The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1855. NEW YORK HERALD.) | Te Burepcen War- rho Last Rasta and JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR 4ND EDITOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTOW srs, TER. 1 in advance. TRE GLY HERALD 2 cents per copy-87 per annum. THE W : $7 RLY HERALD every Satar diy at Gi cent sor $3 per annum; the Buropean edition $4 per un- Bem tolnny part of Great Britain. or $8 to any part of the Continent, both to include ‘postage. RS by Mail for Subscriptions or with Aiver- one ere oct pola, or the postage Sul be daducted from inoney remitted. OC GLON TAR Y CORRESPONDENCE containing impor- tant news, solicited from any quarter of the world—if used thf ee‘lidernlly paid for, ‘m@rOun Fomxiom COR RESPON- pentane PAurigUiARtY muqupereD 70 SEAL Aly TERS AND PACKAGES SENT US. i UNO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, We do not return thore rejected. .No. 187 : AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. PROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway -Law von Lavres —ReoottectioNs OF Q'PLANNIGAN anD Tut FaRigs— InisH Lion, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Hanter—Kare Mean- ney. RIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Qusen or a Day. BURTON’S THEATRE. Chamber's street—iks Lasr ANDBRING MinstREL Wivow’s VYrortm—Nix WOOD'S MINSTRELS—Mechanics’ Hall—472 Broadway. New York, Sunday, July 8, 1855, Whe News. The steamship Prometheus has arrived at New Orleans witn California advices to the 16th ult.— two weeks later. The shipments of gold by the steamers of the iGth are said to have been large, but our telegraphic despatch does not give the amount. Tre mining news was highly favorable. The Know Nothings had been succeasful at Placer ville and other towns. The town of Auburn had ‘been destroyed by fire. Tem vessels had arrived at San Francisco from Atlantic ports between the 3d and 13th of June. It is stated that Col. Walker and his band of expeditionists had landed in Nica. ragua and taken the town of Rivas. The whole country was in a ferment of excitement. The steamers now on their way to this port will probably arrive on Monday, when we shall receive the details of the news. An arrival at this port yesterday from Matanzas brings as later news from Cuba. Nothing new of a political character had occurred. The public mind was entirely tranquil respecting filibuster move- ments. Reinforcements of troops had arrived at Havana. The health of the island was very good. Business of all kinds dull, particularly for imports. One of our correspondents writes that a Spanish company is about to establish a weekly communi- ation between Cuba and Spain by a line of pro- pellers, and the first steamer is daily expected at Havana. Extraordinary advantages are extended to this company, to the detriment of other vessela trading there. To counteract the ill effect of this Movement upon American interests, he suggests a more regular and frequent communication between our ports and Havana. Late dates from the Rio Grande confirm the pre- viously received accounts of the succeeses of the ro- volationary party throughout Northern Mexico. A large number of Americans are said to be acting with the revolutioniats. We publish this morning letters from our Paris and Madrid correspondents, received by the last steamer from Europe. They form an unusually in teresting record of current events, and will repay aa attentive perusal. We also give a graphically writ- ten description of the bombardment of Sebastopol by four hundred and fifty-seven pieces of ordnance on the Gthult., together with a brilliant account of ‘the battles of the 7th and Sth, which resulted in the capture by the French and English of the Mamelon and the Quarries. We condense from the Journal du Havre the report of a decision made by the com mercial tribunal of that port in a suit brought by the captain of the American ship Ashland against the consigneea of certain freight, for their quota of expenses caused by the damages received by the veese] in her voyage from New Orleans. The die mand of the captain is generally sustained. The case is one of considerable interest to our commer- cial clasees. According to the official report of the City In spector there were 547 deaths in the city during the past week, viz:—104 men, 73 women, 197 boys and 173 girle, showing an increase of 206 over the mortality of the week previous. This alarmingly Jarge increase is mainly among infants, there being no Jese than 357 deatbs of children under 10 yeara ofage. The following were the principal causes of wortality:—Apoplexy, 12; bronchitis, 8; consump” ticn, 50; congeation of the luags, 5; inflammation of the lungs, 5; congestion of the brain, 18; diarr- hoea, 10; dysentery, 14; heart disease, 7; dropay in the head, 25; inflammation of the brain, 11; in- flammation of the bowel:, 9; palsy, 6; smallpox, 5; cholera infantum, 49; convulsions (infau- tile), 65; croup, 10; debility (infantile), 5; scarlet fever, 25; hooping cough, 7; ma- raemus, 26, and measles 11. There were 12 pre- mature births and 27 casea of stillborn, 25 deaths from ¢ ffecta of the intense heat that prevailed daring the week, and 25 deaths from casualties and other violent causes. The following is the classification of discaces :— Bones, joints, &c., 5; brain and nerves» 175; generative organs, 6; heart and blood vessels, 16; longs, throat, &c., 106; old age, 4; skin, &>, and eruptive fevers, 41; stiliborn and premature births, 39; stomach, bowels and other digestive or. gans, 128; uncertain seat and general fevers, 24; urinary organs, 1; unknown, 2, Of the total num. ber 57 were inmates of the public institutions. Toe nativity table gives 399 natives of the United States, 78 of Ireland, 24 of Germany, 10 of England, 8 un. known, and the balance of varioug European couo- tries. In the ‘Saperior Court, general term, yesterday, the order made st specis! term, denying te motion for an injunction to reatrain the Commissioners ot Emigration from making an emigrant depot of Castle Garden, was affirmed. Lyman Cole, who was recently tried on a charge of forgery upon the Chemical and Continental banks, and upon which occasion the jury failed to agree upon & verdict, was yesterday admitted to bail by Judge Cowles, of the Supreme Court, in the sum of $4 500. 