The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-07

,resens one Of the original States, and that the
Declaration Of Independence be engraved on solid
marble. How long win it be before something o.
The kind is erected in New York 7 By-the-way,
how is the Washington Monument, in this city, pro-
crossing
Owing to the lateness of the hour, we are unable
to publish ye terdays Congressional proceedings in
this edition.
An exhibition and trial Of agricultural imple-
ments is to come Of, at Utica, next Tuesday week.
These displays tend greatly to improve the farming
interests of this great country, and, not unfre-
quently, Of incalculabe benefit to the politicians,
as they open extensive fields in which to SOW their
opinions.
Gov. Calhoun, who on his return to the States,
died on the 30th ult., near the Missouri line.
A horrible steamboat explosion occurrednear New
Orleans, on Monday. Upwards of fifty persons are
supposed to have lost their lives.
We publish elsewhere the particulars, as far as
they could be collected up to the hour of going to
press, Of sad and fatal accident at Staten Island
attended with serious loss of life. The bridge from
which the victims were preciptated is about twelve
feet wide and some eighteen long, on to which up
u
bridge was supported by two chains only. link of
one of these having broken, the whole were precp-
tated e., na,se into the small dock below There
was no Goat underneath the bridge, such as there
are at all the Brooklyn ferries and which would keep
it in safe position, even though it were overladen,
and the chains broken let go. The Coroner's ju-
~ have not made any investigation into this part Of
the sad affair. 1t appears to be that the Grand
- lax-o lnasx
called upon to record such distressing acciden
since the fatal one at Greenwich avenueSschool
The Boards Of Aldermen and Assistants were not
organized yesterday, for want of a quorum.
THE TAMMANY SOCIETY CELEBRATIoN-Ex-PR EsI-
DENT VAN buren, AND OTHER DEMOCRATS IN THE
FIELD. erefer readers particularly to the report
OF the celebration Of the Fourth of July in Tammaoy
Hall, under the auspices Of the Tammany Society
A number Of distinguished leaders of the democra-
cy, from every part of the Union, appear to have
been present at that assembage, and to have inside
| speeches the occasion, although reports
have been made of their remarks, on the present
crisis of their affairs, Among others, we observed
the names of Governor Cobb, of Georgia, and John
Van Ruren of this city, set down for speeches. We
have no doubt that both these gentlemen managed
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hopes, and pathos, with which they described the
condition of the democracy at the present crisis.
But the most important part of this feast is con-
tanned in the remarkable correspondence with many
of the leading democrats, from exPresident Van
Buren, down to Ex-Governor Kossuth who appears
to have been brought forth for the occasion. Mr.
Van Buren's letter is conceived in that peculiar
democratic rigmarole and in those harmonious pc
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became Senator of New York till his last nomina-
tion-a colored nomnaton-for President second
time, in 1919. Mr. Van Buren, also seems to forget,
in the honeyed phrases of his letter, that he bolted
from the democracy in 1913; although he seems to
have embraced with gladness the opportunity Of
now coming back to the party, and of going in
strong for Pierce and King, in conjunction with all
the other barnburners of this State. Mr. Van Blu
rem is wise one-he has shown good sense in
coming back to Tammany Hall, not to insult the
convention who placed Pierce and King before the
country, in the same way in which the Eren,mg
Post alluded to their platform, John Cochrane
of the sup town" wards did on the anti slavery
| question at large.
| The other most remarkable note on the occasion,
is the letter from Kossuth, ia which he reminds the
democracy of the strong Intervention resolutions
passed by them at Tammany Hall in October last
and now almost repudiated by the convention at
Baltimore, where they placed new platform before
the country This is rather unkind cut of the
great Magyar, for the ninety thousand dollars he
has received by humbugging the people of this
country, in relation to republicanism and democra
cy. But what else could be expected Of the "poor
| penniless'' agitator when he had filed his pockets
| Old Tammany is again In glory!
Our RELATIONS WITH MEXICO The SLoo Con-
TRACT We mblish in another mart of this M ner a