquisition We quite agree with Marcy, that the last prospect of acquiring Cuba by purchase was snaffed out at Ostend. Yet, as Mr. Buchanan, in the absence of something better, has fallen over head and ears in love with the beautiful island, blushing in her abounding charms, and as he must have her, we fear there is no other way by which he can sscare his heart's delight than by “wresting it from spain, if he has the power.’ This is the old Anglo-Saxon, the old Norman, and the old Bay- lish way of sccuring the rich lands of other peo- ple. Itie the Ostend policy of « wresting” that from a neighbor which he will neither give away nor eel) ander a threat ; and the threat ie the old policy of the wolf with the lamb, as recorded by ep and Gen. Taylor In this view of the case, apprehending that an official Lopes expedition will be the solution of Mr. Buchanan's criminal passion for Cuba, and that a war will probably follow, more disactrons tone and our eolid intercete of peace than wae } nor engineers or ordnance or staff departments shall have commaud out of these departments except by special assignment by the President This diveste those officers who bave received rank for gallant and merito@@P®erviccs, of all th ulvantages of such renk, un they fiad per sonal favor in the eyes of the President. This x a step forward towards incr gihe “one man power,” which cannot safely be tak sident bas already quite enough wvthority the constitation and laws We cannot consent that the army shall become his «ycophants o: tools, or that his favorites shall have conman to the exclusion of high minded, wo: dependent men. The effect will be wise in other respects. Brevet rank being uugatory by this section, it may bappon that a captain by brevet may be placed fo command over a lieutenant-colonel by br if the Presi- dent *o chooses—a state of things which will lead to the destruction of all discipline. Rank would, in fact, be the creature of bis will, and not the honorable provision of the army code The President is wisely placed by the Constita- tion under the control of Congress, which atone hae the power to raise and support armies, and ‘to make rales for the goverument of the land and naval forces.’ The first section of this bill virtually neutralizes this power. [t allows the President to take it into bis own hands, by the most subtle of contrivances, and to make every officer in the army look to him as the fountain of honor. The army would become the President's army. and the officers sink to the condition of flatterers and parasites. Experience shows that Executive discretion. at lenst where civilians have been commanders- in-chief, was not very enlightened The army would much rather trust to the regulations of Congress than the caprice of a Presidential in- triquer. We have seen in the case of Brevet Lientenant General Scott how the intentions of Congress may be interfered with by projudiesd and hostile officials. It is to be hoped that this vill will be praned of ite defective parts, and that the a my shall not hy any of ite provisions be thrown from ite pre- sent honorable condition into one of moan sub serviency to political Presidente n. The Pre: le Mr. Buchanan and the Cincinnati Platform, Some of the old fogy politicians of the South, with strong conservative inclinations, in apolo- gising for their support of Mr. Buchanan, rest it upon the assumption that he will not follow up the filibustering programme of tbe Cincinnati Convention. Among these sagacious gentlemen, Mr. Senator Pearce, of Maryland, late an old line Io his late letter, proclaiming his enlistment in the ranks of the Cincinnati democracy, he repudiates their foreign policy, as -involving “a course of aggression, inconsistent with the spirit of our go- vernment, faithless to treaties, violative of the rights of other nations, and destractive to our To show upon what a slippery foundation Mr. Pearce is standing, in his belief that Mr. Buchanan will avoid this wicked policy, it is only necessary to place before his eyes, and the eyes of others similarly deluded, the following autho- ritative letter of Mr. Senator Brown, of Missis- ippi, chairman of the committee appointed to wait upon Mr. Buchanan to inform him of his My Dear £1x:—] congratulate you on the nomination of It the nomination of Mr. Buchanan was acceptable to me at first, it is still more ¢o now—since I have seen hitn ‘The committee, of which I was at his residence to give him formal and’ offictal notice of bis nomination, and iu the name of We found