The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1859, Page 4

4 & JANES BUBLCe SeRERBES, KDITOe aNO PROPRIETOR. ‘ ” BOWRRY FABATER Bowory.—Howrat -Ountous FAMILY —iitsern-Daxon Mo Prtniss—MaGio BaRRel. MBTROPOLITSN THRATs* (ate Huroee—Dauaus oF DEwione Poosuow-sseSunrouee tw LDL w. § THHATBA, tirvadway.—Texrration—Mis- ONsRYOUS ARIE, LAUKA REBNE'® THEATRE, No. 6% Brondway—Masar, wisi.o-Pavonira Fanos. ‘TONAL YHEa*RK, Chatham srec.—Sicuisn wie bees Savoranp—HsowrsD OastuR. AMERIUAS @USEUM, Brondway.—after pote and AveningTun Wa Waa WOODS AINSTKEL BU1LDLNG, 661 and 63 Brondwas-- Afterpoon and Bveaisg—krmoman Sowes, anon, S6.— Banaoar Beane Ov BRYANTS MINPTRELA, MECH ANIOW HALL, 487 Broad- ‘way.—Naceo Snnce ary Rouesevms—SeyvLoce. New York, Saturday, July 2, 1850. Tne News, ‘We publish to-day quite a number of interesting articles relative to the war now pending in Italy. The next news from Europe may reach us to-day by the North American, due at Quebep, with advices to the 22d ult., four days later than those brought by the Arabla; or the Vanderbilt, which left South- ampton on the same day, may arrive at this port; or the Adelaide, from Galway, may arrive at St. Johns, with accounts to the 25th—one weck later. ‘The vessels that are now expected from Europe Bre the following:— ‘on the Michigan Southern Railroad are published in this morving’s Heratp. There were, it is be- Meved, between sixty and seventy persons killed ‘by the disaster, thongh only thirty-seven bodies have been found, and of these seventeen were so mutilated as to be unrecognizable. Forty-four persons were wounded and maimed, while but twelve of the occupants of the train escaped ‘uninjured. The names of the killed, wounded and uninjured, as far as they could be ascertained, toge- ther with accounts of the catastrophe by passengers in the cars at the time of the occurrence, may be found in the account to which we have referred our readers. This is, with but one exception, the most disastrous railroad accident that ever hap- pened in the United States. ‘The Board of Metropolitan Police Commissioners amet yesterday, all the members present. A dele- gation of six persons appeared before them, pre- senting a remonstrance, signed by thirteen hundred ‘persons, against enforcing the Sunday laws. There were in the delegation Rev. Dr. Maxon, of the Eleventh street Seventh Day Baptist Church ; Rey. Geo. B. Utter, of the same denomination, and agent of their Tract Society; Rev. Charles Shaam, of the German Lutheran Church, and Rev. Joseph L. Batch, of the Congregational Church. The docu- ment set forth that the Sunday laws were a dead letter, and were instituted for secturian purposes, and not with the design of suppressing intemper- ance. It suggests that the law should be enforced on all days of the week alike,and no more on Sun- day than any other day. Mr. Hatch said that the Jiquor dealers were opposed to the movement, as they deemed it to favor the lager beer interest and thereby injure their business. The Board did not acton the remonstrance. The resignations of Ser- geant Van Orden, of the Sixteenth precinct, and of Oliver B. Stout were received. Jason Mills, of the Nineteenth, and James L. Lawrence, of the Twenty- first precincts, were removed for cause. The report of the Board of Visiters appointed to superintend the exercises at the recent examina. tion of the pupils of the Military Academy at West Point, is published in to-day’s Heratp. It is an in. teresting paper, and will well repay perusal. Col. Butterfield has forwarded from St. Johns an account of the shipwreck of the steamer Argo, in ‘Trepasay Bay, on Tuesday morning last, which may de found among our telegraphic despatches. All the passengers had arrived at St Johns safe and well, and they will no doubt be forwarded to their @estination in the Glasgow. The Chamber of Commerce, it will be remem- bered, come time ago voted medals for presenta. tion to those engaged in laying the first Atlantic cable. The medals have just been completed, and will at once be handed over to the recipients. A description of the medals and the names of the re- cipients may be found in another column. Atthe meeaing of the Commissioners of Health yesterday, reports from the Health Wardens were presented, representing the streets to be cleaner than they have been for a long period. The City In- spector was authorized to employ three persons as inspectors of slaughter houses, and wae directed to report to the Mayor all vessels having on board decayed fruit or vegetables, and the Mayor was em- powered to have them destroyed or removed from the city. The private advices received by the mails of the Ara- dia were more encouraging to the cotton trade than the Published acconnta. Somehow or otbor a sentiment seemed 4 pervade business circles in Evgland, and which, to a Wonsideraiie extent is participated in by merchants oa ‘this side, tbat the present war In Italy will be of short aration, Whetber ill or well founded, it has, never- Aheless, exorcised in some degree @ favorable influence. ‘Trade in Manchester bad improved, while raw cotton in Liverpoo! wag higher, with increased gales both for con sumption and on speculation. Our market has sympa, ‘thized with that in Eogiand, and the week closes with an wméovance of at least 340. to 3c. per Ib. above what was obtainable before the Arabia’s pewg reached as. The aaies Feetercay embraced about 4,300 bales, on the basis of ‘quotations given in another column. Flour was without ymportant change, while {twas ih some better request, with more inquiry for export, especially to the West sno:os and to other tropical ports. Wheat was mo- Geravely dealt in; old and common grovieg were lower, evhile now was sustained. Corn wat frm, but lose activo, ‘Paile prices were without alter?’ ion of moment. Pork eras heavy ard lower; the 810°’ embraced about 93,600 ‘Darrels of ail kinds, eget”, 99,000 on the let of Jung last, and 46,100 on the 18 J".1y, 1958, Sugars were steady but quict: the rales Were trifling in amount. Coffee was aiso oniet, but beld with firmness. Freight engagements wore smoderete: *mong the shipments wore 600 bales of cotton to Liverpool at 3¢4., and 600 boxes cheese by steamer at 86s, ‘There was a rumor that (or Havre and Liverpool dagether the cotton taken amounted to about 1,800 bales. ‘A deal charter was made for Liverposi at rates stated elsewhere; and a bark to oad with light pipe staves was taken up for Marseilles on private terms. Tax Riauts or American Vessers Duriva og Wan.—We publish elsewhere a circular is- gued by the various Collectors of the Customs in reply to numerous inquiries as to the position of American vessels in the present war. We have given our readers a full exposition of the * pubject, but the circular, belong official, may re- pay perusal. The government refuses to give specific information as to the protection that wili be extended to vemels, leaving gnestions of that chazavter to be decided as ey alee, NEW YORK HERALD, ‘The Presidency—The New Congress Une Spetls of the Public Printing, As the time approaches for active operations for the Presidential campa‘gn, the managing poll- ticians and financiers on all sides are beginaing to cast about for the sinews of war, No party can. save the country without money; and all parties, more or ‘ess, expect to draw their sup- plies from the public treasury, In this view one of the most important pfizes for Presidential pur- poses will be the printing «1 the new Congress, wh'c’ is to meet in December next, and the gamo for these magnificent spoils will involve all the complications of the Pres‘dential issue, Under the last Congress, from #he pressure of the late finapcia’ revulsion and other causes,’ the printing of the two houses was a chort crop. That great lobby engineer, Cornelius Wendell, bought out the parties elected to do the work, and others parties interested in it, at a liberal figure to the sellers, in expectation of heavy pio fita. But what with the regular purchs: money, and the extra bopuees, shares, pery sites and contributions, drawn from th skete of Wendel: to satisfy his lobby associates, .. is believed that (hey fleeced him and disgusted bim, not less than he was dieguated and disappointed with the print- ing retrenchments of both houses, The job was bad investment to Wendell in every way; and if we may believe one half that we hear about it there will yet be a precious row in the final set Aiement of this business. But the revulsion of 1857 has been overcome; we are in the midat of flush times again, and as “a new brcom sweeps clean” we may expect a clean sweep of all the available epoils of the public priatiog by this new Congress. Each pranch of Congress elects its own pritfter. The House will be opposition, the Senate democratic; and as campaign funds on all sides will be wanted, so all sides will be disposed to the largest liberality. Thus, the printing of the ap- proaching Congress will be a glorious harvest We dare say that, including both Houses, and the long and the short seasioa, the gross amount of the costs to the treasury will be two millions ot dollars—and it may be two millions and a half, Of this eum, all told, the net profits will probably exceed half a million of bard cash. Dividing this sum at the rate of $350,000 for the House, aud $150,000 for the Senate, the reader will perceive that the printer elected by the House will have a eplendid margia for lobby fees, ehares and party contributions, while the Senate printer can afford to spare from fifty to seventy-five thousand dollars in similar disburse- ments, and still make a good thing of it. We are not, therefore, surprised to learn that the game for these printing spoils, on all sides, has actively opened, and that the venerable John C. Rives, of the Washington Globe, the Chevalier Forney, of the Philadelphia Press, the Chevalic? Beies, of the Washington States, the indcfatiga- ble Wendell, and the modest and unsophisticated General George Washington Bowman, of the Constitution, are already in the ring. Forney, from his hot rebellion against the adminis- ‘ration, and with his little Pennsylvania squad of democratic bolters at his back, doubtless. counts-upon the House printing from a fusion in his bebalf between the repub licans of that body and the anti-Lecomptoa democrate. And, in truth, as matters now stand, be has no formidable competitor, unless that knowing old fox of the Globe may be counted one. Itis whispered about, however, that Wendell bas a certain document in his pocket, signed by the President, in reference to the printing of the ate Congress, which is considered by its holder as first rute capital for future operations, and that he intends to put this document in the market to the highest bidder in reference to the