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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-08-11
NEWS FROM KANSAS.

By Telegraph 10 he A"ocated Pres.
CHICAGO, Saturday Aug. 9. 1855.
Bstvsep three and four hundred Kansas euigsnts e Ne
brssls City on the 18th for Topeka, where Il was ex
pected they would arrive wednesday following, unless in
teuuped their march by Mssouriars Tpo hundred Of me
latter had ft Wetp0yt and hSkapoo sfh he intention 81 ~
iocptns them. Gen Lane did accompany the emsrants
from Topeka gone sp the Iowa road to
meet and assist them
The everyday occurrences in and about Kan
sss would thrill the country with indignation and
horror if it were longer possible that an outrage
should be perpetrated which had not its counter
part in outrages which had just preceded it. We
all know that the Missouri River, the natural and
only cheap and easy means of access " Kansas, has
for weeks been rigidy closed against Free-State
immigration BY the Border Ruffians. Their cannon
planted at commanding bends in the river,
their spies Writ every steamboat on it's upward
passage and telegraph to the posts above, so that
her arrival is awaited by hundreds of armed ruff
Gsns, ready TO sink boat and passengers if both are
Lot submitted to their scrutiny and pleasure. If
Free State emigrants are on board, they are first
robbed Of their arms, then shipped down the river,
and guarded to st. Louis or Alton, where they are
made to pay for their involuntary passage and then
nut ashore Meantime, every possible facility,
expectation, iuducen ent is used to hurry Pro-
Slavery Immigrants into the Territory from Mis-
souri, and all the Slave States
At length, at a large cost of money and exertion
sn oyt rland route to Kansas through Iowa and Ne
bIassa has been opened by the Free-State men
Four or FIVE hundred Of them have reached the
border of Kansas, every man prepared to sesect
his quarter section of the soil of Kansas s'd ccu>-
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II ia irconcevable to that people should lie by
the column for the pleasure OF 1t. Yet me Er
press has nearly column attempting to mix up the
rsme of the Editor OF The TRIBUNE with meeting
held at Vauxha in August lss, and certain reports
from Ireland read thereat, when the writer must be
perfectly aware that the said Editor was hundreds OF
miles away and knew nothing of oil these proceedings
for many dsy afterward. There is much ingenious
rascality displayed in filing out what A. II. and e.
sad 80 as TO make white seem black yet the writer
evIces his perfect consciousness of the villalny
throughout. We marvel how those who perpetrate
such knaveries walk the streets in which they may at
any moment be confronted by these they have calum
mated Tske the following perfectly gratutous and
incidental falsehood as specimen Of the whole article:
AT veuxhall, Horace Greeley and the Most Rev
erend Archbishop then only PLAIN Bishop Hughe,
stoOd-as they standing on the Block Republican
platform H"e-cheek to Jowi-snd shoulder by shout
Now Bishop, or Archbishop, or " Most Reverend
Archbishop" Hughes never stood pretended to
stand, for one moment on the Black Republican
platform" but on the contrary, has recently been
preaching doctrines with reference to the matters con
tempated in that platform substantially like those of
The Erpess. He did 80 in his recent Lecture on
Cornell; also In his address at the FOrdhHm Col.
lege comm. ncement and the city journal which pro.
claims itself the organ Of the NJ ,st Rev. Arch.
bishop liz constant and ardent supporter Of Blu.
chsran and Breckenridge, and cen beat The Ezprcss
at Union saving and everything Of that sort decid-
edly. How can men, in community where these
facts are notorious utter such alsehoods ~ We have
pillared above Have they no self respect,
Of sbsme? Can men who aspire to high stations
Voluntarily wIite liar" their own fo-eheads and
thus walk the streets unabashed? The conduct Of
The Express in this canvass implies reekessness of
public judgment or contempt Tor public intelligence
which we have never seen eqused.
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FROM WASHING TON.
'wn Correspondent

From Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON Saturday Aug. 9, 1856.
In closing up this week it is but just to say that
so far as the ordinary course OF business il con-
ceIped, Congress has actually accomplished more
than in several months previously. Still it is ia
behind the claims Of public duty, rs may easily b.
by the fact that quorum can hardly be retained
for several hours during each day. For example,
the Civil Appropriation bill might have been CON-
pleted yesterday but that the members would no!
remain at their posts, or even be controlled by the
call of tie roll exposing absenteeism. Tkis system
has become a gross abuse, and ualess corrected by
some pOsiH ye enactment will grow into an evil Of
great may nitude. The whole tendency is to re-
duce tho legislation into few hands, and 10 effect
to plsc'. that power within the control Of Com
u,itteeis of Conference appointed in the expiring
tOurs Of a session.
