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COX.XTMBTJS: Friday Morning, July £&, IKSO. L.ARUKST CITY CIKCUI-ATION. The Meeting at Salem, We learn from a friend, was very large, ami remarkably orderly. Messrs. Pugh and Clop ton represented the Democratic party, and i Messrs. Hilliard and Chilton, the Americans. The Barbecue was an excellent one and the Sa lem people treated their guests in the hand somest manner. As to the discussion, both parties claim the victory. After tea Messrs. Watts and Benjamin Baker made Fillmore speeches. . . ■ Railroad Run-Offs. The mail train coming east, on the Mont gomery and West Point Road, ran off the track on Wednesday night last, at or near No tasulga. One passenger car was broken up, but no one injured, wo are informed, beyond a few bruises. The night train for Montgomery, which loft this city on Wednesday night, had its tender to run off twice during the trip—onco near Chchaw, and once when about eighteen miles from Montgomery. No harm was done, ex cept the losing of the mail. The accident wo have heard attributed to a crooked axle tree of the tender. Brooks vs. Burlingame. It will be seen, by reference to our tele graphic column, that Mr. Burlingame of Mas sachusetts has come very near a personal en counter with Mr. Brooks of South Carolina. The following is tho card which Mr. Burlin game withdrew, and which was published as an appendix to Mr. Brooks’ speech, announc ing his resignation. Mr. Burlingame, in a fair uud manly way admitted his responsibility for any language used in his speech, and disclaimed any inten tion to reflect upon the personal character of Mr. Brooks or impute to him in any respect a want of courage; but, discriminating between tho man and the act to which he was called upon to allude, he had characterized the latter only in such a manner as his representative duty required him to do. The above is a statement made by Mr. Bur lingame in reference to the passage in his late speech which refered to Mr. Brooks. It is in the hr.nd writing of Mr. Speaker Banks, and was acknowledged by Mr. Burlingame in our presenco, and was satisfactory to us as friends of Mr. Brooks. W. W. Poyck, July 15, 1850. T. 8. Bocock. From the Charleston Standard we take the following paragraph, having reference to the above: This explanation, was not well received by Mr. Burlingame’s constituents. The Boston Courier published an articlo on the subject, in which it is said that, in consideration of what he had given out beforehand, that ho was re sponsible for bis words, that he was. a “fight ing man,’’ that he was practicing with a rifle, &c., he should have made no explanation, but accepted the consequences ; that he had “dis graced his district and adopted State, and is no representative of the character and cour age of New England; ’’ and that “if at the iCd of his Congressional career he should be remembered at all, it would bo only for the pusillanimous discrimination which he had suffered himself to make between the man and the act.” It was probably in obedience to this sentiment at home, that he has withdrawn his explanation. Gov. Gardner to Gov. Winston. The Boston Bee of the 19th. contains a ply from Gov. Gardner of Massachusetts to the late lotter of Gov. Winston, of Alabama, returning some Abolition resolutions of the Massachusetts Legislature. We make some extracts. On the charge that the resolutions were in conflict with the truth of history, Gov. Gard ner Bays: Your Excellency may rest assured, not withstanding your denial, that the exact accu racy of historical fact here spoken of is known to and recognized by every reader of those resolves, whether he lives North or South. The truth of history is too stern and inexo rable, to warp itself to suit your excellency’s wishes. These shameful occurrences are writ ten, as with a pen of fir;;, on the broad skies, for tho whole world to read, and they will ex ist until history itself shall be no moro—a damning disgrace to our country, our age, our humanity: to those who dared to do them, and to those who with equal hardihood dare deny or defend them. If you mean that the whole truth of history is not expressed in those resolves, then, I agree with you. They do not give tho half, nor the worst of these inhuman outrages. They make no reference to the rifling of mails; to the organized irruption of the citizens of another State to control the elections ; to ar rest; without judicial authority ; to tho mock ery of the legislation and inhuman law ; to the destruction of printing presses ; to theft; to arson; and last, that great and final crime, beyond which hurnun depravity has no power to go—cold-blooded