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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. DPFION N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—Tap Carnve—Tae Mange GLADLTORS—Macic TROMPET. WYBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—CiXDERELDA. » — BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Pnive ov var Makkar—~ eee DUH LOVEASITREN STRING JACK. METROPOLITAN Lape Brosienag Ale Carnice-- Baa GeraNa—Les SUITES D’UN ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall—472 Broadway. Mails for Europe. NEW YORK NERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘Fhe Collins mail steamship Atlantic, Capt. West, will Weave thir port to-day, at noon, for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city at half-past ‘ten o’elock thie morning. ‘The Henaip (printed in English and French) will be “yoblished at ten o'clock in the morning. Single copies, ap wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the ~Nuw York Henar will be received at the following places fa Eurape:— . John Hunter, No. 12 Fuchango street, Fast. ‘Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill. ‘m. Thomas & Co,, No, 19 Catharine street ivingston, Welly & p,, 8 Place de la Bourse. ‘The contents of the E fWHition of the Heap will embrace the news \y mail and telegraph at ‘he office during the previows week, and to the hour of podlication. Notice to Subscribers. ur subscribers ia the Twenty-firet ward are requested do leave their names'at this office, expecially those who @ not get the paper. We bave changed our carrier, wad come irregularity io the delivery may have oc- wusred. 3 The News. The steamship Baltic, from Liverpool, arrived be. dow at half past twelve o'clock this morning. She brings one week’s later news. Under the telegraphic head we give brief details of the origin, progress, and termination of the san- guinary election riots at Louisville, Ky., on Monday * and yesterday forenoon. It is ascertained that at Jeast twenty persons have lost their lives in this ter- ible encounter, but the nomber of the wounded, and the loss of life by the burning and sacking of the twelve dwelling honses fired by the mob, is not even conjectared. The riot is said to have been com- menced by the foreigners, and the first outbreak oc- eurred at some distance from the place of holding the polls, but upon this point the accounts conflict. Yes- terday forenoon, through the efforts of some of the most prominent citizens of Louisville, the rioters were restrained from further acts of violence, and during ‘tthe day a large force of special police was organized, and two companies of military ordered under arms, Theec precautions doubtless prevented a renewal of athe disturbance. From the imperfect telegraphic despatches that have reached us, giving the returns from the States which have just held their annual elections, it is mext to impossible to give, with any degree of oer tainty, the names of the successful candidates. From present appearances, however, the following stand ‘the most prominent:. TENNESSEE. Governor— Andrew Johnson, democrat, (by a very small majority.) Oongress—Thomas Rivers, K. N., is probably elected in the Tenth district, represented in the last @ongress by Frederick P. Stanton, democrat. In ‘the Eighth district, Felix K. Zollikoffer, K. N., is re- cheeted. NORTH CAROLINA. The following members of Congress ave probably reelected: — Dist. i—R. T. Paine, K. N., in place of H. M. Shaw, dem. 2—Thomas Ruffin, dem., re-elected. 3—W. Winslow, dem., in place of S. H. Ashe, dem. 4—L. O'B. Branch, dem., in place of 8. H. Rogers, whig. SB. G. Reade, K. N., in place of John Kerr, whig. 6—R. C, Puryear, K. N., re-elected. 7—RB. Craige, dem, re-clected. #—L. R. Carmichael, K. N., in place of 'T. L. Cling- man, dem. ‘Whie will make the delegation stand four to four, Yn the last Congress there were five democrats and taree whigs. ALABAMA. We have the majorities given in half a dozen ‘connties, but not enfficient to indicate in the slightest degree the result. EENTUCKY. It is conceded that L. M. Cox, K. N., i# re-elected iu the Ninth, over Robert H. Stanton, the democra- ‘ic candidate; and Swope, K.N., is no doubt clected ‘im the Tenth district. We publish elsewhere from the China Mail a #tatement of the case of the Chinese dramatic com- pany, who were induced to visit this country last year on the representations of a person named Beach, and who, our readers will recollect, were re- duced to a state of deplorable destitution by the failure of thelr performances. This document is from the pen of a meniber of the company, named Zwingle, and indulges in unmeasared abuse, not only of the persons whom it accuses of having contributed w their sufferings, but ulso of the American people and their institntions. Without entering into the merite of the charges made by the writer against in- dividuals, we are justified in saying that Zwingle’s eonclusions as to our national imperfections are nei wher very philosophical nor very grateful. He has forgotten the efforts made to relieve the necessities of hie computriots in the resentment which he feels at the conduct of the parties in whose hands they placed themeclves. We give the