him open, frank, and wholly undisgaised in the exprereion of bis seutiments. Mr. Buchanan said, resence of all who had assembled, and they were bn ge in his remarks on its slavery feaiures, saying that the slavery issue was the al- sorting clement in (ie canvass. Re recoguized to its fuliest extent the overebadowing tmportance of that issue, snd if tin to gettle the question upon such terms as sbould give as pointedly deprecated the unworthy efforts of appear anywhere av organized opposition t> the Kansas He approved serapuionsiy regard the just righ's aud He was tlot opposed to ad been Cur necessities might requir: us to make other acquisitions. He regarded the aequist'ion was Iikely to become island on fair, honorable terms, he was for taking it. But, he added, it will Le @ terrible necessity that woul t Iaduce movement that would bring reproach pon us, or tarnish the honor aud glory of our beloved to the Union, 1 Now, any one who has perused that wonderful Siate paper called the Ostend manifesto, wil! be the abduction of Helen to the Greeks or the Tro- jans, and more damaging to our character than the regard of Nicholas for “the sick man of Tar- key” hasbeen to the prestige of Russia, we are in- clined to pause. We cannot, in fact, agree with Mr. Brown that Mr. Buchanan’s ambition for Cuba is “a noble ambition.” On the contrary, taking Mr. Brown and his Ostend manifesto together, as developing his scheme for the acquisition of Cuba, we are free to pronounce his ambition not “a noble,” but an ignoble ambition—a criminal ambition—a robber’s ambition, and a most unnatural and disre- putable ambition for an old man like Mr. Buchan- an. There is some excuse for a young man turning filibuster—it is one way among others for sowing his wild oats; but when we see an old man affect- ing the fiery zeal, as a filibuster, of a reckless young vagabond of twenty-five, he is subject to the suspicion of imbecility or knavery, and is not to be trusted. Assuming that imbecility is at the bottom of this “noble ambition” of Mr. Bucha- nan for Cuba, there will be no safety in his elee- tion, for his filibustering advisers, who have thus far warped his better judgment to their designs, will still continue to lead him by the nose. With these remarks we tarn Mr. Buchanan over again his conversation with to the care of Mr. Brown. stock for the exact sum paid in. With this & ception he never was interested, directly or i with the State government. plazation both sides cannot always arrive at them. whi priation for cleaning the streets, has « city charter into print in the matter of this appropriation he bas a tions, tion with (he State Department hess of the other? one, We trusi that the susceptibility which Mr Flagg is beginning to evince in regard to us will for once induce him tocoincide with ue in opinion, THANgs —We are indebted for Gles of California papers ; Freeman veses of Mosara Wells, Fargo & ( W. Sullivan City Intelligence. Tur Weavnes.—The city Was visiled by « dreschiag oft Every evening, for a week past, we have beon threatene! wih rai shower yerterday afternoon, whish hat cae eff clean'ng our streets in a most thoroagh manner. rain, and a low, moist temperature bas prevailed. Yos terday selower was a glorious one, ant with somets Of the same sort every third day, Wo could atford to Peuse With street sweepers altogether whether the falas, we saved the cAy [com & pestilence dove all they evuld to bring on eae, Tre Pexrrastiany Hoerrtas, BuacKw' statietical report of the Penitentiary Aoepital, Black the resideat physiciar meeting of the Board of Ten Governors, glean the folowing acts, as indicative oF of the institution: —During the period s return 160 patioute were admitted, amy and 112 me 48 of these wore uatiy States; 121 wer 13 were years Of age years, ane 216 § were Gude: 26 thaw showlig (tat nu four filth of the gross aumber, hid not bora tu forega par at e were under 20 y< ere vadeg BO} ear OC. tue 49 who wore na Site) gents 4 coup, r thirtieth year. tive born, New York (elty Jereey sends 4, and Com ‘ b , Germany pain and Kast ladies. The numb more than 20. 