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THE ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC.
: It appears by, an article in the New Orleans
Picayune, of a recent date, that the .rival par
ties claiming rights fronrthe Mexican Govern
ment to open a rail-road or other thoroughfare
across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, hare com
promised their difficulties, and hare despatched
their agentsto Mexico for tho purpose of renew*
ingthelr operations. It is known that aforma'
survey was made of tho Isthmus sevoraf years
ago, and the entire practicability of the route es
tablished, The grant of Mexico to the Gardy
Uargdus people conferred extraordinary pri
vileges j and although subsequent events have
exhibited, on the part of that power, the usual
amount of prevarication and duplicity, yet
there can bo no doubt’tiiut this grant can be
made good, or something snfltciently equiva
lent tb carry forward an enterprise, which,
when completed,'will give a new impetus to
American progress, and add a new bond to
the indissoluble ties which bind our. Union
together.
• The Tehuantepec route' is one hundred and
sixty or seventy miles;in length, and/ is as
practicable, so far as cost and , time .of .con
struction are concerned, as the Panama. The
: advantage offered by the Tehuantepec route
to compensate for its increased length, is the
Saving-of sea distance from each direction ol
its'termini i n'the Gulf and the Pacific, bein g
1200 miles aorth of Panama. , This saving in
sea distance la,estimated at 1,700 miles in
tasking the trip from; New'--Orleans to' San
Prineiscb, ; thejdistahce being stated at
. San, F 1
way of JPi^Btmta,andowfy3,3oo'tJy--wayo^Te
ioile?;'; It.
s . r-v rtirisß^^^cep^'ide^'.'tjint'^by
. atrueiibn bf one hundred and seventy iniies
of raUroad, New ,‘Yoi* < and'-, Sah‘ ->Fwn
claco Sre bronght within 4;800 mites of each
other, and New Orleans withih 3,800 miles,
thus cutting off’ nearly' 10,000 uiiles of the
voyage around _Uape Horn'. \l{;is supposed
that, wlien constructed, eighteen days will suf
fice to reacb-San Francisco from New York,
and fourteen ftom San Francisco to New Or
letns, and via versa.
' The main difficulty In reference to this pas
sage across the . Isthmus of Tehuantepec has
been the harbor on the Gulf Ur Atlantic side;
but Mqjor Bk&harp, who was the. leader of the
that surveyed the route in, 2858, states
that he has no doubt about the depth of wflter
either at Yentosa or. Salina Crra, and thinks
the Utter pyefeftble for a harbor. He adds,
“ in lkct, thisxoast may be considered as prac
ticable as many in most laud-locked harbors
on the Atlantic/' and 1 ' saya furthermore,
“taking the whole question of theroute Into
consideration,' the ground is remarkably easy;
timber, stone, etc., are at hand in abundance,
and'the right of way* so serious an item in the
1 United States, will cost little o? nothing.' in
relation to the lands connected with the grant,
I think it safe tb say. a finer trade cannot be
found In the world.’’ We should remark here,
, that under, the Garay Margous grant, the com
pany wbre Hot ooly to eitfoy the, right to build
/A road across, the fsthinus, but to own and .sell,
-and colonise the land bn. of the
route, amounting, we believe, of some
thirty miles in "width, ths
whole land route. /
But it is now. stated that Mexico will refuse
to make good this guaranty, and will insist
upon a more restricted arrangement, - Major
Baaxaan goes on to say “that an immense
number of invaluable productions, .compre
hending all, or almost ail, the best productions
of tropical climates, can be, raised hero with
the greatest facility, while the' forests abound
with natural productions of great value.
Throw in an enterprising population here arid
the isthmus would become the garden spot of the
world.” Besides, ho says, “that, passengers
can be got across the Isthmus almost at once
by means of steamers connecting .the two
coasts, on the rivers, and horse and mule
transportation; and that the time consumed in
the passage would be about six days.” But
when the railroad is completed, it will
Wot-: take more, than as many hours.
He .adds further, “that leaving out of con
sideration the value ,of the route and the value
of thelands, the local.wealth'to be produced
would pay the building of the railroad; and It
would be an immense contribution to thecom
merce of tho country.’ 1
There can be no doubt that attempts have
■been made by, European influence at; the
.Mexican Capitol, and thus far successfully; to
delay the exeoution of this grand design j hut
it would be a sorry spectacle if Great Britain,
while attempting' to perpetuate her extraor
dinary 1 oppressions upon. India, and while
busily engaged in pushing forward the bloody
conquests of Chimp should net cordially co
■ operate with the United States in opening
this transit route. - The fact that American
citizens, have the, ownership of the * right
of why will not operate as - a bar to the
free passage of’ English or'.French, com
merce, which, indeed, is sufficiently pro
tected, accoidlngito the terras of the -Clay.
ton-Bulwer treaty'; and wo are not with
out strong. hopes . that; the capitalists and
-others who have attempted to take possession
of rights, now happily consolidated in the
'hands of Americans, will cordially and sin
cerely co-operate lhan,enterprise which ftilflls
the propheciesof- Bumhoidt, and, opens
'another highway forthe nations.
n'u,..a
f Daring the Wir ;pe!hVeen; Mexico ’ and ‘’the
grandly
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:< ig|pef*iei>:ts;ihHpng » fearfol ernsade against
ehina,and,a»thedeb»teslnParllameiitelear
. ly forcshadowj Baglish annexaaon is to follow.
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-MR. BUCHANAN OUR PACIFIC
BORDER .
, Ten years ago, and wdfe than a year before
the acquisition of California, Mr. Bdohahak,
while Secretary of State,’addressed'a letter to
Jobs Mi Shively, -Esq., from which wo ex
tract the passages subjoined. Sinco this letter
was indited, Washington Territory has been
organised) and Oregon Territory looks for
ward for admission into tbo Union as a
State. Since then, also, we have purchased
the great region of Cailfornja, and all the vast
interests which have, been there developed,
have added Immeasurably to the domain
Secured to us .under the Oregon treaty, Hr.
Bvchahan looked into the future with the eye of
one who had not only read history welt, but had
studied the character of his own countrymen In
all Its varied phases. His language pointed al
most in direct terms to the great coming
achievements of American valor and American
statesmanship.. But if what he wrote in 1610
was true, and the great interests then budding
into importance were sufficient to convince his
own mind that he spoke the truth, how much
more impressive the application of his language
to the present condition of the vast region
stretching along our Pacific coast for thousands,
of mile*—the wonder of the world, the pro
blem of all modern civilization, at which Euro
pean cabinets sfijod amazed, unable to discover
the secret of somuch progress and so much
order!
It is easy to perceive that Mr; BuchahaN In
his letter, written shortly after his nomination
for the Presidency, on the subject of a mili
tary road, connecting tho Mississippi with the
Pacific, followed out tho great Idea suggested
In his Instructions to Hr. Shiveii In 1847.
He early saw the necessity of binding these
far-off regions to the central Government, and
of rivetting that hshd of States which have
growq ufii ’oB. tb.® Fapific border to tholf elder
sisters which duster more closely together
along the Atlantic coast and stretch themselves
far inland into tho regions of thoEostandiVosi.
How .much more ennobling to see the head of
the nation engaged in the work of perpetuating
his Own fame to remote ages, and of building
up enduring monuments of hts country’s glory,
than that hb should be compelled to take part
betwcon conflicting Actions and to lose the,
Character.of a chief magistrate in that of a mere
politician! - -
“ The poopie of, Oregon may rest assured
government' and people of the United
States will never abandon them, or prove un
mindful of their welfare. We have given a
sufficient pledge of this determination by the
zeal and firmness with which, throughout a
quarter of a century, our just right to that tor.
ritory was steadfastly maintained against tho
claims of Great Britain, until at last the ques
tion was finally adjusted between the two Pow
ers by the treaty of Juno, 1846. The treaty
has secured to us the whole territory on the
continent south of tho parallel of forty-nine
degrees) and this we shall never abandon.
“ We feel tlie deepest interest in the pros
perity of tho people of Oregon. Their breth
ren on this side of tho Rocky mountains regard
them with affection and with hope. We can
perceive, in the not distant future, one or more
glorious States of this confederacy springing
Into existence on the shores of tiro northern
Pacific; States composed of our own kindred
—of-a people speaking our own language, gov
erned by institutions similar to those which
secure our own happiness, and extending the
blessings’ of religion, liberty, and law, over
that vast region’. Their commerce and inter
course with tho other States of the Union will
confer mutual benefits on all parties concerned,
and will bind them to us, and us to them, in
bonds of reciprocal interbat and affection more
durable than adamant . Science has discovered,
and enterprise is now fust establishing, means
of communication so rapid, that, at no distant
day, a journey from Now York to Oregon will
be accomplished in less time than was once
employed In travelling from that city to Now
Orleans, and important nows will bo communi
cated by telegraph with the rapidity of light
ning. Their foreign commerce with the west
coast of America, with Asia, and the isles of
tho Pacific, will sail under the protection of
our common flag, and cannot fail to bear back
wealth in abundance to their shores.
