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eon ton t with thoir lot however auspicious i* | may be. Nations are possessed l?y the same J restless discontent. They are never satis- ( fied with any amount of present good, but arc constantly seeking and striving after the unreal and the unattainable. It would be ( impossible to invent a state of society so perfect but tlnit a desire would still exist i for something additional. It is the constant struggle between the actual and the ideal. As the actual necessarily partakes of the imperfections of human nature, the idenl always has more '.harms, because it is not of the earth. There is nothing more disastrous to the individual or tho nation than too nrdent a pursuit of the ideal at the expense of the actual. The pursuit of military glory, the acme of the ideal, has opened perpetual fountains of human blood. The blind pursuit of tho ideal in morals or politics, has iuflieted incalculable injury on tho human race. It is at least doubtful, whether men, . with the best intentions, in a reckless attain ment of tho ideal, have not done more injury to tho world than men of the worst inten- , tions seeking merely the actual. What i have occjisioncd more desolation and despair than religious wars ? What infinite ! slaughter did not men w ith the best inten j tions, in search of a revolutionary ideal, in- < flict upon France ? Nothing is more dan- ' gerous than philanthropy let loose. This pursuit of the ideal in this country J has taken tho form of Abolition. A largo j portion of tho Northern, people passing by 1 the numerous objects forphilauthropy at their ( own doors, exhaust their abstract benev- . olence on tho black nice of tho South. | Founding themselves on the captivating i abstraction that all men are born free and 1 equal, they hurry to the conclusion that a " general emancipation is desirable, and that j they should seek it. They do not stop to | consider whether emancipation, if attainable, 1 would not bo a curse rather than a bles- ' sing to the slaves. They overlook the sanguinary struggle which emancipation at f the South would bring on between the ra- i ces; they forget that, in this struggle, ' the blacks would necessarily be overwhelmed and exterminated; they overlook the j disasters emancipation would bring upon the whites of the South, who should bo enti- ? tied to at least as much of human sympathy as 1 the blacks; they overlook the disasters such 11 convulsions at the South would necessarily superinduce on their own section ; they forget that the African race of the South are better off, in many respects, than the laboriug population of any portion of Europe and far better off than the same number of Africans are, or ever have been in any period of history. They do not look at this question as a practical one. It is only the ideal that has any charms for them, They pursue this ideal at the expenses of the best interests of the very objects of their sympathy, at the expense of their country, the Constitution, republicanism, and the cause of humanity itself. In all the prolific history of human follies, none was ever more absurd, more unreasonable, more pregnant with disaster than this. It is emphatically the evil genius of the Republic. In reviewing the history of the human race, we find how seldom, and for what short period, any portion of mankind have enjoyed tho blessings of good govern ent. ' The folly and wickedness of our nice have almost invariably incapacitated ihein for i good government. An avenging Divinity seems to have incessantly pursued them, and punished them through their Governments. Oppression, insecurity, injustice, perpetual wars, wholesale murders, have becu tho constant and sad lot of the human race. If now and then a temporary gleam of liberty, and peace, and justice, light up the dark psg09 of the past, it has almost always immediately disappeared, and left the world in more profound darknes and despair. It once seemed that a different and better fate was reserved for our own country, but 't appears now that wo nro eventually to run the same career of folly and disaster that all nations have invariably run before us. Enjoying a higher degree of prospeii^ ty, and all the advantages of good govern, inent to a greater extent that has over been granted to the human nice before, we have appeared to be the especial favorites of a benignant Providence; but our blessings were too gjpat, and the spirit of discord, madness, and evil rose in our midst to hln9t our glorious inheritance. Henceforth. I fear wc are to play the same common-place follies, and undergo the same disasters, thnt II other nations have acted and endured. This nnti-slnvery agitation has already exercised a most injurious effect upon the North. I refer not so much to a mcterial us a iiiu>a! injury. It has inaugurated a fatal principle, at war with the peace of society, the higher-law principle?a principle by which individual conviction is elevated above the law. According to thi* principle, no laws, no constitution has any efficncy, when they come in collission with individ I rr?i_ i ?