letter rather a8 a sort of literary curiosity, than as a statement de serving of serious notice. Our correspondent at Havana, writivg on Angast 2, states that the United States sailors of oar ditter- cut national vessels had, whilst in port, added to their high reputation for morality, sobriety and good conduct, by an observance of such courses, whilst their excellent state of discipline was much admired. Trade was active for remnants of sugar Blocke, and the prospects of the plauters good. We have news from Galveston to the 28th ult. ‘The approaching election occupied public attention, to the exclusion of all other subjects. In Western ‘Texas heavy rains had done considerable damage, and apprehensions were felt that the cotton crop wonld be injured. Gen. Smith had arrived at San Antonio, with twenty wagons, on his way to Kansas, rnder orders of Gen. Harney. . ‘The Joseph Walker lavestigating Commitice ne yesterday afternoon. Mr. James firm of Pease & Murphy, was exami:cd, but the tes Mimowy was onimportant. At one period--he didno recollect the datehe handed in a proposal, on Velhaly of the Floating Derick Company, offering to raise the wreck and remove it for the sain of $9,000. Mo, Farey, to whom he gave the paper, told him that ti Mayor bad already made « contract for the wreck with Walter R. Jones. The choirman of the com mittee made some personal explanations with 1 a to the mention of My. od'e name in vonnes- tion with the affhir. The meeting is adjouned sub ject tothe cali of the chairman Z The Street Cleaning Committee of the Board of Souneilmen met yesterday take testimony with reference to whe contre h the prop street cleaning mecbines. A rep ot iv given eleowhere. he proceedings of the meeting of the A. Govertors msy be found another cola, Ther sb ber bore NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1855. were 5,905 persone in the public institutions at the | "The Late Southern Bilections~The Know close of laet week. Mr. Commissioner Bridgham has discharged Careentein and two others who were under exami- nation for evlisting men for the Crimeas The Com- missioner did not deem the teetimony of Rosen” baam, the approver, reliable, and as he is the in- formant against Mr. Stanly, of the British Consu- late, it is to be presamed that the District Attorney will not subject that gentleman to an examination ou the testimony of a wituese who has been already discredited by a magistrate of the federal govern- ment. A decision of Judge Hoffman, particularly in- teresting to mortgagees, will be found in our paper | to-day. It is in relation to the several mortgages on the furniture of the Brevoort House, which cost over £100,000, and in a abort time afterwards was sold for little more than one-fourth that amount. In the Board of Aldermen last evening the epe- cial committee appointed to inquire into certain matters connected with the grading of Eighty-third street, from Third avenue to avenue A, made a re port, From this document it appesrs that the con- tractor for the job has already reseived $18,900 for work which,as the committee allege, was worth only abont $4,000. Street Commissioner Furey is severely censured for the loose manner in which the contract. was given out, and the Comptroller is blamed for paying the warrants of the contractor after being requested not to do so by property owners: interested. The committee suggest that, if possible, legal proceedings sliould be instituted to recover back the money paid. The Board of Councilmen last night devoted most of the evening to the discussion of the report of Dr. J. W. Ranney upon the Institution for the Blind. The report asks for powers to carry the committee through an investigation of the affaira of the Insti- tution. A message was received from the Mayor, Yetoing the resolution of the Common Council giv” ing to Huested & Kroh} the contract for blowing up Diamond reef. Mr. Geo. N. Sanders desires to be set right with the public. We therefore publish a communication from him in this morning's paper. It is commenda- ble in any one to wish to stand fair with the people: Mr. Sanders, to accomplish this, is one of those who talks back to the politicians of the day. Conrad Bauer, keeper of a lager bier saloon in Newark, N. J., was stabbed and killed by one of a gang of rowdies who attempted to enter his premises at a late honr on Monday night. The acting Mayor of the city has offered a reward of two hundred and fifty dollars for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer. He is supposed to be lorking in this vicinity. The cotton market yesterday continued quite firm, and the sales reached about1,500 bales. Middling uplands were at 11 1-4; Mobile do., at 11 1-2, aud New Orleans, about 11 5-8 a 11 3-4. Flour was dull, and prices favored purchasers. New red South- ern wheat was easier, while good white do. was firmer. Corn was in diminished supply and transac: tions moderate, at 83c.a 84c. Pork was steady, with fair sales new mess. Lard wasatrifie firmer. The number of vessels on for Liverpool were reduced, and hence freights closed firmer for grain, &c. The Terrible Riots nm Kentucky. The details of the Louisville riots, which will be found in another column, present. a