The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. @PFIOR N.W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Koi-Ka—Vor-av- WIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—CrxDEReuis, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Y'stTHER and Sox—Wo- mane’ Wit—Rogent Eur ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall—472 Broadway. New York, Monday, August 6, 1855. "Mails for the Pacific. THE NEW YORK HEBALD—OALIFORNIA EDITION, ‘The United States mail steamship George Law will leave ‘is port this afternoon at two o'clock, for Aspinwall, ‘Te mails for California and other parts of the Pacific will close at one o'clock. ‘The New York Wrexty Heratp—California edition— sentaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the ‘world, will be published at eleven o’clock this morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, sixpeuce. Agents will picase send in their orders as early as possi- die. Notice to Subscribers. nr subscribers in the Twenty-first ward are requested ‘te leave their names at this office, especially those who @e not get the paper. We have changed our carrier, ana some irregularity in the delivery may have oc- @usred. ‘The steamship Northern Light arrived at this port early last evening from San Juan, with San Fran- eisco dates to the 16th ult., and nearly 9 million in treasure. By this arrival we have received intelli- gence from California in nineteen days and twenty hours—the quickest time ever made between the two points. The news is interesting. On the 12th ult., Mesers. A. A. Cohen, late receivers of the asseta of Adams & Co., and J.C. Woods, a member of that firm, were charged with frauds to the amount of four Bandred thousand dollars, by Judge Chambers, of ‘the late firm of Page, Bacon & Co. Inan affidavit ef Judge C., he alleges that the firm of Adams & ©o. have been engaged for several yeara in palming eff inferior dust upon the firm of Page, Bacon & Co.; ‘that a regularly organized band of disguised ac. complices had been maintained in the various “wining districts of the interior where gold dust is ought and sold. The documents are lengthy, but will well repay perusal. The defendants were held ‘20 bail in the sum of $420,000 each, and an order for arrest was issued by one of the courts, They have pablished a card refuting the charges preferred. ‘The nominees of the Democratic State Convention are given elsewhere. The intelligence of the result of the Virginia election smote the politicians of all parties like a lightuing stroke. The democracy fired one hundred guns in honor of the event. Mr. Dillon, the French Consul, had become involved in a qmarrel with the agent of some French property own- ers, and the misunderstanding would have led toa bostile meeting but for a difference of opinion as to ‘We weapons to be used on the occasion, Dillon had no relish for small swords at last ac- counts. A number of duels had taken place. Mr. Lippincott and Mr. Tevis had a meeting at Downie- ville on the 14th ult. Tevis was shot through the eart—weapons, shot guns; distance, forty paces. ‘Whe news from Lower California is important, and will be found fully detailed in our correspondent’s Detter. The steamer Sierra Nevada, which arrived at San Francisco on the 1th ult., had thirty-one fatal eases of cholera on board. The names of the vic- tims are given elsewhere. Energetic efforts had been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. A fire broke ont in San Francisco on the 4th of July, and before it could be checked nearly eighty thousand dollars worth of property was destroyed. From the amines all accounts agree in pronouncing the present ‘one of the mort successful years since the discovery of the gold. The number of workmen was steadily imcreasing, and the yield will probably exceed that of any other twelve months in the history of Cali fornia. The State was generally healthy. Col, Kinney arrived at San Juan on the 16th ult., with twenty-four men. Col. Walker was at Leon, and it is stated that, having become disgusted with the treachery of hisallies, he contemplated joining the government party. Costa Rica, it seems, has de- termined to take a hand in the war, with the deter- ination and the means to crush out filibusterism entirely. We have later news from the Sandwich Islands. The death of the Hon. A. Paki, the last of the family wf the old chiefs, is about the only event of interest recorded in the papers. We are in receipt of advices to 30th of May, from Dteh Territory. They contain nothing of import- ance further than descriptions of the grasshopper woourge. Dates from the Rio Grande to the 25th ult. have been received. No collision had occurred between the government troops and the insurgents, but bloody work was daily looked for. The news from China, and Oregon and Washington Territories, will be found interesting. Additional returns of the election in North Caroli- wa Jead to the belief that the Congressional delega- tion will stand four democrats to two Americans. About 10 o'clock last night, a whole family was nearly burnt to death at No. 53'; Chatham street. Mrs. Jacobs and three of her children were dread- fully burned; the two oldest were taken from the rains burnt almost to acrisp. Mrs. Jacobs and her infant were conveyed to the NewYork Hospital; their recovery is very uncertain; the workman, named Marcus Sesman, together with a Mrs. Hecht and ohild, four years old, were badly burned—Sesman's injaries are believed to be of a fatal nature. They were all taken to the hospital, The origin of the fire ig said to be mysterious. Mr. Jacobs swas arrested at about 11 o'clock last night, by the Sixth ward police, on suspicion