The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1856, Page 4

armen mW. commun oF HAS8A0 xp Yourox ors. AMUSEMENTS THIS BENING, ACA! ‘OP MUSIC, pegertgenah st.—Dramaric FOUND ou =s ‘Winow's Viornt mm Won UNCHBACR, SC. prea GARDEN, Breetway—Ms. Bonron’s Nicut— se erseneeesseee NOs 890 pRONERE THRATRE, Bowers Bowery—itre in New Yoru— cre 7c aa CHINESE BUCLDING, 889, Bromiway—BreroriAn Pre ‘CemeANcEs, BY TEs Camere Mt ‘The News. ‘By themnrrival ef the Baltic at this port we have “Waree days later intelligence from: Europe. Her Bews is not of much interest. The resistance to the Queen's author?’y in Spain seems for the present te te at an end, @eneral Dulce having entered that city ‘on the Ist ingfant with his treeps. It is said that ‘he movemiert of French troopsto the Spanish fren- tiers, which had commenced ix large numbers, had been countermanded tor the present. The O’Bon- nell Ministery do no: intend to convoke either the existing constituent cr the oréina:y Cortes, from the apprehension that it will jead to iffculties—in other words, having secured its position by the sword it means to retain it by the same means. There'is a ‘talk of its geanting @ constitution, which, im its concessions te popular liberty, is to throw all previous constitutions into the shatie; bat ‘mo one is inclined vo place faith in mere assurances. ‘The object is to delude the Spanish people with false hopes until the revolutionary party have time to strengthen themselves. Marehal Pelissier ar- rived at Mareeilles on the Ist from the Crimea. He was received with great ceremony by the authori ties, and an aid-decamp of the Emperer con- veyed to him the flattering information that he had been elevated toa Dukedom. The rush of visiters to Moscow to witness the corenstion of the Czar was greater than was ever beiore knowa on any similar -eccasion. Our report of the proceedinge of Congress yes ‘terday morning closed at two o'cleck. Both heuses continued in session until aiter daylight, ween they adjourned to nine o'clock this morning. During the night the Ser ste passed the Ovean Mail Steamer bill, with the proviso directing notice to be givea of ‘the termination of the contract granting additional compensation to the Collins line. An effort was made to strike out the proviso, but without success, Im the Hunse of Pepresentatives the Conference ‘Comumitiee on the Army bill reported that they were wmable toagree. A motion that the House recede from its proviso that the army shall not be used by the Mresident to enforce the alleged laws of Kan- sas, Ww Gisagreed to by a mojori'y of tive. Several general appropriation bills are stil peading on dis- agreeing amendments. Our special correspondent in Washington far- nisbes our readers with an account of the doings of Saturday night’s session of Congress, with all the romors prevalent in that city of what will be done ‘this morning. The greatest decorum and order pre vailed during the session of Saturday, which lasted until after four o'clock. The Legislative, Judicial apd Executive bill, it is said, will be passed this morning, the Senate rece jing from their amendment providing for the Legislatare of Kansas,and the House receding from the one prohibiting the use of the public money to exevute the present Terr'torial dawe. The Army bill, it was thought, will be de- feated by the republicans. An eifort will be made to-day to extend the session for twenty-four or forty- eight hours, to give claimants a chance to pass their bills. The House bill approprisiing $150,000 for a steam revenue cutter at this port, it is said, will pass the Sevate today. The appropriation of $500,000 for a Post office in New York was ad »pted. A correspondent writing from Vera Cruz, on the 4th instant, informs us that another movement had been made at Tampico egainst the government of Comopfort. he movemeut commenced with about five hundred men, who were instigated and sap- ported by the clergy, and Vidaurri, it was said, would be at the head of the insurrection. The movement, it was supposed, would be easily sup- pressed, as it was opposed by the mass of the People. It will be seen by a statement elsewhere, under ‘the head of “Yellow Fever,” that out of the eleven in- fected vessels anchored at Gravesend bay eight have been removed to the vicinity of the Southwest Spit, ‘aa directed by @ recent resolution of the Commis- missioners of Health. The continuance of these wemela for so long a time at their former anchorage is stated to have cavsed the bresk- ing out of yellow fever in the various towns lining the shore opposite Gravesend bay. On Saturday night one of the vessels anchored at Quarantine dragged ber anchor, and bas not been beard from since. There are at preseot bat tweive eases of yellow fever under treatment at the Quaran tine Hospital. By letters ‘rom Havana, dated 10th insiint, we Jearn that the health of the city was rather improv ing, but in the o»y the fever tii! continued viol nt The decree creating General Concha Marquis of the Havana and Viscount of Cuba, had been pu> lic. The news of the insurrection in S bad caused much excitement, and so anxivus was eu Concha for the earliert news that he had despat his swiftest steam«bip to await at Charlestoa the arrival of the steamer from Earope. We publish elsewhere a communication from the stleton Board of Health, intended to be laid before the Commissioners of Erigration, in answer to the recent letter of Dr. Trompson to the mame body. The entire action of the Castleton Board of Health since its late organization is re Viewed, and ita course in reference to the Qiaran- tine sathorities and the erection of the barricade sought to be vi 4. ‘We have af particolars thia morning of the late storm in the