lamentable picture of” the excesses to which poliiteal animosity will drive men. Twenty porons were killed in the con- flicts which took place between the two parties, und a number of others lost their lives in the numerous buildings which were destroy- ed. There seems to be some doubt as to the person by whom the first shot was fired; but whether he be a foreigner or & native, there is nope as to the awful load of responsibility which rests on the shoulders of all concerned. the memorable riots which took place in PhiJadelplie in 1844, our country has not been disgraced by such scenes of violence and bloodshed as that of which Louisville has just been the theatre. In the West there have been some few political disturbances, but happily they were not attended with such serious cousequences, The Philadelphia riots, it will be remembered, had their origin in nearly the same political canses which have led to the late tragedy in Ken- tucky. The violent antipathy created against the Irish by the abuse of the electoral privilege to which they lent themselves, was the real, though not the proximate origin of the former. The formation of a new party, to hold in countercheck the influence obtained by such unconstitutional means, was naturally re- garded with bitter hostility by the persons against whom the movement was directed. With an excitable and passionate race like the Jrish, it required but a trifling excuse to pro- duce an explosion. The history of these la- mentable occurrences must still be fresh in the memory of our readers. On the 6th of May, 1844, the first conflict between the Trish resi- dents and the native Americans of Philadel- phia took place. The struggle lasted until the 8th. In that brief space of time, tht dwelling houses, three churches and a semi- nary were burned to the ground, and fourteen persons were killed and about forty wounded, Tu was only by the aid of a strong force of mili- tary that the disturbances were at Jast put down. The hostility of the two parties was, hotever, only held in abeyance for a short po- riod. On the 7th of July the rioting was ve- newed, and its results were of so dreadfal a chayvacter as to cause the greatest consternation — and anwiety throug the Union. mob and the mi artillery were us A battle was fought between ary, In w hmuskety 4 “Yoon both sic and forty to fifty persons were either killed Had it ve measnres taken by the Governor to viously wounded, not heen for th fer quell this outbreak, half the eliy might have heen reduced to ashes, Again we sce the animosity of the two par ties, with a modifieation of name, but not of principles, on the part of one of (hem, leading to results that are likely to prove almost equally culamitous., Can it possible that in a country where fill liberty of opinion and speech are secured lo every one by the consti tution, there ave not good sense gud mor tion sufficient to prevent thelr recurrence What do our frish citizens Americans—propose to themselves, by lifting What do the native the hand of violence apainst each other, and violating the laws which they have all sworn to obey? Do they imagine that these seenes of bloodshed and wholesale destruction of property will advance the political views and fnteresis of either! So porty has ever stood or can ever stand ror avy thine, whose conduct is ideotified with sach fearfnl episodes. Unhappily the mischief of such examples is net limited to our own people. ‘There are other nations who are st- tentively watebing the experiment of popalac government here, in order to frame their own fitutions in on its resyy Ave such scenes a8 those which we have decoribed likely to make ther ena ed of universal » Orage? If its ape re only to contiaual sioting ad bloodshed, ¢ far better | (or them .o rem f a limited in the exercise j plain Are Nothings—Their Drawbacks, and their True Policy. Our retarns from the elections In Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky and Alabama, are too scattering, confused, conflicting and unse- tisfactory for any definite judgment upon the actual results. From the general complexion of the reports received, however, the Know Nothing or American party appears to have achieved a good fight in North Carolina, a very active one in Tennessee, a bold invasion into the democratic stronghold of Alabama, and a mest decided victory in Kentucky. See our telegraphic despatches, The embarrassments and drawbacks against which the Know Nothings have had to contend in these elections, would have driven any other party from the field in despair, There was their recent overwhelming defeat in Virginia operating against them in every possible way; and the various fusion movements of Northern Know Nothings and Know Somethings with the general anti-slavery coalition, since the late National Council at Philadelphia, have been thrown as a dead weight upon the new party in every hole and ¢orher of the South. And yet, against the trg@hery of their North- ern allies, the depressing, influences of recent defeats, the re-awakenjiig hopes and activity of the democracy, and the unorganized condition of the new party in ‘reference to any national movement, the Kuow Nothings, in these late Southern elections, upon the