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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENWEP?P, “PROPRIETOR 4ND XDITOR, QNE B, W CORNER OF WAS4U 4ND FULION SE No 24 Velume XX. AsUSEMENTS PEAS BV ENING. WIBLO'S GARDEN, brosaway—DAvou rea OF THE Deaimenr. 5 ee Exwer— fie ROWERY THEATRE, Bowers Ronen’ ny hen Grance at Naw YORM. WOOP 's MINSTRELS Mocusrice’ Kall 4/9 Brosdway. Wew York, Satarday, August 4, 1855. —— The News. "Fhe result of the elections ia North Carolina and ‘Benneree On Thursday, as indicated by the partia veturrs received last night, may be stated in a very tew words. In North Carolina, where menbers of Congress, Legisiatare and county officers wers voted fey, the Know Nothings have been succesefal to geome oxtent. They have probably elected four of the eight members o! Congress. In Tennesace, Me- redita P. Gentry, Know Nothing candidate for Governor, has no doub: carried tho State, but by s smal mojority, and it is fair to euppoge that he has easried a majority of the Congressmen with him, although we have no positive isformation upon that ce since Marcy obtained possession of the Al Dany Argus, through his parti. ular friends ex Gov- ernor Seymour and ex-Stats Senator Corning, there daa existed great doubts in his micd whi:h organ to retsin for his special use in bringing h!m prom mently before the Cincinnati National Convention. A country editor, a pet of Seymonr’s, was brought from the little village of Rome, Oneida county, and placed in the old editorial chair so long occupied by the ab’e aud unscrupulous Croswell. Arrange. ments were immediately mads to silence the At/as, by paying ite debts and transferring its barabu-nsr readers to the coluwins of ths Argus. Ita old type op hand ard its liabilities, taken togethar with ite hist of paywwg subscribers, was estimated at about ten thousard dollars. Negotiations were kept up for several weeks, when finally the Secretary of State, beg an old quill-driver at editorials, ba. eame satisfied, from daily prosineas, tediousnesa and duliness jn the columns of the Argus, that Beymour’s country cousin was not possessed of the intellect, the tact, the ability, to control the leading national demc cratic poper of the Stateot Ne# York. Tt hss, therefore, been decided secretly that the Attias sha)l become the veritable mouthpiece of the “united” and suffering democracy, and ita rival become defnuct. The Argus will, therefore, cease te exist hefore the time arrives for holding the hard sheli State convention. It has been published for forty three years, and, until within four or five yeess sgo, was the k adiog paper of the party, and the most prosperous in the nation. The Glen Cove Regatta, as will be seen by a de- tailed acccunt given elaewhere, was one of the mat interest.ng affairs of the kind that ever occurred ia this countiy. The exclasive snobishness that bas herctofore distinguished the New York Yacht Clab Bae well nigh pacsed away, and given place to a feeling more in consonance with our institutions, ‘The race resulted in the winning of the first prize Dy the Katydid, 16 tons; and the Lucky, 17 tons. George Steers’ boats made the best time. Some of the New Orleans journals attempt to ®xaite public iuterest in the case of Mr. Delgado who, it woud m, has been recentiy made the subject of cruelty snd oppreseton on the part of the @ictator of Mexico. Li the facts be as they have been repreecnted, it is indeed a casa of the greatest: hardship, and the atro:ious villainy of Santa Anna im the matter deserves reproba‘ion and punishment. Our only motive for referring to it here is to corre +t ‘the statement that has been made as to Mr. Dalga- do’s being a refugee from the Icland of Cabs, on seccunt of his political ideas. We have the highest authority for esy/ng that this gentleman did not, as is @leged, flee from Cube to the United States to evenpe the consequences of his participation In revolutionary and republicen movements in the taland. Whet truth there may§be in the rest of the statement we know rot, but this portion of it we are asiured is ircorre.t, From Central Asia we have received very impor tent news, by way of Bombay aud England. Itap- pears that the Raseian troope, who had lovg been stationed on the frontier, had aivanced into the territory of the Khan of Kbiva, engaged his army, and detesed a large portion of it They were at the same time sxsembling in great force near Ko- kan, ond it was thought thst they would soon have the limits of their conquests In the East bounded by tha latter place and Khiva. Persia was secretly siding Rureia, and the King of Bokhara was watching in alarm the quiet absorption of his neighbors, Kbiva acd Kokas, by the Northern Colcasus, Our files from Bermuda are to the 18th of Jaly. Very parchirg weather had been euccseded by re- fecehing showers. The agricultural produce ex- ported from the cclony curivg four months in United States vessels amounted to the value of £33,252 68, 8d., and the veesels had earned in freight ohargea £3,747 183, 4d. Seventy-eight thousand bushels of Irish potatoes were raised this year. ‘The Rev. Isaac Whi'ehouse, Superintendent of Wes- lesan Missions in Berania, took passage o2 July 9 for Helifax. Tue reverend gentleman haa gone to Halifax tojoin a conference cf ministers assembled there to trausact come important business coanec- ed with the Socicty. The colton market yesterday closed quite firm, end with on upward tendercy in prices, The sales embraced about 3,000 ba Flour was firm, at the advan’e noticed iv yesterdwy’s paper, Wheat was noaroe, and Scuthern was higher for good mew red. Indian cory was Jower, ard sold at 845. a 85>, loving at the ineide figure. Rye flour and meal were nomiesl. Pork waa tolerably firm, with fair valcs, eepecial'y of new mes. Coffee and sugar eortinued