_ J _ a a! uni opinions. x nis principle in uexirucuve of the social fabric; for the theory upon which society rests, is, that the will of society, expressed in its legal form, through the action of government, is the supreme law ; but if no law is supreme but such as meets the approval of each citlrcn, then the forms of government arc but a mockery, and society is resolved into its original elements. This principle having hitherto token the form of antagonism to slavery, may not be considered by the North sa practical injury ; but there is no security that it wiH confine itself to its present form. It is ? self-relying, self-sufficient, and lawless spirit; nothing is sacred from its inrouds. VVs see already that it has taken other iorra*,sucn *? smi-remism snn lanfl Tot tho landless. ' This Utter cry has already found an exponent on the floor of Congress. ? qpf[ r Land for the landless " will ret i>o a terrible cry for the North. With density of population, superabundance of labor,' scarcity of wages, will come a time when this cry will find an echo in the northern State* Then property-holders there may tremble. The higher-law principle, which is n>w being established, wHI pare the war for this cry of land for the landless." The whole theory of property will bo questioned, and f it will ho found inconsretsnt with tho l.ighor law. Tho aionwmt this thoon become* popular among tho laboring ebagos of the North, the titles tu cslatss will begin to b? very precarious. It is surprising that the property holders or the North do not si the dangerous consequences involved in tl ligher-luw principle ol the slavery ngit Lion. The North have a peculiar interest In tl Government; it is einplinticnlly their Go ernment ; they have the majority ; they co trol it: they mould its legislation to pr mote their own interests; they posse: the larger portion of its patronage ; if ar people were ever especially interested the preservation of any Government, tl peop'c of the North are thus specially intc ested in the preservation of this Govcr merit. It is strange, therefore, that tin should systematically endeavor to destri it, as they are. doing, by their slavery agit tion. This agitation, more than nil oth causes, ill tending to destroy the Gover ment; and this agit ation they cherish ni caress, above all things else, as their favo ito policy. It is not strange, constituted human nature is, that men should give iul agitations which may injure others, but is strange to sue them agitating upon a sn jeet.the natural tendency of which is to ii jure themselves. It only shows how blii we become when we consult our passioi nnd our imaginations instead of our jud merits. The obvious tendency of this slav ry agitation is to destroy the Governmer NVhat holds the Government together? sense of its advantages, and a feeling of r mance. The object of government sngges its most prominent advantages. The gre object of government is protection?protc tion from external nnd internal wrong; b for the necessity for this protection, goveri ment would not exist. It may be sai therefore, that this is the great primary o jcct of government. And tho loading a vantage of tlio Government consist* in i capability to accomplish tliis object. Tl romance which attaches the people to tl Government consists in its past history ai the future before it. This is one of tl: main pillars of government; it constitul nationality, and, in proportion to the inte *ity of this feeling, is the capability of a n tion for great actions. The want of th feeling is one of the principal cnuses of tl nresent humiliation and dismemberment < [taly. This same want of nationality h nverwhelmed Germany with innumcrab nisfortuiics. The presence of this feelir mabled Spain to drive back the immcm irmics of Napoleon. It is the possossh >f this feeling in its most extreme for vhich has designated France as the great n ion. Mankind are greatly under the infl mce of their imaginations?under sneh f nfluence nations uecoine great. Both these bonds of union, the sense idvantage, and the feeling of romance, ha )cen greatly weakened by this Abolitii igitation. It found ours an efficient Go srnment, alfording protection abroad and ionic, sustained in tho affections of the pe lie by glorious antecedents and a sublir "uture. How changed is the scene not \bolition has paralyzed the Governmci So far as our foreign relations are co :erned we are powerless. We have all tl neans. both material and moral to tl nost efficient vindication of our rights, b hoy are harmless in oui hands. Wo ca lot use them. We cannot go to war wi my foreign Power There are but thr intions wilh whom we could be likely, u ler any circumstances, to be involved var?Spain, Mexico, and England. No n what condition are we to vindicate o -ights, if trampled upon by either of the Powers ? Is it Spain ? We can only di omatisc with her. War with her won lie stigmatized by thai North as a slave propaganda war, and opposed by her H( would it he with the South? Would th not see that in the natural course of even Spain, in despair, before she relinquish ker grasp upon Cuba, would decree eraan pation, and Cuba, uccording to the ductrin laid down by the North, on the ncquisi'i af territory from Mexico, would have a fi ttatiuf 7 i he same mens would render war with Mexico impossible; and the cert acquisition of the Canada* could not t make the South pause before going int< war with England. So far as the first gr< ol ject of Government is concerned, deter against external wrong, melancholy as is t confession, our Government is unable perforin its functions. As regards the s ond form of protection, protection