3 The argument in the first case of alleged viola tion of the pew liquor law was heard yeaterday in the Marine Court by Justice Birdsall. The Judge reserved his decision. A fali report will be fotad eleewhere. Tre New Hampshire House of Representatives on Friday passed the Prohibitory Liquor bili by a vote of 213 to 50. . The law of libel in Connecticut was materially modified by an act of the recent Legislatare, by which the defendant may show the intention with which he made the publication, and the plaintintt must prove malice before he can recover dam sges. In consequence of the recent developementa re specting the discovery of valuable letters among the waste paper sold to paper mills by postmasters in various parts of the country, the Postmaster General haa issued an order directing that henceforth all the sweepings of the offices anall be thoroughly ex- amined in order to guard against the possibility of loss of letters or other mail matter. Cotton soid yesterday to the extent of about 600 bales, at a decline of about jc. per lb. There were said to be buyers at 10c. a 10j0., while holders demanded 10)c. for middling uplands. Small lots were reported at 10jc., while {t was refused for large lots. Common grades of flour continued firm. Wichigan white wheat sold at $242. Indian corn again closed easier, Western mixed sound at 91c. and yellow at 96c. Pork continued baoyant and closea’ st firmer rates. To Liverpool 2,000 bales of cotto.’, compressed, were engaged at 3-16d., and 18,000 busca of corn at 347. 6 she, in balk and Rage. s Austrian Manifestoes—The Affaire of the 7th and 18th of June. We publish to-day, in the shape of a leading article extracted from the government organ of St. Petersburg, the reply of Count Nesse'rode to Count Walewski’s circular despatch of the 23d of May last. It is a lengthy but ably written document, and may be considered al- most as strictly official as if dated from the Russian Foreign Office. Its tone is on the whole conciliatory, but it nevertheless does not appear to us to indicate any disposition on the part of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to make such further concessiens a8 would lead to the renewal of the peace negotiations. After as- euming that the principal difficulties in the way of a pacific solution had been settled by the concession of the questions of the Principali- ties, the navigation of the Danube, and the effective. guarantee of the independence of Turkey and of the rights and immunities of the Christian population of that empire, it throws the entire blame of the rupture of the Vienna Conferences on the Western Powers. From the peculiar tone and character of the arguments used in this document it seems to be particu- lerly addressed to that growing party in England which is of opinion that Russia hes already conceded enough to satisfy all the reasonable objects of the war. Whilst, there. fore, it may be taken es a proof that so far as the conditions admitted by its representatives ot the Conferences were concerned, the Russian government was animated by « sincere desire to conclude an honorable peace, it also affords evidence of its firm determination never to ad- mit that special construction of the third point, on the part of the Allies, which put an abrupt termination to the Vienna negotiations, In another part of our paper will also be found the despatch addressed by Count Buol to the Baron de Hubner, Austrian Minister at Pa- tis, on the same subject. In expressing his regret that the French government should have declined the propositions which M. Droayn de VHuys hed undertaken to submit to his Impe- rial master before leaving Vienna, the Austrian Minister states that these regrets are the more deeply founded from the fact that the differ- ence of opinion established in Count Walewski’s despatch appeared not only to bear on the ways and means destined to insure the appli- cation of the third point, but also on the basis of the understanding established on that matter by the protocol of the 28th of December last. It then proceeds to argue that inasmuch as the Cabinet of Paris had itself re- cognized that the Austrian plan left nothing to be desired, a0 far as the political indepen- dence of Turkey was concerned, and that as apy attack upon the Ottoman empire would be a flagrant violation of the European guarantee, there would be no longer any real danger to be apprehended from what was called Russiau preponderance in the Black Sea. In the opin- ion of Austria, the efforts of the Allies should aim at the limitation of the political power of Russia to the degree of rendering any abuse of her material resources, if not impossible, at least eminently difficult. The diminution. nay, even the total destruction, of the Russian fl:et in that sea would not suffice by itself to de- prive Russia of the advantages which her geo- gt¥aphical position afforded to her in reference to Turkey. As, however, the Westera Powers were of opinion that they ought to wait a more complete developement of the third guarantee from the chances of war, the Aus- trian government could only express its wishes that those chances might turn out so as promptly to bring about a solution that might seem to the belligerents more on a footing with their sacrifices than that which they had pro- posed. With regard to the events of the war itself, we may as well, whilst on this subject, correct a couple of errors which have obtained curren- cy in reference to the affairs of the 7th and 18th of June. In the telegraphic summa- ry which we received from Halifax, of the America’s news, it was stated that the enor mous Jo:s which the Allies had suffered in the attack on the 18th;"vas mainly occasioned by the springing of a mime, and also that the Mamelon had been retaken by the Russians, and remained in their possession, It was in the engagement of the 7th, and not in that of the later date, that the explosion referred to took place, and it was also in the same affair that the Russians obtained through the confa- sion occasioned by it, temporary possession of the Mamelon tower. The French, however, quickly drove them out of the latter, and have ever since held it. The heavy casualties of the British in the attack of the 18ch were caused by the failure of the attempt of the French against the