The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1854, Page 4

' | geod and spirited bouse. The prices ob'ained wil | be /ourd under ‘he head of the city trade report. Messrs. 8. H. & C. W. Fester held a catalogue sale ef French goods, which drew a good company oi ¢ ty and out town jobbers. The sale was a very spirited one, and the prices obtained indicated an improvement, compared to other similar sales of the season. There were 34% lots, all of which, with few exceptions, were sold. A lune of black silks sold wel!, and were in some instances duplicated. A line of broche ribbons, figured, plaid amd plain, sold well, and were duplicated. A line of shawls kere sewn: NEW YORK HERALD. N BENNETT, JAME*® GORDO AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENT PASTLE CARDEN—1 Posies SKOADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—Tne Giaviarom ~ Ao Ling ae Two Peve. BOWERY THSATRE, Bewery—Ecetacue Bavpix— | @aerry Ginisor SyuseRy. “TRUS Bres¢wey-Foun Lo exs—Divenriexeyr — ban MODEL. ar aN. brought fair to good prices. | Messrs. Van Wyck, Kobbe and Townsend held a moderate catalogue sale, chiefly of woollen goods, which went off very lively, and were generally cleared cut at rather improved prices. The rales at the principal auction rooms during the remainder of the week promise to be quite large, a8 we uncerstand that the house of Messrs. Benkard & Hutton are to offer large lotsa of French goods to the trade by auction, one sale of which commences this day by the Messrs. Foster. ARRIVAL OF THE GEORGE LAW. This vesse] arrived at this port at late hour Mist night. By ber we have received from our cor- remponden’ a. Acapulco news confirming the intelli- gence recently received as to the progress of Aiva- rez and the revolutionary army tovards the capital of Mexico. We have also received by this arrival later rews from the Isthmus of Panama and the South Pacific, which may be found elsewhere. WRECKED AND MISSING STEAMSHIPS. The painful feeling of anxiety occasioned by the protracted voyage of tie steamship City of Phila- delpbia, bound from Liverpool to PLiladelphia, ia at jast allayed. A telegraphic Ceapatch received from Halitex yesterday , asnounees that she strand ed on the rocks off Cape Race oa the 7th instant, Tle passengers end crew were saved, the cargo ¢ will be rescued in a damaged ssate, but the vesse]— | & uew one, on the ficss voysge, 2,189 tons barthen, valued at £200,000—wili no doubt prove a total loss. The steamship Petrel, from Gleegow for this port, left Greenock on the 7h inataut, aad she ia, therefore, several days behiad hec time. Her non- arrival begins to create apprehensiovs as to her safety, thongh we cannot see that there is as yet good grounds for serious alarm. TBE RECENT FORGERIES IN THIS CITY. William Kissane, one of the parties implicated in the charge of destroying the steamboat Martha Washington, whereby a large sum of money was alleged to have been fraudulently obtained from se: 208 Chambere street.—Daven Correnricio— Pus PiLunveTeR. #ATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham etrest—Faeuion snp | Pasa AtynoDE:.. WALLACK’S THE«TRE. Brosdwsy aww By Cousix @kRMON. SETROPOLITAN THEATRE. Love's Yon? Meant Srven Won Paik Lavy. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afvernocn and EBvening-Evs zecun, WOOD'S MINSTREL B41 L, 446 Brosdway—Erinorias M@imerneiey 2vv BURLESQUE OPERA. BUCKLEY'S OPFPA HOUSE, £39 Pros¢way—-Bucu- san’e Lrusoriay Orena Trove. WOOD'S ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELS. — Vecuamios’ Bara, 172 Broadway. SRAMCONYS HIPPODROME, Madison Square~iques- wean # ERYORMANCES. Spring aso Av- Sacainice= low York, Wednesday, September 27, 1854. ‘gne News. Next to our advertising iriends—-may their favors ever grow leas—we devote the largest portion of our espace ths morning to the politicians. Tae @oings of the politicians yesterday ac Auburn and Lowell sre of gieat importance to the whole country, but owing to the late hour at which our despatches eame to hand, we are compelied to refrain from any extended remarks as to their ulumate effects, re- serving for another oceasion such commentaries as we may fee] obliged to make. First in importance comes the THE ADJOURNED SARATOGA CONVENTION. The proceedings of this body are extremely im- portant and dererving of the most attentive con- sideration. As \'g objects a d its actors are well knewn, it 8 unveces‘ary at this time to dilate upou them. We shall, therefo e, briefly sum up their @oings. During the prelimicary ctages of its progress the Convention was engaged in discuas ng the pro. priety of not recommending a State ticket, but ae it was very ev.dent that the whig wing were disinclined to throw away single chance im the coming coxtest, the democratic faction | yeyay companies on insurance policies, was yester strongly “urged & comprom’se of candidates. | gay grrested at Cincinnati, charged with the heavy But ail to x1o pur,ose. The teetotallers then | forgeries in this city that have recently been per- raked the point as to the soundness of Ray. mond, the whig candida'e for Lieutenant Governor, on the probibitory Hiqnor question. This was met by # statement that Raymond hai written a letter faity eetsblishirg his orthodoxy on that point. Yet asother objection was urged, that the whig candidate had not accepted the platform of the Saratoga oon. petrated. An examination is to take place oa Thursday. 