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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. werce w. basing OORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadwey—Evorsmess—MAcio ‘eowr:. NEBLO'S GARDEN, Broadwag—Miss PYNE—CINDERELLA. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery-—Towse anv Counray—Tar Mumary—less SH". METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Booadway—L. Conor ‘Seewaw—LA Grrava— Lx PLANO De. Berrne, ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanice’ Hall—472 Breadway. We print to-day a full report ef the proceedings of he Liquor Nes/ers’ Convention held at Syracuse on ‘Wednesday, and in the editorial columns may be Seand an article explanatory of the causes which led % a trifling difference of opinion between the dele- | gates from the rural districts and those from the me- ° ‘twopolis. All digputes were, however, amicably arrang” e@, and the liquor interest is now fairly in the field, with a State central committee and all the machinery mecessary for the operations ofa complete party or- ganization. We also publish an important opinion ef Judge Dean, of the Supreme Court, delivered at Poughkeepsie, in the case of John Johnson, charged with violating the provisions of the prohibitory li- qpor law. It will be seen that Judge Dean goes fur- ‘her than either Judge Morris or Judge Parker has gone and holds that a person arrested on a.charge of selling intoxicating liquors, on being taken before a magistrate, has a right to an examination under the Bevised Statutes. Hon. Charles, S. Morehead, K. N., is undoubtedly elected Governor of Kentucky by a large majority. The Know Nothivgs have also curried six of the ten Congressional districts. Two districts have been earried by the democrats, and two are still doubtful. ‘The Legislature is largely Know Nothing. We have accounts from Texas of the organizatien ef a large military force to assist the revolutionists fm Mexico. The movement seems to be a very popu Tar one there, and great numbers were expected te eross into Mexican territory on the 24th ult. The ebject of the expedition, as stated by their com- mander, Captain Henry, is simply to aid in the es- tablishment of 2 more republican government, and , finally bring the northern provinces of Mexico under the protection of that wonderful specimen of orni- -abology, the American eagle. Should these reports darn out to be true, we mey look for a terrible outcry from the old opponents of the annexation of Texas; bot the “manifest destiny” philosophers will view the matter with that complacency for which they are remarkable. There were three hundred deaths in New Orleans @uring the past week, of which two hundred end ‘twenty-two were from yellow fever. Pasemore Williamson and the six negroes im- plicated with him in the abduction of Col. Wheeler’s slaves, have been indicted for assault and battery. ‘The trial will take place on the 27th inst. i The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, ‘wot the business transacted was entirely devoid of general interest. The Board of Councilmen met in the evening, and passed upon several documents of more or less im- portance. A message was received from the Mayor explaining by what authority be licensed those ten additional omnibuses. The paper will be found in @ar report of the proceedings. A special commit- tee was appointed to report upon a monument in Greenwood Cemetery to the gallant New York Vo- Ranteers in the Mexican war. A resolution was offer- e@ for re-districting the city, with reference to the election of Councilmen. The Counsel of the Corpo- xation gave his opinion as to the powers of the spe- al committee to investigate the affairs of the Insti- ‘bution for the Blind. @omptroller Cook bas published the report of Wm. Barnes, appointed on the 12th ult. to investi- gate the affuirs of the Webster Fire Insurance Com- pany of the city of New York. Mr. Barnes having veported that the assets of said company are insufti- cient to justify its continuance in business, the papers have tieen handed over to the Attorney General for his action thereon. The following information from the Treasury De- partment, relative to the penalties incurred in the event of the re-landing of exported merchandise fm the United States, is important just at this tame, in view of the unsettled state of affairs along the Rio Grande, and the large importation of goods Jato Northern Mexico under the Cevailos tarift: the fourth section of the act of August 30, 1 Morizing the exportation of merchandise in bond by certain routes to Mexico, it is provided that no goods, wares or merchau Xported out of the limits of the United States, according to the provisions of that, act, shall be voluntarily landed and brought into the United States ; and that, if landed or brought into the United States, they shall be forfeited, and the same proceedings will be hed for their condemnation and the distribution of the proceeds as in other cases of forfeiture of goods illegally imported; and all persons concerned in the voluntary landing or bring- ing such goods into the United States shall be liable $0. penalty of four hundred dollars. It will be ne- veseary to waintain great vigilance along the frontier af the Rio Grande to prevent the illegal introduc- tion of merchandise into the United States. In all ases of this description that are discovered, the Soll penalties of the law will be rigorously enforced.” The sales of cotton yesterday em d about 2,000 bales, withont change in quotations. Flour was sold pretty freely at about the rates of the previous day. Wheat was in limited supply, and prices tirm. Indian corn ad-anced from one to two ents per bushel, with moderate sales, the receipts having been light. Pork was in firm demand, at steady prices. Cofiee was qniet. Sugars were ac- ‘five, at fall prices. Abont 20,000 bushels of grain were engaged for Liverpool at 44d. a 4jd. Naval stores were active for spirits, and firm. OPINION UN some of our cotem- Tur Arror GeENERa The Liquor Law.