The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1856, Page 4

4 , Ce a ee NEW ‘YORK HERAL(O. Padhnsionccortnovee Ey GORDON BENNE'ecT, JAM EAE 708 AND PROPRIRTOR, Brnce '4 W. COMNEM OF NAS8AU AND FULTON Sts. ————— "8 GARDEN, Broadway—A SoLpiam, vor Love— Pet bors Pesce asPRODSL, — BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Lire % New Yoru— Dancie—Pocaow-rss. CHINESE BUILDING, 639 Broadway~-Evmgorian Pun- vemmaces wry THE Career. MueTRELS, HALL, 596 Brov.dway—Mx. Li RENE, Moms seo Annbane sis HOPE OAPI amp Fownca: Reapivcs oF ‘Mee CANEBON AND F. New York, Tuceday, Bugust 10, 1856. Malle fr Durope. ‘WEW YORE HERALD—ED2710Ww POR EUROPE. Me Cunard mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott, will eave this port to-morrow, at noon, fer Liverpool. ‘She Buropesn mails will close in this city at hek-past =m O'clock @-morrow moreing. Tho Axnscy (printed in Mugiish end French) will be yebllebed a: ten o'clock in the morning. Single coptes, "" Quneerigcinns and e@vertisementa for any ition of the New Yore Huxarp will te reeetved at the fcllowing ‘pieces in Europe:— enpox— Am. & Exrepear ExpreaeCo., 61 Xing William st. Pane do, de rage G0 is Soeres. Se ii esian Mtanaipeas veeeok Bast. Whe News. Both: Houses of Congress met yesterday merning. Bm the Senate the Chair submitted a message from ‘the President in answer to the resolation calling for ol. Fremont’s accounts. The report on the Civil Appropriation bill by the Committee of Conference ‘was agreed to. It appropriates $250,000 for the Washington aqueduct, and $300,000 for the Balti- more Post office. The proviao for placing the coa- ‘struction of public buildings under civil superinten- @ents was stricken oat. The bill for the establish- ment.of a naval depot at Brunswick, Ga., was laid ‘ever. The Committee of Comference on the Army Will reported their inability to agree with the ammittee from the House, and recommended that the Senate insist on ite amendments, which was agreed to. A resolution to extend the session until ‘wo o'clock was passed. In the House of Repre- sentatives the time was expended in a number f motions of no public importance. The resola- ‘eons passed by the Legislature of Texas in regard ‘to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, were pre- mented. A committee was appointed to investigate the fight between Mr. McMullen and Mr. Granger. ‘Me Chairman of the Committee on Conference weported that they were unable to agree with the Senate committee on the Army bill, and asked fora fourth Committee of Conference. This was disu” greed to. A motion was being made to extend the session until two o'clock, ia accordance with the Senate resolution, when the clock struck twelve, ‘the Army Appropriation bill was loat, and the first session of the Thirty-fourth Congress at an end. The proclamation of the President calling an extra session of Congress, to assemble on Thursday next, ia given elsewhere in our paper. It is stated that the session waa brought about by the exertions of Jeff. Davis, who declared that he could not keep the army together without the appropriations. An angry dis- cussion took place in the Cabinet Council yesterday morning, and it is said that Messrs. Cushing and Campbell came near having a personal collision. It ienot known when the session will terminate. The President is universally denounced by the democrats fer his want of nerve. The despatah of our Washington correspondent furnishes ali the news stirring in that city, and all tmcidents of note during the final sitting of Con- grese. The House broke up in a row. The demo. erate asked for an extension of the seasion, which ‘was refused, by which action the Army and many ether bilis were lost. It is stated that many private bile, for want of time, failed to receive the Pre- sident’s signature. Ronthern members are very In- @ignant at Pierce for calling the extra session, as a namber of them had previously met and addressed him a letter requesting him not to do so. It is said fhe Army bill will be passed at once, and all attempts at general legislation resisted. Letters had been re- ceived in Washington stating that Mr. Soulé had left New Orleans for Central America. Many report: were in circulation as to the object of his visit. We give this morning the report of the Secre: ‘of the Interior, in reply to a resolution of the Sena! calling for information in regard to all the proposals that had been made for the sale of sites for a Post Office and Court House in this city. Two members of the House of Representatives McMullen, of Virginia, and Granger, of New York, yestedsy morning indulged in a fist fight. 