Malakoff tower. The Redan, against which they were led, is com- manded in such a manner by the guns of the latter fortification that, although they succeed- ed in carrying their object, they found them- selves exposed to such a fire from the enemy’s guns in their flak and rear, that they were compelled to abandon it witha loss of about tour thousand of their choicest troops. Execution of the Kectprocity Treaty— ‘Tne Fisheries on the Coasts of the British Provinces and the United States. Tt will be recollected that by the first article of the reciprocity treaty of the 5th of Juae, 1854, it was agreed between Great Britain and the United States Tn addition to the liberty eeoaped to United States fishermen by the above mentioned convention of October $18, of taking, curing and drying fish on certain coasts of the Britieh North American colonies, therein defined, the inbabitants of the United States shall hi in common with the subjecta of her Britannic Ma) the liperty to take fish of every kind, except shell On the seacoaste and shores, and in the bay and creeks of Canada, New Branswick, N " Privee Edward Island. and of the several islands there- unto adjacent, without being restricted to any distance from the shore; with permission to land upon the coasts and shore# of those col and the islands thereef, and also u the Magia! lands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fieh: Provided, That in no doing, they do not interfere with the rights of pri vate property, or with British fabermen, in the peace able ane of apy part of the said const in ther occupancy for the same pu: 5 It is ‘waderstood that the above mentioned liberty ap- ely to the ave fishery, and that the salmon and sheries, and all firberies im rivers and the mouths of rivers. are hereby reserved exclusively for Britirh fishermen, And it is further agreed, that in order to prevent or settio any disputes as to the places to which the reser- vation of exciusive right to British fishermen, contain- is thle a na thet of fishermen of the United , contained in next article, aj each of the high contracting parties, om the apj eatin of either te the other, salt within siz months thereafter a missioner, #aia Comauamoners, be- fore proceeding toany business ‘Shall mabe and #uy- nerives @ declaration that they will impartial and carefully examine and decide to the beat of their judgment, and according to justice and equity, without fear, favor or affection to their own country, upon all .such as are intended to be reserved and excluded from the common liberty of fishing under t 4 the next succeeding and such declaration shall be entered on the record of their proceedings, The Commissioners shall name some ‘hird person to act as an arbitrator or umpire in any case Or cases om which they may chemseloes differ in opinion, If thay ehoaid not be able to agree upon the name of such third per son, they shall each name a pervon, anil it aliall be de termined by lot which of the two perrous #0 named shall be the arbitrator or umpire in cever of difference or ¢is sgreement between the Commissioners. The 0 to be chosen to be arbitrator or umpire shall, ee to act as such im any case, make and subscribe eolemn declaration ina form similar to that whish ebell already bave beem made an’ snbscribed by the Cowmisriont re, which aball ve entered on the record of their Lares In the event of the death, absenee, or ica) 4 either or the Commissioners, or of the arbitr umpire, or of their or bis » de- chinrng, or ceasing to act as such commissioner, arbitra- tor or umpire, apotber and diflerent person shall be ap- pointed or named, aa aforesaid, to act as auch comm 6- sioner, arbi'rator, or umpire, in the place and steaa of the pesr orsglnally appointed or named ae aforesaii, oe shall mase and sul ibe such declaration as afore. Such Commissioner shall proceed te examine the coasts of the North American Provinces and of the United States, embraced within the provisions of the first and second articles of this treaty, and shall designate the places reservee by said articles from the common right of fisbing therein, The decision of the Courmissioners and of the arbitre- ‘tor or hae sate aball be given im writing, in each case, and shall be by them reepectively. The high contracting parties hereby solemnly engage to conrider the decision of the Commissioners conjointly, or of the srbitrator or umpire, as the case may be, absolutely tinsl and conclusive in each case decided up- on by them or him respecti: ively. Mr. G. G. Cushman, of Maine, was some time since designated as United States Commission- er, but until yesterday no information was received of anything being done in execution of his office. He was yesterday in this city,on his way to Washington, it is presumed, to qual- ify and learn something of the proceedings to be had under the treaty. It will be noticed that the clause of the treaty quoted requires the appointment of the Commissioners, &c., within six months after its ratification. Just double the time has elapsed to enable Pierce and Mar- cy to falfil the duty enjoined by the treaty. It is strange, that when the Commissioner should have been at least for two months past on the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador, he is now, past midsummer, journeying to Washington for instructions. The British Commissioner, M. H. Perley, Eeq., we learn, is at the Astor House, and pro- eeeds with Mr. Cashman to Washington. Mr. Perley is @ distinguished colonist, and has for years tuken a prominent part in every great measure for the advancement of the British Provinces. To the unceasing efforts of himself and J. D. Andrews, Esq., of Maine, now Consul- General of the United States to the Provinces, may be ascribed the conclusion of the treaty of 1854, more than to those of anybody else. In fact, the administration of Mr. Fillmore, acting with Mr. Crampton, aided by those gentlemen, had well nigh concluded the treaty, ready to the hands of Elgin and Marcy, whose principal merit was consummating their arrangements. We published, a few days ago, Lord Clarendon’s highly complimentary letter to Mr. Perley, enclosing his credentials as Commissioner. It is believed, from Mr. Perley’s past course, that his selection was thai of “ the right man for the right place.” We know nothing about the Ame- rican