1t is supposed in some quarters that the conflict
between the two Houses must lead 10 an extension
u the session, at least for a few days. And while
he general inclination is to adjourn at the hour
fixed, yet the urgency Of the occasion may induce
a ten porary withdrawal. The President has it ia
his power to remove all the existing difficulties BY
at once giving practical decision to his ayowed dis
position-,hat Is to say. by releasing Gov. ROB
inson ard the other State prisoners from dursss
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The question of tie contsgion or non-contag'"l
Of yellow fever is still unsettled among physicians
The following facts may be OF some importance IL
the discussion of this veXed question:
At the time that the Health Officer at the quar-
sptine ordered certain infected vessels to of
anchored oJ Fort Hamilton, that locality was
remarkably Tree from sickness of any kind. Ine
wind. for ten days after the moorlns OIL 'nese
vessels, blew steadily in the direction al"Hg 'ne
line of the Long Island shore. During the perlod'
or SAY within two weeks thereafter, we have
announced in THE TRIBUNE the deaths OF Judge
Rockwell, General Stanton, Alderman Bergen
Chandler White, esq; - Powell, esq., MISS
Be,geu, Miss Warner, and Miss Boyle.
In addition to the above, there were Two or 'hrec
servants or poor people died in the same 'oealty
and all of the foregoing resided immedistely on the
shore of the NsrrOws. =,
In the Fort, there were during the same percu
no less than FIVE or six deaths, including Sergeans
Henry and bis wife. This mortality in the Fort
will be regarded Is more remarkable wnen IL Is
stated that lot single death had occurred In tne
Fort for six years previous to the VISITATION o
these vessels. Major Morris himself assured US
this fact. We think an inspection of the books o.
DR.. Bailey, al the Fort Hospital may also afford
some valuable suggestions to the profession. We
have not examined these books ourselves, but We
are inf rmed that, during the prevalence OF the
winds in a contrary direction from the vessels no
new cases were reported on the sick list.
Were these cases yellow fever We have De-
slowed great deal of attention on this subject and
examined the whole question thoroughly. Yellow
fever or not, il was fever which proved speedily
fatal-most of the above recited deaths occurring
within two or three days after the attack. The
same disease in q Southern locality-Charleston
or New-Orleans, for example-wi'hout being one
whit more marked or virulent in its symptoms,
course, and termination, would be called and de-
sisnated by no other term whatever than yellow
fever. In some of the cases the local physicians
were exceedingly unwilling to have it understood
that they were attending any other than bilious fe'
yer patients and not until the unmistakable black
ysmit demonstrated the character of the disease
would they consent to call it by its proper name.
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In ths Senate on Saturday, Joint resolution
was passed, authorizing Prof. Bache of the Coast
Survey, to accept the medal presented to him by
the King Of Sweden. A substitute for the bill reg
ulstipg the pay of members of Congress, was re-
ported it proposes giving them 50 500 year, in
stead Of $780, with a provisO that ii books be
presented to members, the price Of the same shall
be deducted from their annual pay. Mr.. Bigler OF
PenAsJivania offered resolution calling on the
President for the vouchers on which Col. Fremont's
accounts were settled, from his first expedition to
California.
In the House of Representatives the bill making
sppropriatons for Lighthouses, Coast and Land
Surveys, Custom Houses, &c, was passed by a
vote Of % against 30. This bill makes appropria-
tions for Post Office, Custom House, and Court
House ia Philadelphia, for six revenue cutters on
the lakes, and for the purchase of cuttings and
seeas of plants for distribution. MIR. Sherman
made personal explanation in regard to the at
tack Of Mr. Savage the report OF the majority OF
the Ksnsns Committee.
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hear apprehension. expressed in quarters that the
mooeys subscribed for the relief o. Kansas have been
perverted feeling Of this kind, We learn, has caused
come sums designed for the relief Of kansss to be
withheld from tie Commtee s.