—We see that poraries of the rural districts are yt logger- heads on the question whether #ttorney Gene- val Hoffman has or has not submitted offi- ¢ial legal opinion to the Governor on the un- eonstitutionality of our new liquor law. Some say that he has, and that the Governor has suppressed the document; otheys insist that he has not, or * that Governor Clark has not had eccasion to ask for the opinion of the Attorney General on the subject.” Very likely. We rather suspect that the Governor has too many other fish to fry—quite enongh to keep his hands full till November. He has the fusfon ists to regulate as far as possible, including temperance men and liquor men. Ife has the spoilsmen to look after, and to see that they do their duty in reference to the coming election. We hos the Trish Catholies to conciliate as far as he can, and the Know Nothings to win qyer: sand tl duties, together with all the regal: cares nie, allow him no time to hunt up consult opinions on the Liquor law. Beside the Governor, no doubt, has diseovered, in the course of his travels from Albany to Auburn and back, that the Liquor law is a nullity, a Dbambug, a mockery and o nuisance, and that, in regard to it, “ the least said the soonest mended.” When the thing is as plain as the nce on hia face, why should be require an opition of the Attorney Gene The idea fa sbsurd. He don’t want ii. Wane Massachewectts Know - Nothings—Thetr Nigger Worshipping State Platform. The late Quarterly State Council of the Know Nothing party of Massachusetts has i sued its platform as “ revised and improved, under the auspices of that prince of negro philanthropy, Senater Henry Wilsex. Clipped of superfluous verbiage, this platform is as fel- tows 1. A twenty-one years naturalization law. 2. Stringent ponalties agaiust the fraudulent transfer of naturalization papers. 3%. Opposition to all foxeign military or political organi- wations. 4. Efficient laws agaiust the deportation here of foreign criminals and paupers. 5. None but natives as-onr ministers abroad. 6, Vree religion, and war ageinst the Pope, his hierer arehy, and his chureb. 7. The Bible as the basis of a! popular-cducation. Where is nothing very dreadfu) in all this, compared with the foreign branch of thie Know Nothing Mastachusetts platform of a year ago, which, in its practical operation, under the Hiss Legislature, extended to the ex- portation-of the surplus Irish from the State, and the elevation of the African blacks to the same level with the Puritan whites in the com- mon schools. But we.come now to the negre branch of the present Know Nothing Massa- chusetts platform, as “revised and | im- proved” at Springfield. The Springfiele Republicaw says that “the result, though not all that the earnest friends-of fusion could .desire, may still be regarded as favorable,” and that “it was so regarded by the advocates of union in the Coyncil. They feel that they have won a substantial triumph over the ultra native and pro-slavery section of the organiza- tion, and paved the way .for such a union of Massachusetts men and parties 2s has been so well corsummated in Ohio, Indiana,.and.other ofthe free States.”’’ We supposed as much when Gen, Wilson “paved the way” at the late Philadelphia Council,.and especially when his game was fully developed in the Know Something saturnalia at Cleveland. But here is the new, platform of the Senator and his par- ty on the vital question of niggers:— 1, That all legislation must be conducted upon the that freedom is national and slavery sectional. ‘Ubat the Federal government must be relieved of ail with, or accountability fer, American slavery, Nhat State sovereignty, in its legislation and judi- ast he held inviolate. 4, That the Missouri line mast be vestored, and no part that territory that was made free by said line shall be a, slave State. lis must be protected. f the elective franchise, ‘The first of these articles of faith on the nigger qnestion covers the whole ground of a sectional crusade against the South— the third places the nullifying legislation and the courts of Massachusetts above the consti- tution and Supreme Court of the United States ; and the fourth is the main pillar of the Seward platform. Now, if al) this wil! not answer for the pur- poses of a fusion.of al the odds and ends of free soil and abolitionism in Massachusetts, the ultras huve no other alternative than Lloyd Garrison's programme .ef immediate disunion at all hazards ; the destruction of the churches and the Bible, the overthrow of society, and a new start for the millenium, from the simple elements of barbarism. Certainly, We shall either have “fusion” or confusion in the old infatuated Bay State from this “revised and improved * Wilson American platform; aud for all national purposes, it matters very little whether the result is a coalition or a split. Most of our Presidents have been elected against the vote of Massachusetts, and all have been elected without it. So we suppose that she may be spared in 1856, without much damage to the conservatives of the Union and their ticket. Let her go. » the free Reever’s Revovat—A NorrHery anpn a Sournern Cause.