whole, have been doing ax well as could have been expected. After the Virginia election, when it be- came manifest that there were two sides and two sections involved in the present agitation of the slavery question, and that no party giving aid and comfort to the abolition league of the North would be tolerated for a moment in the South, and after the split in the Know Nothing camp at Philadelphia, upon this vital and exciting issue, nobody supposed that there could be any such thing this sum- mer as the sweeping of North Carolina, Ten- nessee, or Kentucky, by the Know Nothing ticket. It is pretty certain, however, that they have polled a very large vote in eyery one of these Southern States; and how and from what causes they have succeeded in doing it becomes now a very interesting question. Tt does not appear that the democracy, cither in Kentucky, Tennessee, or North Carolina, fought the battle upon the merits of the ad- ministration. They seem rather to have thrown the administration out of the account, as they did in Virginia; but adopting the same offen- sive system of operations against the proscrip- tive principles of the American Order as Mr. Wice, and the same policy of holding them re- sponsible for the doings of the Northern se- cessionisis, they have kept the Know Nothings, from first to last, upon the defensive. Thus the acts and omissions, the blunders, follies and imbecilities of the administration, have es- caped that severe public ordeal through which ihey will yet have to pass, and under which our present Pierce dynasty and their spoils- men Will have to stand or fall. Major Donelson exeayed to bring cut and hold up the demerits of Messrs, Pierce, Forney, Marcy & Co., in the canvass; but the salient points of attack presented in the proscriptive oaths and uncon- stitutional objects of the American party, quite overshadowed him. And what is the lesson herein suggested? Let us see. The great substantial object of this new American party is to get possession of the general government. Before that can be done, the party in power must be superseded by a yote of the American people. This vote the American party desire to obtain; but instead of making the practical issues of the unfitness of the present administration for the duties of its position the basis of their claims, they de- clare a war of extermination against Roman Catholies and aliens-born, as their great cardi- nal principle. ‘This throws them at once upon the defensive against the rank and file of the democratic party, and the aliens by birth, and Catholics in religion, of all parties. A party may thus be organized of a very select and decided character; but as numbers in political elections are of some consequence, they should not be overlooked as an object of the first consideration in any party aspiring to the government of this country, and the control of its seventy-tive millions of public plunder per annum. The lesson, then, which these late elections have taught, is not that the people of the South have any confidence in this administra- tion, notwithstanding Governor Johnson may he re-elected in Tennessee, and a majority of Qemocratic members of Congress may be re- turned from North Carolina. This is uot the meaning of these elections; for the adminis- tration was not practically an issue in the controversy: but the lesson suggested is that these rigid Catholic and wative tests of the Know Nothings require the sacrifice of too many votes to he available for political pnr- poses, except as a Know Nothing make-weight ov balance of power between other parties, as in most of ows thern clections last fall. With th aforesaid unconstitutional religious and national tests of exelnsion from the honors wud emoluments of Know Nothings, as them, offices, all pubtic the long as they adhere to their operations to Vpon oaths and doe. vevolutionizing the n principles of the constitution, they can never He eon- will be Himited ia merely local elections ivines overleaping and they can never fel They must prune these unconstitutional and anti-American heresies from their oaths and they musMie-organize upon the prac J issues of the day they must rest theiv cause upon the necessitics, pledges tica) and living pt and their merits upon some positive and prac- joal measures, for a new administration. The pple have indicated, in all our State elee- tions sines 4853, their dissativfaction with administration ; they have shown that and avy ready to give @ helping han party thorough-going revolw constitutional prin thi they want a chan to au} which promises a upon sound conser eiples. vative The people, we say the support which they have given to this Know Nothing movement, bave shown that the «© prepared to aceept almost any- thing for 2 chonge, within the landmarks of the constitution and the Union, licy, (hen, of he Know Noth The plain po- is to throw \, and toe ons to all those fron doors of ta down the tend the epbere of their opera masses of intelligent " adopted, Protestant and Cathollr, ond are ready to act for & practical government. clive native and who desire evolu om int Let them do th the Ni ern Anti-Slavery Holy Alliance, the sonmsion: and in spite of iste of the South, and the spoils democracy, and in spite of all other obstacles of factions and sections, the American party, upon rational and national American issues, may triumph in 1856, either before the people or in the House of Representative at Washington. These South- ern elections point out the way ; but they also show that these violent oaths against Catholics and aliens-born, and these binding Know No- thing ceremonials of hard swearing and dark Janterns, are a bar to their success, even where otherwise the people would give them an easy victory. GoveRNOR REEDER AND THE ADMINISTRATION —Verry Corrovs axp Very Interxsrine.