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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, q PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. OFPPICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. Bee DALY REAED, 2 cons per copy, $1 per annun Eg HEALD. coy Salurbing oo con Por om. sem; cision, 84 per unas qa "NO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications. We do not Jan? TING executed with neatuces, cheapness and ERTISEME, seers eres ee M@e 233 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY TREATRE, Broadway—Tuz Carnve— @neen MonstER. NYBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Miss Pyxe—Cuxpexeuia: BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Invaston or Brirary— Tuonexpovs Tekuiric TRAGEDIAN. METROPOLITAN, Broadway—La Deexicn Hrvez pe MatyrLarne—La Maja be SkvILLe—Le Pantin pe Pigget— Guand DivenciesnMENT. WOODS MINSTRELS, Mechamic’s Hall, 472 Broadway. ‘ew York, Monday, August 13, 1855. Mails for Europe. NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Asia, Capt. 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Our Havana letters, although they do not contain any: political nows of importance, will be found in- teresting, from the information which they supply for the guidance of invalids who propose to make ‘the island their winter quarters. Full descriptions are given of the accommodation and eharacter of the’ different hotels, and of the scenery and other objects of interest in the neighborhood of Havana. At would appear from the statements of one of our correspondents that Santa Anna is looking after his old villa at Marianao, in view probably of his imme- Giate return there. A property tax of eight per cent is about to be imposed on the Cubanos. Pinelo and @adalzo had arrived at Ceuta where they were im- mediately set to work in irons. We give some late and interesting news from South and Centrai America in addition to that which ‘we published in yesterday’s Heratp. A consular and commercial treaty has been celebrated between Great Britain and Chili. The internal condition of Peru is reported as being highly unfavorable. It is said that Paraguay has not only opened her internal rivera to the Brazilian flag, but to the flags of all foreign nations. The first constitnent assembly of the newly erected State of Panama met on the 15th of July and elected Francisco !'abrege us Presi- dent, end Blas Arosemena as Vice Pr ent. The delegates then proceeded to elect a c officer for the State, and elevated to that position Senor Justo Arosemena. There are several interesting items of news from the Isthmus, Our readers will find in our colamns to-day an in- teresting description of the summer palaces of New- port, by one of our special correspondents, with se- veral gossiping communications from others of the watering places. The facts stated in the former show the progress that luxury is making amongst us—Newport vying ot present in the splendor of itgresidences with the most fashionable of the Eng lish summer resorts. Qar merchaut princes bid fair to outrival in their extravagant tastes the commer- cial magnates of the old country. Telegraphic reports from Baltimore state that both parties claim the election of their candidates in the Sixth and Kighth Congressional district, in Noith Carolina. The result is not yet known. The American papers in Tennessee concede the election of Johuson, dem., for Governor. The telegraph reports the yellow fever to be on the increase in Virginia, and that the people were leaving Portsmouth and Norfolk as rapidly as pos- sible. The hotels at Richmond were overrun. At Norfolk the buildings known as Barry's row had been burned down. It is stated in the letter of our Boston correspon- dent, published in another part of to-day’s issue, that the exhibition of the United States Agricultu- ral society will be a magnificent affair, and far supe- rior to any thing of the kind ever held in that city, The ground selected for the exhibition contains an ea of no less than forty acres. Ten thousand dol- lars in addition to what may be received from visi- ters, are guarantied to meet any excess of expendi- ture over the receipts that may occur. One of the principal features of the exhibition will be a show of fine horses. Jn oar columns of this morning will be found an account of the lynching of DeBar, at Milwaukie, Wisconsin, on account of his atrocious murder of the Muehr family. The mob overpowered the military and officers, seized the prisoner, knocked him sense- Jess by striking him on the head with a stone, heat him with clubs, jumped on him, and finally hung him up by the heels to a tree, where he was suffered toremain for hours