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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-27

GENERAL WALKERS LAST EFFoRr.-General
William Walker Is making desperate effort TO
prevent The waves Of Oblivion from sweeping over
him. His struggle Is something like the famous
one Of Mrs. Darlington with the Atlantic, so plea
sanity reeounted by Sydney Smith. But we
fear the flibusters will experience the same
failure that Mrs. Darlington did when she en-
deavored, with her broom, to sweep out the
angry tide impelled by the rising tempest. lie
has had his day, and played his part in life.
The crucible Of time has shown 10 the world
that there IL nothing In him. No man of the
present sge, on this continent, has had a better
opportunity, or made a greater failure. His
last effort IL contained in letter to the Mobile
Regiar--repripted In another column-in which
he repeats his story Of an intimation having
been made 10 him from the government 10
abandon Nicaragua and turn his mighty genius
to Mexico. The amusing part Of his present
letter IL bis assumption OF higher morality
than that which pervades the government. anu
claim on his part to be the representative man
Of great cause, land an humble instrument
in the hands Of a higher power" lie tells us
also that studied attempt Is being made 10
iDjure the good name which he inherited from
bis fathers, forgetful that in this country every
mans name depends upon his own acts. He
has repeated this story Of an application from
cabinet officer In regard to Mexico 80 often
that be probably has come to believe II himself,
and is now strenuously engaged in the attempt
10 iDdnce other people 10 believe II. The state
ment is not worthy Of denial; and as for
Walker himself, he is following the psth Of ell
played out men. His circle of admirers
and followers is becoming small by degrees and
beautifully lees, and his only hope Of improve.
ment il that of rousing again the attention of
TIE government towards him.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-27