South. The loss of life is Bow set down at two hundred and fifty, including mer, women and children. At Last Island one hum red and ninety dead bodies have jeen foun. Fron all psris of the country aceonnis continued to come in of the dreadful damage that has Leen done. By our despatch from Mobile we learn that there was great excitement in that city on Saturday last, fu consequence of the rale of abolition works by a bookrelling firm doing business there. A Vigilance Committee was formed, and the offending parties warned to leave the city in five dave. The excite ment continuing to increase, for fear of more des perate measures they fled the city im a secret manner. The cotton market on Saturday exhibited more strength, without quotable change in prices. The sales embraced about 1,200 bales, part for export. ‘The receipts of flour were very light, an! prices for eommon to good and extra State brands were firm er. The market for prime new white Southern and Western wheat was firmer, and sales reached to@ 70 per burhel. Red was steady, at $1550 $166. White old and comxon were dal! and irregular. Corn sold freely rates; seand mised brought 6) heavy, with enles #f mees at #1 @ #15 62}. Lard woe Gem, wit. soles in bbls. at 130., and af. terwa:ds held bigher. .Sugare were quiet prices weve anehanged, ‘The sales comprised 200 a 100 Dhda. Cuba, and 160 do, New Orleans, at prices given cleewbere. The chief “ansaction in coffee consisted of a sale of a cargoof “bia, of 2,900 bags, at Ofc., fowr month, Freights “te steady, with moderate engagements. of grain to Jlverpool, at jo. 8 To iy bulk and bags. but closed at easier aé Pork was NEW YORE HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1856' ‘The late leading articles of this journal levelled against the democratic secessionists of the South, are, we have reason to believe, creating a pro- found sensation througheat the Southern States. Within a few days past we have received a num- ber of private letters from Virginia, Georgia, South Careiina, Alatama and Mississippi, to the effect that there are many independent men in the Sunth holding aloof from polities, because they camnot support the intense niggerism and Elibusterism of the Cincinuati democracy, nor the rickéty, brokee-backed Kaow Nothingism of Mr. Fillmore. But these independent Southern thimking mea have discovered from the plaia statements ‘of facts by the New York Heaauy, in referense to the Fremont movement, thas it may be stfely joined by Southern constitatiomal conservatives, as wef-as by Northern men ef all j parties, cecking a ‘wholesome reform ‘im the goverment, and im the reconstructier «f the parties and polities of thecountry. Wi'h these new-viewe, suggested from the in- dependent course of this. journal, we ere not sur- prised to learn from ‘the private letters referred to, that it only requires the appointment of a Fremont electoral ‘ticket in every Southern State to develope’ the existence of a bedy of con- stitutional Sowtherm men in favor of Fremont, from Virginia to Texas, thut will paralyze the secession democracy, «ad put an end to tkeir senseless clamor. force of all thatywe have urged er intimated of the despotic terrorism of the secessionists, which now prevails throughout the South. They admit that south ef Mason and Dixon's tine there is just now neither liberty of speech, liberty of the press, nor lierty of action; but that, on the con- trary, a seevile press panders te a censorship more despotic than that of France or Russia; and that politicians of all parties are compelled to prostrate themselves and glerify a system of sspoinage mare ignominious and offensive than that of Austria or Italy. In the midst of such an anomalous state of things in a republican coun- try like oars, and among an intelligent people like those of the South, it is perfectly natural that there should exist a strong amount of antipathy, hostility and scorn, quiet, tor the present, from suggestions of prudence, but none the less ready to seize the first opportunity to crush the illegal, ignoble and despicable, but orgauized terrorism, which lords it over them all. What, then, is to hinder the sensible Union men of te South, driven to the limit of forbear- ance against this organized terrorism, under which they are subjected to the passive obedience of serfs—what is to hinder them from joining this great independent, constitutional move- ment for Fremont? He is a Southera maa by birth, instinets, education and associatious— he is the representative of the rights of the Siates and the obligations on all sides to the constitutioa and the Union. He is neither the candidate of abolition disunionists, nor Southern secessionists, but is bitterly opposed by both these disorganiz- ing sectional factions. He is pledged against any disturbance of stavery in the District of Columbia, of the Fugitive Slave law, of the inter-State slave trade, and anything else affecting the constitu- tional or lawful rights of the South; and his his- tory, his training. and his antecedents are the guarantees of his fidelity. These are the securi- ties of the perfect safety of Fremont as the can- didate, not only of the great political reform party of the North, but of the conservatives of the South—slaveholders, who have everything at hazard under the domineering secessionists, and non-slaveholders, whose only saficy is in a firm adhesion to the Union, Buchanan or no Buchanan, and Kansas or no Kansas, The only point of assault against Fremont by Mr. Toombs, Mr. Fillmore, Mr. Buc an and their fellow cecession politicians, isin the posi- tion of Fremont on behalf of the admission of Kansas as a free State. Ayainst him, on this solitary issue, the whole South is arrayed, and its doors