and deliberate murder. Should your Excellency invoke the whole of history it must bring to your view the vis ion of murdered men, of wives driven to mad ness, and to your ear the organized cry of the orphan, and all for the crime that their hus bands and fathers opposed by vote or voice, the introduction of human servitude into a re gion that your fathor and my father dedicated a third of a century ago, by a solemn national compact, to freedom forever. Your Excellency next asserts: “ the obliga tions of the constitution, and the laws of the United States, passed in conformity thereto, being disregarded and nullified by Massachu setts, we desire no further intercourse with your State. May I be permitted to remind your Excel lency that ‘‘nullified” is not a word of Massa chusetts growth, but that it is indigenous to the South, and if you have any opprobrium to bestow upon it you can freely do so much more appropriately nearer home than here. The lovalty of Maesachusetts to the consti tution of th U. S. has been too often and too signally evinced in critical periods of the country s historj to require a further answer from me to this ungracious suggestion; but were it otherwise your excellency is not the tribunal to decide for her a question involving her fidelity to that instrument. I am not aware that the Executive of Ala bema has yet been made the co-ordinate in ju k with the Supreme Court of the iwm u. and un,il lt is ’ not tin then ” prewed with 00 UpOD ah * **< be ox the slialTl.l P ro P net y or bo entitled to ue slightest consideration. Mr. Jacob L. of Piokens District . C., committed suicide recently, by drown ,flS- He leaves a young family. The Great Glass House. In their last celebrated speeches in Con gress, Messrs. Burlingame and Sumner of Massachusetts, travelled out of the record to slander the South, and especially S. Carolina, for alleged lukewarmness, want of patriot ism, inefficiency, etc., during the trying times :of tho Revolution. To make such a statement 1 plausible, these talented vituperators must have dabbled somewhat in the history of those days; to ascertain where to distort the truth, where to insinuate, and where boldly to pro claim a falsehood, they must have consulted the record. Wo marvel that while hatching i up libels on the South, they did not stumble : upon the truth about Massachusetts. We sup pose they did not so, or they would never have dared to challenge the comparison which has been made, and which shows that while South Carolina and the South, acted a noble and self-sacrificing part, Massachusetts, worship per, then as now, of the almighty dollar, was ever looking after “the main chance.” In a word this lofty Massachusetts citadel, from which Sumner and Burlingame fire their broad side, is nothing but a grand glasshouse, from corner-stone to gable-end, and easily shivered into a thousand pitiful fragments. Massachu setts, that wears Bunker Hill upon her breast, is a glasshouse; and scores of her revolution ary sons can be proven from testimony unim peacbuble, to be almost as non-combative as Sumner and Burlingame. From extracts quo ted by Mr. Keitt, in hiß late great speech, whose length alone prevents us from publish ing it, and from extracts in the Charleston Mercury, taken from works quoted by Mr. Keitt, we compile the following unanswerable, overwhelming and damning record against the “Gallant Bay State.” Tho chief witness is George Washington, whose letters, Jared Sparks, a Massachusetts historian, falsified, and distorted, and whom Edward Everett so delights to eulogise. During tho War, General Washington wrote many letters from Cambridge, Mass., to Gov. Reed of Pennsylvania. We cull the following extracts (from the above named sources) each from letters dated at Cambridge, till other wise mentioned: In a letter dated Cambridge, 20th Nov., 1775, Washington speaking of the Boston pri vateers, says: “Our rascally privateersmen (the word ras cally is omitted by Sparks) go on at the old rute, mutinying, if they cannot do as they please. Those at Plymouth, Beverly, and Portsmouth, have done nothing worth men tioning in the prize way.” Nov. 28, 1776.—Such a dirty, mercenary spirit, (the word dirty also erased by Sparks) pervades the whole, that I should not be at all surprised at any disaster that may happen.” Nov. 30, 1775.—N0t an officer in the army but looks for an attack. This has no effect on the Cambridge regiment; they are resolved to go off. Dec. 15, 1775.