1t is probable one of the charges brought against Kiesane is that of the forgery on the Bank of the Republic, for nine thousand dollars, which is no doubt fresh in the recollection of our readers. MORE RELIGIOUS RIOTS. Another of those lamentable outbreaks of religious vention. This was anewered by reading lettors | fanaticism that we have had of late so frequently from each and all of the nominees, unreser-| to chronicle, occurred at Cincinnati on Monday veedly endorsing the resoluviocs. That was a night, in the Twentieth ward of that city. It damper ex the fee democrats, and macy of | gynears that the Protestants attempted to establish them withdrew, ‘The eutire whig ticket was | 9 Sabbath school in the aforesaid wad. From shen nominated with Listes cordiality. _ A | eome cause, unaccountable to us, the German Ro- feries of resolutions, the beldest and most une- | mon Catholics took umbrage at the proceeding, at- qniveea! that have yet cinanated from any convea | tasked the achcol house, and threatened to kil! tion outside of the Garrison and Wendell Phu ips their opponents. Pistol shots were fired during the disturbance, by which three persons were wounded. We would recommend the Board of Home Mission; to send a force out there to inculcate, if possible, the maxims of true Christianity. Phe Syracuse Ant!Siavery Whig Re-orga- ton and the Whigs of the South. The article which we publish this morning from the Richmond (Va.) WWhig, on the pro ceedings of our late Whig State Convention, will challenge the calm and dispassionate atten- tion of all ovr readers with whom the mainten- ance of the peace aud harmony of the Union is the paramount idea. We doubt not that the views of our Virginia cotemporary concerning the effect of our whig Syracuse platform in the South will be sustained by the whig press and the whig party from Virginia to Texas. The work isdone. [twas virtually accomplished be- fore the mongrel meeting of the whigs at Syra- cuse. Their ticket and their resolutions are but the formal proclamation of the official dis- solution of the late unsatisfactory copartaer- ship between the whigs of the North and the whigs of the South of Mason and Dixon’s line. This is the climax of a series of anti-slavery afliliations with the Northern whig party, runo- ning through the last twenty-tive years of the political. machinations of W. H. Seward. Tire principal landmarks in this progressive more ment to disruption are the Texas question, the Wilmot proviso for Oregon, the war with Mexico, the nomination and election of General Taylor, the composition of his Cabinet, the re- pudiation of Henry Clay, and last of all, the repudiation of Webster and Vilimore, on the express ground of their declared hostility to Jie anti-slavery, sectional and seditious princ’- ples of Seward and his allies. The results of the last presidential election North and Soatu, left nothing move to be done in order: to con- simmate the dissolution of the national whig organization than a formal declaration, North or South, of the existing fact. The whigs of the North have formally de creed this iinal separation. They have done it in a State convention at Boston, in a State convention at Syracuse, and in numerous county, city and town conventions from Cape Cod to Minnesota, ‘The act Was broadly fore shadowed in the votes of Northern whigs in both houses of Congress upon the Nebraska bill, litary man of them being funad edup, were reported. They utterly repudiate the Boltimore plat{irms of both the wig and dem - «ratic porties, call fur the unconditional repeal ot tee fogitive slave law and the acts upon which it is besed, ard propose a convention of delegates frou the free Stares, ta be beld a' Syracuse on the Foact of July, 1856, to vominate candidates for Presiden ana Vie President, The revolution is begun—wh thal! stop it now? THE CONVENTION OF FREE DEMOCRATS, Paikyg to induce the AntiN-braska men agree spc a mixed ticket for State o! tree democracy re assembled, according to adjourn ment, snd agreed upon the folowiog:—-For Gover nor-—Myron EB Clark; Lieutenant Governor—-Brad ford R. Wood; Cause! Com missioser—Pnilip H. M.- comber; State Prison Inepector —Chas. A. Wheator. THE INDEPENDENT MASS CONVENTION AT AUBURN. Tors fection met in acecrdence with the procla mation of Genera! Bullard at the early hour o! yesterdsy morning. Bat for these early birds the were no worms at Auburn, acd after an ineffectual attempt to organize the meeticg adjourned t#! more favorable ec asor. MERIING OF THR SECEDBRS. Sul] another meeting was beld at Auburn last right. A nomber of persons, probatly disguste! with the whole preceediogs, cried out “A plague on both your houses,” organized into a convention, m minated the ticket of the fres democracy, set the whole machinery of a party in motion, and thea ad- journed, evidently greatly relieved. This sqaad may be classed as the fossil remains of the Libertv party, which was swaliowed up in the Ruffaio froe soil whirlpool in 1844. Take it altogether, the doings 2t Auoura yestor day present a curions and bumorous, yet saddening ané alarming spe stacle. MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. This body met yesierday at Lowell, and was well attended. Henry W. Bishop was nominated for Governor, and Caleb Stetson, of Braintree, fur Lievtepant Governor. Mr. Bishop, who was tie nominee for the same office last year, declined; but the convention, patterzing after the bards of tiis State, refueed to accept the offer. A series of resolutions, reaflirming the Baltimore platform, aud woreservedly endortirg the policy, foreign and domestic, of the administ:ation, was adopted, after © spirited resistance on the part of @ few whose digestive powers w nob equal to the task of swallowing the forvign policy on the Greytown Lombadment and the ten million Gadsden treaty, or the domestic dese in the sbape of the free go) coa tition and one bundred m lion of publi: plaader. However, the malcontents were ‘orced to give in, aad the convention adjourned in ite fall belief that to the nota the democratic factions of Massachusetts had | either house in support of the measure not become & unit. ‘ ‘ ope. The gubernatorial ticket and the resulu- en ee bh gee Mcrae ge 4 tions of the Whig omnitun vatherwn leave no The October term of + gid Terminer, | loophoole of escape : wtihahi encinintaibins 3 ott to Gnade The trail of the serpent is over them lyheavy. The calerdar, as far asit is now made up The whig candidate for Gover: is the containe the following ider, befothers | boasted instrument of the arch-agitator and are yet to be added to th his abolition fusion programme; and the slip- a bay ai ne {he pale ae pery philosopher nominated as liis Lieu- Onas Grabem, for the murd tenant has received that distinction as the a Wilson ener Ties Saget el eee ot Cece reward of his Qdelity to the instructions of 6. Robert N. Grabam, for the murder of Chs his master. It was mainly owing to the ef 7. Hengy Gled ths murder of forts of Raymond that the Saratoga Coalition Convention deferred