printing of the Senate and the House. For the House printing he will probably reveal the mysteries of this wonderful document, and blow up to the moon the administration and the de- mocracy; and for the Senate printing he may conzen{ to keep his secret, and bleed freely for the democratic cause. When a great prize is at stake your old lobby campaigner is not the man io stick at trifles, The Chevalier Heiss is in a very bad way. For a long time he has had his heart fixed alter- nately upon the printing of the Senate and the House. Firat, asa rampant fireeater and fili- buster, his game was the Southern majority of the Senate; next, as a.Douglas organ, under the editorial charge of Pryor, the Chevalier Heiss turned his attention to the democratic popular sovereignty balance of power in the House; but now, Pryor having retired, and Douglas baving issued his ultimatum for the Charleston Conven- tion, Heiss is all adrift again, Between the two stools at the Capitol we are afraid he will fall to the ground, after havisg exhausted all his pro- fits from the public printing of some years ago as joint proprietor with Father Ritchie of the old Washington Union. All the newspapers at Washington, in one way or another, depend upou the public treasury, and cannot live without its support. The Na- tional Era (republican) may be an exception; but even that paper, we suspect, lives largely u its expectations of the apoils at some future day. It may be involved, too, in this general scramble for the House printing of the new Congress, and thus Forney’s calculations may perhaps fall short. Bat, from the proceedings of the last Congress upon this subject, there is great danger that henceforth all these spolis and plunder organs at Washington will be swamped by the equally hungry aud more numerous sharks and scavengers of the country newspaper press, or that ‘these Washington lobby editors, like Wendell, will be compelled to pay a very high price for the whistle. The books are still open. Wasuinetos Rumors—Among our Washing- ton rumors it is stated that Mr. Buchanan, in a recent conversation touching the Charleston Con- vention, caid that, though not a candidate him- self, he would have something to say in that body, und that he considered Robert J. Walker about a3 good as apy other man named for the succession. Of course the idea thus suggested, that Mr. Buchanan intends to play off Walker against Douglas and Wise at Charleston is ab- surd, from the simple fact that it ig utterly ont of the question that Gov. Walker can accept the Charleston nomination on any terms, or the nomination in 1800 of any other party for the White Houee. His hands are full of more im- portant business, comprehending Pacific rail- roads, California quicksilver mines, Western town lots, Wall street stocks, &¢., &c., and these things will take up all his time at least for two years to come, end he can’t let them go. That the President will be able to speak with some authority to the Charleston Convention no sensible man can doubt ; and if he ever so speak, we may rely upon it that it will be to silence the scctioW@al disorganizers and nullifiers of the party. Dui Mr. Dochenen is in no bury. He will wait paticntly the developements of the new Congreag upon which the issue cf the Charleston Conven- tion will be ebaped ; and, In the meantime, the bury politicians in the field, regardless of bis ad- ministration, will have been exhausted from their prematore plots aod movements, Mr. Buchanaa ix safe epough, and is in 00 need of a candidate for the succession ; but, for all that, the demo- cracy will very much need his ayalstance to get their party ou’ of-the mire at Charleston, The Late Wholesale Railroad Murder. Tt seldom falls to the lot of a journalist to record a more appalling calamity than that which occurred at midaight on Monday last, on the Michigan Southern Railroad, near South Bead, Indiana, by which nearly fifty persons were killed and forty or fifty wounded. The immedi- ate causé of the disuster waa the giving way of aculy rt some twenty feet deep and fifty feet acro’ through which chasm the whole train of eix eplunged down into the rushing torrent beneath, breaking into fragments, and hurling \ unfurtunate passengers into the stream, some vo struggle successfully with the watera in the darkness of the night, some crushed to death instantly, and many to rise out of the gathering flood no more. The details of this horrible affair, which we give in another column, are calculated to make many 8 stout heart quail; but they furnish at the sume time & melancholy illustration of the criminal sporting with human life ao often pre- sented by the managers of our railroad lines. Although in this case the direct canse of the ac- cident may be attributed to the breaking away of an embankment by the floods caused by re- cent heavy rains, it does not follow that those who bad charge of the road should be held irre sponsible. Indeed, it appears that the insecurity of tbat portion of the road which gave way was known to many, and the lamentable catastrophe which has occurred had been predicted. ‘There- fore the company should be held to a atrict ac. countabiity for all the misery to which this sad affair has given rise. It is worse than absurd to call disasters of this Kind “accidents.” In almost every instance they are the result of culpable carelessness on the part of the