—0ur enlistment goes on slowly. By the returns last Monday, only 6,917 men are engaged for the ensuing cam paign; and yet we are told that we shall get tho number wanted, as they are only playing off to see what advantages are to be made, and whether a bounty cannot be extorted, either from the public at large, or individuals, in case of a draft; time only can discover this. Jan. 4, 1776.—1 wish this month were well over our heads. The same desire of retiring into a chimney corner seized the troops of New Haupwliir,, ill,laland and Massachusetts, (so soon as their time had expired,), as had worked upon those of Connecticut, notwith standing many of them made a tender of their services, to continue till the lines could be suf ficiently strengthened. We arc now left with a good deal less than half raised regiments and about five thousand militia, who only stand engaged to the middle of this month ; when according to custom, they will depart, let the necessity of their stay be ever so ur gent.” Jan. 14, In6.—Could I have known that such a backwardness would have been discov ered in the old soldiers to service, all the gen erals upon the earth would not have convinc ed me of the propriety of delaying an attack on Boston till this time.” Feb. 10, 1776.—Notwithstanding all the public virtue which is ascribed to these peo ple, there is no nation under the sun (that I ever came across) who pay a greater adora tion to money than they do * * * The party to Bunker’s Hill had some good men in it. One or two courts have been held on the conduct of part of it; to be plain, these people among friends (“among friends” is omitted by Sparks) are not to bo depended upon if exposed; and any man will fight well if he thinks there is no danger. Ido not ap ply this to these people. I suppose it to be the case with all raw and undesciplined troops. Mauch -.6, 17b.—Monday next, ten regi ments of militia, which were brought in to servo till the Ist of April, stand disengaged. From former experience, we have found it equally practicable to stop a torrent as these people, when their time is up. We have a kind of people to deal with who will not fear danger till the bayonet is at their breast, and then they are susceptible enough of it. Tho above extracts are compiled from the Charleston Mercury, and it comments, (in conclusion) as follows : Such is the testimony of George Washing ton against Massachusstts, With their State invaded—their capital in possession of the enemy—and troops from other States, with a brave and devoted general, coming to their relief, such was the spirit of her people! Well may Mr. Everett appease, with eloquent eulogy, the shade of Washington, sickened and indignant at the conduct of his country men ; and well may South Carolina claim his testimony to rebuke the insolence and slan ders of their descendants. Tho State that acted thus in the Revolution— that hung out “blue lights to ttaefoo” in 1812—that entrust ed its honor in the war with Mexico to a regi ment reernited from the rabble of the streets of Boston, is not tho State to taunt Bonth Carolina with “ shameful imbecility.” But to Mr. Keitt’s speech. We quote : Now, sir, let us see something of the gallan try of Massachusetts in the war of the revolu tion which has been so noisily vaunted here. The following correspondence occurred while the British were in possesion of Boston, and the American forces under General Washing ton were beleaguering it. Gen. Washington in a letter to his brother, John Augustine Washington, dated “Camp at Cambridge, July “I found a mixed multitude of people here under very little discipline, order, or govern ment.” In a letter to the President of the Council of Massachusetts Bay, dated August 7, 1776—a month after he arrived there—Gen. Washing ton says: “ By the general return made to me for last week, I find there are great numbers of sol- ! diers and non-commissioned officers who absent themselves from duty, the greater part of whom, I Lave reason to believe, are at their respective homes, in different parts of the country : some employed by their officers on their farms, and j others drawing pay from the public, while they J are working on their own plantations or for hire. My utmost exertions have not been able to prevent this base and pernicious conduct.’ In a letter to the President of Congress, da ted September 21, 1775, he says: “The necessities of the troops having re quired pay, 1 directed that those of Massacbu- ‘ setts should receive for one mouth, upon their being mustered and returning a proper roll; j but a claim was immediately made for pay by lunar months, and several regiments have de clined taking up their warrants on this ac count.” 