after life was entirely extinct. By a communication pnblished elsewhere, it will be perceived that the Census Marshals of the Seventh ward are severely censured for an alleged neglect of duty in the enumeration of the population of that locality. It is charged that no leas than four hun- dred dwellings, containing a population estimated at 4,200, were notcanvassed at all by the Marshals The markets on Sgturday were not very active. Cotton showed no change in prices; the sales footing up some 800 or 1,000 bales. The demand for flour was pretty good, with no alteration of moment. In wheat there was a decline of four or five cents a bushel, and Indian corn was about a cent lower. Pork was firmer, with a fair amount of sales. Sugar and coffee were firm, with sales of some 800 or 900 hogsheads of the former at full prices. Cotton was taken for Liverpool at 3-16d. for compressed and un- compressed. Oil was at 153. per ton to Liverpool, and 173. to London. Tue City Cuampentain ayo tHe City De- posiTs,—Since the resignation of Mr, Edmonds, as cashier of the Mechanics’ Bank, Wall street bas been curious and anxious to ascertain who is to take his place as City Chamberlain, and which bank is to have the city depos With an annual tax of five millions of dollars, the bank which secures the deposits is considered a lucky institution. Hence the anxiety among the bankers and brokers, We learn that the Mayor has had the whole matter under con- sideration since bis return from Saratoga, and is perfectly satistied that the city funds are safe to a dollar, and that Mr. Edmonds has, therefore, been a faithful custodian of the public money. In order that they may con- tinue in safe hands, he has looked about for a worthy successor of Mr. F., and has determiped to appoint Robert Kelly, Esq., who is a direc- tor of the Mechanics’ Bank, to the vacant place. It is fair to suppose, therefore, that the deposits will remain where they now are. Wall street will fegl relieved. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1855. } most bumble abtizan, the number of persone | "THE LATEST NEWS. The Late Southern Elections and the New American Party—A Good Beginning. Whatever may be the precise results of the late elections in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alaba- ma and North Carolina, it is satisfactorily as- certained that the new American party have not only exceeded the calculations of their enemies, but the expectations of their most sanguine friends ia this section of the Union. The Virginia election, the split in the Phila- delphia National Council, and the subsequent Northern Know Nothing fusion movements with the Anti-Slavery Holy Alliance, it was supposed, had completely finished the natives ‘on the south side of Mason and Dixon’s line and the Ohio river; and that we should have nothing more nor less to record as the resulta of the Southern August elections than the last funeral ceremonies to “Sam.” But what are the facts? This new party, so far from having been annihilated in the South by its defeat in Virginia, the secession of Wil- son and his Northern anti-slavery gang from the Philadelphia council, and the late abolition fusion movements from Massachu- setts to Ohio, is still in the South, a living, ac- tive, aggressive and advancing party. Super-* seding the defunct whig societies as the oppo- sition party to the spoila democracy, we find this new American organization in Ken- tucky carrying the State as by an avalanche; in North Carolina pushing boldly into the strongest democratic districts; in Tennessee running neck and neck with one of the most popular democratic Governors of the State of the last twenty years; and in Alabama creating a regular stampede among the faithful, where they had imagined themselves perfectly se- cure and invulnerable, with their usual ma- jority of from eight to ten thousand. These results, we say, under all the drawbacks and impediments with which the Know No- things have had to contend, very clearly indicate that there is a spirit abroad among the conservative people of the South, deci- dedly favorable to a radical revolution in the government at Washington; and that this new party, with the same pruning and trim- ining, and shaping to consistency, contains within itself the nucleus upon which a victo- rious national party may be easily founded, and the elements of conservatism upon which a great Union triumph may be readily achieved. But while these late elections illustrate the activity, energy and confidence of the Know Nothings of the South, they also betray toa great extent what might have been done had this new party occupied a sound matter-of-fact constitutional American platform. A party