1--WE have made particular inquiry, both with re-,
gard TO the State Committee and the Fsneu IL all
Committee, and are able to assure the publ: IN the
ost distinct manner that such approximations are I'M
founded. All Of the money which has been spent by
these Committees mar been applied strictly IN iegtl,
mate mooes for the relief Of suffering in kansas ano
for sending ont men, romen and children TO the Term
10, = and provioiDg for their support there 10 mteo
,1tett No part Of the FUNDS have been applied 10
eIectioneerrc purposes to anything of the sort;
considerable uart OF he funds already subscribed are
stiII IN the cortrtl of the Committees.
"There has bee, TO evidence whatever, So far a.
we know, TO support ne allegation OF miscarriage OF
funds. except remark in letter fiom our former
MAYOR, DR.. Smith. That geo 'leman' we believe, has
been sstisfed that the sppreheps.9 ne 10
not warrant oi-continusnce of the enotl' loi tle re-
lief OF suffering in Kansas At al even< we .tn o.
the public that all subs ,rptOos re sderel e'eI W
the State Committee or to the Faneu Hall Coosn',,
tee applied according to the wishes and designs o.
the for the reei Of suffering without perver'
sion.
The present is critical moment, and relief is
especially opportune'
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We ;uase there ia little if any doubt Of bis esec
ton. IN.
In the Northern District, Timothy DAVIS me
publican) has about 5000 majority Thorins'oo
had 1851.
Nodonbt o. to State Officers and Legislature
all Republican BY large msjortie''
FRANCIS P. BLAIR, jr., is certainly elected 70
Congress from st Louis, the other counties having
been cut of from Me district at the last APporton'
ment. He has 4s4 majority over Kennett, Full
more. Mr. Blair was one Of the hrs: TO propose
Col Fremont for President, and ia utterly hostile
to the Border-Rufian doings in Kansas. lie is
called Benton Democrat but Col Fremonts
Administration will have no more efficient sup
porter in the House.
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We have not deemed II necessary or advisable to
make any answer to the insinuations or halfway
charges of the Buchanan and Fillmore journals that
money contributed in behalf of the Free State cause
il Kansas bad been dishonesty appropriated or re-
tanned by those to whom it was intrnsted. Such
charges are made by the adyersaries of every cause
which appeals for aid to the humane and generous,
AID will always gain credit with those base enough
TO clutch at sny excuse for withholding when their
coDsciences tell them they ought to give Their
be st answer ia a contemptuous silence.
We presume those who contribute in aid OF Free
Kansas do not coDfide their money to any one who
chooses TO ask for it, but to persons of whom they
have knowledge, and in whose integrity they have
confidence. There is q National Committee, and
there are State and Local Committees, and no one
need fear that money contributed to those Commit
tees will not be faithfully appropriated. There may
have been or may yet be errors OF Judgment, as
when large bodies of Free.Sta. emigrants were
sent up tie Missouri River only to be disarned.
Numbered AID driven back, to try the more ex'
pensiye, tedious and difficult route through lows
and Nebraska; and We fear that many in Kansas
have sufftr, and will suffer, whom thefriends of
Freedom would gladly aid if they knew their wants
and could reach them. We never wished to hire
any ope TO .migrate 10 Kansas, nor TO send any one
there who was not both able and willing TO earn
his living ard something over, either in bis old or
hist home; but The extraordinary losses and pr.
yatiops imposed on Free-State settlers in Kansas
By the outrages to which they have been subjected,
and the extra expense Of reaching that Territory
caused BY the blockadipg of the Missouri River,
We think should be shared by friends Of the Free
State cause out Of Kansas, and not even proposing
to migrate thi,her.
One word as TO the fund contributed through
this Office. No such contribution was suggested or
desired BY ur, and the labor Of receiving and re-
coIdDg so many small amounts is lot inconsidera-
BILE: but we have I'll dertaken and shall faithfully
u.rformit. II any sum contributed to this fund
is NOT soon acknowledged through our columns,
the sender will oblge uby giving notice OF the fact
We .lall in due time state how every dollar has
been appropriated
III. Bosoa Daily advertiser Of the 7th ha' the
'ouowing:
Rr1frr FOR Kansas We have been cory to
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meoos it, improvement and cultivation. This tho

msocs its improvement and cultivation. This tho
Slave Power is prepared 10 resist BY violence and
boodshsd. A Pro Slavery force has gone up from
Weston (Aissouri) and Kickapoo (Kansas) to meet
these pioneers Of Free Labor and drive them back
into Nebraska or Iowa. And all this Is as cooly
told a. though it were the record Of new ex-
ploratiOn Of the sources Of the Platte or the &C.
count of new mine discovered at the forks OF
the Yellow Stone.