We transfer TO our columns this morning all
that portion Of the late speech Of Mr.. Senator
Douglas, at Bloomington, Illinois, on the test
question Of Kansas; and we commend his re-
marks to the attention Of our readers, Of all sec
lions and parties, as furnishing a pretty dis
tinct conception Of the critical situation Of the
Little Giant and of his hitherto invincible de-
mocracy in bis own State.
1t Is a fitting conclusion TO the Kansas agita-
ton, that upon the author Of II, and 10 an ap-
peal 10 his own immediate constituents, should
devolve the responsibility and the hazards OF
the closing battle. Little did Mr.. Douglas
imagine on the day when be introduced his
Kansas Nebraska panacea of popular sove-
reignty'' in the Senate In 1854, thst ia 1858. In
Illinois, ard upon this very issue he would be
pushed 10 the brink Of destruction. His esti.
mates were limited TO the Cincinnati Conyen-
ton, and TO the Southern balance Of power In
that body which was 10 decide the democratic
Presidential nomination of 1856. Poor Pierce
was persuaded to invest bis political for
tunes in the same enterprise; but when the
time came, the tremendous reaction which
the repeal Of the Missouri compromise bad pro-
duced in the North compelled the extreme
South TO cast both Pierce and Douglas over
board, and 10 make q compromise upon Mr..
Buchanan, whose hands were clean of the
Kantat-Nebraska bill, and whose position, as the
ul,Riatum Of Pennsylvania, would admit of no
alternative.
Disappointed and soured at this result. Mr..
Douglas was not long in shaping out hs future
course Of action. II be could not be the Presi-
sident be might still be the controlling spirit Of
bis administration; and 20 the ambitious Sens.
tor awaited his opportunity. He gave timely
warning. however, 10 Mr.. Buchanan in the
summer of 1867, in that remarkable letter con-
corning an executive appointment at Washing
ton. The gentleman appointed worthy and
capable man--was the father-in law of Mr..
Douglas: but the Senator admonished the Pre-
sident that this particular appointment was not
70 be considered as part and parcel Of the ex.
ecutive patronage due 10 the State of Illinois
The President gave good natured and sstifac-
cory reply; but il is very likely that he dis
covered something more In the curious letter
OF instruction Of Mr. Douglas than what
appeared spon the surface. AT all events,
The home organ Of Mr.. Douglas-the Chicago
Tme-soon thereafter lifted the VEIL and from
G., TO deg, With siill increasing emphasis, pre-.
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Wnom ne mas the slightest influence.
MORE RAILWAY MURDERS TO COME.-There is
an old saying, to the effect that lightning never
strikes twice In the came place; but the phile-
sophers have disproved all that long ago. On
the same principle rs that deduced from the
respectable but fallacious saw, we find many
people who seem inclined to believe thst we
have term of railway accidents as We have
week of hot weather. Some go 80 far as to
charge the laundering stupidity and misman-
agement of railway officials to the account Of
Divine Providence. and look upon the slsugh-
tering Of score Of passengers Is q special
judgment, warning, dispensation, or some other
cant Of the same order. We have had quite
enough of this; and 1t is time to tell the travel
ling public the danger in which it stands
The fact is, that railway business in the Unit
ed States has been altogether overdone. Pa
rallel lines have been built to ruinous extent
and the competition for passengers and freight
has been so strong that the rates for carrying
both have been reduced to far below paying
point. An example of this is found in the old
quarrel between the Erie and the Central
Each is endeavoring to kill the other, and o
result similar to that of the famous battle of the
Kilkenny cats is inevitable. Many other railways
are carrying on the same contest on . small
scale. Other roads, which enjoy monopoly of
travel, have been so badly managed that they
can neither earn nor borrow money enough to
pay the interest on their debts and keep their
tracks in decent order, to say nothing of the
dividends. In some cases the earnings of the
road which ought to be appropriated to its re-
pairs, are paid In dividends to the stockholders
in order to keep the concern above water in
Wall street. To these facts we must add few
more. Nearly all the railways in this country
have been built cheaply, shabbily, insecurity
and hastily. The public demands high rate
of speed, and that will wear out the badly built
road In four or five years There being no
money to pay for renewing it, the consequence
is that we have to ride over crazy, tumble down
concerns, with twisted rails and rotten bridges
We are quite sure to have pretty good num-
Der of Commissions and abrasions, and we are
very lucky if we get off with nothing worse.
Year by year the railways are getting deeper
in debt, and human life grows less and less
secure. Now a railway murder is talked of for
q day or two and then forgotten Very soon
we shall become 30 far familiarized with these
shocking events that their recurrence will ex-
cite no particular remark. AS the roads get
older they will become more rotten and
more dangerous than ever. But there will
one day be an end to all of thia When
things get to the worst they must be
mended by strong legal action-not civil
suits for damages, but criminal prosecutions
against the presidents and directors. If one or
two or them were convicted of manslaughter
and punished properly we should not hear of 50
many "accidencL" That happy day, we fear, is
still far distant.
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&C. were leased 70 the HDdson's Bay Company
ior pei'oo Of ten Year,. similar lease 1t u
o',e'ed was executed in favor of the coupssv
wish regard to fh. right OF hunting and trading
with the Indians in New Caledonia, Tin which
the COLO discoveries bave been msde) but be-
ycrd the rights conferred by this lease, the ooa.
pany hsve zone.
The .Hudson's Bay Company has no more
right 10 levy license on miners ia New Gale.
dopia, OF tcimpede trade here, than the East In
dia Company. There can be no doubt but + r.zer
river n at this moment as free aud omen Ia
American vessels, ard its borders as free and
open to American miners, as the St. Lawre.os
or the Ottawa
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-27

