The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1860, Page 4

4 JAMES GUEDON BENNETT, ZUITOR AND PROPRIRROR Orrics ¥. ¥. COMNEY UF NASSAU AND FULTON ATs. PEPMS, cash tn sdownce Money sant Oy mast will te 6 tne reek o Os somtor Prhuge stamps wat received aa wubacription HF 6 TOE ALD se copes copy pee ercmem 1 Comtinrnt Beh ond Bh of wach ) L combating cone nlinitad fron: omy quarter uf the worlds aod coll! he y paul for BR" OU PORRIGN CORMESPONDEST: ARE OLARLY Reanesven vO Seat ane Laerens ax Peon ™ AMDUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, PALACK GARDEN, Fourteuth @reet.—Sacrap Concent AMUSEMENT TO MORROW EVENING. GARDEN, Broadway.—ALappix ox tux Wow. WINTER GARDEN. Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Kiw kA—G ROUPINGE—VOL-60-VRRT. = Wa:cack’s THEATRE, Broadway.—Domscy amp Sox— Younc Acris. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Our Axnaicas Cousin, NEW nOWERY TuRATR Bowery.—Wenxer—Dice, nk Newss0v—Mipsig ATOMS. ERICAN MUSRUM, Broadway.—Day and » Songs, Dasoms, Bowtesgtes, Livine NATIONAL UONCERT Soncs, Daxces, BUKLESQURS, PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Vooa asp Ix- SreuMExTAL Concent CANTERBURY CONCERT SALOON, No, 663 Broadway.— So Dances, Buwiesquss, &c. New Vork, Sunday, Juty 22, 1N60, The News. A telegraphic despatch from Van Buren, Arkan- Bas, siates that information had been received that the California overland mail coach had met with a serious accident at the mountain pass of the Choc- taw Nation, and that the arrival of the mail would be delayed some thirty hours beyond its usual time. The accident referred to was caused by the team running away. One person was killed, several oth- ers seriously injured, and the coach was com- pletely wrecked. The topic of the town yesterday was the extraor- dinary atmospherical phenomenon of Friday night. This wonderful celestial visiter has created an un- usual degree of interest among all classes of the community, and no better evidence of this is re- quired than the number of communications on the subject that we have received, and which we pub- lish in another column, For a long time past the republic of Hayti has been flooded with large quantities of counterfeit paper money, manufactured in the United States, and vessels trading to Haytien porta have been subjected to no little annoyance in consequence, and efforts have been made to detect the counter- feiters, but without success. Yesterday, however, the Brooklyn police arrested on board the brig Baltimore, bound for Port-au-Prince, a German named Hasler, who is charged with selling fifteen thousand dollars of the counterfeit money to the mate of said vessel. Hasler is supposed to be one of gang who have been engaged in manufacturing and selling Haytien counterfeit money for years past. We publish in another column the particulars of the disastrous conflagration at Dallas, Texas, on the Sth inst. The whole number of buildings de- stroyed was thirty-three, comprising the most sub- stantial edifices in the place, and including every storehouse in the town. The loss of property is estimated at from three to five hundred thousand dollars. In the Supreme Court, special term, before Judge Leonard, yesterday, the case of Frederic Hoffman, the alleged defaniting secretary and transfer clerk of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany, was brought up ona motion of counsel for the accused for a reduction of the amount of bail required from $20,000 to $10,000. The District At- torney deemed the latter sum sufficient, and the bail was accordingly reduced. ‘The steamship Fulton sailed from this port yes- terday for Southampton and Havre, with 120 pas- sengers and $666,593 in specie. The Glasgow also safied yesterday for Liverpool, with 150 passengers and $159,998 in specie, making a total of 270 pas- sengers and $826,591. The sales of Cotton yesterday embraced about 500 bales, im lows, The market closed without change in quotations, Private letters from the Red river and other ports of the South speak of a continued and severe drought, from which both corn on were suffering. Flour was dull, with a tendency 4s lower prices. The chief sales were for home use, ‘ht purchases for export. Wheat was beavy, with a fair amount of sales, at prices given in another place. Gorn as leas active, and the marcet fess buoyant, While @ales were moderate. Pork was Steady, with sales of new mess at $19 250 $19 50, thin mows at $18 60 a $18 6244, and new prime at $14 25a $14 88, sales were also made for future delivery at full prices. Sugars were firm and active: the sales embraced about 2,500 bhds., 600 boxes and 2,500 bage Bahia, closing at a further advance of sfc. per Ib. Coffeo was tirm and held above the views of purchasers: sales of 600 bags Mara. caibo and 200 bage Java were reported at private terms. Freights to Bagliah ports were rather firmer, while the chief shipmenta were confined to grain and four. A Scnpay Law Law on tae Saetr.