of setting the store on fire. The whole case now comes under the investigation of the Coroner and the Fire Marshal, An account of the calamity will be found elsewhere, The Judges of the Glen Cove régatta have award- ed the first prize to the sloop Julio, and the second tothe sloop Mary, The Katydid andthe Lucky, Yhat were first announced to have won the prizes, wonld have received them were it not that the former fell short in the measurement of her tonnage, and the latter lad more wen aboard than the rules of the regatta permitted. In consequence of these in- formalities they were both ruled not tohave started, though they made the t time in proportion to tonnage, as will be «cen hy the decision of the jndges, given elsewhere ne given in the table is not what was act nade by the yachts, ag allowances are reer nm the difierences of tonnage in the respecti A steamboat from Philadelphia nd » Cape May, on Saturday night came in contact bs schooner in the river, and it is supposed between fit. teen and twenty persons were drowned. No named have yet been ascertained. joaed firm on Satay ales. Our cotton market cl reaching about 1,500 ment in flour, aud the market closed quiet, withor change in p Wheat was more freely offered, and prices of Southern red favored purchasers, while sales There was les good to prime white was searce and frm. Corn was again lower, with sales at s3 1 conta, chiefly at 83. Pork was quite stendy, with a fate amount of transactions. © aud sugars Were firm, with loss doing, it being Satarday, vod *y morehante Bave ing gone to the country to remsin till Monday Freights to Liverpool, owing to the siall aumber of veasels on, were firmer, In consequence of quaran, tine difiiculties with Norfolk, sinall vessets wore wanted to bring wheat from Ocracoke, Nort) : tina, and a schooner of 4.000 bushels capactty way chartered at twelve cents por bushel, aud gious were DB Acwond for the same wey 'The Restoration of the Missouri Line—How it isto be Cqerrted Through the Senate=Gen. ‘Webb's Plan. The Senate of the United States is the great conservative balance wheel in our government, and the stumbling block instantly suggested when our Northern agitators talk of repealing the Kansas-Nebraska bill and restoring the Missouri restriction, But they are not without their plan for obtaining the concurrence of the Senate. It is the simple plan of coercion. The supply bills are to be stepped by the House until the inflexibles of the Senate are brought to terms. In other words, like a besieged city, when all other means for redneing it have failed, the Senate are to be starved into a capi- tulation. This is the process proclaimed by our leading Seward organs, and may be there- fore considered as part and parcel of the ge- neral programme of the arch agitator for the humiliation or secession of the South. The new confederate of the anti-slavery Holy Alliance, General Webb, of the Courier and Enquirer, bas, however, come out with an exposition showing that the Senate may be brought to the restoration of the Missouri black line without any difficulty whatever, in the natural way, viz: by a majority of the Se- nate in favor of the measure. He proposes to bring ina new free State or two, and then proceeds with his estimate, a6 follow: Oregon has already yoted to apply for admission into the Union, and Minnesota is prepared to take the same step. Before tho expiration of the present Congress these ‘Territories will undoubtedly become States, 80 that the entire number of Senators will be 66, of which a majority will be 34. Are we not entitled to set down the following senators as certain to vote for the Restoration :—Fessen- den and Hamlin, of Me,; Bell and Hale, of N. H.; 8 and Wilson, of Mass.; Jumes and Allen, of R. 1.; Col mer and Foot, of Vt.; Foster, of Ct.; Seward and Fish, of N. Y.; Wade, of Ohio; Trumbull, of Illinois; Harlan, of Iowa; Durkee, of Wisconsin; Bell, of Tennessee; and Hous- ton, of Texas; the two Senators from Oregon, the two from Minnesota, and the two Senators who are yet to be elected in Pennsylvania and Indiana—in all 25, This is not quite enough ; but our persever- ing Chevalier has fought through too many battles, senatorial, diplomatic and military, to give itup so. He falls back upon the reserved corps of the following probabilities in favor of the Missouri restoration, to wit :—Mr. Pugh, of Ohio; the Senator to be elected from California in the place of Dr. Gwin; Mr. Clayton, of Delaware; and Mr. Stuart, of Michigan. These, if he can get them, will give him thirty ; but with the new States of Oregon and Minnesota represented, making a Senate of sixty-six members, he still wants four more for the required majority. So he proceeds to beat the bush again after this fachion :—“Saying nothing of Mr. Toucey, of Connecticut ; or Mr. Weller, of California; or Mr. Benjamin, of Louisiana; or the Senator who succeeds Mr, Badger in the old North State, may we not reasonably look for such a manifestation of true patriotism in Mr. Crit- tenden, of Kentucky, the two Senators from New Jersey, and James H. Pierce, of Mary- land, than whom there is not a more sterling patriot in the country ?” And thus the case of our Wall street volun- teer in the Seward nigger coalition is made out. But no sooner does he set up his man of straw, than he proceeds to knock him down again. He is afraid that the Massachusetts Senators, and Mr. Hale, of New Hampshire, would oppose the restoration of the black line, because it would rob them of their active capital, and stop their agitation. So it might; but still we think their yotes may be relied upon when reqnired to carry the proposition. They would find -it