THE GREAT AMERICAN TOUR-A CHANCE FOR
PuBIIsHERs.-The outline which we published
the other day, of q grand continental tour froa
the Atlantic to the Pacific, has been and will oe
read far and wide, in Europe as we'll as all over
the United States. The variety and grandeur of
the scenery therein depicted, far surprising as it
does that which any other route known to
tourists presents, cannot fail to attract travel
lers from all parts of the world; and in year
or two we may expect to have the plains aud
mountains between the Missouri and California
travereed by as numerous parties of pleasure
seekers as are now found spending their summer
months In exploring the Catskill, the Allie
ghanies, the Blue Ridge, the White mountains,
the Cheriot hills, or the mountains of Switzer-
land.
In the meantime, some ofour enterprising pub
lishers should bring out our sketch of the route
in pamphlet form, enlarged, If they choose, aud
illustrated with views of the principal scenes.
The materials for the purpose they will find in
the various reports Of explorations of those
regions made by Fremont, Emory, Marcy, Staus-
bury, Williamson, Ives, and many other officers Of
the government and printed by order Of Con-
gress. Such a guide book could not fail to be
highly remunerative to the publishers. Itwould
find an extensive sale all over the United States
and In Europe for the works in which alone de-
scriptions Of these scenes are TO be found have
been printed in very limited quantities and have
not found their way into the hands of one out OF
every five thousand of our people. Our article
has awakened public attention to the unnumbered
wonders that lay along the overland route to tue
Pacific, and well illustrated pamphlet on the
same subject would be read with avidity by all
classes of our citizens
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or whether the remainder OF their miserable ex-
istence II to be spent in starving over p!lfszed
old bones from which they have already guawcd
off the meat The immediate preparatory p ,iicy
of the opposition Is TO divide the South and
unite the North" 1t won't work 1t is the
North which will be divided, as it was iu 1852 I;
but the South have the advantage that they re-
main united; that they will not fall uoder the
control of fanatics, seceesionists, traitors aud
corruptionists; and that even the biggest half
of the stolen loaf will not buy them into the
support of either Mr.. Seward or any one over
whom he has the slightest influence.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-27

The NEWS FROM MExICo.-We learn, BY tele-
graph from New Orleans, that intelligence he'd
been received there, by the way OF Monterey, II
the abdicstion of President Zuloaga, who had
fled from the capital, leaving the governmeat
in the hands Of Senior Couto and two bishops
This, II true, ia of Importance but telegr aphie
reports from New Orleans, of Mexican Va, have
generally been of the most unreliable kind.
There is one point In the news which coincdes
with our previous informstiou: Governor CARA
had taken his departure from Matamoros for tie
purpose Of joining Governor vidaurri in bic
contemplated advance upon San Luis Potosi.
As this city has already fallen into the hands Of
the consttutiopalists, it is said to be the isten-
ton of Vidaurri to advance at once upon the
city of Mexico; and he may make good bis
promise to p esideat Juaraz, to reiustate him in
the federal capital. We zee no reason to doubt
the fall of San Luis, as the garrison was small
after the departure of Miramon for the west.
and the death of General Osolios had de-
moralized the garrison at that place. We shall
wait the arrival of the regular mails fer the
confirmation of the report of the fight of Presi-
dent Zuloaga. As Mr.. Forsyth, our late miois-
ter there, is now on his way home, it becomes
doubly important that the government should
have competent representative in that repub-
Lie. In the new combinations attending the re.
establishment of the institutional government
many novel questions will come up, and our
legation will be looked to by the liberals for
advice and moral support
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-27

and political prohi9acy that the United States
had ever produced. He had inoculated nearly
every township with corruption aud bribery,
ard nearly bankrupted the wealthiest member
Of the American confederacy. New York has
ever since staggered under the burdens which
Sewardism in finance and Seward depravity
among public men have fastened upon It,
In the United States Senate William II.
Seward has been, for over fifteen years,
the mcb-fend Of American politics. Not
q scheme for robbing the treasury can
more or less associated. The lobby regard
him as their King. The broad mantle of his pro-
tcting influence is thrown alike over Matteson
ard Greeley, Webb and Wolcott-in fact, over
every one, Of every party provided the assault TO
be made is upon the Treasury. Not project
under tho pretext OF "internal Improvement"
to enrich few SPECTATORS, can be started but
be supports il, and is practically Indifferent
whether IL IL North or South East or West, for
the benefit OF abolitionists or Of secessonist
fire eaters. Ills name taints, with honest men.
everything with which IL becomes associated.
III prOSuAteu tne cause vi Nlnuel0 scott, when
be stood before the country as a candidate for
the Presidency, and Il is TO be hoped that IL will
drag to the ground every other with which Il
may ever he associated.
Should an opposition President be elected
under the auspices Of Mr.. Seward, IL is impos.
sible TO resist the conviction that the deliberate
system which would sway the councils Of the
party In power, would be the re-adoption Of that
which he acted on while Governor Of New York
His plan then was, and would be again, to com
bine the local interests OF sections Of the coun-
try with those Of the hordcs Of contractors and
sharks who besiege the door, Of the Treasury
and. under the plea of developing the re-
sources Of the Union" 10 increase the national
debt indefinitely, and mortgage the next gene
ration for the benefit Of his followers The
cauldron win not begin fairly 10 boil until after
the fall elections Then we shall see whether
the millennium is approaching FOR broken down,
decayed political hacks, like Webb, Weed,
Greeley, Matteson, Sup Simonton and Wesley,
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MISCELLANEOUS READING.
PEAR BLIGHTS.