fim. Choice and prime email lois of the latter (New Orleats) sold as high as 7c.a7j%. A #me)i Jot of wheat, in ebip’s bags, was engaged for Liverpool st 4)¢., and 1,000 bole. tar as 18d. There wae more inquiry for Indian corn freights to the Continent, avd 6,000 bushels were taken for Aut werp, at private terms. It was said some ship- meats were making ov Swiss account. In the Sapreme Court yesterday, Jadge Cow-es denied the moticn for a writ of mandamus against tbe Mayor in tre matter of the sunken ship Jossph Walker. A lady from Toronto precipitated herself into the rapids at Niagara Falle yesterday, but was Pprovidentially reecued through the exertions of a gentleman who happened to be in the viciaity. A Gomentic difficulty was the cause assigned for the Tesh act. Under the telegraphic head may be found an ac: count of the explorion of several powder mills at Eton Park, Delasare. Six persons were instanta- neourly blown to stows, and five others were #) reriously injured shat their reoovery was considered very doubifal, The American Dental Convention assembled in Philaéelphia on Friday. The first day's procesd ings were ptivate, and mainly devoted to business mattcre, and (he prelimtoaries of organization. Dr. J.B. Rich, o? N#w York, was chosen President. Yesterday various interesting cases in practic were brought ap, and the propriety of administering eblorcform to patients was discnssed at some length. The profession is represented by delegates from nearly every State in the Union, The State Teacsers’ Arsocia\ion met at Utica on the Jat instant. Notbing of importance wag done onthe firet day, the time being princ ipally con- sumed in epeech making, included in which waa aa address by ¢x Governor Seymour, on the Normal sevool questivp. The members yesterday visited sche Lonatic Asylum, and afterwards the convention we jow ned sine dig 1 eB. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1855. The Democracy of Vermont and Georgia. Undeniably there are some curious things in politics. The man that came to the conctusion, when Botts and Tyler slept together and then quasrelled, never wore to be surprised at avy- thing, must certainly feel, in the present aspect of affairs, that he acted pastily. Vermont, steeped ia abolitioa—the most ilti- bera) and circams:ribed in policy—voting for every protective and pPohibitive tariff, every bank, every project of improvement by the ge- neral goverument, every Wilmot proviso—ai- vancing every porsibie scheme for agitation— losing no opportunity to foment discord be- fween the North and South—proscribing, with an unctuous bitterness, her very ablest aud most conscientious representative in Congress, because he voted for the Fugitive Slave Jaw—a aw under which his unworthy State is com- pelled to discharge its constitutional obliga. tions to its co partners—the democracy of Ver- mont resolves to sustain the administration! As many foolish things as have been done by the Green Mountain State, we of course would not do its people the injustice to suppose they actually approve the conduct of Franklin Pierce. A handful of officenolders—patriotic soule—do approve the edministration, They are called the democracy of Vermont, and they bear testimony to the wisdom and statesman- ship of Franklin Pierce. The noble democracy of Georgia—a little farther off from the capital, « and a little nearer by the constitution—-had done the some thing a few days before. Gov. Jehnson, the gubernatorial caadidate in the latter State, is a kisd of Swedenbor- gian philosopher, who believes in affiaities and spheres. Thus illuminated, and, for aught we know, intermitted into the sublime mysteries of General Pierce's political arcana, including the negro worshippers of the Vermont depart- ment, finds a brilliant prospect of saccess and a certainty of entire harmony between the fire: eaters of Georgia and the abolitionists of tne Green Mountain State. They both approve the administration. But there is nothing extraordinary in a!) this. The Albany 4t/as—the organ of the Van Ba- Tens, the very soul of the abolition movement in the Northern branch of the democracy—is the authorized exponent of the Cabinet. The .d:/as isa bitter, Seward-like opponent of the Kansas bill, a calumniator of the people of that Terri- tory, habitually ridicules the doctrines of po- pular sovereignty, an ally of the Emigrant Aid Society, and has grown hoarse ‘and stupid in its appeals to the negro worshippers to com- bine and put down the ‘dough faces” who “conspired” to repeal the Missouri compromise, That paper has never uttered a word from which it could be inferred that the President at all approved the Kansas act. It conducts the New York wing of ¢he democracy on the bases of abolitionism and of fraternal union with the administration and the democracy of Virginia and Georgia. The Atlas is the ascendant power as a part ot the existicog government and its policy, while Dickinson, Cooley, Bronson, Beardsley, | and others who have never failed in their alle- giance to the constitution —who bave fought the battles of the South in conjunction with Webster, Clay and Ca se—are the subjects of denunciation alike by the democracy of Ver- mont and Georgia, and by the administration, All this may excite surprise. But why should it? Itis quite in harmony with the policy that brought into the Cabinet Davis, the fire eater, and Marcy, the freesoiler; Guthrie, the rigid Southerner, and Cushirg, the supple Northera- er; Dobbin, the ultra man of slavery, quiet and respectable, and McCielland, a political man of fasbion—that sent Soulé to Madrid with a splendid programme, and left Marcy in the State Department to checkmite him at every turn—that banished Buchanan to London, and withdrew from that lega~ gation every important subject of con- troversy, in