are bolted and barred, with armed rentinels at the windows, requiriag every passenger to give the password, or ran the hazard of his li All this is menaged by a conte mptible minority of the South, consisting of reckless domagogues ard mercenery «poilemen—Mr. Toombs being a model representative of the one clavs, and the Richmond Enquirer and Charleston Mereury fair samples of the other. These two journals are but the more cor ous and noisy leaders of a gang of fa. aliry sp: en, Whose eyes are fixed i ident’s patronage and the public ome is but the more promi- le of small beer politic the countr, . Mr. Fillmore has become a Buchanan, whose life bas ® timid tidewaiter, has end- denly become bold ¢ been the ca nongh to stoop as low as agogues, spoils 1 the South in m false to itself and false before the the world, thet the good sense of e Southern conservatives, of all parties. is re- volting. Tremulous old fogies, here and there, are surrendering at discretion, and apologizing for their degradation, with their eyes fixed upon the ground; but being assured that the spirit of free thought and independence still lives in the South, and that it is ready to rise and vindicate itself, we say let it rise, for there is no danger to be feared. That little Southern cabal of secession ond mercenaries have only to be bold. ly met to be quietly defeated. are told that it is os much as a man’s life is worth to speak in terms even of common respect of Fremont in any Southern State—that the Fremont party cannot «nd dare not attempt the experiment of an elee- toral ticket in the South. But we say that this is nothing more than a raw head and bloody bones, a rcarecrow, made of rags and straw. At all events, from the information in our possession, our Southern secession Committees of Safety will soon have the opportunity afforded them of a practical enforcement of their threats, The expe- riment of a Fremont electoral ticket has been tried in Kentucky without bloodshed or ruManly resistance, and itis thought that the movermen may be as safely extended to every other South ern State. Let the Kentucky experiment be tried in Virginia or South Carolina, for example, and we shall eoon see that all this horrible terrorism of our secession masters is “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing ;° and that Fremont has a positi politieta a host of friends, even where the secession conspi- rators are thought to be supreme. The people of the North are beginning to be governed by vensible ideas. The programme of the abolitionists and the programme of Se- ward have both been set aside, and our black republican rascals have been — by | public opinion and the independent pr Our Southern correspendents, from | whom we derive ‘these assurances, admit the full 4 Sjectable prinviples and respectable behavior, They have drv»pped “the higher law,” and have become earvest advocates of the constitutiaa and the laws of the land, excepting only the Kansas laws of t?.e border raffians, and the South Caroli- na Sen?.torial law of the bludgeon. What we now want is the reduction of the noisy Southern feces? ionists to something of a corresponding stan‘jard of respectability. We believe that at bee rt there is a decided majority of the people of the South opposed to the perpetuation of thi Pierce dynasty, and the mischievous influences of | its kitchen spoilsmen and filibusters; we are as- sured thet there are many independeat thinking men allover the South who are disgusted with } the mummery of the Know Nothings and the flummery of the secessionists; we are also assured that to try the question of freedom ef opinion in the South upon constitutional rights, the Ken- tucky experiment of a Fremont electeral ticket is shortly to be followed up in every ether Southern State, and, there being no constitutional or law- fuleobjection against it, we say go oa with this movement. df, indeed, the South is under the van of a league of mysterious inquisitors, or despotic Com- mittees of Safety, like that of the French Reign of Terror, let us know it. Our opinion is that there is nodanger of proving the existence of any such enormity even in South Carolina. Give us a Fremont electoral ticket in every Southern State, and we defy the secession disor- ganizers to attempt in any case to put it down by violence, as they threaten todo. They will soon have the opportunity, if we are not mistaken, of reducing their threats to practice. It will be worth all other issues of this campaign to have this single issue tried and settled. Let us know whether the Southern States are governed by constitutions and laws, or by little squads of border ruffians, and we shall know the destiny of Kansas at once, and the destiny of Southern in- stitutions, for good or for evil. We believe they are safe—that the honest masses of the Southern people are sensible, lib- eral, conservative men. We speak to them in behalf of the projected Fremont movement. The New York Herarp speaks their opinions— they approve our course, and we shall always stand by them and their rights. We can afford to speak freely and fearlessly. This journal is independent of parties, of spoilsmen, of cabinets and of government plunder. Our annual income, frem the support of our liberal subscribers aud advertisers, of all classes and all parties, is larger than the pitiful salaries of the President, his Cabinet and his European diplomatic corps all put together. We could buy them all off on the same terms, and still have something left for the church and the poor. How perfectly absurd, then, to hear our beggarly democratic spoilsmen prating of the New York Heravp being bought up for this or that candidate or party, at any price. Fremont refused a million, cash