ngaii internal wrong, our Government is even h able to discharge its great duty. What the object of the anti-slavery agitation 1 the eventual abolitiou of slavery in 1 States] The restriction of slavery in Territories is only one of the means of complishing this purpose. The abolitior slavery in the States, implies a war of I races, causing the greatest convulsions : disasters to the South. The strange sp tncle is, therefore, presented iu our Gove ment, of the dominant section seeking st dily to turn the action of the Goveriun into a direction at war with the existence the weaker section. Is not theGovernm then fniling to perforin its olfice of pro! tion against internal aggression ? The G eminent has, therefore, failed, to a very gr extent, to perform its most vital functior The feeling of romance I have alluded as one of the bonds of the Union, takes t forms, the memories of the past, nnd hopes of the future. Those memories grand and sublime, and a recent period.ee pnmtively, they all tended to strengthen idea of union. The tierce struggles of i ancestors with the Indian for a foothold this continent, their colonial wars with French. their great contest for independor the war of 1812, all illustrate and magr the idea of union. They exhibit our fc fathers standing side by sido in the en and the ennnciC and by their united o!T< bursting the barriers which man and nut opposed to the triumphal progrtma of country. But, in tho latter period* of < history, dar* shadows of sectional nrroga and injustice) havo fallen upon our path,i wo of the South can no longer look b: with the same pride and pleasure we 01 did. Uuntil this slavery agitation disturi the unsuspecting confidence of the Sou car future was the most glorious that e dawned upon nny oeople. But this disc dant fiend of Abolition has marred thepr pect; and instead of hope, greatness, pet and glory, we see before us disaster, d cord, war and anarchy. The romance the Union has been weakened, and is wei ening more and more every day. The sla ry agitation has, and is, loosening all I great bonds of the Union. It is evident, I think, that this crnu against slavery, if unchecked at the Nor will eventually overthrow the Oovornme Vn nrn/4ni*in.jf ikta raonlt tKa NnrtK is/ill nn to bum; for the South ask for right but what is grantod them under t Constitution, and in any dUforenco of ot> ion as to those rights tney have been Willi to abide by the decision of the jndieki in produeing this result, the North will, my opidioo, equal in madness any folly niatorv. One thing, loo, is olsur ; that wbi aver disasters this anti-slavery agitation m bring upon the eountry, the South will n have a monopoly of them. The interest# ti?o two sections am so interwoven, that i ory Mow struck by the North at the Sou resets upon herself; shoesnonly wound tl South in wounding hemutf. "Hie two nrl cipnl source* of northern prosperity, k material point of viosrfeontiM in coinmer and manufactures; they both receive th< principal elements of strength from tl #e South. As the South prospers, they pros10 pef ; *? the South decoys, tbey decay. In. a- deed, It is not stating the case too strongly,' to any, that the North have as much interest ifi in the institution of slavery as the South have; they have all the advantages ot slavery, and none of its disadvantages. And yet 11" tiio eastern States, which of. all others, <!??. rive the most bone lit flroin the institution, are most bitter against it. J* Should the present Government, Mr. Chairman, be overthrown, will the northern States be able to reconstruct n? good a ono r" in its stead ? The small States of the North _ * should remember thnt one of the principal difficulties in the formation of the present Government, arose from the unwillingness of the larger States to admit the smaller to 1 r an equality in the Senate. Will they be ( j able to enter a northern confederacy in this era of extreme Democracy on equal terms ' * in this respect with the empire States of jo New Vork, Pennsylvania, and Ohio I It is extremely doubtful whether they c uld. Those small States are peculiarly interested t)_ in the preservation of the present form of Government. Yet they are generally the most active in pursuing a policy at war with the continuance of the Government. In the ? event of a dissolution of the Union, there j" woulil not he two Confederacies formed, bntnt least three: for tl\o Stiles on the Fa ' cific ivou'd not have tho folly to mingle them^ ~ selves up with tho convulsions of the Allan(t tic (States ; they would raise tho banner of independence, and pursne their great career ( * alone. The northern States would be hedged id by two hostile nations?Kngland ou (j the North, their natural rival in commerce and manu tact ores, the slave States on the j South, exasperated by all the antecedents of ,J disunion. Tho lirst necessity of tho North ~ then would be a strong government largo )0 standing armies, a great navy, and heavy taxes. To what extent liberty Would suffer |o under the pressure of these necessities it is 03 not ditlie 11 It to say. It is n striking fact in history that no people surrounded by pow~ erful enemies have Veen able to preserve j* their liberties. Why is England tl o only free power in Europe ? Not merely because ()j- she has magna r.harta and the writ of hari(s ftcas carpus, but because she has the Straits