—For some time past the police of Brooklyn have been carrying on a very vigorous and valorous war against the candy stores and other places where refreshments and newspapers were sold ou Sin day. The supplies of the juvenile portiva of the sister city were cut off in the cantly line, and the adult population, who rejoiced in their Sunday newspaper, were seriously inconve- nienced by the difficulty of procuring one. An amount of vigilance, which, if employed by the police in suppressing crime and rowdyism would be alike valuable and commendable, has been exercised by the guardians of the City oP Churches in preventing a desecration of the Gabbath by the vending of lollypops and news- papers. The criminality of the latter act tms, how- ever, been tested in one of the Brooklyn courts betore Justice Cornwell, in a case where a num- ber of persons were brought before him charged with selling wares on Sunday, in violation of an old standing Sunday law declaring all goods ex posed forsale on that day, except meat, fish and milk (which can be sold up to nine o'clock), forfeited and confiscated de facto. The court de- cided that it was impossible to construe the law with any clearness or safety to the parties mak- ing the arrests, or the magistrate who deals with the case, and the charges were accordingly dis- missed. ‘Thus one absurd Sunday law has been laid ‘on the'shelf, and it is not unlikely that many others will be served In the same manner when they come before an intelligent court. A Praster Por TH® Democracy. —The growing popularity of the Breckinridge and Lane ticket In the North. The metropolis has set the ball Lp motion, and the excitement is spreading over fhe whole North. The only way to save the de- mocratic party and whip Lincoln is to unite on Breckinridge and Lane. —_—=~ im Reality—A Contrast. When at the formation of this government sn annual meeting of the representatives and Se- ators of the different States of the confedera- Cy was provided for, it was naturally sup- posed that this Congress would be composed of the worth, the wisdom, the patriotivom and the intelligence of the country. [t was but reason- able to assume that, x8 a matter of State pride alone, each Stare would be emulous to send to this natiooul convocation men whose talents and character wonld reflect. lustre upon her, and that thus the American Congress would be Mh the eyen of the world, a worthy embddimen! of the virtue and intelligence of the American people, and one of the grandest evidences of the principle on which our political fabric is baved—the right apd power of the people ‘0 govern themselves, And for « considerable time after the e:tab- lishmers of the goverument thet theory of Con- gress was carried out in practice, The abiest 4nd most reliable men were chosen in the seve- ral States to represent them in the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Congress of those days wus rea)ly the most imposing delibe- rative assemblage in the world. Unfortunately we have chaoged all that. and now the position of @ representative in Congress has fallen as low ulmost as that of a New York Alderman, and few men who have refined tastes or mode- rately good abilities are to be found on the roll of members of Congress. Year after year this state of things has been growing worse Even the Southern States, that adhered longest to the idea of being repre- sented by their best men, have of late years been falling off in that regard; and pow the ational Houxe of Represeutatives is composed for the most part of pettifogging lawyers of the smallest calibre, who have taken to politics for the same reason that the stars have taken to shining- according to the song—* because they’ve nothing else to do.” In the Senate matters are not much better. The new States are particularly reckless or unfortunate in re- gard to their representation in Congress. Poli- tical trickery is resorted to for the purpose of obtaining seats in the Senate, and then parti- san majorities are appealed to for the purpose of retaining them. The old tashioned idea of having the sove reign States of the Union represented in the national Congress by the brightest intellects and purest characters of the couatry has grown obsolete, if, indeed, it is not entirely ob- literated; and where here and there some men are found in either house who do not come fairly within the general category of worthless ness, it seem to be rather the result of ohaace than of any principle in the selection. Of course there are some such exceptions, but they are too few to change the general churac- ter of the body. It is not a matter of surprise, therefore, that in assemblages thus constituted—in assem- blages where political trickery and the cor- ruptions of primary elections stand in lieu of merit and capacity—there would be scenes enacted which put the principle of popular go- vernment to the severest test. How many such disgraceful scenes occurred during the last six months in the House of Representatives at Washington? They were too numerous to remember. They were of almost daily occurrence. [t seemed to be a matter of the merest good fortune or of Provi- dential interposition, that in the excitement over the contest for the Speakership the weapons of calumny and abuse which were so freely used were not exchanged on the floor of the House for pistols and bowie knives, and that the torch was not then kindled which would have assuredly set the whole