down, for his Mariposa tract. A dozen Mariposas would not buy the New York Heraup. It is not for sale, It gives us all the position, honors, public influence, employment, profits and emoluments that we desire, and in the cause of the indepen- dent masses of our people, North and South, and their rights, it is our highest ambition to main- iain this paper worthy of their continued confi- dence and support, In this view we support the Fremont move- ment—in this view we urge his friends to give him an electoral ticket in every Southern State, for we are assured he would prove his metal there to the astonishment of Know Nothings and secessionists; and prove, what is of still higher importance, that border ruffianism does not reign supreme in Virginia or the Carolinas, in Missis- sippi or Georgia, as it does at Washington and in Kansas, Let the experiment be tried, and let Old Virginia lead off. There we have a friend at court in Governor Wise, who will see to the pre- servation of law and order. Let Virginia lead the way. the News from Europe—Triumph of Spanish Reaction and French Policy—Its Influence on the Relations of England and the United States. By the arrival of the Baltic yesterday we have the news of the capitulation of Saragossa. With the fall of this city the resistance to the Queen's cuthority may be considered to be at an end. The reactionary party and French policy have had a temporary triumph—but only a tem porary one. ‘The fickle elements of the Spanish character will soon throw everything into confu- sion again. Leaving the political problem in Spain to find its own solution, we will pass on to the consideration of the influence which it is like- ly to exercise on our own affairs, Our readers must have noticed the marked change which has lately taken place in the tone of the London Times, and indeed of the English prees generally, in regard to this country. Veer- ing suddenly round from its former offensive course it has started off on quite a new tack, and is now crowding all sail to recover the leeway it has made with us. At no former period that we can remember has the press of Great Britain manifested co strong a desire to emulate the good will and friendship of the American people. And it is not merely in the expression of its seuti ments but in its acts that this disposition has been indicated. The Times bas, for instance, recently ent here as its representative a gen- tleman named Filmore, who was for. merly its correspondent in Berlin, and who is on intelligent and accomp! ‘writer. After epcnding a short time in this city, he has gone on to Washington, from whence he is now corres ponding with his paper. But in order to draw still closer its relations with this country, and to give the people of Great Britain the fullest and most accurate information as to its affairs, it has been determined that Mr. Delane, the chief politi- cal editor of the 7imes, shall pay us a flying visit. If not already on his way, that gentle- man may be expected here in the course of a few weeks, and will then be able to judge from his own observation of what he has hitherto been obliged to teke eccond hand from his subordi- nates, Tut it is not merely the press which sends ite delegations of olive branch bearers to our hores. Amonget the arrivals by the Baltic we sce thet of the Hon. Robert Lowe, Vice Presi- lent of the Board of Trade, one of the most «d and prominent members of the lower howe of Parliament, and up to the last six monthe one of the principal writers for the Times. Considering the high official position which he holds, this visit of Mr. Lowe may be regarded as one of high State policy. The tone of the Times, taken in connection with that of ecme of the leading members of the gov- ernment, indicates that there is some powerfa! revolution of sentiment at work in the Palmer- eton Cabinet on the subject of its foreign policy, bat more erpecially in regard to the position which the present administration ocouples to- be Vaulted States, The remarkable «poco recently saade by Mr. Disraeli in the House of Commons on the Monroe doctrine, and the modi- fied tone of Lord Palmerston on the Crampton affair, may be taken as additional evidences of this change of feeling om the part of English statesmen, All these indications and facts receive an ex- planation in the statements which we receive from time to time from our private correspon- dents in England. They inform us that there have been serious discussions, not only in the British ‘Cabinet, bat among the British governing classes generally, relative to the expediency of the alliance with France, or rather the policy of continuing it in such a way as to embarrass the relations of Great Britain with the United States. This pew feeling on the part of English politi- cians may possibly arise from the serious issues presented to their view by the inclination re- cently evinced by Louis Napoleon to carry out the traditional policy of his family in Spain. This policy has always been a knotty point with the English people, who have expended their best blood, incurred a crushing amount of debt, and resorted to the most ingenious and painstaking diplomatic efforts to defeat it. Apart from this fact, the struggles of the Spa- nish people to establish a constitutional system analogous to their own find amongst the masses in England a natural sympathy, which compels their government, notwithstanding its present Napoleonic partialities, to adhere to the princi- ples which have guided their predecessors. The remarks which fell from Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons on this subject shows that he is very much dissatisfied with the policy of the French Emperor in regard to Spain as thus far de- veloped, and