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THE AMERICAN. WASHINGTON, AUGUST 19, 1857. iii. 4 Cardinal Mmiuir. 1st.

The vleral Union must be maintained. 2(1. The reserved of the States must he respected. 3d. The decisions of the Supreme Court must be enforced.

4th. A of Church and State must be prevented. 5th. The rights of conscience must be guaranteed, 6th. American interests must bo promoted.

7th. An American nationality must bo cherished. bth. Sectional agitation must be terminated. 9th.

Foreign paupers mid criminals nruat be ex 10. The naturalization lavs must, be amended. 11 th. Squatter sovereignty" and alien suffrage must be repudiated. 12th.

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INFLUENCE WIIH THE GOVERN MENT. Speaking ol a transaction between the Govern ment mi id all individual, which is likely to be iiu niensoly profitable ro the latter, a gentleman? Democrat- remarked to us that it had trait that this uv1ividu.il represented a company, he thought it must be so, as he had not influence enough with the Government to carry through obtain such a contract. Influence enough with the Government obtain such a This nprtMOo, dreppet casually by a friend ol tbc admiufstratbfti, volumes; it shown at ice how profitable cor tracts are obtained hen-, and even how just are to be Obtained. Influence with the Govern ment!" And who have "influence with the Go? Politicians, who are known to have an Influence with the masses, or who pull th? wires for the parry "Influence with the Government!" To di what? To allow a just claim, or to give a contract to the individual or company who aio the lowest bitldrs? I' would seem, to unsophisticated persona, that to do this is but tb 1 duty of the Government and cm it he necessary to bring influence upon the Government to induce til.is inflll.nii',1 ia times nocesssry; and we have known persoui brought here to efloct an object distance oi from 60b to 2,000 miles, at a very he vv cost to (the paitv seeking the anion of the Government. But it is more often the cac- that nu individual or individual are (o exert an influence upon the Government with a view to obtain sotn? profitable contract or bargain, at highly, some times extravagantly, rctnuneraliiig prices; and not unfreqm rtly the purpose ia a m.pliahed, ai In the sale of the Fort Sm iling lands to Mr.

Steele, Tho influenn is always of a political character, and In yielding it the Government usually com aider as paying off or rewarding with "the spoils11 some of their important political member of the present Cabinet declared his Intention to do, the business of tba Govern roent for tho benefit of the pirty. It is this pur pose and practice which render this "influence" necessary. If tho heads of the respective Depart ments looked with a single eye to the public good 1 '-1 limit- onrl Koil wvrv I whole duty, without ftar, favor, or nflVction, nnc I Id the discharge of their public duties to know nr I man's politics, or anything of his polit'cal influ I encesorwive pollings, the tens and luind: eds I of dollars now paid for tho services I those who hsve "influence with the I or a recogtiiied claim to be paid for their political services, past and prospective, out of the pubih treaaury, would no longer be required. Hoe many millions are annually paid out of the Trea sury to political nn te- cover nf con. tracts, the people can never know; but there sr- many, and good, easy, rjch 8am bears It meekly and patiently.

The highest ground in the city is the corner Ife JJ street north and Eleventh street west, I 108 foet abovo ordinary low tide. Tho next high I est Is the bsse of the National Observatory, I 96 feet. The eastern front of the Capitol is 8 I feet; the co ner of I street north snd Thirteen! I street west, 82; and the foundation of 8t. John I Church, 6ti Au Interesting Letter. Wabiiinuton, August 12, 1867 Mr diiak I returned here from my jaunt to Niagara, Montreal and S.ii utoga about a week ago.

I bad a first rate time of it, having fallen in and made one of a party of is clover and charming women' kind" as you'd wish to meet with. The girls were full of lifi and fun, and we had a jolly trip. We were 'together two weeks and I must tell you, entre nout, that I find I have lost something, and I suspect that blackeyed rogue of a Kate stole it; at uuy rate I inteud to try if she will not give me I something in exchange. Vou want to know how am get iug on here? I Prime. 1 got promoted yesterday to a flftoo -e cierb.imp, 011 iteeuuiii ui hit Iweeii oui 'elves, my being a favorite with the head of the Department.