—lt appears that the adminis- tration have two good causes or grounds of excuse for the removal of Governor Reeder— aNorthern and aSoutherncause. In the North it ig to be understood that he was removed for his projected but unperfected spgpulations in the lands of the Kansas half-breed Indians. This is the Northern cause. In the South it is to be urged that he was removed because of his abominable affiliations with the Kansas free soil squatters and emigration societies, This isthe Southern cause. The Albany Aflas is satisfied with the Northern cause—the Rich- mond Enquirer is content with the Southern cause. Between the two horns of the dilemma there is a mystery still to be explained by the President to the Governor. Was it the land speculations or the niggers? Was it Atchison or Manypenny, or Stringfellow or the Com- tuissioner of-the Land Office, that did the busi- ness? Let the truth be known—out with it— that there may be no misapprehensions upon the subject in the Pennsylvania October election. What a pity the Governor didn’t consent to go to China! Will there ever be any harmony again between the democracy and the adminis- tration? Will Governor Reeder write a book on his executive life in Kansas? It is his last chance. Let him write a book. It will sell better than his half-breed Kansas lands. It will go off like peaches and cream. Ob! let him write a book, Passmore Winitiwsox—Ivpiaxation Move- MENT. We perceive that a movement is on foot among the abolitionists of Philadelphia to get upan indignation meeting upon the judgment of Judge Kane against Passmore Williamson, under which the slave abductor is kept in “du- rance vile” to await the action of the law. One of our Seward organs is highly ex at this project of public indignation, and boldly asks, “What erime has this man Williamson commit- ted?” and “why is he in prison?” We had sup- posed that the two Philadelphia Judges before whom he has been brought, had Jeft very little doubt as to the erime or the reason for the in- earceration, But popular demonstration against Judge Kane, there are two sides to be considered, Perhaps the Is of the constitution, and of law and order, may find it convenient to get npa counter public demonstration, to strengthen the hands of justice against those conspiring nigger worshippers. Suppose these distarhers of the public peace taken at their word. Let the conservative men of Philadelphia quietly meet them at the appointed time and place, and vote them down. Let the issue de- termine whether Philadelphia is. still servative city or is given over to the abe its and their Passmore Williamsons and as- sistant free ne Call the meeting. roe Barkts ts Witti’ "We see it stated that Governor Clark, in course of his travels, stopped at Auburn ot the only house in the whole village where liquor is sold. Was Mr. Seward at hon Wd did the pair of them quatify their dinner with domestic or imported 'Vgvors gard to the supposed NEW ‘YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1855. It is understood that Lord Palmerston, scared by the vote on the TurkifGijono, is about to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. At least, such i the statement made by his friends; there is no doubt but he will fulfil the threat, if he cannot do better, and the chances of his doing better are infinitely small. In ene sense, a dissolution would be a happy thing for England; in another, an experiment fraught with great risk, It would be advantageous in- asmuch as it would scatter to the four winds of heaven the imbecile and corrupt assemblage now assembled. at Westminster, and calling itself a Parliament. But it would be danger- ous, for, so far as we have heard, no organiza- tion of new parties or anew party has yet been, effected, and, slowly as these things move in England, the prospect opened by a dissolution would be that the old corrupt parties and the aristocracy. would triumph at every poll, and the new House be infinitely more debased and more degraded than the old one. Politics and parties are in a very curious condition in the British isles. Nine years ago, the old framework of British politics, and the old party lines, were broken up and thrown overboard, when Sir Robert Peel crowned his useful life by his heroic recantation of the.pro- tectionist theory. All men becoming free traders, there was no principle left for politi- cians to quarrel over. Great Britain was in the same position as the United States at present. Her old statesmen had fought and dodged each other until they were all mixed promiscuous- ly together. The old issues were settled. No hew ones sprang up to take their place. In the like situation, this country relieved itself by giving. birth to the Know Nothings, who promise to supply interest and warmth to the next national election, England was not so fortunate; no new party arose there; and the consequence was that the old ones dragged out asort of posthumous existence for nine years, without principles, without standard, without leaders, without anything which could give stability to their organization, or win respect from the people. Year after year they jogged on—breaking down at stated intervals from sheer weakness in the knees, and want of backbone. For nine years the only impor- dant question brought before Parliament was, whether the offices of State, with the army and civil patronage, should he bestowed on the families of