The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-17 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEW YORK, Arguer 4.

The selection of Nugent, the eclitoi of the Sae
Francisco Herald, as American representative at the
Fraser River " diggins," is exciting a good deal of
animadversion from all quarters. The gentleman
has, it appear!, ever since his arrival in this country
—he is an Irishman by birth—made himself more
conspicuous for turbulence and rowdyism than any-
thing else. He has been the hero of five or six
duels, of the "street fight " character' and has been
prominent in the lower ranks of the democracy, ap•
parently more for the sake of the uproar and excite-
ment than from any real interest in the matters
at issue. His paper, however, rendered a good
deal of service to the Buchinanite cause at the last
election, and upon the strength of it he has been ,
hanging round Washington for some time put seek-
ing office. The gold discoveries have turned up very
opportunely to relieve Mr. Buchanan of his presence ;
but the appointment is certainly anything but com-
plimentary to the British government, and is a very
poor return for the freak and liberal spirit in which
the latter is dealing with American immigrants at
the mines. If Nugent ever does anything to
smooth over difficulties, maintain a good un-
derstanding, or soothe angry passions, he will
belle his antecedents most marvellously. The
affair is about on a par with " poor Pierces" selec-
tion of Smile for the mission to Spain. One of
the misfortunes of Presidents is, that those of their
adherents who do them moat service at elections,
and can do them most injury afterwards, are often
the least creditable of the pack, and must neverthe-
less. perforce, be handsomely provided for at the
public expense, though both the interest and reputa-
tion of the country may suffer iu consequence.
The accounts from Utah are at last intelligible.
The army has entered the city, but the Saints are
most of them absent, and have left their houses shut
up. It is believed, however, that they will soon get
tired of the demonstration and come back home. It
is somewhat trying to the troops, after a long winter
on the plains, to see empty betimes on alludes of
and yet be obli to
them,remain under canvas.
The Mormon women we all been carefully re-
moved, and none have as yet made their appear-
ance. If the accounts be true that great numbers of
them are disgusted with their lot, and are anxious
for an opportunity to escape, it is somewhat !singular
that none have as yet found their way into the
I camp. In fact, it is very difficult to believe any of
the stories that have been told either of Brigham
Young's ferocious despotism, or the general discontent
of the people. It is improbable that any religious en-
thusiasts, such as civilised countries can turniU' would
sit down quietly year after year under such a rule as
his has been represented to be, when he has no
standing army to enforce his orders ; and still more
improbable, that if large numbers were discontented
with his relgime, they would not have made their
escape to the army in spite of any efforts to prevent
them. It will take some time still to get at the
truth of this matter. All the letters from Utah
which I have yet seen have been colourild by par-
donable monogamish prejudice and passion, and have
been written in the vein of bombast and bathos so
common amongst the mass of people here that it is
impossible to feel that one has got hold of what the
French call " la virile vraie."

The comments of the Times upon the Niagara a
few months ago, denouncing her as an utter failure
for war purposes, have touched a very tender point
here, and people are revenging themselves by
greedily swallowing the stories which have been set
afloat as to the conduct of the crew of the Aga-
memnon during the storm. The sensitiveness of the
public on the subject of skips is something marvellous
even to those who have been accustomed to John
Bull's maritime enthusiasm. Very few people in
England, except a few Liverpool men connected
with the American trade, oars very much whose
line of steamers makes the fastest trips across the
Atlantic, and fewer still take the trouble to get an
information on the subject. Here, the "time'
by the Collins or Vanderbilt boats is a national
affair. Everybody is in a state of chronic
excitement about it, and chronic hostility
to the unfortunate " Cunarders." When the
Adriatic was being built, the whole of this city was
in a state of feverish expectation until she should
have beaten the Persia, and the first rumour which
reached uof her having made a tolerably fad passage
to Liverpool was set forth in enormous bulletins out-
side the newspaper offices, and surrounded by osier
crowds.

We are in the midst of our dullest season. The
fashionable churches are shut up, and the fashion-
able clergymen are laying in fresh stores of pathos
in the mountains and by the seaside. The ahopmen
pass their days in dozing, and the lawyers even can-
didly confess to having very little to do. The whole
of that portion of the population of New York who can
muster a few dollars over and above their weekly
subsistence have gone to the thousand and one
retreats which railways and steamboats have of late
years opened up to the afflicted denizens of cities.
There is in the western part of this State, strange as
it may seem, a patch of wild forest and lake region,
600 miles square, known as the Adirondach, still
in the hands of the hunter, and affording
subsistence to hears and herds of deer. Within the
last three or four years it has become the fashion for
overworked lawyers, clergymen, and merchants to
make up parties in this month of a down or mere,
provide themselves with rifles, hire a trapper as a
guide, and start for the wilderness and wander about,
hunting and fishing, and sleeping under the trees.
It would be hard to conceive of a better mode of
laying up a stock of health for the ensuing winter,
and the sport throws your grouse-shooting into the
shade. A batch of the chief literary lights of
Boston have just disappeared in this direction, num-
bering amongst them .erson, the essayist
The canvass for Gerrik Smith, for the governor-1
.hip of this state, continuos, bet, as I have already
inuotatod, few people were very sanguine as to his

A letter free* c •y.:-:011L Qom of Spain
Lee hal emetrisiel *retie betides miebbee, 76 keg
by *IL lilt Veil teblestmeas ilk, sal
belated
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MOS lime ell ageohlt pests ?Itretrollill
taoserehy: to which the Feat Mega end the
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assotrooot of toolltartieo."

A War drama Hamburg says :—" The
government entlaue their mediae te unit*, iht
tabin thrgyikaii Gatrang, but tV staettellnek
the ink M Bain healed* hen impend
greater bilente la the amempilibrient thmt t
any Irgal eesenent of the Diet would be Maly
The ' bask' there has this wean been • broken
thaw, Ire shrill& had bon the week at • baron
in the Austrian army), *lb% an leaving the pin
8,03 r ee the poor of the Gown to token of gratitude
' hook ' thee*."
A Brawls paper says 1-0 Dr. Aadre
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the Castilla* dacity of the Actors towattuwed by the Clerlsis Bambeflt
s hulk solloe of the /ME 0%1
se of
"ode, the doter% reccedad to tab soidease of aa mambo aeara
farmer, Mr. Vallanca,4=tet *Aka
down his crops, and Alemeadalpepaesto a
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k Übe mous. be also reedy t t pay that he stacking his ooru. A peril
lath thwhiei pollee, however, wen ea the peandess at en early boot,
the Assn boat • retreat, haw* that the away Pole '
say salr• a their honk. roar uf the were KNOB' ,
c abject than enitherlek's etewerd, at mad
Lay to area, Kr. am sod a party ofoctla
*ea twelve he etaimilwation
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.06 to
mown boors zesi,keeele.
The
thuds for his eaaphoes bat for the timely arrival ellhe
assetsbabsi. If we had not the *M
,6 &make_ oesennalestlow sad a railway, this at
platted et the hem of etched mobs a week. .The
of (Aransas eons le sow Wag cat down by reaping, Ptiolocuu
by the. nellor