Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1855, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: FRIDAY AFTERNOON .......-... Sept, 7 fPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS. The Union says that the Louisville riots have caused many persons of enterprise and wealth, natives as weil as foreigners, to eell out and move from that vicinity, stating facts to substantiate the assertion. The Inéelligencer thus sums up the war news by the Atlantic that arrived yesterday : “« By reference to the subjoined telegraphic pall vod yndence, it will be = that the news from the Crimea comes down to 2 period sev- eral days later than the time which had been appointed, as we were informed by previous pep ae for the Spine of the [oomerinpomed of Sebastopel. e expectation was very gen- eral that the present steamer would bring in- telligence of the issue of thatattack. but it does not appear that such an event had taken place at the time fixed upon. Tho public mind, therefore, is still left in suspense. It is possible there may have been an error in the ttatement that any particular day had been assigned by the Allies for anctber and more vigorous essault; but whether this be the case, or what has retarded the further movement of the combined forces against that stronghold of their enemy, we are furnished with no better means of judging than our readers. «The battie at the bridge on the Tchernaya was attended with unusual carnage, and the Russian loss is reported as four to one greater than that of the Allies. But it does not ap- ar that any decided advantage was gained y the latter, since the Russians were not driven from their position. “The meagre details received relating to the bombardment of Sweaborg leave the gen- eral account somewhat contradictory. It is stated that the Russian loss was less than two hundred in killed and wounded, and yet that the fortifications were destroyed. This is con- tradicted by the Russian commander, and ap- parently with truth, a3 it is almost inconceiy- able that the destruction of such fortifications sheald have been attended with a loss so in- considerable,” 2 WASHINGTON HEWS AND GOESIP. The Portsmouth end Norfolk Sufferers — ‘The details of these fever-infected localities, instead of afording hope that the plague has rly expended ils power, acquaints us of eld s3 sud mortality, arousing the , already excited, to a more expanded hy. In view of thése awfal, appalling tements, it becomes the duty of our citizens to arouse themselves to further effort for the relief of their truly afflicted neighbors. Two years ago, when the yellow fever pre- vailed to such a fearful extent in New Orleans, & public meeting of our citizens was called, at the City Hall, and measures adopted for the relief of tho sufferers. A similar movement— say to-merrow evening—-has been suggested -to us; and in this recommendation we trust there will Le a general coneurrence. Cammened.—The Common Council of New York, a majority of whem are wise and pa- trietie Know Nothings of various degrees, have, for mapy isonths past, had a special commit- tee charged with the astoundingly important duty of se) the riddle of the birth-piace of George Washington Matsell, the well-known chief of the New York ¢i y police, who is uni- versally admitted to be « man inten thousand for the responsible and important position he fills, his subordinates numbering quite nine hundred. Many hundred doliars were ex- pended by this committee in the silly work to whieh we refer above, without arriving at a satisfactory conelusion—Chief Matsell averring that he had no recollection of hearing bis pa- rents (who died when he was young) say whether he was born on this or the other side of the herring-pond; an eged witness, a friend of the family, declaring that she knew of his birth in New York city, while another old erone testified that she had heard his father say he was born in England ! Being in a quandary, the committee took the liberty of sending to England their clerk, # native-born fool, who we remember well as the laughing-stock of the politicians around Tammany Hall, as a confirmed ‘luney” in the fall of 1848; one Stephen I. Branch. Stephon in his report tella with great gusto the eflecteof his handsome, black Broadway whiskers, upon the unsophisticated people of rural England. His trip eost the eity govern- ment more thousands, and resnited in compli- eating the original quandary; insomuch as he found proof of the birth of one Gcorge Matsell, in ISL, in Brandon, England, the son of the parents of Chief George, but not of the advent into the werld of George Washington Matsell, which isthe patronimic of the redoubtablechbief. ‘fhis remarkable investigation has cost the tax- payers of New York city some $10,000! Cui fono? Tt is not alleged that if born abroad he may not legally hold his present position, nor that he does not give universal satisfac. tion in the discharge of his dutics, except to thove classes on whom he is prone to pounce ws of the law. Vorily, if Know Nothing legislative and administrative wis- dom was ever beautifully illustrated, it isin the rise, progress, and finality, of this bootless and y silly commission, which, from first to last, has been of no more public im- portance, than would be a similar one to ascer- tain Wao KILLED Cock Rozix? A Suggestion.