intending to inaugurate a revolution should never be thrown upon the defensive. Revo- lutions are aggressive, and against old ideas, and systems and demagogues—they are the at- tacking and not the defensive party. In these late elections, however, the unconstitutional exactions of the Know Nothings concerning aliens born and Roman Catholics in faith, placed the new party in a position in which it was almost entirely cut off from offensive ope- rations. The nativists, in the first place, had excited and rallied the adopted citizens and Roman Catholics against them; and next those doctrines of a native and Protestant monopoly of the government and the public plunder, ex- pored both flanks of the native organization to the’attacks of the democracy. Thus assailed, the new party could do nothing more than de- fend themselves, and the ground they occu- pied. They had no power to advance—-no au- thority to retreat; and consequently towards the great revolution which they promised in the outset, nothing practical has yet been done, Now, the true policy of the Know Nothings is to cut off these proscriptive excrescences, especially against those foreigners and Catho- lics who are entitled under the constitution to the same general equality in political and reli- gious rights with natives and Protestants them- selves. This done, the next step isa full ex- posure to the people of the budget of blunders, follies and extravagancies which make up the history of this Pierce administration, a decla- ration of active war against it, and the procla- mation of a schedule of progressive yet practi- cal measures of reform in government affairs, foreign and domestic. This accomplished, all that will be wanted for the spontaneous con- solidation of a great national party will be the doctrine of non-intervention upon the subject of slavery, and a new man for the White House, whose history, associations, character and prin- ciples will render him satisfactory to the Union men of all sections, with or without a platform. Major Donelson, in the late canvass in Ten- nessee, endeavored earnestly to bring the Ame- rican party to this policy of a campaign against the administration, and to make the demerits of Mr. Pierce, and his cabinet, and his spoils- men, the ruling issue of the election; but he failed. These new and startling anti-American and impracticable doctrines of ostracism against foreigners and Catholics could not be overshadowed by the small beer thimble rig- ging in the cabinet for the succession; nor yet ly the great corruptions of the whole concern, from the parlor to the kitchen. The Know Nothings, then, in North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama, instead of being per- mitted the policy of a war upon the adminis- tration, have been compelled, from first to last, to vindicate themselves and their platform against charges of treason to the constitution. We repeat, then, that under these dead weights of treason to the constitution and treachery to the South, it is surprising that the American party, upon its first trial, should prove to be stronger in the South, and much stronger than the old whig party in its best days, with Henry Clay at the helm. Experience teaches wisdom, defeat the means of victory, and failure the secrets of euceess, all parties are still in a state of con- fusion and eflervescence—there is no existing national homogeneous party in the country. Nor are there in the materials of any existing party, North and South, the elements of a great cobesive national conservative party, if they cannot be found in the Know Nothing ranks, What we claim as the moral of these Southern elections is, that they show, not the strength of the opposition forces, but the weak- ness of the administration. Let the issne of the campaign of ‘66 be, upon the continuance of this Pierce dynasty of the spoils democracy, ora new administration out-and-out, casting overboard these untenable doctrines of alien and Catholic proscription, and we shall pro- bably have another revolution as decisive be- fore the people as that of 1840; or a verdict against the policy pursued by Mr. Pierce, foreign and domestic, as conclusive as that of 1852, in his favor. can party have made some important improve- ments in their machinery; and there is yet time enough for the complete modification and simplification of their principles to the practi- cal American issues, upon which the Presiden- tial election will inevitably be decided. ‘The Census of New York City—Its Popula * ton and Habitations. The operation of taking the census of this city isa but completed. There are, we be- lieve, but four wards from which the returns are yet wanting. This deficiency, however, we