The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ———— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, pebpndesbeeeiaunaay Yyrrom N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS, ‘Feimme XX... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘TRE, Broadway Roxy 0’Mons _ BROADWAY THEA anaica® asp ran Fanine— Own Gar. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Wirsow OCorse—Kare eanNEY. WIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Crows Diamowps, ws OPERA HOUSE, 563 Broad way—Auueona- 8 MINSTRELS Mocbanion’ Hall—472 Brondway. New York, Monday, July 16, 1855. Malls for Earepe. sw YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROFE. ‘Fhe Cunard mail steamship America, Capt. Lang, will wave Boston on Weinesday, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘She European mails will close in this city at a quarter te two o’clock to-morrow afternoon. fms Henan (printed in Kaglish and French) will be published at tem o’clock in the morning. Single copies, im wrappers, sixpence. Bubscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yorx Sxnarp will be received at the following ee J hn Hi No. 1; street, Jol fun’ Bendford & ¢ Conti 17 Corabil. = 'm. ‘Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catharine street. Livingston, Wella & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse. ‘The contents of the European eilition of the HxrarD ‘will embrace the news peeesres by ell and eee a8 ea nee the of The News. ‘The steamship Arago is now fully due at this port with four days’ later news from Burope. Sie sailed from Southampton on the 4th inst.,and her arrival may therefore be looked for at any momen’, ‘The America left Liverpool, for Halifax, on the 7th inatant, and may arrive there on Tuseday mornicg. Should the America get in first, we will havea week’s later intelligence from the seat of war. The steamship Cahawba, which left Havana on ‘the 1th instant, arrived at this port last evening. "Phere is no news of importance. Our correspond- ents, writing on the 11th, inform us that the Cap- tain General was much excited owing to the fact of some friends of the late Ramon Pinto having pre- sented to the widowed Senora a plaster bust of tha decensed patriot, taken from s likeness in thy pos. session of one of them, Her servants and others ‘were examined by the gcevernmert agents, but no @iscovery of facts waa obtained nor any arreste made. A creditable volunteer parade had been held. The U.8. eloop-of-war Falmoath arrived in port on the 10:n ivstant, all well. The hea'th of ‘the island was good and the westher fine. It was contemplated to runa line of American steamers * from Matanzss to Philadelphia. Our Rio Janeiro correspondent, writing on Jane 1st, informs us that flour there aold at $35 per bar rel. Freight tothe United States was from 80c. to $1 per bag for coffee. The flags of the American shipping were lowered to haif mast on the 30th of May, out of respect to the memory of the late Walter R. Jones, and appropriate resolutions were pasaed at a meeting of the shipmasters. An important decision on the Hquor question may be expe:ted in the Supreme Court of the Second Sadicial district at an early dsy. It will come up on ‘an appeal from a conviction lately had at Pough- keepeie. The Jadges composing the court for the present term are Strong, Rockwell aud Brown. We give todsy further extracts from our ex- ehapges in regard to the crops and the progress of the harves’ in some sections of the country. The intelligence is even more cheering than it was a wonth ago, and our statement at that time thst the present year would be the most productive one ever known in thia country, is now very near being veri- fled, or at least is beyond a doubt. At the present time we know of no intelligence that possesses more general interest than the cheering accounts of the crops contained in the Henan this morning. We give two more communications relative tothe British Foreign Legion—the ré:ruits for the Crimea raised in the United States, In one the name of Mr. Grant appears, and the correspondent states that that individual was not authorized to enlist mea as he did. We do not pretend to ssy whether or not he was authorized to “recruit” men for the Crimea, but we are inclined to the opinion that he had some authority to act as he did, or elee he would not have shown himeelf in Halifax, nor would the British au- thorities have bsen so generous as they were in pay. ing the expenses of two ship loads from Boston to Nova Scotia, besides giving the men work on a rail- road. It wes only when thoy found that the “ re- creits” would not enlist in the legion that they re- fused to hsve any+hing to do with Mr. G-ant and his men. Soit appears to our comprehension. We learn from Washington that the government bss received information of the kind reception of Mejor Mordecai and Capt.McClelland by the Rus- sian government, and asya they have not been re fused the liberty of visiting Sebastopol. The City Inspector's report for the weak ending ldto instant--published t)-day—shows a decreate ‘bf forty nine deaths as compared with that for the previous seven days. Four hundred and ninety- seven persons died during the past week, of which Bumber three hundred and seventy-six were chil Gren under ten years of age. Consumption, dtar- Fhoes, and cholera infantum were the most fate) dinesses. Forty-eight adulte died of the former and twenty-three of the latter aflection, whilst the iafaa, tile disorder took off fifty-seven young folke. Cho- Jers infentum is unaccountably periodic at this sea- son, and diarrhwa is severe and extentive just now. Inflammatory affections were decreasing. There is no cholera reported, and only two fatal cases of sua wtroke. The steamship Hermann, which was detained over from Saturdsy, to rectify some derangement in ber machinery, will sail for Bremen at noou, to “Going to a sort of stampede on Baturdsy among the weichants for the country, to remain absens ever Sunday, trade in a general way was less ani Matkd. The sales of cotton were restricted to some $00 5 800 bales, though prices closed firm. Fiour woe Gull,and common grades Inclined to droop. Corn sold to the extext of about 50,000 to 60,000 ‘bushels, st 89c.