confed- eracy ina blaze. It was an understood thing that members came to the House armed to the teeth, expecting from hour to hour that Helper- ism quarrels would break out into sanguinary encounters. On several occasions weapons, if not used, were exhibited. An honorable mem- ber from our own State, in the midst of a violent altercation, exposed part of his armory by letting his pistol full on the floor, and after- wards made a ridiculous attempt to explain by stating that he carried weapons for protection against non-Congressioual marauders. Another honorable member from Illinois provoked a colleague of bis own by using opprobrious epithets to him, and then, on a movement of the assailed party toward him, coolly reached back for the deadly weapon which lay on the sofa beside him, ready to his hand. And then who does not recollect that day when tbe floor of the House was converted into a bear garden, on the oceasion of Lovejoy’s venomous tirade against the South and her in- stitutions; when excited members from opposite sides rushed down to the area and main aisie to provoke mutual attack; when clenched fists and menucing gestures were directed against oppo sing forces; when the presiding officer, finding himself unable to repress the tumult, vacated the ebair when the Sergeant-at-Arms, with his mace ofei! was forbidden to interfere between the would-be combatants, and when such epi- thets as “perjured villain,” “lying scoundrel,” and “damned nigger thief,” were liberally inter- jected into the inflammatory harangue which Lovejoy persisted in making from his vantage ground at the Clerk’s desk? Again, who will ever forget the puppyish bravado of that Vir- ginia sprig of chivalry who was constantly, like the pugnacious tailor at an Irish fair, dragging bie coat after bim and daring any one to tread on it, because be was “blue moulding for want of a batin?” He never allowed an occasion to pass where be could display his cheap bravado without doing *«. antil he was brought to his senses by the ready acceptance of his chal- lengé to the due!io by the Wisconsin Potter, who, in his right as the challenged party, selected bowie knives as the weapons of combat. The Virginian had long practised pistol firing, and had supposed himself qualified to dispose of an antagonist very expertly and with comparative safety to himself, with hair triggers; but be was not trained in the use of the weapon selected; was not in favor of that sort of literal “war to the knife,” and tly the sequel did demonstrate—to i, gn vaunting expres- sion-~that Mr, Potter had nothing to apprehend from him. ‘These are a few of the very cred'table scenes which the last Honse of Representatives present- ed to the disgusted ave of the civilized world: We abstain from commentiog mow upon the disregard by Congress of the real practical bu- siness of the session. With houses so constitut- ed it is not to be supposed that business, will be attended to. The one bouse spent months in a fight over the organization; the other an NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1860, equal length of time in constructing a political platform, the immediate effect of which was to disrupt the party itself. In every view of the Case, therefore, the history of the last se sion was anything but creditable or Profitable to the country. If our in- stitutions could withstand the effect of & few more sessions of the kiud, they might re- ally be regarded as indestructible. But the ex- periment would be a rather dangerous one. We cannot avoid another such session, but furtu- nately its term is limited to three months, And bow we put itto the American people, North, South, East and West, whether they think they fre forwarding the material, moral and politi- cal interests of the country, or promoting the } cause of popular government throughout the World, by sending to the grand council of the nation the petty pothouse politicians and county court pettifoggers who now fill the seats intended for the worthy representatives of sove- reign States. Let the people ponder that ques- tion, If they do, we will guarantee that few of the members of the present House of Represen- tatives will ever occupy that position again, and that the Senate will, more slowly, but as certala- ly, be cleared of the one-borse demagogues who bring discredit upon that assemblage which ought to be the grandest in the world, Celestial Phenomena—A Magmificent Me- real question before the country. We have buif a dozen candidates in the field, but only two—Breckinridge and Lincoln—who possess any strength. Neither Mr. Douglas, Mr. Bell, Mr. Houston ror Mr. Gerrit Smith bas a sin- gle State at his back. Lincoln has nearly all the Northern and Eastern States, and the South is united for Breckinridge. The conservative voters of the Central States have, then, to make their choice between the two, and will, of course, vote for Breckinridge. Very weil. Dou- gias is very well; so is Bell, and so is Houston; but they cannot be elected without votes, and might as well give it up first as last. Lincoln or Breckinridge will be the man. TarowmG THE ELEcrion wwto ConGREss.