—We transfer to our columns this morning, a short letter from Washington to one of our morning cotemporaries, in explanation of the removal of Governer Reeder; and the facts therein re- lated, if true, are not only very curious and very interesting, but decidedly important. It is flatly stated that Mr. Pierce wanted to get rid of Governor Reeder, but did not wish to shame him if he could help it. This point, from all the complicated and delicate cir- cumstances of the case, as a Cabinet diffi- culty, we apprehend is or can be fully es- tablished. Everybody is satisfied that it is so, It next appears that the President offered to buy off the Governor with a mission to’China ; and that failing in that bid, he tried the mis- sion to England—and we see no occasion to dis- credit these points of the narrative. Then, as we are told, Governor Reeder, after two days reflection upon the splendid offer of Mr. Bu- chanan’s position, made it a sine qua non with the President that his desire for the transfer of the Governor from Kansas to the Court of St. James should be reduced to writing, and, to- gether with the Governor’s acceptance of the promotion, should be officially published in the Washington Union. Here, we suspect, the facts have been overstated. Very likely Governor Reeder, from his intimate acquaintance with Colonel Forney, and his own personal know- ledge of administration promises and performances, knew enough to require the putting upon record, in white and black, any promise of a better office for the resigua- tion of that of Kansas, And why not? If the Governor had cause to suspect that he was to be humbugged, why not require the compact to be done in writing? The list of unfortunate men who have been deceived, betrayed and ruined by the empty unwritten promieces of this and other administrations, if summed up would astonish the uninitiated. Asa pure business transaction, then, the conditions demanded by Governor Reeder for the resignation of his Kansas oflice, were perfectly natura} and pro- per, in a business point of view. Assuming that he was offered the mission to England, or some other tempting office, to re- lieve the administration in Kansas, the ques- tion recurs, why did not the Executive close the hargain at once, by reducing it to pen, ink and paper, not for publication, but to make all sure?) We can only conclude that the Execn- tive refused because his purpose was limited to the resignation of the Governor; and that had he resigned upon the faith of a mere pr vate conversation, he would have been as free to go to England or to Russia, on his own private account, as the Hon, Mike Walsh, who Jeaves to-day in the Atlantic. Where would have been the proof that he had been offered anything for resigning? His own statem@@at of the fact, without witnesses, would go for nothing against the plump denial of the organ, and he knew it. The conclusion of the correspondent in qnes- tion, touching the removal of Reeder, is also substantially correct. Recder’s land specnla- tions were the pretence; the necessity of con- ciliating the South by his removal was the cause of his removal. The Governor's free soi} inclinations and aftiliations were not ob- jectionable—they were understood; but he had gone too far and too fast with them—that was all. He had placed himself too conspicuously in the front rank of the free soil squatter movement to be longer retained as the Presi- dent’s subordinate, because it would ruin the administration in the South. Thus the very act of his appointment, designed to conciliate the Northern free soi) sentiment, had to be canceled in his discharge, to quiet the South. Tie was sacrificed for a little political capital in Tennessee, Kentucky avd North Carolina; aud to soften the blow to the Pennsylvanians, he was dismissed upon the charge of land spe- culations, which had been entered into with the expectation of the President's approval, and which were awaiting that approval at the time of his diecha ‘The case of Reeder is that of another victim to that system of double dealing and treachery through which Buchanan, Mason and Soul: were made to appear as mountebanks and fili- lusters in’ their mauifesto from Aix-la-Cha- pelle. Will Gov. Reeder submit to bis bumi- liation, or, tike Soul’, resolve upon a full ex- position of his case to the world? That is now the qnestion, ‘Tae Copan Junta.—In our translation of the appeal of the Cuban Junta we made them com- plain of the colduess and opposition of the American people. The original document will not bear that consiruction. Complaint was made of the coldness aud indifference of the administration of Mr. Pierce; the latter was confounded by our tranelator with the people of the country. It was not the intention of the Cubans to make avy complaint of the Ameri can people. Liqvon Draners’ Stare Convewrio.