the tone of the English press gene- rally manifests the same feeling. The sum and substance of all this is that the British government is beginning to perceive that if they mean to protect their commercial interests and to preserve a longer lease of the high posi- tion which Great Britain has attained amongst the leading European Powers, they will have to cultivate an alliance, moral, political and com mercial, with the United States in preference to every other nation. There is no doubt that from the new direction which is gradually being given to the foreign policy of England that vast changes will take place in the political and com mercial relations of the world within the next twenty years, The commercial interests of Eng land constitute in themselves a tremendous political power, which in the progress of its natural developement compels it to seek a union with this country. The more popular and republican character which the English press is assuming leads it as natu- rally to concur in this union, and in these facts we find the causes of the change which we have noticed in the sentiments of the English aristo- cracy towards the American people. Another important view to be taken of the po- sition of the United States in relation to other countries is this. It is admitted that as regards England we possess a controlling power of im- mense magnitude. A war that would cut off from her the usual supply of our staple produc- tions would inflict upon her such an amount of injury and suffering that she would prefer almost any alternative to it. The concessions made in the settlement of our recent differences prove to what an extent she will be prepared to go sooner than drive matters to a rupture with us. To- wards France we occupy an analogous position, though perhaps not to so great an extent. There is no doubt, however, that if a war were to break out between the United States and France, the interruption of commercial relations would, in six months, lead to a revolution in that country in- volving, in all probability, either a change of dynasty or a total alteration in the form of gov- erpment. If, therefore, Louis Napoleon should decide on carrying out the policy of his uncle in Spain, it is certain that it will create a feeling of coolness towards him in England, and place him in a posi- tion of isoletion which will leave him at the mercy either of a republican movement or of the hostility secretly cherished towards him by his fellow despots. In the event of Buchanan's being elected to the Presidency, and of his being in- duced by the red hot filibusters amongst his par- tirans to give effect to the projects against Cuba, préfigured in the Ostend manifesto, there will as certainly be a collision between the United States and Spain to which we cannot see how France can avoid being medea party. From this dis- pute England will keep aloof, as it is her interest to do, and the result will be a revolution and change of dynasty in France—another proof in addition to the many already furnished by his- tory, that Spain is destined to be the tomb of French ambition. The American people will never willingly make war on France. Their political traditions, their tympathies and their gratitude for former tervices forbid it; but this country has no sym- patl y with transient governments, and in a con- junction of circumstances like that which we have just pointed out, they would impose no check upon the action of their Executive in pushing schemes which must have the effect of revolu- tionizit g the present order of things in France. Whilst these events and contingencies are locming in the future, England shows that she fully sppreciates their importance by gradually withdrawing herself from a connection with the Continental governments, and taking steps to form, not a political, but a commercial and rymyathetic alliance with the United States, which will preserve intact her vast and rapidly incrcaring interests, and re. der her mistress of the political sitvation in Europe. Coxoress—C Losing Scenes oF THE Sksstoy.— We published yeeterday a full account of the closing scenes of the first session of the thirty- ourth Congress down to two o'clock Sunday morning, at which point our report left both hource still in eeesion. We give this morning the remainder of the proceedings of Sunday's sit- ting, aud expect to give in our afternoon editions ile goed news of the final adjournment. ‘The history of this past session is a history of quoabbling facticns, intriguing demagogues, con- cderate spoilsmen, swaggering border ruffians, wasteful profligacy, shameless corruption and brutal outrages. Let us be grateful that with such a Congress at one end of Pennsylvania avcone, and with such an administration as that of Mr. Pierce at the other end, we are still at peace with the world, and have still some money Jeft in the treasury. It {a also a matter of consolation to know that both houses closed up the eventful labors of the Jost nine monthe with a pretty good opinion of themeelves, whatever may be the verdict of the country. We know this from the bill passed in- creasing the pay of cach member to a rogular ealary of $6,000 per Congress, equal to thre» thopsand gach pession, with a rotrospective pro vision for am extra allowance to the members for their services for this Congress, amounting to the sum of seven handred and fifty thousand dollars. In this they have acted upon the practical maxim, that there is no use in doing a good thing if we cannot ourselves share in the cash profits. The pay to a member of Congress, however, of three thousand a year, is little enough—five thousand would be public econo- my; for with aealary of five thousand dollars a year to each