@ 9lc., chiefly at 900. for Western mixed. Pork was ective and higher, with sales of about 1,200 bdie., at 21975 a $19 87 for new mess, with a mmall lot a! $20, the highest price reached im this market for # oozsiderable length of time. Bagare were firm, and ooffee without change of m> ment. Freighie were dull. New York State Politica—State Conventions and Movements of our Various Parties for the November Election—Martin Van garen Mixing in. According to the following catalogue of State Conventions_appointed in this commonwealth, in reference to our coming annual election, we shail have rare sport among our numerous con- tending parties and factions, on the eighth day of November. Here is the list :— New York Stare Conventions oF 1855. Womens’ Rights Convention, Saratoga, Augast 15 ond 16 Republican, Seward Anti Slavery Fusion, Anbure or Syracuse, August 22, Ven Buren Convention, (new movement) Syracuse, Ao 22. Administration Democratic Soft Shell Convention, Sy macure, Angust 29, Colored Men's Convention, Troy, Sept. 4, Democratic Hard Shell Convention, Syracuse, Sept Know Nothing State Council, Syracuas, Sept. 25. The Gerritt Smith radical abolitionists have hed their convention, at which they resolved, under the auspices of Arthur Tappan, to esta- biicsh a monthly newspaper organ in the city of Vy or > ra) y bave mada w sign indicating their intentions upon the liquor question, Probably they will permit this new law to go overboard with. out resistance. The Anti-Renters were to have bad « convention on the 11th iast., bat we have heard nothing farther about it, There is yet another party, generally considered as dead and buried, which its eponsors would have us believe is coming to life again. The Albany Evening Joarnal publishes a call for a meeting of the Whig State Central Committee, at the Astor House in this city, on the 18th day of July, at 12 o’clock M., by order of John A Cooke, Secretary, which will probably deter. mine the day and the place of the so called Whig State Coavention. Here we have a most interesting and spicy ‘dish of odds and ends. In the first piace, it will be remarked that the Seward Anti-Slavery Fusion ‘Convention, and an independent Van Buren Free Soil Convention, agpoiated uader the immediate auspices of Martin Van Buren, meet on the same day. Touching this new Van Buren movement, emanating directly from headquarters, we refer our readers, especially the softshell Sachems of Tammany Hall, to the letter from a correspondent at Hudsoa, which we publish elsewhere in these columas. At a late democratic meeting at Hudsoo, which it seems was gotten up and cut and dried by the old pipe layers of Martin Van Buren, the re-uniea of the party upon first principles was strongly recommended. But this extraordinary meeting aleo recommended a democratic Stats conven- tion on the 22d of August, at Syracuse, when the regular Soft She}l State Central Committee had already appointed the 29th. What is the meaning of this disagreement be- tween Kinderhook and Tammany Hall? Oar correspondent throws some light upon it. Ii is very evident to everybody that the hard shells, (qonsidering the softs incurably tied down to Mr. Pierce and his administration,) are de- liberately meditatiog a fusion with the Know Nothings in November throughout the State. To counteract this movement, the sage of Lin- denwold undertakes to give the cue to the soft ehelle, in advance of the Tammany convention of the 29th, Hence this Hudson meeting cal of a simon pure soft convention on the 224. The object is to be on hand, cheek by jowl, with the Seward fusionists, and to strike such a bar- gain, if expedient, as will result in a coalition which will defeat that of the Know Nothings and hard shells. It will be remembered that at a promiscuons anti-Nebraska meeting in the Park, last sum- mer, Mr. Benjamin F. Butler declared that he would sooner vote for Seward for President than for Judge Douglas. It will also ba remem- bered that Mr. Butler, Mr. Cullen Bryaat, and others of the leaders of the free soil Van Buren Bourbons, took an active part in the call and in the proceedings of the last Augast Saratoga Fusion Convention on the Nearaska bil. Now this Republican Seward Convention of August next is the same thing; and this Hudson meeting may be considered as the firet definite step under the auspices of ex- President Van Buren himself, to carry over the bulk of the soft shells to the Seward Holy Alliance. Whether this fusion is intended as a scheme to sink Mr. Pierce beyond soundings, or to briag him and Marcy out in their true colors upon the Kansas question, remains to be seen. It is certainly manifest that