can easily remedy ; and, for the purposes of this article, we have made an estimate of the population of the wards im question, which are the Eighth, Tenth, Fourteenth and Nineteenth. Taking into consideration the respective locali- ties of these wards, and the returns that have been received from those immediately neigh- horing, or which are governed by similar cir- cumstances as to trade, situation, &c., we have been able, we should think, to anticipate the returns pretty correctly, or at least to come to as close an approximation to them as will answer ll practical purposes. The following table exhibits the population of New York at the several epochs from 1830 to 1855, it being borne in mind, however, that, for the present year, the figures in four of the wards are apo- eryphal, and may be augmented or diminished to some inconsiderable extent, when the official report is received :— Inc, Dee, since since Wards, 1880, 1840. 1850, 1855. 1850. 1850, + « 11,827 10,629 19,754 13,253 = — 6,501 8202 6,408 6,655 3240 = — 3, 9,649 10,355 7,000 = — 3,355 23,250 23,650 400 |” 686 21,661 = — 1,025 24,609 23,639 = — 1,080 32,600 32508 = — 184 ahel2 3he12 0 40,657 37,059 = 3,598 1 23,318 25,000 1,084 | — 1 49,758 53,334 91578, — 1 10,451 18,451 3,000 * — 1 28,246 26,208 «= — 1,948 14 25,198 24,000 = — 1196 15 22,564 23,776 1,212 9” — 1 52,882 40,680” — 12,202 i 49,763 ° 60,952 17,189 | — 1 31,548 39,851 °8\305 — 71 18,465 40,000 91,535 — 20 — 46,925. 46,925 a — 2475 20475 2 — 2073 23073 — Total increase in five years.........+06 000 ++++123,809 It will be thus seen that the population com- prised within the twenty-two wards of this city, in 1855, amounts, in round numbers, to six hundred and forty thousand. This is a consi- derably less figure than was anticipated some six months ago as likely to result from the re- turns of the Census Marshals, but stiil we think it is or ought to be satisfactory, and we shall proceed to show why. In comparison with the population of 1850, that of 1855 shows an increase of 24 per cent. This per centage has only been outstripped in two instances in the five quinquennial terms between 1830 and 1855. These instances were in the term between 1845 and 1850—within which this city attained its greatest momen- tum of expansion—when the increase of popu- lation reached 384-5 per cent, and in the term between 1830 and 1835—a period of like wonderful progress—when the increase reached 33 per cent. The increase which we now re- cord’is far ahead of that in either of the other two terms, for between 1840 and 1845 it was but 183-5 per cent; and between 1835 and 1840 it was but 154-5 per cent. So that it results from a comparison of these figures that the growth of New York in point of popula- tion, from 1850 to 1855, is very nearly a fair average of its total increase for the last twenty-five years. And that is saying not a little in favor of the figures now presented, considering that New York has within that quarter of a century more than trebled her Poptart, for the twenty years between 1835 and 1855 the ratio of increase has been 136 3-4 per cent, the census at the first named period being 270,089, against 639,444 at the last. This rate of increase has far outstripped that which has taken place either in the State of New York or in the United States. Not having the figures for 1855, we take the same lapse of time between 1830 and 1850, and find that the rate of increase in the State, exclu- sive of the city and county of New York, has been but 50 per cent, and in the United States 80 1-4 per cent. A comparison of these figures with those showing the increase of the city population during a like space of time, will show the enormous growth which has taken place in this metropolis. It would require but ten years more of the same rate of increase to place our population at a million of souls, and but twenty to give us a million and o half. If the State at large had progressed at the same rate for the last five years, its population now would be 3,796,280; and if the United States had progressed at the same rate for the same time, the population of the Republic would be now 28,756,932. But from the comparison which we have before instituted, it will be seen that both the State and the United States have fallen far behind this city in the momentum of progress attained in the matter of population. But while the figures we have cited may well excite our pride and glory in the increasing magnitude of this great metropolis, there are others, hidden or kept back in the details, which reveal something not quite so flattering to usin respect to the mode of accommoda- tions provided for our citizens. In some of the wards—particularly