The following. which We end 10 the Colum-
bus Times and Sentinel, is q matter of no
small interest to our horticultural friends,
and to the public generally: "a disease or
an insect too small for microscopic vision, is
destroying many of our finest frui; trees and
causing some alarm among the oultvatcrs Of
orchards For long time, the disease or
destroying iusec, was confined to northern
climate. but it is now transferred to southern
soil and threatens great destruction. The
fines. pear trees wither and die 10 few days.
We are informed by our friend, X. j. Moses,
esq, of this city, who has the finest orchards
in the country on Essuiline Hill, that the
symptoms Of decay are first observed at the
ends of the leaves, which soon turn black
and the blossoms fade. It's progression is
downward towards the roots. IL is beyond
doubt contagious and spreads rapidly. The
best remedy is to op of the limbs Of the
trees when its leaves are being snctured with
blackuess, or cut the tree down Immediately
and burn it, so as to destroy the insects"
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4 SHARP TRICK.

A short time since, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, a commissou house in this city re-
ceived from an eastern port consignment of
oil, which was was sold to Philsdelphis
blackiug manufacturer. After the oil had
been used, the empty barrels were sold to an
oil merchant on the wharf, and, in coopering
them, one of the lot attracted attention in
consequence of its weight, and, on knocking
out the head, it was discovered that in addi-
ton to the heads being between two AID
three inches thick, the barrel contained
heavy yellow pine frame to suit the shape of
the barrel with narrow opening in the CEN
tire. SO that the guager's rod csuld play back
and forth, and thus escape detection. BY
this means q cask which should have con.
tanned twenty eight gallons of oil, only held
from ten to twelve.
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NARYLAED STATE LOTTERIES.-R
wi FRANCE & co, Managers CAUTION

MARYLAND STATE LOTTERIES.-R
IH FRANCE & co, Managers
NOTlCE.-Persons living al distance should
be extremely cautious Of whom they order Lot
terry Tickets or Certificates OF Packages of Tick
cts. The country is flooded with bogus and
swindling Lotteries. Every inducement is held
out TO get persons to invest money in them -
Capital Prizes of from $40 900 10 $4,000 head
their schemss-with tickets at one Dollar
800 900 Capital Prizes are offered. tickets SIS.
All such in every instance, are frauds; and il
money is sent to them for ticket, it is so much
thrown away without the shadow OF chance
of getting prize Beware OF all Lotteries
where the Capital Prizs is unusually large in
comparison TO the price Of tickets. In every in
stance where large prizes are offered for small
cost OF tickets put it down as a certain fraud.
The Kentucky State Lottery for the benefit
of the Shelby College, under our management
is the only Lottery in the United States which
is legally decided by the Maryland Drawings
all other Lotteries which purport TO be decided
by the Maryland Drawings, are frauds.
THE MARYLAND STATE LOTTERIES.
Purchase in the Maryland State Lotteries,
then you are sure Of being right. And in or.
derng in the Maryland Lotteries, you are sure
of fair and honest drawings
One thing look TO, and that is, II you order
from any licensed vender in Baltimore do not
receive any but Managers Tickets and Mana
gers Printed Certificates OF Iackages The
Managers Certificates have the numbers prin-
ted, and have the autographed signature OF R.
France Il Co.
No one has a right to send his individual Ger.
tfcates, and ii ne does il be sure there is fraud
al the bottom OF It. K. FRANCE q co,
Managers OF Maryland State Lotteries
feb l5-3mo
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pa5- To the Voters Of Alexandria AS
some persons seem determined to misrepresent
my position, and are still engaged in circulating
the report that have declined being candi.
date Tor the Sherfaty, deem it due to myself
to state, that such report (whether the offspring
of 'poliiical trickery" or not) is an unqualified
falsehood- maliciously invented and secretly
circulated, for the sole purpose OF defeating my
election. | now announce myself candidate,
and pledge myself to do my whole duty, il cleo
ted [mh 4-eotEl JAMES SANGSTER.
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LOTTERY ApvERTIsEMENTs.
r.,,nn, o,s7o.ooo to b. had for SO.