Martin Van Buren has not returned home to play the part of an idle spectator of the curious and momentous poli- tical movements going on around him. We call upon the soft shells of Tammany Hall to look into this matter at once, and take such action upon it as the case may seem to de- mand. Ifthey are to be sold out in the balk to Seward, the Sachems have a right to a voice in the transfer. Concerning the other State {conventions of our schedule, we presume that the woman’s rights, colored men’s, and all other outside factions, will rally as they did last year to the Seward coalition. We think it also very likely that the humbug of keeping up the name of the whig party when the party is defaact and decomposed, will be abandoned this fall; and that such whigs as do not choose to be consider- ed hereafter as members of the anti-slavery fusion republican party may go where they like. The democratic hard shells, on the 5th of September, will have a nice question to decide; to wit—whether it is better to join the American party at once, or await the chances of the re- construction of the democratic party. We suspect they will settle upon “ the bird in the hand as being worth two in the basb.’’ The Know Nothings hold their State Coancil on September 25, for the practical business of November. In chosing this late day, they will have all the results of the other party conven- tions to guide them. The fault, too, will be attributable to the American party itself, if, with these and other advantages, and their muz- ter roll of nearly two hundred thousand enroll ed voters, they fail to carry the State. The party movements among us for November are still thickly enveloped in the fog; but we think it pretty clear that the issue of our coming State election will rest between the Koow Nothings and the Seward coalition. The Present Condition and Poltéteal Future of Australta—Colontal Policy of Great Bsi- tain, We publish today an interesting review of the commercial, social and politioal condition of Australia, It enters into the causes of the financial and commercial depression by which the colony has been visited ; exposes the errors which have attributed to that result, and po'nts out the meaus by which they may be avoided. The picture which it presents of the social con- dition of the country. is far trom flattering; but it shows that this state of things can only be transitory, and can have no permanent effec upon its prorpects. Its political status ander the present régime, however, bolds out no such hopes of amendment. The imperial govera ment, with that perversity and i goorance which have always characterized its colonial policy continues to do everything in its power to alienate the affections and to excite the discon tent of the Tasmavians. This state of things it is evident, cannot last long. It is gradually relaxiog the slender hold which the mother country already possesses over one of the most valuable of her foreign acqnisitions. From the facts gleaned from this compilation, as well as from other sources, it would appear that the revulsion which has visited the colony had ite origin less iu excessive importation and over trading—although these canses had no doubt their share in influencing the result —than in the mania for land and building speculations. In the rush caused by the gold discoveries, a fictitious value was for a time given to real estate in the neighborhood of the Previously ting settlements, and prices ranged so high we 4 NEW.-.YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1855. tempted to in-vest all they posserged either in the acquire ment of land or ia the construction of stores and houses. In this way most of the copital of the merchants of the colony got locke up, and became unavailable in the event of @ sadden commercial pressure. Tne crisis S.crived as soon as it was discovered that the ‘building mania had been cerried tosuch anex‘ent as almcst toanticipate the wants of another ge- neration. The value of jand, of houses, ef goods, and consequently of Jabor itself, became at once fearfully depreciated. Notwithstanding the large amounts of gold raised from the mines, no relief could be expected from that quarter. Of the immense values thus obtained, little or nothing remained in the country. They were exported to Eogland, either to furnish means ‘or carrying on an immigration which was un- productive in ita results, or for the sapply of importations for which there was no demand, twas the repetition, in fact, of the same causes and effects which had previoasly presented uch singular commercial and eocial phenomena in California. Whilst both countries were rais- ing prodigious amounts of gold from their soil, they were enffering all the anxiety and distress of the most complete financial exhaustion. From this state of depression, which has weighed heavily upon every class and interest, this fine colony is only slowly recovering. It will be years, perhaps, before the re- action which has set in will be complete. For the lower class of emigrants, Australia holds out at the present moment less encourage- ment than almost any other of the colonial pos- sessions of Great Britain. The labor market is overstocked there, and it will be months before any eensible improvement can be expected to take place in it. To couaterbalance this gloomy picture, the opinion entertained by Mr. Hargreaves, in oppo- sition to the belief of most other mineralogists that the