in the Eastern portion of the city, between the Third avenue and the East river—human beings are compelled to kennel, it may be said, in the most crowded, filthy and squalid condition. Of course, the census returns do not tell us that, but they give us the number of houses in a ward, and the number of the popula- tion, and it results from a simple figuring in the rule of division, that there are in some wards eighteen, nineteen or twen- ty individuals to each house. Of course when it enters into the calculation that not more than one-half or one-third of the houses in any ward are appropriated to these tene- ment purposes, but are occupied by single fa- milies, it must result that in these ill-ventilated, ill-eewered and filthy habitations, which are alone provided for the toiling mecha: there are crowded together sometimes six, twelve, or even a score of families. An article which we published in yesterday's Heraty couveys a faithful description of this kind of prope and of the causes which lead to the erection of such houses, and we need, therefore, do no more here than to glance at the subject and expressa hope that the day will soon come when, in this metropolis of which we are so justly proud, that portion of our population—whose labor is the chief source and cause of its wealth—may have habitations fit for them to dwell in. In London,where small and suitable resic escan Within the last six months thig ngw Ameri- { be obtained at rents to suit the pocket of the each dwelling does not, if we recollect aright, exceed nine. Here the average would be some- thing like double that, We need not account to our city readers for the fact which might appear strange, that just one-half of the wards have experienced a di- minution in population. But to our country readers it may be necessary to explain that those are the down town wards, from which po- pulation recedes just as trade advances and re- quires more room for its development. These general statements will, we think, suffice to convey a pretty clear idea of the results of the census of 1855, Disunion in Virginla—Plan of Military Pre- parations for Secession and Civil War. We remember that during the discussion of the compromise measures of 1850, Senator Foote, of Mississippi, gave notice that there would be a violent dispersion of Congress, a la Oliver Cromwell, and a dissolution of the Union, within three days. But, as in the case of Miller’s prophecy, the appointed three days’ grace passed away, and there was no explosion. We remember that in 1851, when South Caro- lina was preparing to secede, on account of the slavery adjustment of 1850, that the prepara- ‘tions for war in that fiery little Commonwealth were of the most threatening and alarming character; but we also remember that when Virginia, and Georgia, and Mississippi, and so on, declined to come to the rescue, the warlike encampments in South Carolina were dispersed, and that she settled down quietly into the sen- sible resolution to wait a little longer. The article which we copy from the Rich- mond Znguirer this morning, proposes to revive in Virginia “ the bombs, guns, drums and bat- teries,” the military drills, the encampments, and all ‘The pride, pomp and circumstance of war, which raged through all the borders, and even into the remotest swamps of South Carolina, in 1851. The contingency of civil war to be prepared for is thus to be brought about: A few years hence Kansas will apply for admission into the Union as a slave State. There will be a Northern majority in the popu- lar branch of Congress that will reject her ap- plication, on the ground that there shall be “no more slave States.” Upon this test, like “stars shooting madly from their spheres,” the Southern States are to secede, and reorganize in an independent Southern confederacy. It is expected that in this event, the North will endeavor to bring back their refractory South- ern brethren into the Union at the point of the bayonet; and against a contingency of that kind, Virginia, one of the border slave States, will be among the very first to be invaded by Northern mercenaries. Hence the necessity devolving upon the “Old Dominion” of pre- paring for a revolt, and against the invasion by a foreign enemy in the shape of belligerent Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and Yankees. All this chain of “dread combustion and chimeras dire,” hinges upon the Territory of Kansas. The plan of “squatter sovereignty” has been adopted for the setilement of the slavery question there, and free soil or slave- ry, as the people may decide, it has been de- creed by act of Congress that the Territory, when otherwise prepared, shall come into the Union