inconvenient to swallow all their loud words of two or three years’ agitation at a single mouthfal, to say the least of it. Assuming, then, that the free soilers may be (rusted in the support of their own bantling, what is the estimate of our Wall street aid-de- camp of Mr, Seward worth? Give him the twenty-five men of the first branch of the caleula. tion, we fear that the other nine will prove to he, for his purpose, nothing more than Falstafi’s “eleven men in buckram.” Every man of them, we are confident, when brought to the question of restoring the Missouri restriction, will vote to leave the matter precisely where it stands, with the people of the Territories to decide for themselves whether or not slavery stiall be among their local institutions. We dare say that for a bill in the next Congress to re- peal the Nebraska and Kansas act as far as relates to the Missouri line, there could scarcely be mustered in the Senate a sum total of twenty votes, even with the addition of two free soil Senators each, with the new States of Oregon and Minnesota, that are to be brought into the Union on purpose to aid in this beautiful project of pacification. We go further, and express it as our deliberate opinion, that with this new Northern abolition ernsade in full blast, neither Oregon nor Minne- sotacan be admitted into the Union short ofa definite settlement of the Kansas controversy: for the South, in a solid body, will resist the introduction of any additional free soilers into the Senate without some counterbalancing equivalent. The Union now consists of thir one States—sixteen free and fifteen slave S es; giving to the North a majority of two in the Senate, a majority, however, which the South have thns involving heen able tg control upon any issue ir COnstilutional rights. But the sonth feel that they can go no further with safe- ty in destroying the balance ofpower. Their only pe tee against Northern Senate, When they ion of two or thre Senatorial e guaran. fety of the eressions n¢ in the lost that by an States, and “no more s be completely at the meres the anti-laver lerein lies the kernel of the whole contro: versy; and if the South ar sally int ested in the iny of K it is beeanse the final determination of “ squatter sovereignty’ in that Territory may involve the vital to outh of submission in the who he Union come what may, or secession from the Union atall hazards, No, sir, Neither ¢ m nor Minnerota can be admitted » the Unton pending this combined anti-slavery onslaught upon Kau sor as long as this ery of “no more “aye States” is made a general Northern war-whoop the Presidency. The South hold anoy in Kansas now. They aves there—their property in sh 1 vested right in the Terri to give K tution recognising the exist of slavery ; aud until that nce and legality riment is set- ted, thongh 8 deghe take Eopiesi” «3 t y will be no more anti-slave States The admission of California, in direct con- travention of the Missouri comprontee, dos troyed the equilibrium of the two port the Senate, by giving another Stat» ¢als« the who] of our Pacis coast acy: NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1865. A Mexico) to the North. The South would have assented to a division of the Territory by the Missouri line—they moved it—they asked it —they argued for it as a compromise ; but it was refused, because the sovereign people of California had settled the question for them- selves. Kansas and Nebraska have only been placed upon exactly the same footing as Cali- fornia. The dividing line is obliterated ; the people are left free to decide in their own sovereign right upon their own domestic insti- tutions; and in remembrance of California the South will insist upon a fair experiment of “ squatter sovereignty ” in this latter case. It is but the California principle applied to Kan- sas and Nebraska, nothing more, though the positions of the bull and the ox may be changed. It is an issue, moreover, which comprehends the equality of the Southern States in the Union, or their future de- pendance upon Northern protection and forbearance ; and, therefore, to speak of the restoration of the Missouri line, through the agency of the admission of two or three new free States into the Union, and their represen- tation in the Senate, is to speak to the South of the direct issue itself of submission or se- cession. It is too late to talk of tHe restoration of the peace of the country by restoring the Missouri line. The day has gone by when it was either practicable or possible to stand longer by that compact. It received its death warrant with the admission of California, It has been since extinguished, and can never again be reached in the Senate. The South, and a sufficient number of the conservatives of the North, will adhere to the straight and plain doctrine of the Nebraska bill. Our Wall street cotempo- rary, in his new service, fights upon a pretext. Enlisted with the Seward rank and file, Gar- rison included, be should go the whole figure : “No more slave States—no more slave terri- tory—the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law,” &c. In these propositions there is something definite, while the restoration of the Missouri black line is a chimera and a deiusion. At all events, the plan of Gen. Webb’s Seward col- leagues, of starving the Senate into submis- sion, is more practical than his estimates of a free soil majority through the admission of the new States of Oregon and Minnesota. Our venerable cotemporary, in due time, will discover that, hereafter, the admission of any Northern State, with the acquiescence of the South, will depend upon a similar conces- sion to the South, though