auriferous resources of the colony are inexhaustible, is daily receiving confirmation from fresh discoveries. Whilst the extent of the alluvidf deposits defies conjecture, the quartz rapges open up new and almost boundless fources of wealth. If we are to believe report, the Australian quartz produces a much larger per centage of gold than that of California, and that this branch of mining is consequently likely to prove much more profitable than with us, From these facts we are justified in arriv. ing at the conclusion, that however much the errors of speculation incident to the sudden growth and expansion of the colony may for the moment press upon its population, nothing can permanently arrest the progress which they are making towards a position of complete po- litical and commercial independence. The mistaken policy of the mother country iz, as we have already stated, driving them, nolens volens, towards the first of these results. The ignorance and fatuity of the men who direct the colonial affairs of Great Britain, and the incompetence of the administrators whom they send out, are filling up, by acts of willful tyranny and oppression, the measure of discon- tent which their blunders had already excited The particulars of the Ballarat revolt have aJready been laid before our readers. It was an outbreak caused by the imposition of what was considered an unfair tax on the miners, as well as by the despotic way in which it was sought to be enforced. Some of the ringlead- ers in this affair were prosecuted by the Attor- ney General, on a charge of high treason. Twice have Melbourne juries refused to con- firm by a verdict of guilty an indictment which attributed to the prisoners a design to subvert the Queen’s authority. Their offence was simply resistance against such a harsh and tyrannical exercise of power on the part of official subordinates as would have stirred up the blood of the most loyally disposed. Not- withstanding this significant and disgraceful check, the crown prosecutor, it seems, intends to pereevere with these State trials. It is un- necersary to say that he will again get beaten, and that the effect of his persistence will only be to weaken the authority of government Add to there causes of discontent and heart- burning the diseatisfaction occasioned by the delay of the promised constitution, which was tohave guaranteed the political liberties of the colonists, and we have all the clementsof a historical parallel between their future and our past. When the struggle es with the mother country, as sooner or it mast, it is to be hoped that Australia will be as fortu- pate in the choice of its new institutions as we have been in ours. More Conventions —Youna AFRICA AND Wouen’s Riguts.—We publish in our imprea- sion of to-day, copies of three remarkable docu- ments. They include some of the most progres- sive ideas of th’s progressive age. First is a call for a National Convention of negroes at Philadelphia; second, for a State Convention ot the same oppressed persons at Troy, and last, an appeal from the Woman’s Rights State Committee—two men in petticoats and five women in trowsers—calling upon all the sisters to rally for the right of suffrage in Convention at Saratoga Springs. It is difficult, we know, to look at all these pro- nunciamentos without smiling at some of the absurdities expressed in them, and without en- tertaining some doubts as to the sanity of these persevering people, who hope, by resolutions and speeches, to effect a radical change in the very foundations of our social and political system. But there are some eerious thoagh's whicb have eceurred to us in glancing over the documents aljuded to. It would seem, from the cal) for the N Convention, that a movement, which come some time since amony the negroes at it bas graduclly taken the great propertics of matter, to wit: weight, form, density, size and color. The negroes say that they wil! no longer ational need be patronized by Garrison and his set + but that they will set up for (hemeelves, open ing a new political shop, organizing a new party, which we christen, with all the hoaors, “Young Africa.” The political tenets of this party are ly sensible. Young Africa holds that if the free negroes of America are to be elevated they must do the work themeelyos, The negroes bave been bamboozled long enough by pretended friends among the wh’ te folks, and now Sambo walks out from the free soil and abolition parties, and resolves to take care of himself, like an independent citi- zen. Young Africa has shaken off Goerrison, Foster, Burleigh, Seward and Greeley, (all white,) and taken op with Fred Douglass, (vleck,) Dr. McCune Smith, and George Dowa- ing, (colored,) who sells his oysters and not his principles. Good for Young Africa. The second poiat made by Young Africa is logically put. It is thne: The enslaved negro | Aad Wivwey Were | uuu keyed be mwas ivee While the free negro | in degraded. The undeniable fact that the flaves at the South are generally much happier and much mote comfortable than the free ne- groea at the North, has been a terrible stam- bling block in the course of anti-slavery agita- tion. Young Africa has hit the nail on the hesd here, at all events. This cad), ae well as that for the State Conven- tion at Troy, urges that something shall be done towards removing the political and legal disabilities by which the free negroes are an- noyed. In this State, a negro who has a ‘reebold of two hundred and fifty dollars in velue mey vote, but he cannot sit on a jury or be elested to office. There are some other minor disabilities, annoying, no doubt, but not important enough to be enumerated here. Will the negroes be- lieve us when we say that no act of the Legis- lature could ever remove their social disabili- tics? No negro could ever be elected to office, and means would be taken to exclude them from the jury box. They are so unfortunate as to bein the minority, and their numbers are grow- ing less aud less dsy by day. They are being crushed out by the whitea, The iron heel of Anglo Saxon progress will eventually pulverize the African race, bond and free, oat of exist, ence. The race will become extinct. The negroes, thea, are right in their princi- ples but wrong in their practice. They should not stay here and endeavor to elevate the race, but should colonize Africa, and there build up a greatrepublic. Africa was made for negroes and negroes were made for Africa. We are aware that our esteemed friend Downing holds different opinions, and that Young Africa is bit- terly opposed to colonization; but the events of the past few years—the gradual extinction of the race—the increasing prejudice against those that remain—their servile condition and anomalous position at the North, should con- vince their leaders that expatriation is their only hope. They are looked upon with dislike by most of the white population, andare never admitted to social equality even by their abo- lition friends, who cajole and swindle them ont of their hard earned savings. Following the lead of Young Africa, we have the strong minded women again ion the field, demanding the right of saffrage. Our fair friends are certainly disinterested philan- thropists—the wildest enthusiast among them’ cannot hope that she will ever Jive long enough to exercise the privilege, now confined to those horrid monsters the men, which she so ardently covets. However, Saratoga is a pleasant place in August, and the convention will no doubt amuce the loiterers at the Springs. Perhaps the whole affair has been gotten up as an addi- tional attraction to this already popular spa. We have eaid little about the political aspect of these conventions, They are not important in that point of view. But Young Africa must look out for Seward, Greeley, Raymond & Co. They are always after odds and ends of parties at the North. Nothing is too emall for them to pick up. They would even adopt the women’s rights theory if it were not so utterly hopeless, CuevaLiern Wikorr on a New Exrerprise.— The renowned Chevalier, to whom the public owes €o much for bis able management of the Italian Opera in Irving place, and for his won- derful narrative of “My Courtsbip and its Con- sequences,” is about to deprive New York for some time of the pleasure and banefit of his society. He made his congé on Saturday, ia the Hermann ; but that steamer, as if repenting the injury she was avout to inflict on the con- munity, experienced some littie internal de- rangement, which had the effect of protracting her stay for a day or two. She leaves at noon to-day, carrying with her the dashing lover, the successful manager, the brilliant /ittérateur, and the skilful diplomatist—Chevalier Wikoff, Why does the Chevalier leave us just at the time when his popularity has become so de- cided? That is a question which will be on the lips of many as they read the notice of his departure. Bat there are weighty reasons for this proceeding. The Chevalier is a practical philosopher. He recognizes the truth of the impulsive reasoning of Brutus, that There is # tice in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to for‘une. He has always acted upon that principle. He did ro in bis famous escapade with Mias Gam- ble, and found that the tide only led to a dun- geon in Genoa. But be consoled himself for his failure then by the reflection that there is no calculating with any certainty on woman. Now, however, he has other motives ani better fouada- tions of action. His popularity here is great. His book has familiarized the reading public everywhere with his name, acts and safferiags And more than that, it has brougnt money into hie purse. He has resuscitated the droop- ing fortunes of the Academy of Music by his skilful management, and art resogaises him as her benefactor. He has, therefore, created a strong public interest in his fortunes, and knows how to avail himself thereof, The Courrier des Etats Unis, in noticing his departure, says:— Among the number of passengers going to Europe b; the Hermann, is Mr. Heary Wikoll, who, duriag Die tate sojourn in the United “tates, has actomplished the double task of pabliahing book uasful to Bim im al respects, and of consolidating the en‘erprise of oar Ital- ian opera in a well recegn'zed puis (aterest. Taig Iet- ter accidental occupation has only been to an oppor. tunity for thanking his countrymen for reception given to the volume of ‘‘My Love and its Coaseqasnces,’” which was, above all, ® justification. The adve: . of Genoa, Known principally by their sad conclyi fiteen montés’s »wpriroument in the fort of Baint Ai —had produced everywhere an unfaveradle impre which might weigh heavily on toe futare of the ficed frierd of Miss Gamble, and the persecuted vis Consul Brown. It was, therefore, neceseary to aposal to public opizion, and that \s what Mr. Wikoff has done to bia greatest advantage, He now