The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIELOR AND EDITOR. OFYWE M. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STB. TERMS, cash in a0: : EK ALD - conte per copy—S? per annum, TBE RHEL W RakALS veers Safar day Pat cate per copy, or $3 per annum the Buropean ¢-ition $4 Ber an. foamy part Great Briain, or W to.any Part, ofthe to include postage. TLL LETTERS by Motl for Sudso -iptions oF “elth Adver- p vporepladed roe] paid, or the poste g¢ will be “ducted from money 1 Welame XX........... Picw ne cee eter ceee ss MO, 188 AMUSEMENT; THIS RYENING. BROADWAY THEA RE Brosdwsy—Ronnen's Wirs— Basan O’Lye—It's ye Custom or sua Count! BOWERY THEATRE, B: ‘Wn. Waire—txomanty.y Temp: hL OF ALG ‘Parwanvove CxY.aivic TRAGRDIAN, NIBLO’S GORDEN, Breadway—Fna Diavore, BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Ben tur Boatewam—Winow’s Victim—Giance at New Yoru METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Ma. wns F. WittyMasammce Dioewag—Ma. amp WOCD'S MANSTRELS—Mechanies’ Hell—4/2 Broadway. GHINESE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 5% Brosdway—Pano- teama or Eavmore anv Sixx ov Sxnasroron. New York, Saarday, July 7, 1855. The News. The Puropear mails brought by the America which arrived at Boston yesterday forenoon, reach: ed this city about half-past one o'clock this morn- img. We extract from the London Times an jmteresting editorial article commenting upon the Ranguinary engagement on the 18th of June, when ‘the allies attempted to take the Mariakoff and Redan towers at Sebastopol, in which they were yepulsed with great slaughter; also the despatches of General Pelissier and Lord Raglan relative to that event. ‘The Maine Liquor law doss not appear to have ef- fected much towards suppressing the traffic in in- toxicating drinks in this city. Tha public houses earry on their business as quietly and as profitably a5 ever, and no one seems disposed to interfere with them. Thus far nota single complaint, we believe, hhas been entered before any of the police magi: trates for violation of the statute, nor has any seizare of liquor taken place. The Carson Leaguera have either abandoned the field or are holding back for ® grend coup d'éat upon some of the top-sawyers of the liquor interest. There is one case of violation of ‘the law for seliing liquor om the Fourth of July pending in the Marine Court, bat the Jadges and the lawyers find great difficnity in arriving at a de- termination ss to the powers and requirements of ‘the various judicial fanctionaries under the act, and i@ is extremely doubtfol whether # decision upon ‘these important points will be settled upon before the meeting of the Legislature, when it is expected the law will be repealed. Our police reporta detail about the usual number of cases of atrest for drunk- enzces, which is suggestive at once of an active ‘wade in imported liquors, the vigilance of the po Kee, and the utter failure of the excise law tosup- pres the vice of immoderate dritking. We have secounts of the operstions of the law from various parts Of the State. lu Rochester, it is said, the bar- yoome exbibit no signs of anything stronger than ‘water, and no inatances of violation of the law had been heard of. In Buffalo and Aibany but little dif ference is made, dealers ssiting as usual. Prosesu tions have been commenced against several hotel keepers at Saratoga. The trial of E. A. Dauel, of the Montgomery House, snd J.L. Huestis, takes place today. The dealers at Senece Falls submitted tothe law by removieg from their bars and shops all intoxicating liquor. In Schenectady the law was alno observed. At Utica most of the retail shops were closed. At Troy the trade continued as usual, but no arrests had been made. At Syracuse many ef the dealers have s)1d off their stocks at auction. As mach as twenty thousand dollars worth of liquor ‘was thus disposed of on the 2d snd 3d instant. ‘The Mayor of Albany in his directions to the police force remarks that “when a policsman volunteers %e act as complainant, informer or public prosecutor under the act, it will bs regarded aa prima facie weglect of duties now required by law,” and he atrongly cautions them rot to run any risk of pecu niary iisbility by making seizores. The cslebratioa of the glorious Fourth at Cape May waa participated in by several notabilities Ex-Governor Bigler, of Pennsylvania, read the Declaration of Independense, and President Pierce, who is now sojourning there, made a brief speech tn response to a toast cffered by s gentleman from New York. He spoke briefly of the American Dnion, its origin in the Revolution, the humble part which his sncestors had taken in securing the imfependence which they were celebrating, alladed to the value of the Union, the importance of pre- serving it, his determisation to maintain and en- force all the laws essential to its preservation, &c., complimented the patriotism of New Jersey by an allusion to Princeton and Monmouth, and took his seat amid general applause. The President is expected to return to Washiag- tom to-day. While he has been rusticating at Cape May, Marcy and the Kitchen Cabines have bzea cutting up shines. While the cat’s away the mice will play. Great and weighty measures—such, pro- Dbably, as the decapitation of a dozen of poor lamp- lighters who are suspe:ted of Know Nothing partialities—require the recall of the Executive. An examination was had at Trenton on Toureday, Before Governor Price, in relation to the surrender of Jacob Stern, of Newark, to the auhorities of thie State, upon s requisition from the Execative of New York. Stern, it is alleged, purchased from a Mr. Friend, of New York, $1,250 worth of goods, and pretended to have $2,600 wor:h of clothiag in his store, and $690 in cash in a bank in Newark; and that after he