1 eppears the members were riding together in au emnibus, when a political dispute arose and hard words passed, when McMuilen seized Granger aroun’ the neck and struck bim one or two blows, starting the blood under the eye and car. They were quick ly separated. A committee of the House has been appointed to investigate the sulject and report the farts. Farther accounts of the great storm at the Soath state the number of lives lost at near three hundved. ‘The steamship Naatilas went down in the gale, and it fe feared that all on board have perished. The eetton crop in Lonisiana hae not materially suffere}, bat gloomy accounts were saticipated from the Mis wise ppi. No additional cases of yellow fever were reported yesterday at Quarantine. There was considerable acrimonious talk against Dr. Thompson, growing eat of the communication of the Castleton Board ot Health, to be sent into the Commissioners of Emi gration at their next meeting. The leading excite ment, next to this, was an attempt ty have a decision vendered upon « writ of habeis corpas in the case of two of the partics arrested on the charge of assist- ing in the recent demolition of the barricade. The opposition to the hearing was made by counsel of the Castleton Board of Health. The case will be heard to day before Jadge Birdseye A serious difficulty appears likely to arise between Mayor Wood and the Commissioners of Emigration tm reference to the employment of clerks at Castle Garden by the principal railroads. who are allowed to sell tickets to emigrants and check boggage. This arrangement injures the business of the li eensed runners, and they have made complaint thy these clerks have taken out no license as the law re , and are acting illegally. The railroad agents deny that they are runners or brokers in the sen-e of the law. The cane will be investigated to-day be fore Justice Connolly. We have news from Port-au-Prince ,Hayti,to the 1» of August. There was nothing stirring of importance. ‘The Emperor Soulonque and the Dominicans were renewing their amicable relations, and efforts were being made to cultivate a durable friendship. The towns were healthy, but business was dull owing to the limited arrival of prodace from the iv- terior towns. From Halifax we learn that the damage to the Arabia on her passage to that place was quite exten sive. She struck on Blond Rock, when going at fall apeed. She first struck her bow on the rock, then rose and slid over it, then struck under the boiler, and then under the mainmast. Ax she was levking badly at the time she sailed, about ome half of her passengers, deeming her unseaworthy, stopped at Halifex, and more would have left conid they have got their baggage. Prayers were said at the chnr-hes to Halifax on Sunday for her safe arrival at Liver pool. The British steamer Edinburg, Captain Cam mings, which arrived yesterday morning, made t) paseage from Glaagow to this port in cleven 4) and seventeen hours, amd experienced » good dea} of Togey ‘pamengers, two hundred and seven in the se cond cabin. steamer Etna, arrived om which ‘Sunday from Havre, made her passage days and seventeen and « half hours. By the urrival of the steamship Philadelphia at ‘New Orleans, we learn that the yellow fever 1s still very bad at Havana and in other parts of the island, Much’ excitement existed in reference to the insur Teotion in Spain. Business was dull. The conflagration at Belize, Honduras, before re- "ported, occurred om the 17th of July. Heif a million ‘dellars worth of property was destroyed. The sales of cotton yesterday were confimed to aboat 400.4 500 bales. The market was firm, -with- out quotable change im prices. The foreign news caused a depression im flour, and prices of State and Western brands fell off 10c.2 20c per ‘barrel. Southern was in better supply, especially of new, and prices receded 37 cents, and in some cases as Much as 50 cents per barrel concession was were Hnaitod aad at's odin Sreeuler, wile sales el. Com was without importamt change. Sales of sound Western mixed were made at Glc. a 62)¢. Pork was heavy, with emall sales at $19 50 for mess, and $17 75 a $18for prime. Lard was firm at 13c. ior prime. Spgars were quiet, with emall sales of Cuba at 8jc. a 98. Coffee was quiet, awaiting the auction sale on the 22d inst. Freighta were steady, with engagements of grain to Liverpool (corn and wheat) at 7d. a 744., in ships’ bags. Adjournment of Oongress—The President’s Proclamation for an Extra Session. The closing proceedings between the two houses of Congress yesterday, upon the Army bill, are given in another part of this paper. The matter at iesue, and upoa which the bill failed, was an amendment by the republican House, to which the democratic Senate could nof agree, providing that no portion of these army appropti- ations (thirteen millions) shall be applied to the payment of the troops, neither militia nor regu- lars, employed in enforcing upom the people of Kansas the bogus laws of the Missouri-Kansas Legislature. Our special reporter details the circumstances under which the bill fell through by the final adjournment of the House at the appointed time. It appears that had it ouly required a majority of the House to suspend the rules, for the purpose of considering the te- solution of the Senate extending the session a couple of hours, that extension would have been secured; but the rule requires two-thirds for a suspension, and so the motion failed and the session ended. This, however, amounted to nothing, for it is not likely that the addition of two hours to the session would have made any change in the position of that body upon Kan- sas affairs. The House having thus wound up the session, and the supplies for the army being thus cut off, great excitement followed, 03 a matter of course. Anything affecting the spoils