1 a letter to the President of Congress, da ted November 11, 1775, Gen. Washington says: “ The trouble I have in the arrangement of the army is really inconceivable. Many of the officers sent in their names to serve, in expecta tion of promotion; others stood aloof, to see what advantage they could make for them selves ; whilst a number, who had declied, have again sent in their names to serve. So great has been the confusion, arising from these and many other perplexing circumstances that I found it absolutely impossible to fix this very interesting business exactly on the plan resolved on in the conference, though I have kept up to the spirit of it as near as the na ture nnd necessity of the case would admit.— The difficulty with the soldiers is as great, in deed, more so, if possible, than with the offi cers. They will not enlist until they know their colonel, lieutenant colonel, major and cap tain, so that it was necessary to fix the officers the first thing, which is, at last, in some man ner done; and I have given out enlisting or ders. ” In a letter to the President of Congress, da ted November 28, 1775—when the year for which the men had enlisted was near its close, he says, “The number enlisted since my last is two thousand five hundred and forty men; and I am sorry to be necessitated to mention to you the egregious want of public spirit which reigns here. Instead of pressing to be engaged in the cause of their country, which I vainly flat tered myself would be the case, I find that we are likely to be deserted in a most critical time. Those that have enlisted must have a furlough, which I have been obliged to grant to fifty at a time, from each regiment.” In a letter to Joseph Reed, of date Novem ber 28, 1775, he says: “ Such a dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue, such stock jobbing, and fertili ty in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another, in tnis great change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and I pray God’s mercy that I may never be wit ness to again. What will be the end of these manoeuvres is beyond my scan. I tremble at the prospect. We havfe been till this time en listing about three thousand five hundred men. To engage those I have been obliged to allow furloughs as far as fifty men to a regiment; and the officers, I am persuaded, indulge as many more. Such a mercenary spirit pervades the whole, that I should not at all be surprised at any disaster which may happen. In short, af ter the last of this month, our lines will be so weakened, that the minute-men and militia must be called in for their defence ; and these, being under no kind of government themselves, will dentroy the little BUbordiiiaUuu I have been laboring to establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavoring to avoid another; but the less must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and am like ly to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this com mand. A regiment or any subordinate depart ment would have been accompanied by ten times the satisfaction, and perhaps the honor.” This was whilst the enemy had possession of their capital, and a large number encamped in full view of the American army. In a letter to Gen. Schuyler, dated Decem ber 5, 1775, Gen. Washington says: “ I know that your complaints are too well founded; but I would willingly hope that noth ing will induce you to quit the service; and that, in time, order and subordination will take the place of confusion, and command be ren dered more agreeable.” Gen. Schuyler, in the letter to which this was a reply, said: “Nothing can surpass the impatience of the troops from the New England colonies to get to their firesides. Near three hundred of them arrived a few days ago unable to do any duty; but, as soon as I administered that grand spe cific—a discharge—they instantly acquired health ; and, rather than be detained a few days to cross Lake George, they'undertook a march irom here of two hundred miles with the greates alacrity.” General Washington says, in a letter to Gov. Heed, of Pennsylvania; “ In the two last weeks we have enlisted but about two thousand men, whereas I was confi dently led to believe by all the officers I con versed with that we should by this time have had tho regiments nearly completed. Our to tal number amounts to ten thousand five hundred; but as a large portion of them are returned not joined, I never expect to see them; as an order has onco been issued, another is now going forth peremptorily requiring all offi cers, upon pain of being cashiered, and re cruits of being treated as deserters, to join their regiment by the first day of next month, that 1 may know my real strength,” &e., &c. A month later, when the danger had increas ed, and with it the solicitude af Washington, when