As to toy efficiency, I wont say much about that; the fact is, I never did like to work, and I don't mean to do so if I can help it Kissing," they say, goes by favor;" yea, and so does promotion, here. As.to boning down to my and working like a dray horse, I shan't do it; I know a way worth ten of that. No, no, Dob, let me alone for managing. I've got on the blind side of the Secretary, and menu to keep there. lie is a gi eat Democrat; so am hates an old line Whig; so do but a Know-nothing is his aboutI iuatiou, and there's no one he loves so well as who aud abuses these vamtiuts" Now, this just suits me, and so, as I visit hit family, 1 never fail to let out upon the bloody Know-Not mugs as bitterly as 1 possibly can.

By the way, are getting it from Judge Crawfort now about light 1 hope he will send the rascal: to the Penitentiary, every one of them, for not lesi than ten ears. We have wanted to get rid of tin old fellow, us he had become such an old fogy bu lie has shown the right Bortof pluck in these trials and I reckon will get his salary raised next winte on account of it. There are some old Whigs in the Department yet, but n.ost of them went for Buchanan, and al pretended to do ho, aud for that reason claim tha they ought to be kept in I despise them, bu we can put the work oil' upon their shoulder: und make them do it, for they durst not rt fuse nor complain if they did, thoy know very we i they'd have to march by double quick time. 1 docs me good tefchear them repudiate their part und to be Democrats; just as if wo did no know hypocrites and traitors! Soin of huvo been suspected of having been Knou Nothings, and where this is the case, they hav been required to hand in a declaration'in wntiug nnd in some instances to be sworn to, that they ar 1 uot Know and have no affiliation wit! the dark lantern part). If they refuse to hand ii such a declaration, off go iheir heads, and the! bodi arc kicked into the gutters, where they ma; rot jr aught I care.

I tell you, Dob, Mr. Buehan tin's administration do these matters up browu, am are not ai raid to take the responsibility. The; r.iav charge us with being foreigners, and all that who cares, we are carrying the elections every i where, which shows the peoplo are with us. My promotion to a 1600 place was very accep table, and did'nt come any too soon, for I spen so much money for the presidential election las year, aud to a victory in our State thi year, that 1 was rather hard up. The next jum will he to $1800 place, and I shall not be Ion reaching that, if abuse of the Know-Nothings wi 1 win it; foi I hate them worse than snakes.

Tb head of our Department is the right sort of a mat 1 besrd him say myself, that he felt it to be ii duty to nu-iiuge the Department for tha benefit i hit party, md I know he goes all lengths in thi way. That's the boy for me; I like a man tb will, as they to say, go the whole his Why should'nt he? What the ddo wo tight for, if not for the spoils and if don't take spoils" when we whip oureuemie I see no u-citi spendingtitno and money, sweatinj toiling and fighting to carry the day. Talk aboi p.iti iotisni and the country, and all that sort stuff! My patriotism is the love of my party, an the and stealings, and as for tb country, I reckon she can take care of herself.r So haw my political creed in a uut shell, and don't in any olhci. Liang patriotism, il mi ob'eletc idea, Dan. Webster said of the Rani Yours, dtjar Bob, forever and a day, NED.

ALL F1KH. All that come to the euiocratic ne shark 4, whales, gudgeons and eell; lifers, Ab liliotiiiU, 1 ree-aoilera and Americans, or, as tl 1 Democrats term them, Know ai iat, provided they will take hold an tug at the democratic oar. In Frederick count; the Democrats have made up a ticket i Whigs and sschiefly, apottatn, of 1 and tl Democratic candidate for Governor of thi State, is an old, stiff upper-lip Whig; and in Kei tu ky, James B. Clay, son of the gallant Harr heads and loads the line of apostates, dl 1 tn the repose of the dead, shout a of ei uitalicn at victories Ex Governor Ransom, of Michigan, whom tl Democrats in Kansas are now running lor delegal to Congres-. iu 184 9 argued strongly in Ids met to the Legislature of Miciiigau, against tl 1 institution or' slavery, and in favor of the conatiti 1 tionallty of the power of Oongrotu over it in tl Territories, well as for tbo excrciac of thi poser to prohibit it.