obtained the goods he confesssd judgment to his brother-in-la 7, to pay certain notes beheld. Friend had Stern indicted in New York for obtaining gooda under false pretences. The re- quisition was resisted by Stern’s counsel, on the ground that he is not a tugitive, being a resident of Newark, where for years, it is elaimed, he bas borae an honest character, and does not come under the Condition of the extradition laws; aad because the suit having been irstitute? against him in Essex, N, J., the matter can be brought to trial in New Jeresy, without sending him ont of the State to un- @ergo srrest and imprisonment, on a charge which ia not substantiated. The Governor bas not given his decision. ‘The Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen were im session last evening, bu’ did no business worthy of special remark. ‘The sixeteenth annual commencement of the Ratgers Female Institute took place yesterday. 4 Jarge concourse of spectators, principally ladies, attended, to listen to the remarks of the speakers and witness the swards of premiums for superior scholarship. A report of the ceremonies is given elsewhere. Our Yankee friends do not fail to turn a peany by the Eestern war. Our Vermon: correspondent states that the Robbins and Lawrence Company, at Windeor, on the Connecticut river, have a contract with the Britis: government for machinery for making arma to the amount of one hundred thou- sand dollars, and another, with individuals, for ‘twenty-five thousend Minie rifles. ‘The cotton market yesterday continued to be un- mettle] and prices unestablished. Dealers were waiting the receipt of private letters. The fow sales made were confined to 300 a 400 bales. Com. mon and medinm grades of flour were about 6c. a ‘126, per bbl. higher. Canadian white wheat sold at 92 3509240. Indian corn was one cent per bushel higher. P.rk wos firmer, with moderate sales. About 17,000 bushels of corm were engazed for Liy- erpool at 34d. 444.,in balk and bags, and about 800 bales of compressed cotton at 3-16d. Among other engagemente were 1,000 bales of wool at ji. per ib The Pennsytvan'¢ Know Nothings~ Adoption of the Sewer a Piatform—Poltcy of the Con servative , 4 gure Game. The © tate Council of the Know Nothings of Per‘asylvania has declared by a large majority ‘a favor of the restoration of the Missouri Com- promise, and against the admission of any slave State north of that line. Thus, the new Ame- rican party of Pennsylvania (excepting ten sece- ders out of some two hundred delegates,) have gone over, “ hook and line, bob and sinker,” with General Wilson and his Massachusetts par- tisans, and with Colonel Ford, and his followers in Ohio, to the Seward Holy Anti-Slavery Al- liance. What is to come of allthis? Can it be that the bulk of the Know Nothings of Pennsylva- nia are so deeply impregnated with anti-slavery and free soil sentiments that there is no safe middle ground between the Philadelphia na- ‘tional platform, and the policy of an active crusade against the South? It strikes us that the Democratic State Convention at Harris- burg, in ignoring the Nebraska question, the administration, and all concerned in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, have acted more wisely. Dodging occasionally saves a man’s head from a cannon ball. If the secession democracy of the South can be satisfied with this policy of silence on the part of the Pennsylvania democracy, surely the Union and conservative Southern Know No- things and whigs would have been content with the same policy of dumb neutrality and non-intervention. There has evidently been an evil genius act- ing as the ruling spirit of this late Pennsyl- vania Know Nothing State Convention, and his foot printsareso strongly impressed upon it that there can be no mistake in the man. It is ex-Governor Johnson. Like Wilson, of Massachusetts, he has his own ends to accom- plish, and doubtless thinks it more expedient to accept the chances of promotion as a make- weight to the tall of Seward’s anti-slavery league than it would be to risk the loss of his free soil partisans by maintaining the constitu- tional rights of the South, or by silence upon that subject. Moreover, the antecedents, in- stincts and proclivities of ex-Governor ‘John- eon are all of the anti-slavery type; and he has not forgotten that, with a fall knowledge of their man, the free soilers, by a fasion with the whigs in 1848, elected him Governor of Penneylvania by some two or three hundred majority. We are by no means certain, however, that Mr. Johnson will be as successful in his pre- eent movement for the United States Se- nate. Possibly, those ten seceders from the State Council may be able to command a ruin- ous diversion against him among the rapk and file—possibly there may be found among the masses of the American party of Pennsylvania a sufficient force, who, preferring the sound Union principles and national popu- larity of George Law to the disunion pro- gramme of our arch-agitator, W. H. Seward, may disappoint the expectations of Mr. Johan. son in the October State election. Let it be clearly understood that the echemes of Mr, Johnson involve the transfer of the Pennsyl- vania American party, body and breeches, to the Holy Anti-Slavery Alliance, and we apprehend that he will fall very far short of his estimates among the people in Oc- tober. Whatever may be the result of this anti-slave. Ty movement of the Pennsylvania Know No- thing State Council, it is manifest that a Northern anti-slavery crusade for the Presi- dency is no longer a questionable contingency. The thing has assumed a shape too positi\é and palpable to be doubted. At the same time, while the Know Nothings of New England, Ohio and Pennsylvania are fusing with the Seward disunion conspirators, the extreme democracy