order to give the amolest time to the ambassador for the Ostend Conference — that clothed Mr. Mason with suffisient power to attend to Americans at the great Expositioa— that fixed our diplomutic character abroad by securing the services of Borland, O’Sallivaa, Rebert Dale Owen, Daniels and others, and es- tablitbed the national prowess by the feats of Greytown and the blockade of the Kinney ex- pediticn at the foot of Eighth street. Thase latter brilliant exploits were performed with out the Joss ofa man, and without the an- nouncement for a moment, by Lloyds and other underwriters, of an intention to insert the war clause in insurance of American bottoms, It isnot, perhaps, very strange that an ad- ministration thus marked by sigoals of success at every trial of its powers, should elicié the approval of the democracy of Vermont, New York, Virginia and Georgia’ These are ser- vices so great as to overshadow all such minor differences a3 sometimes exist ia this country on the question of slavery. Tne appointments athome are sufficient of themzeives to justity a claim by the President to the support of the entire democratic~oficeholders; and it would be folly, indeed, to suppose that thoee office, holders could not hold public meetings and vote approvals of the administration in Geor- gia and in Vermont. They have a perfect right todo £0. The appointment of Governor Reeder was a master stroke of policy, aad his removal, in the face of the elections in the South, shows clearly enough that General Pierce re- lies with equal confidence upon that element of his administration at the present time. Strong men rely upon the operation of principles, and prefer their power to that of mere policy. General Pierce is not one of that class, Reared in New Hampshire, and early taught that po- litics was a game like brag, to be played suo- cestfully by grimaces and deceptions, it was too much to expect that he would perform his part otherwise at Washington. The natural effect of this sysiem of govera- ment bas been utter demoralization—Norih and South, East and West. It has devraded the administration; it has brought into dis. repute the government, and rendered qyes- tionable whether the constitution is suitisi ent to secure the ends for which it was adopted. It has weakened (he force of that compact by rewarding its avowed enemies, 1) has encouraged treason, built up 9 morbid fa naticism, arrayed the North against the South. It has scattered the seeds of permanent dis- cord into the democratic party, which are now germinating and ripening into aatagon’sm to the Union Meavured by services in the cause of mischtof not Mr. Seward and his “republican” phalanx should be the objects of reward by the abolition- ists, but General Pierce and Mr, Maroy. If the North and the South are driven to the organi- zation of geographical parties, it will be throngh the policy of Franklin Pierce, The whole tendency of his administration has been in that direction, The powers, the patronage and the management of his office have been placed in the hands of the enemies of the consti- tution. Patriovic services, devotion to the compromises of Union, were enough to insure the bitter evmity of the sdminiswration. High qualifications, great experience and integrity for the discherge of pudlic duties, have been signals of detraetion from its organ and its spawn of dependents in different parts of the country, A New Sorr or Rocaester Kyocxtxcs— Sewarp Fustosists iy Counci.—On Tuesday last there was a singular meeting and fasion of the Seward spiritualist at Rochester. The State Couneil of the Seward Know Nothings,organized at Utica last fall from the refase of the ortho- dox Know Nothing orgavization, and the State Council of the new-sect established at Cleve- land a month ago, called Kaow Somethings met at Rochester for the purpose of forming a union, which, by the way, was nota very for- midable undertaking, the two societies being nothing more than branches of the general Seward antislavery coalition. Their object was accordingly achieved in the most harmo- ious style, as will appear from their platform and resolutions elsewhere in these columns. Reduced to the limits of a nutshell, these Know Something nigger worshiping fusionists propose :— Ist. A dead set against “the slave power,” as the paramount general issue. 2d. Not another slave State, and not another additional inch of slave territory. 3d. Principles and character, not birth place, 40 be the test of citizenship, 4th. Religious liberty; but no ecclesiastical interference in political affairs, 5th. Firm adhesion to the new Liquor law. 6th. Free schcols, free labor, «cs. These doctrines, it will be seen, thoroughly fase the Seward Utica Know Nothings and the Cleveland Know Somethings with Seward’s general anti-slavery programme of a sectional disunion crusade against the South. Someof the principles, however, of this Rochester Con- solidation Company conflict with other move- ments in the same common cause. For. ex- ample, the doctrine protesting against any ec- clesiastical intermeddling in political affairs would require the three thousand abolition Protestant clergymen of New Englaud to quit the political arena, and Jimit themselves to the ministrations of the Gospel, a principle which we fear it is not the intention of these parties to carry out. Indeed, these three thousand New England clergymen are practicaliy in- yolyed in this Cleveland Know Something or- ganization, and thus this doctine of ecclesias- tical non-intervention in party politics is all a sham, and a false pretence of unblushing hy- pocrisy. We are glad, however, to see that this Ro- chester Seward combination propose to make our new Liquor law aspecific teat in November. The Astor House Junta had resolved to drop, dodge or get over