the Greys and Russells, or on the Derbys and the Aabitues of the Carlton Club, When the war and its disasters—the destruction of the army at Sebastopol, through the incapacity of the officers— the thousands .of lives and the millions of money absolutely thrown away—the blunders and dishonesty of the diplomatic agents—when all these things reused the peo- ple, and a new party, hitherto silent, made ite appearance in London, the effect on the House of Comgnons was very curious. Up to that time, the rumps of the old parties had always kept up a gentlemanly sort of hostility to each other in public. But the moment Leyard and Roebuck began to talk of aristocratic jobbery, these rotten scions of the two old facffons made common cause together. Derby was fa- cetious on the blunders which have destroyed the British army; but he defended Palmerston against the attacks of the plebs. More than this, it was with the utmost difliculty that such a man as Layard could obtain the ear of the House of Commons to denounce the promo- tion of the sons of noblemen over other officers. Jn the meantime, two distinct bodies—oppo- nents of the government—began to exercise a heavy extra parliamentary pressure on the House of Commons. The first of these was the Administrative Reform Association, chiefly composed of London merchants and capital- ists, opposed to aristocratic corruption. The second was the London mob—opposed to the whole British system—the lords, the bishops, the flunkeys, the bad pay of the soldiers, and the jobbery everywhere. These two parties, though nominally apposed to each other, reat- ly work inconcert. They have—at least, the former has—a few adherents in Parliament, such men as Layard and Roebuck in the Com- mons and Lord Ellenborough in the Lords; but their strength of course lies out of doors. On the other hand, opposed to them, and likewise opposed to the administration, is a new party, of which Prince Albert is the Jeader, and which is known as the court party. It goes for peace, and ragher leans toward adic- tatorship for the war. In active life it is very weak; has but few supporters in Parliament, though probably as many as the republicans; put the court influence which it can exercise is yery great, and the funds at its command in- exhaustible. A third party, likewise opposed to the go- yvernment, is composed of sham reformers who call themselves moderate men. Their object is to obtain office under pretence of carrying out the reforms required; they hope that the mildness of their language and the compara- tive conservatism of their views will secure | them a share of support from the opponents of change, while their radical professions gain | them the confidence of the discontented. This party is large both in and out of Parliament. It is needless to add that when the proper time comes, Lord John Russell will be found at the head of it. | strange to say, none of these new par- viol anything like a practical organiza- tion. Had they broken out in this country they would long ago have divided each State into districts, and appointed working commit- tees for each; so that, at the first elections, | e been sure of making a good they would hs ctions need not come fight. But in E gland oftener than once in seven year not used to the practical brsiness of pe and thus it happens that the though they are very serious and very much in | want, content themselves | people are | » new parties, earnest in what the with making fine speeches on the one nd, or street rows on the other, They have not even ] decent newspaper organs bo spouk them, Mone of the British journals, the London Times possesses the secret of representing each | new idea in turn, hy s¢ m its eon- | sequences, and encouraging it up to its enlmi- nating point, or point of explosic But it is obVious that some different advocacy from this will be requisite if any of the new parties in- | tend to gain power. A dissolution might wake them up, and the imminence of the oeeasion might supply the place of careful preparation, But i¢ is more likely that, when it came to the polls, the superior organization of the old aristocratic parties would baile the democrats; and that the only result of the appeal to thy gountry | « 7. Thornton, « brother of Gen. Thornto | The Pantagray the 28th ult. says:—We have bevel if five de ity and two in the country, o¢ 1 ag. suddenly have been from chole a — within the last two Among these are Yi ‘would be an apparent proof that the people at large were satisfied with the government. ‘There are houses so well built that you cammot ull them down: if you want to get rid of them you must blow them up. Jusi in the same way, there are systems of government #0 ingeniously and compactly contrived that nothing can upset them short of a revolution ‘Tun Liquok Deauers’ Convention iv Syna- cusk.