of the South are taking the back track to the secession platform of a speedy dis- solution of the Union, and an independent Southern confederacy. In the midst of this state of things there is the nucleus of an American party, to which the Union and conservative men of al) parties and all sec- tions may safely rally. It exists in that con- servative majority of the National Council at Philadelphia which have proclaimed the con- stitutional policy of non-intervention on the slavery question as their platform. We have in the State of New York an enrolled body of upwards of one hundred and eighty thousand men, pledged by their authorized delegates at Philadelphia to this very policy. On the other hand, the democratic soft shells are beginning to betray a desire for another Buffalo move- ment, while the hards, from the unmistakeable tendencies of their newspaper organs, are shift- ing off farther and farther from Tammany Hall, and every day nearer to a fusion with our anti- Seward, anti-administration and national Ame- rican party, The anti-slavery p!atform of a section of the Pennsylvania Council may result in splitting up the party, and in giving the State back to the democrats in October. The movements of Wilson and his partisans, and of Ford and his followers in Ohio, may be followed up by amore intimate identification with Seward and his Programme; buat while the conservative Know Nothings, whigs and democrats, of the whole South, are eupported by the most powerful party of the Empire State, there will yet be scope and verge enough for a tri- umphant national party upon a common na- tional ticket in 1856, The administration at Washington is resolved that the democratic party shall stand or fall upon the merits of Mr. Pierce and his Cabinet, and upon that test there can be no re-union of the democracy; there ig no whig party anywhere, we believe, excepting the Broadway House; and so the only alterna- tive left to the floating masses of all parties is he Seward disunion anti-slavery league, or the National American party of the Philadelphia Council. Between the secession of the South and the eederegflllion cmaines ofthe North, the only existing party with any how of national vitality for 1856 is that party which was represented at Philadelphia by the Know Nothing delegations from New York and the Southern States, ana by their non-interven- tion platform upon the slavery question. Far. thermore, whatever may be the results of our State elections of this summer and the coming sutumn, no sectional ticket, no sectional com- bination, will avail in 1856. The only party which can then hope for success before the peo- ple, or before the House of Representatives at Washington, will be the party most reliable upon this Philadelphia policy of non-interven- tion on the question of slavery. Let Sewara, Wileon and Johnson do their worst, Thig will be the end of the game, NEW YORK WSERALD, SATURDAY, JMBY 7, 1855. British Enlistme',t in the United States, It appears that. since the British Parliament passed a bill guthorizing the enlistment of foreigners to cerve in the British armies, there have been recruiting officers stationed ia all the Principal seaports of the United States, and it is said that up to this time, one thousand men ave ‘seen engaged to enlist. The authority on which this number is given does no: appear; 714 considering the very energetic and prompt Yaessures which were taken at the start by the police and legal authorities at Boston, New York and Philadelphia, it certainly seems large. One thousand men cannot be smuggled out of a country in s bandbox; nor can it be under- stood, at first blush, why the newspapers of the British Provinces, where this thousand men must have rendezvoused, have never dropped the least hint of their arrival and organi- zation. However, the number matters little. It is quite certain that attempts were made to enlist men here for the British service; that on the news of the same, all the admin- istration officials fell into a paroxysm of ndignation, and arrested indiscriminately every man who appeared to be concerned in what the Washington Union virtuously calls “the grossest of insults and outrages against the honor and sovereignty of the United States,” and that the scheme failed in consequence. On the strength of this, the government news- papor at Washington takes occasion to solicit confidence and approval for the administration of General Pierce, andspeaks of him as it is customary to speak of the Emperor Trajan, and the greatest monarchs of antiquity. The sub- ject will be suggestive of other thoughts to the public at large, and the transcendant glory of the President and the unexampled zeal of his subordinates, will strike most people as matters of leas importance than the step which Great Britain has just begun to take. It was the boast of British statesmen, when this war began, that the government would not call in the aid of the press-gang. And a very proper subject for boasting it was, as the abandonment of any other bad practice would have been. But the change ne- cessitated the departure of the fleet from Spithead in a state of semi-mutiny and 80 disorganized that Admiral Napier dared not risk a battle with it. It operated on the army aswell, for that branch of the British service depended in a great measure, though secretly, ona kindred system: and after the losses be- fore Sebastopol duriag the hard weather of the fall and winter, the British contingent had fallen so low, and the recruitments came in so slowly, that the army soon found itself in a worse condition than the navy. It was then that the English goveroment prevailed upon Parliament to pass an act authorizing the Taising of troops of foreigners. Emissaries were sent to the various S:ates of Germany, to Canada