Commissioner, and if no better than most others of the administration appointments, it is no great scratch. We are informed that the British government have provided an elegant fast sailing cutter for the Commissioners, which will be unarmed, al- though fully manued, and in whichit isexpected they will proceed as early as practicable to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the coast of Newfound- land and the coast of Labrador, and even asfar north as Davis’s Straits, in the performance of the duties enjoined by the treaty. The Frencn government, under a treaty with Great Britain of ancient date, have fishing privileges on the coast of the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon and adjacent waters, and also the right to es tablish fishing colonies on the islands named ; and they have for many years had seve- ral bundred vessels and several thousand fishermen so employed, though the neces ity of obtaining seamen to man the French fleets against the Russians has ab- tracted many of the fishermen. The French fishermen engage, when procuring their fish- ing licenses, to furnish a certain quota of sea- men for the French navy upon being called upon. The French government, we learn, insist that the British government had no right by the treaty of 1854 to allow the United States fish- ermen to participate in their privileges as to the St. Pierre and Miquelon fisheries, and it is not improbable that difficulties may ensue on this point. We have been informed that Professor Agas- siz will probably accompany the Commissioner* for scientific objects. No British or American men-of- war, a8 we suppose, by arrangement be- tween the two governments, are to be stationed on the fishing grounds this‘season. The second article of the treaty proviles as follows: — It in agreed by the bigh contracting parties that Bri- tinh subjects shall have, in common with the citizens of the Unixed States, the liberty to take fish of every kin). fag shell fish, on the eastern seacoasts and shores o' the rth of the 36th parallel of north latitu nd on the sbores of the several islands there- unto adjacent, and in the beys, barbors and creeks of the said seacoast 0 shores cf the United States and Of the said islands, without beet J restricted to any dis- tance from the shore, with pe: ion to land upon the raid coasts of the United States and of the islands afore- said, for the pu of drying their nets and curing their fish: provided, that, in #0 doing, they do not in- terfern with the rights of private property, or with the fishermen of the United States, in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the fame purpose. It is understood that the abovementioned liberty ap. plies rolely to the rea fishery, and taat salmon and shad isherien, and all fisheries in rivera and raouths of rivers, are bereby reserved exclusively for fishermen of the United States, So soon as the Commissioners shal] be pre- vented by the weather from continuing their la- bors on the colonial coasts, it is probable they will proceed to fulfil like duties on the coasts of the United States, for it will be seen that the treaty so stipulates. The British have an equal right with our own citizens to fish “in all the bays, harbors, and creeks, and on the seacoasts,” and are permitted to land on the coasts and islands for the purpore of drying their nets and curing their fish down to the thirty-sixth parallel of north latitude, which includes the coast of North Carolina. We presume, there- fore, that the citizens of Ocracoke, Currituck and Pamlieo Sounds, Long Island Sound, Chesa- peake and Delaware bays, and the creeks thero- of, will be favored with the official visit of the Commissioners next winter, when the weather will oblige them to suspend operations in the northeast. By the fitth and sixth articles of the treaty, the consent of the Colonial Legislatures was stipulated to sanction the concession in relation to the fisheries on their coasts, they contending that the Imperial Parliament of Great Britaia had no power to alienate their rights therein, No provision is in the treaty requiring the consent of the Legislatures of the States having Atlan- tice seacoasts to the allowance of the privilege to the British fishermen. It seems the advo- cates of “State rights” in the Senate, concede that the federal government of the United States may cede awa, the local fisheries of the States to foreign governments—the right of Congress to make snch cession not extending to shell fish and lobsters, providing that lob. sters are shell fish. We presume the latter fe 9 Virginia abstraction. Manerzex aND THE ACADEMY oF Music.— Max Maretzek’s forthcoming “Confessions and Experiences” will, wa suspect, be quite a curiosity in its way. If he were merely to stick to @ bare relation of the accidents and vicissitudes that have befallen him during his brief but adventurous career, his book would be as amusing, and perhaps as instructive, as that of apy of the eccentric characters who have Jately thought proper to enter the public con- fessional. There is always something to be learned from the personal history of a man who, from fiothingness, has shoved himself into such general notoriety. Bat we may eafely predict that the interest of our friend Max’s confessions will not lie in the fulness or candor of his avowals. His na- tive modesty of character will keep him as much as possible in the background of his own narrative, He will only appear at such times and seasons as will suffice to impress the reader with a consciousness of the mysterious but all- powerful influence which he exercises over the actions of the characters whom he in- troduces, and over the affairs of which he treats. Of those nicer shades and more intimate touches which are necessary to the perfect understanding of the man him- self, and which we should expect to find in a work of this sort, we will assuredly see nothing. Max will be simply the Deus ex machina of his first literary creation, bursting on us occa- sionally in all the effulgence of self glucifica- tion, but revealing but little of those valgar passions and motives by which common mor- tals are moved. Let those, therefore, who expect to see the great conductor accurately delineated by his own pep, prepare themselves for disappoint- ment. That will be @ posthumous task