—We publish to-day a full report of the proceedings of the liquor dealers who met in State Convention in Syracuse on Wednesday last. Though the Convention opened in ill feeling and mutual jealousy, and was at one time likely to break yp in disorder, better counsels and wiser sentiments afterwards pre- vailed, and the result was harmonious action, the completion of a te organization, and the unanimons adoption of a constitution by which the association is hereafter to b governed, It would seem that there were two clements of disorder and disunion at work in the minds of the country members of the Convention from whom all the-difficulty proceeded. One class of them desired very much to chang the name and title of the society. These were the pious, religious men—members of the church—who, though belonging to the trade and existing by it, were so sanctimoniously hypocritical as to wish.the devil to be called by a more polite name. They deemed it as a reflection upon them to be numbered among the members of a body known as the “Liquor Dealers’ Society.” But the New York and Brooklyn members, who are the fathers and supporters of the organization, thought that there was much in.a name,.and that it would be contemptible as well as suicidal to fight uuder false colors;.and so they strenuously resisted all efforts, in caucus and in Conven- tion, tochange it into some other new and perhaps upmeaning term. They were not ashamed of their business, nor did they feel any internal qnaking at the idea of being known to the world as members of the Liquor Dealers’ Association. ‘The other element of opposition manifested by the country members to the plans of. or- ganization suggested by those from the city was, that the former did not desire the body to be a single and exelusive party. They wished to allow the politicians to come in and make capital ef the thing. That is, they would get up, not a strong, unyielding, «compact body of liquor dealers, who, fighting for their means of livelihood, would by united action be able to outweigh the votes thrown for any supporter of the Maine law, but rather a heterogeneous party of alf who either were or pretended to be opponents to probibition, Jt was this question which created all the trouble, and it was only by compromise that it was settled. The constitution declares that the association, in town and city, is to be known as “The Society of Liquor Dealers,” but that in the counties they may add, where it is deemed expedient, “and of others pecu- niarily interested in the trade.” Besides, in New York and Brooklyn, the exclusive charac- ter of the association is to be maintained,while in the rural districts they may carry on the contest with the heterogeneous clements they have heaped together, Mr. Lyman Powers, an extensive distiller, of Troy, was elected permanent President, with yen Vice Presidents—one from each judicial district—and two Secretaries; while nine other gentlemen—-Col. French at their head—were appointed a State Central Committee. The erganization being thus completed, the Con- vention adjourned sine die at midnight of the alay of its meeting. A good indication as to the practicalness of the men composing the hody. Where's the Carson League? Marine Affairs. Scwoonxn FckPoRD Wene.—The London Illustrated News, in noticing this fine vessel, says she was built by Mr. Thos. Dunham, which isa mistake. She was designed and built by Mr. Eckford Webb (after whom she was named), at Green Point. Mr. Dunham is her owner. In an attempt yesterday, by one unacquainted with the matter, to correct this error, two others were made, in calling her the “‘ship Henry Eckford.”” She is a fore and aft three masted schooner, and the first of her rig ever sent across the Atlantic, Her correct dimensions are—Length, 136 feet; width, 29; depth, 1235; and ton- nage, 494, Tx Ants.—Messrs. Smith, Vern & Co., of Broadway, have just published a fine steel plate engraving, giving the view of the city of New York and the surrounding scenery as seen from the Latting Ubsertatory. Thia is the largest engraving of the sort that has ever been exe- cuted in this country, and is highly creditable, not only to the talents of the artista employed, but to the enter- prise of the publishers, The view embraces every object of interest that can be seen from the Observatory—the Crystal Palace and the Reservoir being of course the pro- minent objects in the foreground. For a work of euch magnitude and labor the price is exceedingly low, the subecribers’ copies being only five dollars Marine Court. Before Hon. Judge Birdsall, AUG. 8. —Saimnel Alen, Assigner of Genet D. Clark age. assignee of G: Murray street. tif that in fore chased lense, tod MeCombs Dam—tha eorgee Deag! , and two notes of $ wti D. Clark, a wholesale liquor dealer, It appeared in evidence on part of plai wrt of Mareh, 1953, defendant pur- 1 fixtures of Degroot’s Hotel, at out the middle of March he sold r $2,500—Deagle paying $1,500 ach, payable in four or months. The defendant was'at ‘the time deal g with Clark—that on the 23d of March, 1m after selling to Deagle, he took Dea- “i him to Clark, requesting Clark to let Doa- gle have wines and liquors to the amount of $2 und that he would pay for them, but at the «a requesting Clark “not to say anything about his t curity, to Deagle, but let him have liquor to that ‘unt, and try and get the pay from him; and that if Je shonld fail to wy, he, ff, would see the bill » that thereupon Deagle ordered wines and liquors unt of $260, which was charged on the hooks Deagle, and the bill made out and sent to ving failed to pay, payment iefendant, who had promised to ” that Beagle only ol » When Searil ry 00, giving $1,600 cash and the New Yo nd from George Deagle one dollar. . hills, Ae., which a Recor’ wil for allt ore dne on or before the Oh day of Dey 10, SCARPT he part of defendant it was denied that credit w him, but that the goods were vold solely on t eagle; that the instrament was given hy de deunk, solely for the purpose of exonorat- ny inbility on the notes given by him to nd not intending to assume any ch debts as Deagle had contracted h + that the evidence woul! not war- Coort in finding that the original credit nidant, and that unless the whole credit jant he is not Hable; that the promise to pa; is collateral, and therefore void under the statute, Mr. | Pyott, plainti’s counsel, claimed that credit was gi é that the promire to pay was betore the ¥. wil wax in terms an original understanding on Iso claimed that in any event d « and did assume the . by giving the receipt at the time he purchased, Dec sion reserved. credit 0 eudant whe ng Leagle fr Toy CHoLena IN THE West.