“In the meantime, wo shall watch over their
growth with parental care,”
THE GOODWOOD CUP.
Beyond the fact that the Frenchhorse, Mo
narque did, and that the. American horses,
Prior and Prioress, did set win the Goodwood
Cup, we yetknowHttle of the race. - Thera
!sia;;e<>m>)Sl lmpre»»lo'a' ibat our iorses had
Lspeedenougb to b?*t Jheir Ea a )i ? l, 4>d.F«noW
competitora/ aren cannot uuderV
stand wby defett and not victory should have'
been the; result. It has been ingeniously sug
gested tint, ifler all, this defeat was what is
called “an artful dodge ’’—the design being,
by appearance of defeat, to throw a.cloud over
the stud, now in .England, and then
go in and win the heavy stakes yet to bo run
for, with Lecompte. We cannot accept this
theory. • Mr. Tex Bboece is too proud of his
stud, too solicitous to assert its superiority to
the English racers, to do any more betting
thing like this.
. In the absence of an account of the running
at Goodwood, we will venture on a speculation
as to the causes of the defeat. Goodwood
Park, on which the race was run, is a private
seat of the Duke of Richmond. The race
course forms a portion oi the grounds, and
with a libera! courtesy which merits every
praise, the Duke admits the public os specta
tors—a privilege of which tens of thousands
avail themselves. Our racing ground in this
country is a well-beaten track. In England,
the horses run'bn a sward or turf, (hence the
appellation of “The Turf,” as applied to
racing,) and this is carefully drained, mowed,
levelled, and kept Compact by heavy iron
rollers, frequently used, at intervals through
out the year,<and constantly applied for a
month previous to the races. Tho general re
sult Is that a smooth, firm, yet highly elastic
ground is prepared, on which the competing
horses run. Bnt this course, as it is called, is
greatly liable to l>o affected by the weather.
In a very hot season it Is sprinkled with water
to preserve its elasticity, and keep it from
becoming , harder than English horses are ac
customed to. In wot weather, it absorbs the
rain like a sponge, and tho horses, as they run
on It, rapidly, convert the turf Into mud, slush,
.or an atrocious mixture of both. In such cases
it .is not speed but strength, that wins the
race. There was an eminent Instance of this
at Doncaster, in 1830, when tbo Great St.
Leger stakes were ran for. One of the horses,
called Birmingham, by Filho da Puta (a re
markably. strong horse,) was entered to run,
but with so little chance of success, that tho
night before the race Mr. Beardswortb, his
owner, liad.deterinined to withdraw him. But
it rained heavily, and Beardaworth allowed his
horse to start. The course, on which several
heats bad previously been run that day, was as
much , cut pp-as if it were a ploughed field.
The swift racers could not make head-way—
the great strength of Birmingham brought him
In first,lindapvrards of £40,000 were lost and
won on the brent of that race.
The soil of Goodwood, like that of the
greater part of Sussex, is chalky, with a mix
ture of marl. When it rains the marl becomes,
not soft, but slippery, and horses and jockeys
not accustomed to it have a strong chance of
being victimised. We do not know what
weather there was at Goodwood during the
races, but if It rained on or immediately be
fore the 30th of July, the course must bare
been slippery and soapy—altogether different,
in fact, from the firm, Solid, hard road to whicii
our American horses were accustomed.
• The race was won, we perceive, by Monar.
que, a French horse. Ail we know of this
racer is that he has great strength. If the day
were.wet, or the course out of order, (as would
appear from the fact that tbe'English favorite
and two other horses slipped and felt,) we sus
pect that strength, not speed, won the Cup.
AT PEACE WITH AU. MANKIND.
The condition of nearly all other nations on
the globe, even at a moment of comparative
quiet, should inspire us..with a deep sense of
our own happy lot. fngtand is at this moment
engaged In two expensive wars, each on a far
distant theatre, each resuitlng from aggression
atidambitioiyand eaekdraining at the vitals
of the people; either by leading them down
with taxes at heme, baby offering then; as a
sacrifice abroad; France, tied down at tho foot
of a . throne, -maintained' only.- by arms, her
great press muzzled, her' great orators dumb,
and ( her people restrained by a policy which
addresses itself to their,love of pleasure. In
-every other nation, of-the old world order-Is
only maintained by the. sword, and labor is
only paid to keep it from starvation.' Let its
-look at the one picture and' then at the other.
Let us contrast onr own peaceful and prosper
ous people with those abroad,.who' suffer,
starve, and die, and the* cease all petty bick
erings and strifes.
THE PRESS.-^HltAblU > HIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1857.
THE WAVE TRADE—FRANCE AND eng
land:,.
.For more than half a century most of the
nations of Europe and'America have been agi
tated on tho snbjeet of negro slavery, and one
after another have abolished it, until it now ex
ists only in tho United States, Brazil, and tho
Spanish West Indies.
Strenuous efforts havo been unceasingly
made by tho Governments of Franco and Great
Britain to induce the Brazilian and Spanish
Governments to prohibit tho slave trade more
rigorously, and to abolish slavery altogether.
How far tbedesigns of these Governments Were
directed towards the abolition of slavery in
the United States, or were mode to mingle in
onr late presidential election, it i* difficult to
say, but no doubt exists as to the sympathy
that has, beon felt, if not expressed by them,
towards the Abolitionists of this country, in
all their agitations on the subject., .
We have said those efforts to abolish negro
slavery everywhere had been continued down
to the last year by France and: Great. Britain.
But how stands tho matter.- now 7 Recent ac
counts ftomthese countries show that both are
driving measures for the. renewal of the slave
trade, and the Introduction of negro slavery
' into their southern possessions on n more ex
tended scale than has ever heretofore been
known.
Great changes have token place, in the world
since the abolition ofnegro slavery began, that
may materially affect the question. Thebthe
consumption of tropical and Southern produc
tions was comparatively limited; and it Was be
lieved, and so argued, that they could be produc
ed choaper and more abundant by free than by
slave labor. Then the use of cotton was a
small, very small matter—little or none of it In
the raw state was imported into Europe or
America or manufactured then.
But since that period vast interests to tho
World at large, and to the morii'civilized parts
of it in particular, have grown up, dependent
upon large supplies of tropical and Southern
products. Millions are now more or less de
pendent for the! and clothing ,n!l over its sur
face, on the production of cotton, sugar, and
coffee and other articles formerly of partial
use, and conceded as luxuries, are now articles
of general use and necessity. In reference to
cotton alone, what would, tiunvorld do with
put it*? There are some, perhaps many, who
believe that if cotton was to cease to be culti
vated by slave labor, the only effect would bo
to lessen the exports of the United Stales
and Brazil some millions of dollars. They
have soon no benefit arising from it but what
has accrued to tho slaveholders. They have
never thought of tho millions that its loss
would “ strip and starve” evory where. But
others hare been witnesses of this, and are
now talking and writing about it in a manner
very different ftom what they did a year or
more ago. Wo do not say that the able
discussion of tho wholo subject of negro
slavery, and its effects on the slave-hold
ing countries, the slaves themselves, and
the rest of the world, that has been going
on in this country for somo years past,
and particularly during our late Presidential
campaign, has produced this change, but we
haye no doubt it has mutually aided in its de
velopment. The Emperor of France, the
British Parliament, the leading British presses,
instead of anathematizing negro slavery as
they formerly did, are now devising schemes
for peopling these desolate Southern colonies
with negro slaves. France abolished slavery
more than half a century since in tho West
Indies, and left them to govern themselves
ever sinco. The British Government, at a
later period, abolished slavery in her West
India and Southern American colonies, and has
governed these colonies ever since. The re
sult in both cases has been a full and complete
refutation of tlie idea that tropica] or Southern
productions can be produced in any considera
ble qnantitles by free labor, no matter how it
may bo directed, by whom performed, or what
may be its promised rewards. We say nothing
of tire failures elsewhcro in other ports of
Southern America. Nor havo these failures
been confined to America. Great Britain and
France have failed in all their attempts in Asia
and Africa, to produce by free labor any con
siderable quantity of cotton or sugar, or other
Southern products. Tho frequent and perse
vering attempts of Great Britain to grow cot
ton in her different possessions in the East—in
Africa and in Asia—are well known. She has
-wiSiTva Mj sujk.t
intead somo of her experiments, and bought
‘ American cotton seed to plant, and ser press
has boasted of their success-land yet they
hare one and ail failed; and this complete and
universal failure it is that has caused the great
change that has taken place in the British and
French Governments and press on tho subject
of negro slavery. Free negro labor, free white
labor, and freo.lndian labor, have all been tried
in every possible manner, and have all failed—
Ailed in America—Ailed in Africa—failed in
Asia.