—In view of the fact that it Ss utterly impossible to place Old Poiat Com- ort at the disposal of the people of Norfolk and Portsmouth, it seems to us that the Gov- ernment may greatly alleviate their sufferings by placing at their service a thousand tents, if they have them at hand,) to be pitched by United States troops from Old Point on the At- Jantic shore, back of Norfolk. A large num- ber of the fugitives, from the two cities, are mow sheltercd in barns, ont-houses, and old buildings in that immediate viei ity, and Jhave thus czcaped the fever. A thov:and tents will comfo shelter from three to five thousand souls, and in a position, too, much Mere con, cnient for the distressed communi- ties than that of Old Point Comfort. ‘That the change of situation: from Norfolk and Ports- mouth w the perfeetly ncalthy one near by— of the AUlautic shore—will sage those whomay ge there, is manifest in the fact that of the thousands who have gone there from the ingegt- ed localitiez, but one or two have died. The Nuncio Story Again —Mr. Kenneth Rayner net long sinee endeavored to justify himself fr his connection with the “ Pope's Nunciv’’ roorback, in a long letter addressed to bis witness, the Hon, D. M. Barringer, Wherein he insisted on his original charge of x bargain between the President and Catholic ehurch in this country in which Judge Camp- bell was to be made ths Postmaster General, and earnestly appealed to Mr. B. to say that what he originally told him went to confirm thatidea. But Mr. Barringer will do.no such thiug; and in a letter from Sharon Springs, N.Y¥., August 23, 1555, he completely ex- plodes Mr. Rayner, his story. and all the over ‘enthusiastic gentlemen who have foolishly en- deavored to make Know Nothing capital out of this Nuncio business. His refutation is too long for the ecclumns of the Star; so we must content ourself with quoting its material state- inents as follows, viz : * * * “Itis true that the Nuncio was the first person who told me of this 2ppoint- ment, and that this took place before the or- ganization of the Cabinet wasgenerally known at Madrid. Buytit is not true that the conver- sation occurred before the 4th of March, or before the Cabinet was formed, or before in- tellirence of this fact had been received at Madrid. Information of the fermation of the Cabinet had been received at Madrid on that very day, but it had not yet reached the public mind, nor had it then reached me, until informed by the Nuncio. You ask in ey letter, how is this possible? The answer is plain, and may solve the doubts whieh you seem to have, and remove theerror into which you have, unintentionally, fallen on the subject. There is a telegraph from Pa- ris to Madrid, and from the French and Spaa- ish frontier, which is some 250 miles, more or less, from Madrid. This telegraph (which is not electric, but of signels, or was then) is ownéd by, and is under the direction of, the Spanish Government, as well at the ‘ correo,’ or mail express, from Bayonne to Madrid. In this way the Government often, and in fact generally, obtains information of important events one, two, cr even several days, before intelligence is received in the usual and regu- lar mode of conveyance by the mail. [ re- member a striking instance of this in the cir- eumstance that the death of Gen Taylor was made known to the Government by telegraph, and that the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, in an unofficial note, communicated the mel- ancholy event to me the day preceding its publie announcement by the press of Madiid, and several days before it was finally con- firmed by the regular arrival of American pa- pers and letters at the iegation. §o, in the case of ths conversation referred to with the Nuneio, the Government had doubtless re- ceived information of the fermation of the Cabinet at Washington, either by telegraph or expr i e of the intelligence made public by the ordinary meane, and some per- son connected with the Government er with that department of it having contrel of the dispatches and the mail, believing that it would be agreoable to the Nuncio to have this information, especially as a membor of the Cabinet was reported to be a Catholic, men- tioned it to him; and it so happened that I siw him soon atierwards, when he mentioned the fact to me, before it was known to the pub- lic generally, who were still in ignorance and doubt astothe matter.” * * # “The whole amount of it is gor kd this: That he happened to receive this information as to the formation of the cabinet a short time before I did, and before it was generally known at Madrid who consiituted its members. “The reason why I remember the cireum- stance at all is, thet he expressed his plezsure at the appointment of a Catholic to cfiico, and his admiration of that feature of our repub- licau government which oxeludes no one from office on account of his religious opinions. He did not, as you misunderstood me to say, ac- cording to your letter, ‘express gratification that bis chureh was so strong and influential in the United States as to obtain such an honor,” but he more than once, on subsequent oceasions, alluded to the principle of religious toleration as one of the fundamental bases of our politieal institutions There are other misapprehensions, certzinly inadvertent, in your Ictter, to which I do not here deem it im- portant to allude. [ havo referred to this con- versation with the Nuncio when in social in- tereourse with others 8s well as yourself, sure- ly not forthe pur of proving a political bargain with Archbishop Hughes, or with any other Cath Pp in the last Presidential election of the United States; fur, as you prop- erly remark, ‘f had been for years out of the country, and was not thorcughly conversant with tne charges and issues and under-car- rents of