every appliance he was master of had beon exhausted to augment the army he says: “So far from my having an army of 20,000 men, well armed, &c., I have been here with less than one half of it, including sick, fur loughed, and on command; nnd these neither armed nor clothed as they should be. In short, my situation has been such that I have been obliged to use arts to conceal it from mv own officers.” He charges them with even carrying off the arms of the country. He says: “ So many have been carried off, partly by stealth, but chiefly as condemned, that we have not at this time one hundred guus in the stores, of all that have been taken in the prize-ship and from the soldiery, notwithstanding the reg iments are not half completed.” I might multiply similar extracts, but 1 do not care to press this subject further. lam content that history shall adjudge the claims of South Carolina and Massachusetts. Os blood and of treasure my State furnished her share. After 177 1, at no time were there more than 6,000 British troops in New England. Why were they not swept away ? Why did not the 88,000 valiant heroes of Massachusetts alone scatter them with their during courage! Sir, where were these valiant men ? If you can find out where they were, Mr. Speaker, you can do more than the British ever did. Analysis of the Vote on the Resolution to Expel Prestan S. Brooks from the House of Representatives. FOR EXPULSION. DEMOCRATS. Hickman, of Pa, Vail, of N. J. Packer, of Pa. Wells, of Wis. Spinner, of X. Y. Williams, of N. Y. FOR EXPULSION. OPPOSITION. Albright, of Ohio. Knowlton, of Me. Allison, of Pa. Knox, of 111. Ball, of Mass. Kunkel, of Pa. Harbour, of Inti. Leiter, of 0. j Bennett, of N. Y. Matteson, of N. Y. Benson, of Me. McCarty, of N. Y. J Billinghurst: of Wis. Meacham, of Vt. | Bingham, of 0. Miller, of N. Y. j Bishop, of N. J. Milliard, of Pa. Bliss, of 0. Moore, of 0. Bradshaw, of Pa. Morgan, of N. Y. Brenton, of Ind. Morrill, of Vt. Broom, of Pa. Mott, of 0. Buffington, of Mass. Murray, ofN. Y. Burlingame, of Mass. Nichols, of 0. Campbell, of Pa. Norton, of 111. Campbell, of 0. Oliver, of N. Y. Chaffee, of Mass. Parker, of N. Y. Clark, of N. Y. Pearce, of Pa. Clark, of Conu. Peck, of Mich. Clawson, of N. J. Palton, of N, Y'. Colfax, of Ind. Pennington, of N. Y. Corahs, of Mass. Perry, of Me. Covode, of Pa. Pettit, of Ind. Cragin, of N. H. Pike, of N. H. Cumback, of Ind. Pringle, of N. Y. Cullen, of Del. Purviance, of Pa. Damrell, of Mass. Ritchie, of Pa. Davis, of Mass. Robbins, of N. J. Day, of Ohio. Roberts, of Pa. Dean, of Conn. Robinson, of Pa. DeWitt, of Conu. Sabin, of Vt. Dick, of Pa. Sage, of N. Y. Dickson, of N. Y. Sapp, of 0. Dodd, of N. Y. Scott, of Ind. Dunn, of Ind. Sherman, ofO. Durfee, of R. I. Simmons, of N. V. Edie, of Pa. Stanton, of 0. Edwards, of N. Y. Stranaban. of N. Y. Emrie, of O. Tappan, ofN. H. Gulloway, of 0. Thorington, of lowa. Giddings, of 0. Thurston, of R. I. Gilbert, of N. Y. Todd, of Pa, Granger, ofN. Y. Trafton, of Mass. Gow, of Pa. Tyson, of Pa. Hall, of Mass. Wade, of 0. Harlan, of 0. Wakeman, of N. Y. Haven, of N. Y. Walbridge,of Mich. Hoffman, of Md. Waldron, of Mich. Holloway, of Ind. Washburne, of Wis. Horton, of N. Y. Washburne, of 111. Horton, of 0. Washburn, of Me. Howard, of Mich. Watson, of O. Houghton. ofN. Y. Welch, of Conn. Kelsey, of N. Y. Whitney, of N. Y. King, of N. Y. Wood, of Me. Knapp, of Mass. Woodruff, of Conn. Knight, of Pa. Woodworth, of 111. AGAINST EXPULSION. DEMOCRATS. Aiken, of S. C. Keitt, of S. C. Allen, of 111. Kelly, of N. Y. Barksdale, of Mies. Kidwell, of 0. Bennett, of Miss. Letcher, of Va. Bocock, of Va. Lumpkin, of Ga. Boyce, of S. C. Marshall, of 111. Branch, ofN. C. Maxwell, of Fla. Burnett, of Ky. McMullen, of Va. Cadwallader, of Pa. McQueen, of S. C. Caskie, ofVa- Miller, of Ind. Clingman, ofN. C. Millson, of Va. Cobb, of Ala. Orr, of S. C. Cobb, of Ga. Phelps, of Mo. Craige, N. C. Powell, ofVa Crawford, of Ga. Quitman, of Miss. Davidson, of La. Hump, of N. C. Denver, of Cal. Rust, of Ark. Dowdell, of Ala. Sandidge, of La. Edmundson, of Va. Savage, Tenn. Elliott, of Ky. Seward, of Ga. English, of lud. Shorter, of Ala. Faulkner, of Va, Smith, of Tenn. Florence, of Pa. Smith, of Va. Goode, of Va. Stephens, of Ga. Greenwood, of Ark. Stewart of Md. Hall, of lowa. Taylor, of La. Harris, of 111. Warner, of Ga. Harris, of Ala. Wheeler, of N. Y. Houston, of Ala. Winslow, of N. C. Jewett, of Ky. Wright, of Miss. Jones, of Tenn. Wright, of Tenn. Jones, of Penn. AGAINST EXPULSION. OPPOSITION. Bell, of Texas. Oliver, of Mo. Bowie, of Md. Porter, of Mo. Carlile, of Va. Puryear, of N. C. Cox, of Ky. Reade, of N. C. Davis, of