Nor has the recent and last experiment—
the importation of Coolies to tho West Indies
and elsewhere—been more successful than any
of the others, notwithstanding it was charac
terized by tho worst features of negro slavery
in its worst days. The British and French
anti-slavery propagandists now propose that
the tfiovernments of France and Great Britain
shall supply these Southern colonies with
negro labor—not, they say, to bo bought or
stolen from Africa, hut to be obtained volun
tarily—voluntary emigrants —not to bo sold to
tho Southern planters for life, but to be bound
to them for a term of ten or twelve years.
Do they suppose these bondsmen for years
will bo worked any the less, or their bodies, or
minds, or souls, be any the better cared for by
their masters, than if they owned them for life,
and their posterity after them? Arc these
bandsmen to be-allowod wives and children,
and homes ? If so, how will they be supported ?
Does any ono believe that any planter would
take any wild African on condition that he is
to feed and clothe him, siok or well, lor ten
years, and feed and clothe his wife and children,
and in the mean time teach him to provide for
himseit and them at the end of his servitude ?
But suppose nono but able-bodied males
shall he “emigrated”—tlioso whose labor can
bo made to pay—how many of them will out
live their tenn'of service ? It has generally
been believed that from one-fourth to one-flftli
of the Africans heretofore imported into the
Hast Indies have died in the seasoning,
the first or second year this, too, when
well cared for by their owners. TVc rather
think, under, the new Bchfemc, hut few
would be left at the end of ten years
to onjoy their liborty. But suppose one
half or more survive how much better
qualified a man disposed to labor and cultivate
the soil and take care of themselves will these
wild Africans bo than were the negroes of San
Domingo and Jamaica, ,or any where else
where they were emancipated? Are these
savage Africans any different from tho an
cestors of the free negroes, or tho. negroes
themselves now in the West Indies or South
ern America? Can they be made industrious
and-good citizens by ten years’ servitude—bet
ter than their countrymen have been by a cen
tury or a life-time pf training, half of it as
freemen ?
The whole scheme is absurd, and will not
succeed. A few cargoes of negroes may be
obtained in Africa by fraud and force, as there
have been of C oolies in China; but as soon as its
real character shall bo known, like the coolie
trade, it will be execrated by tho whole civilized
world. Indeed, notwithstanding the high au
thority from which it emanates, and by which
it is sustained, we do not believo the people of
cither of these countries are prepared to look
calmly and approvingly on this renewal of the
slave trade, disguised as it may bo under the
veil of benevolence, or patronized as it is by
the Governments themselves. We are mis
taken, or there will be fouud enough independ
ent thinking men to penetrate and proclaim
its true character before it goes into operation.
Whatever may be the result, wo think enough
has already been expressed to satisfy every
one that the continued clamor made by the
Governments of France and Great Britain on
the subject of slavery, and tbe sympathy they
have expressed for the negroes of the country,
are but bellow pretences—sheer hypocrisy
assumed to a;sall the institutions of this
countty on tli3 only point they can discern
any Chance of success, with no real philan
thropy at' heart.
The people of tbe United States, North and
Sofatb, wore the first to suppress the slave
trade, and we are confident they will be equally
as unanimous in opposing its revival in any
form.
•The storm on Monday cansed a sudden rise
In the streams in the vicinity of Trenton, N. J.
Tbe.daaago don* was not very serious.
THELESW>N*GFE*PEBtEPfOE.
It is bard to impress upon certain nibses
the lessons ol experience. Notwithstanding
every day flirnishea new examples of the value
of time and trial as the best teachers, yet wo
are constantly wondering, that in defiance of
theso admonitions, certain great.organizations
continue to adhere to foolish dogmas and to
rejected expedients. Any disinterested nutn,
looking calmly at the state of things in the
Territory of Kansas, and unaware of the
efforts making to mystify the history of events
Jnthat region, would decide that the people
were as for from revolution, and as near the
final settlement of their difficulties, as it was
possible for men to bo preparing to enter tho
family of States. And yet wo perceive a large
class of public journals—headed, too, by tho
New York Tribune , which ig occasionally
capable of doing candid justice toan opponent—
assiduously laboring to create the impression,
that the Topeka Constitution is that which the
majority of the people of Kansas desire, as
If they did not know that that invention of
mere partisans has no more chance of gating
muster in the next Congress than if it had been
frqmed by the Chinese. It is the constitution
of a party, not of a majority of the people.
It does not pretend to bo the result of a-Con
vontion chosen from all the people. Andwlth
these Acts hofore out eyos, what a comedy it
is to see the citizens of Lawrence, and others
in Kansas, voting os seriously for the Con
stitution as if they felt it would be consid
ered for a moment in. comparison with that
which is to be digested and presented to the
popular vote by the Convention which is to
assemble in Septepjiejfpext; It Is such mani
festations as belittle the whole
science of American politics, giving to agreat
question the aspect of mere p%rty, and ignoring
those considerations whien ute, allot alt,
tbp.bBBi.3.ofp,op.iilar.inifilligence. At tbta mo
ment Mr. Bdc’hakam is assailed by certdfc ex
treme influences in the South, fdr insisting that
the majority of tho people of the Territory of
Kansas shall vote upon tlieirconstitution.’ -Some
of the ablest men in the South are discussing
this proposition with great violence. And
while tills fact is patent hero In the North, onr
citizons are addressed by another extreme in
terest, who claim that tlie minority shall rule,
for such are tho voters who throw their ballots
for the Topeka Constitution. It is precisely
such inconsistencies as these, when proved upon
our opponents, thatgivo strength to the Dem
ocratic party, that separate sound men from un
sound organizations, and that covered the Course
of Col, Fhehont with so much disaster not one
short year ago. IVlint is tho conservative
judgment upon'this whole question?; What
has it been ftom the beginning ? To denounce
unsparingly and openlyjgjw invasion of Kansas
by tho Missourians, by tho Emigrant
Societies of both going into
tho TerritoryHo coMSvfts elections, (lie one
by force, and tlie other; as we now perceive for
the second or third time, by a rebellio® com
bination against established laws. This judg
ment is now notorious ih favor of the wise
and equal policy of Governor Wale Se. It
declares that it is content with things as they
are, and confidently awaits a peaceful and per
manent adjustment of the whele trouble. There
is so much good sense in a late article in the
Cincinnati Enquirer on this subject, that we
Cannoj better close these observations than by
laying it before our readers:
“ Tfiere are two hundred slaves in Kansu. Many
of theta belong to Missourians, who have gone into
tho ooantry to cultivate new lands, hut xho retain
their farms and homesteads in Missouri. There is
uo ground to expeot that there will be any addition
to this class of population. Even the earnest pro
slavery advocates—the emigrants who bare gono
to that Territory from extreme Southern States—
have not taken their slaves with them. This fact
shows yery clearly tho slight hope ever entertained
or the interest ever felt, even by Southerners, in
the introduction of slavery into the country. Thoy
have, Indeed, enjoyed every advantage for Intro
ducing that labor. They have held the Territorial
Government. The Legislature hu been directed
to tho defonco and maintenance of the rights of
slaveholders. The Federal Administration has
eertainly extended to them every protection the
Constitution and lawallowed, and slave labor is re
ported to be Tery productive thore. Andyet, what
meagre rcsnlts we have ! Now, are these results
sufficient to justify nil the excitement and discus
sion whioh have been stirred up on this subject 7—
We put this question to practical men—not to hot
deolaimers and reckless disputants. It is true that
the smell interest involved dost not afleot the jus
tice of a principle, or relieve us from the responsi
bility of maintaining what is right.
“The old doetrlne, oenseorated by the blood of
John Hampden, is os round now as It was two hun
dred yean ago—that “ an illegal exaGHn of ten
mi right; no principle bo farzr gis ad
vca&Usof slavery tie 'concerned: The tlgnftof the
South have beon fully protected in the matter. All
that In now naked Is. that the fundamental law
whioh is to regulate the institutions of the State of
Kansas shall have the sanction of the people who
are to live under those institutions—not of the
floating, transient population, but the Bona fide
residents. That is the proposition of Governor
Walker. Can suoh a proposition be questioned be*
fore ativ just cr intelligent people, by aiy who re*
gard the question os ouo for fair Bnd equitable
determination, and notone in which every advan
tage shouldbo taken and every sophistry employed
to obtain an unfair advantage r Where u tbo
Southern man, who, as Governor of Kansas, would
pursue any othor course than that pursued by
Walker—so far, at least, as this proposition is con
corood ? Whero is the Southern man yho would
aid in foroing slavery, or any other pplttioal or
social institution, upon an unwilling people,
“Resides its wrong and Inji'etioo, what advantage
could ever be gained by suoh an aot? Could sla
very exist in any country where such an Opposition
provailed? The sagacious slaveholders recognise
the folly and hopelessness of such attempts, by their
reluotance to take their slaves into tho Territory.