the Presidential election.” I had nothing to do with it; but as a representative abroat endeavored to serve the interests of my country without refercnce to party distinctions of any kind whatsoever. “But Lhave mentioned this conversation for the purpose of showing the interest taken in cur country by the higher order of the Catholie clergy in Europe ; and as anillustra- tion of what f'have had several occasions to observe, as I did to your.elf on this subject and in this very connexion, that the leading mombers of that church are as familiar, or macre €9 perhaps, with the chareeter of our in- stitutions and peopie—our resources—our geo- graphy—our general history and progress— (han many of the wisest statesmen of Europe. I repext, i have never connected it in my own mind, or otherwisa, fur the purpose of i ical corruption stated. And herein lies your great mistake, but one into whieh, with your views on the subject of that charge, and without the knowl- edge of the facts connected with the conversa- tion which I possess, you might naturally fall. I mentioned it for one purpose—you employ it for another, without, »s I think, any just ground for doing sv. You are m’staken in supposing that Lever mentioned it to you at any time as confirmatory of the politica! charge t> which you refer, I could not have done so, for L never believed so. Ido not now beheve se. It would have been absurd in me to be- lieve so, unless I had imagined, as you seem to think, but which the -acts do not sustain, that the Nuncio had previous knowledge that the appointment was to be made, and before it really was made.’’ * * * * Mr. Barringer hes cortainiy driven the last nail into the coffin of this roorback, which madeso much Know Nothing hair stand on end, at Kalorama, on the 4th of July last. Tho Effect of Ulitaism.—The Pennsylvania Republican Know Nothing Convention, in ses- sion at Pittsburg, yesterday, actually nomi- naicd Passmore Williamson fer Comptroller of the State! He is a half-crazed momber of the Sosiety of Friends, making not the slightest pretensions to qualifications for aught but car- rying out the ultraisms of his ‘‘persuasions,’* and is as notoriously unfit for the discharge of the heavy responsibilities of the Pennsylvania Canal Commissionership,as itis possible for an individual to be. His present imprizon- ment musigbe according to the dictation of Judge Eanc, unless he will expiate his con- tempt of Court, which he says he will not do. Or, otherwise, he must lie in jail as long as the man who was imprisoned for 60 years for a contempt, by Lord Mansfield, a3 he obstinately refased to that he had done wrong in setting the authority of the court at defiance. The Key.—Tho Pennsylvanian thus ex- plains the cireustanees under which the trial of those who took part in robbing Col. Wheeler of his negroes not long since in Philadelphia, tarned out in fair koeping with most efforts cf southorners to recover their runaway negroes under the fugitive slave law: . “The trial of the six negroes who assailed Col. Wheeler at Walnut stroet wharf, and in a riotous and tumultuous manner deprived him of his property, has been concluded, and a verdict of not guilty rendered as to the riot. Ballard and Custis were convicted of tho as- sault and battery, and their four associates acquitted. These age the two who caught him by the collar, with a threat. We understand that ten of the jurors were for conviction of all the defgndants, and two were for acquittal, One of the Jaror? having become very sick, the majority, we presume, yielded to what ap- peared to them & be the necessity of the case, and agreed upon a compromise yordict, and thus innoeently defeated the ends of jystico. Under the circumstances, even ach a verdict, considered in connection with the concluding iree-soil speech of Prosecuting Attorney Win. B. Mann, and the equally pointed charge of Judge Keily, with the fuct that ten jurors were in favor«f conviction up to the last moment of their agreeing to the verdict, shows that pnb- lic sentiment in this quarter of the Union, is sound upon the subject of State comity. Few juries, evenin the Southern States, could be found, to stand ont more firmly against the tendency of the argument of tho Prosecutin Officer and the charge of the Judge, than di the jury in question.”’ Tho Acquisition of Mexico —The Courter and Enquirer of New York squints favorably towards the acquisition of Mexico, on the ground that slavery not existing there, it will eventually add largely to tho anti-slavery strength in both Houses of Congress, and thus put down the South. The editor confesses his belief that the Mexican population are not fit to enjay the privileges of citizonship under this Government; though so great is his desire to accomplish his purpose of putting down the South. that he seems quite willing to risk the experiment of introducing, as full partners in the Union, eight millions of Mexicans! The Latest Proposed Convention.—The National Committee chosen by the seceding dologates from twelve non-slave-holding States at the Philadelphia Know Nothing National Conventien, are about to issue a cal! for a Na- tional Convention of the Know Nothings who repudiate the never-to-be-forgotten 12th sec- tion, and disown the convention that adopted it. If we are not greatly mistaken, there is not at this time a single Know Nothing State Council that has not fown from ome one or other of the planks of the platform of the for- mer supreme council of the Order! . The Con- yention to which we particularly refer above is to meet at Cincinnati on the 2ist of Nevem- ber. Rain.