which will more fitly devolve upon some of his literary admirers, Some Boswell or some Par- ton will no doubt be found to complete the his- torical gjustice which will be due to his memory. But in the meanwhile we will have to content ourselves with such glimpses at his private and professional history as his own modesty will be disposed to accord us in these confessions. Various are the motives assigned for the production at the present moment of this sud- denly conceived but ambitious publication. The world ia so cynical that it is never disposed to place faith in a man’s own professions. Maret- zek himself affirms that he has been induced to turn litterateur solely by that desire to advance the interests of art which has already Jed him to make such heavy sacrifices. We can fully sympathize withhim. There are people, how- ever, who are ill natured enough to assert that the reason of his abandoning the baton for the pen isa desire either to avenge himself on the directors of the Academy, or to terrify them into the retention of his services—those gen- tlemen having, it seems, somehow or other, arrived at the conclusion that there are other conductors to be found, as talented, as modest and as handeome as their late good looking and accomplirhed chef. It is stated, we know not with how much truth, that in his forthcoming work Maretzek will undertake to show that, without the aid of his great suggestive and creative genius. the late season at the Academy, instead of a brilliant success would have been a complete failure He will go in to prove that al! the fine things that have been said and written about the ad- ministrative talents of Mesers. Phalen and Coit, and the diplomatic tact and finesse in theatri- cal matters of the Chevalier Wikoff, are mere assum tions, and that in fac: it was he (Maret- zek) who brought, in his own proper person, all these qualities to bear on the management ot the Academy; it was he who suggested, planned and carried into execution all its de- tails; it was he who put upon the stage, and invested with all the attractions of tastefal and gorgeous accessories, the two operas, “ Wil- liam Tell” and the ‘‘Trovatore,” which carried the town by storm, and converted a doubtfal into an upprecedentedly prosperous and brilliant eea- son; it was he who ‘managed the press,” who threw oil upon the troubled waters of artistic jealousy, who calmed the Joutades of the female, and soothed down the angry susceptibilities of the male artists. He was, in short—though nobody was previously aware of it--the Mag- nus Apollo of the whole enterprise. It this programme of Max’s literary labors should prove to be correct, we should not be surprised to see the palm of this great operatic success disputed by @ hoat of other competi- tors, There is no reason why the first violin, the first trumpet, or even the big drum, should not rush into the field of literary controversy, and contest the oredit of it. Let the directors of the Academy look eharp after their hard earned honors. There is nothing too bold for the indomitable Maretzek to aitempt. Tae State Census—The Albany papers seém to be of the opinion that the State will not be canvassed before September, but that in a month we may make pretty correct estimates about the population. It is thought that the total population of the State will be about four millions, A few places have already been can- vassed. The following table shows the popu- lation of these places at the last census, and the estimated population at present :— Name of place. Pop. 1850, Pop. 1856. New York city. 515,545 "750,000 Troy. 28,785 34,000 Seneca 3.045 3802 Saratoga 4,650 5,500 Ccoperatow = 1,710 Carmet ¥i - 855 Monticel! _ 800 Scottavil — 1,000 Cohoes 4,319 6,200 Norwi Seis qua Canadai 6143 5 enn 1321 1,008 In the towns last named there seems to be a considerable decrease, which may be accouat- cd for in the official canvase. Coroner's OMice. Fatar, Rasen? ov THe BaxTen Sreaet Stanping Cass — John Wileon, the young man who was #0 severely stabbed in the abdomen some nights ago, while in a quarrel with some Italian organ grinders residing at No, 263¢ Baxter street, died om Friday night, at the New York Hospital, from the effects of the injuries received. The parties who it is alleged stabbed the deceaned are in custody awaiting the result of the Coroner's inquest. The care, ae we stated in full the day after its occur- rence, originated from # quarrel that took place between three Italia id ee = tig byt yd a 5 it in al of @ latter presum! ta take iioprepcr Ubertee. ith the wives aad daughters of the prisoners, as they lay asieep on the roof of their dwelling. A brother of the deceased (one of the party) is aleo suffering severely trom the injuries received on the ogeasion, Am inqueat will be held upon the body of the deceased to-day Scaupep To Deatn.—Coroner 0'Dor yesterday at No 53 Greene #t , upon body of a little girlaged 6 years,who came to her death by falling into s pot of boiling water, which prodaced fevers scalde that death took place almost immed! The jury returned « verdict of accidental death, Supper Deata —Am inquest was also held upon the body of Elizabeth Beck, the woman who, as we snnouns- ed in yoaterday’s paper, died «nidenly fo the open lot corner of Fortieth street and Wereath avenne, when won clenrly ehown that the deceased died of perc 5 ‘The deconsed wae 45 years O! nge, and wi a Reiive of + Gyumany. a THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ARRIVAL OF THE PROMETHEUS AT NEW ORLEANS, TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA. Large Shipments of Gold. The Walker Expeditignists in Nienragua, &e., &., &o. New Ontxans, July 6, 1855, ‘The steamship Prometheus has arrived at this port, bringing, via Nicaragua, California dates to the 16th of June. ‘The mining news is very favorable, andghe shipments of gold were large. (Our despatch does not give the figures.) ‘The claims of Messrs. Bolton & Barrows had been ar- ranged by the Commiasioners. ‘The law probibiting gambling was very generally ob- served. ‘The town of Auburn had been destroyed by fire. In the elections at Placerville and other towns, the Know Nothings had been successful, From the Isthmus, we learn that Col. Walker and his band of expeditionists had landed in Nicarague and tak- en the town of Rivas. Great