A Black Republican" no could not stronger language in this diiectic thin tl jj Democrat in good ami reguli standing, employed on this which were be to sdopt now, would procure ejectment fi om the party by aa summary a proco as tlic Democracy of the slave States use to ri themselves of anti-slavery parsons and editor n.rei-vlhc conclusion which Governor Ranso then came to: "If, then, such be the acknowledged characti and tendencies of slavery, should it be suffered i extend a single line into teiritory now free? Tl deep and abiding sentiment of my heart, the liberate and settled conviction of rnyjudgmen alike respond, No, never!" BARBECUE AT ANIILAND. the snostatc son of Henrv. late gave a barbacue to hia father's old enemies at calnmiiiatO's, in honor of a victory which ncv.Tcould win whilr ho lived, and which, had 1 been living they would not have won. And Ashland, ao long the Mecca of Wblgiam, rang wi tho revelery and shouta of the Democracy, wl now feasted on the beat, bloods of Aahland and drank the choice winea of the Statesman the West," whom they ao long persecuted I Wh a triumph for the Democracy of Kentucky! waa the Goths and Vandal i in the Capitol Rome; the araerns in the Temple of Jeruaalen the Turks In St. Peter'a of Rome.

The aaa, sa the kicked the dead lion, whom, living, I dare not go much ns look In the face. And Jam B-? 'he eon of Henry (Jlay, tru the presiding ho 'a over this assemblage of hie father's toes, brongl there to exult over bis grave. i I THE VIC TOKIJKS Or THE DfioT We are forced to acknowledge the selfstyled Democrats have beep tori one moet of the elections chat have lately takes place, ppd Pre are daily reminded of the fact by their clawiorotis and exulting ohouls. But what does thie prove? that they are right, and the best friends of tho country Just as surely, then, does tho fact that the irieuds ofliberty weie every wliere defeated ill Europe, iu 1848, prove that despotism, which triumphed over them, was right, and tint they and their cause ought to be trampled under the iron heel of tyranny. Iu Napiei, at the present moment, reigns the uiofit blood tluraty tyrant can oe lound upon a throne in any part of the globe.

Groaning under the oppressiveness of his craelty, the people there have made frequent efforts to free tlieuieelvee from his tyranny, but have failed to accomplish their purpose; and hundreds have therefore been executed, other hundreds loaded with chains aad cast into dungeons such as, happily, we know nothing of in this country, while others have escaped and become voluntary exiles. Now what doeH this prove that the tyrant and his tyranny ought to be sustained and the friends of liberty persecuted? If so, then tho victories of the ranipant and exultant Democracy prove that Americans and Americanism deserves to be trodden down, trampled under foot, hunted aud persecuted from i one end of the country to the other. i The spirit of malignant hatred and persecution now manifested by the Locofocos towards Atntri1 cana has its parallel in that which animated 4 Claverhouse and his bloody dragoons, in their i searching out the hiding places, and chasing and slaughtering tho coveuanters of Scotland. But because the government had the power to hunt, run down, kill, and destiov, without discrimination I 1 4 1 of age or sex, aud without mercy, these pious people, does it follow that the government was all right and the covenanters ull wrong? Did that II cruel and bloody persecution root out and destroy the covenanters? So far from this, it did but knit tbem together a band of brothers, and make them ready to die for each other and for the faith for which they were so horribly persecuted. And II so it is ever: persecution invariably counteracts its own purposes, and in the end proves a benefit to those it would injure.

Our opponeuts, we suppose, draw the inference from the result of these elections, thut Americans ought not to rule America, and that as between native born Amerie cans and foreigners, the latter have a better right to vote at elections than the former. Xow, though the people of the States where Democracy has triumphed may have intended to say, and did say, this, we shall still bold to the doctrine that Americans ought to rule America, and that they have a better right at American polls than aliens. CAN IT BE TRUE? It is announced that the Secretary of the Interior has confirmed the sale of Fort Snelling, sola, to Mr. Franklin Steele, of St. Anthony, at $11 per acre.

We can scarcely believe this, as every one knows that, at public tale, the property would have commanded least $50 an acre! 1 Why should tills valuable tract of land have been Bold to a favorite, at private sale, at a price '6 so far below its true value, and at some $300,000 less than it would have brought at public sale 8 Is Mr. Steele the only individual who pockets this immense piofit, or are there some others here in the Department who aie also to make a good thing of it?" We should like to know, and think the people abot? St. Paul, St Anthony, ncopolis and Fort Snelling would also like to know. If the land has been sold, as is represented, the 8t transaction smells strongly of corruption. In reference to this subject, we find, since writ ing the above, the following in the Boston Trav re eller: A Gross Snelling, rendered useless as a government outpoat by the advance it of civilization, has recently been sold by Govern 3f ineiit for the sum of $00,000.