le of Dover. Her insular position securing ' her from attack, dispenses with the necessU ty of vast stindirjg armies nnd permits he.m to be free. WeTiave hitherto enjoyed th:a |U signal advantage to a greater extent than a even England, nnd this is one great causo of u our freedom. In disunion the North will " no longer enjoy tliisadvantige ; and if liberty should not perish, it would be the first time in history that it had not under similar of circumstaneea. That a dissolution of the vo Union would bo followed bv wars long conon tiliued, fioree, \ indictive, cruel, and bloody, v- is too consonant with human nature for us at to doubt; hut I forbear longer to dwell upo on so repulsive a picture, ue Before the North, are two futures, one v! disunion, anarchy, chaos, loss of liberty, init. glorious wars, a miserable plagiarism of the n- South Amurieen Republics; the other union, he a continuance in the most signal course o( he prosperity, unparalleled ^runtiieas and glory, ut n-d the preservation of free* institutions, n- Who but a madman would hesitate which th to choose. For my own part, whatever inch ee Aiu-holy forebodings I may have upon this n- subject, 1 Ardently hope, as a lover of huin inanity, that the people of the North may w, be induced to cho >se the wiser course. Ever cry tiling depeuds upon the North ; we ol es tho South are in the minority; we are pasip aive ; ive make no war upon them or their ild institutions ; we desire concord, if it be po?. iry sible; we demand merely justice nnd the >w Constitution ; less than that we * could not ey demand with safety to ourselves. lxHE LEDGER t'C- ' ' _ LANCASTERVILLE. 8. C. ent ?? ffEpygaPAY JUNB ?,m Apologetic.?Mr. Boy cue speech, am eat other nrticlos, prevent ui from inserting is. much uditoriul matter. We believe tliej ' will prove mm interesting to our readers a anything we could write, eapecially whei art, we know of nothing of much importance t< >m- engage the attention. our Thaskm.?The Hon. Josiah J. Evans on will accept our thanks for a copy of "Mexi t',e can Claim*. Report Select Committee." ico, | m | >fy Mr Boyck's Hpkf.cii.?We are satisfiet >rc* the Hpuech of Mr. Boyce, which we publisl irts lo-('?y? w'" ^ rwt^ attentively and witl ure much prone. As our readers are aware, .*!; the B. is the member to Congress from the 6tl Dur Congressional District, composed of York tnd tester, Fairfield, Ac. Kli This is his second speech in the Hous nee of Representatives, and characterised b ,0<i talent and research as this is, the first w* l"1' no leas so. rer , , ^ , "r* Large Connn.?W. A. Moore, Esq., th OS* icu other day brought us a stalk of cotton or |j8. which we observed six or sovon forms?il of was from the plantation of Mr. John N, '* Faulkner?a thinning oat atalk at that. Oats?Mr. J. A. Hosoeltine showed 11 a bundle of very protty oets the other dai ^ It measured first in height. We hopt nt' he has a large crop. Corsul. To Grkos.?We are much pleas he ed to announce that on Friday last a nomi in- nation waa made to the Senate of the Unite< States, by President Pierce, of our worihj fellow-citizen, Alexander Herbemont, Sr. in as Consul to Genoa. This sppointuien ?t- gives much satisfaction to the friends of Mr *7 Herbemont, and we are sure will be favors bly received throughout the State. He h |V. well known aa a gentleman of high nharac th tar, exaet buainese habits, and sdmirabf* qualifications for such a poet. We roagrat. ' * ulate (ha government on the appointing v() of one who we are sure will prove bimsell sir * reliable and efficient representative of her he interest*? Cmrotinimn. ' 4 j J& ' * OOMMXJHICATIOlf S. Ore . .. - ?_ an i [For the Ledger.] S. ] Mk. EdiTmK?An there seems to be male j*4"' dissatisfaction io reference to the vote t gave, ^ In the Legislature, upon tho proposition to make the white population of the State tho ? basis for tho distribution of the Free School ?? ' fund, I hope you will allow mo the privi- ('1" lege of explaining, through the columns of an your valuable paper, my course in reference * , to that subject. Before I speak of tho action of tho Login- "( latere upon tho free school question, 1 will a state that, during tho course of '52, I took ^ the ground distinctly, that the poor children __ of the State, wore tho only proper basis for jj.. the distribution of the fund?giving to each t district and parish in proportion to the num- j ber of its poor children. But if this could j not be effected, I was in favor of mnkjng tho white population of V o State the basis of f distribution, instead of the present, believing i that, thereby, tho distribution of the fund c would be more equal. After expressing 1 y myself thus, both publicly and privately, I 1 was elected; for which honor I then felt, ' and still feel, grateful to tho people of my district. With these views, and feeling n deep interest in this subject, I went to tho *'' Legislature in '52. After consultation with ' some of the most prominent and experienced vaf members, 1 found that, on account of n want ml of tlie proper information in reference to the bc< number of poor children in each of the dis- a ^ tricts und parishes, it would be impossible to so framen Bill, making the poor children of *,n tho State the b isis of distribution, without Bu such objections as would insure its defeat, I boi thcrsfore abandoned it. I then offered a Bill, UP through some discouragements, however, to o alter and amend the Free School laws of South Carolina, as to increase the appro- ] priation to fifteen thousand dollars, and pjc make the wliite population of the State the lne basis of distribution: This Bill was referred y0| to the Committee on Kducation, of which I pr( was a member; when it came before the ori Committee for consideration, I found that I was almost alone in reference to that yQI cl.'