always does stir up a& great excitement in Washington. The President called the Judges of the Supreme Court together upon the subject, and, afterwards, it appears, convened a special Cabinet council to deliberate upon the momentous issue of an extra session, Luckily, the new bill paseed, paying the members by the year, had provided for their services free of addi- tional cost, (excepting, perhaps, such constractive mileage as they might claim for imaginary jour- neys home and back between two days, according to the time-honored usage of the Senate.) and luckily the President had signed that bill. Thus fortified, our indomitable chief magistrate, upon the greay question whether the army should live upon credit for three months, or whether he should call an extra session, carried the point, with the aid af Jeff’ Devts, dae were snould be an extra session, to meet on Thursday of this week, ai twelve o'clock. Thus our sudden joy at the adjournment and dispersion of Congress is seattered to the winds. They are back upon us, and God only knows for what length of time. We thiak, however, that that bill which pays the members three thousand dollars a year, whether they are in session for one month or twelve months, will contribute ma- terially to make this extra session a short one: and we suspect that the urgent demands of this Presidential campaign for additional dcThocratic stumpers and trumpeters will aleo contribute to hurry up the work for the army. We hope, however, that, being called back again, the peace men, the conservative men, and the real law and order men of the two houses, while they are at it, will enforce some definite action for law and order in Kansas, They should adhere to thia ax the question of paramount importance, without reference to the elongation of the ses*ion—that matter having been provided for in the new com- peneation bill. If the border raffianism of Kan*» is to stand approved by Congress, it will only open those scenes of violence and crime whivl in eleven for twelve months past have done so much to render our Pierce administration infamous at home. and the character of our republican insti- tutions infamous abroad, There must be some “half-way hovee of aiplo matic rest’’ between Mr. Campbell aud Mr Toombs—between the republicans of one wing and the democracy of the other wing of th Capitol. The administration shows some o repentance. Those Pennsylvania men held as prisoners in Kansas upon bogus charges of trea son, the President has promised shall not be prosecuted or punished. But as a i in the hand is worth two in the basi where Mr. Pieree is concerned, we appre hend it would be as well for Mr. Campbell to in- sist first, upon the release of those prisoners as proof of the President's good faith in his pro- mise, before making any further coucessions; or with the ajourmment of Congress, he may be per- suaded by the border ruffians to hold these men under military detention till the day afier the Presidential election. Their case, respectively, is acase of great outrage. The very promise of the President to Mr. Campbell, that they should not be prosecuted or punished, is proof sufficient. If they have been guilty of any crime, the Presi- dent could make no such promise as that of their exemption from punishment or prosecution. If not guilty of any crime, they are unlawfully re- strained of their liberty, and should not only be instantly released, but indemnified for the out- rages which they have suffered. Furthermore, the officials implicated in the arrest and detention of these Kaneas prieoners «bould te called to ac count. The Kansae amendments upon the Legi Judicial and Executive bill were the House upon the faith of the Pr: promise. Itis, then, but fair that Mr. Pierce should be required to do something in proof of his good faith before any further concesions are made to him upon the Army bill. He plays fast and loose, and his mere promise is that of a broken bank, Before proceeding a step further to sustain him in Kanens, let the House inet npon a poblic act in redemption of his confden- tial pledge to Mr, Campbell. We Pealed to become the ‘Democratic Nominee. ‘Bice the time of the “coffim hand bill” cam- ‘paign againct General Jackson, there has been nothing in the history of American politics in which this element of dirty personalities has Wgured so largety as in the warfare of the Bu- chanan and Fillmore organs and orators against Fremont. We have paid little attention to these malignant and scandalous attacks upon a man whose public career has been honorable to him- self and glorious to the country, as long as these assaults were limited to the emall fry democratic and Kaow Nothing journals and spouters; but when such men as Mr. Bigter, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Thompson, of New Jersey, get up in the Senate of the United States to give a helping hand to the Robert Macaires of such journals as the New York Express, they must expect to be calted to account for it. . We PACE Kae oe Cree Forney, and we hope he will make the most of his disooveries, including the report of the Secre- tary of War, Mr. Marcy, in 1846, proclaiming Fremoat, the conqueror of California, “ with the head to conceive and the