—A correspondent of the Smithsonian institution writes that at Wood's Hole, Mass., loss rain fell during the last three months than has fallen at thet place for many years. In other portions of the State and throughout the whole country, the season has been very wet, particularly the month of July. In New York more rain fell, it is stated, than has been known for sixty-six years; but it is quite the revere ia the town above mentioned. Vegetation thero has suffered exceedingly, corn crops are injured. and the meadows and pasture lands are as dry a3 an ash heap. Vermont.—The party triumphing in the Veimont State election that took plzce on the day bofore yesterday was the ultra abolition Know Nothing Republican party—the aboli- tion party of the State, who have engrafted Know Nothingism on their creed by way of catching gudgeons. Overboard.—Know Nothingism was signally defeated yesterday in Georgetown, as it would have been at the last previous election there there had its opponents bestirred themselves as on yesterday. The Current Operations cf the Treasury Bepartment.—On yesterday, 6th September, thero were of Treasury Warrants entered on he books of the Department— For the Custonseccesecsccceseres $49,888 99 War Warrants received and ca- tered .srecceccsevececevsceeee 1,895 21 Interior Warrants received and ONtOrLed.cereccevecesececcceres 7,228 99 Interior repay warrants received and entered. .seccccccvcee.cces 4,263 99 oe Tho Epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth. From Norfolk and Portsmouth we still have gloomy accounts of the ravages of the ycllow fever—the letters from those places being filled with a recital of heart-rending secnes witnessed by the writers. The following names are to be added to the list of dead : Mr. Kayton, Mrs. Luton, Wm. Johnson's wife, Mr. Dudley, Miss Lockwood, Reuben Butier. Sen., LT. C. Dixon, Mr. Rogers, Mr. tiotwin, Thos Cash, Mrs. Drayton, Mr. Smitey, Mrs. Hallett, Geo. Jones, Mrs. E. Mallory, Mrs. Hutchinson, Enoch Land, A 8. Whittle, Ann W. Parrons, wife of John T, El- liet, Mrs. Nabby Holden, Chas. G. Williams, (lied Richmond.) Mrs. Harmanson aad 1, (died in Baltimore,) John Cuthrell, hite, Miss Jordan, Mr. Lester, Nancy gham, Mrs. Ostans, Mrs. Morciey, J. B. . Mrs. Gill, Mrs. Burke, Fiorence Booth- ugene Boothby, L. P. Poilard, John ft. J. Millerson, Jas. B. Claig, Geo. John Daniler, W. G. Dunbar, Betsey Bradicy, Thos. Eldridge, Nancy Sorey, Luey Griffin, Mrs. Parsons, Miss Mery Malo- ney, Thomas Carson, Mrs. Woodfin, Mrs. Cus- lis, Mr. Decker, J. P. Howell, Fanny Smith, James Ryan, W. G. Kiect, Wm. Martin, N. Pumphrey, Anthony Loveit, Mary Boyle, Rosalia Grifiin. Dr. Leon Gelbardt, of Richmond, who left Norfolk on Sunday last, and was seized with yellow fever on arriving at Petersburg, died there on Wednesday. He was a native cf Warsaw, Poland. Another mariyr to the cause of human suffering. Among those said to be ill. are Purser Fitz- gerald, of the navy. Wm. B. Webb, the mother of John S. Lovett, a son of Wim. Stevens, Mr. Kirkpatriek, Rev. J. Hendren, aud the whole of Mr. Bates’ family. . ‘The number of deaths in Norfolk during the twenty-four hours ending at noon, on the 4th instant, is variously stated at from fiity to sixty. The demand for coflins at the depot of the Howard Association is tho best criterion of tho extent of the mortality, and two or three may bo seen there at all hours of the da moasuring and picking out such as will suit the tenants they have ready to occupy them. Largo as the supply of coffins has been from Baltimore and Richmond, it has searcel equalled the demand, which is incessant at all times, He bbe exhausting the supply. The Commandant of the Navy Yard has or- dered all the carpenters in the yard to work, muking boxes and coffins for the numerous un- buried dead. A Norfolk letter in the Baltimore Patriot BAYS: There is no peculiar treatment adopted by the Southern ph. ns to arrest the disease. Some give tarpe and hydroeyanie acid, others infusion of verbena, othors differeat things. Dr. Moriis, of Baltimore, adopts the expectant course, and so far with the most de- cided success. Uut of some forty oases, be has lost but ono and that was complicated with another disease. A Nerfolk letter in the Baltimore Sun, dated the Gth, says: The accounts from tho sick aro not so favor- able to-day. Sister Bernard, of tho Catholie Orphan Asylum, was seizod with the prevail- ing epidemic yesterday. She has been most devoted in her service and has the sympathies and prayers of every good heart in the com- munity. One of the horrible incidents that sometimes characterize visitations such as that which has fallen upon this city was revealed this morning. Acorpse that had lain unburied for cight days was discovered surrounded by the sick and dying. Itmay seem strange that such an event could happen, but it is no un- frequent cecurrence to seo whole families down at not asoul near them to give a glass of water or even extend a word of comfort or sympathy. Persons are often found dead, not a soul having witnessed their iilness or lact agony. Au unpleasant circumstance transpired last evening, which has caused a great deal of ex citement and comment. A person from New Orleans, who has been acting a prominent part here, and who was appointed, on account of his activity, superintendent of the hospital, was arrested and lodged in prison on the charge of stealing onc thousand dollars’ worth of jeweiry from the house of Mr. Lewis, dur- ing the illness of the family. What will be the result of this matter, eagnnot, at