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4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 7 5, 1855. f ®, | nei’ NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. DLT HERALD i conte annum. FEB ae enna See 27 sesame, ‘or $3 per annum; the European edition, $4 per an- ALL, — boy opti llama anid “LL LETTERS ty Mail with Adver- fidements to be post pods or the postege il be deducted from the moncy ES AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Sauon or Frawca— Covnr or Oszx1in—TuRex Manian Covece. NEBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Crowm Diamonns, ALLACK’S THEATRE. Groadway—Wuere THERe’s a Wu. rueas's « Wav—Jeatous Wave. METROPOLITAN THEA’ Broadway—MasamizL.o Mons. Matiat—Eron ad AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—My Wire's Diany— Peom Vusace ro Count. Syvening—Lomaty Man or mux Oonay. WOOD'S MINSTRELS—Moechanice’ Hall—472 Broadway BUCKLEY’S OPE! 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The municipal election in Washington yesterday seculted in favor of the Know Nothings by a small mojority. The vote waaa very light one, and the dey parsed off quietly. At Norwich and New Haven the democratic candidates for city offises were chosen by handsome majorities. Only six weeks since the Kouw Nothiogs carried Norwich by three hundred majority. Yesterday they were beaten two hundred votes, showing quite a lively political reaction in that section. The steamship Prometheus bas arrived at New Orleans with Oalifsrnoia advices to the 16th ult— one week later than those previously received at this port. The suspension of Page, Bacon & Co., parsed off without creating avy panic,and mone- tary uffaira goveretlp ware slowly improving. In @bedience to the law passed at the last session or the Legielatare, all the gaming saloons of Sao Fran- cisco had been closed. Col. Sutter, the discoverer of gold in Califorata, and in whose behalf consider- able sympathy has been revently excited by the re- cital of a series of misfortanes which redaced the veteran pioneer from affluense to poverty, has sud- denly become rich again by the Land Commission. ers confirming his claim to thirty-three aquare leagues of land. Havana dates to the 3lat ult. have been received at New Orieans. Nothing of importance had oc ewred since previous advices. Previous to the election in. Virginia it was re- ported that Mr. Wise demanded of the President the removal of certain Know Nothings fromoffica. The President faltered—his weakness manifested itself in that crisis ae in every other. After the battle let the K. N.’s die, said he; and, the battie being fought and won, we fird Mejor B. B. French, Commissioner of Public Buildings at Weshington, was yesterday removed from office, nothwithstanding his public acknowledgment of bis sorrow at having joined the Order, and his promise to work hard at the municipal election for the democratic nominees. The guillotine is now working smoothly, and our corres- pondent states toat the next victim will be Mr. Claston, Secord Aucitor of the Treasury. Let office holders who have coquetted with the Know Notbings prepare to wake up some warm morning and find themselves a head shorter. A tew ot the Kuow Nothings of this city mei last night in Stuyvesant [nstitate, in reaponse to a call mate to thet effect, and for the expressed purpose of proclaiming @ declaration of Amorican principles. The attendance was very scanty, at no time aun bering more than two hundred persons, and yet even this emall congregation could not meet and give an illustration of now pleasant it is fur brethren to dweil together in unity.’ Our reporter seems to think that the meeting was got up oa the matual- admirationist piinciple, and that the declaration, so far from being an authorized production, was a bo- gue affair, the whole being got up to give promt nence to eoms lite men. We do not, therefore, de- vote our valuable space to that manifesto of little value, but do give a very truthfal and fanny report of tue interesting affair. Hen. Alexander H. Stephens bas taken the stump ae an independent candicate for Congress in toe Eighth district of Georgia. At a meeting held io Augusta on the 27tn ult. he denounced the Know Nothings unsparingly. He intends to carry on 6 war 2 /a Wise against Kaow Nothingism and abo itionism, and frem present appearances he will be successful, Argument on a motion for a new.trial in the oase of Dr. Besle, the Philadelphia dentist, was heard in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvan a on Satardey, but no decision has yet been rendered. The copious rains which fell on Friday and Sa tarday last have been of incalculable benefit to the country. A correspondent at Great Bond, Pa. writes thet the rain was very welcome in his sec tion, where the preceding dry weather had retarded the crops, especially of grass, very muck. The streams are unusually fall for June, and on Sunday a dam on the line of the Delaware, Lackawanns and ‘Western Railroad, and aiso # portion ot the road track, were washed away. The damage will be ro paired in a couple of days. The Delaware and Le high rivers have risen several feet higher than usaal, and a number of bridges across smaller streams have been carried away