member, we have no doubt that many of the leakages through which hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars of the public funds escape, would be stopped, because the plea of necessity, which bas thus far been some excuse for engaging in the pickings and steal- ings, would no longer be available. The Cincinnati plattorm on internal improve- ments has been kicked out of doors by the de- mocracy of both houses upon various river and harbor bills, which have been passed over the head of the President and his remarkable fidelity to democratic priuciples in these remarkable cases. On the other hand, his Excelleney has cheerfully approved all the grand railroad .land- jobbing schemes submitted to him, whereby mapy millions of the public resources have been squandcred upon speculators, spoilsmen and mo- nopolists, to the prejudice of the masses of the people. Democracy is a curious article in these latter days, straining at a gnat, or swallowing acamel, as the case may require. The total appropriations for this session of Congress are estimated, by one of our special correspondents, to cover a sum of over sixty- three millions of dollars, Including the public lands squandered upon railroad jobbers, deficien- cies which will yet have to be made up, and other items, we presume that the treasury, for the current year, will suffer to the full extent of a hundred and fifty millions, Pretty good for a New Hampshire President, with a Congress re- publican in one branch, and democratic in the other, All the regular appropriation bills appear to have been squeezed through without much diffi- culty, excepting the Legislative, Executive and Judicial bill and the Army bill, which were en- cumbered with the Kansas anti-Lecompte, anti- Stringfellow, anti-border ruffian amendments of the House. For the latest information upon them, see our reporter's report, and our editorial summary, The Collins steamers have secured their an- nual appropriation, with a notice for ending the contract, which will cut off their line from gov- ernment assistance after the expiration of two ears, nt The most extraordinary feature of the closing scenes of this expiring session, was the compara- tively good discipline which prevailed through Saturday night and Sunday morning. Our spe- cial reporter informs us that “better order was preserved than ever before known on a similar cecasion. All eober.” This last short pithy sentence, “all sober,” staggers our credulity. Our authority is reliable, but the news is almost too good for belief. Generally, in the winding up of Congress, the committee rooms of each house are turned by the lobby into free bar rooms, and the members on the floor who are strictly sober are in a powerless minority. It is, therefore, exceedingly refreshing to learn that on this occasion “all were sober.” Can it be that the Main liquor law, after having been tried and botched by various State Legislatures, has been adopted by Congress in the shape of a practical « xperiment ?—or have the supplies of brandy run short in Washington ?—or have they taken to la- ger bier? After the adjournmont to-day, we ehall gather up the fragments, and prepare for the hot work of the campaign with the distribution of our Con- gressional stumpers and spouters among the body of the people. Police Inteligence. GAMBLING QUARKEL AND FUPPOSED FATAL STABBING OCCURRENCE. Atencarly your yesterday morning, a quarrel and stabbing affray, over a card tadle, took place at the lager bier saloon of Charles Fulmer, No. 31 Chrystie street, be" tween two Germans named Peter Reisier and Henry Steickier, in which the latter received a deep cut ia the back with « iarge knife, alleged to have been uset by the former. The partis, it appeared, lived at No. 28 Chrystie street, and were intimately acquainted. On Saturday night they entered Fulmer’s saloon, and in com pany with other persons commenced playing cards for drinke, The game was continued until about one o'clock on Sunday morning, Aegon ne got up from the table somewhat vexed at and commenced w quar. rel with Steick’er about the. payment ot the drinks. From words the men came to blows, when Reisler, it is alleged, snatched up = large meat knife and plunged it ito the beck of bie i tiscates Pope 8 fell to the floor badly wounded, and blee ely trom the iy conveyed to his ‘tten dane: was procured. The residence, dcctors, thin og the nutitied’ Coroner Gamble proeeerted to the bedside of Steickier and took the ante m fated exemination of the wound mao as followa— Steickler, being duly sworn, deposes and sxys—I re side at dear Ko. Bs Chryatie ptrect, about 1234 0 clock 1 went overto Imer's saloon. *1 Chrystie sireet; | met the prisoner there. ‘asked me to play ® game of cards for some lager bier; 1 down and ployed the came with him; I drank ove giays of {Priconer lost five glasses of bier: he became yery an. the cards down upon the table, said, toon ‘on opee, he did beat ms once, after that ted to pay for the beer: 1 tol jum thas iT lost the beer for jt: he then paid for the beer fand said 1o ms pay “If you lost the beer you could mak yo the public; T answered him, and Vast mek ike bien te talk im that way; be anid that when 4 lost a ring and his w fe found it and returned jer receive! any thanks for ber trouble: he continued “ine in thia strain for feme.time, when I told him if he did, not stop I would strike ich that 1 shoved him ‘owards the door; the Iantior { ‘wae entting some ham with the Knife now shown rd when he laid it down upon ihe counter io get some rd the prisoner picked it up and stabbed me in the back: hen Furrounded by those In the saioon, but subseqnent “i trom the salvory; 1 walked round to the doctor at ‘ard street, and from there home; om Fry, way