the nomination of a separate State ticket until after the action of the whigs at Syracuse. The Licuteuaat, an- ticipating his own promotion, was natarally desirous, above all things, of arresting a pre- matnre division among’ the rank and file, and © he secured the postponement of the Sava: ticket to another meeting of the fasion 8. Patiek Me e murder Mshep LATE FROM CaP RAYTIEN. The brig R. W. Packer, arrived yos' dats fom Cape Haytive to the Ith ios t time tte bealth of the ‘sland was good, there being no sickness from fever or any other s ease. SPATE OF THE VARKETS--DBCLL is FG There bas heen a very stuffs the present week. d Common bra Bie wid hen ait 8 ahi wats: succeeding the nominations of the regular S low the closing rates of Saturday, ond in one tae | Fd whig party, And the Syracuse piaxce touched The average di having doue the bidding of their master sul utenaut’s work in a style which Ray- ine on equ & about 50 cen rel. Whi t nyond says “did his heart good” to speak of i eld at $1 86 and white Wisconsin at $1 a | be counted, no doubt, upon the second meeting rn sold fieely at a farther reduction in pr of the Saratoga anti-slavery coalitionists as sound brought 2 wes'era mixed 7 but the ratification gathering of the Whig Con : ? cation. 4 - G : And why not? Was not the whig candidat: te x Lieutcnant Governor a leading member o covcern ? Is he not on - ourse of astion at Sara- toga and wag not hie name ot Syracuse oni- ployed to the great ead of a birmoatous of all the’ yarlows: stripss and v! ob, with the exveption vere sold, nd ot favorable masgling The ele drowa were to a considerable extent duplicated, and | shades of free soil and abolition fac- tioniste upo the apti-clave Seward coalition whg ticket? Why, then, shouli the nomination o° Clark and Raymond fail to secure the approval of the Saratoga fusionists, and the free oilers proper, st /\\ ¢ | themselves the “free democrey ?”’ The work was cut and dried in advanee. Though the ruling director of the machinery from the call to | order at Saratoga to the close of the free soil proceedings yesterday at Syracuse, and of the Saratoga coalitionists a Auburn. 2 The Seward programm: may have failed in some particulars. T ere are symptoms of mu- tiny among the mercenaries. But whether the projected amalgamation of all the free soil and abolition factions in the State shall succeed or fail for the present, énoagh has been done to indiciite the position of the Nothern whig party in 1856, The division between the whigs of the two sections of the Union being final ond con- clusive, there can be no other alternative for the Northen whigs than an anti-slavery coali- tion whig ticket in open war against the South. We are promised this in the whig Syracuse re- solutions, and in the general drift of the rem nants of the late universal Northern whig party. The triumph of the Seward ticket in November will be the triumph of abolitionism, and will hasten the completion of the coalition design- ed for a general crusade against Southern sla- very in the approaching Presidential election. And let parties in the Presidential campaign be divided by a geographical line, what is the next step? If they are borne down by the nu- merical strength of the North, and if the anti- slavery alliance shal] thus succeed to the com- mand o! the general government, the Southern Statcs will have no other alternative than a peaceable or revolutionary secession from the Union. The Richmond Whig is right. The late un- natural connection between Nor.hern and Southern whigs is dissolved. It cannot be re- stored. They of the South must take their own course—the policy of the Northern party is a league against the South for arresting the ex- tension and carrying the abolition of slavery, cost what it may to the peace of the Union wa the safety of society. Of this league, W. 4. Seward is the prime mover, and our guberua‘9- ria: ticket, of Myron H. C!ark and Henry J. Raymond, is but a stepping stone to the nomi- nation of the arch-agitator as the great Norib- ern coalition anti-slavery candidate for tiv Presidency. Post Ovrice Ovrraces—Tae Remupy.— Now that the government have taken in hand the matter of providing the city of New York with a monumental building for the accommo- dation of the United States Courts and Post Office, it may be hoped that some attention may be paid to the feelings and interests ot the community at large. Hitherto,the Post Office seems to have existed for the almost exclusive benefit cf the merchant princes who do business in Wall street aud the lower wards of the city. Residents of the upper wards have hitherto been obliged-to come down town, at the ex- pense of half a day’s time, for their lesters, or to receive them, perhaps, some ten or twelve hours or more after they arrive ia the city, on the payment of two cents each, superadded tu the postage proper. Why should it happen tbat the great mass of the peuple of the great city of New York are deprived of the facility which the meanest citizen of London or Paris enjoys, of having his letters left at his door tree of exira posinge charge, withim ihe shortest possible time after it reaches the main Post Office? In London and Paris mouaichy provides for the distribution 0: letters every hour of the day to the door: of those to whom they are addressed. In those cities letiers are taken from central points, iv all directions, at the very last moment, and hur- ried off by returning carriers to the main office. Not so in republican America : a few straggling letter carriers occasionaily pick up letters in remote parts of the city; but in all cases where expedition and certainty is required, the only way to insure the promp! departure of a letter is for the writer (wherever le may reside) to carry or send it to the city Post Office. All tbis should be changed. Letters should be distributed to every part of the city within an hour after their arrival in the city, and free from the two cents extra charge. Letters should be hurried up at the latest noment from every point, to within a quarter of an hour before they are sent off— thus putting all parts of the city on a level as to Post Office facilities. The Post Office yields a revenue adequate to a vast improve- tacnt in the way adverted to, and the people have a right to demandit. There are a thou- sand other interests besides those of mere com- merce which the Post Office Department should consuli by the prompt delivery and departure of letters. We shall see whether our Postma:- ter-General is capable of comprehending the charges to which we have referred, and of ap- plying-the remedy. What says Mr.Campbell ? Stave Temperance Coxventiox.