--The politicnl association of the liqner dealers of this commonwealih, instigated by our new Liquor Jaw, hold a State Convention at Syra- euse to-day. Their purpose is to consult and determine upon that plan of action and con- cert in ows November canvass which will tell most effectively in the election of members to the next Legislature in favor of the repeal of this Hquor law of pains, penalties and abomi- ' nations, In this view, it would be folly on their part to nominate an independent State ticket, and to ran independent candidates for the Legisiainre, ‘they would only make 4 ¢ version by this expedient for the henetit of the Seward evalition : ond we see by some of Wostern exchanges that, in this view. Tharle Weed and his emissaries are very desirous ef securing from Ue liquor dealers an indepen. branches of the Assembly for the repeal, but such a majority as will carry the repeal over the Governor’s veto ; for upon that veto the Seward coalition now rely to defeat the will of the people. The opponents of the Liquor law can overcome even the veto, if they will; and in directing their efforts to that end, they may break the backbone of the Holy Alliance. Importation oF Specis.—The overseers of the Castle G arden emigrant depot keep an ac- count of the money which each emigrant brings with him. From this it appears that the ave- rage amount which each emigrant arrived since lst August confessed he had in his pocket (and an allowance must be made for a conceal- ment of funds) was $44 56. The totals are as follows :— Passn- Cush 1855. gers. Aug. 2—Ship Others, from Bremen. .... 251 2—Shi s 331 i & 3 ” £ ae 236 E4 3 a4 8338588 bg ¢—Bark Joanna, Bremen, POEs sinenss nage opaae eosin The Germans are the richest. Their con- feesed means average $60 per man, woman and child, but they really bring much more than thie, At the wreck of the New Era, where some three hundred persons were lost, $30,000 were found on the bodies of those who perish- ed and in trunks. A hundred dollars per head would be too low an estimate for the amount of money brought by the entire German emi- gration. a . Even the Irish are beginning to bring money. Till a few years ago, their passage money was invariably sent from here, and Pat considered himself lucky if he landed with three British “pinnies” in his pocket. But now Ireland is prosperous, and the Irish emigrants are said to bring an average of $30 a piece with them. Altogether, several millions in specie come to us in this way. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Arrival of the Baltic, Saxpy Boor, August &-12:45 A. M. ‘The steamship Baltic is now a ightehip, bound in. From Washington. DEYARTURE OF MR. GUTHRIE—THE ABSURD RUMOR ABOUT COV. REEDER, Wasmvatoy, August 7, 1855, Fceretary Guthrie left, lact night, for Cape May. Only three members of the Cabinet are now im the city, ‘There is no truth in the story that the President ten- dered ihe appointment of Minister to England to Gov. Reeder, provided he would resign the governorsh'p of Kansas The State Elections. KENTUCKY. CINCTENAT, August 6, 1855. It is conecded that L. M. Cox; Know Nothing, is clected to Congress, in the Ninth district of Kentucky, over R. H. Stanton, democrat, by @ good majority, The election in the towns opporite here passed off quietly—the results generally being favorable to the Know Nothings. ‘The democrats concede the election of Swope, the Know Nothing candidate for Congress in the Tenth dis- trict, Kentucky, by over 500 majority, ALABAMA. Wasinsatox, Augnet 7, 1855. Further returns from Alabama sbow the following Know Nothing majorites :—Dallas county, 310; Perry county, 450; Augusta county, 50; Russell county gives 200 democratic majority. Loveys, August 7, 1655. ‘The anti-Know Nothings in the city of Florence, Ala- bara, have 200 majority. TENNESSEE. Lovwrnx, August 7,16655. Johnson, deimocrat, is elected Governor of Tianestee. His majority is eupposed to be about 1,500. NORTH CAROLINA. Nomrorx, August 7, 1855, R. T. Peine, Know Nothing, is elected to Congrosy from the Hirst district of North Carolina, b ¥200 majority. Wasmseroy, August 7, 1855. Despatches received here announce the defeat of Mr. Clingman, in the Eighth dietrict, but thia is considered doubtful. The Liquor Dealers' State Convention. SyRAcuaY, August 7, 1855. Delegates to the Liquor Dealers’ State Convention ave arriving fust, and the hotels are full already. The wea- ther is quite cool. The Massachusetts Know Nothings. SPRINGFIELD, Mase., August 7, 1605 The Committee of the Know Nothing State Council, after a Jong seston last night, and another this forenoon. have finally agreed upon their report. The following iy the Massachusetts platform :— Jn view of the imminent peril of freedom, bocb from | interne! and external foes, the American party of Masea- chusrits adopt for their government the following consii- ion ond platform of principles; — * 1, An essential modification of the naturalization kews, ithe immigrant shall not he