—The Shelbyville Banner of the 44 says that for th ious 3, between thirty and y The victims were mostly among the upon the Terre Hante and Alton Railron 4 had died, however, and among tlh oh m1 Several old Mr. Charles nd Mrs, Rowan, te e street, THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The State Elections. KENTUCKY. Lovisvnin, August 9, 1855. In fifty-two counties Morehead, K.N. for Governor, gains over 5,000 upon Scott’s majority. Six K. N. Con- gresmen and two anti-K. N.’s are elected. The two others are doubtful. Both branches of the Legislature will be American, NORTH CAROLINA. Raunt, August 9, 1855. Mr. Clingman, democrat, has 1,000 majority for Con- gress, in the Kighth district. Mass State Convention in Ohio. Couemnrs, August 9, 1855. ‘The mass State canvention of those opposed to Messrs. Chase and Medill for Governor, met in our City Hall to- day. Irad Kelly, of Cleveland, was chosen chairman, and hen, after appointing a committee on permanemt officers, he convention adjourned until half-past 2 P, M. The number -in attendance from other parts of the State is very small, being less than one hundred. AFTERNOON SESSION. ‘The Convention met again this afternoon, and about one hundred and fifty were present. Mr. Davenport, of Belmont, was elected permanent pre sident, with twenty-one vice presidents and secretaries, Two of the vice presidents only were’ present, and they ook their seats on the stand. A committee to draw up resolutions was then appointed. ‘The Hon. Mr. StANueRry, of Licking, addressed the Convention in a pro-slavery speech. He said the South- ern people owned slaves only in name. Massachusetts was the real owner, who reaped the fruits of their labor in exchange for granite and ice. The committee appointed then reported a series of re- solutions, one of which recommended ex-Governor Allen Trimble for Governor. Mr. J.R. Stannerny, of Licking, then addressed the Convention in favor of the American party and of the no- mination of Governor Trimble. He was followed by Messas. Norton, of Cincinnati; Ger- ger, of Columbus; and Norton, of Knor. ‘Allen Trimble was then nominated fur Governor, and the Convention adjourned, The Philadelphia Slave Case. PHILADELPHIA, Angust 9, 1855. True bills having been found against Passmore William- son and six colored men, for assault and battery on Col, Wheeler in carrying off his slaves, their cases were called to-day in the criminal court for trial, but were finally postponed till the 27th inst. important from. Texas. AID FOR THE MEXICAN REVOLUTIONISTS—SAM HOUS- TON AND THE KNOW NOTHINGS. NeW ORLEANS, August 7, 1855. ‘The San Antonia Ledger gives an account of the orguni- zation.of.a military force in Texas, to aid the Mexican re- yolutionists. ‘The tirst part of the expedition arrived at Leona river.on the 15th of July, and additional men were hourly arriving. Great numbers were expected to cross over on the 24th. Captain Henry, commander of the ‘Texan Volunteers, issued addresses to the people of Texas and Mexico. To the former he said it was their intention to aid in the establishment of a more republican govern- ment, and finally bring it under the protection of the American eagle. Gen, Houston has written a letter publicly endorsing the Know Nothings. From Albany. CBICKETING—-A VETERAN DEAD—FATAL ACCIDENT. “ Aumayy, August 9, 1855. The match between the New York Cricket Club and the Albany and Utica Clubs will not be played, the Albany and Utica Clubs declining to recede from the terms pro- prosed by them, on which the match should be played. Capt. Ford, of the U. 8. Anny, died at Sackett’s Harbor on Saturday last, aged eighty-two years. Chauncey Jackson, in the employ of the Potsdam and Watertown Railway, yesterday morning was knocked off & train at Sandford’s Corners, when passing under a bridge, and killed. From St. John, N. B. DESTRUCTIVE TIRE—RIOT IN A CIRCUS. Sr. Jouy, N. B., August 9,855. A fire vceurred this morning, between Brussels and Waterloo streets, in this city. Fourteen houses and barns and three horses were hurned. Arriot oceurred last night at Howes’ circus, between & mob, the police, and the circus men. No lives were lost, but several persons were severely handled. The Epidemic at the South. YELLOW FEVER IN VIRGINIA. Nonrouk, Va., August 9, 1855. The yellow fever has appeared in several diferent parts of this city. At Portsmouth there is no abatement of the disease. YELLOW FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS. New Onteass, August 6, 1855. The totdl number of deaths in this city during the past weex, was three hundred, of which two hundred and twenty-two were from yellow fever. From Washington. Wasinsetos, August 9, 1855, Senators Mason and Douglas were at the President's dinner party this afternoon, Nothing has been heard from Mr. Dawson, respecting his occeptance of the Governorship of Kansas. Joseph A. Abbott, has been appointed Pomtunster, at Binghampton, New York. The Ramored Editorial Changes. Burraro, August 9, 1865. The Democracy newspaper is not to be discontinued. It takes no notice whatever of the statement that Thur- low Weed