hand to execute” the most daring enterprises, Very likely Mr. Sena- tor Thompson may have received his cue for his glorification speech upon Commodore Stockton, to the prejudice of Fremont, from the distinguished gentleman who carries the in his breeches pocket; but as the gallant Commodore is no longer a candidate for the White House, we cannot imagine how he is to be benefitted by the operation. Great, indeed, must be the alarm of the Fillmore and Buchanan men when even in the United States Senate they feel the necessity of neglecting their public duties to grope about Senatorial inquiry by an onder see ed,to, bis State of New Jersey in the gutters for garbage to throw at Fremont: It is but a short time ago that Fremont was a young lion among the democracy, and an espe- cial pet of South Carolina. Mark the change! Then he was everything that was great and noble: now they represent him as everything that is mean, treagherous and contemptible. They make hima millionaire and a bankrupt, a desperate uellist and yet a coward, a Know Nothing and a Catholic, a slavehoider and an abolitionist—born in a penitentiary , educated in a workhouse, and disciplined in politics among the border ruffians and Digger Indians of the Rocky Mountaina. To prove, however, that asa youth he was not the in- heritor of slaves, a correspondent of the Charles ton Mercury furnishes that paper with the follow- ing legal evidence of the real and personal estate of Fremont when he was eighteen years of age:— ‘Schedule of the estate and effects of J. U. Fremont, ib custody of the Sheriff of Charleston bg yy virtae of two writs ad respondendum, at suite of Edward Be! L. Roche:— zepes ' H i a8 E z vets. And sundry }, (number not recollected.) All of the above, except what I have on, are in a trank at New York. Sovru CaRouna, J.C, ey duly sworn, Charleston District. bP tad that ye contains: ‘® just, true and correct account of all his estate, rea) ‘and personal, whatacever or Ker J. CHARLES FREMONT. Sworn to befure me, this th o—, 1831. ae Filed 9th August, 181, ‘Then follow the assignment of these effects to his two tailor creditors by Fremont, and his release under the prison bounds act of Charleston. The son of chivalry furnishing these papers, face- tiously remarked that they “will dispose of any mvatery ac tn Promant’s reusvus for not being a slaveholder,” because “comparatively few gen- tlemen in the South owning five shirts, and these not paid for, are the proprietors of slaves.” Accepting this view of the matter as a knock- down argument, the subject is yet suggestive of a remark or two ina different light. Here are the legal proofs that John C. Fremont, at eighteen years of age, among the generous people of Charleston, was despoiled of bis clothes and his books to meet the paltry debts incurred in pro- curing them. He wasa young student, strug- gling to educate himself and to support his mo- ther at the same time. That he hada hard time of it, there can be no longer any doubt. This evidence of the assignment of his clothes and books is sufficient proof. That he ultimately conquered those difficulties of poverty and the lack of friends, let his subsequent history and his present position bear witness, But what is the inference here respecting the boasted liberality of the people of Charleston to the youth of Fre- mont? It is an inference, we regret to say, that he owes them nothing. But what a glorious contrast to Fremont In 1831, a poor scholar in Charleston, without a rhirt to his back; in 1856, the owner of Mariposa and a candidate for the Presidency, with o fair prospect of an election against two of the oldest and most active of the Presidential politicians in the United States. And if Senators Bigler and Thompson are not awar of the fact, we may as well inform them that this idea of running Fremont for the Presidency originated with the democratic party, or with some of its managers, which is the same thing. Lees than a year ago, had Fremont consented to ride the Nebraska Will, he would in all probability her been adopted ax the democratic candidate for the Pi deney, upon the superior claims of a higher and extended personal popularity than any other licing man in the United States. We know what we say; and the whole mystery in due season will be fully explained. We only repeat, for the present, with a knowledge of the civeumstances, that had Fremont, when applied to by a democratic committee, consented to swal- low the Kansas-Nebraska bill, he would have put the nose of Mr. Buchanan out of joint as the democratic nominee, In the face of this impor- tant bit of secret democratic history, our demo- cratic Senators only stultify themselves in their present assaults upon Fremont. That's all. i Merirsy Avoxe tae Init Democracy. The If an honest, hardworking Irishman is shot down in cold blood by One of those fou! things vomited forth from the rvfantem of rum holes and the stuffing of ballot boxes; and if the foul thing is to be upheld by the demo cratic party, though we bave always been on that aide, we can go with them no longer, Strongly, emphatically, earnestly and most sincerely do we recommend Messrs Buchanon an! Breckinridge, and their {riends and support. ete, to ropndiate