by the flood. ‘The decision of Jadge Daly in the case of the wit- nesses who refased to answer Sam Biggs, in the Police Commitiee of the Board of Aldermen, was yesterday postponed uvtil Wednesday. ‘The decision of Judge Hoffman on ths motion for an injunction to restrain the Commissioners of Emi- @ration from making Castle Garden a depot for newly arrived immigrants, will be rendered some day this week. a The Board of Sopervigors transacted buslncgs yesterdsy. Among the bills considered was ene of $117, for expenses incurred by Thos. R. Barton and others, while at Paimos in search of Baker, the al- Jeged murderer of Bill Poole. It was ordered to be paid. The Board of Councilmen met las: evening, and acted upon a number of reports, none of them, how- ever, of general importance. There was some fan in the Board of Aldermen last evening. “Sam” was upinanew form, His efforta against ths Police Department aot having come to a climax, he now rises against the Mayor, and immortalizes the hitherto comparatively ua- known though nomerous family of the 0’Keeffes. Alderman “Sam” Brigge, the mover ot the matterin question, brought on a somewhat warm debate, which wasonly cooled down by Alderman Howard, of the Sixth ward. Aldermen Briggs charged Al- derman Howard with being ‘“‘s public pauper;”and Alderman H., who never held paid office or public eitaation but that or member of tae Legislature and Fepresentative of the Sixth ward in the Board of Aldermen, fecling indignant at the language used, sent @ bottie of ssad or ink towards the head of the Alderman of the Thirteenth, which was near de- priving the unquerchabie “Sam” of his nasal organ. The annual meeting of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company was heid in New Brunswick, New Jersey, yesterday. It appsars from our report thet the affairs of the company are flourishing and stock is at $125. No accidents have occurred on the road. The advanced price of fael enhan :ed the coat of working during the year. The statistice, financial acd commercial, for the past year, contrasted with those of 1853, are given, as also the names of the now directors. Enteugling engagements for the making of collateral roads are to ke avoided. Judge Rockwell, of the Kings county Court of Oyer and Termiuer, yesterday, in his charge te the Grand Jury, stated his views on the liqnor question. In hia opinion the statutory prohibition against selling liquor in quantities of not less than five gal- lons remains uvrepealed. So the liquor dealers of Kings county may iook out for hard times. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to about 3,000 bales, the market closing firm at Satar- day’s rates. Common grades of flour closed at a decline of 124 cents per barrel. White Michigan wheat sold at $2 65, avd 3,000 bushels Canada were sold at private terms. Corn was firm, with fres sales of Western mixed, made at full prices. Pro- visions were generally firm, without sales o/ mo- ment at onr quotations. Freights were dull and engegements ligat. The New Democratic Muvement—Henry A. ‘Wise and Captain Isaiah Rynders. On every hand we hear expressions of sur- prise at the extraordinary character, compo- sition and proceedivgs of the Tammany Hall jubilee the other vight in honor of the great democratic victory in Virginia. It was the largest and the only successful fusion mesting of the hard shells and soft shells, clam shells and oyster shells, white shells and blue shells, since the ratification of Mr. Pierce’s nomination in 1852. But the most curious featare of this last reunion was ibe absence of all our old democratic leaders, excepting Captaia Rynders and John Cochrane; “and thereby hangs a tale.” Plain every day straight-forward democrats very naturally inquire what is the meaning of this? Why was pot our Jubilee enlivened by the presence of euch men as Charles O’Conor, James Brady, Francis B. Cutting, Mike Walsh, John Van Buren, Benjamin F. Butler, Loreazo B. Shepard, Augustus Schell, John M’Keon, John A. Dix and George Bancroft? They knew there was to be such a meeting—they were invited tocome. Why did they keep aloof? The reason, we apprehend, is simple enough. There was no plunder to be made out of this meeting—no offices. lt was puroly on ompty. rejoicing over the success of democratic prin- ciples in Virginia, and nothing more. Hence all those high and mighty democrats who are forever in the foreground when Cabinet places, or foreign missions, or Custom Houses, or good fat judicial promotions are in the market, were non est on this occasion. They were, perbaps, at the Opera, or the theatres, or the ne- gro minstrels, or some such pastime, when they should have been upon the Tammanyplatform. Shrewd chaps, these staunch old wire-pullers for the spoils, nevertheless—very shrewd. How could it be expected they would unnecessarily lower themselves by mingling with the every day democracy in Tammany Hall when there was nothing to be made by it bat an empty ad- hesion to democratic principles? It will be time enough to mix in with them a year hence, when the spoils of the next administration are thrown into the scales, and when our high polished democratic aristocrats can’t help con- sorting with the common people. This