They know that from natural, physical, |nd social
causes they cannot introduce slavery into that
country. What, then, is all this uproar for ? Ar®
full-grown men of enorgy and intelligence ttern&liy
to waste their energies in fighting shadows—in get
ting up crises that nave neither beginning nor end,
objector reason; and this to tho neglectqf serious
real, and praotical questions of vast concernment
Hero are our southern brethren stirred up to an
amazing degree of exoitement and sensibility, by
the prospect of losing control of a Territonr to
which they are unable to contribute one put of flvo
of the settlers who are, sooner or later, to'dtreot Its
destinies, while the ready, practicable, and, in all
respects, feasible plans for the vast inoreaseof tho
Territory, where their influence would ibe undis
puted, are left unregarded, neglected and forgotten.
The extension of our territory southward-rin whioh
the West would eo-operate with the South—the ac
quisition of Cuba and of a portion of Mtxico. are
questions of praotioa! value to North and South,
compared with wbich tho settlement of Kansas is
but a paltry matter, of inflnUesslmal interest and
concorn to the Sooth.
OBITUARY. .
Signor Lablache—Mr. Mrnitz. M. P.
Lablaohe is dead; —Lablnche, tho. greatest
info bass singer of tbe Italian Opera. ll* sang
until within a brief period of bis deeease, which
took place at Paris a fortnight ago. In porßtm this
man was capaolous. In good humor, gajoty, and
tbe strongest rolish for fuel, no one colipsed him.
In voice ho was deeper and more intense tha» any
other voaalist. In acting he was various, anusing
and artistieal. Had he never sang a note; he must
hare been a great actor. His Don Paaqutl e was a
thing to see and hear, and never to forgot. For
over twenty years be was one of the great stars of the
Italian lyrie stago of Europe—sometimes going as
far South as Naples or Vonlee, sometimes goiig as
far North as St Petersburg, but generally at Paris
n the winter months, and in London in file spring
and early summer. He was a general and genial
favorite ererywhere. In person ho was citremely
capacious. Add eight inches to tho s&ture of
Amodlo, and nearly twice eight to his girth, and
you would obtain a result approximating to the
physiyut of Lablnohe. Into this frame put a largo
quantity of good naturo, and the finest lasso voice
every heard, and the aimilitude would be ijoreased.
Lablaohe, who earned a grent deal of motey, and
was far from extravagant, must have died very
rich. He has left a son, Frank Lablaohe, Who is a
singer of some pretentions, and adaughtnimarrled
to Malbcrg, the pianist.
George Frederick Munts, who had beon . a mem
ber of Parliament for Birmingham since 1810, is
also numbered with the dond. His fathel, a Ger
man merohant who Bettied in Birmlnghatq towanls
the close of the last oentury, left him a busi
ness and large fortune. ,
When the Birmingham Political Union Was foun
ded—by the late Thomas Attweod—in 1830, Mr.
Mantz was its first Viee-President. In politics he
wns almost a Chartist, going farther thou most
of his party in favor of Reform. He was seven
teen years in Parliament, and was a remarkable
man in more ways than one. 110 was a frequent
speaker, and had a rough, plain, tnnnly eloquence
which commanded attention in tho Hottae- Ho
was straightforward, too, and hesitated nut to call
things by their proper names, lie was author of
many pamphlets, ehiefly on the Currency Question,
his proposition being, that to pay off the National
Debt of England-a trifle, now vorgingon 4,130,000,-
0(10—all that was needed was to cut the sovereign,
or pound-piece. Into two equal portions, and let
each half represent the foil value of the original
coin—that is, to pay 30 per oent. Ho founded this
proposal on Cobbott’s thoory that tho debt had
been borrowed in paper money, worth oaly half
its nominal value, add, If paid off in gold, it should
be In «>ld not worth more than tho paper was.—
Mr. Muntz, who was in his sixty-fourth year, was
considerably over six feet high, and bulky in pro
portion. Long before the present onstom was In
vogue he wore an immense beard, which nearly
covered his face and hung down over his chest. Ho
Invariably was accompanied by a great stick,
mighty as tho club of Heroulcs. He acquired a
large fortune by the Invention and manufacture of
a patent mixed metal, oheaper and more durable
than copper, and greatly employed in ship-sheath
ing. There was some idea of putting up Mr.
Bright, ex-member for Manchester, to succeed Mr.
Muntz as Parliamentary Representative for Bir
mingham. - Mr. Bright’s ability, eloquence and
high personal oharaoter make him the most influ
ential Democrat in England.
CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM WASHINGTON.
[Correspoodence of The PreM.j
August 12.
Tho adjustment of all the diDiouHlcs between
the different claimants to tho right of way across the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, of whioh ucwb has just
reached hero, will bo followed by an appeal, first to
Mexico, and next tu the United States. Should
Mexico refuse to ratify her repeated pledges, iu
treaties and otherwise, on this subject, (which U
hardly to be feared considering the pacifio policy of
Gen. Comonfort, the present President of that
Republic,) then, and in that event, prompt action
will no doubt be taken by our own Government to
sustain our own citissns. To open this transit has
always been a great object with Mr. Buchanan. He
favored it during the Mexican war and in Mr.
Polk’s Cabinet, and I know that he has beon con
sulting his constitutional advisers, very lately, on
the same subject. There was, no doubt, a host of
speculators in this great project. That is the curse
of nearly every considerable enterprise. Men who
live by their wits, and not by their labor, the lat
raroni of the Federal Capital, are only too success
ful in grasping every such enterprise, and appropri
ating Uto themselveß. But It must not be forgot
ten, on the other hand, that a great deal of good is
affected by the boldness of capitalists in risking
the making or losing large fortunes In these enter
prises. The railroad aoross Panama was an in
dividual enterprise—and that over Tehuantepeo
will also be so—our Government doing no more than
to protect our citizens and their commerce, and to
secure an uninterrupted highway to the free trade
of nations.
Mr. Buohanan is to be here this afternoon. He
has had a pleasant sojourn at Bedford, and will no
doubt come book rejuvenated.
STATE POLITICS.
Democratic Meeting la Franklin County.
Tho Democrats of Franklin county had a
largo and enthusiastic meeting at the County
Court House, in Chamborsburg, on Monday
last, John Kiel, Esq., presiding. Among the
resolutions passed were tho following:
Rtiolved, That President Buchanan has fairly
carried out liiß pledges to his party and his
country; has conducted tho affairs of tho
Government with that judicious and honest re
solve that breathed from his letter of accep
tance of the nomination for the office of the
Presidency, and stampod upon his govern
mental policy and Administration the high
moral and intellectual faculties that friend and
foe accord to him.
Resolved) That the selection of Judge Black
as a Cabinet officer was worthy alike tjia dis
crimination of President Buchanan and the
splondtd talents and legal attainments of Jere-j
miah S. Biack; that his name and fame are
now national, and we trust tho future will
gather greener and brighter laurels to adorn
his brow.
Retolved, That the nomination of William
F. Packer for Governor of Pennsylvania moets
with our hearty assent; that his intelligence,
experience, and political integrity have made
him popular with the people, atid will bear him
proudly through the coming contest, and place
him triumphantly in tho chair of State, above
the malice of fanaticism and the sneers of big
otry.
TELEGRAPHIC.
TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CENTRAL AMERICA.
SENATORIAL NOMINATIONS.
91*360,000 in Gold.
tfsw York, August 12.—The United States stesuier
Central America, from Axpinwalt, with California dates
to the 20th ult., two weeks later, arrived St Quarantine
this evening.
The Ceutral America brings a million and a quarter
of dollars in treasure.
The following are the principal consignees of the
specie by the Central America:
American Exchange Bank $260,000
Duncan, Sherman A Co 120,000
Bobb, Hfttlett & Co 112,000
Well*, Fargo A Co 257,000
The Central America, connected with the steamship
John L. Stephens, which left San Francisco on the 20th
ult., with $1,800,000 in treasure. Passed on August 2d
the steamer Sonora, with the New York malls to the
20th of July; and on the same day the stoop of war
Decatur.
The steamer left Aspinwall at 8 o’clock P. M., on the
3d Inst. •
Captain Garland, of the Marine Guard of the U. S.
frigate Independence, in a passenger, together with an
hundred men from the same vessel, whose time of en
listment had /
The sloop-of-vSrarflar«tbga arrived at Aspinwall on the
2d Inst., from San Jiwn del Norte.
The U. 8. frigate; Independence and sloop of war
daiM^we re Al*anami, the former to sail on the
The steamship Age, with malls to the Cth of
July, left MansanUla ou the 26th ult.