—We pub- lish in this paper a list of the delegates to the grand State Temperance Convention, which meets at Aubarn today. The call for this assemblage declares, in the estimation of the temperance party, that “the enactment of a law probibiting the liquor traflic is the para- Mount question in importance in our State legi+ lation.” Itis very likely, from his Maine law antecedents, that this temperarice convention will adopt Myron H. Clark as their candidate for Governor; but we are not so sure concern- ing the Lieutenant. The fact that Lieutenant Raymond was among the earliest and warmest supporters of the veto put upon the liquor bill of the lasi Legislature by Governor Seymour, Will bo apt to have its influence on the Maine ‘aw delegates at Auburn, unless Mr. Raymond shal! have subsequently signed the pledge, and have sent up an explanation, But we shall know all about it, perbaps, in a few hours. Let all the world keep cool. Nobody is person- ally interested here in the doings of this day at Auburn, except the whig Lieutenant of Master Seward, Tine Guarws —We reveived yesterday some specintens of very choice leabella and Cahawbs grapes, from the vineyard of ir Underhill, at Croton Point. ‘They do not appear to have suffered in the least from the drought. When sveb t and deligivus frit can be prodacet in these latitudes, and in the ulmost profusion, ans with sneh a seezon as this last one, the wonder is that our enppt sold be Hmited to t crops of a fow enterprising sam stenea like Dr. Vn der" The Cave Against Anna Koch, &e., for Con splracy. CORRECTION. Naw Youx, Sept. 26, 1854 ¥ vrvon oy Tate New Vore Hrncin—~ (bere being only four pricate in this efty of the eo co “¥roncivcan Order,”’ viz, Jerome Novrigas, Jo reph Andrade, Alex. Martig god J. Caro, it is but just to state thet those four reverend geotiemen have no- hirgatalto do, neither direct nor indirect, with u complaiat egainat ynna Koch; and the eom plaivant, =. Davie, romet necessarily sn to sons ee deno- mination By tovertirg tuisin your valuable it, you will oblige some of YOUR SUBSCRIBES, Everoyx’s Tuxarar—A New Commpy.—4o orig’ Amerean .omedy in three acts, entitled | Now- a-lays,” wee performed at fret time on Mondey evn vg, of « fair ard discriminating audience. introduced to Lionel Lorgstaple (Mc | Count St. Manrise (Mr. Marcheat), and Mr. So mh, eelf- spirit was bebind the scenes, he was yet the | styled editor of the Thundergust of Cniversal Freedom (Mr Burton) Longstaple is a cotton brover from New Orleans, who bas followed to New York tae ladye of his Jove, Fenny Fiutterwell, a Louisiana belle (Mrs Burtoa ) ‘The lovers at thio time are not on the dest of terms—a qusrrel peculiar to the tecder passion existing between them. Fapny resides at a fasbionable hotel in the city, acd isthe object of the sinister designs of the Count St. Mau- rice, @ ruined samester and imposter, and his accom. plire, Mrs Oublass Brown, (Mise Reymond ) A piaa is formed to destroy her reputation, and fore» her to maray the suppose { Count, by spreading the report that St. Maurice bas been seen coming out of her room at one in vhe morning This scheme ia happily frustra sed torough the aid of Drs. Delmaine, (Miss Kate S:xov,) the wife of a poor devil author, who has been ruined down Souto by St Maurice in former times. On the other hand, Lionel Longstaple, in despair at the coldness of the tair Fanny, is seduced into a yambliog hoase by Mt. Mauriee, and is saved from being victimized by Delmaine, who bas strolied im there to make up a “city item”? The play winds up w.th the usual dencuement—the reconcilement. of the loyera and ® proeperous turn suddenly given to the fortunes of the author ard his devoted wife. Burton, as a literary pre tender, was splindid, and rendered the cheraster of a wouki-be editor ard anther to the life His every mo- tion, ae usual, was receives with roars of laughter and applanee. Mrs, Barton, ber tizet appearance this season, lobed charming, and acted the belle naturally, easily, avd with uraffected grace. Mr. Jordan was euccessfa; as & Southern gentieman, though his was’ not a part which required any great effort of genius. Mr. Fisher ventered the poor anthor very effectively; and Miss Kete 2axon, in the character of a devoted wife, was feel- ing axd eloquent The scene between her and her hurbené, where their poverty is Jaid bare, is touching, snd porsetses considerabie literary me:it. Altogether the piece was as fairly represented asthe author could have desired. The comedy, though not starting or very witty, is a capital satire upon some of the foiblea and follies of New York city life. The char. voters of the scandal-loving ladies at the hotel, as wel! as those of Mrs. Spivel (Mrs. liughes) and her hen peched husband, are well dravn, and certainly every justice was done to them. The play, representing scenes so familar to us oll, is on attractive, and will, no doubt, beccme a popular one. Atthe termination of the last act, Mr. Barton was cslled before the curtain, and in a few appropriate re- marks he tharked the audience for their encouragement, ord said that “Now a-days’’ was the first of a series of eriginal smerica: comedies which he intended to pro- éuce. Fhoute of “author,” ‘“‘author,’? were after warde raised, and Mr. Burton hed to appesr again and quiet the tumult by explaining that he had given hi woud of honor that the secret of the author’s name should notbe divulged. Watiack’s THeatre.