as a sovereign State. Our Northern anti-slavery agitators have sworn that, as a, slave State, neither Kansas nor any other Ter- ritory shall hereafter be admitted into the Union; and now the proposition comes from Virginia, and from the leading democratic or- gan in Virginia, that if Kansas is refused ad- mission upon her application as a Southern State, the whole South shall be cut adrift, and Kansas shall be taken into the Southern confe- deracy, “for better or for worse.” Seriously, these are startling suggestions, and full of matter for the grave attention of the Union men of all sections of the country. It is very evident, in any event, that we shall have two sectional parties in the field for the Yresidency, upon this Kansas questioa—a Southern pro-slavery and a Northern anti-sla- very party, and that the ultimatam of both as already promulgated, is the same, thing, the dissolution of the Union, Between these two extremes, however, a third party is in the field, and by the year 1856, when these extreme Northern and Southern sectional parties shall have taken their positions, we may expect a practical American movement which will strike between them and carry off the victory and the spoils, and in behalf of the admission of Kansas, “with or Without slavery,” as her bona jide people may determine. There is no necessity for any fears of imme- diate danger. It will take two or three years yet to give Kansas the population necessary for a State. In the interval the action of this new Northern free soil Congress will do much to define the ultimate issue. Short of the pro- ceedings of this next session, however, it is idle toconjecture the result. We know enough, meantime, to declare that between Seward’s Northern, disunion, anti-slavery coalition, and the Southern secession democracy, there is nei- ther safety nor peace, except in a conservative third party, resting upon the merits of the Con- stitution and the Union. With these preliminary remarks we dismiss for the present the Virginia military pro- gramme by the Richmond Enquirer; and, by way of contrast, we give the reader, at the same sitting, the views upon the same subject of the New York Evening Post, a Northern administra- tion democratic organ, with some provisos. If after reading these two articles, any body cha tell how the New York soft shells and the Vir- ginia democracy are to be fused in 1856, let us hear. When there is a call to arms there is no time to be lost. Personal Intelligence. Fxtract of a letter dated Washington, 11th August:— Our foreign diplomatic body will shortly be somewhat reduced in the personnel of diplomats of high rank, whose presence will be missed, during the ensuing winter, in the gay circles of the capit ‘Mr. Carvalho Moreira, the Brazilian Minister, is trans- ferred to Londen. Mr. de Ceuto, Minister from Spain, re- tires to his native country in search of health. Me. de Figaniere, the Yortuguese Envoy, also visite Europe for a Q rounths, on leave of absence (his son, tie Consul-Ge- lof New York, being charged with the duties of the until his .eturn). All the above take their de- porture in the Asia; and we may shortly expect to lose the presence of General Almonte. ARRIVALS. , Va. ip steamship Roanoke—J¥ Fisher, per BO Brinley, Mise Howlett, i Margnis ard lady, J A Freyer, lady and four children; Mr and Mise Oreaperd Pont, oY Kedmond, lady and child; Miss M Wilkin pon, | MBsbh, iady and daughter; A Morrison and soa, JC CUitkke, E Chainberlaine, two daughters and two sone; Mrw M Henry, Lieut J M Wainwright, aud 10 tn the steerage, At the 8t. Nicholas—C W Lord, 8 W_ Wolt, Balimon 1, From Petersh Mrand Mrs I Gen uur, Vai Gen +S Parker, Simon stevens, Pa; Jb K Meyer, 8 0; A Murra: Spin wk Ry: WH Pairetiia, New York. stor House W Wheelock, Porton; $7 oak MP baliey. Pa; W flowes, sivnrmah; talfora, Mrs Gen Ba Qnelia dingion; HP Williams, Buffalo; Iu Uarues, Boxon, W Weis, Philadelphia. From Clenfuegos, in ehip Josephine Harding—Pedro Sa seve, J Dorie. Prom Rleuthera, in sehr Lady Scoti—Miss E Knowles. Prom Nassau, NP, in brig Wasp—Mr Sargent, William Forbes. At tbe BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, North Carolina Election. Bauriwore, August 12, 1855. North Carolina papers represent the Sixth and Eighth Congressional districts in doubt, both parties claiming them. ‘The Georgia Union Convention. Oovwmuia, 8. C., August 11, 1855, ‘The Union Convention that was to have met at Milledge- ville, Georgia, on the 8th inst., was not holden, and bas Deen indefinitely postponed, Yellow Fever tn Virginia. Barrmworx, August 12, 1855. Both at Portsmorth and Norfolk, the people are still fiying in every direction. At the latter place the fever