the ecoutdérel in the most anmistakeable form, or vo ssl) be obliged, in the exorciee of a solema y thoge who believe in ns either pot to vote progahing Presidential election, or to cat the enemy. An open foe May prove a curse; Bot a pretended friend is worse. Mr. Forney and Captain Rynders must look aiier this ‘Jrish American,’ or he may work come mischief with the Irieh vote. Without un- der‘aking to say whet particular case he is driy- ing a’, it is evident that he suspects there is some of the leaven of Know Nothingism in the demo- ovetic camp Which must be purged out. Will Col. Forney see to it? A letier to Col. Roberts y! prohaly anewer the purpoeo, rom Spaniards -keople should not be inscribed not charged with doing violence, of Wi Segovia is downfall of the present Dominican administra- tion, and to raise up the Baez party in their place; and that the means employed are resorted to merely for intimidation. Our interest in the matter is small but plain. The present government have evinced a prefe- rence for this country over the European nations; it would be well for us to give them what moral support we can without compromising ourselves, Spain, England and France give comfort and moral strength to the party they favor by sending men-of-war and steamships to the Dominican harbors ; why can- not we do the same? A single American armed ship at St. Domingo would probably suffice to maintain Santana against the intrigues by which he is assailed. Why should it not be stationed there? The Englieh seem to suceeed better with their navy than we do with ours. Wherever English interests are to be protected, wherever foreign na- tions are to be impressed with a sense of Eng: land’s power, wherever the friends of England require moral support from without, there a Bri- tish man-of-war is certain to be. Nor willit leave the station, under any cirenmetanesa, dull or un- healthy though it be, until it is duly replaced. Whereas our vessels are very seldom employed on any service at all ; and when they are sent to a place like San Juan, for instance, where there is no ladies’ society and plenty of fever, the first thing we hear is that they have run across to Havana, Mr. Dobbin should see to this. If we can’t get anything out of our navy, why not sell it off at once ? Tae Cortiss Live—Congress has closed its labors by dealing the worst blow it could at onc of the noblest triumphs of American skill and en- terprise. The “notice” provided for in the Ap- propriation bill is to be given to the Collins line of steamships, and six months afterwards, the re- muneration they receive from the government for carrying the mails will be reduced to the figure at which it stood when the service was performed by vessels of 2,000 tons and under. And the time chosen to deal the stab is the very one when the Adriatic is about to be tested against the Persia—American skill and enterprise against British skill and enterprise. ‘We need not go over the ground traversed in the debate—vur couders wre fuuullias with the ar- guments on both sides. Suffice it to say that it becomes impossible, under the reduced allowance to run such vessels as the Adriatic at full speed. The rates of freight and passage will not permit such an expenditure of fuel. The Persia now burns three times as much coal as the Cunard ships did before the Collins line was started; and as che is well supported by the British govern- ment, she will be able to continue to do so, The Adriatic, in consequence of the withdrawal of the allowance, will not be able to compete with her, We are speaking on good authority when we say this; and parties who from national feelings have taken bets on the relative performance of the two vessels, are therefore advised to close them. There can be no rivalry. The English ship will remain the Queen of the Sea. There was a time when there seemed to be a prospect of our doing more than holding our own on the Atlantic. Since the Collins line was started no lees than five vemels have been built by the Cu- nardere to beat them ; and yet, in the westward voyages, the Collins are still ahead. But these dreams of victory had best be laid aside. Bri- tannia, it seems, is bound to rule the waves, and that by act of Congress, We should be doing wrong were we to fail here to point out the large influence that has evidently been exercised over the minds of members of Congress by the correspondence of Captain Nye, of the Pacific. The letters of that gen- tleman disclosed # fact which could not but weigh heavily against the appropriation : they showed that while we fancied we were supporting American skill against that of foreigners, we were in fact filling the pockets of English mer- chants, We have no hesitation In saying that the main cause of the vote to give the “notice” to the line was the notorious control exercised over it by the Messrs. Brown of Liverpool. A line wholly owned hy Americans would have had juster claims to support az an American enter- prise; though the ships were native-born, and the officers too, the idea that these Liverpool mer- chants could use them as they pleased was no doubt the means of compelling many to take « demecratic view of the question. Tux Post Orrice.