this mo- ment be divined. A resort to & venerable gentleman called Judge Lynch, is hinted at in various circles. FROM PORTSMOUTH. There is one gratifying fact in the accounts from this ill-fated town—Mayor Fiske is not dead! A\though very ill when iast heard from, (and it was represented to us by a promis Hump nent physician who saw him that he could not survive.) a favorable turn bas taken place. and there is now some hope of his recovery. A private letter gives the number of deaths on Sunday at 34, Monday 23, and an average of 20 per day since that time. A Portsmouth letter in the Richmond Dis- tbe psi e physicians are quartered at two differ- ent places. Mr. Witetn lived in a very handsome cottage on the bank, has given it to me physiciane, and it is now occupied by Drs. Wobster and Walters, of Baltimore; Drs. Howle and McDowell, of Richmond, and Dr. Kennedy, of Peunsylvania, and the balance are at the Crawford House. é Mayor Fiske is improving. The disease ay to be of such a malig. bant form that the physicians inform me it wiil yield to no treatment whatever, being the gon- uine African fever. The following persons were sick: Richard and Sarah Eskridge, children of Rev. Vernon aT a chaplain in the navy, who was very active his exertions and ministrations among the sick in the Naval Hospital. Mrs. Tatem, mother of Robert Tatem. She had lost a daughter and son. THE LATEST. ‘The news from Norfolk and Portsmouth this morning is awful! The people of those cities are suffering from Famine as well as from the Pestilence. {See our telographie column for the details of this heart-rending intelli- gence.] In Portsmouth, for the twenty-four hours ending at sunset on Wednesday there were 21 deaths. From the Argus of yesterday we clip the following items : Suspgension.—This will be our last issue till cooler weather and health retaraing to cur limits, shall enablo us to resume the “tenor of our way.’? One after ancther in our office has been stricken by sickness until but one is left free from disease, Mr. Benjamin Charies, our last remaining compositor. Honor to him! fer be has stood nobly by us in the sempest. We have been sick ourself and have only re- sumed our port about a weok ;—now cur fore- man, Mr. Jas. 1. Pinch, (who bas been every thing to us) is compelled to quit—as well as every white hand in the office, with the above named exception. Six (colored) pressmen have been taken sick at their post, one after ancther ; and every one of our orginal carriers is off his route. We dare not oppose Cmnipotence. To at- tempt to keep on under existiag circumstances would be like fighting against Providence. It is besides next to’ impossible. All the other papers have suspended. Other duties crowd upon us. Our friends are sick—the dead lies unburied—and an unspeakable calamity is around us. We must yield to the fiat of the Almighty. A Move ror tas Orrnans.—The helpless little children who have been leit by the scourge, without natural protectors, are to be congregated. we are delighted to learn, in Carist Church Lecture Room. This room has been fitted into service, and we are sure no one will gainsay the move. It will be under charge of several of our influential citizens, and supervised by the im- mortal Howard Assoziation. Competent ma- trons will have the helpless ones in cha and God, we trast, will add his blessing. Prorvosep ReMovator our Porutarioy.—It will be seon by several communications which we publish to-day, that there i intense de- sire on tho part of benevolent friends abroad to remove us bodily from this dire home of pestilence. Would that it could be done with convenience! But we fear that there are too many sick xmong us, and too many dificulties in the way for the sekeme to be practicable. AEBRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ATLANTIC. ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE. The steamer Atlantic arrived at New York yesterday afternoon with Liverpool dates to the 25th August She brings two hundred passengers The Papers continue interesting details of the late bombardment of Sweaborg and the recent batdes on ihe Tehernaya. The pepers say tuat the Russian loss at Sweaborg was only 40 killed and 160 wound- ed, and that the fort ions were destroyed. Two British ships fired on Riga without effect. The squadron in the White Sea continues to destroy the Russian steres along the coast, and the British squadron in the Sea of Azoff havo Liown up several Russian ships of war, sunk the Russian ships in Berdiansk bay, and burn- ed the suburbs of that town. The British gun-boat Jasper was wrecked in the 5ea of Azoff, and the Russians had found her signal book. The position of affairs before Sebastopol was quite unchanged. The position of the siego at Kars was also unchanged at the latest advices. The Kussian loss in the battle at the bridge of Traktir, on the Tehernaya was nearly 4,000 in killed and wounded. Tho loss of the allies was about 1,000 men, The Russians were not sued across the river, but hold their former us TUMOTS Were current of a new peace t, but nothing authe could be ascer- tained in regard to the m : TUE WAR. No farther important event has oseurred at the seat of war, consequently the most inter- esting news is the detuils of the battles at Sweaborg and Teheruaya. The loss of life at Sweaborg was quite small, but the details thus far do not state how much of the place has been destroyed, nor how much remains. According to the sccount of the Russian Ad- miral, the bombardment appears to have done but Tittis dumage, besides burning the publie stores. He says that no damage whatever has been done to the fortification batteries or gans; and he closes his dispatch oa the evening of the 12th, thus: “The enemy remain at their eld anchorage and do not renew the attack.’’ The bombardment of Riga was commenced at 4o’clock a. m., on the 10th, by two English steamers, one a two-decker and the other a frigate, and continued all day until 7 o’clock p- mn., duing apparently but Hitle damage. The attack on the allies at Tehernays was commanded by Prince Gortschakoff. The Ryssian force consisted of five divisions of in- fantry, six thousand cavalry and uty bat- teries of artillery. Three Rus: (renerals were killed, ‘The French loss amounts to nearly 200 killed and over 300 wounded. Goneral Reed, of the English army, was killed in the engagement. The Russians azked an armistice to enable them to bury their dead. and General Pelissier says the whole number of Russians buried was 3,329. A dispatch of the 19th from the Crimea saya that the artillery had opened a fire upon Se- bastopol, but that the bombardmont had not yet been recommenee. Four Russian steamers, sunk by the Rus- sians in Berdiansk bay, had been blown up by the English, and the suburbs of the town burnt. A British gun-boat went ashore dur- ing the attack, and was taken by the Russians, together with a complete code of the Allies’ signals. Gortschakoff’s latest dispatch from Sebasto- pol is to the 2lst. It says: The fire of tho Allics has sensikly diminished and does but little damage. ENGLAND. From England there is no political news of importance. umors wore current of new negotiations to the effect that the accessign of Spain to the alliance is complete; and that the alliance of Denmark and Sweden were ail arranged, and | needel on!y to be ratified. Austria is said to have submitted a new project for poace, and will come out decidediy for the Allies. It is further reported that the Allies will rmanently occupy some portion of the Turk- ish territory and re-construct the map of Italy. FRANCE. tjucen Victoria has been thusiastically in }’sange. AUSTRIA. From Austria there are rumors of o split in the Cabinet. THE MARKETs. Liverroot —Cotton—Dennistoun £ Co.'s circular quotes the market easier, but quota- received very en- bly lower—closing steady, with sales for the ede of 45,000 bales, iniading 4,500 to spec ulators anion for export; Orleans fair, 74; middling, 6 7-16; U; d fair, 6. Brond- stuffa—Brown & Shipley nag mearnee bo | have sligh' vanced ; t has adva: 2s. Emig Boh corn 64.; Western Canal a ling at 40a4is., Ohio 42s; white yellow 37s. 6d.a38e., mixed 37s. ly; the weather anfavyorabi¢. Provisiors—Messrs. 5 a & Co. report provisions as being generally unchanged. Loxpox.—Barring Brothers & Co. report : Tron is unchanged and in demand ; eu- rs are aa at steeusell gebeers cotton is rm; linseed is dull; rice is active at ad- vanced pricos; spirits turpeutine are dull; coffee is steady. Stocks.—Maryland 5's, 92893 ; lva- nia 5's, 78280; Pennsylvania bonds, 84; Vir- ginia bonds, 1586, 834990}; Pennsylvania Cen- ee 91); Minois Central Railroad, Money Market.—Messrs. Bell & Co. report American stock dull, but prices unchanged. Ballion in the Bank of England has decreased £158,000. Consols for money are quoted at 91}. THE LATEST. Loxpon, Saturday morning. —Queen Vieto- tia will embark on Monday, from Boulogne, on her return to England. ‘The Emperor will accompany her to Boulogne. Advices from Paris state that 50,000 addi- tional reinforcements are to be sent to the Crimea. The allied squadron in the White Sea have captured two Russian chips and one steamer. The squadron was preparing to quit that sea. The Berlin papers etate that Austria has de- clared that she will treat, according to m: tary law, every individual found tampering with the Austrian soldiers with a view of in- ducing them to join the Anglo-Italian Legion. Russian agents have boen sont to the lead- ing cities of Europe to raise a loan for the Rus sian government. From the war ia Asia the intelligence is that the Russian division between Kars and Erze- roum, having been reinforced, had marched upon Kenfri Keni and drove tho Turkish troops from their position, and firally eneamp- ed three leagues trom Erzeroum. Berurx, August 23.—Russian agents have boon sent to the chief citics of Europe to raise a loan for the Russian government. Dastz August 24.—All the mortar vessels a the Baltic waters are being sent wiral Seymour has relieved Ad- off Cr dt Lonxpox, Friday evening, August 24.-—-The English funds are unchanged. with but li business doing. At Paris to-day the F funds further declined }. Consold sc varied through the day. PERSONAL. ++++Hon. Paul Wentworth, of Concord, fa- ther of Hor. John Wentworth of Iilinoi-, died at Sandwich, the place of his former residence, on Thusday. He was about cighty years of ++++The Hon. Charles S$. Morehead was 02 Tuesday last duty ins:alled 2s Governor of the State of Keniucky for the tenn of four years. r. Murdoch, the tragedian, was taken suddenly ill in Cincianati, on Tucsdzy evening, just.ashe commenced reading before a large audience at Smith & Nixon’: now hall. +The sister of Kossuth was recently, forthe purpose o g laces and similar articles. She resides ii New York, and maintains herself by dealing in rich ex broidery articles. She is a lady of pleasing manners, with much of that noble bearing that co strongly characteri r distinguished brother. ++++Mr. Fillmore was presented to the Em- peror of the French on the 10th of Aucust, to- gether with nineteen other American Mr. Fillmore was to have been favored with a pri- vate presentation, and in consequence went in a black coat, but, by some unexplained acci- dent, was thrown among his countrymen, who were in uniform, and he thus presented in more than one respect the most noticeable figure in the company. +++eCharles W. Carrigan has been nomina- ted by the Democrats of Philadelphia as their candidate for Register of Wills. ++++The Albany Express, commenting upon the many railroad accidents, says: ‘ If the dead could speak and the main od would drag themselves into court and testify, the fifteen hundred and etghty-seven killed and wound- ed travetlers of 1854, would unfold a tale cf horror which would make even soulless eor- poretions turn pale and tremble.”’ at Worcester = VOTICE he Bosrd of Directors of the Wa ton Building Association will meet THIS r ZVENING, at 8 o'clock, in Union Academ, corner of New York avenue and Lith st J. P. DICKINSON, Sec tep 7—1t* Bre REE FOR THE SUFFERERS at Norfolk and Portsmouth —The entire proceeds of the sales from my sia!!s in the Centre arket on Tuesday morniag a1 Will be appro- riated to the relief of the suiferers at Norfolk and ‘ortstcouth. The S'slis as usual will be abundantly suoplied on that occasion with the fruits and vexelables of the season, of a choice character, fresh and direct from my farm My usual customers, and 2'l other kind hearted and char!'able citizens are respoc's ticitrd to rete promt tices the opporiunity to contriba’e 07 e alleviation of the eillictions ou stricken neighbors. =a Sign over the Stalls “Valley View Ferm."* sep 7—1t® JON H. KinG. —* OTICE —Thete will be a called meot- ing of the Western Hose Company ‘THIS (Friday) NIGHT, September 7th, at 7% o’clock. Punctval attendance is Fequested, as business of importance !s to be transacted sep 7—1t* Bet ESIDENT’S MOUNTED GUARD, ATTENTION —An adjourned meeting of the Company will be held at the armory on MONDAY, the Jéth instan:, at 7% o'clock p m. ao alleadauce of every member is re- quired. By order of sep 7—31* oe Ree PIC NiC POR THE BENEFIT of the Norfolk and Portsmouth sufferers, which was to have taken place at “he **Park” on the $d instant, bes been postponed, owing to the inclemeney of the weather, wilil MONDA Y, the 10th instant, to commence ai 1 a’clock. No ee — be made ©; liters to the house or grounds; but gentle ing the Daact Saloon will be change a ie sum of ‘any cents. Prof. Bergman’s Band is that the citizens of Washty respond to the call, and ald relic feripg, of our distressed neighbors. t Whaley’s onmibus will be on the corner of 7th street and Pa.aveoue during theef:cruvon and night, to convey passengers cut sep 5—it CHAS. SHUSSLER. style peti peted EVENING, between 12th, , Or on the avenue, a Gold linked Braceet liberal reward will be paid if delivered ai this office. OST,ON THE Sth note of $70, drawa by vor of Mr. Saers, oy ° U3 PECK, Captain. sep 7—l* it, in this citya Beacham, in fa- of Westmoreland county, Va., (the first name of Saers forgo: } and leii in my hands for collection. If lefi at this office a suita- ble reward wiil be given. WILLIAM TILOR. Sonate, Ward, near Steamboat Wharf. Boe Rew MANUFACTURES! FAIRVIEW COTTON WORKS, NEAR C4NAL BASIN, ALEXANDRIA, VA, FITZPATRICK & BURNS, PROPRIETORS AND MANUFACTURERS OF COTTON YARNS. SALL TWINE, CARPET CHAIN, COTTON BATs, WRAPPING TWINE, CORDAGE, iva assortment of these articles now on hand and ready for delivery, to which we call the attention of merchants and dealers in these goods which we are selling at Nerthern prices. sep 7—3t F.&B NEW FALL RIBBONS, HAVE just received a fine end choice i above Goods, which are the first pant yhnd season. Among them are some entirely new styles. The ladies are solicited to examine them. A. TATE, 314 Pa. avenug, bet. 101) sep? ial ‘a and Lith sts. = —————— UGAR CHEAP, COFFEE EAPER, S and Tea Cheapest —Those on oe will always find Vargains at the Ghee Sorat the Cheap corner 9th and E sts, . We i‘ nha JO8, W, DAVIS. AND PHO NIC ov The JACKSON CLUB,*% i ‘i Spre Gardens, (formerl, poet! rt aris | on m pret Somos th aad Sth, on MONDAY, September 10th, com. tS octene. m. E JACKSON CLUB take pleasure tn publ art that they sil ive the! vend the public & ol every efort to make this one of (he most pleasent, any snk cosherehs Pen OO ° persons admitted on the ground. Scott's Brass and String Hand ‘Las will be farnished by an experi. enced caterer, Tickets 5@ cents—admitting a gentleman and Committee of Arrangements W Delaway. C Moran, JR Brown aus PLEASANT RESORT. SPRING GARDENS, FORMERLY FAVIER’S GARDEN,) On M Sircet, between Seventeenth § Eighteenth, PENED every day in the week, on Sun- day. No —— jwors allowed, but Cof- foe, Chocolate, mpi ‘will be for sale. Weber's Brass Band will per Mon day poe ‘Thuredey evening, beginning at about 3 o'clock. Admittance free. au OST—ON SATURDAY EVENING in the President's Yerd, a heavy e: cem- brie handkerchief. Any one finding the above will be rewarded by leaving it at 56> Fourteenth street, D and E streets, Island. sep 6—2* REPORT having been industriously circula- ted to the effect that the terms for boarding and tuition in my Seminary have been advanced to five hundred dollars per session, 1 deem it my duty to give It 21 explicit contradiction. 