is to retire from the Albany Evening Journal, and Mr. Wilkeson to take his place. Heavy Rain at Baltimore. Bairiwore, August 9, 1855. Aheavy rain has prevailed here all night, and still continues, Markets. New Onveaxs, August 6. Cotton unchanged. Sales to-day, 200 bales at 10, for middling, Fair sugar, 6c. & 640. New Ontmans, Angust 7, 1855, We have no change to report in our ‘cotton market (o- day. Sales 1,500 bales. Fair sugar 6 a 63¢ ¢. Flour con- siderably lower. Corn 80 a 824e. Bervaro, August 9—12:30 P. M. Our flour market is firm. Sales of 900 bbls., at $8 50 a $925 for good to extra Hlinois and luding 200 bbls, new Ohio within the range. pat dull at former rates. Corn in good demand for distilling and to fill eon- tracts, and prices have advanced bushels, at Zc. Onts—Nothing doing. W bbis., at 37¢. Canal freights unchanged. yesterday:—Flour, none; whee 10 bashel 15,050 bushels, Canal exports 3,300 bushels; corn, 67,828 bushels, ato, Ang. 9—5 la, 1,300 Flour, steady; common U, 1 at $77 r Lake to extra Ti Ohio and Mi nk good and firm: sales ing, at $160, ands Corn se, firn , but closed quick at T5e., including 10,000 bushels all eptember, ‘Oats dull—held at 48¢. unchanged; corn, 10. to Alban 2 Lake f bbls. ; 29,000 bushels,” Ca: Flour, 233 bbls.; wh ri y in nal freizhts New York. bushels ALBANY, Angust 0 Flour unchanged. Wheat the morning at Rdc., and elo» 85e,—Sales 25,000 bushels. Oats.—Sales 7,000 bushels Western, at 54} wsure, and Sze. weight. hee: by canal to-day: 1,035 bbls. flour; 45,610 bushels corn: 18,815 bushels oats; 100 bushels wheat. BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. Bautivorr, Augiet 9, 1855. r catile market to-day, 660 head of beeves w 70 sold at $3.50 a $475 on the hoof, He $7 50» $8 50, She —_——__ Wiltamsburg City News. Recovery or Storey Goons.—Vesterday a re rant was placed fn the hands of officer Morris, of the Fitih district police, to search the premises No. 47 Fourth street, (F. D.,) ocenpied by John J. Standring, for stolen goods. Stondring, who ix now in the Tombs, was a clork 23 a 63. for Charles Douglass, hardware dealer, No. 5 Platt street, and was arrested on a charge of embezzling $4,000 worth ‘of goods from his employer daring the past six months, Abont $200 worth of fancy hardware was found secreted Mr. Douglass, Ae arrested by on the premises, which was identified b A young man named Edward Phillip charge of being gs. ed claims of Standring, and admits worth of hardware in Brooklyn since ‘The republicans of Kings county | tion next week, in the Eastern distric gates to the State Convention, to be he! 26th of September. Jounty Hostitat.--Report for Remaining in hospital, 4 lents, 63; born, conven- nt dele. use on ho week ending why Value of Real Estate in New York—B: in the City. After an interval of twelve. or eightecn months, the time has again come about when money can got at seven per cent on bond and mortgage. Many causes have contributed to produce this result,] Among them we mention the following:— In the ordinary course of things, the price of va. cant lots up town must necessarily advance, or else they will be held at a loss, because interest, taxes and assessments are as regular and as certain as the’ tide, and must be added to the original cost. But for two years past the price of lots has remained very nearly stationary. High up town, beyond the bounds of immediate improvement, the price of lot is in fact nowhere, there being no demand, becanse there is no speculation, and of course no sales. Ot the apparent sales at the Merchants’ Exchange we make no account, they being generally Peter Funk affairs, unless made under the sheriff's hammer, by order of comt, or of executors, or other similar cases. On the cast side of the town above Thirty- foutth strect, in localities at all suitable for building, prices have neither advanced nor receded to any very greatextent. In the central portions of the city, above Forty-second and below Fifty-ninth street, prices are pretty firmly maintained. Between Forty-second and Thirty-fourth streets, on what is commonly known as Murray Hill, prices have firmly held their own, and in choice spots slightly advanced. Below Thirty-third street, and for five hundred feet west of Fifth avenue, prices have positively ad- vanced. No first class lots’can now be bought for leas than $6,000. West of Sixth avenue, prices of lots have remained about stationary. But, as we have. already remarked, in consequence of the constant ac- cumulation of interest, taxes, &c., it follows that to remain stationary is really to recede. And therefore our conclusion is that, on the whole, vacant lots are cheaper now than two years ago. This fact, toge» ther with the fact that building materials are de- cidedly cheaper, and labor abundant, and provisions likely to be more reasonable—these facts, we say, are favorable to builders who want money at seven per cent. Another favorable circumstance is—the European war seems to have done its worst as regards the in- terests of this country. Capitalists have seen the monster, heard his roar, and witnessed his doiugs And business and capital seem quietly to have ad- justed themselves to the “war term.” Confidence, if not restored, is in a convalescent state. Its future condition will depend almost exclusively upon the doctors of government at Washington. In a word, the time has come once inore when capitalists are willing to loan money at seven per cent on bond and mortgage. Cautiously we know; and to prevent mistake, we will state on what de- scription