—Congrese has voted half a million for the construction of a Post Office in this city. What jobe the statement prepares one fort From Hudson street to South street there is not a Jand owner or a speculator who is not on the gui vive fora slice of the plunder, The amount is not large enough to do the thing hand- somely: but small as it is,no doubt half of it will be stolen on the way. Then, whore is the new office to stand? Half a dozen places com- pete for the honor and the privilege. Of these two only seem to us to combine the necessary requisites. These are Chambers street, on the Park, and the present site of the Post Office, With regard to the former, Mr. Stewart's build- ing might be bought and altered, or a new one might be erected somewhere in the vicinity of Lurton’s. The latter, we anderstand, which the church trustees have #0 long refused to sell, is | now offered for sale, together with several of the jols behind it, toward the Bast river. Either of theee ites would be good. But the chances are thet we shall have a juggle of some kind, and that ome such place as the Brick church will be chosen, all parties getting their share evenly, after the fashton of the Lobos Ielands, Avrams m& Dowmica—-A letter We publish elsewhere from Puerto Plata shows that the Dominicans have no seones escaped from the perils of war with Soeufouque than new dangers molest them. The news is enveloped in the usual ebscurity; ‘but it appears plain thet Spain is taking the lead in an intrigne destined to assail the Dominican sovereignty, and ‘te defeat the consummation of the treaty some time since concluded between this government and Dominica. The means adopted are singular, Tt seems that some time since it was agreed be- tween the government of Spain and that of Do- aminica, that any Spaniards who had become na- turalized in the island might become Spaniards again ifthey chose, by adopting certain formali- ties. Now, Senor Segovia, the Spanish Envoy, avails himself of the obscure diction of this agree- ment to confer rights of Spanish citizenship upon the descendants of Spaniards as well as Spanish emigrants: against which the government pro- tests. Of course, it‘Hoes not strike one, at first tion, But the true understanding of the matter ig undoubtedly the one suggested by our corres- pondent—that Spain desires to promote the YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1856, ond Harashipe—tow The A Crosisa Brr ov Boxper Rurriaxisy.— ‘The affair in the omnibus between Mr. McMullen, of Virginia, and Mr. Granger, of New York, on their way up to the Capitol, was perfectly con- sistent with the ruffianiem which has signalized the chivalry of this Congress, It is something, however, to the credit of McMullen that he em- ployed neither pistol nor bludgeon in his attack upon Granger; but simply wound one arm af- fectionately about his adversary’s neck, while with the other hand, 4 a Yankee Sullivan, he thumped the unfortunate Mr. Granger in the eyes and nose. In the ring this, we believe, would be styled getting him in chancery. The House called for and the Speaker appointed a committee to investigate the case and report upon it at the next seasion, which, it seems, is to meet as early as the day after to-morrow. The following are some of the principal speci- mens of rowdyism affairs “of honor’? which have distinguished this session of Congress :— First—Two attacks with a cane, same day, by the Hon. Mr. Rust, of Arkansas, upon Horace Greeley. Not much damage done. Greeley’s , ~peduagler, than it looks to be. i Virginia, (called, for With, Witiam Smith, of Mr. Wallach, editor of the Washington Star." Third—The Herbert affair, at Willard’s Hotel, in which the Hon. Mr. Herbert, of California, shot with a revolver, and killed upon the spot, the Irish waiter, Keating. Fourth—The Colonel Lane and Douylas affair —no fight. Fifth—The Sumner affair—in which the Hon. Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, attacked with a gutta percha cane, the Hon, Mr. Sumner, in his seat in the Senate chamber, and left him welter- ing in his blood upon the floor. Recovery of Sum- ner doubtful. Sixth—The Brooke and Gen. Wilson affair-- no fight. Seventh—The Brooks and Gen. Webb affair— no fight. Eighth--The Brooks and Burlingame affair, in which Mr. Brooks declined to go to Canada to be shot at there and shot at all the way back again. Ninth—The little omnibus flare-up between the Hon. Mr. McMullen and the Hon. Mr. Granger. Talk of border ruffianism in Kansas! What else can we expect on the borders with ech oxamplee emeomg our law makers and law breakers at Washington ? We are progressing swimingly in the science of ruffianiem; and if such are among the specimens of the Thirty-fourth Congress, what may we not expect from the thirty-fifth ? Progress is the order of the day. Dretomaric SaLartes.