it may require the division of Texas, the purchase of Cuba, and the annexation of Mexico. The South may still control the Northern majority of two in the Senate; and while they feel thet it would be perilous to them to consent to i's increase, they will hold their ground. Let the Cheva- lier Webb bear in mind, then, when he speaks of admitting Oregon and Minnesota to expel the slaveholders from Kansas, thai before he cooks his rabbit he must catch it, Tue Cuban Revorvtionary Movement anv THE Junta—We publish to-day, in another por- tion of our columns, the translation of a mani- festo issued by the Cuban Junta of this city, and addressed to the Cuban people. This is a very interesting, important, and highly sugges tive document, and will naturally attract a large amount of public attention. It is not an exposé of the causes which led to the premature and sterile disruption of the recent filibustero movement—that we are promised in a subse- quent paper—but it is rather a reasoned dis- quisition on the past phases and present condi- tion of the revolution. We think, however, it would have been just as appropriate to have addressed this manifesto to the people of the United States, for it is quite evident, through- out every sentence of it, that the object of it was to excite public attention in this country towards the subject; and certainly it is one in which we are as much interested as the people of Cuba themselves. Concealed under amass of verbiage, there are several points in this statement designed and calculated to effect the object contem- plated. One thing, bowever, is prominently and undisguisedly brought forward, and that is, that in the prosecution of the struggle with Spain, Cuba need no longer repose any confi- dence or hope in the co-operation of the United States. The greatest enemy, say the Junta, which the revolutionary movement has met with, has been the federal administrations of the United States, no matter to what political party they belonged; and they intimate in very plain terms, that though one of the chief planks in the platform of the existing govern- ment was sympathy to Cuba, no former admi- nistration was so faithless to its pledges or so derelict to its duty, when not only the interests but the honor of the country were concerned; and, therefore, they admit that though the lay- ing of the foundation of the movement in the United States was a work of necessity, it was at the came time an error, and ait error which, they insinuate, must be abandoned. It wonld be difignlt to declaye fa brief to what this manifesto amounts, It hints, inuendos and insinuations which may or may not be properly interpreted—hints about fore-wearing the contemplated scheme of an- nexation{ hints about the Tripartite Conyen contains tion for guaranteeing Cuba to Spain: and hints about that peculiar and delicate question in which the lings and desi of the civi ized world y they—and the interests of humaniiy ysorbed : meaning the question of African slavery. But what these all tend to, if not solely to fix public atiention in this country. it wonld be diffienlt to declare posi- tively. The only point in which there is any definitencss, is that no further reliance must be placed upon the co-operation of the United States, and that-the Cubans must take the int. tiative and on the struggle at home. In other words, they have at length, it seems, ar. ¥ Tat the healthy, safe, and only noble con- clusion, that Who would be free, Ihemvelves must strike the bi Daxeer ov tin Preries.—Something should be done to protect life at the ferries to Brook- At present every child who crosses does oat imminent risk. There are no suitable guards to protect children from falling over- lyn. hoard; and mother or nurse who allows her chili to escape her eye, rung a fearful risk indeed. Substantial nettings uld be pro vided, as in moet of our river boats; and then denizens of the cities on either side the Sound send their children to take the But in trath the comp: might safel air on the East river. nice who enjoy & monopoly of the ferrios a so objectionable in almost every respect, that it eoema almost futile to partionlarize one point of delinquency, Tug <AzowtionisTs Hoaxep.—Great alarm was caused in the abolitionist camp, some time since, by the appearance of an article in the Nebraska Oity News on the subject of slavery, and likewise by an advertisement in the same journal offering negroes for sale. The aboli- tionists said they saw plainly that Nebraska was to be made a slave State, and that this was the beginning of the work. Upon this text they said many severe things of slavery and of Nebrdska and wrought themselves piously into a fury thereon. It now appears, from an article from the Nebraska City News, which we publish elsewhere, that our abolition- ist cotemporaries had been all too hasty in their judgments. The editor is not, as they supposed, a rabid slavery man bent on Jocal- izing slavery in Nebraska; but a moderate ix by nine democrat” who takes sound con- stitutional middle ground, and laughs philo- sophically at the extremes on both sides. It also appears that the four negroes who were offered for sale in his paper were not flesh and blood niggers, but glass figures—all made of glass. The four objects over whose sorrows the tears of the abolitionists have so long been flowing were mere glass toys, The fact was, the “six by nine democrat” of the News, being hard up for an advertisement for his new paper, bethought himself of turn- ing to account the slavery controversy. So he wrote an article on the subject which as he says drew down upon him all the fires of the North, and the noisy applause of the South: it was copied into forty papers making y first rate advertisements gratis. So with the negroes for sale. The notoriety that notice has procured him would have been cheap at any price. PresipentiaL Estimarses.