The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1855, Page 4

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WOOD'S MINSTRELS -Mechanice’ Hall—4/2 Broadway. New York, Saturday, July 21, 1955, The News. The mails of the Canada reached this city last evening from Boston. We had already published the leading points of the news, which were tele- graphed from Halifax. The details are, however, vory interesting. General Pelissier, in his offizial report of the late attack made by the French on the the Malakoff Tower, attributes the general tailure of the allies on the 18th ot June to a mistake com- mitted by one of the generals under his own com: wand. Prince Gortechakoff describes the defence made by the garrison of Sebastopol in a most con- cise manner, and states that the repulse of the as- eailants was caused by the rifles, bayorets, and artil- lery of the besieged. The Russians had over five hundred men killed, and nearly thres thousand four hundred wounded on the occasion. General Eyre, in a despatch to the Jate Lord Raglan, which is also publisted, relates how he managed to penetrate imto the suburbs of Sebastopol, from which he had to retire with a very serious loss, both of officera and private men. Admiral Dundas having addressed the Russian General De Berge, commanding at Hango, relative ‘to the late affair at that place, the last named Gfficer replies that the English were in the habit of violating flags of truce, that the Cossack’s boat should not have run in without first addressing letter & him, and that she was found to be freight- ea with firearms, three hundred cartridges, and a ‘box of incendiary material, none of which could be required during the simple act of landing a few persons. What the next movement of the allied forces would be remained in mach doubt. An attack on Odesea was spoken of, ond also a naval expedition against the city of Nicolaief, in the government of Kaerson, which it appears is a second Sebastopol, situated on the river Bug. It was also said that the army would winter a second time before Sebastopol, ‘if necessary, and that contracts had been made in Hamburg for the supplying of fifty thousand sheep. abin overcoats to the Eagtish and French soldiers. ‘6 was probable that Eupatoria would ba scon abandoned by the Turks. Lord John Raseeil had made a lengthened state- went in the British House of Commons, and con- feased that M. Dreuyn de L’Huya and himself hai prepared a peace programme at Vienna, which ths French Emperor would not accept. Great excitement was recently produced at the palace of Madrid, owing to the resignation by Mar- shs! Espartero of his post of Prime Minister. After having been entreated in vain by the Queen, he con- gented to resume office only on the mediation of General O'Donnell. Our Madrid correspondem mentions the sppointment of a new Spanish Minis- ter to Washington. The Fourth of July was observed in Londonin fine style, and Mr. Filimore made a short after din- mer address. The new iron transatlantic steamer Persia, of the Cunard company, had been launched on the Clyde with great ceremony. We published yesterday a brief account of the forcible abduction at Philadelpbia on Wednesday of a negrecs and her two children, just as they were on the point of leaving that city for New York ia company with their master, Col, Whealer, of North Casvlins, our Misister to Central America. Sevoral arrests were made, and yesterday Passmore Wil- liamson, a prominent abolitionist, and five negroes, hada hearing before Judge Kane, in the United States District Court, on a writ of habeas corpus. It iswleged that the party were under the leader- ship of Williamson, and tne prisoners are positively identified. Charges of perjary and contempt of court are also embraced In the cage of Williamson. The Court held him to bail in five thousand dollars for a furth:r hearing, but the other prisoners were committed to jail in default of bonds. A fall report of the evidsnce taken is given in another column. The telegraph furnishes news of several distresa- ing casualties, attended by serious logs of life. Oa Thareday night the weatward bound train on the Central Railroad was thrown off the track, and a mumber of persons were badly injared. The dis— faster is attributed to maliciousness on the part of some persons, wh? displaced one of the rails, A rewsrd of $5,000 bas been offered for the apprehen- sion snd conviction of tae miscreants. The steamer America and achooner Emblem came in contact yesterday mornirg on Lake Ontario, opposite Genesee river. The schooner was cut in two, ani five of her crew were drw#ned, including the captain, named Wilson, and tue mate. A locomo- tive exploded on the Vermont Central Railroad on Thursday night. The engine was completely do- molished, acd the dead aud mutilated bodies of the engineer, fireman and conductor were dizcovered smorg the ruins. Accidents of this character are of alaiming frequency lately, and seem to require something more than an ordinary iavestigation. Havana dates to the 16th inst. have bsen received at New Orleans by the Black Warrior. Thez contain nothing of importance. Onur files from Buenos Ayres are to the 25th of May. In addition to the news reveived by way of Boat:n, published yesterday morning, we take the following items from the British Packet of May 19:—Of the movements cf ths Minister of War little is known to the pubic. A reinforcoment of ve eran troope, under the command of Colonel Emilio Mitre: left on the 10th inktant. Rumors of serious inva sion in the directisn of Rojas have byen in ciroula tion. We koow that Mr. Vernet has sold in Bog: land about half the Olidea Grant, forthe handsoms som of £500 000 sterling; say fifty millions of oar currency. This fast might open the eyes of our #teteemen and legislators. Still, we must not com- plain; upwards of three hundred immigrants arrived here, of their own accord, in the course of the week Hon. Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, has written a Jong letter on Know Nothingism, 10 which he speaks of the members of that party as “oath bound politi- cal bucksters and anecrapnlous demagogoes;” end he ia of opinion that if they succeed our gloriame in stitutions will be no longer worth preserving. The Preeitent has made proclamation of a conven: tion between the United states ard the Kingd m of the Two Bicilies, having for its objsot the recogni @on of the prisofple that free ships make troe go da. The Treaenry Department gives notice that all wines ar d distillet epirite transported in bod fem ne port to snother fn the Unitrd States, are req air ed to be branded and .Wrled; and it iv directed cast Bll» gare so tranaporten* Must be encared and seat, as provided for when passing throuzh the United Btates to Canada or Mexico. ‘Tho German citiz-vs of Charleston, 8.C, have ba? prepared s magtificent sword, which will be presented to Com. Ingraham for his condac! in the Koezta affsir. The gales of cotton yesterdsy were confined to a few hundred bales, at irregulat prises. Toe market continued to be ansettled. Common and mediam grades of flour fell off about twenty five ceute per barrel. Wheat #as dull and irregular, with light saler. Corn was tolerably active, at 890. a 900. which was a slight falling cff. Pork was easier, and tales made at lower rates or new meas on the spot, There was a fair business doing in c-ffse and sugar, considering the severe heat, which was followed by a storm of rain. To Liverpool 600 a 400 bales of cotton were engaged, and about 16,000 bushels of corn, at rates stated in another column, Sectional Movements for 1856—Southern and Northern Agitators.-The Prospect. ‘The Astor House coalition of the remains of the late New York whig party and the odds and ends of all the anti-slavery cliques and coteries of this commonwealth, may be con- sidered as equivaleat to the consummation of he leading aspiration of W. H. Seward, which is a Northern Presidential crusade against the South and the Union upon the slavery question. On the other hand, she article which we trans fer to oar catumas from the Charleston Mercwry. shows thst that potential organ of Southeru aliraism will listen to neither argu ments ver protestations from any quarter against the organization of a purely sectional Southern party. It says that the South must be rallied together in a common party, upon a stiff Southern platform, and if no party inthe North can be found to support it, then the time will have arrived for the dissolution of the Union. Between this Northern Seward coalition, therefore, and these Southern ultras, our choice is as between Scylla and Charybdis. It is the whirlpool of the anti-slavery agitation on the one side, and the jutting rock of seces- sion on the other. The channel of smooth water lying between them requires a bold and tkilful navigator; and in the belief that the pilot competent to run the passage will be found et the time appointed, we feel no imme diate alarm concerning the whirlpools and breakers roaring around us. Assuredly the symptoms of the present sectional agitation, North and South, are bad enough, and the prospect befere us is gloomy enough, and but for our reliance on the good sense and intel- ligence and sound conservative sentiments of the bulk of the American people, there would be reason to fear that scheming demagogues and unecrupulous agitators had brought us at length to the very verge of disruption. We see, for example, that the plo! of asec- tional Northern party against the South is working successfully from Massackusetts to Wisconsin, and that the ultras of the South are moving heaven and earth for an opposition sec- tional and disunion party in that quarter. We eee that the sectional policy recom- mended by the Charleston Mercury has been substantially adopted by the Georgia democracy; and that a mixed pro-slavery assemblage at Lexington, Missouri, foreshadows the merging of all parties in that State into a general organization for the protection of Southern rights and resistance to Northern abolition designs and movements in Kansas. Ia fact, from the proceedings, proclamations and resolutions of Northern disunionists and South- ern secessionists, Kansas is the only living irsue of the day ; and thus between the North and the South, the next Presidency and the con- tinuance or dissolution of the Union itself are to turn upon Kansas. The Seward anti-slavery league insist, first, that the Missouri prohibition shall be restored, which would be the expulsion from Kansas of the slaveholders settled there under the ac! organizing the Territory; or, failing in this, that Kaneag, if she applies for admission into the Union asa slave State, shall be rejected; and that neither Kansas nor any other Ter- ritory shall hereafter be admitted into the Union as a slave State. The Southern ultras, as faras we can understand them, desire to make the concession of Kansas to the South, nolens volens, the test of Northern orthodoxy upon the slavery question, and propose to re- ject any association with any Northern party unless they are proved to be soand upon this shibboleth of good faith and nationality. Between such schemes, were there no iater- mediate ground, the alternative would scarcely be better than thet between the frying pan and the fire. But there is the intermediate consti- tutional ground of the Kansas and Nebraska bill, which leaves the settlement of slavery ia those Territories to the people thereof, where it belongs, and provides for their ultimate ad- mission into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people may decide. Upon this ground, too, we bave the