it as best they could; but what with the action of the State Temperance Alliance, and these Rochester fusion resolutions, the whigs and republicans, when they come to fuse at Syracuee, will be compelled to face the mu-. sic, upon the direct issne of maintaining or tepealing this abominable mockery of tempe- rance legislation. Meantime, we doubt not the regular Kaow Nothings understand this Rochester game of he Choctaws and Jonathans. I¢ is a diversion intended to perplex and disorganize the Ameri- can perty inthis State, to sow the seeds of dis- ensions and divisions among their Ceuncils, and thus to demoralize and break them to pieces among the shoala and reefs of the nigger question, Seward has but little to fear fron the demoralized democracy; his only danger is from the enrolled catalogue of from nifey toa bucdred thousand members in this State of the Koow Notbing party proper. If ihey can be dispersed on the slavery issues of this new agi tation, the State belongs to Seward, and the Jast formidabie barrier againet the formation of an overshadowing autislavery sectional party will be broken down. The Know No- things are aware of this; they know that Seword’s success is iheir destruction, and that he can only ‘succeed by carrying the anti- slavery doctrines of the Rochester fusioniste into the Know Kothing ranks through his unsernpulous emisearies creeping into their lodyer. Let the Know Nothings act accord- ingly, and keep an eye upon all suspicious agi tators in their camp. It is not necessary that they should become a party to the slavery agi- tation in our November election. Tar New Jersey Kyow Nornres.--From areport of the proceedings of the late State Council of the New Jersey Know Nothiags, it will be seen that they repudiate the twelfch eection of the regular Philadelphia national platform on slavery, assert the right of Coa- gressional independence upon that subject, and declare ihat the repeal of the Missouri com- promise was “an inconsiderate outrage upon good faith; and infamous, because it aasetiled the quiet, and peace of the country.’ At the some time this Jersey Council “denounces any affiliations with any party which is sectional ia its pature; but avows its object to be thorough ly vational and American.” There are some little discrepanc’es ia this | Platform; but considering the “noise and con- fusion” prevailing North and Sonth, it may suffice for the preseat. Things, perhaps, have gone too far in this section for the proclama- tion of the Philadelphia twelfth section as a distinct article of faith; and the prospect is that no party will be competent to build a slavery platform in 1856 acceptable to the rank and file of bothsections. Ia that event, the only expedient for a national movement will be some sound conservative national man, whose character and Unlon priaciples will be satisfactory to the conservatives of all sections, without a platform. Congressional independence’ may be a good thing; bnt no definite opinion can be formed of its practical meaning short of the approaching experiment of the next session, It wil be an independent Congress—independent of the admin'stration— independent of the old pariies—but somewhat tied up on the Nebraska Will, We mast see how it will turn ont. The best sort of independence, howertr, is the sove- reignty of the people; and ofter the present hallabaloo reeniting from the flare-up between Governor Reeder and his “ border rafians’ shal) have subsided, our Jersey Blues, we doubt not, will quietly fall back upon the doctrine of popular sovereignty for Kansas and Nebraska. Even now they do not propose to restore the Mirsouri compromise, which is meeting the true issue half way. Av Ivvsxestive Lawsuit iy Paris--AMERI- cay Hyms To 4 Franco Ducuess—A suit has been recently decided in the Tribunal of the Seine, in Puris,io which a large amount of property was involved, in whioh interesting re- miniscences of the days of the Revolution were brought up, and by which some of our citizens are declared co-heirs to the immense estates of a French duchess. We translate a report of the proceedings. The facts are briefly told: M. Barbé de Mar- bois, the French Charge d’ Affairs to the United Statez, married in Philadelphia, ia 1784, the only daughter of Mr. William Moore, at that time President of the Supreme Exeentive Coaao- cil and Commander of the Forces of Penusyl- vania, The frait of this marriage was the lady whore immense property .was ia dispute in this instance--the Duchess de Plaisance. She died in Athens in May, 1854, without living progenitors or descendants, without sisters or brothers, nieces or nephews. Her property—worth nearly amilion of dollars-—devolved upon her nearest relatives in the male and female branches of the family. The relatives in the male line were all French, and were represented by the Duc de Valmy and M. de Lery; these on the female side were all Americans. Oa the division of the property the latter were unrepresented. But Mrs. Ridgway, an American lady residing in Paris, immediately afterwards prefepred her claim to the share of the property devolving 02 the maternal branch, and foriified it with proofs, These proofs were substantially, that she was the grand-daughter of Thomas Lloyd Moore, brother to Madame de Marbois. Proceedings were commenced last October. In lees than nine months afterwards the case came before the Tribunal of the Seine, and was dispoged of—an instance of legal celerity which our courts might well copy. The defendants sought to throw a cloud upon the legitimacy of the grandfather of the plaintiff, and by infer- ence, on that of the mother of the lady whose inheritance they had snatched. They con- tended that it was necessary to prove the !e- gitimate marriage of the father aud mother of Madame de Marbois, as well as the