is, perhaps, the reason why our dainty democratic leaders were not present at Tam-, many Hall the other evening. To be sure, Prince John Van Buren wrote a passable letter to the brethren, and one or two others did the same thing; but except an up town distaste against mingling with the “ uaterrified” of the lower ward, we cannot imagine why the great guns of the democracy kept away from this very interestiog and fraternal celebration. And what is the result? Captain Isaiah Rynders, who had pluck enough and energy enough to get up this great movement, and to carry it sueceesiully through, as a democratic reunion, @res a head ard ehoulders above all these over r@ee and fastidious democratic absentees, and stands side by side, foremost in the front rank of this new democratic movement, with Henry A. Wise. Not only are Messrs, O’Conor, Brady, Shepard, M’Keon, Bancroft and com- pany overshadowed, but Mr. Pierce and his Cabinet, and Buchanan, Cass, Douglas, Hunter and all other outstanding aspirants for the democratic succession, are thus eclipsed by Wise and Rynders. In this view, we propose an amendment to our rezeut nomination of Mr. Wise, so as to make a complete democratic ticket, to wit:— For President—Governor Henry A. Wise, of Virginia. For Vice President—Captain Isaiah Rynders, of New York. And we call upon the Richmond Enquirer and other Virginia journals, seconding our sug- gestions in behalf of Mr. Wise, to join us in giving Captain Rynders a lift to the second place on the ticket. We think the two men would make a whole team. Look at them. Mr. Wiese is an educated and accomplished man. He hes had great experience in Congress a8 a statesman, in South America as a diplo- mat, and kas proved himself a perfect Achilles on the stump in the late Virginia campaign. He is distinguished as a powerful, learned, quick and pungent speaker, caustic, merciless and fatal to bis enemies, He cuts and thrusts right and left, and delights in the hottest of the fight. Captain Rynders, in his peculiar line, is much the same sort of man. He may not have & diploma from the Virginia University or Yale College ; he may not understand the dead languages as well as Mr. Wise; but he is scarcely his inferior in the same effective ap- Plication of the living Anglo-Saxon. Or, if the one can anpibilate an opponent with » «sure of speech, the other can knock sina speechless with the eimple extexcion of his “,ood right arm.” If Mr. Wise appeals to the inside of the head with resistless power, the arguments of (opt. Rynders, applied to the outside, are equally effective. So, too, if Mr. Wise was the ovly man able and willing to grapple with the new and untried enemy ia the late Virginia contest, Capt. Rynders has shown that he is the only man bold enough, and willing and compe. tent, to second the motion in the first great step to the reorganization of the scattered demooracy. We therefore suggest to our Virginia co- temporaries, especially the Richmond Enquirer, the demooratic ticket of Wise and Rynders for 1856; and let the Enquirer be assured that the New York Heratp does this as an inde- pendent journal, and not as the organ of the Know Nothings, or any other party. Our American governmental system is a great poli- tical machine, and our political parties are the mere boilers, valves, cylinders, &e., by which this great machine is regulated. Thus, as one of the engineers, we find it necessary io let ona little steam here, and to shut off a little there —now to screw up a party valve or so, and next to screw it down. And thus, too, for the sake of an equilibrium, we are in favor of letting on 8 little democratic steam through the medium of Gov. Wise and Capt. Rynders. Will the Richmond Enquirer be good enough to set us right accordingly , not as a Know No- thing organ, or any party’s organ, but as an independent organ of the good sense and pa- triotiem of the American people. And remem- ber our new democratic ticket—Mr. Wise for President, Captain Rynders for Vice President. Tae Granp National Covncr or tae Know Nornines at ParwapELPHia.—This important gathering meets to-day. They will have a nice job of work before them. They must adopt the abolition Praise-God-Barebones platform of Maceachusetts, or the extreme Southern plat- form, or strike a balance or a compromise be- tween them. The Virginia election has demon- strated that cyphers, signs, winks, blinks, nods, nudges, grips, pass words, hard swearing, rita- als, constitutions and secret circulars are not sufficient to cover the exigencies of a national campaign; but that principles for the public eye, as well asa system of discipline for the party lodges, are indispensable for the great ap- proaching contest. What they will do at Phi- ladelphia nobody knows. They will probably have a stormy, revolutionary time of it; but if their deliberations shall result in revolution- izing the Know Nothing organization upon the practical issues of the day, and the principles of common senee, then it may be followed by great achievements. The issue is with the delegates. The game isthe next Presidency We must wait a day or two. Tae Meetine or Extremes.