nucleus, organized and in the field, of a solid, substantial American conserva- tive Union porty, and it is to the Union princi- ples and the Union ticket of this party (strip- ped of its rubbish and flummery) that we look for a Union triumph over the agitators and dis- unionists of both sections, Grant that it is settled that we @re to have a powerful, active, united and extensive sectional anti-slavery coalition party in the field in 1856 —that in the North it may have a plurality of the popular vote over any other party, and a pla- rality of the electoral vote ; granted that there will be a secession party in the South, absorb- ing the Southern ultras of all other parties, and that between these Northern and South. ern exiremists, the spoils democracy will be reduced to a few ecattering votes in both sections, there is yet this new and cooservative American party—strong in the North, strong in the South and in the East and in the West— somewhat divided upon platiorms jast now, but ready at the right time for union and har- mony upon some reliable man, with or without a string of resolutions pinned to the lappel of bis coat, To this new party, and to some can- didate who, like James Monroe, Andrew Jack- con, General Harrison and General Taylor, will be popular enough to command the confi dence of the people, with or without a platform, we lock for a wholesome constitutional and Union reaction in 1856, and a thorough going revolution, With the old whig party broken up, dis banded and abeorhed into other parties, and with the democratic party “crashed out” in the North by its free soil affiliations and the tuinous policy of a faithless administration, apd demoraliz:d in the Soath by secessionism and the spoils. the only retuge for the masses ot the Union loving people is this new party, which bas risen into life »pon the rains of these old defunct apd disbanded parties. About Oo- | tober or November next, when, as we serionaly 6d before delivered from awy'*?, i the sams manner | euepect, the New York democratic Van Baren and Pierce administration soft shells will have passed over to the Seward cvalition, and the hard shells to the Koow Nothings, it is very likely tbe practical conservative balance of power for the campaign of ’56 will be distinctly visible to Northern disunionists and Southern secessionists. Let our Southern fire-eaters keep cool. Keneas can wait. Pour in the settlers, and trust to the dostrine adopted of “ sqnatter fovereignty.”” Tbe American party of 1856 will not permit the disruption of this Union on the Kansas question. Exercise alittle patience. “Rome was not built in a day.” Hearn or re Crry—Summers or 1854 np 1855.—This season is one of the moet re- markable in its economical and sanitary aspects that we have been blessed with in the memory of man, With the prospects of a harvest more abundant tban has ever befere smiled upon us, we have up to the last few days enjoyed a sum- mer of more clement and genial temperature vban is usual in these latitudes. Frequent rains, alternated by gentle heat, have refreshed the earth and stimulated nature by a gradual and healthful process. We have had no ivjarious duration of damp, or of blighting droughts, to impede the operations of agriculture or to wither up its fraits. Thus far, in every part of the Union, except, perhaps, in one or two of our | more distant Territories, everything has gone on prosperously and with a fair certainty of an abundant yield to compensate us for the un- lucky visitations of the last year. This blessing has not been unaccompanied by others. The same atmospheric influences which have con- tributed to the fruitfulness of the soil have also operated favorably on the public health. The remarkable changes and “perturbations” re corded by our Brooklyn correspondent, Mr. Merlam, seem to have warded off, thus far, the epidemics by which we are usually visited, whilst chronic diseases seem also to be favorably affected by them. A comparative view of the tables of nfortality for this city in the months of June and July, 1854 and 1855, shows largely in favor of the health of the latter :— May 21 to June 3. June 3 to Jue 10, June 19 to June 7 . June 17 10 June 24. June 24 to July 1. July 1 to July 8, July 8 to July 15. Total........0. . 1855. May 26 to June 2. June 2 to June 9. a 6. Jui 0 to July July 7 to Juy i Total..reccccsecccsccccess ween ee ee 8815 870 From this statement there appears to be a decrease of twenty-five per cent this season on the total number of deaths, and of forty-five per cent on the mortality of adults, showing that that of children is larger in proportion to’ the aggregate. This difference in the mortality of the two seasons, although perceptible in every class of disease, is most marked in those which come under the head of bowel complaints. In the week ending June 3, 1854, there were only about a dozen fatal cases of this kind. From that time up to the week ending the 15th of July they went on steadily increasing, and in the latter week the deaths from cholera, cholera morbus and cholera infantum reached the startling number of 281. The table for the week ending the 2d of June, in the present year, shows only five fatal cases of the two last of these diseases, and that for the week ending the 14th of July, fifty-seven deaths from the same cauees, whilst of cholera morbus only two tatal cases are recorded. From these facts it would appear that wet seasons are antagonistic to epidemical diseases. Judging from a comparison of the deaths from other causes, the same conclusion seems applicable to most of the ailments “that flesh is heir to.” The statistics of consumption for the respective periods embraced in these tables, show a large per centage of decrease in favor of the present season, And so it is also with fever and ague, notwithstanding the common error that damp is favorable to the propagation of the disease. All things considered, then, we have reason to congratulate ourselves that Providence has so mercifally tempered the trials and hardships under which we are still suffering, with the prospect of a year of unbounded plenty, and with the present enjoyment of health. As, wisely, his gifts are never dealt out to us with- out some drawback, let us felicitate ourselves that the worst is past, and that tne future opens £0 brightly and hopefully before us, Governor Reepen’s Mrssace.