goes to Europe to rretriewe hie nioral repatation, and to gather thera the harvest of repsration which he has sowa here, Heve that he may coufidemtly reckon upon i', matter attained, and the eniente cordirs once ished between | ord Palmezston an! hie former nate, the latter proposes to utilize bis sojourn in Baroze by stucies cud employments more serious than his opsra The comparison of the aristosratis govern pgiend, the imperial government in France, emocratic government io the United Hates, in sting and usefal field to exploit. It i to thie + Mr. Wikoff goes to consecrate the numerous studies of bis pant life, as well an the rt od iatel- Jigent pre-occupation of his present exis We hops that it may end im a bappy *ucces?, definite for his ta ture years, So says the Courrier. And so the operatic | mavogement of Mr. Wickoff was only a delicate | acknowledgment of his gratitude to the public for the reception of his book. Quite character- | istic of the man! Aud now we may expect an- other remarkable production from the same pen. | The Chevalier bas the materials for a | great work on the secret diplomacy of Lord | Palmerston aad Louis Napoleon. He was the | confidential agent of the minister, the bon ami | and companion of the Emperor and other members of the Napoleon dynasty. With what | state and personal secrets now locked np ia | his awn bosom, may be vot enlighten and inte- rest the world! Even cow, when the public mind of Bog Jend fa abearbed by the war, the the Britien House of Commons bsg deen called | attention af | | egainet the administration democrac: to Lord Palmerston’s diplomatic connection with the Chevalier. Mr. Milner Gibson, in a recent speech, referred to and commented on the publication by the Foreign Office of certain papers, showing the delicate mission which had been eonfided to him. But Palmerston played him false, and it will only be jnst retaliation to show his connection with the Prime Minister. This the Chevalier, we suppose, will have no seruple in doing. During his absence he will prepare his work for publication; aud who doubts that it will create a sensation, or that it will have a tremendous sale in Europe and the United States? We have heard it suggested that he is proceeding to St. Petersburg on some important business, and to re-enter upon his diplomatic carcer in a moré comprehensive cir- cle, and in a more elevated position. We should not be surprised to see him bring out his new work under the patronage of the Czar. Tt would be @ capital stroke of policy. At all evente, between the Chevalier’s lite- rary and diplomatie duties, he will be pretty busi!y engaged abroad for some time to come. He cannct apy longer devote his mind to ma- sical affairs, or even to love. More serious duties and s higher sphere of action demand his attention. When he next visits New York, we hope to see him decorated with grand crosses, or other insignia of the Russian empire. En avant. Mr, Jonny Wrison Our or THe Lanp Orrice Arter tue Pore.—John Wilson, late Commis sioner of the General Land Office at Washing- ton, having been discharged trom that berth by President Pierce, on the discovery that he had turned Know Nothing, has come out with his card. We find it in the Washington Organ, in the shape of a letter, three columns long, addressed to the President, and levelled at the Pope, the Catholic hierarchy and the Catholic Church, from beginning to end, including a side blow at our Catholic Postmaster General. It is the old story of a Popish conspiracy to subvert the institutions of the United States, through the instrumentality of Archbishop Hughes and the Irish Catholics. The scheme is complete, and the gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes was a small potato concern compared with this tremendous Jesuitical conspiracy for blowing up the American Union. We have no doubt that Mr. Wilson believes all this; for if his tacts and arguments against the Pope’s Nuncio, Bedini, and Archbishop Hughes be simply intended to frighten the un- sophisticated natives, there is knavery in the trick, of which we could not suppose Mr. Wilson to be guilty. But, fully believing what he says, it is evident he needs informa- tion upon the special subject concerning which he would have us to understand he knows every- thing. We would, therefore, inform Mr. Wilson that this fustian and flammery against the Ca- tholics has been tried and found wanting. It won’t hold water. Tbe American party in Lonisiana have publicly repudiated, in conse- quence, this anti-American doctriae of the uni- versal proscription of Catholics. They are doing the same thing, we believe, in Alabama and in Maryland; and if Mr. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, prominent member of the late Philade!phia Council, may be credited, the abomination will be struck from the Know Nothing p!at- format the next national assemblage of the Order. The subject was freely discussed at Phila- delpbia; bat at the instance of Kenneth Ray- ner, the extermination of the Catholics from all public offices was still retained in view of the approaching North Carolina election. There are scarcely any Catholics in the Old North State. On the contrary, the facts and princi- ples laid down in Fox’s Book of Martyrs are the almost universal belief of the people of said State. And yet we believe that the Amarican perty in North Carolina would have lost nothing, but gained many accessions, by consenting to graduate their creed in strict conformity with the constitution of the United States at the late National Council. The interference of the clergy of the Catholic or any other church in our political elections or State affairs, asa balance of political power, is certainly a proper subject for an organized po- litical resistance; but the exclusion of Catho lics from all offices of political trust or emolu- ment, is quite a different thing. It is a perni- cious thing in every way, but is calculated to do more damage to the party acting upoa the doctrine than to any other party. Mr. Pike is therefore correct. This plank will be taken from the American platform. Much has been done towards its removal already, and the work is still going on. In this view the letter of Mr. Jchn Wilson is behind the times, and its pabii- cation by the dmerican Organ at Washington is an injudicious act of courtesy to an anforta- nate politician. Tue Onto Antr-Stavery Fusion Trckes.— The Ohio Republican State Convention, or, in other words, the Grand Anti-Slavery Fusioa Convention of said State, a report of which we published yesterday, has nominated the ticket of the party for State officers to be elected in October, and it is supposed to be a very powerful as well as a most extraerdinary mixture. Whigs, democrats, free soikem and Know Nothings are as. comfortably huddled up together as Barnum’s happy family of mon- sters smothering in the same cage. Take, for example, a small slice of this self-styled Re- publican State ticket:-— -Hon. Salmon 2, Chase. Col. J. W. Ford. Mr. Chase stands side by side with Seward, Hale aad Wilson, as one of the chicf apostles of this Northern Anti-Slavery Coalition. His nomination for Governor is, indeed, supposed to be intended to give him the inside track for the coalition Presidential nomination in 1856, over Hale, Wilson and Seward. Col. Ford, we snppose, fs the same man who figured £0 con- tpicuously among the anti-slavery orators at the late Philatelpbia Know Nothing State Council. He was formerly a whig. Jacob Brinkerhoff is half-and-half free soiler and Know Nothing; was at one time a democratic member of Congress; but being sabsequently overlooked by the democracy for some cause or other, he hss turned up in this new character. F. M. Wright was formerly an orthodox whig; but bis propensities for negro philanthropy have, at length, with him, over shadowed the doctrines of Henry Clay. The other State ticket nominees in this piece of Obio mosaic, present the same characteristi of an omnitun gatherum of all sores avd ends for a grand combined ber. Thie some coalition of free soiler*, par « whigs, free soil a we carried the dence Nott egelkes wie om a LET OD Parag thousand (80,000) majority. «From this itis pretty certain that this coalition republican party have the State in their hands. TheKnow Nothings appear to be completely swallowed up by the free soil movement in Ohio; but while the Order in this State remains steadily opposed to this Seward Anti-Slavery Holy ANliance, there is still the nucleus remaining im the North for its complete overthrow in 1856, by an independent Union Know Nothing organi~ zation. THE LATEST NEWSi4 BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. Wasurvaton, Jaly 16, 1855, The Union of thisworning has a prosy and verbose article, written by Forney, extolling Pierce and pitshes into Dickinson and the hards hot and heavy. Lieutenant Kinsey, of the Ist Regiment of Artillery, died in this city yesterday of typhoid fever. He was stationed at Fert McHenry. Hecame here on the 3¢ fnet., with the light battery of his regiment, He graiu- ated at West Point last year. On Saturday last aix hundred land warrants were is- sued. Hereafter between five and six hundred warrants. will be Sxsued daily. The average heretofore has beem two hundred ane fifty daily. ‘The Union also saya thet the American officers sent to the Crimea were splendidly and hospltably entertained at Berlie, by the Ruesian Micister, and at Warsaw, by Prinos Paskieviteh; ana they had accepted of am invita- tion to visit the Emperor, at St. Peteraburg. From Boston. Boston, July 14, 1865, The following is the statement of the value of the im- perts of foreign goods to this port for the past week:— Boy Drowned. Pargrson, N. J., July 15, 1855. This afternoon s boy named Thomas Charles, aged about ten years, fell into the river, a short distance be- low the falls, and was drowned, Arrival of the Southern Mall. Bauniwony, July 15, 1856. New Orleans papers of Monday last are to hand. The steamboat Magno is had been destroyed by fire near Baton Rouge, with a cargo of one thousand bales of Cotton, Markets. Provipencr, July 14, 1855. Our cotton market remains quiet. ‘The sales for the past week have been moderate, at unequal and un- settled prices. Wool.