of real estate money can, and on what it cannot be got, at this present time. We do this in order that builders and speculators may not rush heedlessly and recklessly into unsafe and dangerous operations. It will be understood, asa general rule that the amount of money that can be got will not exceed one half the fair valuation of the property to be mortgaged. -Any amount of money, then, can now be had at seven per cent on all first class stores in the old aud well established business portions of the city. Even in such streets, however, the question will be raised by the money lender, whether in the course of time the course of business also may not change, and Property depreciate. We cite the history of Pearl street as anexample. Twenty years ago it was the leading mercantile street ; now, if its glory has not departed, it is certainly eclipsed by the streets west of Broadway, between Liberty and Chambers, both inclusive. The mercantile spirit seems to be as fickle and migratory as it is expansive ; and capitalists ac- cordingly make the most sagacious calculations they are.able, as to what will be the course of businese, xt least during the period which their mortgage i to run. The higher up town you go the less confidence capitalists feel in the stability of business and rents and the more reluctant they are to loan. Those who design to depend on getting a certain amount o Money, especially on avenue property up town, would do well to enquire into the matter a little before they get their foot in too far, and see whether #0 much money can be got on such and snch descrip- tion of property. We know of some persons who are building stores on the avenues above Thirty- fourth street, who are very seriously disappointed in getting the amount of money they require to go on and finish their buildings. And above Forty-second street, whoever undertakes to build without knowing to a certainty where the sinews of building are coming from, is preparing for anxious days and sleepless nights. We know a score of just such sleepless mortals. In our remarks thus far we have had our eye main- ly on avenue property, generally devoted to stores. We shail now speak of getiing money on dwellings. The class of dwelling houses on which it is the easiest to obtain money on bond and mortgage, is houses and lots under $10,000, in localities where the value of the lot approaches nearest to the cost of the house. By way of illustration, we will specify all such streets between Eighth and Ninth avenues, as Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirlieth, Thirty- first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth. Such streets are all well built up, with neat, tasty looking houses—no nuisances, no tenement houses, no work shops scattering dirt and noise, no vacant lots with stagnant water and dead cats; the streets are not filled up with files of old carts and platoons of broken wagons, and stacks of filth and garbage. On the contrary, these streets are clean, the air is comparatively sweet and pure, and every thing looks cheerful. Even the little children feel and show the difference. On the shady side of the street you will see them in happy little groups, all dressed neat and clean, and all with smiling faces, trundling their hoops, playing tag, keeping mimic schools, telling ghost stories, and all that sort of thing; while halt concealed behind the curtain of the front hasement window sits the contented and still handsome mo- ther, half industrious, and half proud of the little ones she is watching. Such scenes as these may he witnessed and enjoyed any day, not only between Fighth and Ninth avenues, but also between Fourth and Lexington avenues, on, and al! alone helow Thirty-first street. These are sightable streets, They are the street# in which espitalixts love to loan their money. They are proud to take # walk along such streets, and feel and tell, “Iu that house my money is invested—isn't it handsome property?” Another and a different class of dwellings is to be found on the line of Fifth avenue, and on the side streets below Thirty-cighth, but especially below Thirty-third or Thirty-second streets~-the intervening streets between Thirty-second and Thirty-eighth being in all respects firstelans streets, but as yet thinly improved. This is, par excellence, the We=i End of New York—the home of modern New York aristo- eracy. Here dwell the upper ten thousaud—here are to be found the wealth, the fashion, ond the pomp of New York, and not a little of its for-famed codfish aristocracy. On Fifth avenue, corner lots will range in value from ten to fifteen thousand dol lars; inside lots from eight to twelve thousand dot lars: side efreet lots six thousand dollars, but de preciating as you approach Sixth avenue, and as you go east of Fifth avenue. On sueh lots in Fifth avenue are built houses which cost all sorta of sums from $12,000 to more tens of thousonds than we dare to guess at. On the side streets the houses generally cost to build something as follows :—» 16.8 front house, which is one of three houses con structed on two lots, or one-third of fifly feet, fouy stories, brown stone, with wll the modern improve. ments, which inelnde water in all ite forms, baths, sinks, &c., the plumbing alone costing well on to o thonsand gollars, gas, speaking tubes, damb waiters, hella, marble mantels, with closets, paniries, &e,, without end—we ay such @ honse costs to hu! $2,000 net. A twenty-five foot h ot clasa will cost about *10,000 to #12.000, J ahoot ‘ame Sa exeet