—For the spe- cial information of our readers, upon Kansas affairs, we lay before them this morning tba in- teresting messoge of Governor Reeder to the Legislature of the Territory. om this official document it will be seen that Kansas is going abead, and that very likely her application for admission into the Union as a sovereign State will have to be answered by Congress, yea or nay, during the next administration. This is the more probable from the violent rivalry be- tween the Miseouri “ border raffians” and the Northern Emigrant Aid Societies, although the information derived from the Governor upoa this subject is by no means satisfactory. The Governor's message settles one question very conclusively; and that is, that he is still the Governor of Kansas, not withstanding his alleged extensive speculations in the Jands of the In- dian half breeds, and the assurances of the administration organs that these misdemeanors, if proved, would suffice for his expulsion, Have they not been proved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs ? or, if not, how goes on the in- vestigation ? Has Colonel Forney put in a de- murter, crhow? Something ougbt to be done for the democracy in the forthcoming Southera elections. A Cup or THe OLp Biock.—The letter which we publish to-day from Mr. James B. Clay, of Arhiand, Kentucky, son of the great statesman, sbows that, in some respects at least, he is a chip of the old block. His letter explains it- self. Itis@ great pity that Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, with all his experience of the bad conseqaences of the dirty party policy of volgar personalities, should “resolve and re. resolve” to do better, and still return to the pray tice upon the slightest temptation After this ecorching rebuke frpm Mr. Clay, oar Louisville cotemporary, #8 a sign of repentance, ought to purchase a lot of those Ash and boxes for the benefit of the poor. But let him be quick, or some one else may step in and monopolize the entire supply. - Mr. Clay, too, after tne disclo- sures which be hos mede concerning those Ash land boxes, should bav m daly aatheari | cated ané cortifed, or the country wil! s20a be filled with base imitations, ! NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1855. Accesstors To Our Porvratioy.—It is @ fact which cannot be controverted that a great deal of the glory and prosperity of our republic is owing to European immigration, The most radical Know Nothiog will ackaow- ledge this, while he holds that the proteetion afforded to the immigrants—the facilities offered to them for a comfortable livelihood, and ofcen for a luxurious one—are sufficient remanera- tion for the benefits which they confer upon their adopted country. Of late only the evils of immigration have been dwelt upon, and they bave been placed before the people in the. worst light. That there is good in immigration as well as in everything else, is very plain, and it is made still more clear occasionally by statis- tics like those hereunto appended :— bt, bringing 576 steerage ity of each:—Canada West 2, petri) fie, kogiand 82, Ireland 200, Wales 27, Iale of Man 6, Sweden 4, Prussia 1, '18, Italy 4. professions of males wore a8 follows:—Milers 4, amiths 9, laborers 13, shoemakers 4, joiners 3, carpea- ters 7, butcher 1, elerks 7, masons 2, whitesmith 1, sea. men inisher 1, shepherds , farmers 8, miners b, machiniets 8, cordwincer 1, gardeners 2, wheelwright 1, weavers 2, military officer 1, merchants 3, stoae cut- tr, sbipe agent 1, purser 1,’ livery stable’ keeper 1, chemists 2, 1, cabinet maker 1, tailor 6, musi- cians 8, boosbinder 1, carver 1, cooper 2, sailmaker 1, turveyor 1, paper maker 2, moulders 2, telegraph oper: for 1 baker 1 painters 3, copfectioner'l, better 1, glass blower 1, courier 1, bootcloser 1. fisherman 1, losksmith 1, infants 8, and 66 boys under 18 years, with friends, There now is material for a State. Almost every useful trade or occupation is represented, and the list includes a journalist who would not be slow in giving the settlement the news of the day. The mistake made by many immi- grants is that they hang about the crowded cities waiting for work, where every branch of mechanical industry is overstocked with hands. They should push out to the fertile fields and thriving towns of the West, where land is cheap, where mechanics, farmers and laborers are wanted, and where there is room enough for all. They should then carefally study the constitution of the country, avoid the politi- cians, become good Americans, and vote for the best men for office. We gather from the census that a great portion of the in- crease in the population of the three great Western States—Ohio, Indiana and I!linois— is owing directly to immigration; and we be- lieve that one-half of the residents of Chi- cago—the growth and prosperity of which place is ome of the wonders of the world--are for- eigners. Europe sends to us her best farmers and mechanics, and her hardiest laborers. We give them protection and comfort in lieu of op- pression and misery. At home they are gov- erned too much—here they are too apt to think that they should not be governed at all. That is an error from which they soon recover, how- ever, and they generally repay the obligations owed to us with interest. Necro PuiwanTaropy AT PAILADELPHIA.