and to this country; and notwith- standing a most vigorous opposition on the part of the various national authorities, a consider able number of men appear to have been raised. The question is now whether this expedient will answer as a substitute for the conscription of the continental powers, or the crimps and press gangs-of old England. Foreign mercenaries have, at various times in the history of the world, proved excellent soldiers. The Swiss made a living in that way for many generations, and appear in general to have evinced great bravery and staunch fidelity in fighting for mere pay. The Scottish mercenaries who for so many reigns formed the body guards of the kings of France, were men of undoubted courage, as their type, Dalgetty, is there to testify. In later times the Swiss body guard of Charles the Tenth—who thoagh called Swiss were mostly Germans—fought for him long after every Frenchman had deserted his cause. The Romans occasionally found a troop of mercenaries raised in a conquered province a valuable auxiliary. In the eigh teenth century, a large proportion of the Ger- man people were regularly hired out by their princes and masters to fight the battles of any one who would pay them. They served the King of France, the King of Spain, and the Emperor; King George the Third sent a batch of them here to “put down the rebels, and hang Mr. Washington;” and it may be said generally that they did most of the fighting that was re- quired in Europe and America at that time. It appears, however, though the mercenaries themselves havenot deserved the contempt usually bestowed on them, that no nation has ever relied upon them to any extent without being incontinently ruined, or at least suffsr- ing severely. Column after colamn of this journal could be filled with extracts from histo ry showing this singular Jaw of nature. The moment the Romans, instead of employing a single legion of mercenaries in the midst of half a dozen Roman legions, entrusted their eagles to an army of paid foreigners, that moment de- feat began, and continued until the prestige of Rom, was broken, and a military despotism soon replaced the empire. Peter the G reat of Rogsia almost lost his crown and the fruit of all his labors by relying on his mercenaries; he, howeve , discovered his mistake in tims, and diebanded them. James the Second of England hired Spaniards and Ivish to fight his battles as King of Eogland; and we all kaow what became of him. Genoa, the great republic ot Genoa, used to hire soldiers from the Emperor atthe rate of so many carlins a month, and a hundred carlins per man if they were killed; and the downfall of the State followed apace. Venice made the same mistake and fared like- jee. The more recent examples of the failare the mercenaries of George III. in this coua- try, and of those of Charles the Teath in France, confirm the princip'e. In a word, history shows that the employ- ment of mercenaries is a fatal experiment. It tends to disconrage patriotism among the peo. ple. It confides the national interest to persons who have no better stimulus to fight well than their pay. It creates a division between the defenders of the country andthe people to ba defended, a division which must be eqaaily injurious to the morade of both. It is an ominous sign to see Great Britain reduced to this method of earryiog on her wars. It is a confession of weakness which ill accords with the boastful tone and arrogant langnage of the ministers of the crown. More than this, it is, according to the uniform testimony of history, a presage of defeat, and a symptom of ruin: we have yet to see how the atiemot be gun under such gloomy auspices is destined to terminate. Ayotuern Piece or Orrictan Wrspom.—We are informed that the last steamer for Nicara- gua took out an organized engineer and topo graphical corps to defend that extensive country from Co}. Kinn-y and the other filibnsters who lately sailed for some friendly port in the Colo J nel’s flag ship, the ¢chooner Emma. Now, this }roceeding was ‘just as much a violation of the Jaw as the attzmpt of Colonel Kinney; for it is ccntrary to tbe federal law for any person to enlist trocpa within our borders to serve a for- eign pawer. Our New Liquor Law.—The new Prohibi- tory law does not appear to have met with a very good reception in our city courts. Its framers, in order to simplify practice under the law, enlarged the powers of magistrates named init; but the magistrates hesitate to assume the doubtful powers con‘erred upon them, Two of the City Justices have decided that they can only take evidence and complaints, but will not issue warrants upon drunkards’ affidavits. The lawyers and judges seem to be in a fog about the whole matter, while native and foreign liquor is sold without any restraint or restric- tion whatever. In the Marine Court, yesterday, Judge Birdsall discovered that he had ao power to punish offedders under this law, but that their cases must go to the Court of Special Sessions, Divested of the mystery of legal phraseology, this decision is made on the fol- lowing grounds. The fifth section of the Liquor law passed on the 9th April, rans thus :-— . Oe f the i ti sig insele See, Sate ree, ae ee New York, the recorder, each justice of the marine court, and the justices of the disirict courts, and ia all cities where there is s recorder’s court, the recorder aball have power to issue processs fre hear and deter- mine charges, and punish) for all oflences arising under apy of the provisions of this act; [and they are each hereby authorized and required to hold courts ot apscial session for the trial of such offences,) and under this att todo all other acts, and exercise thc same authority that may be done or exercised by justices of the peace in criminal cases [ana by