—We see that some of our democratic and American party cotem- poraries are beginning to count up the pro- bable distribution of the electoral vote of the Union at the next Presidential election, Con- sidering the dislocations, re-organizations, fu- sions and divisions going on among all parties throughout the country, all these estimates for November, 1856, are certainly very absurd. Nothing could be more silly. It would be more reasonable to give us an estimate of the day, and the result, and the losses to the va- rious armies engaged, of the final struggle at Sebastopol. Some months will yet elapse—per- haps a whole year—before all the parties to the contest for 1856 will have taken their positions in the field. The drift of events is rapidly hurrying us to a sectional scrub race, in which case we are just as likely to have half-a-dozen, candidates as two or three. The American party have ®till the only substantial nucleus for a run around the whole course; but we must await Yt least the organization of the next Congress before we can make any reli- able estimates for the Presidency, Everything yet is at sixes and sevens. Four Panties ry Os10.—There are four par- tiesin the field for the October election in Obio, to wit:— 1, The republican fusion party—including free soil whigs, free soil democrats, free soil Know ‘Nothings and Know Somethings, and free soilers, abolitionists, and socialists of all kinds, 2. The seceding Know Nothings. 3. The independent old line whigs. 4. The spoils democracy. The fight will undoubtedly be between the first party and the last named, just as our last November election centred upon the two ex- tremes represented by the Seward and the soft shell democratic candidate, Last October the whig, free soil and Know Nothing fusionists carried Ohio by 80,000 majority. But now, with the national Know Nothings cutting loose from this Chase and Ford platform of Seward &Co., the result may be different. “It isa very pretty quarrel as it stands. Wowen Porsricrans.—The liberty party an- nounce that their State convention will meet on the 12th September at Utica. “The com- mittee solicit the attendance of the liberty men and women of this State to the conven- tion.” So says the call, It is to be hoped that the female portion of the party will re- spond. In these parts, the proportion of men is to that of women as about 25 to 24. So that if the ladies do their duty, and a hundred members of the liberty party meet in conven- tion, there should be over forty-five ladies. The latter by judiciously availing themselves of the divisions of opinion which are sure to prevail among the men, might secure the no- mination of an entire female ticket. As to the higher offices, there might be some difficulty in conciliating their incumbering by ladies with the constitution ; but there appears to be no- thing to prevent the election of ladies to com- missionerships, or indeed to any subordinate posts. If, therefore, the women’s rights wo- men really mean well for their cause, now is their time. A blow well struck now, and the battle of the petticoats is won. Santa Aywna Cowrna.—Our last accounts from Mexico tells us that Santa Anna is at length becoming disgusted with the cares of ate; and there being no peace in Mexico, he is preparing for another exile, This time, it seems, he intends to come to the United States, and we should not be surprised were he to locate himself among the unpatented nobility of the Fifth avenue. The latest rumor from Washington says that Don Vidal y Ribas, Sonta Anna’s father intaw, although more than twenty years younger than Hi rene High- ness, has been appointed Minister to the United States; and that very shortly, with his wife ud her daughter, “the beautiful Dolores,” wife of Santa Anna, may be accordingly soon expected here or at Washington, It farther appears that all this is but preliminary to the departure of Anna himself from his | capital, upon a compromise with the reyolu- tionisis, to whom he will leave the govern- ment. llis Serene Highness has ] exhausted his means of resistance. Ten mil- | lians go but a short way with him, though we | Santa Reason why? THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Frightful Collision on the Delaware River COLLISION BETWEEN A STEAMBOAT AND A SCHOO- NER—FIFTEEN OR TWENTY PERSONS MISSING. Pmapeurma, Aug. 5, 1855. The steamer Gen. McDonald, Capt. Pierce, left here last evening, at 84; o’clock, on an excursion to Cape May, with 150 passengers; and while proceeding down at a rapid rate, came in contact, about 10 o’clock at night, with schooner A, G. Pease, from Philadelphia, bound to Hart- ford, waich was at anchor below Tinnicum Island, ‘The schooner returned to port this morning to repair her bowsprit and larboard bulwarks ‘The steamboat was badly damaged, and, melancholy to relate, from fifteen to twenty persons are missing. ‘The steamboat Sun left here this morning, at 8 o’clock, to render assistance to the Gen. McDonald, and sue ceeded in towing her to Wilmington, Del., where she wil ve repaired. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE ACCIDENT. Purcapetruia, August 5, 1855. The steamer General McDonald, while on an excursion to Cape May last night, came in collision with the schooner A. G. Pease, about nine o'clock, off Lazaretto. The schooner struck the steamer on the larboard side, reking her wheelhouse, &ec., completely aft. Some eight or ten person who were in the barber’s shop at the time were swept overboard and drowned, The schooner sus tained little injury, but the steamer was damaged to the extent of about two thousand dollars, The McDonald had 150 passengers on board, and de- signed taking large number on board at New Castle. The échooner showed a light, but the night way so very dark and stormy, that it deceived the pilot as to his dis- tance from the schooner. Most of the passengers being strangers, it is impossible to give the name of the lost, or the exact number. Ac- counts agree that there were ten or twelve persons in the barber’s shop at the time of the accident—all of whom tmust have been crwehed or thrown overboard. The steamer struek the schooner on the larboard side, and the boom of the latter entered the barber's shop, crushing everything in its course, carrying away the wheelhouse, and all the rooms on that side of the steamer. Serious Railroad Accident on the Northern New Hampshire Railroad. Bostoy, August 5, 1855. The express train on the Northern New Hampshire Railroad met with an accident near Canaan, at 2 0’clock yesterday afternoon. The axles of the tender and bag- gage car broke, and the latter was completely demolished. B. P. Cheney, Esq., of Boston, was in the baggage car, ‘and was seriously, if not fatally, injured. A brakeman named Rollins had his leg broken. A young man from Concord was severely bruised, and others were slightly injured. The train arrived hore at 12 o’clock. CANAAN, August 5—12 M. Mr. Cheney bas had his right arm amputated at the shoulder, and his physicians think his shoulder also must be amputated. His lips and face have been very badly cut. North Carolina Election. Barsrworr, August 5, 1855. In the First Congressional district, Branch, dem., i elected by an increased majority. In the Fifth district the election is yery close, but it is believed that Shaw, dem., is elected. Ratyicn, August 5, 1855. Branch’s, dem., majority, in the Fourth Congressiona) district is 2,700, Ruffin, dem., in the S€cond, and Craige, dem., in the Seventh district, are elected by large ma- jorities. Kerr, whig and and anti-K. N. candidate in the Fifth district, is defeated. It ia believed the delegation will stand six democrats and two Americans, From the Rio Grande. Barong, August 5, 1855, New Orleans papers of Monday last have been received here, containing Brownsville dates to the 25th ult. No collision had yet taken place between the insur gents and the government forces. The insurgents bad gathered in great strength, and the people everywhere were joining their standard. The fall of Matamoros was considered inevitable. Yellow Fever at Norfolk and Portsmouth. Baumore, August 5, 1855, We learn from Norfolk that no new cases of yellow fever have been reported there, At Portsmouth the people are very much alarmed, and are leaving rapidly. The fever is spreading, and new cases are reported in all parts of the city. It has been raining in torrents here all the evening. Two Boys Drowned while Bathing. Hurtrorp, August 5, 1855. Two promising lads, aged about thirteen years, sons of J. C. Andrews and the late Rev. Joseph Tyler, were drowned in the river in this city on Saturday afternoons The New Commissioner of the L and Office. Wasunato, August 5, 1855. Mr, Hendricks, of Indiana, having accepted the appoint- ment tendered him, as Commissioner of the Land Office, he will enter on his duties on the 9th inst. Markets. Burraro, August 4—9.90 P. M. The flour market is firm, with a fuir demand for the interior; sales of 1,300 bbls, at $8 a $8 6234 for good to extra Upper Lake, and $00 $9 25 for extra Michigan and Southern Ohio. Wheat—Market firm, with a moderate inquiry; sales of 2,000 bushels Upper Lake spring at $1 60, and 900 bushels white Michigan at $225, Corn—Less doing: sales of 20,000 bushels Cincinnati at 7 Held at 480. Canal freights dull; corn 12 Jake imports for the last 24 hours: wheat, 176 bushels; corn, 66,000 bushels. the same time:—Flour, 267 bbla.; wheat, 6,{ corn, 47,960 busl t8, 7,000 bushels. Auiaxy, August 4 M Flour—Prices steady, and market dull, Corn—Lower sales of 8,000 bushels Western mixed at Sle. a 81 ise Sales of 16,000 bushels Chicago ants at %¢ Receipts by canal to-day: 1,065 bbls. flour els corn, 7,465 bushels dats. Province, August 4, 1855. Cotton—Market steady; sales of the week, 1,500 bales. wi 8 unchanged, with a fair demand; stock ac , sales of 104,000 tbs, Printing cloths—Mar- ket quiet; no change in sales of 30,900 pieces. mes RACHEL—PRICH OF ADAUSSION TO HER PERFORMANCES — Considerable curiosity has been manifested in various quarters as to the probable price of admission to the French performances by Mile. Rachel and others, to com- mence at the Metropolitan theatre on the Ist proxirao, Itis very certain that the public desire to see the fainous French tragedienne is wide spread, and that if the entre: to her representations is given at a reasonable price, there will be not much doubt about An enterprise of such magnitude cannot be sustained by our Freneh residents, many of whom ar fond of talking about “high art,’ but very loth to pay for it. It is to American theatre goers, then, that Mlle, Rachel mu look for the profit of her transatlantic trip, Wg have already published a copy of the contra between Mile, Rachel and her mana, also a list of the salaries of the stock estimated expenses for the nile on of approaching hundred nights, The gross expenses amount to over half ‘® million of 4 which would bring the billof M Felix up to nearly three thousand dollars per night. W have heard that, in view of these heavy ex ea, itis the intention of M. Felix to place the price of the best eats at five dollars each. Althouglt we have