— Mr. Wheeler, of North Carolina, Minister to Nicaragua, in passing through Philadelphia, was very abruptly despoiled of three slave, consiating of a woman and two children, from a descent of the “free colored people” of that place, instigated by their white brethren of the “higher law.”? This woman and her children, thus borne off from the protection of her mas- ter to the blessings of freedom, will in all pro- bability next appear in the character of a vagrant, with her children dying of starvation in some fiithy cellar. This is very often the end of abolition philanthropy. The great object is to despoil the siaveholder, not to benefit the slave. Among our Northern negro worebippers a fugitive slave is often a lion, who, as a regular free negro, would be a nul- eance. Such is abolition philanthropy. We observe, however, that the philanthropists in this Philadelphia case, have been called to account; and that the principals, a certain Passmore Williamson, (white man,) and five black men, have, at the instance of Mr. Wheeler, been bound over to answer for their conduct in the premises. The result involves a consti- tutional decision of the highest importance, not only to the immediate parties concerned, but to the whole community of both sections of the Union. Is Pennsylvania prepared to follow in the wake of Massachusetts? That is the ques- tion. Over Excirsp, ConstperIng THE WEATHER.— The“ greater Ajax” of Sewardism in this city is down upon the Jate Misgouri pro-slavery conven- tion (thermometer ranging between 90 and 100 in the shade) in # salamander style which whol- ly eclipses the alleged ferocity of the worst of the “ border ruffians.” Such awful and exciting expressions as “the Atchison and Stringfellow rabble,” “revolvers and bowie knives,” © odors of a graveyard,” “ whips, chaias, bloodbounds and funeral pyres,” ‘man hunts and man roastings,” “national shambies for the sale of human flesb,” “chain gangs,” &c , are mixed as thickly in the savage rant of a short article of cur excited cotemporary as the vermin among the horse chestnuts of Washington square. Fi- nally, all parties are flatly admonished (thermo meter meantime nearly a hundred in the shade) that “ the negro-driving fanatics of Missouri may bold their riotous conventions—a hard-mouthed Irish-American parson may, amid applanse, preach to them the doctrines of fiends—they may draw up theic resolations and make their appeals—but there will be no peace under the lash of such overseers, We will inquire—we will discuss—we will seek to rouse the people of the North more and more to a due sense of their position,” &c. Who is this “hard-mouthed Irish-American parron?”—and what in the name of common tense is the occasion or excuse for this dreadful state of temper, with the thermometer hard upon hundred in the shade? Let us hope that the rains since yesterday morning have cooled down somewhat the wrath of our terrible philo- sophers, “For Tus Rewer Mvucu Tayks.”’—The heated term js over, and a wet term set ia yes- terday afternoon in its place. At half past one o’clock P. M, the thermometer ia the Heravp | editorial rooms marked eighty-eight degrees of Fabrenbeit. Outside it was all the way from ninety to one bundred and twenty. Ciotving was oppressive, if ever so light—policemen tought shady angles everybody that had any boeiness suspeaded it—people generally per- spired by the gallon—there was some swear- ing—soda water was in great demand—a bul- letin was expected from the Sage of Brooklyn, | informing us how bot it was in Timbuactoo | forty years 940; and things were generally very hot and very uncomfortable. Such a state of affairs couldn’t last, however, and a great cloud come up from the south, delaging | of » grand American ratilcstion mass meeting the city with refresbing rain, and depressing | the thermometer to eighty-eight degrees in an hour ond sbalf. Shirt collars went up, basi- bess Was re commenced, and every body felt ao | hiybly delighted at the sadden change In the weather thas we were £ a t upon record, 0 pus the fact | | cancidate of the American party, and Mr. Harriso THE LATEST NEWS; BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Later from Havana. New Ontaans, July 18, 1855. The steamship Black Warrior has arrived at this port with Havana dates tothe 16th inst., but the naws is un- a eo From Washington. ‘Wasninaton, July 20, 1855, Judge Gilchrist, of the Court of Claims, is prostrated by severe diarrhea, There has, consequently, been no session of the Court of Claims to-day. General Echenique, ex President of Peru, has arrived here. Collision on Lake Ontario. A SOHOONER SUNK AND FIVE LIVES LOST. Osweao, July 20, 1855: The steamer America, of the International Line, when ‘opposite the Genessee river thia morning, ran into the schooner Emblem, of Wilson, cutting her intwo, Five of the crew, including the captain and mate, and one yessenger, all of the Emblem, were drowned. The America was uninjured, A Fiendish Outrage. A TRAIN THROWN OFF THE TRACK OF THE NEW YORE OENTBAL RAILROAD—SBVERAL PERSONS INJURED. Syracuse, July 20, 1855. ‘The night express train going wost, on the Central Rairoad, ran off the track at 12 o’clock Jast might, about three miles west of this place, owing to some villains having misplaced a rail. Mr. Deyo, of Springfield, Mass- achusette, had « shoulder} broken; Henry Stearns, the eonductor, was bedly cut and bruised about the head and face; Mr, Harrison, the engineer, had an arm bro- ken; and a number of others were more or less bruised, but none seriously, ‘The President of the New York Central Rallroad offers @ reward of $6,000 for the apprehension and conviction of the perpetrators of this outrage. The cars were not much broken, and the track waa sufficiently in order