excitement prevailed there. [For arrivals at the port of San Francisco, see Mari- time Intelligence.) Later from Salt Lake. Sr. Louis, June 7, 1866, ‘An arrival here from Salt Lake reports the Indiaus on the way very quiet, Colonel Granger, from Fort Union, reports the Indians on the route also quiet. New Hampshire Legislature. ConcorD, N. H., July 7, 1855, ‘The Senate, by a vote of seven to five, postponed the Dill to unite the Concord and Manchester and Lawrence Railroads, until the next Legislature. ‘The Liquor law was passed in the House yesterday af- ternoon, by 213 to 50, Resolutions were also passed de- claring it the duty of Congress to prevent slavery in the Territories, repudiating the interference with the Mis- souri compromise, and demanding its restoration, as- serting ncn-eubmission to the introduction of slavery into Kansas, and the determinstion to use al) constitu- tional efforts to prevent further aggressions of the slave power. Neal Dow addressed & large meeting on the subject of temperance last night, and defended his conduct at the Portland riot. The Know Nothings of Loulstana, New Onzeans, July 6, 1865, -Tbe Know Nothing Council of Louisiana has repudiated the Catholic teat of the Order. The Carson Leagae at Albany. Aupany, July 7, 1855, The Carson Lesgue have commenced prosecutions here. Isndon, of the City Hotel, ia the first victim. Explosion of the Prepeiter J. W. Brooks. Ciavetann, July 7, 1855. The propeller J. W. Brooks, hence for Ogdenaburg, blew up fifteen miles from Ashtabula, yesterday morn- ing. Two engineers were badly scalded, and qill proba bly die. One fireman and one deck hand jumpei over- dourd and were drowned. There were ten or twelve pas- sengera on board, but none of them were injured, Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pastapsuruta, Jaly 7, 1865. Our money market is easy and stocks are firm. Sales this morning cf Reading Railroad at 4734; Morria Canal, 14%; Long Island Railroad, 174; Pennsylvania Railroad, 45; Pennsylvanis State Fives, #734. Oswxao, Jane 6-—P. M. The receipts during the past twenty four hours have been:—Flour, 600 bbls ; wheat, 18,000 bushels; cora, 12,000 bushels The sales of flour to-day were only 206 dois , at $10 25 @ $10 50 for Canadian. 3,000 bushels of wheat sold on private terms. Corn—Sales 36,000 bushels, at s2c. for mixed. Oswrao, July 76:30 P.M. We have no change to report in our flour market. ‘Wheat—The salen to-day add up 4,000 bushels, at $2 35 for white Mi . aad $2 10 a $2 12% for Canadian, Corn—Seles 26,000 busdels at Bbc. Recsipts to-day:— 708 bbls. flour; 1,000 bushels of wheat; 20,000 busi corn. Burraro, July 7—6 30 P, M. ‘There 48 a good demand for flour, but prices remain unchanged. Sales of 1,100 bbls, at $8 6234 a $9 for choice to fancy Upper Lake; $9 50 for extra Illinois, anc $9 75 for extra pure Michigan, iacivding 360 bbis. Upper Lake on private terms. A sale of 1,000 bbis. Canadian, for delivery after harvest, any time before November 15, was made at $6. Wheat—Little doing; small sal ed Wirconsin at $2.06. Corn—Deman moderate, the merket rather unsettled; 10,090 bushels at 78¢ ; 10,000 buebels at 793¢c., free to boat, and 5,000 bushels at 80c., closing at tne outside priees. Oats unehai séiea 6,000 bushels, to arrive soon, ot hts unchanged; corn, 93¢c. to Albany ipts for the twenty four ours ending —1,911 bbls. flour: 245 bushels wheat; ; 7,602 bushels oats. Exports by me time: —1,100 dbis. floar; 14,935 busk- els wheat; 69,028 bushels corn; 82,765 bushels oats. Cuakueston, July 5, 1865, The prices of cotton have declined ic. & Ic. during the week. The rales for the week add up 2,300 bales. Good middling we quote at lle. a 1140. The receipts for the week amount to 4,500 bales, ‘he stock, exclu- sive of ehipboard, is 13,8C0 bale. News from Cuba, Capt. Campbell, of brig Fannie, froma Matanzas, June 27, arrived yesterday, informs us that the weather bad been very fine, the health of the place good, and no tickness: There bad been rain in the interior, which was very fa- vorable for the growing cane. The prospests for the next crop are very good. Sugars very dear, with a small stock on hand. Molaeses exceedingly scarsa, end held at high rates. The feeling, «o far as the anticipated fill- Duster movement wan concerned, was entirely removed, and confidence restored. Business was duil, particular ly for imports, A number of articles are quite anssle- able, except at @ heavy Joes. Money was worth 12.70 per annum, Exchange on New York 314 4 4.70 dy aver companion of troops hed arrived at Havana, where the public health ia very good, Freighis dull for all parts, The first steamer of the new Spanish campa- by was daily expected. Mayor's Office, REORGANIZATION OF THE MeDICAL STAFT OF THe POLICK DEP AMTMENT. We learn from authoritative sources thet a now plaa of a complete reorganization of the surgteal stat! of the Police Department has been adopted by the msyor, aad will be ready for publication on Monday morning, the object of this is to remedy the numerous imperfections of the existing r and to abolianm the meng se- rious abuses, alleged, are practised by the present stall, with impzuity, owing to the loose and aw- bignour manper in which the presenk lowe are drawn out, This will be heard with joy by many poor fellows, who bave frequently bad occasion, it is said, to com plain of the neglect shown them curing sickness, Ac- cording to the new plan proposed by the Mayor, the whole police force, i. ¢. the 22 wards, will be a a ito seven medica) districts, euch of which wili have ite neparate surgeon. These seveo surgeons will have, as at present, the name salary asa regular policeman, (8700 collars per apnum) and will be under © Of a port of chief, 01 bis bureau in the Chiet’s office, and rec the written report of each of the other pl regard to the general healthful ce udition force etationea within his district The duties of the neven surgeons will also be to perform such profes sional service as the Mayor or Chief of Polics may direct, by examining the physical coudition of can- Uicates for the office of policeman, and to cersity to tae Commisr'ouers whether they are of sound boiy, robust constitution, and capable of enduring thé usasl labor wud exporures of « patrolman They must also visit the sick and disabled members of th, scribe for them, end sacertan