2 were natives) bat imparfectiy eteeatot, sneducated, 45 of the re were Protestants: 116 were Roman Mite Jews, and | did pot take any profes of religion 118 2 married ant 15 wilowed: 25 wars lem were Figle Perate 1 th clr habits, ome womaa admitted that aie was a moderale drinker,” 106 owned to being hivemperste coufewsed that they were “babitoal drank tal drovkards were ai! under % te the majority of those axes these poor unfortunat, while were the yr tomperate parents, The table giving the oceupations wed by the patients prior to their wiminsion { vary eoting, am tt er bibles Ui jariow Classes if life irom the inmates are derived, and also shows the t) us elapeed since they iullowed any employ mon, not spake to Make any extract OF the ber almitted, #8 were rec * the socom! Lime, 24 for the tty time, 4 for the Oth time, 8 for ud 2 (or the twenty first time. Tho tavler aso show he reav it of the medica! treatment for ‘he month, ths 107 were cischarged, cured, 30 were discharged re oved, and f died—a very low ratio of mortality for the reason of tle year, This report, like oilers we have }Teviously noticed, amply confirms var opiaion as to the wisdom of tie poley Which reguiaies the genera! man gement o: the Penitentiary hospital Coroners’ Inguests, Foush jmowxen,—Ooroner Gamble heli aa yesterday, at 150 Ronde ateeot, upon the boty of so named Patek Dowd, Who was found drown wotof Merray street. The deceased wae 4 band of board the barge Exchange, and it i¢ supposed he foli overboard during the night time. Verdict—s:imath hy drowning,’’ Decessed was 29 years old, and wae a na five of Ireland, Fatat PAu. Coroner Gamble held an inquest at the New York Hoepital opon the body of a sailor named Wa. Ti, Browu, #ho died from the effects of injurter received on Wednesday night, by falling out of the third stor window of bie boarding place, 508 Peart sirvet, Verdis -"Aceiental death,’ Deceased was 4i yeart of age ond was a native of Ireland. Missent Letters. List of tetters advertised im the Pailadolphe Pu oti Ledoy, Moncay, Aug, 11, 1856, remaining in tne Pula deiphin Poet office, uncalled for—no doubt mist'recred NRW TORE RoteRs |. &. Commtook, Sturgis, Benpett « Cc © Hespie, Dean & Co. Wood & Brother Robineon & Co., posto brouty & Meare, Wood & Sons PALTIMORE. Wr &) Money, © Lanoter & Brotbere. Serr Vixpicarion a Dory—Comprrotien FLaGe on THe Stanp.—In another columo will be found a communication from Comptroller Flagg in reply to some recent observations of ours on the profile made by the political clique with which he was connected in Albany, out of the consolidation of the Central Railroad lines. Mr. Flagg states that in 1861 he subscribed for ten shares of stock in the Mohawk Valley Rail- road, and paid thereon ten per cent—equal to one hundred dollars. In 1852 he resigned bis office as President, and on the same day sold out his directly, in any one of the twelve companies which were consolidated in the Central Railroad. He adds further, that from the time he was chosen Secretary of State, in 1826, to the close of 1847, when he ceased to.be Comptroller of the state, he never, from principle, subscribed for a single share of stock in any company incorpo- rated by the Legislature during bis connection We give Mr. Flagg the full benefit of this ex- We are atall times ready to lear of aquestion; but unfortunately we We are, for in- stance, particularly anxious to ascertain just now fae been done with the city appro- Wilt the Comptroller, in the outburst of frankness that him, be good enough toinform us what is the precise character, of the expenditures for which be paid over to Mr. Ebling the whole of this large sum in less than seven months, violating thereby one of the provisions of the As be has been induced to rash to defend himself against charges which affect him only indirectly, we trast that the sate sensitiveness will urge him to show that cted from the came strictness of principle which he claims civditior ia bis bank and railroad opera- We should like to know how he cau quare his endorsement of Mr. Ebling’s extrava- gant expenditure with the punctiliousness which he says ivtluenced hiv conduct while in conuec- Are there two separate codes of conscience, for the city and the State, or doce he think that out of the abundance of ibe one it is no harm to make up for the lean- Ifever there was a case in which a public official was bound to render clear his own share in @ doubtful transaction, this is It t# @ question ave had this summer have not Tue authorities bave 6 ISLAND. <The “ Isfand, for the month ending July 21, wae received frou De, W. W. Sauger, at the last tom it we ve general bu- Political Gossip. Where is Alderman Fulmer? Where are the editors of the Know Nothing organ in this city who vouched for the correctness of the Alderman’s statement? Where is the Btate central penny whistle at Albany, with its one hundred and one witnesses aud proofs that the Path Finder was a Catholic? If they can be found, let them read the following:— ‘Two mattera have entered lurgely in. the, present Presiden ve en o . tial carapaiga, whieh T wish to dispose of by applying the canentian ad hommen. . ‘st. Twill bet $5,000 that John C. Fremont is not, and never Ya Boman ‘ Ne Will Let $0,000 that he fs not, and never was, a slave- Ider. ‘The money will be deposited with Duncan, Sherman & Co. whenever aiy party slgnities Walacoepianee of eitier one or : 5, for freedom, both of these Wagers. ‘ours, A. FULLER. J. P..S.