—For the first time this season, Mr- Walack made his a pearance on the boards ef his own theatre on Monday evenirg. Tne announcement of hie pur- pose to do so had the effect of drawing one of the largest and most farhionable eudiences that have been often seen in that theatre, popular and fashionable as it has been since it came under his management. The piece selec‘ed for the occasion was Buckstone’s comely of ‘ The Scholar.” A more judicious selection conld not have beenmade, for the character of Erastus Bookworm is, we think, one of Ur. Wallack’s happiest impersonations, Criticiam upon his performance of it last night would be superfluous, Mr. Wallack’s reputation as an actor is based upon @ solid foundation, and time hae only added to its brilliancy and solicity. The other characters were rospectably sustaiced, the accessories were all in taste and keeping, and the piece, as a whole was weil got up, and was most flutteringly received. After the curtain fell, the plaudits of the house brought back the players on the stage, and a speech having been called for from Mr. Wal'ack, he, in compliance with the request, step ped forward and spoke briefly as follows:— Ladies and gentlemen, my object in coming forward to gddress you xow, is ay to inform you of what is to be played to morrow night. I bad no other purpose in view, save as to this one point. My appearance before on 80 early in the season arises—1 am honest enough 0 a3 —‘rom the neceasity for all putting our shoulders to the wheel, (Applaure and Iangh’er.) Webave done well—this is a sign that we shali now do better. I have given you, Tam proud to think, a neat and elegant the- atre thia eesson, pressions of assent.) I do not at- yempt to vie with colossal palaces—I have not been fool- ish enough to do so; but comfortable and it seatsare not wanting here. (Applause.) une little difliculty, about which there was more confusion than the absolute fact wayranted, we have gotover Iremember. whena boy, beuring of Kemble’s difficulties. growing out of an at tempted change of pr.ces at his elegant tewple. You have ali heard of the famous O P riots, arising out of that attempt, John Philip Kembie was very obrtinate; but he was only thirty-five years of age. James Wallack isa good deal older, and--it is to be hoped—s little wiser; and, therefore, he submitted to public feeling. (Applause.) To-morrow night we shall att: mpt to give yon in the best style postib'e Shakepere’s ‘Mush Ado About Nothing ”’ e next night—in consequence of the recs The given it this evening—‘‘The Scholar” shall be, for the last produced, in combination with the admirable comedy of “The Cousin Ge the last three nights. leave. Tar Ronan CatHoric ORPHAN ASYLUMS—FESTIVAL FOR timr Bengrit —The annual festival in sid of the funds of there benevolent institutions took place last evening in Castle Gaiden. The managers have found the asylams this vear in extremely straitened circumstances, aad consequently more than ordinary exertions were made to csure this festival to be productive of profit. And it was so, From six o’clock in the afternoon crowds com- menced pouring into the Battery #0 as to be able to ob- tain the earliest admission into Castle Garden, and until nine o'clock there seemed to be no diminution in the ar- rivals. However, for an hour previously the immence edifice had been jammed to its utmost capasity—say to the extent of receiving some seven thousand persons, and stil the fresh comers kept pushing vheir way thi an,’? which bas been playe’ here for Ladies and gentlemen, | take my in the vain endeavor to obtain admiseion. Ata a credit of the institu'ion having been exhausted, but we believe and hope that they will not have to encure such a deprivation for thi t twelve montus. The atate- ment was sufficient xcite great sympsthy for their pitiable cordition. We were Ato see hat sympathy 80 practically manifested as it was last eveuing. Theological Discussion. Last evening a very large audience assembled in the ‘Taberracle, to listen to the openiug of « theological dis- cussion between the Rev Isaac Westcott, pastor of the Laight street Baptist church, ani the Rev T. I, Sawyer, D. D., pastor of the Orchard sti Universalist chyrch. ‘The question to be discussed is, “ i/o tae Holy Scrip- tures teach the dostrice of endless misery’ Mr. Wes. cott arguing in the affirmative, and sr sawyer in (ue negat The proceed of ths evening rere oj ith prayer by the fev. Dr. Nye, of Brooklyo, af er which the Citeni sion was commenced by the kev Mc. Wescott. He aliudedto debate in tre Tabernic’e last winter, and trusted tit been cine that oral religious dis- cussion could be conducted ix a gentlemanly aui chris tion spirit, and that the prejudices of the community against religious discussion were without foundation He said that the question was not whether we, with our finite reason, can recoucile the merey of God’ with the doctrine of endless misery, bat do the Holy Scriptures teach it? Tho reverend gentieman spoke for half au hour, and iho fame epace of time was ocsugied by the Rev. Ar. Sawyer, in reply. The latter entered at once into the werlt the question, Fach pa-ty spoke again fora «quarter of an hour, after which the meeting adjourned. ike discaasion will be continued for eight eveuings. Jersey City Intcliigence. Porrnics.—The democratic primary meetings, for Hud son county, to choose delegates to the Democratic Con- fcc Convention, to be had in Jersey city, October ‘th, will occur on the evening Friday next, the 29th instant, in the different wards of Jersey City and town- ships of the county. Notice has been given that the whigs will hold their county convention on the 28d day of Getober next, at Bergen Five Corners, to nominate candidates for the oflicesof County Clerk, Surrogate, Sheriff and Coroners. Diwp PROM THe Evercrs oF T1qvor.