The sale included (j 1000 ol surrounding land, the whole beanti1 fully located at the junction of the Mississippi and 16 Minnesota rivers, near St. Anthony's Falls. It is a magnificent site lor a great town, in one of the I most valuable and rapidly rising sections ol Min uesota, and, had the property been opened tc public bidding, would have brought many timet the paltry sum which some administration have been permitted to gulpb the prize in at Half a million dollars would have been a smal figure for the property thus pocketed for less thai a hundred thousand; Who are tne lucky holder: I under this swindle, and may ws not know by whai greasing of fingers the thing was accomplishedI1 MOKE PETTY PROSCRIPTION. We learn that on Saturday last, a number mechanics, twelve or fourleeu, who' have families were dismissed from the Navy-yard. Cause Sus peeled of having been born on American soil.

ei Judge Cruwfotd Laving decided that foreigner! at better right here that 1 our own uative-born citizens, the Secretary of the 7 Navy feels bound, we suppose, to prefer them tc our own mechanics, and to turn the latter out tc make room lor the former. If there is not cm ployment enough for oil, the Americant, of course must give way to the Paddy's. No wonder the latter pour in upon us like the locusts and frogs ol Egypt. How proud Americans must be of their coun try How paternally and kindly it treats them How ardently they must love their oten, their nafivi land! How pleasant ll must on 10 me necieiary ID know that lie hag deprived a dozen men of th? lr inenna of procuring bread for their wives ant fe children! We hope he slept soundly on Ratuidai night, after this piece of work, and knowing tha ho in getting flfiS a week from Uncle Sam id a. A collision between two steamboats occurret on Long Island 8oundon Saturday, by which lives were lost.

One of the boats was er by Captain Smith, who sustained a severe lo of his children had previously died. His 10 and one child were at N'ew London, and others with him were lost; they were relurninj from an excursion they had been making their school vacation. The blow, he thought would be overpowering to his wife. Many heart rending circumstances, in regard to this collision id are related. The counterfeiters recently arrested in Indiana are now on trial.

Some of them confessed the! (l guilt, and told where a list of the whole gang, threi hundred in number, could be found. It compriae many who have heretofore stood fair In society, of German Chemist has succeeded in producinj a gem which said to compare most with the natural diamond. Thia ia bor," the el 0f ementary substance of boric acid. Heretofore no j. chemical means has been found capable of redu clng It to its natural state.

This new subttance iw uiaiiiutiu UI wna pg cal agonta, and ia even harder The lafeat iipwh from Cut). mod A lit in the price of augar. The cropa in Lotiifl iana and ela promiae an abundant yield. THE BIUT TKIALN. Oa Moudey, at II o'clock, the Jury, wbo bed hemi out.

fee four days, deliberating upon the sue ib? alleged notera of the let of June, came into Court, suiting utter inability to agree upon vertffcrt, when Judge Crawford, who had ascertained from them, that their disagreement proceeded from a difference of opinion on the facta proved, aod not from any double on the legal questions involved, discharged the Jury, and adjourned the Court to the next regular term, in December. Thus has terminated, for the present, one of the most remarkable trials ever witnessed in any civilized community, to be revived at the next term, unless the United States authorities, shall, in the mean time be forced, by public opinion, to cease their crustde against the American-born citizens of Of course, we have yo means of judging, what effect has so far been produced, upon the views, feelings and purposes of the party in power, by the palpable uud overwhelming destruction which has overtaken the assumptions on which this prosecution was based. This trial forms an epoch in American history. It is the first instance kuowu to us in the United States, in which one political party has olftained the aid of the Federal Government, through the joint instrumentality of the military forces, and the forms of judicial proceedings, to prostrate an antagonistic political party. We would fain hope it will be the last, but that may depend upon the manner in which the American press and people shall rebuke this first attempt to crush out" and destroy, by such infamous means, a rival political organization.