this morning to admit of the trains running as usual, Grand Rally of the Antl-Prohibitlonists of The accompanaing notice was sent by express from Mamaroneck, with a request to be forwarded to you:— PORTCHESTER OFFICE, REPUBLICANS! AROUSE FROM YOUR SLUMBERS ! ! All those who are op; to « union of church and State, and the encroachments of aset of common dis- turoers of the peace by finutical measures, and who are in oppoaition to the invasion and unlawful search of our private dwellings avd our premises, and to the seizure of oa RO, or the Lp ie 4 of our citizens, and wo the unlawful conflacation of the same, and who are in favor of preserving our liberties and the rights of our property, which were transmitted to us from our from thé encroachmé of a party of fan spectfully invited, o1 meeting on the Pubi neck, on Wednesd: jay for the parpore of taking measures to preserve our liber ties and the rights of our property. ‘A. J. OOLES, GEORGE BAXTER, JOBN F. LEWIS W. 4. SUMsMER<, J W.TWOINBLY, TEOMAS LEWIS, Mamaronkox, July 20, 1855, Liquor Case at Saratoga. Sararoaa, July 19, 1855. Judge Morris, of New York, issued a writ of habeas corpus here to-day for aman under arrest for selling Niquor, The warrant for the arrest was issued by County Judge McKean, and the habeas corpus is return- able to-morrow. Explosion of a Locomotive and Loss of Life. Wurre River Junction, Vi., July 20, 1855. On the Vermont Central Ruilrond last might, when near Milton, the engine of a passenger train exploded and was completely demolished. Among the ruins the dead bodies of the engineer and fireman and Mr. Brush, the conductor, were discovered. It is not known if any more lives were lost. The America Outward Bound. Haurax, July 20, 1855. The steamship America arrived here at four, and sailed again at half-past five o'clock this morning for Liver- pool, She was detained a little by the fog. From the South, Bartmore, July 20, 1855. The steamboat Wade Allen waa burat at Mobile on Sunday last, and one life was lost. Col. Bissell has so far recovered trom the sicknesa which detained him at Washington, as to permit of his leaving for his home in Indiana. New Reute to Schooley’s Mountain. Scnootry’s Mountain, July 20, 1865, A new road to this place from New York will beo: a on Monday pext, via the New Jersey Central Ralirosd and Hampton, Markets, New Orzeaxs, July 18, 1855, Our cotton market is dull and prices have declined Xe Sales to-day 1,100 bales, at 9%c. a 10s. for mid- Cuarteston, July 18, 1855, ‘There is a limited demand for cotton to-day. Sales— ‘200 bales, at prices ranging from lic. a 11 %c- PHILADELPHIA IRON MARKET. PatLapetraia, Jaly 20, 1855. ‘The transact‘ons in iron during the past week show an —a market, and that early parations are waking for the sutuma and winter business, Sales 4,360 ‘tons of pig, at $25 2 $28 for No. 1 foundry, $24 a $25 for No, 2, and $228 $24 for forge. Bars in active de- mand, and mills fully employed; sales 475 tons at $70 a $75, ‘Sheet iron firm at $110, Nats improving. Poin itelligence. AMERICAN STATE CONVENTION OF MARYLAND. A convention of the American party 0! Ma composed of delegates from the various counties 0: Btate and the city of Baltimore, assembled ia Baitim: on the 18th instant, for the purpose of nominating can- Aidates to be voted for at the approaching election for the offices of Comptroller and Lottery Commission Damel A. Mc?hall was nominated the candiiate for Lottery Commissioner, and William H. Purnell receivad the nomination for Comptroller, following preamble and resolutions were adopt- ed Whereas, an this is the first convention, composed of delegates from the various counties of tha State of Maryland which has been convened since the adjoura- meet of the National Convention, which reventiy met in Philadelpbia, for the purpose of forming a natioual platform upon which every true and patriotic American might stand; be it Kesolved, That we most cordially concur in and en- dorse every principle embodied in the platform kaowa as the platrorm 0” the majority report; and thet we pledge ourtelves henceforth to use ail just and honor- able means to esta lish aad incorporate thoss princ plos in the administrative policy of our mona govera- ment. TRE WHIGS OF MASSAOHUSETTS—THEIR INTEN- TIONB. ‘The Bosten THepraph (‘ree soil) of the 15th inst says: ‘We understand that a Whig State Convention will soon ‘be calied im this State, and that it ia tne oe Fag of the lending men of the psrty to abandon entirely the whig name ard organization, and to place the naeives square- ly upon am anti-Nebrasva platform, im sympatoy with the repubdlican perty of the Northern an States. That there will be opposition iw their rar this proposition 1s quite probsole, but that opposition will be quelled, beyond alldoubt.’ I: {s the parpose of the party to throw aside ali issue: except that involved in the Nebraska question, and to ask for (he co-opers tion of all’men in the State who agres with them. Ia case the Know Nothing Order shoalt determine to keep up ite exclarive and proseriptiva organizstion, in oppo- sition to the repudlican movement, the additional plank ot opposition to secret novieties may be added to the platform. THR FUSION TICKET. The Buffalo Advertiser of the Loth iast. says —Ht ia romered that the Republican Convention, with the ap probetton of the leading members of the State ada nis tration, will nominate Preston King for Comptroile Jobn I, Talcott for Attorney General, Ju*ge Vater for Secretary of State, and John f. Schoolcraft, of Alba- | ny, for Iressorer. The offices of State Enyiacer, Canal | Commissioner, Prison Inepecto- and two Judges’ of the | Court of Appeals, are to remain in abayancs until the H te. Mr. Weed opporsd Taleoti's eomina | bs © office four veers ago, ant will now, if the success of the ticket {vat all