"A D
CWAN x CO.'S TERIES!-AuTHoRIzED
BY The STATE OF GEORGIA The following
Scheme will be drawn by S. SWAN x co.
Managers OF the SPARTA ACADEMY LOTTERY, In
each OF their Single Number Lotteries for May,
1855, at AUGUSTA, Georgia, in public, under the
superintendence of Commissioners.
Class IA, to be drawn in the city ef Augusta,
Ga, in public, on Saturday, May Sth, 1858.
Class s, to be drawn in the city of Augusta,
Ga, in public, on Saturday, May 18Th, 1858.
Glass To- 10 be drawn in the city of Augusta,
Ga, in public on Saturday, Moy 22d, 1858.
Class H. 10 be drawn in the city of Augusta,
Ga, in public, on Saturday, May 29th 1883.
OS THE PLAN OF SINGLE NUMBERS.
54S5 Prises,-Neariyo one Prtse to eu9y 9 Tickets!
MAGNIFICENT SCHEME!
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2U,UUU Prizes Of IS each.
The $4,000 Prizes OF IS, determined by the
drawing OF the Capital, whether odd or even.
Whole Tickets $40; Halves IS; Quarters 81 SO.
A Managers Certificate of l6 Wholes-where
persons wish TO pay the ri only, will be sent
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TuOMaS g JAMESON,

MACHINISI' and IRON FOUNDER,
n CORNER OF ROYAL AND WILKL sTREE1s, II
rs PREPARED to execute orders for STA
| TIONARY STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS,
Mill Gearing, Shafting, Pulleys and Hangers,
Pumps, Fans Slide and Hand Lathes, Drill
Presses, Wrought or Cast Railing, Columns and
Girders Gas OF Water Pipe, and MACHINERY
of every description. Superior CASTINGS
made to order at short notice, and on reasonable
terms. On hand, several STEAM ENGINES
eight horse power, and eight or ten LAIHES,
to which the attention of those in want is re-
quested. mn 26--Iy
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DRUGS, CHEMICALS. &C.

DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, &c
~ Chloroform; Powd. Opium; Phosphate
Lime: Wistar's BaIsam Wild Cherry; Kennedy's
Medical Discovery; Ergot; McMunn's Elixir
Opium Tannic Acid; Cox's Sparkling Gelatne
Hunts Liniment; BGrhave,s Holland Bltters
Rushton's Cod Liver Oil; Jayne's Vermiugei
Railways Ready Relief Sands SarsaparIllai
Citric Acid; Sulphate Zinc; Judkins Ointment
Dalley's Pain Extractor; White Wax; Carbonate
Iron; Ayers Cherry Pectorali Hoofands Ger
man Blt;ers Acetic Acid; Henry's Magnesia;
Sanfords Liver Invigorator; English Mustard;
&c, received, and for sale by
WILLIAM A. HART
No 100, King ST. corner of Pitt.
Sign of the Golden Mortar. ap2 20
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pas- To The Voters Of the County Of Aler-
oadrra Answering the calls of many friends,
announce myself candidate for the office OF
Clerk OF the County Court and pledge my lndi.
,ided attention 10 the duties. In presenting my
name to an intelligent and generous constituen.
cy wish TO inform them that hold no offices,
nor nave other business to divide the pledge |
make them. Respectfully
NH 9-tE GEORGE p. WISE
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TNHE Board of Directors of the LIBRARY Con-
rASY have appointed N0RvAL E. F0ARD
Special Agent to procure Subscriptions, &c,
to the Alexandra Library. All persons wish.
ing to take Stock in, or to become subscribers
to the same, will do well to call at the Library
Room at any time between the hours above
mentioned. The public generally is invited to
call and look at our collection OF Books.
an 22--d2W
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aay- At the solicitation of many citizens,
offer myself as candidate for the Sheriifalty
OF this County, at the ensuing May election,
and can only promise Gf eected) to discharge
the duties impartially 10 the best of my ability.
lnh 22-tEs X. CRUPPER.