aut that the European verdict upon Mile. Rachel will be confirmed tn the Unite yet we think that many persons who would otherwise embrace with pleasure the opportunity to see the great st, will be prevented by the The fast th ai season was a bad oue for almost all thy managers paching season will be better; bat the still the pe il have so much money to lavieh upon artists, however great they may be, as {a the golden days of Jenny 1 at Castie Garden. We think that the highest price to Mile. Rachel's performances should not exceed three de presume he will take care not to leave Mexico empty handed. Make room for His Serene Excorsion To Newro LAND. The teamehip James Adger, which bas a by the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph | Canpany for the laying of the submarine cable across the GulfofSi, Lawrence, will leave pier No. 4, North river ».morrow morning, at 10 o'e Apart from the inte- h attaches to the ex rue The. Tete naret been charte ion on account of its t, It py he mst pleasant in a A point of view. The James Adgor, although a new poat, has been repainted and furnished with everything that may contribute to the recommerlation aud pleawve of 2g company, rest wh i to be se Tee Merropoutay THRATRESBALLER AD VAUDRVILEE— This beautiful theatre is about to be re-opened on Wednesday next (or the production of ballet and vaude- ville, 11 is to continue open for ten days. The following artists, in addition to a complete corps de ballet, are to ap pear jorita Soto, Miles, Franck, Tilman and Henri, and e, Tilman and Yates. The y to be presented is the grand Spanish ballet entitled “La Gita the Gitpecy. On ihe same evening there will also be presented two French vamdevilles, entitlod “Une Ca > and “Les s d'un Premier Lit,” by the French ‘orpt damatique under Mons. Gustave. The whole performances will be under the direction of Mons, manager of the Finch theatre, Ne ‘The Common Council. ‘The Board of Aldermen will hold the first meeting of their August session this evening, if a quorum can be found iu the city. There ia no question of special iate- rest that we know of pending before them, except the long looked for and long desired subject of building the- New City Hall and Law Courts; and we have every reason to believe that the matter will be again etaved off, and that no action will be taken as to the plans and specifica- tions by the present Board. The Board of Councilmen alse begin their session for the: month of August this evening. The board will hold eight meetings, the number required by Inw, and then ad- journ over till September next. The calendar for this term is very light and ualmportant. The only docu- ments put down for consideration are pape:’s upon street improvements, upon assessments, and »pon building a few houses for Engine companies, Al? ot these papers will be passed over without much excitement, The only document of any interest upon the calendur is the report of the Committee on Markets, in favor of granting the farmers room for their wagons at Fultoe market, &e. ‘This paper has already made something of a stir, and may call up an exciting debate during the present term. The poard will meet every evening till they adjourn for the month, The Commissioners appointed for the geaxrpose of in- quiring into the subject of opening the Central park have now been deliberating for several months, ata coat of about $20 a day to the city. The public se calling for information. Will the Common Council divext the Corpo- ration Counsel to enlighten them? ‘The Board of Supervisors will also meet tis evening the President of the Board of Aldermen, Issac O, Barker, Fsq., a8 locum tenens Mayor, will preside. ‘The Board of Health, comprised of merahers ef both branches of the city legislature, will meet at 3 o'clock to-day. The Law Courts. There will not be any jury trials during the month of August, nor any other,business except m/ions amd de- cisions in cases submitted at spectal term. Most of the Judges are out of town, enjoying some coo! retreat. Judge Cowles sits in special term of the Supreme Court, and Judge Hoffman in the Superior. Judge Doty bas return- ed to the city improved in health, and peesides in the Common Pleas chambers, where the principal business at present seems to be transferring natives af “dowm-trod- den Europe” snto “free and independent citizens of Ame- rica.” Judge Birdsall will*it in the Marine Court during this month, Jtidge McCarthy having gone to tbe country to resuscitate bis health, which has been weakened by incessant attention to his judicial duties, tv: having beer compelled frequently to sit till 8 or 9 o'clock at night, in order to dispose of the vast number of causes which had accumulated on the calendar in consequemee of the ab- sence, for several months past, of the third Justice, (thompson) from persenal indisposition and deaths in his family. ‘The United States Commissioners’ Courts are occasion- ally enlivened by an examination into am alleged case of fitting out a vessel for the slave trade, or an investigation into charges of enlisting men im the United States for the service of the Allies in the Crimea. The, however, have not amounted to much, “¢ The August term of the Court of General Sessions hegins to-day. The calendar of this court is quite Jarge, owing to the adjouypment last’ month without do- ing any business, There are several murder cases on the calendar, which have been passed over foom term to n during the summer, and which are moa likely to be ‘hed this term. Recorder Smith is ont of town and will nct return till September next, as we are informed, and the term for this court for this month will be opened. ly Judge Stuart. It