— Some of our republican organs are very seri- ously exercised at the possibility of some ar- rangements among the odds and ends of the op- position to Lincoin whereby this Presidential election may be thrown into Congress. Thus we are told that the voice of the people would be stifled, and thata paltry minority might, in the House of Representatives, elect the Presi- dent. where, each State having but one vote on the question, the three comparatively insigaifi- cant States of Delaware, Florida and Oregon, with only one member each, will neutralize the three great States of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, which have in the aggregate eeventy- nine representatives in the House. In other words, it does look, prima facie, a little one- sided that the three members from Delaware, Florida and Oregon, representing say 300,000 people, should be equal, in the House vote for & President, to the seventy-mine members from New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, represent- ing eeven millions of people. jut the constitution has placed the House election om the platform of the equality of the States, great und ema!l; and as this resort to an election by the States as equals can only occur in the event of a failure of the people to make an election, there can be no just ground of com- piaint on the subject. “The proofof the pud- ding is also in the eating thereof.” We have had two Presidents elected by the House of Re- presentatives—Thomas Jefferson and Jobn Quincy Adams—and very respectable Presidents they made, too. Considering, in short, that when the election goes to the House that body is limited to the three highest candidates from the people, the reduction of the struggle toa vote by States, each State giving only one vote, as the majority of its representatives may deter- mine, appears to us to be an eminently wise and unobjectionable arrangement. But then it is said that should there be no election of a President by the people in this case, there will be no election of a Vice President, end that thus, while the three highest candidates for President will be thrown into the House, the two highest for Vice Presi dent will be thrown into the Senate, and that in this way “Old Jo. Lane,” by default of the House, will become President of the United States. This result is not impossible; for should there be no election of a Vioe President by the people, we presume that General Lane, as one of the two highest candidates for Vice President from the people, will be elected Vice President by the overwhelming democratic ma- jority which holds the Senate. Next, it is possible that say between Lincoln, Breckinridge and Bell—from the present party divisions of the Honse (the same that elected Pennington Speaker) there would be no elec- tion of a President in the short interval be- tween February, when the case will come up, and the 4th of March, when the term of this Congress will expire. In this event the person elected Vice President by the Senate, in default of an election of President by the House, will become President of the United States, and thur General Lane ma} become the successor in the White House of Mr. Buchanan. From present appearances, however, there is wanted there. With emancipation skilful white physicians abandoned the island, and black doctors and travelling missionarivs pro- bably made poor substitutes. Mr. Underhill fails to allude to these facts. He also fails to refer to the fact that a black mob in the county of Westmoreland broke up a court of justice, and rescued the prisoners, while the presence of Enplish ‘orces was necessary to restore oluer—a let, said to have been abetted, if ho) inc ‘ed, by the missionaries or by preachers of their owo color. He failed to say what be tight have stated, that Jamaica was only kept in ordey, sod in @ measure sustained, by British vessels of war, and by soldiers in pay of the government. ‘The reverend divine does not give us his ex- perience about Hayti, which he says he visited. ‘The truth is that all these evasions and false colorings about the workings of emancipation in the West Indies, by toreign and domestic abolitionists and their organs, ure intended for American consumption, and with the view of misleading and prejudicing public opinion. Suppose they could prove ail they assert, do they for a moment suppose that a system which bad worked well, as they alleged it had done in small and isolated islands, could be practi- cally applied to half a continent—to four mil- lions of blacks in contact with over twenty millions of whites, and which, while ruining the latter, could only end in the extermination ot the former? the payment of seventy-five cents those having that sum to devote to this purpose can avoid: the public turnout. Besides, the people are too much endowed with the true military spir to require legislative enactments at all to make soldiers of them. Stringent laws might be ne- cessary under monarchical forms of govern- ment, but not in free and enlightened America, where each citizen is a sovereign and a soldier. The war with Mexico, to which volunteers poured in numbers far outnumbering the regu- lar troops; our target excursions, which drill and discipline thousands of our citizens every year; and lastly, the