courts of special sessions, aa the same are now constituted.) Judge Birdsall holds that the sentences en- closed in brackets were repealed, so far as his court is concerned, by the act passed three days afterwards, which gives the Courts of General Sessions and Special Sessions of the Peace of the city of New York exclusive juriediction over all cases of misdemeanor, and a violation of the new.Liquor law is a misde- meanor according to the fourth section of the act. This legal point is ingenious, but it will be @ question as to whether or not it is well taken. It is not, however, a matter of much conse- quence, except that it is another proof that the law is faulty throughout, and will not stand the thorough analysis which it must have from the bar and the bench. Every one, in and out of court, temperance men and liquor men, seems to havea doubt about the law. That doubt must go for the benefit of the defendant, and therefore it seems probable that the law will never be enforced. We have, conse- quently lost the excise laws, which were strong enough when enforced, and gained in their place an enactment of doubtful constitation- ality, full of loop-holes and contradictions. No Fuston i tHe Great Demooratic Par- tTy.—It is now almost certain that the hards and softs will not row in the same boat. The hards positively refuse to coalesce with Marcy and his national Prohibitory law; consequently the softs have given it up in despair, and pro- claimed war to the knife and the knife to the hilt at the Baltimore Convention. The call for the Soft Shell State Convention, “at the usual place,” on the twenty-ninth of August, signed by two or three Cass men and twelve or fourteen gentlemen of the free soil Buffalo stripe, has been duly promulgated. This convention is to consist of one delegate from each Assembly district —it isto nominate a State ticket, “and also to determine the time and manner of choosing delegates to the next Democratic National Convention.” The herds will hold their convention at the same place on the fifth of September. So the thing is cettled. There will be two State tickets in the field—two sets of delegates to the Baltimore Convention, and a defeat for the administra- tion and the soft shells, The hards will be wiped out, aleo, if they do not coatesce with the Know Nothings. The American platform is essentially the bard shell platform in effect, and it has been partially endorsed by Judge Beardsley and other national democrats. Will the hards fuse with the Know Nothings on the national platform? Speak out, and quickly ! Axorner Post Orrice Humpva.—A great many complaints having been made to the Post Office Department relative to the loss of valua- ble letters, the goverament conceived a bril- liant idea on the subject, which brilliant idea has lately been carried iato eff:ct. It consists in a system of registering valuable letters. Persona may, by application to the Postmaster, and paying a fee, have their letters registered, and obtain a receipt for the same. The regis- tered letters are kept apart from the common herd, and when they arrive at their destination the Postmaster sends a circular, of which the following isa copy, to the persons to whom they are addressed:— Reatsrerep Letrer No. 217. Post Orricr, New York, July 5, 1855. Sin—Please call at this office and sign receipt for re. gintered letter. Bring thia notice with you. Yours, respectfully, K. E HIBBARD, for I. V, Fowsen, P, AM. Now the cream of the joke is, that the go- vernment is not responsible if these registered letters are lost, so that registration is only ahum- bug, afterall. The fact that the registered letters are kept apart from the others is no great pro- tection for them ; it is only an advertisement to knavieh officers, to inform them what letters are worth stealing. There is no reason to suppose that the persons having charge of the regis- tered letters will be any more honest than the ordinary Post Office clerks, Indeed, experi- ence—which, as a German writer says, keeps a good school but chargesa very high price ~ teaches us that thore who occupy the highest places are most unlikely to resist temptation. We are afraid that people will continue to send their money letters by private expresses, not- withetanding the new registration law, which is about as valuable as a bank check with the depositor’s signature omitted. AMERICAN Inventions Buiowivae Up the Autirs.—A letter from the English fleet off Cronstadt informs us that there was recently a tmall submarine explosion in those parts, which agitated the nerves of one French Ad- mira) and ten Post Captains. This was probably caused by one of M. Jacobi’s mi- chines, @ number of which were sent out to the Baltic a long time ago, and the fear of which caused old Charley Napier to mske that ever memorable signal for more chloroform. We presume that Jacobi’s machines are plenti- ful about Cronstadt; but they must be a little more powerful to do any greatharm. The }rineiple apon which they are constructed is a very old one, and was first applied to modern warfsre during our Revolution, Now avp THen.—On the eighteenth of Jane, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, the combined French and English forces assaulted the Redaa and Malakoff towers before Sebastopol, and were defeated by the barbarous Rassians with great slaughter. Forty years before, on the eighteenth of June, eighteen hundred and fifteen, the English and Blucher gained a great victory at Waterloo over the French and Napoleon the Great. Formerly the Bnglish celebrated the anniversary of the great diy at Waterloo with great éclat; but they have changed all that now, and this year we have witnessed the delightful spectacle of the victors and the vanquished embracing each other, and mutually endeavoring to forget all about Waterloo, Wellington, Blucher, Grouchy, the great Napoleon, and several other matters equally gratifying to the British lion and dis tressing to the Gallic cock. But affection is, after all, a bore, says Pelissier. One mus have some excitement on Waterloo day; and 20 he assaulted the southeastern defences o Sebastopol, and the enniversary of Waterloo day was celebrated by the most disastrous and bloody defeat that the Allies have yet sogtained. It is a singular aud interesting historical coincidence. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. WHAT 13 IN THE WIND?—THE KITCHEN CABINET EN- JOYING THEMSELVES, Wasuinoton, July 7, 1855. Mr, Marcy telegraphed, this evening, for President Pierce to come home immediately. Mr. Guthrie says that Jeff. Davis must make s clean breast, as he iz suspected of playing into the hands of the Know Nothings, Sergeant O'Neil, Forney, and Sid, Webster have been having high times at the White House during the past week. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Wasuroton, July 6, 1855, President Pierce is expected home to-morrow. The frigate Constellation, at Norfolk, is to be refitted forthwith for the Mediterranean station. The company of Flying Artillery from Fort McHenry, which has been on a visit to this city since the 3a inst., returned home this evening. A Dance House Riot. Dwerorr, July 6, 1855, Last night » large crowd attacked « negro dance house im this city; anda fight ensuing, one of the girls beleng- ing to the house was killed with brickbat. Several persons were wounded. The house was fired by the crowd, and burned down, Two Ladies Drowncil. Proviprxcer, July 6, 1856, Mrs, James Lancelot, of Cranston, and Mrs, Stephen Sturgeon, of New York, were drowned this afternoon, while bathing at Field’s Point, three mules below this city. Departure of the Asia. Haurax, July 6, 1855, The royal mail steamship Avia arrived here from Bos- ton at 10 o’clock this morning, and sailed again for Idv- érpool at 11,45 A.M. She was detained on the prsaage to this port by foggy weather. Markets. PHILADELPHIA BTOOK BOARD. PaLavELruia, July 6, 1855. Money unchanged. Stocks dull, Reading, 46 11-16; Morris Canal, 14%; Long Island, 1744; Pennyylyania Railroad, 45%; Penneylvanis State fives, 8733. New ORLRANA, July 5, 1855, The America’s news was received to dy, and published in the eveving editions of the “Atsoclaved Press. Tne prices of cotton declined a ‘ce. unier it. The day's fales have been 860 bales, at 9c. for middling, Corn in selling at 70c. a Tbe, Burrato, July 6—124z P. M, There is » better demand for floar for the interior, but we have no change in prices to report. Sales 500 bbls. at $8 50 8 $8 76 for common to good uppar luke; $9 25 for extra do.; $9 60 for extra Indiana; and $9 76 for extra fine Michigan. Wheat is in better request. Sales of ceveral parcels upper @ spring on private terms, and white Michigan at $233. Corm quek Sales 8,000 bushels at 763¢c. Holders have advanced their views, and additionn] parcels could not be obtainei exospt at prices considerably above this quotation. Oats are sendy, Sales 7,000 bushels at 5c, Canal freichts lover—cora 11%¢. to New York. The recetptx yenterday and the day previous were—Fiour, 1,767 bhis: ts. Expocts wheat, 10,601 corn, 74,657 bushels; oats, 14,786 bushels, Burro, July 6—6:30 P. M, There bas been a better inquiry for flour to-day for the interior and local trade, but prices remain unchang- ed, Bales 900 bbls, at $3 50 a $8 75 for common to good Wisconsin; $9’ a $9 25 for choise to extra do.; $9 0 for extra Indisns, and $9 75 for pure do, Wheat bas been in more demand, but prices are the same ag pre- viously quoted, Bales’ 600 bushels Wisconsin whive ai $1 25, and 600 bushels white Wichigan at $2 33. Corn is quiet, ore to the firmness of holders. Sales 17,000 bushels’ at 763c. a 8c., closing firm at the outade ice. Osts are a ahade firmer, with sales of 22,000 ushels at 660., and 7,000 bushels 'at 7é0. Whiskey--No sales. Canal freighta lower—corn 034. to Albany, and 1c. to New York. Receipts for the tweaty-four hours ending noon to-day;—Flour, 1,118 bbls.; wheat, 11,280 bushels; corm, 35,000 bushels; oats, 13,031 bushels; rye, 900 bushels, Aunaxy, Jul; Flour—Sales 1,000 dbls. at uochir Bales 9,000 bushels at 87%c. a 8c. tor Onte—Nothing done. Whiskey held firmly at 41c, ceipta by canal to-day—2,585 bbls. flour; 272 28,070 bushels corn; 7,640 bushels oats, Puurnenrma, July 6, 1855. The sales of iron for the week have beon confined to the consummation Ge thay ordera, and amounted to 3,500 tons, at $25 a $28 for No 1; pig, $23 60 a $25: and forge, $22 a $24. There is an excessive demand for American merchant bars, and manufacturers haye de- clined orders at $6 adv: tons, at $70 » $76; Juni firm’ at $60; car wheel iron, $30 a §: castings, $35 8 $38; charcou! blooms, blooms, $40 8 $45, a Marine Affairs. Derarture oF Cauirorsis Steamers —The mail steam- ship George Law, for Aspinwall, ard the steamship Star of the West, for San Juan, sailed on Thurs2ay afternoon Re- 2 bbls, pork; $70 a $75; cinder Tax PeRvviaN Henapo Story or Mresrs, Lowen & Co.— In relation to an article concerning the commercial house of Messrs. Lomer & Cu., of Lima, published in our papar of the 4th inst., taken from the //eraldo of Lima, of the Mth May, we are pleased to learn from a confidential source that the report has been entirely contradicted in the Lima journals ofthe 25th May. We have’ been ssaured by @ well informed party, just arrived from Lima, that the members of the house are Ameriean citizens of un- doubted respectability, and besides, gentlemen of the highest intelligence ‘Tue Race Between tux New Youx np $1, Joun Goat Cxvns.