The news furnished U unimportant.
CALIFORNIA.
The mining news is favorable, and the agricultural
prospects throughout the State are good.
Tho Anti-Broderick party bore down all opposition in
the Democratic Convention. The jproceediuga of the
session were of a very boisterous character.
The California Democratic State Convention had
nominated lion. J. P. Weller for Governor, and the Re
publican Convention Edward Stauloy as candidate for
the same office.
The markets continued depressed, and it was believed
that nothing but the suspension of shipments for two or
three months will restore confidence.
OREGON.
In the June election the official majority in favor ol
the Convention to form a State Constitution was b,V3d.
SOUTn AMERICA
The elections in Bolivia resulted in favor of the Gov
ernment, owing, It is said, to the intimidation of the
military.
Tho Valparaiso markets had slightly improved.
The British ship Walton, Muncaster, was lost near Cal
dera, with tho Captain's wife and sixteeu of the crew.
A largo and destructive fire had occurred at Valpa
raiso.
A battle had occurred near Arequipa, between Gene
rals Venanzo and Castillo, both of whom claim the vic
tory.
There was another attempt at revolution made at
Callao.
Marine Intelligence*
Arbivbo at Ban Francisco— On the 4tb, the Red
Rover and Courser, fcom.New York.
On the sth, the Mamejyke, from New York.
On the 10th, the Wfagedarrow, from Iloog Kong.
Oirthe 15th, the Wild Hunter, from Boston, and Race
Hound, from Bangkok.
On the 10th, the David’Crocket, from New York.
Additional from Europe—The Goodwood Race
Cap,
Halifax, August 12.—The lines hare been partially
repaired, and we now transmit the concluding portion of
the public despatch, which has been delayed by the
heavy storm and subsequent derangement of the wires.
The following meagre particulars of the great race
for the Goodwood Cup we gather from the Liverpool
papers. None of tho accounts at hand give the time of
any of the horses.
The French horse Monarque won the race. The
English horse RSseber is placed second, and Fisherman
as third.
“ Gunboat” slipped and fell, and Kistrcl and Gemini
diVergy also fell heavily. Monarque won by a head,
and Riseber beat Fisherman by about three lengths.
‘•Auton” was placed fourth, and was three lengths
behiud Fisherman. The American horses Prior and
Prioress were placed fifth and sixth. All the others
pulled up. The finish Is said to have been the most ex
citing ever witnessed.
The English papers remark, but without assigning any
reason, that the American horses would have figured
more prominently had they been riddeu by English jock
eys.
From Washington*
Washington, Aug. 12.—Instructions have been Issued
to the Surveyor General of Kauaosaud Nebraska, to prsr
pare a proper plau of survey for a tract of (and hereto
fore ceded to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions,
in order that a patent may be issued therefor.
The President returns this week.
From St. Paul’s
TAe Constitutional Conventions—-Prospects of a Com
promise— Indian Affairs.
Cbioaoo, August 12.— Dates from St. Paul’s to the
9th inst. have been received here.
In the Democratic branch of the Constitutional Con
vention, Judge Sherburne ofi'ered a resolution providing
for the appointment of a committee of conference, to
wait upon a similar committee appointed by the Repub
licans, to make a compromise for the submission of but
one Constitution to the peoplo. After an animated
debate, the resolution was voted down by three ma
jority.
The subject was again to come up on Monday, when,
it was believed, the resolution would be adopted.
The “Little Crow”' baud of warriors returned from
the expedition In search of luk-a-pu-tah’s hand, having
found the camp and killed four of the murderers. The
“ Little Crows” brought the scalps of the slain to the
Superintendent of the Lower Sioux agency.
A band of fifteon disaffected Chlppewas wore plunder
ing the settlers fifty miles north of St. Paul’s.
Ohio Republican State Convention.
Colcmbos, August 12.—The Republican State Con
vention in session at this place has nominated Salmon
P. Chase for Governor, and also nominated for Lieuten
ant Governor,Moses B. Walker; Supreme Judge, Milton
Butlitfe; State Treasurer, A. P. Stone; Secretary of the
State, A. P. Russell j and Board of Public Works, Jacob
Blickensaerfer.
The Goodwood Cup Race.
Halifax, August 12.— The French horse “ Monarque"
wou the race. Of the English hones, “Riseber” came
in second, and “ Fi&hermau” third. The American
horse “ Prior” was fifth, and “ Prioress” sixth.
The Halifax Boat Race,
Halifax, August 12.— The St. John boat “ Neptune”
beat the Halifax boat “ Wide Awake” by one length,
in the race which took place to-day.
Arrival of the U. S. Steamship Supply,
New York, Aug. 12.—The United Stateß storeshlp
Supply, Lleutenaut Gray commanding, from Bio Ja
neiro In forty-one days, hat arrived.
Her passengers consisted of Lieutenants Parker and
Read, Mr. Thompson, and ten invalids from the Brasil
squadron,
Naval Change*.
Wasbixotom, August 12.—Lieut. Maxwell ha* been
ordered to the &loop.of»war Cyane. Lieut. Thonuu 0.
Harris has been detached from the receiving ahip Phil*,
delphia, and Lieut. McCauley has been orderedjto rc
lievo him. Bargeon Addison has been detached from
the sloop-or-war Cyane, and Burgeon Wheelwright
ordered to ‘relieve him. Burgeou Barclay haa been
ordered to the rocolviug ship at Boston.
Later from Fort Laramie—Operations of Colo-
“el Sumner—The California Trains.
St. Louis, August 13.—Dates from Tort Laramie hare
been received to the 22dult. Colonel Sumner had ar
rived at Dent’s Tort, and would leave on the 12th for the
bead-waters of the Republican in pursuit of the Che
jenoe Indians,
T . h ? C T IUi * ,r * lM h * d *" Fort Uraml«, |„
good health. 1
M»gr«w'« wagon road train wu at Fort Koarney.
Col. Alexander’* regiment and Spencei’a battery
deatlned for nub, were met two hundred and twenty,
lire mllea weat of learenworth. Another regiment waa
at Bock Creek. Opt. Tan Klein waa on the Cotton
wood, and Renos’ battery at the Big Bluo. The Che
yeunoa were scattered along the entire route between
Forta Laramie and Kearney; but little damage waa done
to the trains, the Indiana fearing to make an attack on
account of the parties being so large.
The war between the Crow and Sioux Indians is re
ported to bare broken out again.
Several surveying parties have arrived, but they
neither sawuor heard any thing of the murders reported
last week.
We have no later news from Utah.
Cokuoo, August 11.—The Triton, hu returns from
thirty-four counties in lown, which give a majority of
4,655 for the Constitution. The rote will undoubtedly
he sufficient to carry the Constitution against the Demo
cracy. The poll is light.
Produce Firm Suspeuded.
New York, August 12.—The firm of H. N. Wolf & Co.,
extensive operators in western produce, is reported to
hare suspended.
Solitaire,
Sailing of the Europa.
Bostos, August 12 —The steamship Europa, for Liver
pool via Halifax, sailed at noon. She carries out $BOO,OOO
in specie.
N*w Orleans, August 12.—Sales of Cotton, 1,100
bales. Market closed firm. Flour has a declining ten
dency. Porto'firm at $24 60. Gunny Bags quoted at
13Xol8c. Coffee—Bio quoted at Sterling
Exchange 10 cent, premium. The other markets are
unchanged. _
[From the New York papers of last evenieg.]
THE BURDEU HEIR CASE.
AKGt&KNT ON THE WRIT OP CERTIORARI.
The Writ Discharged and Ball Related
In the Court of Common Pleas, before Judge
p*ly> in tho matter of Emma Augusta Cunning
ham, this morning, Justice Davison made the fol
lowing return to the writ of served upon
him on Tuesday, commanding Him to return the
proceedings, £o., in the o&se of Mrs. Cunningham:
I, Wjn. B. Davison, Police Justice, respectfully return
that on the 3d day of August, A. D. 1867, A. Oakley
Hall. Kao., appeared before me, and made his complaint
under Oath, in writing, against Emma A. Burdell, for a
wilful and felonious violation of sect. 61, art. 4, ehap.l,
part 4;pf the Kevised Statutes; that thereupon, in due
course of law, I proceeded to examine the witnesses
produced in support of the prosecution, and reduee the
testimony to writing, aud thereupon made, in pursu
ance of the statute, the examination of the primmer:
that the prisoner waived her right to cross-examine the
witnesses for tho people, or to introduce witness in her
own behalf; that upon the said proceeding I considered,
and so decided, that an offence against said statute haa
been committed, and that there was probable cause to
believe the prisoner guilty thereof: and thereupon I
made a warrant of commitment in due form of faw, a
cony of which said warrant is hereto annexed, marked
schedule A: that indue course of law,! have sent to
the office of the Clerk of the Court of Sessions the de
position as above 1 taken by me.