volunteer system of the whole country, so splendid an exhibition of which it has been the good fortune of New York to witness within the past few weeks, are all a sufficient proof of this fact. ‘The law, as it stands, is both ridiculous and unnecessary, and is, in addition, an insult te the spirit of our institutions —_—_—_— NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, Our Special Washington Despatch. Wasmnaron, July 21, 1860. ‘THE CHIRIQU! COMMISSION As intimated in a former deepatch, Dr. Evans has beam Selected us geologist to the Chiriqu! expedition, Os ar- Tiving at the lagoon, Capt Engle will detail Capt. Mor- ton, with his surveying party, to proc-ed on shore, and after making tidal and barometrica! observations at the harbor, ‘will run a line with compass, level, and bare- meter actoss the Isthmus, eighty miles, to Golfite “This will probably occupy some sixty days, as portions of the distance ae rough. Meanwhile, Dr. Evans will explore the coal mines in the vicinity of the Ingoon, and Capt, Engle bimeelf will make a survey of the harbor of Chiriqui, and test the accuracy of the present mays, after which he will go to the Pacific side, via Panama, and inspect the harbor of Golfito. The commission hope to be back by the Ist of November. The veasel which take it out will be under the command of Capt. Hartetein, BUSINESS AT THE PATRNT OFFICE. ‘The business at the Patent Office usually falls off during the ‘‘heated term,” and though this year is not an ex- Ception to the jgeneral rule, the receipts are in excess of other corresponding periods. ‘Those for the quarter end- ing July were seventy thousand dollars, being greater than for any preceding quarter. 4 REPUBLICAN LIBERTY POLE NOT PERMITTED IN WASHINGTON. Application was recently made by the Republican Asee- ciation for permission to raise a liberty pole in thin city. The Mayor consented, as did also the Commissioner of Public Buildings, at first, but after nine days delay in aa examination of the laws, Dr. Blake has discovered that it is unlawful to erect liberty poles in this District, and therefore the permit is withdrawn. Queer country this when a liberty pole can’t stand in the capital of the re- public. Astronomic annals do not, perhaps, con- tain the record of a phenomenon occurring in sny age of the world more startlingly beauti- ful than that which was witnessed in, this locality on Fridsy night. The great 2omet which blazed in our harvest skies two years ago was, night after night, an object of grand attraction; but thore who witnessed the fight of that brilliant meteor through the air the night before last, enjoyed a spectacle eclipsing in its splendor anything that they had eger before seen, or that perhaps they ever will see again. Meteors, though regarded, like comets, witb much superstitious. awe, as portentous of some great calamities, are notvery rare. .We read from time to time of meteoric stones falling in different parts of the country. Thete were some remarkable instances of the kinda few months ago in Virginia; and these phenomena known as shooting stars, and whtcl wre ascribed to meteoric action, may be witnessed almost every fine summer night. But the display of Friday night was, if not without precedent in astronomic annals, at least without precedent in the memory of any individual whom we have heard speak on the subject. We have received, and publish elsewhere in to-day’s Heravp, various eecounts, of it as it appeared to spectators in different parts of the city and enturbds, ai of’ which agree in the mai: particulars, and may be thus summed up:—At about a quarter before ten o'clock on Friday evening, the atmosphere being very sultry, and no per- ceptible motion in the air, alight cloud ap- peared in the west, from which a blue-tinted luminous globe shot out, which at the first glance suggested to the spectators the idea of an artificial firework. Instantly it lost its globu- lar form, bursting, like an immense skyrocket, into four portions. The first two are repre- sented by one of our correspondents as resembling brilliantly iliuminated ¢hano- deliers, with innumerable jets of purple flame; the others were globular and com- paratively small, appearing rather as the tails of the first. They maintained their re- lative distances as they flew athwart the sky from west to east, occupying in their flight something like a minute. Whether they vanish- ed in air or fell on the land or sea we have not yet ascertained. About a minute after their passage a detonation was beard, as from a piece of ordnance; but whether it proceeded from the bursting of the meteor isa matter of con- jecture. Scnpay Excurstons.