—Yesterday marniag, a boy, 16 years of age, named Michael Cugley, was foun stupidly drunk in a fay loft in Bergen street. near Canal. He had obtained the liqnor which put him into that con- cisioa from persons on board of a canal bot. Medical was called, but the boy died soon after, in great agony, of congestion of the brain. United States rehai's Ofice. Before R. & Stillwell, Pag Serr. 26 —In the ease of the United states vs, the six sean en srrested by the names of Mickey Free, and other’, whose real names gre John manning, Joha Williams, Danie) Allen, Wiliiem Burns, and John Brown, charged by Charles J. Leveritt, master of the American ship ot Petersburg, on her Jate voyage from Havre to New York with stealing clothing on bt ad said ship; upon a pre liminary exami: at on of the defendants, Me. Kimendoc from the United states » ttorpey’s Macc oa the part of tho United states, and dames Ridgway, bar for the privoneca, the evidence appearing eaticely in sufficient, the prisoners were diccharges. Naval Ente Migenee, U. 8 frigate © er’ ne at Malags Outh vit, ‘The United states brig Bainbric go, Liew. Lauter, Was at Montevideo July 13. thts theatre for the | im the presence | the piay | eve in & bar rcem in a city hotel, where you are | Jordan), the | EWS BY TELEGRAPH, IMPORTANT SURESE AP OINCAWNATL. Terrible Religious Biot and Bloodshed, Rn PROGRESS OF THE £PIDPMICS, &e., uy &e. Feom Oaeota. THE RECIPROCITY TAEsTY—LORD & Quapee, Se ot ' MARINE AFFAIRS. are Week of the City of Phitadeipats. PASRENGERS AMD OREW aLL SAVED VEssc. A DUPAL LOSB—CARGO PaRTIALLY BES’ Mauirax, Sepe 26 The uew screw steamsh!p City of Phidrde! Leitch, which soft Liverpool on the 80th August, om her Avet (rtp for Philadelphia, wes stranded eff Cape face , om the 7th fast The p egers end crew were all saved, and 540 of | thems srrive@ ere this mornleg—the reot remaine) at Secretary Marey bas ~eplied by telegraph to the Cana- | dian govermment that the reviprovity treaty esmaot | take effect, as regar’e Cavida, until legis ation upon it tabes place in England and ll the colonies interested Lord Elgin Riebrmond Kai read this morning, for th & tour fu Upper Canada before bis departare, ond t be present at the Proviseis) Agricnitaral Exhivtin » London next week. Interesting from lactonaik ABREST OF & PERSO CEARGED WITH FURGERY IN NEW YORK—ANOTHEN RiOT, EF Cis: id William Kiesaue, of Martha Washington notoriety, was arrested bere today, on the requisition of the Governor of New York, on a charge of commiting the late heavy forgeries in New York city. Hewas vrough before Judge Serer on & writ of habeis cor sus, woew the trial was postpone’ till Thursday vext A riot ceensred last wight im the fwentieth ward of this city, between a party of Protestants and the Ger man Cetholics, Tae difficulty originated in aa attempt to organize a Sabbath vehool in the neighborhoo! which was forcibly restated by the latter, «bh» at!a: the house rented for the purpose, and threatened deat to any person who should att-mpt to erganize a beth Sebool, Lurirg the disturbauce three ger oa were wounded by pistol shots. ‘the weather bere is warm and showery. pt From Phiiadelp)ia. SHOCKING MURDER—TBE ANGEL GAMRIEL ARRESTED Pupapetrnis Sept. 20, 1854. Two Frenchmen took ledgings at a small hotel ia Dock street, lact might, end retired at ten o'chick. Oce o them lef: thie mornirg, ang th‘s afternoon his comrade was fcund in the bed, in the room which they joiaily ocenpied, his brains biown out acd his pockets rifle’ The murderer wasa stout man, fuli fleshed, about five feet nine inches high, with black hair andeyes He hed po whiskers, and was genteely dressed ia a k suit. They are both said to have just arrived from France a: Ne ‘ork, and reached here last evening. The decease! was a sma)] man, about thirty years of age. The Angel Gabriel tlowed his horn in Independence square this evening, sccorcing to announcement. 4 crowd commerced gathering, when the p lice interfered, and removed him to the lock-up to await a hearing to. morrow morning. The Public Health. THE YELLOW FEVER AT CHARLESTON. CHarueston, Sept. 26, 1854. The number of deaths from yellow fever in this city on Saturday, was 14, and on Sunday 18. THE HEALTH OF SYRACUSE. SyRacvam, Sept. 26, 1854 The rumors that have been started of the prevalence of cholera in this city are entirely without foundation. Syracuse was never more heslthy. GREAT ALARM AT AUGUSTA. Barrncors, Sept. 26, 1854. At Augusta there has been more alarm than diseare. Five thousand people left the city, although but few deaths from fever had occurred, YELLOW FEVER ABATING AT GALVESTON. GaLvEsron, Sept. 22, 1854. We are happy to state that the yellow fever is abating rapidly in this place. THB CHOLERA AT PITTSBURG. Pirrasura, Sept. 26, 1854. The cholera has greatly abated in thie ci:y since Saturday last, and the ic has entirety sudsided. Un — the deaths from the disease rerched 38, on Mon. day 27, and to day, up to noon, only 9, Severe Storm at Galveston. GaLyssTON, Sept. 26, 1884: A heavy storm, which lasted for three days, has occur- red here. The water awept entirely across Galveston Island, and s great deal of property has been destroyed in consequence. Pennsyivania State Fair. PHILADELPHIA, “ep. 26, 185s. The State Fair opened to-day, and was attended by not less than 10,000 persons. The visiters were exclusively members with their ladies, none others being admitted or the two first days, The display of cattls was splendid, comprising over four bundred, besides sheep end pigs sn@ the numbers sre hourly augmsnted by new arriv: ‘Thurrday and Friday will be hes days of the fair, when Fioral Hall wil’ be filed with flowers and fruits. Mechanical Hell is already filled with a bevutiful display of specimens of the mechanic arts, one immense apart- ment being fullof agtitultural implements. Frem Pittsburg. STEAM BOILER EXPLOSION AT MANCHESTER, Pa. PrrrsBurG, Sept. 26, 1854. Rpeax’s The steam boiler Hh & plough factory, at Manchester, explodei this morning. The boiler was thrown two hundred yards in an adjoining lot, destroy- \ouses, which ing a stack and Posing between two were slightly injured. @ boiler head was thrown in the opposite direction, unrcofing and nearly des! an engine house. Four men were hurt, but not geri- ously. The loss is estimated at $3,000. Congressional Somtnations. PHTLADELPHIA, Sept, 26, 1854 Dr_ Samuel Bradshaw, of Quakertown, was nominated by the Seventh Congressional Whig Convention at Doylestown to day. fhe ape mee Convention of the Sixth d'strict met at Nazareth to-Jay, and nominated Edward P. Stewart, of Easton, for Congress. Philadelphia Stock Board. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26, 1854. Stocks were dull at our fir t board this morning, at the following quotations:—Reading Railroad, 36%; ny! vania Reilrcad, 44%; Morris Canal, 124; Long Island pee 18%; City fisdrona, sixes (Sunbury and Erie), Fires in New York. Fire ix Houston Sraget —On Monday evening, about 8 o’clock, a fire took place in the store window of No. 330 Houston street, occupied by John P. Drumm, merchant tailor. The fire oscurred by some articles in the window coming in contact with the gas light. The damage done was but trifling before the flames were extinguished. Officer Crofert, of the Seventeenth ward, assisted in put- ting out the fre, Fis is EGHTE AvENUB.