Md. Ready, of Tenn. Etheridge, of Tenn. Ricaud, of Md. Eustis. of La. Rivers, of Tenn. Evans, of Texas. Smith, of Ala. Foster, of Ga. Snead, of Tenn. Harris, of Md. Sowpe, of Ky. Harrison, of 0. Talbott, of Ky. Kenneth, of Mo. Trippe, of Ga. Lake, of Miss. Underwood, of Ky. Lindley, of Mo. Walker, of Ala. H. Marshall, of Ky. Watkins, of Tenn. A. K. Marshall of Ky. Zollicoffer, of Tenn. RECAPITULATION. For Expulsion, Democrats ; 6 “ -‘ Opposition .116 122 “ “ Free State men 120 “ “ Slave State men 2 122 Against Expulsion, Democrats 00 “ “ Opposition 32 90 “ “ Free State men 13 “ “ Slave State men 82 90 ABSENT OR NOT VOTING. Barclay, of Pa. Herbert, of Cal. Campbell, of Ky. Mace, of Ind. Caruthers, of Mo. Paine, of N. C. Childes, of Del. Richardson, of 111. Flagler, ofN. Y. Talbott, of Ky. Fuller, of Pa. Trumbull, of 111. Fuller, of Me. Valk, of N. Y. [Note. —Upon the authority of Mr. Brooks’card, pub lished iu our yesterday’s issue, we havo classed Mr. Cul len, of Delaware, among the Slave State “Opposition” voters for expulsion. In most of the lists he Is put down uuder the head of “absent or not voting.”—Eds. Sun.] At a Democratic pole raising last week, in Lebanon, Indiana, A. G. Nelson was instantly killed by the falling of a beam used in eleva ting the pole. He was one of the best citizens of tho town. Jean Paul is quoted against Mr. Buchanan, as follows: “No man can livo piously, nor die righteously, without a wife.” But an old “ Bach” replies—“ True! Sufferings and se vere trials chasten the heart.” The Empress Eugenie has nearly or quite recovered the use of her lower limbs, which it was feared some time since she would lose the use of entirely. Subscription lists for tho benefit of sufferers by the late frightful railroad accident in Penn sylvania, are in circulation at Philadelphia.— Over SI,OOO has been received at the Inquirer office alone. The Augusta Chronicle “presumes” that the reason why Mr. Thos. W. Thomas, Demo cratic State Elector, declined serving, was, unwillingness to encounter a declaration of his, made before the Cinciunati nomination, viz: “If Buchanan is nominated, I will not i vote for him.” A letter in the Richmond Dispatch states j that Mr. Wm. M. Kelley, of Caroline county, : on the 14th instant, roused from his Bleep, ! seized his gun and fired nt someone entering ! his house to rob him, as he thought. Instead of this it proved that ho had shot his own wife, who was engaged in fastening up the house. Mrs. K. died the next day. Mr. K. is almost distracted in consequence of the terrible mis- I take, and has to be watched to prevent him from committing suicide. He is said to be an exceedingly timid man, and always slept with his gun by his side. TELEGRAPHIC items From Washington. July 19. —The reports of tlm • minority of the Kansas , UU< printed. They make nearly octavo pages. It is designed to call up Kansas contested election case next J ‘f July 21. —The United States Senate f< 1 amended the Fortifications Bill bv 1 the appropriation to SIIB,OOO and ; t Ueiu f then passed. A resolution to adjourn I!! 11th of August was passed. I u J t he House i Representatives a bil} to establish a 2? * rule for naturalization was reported tS ‘ resolution to adjourn on the 11th of A J was discussed. Mr. Dunn declared thTJ appropriations should be made until the u * sas bill had passed, and said that he w vote for Mr. Fillmore for President as ti ij only man who can restore peace to the cm *1 try No action was taken on the Mr. Burlingame has published a card which he says that his explanation to’th, triends of Col. Brooks having been pervert. 3 and misunderstood, he now withdraws it v and holds himself responsible for his speech with! ! out qualification or amendment. The card here considered as re-opening the controvert! i Much excitement exists, and many rumors ari afloat as to a hostile meeting being in contemfl plation. Nothing, however, has as yet occur! red to justify the reports. July 22,— 1n the Senate to-day, Mr. Butler introduced a bill to regulate the compensation of members of Congress. The Senate concur! red in the amendment of the House of Reprel sontatives to adjourn on the 18th of August! The Senate also passed two Northwestern Harl bor Appropriation bills. The House amendt i the Senate’s resolution for the adjournment! and fixed the 18th of August. The House ref jected the resolution declaring Mr. Chapmut not elected delegate from Nebraska. Col. Brooks was arrested and held to bai to-day to keep the peace in the sum of §5,000 on the affidavit of Francis C. Treadwell, of X York. Bell, of Texas, was his surety. Mr Burlingame is absent, but the police are oi his track. It