—We publish elsewhere the act to regulate the diplomatic and consular service. This is an important act, and may be considered as the entering wedge to a general in- crease of the salaries of the officers of govern- ment. It gives the ministers to England and France $17,50@ per annum each, and the second- ary class of ministers, namely, those to Rusia, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Brazil, Mexico and China, each $12,000. Ministers resident are to receive 75 per cent, Charges d’Affairs 50 per cent, and Secretaries of Legation 15 per cent of these amounts. No one will object to these salaries as being too high. Our foreign missions have hitherto cither been filled by rich men whose wealth did not atone for their deficiency of brains, or by poor men whose forced niggardli- ners reflected discredit on the country. They ‘were well euited te the times when the owner of an income of $1,000 a year was a rich man, but utterly ridiculous in times when men moving in diplomatic circles abroad spend their $50,000 a year without being particularly noticed. ‘The Consular service is also wholly remodelled. Consuls are hereafter not to trade directly or in- directly; nor are they to assume diplomatic fanctions when a diplomatic officer of the United States is in the country. Provision is made for the education of young men for the Consular ser- vice. The two best Consulates—Liverpool and London—are hereafter to be salaried at $7,500. The Consuls at Havana, Havre and Rio de Janeiro are to get $6,000 cach. The other Con- sulates range from $4,000 to $500; all of these at ports with which we have any extended trade being sufficiently remunerated to enable the in- cumbent to live without doing any other busi- ness, Thus the two great vices of the old Con- sular system are got rid of—first, the anomaly of the English Consulates being the best pal@ beri in the gift of the government; and sceendly, the unfairness of allowing merchants to offiviute as Consuls, and thus compete with their rivals at a disadvantage. The bill is a good one, and will be read with inter: st. Ma. Sovre's Vistr to Nicanacva— Wat's tx tax Wixp t—Since the projects of the realization of the Ostend manifesto under a Buchanan ad- ministration bave been rendered slim by the en- thusiasm with which Fremont’s candidacy has been received by the country, the filibustering spirits who had looked for employment under that comprehensive programme, have been led to seek another field for their labors. Nicaragua, it seems, is henceforth destined to be the point from whence all future operations against Cuba are to be initiated. The Havana authorities judged wisely when they regarded the establishment of the Walker government as pregnant with danger to Spanich interests, The warm reception given to Cuban exiles, and the high positions allotted to them in her service by Nicaragua, are evidences that Walker's views are not bounded by the limits of the sea coast, or confined to the narrow horizon of Central America. The departure of Mr. Soul¢ for Nicaragua, and his declared intention of re- maining there some time, confirm the suspicions previously entertained that that country ts about being made the focus of Cuban discontent and Yankee filibusterism. Although Walker has enough on his hands for the present, he can lend essential aid to the projects of the Ostend con- spirators. The critical position of affairs in Spain, notwithstanding the temporary triumph of the Queen and her partisans, has, it is well known, excited fresh hopes amongst the Cuban filibusters; and now that they have a pied de terre in Nicaragua, we may look for the developement of some fresh schemes of piracy in accordance with the views of the celebrated State papor which emanated from Ostend. We pity poor General Concha, with two such dangerous neigh bors in close proximity to him a« Soule and Walker. - Tne Crors.—-News from Europe announces that the crops are excellent—never were better. In France all apprehensions with regard to them have vanished, and flour was rapidly declining. {mmc nee supplies were already pouring in from Southern Russia and the Principalities; they had never ‘cen such a wheat crop there, All grain was rapidly falling in price in Austria, In Eng- land the prospect is most satisfactory and the farmers are in high spirits. This will be poor news for our wheat growers: but excellent for the people at large. Who says we shall not have: flour $5 a barrel again before long? A Fam Prorosttion.-A Georgia correspon- dent of the Fillmore organ of this city says:— “Tf you will beat Mr. Fremont at the North, we will beat Mr. Buchanan at the South; and thus, by one mighty struggle, put down sectionalism, North and South. It will be a glorious day when that is done.” If we have a rousing snow storne in August we shall probably have any quantity of thunder and lightning in January. “When the sky falls we shall catch larks.” THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ‘The Disastrous Storm in the South. SAFETY OF THE STEAMSHIP PERSEVERANCE—PROBA~ BLE LOSS OF THE NAUTILUS—GRAND CAILLOU" ISLAND UNINJURED—VESSELS ASHORE, FTC., BTC. Wasmuxaron, Aug. 18, 1856, The National Intelligencer publishes a private despatch to EF, J. Hart, President of the New Orleans and Texas The gale was very destructive to crops in Sou Louisiana, but it is believed it was iit hte pes Je Mv entan. New Or.eans, Aug, 16, 1856, Capt. Talbott, of tne .. sg tons of tho ship Manila, fromm? -° sy oy piper off Timballer Island. Her cargo, @ Wainy, Now Orteanss. € of wines and brandies, aud is mostly los"? “mai crew were missing. Capt. Rogers had