—At about 9 o'clock on Mon- day night, a fire occurred in the fancy dry goods store of William Harney, 178 Eighth avenue, caused by some of the light goods in the store window coming in contact with acampbene lamp. The damage sustained by the fire is estimated at about $100, fully insured in the Lan- pope AM Insurance Company. Officer McUafferty, of the Sixteenth ward, was close by at the time, ai with a few pails of water put out the fire, assisted by the cccupants of the house. Firs in Foktiem Stxest —At about 3 o’clock on Tuss day morning a fire was discovered in the premices of Mr. Maber, 219 West Fortieth street. ramen were early onthe spot, and extinguiabed the flames, The damages done was ectimated at $200, covered by an in. surance of $250, Captain Witter, of ‘hs Twenty-second ward, wes at the fre, and renderel very considerable service. Intelligenee. United States Jndge of Florida, St. Nich« las. ARRIVALS. Niten Hotel—Hon. Samuel Willisme, Mass.; Willism Eéings and femily, Col J. F Kdings, William E. Scab) ook, So. Ca i ilsdor . Maclin, U. 8. A., rly C. San hl the Metro, Fort Leavenworth; Revei “aunders, Fraveisco; P. Freeman and family, Liverpool; Gol U.S.A: Valey Daram, France, Col. E. MeKenney family, Hontreal At the St. Nicholas Hotel—Senator James Cooper, Philadelphia; Judge E. Boroman, Ohio; Dr. rc aay Orleans; Major Chapman, U. S. A.; Hon. R. C. Schenck, piped W. Doe yw ys f fg Moy ge a0: ; } a ibany; Le ‘ er kinson, U.S, army; Gen. F. Granger, Canan gua; D. a Wilkin, ‘Nash Ag * Berney, wobile A Rome; B. ‘ann, Now ns; LP. Bayne, Washington; 8. M. Welch, Buffalo. From Aspinwall, in the steamship Law—Wm M Ashby, HC Kilgore, W © Walker, H Cohen, Lieut J H Marryatt, GB Ironeldes, (Adams '& Go's Express.) RG Stanwood, W Moffatt, wne, WH Hail, J 8 Woolf, R SKonight,8 Thompson and Indy, F W Burdin, 0 Mt Burdin, BW Fenley, 8 C Hale, Mes Banhard and two children, J A Oxntwell, 8 C Sailor, © W Arnold, J P Rat- son, M Graff, 8 A Robinson, E C Blake, Geo Clifford and servant, W A Robinson, Mrs Gilbert, J de Cota, LS Davis, ws per, L Pardy, NN Wilkinson, R Valentine, M A Borland and lady, JH Stout, John Surderiand, lady and three chilcre', J M Fasterly, J C Haswell, Miss O'Hare, Chas Burke, Jobn Dovalison, G B Manson, W A Webber, Wm A Barr, Wm Patterson, Mr Batsheldor, (Weils, Fargo & Co's fixpres:,) Mra weGreg or and chil ren, Mrs Whelan, Nre Garrett, E S Graves, WG Gar- ret, “Mra RH Parker and three , 1B Leggett, H W Star, ES Whittlerer, A QJimay, A’ D Boyce, Palin, Captein S Washbure, Mra A KE Alden ‘and child, F W Cornwall, C Du Garé, J Carranca. Captain © Redman ard lady, {) Ransom, G Sporter; T ight, J Leichtenderg, @ Richmars, J Rivero, J Kehoverria, R Lavo. Jos Wyman (Hinkley & Co's Express), J Kutnrel! RBGowdy, JM Wallace, H Adley, A K f Glitien, Libbey, J Hanford, WM Hooper, © Lavine. J Bailey, W Hi Vander Capt WH Hudson, F A Lockwood, J G ‘Tihbetta, JR Hines, J W Cowden, W Martin, J Kistie, A Herrick, P Hudson, Mra Wynkoop—and 627 in the 9 cond esbin and rteerege From Savannah, in steamship Knorvillo—john 's two Misees Raneroft, Mre Brotherton and cbild, Mra Drake ond child, Miss Cape, Mra Varney. in srpeciel train on the Qiebec ay? | West, to make St. J bus, Newfoundland, awa'tiag a converanga, The eargo was being lan Jed in « damaged The ve-sel, it was trough, would prove a * At the time of the disaster they were eight iiys ant a few hours out from Liverpoot of Philadelphi« was ranping a$th> rite of tere imete, Whea at i2 o'clock P, M., the weather cing dare and rairy, she strack op Cape She was oatkad off sn! run ‘ground in Chaves ep 2014 salt miles north of Cape Race, where she lies in th». fata ne water, With about eight feet of her stem torged acd a hi ber bottom, The influx of water extiuguisbée in | ber fires before she ran aground. Eer gargo is + lued ot | £00,000. sil in the lower hold wawMiumsged = Tha Tele~ { graph Company's steamer drought her ps’ eagers tar St. Joboe, N. F., end left again to reader evry assist. ance posibie. Pict aDRLPHLA, Sept 8 A despstch from Halifax io the agents o° (ce Vity of Philadelphia says thet che news of the ves was req ceived there by the mail steamer fromS*. Joons N. Fy which alto conveyed the pa:sengers mentioae! <owve The vessel is velued at sbont two hundre| shoaxand éollars, and is fully insured in England. (Ihe City of Poiladelphia was a new iron vesssl of 2,189 tons, on her drat voysge. Her carg) war insuced st Philadelphia. che was suilt on the “lyd», oy eae of the fret marine arcbitects of : cotland, ani is r-prossut a 88 bavirg been fitted with ali the latest imp «nots im fcrew stesmers. jhe was ovnel by the Live-p wl and Philade!pbiz Steamship Company, and makes tae third veesel originally built for \ne line that has bem lost within two years—nome!y,. the City of Piristu.g, barat at Valparaiso in the fall of 1852; the City of Glueg v, lost lart roring; and now the City of Philyte vhia. the City of Pittsburg was built sy Perine, Patterson & Stack, of Williamsburg, and bait b en withdrawn to ran setweer. San Francisco and Panaxa She was on her wiy for her new scene of labors when the disaster occur ed. Tae only verse! that the company bas now afivat ix (he Cit , of Manchester, which arrived at Philadelpbi. yesterday from siverpool, having bern ranniog very recalarly ig the line for over three years. The company, however, expects to have a consort fo: her read; bef. -\ b+ winter, This vessel is also an iroa oney building on tne Ulyds, She is of 2,638 tons burthen, and will be cated he Cicgy of Baltimore. We were informed yesterday that a steaci-r was seeo athore at Cape Race by the steamer Atlantic, wbich ar. rived here on the 19th inst. Tents were also vbserved ow the beach, with # great many people in and aout them, and the vessel was surrounded by boats. This must have ‘been the long missing vessel, but Capt. West most singu> larly neglected to report the