.nse of the Bill which proposed to make jnt the white population the basis of distribution. After discus-big the question, 1 was Mjlf assured the Committee would report against tho Bill. Knowing how difficult it was to j>|1| pass a Bdl in tho House, when reported a gainst by a Committee, and, in all probabili- mii ty, if this passed the Honse.it would be de- Rjt( . footed in tlie Senate on account of this clause, I said to the Committee, that my dia, triet, together with mnny others, needed jy ( more money than they would get, accordto the present basis of distribution, if the ^ appropriation was not increased beyond j.( fifteon thousand dollars, and must have it q ' or their poor children must go untaught, and proposed to the Committee that if it would ( recommend an increase of the appropriation to seven ty-four thousand four hundred dol: lars ($74,400) 1 would consent, when the M Bjli came before (he House again,to strike K? I out the clause making the shite population ' tho basis of distribution. This proposition Wfis agreed to by tho Committee, I believe, without a dissenting voice. Before this l'u Bill caine In-fore the House agnin.Uie gener.-tl appropriation bill camo up for conside- *" ration, which proposed the former Free ^ School appropriation, to wit: thirty-seven erv Thousand two hundred dollars, ($37,200). ^ Col. Asbmore, of Sumter, moved to nmend l,,t' that clause of the Bill by strikiug out 36,200 und inserting seventy-five thousand, ($75, tr 000), I suggested to him to so modify his motion as to make it seventy-four thousand ne four hundred, as a Bill from tho Committee nv on Education proposing that amount would nn come up in due timo, he accepted my suggoat ion. Mr. B. P. Perry, of Greenville, 'nl thou submitted this smcuduient: "Provided, the said sppropriation be apportioned among Sc the scverul districts and parishes in prnpor- ,nl ' tion to the while population of tho State, ,l' believing that an increase in the appropria- v'' tion was important, and as I felt confident ^ the amendment was otl'ured for the purpose, ot and would linre, ifit passed the house, the ,v 'l effect of defeating the entire lucssure in the Pl , Senate, and as I hud Agreed, (as I have be- ftt \ fore atuted), with the Committee on EduCa- 111 # tion, to strike out from Iho Itill tliut I had ai> offered, this same proposition, for the pur. # pose of furtlier increasing the appropriation, and rendering its passage more certain, I di voted against Ferry's amendment, not that w b I was opposed to muking the w hite populo* tion of the Stato the basis of distribution, oo but for tho reasons, in part, above stated. an j I have thus, Mr. Editor, briefly, though I p? lt trust, satisfactorily, explained my course in T . reference to this subject. " v th Respectfully, W. C. CAUTIIEN. an '' [For tho Ledger.] to After a abort perusal of the Ledger, I find hi 0 .Mr. R. H. Hailey's name used as s candidate ni y for a seat in the lower branch of the State ? 9 legislature. I felt truly proud when I |>erceiv- br ed his name inserted among that honorable body ef men. Simply for this, and other f? e reasons combined of like character, viz: pi > fie was the flrst that successfully introdu- ee ced a n: wapoper Into onr district?the first pr man to manifest so much interest io the th welfare of our people. Ho has devised a T plan by which the laboring portion, as well lit * as other clasaea of our community rosy derive comfort, while sitting around their home fr' ' fire-sides. It being s district pspcr, many ^ ru infnrmMl ks imntslmr if might not, otherwise, have hai an opportn- M . nity. I find that knowledge in being more en ] generally diffused than K win prior to the ha f establishment of the Ledger. I admire Mr. di ,, B. for Ills v*i? decided manner?h? don't lb t bide his fanlte and fkilinge an some man da, th if he conduct# hlmaell improdentiy, he freak- ab ly confesses it, if acquired?and if he sees ? i anything wrong In the eoodaet of others, . he Is sot ashamed or afraid to acquaint * 1 i them of it. Soeh vet are Beaded In the de . Hates tan Of Ated priaciplee and deter- ** \ mined purpose, should go there, sod if oar M 1 my sotoaoasd Jbistd is the mas, why or not go into the mailer like heroes, sad sleet a him this is the motto of Salem Camp e? # m ? mod, and the surrounding country. We i united body highly recommend Mr. R. Bailey as being a suitable candidate to present us in our next Legislative tneet* It Is true that Mr. B. is not Intimately uainted with the majority of the people bis district, but if thoy will peruse the umns of the Ledger they will And his iliticAtions and principles fully developed, 1 that is the most suitable recource by ich we can solve mysteries which are in. ible to the eye?the tree is generally >wn by its fruit. We hail our friend with earty success. D. SW YORK C0RRE8P0HDEKCR. dues* of the Bummed-Preparation* tor Ruaieating?Commencement of the Kxodua? Sight