the such sickness or disability, and whether ficient severity to exempt wach membe: ‘These services must be given gratuitously by the puy- sicians, whether the sickness has been contracted or not during th last point the ctual discharge of duty, About thin has been a good deal ef dispute ena minunderstandieg, in consequence of the inciatiact maa- ner in which the rection of te rales ani regulations of the Police Depsrtment, referring to thin matter, 's worded ‘The general pelief has been that the physi. clove were not Sound to preseride gratuitously; bat thir is not the case, as the law merely rays that they shall preserbe, and does not specity whether or not they abail obtain additionel recom pense than their salary for ro doing. In the new regulationa the Mayor will clear ‘up sii doubt om this point, Dy stating that the surgeons are bound to give their services free of ee One good feature of the new plan will be the despatch with wuichall wick members will be attemted, Under the ot regulations, when one of the forcs becomes requently bas to wait 24 or $8 boure before he im mec ies id, during which time, if tae bappened to ba ef a serious character, ight sh trom the want of prompt and judictous attention. The esptaim, bef eocing for a phyricien, _ ic to goto che May which the physician is seat for, woich of course jow however when any 4 great deal of unnecenrary delay Ni poch cane ix reported to the bitreel may send dire’ to ‘be t eurgeon, aad ob- speedy attentacce. Thee the ontliaes of the w plea proposed by the M ‘ h be more uly ceveoped ina communication irom hg Hoaer ip 4) peas Tugecey + popes. Castle Garden as an Emigrant Depot. SUPERIOR COURT—GENEKAL TERM, Before Chiet Justice Oakley and Judges Duer, Campbet and Hoffman. J. Phillips Phonic and Others vs. The Commissioners of Emigration, hc, of New York.—The order made by J Hoff: D motion injusetion to retrain the Gefetdente font nanking Ca tle Garden s depot for emigrants, was affirmed, without. Edward Bradforil vs. John W. Gowan.—Motion to dis mies 9 devisd. The Court announced that this disposed of all the cases awe ae Cre i retdlhg known as er Tek a care ree v. arepb Con: and that tha’ ‘would be declied in Auguse term.” Adjourned to Wedn: ie City Intelligence. Bany Enow oy Tue ALMS House GovxRNoRS.—It is the: duty of the Ten Governors to take charge of the founde Mnga and “dropped” babies, and bring them up in the way they should go. Of th+se there some one hundred and ninety infants that require wet Bursivg, and whose fathers and mothers are u: . They are children that have been lett mysterior t door steps, or whose parents have died or deserted them, or are too drunkea aad te ye to properly care for their offspring. Of cou! fart majority of theve children are the off- ring of illicit hag mr ged are thus thrown oa the aritien of the city by the mothers, to hide their shame, Tt had been alleged in certain querters that the Ten Gov. erpors did not properly care for these children, and that. they were entrusted to drunken snd viclous nurses, who thought more of their psy tran of the infants, To re- deem the Ten Governors from unjust obloquy, invitae uops were sent by the clerk of the Alms House Depart- ment to s number of gentlemen, to view the childrem and nurses on last Friday morning, at the Rotunda in the Park. ‘the exhibition of children was certainly an interesting one, and far superior to Barnum’« baby show; and #0 far as we could see, the children were at hearty and henithy as could be desired. As all there nurses had been motzers, it is absurd to suppose the would cruelly use the child nursing at thel breast. ‘Their woman’s instinct is « sufficient guaranty for their faithfulness, These women receive one dollar per month for wet nursing the children. ‘The child’s fatner, if he is known, is compellec to pay one dollar per week ef ita support,’ The Alma House Goverrors have sins enough to answer for, both of omisefon and commuistion, but among them it cannot be anid they are cruel or indiffer- ent to the inmates in their institutions, or neglectful of“ the children entrusted by the city to their charge. Tue Taxta ANNUAL ComMeNceneyt oF St, Joun’s CoL- LEGE, at Fordham, will take place on Thuraday next, at one o’clock precinely. The exercises consist of a merous and choice selection of vocal and instrumental music by the students, and literary ersays by the membe: ‘The commencements of this institution never fail to be attended by a large assemblage of the parents, guar- dians and friends of t) tu-ents, who always reture greatly (pleased with the exhibitions, which are held usually on the beautiful lawn in tront of the college, ral philosophical and of the graduating class. beneath a tent erected specially for the occasion. As the weather is at present intensely bot, perhaps « trip to witners the exezcises would not be uninteresting, es- pecially to tl who take an interest in the intellectual ore ofthe young. The cars for the exhibition wil? ve Twenty-sixth street, corner of Fourth avenue, at 12 o’clock, for Fordham. Pennsylvania Amecvican Convention at Headin, ra Reapine, July 5, 1855. The American State Conncil adj this morn- ing. There were about three huudred delegates in attendance, and the heat feeling prevailed. In the absence of the presiding officer, the Hon. John R. Edie, of Somerset, was elected President. The provesting delegats to the Philadelphia Council made a report, stating that they had suc ceeded in obtaining from the National Connci) ail they had been inatructed to ask of that body; that they had ea sgainst the insertion of the 12:h section of the vationa: platform, and concluded by preeevting that document, together with their pro- test, which, on motion, were reterred to a commictee consisting of one trom each Congrersional district. The Philadelphia dietiicte, witn the exception of the second, were not represented on the committee. The dele; } after baving appointed committee men, withdrew them on the arrival of certain other Celegates from said citv, whose atter action, I am sorry to m7 was factious in the extreme, occupying the time of the convention by motions to postoone, motions to adjourn, calls for tne previous question, and tor the yeas and nays, &3. ne = morning the committee made three re- porta, viz :-— 1. The majority platform, which was signed