filiation of their children. The court, however, received as competent evidence, copies of the entries in the family Bible, recording the marriage and the birth of their children, inasmuch as there wa3 no regular and compulsory system of registra- tion then in operation in thiscoantry. In coa- nection with this part of the case, a letter was read from General Wasbiagton to Mr. Moore, congratulating him on the approaching union ofhis @anghter, and acknowledging the love and devotion he had shown to his adopted country. This letter, embodied in our report, isin itself a highly interesting circumstance. The tribunal confirmed the titles avouched by Mrs, Ridgway, and ordered a re-partition of the property. Any of our Philadelphia citizens claiming affinity with the honorable family of the Moores ought to set about examiniog their genealogical tree in view of this decision. Queer Dorses In THE Tamaany Kitcaex.— We are informed that the Custom House and Post Office officials had a meeting in the kitchen of the Tammany Hotel on Thursday evening, and that among other proceedings of a stormy eession, “ the Sunday t/as was repudiated ina very direct manner,” and that both the Atlas and the Sunday Times were voted un- wortby the privilege of the soft shell adver- tising. An alleged party misunderstanding and rivalry between Mayor Wood and Alder- man Herrick is eaid to be at the bottom of the plot. We hope the muss wiil not extend to the exclusion of the hard shells in the election of delegates to the eoft State convention. Let there be another meeting in the coal hole, Jvupce HorrMan on THE ScuvyLer Fravps. —We publish today, the opinion of Judge Heoflman, of the Superior Court, in the case of the Mechanics’ Bank vs. the New Haven Rail- road Company. The views taken by the Judge in this opivion being very Uifferent from those of the other Judges, ina point which may be of great importance in other cases, and wishes having been expreesed for the publication of bis opinion at length, we give it withont any abreviation. The subject is ably haudled by his Honor. POSTPONEMENT OF THE TRIP TO NEWFOUNDLAND.<eIn con- sequence of some dersngement in the machtarry of the steamer Culboun, which was engaged for the laying of the cable across the Gulf of St. Lawrenea, the departure of the company and their friends has been uoavoids- bly postponed. The Jamea Adger, one cf the finest and wort rea worthy steamships that ruas to this port, has becn chartered, and will leave pier No. 4 North river, at ten o'clock on Tuerday morning. Hrerything bes been o render the excursion one of tha most pleasant ever hifi New York. Oar readers will fad acvertlementanpounciog the departure of the Ja \cger, in another column. attractive wherever produced, is to be presented, for the firet time, at Niblo’s, on Monday evening, with new and gorgeous acenery, dresses and fairy transforma. tions, all of which are sald to be of that costly aad tgiMient caracter peculiar to the grand spectacles for which this estadl'shment ir so celebrated. Not alone in the splendor of the appoiatment be a marked feature cf the seseon: including th M ‘Cinderella’? to for the cast in par ames of Miss Louisa Pyne and hor Borrani, Mr Horncastle, Mr pbens, and the renownsd co- mecian George Helland, who has been engaged expressly The chorus and orchestra are for the part of Pecro. Vin talent and numbers, and a fail corpe de ill give effect to dances. A succession of crow*ed and brilliant audiences may certainly be looked for at Niblo’s daring of ‘ Cinderella? 4ucseuents.—For particulars of performances at the different places of amusement this evening, wo refer to our acvertir pg columus. City Intelligence, Fata Snoorrme Case —At adout midnight yesterday, a man named John Noonsn, s native of Ireland, was accidentally shot by his coven, Richard Boyly, Both of the parties resided im the same house, 122 Roosevelt efreet, and were intimate friencs. The parties were ex. smiping & piste) unknown to be loaded, when the trig- ger wan tonched and it went off, the ball entering the brain directly over the left eye.’ The injured man was rorly a e¢ by the medical at'endant of the Police Department, but cannot live beyond this morning, MextinG or Tie ComMrrren oF COUNCILMEN oN Pra. ic Heattu.—This committee of the Board of Council. men met yesterday afternoon, in the chamber of the Foard of Councilmen, City Hall, The President of the cemmittee, Dr. J. W. Ranney, occupied the chair, When the whole compeny wae assembled ready for buriness, ibere were three Cousciiaen, five reporters, and an au. Cience of one. The purpose of the committee was to tebe into consiceration the report from the Board of Acermenas to the use of Castle Garven for an emi. grantee Mr. Perry addressed the committee tor « lew moments agi such appropriation of Castle Gar. den, atter which meeliag adjourned, Naval Intelligence The U.S. rleop-of war Germastown, Commander W. T.lyneh, was at nenos Ayres May 24, all weil, and would probably leave for Rio Janeizo the middle of ore J"ite U. 8. stesmer Water Witch, Lieut. Commenting TJ. Page, having repatres the injuries done by the Pax nn fort, hae gone to survey. S. corvette Jamestown was at Ma ira July Appointments by the President. Temas A. Hendricks, of Indisna, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office, in the place of John Wieon, mored, "Jer ab Minot, of New Hampshire, tbe Commissioner of Per sions, in a of Wal Temigned. Marry MeConnel, of Lknois, to de Firth Auditor of the ‘Trearuiy, im the place of Josiah Minot, appointed Gom- mission er Of aa, THE LATEST NEW BY MAGNETIC AWD PRINTING TELEGRAPH, Hiection News from North Carolina and Virginia. TRIUMPH OF THE KNOW NOTHINGS, TERRIBLE POWDER MiLL EXPLOSION. MELANCHOLY LOSS OF LIFE, &e., a, ae. ‘Lhe State Elections. PARTIAL