home i Rois T never had any difficulty with him before last after his escape from the saloon, was bin Patoter:” rahe. live prise ner, who, captured by citicer King, of the tenth ward poiice, was present during the examination, but did not question the wounded map atall. Reisier was com nitted tw the Tombs to awa.tthe result of the wounded man’s injuries. Steve ler is Cangerourly wourced, and will in all probabilit; die trom the cfects of the wound. The pa ties are bath men of femily. Stiekler keeps a ap d store at his re. tidence, while Reisler is a painter by trade. PROBABLE FATAL STARBING AFFRAY—THE LVIL RF- FECTS OF SKYLARKING. About 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon, & serious it not fatal stabbing affray occurred in the grocery store 92 Va rick street, between two colored men, named Georg: Wi con and George Logul, in which the rormer recoived a écep gash in the abdomen with a cheose knife, alleged to bave been in the hends of the latter. It eppears that th Ee ‘ en oaeen te with _ a, and on 2 the morning in question they commenor wit! cheere kpives in n their bands. a Ss the sore when Wilson entered with a knife ip his hand, and flourishing it in a playful manner at the former. Logal foolishly caught - cheese knife, and in tarn com meneed throat| ‘iieon in a joking manner, The store Was pon oe ed very much at the time, op account of the Fay J being cloned hed ‘ietor, and while the men were thus en; in ing with the knives Wilson accidentally etombled and_received the blade of Logul’s knife in bi Me The wound produced waa a frig htful one. several inches, not live until he reached the hi and fears were envertained that the injured man woal ital. Officer Curtis, of the Fighth ward police, bearing of the occurrence, hast ened to the epot ed the wounded man toa car riege. The «Mice im if the wound was rect ived hy eceident, when he replied in the affirm: tive, and inti maied that Logul was not to blame for the untacky bow. The hatter gave himself into custody on the arrival ef the «feer, and expressed great sorrow at what had occorred Wilecn wae taken to tho New York Hospital, where he new lies in a eritien! condition. ‘The prisoner was brought hetoe Justice Davison, at the Market Plies Coprt, where be was committed it the result of the ‘ed man’s injuries. RFCINT STABBING CA IN ORFENWIOH TREYT— APRBET OF THE ACCUSED PARTIRE. Terence O'F}y00 and Jobn 1). Timmons were arrested } faverday evening, on charge of having feloniously as- ited george of No. 331 Greenwich street, with a ry! aun beife. Tay ofthe occurrence were Bi lebed in yorter yerteracy's Heratn, eo it is unnecessary to enter into the detatis of the affair. The (tmm...ed for examination by Justice We TR ——____ Pulitical Gossip. ‘The first seesiva of tue 7) irty fourth Congress will close to-day. The second reson will commence on the Sav. Monday to Decomber Th- present sitting bas lasted two- hundred and fifty-six “ys, which gives to each member ab aggregate per diem of mo e than two thonsaa! dollars, . Mr. Fillmore deciaret in a letter, dated October 16,., 1838, thet petitions te Congress on the subject cf slaverye and the slave trade onght to be received ane respectfailyy considered; that be was opposed to the anuexation of Texas, so long as vlavery existed thereto; that ho was ite favor of Congress exerci ig all the constitutional power’ it porvesyed to abotish tm internal slave trade between the States, and that he was in favor of the iromediate abo~ lition of slavery in the P rtrict of Columbia, In the fulk. behef of these coctrines, he was elected to the Vice Presidency, and white till entertaining a firm con- vietion that these fres oil principles were right; ho took the Presidertiai ci», aiter the demise of General Taylor, and yre- or tho destinies of the pation The fire eating, mayer \riving disun onists and sees. Fionists of thi tals, and yet there was not o» word about a Se confederecy, or a hint that the- “Union was dissolved vt ought to be ”” There seems (> be a common understanding, says ther Columbia South Ce rom, “that the coming elaction te» to be the great sectional |..ne b tween the North aad the South. We trust the South will be uaited. an be in coa~ dition, ifthe Nerth to enoceasfal, to take im mediate action « for a separate contecerscy.” This is a fair admission- that Mr. Buenanan ts as mach @ sectional candi late ae. Cut, Fremout. If the So toern candidate is successful, the North will quietly sumwit to the result; but if the Derth should suceced, the above extract from the South Carclinion indicates the course the demagogues of the South will wish to pursue Returns from seventy -scven Counties fo Missouri foot: up op the vote for Governor as follows:—Polk, anti-Ben- ton, 23,857; Ewing, Know Nothing, 31,19); Benton, . 40,690, The result of the recent State elections has changed a . grcat mapy votes in Newark, N. J., #9 #ays the dtereury 5 and the eame may be said of every place in the Union, where the news bas reached There are a great many” men who like Mr. Fillmore personally, and who would: vote for him if he stood any chance of being elected, but + who intend to gefeat Mr. Bachanan at any rate. This + class of mes are becoming convinced, from a variety of of canees, that Mr. Fitimore will not receive the support anticipated, and courequently they are mow looking. towards Mr. Fremout a< their second choice. lefore the . November contest they @il be actively engaged ia the support of the people's candidates. Col, Samuel A © |, who has juet been elected, 09 thes Fremont tchet, to Congress in the Keokuk district, lowa,. commanded tue 24 Ohio Regimé@t in the Mexican war. . He was icrmerly @ democrat, but could not stead For- Gey and the vigger criving