—Citizen Robes- pierre McElrath, with an insatiable thirst for blood, republishes, in complimentary terms, the extreme Southern dogmas and recommenda. tions of the Charleston Mercury. This is very extraordinary, and difficult to be accounted for upon peace principles. The fact is, it does not mean peace. Citizen McElrath is a nigger worshipper, and little better than a se- ditious Jacobin on this question, He chuckles over a policy on the part of the South which looks to secession, as he gloats over the recent transactions in Maccachusetts looking to disrup- tion, disunion and civil war. His plan is to get the two sections by the ears, and hurry up a dissolution of the Union, that Seward and his seditious followers and organs may ride into power in the North. In word, upon the vital question of the day Mr. Robespierre McElrath and his aesociates are the most unscrupulous of cheats and hypocrites. We shall watch these Jacobins. Nor Exactty Goop Taste ror 4 Dreto- uat.—Ex Congressman Brooks lauds Mr. Gads- den, the United States Minister at Mexico, for refusing to lower his flag of the Legation, or, | in other words, saluting like a gentleman dur- ing the paseage of a religious procession in honor of the Immaculate Conception. The British and other Ministers saluted the proces- tion. Ex-Congressman Brooks has very narrow ideas of what constitutes good manners, in the expression of such an opinion. All gentlemen, in any country, possessing any intelligence, will never degrade themselves by insulting a religious procession, no matter what creed or dogma it may represent. It is a poor kind of politics which requires a cultivated man and a diplomat to act like a rude blackguard from the Five Points. No wonder the ex-Congress- man has been denominated “Booby” Brooks, and it seems to fit well. Gzoraz Law anv His Exporsers.—We pub- lish to-day a report of a very interesting public dinner given to George Law, several years since —in 1852—at the Astor House, in thiscity. It requires no remark from us. George Law has been thus endorsed as a remarkable and origi. nal man, by Daniel 8. Dickinson, Governor Washington Hunt, Mr. Bocock, member of Con- grees from Virginia, Henry Ward Beecher, Sam Houston, of Texas, and many other per- sons well known in the political and religious world. The notes of hand of either of these gentlemen, endorsed by George Law, would pass at any bank in this city, and by a reci- procity of trade George’s political note of hand endoreed by them, ought te be immediately discounted by any political party in the Union. Pennsylvania has done the first discount— others will follow. M. Sovte Hienty Excrren—According to our latest reports from Mr. Soulé, he has brought his quarrel with his late official secre- tary at Madrid, Me. Perry, to a casus belli. The explosion has come, and the result will, we expect, be @ full disclosure of all the sup- preseed correspondence of Mesers. Pierce, Mar- cy, Soulé, Perry, Dudley Mann, Cushing, For- ney, Buchanan, Mason and others, from the beginning to the end of this Spanish imbroglio. It may possibly turn out that in setting Perry after Eoulé the administration have made a mistake. The plot is coming rapidly to a solu- tion, Wait till they lift the curtain. Turortant, 17 True.—Itis reported “in the street” that at the suggestion of some of the stockholders of the Nassau Bank, Citizen Robeepierre McElrath has withdrawn from that establishment. This is very important if trae, and shows that negro worship, sedition and the new liquor law are dangerous playthings when the solid interests of business men are thus interrupted, Who gomoes next? ‘The First Blood—Beginning of the Reaction, The conntry was shocked yesterday by the pews that @ temperance riot had broken out at Portland, Maine, and that one man had been killed and several wounded. To the many who supposed that the temperance question was settled, ended, and laid on the shelf in Maine, that the liquor dealers had acquiesced, and that Neal Dow and his sethad everything their own way, it was new and startling to hear that the military had been called out, and muskets and bayonets used to quell a riot to which the liquor law had given rise. To understand the case, a short statement of factsis necessary. The first Prohibitory Liquor law was proposed some years ago in Mains by Neal Dow. Accident favored it; political par- ties were disorganized and very bitter in their mutual hatreds; people hardly noticed the liquor bill till it was passed. Neal Dow, its sponsor, was an amiable enthusiast, who had not at that time ripened into the dangerous fanatic we have now to deal with; he enjoyed a large ehare of public esteem, and the bill be- came @ law in a great measure owing to his personal guarantee of its success. It failed of course, a3 all such laws must. But Neal Dow, whose heart was being hardened, prepared a new law to obviate the chief inconveniences of the old one, and it was passed. It failed like- wise, if anything, more conspicuously than its predecessor. Then Neal Dow, whose heart was thoroughly hardened by this time, and whose amiability had been entirely swept away by fanaticiem, drafted a third law which he assured the people of Maine was at last to achieve the end they all had in view—namely, the preven- tion of intemperance—without any of the in- conveniences or