—The intolerable heat of the past few days has caused an immense deal of suffering among the tolling millions of the metropolis, at least three hundred thousand of whom live in narrow streets or lanes, and in- habit close, noisome dwellings, into which the free air of Heaven rarely penetrates uncharged with noisome and unhealthy gases. How wel- come to this valuable class of our population is the day when labor is, by common consent, sus- pended. How sweet to the artisan, with his faithful partner and little ones, is this one day in eeven, sacred to rest and recreation! How charming the country ramble, the sail on the river, the promenade in the Central Park, or the after dinner lounge in the gardens of the suburbs. It may well be doubted whether our wealthy citizens who spend their whole summer at their country villas, or amidst the delights and dissipations of a fashionable watering place, enjoy the iuxuries which money and taste supply with a more exquisite zest than that which the poor man feels with his Sunday in the green fields, or by the ocean wave. It is good to know, also, that the Sabbath Committee, with all their cant and rant, have not succeeded in driving all the peo- ple of the metropolis into hot churches to hear drowsy sermons. On the contrary, the Central Park on every fine Sunday is visited by ten, fif- teen or twenty thousand people. Jones’ Wood, and the gardens on the East river, Harlem and the Heights adjacent, are easily accessible by cars and steamboat, and are thronged on plea- sant Sundays, The Harlem Railway Company run steam cars to the Central Park to-day. The steamboat Ceres makes an excursion to-day to the far-famed beach of Rockaway, leaving pier No.4 North river at half-past nine o'clock in the morning; the Coney Island boat runs as usual, and the steamboat Magnolia makes an excursion around Staten Island, with a band and two German singing societies on board, leaving the pier foot of Broome street at nine o'clock. The steamer May Flower makes an excursion to Glenwood every Sunday, leaving Catharine street at balf-past eight in the morn- ing. There isa Sunday boat for West Point and Newburg (a delightful excursion), also for Rockland Lake, both leaving the foot of Jay street at seven o’clock in the morning. For those who wish to explore the prettiest of Jer- ‘THE HOUSE PRINTING IN THE COURTS. Larcombe and English have petitioned the court to enjoin and restrain everybody from receiving moneye for the House printing except themselves. Mr. Pord’s Arrangement with them was only temporary, and they pursue this course to prevent the work from being given to other parties who are willing to do it cheaper. They receive eighty per cent on the gross payments. Our Washington Correspondence, Wastinutos, Juiy 17, 1860. Movements of the Politicians—Five Hundred Thousand Copies of the President's Recent Speech to be Gratuitously Circulated by the Breckinridge Party as @ Campaign Document—Anwiety as to What Course the Herald will Purswe in the Coming Election—Clear Dodge of the Poli. One of the wisest and best things I have ever heard of from any set of political directors was done tc-day by the Breokiaridge Resident Committee, namely, the ordering, for gratuitous circulation, ive hundred thousand copies of President Buchanan’s recent speech. This was proposed by Mr. Finn, Navy Agent here, and unanimousiy adopted. I those who take any active part in the canvass shall just Use this matchless address as their chart, both fur matter and manner, aod try to follow (even though Longo inier- wallo behind) ite moderation, its wisdom, its magnaai- ‘mous impartiality, its fairness and decorum towards oppo ‘Dents, and its reliance upon truth and common sense, little more will be needed. The country is quite sick of the Shallow, exaggerated, denunciatory style of what are called campaign papers and barangues. Inflated eulogy or senseless invective is the staple of these scribblers and slangwhangers. Bell and Everett, Douglas and Johnson, Lincoln and Hamlin, Breckinridge and Laue, are either angels or fends, according to the proclivities of the artiste +many of these "(said they), Convention hot ‘regutar!’ vot ‘nation hi even less probability of this election being | *Y bays, the Alice Price leaves the foot of | ait” what, democrat lef free to echowse?™ One very curious optical delusion which it oul s Robinson street at eight o’clock for Keyport | then the Dougias Convention. not regular either, i thrown into Congress than there was at this period of the canvass that the contest of 1856 would be. Our explanations upon the subject are simply intended to satisfy our readers as to the fairness of the constitutional requirements of Congress in the election of a President and gave rise to is worthy of remark. To the spec tators it appeared to be no higher than from a quarter to half a mile, and to be almost direct ly over their heads, and yet whea the fact is considered that it was witnessed under almost identical circumstances at Philadelphia, some tional, not binding on any democrat!’ ‘Whore shall we gor” they asked; “where shall we stand on this pewher fea nor good dry land?” They were puzzled by nia can- dor and justice. gy ingredients quite duusual im 8 political 5 it the people will understand aad appreciate qualities, and draw « contrast betweea President aud the campaign orators moat hono-abie to his temper, taste and charscter. The most prejud iond opponent must acknowledge that it was the speech of and other places along shore. The above list includes all the excur- sions of which we are aware. It is not so leng as it might be, but, with the city railway cars, will afford facilities for a very * | Vice Pi s + large number of people to get away from the | gentleman as well as a statesman, aud of a man who ninety miles southwest of New York; | Vice President, in case of a failure of the people ‘ales truth above all other th counsel at New Haven, eighty miles east; at to give any ticket a majority of the electoral hot pavements, and the stench, dust and noise his eoootry men, x oe ings in giving wo Barnegat, forty miles south, and at | vote. of the city, for the day, returning in the even- Heino an frst rate power, there is ome cnaoers felt, ing refreshed and ready for the toil of Monday, with lighter and more cheerful hearts. Itis a very shocking thing to reflect upon, but we fear that the Sabbath Committee will be unable to prevent the Sunday excursions, which are consid ered by the people generally as capital things to do in the summer season. The Pharisaical dodge was tried in London several years ago, and the aid of Parliament was invoked to pre- vent the railways from running Sunday trains. Tt was all in vain, however, and now all the railways out of London earn an immense deal of money with their Sunday traffic. As many as half a million of men, women and children leave London every fine Sunday. We expect, before a great while, to see the same thing bere. As the population of New York becomes more and more dense, the outside pressure upon the railroad companies will increase, and they will be compelled to run Sunday excursion trains to all places within a convenient distance of the metropolis. In a sanitary point of view the Sunday excursion is of the highest importance, and deserves the encouragment of the more liberal and enlightened portion of the commu- nity. Tae Miuitia Five Netsance.—On reterence to our police column the other day it will be seen that one of the many inconveniences arising ont of the State Militia law was brought more prominently than usual before the eyes of the public, because, in this case, the parties appear ed before a police magistrate to settle the diffi- you may easily imagine, as to what it ie gorug to do in the approach ing Presiden . Tt is tinted that the Senator from Tlinois bas been very assiduously wooing tte favor; and something is said wbout the jaterchange of B6- cial courtesies. &c. But all the world knows Mr. Bea hett’s tasteful and muniGeent hespitality; and sensible pd Ba pothing theretrom in to his political Proclivities, ‘That was a capital suggestion about the importance of orators, who wish to give their productions a wide cirew- lation, delivering themselves in New York, for the Newburg, on the Hudson, sixty miles north, it will be perceived that the idea of its insignifi- cant elevation was most delusive. [t must have been atan immense elevation to have been seen at these widely remote points, and to have presented at all of them the same appearance of being so nearly in the zenith. It is also to be remarked in connection with the meteor, that for the previous two or three nights brilliant flashes of the aurora borealis have illumined the northern skies—a most un- usual display in the dog days, and one which we only look for in the late fall and winter months. Theaurora is generally supposed to indicate clear cold weather, but in this case it has been followed by an oppressively sultry state of the atmosphere, thus contradictiag our previously conceived notions. It is alsd very closely connected in point of time with the solar eclipse, which took place last Wedsesday morning. : Meteors, like comets and eclipses, have been, from the remotest antiquity, regarded w por- tentous omens. It ts bard to get rid df such superstitious ideas. Even in modern time, aud notwithstanding the flood of light throm by scientific men upon all natural phenome: ple cannot entirely divest themselves feeling. In the poem describing the 4 of Poland, it is related that on that night of carnage when Kosciusko fell, Far h shook, red meteors flashed along the And conscious nature shuddered at the cry. To many the meteor of Friday night A Missionary’s Views or EMANCTPATION IN rae Barrise West Ivpres.—An English mis- sionary aud agent of the British General Bap- tist Missionary Society made an address on Monday last, at an assemblage of Bap- dst ministers, in the Bible Union rooms, 350 Broome street. The referred to was the Rev. E. B. Underbill, who told his hearers that he had recently paid a visit to the British West Indies, taking Trinidad, Jamaica and Hayti in bis way. The reverend gentleman took occasion to refer to emancipation, and to deny statements made regarding its resulta. We do not accuse the gentleman of uttering untruths, but we have no hesitation in saying that he has passed over or suppressed well known and well established facts regarding the working of that measure. He admits that there has been no progress in Jamaica com- pared with that made in Trinidad; but he fuiled to assign the real cause of the difference. He failed to tell bis hearers that Trinidad had received lange additions of labor in the form of recaptured Africans and imported ovlies, while the blacks of Jamaica, acting probably under the advice of the missionaries, who pos- sess great control over them, have resisted all additions of labor to their present population. They dislile to make