Wm. 8. Davison, Police Justice.
Police Court, Second District,
New York, August 12,1857.
The warrant of commitment is annexed.
Mr. Hall said that the above return had been
superseded, except so fur os related to the cause of
detention by the return of Mr. Vanderroort, which
he read as follows:
MR. YANDKIIVOO&V& RETtrilN.
Henry Tandervoort, Clerk Of the Court of General
Sessions of the Peace, in and for the City aud County of
New York, do return to the annexed writ of eertiornri,
that £ haye no presenter official knowledge of the day
and cause of imprisonment of the said Emma Augusta
Burdell, if Imprisoned she be; that 1 do not detain and
have'not detained her the said Emma Augusta Burdell,
either by that name nor by any other name, nor have I
any personal or official knowledge of her detention.
X return herewith certain original affidavits against the
said Xqima Augusta Burdell, and her examination under
a charge of felony, which have been under the statute
in apra eases made and provided, certified to the Court
of General Sessions of the Peace and the Magistrate
taking the saute, who U named therein, and which are
now of record in the said Court of General Sessions of
the Peace, whereof I am Clerk.
Dated 12th, 1867. Henry Vaxdsrvoort.
Mr. Hall moved that the writ be dismissed and
the party held in the same custody in whieh she
now is.
Mr. Staffonl thought that Mr. Hell should state
the grounds upon which he mode bis motion.
Mr. Hall said it was on the ground of alleged
error in the cose before Justice Davison.
MR. STAFFORD ARQUKS IN MRS. C.’S BEHALF.
Mr. Stafford said that would throw the whole case
open here. The first question was as to whether the
offence charged was committed or not. He recited
the statute under which it was alleged that Mrs.
Cunningham was committed. Ho then read portions
of tho depositions of several of the witnesses before
Justice Davison, and he said that, with the excep
tion of one or two, none of them showed that Mrs.
Cunmnjcboxij h«<l - doaUcad that child to be tbo off
spriog of Harvey Burdell. The word “produve”
meant to bring forth In some legal way a child, so
as to violate the statute, and to Intercept the inhe
ritance.
The question i 8 whether these affidavits show
that she has been guilty of the offence. Her idle
declarations, or statements made by her, are not to
be taken os such production. She was asked by per
sons whether the child was Harvey Burdell’s, for
the specific purpose of tempting her to an offence,
which, of h«r own accord, she had not taken any
steps toward committing. With regard to the
second proposition, that tue child was falsely born
for the purposo of inheriting property, he would
answer that the whoio of that property should he
set down. She is not committed as Mrs. Burdell,
but as Emma Augusta Cunningham, otherwise
called Burdell. '
Her assertion that thejehitd was hers by Har
vey Burdellj is not sufficient to justify the commit
ment. The mere faot that she conceded that she
was enciente by Ur. Burdell is not of itself suffi
cient. To prouuoo the child in a legal way she
must, for iustanee, produce it and ask Tor letters of
guardianship over the child ns the child of Ur.
Burdell.
The Judge said that she alleged ibis child was
the child of herself and Harvey Burdell, and ho
would like to know what Mr. Stafford meant by
legal production?
Mr. Stafford replied that if sho was to claim an
inheritance for that child, it would bo a production
in the legal meaning.
The Judge asked that conceding the facts to b
true os stated in the affidavits, which is the pre
sumption of the intent on her part when it is al
leged that she and Harvey Burdell were the
parents of this child? What would be the legal
inference raised upon that state of faots? assuming
it all to have boen untrue that the child was born
of her what was her intent in having the child
at all ?
Mr. Stafford said that he supposed in sueh a
stato of foots a jury would be pound to believe
that the intent was to intercept the inheritance;
but to fully develop the intent as it should be de
veloped, tne production should be proved to bo as
he had previously stated —a legal production.
Judge Ualy—The offence by the statute means
the intent. Is thero testimony showing that Mrs.
Cunningham was about glvlhg birth to a child ?
Mr. Stafford—Yes, sir.
Judge Ualy—Then it would be a strong clrcum
stance against her.
JUDGE DALY WILL NOT DISCHARGE HRS. CUNNING
After considerable cross-questioning between the
Judge and Mr. Stafford, the former deoided that
he could not discharge airs. Cunningham from the
commitment.
Mr. Stafford then broaohod the question as to
allowing her to go bail, when the Juuge gave it as
his opinion that upon a writ of certiorari to review
the proceedings of, the committing magistrate, if
be could not discharge, be could not pass upon the
question of bail.
Uistrict Attorney Hall, after quoting authorities
in regard to the case, said that it has been a very
curious popular error, that in all cases of felony
below a murder bail was a matter of course, and
gavo some idea of the course he inteuded to pursue
fn the prosecution.
Now, did the magistrate err in his estimate of the
strong probabilities of guilt ?
Tho accused for months past feigned pregnaney.
At first deceived Uhl and CatUn, her doctors.
She urges probable heirship before Surrogate.—
Testimony of Bulen.
Sho prepares baby clothes.—Test*mony of her
daughters.
Protends early delivory—Ur. Catlin.
Testimony of Mrs. Barnes and Wilt, and exhibits
child as her own to tho former.
Now these are evidences of her own,and notshared
by the authorities.
The inference of law is that this produces an in
faut to her own sot after feigned gestation, after
claim to heirship in a public court that sho has an
intent of a fraudulent nature.
The statute makes this, which would havo boon A
fraud at common law, a felony.
Then take the other evidences which wereshared,
by tho authorities.
It is idle to say she was led into orime. She had
resolved upon it, and taken many overt acts (os it
now appears) long before the authorities knew of
it. From her character and still persistence in her
innocence, (see her examination—not in a silenoe,
which the law allows, but in a diroct assertion,) it
is fair to presume that she would have obtained hor
evidences of orime elsewhere.
She sends after a marked child—as a clerk is
seen to take a marked bill after suspioion points to
him—produces it as her own. Falsely pretends by
a thousand little acts, as well as a fow strong
words, that it is tho ohild of Burdoll ondof herselt.
Now, if it was, the law, without her assertion,
instantly on its birth, invests it with heirship. It
is formally proven tho putative father left pro
perty, do.—fTcs. of Bulen and pub. adm.]
Now, here is a woman taken in flagrante delicto,
giving no exhibition, and the circumstances exist
such as-to allow the law first oited to be applied,
and to dismiss the writ*
Mrs. Cunningham still remains undor guard at
her residence in Bond street. It is reported that
she will be sent to tho Tombs to-morrow. "
A Merited Rebdke.—A Long Branoh corres
pondent of the Trenton Gazette gives account of. a
rebuke administered to a party or tho fashionables
at that place. Gov. Newal, of New Jersey, and
his wife, having arrived at the Mansion House
just at the dinner hour,' entered the dining hall be
fore Mrs. N. ohanged her attire. The party allud
ed to immediately, not knowing her, made audi
ble remarks on her appearance, and snoke indig
nantly, because the waiters, to whom Gov. N. was
known, waited on him. Various insulting: allu
sions were made in the table conversation. In the
evening, when Mrs. N. appeared in the parlor in
full dress, she was saluted by a gentleman who
happened to be a friend of the ladles In the fash
ionable party, and who, subsequent, on their in
quiry, informed them who Mrs. N. was. They im
mediately sent abject apologios, which she refused
to reoelvs, not on accountof personal resentment
but because their conduot exhibited them as per
sons not fitted to associate with genuine ladies, and
she would not recognise them a?such.
lowa Election.
Markets,
THE CITY.
tf To Let—-Inquire of —ln a quiet
street of our city stands a three story brick dwell
ing. Nothing in itself marks it from others, but
the notice beside the doorway, “ To Let—inquire
of Yet, it is strange and lonely. The wind
whispers through Its empty rootUß, and along Us
untrodden stairways. 'Children shun it, aud the
walls look more desolate than others after night
fall. Neighboring gossip soon solves the mystery,
“ The home is.katmUd” Long have the words
“to let” appeared upon the building; no tenant
wishes to keep company with the unearthly visi
tant. Here the unknown man died—died by his
own band. Strangers buried him. His life's story
is a mystery. Yet he moved unnoticed through
the world when “ of the earthnow he has be
come a thing of wonder. The neighbors say that
he still walks the room his eyes last saw beneath
the sun, with the gash upon his throat, and the
death-hue on his face. “The earth has bubbles
as the water hath, and this is one of them.”