cpmpanies or their agents, and they should be so dealt with. Nothing lese than the demolition of a train by lightning should be set down to the providence of God. All calamities arising from other causes are traceable to human agency—to that recklessness of life and limb which so fatally characterizes the employés of raiiroad companies in this country. In almoat every case like the present we find that a miser- able economy in keeping the roads in repair is the direct cause of the misfortune. No company bas a right to start a train freighted with pre- cious lives along a road unless they are cer- tain that every mile of it is in safe condi- tion for travelling upon. It is no excuse to offer, after the damage is done, that rains or floods have injured a portion of the track. It is idle to say that the conductors of the Michigan Southern road in this late case did not know that heavy rains had fallen and that the lands outlying the track were flooded. They must have known it, because another train had passed the fatal spot only a few hours before, happily without accident; and they were perfectly inex- cusable in permitting the second one to pass over the same track until they were assured that there was no danger. It is fearful to review the record of railroad disasters which have occurred in the United States for the past six years. Here isa terrible catalogue of bloody tragedies which have paralyzed the public mind for a brief time, and then have been fergotten save by the surviving friends of the victims whose hearths have been made desolate. Since 1853 the following rail- road disasters have occurred in this country, and in how many instances have the companies been held accountable for the loss of life? We will venture to say hardly in a single case, except pecuniarily; and it is gratifying to know that they have been made to pay heavilyin many cases by the just verdicts of juries:;— i Name of Read. Date. Killed, Wo'ded. + March 21, 1888... 8 “ Southern. + April 26, 1853... 21 New York & New Haven, May 6, 1853..... 46 Belvidere and Delaware... August 2, 1863.. 11 ‘Camden and Amboy...... August 9,1853.. 4 20" Providence and W ‘4 uu 23 67 18 30 6 22 66 100 9 20 8 10 Great Western, Canada. eo 16 New York Contral.. 9 67 New York and Erie. 6 40 Michigan Southern. 40 3 TOA). .seeerver 00 BE Here we have, in the brief space of six years, nearly four hundred human beings hurried to a terrible death, and over six hundred more cruelly maimed, and all “by accident,” we are coolly assured. Some of these disasters were attended with unusual horrors, even for a railroad calami- ty, always marked by appalling incidents. For example, the disaster on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, July 17, 1856, occurred to an excur- sion train of children belonging to the Catholic schools of Philadelphia, which came into col- lision with another train, and converted a day devoted to joy and festivity into one of agony and death. So also the collison on the Susque- hanna Railroad, within nine miles of Baltimore, on the 4th of July, 1854; both trains were filled with people who had started for pleasure, and met only mutilation and despair. Jt is remarkable that out of the seventeen railroad calamities recorded above, three should have occurred on the Michigan Southern road, fact which tells very badly for the manage- ment of that line, ‘The fact is that juries are too lenient and the public too indifferent in cases of this kind. the parties to whose negligence these disasters could be traced were punished, as they ought to be, for the crime of manslanghter, and the rail- road companies were mulcted severely for every Gamage done to fife and limb, we should have fewer calamities to record and less wholesale murders to deplore. Movevenrs or Suwmer Traverters.—The re- cent “heated term” has had its usual effect upon tbe population of the metropolis, and Broadway displays the most extraordinary influx of provin- Cial toilets and a comparative depletion of the astonishing turn-out of the beau monde. Our Southern brethren, particularly those from Old Virginia, the Carolinas and Louisiana, are pour- ing in upen usin great numbers, and much to the profit of the Broadway shopkeepers and pro- prietors of hotels frequented by the fashionable world. The tide of summer travel has set in with unusual briskness. Boats and trains for the North and Kast are driving « great passenger trade. Saratoga and the inland watering’ places are steadily filling up. The season at the sea- shore will be a little later, but it is thought will be nove the less prufimble. The travel seems to fet towards the Canadss and the numerous & A —“—ssSSCSs NEW YORK HERAL,), SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1859, plearant retreats in thieState. Jersey and Long Island have a good ebare, however, and the mountaivoas regions of Peonsylvabia attract mapy invalids, who find their bracing atmow phere of more value than el] the treasures of the pharmacopa@ia. The cottage population at New- port has quiet! settled itself for the summer, and the hotel business is sald to promise very well, While this sbifting and changing is goiag on— while all New York iv going away to the cono- try, avd al) the coantry is coming to New York— the botel people are reaping a great hurvest, which they might iucrease, and save wear and tear of conscieuce, by being a little more deceut