The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-26

eyerv person whose duties call them to that de part
ment The credit Of the origin Of the suggestions is
due to Mr. Recorder Tillou, who manifests an untir
ing zeal for simplifying official intrcacies and cor
recting existing abuses.
The news by the Arctic had the effect of depressing
breadstufs yesterday. Common and fresh ground
brands State -four declined twelve cents per Darrell
wheat declined two to three cents per bushel sound
| merchantable corn,being scarce, prices were I'M
! changed cotton was quiet, with little doing, at
| unchanged prices
| By telegraph from Charleston we learn that the
steamship Isabel had arrived at that port from Ha
vana and Key West. Some interesting maritime
| intelligence is received, but not word from Ha-
vana.
The Pennsylvania Fugitive Slave case grows inter
| esting. Yesterday afternoon Marshal Wynkoop pro-
duced the body of the alleged fugitive, who was
committed to prison to answer the charge pending
in the State Court, and also to await the ella m Of
the Marshal.
The furnace, machine shop, pattern shop, aud
railroad mandatory of Hiram Woodraff, at Water
town, NY, were entirely destroyed by fire on Sanr
day night. Loss estimated at not less than fifty
thousand dollars about twenty thousand of which is
covered by insurance.
Mrs. Bradley, the wife of respectable citizen Of
North Haven, was murdered on Sunday last The
family had gone to church, and their return
found her upon the floor dead, stabbed and cut in
shocking manner, and the house robbed. Michael
Jennings, young Irishman, formerly in the employ
of Mr.. Bradley, was arrested suspicion of being
the murderer.
| The Board of Education, at its last session, in
creased the salaries of the professors in the FIR
| Academy. This is right and proper.
n VI.
of this State, died on Sunday, at his residence at
| Piermont, aged ~.
| The August EIections-Pn, ty Troubles and
Party Prospects
| On Monday, the LIST of August the annual
political elections will be held in the following
| States. to wit Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana,
Iowa, Kentucky Missouri. and Texas; on the
4th of August Tennessee will follow, and on
the 18th, the good old-fashioned State of North
Carolina, which will complete the list for the
month of August
In Alabama there is a Governor and a
whole Congressional delegation to be elected.
Winston, secessionist, is the democratic guber-
Material candidate. The whig candidate, Mr..
Walker, had declined but his declinaton not
having been accepted by the Central Commit
tee, his name is still kept flying at the mast
head of the journals of his party. There are
also two Independent democratic candidates, of
the Union stripe running against Winston.
Yet, according to an admission Of the Mobile
.4dvertiser, Winston, under the present cir
cumstances, considering the diversity Of the
opposition, will probably be elected" Walk
ers declination, it is supposed, will hurt
him seriously. The opposition to the regularly
nominated democratic candidates for Congress
consists Of Mississippi mixing of Independent
Union democrats and wings but the general
result, be it one way or the other will probably
be of no general Importance. And the same
may be said of the Congressional election in
Arkansas. and the local elections in Indiana
and Iowa.
In Kentucky the campaign is lively. The
wing party there is still upon its legs, though
it was sadly crippled last November Several
important Congressional Issues are here to be
decided. First, the wings are making ire
mendous effort to recover Mr.. Clay's district
from Mr.. Breckenridge, who, at the last can
vass. was handsomely elected over Gen. Leslie
Coombs, the most enthusiastic and astonishing
Clay man in all the State. Now. Ex-Governor
Letcher, late Minister TO Mexico is ptted
against Breckenridge and the issue is regarded
as close and doubtful. Breckenridge is young
man Of talents, has returned from Washington
with increased popularity, and has the infu
ence Of the administration to back him and
his party have also the prestige of majority,
already of upwards of sixty in the next House
of Representatives, to encourage them. But the
wings are resolved if possible, to recover Mr.
Clay's district; and if they lose it, their citadel
is gone. And yet they may lose it. Linn
Boyd, one Of the Oldest members Of the House.
is up again, not only for reelection but for
the Speakership, counting, no doubt, upon his
district with inevitable certainty of success.
Possibly, however, Jefferson Brown. an indie
pendent democrat, supported by the wings, may
disappoint him. But it looks ominous for the
wings, even Of Kentucky, to see them fighting
there upon the defensive. and upon the tactics
Of an established minority. If they are defeat
ed in this contest, we may expect to see them
as last resort, fall back upon the Maine
liquor law for new diversion, just as W. II.
Seward mounted the hobby Of anti-masonry in
this State, some twenty-five years ago.
In Missouri, two members of Congress are TO
be selected, and the only real interest in the re-
suit lies between the two cat and dog democratic
factions known as the Benton and anti-Benton
cliqueg. The wings will be likely to step ia be-
tween them, which. under the circumstances. we
suspect is eminently desirable at Washington
Benton is bound to give tie softs" Roland
for an Oliver before he is done with them; and
it would be hest for the administration to pre-
serve in this business that prudent position Of
mastery inactivity which has been so judi
ciously taken by its Washington organ A,it