Though disappearing In one age, the creations of
popular fancy come forth again in another, and
bravely play their parts amid the mingling scenes
of lifo. The time was. and not long since, when
many thought that the last ghost waa dead. That
by-gone world which knew them so well, was no
more. The keeps and dungeons of the old castles
were closed forever. Knightly valor was no longer
oalled upon to dare foes from the realm of the
ttDkoown. The eff was gone from the forest,
the fairy from the green, and the witch from the
heath. Their requiem seemed to be the echo-cry
of Poe’s Raven, an eternal “nevermore.” Yet the
spectres are coining again—from what cause we
oannot say, though spiritualism has, doubtless
given them a now lease of earth, calling them up
from tho “vasty deep" of buried superstitions.
Now, ghosts are well enough upon the Btage,
waving with majestic port, some mournful Prince
of Denmark to private ©hat, but they do not an
swer the city’s domicils; for in the true spirit of
contradiction, while in the one instance they fill a
house with people, they strangely empty it in
another. There is, moreover, a shocking want of
taste and variety in the manufacture of spectres
in this quarter, being -wnttrfiy too much of same
ness. The white sheet and'glaring eyes are al
ways “in the fashion.”
Hearing tn the Case of Charles Brown.—
The ‘long-deferred hearing in the case of Charles
Brown, who is charged on the oath of Alexander
Thompson, with misdemeanor, in receiving a bribe
for his verdict In the case of Josiah Bright, who was
tried and acquitted on the charge of manufacturing
and selling counterfeit money, took place yesterday
afternoon before Alderman'Enue, at naif-past two
o’clock. The only witness examined was Mr.
Alexander Thompson, who testified, in substince,
that the defendant, Charles Brown, was a juryman
in the oase of Josiah Bright, and that the day be
fore the oonmenoement of the trial, Brown came to
the residence of Thompson, stated to him that he
was notified to be in attendance at the Court room
the next morning, and that he expected to make
about a hundred dollars by the trial which was
about to take place. He was subsequently in
formed that the jury in Bright’s cue wen out for
five days, that they stood eleven for conviction and
one for acquittal, the Utter being Mr. Brown.
Some time afterwards, in theoourse of a conver
sation with Brown, he was Informed that some
thirty or forty dollars had been dropped by John
Hauptman, in a restaurant at the southeast corner
of Eighth and Chestnut streets, aud wu immedi
ately picked up by the former William Forc
paugh, who wu in this restaurant at the time,
saw the money dropped, and claimed half of U
from Brown, and received a portion of it. This
person learned from Brown that this money was
a bribe for the services he had rendered Bright
while on the jury, by standing out for an ac
quittal.
Charles Gilpin, Esq., who appeared for Brown,
cross-examined Thompson at some length, bat
nothing important wu elicited. A man named
Mika Noodles* and several others came, according
to the statement of Thompson, to see Brown about
Bright’s cue, but Thompson advised him to have
no connection whatever with this party, u their
object wu an evil one. This advice, it appears,
was taken for tho time. Thompson repeated the
statement that he had it from the Ups of Brown
repeatedly, that he had received money as a bribe
in the oase of Bright.
Mr. Gilpin asked for the discharge of Brown, and
made some remarks relating to the ease of Bright,
about which so mueh bad been said. He sUted
that he wu counsel for Bright, and believed that
that individual wu an injured person. He admit
ted that Brown wu a juryman in the case.
Alderman Eneu said that this ease wu one of
importance, and such u should be referred to Court
for a proper adjustment. He would be compelled
to hold the defendant on the evidence which had
been adduced, in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars
bail, to answer the charge preferred against him
at tiie next term of the Court of Quarter Sessions.
Oneetep in this case hu, at length, been taken.
It wu npnored that combinations had been formed
to prevent this matterfrom ever coming again into
owtsglo the decQwm w Aider
man Eneu, all these plans have been defeated. It
remains to be seen whether this charge, so serious
in all its aspects, will be properiv disposed of in a
Court of Justice, or whether it will be allowed to
slumber among the things that were.
The Old Sexton. —The class is passing away—
we mean sextons tike those of yore, such as seem to
belong to the graveyard, as the eypress belongs to
the tomb Nevertheless, when away from the din
and change of cities one can now and then be
seen, whose air and old-time style form a picture of
the long ago. Such a one we know in a lovely
spot at “a safe distance from the great Babel ”
We saw him but a day or two since, and he seemed
to be going down, even amongst the graves where
he was standing. He knows the life-story of all
that lie around, whoso graves are marked by the
simplest memorials, and it is strange to bear him
tell the tales of good or ill of those who are below
in their earthly sepulchres. He is a simple and
faithful historian of the dead.
See yonder maker of the dead man’s bed,
Tho sexton, hoary-headed chronicle!
He thus has walked with death, “ twice twenty
years.” In the course of our interview, he walked
to the side of a newly-made grave. “ Down here,’ 5
said he, “to one who was Tery pretty. Your city
had none fairer; she was brighter than the flowers
in our gardens, and, like them, she drooped and :
withered.” The old sexton went on with the story.
In brief, it was this She had a happy home and
fond parents in the city; but she left all —left them
In sorrow and in shame. Her parenti had been
proud of her, and well they might. In many a
festive scene she shone the happiest and gayest of
the throng. Yet, when not a cloud could be seen,
all grew dark and gloomy. The spoiler came, and
the blight followed. Bhe wended her way to the
quiet scene, to hide in silence her griefs and
wrongs. But few and sad were the days which re
mained for her, and she lingered them oat in.
heart-crushing, but quiet agony—and thus went
hence. Her grave is noteless, and her name falls
not from the sexton’s lips.
The old man grew silent and thoughtful when
his story ended. Emotions deep and strong had
conquered his love for talking. The sun was be
ginning to dcoline in the West—we prepared to'
return to the city, and as the shades of night
gathered around we thus briefly noted down our
meeting with the Old Sexton.
A Word for Home. —Every paper has, at
this season, its letters from abroad—from the
springs—from the mountains—from the sea-shore
—from all tho places of beanty and health which
our country affords for summer homes.
While we are reading the interesting letters from
onr country-loviqg, water-drinking, sea-bathing,
mountain-climbing friends, we will Tead them a
letter from home, the memoirs of which are always
welcome.
We take great interest in onr city improvements,
and In our frequent visits to all points of its limits,
watch with great satisfeoUoa the progress of its ad
vancement to importance in every relation. In
the manufacturing line we can be trnly and justly
proud of our position; and although in the com
mercial interests we have achieved no great dis
tinction over the cities of the sea, yet we hold an
honoreblo rank, and our mercantile interests have
aroused our merchants to a knowledge of the foot
that our commerce has been limited, not from want
of facilities, enterprise, or wealth, but from direct
negloct, arising, in part no donbt, from the assumed
superior facilities of our seaport cities.
In our buildings, both public and private, we
compare, in architectural taste, with any of our
sister cities. The ornamental is happily blended
with the useful in all our improvements. Wehave
our private grounds arranged with taste; we have
our publio squares laid out with care, and kept in
good order for tne thousands, old and young, rich
and poor, to txsjoy the cooling shade and breathe
pure, fresh air.
In our allusion to squares (those lungs through
which cities breathe and live), we ere reminded of
“Fountain Place,” with its handsome fountain,
on Spring Garden, between Thirteenth and Broad
streets. This beautifully improved square is en
tirely the result of private enterprise, and reflects
great oredit upon all who assisted in the work; be
sides, it shows an example to others who have lo
.calitios susceptible of tho same kind of improve
ment.
Let us all, then, move forward, lending onr hand
and on** purse to every effort to make our home
beautiful; work not only for ourselves, but for
future generations; work for a name, at once in
teHigent, useful, and ornamental, and have it in
scribed in letters of gold apon the tablets of our
municipal history.
Rural Residences.—D uring the last few years
rural residences of tasteful beanty, in great num
bers, have been erected in the immediate vicinity
of our oity,. affording ample accommodation as de
lightful summer resorts, and which are daily in
creasing in pqblio estimation. The disposition
evinced by many to purchase residences of this
character has greatly increased their value os well
as that of tho neighboring lots. Ground on the line
of the North Pennsylvania Railroad, between Phi
ladelphia and Gwynned, three years ago, sold tor
$lOO per acre—now it cannot be purchased under
m ” ».f ? -N- 1
$5OO. Cotteg»so& is Germantown readily oca
mand frdm S3,QOO.toSS,QOO an acre, andtike prices
in that vicinity.
The Girard 'College. —A correspondent of
one of the papers in the Interior of this State, in
writing from this eity, gives an account of a Hat to
Girard College, whieh contains Several misrepre
sentations, calculated Coproduce a wrong impru
sion in the mind of theoe who are not thoroughly
acquainted with the pra&cal working of this, our
noblest Philadelphia institution. After a descrip
tion of the beautiful gran plots and the extensive
walk*, decorated with every variety of Hovers, In
front of the main college building, he states : “ I
rawed my eyes from a lovely bed of flowers, when.
they fell npon stupendously magnificent
structure, so great, so grand, so gloirous. I stood
still and gaied and wondered. My bosom swelled
with overpowering emotion. Wo ascended the
granite steps,, passed round the building within
the many colonnade and entered. The sound of
our footsteps rolled through the high are be*,
and continued to roll with renewed volumes of
sound as long as we remained within its watts.