An election for city officers was held in Washington on the 1st day of June, and on that occasion, the same excitement aud the common occurrences of election days, were witnessed at the polls of the 1st precinct of the Fourth Ward. Fifteen or twenty "Plug Ugliea'' cauie to Washington Baltimore, on the? morning of the electiou, they huving heard that a rival party, denominated the Empires," had previously come over from the same city, to aid the The "Plug Uglies" made their appearance near the polls, at the above-named precinct, at a time when a column of naturalized foreigners numbering perhaps one hundred, had virtually possession of the avenue to the ballot-box, and that, too, by concert, when an Irishman, on being asked whether he had his papers," responded tauntingly, No; but I have a brick A general affray was thus created, and in the melee perhaps half a dozen peraens were slightly column was broken general stampede took place, some of the parties jumping into the windows of the room which the Commissioners of Election occupied; the Commissioners left with the ballotboxes and in less than three minutes the affray was over; peace was restored, and the Commissioners, in less than half an hour, resumed their places, and the voting proceeded even more rapidly and just as quietly as before the disturbance. This is the proof by a dozen unimpeached witnesses. After the polls had been reopened, whilst voting was going on peaceably, Mayor Magrudcr, applied for the Marines, and the President directed them to be placed under the Mayor's charge. About 1 P.

M. the Marines came to the neighbo: hood of the polls. The Commissioners closed the polls on the approach of the Marines, and refused to open them in the presence of the Ma( rines. A small swivel had been brought to the neighborhood, becaute of the ordering out of the Marines, and the parties having it in charge avowed their purpose to defe themselves and tbo people from the assaults of the Marines. i The Marines charged upon the swivel (which was spiked previously,) and captured it, and near I about the same moment a pistol or two was disi charged and some stones thrown at the Marines, I mi hunt it ijr no in xfiitl 1 fired Home or 70 shots indiscriminately, killing and wounding some 26 or SO by-slanders who had no part in the affray.

i In order to throw the blame of this slaughter upon the American party," the press of Wash' ington published onesided views of the occurrence, and a grand jury o( between 20 and 24 persons, of whom, one was an "American" (by party 1 designation) inade a report wholly one tided, and 1 brought in indictments against those "Araeri' can whom the police designated as having been most active on the occasion. Thirteen of those "Americans" were put on trial some three weeks ago upon au indictment for a riot. The jury empanelled on the occasion was composed of nine unfi-Americans (some of them exceedingly bitter partisaus) and three persons who, though not designated as "Americans," had sympathies In favor of Americanism. Of the 1 jury, live were in favor of an acquittal and seven 1 for conviction. Two anti-Americans on the jury were njrpoted to a conviction The proofs submitted on side will soon be spread before the country, as reported by the i accomplished reporter for the United States Senate, Mr.

Sutton. The speeches of Messrs. rn. Hn UVW, ssissn, rvuva uiuuic ivr. uv fence, will also be published, fimt in this paper and then in a volume, with the testimony, and the arguments of the United States Attorney.

The country can then judge of the matter intelligibly; and we venture to predict that the judgment of all candid and fair minded men will be, that a more shameful, partisan, and vindictive piosecution has never disgraced the pages of judicial history. We giTe to-day the speech of Mr. Cartington, (first in order of time,) and shall next week present that of Mr. Scott, of Virginia; then the I speech of Mr. Rllis, closing with that of Mr.

BradJ ley- We have heard but one opinion pronounced upon these speeches, and that opinion is, that they are worthy of the fame of their authors, and that they have demolished the fabric reared by the prosecution. We are much mistaken if every honorable man in the sham Democratic party here is not ashamed of the prosecution to which we have referred. We know many such gentlemen, who have openly avowed the opinion that the prosecut on was a most shameful one, and ought to be dismissed. The opinion prevails here, almost universally, that the President of the United States was im nf tk. VI.

poreu Iipvn UJ i rpi cm ni'inuun VI mc This may havo been true, and doubtless ww no, but this forms no rational excuse for his consent to the use of the Marines on that occasion, for, il properly understand the law, the contingency had not arieen In which the President could Call Out the military force. i When Congress convenes, let an inquiry be t. mads into the authority of the President in suoh it cases. If, in truth, we live under a military deai. potiam, let us know it.