sugar, as Mr. Underhill remarks; and, be might have added, anything else involving much skill or labor. Hence their chief produce consists in what nature or the least amount of labor yields, such as_pi- ‘ork. The Hon. vester Mowry, of New Moxie, has this Gay’ voun, agpetated Onmnislonte te fen eat mark the coro Se Spear ee aod under 1860, sunyeet to the regu. ee ar tae ofthe Interior. Sthege merece icants important post, . Mowry Wasrtacevn tenboet or oa ‘Wastxaron July 19, 1860 The Breckinridge Impulse—The Great Bastern and the tbe conflict of constitutional principles which eaters into the present revolution, and whieh wust shape the new Party organization. The great contest uuquestionably Sill be between the doctrines and rentiments represented by Lincoln, and those directly autagunistic, represented by Breckinridge. The impuriance of the Hxeaun's sap. port of the latter is highly appreciated here by ali who desire to see their success; and your publication of yew. terday has been hailed by a acclaim, “ Beanett ie with ust Who ‘then. for phitegophers Frdwne, or tee ihe viens ortho tase ting: ‘We are to bave the Great Easwern in the watey of the Sahar teers Sage etek eet eae bere with Mr Mano, wi his wr ot Hiway . mento and ginger, gro wild in many | culty. How many such cases there are which take op board, for ber 5 7 te the memory of that summer night, twent#eight sl pea limited bin A ' pon ty y bales of cotton. We aan ae crembte years ago, when the remarkable me’ are not known to the public, and which ure pri- giiter at mayne 8 dolar for “a ight “or une istics of Jamaica show that the | vately settled by those concerned to avoid the ip; aod tt may fairly = be estimated play, known as the shower of stars, tookplace, | £°VeTmment stat y y three huntved thowand people wi: and which preceded, if it did not intgdace, | “ue of her exports has for several years past | annoyance of arrest, will be perceived by a one tute the Cuesapeake, Anu then i sal ea woe international celebration, hailewed by the memories af steadily decreused. This fact the gentleman Again, the leading inhabitants of glance at the names contained in the city direc that terrible plague, the Asiatic cholera. tory. The Grand Jury very promptly, and in a Mount Vernon and the Father of hie tountry, and attend.) may be reason for supposing that those 64 by President Bredavan View Prmudent Baeck iu passes over. rite, Abd Topteme: tatures, the diplomatle Yenc ing Seuatore ances of the atmosphere which Jamaica a few years since sent a memorial to | praiseworthy manner, have indicted this law as corpe, abd fe ofl? might he go tieand ae't teoric displays nag aabel tore ge ele. | Mr. Labouchere, then Secretary for the Colo- | » nuisance, and its repeal shonid be among the Note te ng ~— ‘es hie ne ‘This wuld ments which sustain animal life; but fuman ales, stating that unless additional labor was | first acts of the next Legislature. ginning. the realimation of the fee ee po knowledge Is «0 Mtalted in’ that and | “Torded in the form of recaptured Africans The question now arises, does this annual Daladae Uenerac fhe Ni ae the sees eeeare vy direct trade with Eurove (ron his beamtiful Potomac and Chesapeake. The Soathrons bere ees Wega te ret Pralern., pebhabbiieibioes ol moat alert and ened natured of mortal, the Che. pains Win, mighted down upon or deserted metropo- ° Mmorping, just about the by the solar ectipse, iuminating what wea otberwiee ‘Bags ‘been dark. "Ds Y May again peed his sereioes, hie tact, his know. ledge of meu avd things, andbis sereiretern, He has worked bard aud demrves promotion. ———_———_—- Legal Dicviion Ageimet the American or of imported coolies, the whole island was in a fair way of going to utter ruin. The gov- ernment statistical tables go to sustain their as- sertion. They also declared that the freed ne. groes would not work. They stated that from the neglect of observing the simplest rules of hygiene, or precaution of proper cleanliness, &c., with the neglect of vaccination and of skilful medical aid, in one single year—1850- 51—about 50.000 of their population had been cut off. Only recently we saw a notice that medical men were extremely scarce and much muster of ununiformed individuals, equipped with old muskets, tend to bring about the object viewed by the law—the inspi- ration and fostering of a military spirit by our citizens? If a display such as is witnessed at these murters attains this end. then certainly the law is 9 success. But the poor fellows who attend them seem to think differently on the subject, and as they must be the best judges under the circumstances, we are compelled to accept their opinion. Again, the law bs w —— or speculations on euch subjects are so often found destitute of foundation, that aj? such ap- prebensions may safely be dismissed, and that those who saw this magnificent display of celes- tial fireworks may, without any alarm, felici- tate themselves on having witnessed the most sublime spectacle of the century Lrscotx on) Breoktvatner-—Wercit The newspapers make themselves very busy with the discussion of abstract political questions which have nothing whatever to do with the Th the Tate ease against Joho B en ee ee