The first object that attracted our notice was a fine
marble statue of Stephen Girard, the founder of
the institution.
“ The statue is a little below the medium s ae of a
man, the costume simple and ordinary, the bead
common, and the expression one of ennalng scruti
ny, casting an eye of suspicion npon the beholder.
It stands near the remains of Mr. Girard. We vis
ited the recitation room?, chapel, and rtfreetory.
In one of the rooms we saw the books, clothing, fire
arms, plate, etc., of Mr. Girard, all of which were,
very ordinary for a mas of such immense wealth. £
saw two large patches on one leg of his old breeches;
and other things connected with his pots, pans, and
other culinary utensils, are still preserved here,
that mark him as a man of the most rigid economy.
“Although the will of Mr. Girard expressly forbids
the Introduction of religion into the Institution, and
excludes clergymen wholesale even from visiting
the building, yet a chapel has been fitted up for
this purpose where the students ore assembled tor
religious instruction,'and clergymen sometimes gain
admittance. I picked np a bymnbook lying on cue
of the seats of the chapel, ami found it to be that of
the American Sunday School Union.”
The description given in this extract of the stat
ue of SrepßEX Girard wUI be sew to many oHmr
readers. The genius of the sealptor has pieced
the founder of the College life-like amidst ns; and
In that marble countenance none can fail to read
the promptings of a generous heart. Surely the
expression of cunning scrutiny, and the eye of sus
picion,” did not belong to him, wboee vast wealth,
acquired amid toil, privation, and eontumely, has
provided the blessings of a comfortable borne and
a good education for the orphan boys of Philadel
phia.
Years ago, a young lad went forth alike upon the
great ocean, and the sea of strife and turaoQ,
whorein man exercises, properly or improperly, the
offices whieh God has Urdained him to oecupy.
Like his solitary barque upon the waters, a mere
atom at first in the masses of humanity, he
struggled through the vicissitudes of life, till he
became tho unpretending lord of myriads, a
prince among the princely, and, in a high moral
sense, “a man among men.” With less advantage
than many possess, he became an oracle in trade,
and the master of those who were once years before,
him in the progress of their ambitious existence.
He amassed a fortune of ten live*, and so multi
plied in aets of charity, that mfliinitf of the living
have risen from poverty to call him Messed. But
the crowning act of his life was the endowment of
the Girard College—a grand charity, which diet
not with the present, but exists for centuries to
come, and whieh shall be engraven on new editions
of humanity with worthier eomments than toy
lines contain. With the legacy of Stephen Girard
was left his bright example to emulate.. Bora as
he was into a life of activity, when no riebec en
dorsed him with original advantages, bis
sprung into energy with the necessity of hk~a*
frtenee, and left no avenue occupied by labor, ton
sisfent with the great purposes of lifo; and so,
into an industry, combining with the edu
cated mind, the will to act, those who hare reaped
the. benefit of his last and grandest bequest, will
go forth to dignify labor.
A mistaken notion, into which this correspondent
has fallen, prevails relative to the religious in
struction imparted to the pupils of the College.
It is not trne that ministers of aay denomination
whatever have at any time gained into
this institution; but it is true that while sectarian
; ism is. carefully guarded against, the students re
ceive good moral training. The fact that hymn
books issued by the American Sunday Frhsil Union
were found on the seats of the chapel sustains the
statement we have just made, but does not prove
that any special religious-creed is made the sub
ject of discussion at the Sunday meetings of the
pupils. The will of Mr. Girard, in this particular,
is most faithfully carried oat by all the officers of
the College.
Interesting Item . —Tho first Directory waa
issued for Philadelphia in 1785, by an odd genius
named Macpherson, commonly known as one-
armed Colonel McPherson. He lost his arm in the
ramlnffoflxry wars of oar eo-tey." Xb* Directory
•ays on its title page, that the within is'a complete
index of names of all the residents of our city,
and specifies its boundaries, extending to Prime
street, southward, and to Maiden street,northward.
At the time of his taking the names some of the
inhabitants were quite incensed at the innova
tion, and when asked their names, answered “ none
of your business;” “won’t tell;” “can’t remem
ber,” Ac—all of whieh answers he entered in his
Directory thus : “ Cross Woman, 113 Market st. ;**
“Won’t tell ,42 Maiden street." As them were*
no numbers on any of the houses, he adopted a
system of his own. He commenced on the sooth
side of Market street, at the Delaware, with No
1, and so on to Sixth street, which was the termi
nation of Market street then. All vacant lots re
ceived a number. He crossed Market street at
Sixth, and came down again to the Delaware, on
the north side, so that the highest number was op
posite No. 1 By on examination of its pages, I
find the Directory contains 6,273 inhabitants,
only. It is unnecessary to say that the Colonel’s
system of numbering was not adopted. The houses
remained unnumbered until 11H. Among the
names are “Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster
General;” “John Piper, Pewter Platter Alley
“ Benjamin Franklin, His Excellency, No. 1 Frank
lin’s Court.”
For the above information we are indebted to
Mr. Mickley, the well-known coin collector, who
has a complete set of the above works from 1785 to
1857.
- Firemen’s Convention. —Last evening, a
meeting of the delegates composing the Conven
tion to make arrangements for the dedication of the
monument of the Northern Liberty Hose Company,
was held at the hall of the Diligent Engine Fire
Company, south-west corner of Tenth and Filbert
streets. George W. Martin presided, and John R.
Downing acted as Secretary. A Chief Marshal of
the parade and several assistants were eleotod,
after which a programme of proceedings was
agreed upon, doe public notice of which will be
given.
Delegate Election. —The election of dele
gates to the Ameriean Convention, which meets
to-day, took place last evening, and was attended
with very little excitement.
Well-deserved Compliment. —At the dose of
a term of seven years’ faithful and satisfactory
discharge of the onerous duties and responsibilities
of Steward of the Lazaretto, the Beard of Health
unanimously adopted the following resoluti on,
July 31,1857:
“ Resolved, That the Board parts with Benj, E.
Carpenter, Esq., Steward of the Lazaretto, with
deep regret, he having performed all and every
duty of his office with fidelity to the Board and to
the oitisens of the eity of Philadelphia.
Our Public Squares . —lt has been quaintly
remarked, thti the lungs of a large eity are its
public squares. There la much truth In the figure*
and it is pleasant to add, that such being .the toot
our b«auUfhl city never showed less predisposition
to anything like pulmonary affection, than at the
present time.
Indeed, as we passed through Franklin .Square,
on onr homeward way, last evening, and inhaled
the ambrosial fragrance of the dewy trees, and
snuffed the cooling spray of the playing fountain,
reflecting the dim radiance of an artificial light,
we were thrilled with a happier impulse as touch
ing the life of the more eonfined portion of our
citizens, during the extreme heat of summer.
The merry laugh of children—the playing squir
rels, by early gas-light, and the leisurely throng
of passers to and fro, all whispered, in the still
small voice of grateful memory, of the debt we
owe to onr fathers, who have passed away, for hav
ing wrested from the- grasp of brick and mortar
improvements, our publio squares.
Hospital Case .—John West, aged about
thirty years, was admitted Into the Pennsylvania
Hospital yesterday, baring had his right am
fractured by having ft caught in some machinery
at the foundry of Morris, T&sker A Co., Washing
ton street.
Mr. Ten Broeck’s Henes,
It is stated in Porter's Spirit of the Timer, that
Mr, Ten Broeck has withdrawn Pryor and Prioress
from the Ebon Handicap. The reasons for which
were the evident unfairness In weighting, they
being so heavily weighted by the “ handicapped *
for that race, as to make their defeat almost, if not
quite, a certainty. Lecompte and Pryor are, how
ever, entered for the Newmarket Houghton meet
ing, to be run on the 26th of October. Thij race ii
a single dash of four miles, one furlong and on*
hundred and seventy-five yards. Prioress Is en
tered tor the Lewes meeting. Sussex County Cup,
to be run on the 10th of this month, (Angust.)
This is a two mile dash-
Pryor and Prioress were in most superb condi
tion. The Spirit, writing before the result had
reached New York, says.' “We aro strongly in
hopes that tne 'Stars and Stripes’will win tha
race. But should the result be against us, we shall
bear our defeat manfully, and hope to see thw
challenge of Mr. Ten Broeck (made on hb arrival
in England) to match hb stable against any horse
in England to ran for $25,000 a side, four mile
heats/®* B * three in five, taken up. We have many
hoises on this side of the Atlantis who have proved
themselves fleeter tor short distances than thnr%
now in England.”