RETURNS FROM TENNESSEE. Lovisvituz, August 3, 1855, Twenty-five counties give a net ga'm for Gentry of wbout 1,600 vores. Only two counties in East and three in West Tennessee have yet been heard from, but they all show gains for Gentry. Nasnviix, August 3, 1865. Davidson county has gone at least 1,200 for Gentry. ‘The Know Nothings will doubtless carry the State. NORTH CAROLINA ELEOMON. Bavrimong, August 3, 1855, The Richmond Derpa‘ch has a few words in regard to the North Csrotina election, namely, that the vote of Gaston, up to noon, was:—Shaw, dem., for Congress in the First district, 64; Paine, Know Nothing, 14. Ricumonp, August 3, 1865. The First district of North Carolina, Halifax county, gives Shaw, dem, a majority of 6 over Paine, Know Nothing. In the Second district EAgecombe and Wayne coun- ties gives 2,000 majority for Rufiia, dem., over Latham, KN, ‘The Third district, as far as heard from, has given Winslow, dem., » large majority over Reid, K. N. Ta the Fourth district, Granville county gives 650, Franklin county 350, Warren county 700, ani Wake county 450 majority for Branch, dem, ‘The impreasion is that the democrats have elected s majority of the Congrestmen. There is a democratic gain everywhere. Powder Mill Explosion at Witmington, Del. -SIX PERSONS KILLED AND FIVE WOUNDED. PaLapacrnia, Augast 3, 1855, Three of Gareche’s powder miils, near Wilmington, Delaware, exploded this morning, about 8 o'clock, with mont disastrous consequences, six persons having bsen killed and five wounded, Wuauxatox, Aug. 3, 1855, ‘The drying house of Gareche’s powder works, at Elen Park, which exploded this morning, contained about one and a half tons of powder, and the ferce of the explosion was tremendous. The house had been in operation for forty years without accicent, and was considered the safest house in the works, All the m+n connected with its operations were killed st once, being blown to atoms, and found at various distances, from fifty to two hun- dred yards from the scene of the disaster. Thre3 of the killed were Frenchmen, named Eugene Perens, Joseph Deo Peane, and Francis Fisker, A boy named Joha Pugh was also amongst the killed. The explosion of the drying house caused a mill, situated about three hundred yards dittant, also to explode, In this mill sig men were dangerously hurt. One of them: Peter MeGingley, wan thrown & distance of forty feet, and it is feared will not recover, while Patrick Burk, who was running from the mill, had his skull fractured by @ plece of lightping rod, and his recovery is also doubtful. Thomas Mullen had his collar bone broken. ‘Mr. Mitchell, the engineer, escaped with some slight bruiser. There were about fourteen hundred pounds of powder in the mill, which was less than usual. The trees around the Orying house were torn up by the roots, and one cr two horses were killed. One other man Js said to have been kil.ed, but this seems doubtful, Mr. Gareche raya the explosion must have been caused by one of the Frenchmen, who was addicted to smoking his pipe, although he had been forbidden to do #0. Governor Reeder’s Removal. Easton, Pa., August 3, 1855, ‘The friends of Governor Seeder are highly incensed be reason put forth for bis removal from o: fyeculation in Jande, and demand to kno Congress he has violated in bis purchases. Yellow Fever at Norfolk, Portsmouth and Gosport, Barrmmorr, August 3, 1855, ‘The official statements give the followiag as the total number of cases and deaths from yellow lever at tho points named:— Norfolk—Cases 24; deaths 6, Eight cases now under treatment. Ns Portsmouth and Gorport—Cases ‘00; deaths 41. Yes- terdvy, in Fortemouth, the deaths siace sunset of Wednesday, were 7; in Gosport, 4, and tom new cases. ‘The disease at the various points ia all traceable to Gorport. The Secretary uf the Navy hey granted the use of the Navy Hoepital, to which tne sick have been removed. Attempted Suicide at Niagara Falls. Burrato, August 3, 1855. Yesterday, a lody staying at the Falls of Nisgara, whore tebaviour hed excited mepicion, was followed by rome persons from Table Rock up to the Rapida, aud when she hai walked a ehort distance, she suddenly plunged into the Repi¢s before ber pnravers could reach ber, One of them, howeve:, raa down tue bank, aad wating into the water, was enabled to saatch her from the Rapics a @ waa floating by towards the brink of the Falls. She is from Toronto, and assigns s difficulty with her hurband as the reason for the rash act. tun. W. aTON, August 2, 1855. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiapa, was nppoiated Commissioner of the Land Ofiies, ard) Murray ‘SfsGoa- reil, of Diinois, Fifth Auditor of the Traasary, more than a week ayo, but vo response of acceptance haa yet beon received from them—so also of Dawson's Governor ship of Kansas, The Teacher's Conventton at Uticas Unica, Aug. 3, 1855, In the Teachers’ Convention to day a resolution in favor of abolishing the State agency waa adopted, consicer Ciscusion, The following persona appeiated to prepare a communication to bs read at the next annual session:—Oiiver Avery, of Buffalo; Truman H. Bowen, of Albany; James H. Partri‘ge, of New York; Mrs. H. Bo Uewes of Syracuse; Wim,’ N, Reid, of Newburg; P. H. Custia, of Rochester; Jamas Cruibsbsnk, of Belfast; Marcias Wilson, of Allenshili; of Binghamton; Littl, of Wa: A.E. Palmer, of Utica; Joba W. Bulkley, of Erochlyn; Mise Jenneite L. Douglass, of Oneida. Agreeably toan invitation, the membera of the con- vention this forenoon visited the State Lunatic Asylum, and then, after resoiutt of thanks to the officers of the Convention bad been sJopted, and sundry appro- priste reroarks had been delivered, the Convention ad- jonrned sine die. Three Men Arrested for Vtspiacing the Rall read Track near Sy cacuse, Angust 3, 1855 chael