permitted to exercise the elective franchise until he shall have. wey ledge of ovr language, ovr er in this country of ot | ne years, vingent penalties against the fraudulent transfer tion papers, and such a_ deseripti peewlinvit he parson applying fr naturalization ax shalt render such tromsfer impossitie, 3. Opposition to all attempts to establieh fhpeien smili- litical orgenizations o perpemate old national ; but encouragement of «uch a policy ne shal vimilate the forvign population, in sentient ond feeling, with the mass of American citizens, ¢ Jmeient laws to prevent the d ature portation of erimi. und poupers, by foreign anthorities, to our ehores; a hospitable reception to the persecuted end op. of every elie, The withholding of grave df (vets frem persons of foreign 6. She right to worship God ae fence to be pres -ecclesiaation! jomatic and political to th which, through ts, who attempt power, Hence public funds to to invade this right we rebuke all etter the establishment ves of theDayol powe shes no rights in the presence of Catholict gions liberty is only to be endured until c can be established with safety to the Cet and that «the Catholies of Amevica are bound «chy the interpretation put upon the itutic the United States by the Pope of fom. * Renee Kesolwed, That the Bible, as the « a rational hoerty, shoul = 3 =} = = < pe rande the hasi« me against society and of trea { of all popular education, end should be open to and in | the bonds ef every man, weman and child. And the | ho wiwy attempt, directly or inilrectly, to 4 f our schools, vr to keop ti from the bunds Ve or any portion of thew, should Which has heen unl compact, evinoes a determination to er tag well ae the forms of iberty from among t the free States to a relentless dexpo ticerse of the Southe recently held in Phila mplaining ¢ubmission to pro-sle ‘ ne fondomental article in the creed of | “ional American party, renders it faperative up 4 npon the great question of the co yin sour vie 1. That the aetio fol departments trolled by the prir interpreters of the nd saver of the legislative, executive and ju the government ought to be con Union must met, 6% with and ace fonn Havery. rer@lgnty of the id be uieinte ine dent party moyemeat. We doubt not, how- ! va foyer, that the Convention will niderst { That the grent hareler to +t , rrtlile broke ake i iteener ss 2 | own by the repeal of the Min i prouyy pha their true course, Mis very simple—the nomi- | ro be speedily sostored, aud thatein any event, no Siate nation or adoption of those candidates among | ee ee et ae acaticey yomerea by that the other parties, for the Legislatore, whe are | save: x — } a UL hits of a the most retiable avd de he von. | 49 go gb ight tinnanee of this at object | ‘xan bise, grai Py : Sr ey, Seg ere oreen ber to he achieved i+ not & mere maj ity 'n both opal «& whener ‘Terrible Accident at Cine! FALL OF A CORNIOE—SIX PERSONS KILLED AND . OTHERS WOUNDED. Ciernan, Aug. 7, 185). The cornice of the new building in process of drection for the Ohio Life and Trost Company fell at two o'clock this afternoon, crushing to death six persons and injuring others, two sf seriourly that their recovery ix despaired of. Robert Cameron, master builder, W. B. Curtiss, su- perintendent of the building, were sitting beneath at the time, and John S$. Chambers and B. Waldron pasting by —ell well known-are among the killed, Yellow Fever in Virginia. Bartimorg, August 7, 1856. ‘The yellow fever in Portsmouth is increasing, aud over half the inhabitants have uow fled. There were only two new cases at Norfolk yesterday, and the disease is confined {o the infected district. ‘The wife of Captain Bennon, of the U. 3, Navy, is il) with. the fever at Gospert. ‘All communication between Gosport and Norfolk hae heen cut off. At Portsmouth the passengers and maily are {ransterred from the Baltimore boats to the steamor Star, which takes them up the river. Editorial Changes. Brrvato, August 7, 1655. Thurlow Weed is about to retire from the editorship of the Albany Evening Jouryal, and Samuel Wilkeon, of the Buffalo Democracy, takes his place. The Democravy is to be discontinued. ‘The Saratoga Burglars. : Samatoda, Aug. 7, 1855. ; ‘The suspected burglars were examined. Kinsbury and Henderson were seen by the chambermaid near General Halvey’s room. C: W. Merritt, of the New York police, identifies Henderson and Rady aa 0d offenders, ac tachipcenbsigotnpinelsineaetaret: Murderer to be Hung. Bostox, August 7, 1855. John Wilson, convicted of theemurder of a fellow-con- vict in the State prison, is to be executed on the Sth of October next, the Governor and Council having refused to commute his sentence to imprisonment for life, Fire at , August 7, 1655. Oswrao, Aug: A Gre last night dextroyed the distillery attached to the starch factory in this city. Loss about $8,000. The stareh factory was uninjured. Arrtval of the Marion at Charleston. QuaRuEtoN, August 7, 1856. ‘The U. S. mail steamship Marion arrived heve from New York at six o'clock this (Tuesday) morning. Markets. Borrao, August 703 P.M. Flour market steady. Salex of 1,100 bbis., at 88 for Black Rock, and $8 2 n $8 75 for good to choice extra Upper Take, and $8 75 a $025 for extra Sonthern Illi nois, Ohio and Michigan, Wheat in better demand and firmer. Sales of 10,000 bushels, deliverable in the last fifteen days of October, at $120; 630 bushels Mitwaukie shing, at 1.62; 200 bushels new red Ohio, at $1 68; and 200 bushels Sheboygan, at $180. Corn very firm. Swles of 16,000 bushels, at 716, Onts steady; sules of 4,000 bush- els, at 48e, Canal freights firm; ize, for corn to New York, Lake imports for the last twenty-four hours:— Flour, 1,438. bbls.; wheat, °2,124 bushels; corn, 100,070 Dushels; oats, 6,647 bushels, Canal exporte—Whrat, 4,000 bushels; corn, 88,207 bushels, Mr. Huchanan’s Place Offered to Governor. Reede: Te [Correspondence of the New York Tribace.