We csunot say what new crime Lecompte may
have invented to justify the expulsion or murder
Of these immigrants; but we have counseled for
bearsnce till We are sick Of it. II the United
States troops are sent to drive out these weary,
foOtsOre emigraLts from the land oftheir choice we
hope the latter will retire before them, respecting
the flag aud the authority of the United States
even when employed to cover and shield the most
abcminable tyranny and wrong. But il the Border
RUffans-as we suspect is the case-have gone u
to meet and drive back this Fiee-State imnigra :
ton Of their own motion, and without cloakng
themselves in the panoply Of Federal power, We
trust The Free State men will not be driven bscH
so long as they have cartridge unused and
man who can stand and FIRE it. Let the women
aud children be sent back under escort but let the
rest Of the men stay in Kansas st all hazards. To
live nobly is every mans duty but there are times
which require men who know how to nobly de
When Missouri lawlessly undertakes TO close The
difficult ard devious route through Iowa and Ne
brsska into Ksnsas, that time must have arrived
for the pioneers Of Freedom.
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DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION.

DEMOCRATIC CUNGRESSIONAL NOMl.tAiiON'
BY Teeoash 10 the A''oeiotsd Press
BANGOR Me-, Saturday Aug. 9, 1856
The Democratic Dtric, Convention held al Newport to-day
nominated Abraham Ssnborn Of Bangor Representative TO
Congress, ~, Sarborn h1s hetoore acted 9th tie straight
phig party Mr. Cobb Of Georgia, and Mr.. Benjsnn Of
Louisiana, addressed the Convention.
1t is bur few days since The Express had q
letter from Maine, stating that there were "a tew
"straght Whigs in Maine; and that they would vote
"for Mr.. Fillmore We remarked at the time that
this wss coed news if true; but we believed these
particularly straight" gentlemen would vote for
Buchanan. 1t seems that they are verifying our
anticipation.
The "straght Wings" of Maine ran tickets last
year in conjunction with the Pierce and Douglas
Democrats, carried the State by their coalition
and divided the spells. They are now trying TO
DO the same thing again. In some counties, they
run separate Senate tickets, as plurality of votes
does hot elect Senators, expecting to divide the
vote 80 that no ticket shall have an absolute ma
jority ard then elect by combining their teams in
the House. But as a plurality does elect to Con-
gress this policy will not work in that respect; 20
they divide the Districts between them and run
Coalition Cduuludscs dbiuudu OnHoVin,
"straight Whg," is the Buchanan candidate for
Congress in the Bangor District, on whom is de-
yOlyed the task of running out Israel Washburn,
IT, the pre- sent able and energetic Chairman of the
Committee on Elections. Messrs. Howell Cobb
of Georgia aud judah p Benjamin Of Louisiana
(the latter another "sTaght Whig," now going
his length for Buchanan as the only candidate
favoripg Slavery Extension who can be elected)
were on hand to bless the nuptials of the straight
Wbigs" and Slave Democracy Mr. Cobb is a
violent Democrat of the ultra strengthening
school; but straight Wings are as good allies as
lie wants, provided they go for Toombs and Doug
lass policy respecting Kansas.
If the Pro. Slavery Straight Wings" of this
and other Free States would follow openly the lead
of Judah p. Benjamin, Tennessee Jones, Josiah
Randall, &c. and come out square for buchanan,
we should DO able TO consider them at least manly
sdyersaries; but this holding "Straight Wing
Conventions to help Buchanan by nominating Fill
more, after Fillmore has been thrown out of the
canvass by the results in Kentucky aud North
CaroDs, seems to US unfair and tricky. How
ever We must meet theIn as they choose to come
NJ ne
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Greeley says he i, disappointed in KentuckyI,had
kortd that Fillmore would carry two or three Southern
states. but has cow hope that be will get single
Electoral vote the Union, and that Fremont may DC
deteated! Greeley begins to mourn esrly
The Times ought to remember that THE TRIB-
uxE is read in nearly every Connecticut neighbour
hood 40 that half its readers will detect the false
hood of the above, and be compelled to Judge the
honesty and ,od faith of its other statemen ts by
the exposed knavery Of the foregoing
The TRIBUNE has no "hopes' nor fears con-
nected With the votes of any Slave State save Della
ware and Missouri. The rest will all vote for one or
the other of the PrO-Slayery candidates, aud we
Gaze not button which. Sill, as some few
honest opponents of Slavery Extension were going
tor Fillmore, as the only candidate ,chenrh to beat
Buehonan we consider the result in Kentucky
gu. ,ious to the cause of Fremont and Freedom.