not to eay moderate, in their charges. Duriog the crisis of 1857, when the prices of pro- visions ruled bigher than at preseat, the chic! botels in city and country reduced their prices from twenty to forty per centum, and still made meney. Last year, however, the old tariff wax resumed, apd latterly it has been oonsiderably inerensed. The per diem charge remains a‘ the sume figure, but the wonderful arithmetical vw lent, as far as multiplication and addition go in the matter of those mysterious matters, sundries and extraa, would put Daboll, Emerson and al! the other mathematical fogies to the blush. Tn many cases it is downright extortion. Aud we would like here to give the landlords a pretty &trovg hint that they will really be the gaiuers ip the end if they treat their customers to a mod- eratcly easy shave, ~ What are We About !—The Times and Their Relailons to Statesmen and Peiticlans, What are the several great nations about now 7 This is a curious question, but one which every reflecting man may ask himself and still fud reason to ponder en his answer. What is each doing to fulfil its mission? I/ we turn the question to ourselves, and ask what are the United States doing just now, we mus: auswer that they are plotting, scheming and contriving to elect a President, Every other question is either set aside or considered solely in ite bearing upon Presidential prospects. Nv one of the great questions that affect the almos twmediate interests and the future security o/ our expanding Union can geta hearing unles+ it can carry delegates to some conveution aud vote for a candidate for the Presidency. Our foreign, and no small portion of our domestic re- lations, are crowded into the long since overbar- thened pigeon holes of the narrow little cramped State Department of the year 1800. Our fiscai system is cumbersome, onerous, and coudacted on the hand-to-mouth plan, while the Treasury Department is a patchwork on Hamilton's organization of sixty years since. Our army crowded into pigmy proportions in comparison with the vast extent of territory it has to guard, bas become nothing but an ingepious plaything in the hands of public contractors, to be car nied backwards and forwards at millions of ex. penee} under the pretence of defending the fron tier. The eame niggardly policy haa cat dows the navy till it bears about the same relative value to our mercantile marine that a ghost does toalive man. The Post Office Department has become little else than @ machine to enable on: man to marehal 40,000 postmasters and clerks in the Presidential fight. Nothing olae is attended to just now but this important issue. Is is « quartan fever that attacks us periodically, Other nations have their periodical attacks also, Thus, England has just got over a reform attack which sloughed its old goverament, aud the new one seems to be endeavoring to keep out ot the quarrel now going on between some of her neighbors by preparing to goiato it. In the meanwhile her commerce is partially stopped, her manofactarers filled with doubt, and every body inquiring what will happen next? In France the fever goes by decades. The old Bour bons were overthrown in 1830; the fever of building up the Orleans branch lasted till 1840; then came the fever of cliange, consummated in 1850; then came the firet decade of the empire, and now she is. entering upon the fever of ex. tending her foreign influence by sympathizing with the oppressed nationalities, Russia is busy recovering from the exhaustion of the Crimean wer and preparing for the coming event to “the sick man” Turkey. She found when she had to convey her vast armies and their pouderous trains from every section of her empire to the defence of Sebastopol, that travelling men on their muscle and conveying supplies in ox carts could not compete with iron roads and oceay steamehips. ‘These are the occupations of the four great living Powers. Of the others, two only are in a state of action. Austria is endeavoring to resisi the spirit of the age, which commands her ¢: slough her old forms of political existence and to aesume the lively garb of the new. Obatinate in her adherence to the spirit of the past, she ix marshalling ber hundreds of thousands of soldiers within the historic square of Italy, where the struggle is to take place which is to decide whether she shall consent to recognise the nationalities, or whether the present age shall be roused to greater and mightier efforts against her. Prussia, animated to a certain degree with the new idea, stands fhirstily by, hoping to derive new life from the eegregated elements of the present Austrian power, and to achieve a preponderating influence in the heart of the dis- integrated German nation. These movements show that the times call for the rule of statesmen and noi for that of politi- cians. This is true not only with regard to Eorope, It isa necessity that is fast coming upon us, if it has not already arrived. The American people will soon see that politicians must not be allowed to block the steps of states- men, We areshooting up with wonderful rapid ity. Today we have thirty millions of peopie. In another generation we shall have sixty mil- tions, and half a century more will contemplate this Union with one hundred and twenty mil- lions of population. Around one side of us are colonies preparing to drop from the parent stem, aud nations worn out with