provable, He wishes to do the thinkicg for the tate officers; aad dounting | whether Tatcots would consent to have that procasa par. formed by proxy, he hen no desire to see him elected. If Mr. Tol tate for A it may be ssnumed that the fusioal (eated: snd the nomiautions are a mire . tatended only to consolidate the naw with reference to ultertor operations But if Me. ‘alcott i# nominated for the Court of Appeals ia place of | Judge Gardver, then we may suppose toe fasionints to | be im esrnest a00 look ont for aabarp c Mr. | Toleott te not put on the ticket for “tate off.cors, Westen | New York will be represented by Mr. Petterson, or some | good fusion cemocrat of this city. | MISORLLANEO! | A Kentucky paper rays, that Maret este us to ery b tenonsly afiveted by the pu reerntly, that be iv unedls to therefore retires (rom the this cin riet, Thie leaves the rece to De. Ma: | mat erty he Hon. Thomas, bare sean #9 condidate of the democratic party,” The Frederick, Md , Lzaminer has @ glowing account Feder care " ane evince! an enthuri city on the 16th inst. Five thoveaa nibe Examiner, were preseut on t'@ o ppruval of the Philw { yesform by @ grand procession, ygrotechmic dinpiaya, The Geneva Courier saya:— We are sothor ined to etate that the Rev, W.H Gootwin, partor of the MB Charah in thin ville ge, haa entirely Aisconcected himealf wicn POU WES, BBY themes Ww HOTS Lowung ale Wy ds wie such matiers, City Intelligence, Prize SPEAKING ov THE STUDENTS OF THY FARE AGADE MY.—Nine of the students of the Free Academy last Bight contended in declamation for a prize, The exer- cize came off in Dr Parker’s Church, corner of Twenty~ second street and Fourth avenue, Notwithstanding the unpleasant weather the church was filled, a majority of the audience being ladies. Professor Webster, the Principal of the Free Academy, presided, having seated with him im the pulpit Mesurs. Robert Kelly, Loreara B, 8] and Charles Davis, the Committee of Award, and a few members of the faculty of the academy. The declamations were as follows:—‘ Tribute to Lafayette,’? by Jared cock ; weil committed, but monoto- nous in the a “Farewell to the Senate,” A 4 George E Hawes much of the nasal twang in speec ‘The Alchemist,”” oy Charles H. Kitchell; ex- ceedingly well recited, and loudly applauded by the audience, ‘ Retort upon John Randolph,” by Wells T. Bannit too formal and cold. ‘“ Kulegy on Adams and “Loada~ fo. Jefferton,”” by Samuel Maxwell, Jr.; nia,” by John Howe, Jr.; might roved. ‘Against the Invasi beock; very good. ‘Against by Samuel B. House; very vatural emphasized; loudly applauded, Russell Reymond; very cecently recited, This Programme, The President then announced that the committee would hereafter cecide to whom the prize belonge Age peek ey given to the victor on the ayo} srumineney OF ‘academy, The audience Tae Sap ArraiR aT Kinaston.—The child which was accidentally wounded at Kivgston by the Nationai Guards, died on the 18th inst, and was taken from Clark's Hotel, Kingston, to Woodstock, the renidence of” the parents, for interment. Col. Duryce, Quartermaster’ Kemp, Sergeom Cameron and Sergeon Smith acted aa pallbearers. A te exercises were held in the chureh by Rev. Mr. ulker, The child was but four months and eight days old when it died, and was said to bea highly beautiful iofant, Mrs. Cassel, the mo- regret to hear, is in a most precarious condi- may pot survive her injuries, to has bee: Worxrncmen’s CuakTan Nominations,—A meeting of workingmen was bed at Hope Chapel on Thursday even- ing, and the following named persons placed in nomina- tion, to be voted for atthe ensuing fall election. The- werkingmen are evidently determined to take time by the forelock :—for ps pan Peter Cooper; : M 5 of the Almshouse, . Havemeyer Solomom Kipp and Alex Wig’ County Clerk, ==" Corporation Counsel, Theo. B, Tomlinson; Judge of Marine Court, Welcome R. Beebe; Commissioner of pe plies, Daniel W. Norris; City Inspector, yD, John- fon; ner, —— Wilhelm ; Commissioner, ——. ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALUMNI OF THE FRRE ACADEMY.— ‘The second anniversary of the Associate Alumni of the New York Free Academy will be hetd in the Church of the ruritans, on Monday evening, at 8 o’clock. The orator will be Prof. George W. Greene; the poet, John G. Saxe; and the ‘ises wi'l be vi ith organ per- formances by George Washburn Morgan, of Grace church. Per Urerton Convantion.—The Pai Upsilon fraternity, a literary association, witihbranches or chapters in Har- vara, Yale, Union, Brown, Amberst, Bowdoin, Dart- mouth, Columbis, and other colleges througheut the country, hold their convention this year at Yale Col- lege, New Haven, Connecticut, on Tuesday and Wednese day ‘next, the 24th end 26th inst. On Tuesday evening there will be literary exercises, including a poem by William H. Bruleigh, Eq, of thie clty, aud ax oration ay Rev. Horace Jomes, of Worcester, Maas. The of Yale extend a cordial invitation to all their brethren. tobe present. The society dine together at the Tontine Hotel on Wednesday evening. A Boat Race wits Oars.—The Manhattan Boat Club of this city, (amateurs) on Monday afternoon last rowed their four-oared boat Manhattan from the dock foot of Christopher street, North River, to the railroad wharf at Yonkers, (including crossing the river twice,) in two hours and thirty-two minutes, distance eighteen. miles. This was accomplished in the oppressive heat, and without any change of oars. This club is now in the fifth year of its organization, being composed of asso- ciates of the Mercantile Library—two of the officers of that association being officers of theclub. The mem- ue of the club did mot return to the city until Thurs- lay. A Ras Doc.