We want the issue as simple and direct as possible.
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In Senate Oh Saturday we see that

NJ HUNTER Of Va reported stitute for tie bill refusn
tue comp epsatior Of Members Of Cor giving them s2
instead Of $500 year, VITA section providing th't any
books be distributed members By resolution In either
both Houses the price for the he deducted IRON
TIER persson provided that this shall not eNten
ordered be rrned during the Cor for which tn
Members respectively shall have been elected
We venture to say that net one book would
ever " be distributed to Members by resolution, in
either or both Houses, under such an act We do
rot mean by this to imply that book distribution is
never proper, but that each Member will insist on
buying his own books, free from Congressional
distribution, whenever be shall be required to pat
his bands into his individual pockets and extract
thence the dimes wherewth payment is to be
made.
1t seems to us that Mr. Hunters proyiso kills
bis book section Members must not buy at public
expense books ready printed, but may order printed
for their own use as many as they choose What
would this be worth as q safeguard against public
robbery! Why not rather say that books may be
distributed to the value of $40, $50, or 800, to
each Member and no more, whether printed ex-
prsssly for Congress or not ?
We hope no such bill will be rushed through
at the heel of the Session; but we object specially
to this one that its passage would Inevitably in
crease the temptation to that absenteeism which is
now among the sorest of our public evils. A
Member paid 80, 500 for Session which need not,
and probably would not exceed four months in
duration, ought to forfeit at least one forteth part
Of the whole amount for every days absence not
caused by his own positive sickness, and should
forfeit pro rata proportion of his salary for every
days absence even when caused by sickness.
Without some such provision, it would be all but
impossible to transact the public business under
such rule as Mr.. Hunter proposes. We have seen
within week, here the last sands Of Session were
running low, and the most important Inc asures were
inevitably to be acted on, the House obliged to adj
jOurn before 8 2. NJ. for want Of quorum Pass
this bill. and every lawyer in the House would go
home to attend his circuit, every merchant to
supervise his business, until the few who remained
would be discouraged into sdjOurning lesving the
public business but half done. Let US have this
hole stopped whenever new bill regulating Con-
grcssional compensation shall be seriously consd-
cred. Now Members "pair OFF and go abouttheir
private business, consoled by the reflection that
their pay does not pair off at all, but keeps rum
hing on.
Again: We trust no such bill can pass the House
that does not some OF the fiagrant abuses and
dseraceful enoImities of Cons ressional Mileage.
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From Iowa We have few additional returns,
but they do not vary the complexion already given.
Mr. Hall, the present Buchanan NJ C. from the
Southern District, passed through Chicago on his
return to Washington day before yesterday, ADD re-
ported himself reelected, which he doubtless be-
ieved or hoped-but he was mistaken. So tel
egraphic Dispatch Of Saturday from Iowa City
afSrms. Mr. Hall obtained 400 majority in Davis
County % gain for hiu Of 263) and 300 in Wapello
"a further gain of 1857, and these probably induced
hi. belief that he was elected. But Lee County,
y hich gave him 3l4 majority before, is now re-
,o~tsd both ways-the last against hin. Van
Bureo. which gave "a against bin before, gives 30
NOW. Mshasks, 800 before. now 300; and Du'
buoe dispatch Of the 7th puts Curtis $50 ahead.
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BY the arrival of the steamship Star of the West
we have advices from Havana TO the 14th inst
Gen. Concha had recovered from bis attack OF yell
low fever. Two American sealnen, sentenced 70
the chain gang OF the Isle Of Pines for being en-
gsged in the slave trade, it was reported, had
made their escape. Gen. Concha had received
information that vessels had sailed from New-York
to engage in the slave tade, and was determined to
make severe examples of ali persons 80 engaged
who might fall into his hands.
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The steam. boiler in Wildef's Fire Proof Safe
Mandatory, on the corner OF Thirteenth street
and Third avenue, Brooklyn, exploded on Saturday
evening aud demolished portion of the building.
Eight or ten men were buried beneath the RUNS
and three we're taken OFT dead. Sixteen persons,
besides ths killed. were more or less seriously in
jured. The cause of the accident is supposed to
be defect Of the boiler.