inconsistencies of the former ones. It was passed in its turn, and itis that law which has led to the bloodshed we record in another column. When this third law was passed, Neal Dow, who had thrice led his fellow-citizens to legis- late against their inclinations in order to carry out his theory, staked his whole credit on its success, He became Mayor of Portland, where the greatest difficulty was apprehended; he raised a troop of volunteer soldiers, called the Temperance troop, armed them, and held them in readiness to shoot down the opponents of the law; finally, provided a mamofoth grog- shop, to be called the “City Agency,” where liquor was to be sold under certain restrictions, raid liquor being provided by the Common Council of the city. These precautions he seemed to consider sufficient to ensure the har- monious operation of the law. Unhappily for his too sanguine hopes, a very few weeks have elapsed before fresh troubles arise. Mr. Neal Dow, the assailant of rum-sellers, the deadly foe to good liquor, becomes by some unaccount- able means, the possessor of $1,600 worth of the fatal juice of the grape. The people hear of it, a warrant is procured, proceedings are to be instituted under the Maine law against its author. Hut with the sleight of a thorough city polititian, before any mischief can be done, Neal Dow persuades the City Council to buy the liquor for the “ Agency; just as in former times, shrewd aldermen used to advise and in- duce our city Council to buy this or that strip of land for a street, said land happening to have been purchased by the aldermen in queation a short while before. In Port- land, however, it seems that people will not submit to this eort of thing. It is loudly as eerted that the City Agency is nothing but Mr. Neal Dow’s grogshop; and those who have been prevented from carrying on their own business as liquor dealers, exclaim that Mr. Dow shall not fare any better. Hence a tu- mult, and crowd, with nolse. This was the contingency for which Mr. Neal Dow had pro- vided his Temperance troop. They are called out, and one man, far from his home, poor fel- low, is shot dead, an old gentleman is bayonet- ed, and other mischief done as related in the telegraphic despatches, Such is the point reached by the temperance party under its ablest leader in the oldest State it has controlled. The head of the party is caught dealing in liquor. The people insist on his punishmest. And he, to defend his pro- perty, calls out a partisan body of armed men, who shoot down the crowd. Will the fanatics tell us, after this, that the organized opposition that is being made here to the Prohibitory Liquor law, is a mere matter of course, and that it will be overcome, ‘as it was in Maine?” Will they dare to hope that they can enforce in a city of three-quarters of a million of people, a law which requires to carry it out ina fifth rate seaport, the assistance of armed soldiers, and partisan troops? Will Governor Clark, or Lieut. Governor Raymond organize a temperance troop here to shoot down the crowd? The thing is as plain as noonday; the Pro- hibitory Liquor law is a failure in its original birthplace—Maine—and the people see it. They have turned it and twisted it: Neal Dow has tried first one plan, then ano ther: he has had everything in his favor, ,.no organized opposition, scattered and demoralized political parties, a large coun- try population, a strong desire for temperance, few foreigners and no large cities; and now, on the third trial, the scheme is so complete a failure that it drives the citizens to shoot one another in the streets. No one can tell at what moment the quarrel may break out again, and the streets of Portland flow with blood. It was fit, after all, that Maine, which has to answer for the birth of the prohibitory delusion, should also be the cradle of the reaction: Pro- vidence often works thus; and if no more lives are lost, the regret caused by the bloodshed on Saturday may be mitigated by the reflection that the event teaches a salutary jescon, and that Maine owes the country some atonement for the mischief she has done. As to the temperance people in New York, we are for dealing promptly and energetically with them. It is quite clear that if they are let alone, we too shall have men shot down in the streets, not by ones and twos, but by twenties and fifties, in proportion to the size of the place. This must be prevented. We have already stated that it can be done—not by infringing any law, but by carrying out, ac- cording to its letter and spirit one of the oldest principles of the common law. It may be well to refer to authorities. Blackstone in his book on Private Wrongs, vol. iii. p. 126, (Oxford edi- tion,) refers to the “preferring of malicious in- dictments or prosecution against a man, which, under the mask of justice and public spirit, are sometimes made the engines of private spite and enmity.” It would not be very difficult to make the proceedings of the Carson League to appear in this light. Black- stone goes on to refer to the remedies offered by the law in such cases; ‘8, are which, he sa; } of two kinds ; an “ action of conspiracy,” anda “special action on the case for a false and ma- licious prosecution.” All that