—Our despatch yesierdsy, in chronicling the e- feat of the New Yorkers, in the match racewith the St. John Club, at Boston, on Thureday, stated that the New York Club was the challenging party, which was not the case. The St. John Club decline! the row in the regatta of the previous cay, and ee coon as the race was over, they sent a challenge to the New York Club to row for three hundred collars, which the latter felt in honoe bound to accept, even with a full knowledge that a con- test with fresh just bean unequal oae. We leara bat a match be' nthe same boats has besn made, to come off in New York harbor in August, for one thou- and dollars. New Ham Liqaor B11. The new liquor bil waich has deem reported in the New Hempabire Legisisture embraces the principle of search, seizure, and confiscation, with imprisonment for the recond offence. Since penning the above, we have received from Con- cord & proof sheet of the new bill, by which we learn that the bill provides for # fins of Afty dollars for the first offence in i sales; fifty dollars and imprison. ment of thirty common jail for econd of- fence, and for y subsequent offenc: ine of one bunéred dollars and imprisoament of ninety days in jail. Im common seller cares the penalties are, for the first offence fifty doliars fine and one month's !mprisoament; for the second, and every subsequent conviction, one hundred collars fine ard not less than three or more than six months’ imprisonment in the common ja'l. ‘The rezure clause is similar to that Ip the Missasha- netts law, Section 17 jee that no clerk, servant, or agent, in the employ of ony person engaged in the traf. fic, shall be excured from testifying inst hia prin ciple, om the grouni that he may thereby criminate bimaelf, but no testimony so given #aail be used agaiaat bim. 20 mal it duty of the Mayor and Aldermen pi Ad and the Selectmen of every to va to preseoute nt the expense of the oltien an] towns. The other sions of the bill are very much lke ore own tow. We hear from ali quarters thet tne pil! will past beth branebes,— Boston ‘aph, July 3, @ity Intelligence. TumiqnatTion Duane Tas Past &x Moxrus 10 Tas Porr or New Yorx.—The foliowing table will be found inte- resting as showing the decrease in immigration thig year, as compared with former years. So far this year there has been a decrease from laat year of 65,279, and compsred with 1858 of 66,141. The following is the number of nae arrived at this port during the first six months 1853. 1854. 1855. Jepuary. 4,901 6,514 7,485 Febru: 11,953 4,416 6,128 March 9,685 3,758 2,080 April 23,483 31,148 10,196 Ma: 30,212 54,078 24,177 June, 45,578 25,807 19,42 125,617 184,751 69,476. The ann zeogortion between the Teh a German immigration during the last six months:— ral Committee met Thursday night at the headquartess,. but did no business of importance. At the next monthly meeting steps will be taken to prepare for the fall cam+ aign, and the time for electiug corres to the State ‘onvention, in September, will beindicated. he politi- eal cauldron will soon be boiling hot. Wa Youna Men’s Commrrren.—The youvg whige met last night at the Broadway House, Judge Welsh in the chair, and G. W. Browne officiating as Secretary. A scorching communication was received from Mr, George E. Bellows, who had been expelled from the committee on account of his connection with the Constitution Hall mevement, and for signing a document emanating from that place, in which prontviay Ties people were denounced as shoulder bitters, thimble riggers amd loaf- ers. Mr. Bellows did not deny that he If offensive paper, but plead in justification that tl tures it contained were correct. The reading o! the pa- per cause no little excitement, no doubt aggravated b the heat of the weather; and the members, while ad- mitting the general accury of Mr. Bellows’ ¢ommunisa- tion, conceived themseves insulted by his saying s0, A. resolution was passed authorizing the Secretary to re- tarn the communiastion to Mr. Bellows, The meetin, soon after adjourned. CoMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION.-The Board met Thurs: day, at4 P.M. A quorum was present. The only busi- ness of importance that was done was the passage of a series of resolutions in relation to Dr. Alexander F. Vache, Chief Physician of the Marine Hospital at Qua- rantine, whose term of office has justexpired. The reso- \utions are of a highiy complimentary character, and y a merived tribute to the skill and ability of Dr. Vitne. Their length and the press on oar columns not allow us to publish them. Resolutions were also passed in relation to Dr. William Darling, his assistant, who goes out of office with him. After transacting some Jocal business the Board adjourned. Tae ACCIDENT TO GENERAL HALL.—-We learo that Gene- ral Hall was much easier yesterday, and his injuries are not so severe as at first reported. His leg was broken above the ankle, but he was otherwise uniojurad. Dr. ‘Woodward, who is attached to General Sandford’s staff, set the General’s leg without much dificalty. Itis well to have competent medical men attached to these regiments, a6 the liability to casualties such as these in very great. Louis NaPouson’s Sxuv¥ Box.—We learn that the oe- Jebrated snuff box sent by the Emperor Napoleon to M. Depau, of this city, which was seized by the Sheriff for debt, and sold, has been returned to M. Depau, as at was deemed impossible to keep itfrom him legally. The ex- press company that allowed the costly jewel to be seized, on a representation of the facts being made to them, took steps to have it restored to its owner. 1 Senious AccIDENT on A Crry RaiRoaD TRACK.