intestine struggles calling wpon us for sid. The paths of inter. course between our brethren on the Atlantic and Pacific shores pass over, through and around those territories, All these things prove that the Cuba question must be settled, that the Mex ican enigma must be solved, that the Central American imbroglio must be thade plain. Mr. caught the tramp of our coming millions. H: has endeavored to initiate a policy that must b: initiated before we can worthily fill our mission as @ nation; but a corrupt and venal Congress of politicians has sought to hamper him on every tide. It is time for every man in the country to ack himecif, what are we about? It will theo soon be seen that we are on the eve of times that call for statesmen, and not for politicians, in toe pational balls aud Leflore tho altars of the qountry. Buchanan heg -seen all thie, and his ear ha. Axéhbishop Hughes on the Italian War and the Pright of tne Cope, In snpther page we copy an article from the organ of Archbishop Hughes, which no doubt {s from b's own pen or dictation, giving his views ©. he warin I aby, and ou the present deplora- table condition of hie Holiness the Pope in coa- B quence of the dishopest designs of the French Emperor om the States of the Churoh. Follow: ing the cue of the Arobbisbop of Vienna aud of the Catholic Primiste of Iceland, the offiet Bisbop of tbe United States—the Metropolitan Arcbbishop—assails Sardinia aud her King, France and ber Emperor—ult Catholior as they are—in the most unmeasured terms, They are infidela, revolutionists and “red republicaas,” avd the majority of those who sympathize with them are placed in the same category. If that be true, infidels, revolutioniata aud “red republi- cans” bave become very numerous ia the United Staies and throughout the civilized world; iu fact, there cau be vedoubt thas they coustitute more than ope-balf of all Christendom. 4 The principal charge against the Sardinian government is, that it has pluudered the Church of its property in Piedmont ; and the head and front of the French Emperor’s offence is, not that he bas as yet committed any robbery, but that he hes » easpicious and a thievish look—a lurking design to rob the Pope of “the patrimony of St. Peter,” Grantiag the indiotment to be true that the Church property hus been secularized in Sar- dinie, aud eupposing it is also true that Napoleon TIL meditates the secularization of the States of the Cburch after the fashion of Napoleon L., ia that really robbery, aud not the restitution of plunder; or would it injure true religion or damage the moral, eocial aud physical condition of the peopie awong whom the revolution may take place ; or rather, on the contrary, would it not promote the best interests of piety and morality, and advance che national prosperity of this beautiful country so long trodden down in the name of religion ? The question is, how did the Church get thal property? Did che come by it houestly, and is it fur the good of society as at present coustituted ‘hat the Church shonld continue to possess it? Wirbout hesitation, we answer in the negative, It is called “the patrimony of S< Peter.” Now, St. Peter never possessed a foot of it, neither dii St Paul, St, Peter, the fisherman, was 60 poor that whea e cripple asked him for alms he re plied, “Silver and gold have I none;” and we kuow that he was never worth a dollar at Roms, having been crucified there with his head dows by the Pagan Emperor. St. Peter was content with @ spiritual @omiuion, for Christ had told him bie kingdom was vot of this world. The successors ef St. Peter have for ten centuries claimed a temporal throne. The ioberi- tance of St. Peter would be poverty anf suffering and martyrdom, not # temporal sover. ignty and extensive dominions. The States ot the Church ere not the patrimony of St. Peter, but the patrimony of Pepin and his sou Charlemagne, who conquered it from the Lom- bards, In reward for this the former was an- uointed King, and the latter, in the year 800. crowned “Emperor of the West,” at Milan, with the iron crown. After the death of Charle- magne the Popes improved on bis grant, and disposed of all the kingdoms of Earope. The mutual obligations between Charlemagne and the Pope form the important link of ancient and modern, of civil and ecclesiastical history. If a modern Emperor of France, deeming that the gifthas been abused in these latier ages, and vbat it no longer serves its original purpose, takes it back, or rather places its disposal in the hands of the people—the true source of legiti- mate power—where is the robbery or the wrong. and who feels aggrieved? If this be robbery and wrong, then the act of Charlemagne was a greater robbery, and the act of the Pope in receiving it was as bad as that of the royal robber. But in that barbarous age the policy of Charlemagne was beneficial, and tended to cfvilization. In the present age the Pope’s temporal dominion stands in the way o/ the progress of civilization. The Charch, as a humanizing, progressive institution, had its day of utility in the world. It was once in the van of civilization. But it has outlived its influence for good. At this day mankind are no longer led by the Church, which is bebind the age —the fossil remains of past generations, All who are deserving of the name of men think for thom- selves, and will not submit to leadingstrings. The temporal dominion of