the plaintiff needs to sustain this latter action is his inno- cence of the charge brought against him, and the agency of the defendants in prosecuting or indicting him; these proved, judgment would follow as a matter of course. The same principle has been recognized by our Revised Statutes (II. p. 576, Tit. 6, § 8). We there read :— pean le a cts ray “3 ‘charged or arrested offence, &c., &c., ‘They shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Now, we take it the failure of proof in any single prosecution instigated by the Carson League would be ample presumptive evidence of their malice, and would be so held by a jury. There is a point where fanaticism becomes ma- lice, and is not distinguishable from it; and that point they certainly have reached when they call upon their fellow countrymen of their own way of thinking to pay them $40,000 ora larger sum to destroy the business and take away the livelihood of those whe do not agree with them THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Farther Particulars of the Portland Riot NEIL DOW REQUESTED TO RESIGN, Success of the Know Nothings in Washington, Defeat of the Know Nothings in Connecticut. LATER NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA, &., &., &. Non.Arrival of the ‘Africa, Haurax, June 4—9 P.M. The steamship Africa, now in her tenth day out, has not yet reported herself, and there is little likelihood of her doing 20 to-night, owing to the prevalence of 8 very thick fog in our harbor. One Week Later from California, ARRIVAL OF THE PROMETHEUS AT NEW ORLEANS. New Orieans, June 4, 1855, ‘The steamship Prometheus has arrived at this port, with dates from California to the 16th of May. All the gambling saloons in Sin Francisco had been closed. Colonel Sutter’s claim to thirty-three square leagues of land had been confirmed by the Land Commissioners. Monetary affairs were improvlog slowly. 1n the grow- ing crops prospects were good of ‘an abundant yield. ‘The affairs of Messrs. Page, Bacon & Co, had under- gone no alteration, and were without any signs of im- provement, ig The ships Mountain Wave, Fatherland, and E. F. Wel- bor, had arrived at san Francisco. Later from Havana. New Onueans, Jane 2, 1855. The steamship Cahawha, with Havana dates to the 31st ultimo, bas arrived at this port. The news brought by her is, however, unimportant, The Portland Liquor Riot, LARGE MEETING OF CITIZENS—AN INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE APPOINTED--NEIL DOW REQUESTED TO RESIGN{HIS OFFIOB— OPINIONS OF THE PORTLAND PRESS, ETO. Boston, June 4, 1855, A publie meeting was called to-day, at two o’clock, to investigate the poceedings of our city authorities on Saturday night. The meeting, which was largely attended, was pre- sided over by Judge Wells, and addressed by several of the leading citizens. A committee of nine was then ap- pointed to inquire thoroughly into the matter, and, if found necessary, to prosecute the city authorities. The committee was also directed to wait on Mayor Dow, and request him, in behalf of the citizens, to resign his office, The funeral of Robbins took place at six o’clock this evening. His remains were followed to the grave by an immense procession. Weta aciee special pelicemen are on duty to- t. The Portland papers of this morning contain some ad- ditional particulars of the riot in that city on Saturday night. The commencement of the disturbances appears to have been caused by the purchase of the liquor by Ma) or Dow, and the transfer of the same tothe city agency by his casting vote at the meeting of the Board of Aldermen on Saturday afternoon. The attack on the Duilding was began chiefly by boys, who threw stones, breaking glass, &c. Mayor Dow then appeared on the ground, flourishing s sword, with two military companies whom he had ordered out. The appearance of the Mayor and military exasperated the crowd,§who received them with groans and hisses. Mayor Dow ordered the infantry to fire, which order Captain Green refused to obey, saying that the circumstances did not call for such severe measures. The Rifle Guard soon afterwards ap- proached, when, the mob having burst opem the door of the liquor room, # section of the company, by order of the Mayor, fired. One person was killed and six or seven severely wounded. A public meeting this morning of the citizens ap- pointed s committee to investigate the cause and par- ticulars of the riot, A coroner’s inquest has aleo been impannelled to report on the death of George Robbins. The Argus, in commenting on the riot, says:—A few panes of glass and some other injuries done to the door of the liquor store would have been all that would have happened, and the crowd would have quietly dispersed, had @ reasonable spirit been manifested; but the pre- sence of Mr. Dow, brandishing his sword, and accom- panied by the soldiers, exasperated the crowd to make a more violent attack upon the store. These acts were unlawfal and unjustifiable by those who committed them, but these did not, in our judgmen:, oall for or justify the shedding of blood. The lose of the liquor would have been of little consequence compared with ‘the loss of human life, which, we must coafess, it seems to us was most wantonly sacrificed in this case. If it shall turn out on the trial, to which Mr. Dow and his confederates will have to submit themselves, that the firing upon the crowd was not required by the exigen- cies, and not authorized by law, they will be found guilty of murder. ——______-.