} Wasnineton, August 6, 1855. Many important facts have transpired witb reference to the diemiseal of Gov. Reeder, but there are one or two more, of whose authenticity I can give you the most itive assurance, whic! ance require to be Yrought to the notice of an admiring world. No sooner had the Governor communicated with Mr. Pierce, after he had arrived in the States trom Kansas, than the President besonght him to resign, in order to relieve the chief magistrate of the Union from the embarrassment in which be found himeelf. By way of inducement, the Presi- dent proposed to confer on Governor Reeder the ap- pointment of Commissioner to China, then vacant by the return of Mr. McLane. This the (overnor protaptly declined. This proffer having thus proved insufficient, the President made a higher bid. He now said that on condition of Reeder's vacat the Governorship in Kaneas, he would give him the place of ambassador to England, from which Mr. Buchanan was soon to return. The splendor of this was @ mat- ter to consider, and after two aye the Governor gave his ultimatum. He offered to if the President would write him a letter asking “to do m0; and Bae it in the Union together with hie reply, it heing understood that his appointment to England hould be gazetted immediately after. The Y dent refused to publish such a correspondence, and he Governor accordingly left him under the neces- ity of turning out a Territorial execative, for the ole reason that he would not lend himself to the stablishment of slaver - onquest, yee the wi people of tl Territory. Telegraphie Excursion to Newfoundland. ‘The steamship James Adger, punctual to her appointed Lour of departure, left pier No. 4 North river, yesterday With the principal members of the New York, Newsound- land and London Telegraph Company, and ¢ large num der of their friends, for Newfoundland. ‘The following are the names of the passengers Peter Cooper and lady, Rev. Dr, Field, Cyrus W. Field, Marshall Brewer, Prot, Shepherd, A. A. Raver, Prot. &. F. B. Motxe and lady, 7. H. Paluse Rev. H. M. Field and lady, ‘Mr. Thornley, Abraham Turnure, W. M. Swain, Master Swain, Chas. H. Boughton. Chas, T. Middlebrook, by, foreign invasion and of the vast majority of the Miss Gracie Fiei4, Mise Allon Fick) snd mate . F. Tier Mr. Thornley, David H. Seyre, of Ky. Mr. allen, Mr. Smith, $ Mr. Berkshire, Jobn G. Kip, J. A, Richards, Mr. Russel, Chad. H. Houghton. The first point at which they will toneh is Matitix where they will be reecived by the auth 4 thot city. From thence they will proceed direst to Port au Bs on the southern coast of Newfoundlend, where the Sarah Bryant is at prevent lying with » submerine e Wie of eighty miles in length coiled up in her boll. Thi cable will be laid across the Gulf of St. Lawronce, from Port wa Basque to Cape Breton, # di fonr miles. The James Adger will be em: the ship from which the cable will be laid. will take, it fs estimated, from two to us expiiation of which the steamer will go t stopping at the various points along thr const. The company will thus cellent opportonity of seeing some of the principal pleers on the south of the island. On thet ial at St, Johns they wil be received by the manicips! aud other authorities; and as their visit is am event o wall fe portance to the interests of Newfoundland, the © we have no doubt, be signalized in en exper the Newfoundlanders, ion will take about three weeks al The day of their departure is errtainly co far a8 a bright sunny sky con end everything seems to conspire in their favor. We rust that they may retarn with all their met pleasant enticipations realized, and the great object f fon fulfilled {0 the complete patisine! reny ance of seventy towing t the ¢ days southern have an ex The exew ther, Tresor VACORVILIES.—The Metappolitan deat wilh be cpened to-night for & series of thes pop. ances nnder the management of Mons. Fic theotre, New Orleans. ‘They will be varie! ty bew wnd attractive ballots by an excellent cory cises, comprising amongst other favorite. “ aud Mons, Carrese, We trust that the s nt will finally lead to the este French theatre amongst us, The public « niggardly of their evcouragement, secin ikely to be derived from it by those who »-e perfecting themselves in this clegant languss perture of the Precis peri AP CrneRST OF bark Cov. Von Oocholy Theraas 24th vli reports that the yellow fever Tienae k dubated. There had not been a for ays previous to the of the b Marine Aitaies, Te Swe AtLANne, under eomne nd (noon tosday fof Liverpool