the Pope, therefore, and church property, must give way before the advancing spirit of the times and be turned to more useful account. The time is gone by when the Pope, in imita- tion of the Devil tempting Christ on the Mount, can tempt men by saying, “Behold, all the king: doms of the carth ere mine—ihese will I give you if you will fall down end worship me.” ‘The time is gone by when the Pope can compel kings to hold his stirrups and kiss his toe, and can kick off their crowns as they kneel in order to show his power. He is now dependent on other kings for the tenure of his own kingdom, and either their power or their will seems wanting to preserve fit. In the present century the Pop: has been three times in exile, and within fitty years he has been for a period of five years re- moved from Italy and entirely stripped of his temporal dominion. The Catholic religion did not fare the worse in consequence. Pius IX. is probably the last Pope who will ever reign as a temporal prince. The Pope’s ancient patrimony of farms and houses were transformed by Pepin and Charle- magne into the temporal dominion of cities and provinces, And for more than seven hundred years this nucleus gathered around it by de. grees oue third of the property of Christendom. In Mexico at this moment one half of the pro- perty is owned by the Church, which is the fruitful source of all the misery of that country. How has the Church acquired all this property? By ecaring weak and dying men—by issuing scrip guaranteeing “a title clear to mansions in the ekies” in exchange for fair lands and magnifi cent palaces here below. But the representa tlova were frandulent, the scrip was bogus, and the eccleslastical corporation had no estates to give in the kingdom of Heaven. Their stock is no better than shinplasters, or the worthless j of any of the swindling joint stock companits Wall street. % The revolution of the Reformation, the Ameri can Revolution, (by which civil and religious liberty was established on a broad basis in the New World), and the French Revolution, which, following in its train, smote despotism ia the Qld World, overthrew the system of church pro- perty in ite strongholds one thousand years after it was established. Had it not bocome utterly rotten and corrupt it could not have fallen as it did. What remains of it in Italy and Mexico— the two countries in Christendom which have Leen 80 long the reproach and the byword of civilization—is destined soon to disappear before SA tence Se ene the light of the laicer bali Of tho niveteenth ovn- tury. The objeot of all religions and. of all eouby siastical organizations ix, or ought to by {0 promote virtue aud morality and the wel- fare of the peoples If they cease to do this they ought to fall, Who will say that the mo rality, the civilization und the welfare of the Italians and the Mexicans are now promot by the Church and its property? ‘The accumulusion of property in the hands of the olergy makes them lazy and luxurious, iuafead of active and Vigilant shepherds of the fold. They ought to be reduced, thereiore, either to depend-oce os the people or on the State, und be remunerated just us they deserve. The laborer ia worthy of his bire. “The Pope should he stripped of all hie royal patrimosy, and’ become what the first Pops aad bisbope of Rome were fer eight ceuturivs; and if be docs not like euch’ rough usage os that, let him come to the United States, where there is plenty of room for him aad plenty of land to spare. An American ship of war will convey him to New Yerk, He cam establish oew palaces of the Vatican apd of the Quirinal with the Charch of the Lateran on Washington Heighta, some where between Manbattanville and Spuyten Duy * vel creek, If this suburb should prove tae confined for hie expausive idees, he osu easily move out West, where land is cheap, and where the Catholics of the United States could pur- chase bim a big farm, larger than sllthe States of the Church, for which he is now continually im jeopardy, and for which Italy aud all Europe are kept in constant het water. Let him, there fore, come at once to the New World, where be will be tree from all danger and disturbasoa, and where he cas issue his spiritaal bulls, whics will have just as much authority as if they ema- pated from “the City of the Seven Hilla” But let bim not forget to bring with him the keys of St. Peter, and » red hat for Archbishop Hughes, THE LATEST NEWS. Non~Arrival ot the North American, Fantuxe Port, Of &., July 1—10:30 P, ‘There are vet no wigus of the steamship North Aworinan, Dew in her tenth day from Liverpooi, with dates te tes 22dult., and sbout due. The weather ts very dark mat rain ie falling in torrents. ‘The Loss of the Steamship Argo. St. Jouna, N. F., June 30,1850. ‘To mas Pures or New Yorx:—. All of the Argo’s Passengers havo arrived hore safe aad well. The eteamtugs left again today to bring up the crew and what was saved from the wreck. ‘The following are, as near as cap be gathered, the par- tioulars of the dissster:— . Between three and four o'clock on Tuesday morning made Ospe Pine, bearing north northeast, about twrive miles distant. The cosst pilot, captain and ali tho officers were called on deck at the sight of iand. The course was changed, and made southeast by east; this should havs oleared her fifteen miles from Cape Race. About aquartor pest fours very dense fog came up; about