The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-17
their dispute The House was finally ccmpshsd 10
adjourn for want Of auorum-a sign that many OF

Do not neglect 10 read tho despatch irom our
| Washington correspondent this morning Among
,.ber matters Il contains very curious letter from
4 gentleman 10 Jerusalem, detailing transactions Of
4 very mysterious character connected ith tho
! American Consuiship.
/ On reference to another column, il viii be seen
hat the friends of Secretary Webster orc not only
moving with determination in the South, but are
also beginning to mako themselves heard in the
North. large meeting was held il b ston last
evening, at which cCmmi tee was appointed to
call a convention for the purpose Of nominating
electoral ticket.
what IS left Of the Native American party is
again on the gui CiCc in Phi'adolph a. Tho mem
bers of this Iarty yesterday nominate Lewis z.
Levin for Congress, and BENZ. ". Nj or FOR State
Senator.
The canal question is again on the political car
pet and viii evidently be one Of The leading features
IN the coming State campaign, particularly in the
! Northern and Western counties. Adesperate strug-
! gle il already going Ia the democratic ranks in
EIis county, between the contract and nnti-conract
men, where delegate Of the latter faction has been
| elected TO tho State convention. A democratic
meeting at Buffalo, the other evening, resolved to
/ favor the nomination Of Geo. W. Clinton, who is
/ opposed 70 the contracts for Governor.
| Tho election in North Carolina has resulted in
the reelection Of Governor Reid, the democratic
candidate, by majority of about six thousand
votes The democrats it is now said, viii have q
majority in the Legislature on joint ballot
One Of our Washington correspondents states that
Hon J. A. Bradford, ofLa., has been nominated az
Judge of the Supreme Court
From Buffalo we have accounts Of two horrible
muTders in that place. Three negroes entered the
house Of lir. Hartman, carly yesterday mornings
killed him, by striking his head with an iron
bar, and also cut aud manged his ife in so baroa-
rOus manner that her life is despnired Of On
Sunday, man named Darrow beat his wife so
cruelty that she died Of her injuries during the
night.
There appears to be gett ns entirely rid of the
cholera Mt Rochester. Fortunately, however, there
very few eases. The disease also still prevails
| to very slight extent in Buffalo.
BY telegraph we have accounts Of one or two Sc
we're fires. Henderson's -four mill, near Carlisle
Pa, valued at s25 OOo and the dye and store house
Of the Conway Company, in Massachusetts,, worth
about $40 600, were entirely consumed yesterday.
We are sorry to be called upon to record the de-
mise of the widow of expresAent Taylor She
expired a. East Pascagoula, La, last Saturday
| night.
IIr. c. A. Dana delivered lecture on Socialism,
at the North American Phalanx, New Jersey, on
Sunday last. We give a report elsewhere, with a
history Of day at that curious FourTierite settle
ment.
The weekly mortality bill, which we publish in
another column, up to Saturday last, shows in
Of thirteen deaths, compared with that for
the week ended on Saturday the seventh The va
olo-en N Of nvbhit
increase in corresponding ratio, when contrasted
! alone with each other, for the two weeks. Thus,
/ the class Boys shows an increase of eight, Girls
eleven, and men four. Three hundred and ninety
FIVE children, under ten years. died in the past week;
which is an increase Of seventeen infants over the
number Of the same class in the week which went
before. There is decrease in deaths from cholera
infantum and also from cholera morbus Twelve
deaths are reported from cholera; but there no
further official announcement OF its existence is
any dread felt in the localities where the deaths
took place. The character Of the fever and other
diseases is not altered. We notice thirty nine
deaths from marasmus, disease, or rather decay,
which is produced in infants entirely by want Of
proper attention to cleanliness, foul or exhausted
air, and improper or impure food.
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The People and tn Presidential Election.
| The acute observer of passing events has fine
| field for study in the present aspect and bearing
Of the Presidential campaign. lie cannot fail to
be struck with the absence of anything like popu
lar enthusiasm, as respects the candidates them
selves, the value Of the prize in dispute, and the
result Of the contest Violent efforts have been
made by either party to create a popular Juror in
favor of one or other Of the candidates; but they
have been complete failures, if any excitement
was created in the popular mind it was unsubstan-
tial and eyancscent the froth boiling and spark
ling in a glass Of champagne. The great wing
party Of the nation experimentalzed, in behalf Of
their candidate, on fuss, feathers and mill
taTy glory. The campaigns and battles in which
he had distinguished himself, were rohearscd
and fought over again, by puffy orators and
| excited politicians, and with vast deal more
bravery too, than that which sgnalized tho origi-
mails, il vaporing and braggadocio could be deemed
| good substitutes for that quality. The democrat
party, the other hand paraded the cxcelcncies
Of their political system and theory, while they
exposed and inyeighed against that of their an.
tagonists, and put Up their candidute on his two
fold merits, q distinguished general and liberal
statesman ofcourse, every expedient that could be
devised, calculated TO get up n hurrah throughout
the country, in favor of the rival generals, re-
sorted to; but all the attempts of the politicians to
create frror in the popular mind, in behalf Of
either oftho candidates for the Presidency, has been
ridiculous failure. The sympathies and feelings
Of the people have not been awakened or brought
into the controversy, either by rehearsals Of the
glorious deeds Of 'the greatest military genius
of the age,' as some Of his admirers dub General
Scott, or Of the liberal policy which has dis
tinguished General Picrco's political career in the
Granite State, to say nothing Of his military
heroism. Tho great mass Of the people through
out the Union have remained obstinately unmoved
by the appeals Of either party, and have evinced
much apathy and indifference as that with which
sensible men treat the orations Of Peter Funk auc