hundred Arrival* s day at Saratoga? fore Jeremiads about our city Government ?Model Reformers?The Street*?Getiin u(wilt in the Held?Aldcrruanic Feeling* Wounled?Rowdyism?The Angel Gabriel at hi* ' ikl Trick*?Riot in Brooklyn?Sentence of lli^jor Wyae?Fall in the Price of Beef and Hour?The Strawberry Market?Grand lluscal Congress. New York June 14, 1854. '. Editor : Summer has thna fur treated us with a it deal of consideration. Here we are in the ddle of Juno, and as yet the mercury has pn without exercise, end thin coats are at liscounL We bioss the pleasant breezes, i can hardly realize that last year this m we were sweltering under visitations it smacked of Ethiopia. The accustomed its have not yet made their appearance; to the present point the season has been ??"Weak and mild And gentle as an unwearied child." Notwithstanding thin, however, onr peobegin to show the usual signs of Sumr emigration. Old men and matrons, Ling men and maidens, are all engaged in pnrntior. Patching and packing are the Icr of the day. Nothing is in the head 1 heart of youngsters but vacation, and ungstcrs of a larger growth Recm to be cut on the same subject. All who can ic the needful will be off. No mutter if irp bargains have to be sacrificed and the er of Mammon for a time grows cold; let siness for a while give way to pleasure. I'he exodus, indeed, has already comnccd. The steamboats and railroad cars >w it, teeming a a they do wi'h Iminnn i. Saratoga, that Eldorado of young irts, shows it, with it* eight hundred didarrivnls. Yet flows the living tide. Ay to the fields ! Away from the scorchparcmentsnrd pestering corruption of the ) to the fresh atmosphere of the fields; r whole population during the summer son seem t*> feel with .the poet that ad made the country; but man nistlc the town." Mas! man not only made the town hut merits it, as wc poor New Yorkers conntly realize. Most of our present Corpoion dignify themselves with the name of formers and were elected as such; but y have exhibited to us poor specimens Reform. Our city was never governed irac or nt greater expense. The very imuiittce under whose auspices our prest city charter was obtained, ai.d our Alrmen and Cowncilmen were elected, are named of the rcaulte, and can only beg L-ir fellow-citizens V> try it again foranothyear and hope for better fortune next time, i to cleaning the streets, Mr. Glazier, the w Commissioner, has not yet seen fit to rard the contracts, and broouis and carta i' therefore among the things that were.? [>r does it look si sil as if he intends tnnkg contracts; he probably purposes doing e cleaning and fingering the money himIf. Meanwhile the streets are full of reek* g filth and with the u-unl hot sun of July rmeuting it, nothing but the mercy of Prodence coin avert pestilence from our limits, enin, who a short timo since as Chairman ' a Committee of merchants, had Broadway rept every night throughout, sent in n pro. isition to the Alderman two days since to tend himself to thu proper cleaning of the iteenth Ward, in which lie resides, and ked them to appropriate $400 a week for c purpose. The worthy officials regarded is communication as derogatory to their gnity and ordered that It b? returned to the riter! Dirt is not the only difficulty we have to intend with in this great city ; rowdyism ia (Other evil of fearful magnitude. We exist a riot aa regularly aa Sunday cornea.? he half-craxed knave who style* himself e Angel Gabriel ia allowed to hold forth id his violent tirades are always sure to ovoke s row. Sunday he went over Brooklyn, attended by a crowd of neverat indred fanatics like himself. The llihen ana who listened to his harangue berame tcited, and a general melee ensued in wMeh oken heads were frvely given and reeeiv. L This demonstration was effected; and rtunately the Sheriff had sworn in 150 deities fsr the occasion, and several military >mpenies had been kept under arms. The as omptl) proceeded to the spot, disponed e rioters, and made a number of arrests.-? he prisoners have been tried with a prompude unprecedented in the annala of trimal justice, and sentenced to imprisonment Ikm tktrilf Ammm I/* ml m ? asli?? J* ? ? ??/ " ?<* nivmiw, acwnnnn 10 eir deeerte. Major Wyee, lately triad before a Court artial at Governor* lalaad, for deeliruag to ibark with bin command on the Faleon, bees found guilty of disobedience of erw re; but being recommended to teeisy by Court, ioatead of being dlamiaaed trwa a service, baa been aosteceed mereiy to t months' aoepeaaioo. The department ry jnetly ease or as the odteora aprepaabig e Board st Krsahdiaa lor selecting ooeb vessel to perform the trip, there being no nbt that eh* eras, as M^jar Wyss (Ana* leeaworthy ; eUU, K is bold that tltb dees t excuse him foe dbobedtesce to a as pari ofReer. Oar markets are bseoaalsf deeidodly mora mfortable. Boef, within a fcw days, baa fallen 3 eta. per lb. ften the unreuoatblfl I rates which hare lately prevailed. Choice i porter-steak* can now be procured for 90 i eta. a pound and other cote in proportion.? t Flour, also, has experienced a sodden and I most healthy decline from $9.60 to |8 for common state brands. Choice state, Wee- t tern, and Canadian may be had for #8 AO ; I Southern is a figure higher. Strawberries are now beginning to come in abundantly. The steamer from Key-port, new Jersey, on Friday last brought In 418,100 