- Municipal Election in Washington, Wasuiveton, June 4, 1866, It is conceded on all hands that the American ticket is elected by small majority. The election passed off very quietly, The vote cast was small. ‘The Know Nothing Convention. PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 1856, ‘The Know Nothing Convention assembles in this city to-morrow. Two hundred and ten delegates are reported to be present,and every State and Territory is said to be represented. The first day of the session will be as Private as possible, but the subsequent session will be held with open doors. ‘Town Election in Norwich, Conn. THE KNOW NOTHINGS AWFULLY BEATEN. Norwicn, June 4, 1855. At our city election, Wm. L. Brewer, democrat, on ‘the largest vote ever given in this city, was elected Mayor by over two hundred majority, and every candi- date on the democratic ticket for Aldermen, Common Council Clerk, Sheriff, &., was elected by about the same majority. Great rejoicings in the street. The Know Nothing majority in the town Iast April was over three humsired. New Maven Municipal Election, THE BNTIBB DEMOCRATIC TICKRT CHOSEN. New Hyven, June 4, 1855, ‘The New Haven city election took place to-day. Al- fred Blackman, the democratic candidate for Mayor, was elected by 300 plurality, and 100 majority over all opposi- tion. The entire general ticket of the democrats iy elected. Military Celebration tn Boston. Boston, Jane 4, 1866. The ‘ Ancient and Honorab'* Artillery’ oslebrated their anniversary to-day by # dinmer in Faneuil Hall, and the usual parade. Golonel Moses Cobb was commissioned Commander of the corps for the ensuing yenr. From Washington. THE GUILLOTINE IN OPSRATION—MAJOR FRENCH, ‘THE FIRST VIOTIM— OFFICE HOLDERS SHAKING. 7 Wasurvaton, June 4, 1855. Major B. B. French Commissioner of Public ‘was removed to day. Col Blake, an old and respected citizen and clerk in the Treasury Department, is ap- pointed in bis place. The next decapitation will be Mr, Clayton, Second Auditor of the Treasury—cause Know Nothing proclivities. MABRIAGE IN BIGH LIFE. Wasuioton, June 4, 1865. A marriage in high 1 fe took place this afternoon in St. Matthews, Catholic church, Mr. @. De Boilleau, Se- retary to the French Legation, led to the altar, Miss Susan, youngest daughier of Colonel Thomas Hart Ben- ton, of Missouri. A splendid entertainment is now being given the bridal party, at the residence of Colonel J, Cp Freemont. OF CUBAN QUESTIONS — FOREIGN VOrEK4, ETO. Wasmxatox, June 4, 1855, The National Intelligencer learns, by letters from Paris, that Mr. Perzy has obtained from the Spanish govern- ment an entirely satisfactory settlement of the El Do- rado case, as well as that of our Vice Consul at Sagua la. Grande. The Lieutensmt Governor who arrested Mr. Thompson is to be dismissed. Such instructions have Ddeemissued to cruisers aa will prevent a recurrence of any difficulty. M. de Cuets, the Spanish Minister, returns home at: his own request. The Circuit Court decided this morning, in effect, that the right of one hundred and thirty-eight foreigners, na- ‘turalized since the 3ist Deoem‘er last, to vote, is left with the Commissioners of Elections. The questien is mixed up with the terms of the corporation charter, ‘The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Chesa- peake snd Obio Cana} Company took place to-day, but the reporter was denied all information concerning their Proceedings. ‘Land warrants are quoted to-day at $1 10, and scarce, From Baltimore. ‘WI8B'S MAJORITY —POISONING OF A BRIDAL PARTY, Baummcone, June 4, 1855. Official returns received reduce Wise’s majority below tem thousand. The election of Lewis, the democratic: candidate for Congress im the Eleventh district, is im doubt. The Enquirer says it is prepared to hear of hig defeat. A marriage party from Washington county, Maryland, ‘were poisoned by eating custerd in which arsenis had ‘been placed. Some twenty-five of them are not ex- pected to live, the bride among the number. As to wha committed the act remains a mystery, All the servants are also sick from eating the custard. The Law Case of Hagar vs. Stevens, Stocke ton and Others. New Brunswick, N. J., June 4, 1855. In the United States Circuit Court to-day, in the case of J.D. Hagar against Stevens, Stockton and others, Judge Dickerson, at chambers, granted the eomplaia- ant’s application to compel the defendants to place im the custody of the Commissioner certain other books of the New Brunswick Company, and also ordered that Richard Stockton, one of the defendants, be examined as a witness in this caure. Opposition to the Pennsylvania Liquor Law, Reavina, Pa., June 4, 1855, Avery large and enthusiastic meeting was held ‘at. moon to-day in the market square, in opposition te the new liquor law. Strong resolutions were adopted, de. nouncing the law. Destruction of a Steamer by Fire—Five Lives. Lunt. Sr. Louis, June 1, 1855. Tke steamer Keystone State, bound hence for Peoria, TL, has been burned to