is probable that no business will be done this warm weather, and that the eourt will organize ro as to answer the demands of the law, ang then adjourn. over till September. ‘The following are the cases on the calemtar of the Court eral Sessions for the August term, for which we ere indebted to Mr. John H. Whetmore, Clexx of the City Vrison:—Grand Larceny, 50; burglary, 27; robbery, 6; ¥. A. and B., 7; bigamy, 1; forgery, 8; nruvder, 6; disor- derly houses, 2; rape 1; perjury, 1; embezzlement 1; false pretences, 1—total 81. Farewell Missionary Mecting in Brooklyn. DEPARTURE OF MISSIONARIES TO THY M ARQUESAB. A meeting was held last evening in Rev. Henry Ward Feecher’s church, preparatory to the departare to-day of several missionaries to the Marquesas Islowls. The edi- fice was crowded, and the exercises were of a most in- seresting character. The missionaries are, Mr. and Mrs, Seymour, Dr. Coxie and Miss Platt, and Mr. and Mre. Mille, Mr. Mills has been for many years » resident of one of thore islands, of which Mrs, Mills is herwlfa native. n appearances he beare such a striking resemblance to an pijan that she might easily be mistaken for one. The expression of her face is rather pleasing thin otherwise, and indicates a greater degree of intelligence than we generally accord to the inhabitants of the Marquesas. She way neatly dressed, und in her manner presented 10. difference from that of her white sisters. Her husband was a satlor, and was wrecked on the Margroas ; but we must let him tell his own story. Mr, Lewt+ Tappan pre- sided, and Rev. Mr. Jocelyn opened the exercises with prayer. The choir then sung an appropriate hymn, after which the President stated the objects of the meeting. He caid that this was the first movement which had been made for the conversion of the Marquesas with the pro- inise of success, Efforts had «already been made, but they had failed. Mr. Mills, be continued, was formerly a lor, and was born in the north of freland. He came to js country when quite a lad, and has beca living about sixteen years on the Marquesas, He has done much for the improvement of the condition of its people, and he now comes to this country in quest of nuivsionaries to aid him in his efforts for the promotion of civilization among them, He married the eldest daughter of one of the prin- chiefs, and his son, a boy about six years old, is the heveditery chief. Dr. Coxie is from Ohio, and will be united io marriage before his departure ith Miss Platt, whe companies him. They expect to leafe their distant mission by way of Califors nin. We now assemble with them, said Mr. T. in con- clusion, to give them an opportunity of taking leave of their Obristian friends, and to join with them in appro- priate religions exercises. Mr. Tappan introduced Mr. Mills, who gave a plain statement of his experience among the natives of the Mar- queens, He said he was shipwrecked there while on a whaling voyage, with five of his shipmates. ‘The reputa- tion of the natives, he continued, was not auch as to im- press him with the most favorable opinions toward them, for they were known to be cannibals. However, they rtunes among them, and landed on the island of Dominique, which was the worst of the whelegroup. Iteentained about «ix thousand inhabitants, while the aggregate papulation of the Marquesas is estimat- forty thousand. gpon landing, they had a very dif fevent recey n from what they expected, for they were treated m itably. They lived with them some time Vc fore an oftportui ed of their leaving the island; and they finally resolved on making. them es There had, he said, sort of trade between ites had vo often cheat- t they would not trade with them, had become requent on acres, both of the natives and 1 these served to em- the whites bitter the fe A plan way formed an hipwrecked sailors to getaway from the Hof them» ing their eseape t behind by his After this, ape, and one ftand, a di s isan ls attempted several times to ¢ © walked to the western side of the twenty-tive id put bim on board of then to put in and deat a vvidentially f his was Ato got ih m of the reason andwieh Islands were a great ¢ after they were visited by the missonaries than before, ei that this was attributable to them. This, however, said Mr. M., » not the fact, for it was attributable New Eagland um. Notwithetanding the diffi ywever, under which he labored he sv tabli bing amicable elations between the natives and the whites. It would notdo, he said, to instract the inhabitants that they st rotdo wrong on prrely religious ¢counte—they should be impresses) with ihe {dea that in a worldly point of view it would have avery bad effect upon + There was some truth, after all, in the charge that much injury had been done by the missionaries; but this was y the opposiion of the Protestant ministers Catholic priests, each of whom told the people net to listen to the other, and thus the people distras them both. Providentially, the Catholics did not succeed in getting any to lietén to them, and they covld not even: preenre one of the natives to act a4 sérvants to them, they attempted to convert by imprisoning them, but the people would not be driven to accept a religion which was forced upon them. He thought it would be well to intro- duce the English Inngusge as much as Vs <ible among them, but he did not think any good would be effected by ordaining native clergyinen, for they were not very teat. fast in their religions convictions, and were liable to re- lapee om the slightest temptation, They had a religion ot their own, believed in a Supreme Being, wha communicated through propbets hy dreams, Thee prophets tell them wuew ey we 1A inves