~A se- rious and {t is feared fatal accident, occurred yesterday afternoon, on the New Haven train, as it was approach- ing the depot in Canal street. It appears that as the train was turning the corner of Centre and Canal streets, one of the Harlem city cars was pacing, and in doing #0, caught a Mr, Hiram Allen between the cara, and jammed bim severely. He was turned around seve- ral times, and his breast, arms, aud head, were terribly” lacerated. He was taken to his residence at fammuny Hall and there cared for. ne of the agents of the Naw Haven Company, and lives at Chatham Four Cor- ners. It ia doubtful whether he will recever. A Mysreriovs Crrcumstance—Daap Bopy oy 4 Wouan DiscoveRen IN aN Oren Lot —At a late hour last night » report reached the effice of the Chief of Police that the body of a young woman was discovered in an open lot corner of Fortieth street and Eleventh svenue, under yery suspicious circumstances. On ber person was found the name of Euizabeth Bock marked on her under clothes. The affair caused no little excitemest in the neighborhood, as it was supposen murder had been committed. ¢ Coroner is to investigate this myste- rious matter this morning, when no doubt the facta will come to light. Narrow Escare rrom Drows1x¢.—On the afteraoon of the 4th inst., the schouner Middlesex, with « party ef twenty-two persons om board, eight of them ladies, while off Statem Island was capsized by 2 sudden sequel that came up, and filled with water. Tue greatest con- stermation prevailed, and there was great dsager that the party would be drewned before asmatauce sin ren. ered. Ibeir situstion was fortunately seen on Staten Talend, and a boat pat off to rescue them. Taey wire all taken off, quite excausted. The vessel sunk soon alter, snd now lies im twenty-eight feet of water, in Prince's Bay. Map Dog axp Bav Suot,—A mad dog made his ap- pearance in Ninety second strect on Thuraday, causing great consternation wherever he passed, ani snapping and bitfog at every dog be came across, Hie mad career ‘Was srrested by a Mr Fanshaw, who shot him while passing; but not being an expect shot, the ball after parsing through the body of the dog struck the leg of a doy that wae looking on and inj wounded dog was noon dispatched. A Pxscur Faom DaowsixG.—A drunken sailor fell over- board st the foot of Roosevelt street, on Thursday morn- ing, and wes in imminent danger of drowning. He, hew- ever, was & good swimmer, and d to keep above water. A laborer, named Cornel kis, who was passing at the time, seeing his peril ithout a moment's hesitation plunged into the river, and after a severe etroggle bree to rescue him, His conduct was the more praiseworthy, as the crowd who had collected on the Cock were cruel enough to jeer and laugh at she poor fellew struggling in the water, NORTHWESTERN DisPENSARY—ReEPORT FOR Jexr.—Num- der of new patients, 1,083; treated at their homes, 202; treated at dispensary, 851; mules, 422; females, 641. Class--Heart and lungs, 104; head and sbdomen, 191; eye, ear and ay, 122; skin, 40; ‘ination, 36; women and children, 178; minor surgery, 0, Resulte —Well orgrelived, 1,004 hospital, 6; dead, 8; traas- fe 5 under treatment, 7. ’ Nativisy-—United States, 387; Ireland, 698; other countries, 68. of prescriptions, 2,106; average, 80, MonsTER CRaB,—We were shown, last evening, a crab which was canght in Gowanus bay on Thursday last, which measured three feet from tip to tip of claw. It was really # monster, i+} Number Jargent number in one day, 110; Police Intelligence. CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES. A man named William J. Willard was takea into custody yesterday afternoon by officer Anderson, of the First ward police, charged with having obtained $45 from M. P. Chapman by false pretences and freudulent representations. The complainant alleges that be was induced to lend the accused the above sum on his representing t2at he was worth $490, and could easily pay back the money borrowed. The wccased wag committed for examination by Justion Bogart. SUSPICION OF GRAND LARCENY. Two men, named Nathan Rosisku and Abraham King, were taken into custody by officers Pete] and Burley, of the Fifth ward police, an suspicion of having stolen $70 worth of vermilion from the store of Samuel No, 93 Beaver street. Thi fell some vermilion suppor FE. stolen. They were held for justice Bogart. ALLEGED FELONIOUS ASSAULT. Three boys, named Charles Daly, Mathew Bowler an@ James Kaney, were arrested yorterdey, charged with having jointly feloniously assaulted Richard Lawson, of No. 194 Division street. The complainant, who is em- ployed as a private watchman at pier 4 Nocdh river alleges that while on duty at his post these hoya acted et disorderly manner, apd upoa lis end them away from the pier he had cha! A y ited him, apd one of them stabbed him in the shoulder with a penkpife. The accused were com mitted to prison in default of $1,000 bail, CHARGE OF RODBING A COUNTRYMAY. Virginia Smith, asfd to bem nymph de paw, war are rested yonterday by the Fifth ward polise, chorged with stealing $06 im gold coin from John Rutterson, a faring gentleman, at preeemt om a visit to thie c od oe was locked up for examination by J rm ALLEGED GRAND LARCENY, Sergeant Smith, of the Lower Police Court, arrestet & man pamed Thaddeus M. Fiek, on a charge of stealing thirty-nine bushels of oxts, valued at $29 50, the pro- perty of B. P. Smith, of No. 64 Pearl street The com- plainant alleges that the accused took the feed from ® canal boat while it wason ite way to New York. Tho accused was held for examination ‘ice Bogart. Jersey Otty News. Toe Jersey Cry anp Benoen Point Rannoan ~The Jereey City and Bergen Point Railroad Company being faily organized apd ready to proceed with the work of constructing the road, have adéressed & memcriil to the Common Council, asking the privilege of lay'ng the track brongh the streste of Jersey City, which ther have de Higmated a0 their reate to Hub ine omre wii Be ;repelied by herse power. matter was referrei toa him severely, The - ss