haif-pas captain spoke a fishing schooner, stapped the engin reversed them, asking, ‘Where are you fishing?” Tne ape swer was, “On.the eastern side of Trepassoy Bay, a mile ‘snd abalf or two miles off.” The capiain ordered the heim bard a port, the engines to go on full apeed, and to Koop south-southeast by the standard compass. This should dave taken ber clear of the land. The captain and all tho officers were on deck. The officer in charge—the quarter. master at the wheel—gave the order, “‘3teady,” a3 the ship brought up to her south-southeast course. At that moment breakers were seon, and the engines were stop- ped and reversed full speed. Before the ship got stera- way she grounded her bow on the rocks at Fresa Water Point, eight miles from Trepassey. The boats were lowered and got ready, when the pas- tengers embarked with bat Little confusion, the women end children first. ‘Tho anchors were then passed out at the stern, the cou thrown overboard, the forward boilers blown off, and every exertion made to get her off, but without avail. The captain now sent off a pilot with Mr. Butterfield to Tre passey harbor to got assistance, They arrived at tow o'clock, and telegraphed here, when the steamers Dauat- lesa and Biue Jacket were despatched Immediately. Salis, &6., were ent ashore, and tents made to Protect the pan - sengers, and where provisions and luggage could beget at they were sent on shore. Boats were constantly pass. ing from the ship to the cove, about a mile, carrying ashore what could be saved. Tne fishermen plundered the ship; = hundred of them came around upon hearing the signal guns; they cut away the masts and completely skinned hor. At foar o'clock P.M. the sbip filled, and fell on her beamends in six fathoma water. ‘The beggage of many of the paesengers is lost. There Was no house within eight miles of ine shore where she struck, Af about five o’clock P. M. a boat returned from ‘Trepaseey with assurances that steamers were on their way from St, Johns, which comforted and quicted the passengers. Tuesday night was paseed in tents with » tolerable de gree of comfort. On Wednesday the steamors arrived and brought off the passengers and part of tho Daggago. They reurn this afternoon at three o'clock fer the crow, taking with them soldiers and police officers to recover what portion of property stolen from ihe ship they oan got. Divers also go to get out anythiog that can be recovered * from the wreck, The passeogers are all quarterod and provided for bere, They will be lodged aud cared for, and sent On as ROON as arrangoments can be made. The steamer Edingborg is ready forres, waiting the arrival of tho Glasgow from Now York 6th July, to Keep her company It is probable that arrangements will be made tc send tha Pascengers on by the Glasgow if no earlier or beiter ar. rangements can be made, DANIEL BUITERFIEUD, Interesting from Washington. Wasmuxcton, Jaly 1, 1859, Advices from Mexico of the 1ith,inst. state that the American Minister had addressed a remonstrance to Mirs- mon’‘s Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the name of Pregt- dent Buchanan, expreesing his great indignation ai tho withdrawal of the exequaturs from the American Consuls and the murder of peaceful American citizens by Mira. mon’s soldiers at Tacubaya, Tho masedére im character. ized 88 @ violation of national rights and treaty stipuls- tions, end Miramon is warned that it will be remembor od, and redress domanded and ultimately obtained, whatever may be the result of the removrtrance, ‘The Saratoga had returned from Vora Oruz to Tampioo, Captain Van Vilet, Assistant Quartermaster, hes sub- mited to the War Department a reply to the charges re- contiy preferred against him for alloged misconauct ia conneotion with the purchase of mules for the army; and the Secretary of War, after mature consideration of the game, has decided that the explanations and testimony render avy further notice of the charges uncalled for and ‘upnecessary. The Postmaster General hus ordored of G. F. Nesbit, the contractor, one million of stamped envelopes with the new self ruling improvement. They will be furnished to the public at five cents mores hundrod than is charged for the present pattern, ‘Tho statement contained in the letter from Camp Floyd and extensively published, charging the Secretary ot War with being personally intereated tm tho contracia with Holliday and others for gupplying flour to tho troops in Utah is wholly dewtitute of truth. The arrargemoent for thia service was mado in the regular course of bus!- nees after advisement with the proper oilicer, and by which, contrasted with the former modo, at least $100,000 are saved to the government. The Former Agent of Adams’ Express in- dicted. Mowtaourry, Juno 30, 1859, ‘The Grand Jury have found five bills of indictment against N. Maronoy, tho former agent of Adams’ Express, wo is charged with the ombezalement of $50,000 belong. to that concern. Maro: however, fai fait ‘his boade are forfeited. 7 sneha gs A New Route to Baltimore and ‘Westies A mooting wns held yosterday at ip ae Eo Teel rata, . pore Of organizing the Tonling pg) Railroad, ing the inst link to complete the connection between New York and Baltimore wad Washingwon, vis tho East Pennevivania Railrowd — The county of Tancantar, the oltier of Now York, Reading and Golumbis and tho vil- lagos aioug thy route were largely The