fact.) Non-Arrival of the Steamer Aimerica. . Huurrax, Sept. 26—12 P M. The weather is very fine to-night. The smerica ie considered here to be hardly due before Wedoeslay or Thursday. Arzivalot the steamship City of Mancnester. PHILADELPHIA, Pept. 26, 1854. The screw steamship City of Manchester, Capt Wylie, from Liverpool on the 7th instant, arrived at this port to-day. OU Picked Up Afioat. A veseel from the Marquesas, arrived a! Sin bran- cisco, picked up near the equator about one hundred barrels of oil. A correspondent of the San ¥raacisca Herald says regerding it:-— ‘The ship Cherles Fredezick, 317 tons, Capt Haskins, belonging toJohn Avery Purker, Esq., sailed from Now Bedford August 22, 1850 and was reported ou the coset: of California, September, 1853, with 700 barrels epera oil, bound heme, since which nothing has been heard from her. Mr Parker had » peculiarity in mitkiag hie casks of tread—marking the gross weight, iare net weight, that in case of selling on the voyage there nes? be ro trouble, ‘The casks picked up by tbe Santiago were thus marked. Indeed. there is Jit Goudt but that this oil came from the -harles Frederics, thougtr pocertainty. [tis sibie that she got on s0u,¢ reef o> islond in the gal s—that all uands were lost—ao ually she broke up. One poirt which world credence in this, is the fact that many of whe casa we nearly worn through, as if by friction on the rocks. Disasters, &c. Norroik, Sept 23, 1854 The brig Marcellus, previously reported ash sre, will be got off at av expense of about $1,000. The ship St. Lawrence, from Callao for New York, and andthe Dutch bark Columbina, from. the sacce port for Rotterdam, bave arrived in Hampton Roads. ‘Wiiaincton, Sept. 26, 1354. The echooner Alcyona, which left here on the 14th inst. for Phi’adelphia, was towed back yesterday, leak- ing badly, and wich her sails all gone. DETENTION OF STEAMERS BY DENSE FOCGS—RE- PORTED ARRIVALS CONTRADICTED., A very heavy fog set in yesterday morning about two o’elock, which detained the steamboats from the east- ward until half-past ten o’clock, at which time the Em- pire State, Connecticut, and C. Vanderb It arrived with « large number of passeugers and heavy freights. ‘The Petrel, from Glasgow, wae reported by ielegrapit as below, at one o’clock Monday; but was, no doubt, mistaken for the French war steamer Chimera, which arrived Monday evening. She is hourly expected. At 11 o’clock A. U., the fog had in a great measure blown off, there being a breeze from the South. The French Ficet. We have now in our waters the largest feet of men- cf war, belonging toa foreign nation, that his visitei our port since the Revolutionary war. In addition ts» the Achéron, the Iphigénie and the Pénélope, the Chi- mére, another war vessel belonging to France, arrived on Monday from Norfolk. These four ships carry 1,030 men, and mount 108 guns 0’ various calibre, besides Jarge number of small size, called periers The three first named. vessels we noticed several daysago. We yesterday pald a visit to the latest ar- rived. The Chimére, although an:cld and small steamer, drawing thirteen fest (French) of water, looks tolerably- well,on aceount of the good order and the excessive cleanliness prevailing on board. She has « crew of seventy men, of whom fifteen are colored, shipped at Martinique. The following are the names of her offi cera:~ Commander, Captain Jauréguiberry ; Licutensats, Lepersonne, Aurran, Lamothe, Tenet and Besqué; Pur= sec, Roques, The Suiasre tt France om the 2d of Deeember, 1852, ani since that time nas suffered to « great extent from disease, having lost nineteen of hi ineludi the first sprgeon, This offi ze died from yellow fever at Norfol’, re the ship bas been at quarantin oe the day of her arrival—18th of July—till her depsrture op the 23d of September, Te will be remembered that, while at that port, some difficulty srore between the commander of the Caimire ané the Board of Health. ‘the gentlemanly officer whu conducted us over ihe was kind enough to initiate us into the particulars. After their depsrture from: Havana there bad been on board some intermittent fever, but on a at Norfolk the crew of the steamer was in apparent health, and a report wax made se- cordingly. Soon after, however, the fever broke ont. again, and the Heelth Officer of Nocfoll: infli: ted indig- nities upon the commander and the surgeon of the ehip. This wes the reason that no communication whatsoever was beld with him afterwards, ani that the ship re- mained all the time at quarentine. In the meantine, we Ser hark that our eae could not r: express his gratitude to the cl ‘Sician of the boned tal, Mr. Williamson, and bis accion: ar. for the hirdnese shown by these gentlemen tothe pa tients of the abi How long the ‘French ficet is to remain amongst us we were unsble to ascertain.. All we could learn that the Chimire had to return to Havana to take away those who were convalescent among the sick the ro icon left there, and that she came to rally the fleet by « special order of the commodore. Williamsburg city News. A Dishonrst CLERK.—A young man in the employ of Henry Knowlton, grocer, in} North Fifth atreet, was ar rested yesterday morn! LR eaaag wpa eS a — of ‘opriating money ng is employer own user, Knowlton marked several peo of silver coin. one of which was found in accused, sen Aeon fh trunk. He was committed for examination today, GRAND LARCENY.—A Seataiens Peter Scie: ife and son, were arrested yes! morning by officer Schneider, of the Third ward, charged with haviog stolen a gold watch, valued at $150, from Edward Quinn. alleged tint the watch wes stolen from complsiaant ov Monday night while he was st the honse of Roer, in halstreet. The parties were ren to await ex- amination, and a search warrant was p! in (he hands of the officer. Supe DeatTa.—Coroner Fanford was called to hold ‘an inquest last evening, ata house in vixth street, near South Firrt, on the hooy of a yor woman, named Maloy, who ied suddenly the night previous. Her: is supposed to have been caused by leading a degraded and intemperate life is Accoming to the Bangor Mercury, It 1) ws from the Intest returnn of votes tm the Sixth @ iB r_ that Puller, .” is elected to Congress by 72 plure!ity over Miken