1 do not know bow the report originated, nor by what agency it has gained such carrescy. The statement in my peblished catalogue ls made with preat clearness, and cen hardly Lave perverted to ner double the amoudt slated. ‘The terms for the lest (hree years have been $260 per session of ten months additional cost of all articles of do nsumapien me to raise my terms to $250 Tie terms for day puplis and for extra studies are unchanged. WILLIAN J. CLARKE, Georgetown, D.C. FALL GovDSs. at subscriber would invite (he atlen'ion of L his friends and the public to his supe- rior stock of Goods for wenllemen's wear for the appreaching season just received, Which will Le made up to order iu the most approved styles, at the shoriest notire, and at bis usually low prices. Thankiul to his patrons for thet 4] encourazement beretofore be is conti- dent t from the facilities he now enjoys to be able to give al! entire satisfaction. &. CODE), Merchant Tailor, Sth st., 3 doors north Pa. av sep 6—-dim QGTRAYED AWAY—Fiom Jeckson City, . day. the 2d Instant,a daik MULE, s old, with scar on the left sh T from the rubbing of the coller Any per returning the same to Levi Pumphrey’s stable, corner of C and Sixth streets, Weshingion city, Will be liberally rewarded by the sr toacatbors. WILLSON & HAYWARD, sep $—3t Union Hall, C suet. (Alexandria Gazette and Maubery paper will copy 3 limes, and send bill te this eftice.} sep 6—Iw S10 —ONE HALF OF THE PA Right for the c f Washing most ent Will be sold for the above sun. ane prising active man it will prove a forme. Patent granted July 1854, baving 13 yearstorun. Address X. ZZ. at this ofice. se at “y SULAR PACKET i. past pmne ANDOVER is now loading will have quick dispatch for the above port. ; ‘ Ss For Freight app to HAR SY & BROTHER, Acts, Water street, Georgelown. A CAUTION sep 5—it r necezrnry only to those who have not yet need. my superior Black Tea at fifty cents a pornd, again:t the imposition that is daily attempred by some persons of elastic conscience te palm off Tea representing itto be the same kind as mine. The way to nail the deception to the forehead of the parties so attempting, is by a trial, samples of which can be had gratuitously The balance of the chop-mark, forty-five boxes of this article of the latest importation is in my store, and by the box families can have it reasonably less than at re- tall ndred and ten Magnolia bams, the last ceived this season, to b> had only at my store. Green conserve and preserved ginger. All the ments necessary for American, French, and ish preserving and pickling. Purecider vin- 88 and stone jars © i es and pickles, with a ansurpassed . 2 KID roof Vermont avenue, Land 15 street, north- sept 5. Co east of Jackscn Statue ‘ce and mediam Now landing per Andover, and forcale low by HARTLEY & BROTHER, 101 Water street, Georgetown, D.C sep 5—3t STOVES, GRATES, RANGES, &e. AM now receiving my usua\ Fall svpply of STUVES, GRATES, RANGES, &c and would call particulier attention to =a le of Lutrobe and F cinour patter s. for heating two or more stories.’ d to Work well. and gua: The character of the ebove Stove is so well es tablished in Baltimore and here as the best, neat- est, and mosi economical j’arlor Steve in vu! ate that it needs no other recommenda'ion exce trial to convince any one of fis great advant utup properly, will never fali to WM. H. HARROVER, Seventh st., opposite Patriotic Dank. sep 5—St ITS GF BLARNEY, by Shelion Mackenzie, Editor of the Life of Currian, jr. Price #1. Guy Rivers. 2 tale of Georgia, by W. Gilmore Sims, Esq. Price $125. Just Poblished and for sale at TAYLOR & MAURY’S Bookstore near Ninth street cu ALK CKAYONS for ux on the Biar and. isfactica sep 5 kboard, Box of Mi Crayons, 2 cents FRANCK TAYLOR. THE PIANO PORTE CLASSES or ME. HENRY PALMER KE now nearly completed, but a few vaean- cies yot re to Le filled, for which early application is ¢ d,asthe aumber being limi- ted ro fils will be afterwards ad- mitted, Mir Ving determined to take no more tian Le can ttend to. notice will be given to each pupil of the first ing for in- struction, and as aa lncentive to improvement be proposes, at the expiration of the first half year to ave a gener:i cxamination of his Classes, to which the’paretiis and friends of each pupil will be invited, end prizes will be awaided to those who may re obtilned the greatest proficteacy Application to be made to Lim in person, at his residence, 233 F street. Terms, $5 per quarter of twenty lessons. 3 ARSHAL’'S SALE.—I1n virtue of a writ of 402 Furi Facias ‘ under Lien Law,” ivsued from the Clerk’s oifice of the Cirevit Court of the Dis- rict of Columbia. for the county of Washington, and to me directed, | shall expose to public sole, for cash, on FRIDAY, the 2th day of September = at the front dion Court house door of the said cennty, at 12 o’c ™., tle following 2 ay, viz: all William Durr’s interest inte the Brick Houses situated on the west half of Loi No. 22, in —_ No. 253, in the city of Washington D C., siezed and levied upon as the pro; rty of William Durr, and will sold to sktinty jodi- cial No. 21 to October, 1555, in fevor of Colt- inan & Smith. J.D. HOOVER, Marshal for Distiict of Columbia. _sep 4—tds ANASNIFICENT Rosewood, elegantly fin ished full seven octave Piano Forte just re- ceived, froma celebrated manufactory, in N. York, and must be seld within at ten days. at the astonixbiug low price of 5 ‘Two fine rosewood Pianos irom the celebrated establishment of Knabe, Gaeble & Co. Baltimoic, have been used only a few months, the owners being compelied to leave the city, and we are av thorized to sell themat the low price of $2Weech ———— a one for $50 ways on est and most reliable stock of fine Pianos in this city, at our Music Store, 306 Pa. avenue, bet. %&h Wd sts. sep4 JOMUN F. ELLIS. UBLIC SCHOOLS AN = P ipa! fo BD PRIVATE sE- pee Chet 8 Stat 7 very low prices, on sujc at thal TAYLOR & MAURY’S, as 1 3 ; Rear Vth street,