baskets. They retailed at 4 centa apiece ; but It must be remcmbercd that the baskets are decidedly dwarfish in their dimension ; Tom Thumb alone could swallow hnlf a dozen of them without feeling uncomfortable. The musical world is on the tiptoe of ex* ( pacta'ion for the grand musical Congress which Is to conie off to-morrow nt the Crystal I'nlnee nndur the joint anspiccs of Burnum and Jutlien. Fifteen hundred artists arc to take part in the exercisea. To-day there will be two rehoarsnls, and to-morrow nt 4 o'clock the doors will open. The entertainment will cost 9*20,000. By their charter, the Aasociation are prohibited from charging more than 60 cents for admission ; they get over the difficulty in this case, how- . ever, by admitting people for fifty cento, and then charging them a dollar and a half for a reserved scat llnmum understands it.? The programme includes a great rnriety cf pieces by Handel, Haydn. Mendelsohn, and other distinguished composers. Wise, tho great aeronaut, made a successful balloon ascension from the palace ground Inst Thursday afternoon. It was witnessed by crowds. v...,? HUDSON. FOREIGN NEWS. ARRIVAL OFT HE ARABIA AT NEW TORE. THREE DAYS LATER FROM ELROrr.. . New York June, 13. 'Hie Canard *'emu ship Arabia has roar lied her dock nl Jersy city, with advice* from laverpool to the 3d inat.?three days later than received by the Pacific. The commercial intelligence brought by the Arabia i* highly encouraging. Cotton had advanced one-eighth of a penny per pound; all descriptions of brcadalufi* had gone up materially, and the general aspect of trade waa decidedly better. The war newa ia again vary interesting, but the miscellaneous political information < is totally devoid of genera) interest. The Black Warrior affair and the demand of our government for the various outrages perpetrated upon our flag by Spanish oflki J* during a period of eighteen years, still formed the chief topic of discussion and negotiation at the Court of Mndrid. The last report waa that the difficulty was really advancing towards a settlement. All wss quiet in England and France.? Some stir had been aroused In British political circles by a report that Ixird Palmerston would shortly assume the ministerial manngement of the War Deportment. As this chango in the Ministry has for s long time been the subject of comment, it is more than probable there is good foundation for the rumor. The weather waa fine in England, nnd the prospect of the harvest promising. Bullion in the Bank of England was increasing. me War im THE OPERATIONS AT SILMTMA, ETC. The statement per Pacific, thai Ihc Run- 1 hi mux had been driven from SilUtria with (rrent loan, turna out to have been somewhat exaggerated. The Turks have, however, successfully repulsed them in three different attempts they have made to cross the Danube with the view of (.sining possession of the place. The Russians admit that they would be unable to capture the place in less than A fortnight. At the last dates Omar Pacha, chief commander of the Turkish army, was advancing to ths defence of SlUstria with about ninety thousand men. Prior to commencing this march a council ol war waa held at Varna, between Omar, and the Knglish and French commanders, at which it was decided that the armies of the allien should push forward to Adrianople. MOVEMENTS Of THE n.EETS. The report of the bombard as <n.i and destruction of some of the Hango outpost is confirmed, bnt the strongest or mnln fort had not been captured.' It) addition to the squadrons in the Black Bra and the Baltic, il.. -im i ?t - mc mutTH iiivo now orirHninffl 10 pluc strong nnvsl force In the White 81m; and in addition despatched aereral vessels towards the Ciraaaaion coast, when finding that the Russians had abandoned and destroyed their fhrts In thai vicinity they returned to the neighborhood of Behsoto pol The blockade of the cities bordering the Block 800 continued to ho rigidly enforced, but no farther demonstration hod hcen outdo against Heheotopot. The monotony trao occasionally enlivened by a mee between the reconnoitre!ng steawrs of the English and Russian squadrons, whenever oither of the portion catered into tnoUeee proitmitv to il*? other. This tomprWe ibnirt mil ll?? nivil fighting that km lately taken plane. ttWTIu'l DtliM on ttWi. Rumia in positively ordered ?o >wwa? the PrineipaUtke by Anetria. A iiwfoe benr'.ag thin ferial dreamt, wee In Ware Vienna on the U int. Both A oati la end Proani* were other* tea actively preparing to eoopermte with the Weotora Pewtm. v e twk rent Tien or eiuci. King Othn had aeeadtd to thn demand* ,f the allies, and in order to illoetrate hi* unicable intentions, bad reconstructed hi* einistry ; bat it was doubted whether thi* movement on the part of the King would have the effect of quieting the insurgents. A force of eight thousand Frenchmen had taken pease?ion of the Pinses, the strongs hold of the inanrgeote. OBOBOtA Aim C1XCASSIA. The independence of Georgia had bcert proclaimed. We have nothing later relative to tbe ope* rations in Circnssia. Important from Washington* WAsmsoTo*, June, Id. Government has received despatches front Comguxiore Perry annonncing thst he has it length sncecfdcd in opening the ports of Japnn to the eommerre of the United Stn us Considerable excitement has been produced among the politician* hereby thedis. covcry of tbe Cict that the