If the military cm be ordered ont to oontrol our elections, let Congress so declare. The deacon who took up a collection has laid it down agaiD. Ml HOW MANY At the Seoretury of the Nkvy thinks proper to turn out American mechanics from the Navv-yard, upon the pretence, we suppose, of economy, we would like to have him iufonn uu bow many bun- died reams of paper, which could be bought any- where at $4 26 a ream, ho has furnished for the use of Congress, for.which he received f6 tH ll iuferior to the sample, but which the Superintendent of Printing would not reject on account of Mr. Toucey's being a member of the Senate ir Mr. Toucy has a tender care of Uncle Sam's purse, truly; his own, however, has become pleth- e' oric from the frequent tranters from the former to the latter.

His politics and paper-mill have been profitable investmeuts for Mr. ex-Senator and Sec- retary Toueey. Both he and the thrifty Superiu- Ml tendent of Public Printing will perceive that we have heard something about their business transactions." 0 a farm. The farm of Mr. James Buckclaw, at Jamesburg, Monroe township, Middlesex county, is said to be one of the finest farms in New Jersey.

owns 8,200 acres, 1,800 of which are under eimi- vatiou and in use, the rest being woodland. He has the present season grass, 860 acres in corn, 800 acres; in oats, 200 acre9; in wheat, 100 acres; in rye, 50 acres. Total, 1000 acres. Besides this, there are in pasture 800 acres. The rows of corn in one direction are nearly a miie in length The value of the crops this season will probably approximate $20,000.

1 We wish we could induce about two or three hundred ablo bodied men, now living the life of loafers in this city, to turn Out and make themselves of some use upon a farm. mr. matteson. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times, sayB: I understand from good authority that Colonel Keitt, of South Carolina, declares his determination tb move the expulsion of 0. B.

Mat- teson from the House, next winter, if he resumes his seat without a re-election. Mr. Matleson's is not the only case of Cori option and malfeasance likely to come before the next Congress. Some folks had better stand from uuuer. The uuior 8udn of America.

Tlie National Convention of this Older effected a permanent organization at Philadelphia, on Tues day last. The buisness was mostly of a private nature, and on Wednesday the convention was engaged in revising the constitution of the Order. The delegates present represent the following camps: 1, 0, 18, 14, 16, 19, '20, 81, 33, and 40; New 1, 4, and 11 District of New Indiana, No. 1. The following are the officers: President, D.

McCathran, District of Columbia; Vice Presidents, T. J. Wright, Indiaua, and A. II. Ellis, of New York; Secretary, J.

P. Shindell Oobin, Assistant Secretary, Arthur J. Arnold, Doorkeeper, Wrn. Pratt, Delaware. The convention has adjourned tine die.

The city of New York was fixed upon as the place of holding the next convention which will assemble on the second Tuesday in August, 1868. A suitable block of marble is to be prepared for the National Washington Monument. Addresses were made by the delegates from a distance, giving glowing accounts of the condition of the Order in their respective States. FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Nxw York, August steamer Columbia (a Collins substitute) arrived here this morning.

The Arabia arrived out on the 2d and the Washington on the 6th. The telegraph eqnadron left Queenstown on the 3d for Valencia bay. The French Ambassador at Turkey had suspended his diplomatic relations with that Power because the Moldavian elections ere not set aside. A despatch from Madrid says that the Marquis Sarrano is to supersede General Concha us Govcr i wi The East India Company makes a requisition for nix thousand additional troops. Persia still refuses to evacuate Herat.

The death of Eugene Sue, the great French novelist, is announced. A new Indian loan of to has been spoken of. In the House of Lords Lord Panmure introduced a militia in the new levies for India without calling Parliament together. He announced his intention of considerably increasing the hie of the army. Lord John Russell's motion for the committee to inquire if Jews cannot bd admitted on affirmation under existing acts was agreed to.

A despatch from Paris statep that the Emperor and Empress were to leave St. C'loud to-day (Wednesday) to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne. The Stcamber Colombo arrived at Southampton Tuesday with the China and India mails Her passengers firmly believe that Delhi has fallen. They state that the bazaar intelligence outstrips the Government despatches, and, according to the former, Delhi had fallenlwhen the Madras passengers left. They state also that an outbreak was fully expected in the Madras presidency.

The male European population were under arms. Seventeen hundred armed men were found about the irsideuce of the ox-King of Oude, although by treaty he was not entitled to one. Sir Colin Campbell's passage through Egypt was a contiuued aeries of ovations. He intends dividing the Intfian army into six flying divisions. The plunder of the Indian treasures is estimated at nearly The basia of the Netherlands pioject for the abolition of slavery in the West Indies is an indemnity to the proprietors of thirty-four millions of guilders.