the water’s edge in the IMinois river, Five persons perished in the flames, and a num- ‘ber of others were injured. The boat and eargo an entire loss. She xa owned by a company in &t. Louis, Railroad Casualty. ‘The wife of Henry Mericle, of Wate fond was t fe eric! killed on Saturday evening,’ on the Renssslasr +t railway. ‘She was (zving # cow from the track at Freshets in the Lebigh and Delaware Easton, Pa, June ; jo ater in the Lehigh river has risen five in the 1855. t, and laware twelve feet, No damage has yet been reported, Maraets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PHILADELPHIA, Jane 4, 1856, Money is nty. Stocks firm; Reading, 48; Morris Canal, 13 Bo ey 16%; Penn Ivania Railroad, 43 1-16; Pennysylvania sate hives, a. ats EW ORLEANS, ane, Me Our cotton market is unchanged. Saree’ Se-day 160 bates. In corn prices are a trifle lower. ALBANY, June 4—12:30 P. M. Flour unchanged. Sales moderate. Wheat—Sales, 2,500 bushels choice white ‘iichigan, at $260, Corn— Sales, 10,000 bushels Western mixed, at $1 06, affoat. Oate—Sales, 14,000 bushels Chtoago, te terms, Whiskey duil. Sales at 353¢c. canal, 5,778 bbis. floor; 173 bbls 5 84,970 bi corn; 2,900 bushels ouis; 3,486 5 Burr, Flour—the market is quiet aad unchanged. The re- Ke at for the last ‘orty-@ght hours, have been 16,000- bbls. Sales to-day 300 bbls. choice to good brands Up- per lake, at $9 60 a $9 75. Wheat continues in moderat supply. The reat since Saturday moon, amount to 40,000 bushels. Eales, 6,000 bushels Lake #; at $195. The market for corn is sup) receipts during the jast forty-eight hours being 110,000 bushels, ‘The demani is active, and prices Sales about 4,000 bunbels, Oats steady and scarce, Sales 3,000 bushels, at 66c., afloat, Canal freighth— Corn, ite, to Alhany, and 13c, to New York. Osweao, Our flour market opened at last week's 1,200 bbls. com State at $9 50 a $987. Wheat— Sales, 4,00 bushels wiite Michigan at and 1 bushels red Toledo at $2 38 Cee abo asholn at 98c. 0 99c, Receipts tor tae last 48 hours: Flour, 400 dbls; wheat, 45,00 bashels; corn, 66,000 bushels; rye, 1,600 bushels; barley, 1,400 bushels. _—_———e News from Washington, BY MAIL, Wasuinctox, Jupe 4, 1855, ‘The Commander of the Home Squadron—The Know No- things—The Approaching Municipal Blection—Ignoring- the Administration—The Georgia and Tennestec Elec- ttons— Will Gov. Reeder Return to Kansas? Commodore Paulding, at present commander of the Washington Navy Yard, succeeds to the command of the Home Squadron, Commodore MoCauley having been. appointed (so rumor goes) to the Navy Yard, in the: place of the present iacumbent, who retires, much to the regret ef those who have served under him, The recent tremendous anti-Know Nothing demon- strations in New York and Philadelphia are having their influence in this city. 1t is now said that there will not be Jeftin office, in the course of a week or two, a single person who is known to be affected with Know Nothing- ism. These removals would have been made in the frst of the present month, but the importance of not giving increased strength into the hands of the natives in the electicn which is to take place in this city next Monday, is the reason for further grace to those who are finally to fall. A most desperate struggle to carry the day will be made on both sides; but the “Wise” men, as they call themselves, feel confident of success. It seems al- most impossible, from the excited state of feeling everywhere to be met with, and the threats freely uttered, that the day will be allowed to pasa without the shedding of human blood; and thus far no steps have been taken to ward off so dreadful s result. It is rumored that the Irish compa- nies of this city have determined upon holding them- selves in readiness to proceed at once, and without lege, orders, armed, to any spot where resistance to the foreign vote may make its appearance. This report, un- contradicted, may lead to deplorable consequences, and plead a justification on the part of the Know Nothings: for ® general arming of themselves, which even thus early is taking place. 7 It {a supposed by the administration that if this elec. tion can be brought to follow the lead of Virginis, a. general reaction must take place throughout the Union in favor of the democratic party; and Gen. Pionce has the modesty to claim for himself much of the credit ia bringing about this great political reaction. But Mr, Pierce seems to be ignorant of the fact that during the late canvass in Virginia his name was purposely omitted from the proceedings of every meeting, and that neither himself nor his administration were as much as once alluded to by Mr. Wise in any of the numerous speeches made by that gentleman. Mr. Pierce also lays claim to. your great meeting of Thursday evening as an evidence of his popularity, and as approving his admiaistration, And here, again, his name was not mentioned. No—not even by the fatthfal Rynders or Cochrane. There were no shouts for him by the masses, and the resolutions of the evening avoid giving utterance to 2 name that wae rincipal in bringing into existence w party which it ia now loud in condemning. The same policy is pursued in this clty towards the President and his administration, Fe