—Thave gent an autograph copy of this ‘challenge to the New York Express. ‘New You«, August 14, 1856. William C. Alexander bas accepted the democratic pomination for the office of Governor of New Jersey, and says if elected he will discharge the duties of the oillce to the bett of his ability, and exercise whatever influence he may possess, individual and official, in promoting the Interest of the people, upholding the honor of the State, and preserving at all hazards the integrity of our glorious Union. ‘The following {s the official yote in St Louis county for Governor:— ‘T. H. Benton, democrat, T. Polk, anti-Benton, R. C. Ewing, Know Nothing. For Congress F. B. Blair, Jr., democrat... L. M. Kennett, Know Nothiy; T. C. Reynolds, anti-Bentoa Jobn Van Buren hqs accepted the invitation of the State Centra! Committee of Oblo, and will be present at the democratic mass meeting to be held at Salem, Colum- diana county, Ohio, on the 27th of August. Salem, it is uid, is full of benighted Fremonters, and Prince John hae been sent for to wake them up. a Sarery ov tHe Unirep States FRIGATE INDEVENDENCE.— Panama papers by the Ariel report (he safe arrival of the United States frigate Independence—about which feare were eptertained—at Valparaiso. Our Panama Correspondence. Unisen Staves Sup Sr. inser” Vaxama, July 31, 1858, Aniival of Mr. Bowlin--Movenents of the United States Squadron— Death:— Desertions, do., 6. Our Minister, Mr, Bowlin, arrived here oo Monday, and paid a visit to thig ship. He waz received by Capt. Bailey with all the honors due to his station, aud saluted with seventeen guns on bis Jeaying the ship. Oar Com missioner, Mr. Corwin, accompanied him, as did also two or three res: tent gentlemen of Panama, Our vices from the flag ship are to the effect that she is at present in Valparaiso, or was at the date of these Gespatches, June 30, and would ebortly sail for Callao, en route for Papama, it is supposed. We have never ag yet had the pleasure of the Commodore's pregence—at least Commodore Mervine’s—and his arriva) ig looked to with great interest, and there is no doubt that there will be plenty of excitement when he does arrive The Independence (flag ship of Commodore William Mervine) has been en this station about two years, and curing that time I do not think the Commo- core has allowed much “grass to grow’’ on her bottom, ‘She bas visited nearly ali the ports on the Pacitic coast, the Sandwich, Society, Navigator and Marquesas lslanda, betides remaining a considerable time at Mare Island, California, undergoing repairs. The St. Marys, up to the present time, bas been absent from the United States two years and eleven months. She has sailed duri that time 49,748 milee—a distance of nearly twice roun the world, ehe bas during that time traversed the Pa- cific from Valparaigo to Sau Francisco (by the way of the Sandwich Islande), where, after refitting, she was deepatebed to San Juan de) Sur, aud from again w the Fandwich Iviands. But ] am recapitulatiog what pn have once before published from the same source, here have been very (ew cases of severe sickness on beard, and but five deaths, during nearly three yaars. ‘There has been quite a large number of desertion, prin- cipaily whilst lying at Sau Francisco, which are mainly to be attributed to the gold fever. Many @ poor fellow, alas! bas chan a comfortable chip. and Uncle Sam's “good old talt horse dul’ ant “rice pada ”? for a cold and consfortiess Cabin amid the damp aod noisome Swamps of the Sacrameuto, Yoda and San Joaquin, Sailors are proverbially a discontented set ct beings Give them piu pudding to-day, and to morrow thay wil! ‘Want “‘ealt horse,’ aud swear by al! the bones of their ancestors if they are not allowea their “regular beans.’ Az l have belore stated in one of my ‘ious letters, ‘be St. Marys’ ume on this station is nearly expired. We fave DO positive information as to our iengta ot stay here. Wecannoi leaye Panama, however, betore we are relieved by some other national vessel, Everything is quiet here and passengers continge to make the transit n perfect safety and seeurity. Captain Batley, of this ship, continues t exerce wn unceasing vigilance, and bas, by his temperate and gentlemanly deportment to- warde the tuhabitants of Panes, and bis readiness at nb) times to conform to established customs, gained ap enylable reputatiou as a Commodore. His otticers bave ably sustained him, and the sbip’s crew generally are very popular here. Fine Cuthry.—The Subscribers offer every variety of the above, made by the first manufacturers, bein ihe re hest display of the kind in theciy. A. & J. SAUN- DERE, No.7 Astor House, am! S87 Broadway. 5O Cases Soft Mots, of every Shape and color, just received by FORD & SCOTT, sussessore to White, the hatter, at their store, corner of Broadway aod Fulton street. A few elegant and tasty straw hats left, which we are selling at a great discount, ene Peno.—The Greatest Improvement ts 4 BG. FISCHER'S improve cirevlar seale pianoforte: Wareroum, 305 Broadway, opposlie Hrondway — ‘S@tery Twonty €ighth street ane Ninth avenue, Shelt Dress Combs.—Attention ts Invited to the sabscribers’ assortment, au which will be found the bewest styles of the imported as well as home manu actare. . » & J. SAUNDERS, &7 Broadway. Pianos and Melodeons,—The Horace Waters nodern improved pianos and melodeons are to be ound at 383 Breatway. tunos 10 rent, and rent allowed on Paremegs: toe #6 on monthly payments, second band plagos frow Hiab, tuelouteors from B40 to $133. * Portable Dressing Cases, in all that the heme impor, Compact and complete, containing articles of auliy and ce a tlh. ‘A eS SAUN be very best que DERS, Ko 7 Astor House, and 287 Picture depot yea uments for the campa ga. 1.000 portraite of the pean dati trom dia femal il shaneut an ost of Se. wud We, Dv Broadway. Undersigned, in Consequence of the totlon of theis mamtfactory on the 9th inst, be oe OF those parties who ave favored them wit salem, ase! i the delay will be ‘aotory Wil! be iminediately re- than hereio- The prien origina! - {oekwood's helleoprint, on paper, fur eurp: anyihing ever set produced {a the picwure Ine. Bewi of importers. a= 1 have no avonis canvasning the eity, bat wil! 145 Kighth ave ce in the world (for 26 cents, in tench the hit «i M.K. LOOK WOOD'S gallery Cali as The only pia where a large sized ambrotype can he cluding case. Gallery, 145 highth aveune, Bpectal Notlee—To Southerners ait Gene demen who + ee ng ctpthing. ¥ iv aco, TAUORS AND HTERS PARK PLACR, give votes ot they wil make additions dura AY y sor'ment of anmmmer frillings. Cesire of offering to residents of the Southero from the various watering places, and stran ESTE "isting New York. an opporwiaity to take, wich them the lest noveltice in guntiomen's garmeuta. ular attention \e directed te Gretmowt .ox Rv arom apie Daiuines, vely confined logepetres sll 13 PARK PLACE Bostnes.— Knowing, from the jnini« wade by the pablie, that grevt <9 wir facture pod cole of shirus, whieb samprieing oy ere Rot wp only tor Mnouncing Uaat T super shirts, exprese!s fo costom trade. whieh I in Cae § particular, Tito As MeLAUGHLEN, 9 Greenw street, corner Murray Mors.—Au Antidote for the Posen of wuer pepared. by. Mears: JOSEPH Her on ie pt contains a property, which will instans; aouee oe ot {he indammation caused by Bites and stings of inseete. Por sale by A B&D. sands, ©. H. Ring, T. 7. Green, and by 4) (ragaiate wel (aney goods dealers, tipatiemen--We Vere anf'kre iron, ig ne al sw 4 on font will please putt In ‘propel % ad hae been | in Wels tock," ber Sent seta item soon ‘la re oe e ay for the pow, , however, pulting the ick fn sneh shape en not be a with the key, and the owners wer roy calt in the aid lave it retarne! of macbinisie and bave os Ed ent ¥ tie a8 BOND Ae DOREiDIE, and oblige, yours, Wwe Ximous « co For Fancy Articles and to Rogers’ extanaive bazrar of faney goods, 199 Pacleey trey Hiety is there that the imagination ean conceive. Dre Caade, retienles and trayelliag bags, porcelain, china. bronge rnaments, perfumery, and tn the children's men. dol) sof avery variety, a cheaper than coab where. 4 ” 7 prices Machine Thread pew and v for machin st one-qnarier ‘he © hove Just Recstved @ ¥ anperior artiele of blank and w t Ke Ad Sewing. eNpoRiOr to © BW. TRVON &€ The Caterrh Doctor. ©, Howard Marshall, qho cures cainrrh and lung diseases, will ho again at the 8 Sloholas Hotel, New York on Angost 18 Te. M. trove by etter Ae in person Direct to Ft Nicholas Howl, N.Y