b: the ieeone rhe Alleghany, ohuylkilt Weak. moreland, Beaver, J:fferaon, Cheater, Somerset, Backs aud Susquehanna, ana is as followa :— DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES OF THR AMERICAN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ADOPTED AT A COUNCIL HKLD Av ReAD- ING, ON tix FovRTH Day ov JULY, A D., 1856, I, The maintenance of the nations! Union i a Faithful obecience to the constitution of the United en. Ill A revision and modification of the laws regulating immigration and the settlement of immigranta—oflering to the honest emigrant, who, from love of liberty or hatred of sion, seeks an asylum in the United ‘States, the protection of our flag aod our lews, but un- qualified sition to the transmission to our shores of criminals upera VT tin] modifi:aticn of the naturalization ows. 2. The repeal, without retractive operation, of ail acts of Congress making grante of laud to umaaturalized foreigners, and allowing them to vote in the Territories. V. Resistance to the aggressive policy and corrupt tendencies of the Roman Catholic charch in our coun- try, by the advancement to «li political stations—exe- cutive, legislative, judic'al or diplomatio—of thove only who do zo! hold allegiance directly or indirectly to any foreign power, whether civil or eccleriagtical, and who are amrricaas by birth, education and “traininog—thas fulfilling the maxim, “Americans only shall govern America.”’ The protection of all citizens in the oral and_ proj exercise of treir civil and religious rights and vi- leges; the maintenance of the right of every man fothe fail, vorestrained and peaceful rnjoyment of his own religious opmmions and worship and a jeslous resistence of all atemp' nowtastion or church, to obtai ny other in the State, by mean: or exemption, by ary politica! com! t em vers, oF by a divivion of their civil allegiance with any foreign power, potentate or ecclesi VI. The ecucation ef the youth of our country in schools proviced by the State, wrich schools rhall be common fo ail, without distinction of creed or party, and free from any influence of a deucminationsl or partiean character, and opposition to every attempt to exclude re Bible from tne schools tuas es‘ablished in the States, Vil, Atfirming the mort ardent attachment to the Union of there States, as the bulwark of our civiland reli- gioun liberty, and the depository of the honor and glory of the mation, ard of the citizens of the several stat and avowing our Cetermination to stana faithful to ine Union atali hazards, save thoss of disloyalty to free- dom, apd d:rhouor to ourselves aa treemen. | Speaking trom the shadow of free insftutiors, we desire to make @ perroenent record of our neutimenta touching slavery ae it exists im the Southern States of this Union, and as itis obtraces on made an element and con(ition of our coherence tawtly of Stites. Slavery, exist- ing only in apd by iaw in the southern States, is neces- sarly o local thing, awd we ought not, in fast, to bave to Ceal wit! im any form. But the present coastita- tien of th ited States taving made it the subject of restraint, ntly, too, as the begianing of measures for Its abolishment, aud’ Copgreea naviog subsequently paced Inwe for the recapture of slaves escaptag into free Statew, thie local institution has been coastantly forced vpop the people of the North, until it hae be- come the object of a repugnant aad well settled patie opinion. 1berpublic opinion of the inhabitants of the free States is anc han been ac verre to slavery, and that opizion bas been confirmed and strengthened by recent events, We sympathise with the Northern sentiaent in regard to slavery, and claim the right on all legitimate cecasions to discriminate by the bestowal of our suf- Sragen ip favor of the me and the measures promimng the most tu copserve and give efficacy to the Nortaera reptiment ton: avery, and to reproduce in ulti- mate practice i ‘outhern States the views of Sonth- ern statesmen who calculated the period which should witness the abolishment of African slavery in the Usited Staten: therefore, Resolved, That we do not propose to interfere ii wise with slavery, within the Simits of those where by the laws it already existe; but that, attempt to bring the freemen of tbe North iato ne te nerepip with slavery, to every attempt to subject new territory to rlavery, to every measure in Con- for the further protection or extension of slavery, jor the admienion of new rlave States, we declare selves 14 ‘mmutaniy oppoved and repugnant Resolved, That the reges! of the Missouri compromise was an infraction of the plightes fsicn of the nation, and thet iv should be restored, and if efforte to that end +bould fai), Congress aboald refuse ta admit any State olerating slavery, which shal! he formed out of aey por- fon of territory from which thet institution was ex- luded by that compromine Sth, That the prisciples of the Order shall at all times ¢ publicly made known, and any member is at liderty to deciore bis own membership with said Order, aad the existence of the same. 2é. The mincrity report, orceented by the dele gate from the Hecond disirict, aud sigaed by the delegates from Washington, Adams, Ciintoa, Lav- caster, Dauphin, Cumberland and Berks, adopts the whole of the national platfurm, with the exceotion cof the twelfth article, substitating cherefor the fol- oy toe shonid not be introduced of the American party, beiug con- ivene was intended to be embraced d objects. That we belicve im, and hail ever 4, the right of freedom of opinion and discueaion on that and every othar subject mot in- tended to be embraced within the cesigns of our ormani- wtiop, Dut inermuch as the subjest has been forced regerd the repeal of the Miarourt co n'raction of the plighted faita of the wod that it should be restored, and if efforts end sbould fail, Congress sbould refuse to adm't aay State tolerating slavery which sval! be formed out of pertion of the territory from which that institution xeluced by that compromise 3d. The platform of the Philadelphia National Council, which bas already appeared in the papers, was presented by the delegate from Carbon. The vote waa taken the third proporitin— i932 153; 22ot she sess biog from Prim from Berke, 2 from Montgomery, aod L rom Carbon. On the aejority report, of iiyat proposition, the