Dulfy, ant ight at Coanton, On- cnéaga county, charged wita o/splicing the railroad track west of this city, two weeks since, Two of them bad been cischarged from the rervice of the road. Their ¢xamination will take place on Monday, when there is but little doubt it will be proved they are the villain. Steambont Collision on the De Prmapere , 1858, An the steamer Miantonimo was returaing last night with an excursion par’y of 150 persons fom Port Penn, she was ran into by the tow boat Spy, and both vessels sustained considerable damage. Ths former had to be ran on the flats, to keep bor from «inking. ‘The greatest alarm prevai'ed among the passengera, but they were all safely anced, Accident to the Ship Adams, Bostos, August 3, 1855, arrived here this mornivg from the Rore and Crown Shoal, near st ultimo, ond after throwing over >oard 160 bales of cotton, got off without assistance. Tne ship cake about eleven inches per hour. Ld The Canada Outward Bound. Hatirax, Angust 3, 1856, The steamship Cana¢a arrived here from Boston at 6.45 this morning, and rated agaia for Liverpool at 8 o'clock, wish very favorable weather. ‘The Census of Boston, Boston, A 3, 1855, The censua of Borton, now about complete, is stated to be ae near em possiole 160,000—~aa increase of 20,000 cur t five yearr, E ANS, August 2, 1855, ‘The Asia's news bad orable effect on the cotton merket, and prices are stiffer, but not quotably higher. Sales to-day, 1,500 bales, Flour frm at $8, Cora— Western white, 806, a 7c, —_—_———__——_. Mayor's Office. DOINGS OF THR NFALTS COMMISSIONERS. Since Mayor Wood bas left the city, it would eeom that people have become impressed with the ido that business at the Mayor's office, is for awhile at a stand stil, until the return of the reoowned Fernando, This is not the case, Everything {s conducted just the same as ever, under the auspices of the acting Mayor, J. 0 Barker, President of the Board of Aldermen, although there certainly ia @ decline in the number of complaints snd of persons who were wont to visit the Mayor's of- fice before the departure of Mr. Wood. The Health Consiating of the Mayor, the Presidents of both branch Common Council, the Health Oficer, Gite. Taaponine, Resi ept Physician, and Sommis- vioner of Bealtti bo'd meeiings every morah and rt meageres for tbe prevention of tha pichvers tbrovgnovs the eity Every care is fo secure the en’creement of the Quarantin ro ‘being allowee vw ec me op to the city without at ncergoing & carefol ivepecton by the proper aa- *, aod, af found to contain any cases of infes- tiens er contogions ovssave is subject to the uanad querantine. {hin plea fs followed ircespectivs of the port from which the verve may com chawstion, trerefore, of Me, Rereer, Norfolk aud Portswouts, Vire nia, Js in point of fact tr every oth h disease se above wevtioued msy be provalent, GUrleana eas not proclaimed infected tz, cer south of Georgia are, ecrording to qhe health | subject to 30 days quaractine, waded Places north of Caps Har!epen mast abite by whatever Speietons the Heaith Commussionera may deem advi- sable to adopt. The UNION COURSE, L. I TROTTING. Fray, August 3—Match, $2,000, mile heats, to Wagons. D. Pfiter named br. g Major Roger J, Daniels named s, g Hard Rosd, Time, 5.26—5:24, 1 2 tom Knox on the Hat —K»nox has Made a Great: hit thie summer, apd row be hus become as familiar ag housebold words in the hearts of the hat weariug{public Forty varities of summer hats, from two shillings up- ward, may be found as usaal at 212 Broadway, corner” of Fulton street or 533 Broadway, Try one, Amldon’s New syle Straw Hats.—Jast reo ceived by steamer, from Havre, a supply of those: rich brown and white vari-gsted straw bate, ro maca in demand the present season. Just the talag for the sweltering months of August andSeptemder, F. H, AMIDON, fasbionavle hatter, 649 Broadway. Anson's Daguexrcotypes.—Large size for 50+ 8, colored and in a nice case, twice the sire others take for 60 cents, and equé! in quality and size to those made elsewhere for $2 ANSON, 589 Broadway, eppo- site Metropelitan Hotel. Planos.—Florace Waters, 333 Broadway, hes Hale Jacob the sole agency for the sale ot I, Gilbert & lett & Cumaton’s, Woodward & Brown's, and Chickering’s Boston panos; and his is the enly house where cap be obtaines tae celebrated moderna improved Horace Waters’ pianos, with over strings. Prices less than cen be bad elke where, and which defy competition Pianos to rent, and rent allowed on purchass. Piaoos for sale on monthly payments. Sole agency for 8. D. & H. W. Smith’s celebrated meloceons the equal ‘tem nt. New 614 octave pianos, with iron frameay tor $160. Second band pisnos from $30 to $140 New Musle.—“Jeunie Marsh, of Cherry Val~ fey.”? Sowg and chorus, Words by G. P. Morria, Esq. ; music by Thomas Beker, Price 25 cents. A itt’e both words ane music charming for their simplicity. The melody is exceedingly pretty, and easi'y caught, D& must Foon be as popular as ‘Our Bays,” by the same oemposer. Eur. ACE WATERS,” 333 Broadway. Sunsner Dress Goods at Redaced Prices. We wil offer this cay our entire stock of bareges and rinted tuslina at greatly recueed prices, to cake room . Tor our fal! goods, We are algo scliing werke da, collaars and under banckerchie‘s at great barg: E. H LEADBEATER & C0., 347 Broadway. “Economy is Thy Best Friend.”’—Zephyr mere suits, $10; check marséilies suits, $8 dO: titul marseilles veets, $1; fine blue clot Ty $10, &., &c., at EVANS’ Clothing Wareboare, 66 Fulton street. Our Friends and Customers from the South and Wert are invited to cullat 411 Broadway, wenn be found a superior aseortment of fashoinarie wi made clothing of every description, No devistion from marked prices. ALFRED MUNRUE & 00, Green’t Shirt ®nd Furnishing Store, No. ¥ Astor House, Attention is invited to tne superior artl- cles in the gentlemen’s furcishing department. stock includes every variety of zephyr and gauze silk, merino ard jiele thread, Shaker apgola under shirts and drawers, ties, cravats, handkerchiefs, gloves, half hore, gold sbirt study and sleeve buttons, mounted and otherwise, toilet articles, &c. Imported for the suromer and fall trate. The prices are moderate and the assortment unequaled, To Straw Bonnet Dealers.