was reported that a duel hat been fought at an early hour this morning, an. Mr. Burlingame wounded, and at first then seemed to have been some foundation for tin report; but it is now asserted that no duel ha< occurred, and that the matter has been arnica’ bly arranged, and that the correspondence will be published to-morrow. The affair, however, is enveloped in mystery. The meeting was to have takeD place near the Clifton House, Niag ara. Col. Brooks, when held to bail, said to the magistrate “you are too late”— thus leav ing the inference that the affair had been set tied. Another dispatch gives tho following ver. sion: The city is full of rumors about the affair ol honor between Brooks and Burlingame. I have reason to believe that Burlingame has named the Clifton House, on the Canada side of Niagara Falls, as the place where he would receive Mr. Brooks’ challenge, and that he has gone there, and furthermore that Brooks de clines going on the ground that it would not be safe for him at the present time. July 22. —The testimony in the Herbert trial has been concluded. The counsel for the defence offered to submit the case to the jury without argument, but the prosecution objec ted thereto. Later from Havana—Fire. New Yoke, July 21 —The ship Quaker City has arrived from Mobile. She brings advices from Havana to the 18th inst. In Havana the Yellow Fever was on the decline. The Cap tain General Concha, was sick with it. The clipper ship War Hawk had landed a cargo of 568 Coolies. There was no political news of importance. New Yoke, July 22. —A large fire occurred at Amsterdam, in this State, to-day. Fire in Augusta- Augusta, Tuesday Night— A fire broke out this evening, and before it could be arrested, the upper wooden row of the Factory buildings was entirely destroyed. Sound Sense. The Church Journal, an organ of the Epis copalian denomination, warmly condemns all preaching against Slavery. The following is its argument; “ In our own day, we hear loudly on every side of us, here at the North, that the ‘Spirit of the Gospel’ is ‘opposed to slavery.’ Now this is either true, or it is not true. If it is not true, then there is not even a decent pre tence for the cry that it is ‘the duty’ of minis ters of the Gospel to preach against slavery. If, on the other hand, it is true that ‘the Spir it of the Gospel is opposed to slavery,’ then let the clergy devote themselves wholly to pro moting ‘the Spirit of tho Gospel;’ for that ‘Spirit of the Gospel,’ if thus opposed, will do away Slavery itself, as it is strong enough.- This indirect influence will operate more rap idly than direct agitation.” Deplorable Ignorance. The London Illustrated News, of June 21st, pretends to give a series of views in the nevt Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. One ol these is particularly refreshing, on account ot the sublime ignorance it manifests with regard to our American geography. This is a picture of “Baton Rouge, Nebraska!” A large steam er is ploughing the stream, and on the ban of the river is the Gothic and turreted Stan house of Louisiana. This, however, is about as near as our John Bull cousins ever arrive at facts regarding the United States. The London Times- The erratic course of the London Times, says an exchange paper, respecting this coun try and in relation to all public questions, explained by the fact that three-fifths of 6 paper are owned by the Rothschilds, and henci it is made a mere stockjobbing instrument. The Times seized upon the little flurry a ou Mr. Dallas, and gave it a ridiculous exaggeia tion, to enable its banking owners to stocks at a reduced price, under am ° m ®i 1 n a s’ panic, which they did, and made £lO, w the operation. A California Coroner. The vigilance committee, in the course ot their investigation into the case of a corom-i whom they had arrested, elicited satisfactory evidence that he was in the habit of disintei ring the bodies of persons who had been buried, for the purpose of dropping them m the docks, and thus receiving the fees atten ing the inquest. In this way, it is said, one body has been made to do service three or lou times—or as long as it would hold together. This accounts in part for the great num e> of bodies, that a little while ago, were toun constantly under the wharves of San ram isco. There is to be a gathering of deal mutes at Concord, New Hampshire, on the 3d ot P tember next, when an “oration is to e livered, in the sign language of course, by • Lacerent Clerc, who has been chosen the ° tor of the day.” The services of Rev. la as Gallaudet, of New York, have been secur as interpreter for the benefit of the be portion of the assembly.