Nebraska Kansas bill leaves the old law relative to foreigners in ftill force. This is oven more restrictive against foreigners than was the Clayton amendment, which was rejected, for it excludes nil foreigners from territories, ex. ceptlng when provided with a passport from the Secretary of War Col. Benton is said to have made the discovery. An amendment to expunge this objectionable feature from the Nebraska Kansas bill will soon be intro. durcd. and thoa the excitement on the sub. ject wili be opened afresh. '| i ne ocnaie 10-any connrmcd the commercial treaties recently negotiated with Uruguay and the Argentine Republic. Mr. Douglas offered a bill to fix the nnoual meeting of Congress on the first Mon* d??r of October. The House was engaged during most of the day in discussing the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation lib. GRKBNTTLI.k Fabrics f?r N. York.?Our readers will, no donbt, be surprised to learn that almost the entire productions of three 4 of the largest manufacturing establishment* a * in this District are constantly sent to New York, but aueh la the fact. For several months past, thero have been standing contracts with wholesale houses in that city I ? with the Bateaville Cotton Factory, and Me Bee's and Dunham's Paper Mills, for nil ( the Paper and Yarn they can make, and inrge quantities have already been forwarded So much for our Railroad.?Mountdncer. We learn from the \'?wl?orrv (S. ('.) Srntinel, that en the 8th inst, Thornton, the I slave of Dr. Jm. K Bobo, was tried before Magistrate P. M. Courts, at Saluda Mills for the murder of Olivkr Towlks, the over- A seer of Dr. BoBO. The court convicted & Thurnhm and sentenced him to Ihj hanged no Friday,the 23d inst. | Person* who served in private armed abide I during the war of 181'J, and were wounded, are entitled, by a recent set of Congress, to B a pension. The Commissioner of Pensions announces thst the following evidence of their being entitled to the Iwncfits of the B law will be required, vix: Sworn declaration or memorial, setting forth t'?e vessel to fl which the pensioner belonged; his r.ank or station: when paid, and in what in inner disabled ; monthly rate of pension, ami 'B date to w hich last paid. Evidence of identity, either by affidavit or two cruditablc wit- J neases, or the certificate of a Justice of the Peace. The nobve evidence to be authenticated by the certificate, under s"?l of the proper officers, showing the official character of the Justice of the Peace, and to be for- p * warded, together with the original pension certificate, to ttie Commissioner's office. Tiik Court.?The Equity Court for this I District adjourned Thursday evening last, after four days of hard and constant labor. ChaRcrllor Di-rbis presided with his usual ability and dignity and dischuged his responsible and arduous duties, as far as we hare 1 learnt, with entile satisfaction. His prcs- B nee among u- contributed no loss to tlm B. pleasure and enjoyment of his aeqiiainlaiiees than to the maintenance of oqnitv and fl justice in the community. He leaves in fine health and spirits for other fields of duty amid a general regret that his stay could r.ol be prolonged. We know on man who B weares the ermias of authority with more B grace and dignity, or who combine* more of 1 th? "sn ivliM in ??*?? ' ?Oi- U..or .ai. JU iffi ... ??~ mr -ltirnvi'^Mn re" than Cakckllou Ducats. Mia prrvrt^p*' in any eommunity^iaaeauae ofcongralulatin and almoal a guarrantee in Itself of tho good behavior and deenrnm of all within the reach of hia Influence. We wiah him a pi vasnnt ' 1 time in tho farther discharge of hia dutin and a aafv return to hia famly.?Sumter Ban. mr. ^ Tat Paueriaous CouDiTto* or Cn*aIjOT . K.?Aa an evidence of the prnapemu* * condition of Charlotte at this time, we mention that onr enterprising townsmen Taylor & Allison have four m.vehioea for mannfuct tiring Brick, hy which tliey are able to tnnn <?tV forty thonaend a day, and yet they eannot supply the demand. A few days since a' , . Cntleman, one ef the Directors of tbn BraiK'h> nk of the State, applied to them for brick, at per 1000 at the kiln, for building a bonk honae, and w?e turned off, they alleg.ng that they could not more than All the orders, which they already had. These gentlemen have a large number of hands at work, and still advortiso for wore. They are now engaged in building a very large 4 atory Grist and Sow Mill for Mr. Lreov Snrfaew two aqttarve Mat of fhe politic eqnarv, w hie ft, whon ItnUhvd, will long More m a monument of their arehUecloral oklll, and of the public spirited liberality of ita owner. And whilst Uleeera. Taylor 4k Allison are fortifying the presprm* of the town about the sale* with brick anil tartar,ear akillfal and tarpon tor*, Rniliitll, l^oh#, |&)atlnr% Jem*ti, BerryhUi and others arc huliding up and extendlne ita i i n? ? I u>?iu - 1 * Dumber of private residence*, according " I . the Mat approved and Uatefai modrl* of TL " wwwwiwiw i vws vhpln fy??m tftf ow low# knt<> Mm atee dmI appearance A dip I? MM? to ti*t Mattering pro*- ' K. We may my, end mieljr any, thai there j 4 a More thrifty, prosperous, and indu*- I i M da** of farmers In the etorld thaa "J thoee of old Meek ten be ff. They *11 h.n? jA ae hmk> money mlhor wanmremrrrowridoi with an abend*Me* ?f all the eooifori* ef I tile, and. even eflmieeb a degree of atyle ia l