Livrri'ool, August closed quiet, but Ann. very dull, and all a slightly lower. Western Canui 80s. a 80s. Gd, Philadelphia and Baltimore 80s.

a 82s. Wheat Is dull, closing at adeeline of 3d. red 8s, a 8 8 while 9h. a Us. 7d.

Corn is dull; mixed and yellow declined white 46s. a mixed and yellow 87 l-2s. a 88 Provisions quiet. Who Fii.l Our Poor to the reports of the Superintendents of the Poor in Brooklyn, for the year ending July 31st, the total number of families relieved wore as follows American, 47(1; foreign, tofal, 2,204. Of the foreign there were 518 from Ireland, 70 Germany, 122 England, 2 Holland, 7 Sweeden, 1ft Canada, 21 Scotland, 2 Nova Scotia, 1 Isle of Man, 1 West Indies, 8 France, 1 Prussia, 1 Wales, 1 Spain, 89 unknown.

And these, according to Judge Crawford, have 44 a better right to vote at elections than native-born Americans!" The Island of Fernando, Po, which has recently changed from Spanish to British rule, is situated on the west. African con6t, a few miles off the mouth of the river Niger. It has a surface of about one thousand square miles, and an estimated population of fifteen thousand souls. It is noted for its salubrity for whites. The intention of the British Government is to establish there a commercial depot for its explorations of the Niger, and for the purposes of trade on that great natural I highway of Africa.

AwxcnoTK is related of Wrahington wnan no wu superintending the ceremonies of lading the corner-mono of the Oapftol on the 18th of September, 1798, a physician present offered him the only umbrella in the company, to shield him from the rays of the in. He declined the proffered courtesy, with the remark "Take It to the ladlea, Doctor; I hare on exposed to the sun before in the course of my life." A Kansas emigration ver has suddenly broken out in that soine are moving who never thought of doing so before. a OFFICE SEEKING. 1 The Fincaatle Vh. Whig, makes souie sensible marks upon this subject, though we fear they like the good admonition ti of' a parent to a utpegrance of a eon, thrown away.

He disburses thus: It appears that the scramble for such offices in girt of the government as still remain uudisosed of, continues with uuabated fervor. The pplicants are gen orally of robust constituous, strong physical development, some of them ale to earn (1,60 a day by mauling rails, ssslstig in harvesting, and others might make a fortune going' to the west and beoomtng sever- igns. There are plenty of openings in this country for eople who possess strength and health. There re many mechanical employments in which there xiet a vast need of intelligent labor. There are dips which need sober, hardy fellows to navigate lein, and such is the mgency of this requirement, jut they are often willing to take so ailed, that is, greeu fellows, who know nothing navigation.

It in a itinltup nf nrttfttnnjf aatAnlahmMit that jere should be such a general rush for office, hen we consider the miserable stipend which ffice holders in general receive; their drudgery nd dependence; no chance to become rich, none acquire reputation; no established rule of prqlotion; no reward for merit; no chance for talent, owever bright, to show itself in the dull routine official business. In our own government, as 1 all others, favor, fear and affection, not worth, ot fitness, carry the poiut. A man recommended powerful influences, succeeds, and men of cancity, who have not Such influences, fail. Boys re sometimes appointed and promoted over the eads of old, experienced men. The fortunate ompetitor, however, finds in the end that the rize he fancied ho had drawu is a hi an or worse ban a blank, a life of ill requited toils, of cringing nd servility, of kicks and cuffs; that, in a month had bartered a freeman's birthright for a mess miserable pottage.

A Nkw New Orleans Delta has he following reference to the new fusion now efecting between the national Democracy and Black Republicanism. Head it, men of the South The signs are pointing every day with more and uore distinctness to a fusion of moderate Black Republicanism with the tiou intervention and non intension Democracy of the North. It is a pity hat such sympathetic elements were not sooner ilended together. It would have been all the letter for us outside barbarians of the South, if he strong family likeness and kindred feeling had more clearly manifested before the last Presdential election. It would have saved a deal of uisconception and anxious dubiety, if it had been mown in uuvunce una rrciuuui riiu uucnanan, or all practical purposes, were convertible terms.