his Jeg brokea. The Manila was owned in Bath, Mo, Capt. Talbott also reports seeing the doore and booby hatch of the steamer Nautilus; also the bodies of severa? ‘well dressed persons, supposed tu be Passengers by that. Several vessels from the lake are ashore, Sud many others have been otherwise damaged. Grand Caillou Ieland escaped uninjured. A number of vessels, in addition w ths \gnitia been wrecked, and it is feared that all on board (etbacte rished. Others are reported ashore, but as yet we have. no particulars of their condition. ‘The Nautilus, it is thought, went down with scarce any warning, and all on board undoubtedly shared her fate, as ‘Wak Nin waceal t= sh ~ minintty wt uv cime, She+ pas ‘command vf Capusiu Thompson. The names of her passengers have not yet been received. ‘The loes of this vessel, with others reported wreck~ ed, will ewell the list of dead to nearly three hundred souls, Of those on board the Manitlia, ail perished except the captain, second mate and one man. ‘The cotton crop in this State is not believed to have materially euffered, but from the Mississippi coast glcomy ‘accounts are anticipated. —_—__—. The Accident to the Steamship Arabia. Hauyax, Aug. 18, 1856. ‘The Arabia struck on Blond rock, on which there wat above sixteen feet of water, The ship, drawing twenty- one feet, going at full speed, struck her bow on the rock ; ‘sbe then rose and slid over the rock, striking first at the bow, then under the boiler, then under the mainmast. ‘The sorvey of the civers was not made public, but I have learned that they found the false keel, the main keel, and the garboard gone as far «ft a3 tho foremast, which is us far aft as they surveyed. A Boston shipbuilder, who examined the Arabia. here, thins that when she struck first she stove in the lower part of her stern, her keel and deadweods forward, and the fore ends of her bottom planking, then rising om the rock she crushed her keel and tore {t of emoeth to the floors. The divers stuffed large quantities of oakum into the bow. Outside a bulkhead of cotton and oakum- was built, Inside the ship was making cighteen tons of water an hour when she sailed on Saturday, About half of her Liverpool passengers stopped here. More would have left at the last moment, but coil pot get. out their baggage. It is the general opinion here thas the ship was unseaworthy when she sailed. Prayore were said in the churches yesterday for her sa‘e passage: to Liverpeol. News from Havana. THE FEVER STILL RAGING—RXCITEMENT IN REFE~ RENCE TO THE SPANISH INSURRECTION. New Oreans, Aug. 15, 1856. The steamship Philadelphia, from New York via Ha- yana, bas arrived below, after a somewhat lengthy pas- sage. ‘She reports the fever as still very bad at Havana and om other parts of the Island, but the number of deathe daity could not be ascertained. All the shipping that could do 80 bad left port. There was much excitement with reference to the re~ Yolution in Spain, and further particulars wore awaited with deep anxiety. Business matters were rather quiet. The Conflagration at Belize, Honduras. New Onunays, Aug. 16, 1950. ‘The conflagration at Belize, Honduras, herotofore re- ported, occurred on tho 17th day of July. Nearly the whole north side of tho town was laid in nvhes, The bridge was partially burnt, and the large buikiing on the south side, called the Usher House, destroyed. Over bal & million dollars worth of property was comsumed. ——$<_—$___ Sudden Death of « Prominent Philadetphian,. Pmuapetrma, Aug. 18, 1856. Joseph L. Smith, President of our Board of City Com- missioners, waa found dead in his bed this moruing. —$<$—<—$____. Markets. PRILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Stocks dull fives, 88; Ieattroed 43; Pennsylvanian ; Lon “ pe , 4834; Long Island Railroad ALBANY CATTLE . LBANT, Aug. 18, 1866, during the week, 1,950 Deven, £0 cows and Received calves, 1,000 sheep, 2,000 » The beeves a 6c ; the cows and Gives oe & $60.8 piece, and fhe Ontxase, Aug. 14, 1856. sheep, $2 600 $5. Ba mw Gales of cotton to-day, 600 bales, at Borrato, Aug. 18—6 P.M. pales 2, Pa 2e = & i 18-8 P. M Durbels pews Arnaxy, Aug. Me Corn dull—Sales, 4,000 bushels Wostarn mixed at 603¢c. aie—Sales, 16,000 10. bushels at 44c. for State, and 400. for This event came off last night, to one of the iargest au diences that we have ever sccm assembled within the wails of this theatre. The great variety of entertainmonte offered, comprising no less than fourtwhole pice o from the “Hunchback,” with no ond of mus other intermezzos, by way of hore d’awret beiweon the courser, murt bave satieflod the most eager theatrical appetites. The immense artistical resources placed as the command of the committee by the profession, enabled them to cast the different pieces in such a manner as to ensure an eflective representation ofeach. it is unpe- cessary for us to enter into a detailed criticism of the per formance, as they are all moret or lees familiar to our readers, being selected rather in reference to their po- pularity than their novoity. The only realiy new feature in the programme was the ‘ebut of Mise Annette Ince, am Julia, inthe “Tanchback.’’ This i# the Oret time thig qoung lady Lise appeared before a New York audionog,