—We Are Now prepared to show a large and complete assortment of the fall style of straw vonypta, consisting 19 part of fle Fiorence, Pecale, Eng. Uunatadle, and split straw © doruets, all of which sre of our own manufacture, amd will be sold at the lowest market price, by the case, A, LELADD & CO., 171 Pearl street. e Curtains, Window Shades, &c. ayers Ventage im cealing with , for the more extensive the business the . Heace, in paying lace curte! ‘sof firat class importing and manvacturirg concerns like that of KELTY & FER- GUSON, No. 291 Broad the purchaser practives a wise economy, as well as ¢njoya the opportunity of se- lecting from an extansive stock. intectr—HASKIN’'S Patent Improved Poradle and Net, combining besuty, cheapness and en‘in rity jainst inrects without obstructing the circulation: It is coustructed vo that it will St any bedaiesd, the net is so arranged that it will cop'ract and expand by means of rubber braid; it will fit aecurely at all times and om all bedateads, thereby affordiog entire protection aga'nst insects It can be attached to the Dedstead in less than teo minutes, aud taken down im equally short apace of time Yet while it affords &s pro- tection fought it is beautiful and chaste orasment to the bee. W. STRATTON, sole agent, 90 Chambers street. N. B. It is indispensable for invalids, no only at night, but during the aay. Only $375 tor Freach calf steel shank boote, ready mace er to order, by A. BAKE, 16 Ano street. Beat French patent leather boota at $6 to $7; gents shoes and gaitrs, bestquaity, 25 10 50 per cent cheaper than elsewhere. Carpeting for Fatt Trade, 1855-—Smith & - LOUNSBERY, 456 Broscwsy, near Grand stroet, have just received, per late orrivals, several large invoices of elegact velvet tapestry Braesela carpeting whch they are now ofl-ring, together with a large and select stock of all other goods connected with the carpet trade, at great inducement, Bemis Look !~No. 99 Bowery.—Hiram An« SRSON ia selling eplencid Feglish velvet tapest: Bruseela and. three ply coxpete ‘atone bait the read value, Beautiful all woolicgrain carpets, 2s. 6d. aad 4s. per yard. ‘Wedding Cards.—an Assortment of Evert dell’s elegantly engraved at home notes, weiding eards, envelopes, &c., can be bad on application or seat by poet to any past of the country. fetablished 1840, JaME3 EVERD! 3C2 Brosiway, corner of Duane street. Gas Fixtures, Gas Fixcures.—We are manas facturing some new styles of chandeliers, brackets, pendepta, &e , fv grit, and in French and artistic bronze, which purchase: RAY, No, 15 Cant nireet. Claret Wines from (Bottes Returned) to $¢, Blckberry brency, an excellent remedy for cisrrbaa; white brancy for preserving; London and are invited to examine, street, between Broadway and Cemtre Dublin porter, Scoteh ales, brandies, wines, rums, iledam schnapps, and all other imported iiquors, gars, &e., for en'e by ONDERHILL & MASTERSON, 480 Broome street, corne: Radial oda Sak . who fs Well Ac« qustnied with the nace ware and carriage trim- wing business. ‘To on active man, a liberal pad will be paid. Adress S. M. Pettingill & Co., 10 State sireet, a. Coitees and Segara —Those by every femily, it dof an — quality teh the above object, either by asat WM. LYNCH’S newly erected jd beautiful store Sid Greenwich atreet, corner of ‘Pring. Cognac Otis, Kesences Gin, Jamaica and St. Croix rum, apple, peach and cherry brandy, whiskey and port; patent medicines, erseptial oil, photograpnic, da- querreotype and electrotyps chemicals, and ail metals, for sale by Dr. L. FEUCHTWANGER, 98 Maiden lane, Lr. Warburg's Fevor Orops—Legitimatel; employed in the Crimes, admitted by = Ausisian and British codes as a pharmaceutical preparstion. All the London hor pital phys cians, as Dr, sabbington, Slr Halliday, Sir James Clark; tn 45 Austrian hospitals, b; nd the kings of Holland aud Bel- feliibie intermittant and chill and Hyatt’s Life Baisam, Scrofula and Rheama. tiem, in their most paintul forms, atso old ale the worst cares of dissane of the blood, gres: laver complaint, kidveys, incipient a mort certainly cured by thia great puritier. depot 240 Grand st, 75 cents per bottle. Dr. 8,8. Fitch, Author of the «Jix Lectures #2 consumption,” office 714 Brondway, will be pieased to afford relief to those who have been injured, or who bave failed to be benefitted by the spiciality of iahala~ ) for diseases of the lungs or throat. Open daly (Bandaysexcepted) from 9 to 6 o'clock, Treats cdm- Fa nt Asthma, Cisoases of the heart, and all chronic: of males end fomsles, Consultation free. Dr. #. 8. Fitch is ys at home, and there is po person elsewhere, tra’ Dg or otherwise, in any way connect- ed with him, or authorized to bail from his office oF res fer patients to him Who wilt Suffer1— When Dr. Tobins’ Celew brated Venetian liniment will immediately cure cholera, colic, dysentery, vomiting, rheumatiam, sweliings, cuts burns, Ke, Depot 60 Cortlandt street, New York wold by ail the drugglete and storekeepers. A Great Cure for Female Complaints wit will ke fonrd in Hollowny’s ointment and pill, The wonderful cures effected by these medicines /n complainta incidental to s would sppear incredible to the citizens of the jon, if the fact were not dally con« firmed. Sold st the manufactories, 80 Maken New York, and 244 Strand, london, and by all draggists, at 26 cents, 0234 cents, avd $1 per pot or box,