—Man and beast have sullered by the “heated term’? of the past fw days, and whilst the bipeds are melting away, and seeking a coo) retreat im some lager bier cellar, the poor dog is ruoning wild through the streets and parks, looking in vain for shade. One of those unfortunate animals found his way into ity Hall yesterday, and ensconced himself under e = ot furniture in Mr. Taylor’s rooms, to the great fear snd annoysnce of the members of bis family. Mr. Taylor, though the keeper of the City Hall, did not: have ambition to be the keeper of a ‘dog pound” for sey eres of the rabid canine species, and he ac- cordingly sent for the assistance of one of the Chief's aids, who, after several unsuccessful shots from a re- volver, succeeded in giving the mad dog his quictus. Mem.—Keep your dogs in a cool place at home, Give: them plenty of cold water, with atone brimstone in it, acd feed them lightly, ALLEGED Reckizss Drivinc.—A gentleman named Ver- myles was run over yesterday by James Stanly, cart- man No. 1,086, whilst it is alleged he was recklessly and’ sbamefully running « race with another cartman in that 3 crowded part of the city opposite hen Hall, near the Park. Mr. V. in sald to be dangerously injured; but thanks to the vigilsnce of the , Stanly hes been arrested by cflicer Clark, of the {gl office, and we hope, as » warning to others, that he will be punished as bis misconduct deserves His license han been re- voked, and he bas been committed by Justice ‘Osborne to answer the charge. Rescurp From Drows1nc.—Mr. Thomas Daly, of — Flizabeth street, was rescaed from drowning on Wed- nesday list at Rockaway, L. (., by Mr. Patrich Bren~ pan, of 174 Hester street, at the risk of his life. Mr. D: ventured beyond his ceptn im the heavy surf, and ayers been drowned but for the timely assistance forded. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. I was surprised on looking over your edition of this date, to cee an article stating that Engine Co No. 38 t to make a visit to Borton, which, sie, is as the company alluded to have not contemp!: such visit; ana I am at a loss to koow how auch a repert should have gained circulation, Believing you to bs at ali times ready to correct mistaken, I take the liberty of Tequesting correction, With much respect. I am your obedient servant. A Hi, PINCKNEY, New York, July 20, Foreman of Eagine Co. No. 38. Mayor's Office. ALLEGED FORGERY. Aman, named Charles Smith, was arrested yesterduy morping by officer McPherson, of the Chief's offise, charg- ed with attempting to pases some counterfeit money. Smith, it is alleged, went into the atoze of T. C, Bough- ton, 13 Park place, and, after purchasing a box of steel pent for 76 cents offered in payment a counterfeit ank note, of the denomination of $5, purporticg to be of the issue of the “ Island Bank,” of New Lasanon, in this State. Mr Knapp. a clerc in the atore, to whom the till was offered, immediately discovered that it was a counterfeit, and seeing John ler on the sidewa'k, in front,of the store euap:cted that he was an accomplice, Smith then left the store, and walked ia the direction ot Broadway, followed close behind by Res! PI went after the two, and, in erossing the Pa: stepped into the Chief's office, and proc the assistance of oflicer MePberson who went with him, arreated Smith and Resler, and conveyed themn to the Chief's ofize. On searching the prisoners, the officer found about the per- acm of Resler, berides good money, three counterfelt bavk xotes on the Merctants’ and Mechanics’ Bant of the city of Onwego in this State, of the denomination of $5 each, one $5 bill on the broken Eastern Bank of West Killingley, Goon , and a broken bank note of the Hamil- ton Bank. Scituate R I —mating $30 in all, ‘The priso- nerswere committed to owait examination, CHAIGE OF LARCENY. Sergeant MePhergon arrested on Thureday night, om board the steamboat Plymouth Rock, William Ward, on a charge of having stolen from Henry Erben a poc containing aunity bank £001 of the value of 8110. Yeo oftoer found, the pock book under the head of the asleep in the on board ‘hi 4 boat He was held to bail ia the mum of $000.) Marine Court, AOTION FOR ASSAULT AND BATTERY ON THE HIG _ . Before Hop, Jucge McCarthy, SEAS: André Schmit vs, bazxter.—ihe plain ff wea steward of the packet sbip Havre, and the defendant Captain, in November last.” It ts alleged that on the fourtn day of ‘he panssge out from New York the Captain seut for the pleintif to his cabum, and *hie plaintiff wae there the aed rele oun and beat bim ina wevere ; that while doing so one of the b whereupon the Csptainorceres \ cat aireete bim to seat the coor after hin defendant were together in ti minates, when the plainti came out mach braised and bleeding. ‘Two of the banis swore positively to this state of things The Captain called no witness; but bis counsel crosn examined the plaintiff's witneaen, aad Layo be 7 the big Mei —— rte aad trun ped ap. + Court, bow ought otuerwise, and gave juig- ment for plainti 126 wud cos ahmed George Hutleil vs, Gorrett D. Clari brought to recover from detesdant th being the amount of half a quarter’ Grapd street, and known ay ‘* (he ( /? it ap prared from the evidence that the pla'nt’ff, pravious to the 14th Maret, 1854, proprietor of ‘the pisce ia tkeown as 9 —This suit was 1 person to atte ¢ J4th of March, whle to defencant of the pessersion of the place, dsfendaat an aeripnipent Of & new lease w be had recetved, to take eflect from the first day of May then next, which Irane coptained a covenant thet the premises were frea apd cf ell clams for rent, &o., up to that time. Defendant josiste of May, On theo witnesses, who testified U about being executed it w and defendant that defen ‘ime of taking ession of the premises, J. for p o'p tiff, $112 50, amonnt claimed. ArPoINTMENT RY THR Paesmevr- John WV, 3 Merrimen, Convector of the Uusivms, Georgewows, Bouty vice Thomas L. Shaw, decessed.