s'ow, when fraternizing Northern supporters of are washing their robes white in the blood of bleeding Kansas," and are preparing to march mud in hand for the new political Jerusalem, the inaophisticatcd beholder is quite overcome with derided wonder, admiration and awe at the grand irocession which they are forming. Chinese Philadelphia Buletin expresses the fear that those who have Been mping that the labor question would be solved by he introduction of Chinese into the vhere labor is needed, will find themselves greaty mistaken. It says: In those Christian countries where the experiment of Chinese immigration has been tried, th? result has been anything but happy. In Califor nia, whither a better class have emigrated, and where many thousands seem now to be permanent.lv established, they are regarded as the most troublesome class in the whole populatioA. There are a few who make good domestics but generally they are a coirupt, thieving, lying and licentious race, and cause a vast deal of disoomfort in the community.

In the West India Islands, whither a number of Chinese coolies have been transported, to he employed as laborers, the results are not more fortunate. In Cuba, where thty are subjected to the dicipline, if not absolutely reduced to the condition, of the negro slave, they get along better. The strong hnnd of the overseer, the of punishment and unremitting vigilance over all their actions, restrain them from all the commission of the crimes and vices which make them so offensive in other countries. But in those parts of Jamaica where they have been employed they are a source of continual uneasiness. A recent writer savs that they are an intolerable nuisance that they are inveterate thieve no house being safe from their depredations, either by day or by night, and that the whole community regard tbein with hatred and distrust." Position or Mr.

Rollins. The following is an extract of a snereh made hv Mr Rollins, probably (governor elect from Missouri, at St. Louis, during the last campaign Now, in regard to uiy opinion ou the subject of' I hear it said occasionally that Missouri is destined to tie a free State. Very well; 1 am in favor of leaving that question to higher than human laws, and I am in favor of submitting that question to tho laws of climate, of emigration, uf labor, and of production, which, first or last, affect the destinies of man and commonwealths, and to the clear guidance of Him who does all things well. (Maiks of enthusiasm.) Now, I am in favor of encouraging labor iu our State; protecting the labor of this great city, and of the entire commonwealth in which we liva.

I a in favor of Inviting and encouraging emigration to the State of Missouri from every pftrl. (Oheers.) I say, let us throw wide open our doors and invite here men of the North, of the South, and men of every tongue and kindred upon the habitable globe. Invite llieiu here to cultivate our prairies, to till our land, to aid in developing our mineral resources, and to aid us in filling up our great cities, till making Missouri the proudest and noblest commonwealth In this sisterhood of States; and, if my friends, this cordial system of emigration from North and I say, this emigration in the rout He of yea "8 brings about such a disproportion between tlie white and black raci: that it is no longer tho interest of the people of the State of Missouri to continue it a slave-State, I say, then, let It go." (Tremendous cheers.) I'layiio hkh Hushand a Andover (Mass.) Advertiser tells a storv of a woman belonging to that town, who had falling out with her husband, and threatened to drown herself in the great Her husband was not at first alaimed, but at length she disappeared soon her bonnet and shawl discovered at the water's edge, the alarm spread throughout the neighboihood, and diligent search was instituted. Several persons were engaged in dragging the pond grap pnng iron" orougnnnio requisition, Dut 10 no purpose. All efforts, however, proved abortive, and the anxious ones were About to give up in despsir, when and behold, the lost one appeared, safe and sound.

She had been seated In a thicket overlooking the whole affair, and congratulated herself on having come it over them. Tkrrific PownRR Merchant's Powder Magazine, containing the whofe stock of Halifax, exploded with a terrific concussion, shortly after midnight last night. One man was killed and Hi injured five houses were demolished, and ten others partially destroyed. The government magazines and the new barracks were much shat tered, and nearly all the windows In the north part of the city were broken. The damage is estimated at $100,000 It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary.

The most intense excitement prevailed throughout the city for hours. Many persons were thrown from their beds, and others, bewildered, rushed to the streets for safety, imagining an earthquake had occurred. Knoxville Register and Whig of the 12th says: The news from Overton county settles the question of the Congressional election in thisdistrict. Mr. Mayriard gains ninety votes in Overton, or reduces the Democratic majority to that much less.

This guarantees his olootSnn tlwxlirrVl it 111 hir a maiorili' of aKaii? mma Sa. VIWW'WII, VI Vlir two hundred" only..