aemocracy. ‘The New Yor « Know Nothing organ gives a glowing ac- count of a great Fillmore meeting at Greenwich, Coun.. which pever cccurred. No meeting of the kind was heid,), apd the names of many that were pablisbed as partict-- pente are distinguished advocates of Fremont and freo- dom. Hope. James C. Allen and Wm. B. Archer will again» make the race for Congress in the Seventh district, im + Illinois, which the United States House of Representatives: + bae declared vacant. Governor Matteson certified to + Allen’s election by one majority—8,251 to 8,250—but the - House ousted bim abd declared the seat vacant. The |. representation from linois is row tied—four aemocraty and ope republican; ard if Archer is elcted, which is + most like y, the State will cass ber vote fur Fremont, . should the election go to the House. Hon. Luther M Kennett, the defeated Know » Nothing” candidate for ‘re eiection to Congress from the St. Louie district, is nominated to the members elect of the Lagis- lature, a8 @ candidate for acest ip the United Sa es. Senate. The Lewiston, Pa., Gazetle, like many other Fillmore» papers, bas cenciuded to give up ite first love, Filimore, jor the cause, and s »pport }remontana Dayton. iy says, “If Pennsylvania ca» be kept out of the bands of the» spoilers by our bumble aid it shail not bo wauting. Mr. Fillmore was our first choice, Lut it is evideut.ne caanot. now carry Pennsylvunia; and such being the case, we shall play no * Forney’ game ia the coming concert.’? The delegates to the la:e Whig Convention of Maryland Lave been called upon to assemble again onthe 3d of? September, for the purpose uf cuovsing delegates to tae National Whig Converti n, which 1s to agaemble a& Baith- more on the 171th of September. Hon. N. G. Foster, member of Corgress from the Se veptb dé trict of Georgia, ia answer to the complains of some of his contituen's that they do not receive s due proportion of Know Nothing campaign documents, writes as follows:— If ovr friends in Georgia would reflect for one moweud upon the fact that the democratic have « Democratic Committee corey b ate in the Union, backed offiecrs, with thoura: would not be estovished that they are “ mocratic —— Thave done the bert 1 coald: know » = ¥ ante fortune have in tional Democratic Cemtiens We ant Dcneleon Committee here, private Mlemen of tbie dwtrict.. | funds, only a8 we contribute 1. ‘a8 the quantity of oocoments shall preponde, ate, we shald® be beaten most assurediy. It ts stated by the Boston Couricr that the telegraphic despatch purporting to come from James Bucbanan to the New York Democratic State Convention, pronouncing the wnion of the hard and soft ehell divisions of tne party there ‘‘ the grandest event of modern times,’’ was send by Mr. Forney, and that Mr. Buchanan knew nothing about it until he raw it in print The Cincinnatt candidate should bave raid, when be accepted the nomination for the Presidency, “1 am no longer James Buchacan, 1 am Jobn W. Forney” In 1820 Jobn Quincy Adams received one electoral voto in New Hampebire, while the balance were cart for ‘ion- roe ; and in 1828 F. 0, J, Smith cast one vote from Mas- sachnsetts for Gen. Jackson, while the balance were cast for Adama, Also, in 1875, the electoral vote of Now York ‘was divided among four candidates; tuat of Maryland among three, and of Delaware, Loutmapa, ans lilinaa, between two condidates. The ins ed, Covp., Herald, a paper bitherto indepea- dent, and taking no ground on the Presideotia! yrestiea, is out this week for John ©. Fremont. The boys from New York who did the filling np at the Old Line Wbig Convention «t Albany, let wemscives out slightly. One of the chaps wae locked up for insulting tv female ,in the streets, and three of the delegstes, who: ibbor#in the buttonboles of their conte, :rcate® disturbance at the Delevan House, threatening to tear the house down if liquor was no: furnished them, The New York Crimsnal Zeitung, Yerma paper, bav~ ir, cireulation of 19 70 more than any other in tho bited States, heretofore independent in po itics, baw Just come out for Fremont and [ay toa. Hen. James C. Chorchi!, who #as an elector for the Portiand district, in Maine, in 1828, and cast the only tute for Andrew Jackson in the New Foglead coll ges, and who ‘was also a Jackson elector in 1892, is now one of test and most active friends of Fremont to be found bis State. Five of the whig United States Senators now in Con~ gress, viz, Mesers. Benjemin of Loulviana, Jones of Ten~ nessee, Geyer of Mistourl, and Pratt avd Pearve of Wary~ lend, bave already, in the most public manner, avowed thelr intention to support the democratic Presitential candidates, The old line whig movement for Mr, Fill more it & weak invention. sn Portland, Me., Adsertiser e1 nth KLEW her e who 0 the Port! pd protic » GyxT= Are you a voter? Bey—No, sir, 1am not old enough, | tag = this other boy old enough? City Intelligence. Prue Frenne —For some daye past there have run ore of a prize Sght about to take place between fom! tick Braél 9, of Philadelphia, and Thomas Hyer, of city, and the fancy have, of course, been thrown into state of great cxcitement thereby, Bat rumor in this, as in other cases, proves not altogether reliable. The eppear to be, that Bradley came to, this city early las! week, to Onish up the negotiation he bad on hand toy fight one Harry Gridden, The partics met Inet Taeaday, accompanied by the'r friends and backers, and agreed to- fight for $2.000 a side, in Canada, on Wednesday, the 1! of November, the locality to be hereafter determined, temet ing was e whl ‘Tom i; pon Storcoo & side, eA i yeaa endl ‘ ‘Tor pe put up ims ery, however, left ‘elpbia bi matter: ted. Wore oct owere thes ny gated fi wey ren guts ego