—i'be market is very firm, with more activity. The stock of pulled on hand 1s very AG igh od 2 ewe . on firm; stock Ught. ' Salon, 41,500 pieces.” ice sae _—_—_——_——_——— American Artists in Europe. While the American people are #0 exceedingly fond of foreign novelties in the theatrical and musical world, it doen not seemeingular thst our own artists, however meritorious, should have found no great iniucemonts offered to them to go abroad. Of late years, how ” the European managers have ascertained that there are some good American actors, and have evinced a desire to give them engagements. It is fair to eay that in every instance (not excepting Mr. Forrest) the London public and the preas have received and sustained Ame- rican actorain the most cordial manner. We lately Doticed the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams had received flattering offers from the London managers—- that Mrs. Charles Howart, nee Rosina Shaw, who, though English by birth, made ber débw!, when very young, at the Arch street theatre, Phila- adelpbia, bad accepted an offer from the Haymarket; and wesee by the Western papers that Mr. James H. McVicker is about to sail for London, there to fill en- gagements. Mr. McVisker is thoroughly an Amorican actor, Like many other Thespiana, he comensed lite in the printing office. He has gradually worked his way upto fine position, no actor being moze popular than he, where he is wellknown. His opeciulity is the performance of what are cailed Yankee parts, and be ie very excellent in them. Like Burke, he does not cari- cature the New Engle: character, but paints ita eccentricities with artistic hand aad with just enough of color to adorn the picture with- out spoiling it, He is refined for the judicious and irre- sintibly comic for the unthinking, at the eame time, He will «rr ive in England in time to commence the autamn fearcn. —$ Brooklyn City Intelligence. CAN8UB OF THE TENTH Wakv.—The full returns of the Tenth ward show s population of 14,315, being an in creace im five years of 2,529. The population of the Sime ward in 1860 wae 11,786. The Third elec = trict of the Fifth ward slows a population ot ete ‘3 ‘The population of the entire ward in 1850 was the Surreme Court of the Second Judicial district, lately sitting at Poughkeepsie, acjoarned on Friday last, to meet at Brooklyn, to morrow, (Tuesday) when the oo. lendar will be resumed, commencing at No. 30. Habeas Corpus.—QOn Satarday last, feter Bauer ap- peared be fore Judge Culver on a writ of ha>eas corpus, by bie counsel, Mr, Joun Hsae, applied for on the ground that he wes unée) yeara of age, for his agg from the U. 8. M nm which be bad enlisted. Harris, who hed mace return to the writ that the ap- pheant was regularly eclisted, was prosent in person. in reply to the Judge, Beuer seated he wan between 19 and 20 year of age, when Mr S, Garrison for the re- spondeat, chjectea to his testimony being taken oa tne po hed, when lated, sworn he was over 21 Pea of age, and bis yearance ind.catei this was rue; it would at least eo to bring farther root to the contrary than the applicant's own comtra- aichon of hia former statement oa oath. It was more- ever an sction in which Bauer was plaintiff and Colonel Harris wee defendant, snd cpon that ground his testi- t be regalerly received. Mr. Hess argued asl im ail caren to examine the parties Proceeding was & spesial one plicant, who was a native of a Germany, might not te dence of bin age. Judge Ci Cecision on the admissibility of Bauer's own 08, but adjourned the car thin day, aad directed hin, if possible, to procure méance of his brother or sieter, who he stated m Philadelphia. Wilitamsburg City News. Finve,—A fire was discovered on Saturday evening, about 11 o'clock, by officers Townsend and Devalia, of the Fifth district police, in the third story of s dwelling house, corner of Grand and Second street, occupied by H. Boley. The fire originated from » lamp being loft near the bed, and coming in contact with the ped clothes, The flames were speedily extinguished by the officers above mentioned with the eraistance of the occupants. Damege $60. No ineurance. Another fire broke out about helf past one o'clock on Sunday morning, in a two story frame hours, in Rich- ardron st: eon Graham avenue and Smith street, owned by Benj: Sands and occupied by the families of Birford Herring and Norman Kemp, which was entire- ly destroyed with all ite cont nts. fire originated in the basement, and spread with such rapidity that the ocen pants were saved with considerable Rimicalty, they mah irg their escape out of the windows in their ‘night clothes. Mr. Herring's Joss on furniture was $700. Ful- ly insured. He oi lost about $100 in money. Mr. hermp’s loss, consisting of farnitare and money, amouat- 44 to etont $500, Insured on farmture for ge y tow 1. factory, im Sixth street, between Ninth, caused by (he betting over of a Damage, $80. Fully insured, Ap alarm of fire was created about 5 o'clock, caused by ® Plight burning in cabinet maker's shop in South Seventh street, near Sixth. Damage trifling. Rownentes.—The grosery store of Wm. V. Wood, in or mer street, near Leonard {738 fetonionaly entered on ida tobbet of $22 in mon ther-articles. No detaation, ‘ wera tine ing house of Mr. Krebbe, in Wychoit etree! was entered om Sunday morni wateb. "No detection. net Ad Fob Dusp Invant Founp.—The body of a infant pick PACH, of rabblah, corner ot Neth Ninth and Fifth atreets, om Saturday morning, by a rag picker. re atited, and Sheth an ing North bighth kettle of ver Coroner Hendford wy t ueet, when a verdict of eture birth’? was rendered, The President has officially re Christian Ho- Cor sul of the Kingiom of Wartemburz, for the of Louisiana, Missirippi, Alabama and Floris, to \ New Orleans The Daguerreotype and Photographic t » 289 Broadway, must be quite familiar to Ss of the Herald at least, and it hoa'd be, bee o ether spot can the people odtain portraita 2 a1 erreotype Gatlery Removed wey, between Broom ani Geand tvery style of the art, colored, ) and upwards hk adel Oy Sgieg § wemeen wo