The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEW YORK, Sur. 16.
Staten Island has been placed under martial law,
and a body of troops now holds possession of the
quarantine grounds and some portion of the district
adjoining. This, however, is the only appearance
of martial law that there is. In other resists* and
in all other places, the constituted authorities
gill bear sway. The Board of Health and the
Executive of the State are placed in a somewhat
embarrassing dilemma as to what course they gelid
pursue with regard to the rebuilding of the Quario.
tine. There is a very decided feeling prevalent
amongst all classes against its present site, both
from the danger to which it exposes the inhabitants
of the island and its vicinity to New York. But if,
on the other hand, it is now removed to
any other place, however desirable, the
change will unmistakeably wear the ap-
pearance of succumbing to intimidation, and
afford encouragement for future displays of
mob violence. It is hard to decide whether yellow
fever or lynch law is the worse evil, and yet under
present circumstances it is almost impossible to take
proper precautions against both. An action
about to be commenced against the county to make
it responsible in damages for the mischief done,
estimated at about 50,0001. ; but whether it will be
possible to get a verdict against it is another ques-
tion. The same may be said of the leading rioters--
all of whom are in custody, and are under bail to
appear for triaL I do not think, however, that one
of them ever will be convicted.

The Atlantic Telegraph is still silent, and serious
apprehensions begin to prevail es to whether it may
not be after all a failure. Probably long ere thus
reaches you, manages will be flashing to and fro, a
thousand in the day, but in the meantime the multi-
tude is enjoying its royal prerogative of doubting.
The theory is being propounded here in rather an
authoritative way that the whole thing must of
necessity be a failure, owing to the want ot all means
of regulating the velocity of the electrical vibrations
along the cable. How tar this is tree I must leave
to the electricians to decide. In the meantime the
crowd, as its manner is, is just as faint-hearted now
as it was jubilant three weeks ago. The South,
curiously enough, has never partaken of the
excitement about the cable. The planters are
dreadfully afraid that it will enable the cotton
speculators, of whom they have a holy horror, to
victimise them in a most alarming manner. How,
it is hard to see, unless they suppose, and naturally
enough, that the merchants in the (,resit towns will
be in possession of earlier intelligence than the
cotton lords in the interior, or that enterprising in-
dividuals on the other side will use the cable as a
medium for the transmission of false news. John
Mitchel, the " Irish exile," who now edits a pro.
slavery paper in the South, and clamours for the
re-opening of the slave trade, speaks of it as " the
thrice accursed cable." I imagine it may safely be
predicated that none of the pro-slavery party are
anxious to see the anti-slavery North brought into
closer contact with anti-slavery England.
To give you an idea of the extent to which the
feeling of sectional animosity is carried of late years,
I may mention that efforts are being made by a cor-
poration of ladies to buy Washington's house and
tomb at Mount Vernon, to be held by them in trust
for the nation. Their plan of operations consists
simply in the collection of one dollar each from as
many women in the whole Union as can be got to
give it. So 'strong, however, is the anti-slavery
feeling at the North that the agents of the associa-
tion find great difficulty in many localities in raising
any sum, however small, owing to the fact that the
house and tomb lie across the border and in a slave
state. Great as is the general reverence for Wash-
ington's memory, the detestation of the South is
stall greater.
The captain of the Echo, the captured slaver, was
brought here by the olphin, for the pur-
pose of sending him back to Charleston
to be tried at the same time as his
crew. The authorities here, however, declined
to take charge of him for the purpose of transmit-
him to any other place, which they had no
authority to do, so he was carried on to Boston, deli-
vered over to the United States marshal, and will be
tried there. This may be said to be a sheer acci-
dent, but it is in all respects • piece ot very good
fortune, inasmuch as it is almost as certain that a
j Boston ury will convict him as that a Charleston
jury would have disagreed or acquitted him. In
fact, when he was here he was chuckling over the
prospect of a speedy deliverance at the hands of the
ink Carolinians, and is dreadfully crest-fallen at
finding himself on trial in the focus of abolitionism.
He is at present undergoing a preliminszy. examina-
tion before an United States commissioner. If
he is convicted the President will find himself
in a dilemma about the execution of the
sentence. On the one hand, the North,
and England, and decency itself, will imperiously
require that he should put the law in force; on the
other, the Southern fire-eaters will move heaven and
earth to save an honest nigger-dealer from the
gallows. Now vorrons.
The expedition against Paraguay, so long
I;
is
im-
pending,
at last on the point of starting.
are various small wrongs to avenge, which probably
deserve avenging, but one of the objects of the
enterprise is rather curios& They propose to compel
Paraguay to ratify • treaty in which alterations of
form were made after it had been framed at Wash-
ington. This is certainly something new in
diplomacy.

Rion Ruffs ix Paint —A letter from Paris g
: —.‘ Landlord's,* &oddity a pries for ceramists .
which neither the middle nor the lower caddli
pay. Gradually shoe 1848 the prime of aperture dll ■
Faris have nearly doubled. The vales of a tile& we two -
told, Is what it will kph ; end if landlords and their pro- rr
party doubled ie vela% and get paid socordiegly, of come
they, like the Net of the world, avail themeelvesof the merhd
pries. Time dzie can cornet the univervally co/oedema
of evil—the high price of apartments. lam told there are
to km than 20,000 *punned, to let in end about the city •
Pleb, And yet you cannot rent half-s-dozen rooms oe the
fourth or fifth floor of a respectable hotel for lees des
1004 per annum: 1,0004 and 1.6004 is the common pries of
an ordinary fleet or woad floor of a good house to •
rerpectable odder. Of this clam of eprotaide
there are numbers to let. The fact is, hundred' d
humbler dwellisp bays been pulled down &nisi
the last four or leo years, and replaced by mageffhoel •
hotels, built at • pest oat, inerniflo,ntly decorated fro= SoP,
M bottom, beide sad out. Now the class of people true
can afford to pay the red demanded for such aperumeats le
of necessity limited, end that is why so may we es-
occupied. The mania Is for building magnificent hotels,
whilst no emorstmededon is provided for people Who
form an immense elms in Paris—viz., those who cannot
afford to pay more thee SOL w 1101. per moms tor home tett.
Another dew the ventere, ere 'weeny sufferers. TOY
pay 104 • year, for amsskYa 05 hen idlately under the
very roof of ••hoed, where they are angsmail to the rodremet
of heat sod cold. They compieln bitterly *Oust landkeds.,
and openly talk about a dor of retribution. believe is ass
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of • revolution in Perk, the ilmet impales would be to has
the leidlords."
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