was increasing, and Barry’s row there had been burned down. The hotels at Richmond are overrun. Markets. FRovipence, August 12, 1855. Our cotton market has been dull during the past week, with small sales at unchanged prices, Wool—Reeeipts rather lighter than last week. Market firm with a fair de- mand. Fales, 87,800 lbs. Printing cloths—The market has been quite active the past week, and the sales have been large—amounting to 91,200 ‘pieces at firm prices. Stock very light. Bleached quarters are wanted, aud several styles have been sold to be bleached. The Marder Mania. By a perusal of the accounts of shocking and bra- tal murders which have appeared in the papers for a few days past, we are almost led to believe that the present time is the advent of a season of horrifying homicides, the details of the perpetration Uf some of which present the offenders more in the light of heartless brutes than human beings. The most shocking on the list of the recent murders is the one in Wisconsin, where a man named Debar attempted to put anend tothe existence of a whole family. This wretch, for no other reason than, as he stated, entertaining a bare suspicion that his intended vic. tim, a worthy furmer named Muehr, had struck him at the election polls, knocked him down, intending the blow should be fatal, while Mr. Muchr was in the act of giving him a drink to quench his thirst. He then caught his wife, and with a knife nearly severed her head from her body. His blood thirstiness did not stop there; but encountering a young man in the employ of Muehr, he soon despatched him with a club. He then went back to the house, set it on firey and threw the body of the young man into the flames, Debar was caught and tried within four days after committing the offence. He was fonnd guilty and remanded to prison to await his sentence, but on his way thither the incensed populace took him from the custody of the sheriff, and after treating him in the same brutal manner that he had dealt with his victims, dragged him to a tree and suspended him by the heels until life was extinct. Wisconsin is be- coming noted for murders and lynch law excutions. The next most horrifying affuir of the kind is the finding of the body of a young woman in Gunner’s run, Philadelphia, with marks upon her body, which showed conclusively that she had heen foully dealt with. This murder has very much the appearance of the Green lane affair in the same city, and is, like that, enshrouded in mystery. She was the wife of a German named Michael Albrecht, was only cighteen years of age, and had been married but three weeks. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Sting. Next comes the affair at Newark, N. J., which took place on Tuesday last. The keeper of a lager bier saloon, named Conrad Bauer, was stabbed to the heart by a man named John McKinney, after,a few words of altercation, which arose in consequence of Bauer refusing to admit a number of riotous characters into his house. The murderer is still at large, and is said to be in this city. The Mayor of Newark has offered a reward of two hundred dollars for his apprehension. An aggravated murder occurred near Springfield Tenn., about two weeks since. A man named Mor timer A. Martin had separated from his wife, in con sequence of a supposed intimacy between her and a young man named Francis M. Walton. The two par. ties met, and Martin desired Walton to keep out of his way, a8 he did not like him; Martin then left and walked away, when Walton fired and shot him in the back. Martin fell, and his adversary imme diately got upon him and with another pistol des patched him immediately. Walton has not beeh arrested. On the 34 inst., at a political meeting held in Jamestown, Ohio, two persons, named Benjamin Ad- kins, a ship carpenter, and William Worlan, keeper of the Mexico House, a few miles above Cincinnati, on the Kentucky side, got into an altercation, which resulted in Worlan’s stabbing Adkins in the region of the heart, which caused his death immediatel ;. In the town of Whitteford, Monroe county, Mi- chigan, a woman was found dead in her own house, having been killed by blows on the back part of her head. Suspicion rested upon a man named James E. Cromwell, her son-in-law, and he was accordingly arrested for the crime. During his examination there was great excitement among the people, and the evidence was so strong against him, and the offence so brutal, that had not the officers of the law taken o most determined and formidable stand, a Wisconsin lynch law tragedy woald most certainly have been enacted. The prisoner is now in jail awaiting bis trial. Paval Intelligence, ‘The U. 8. sloop-of-war Falmouth, Capt. Shaw, arrived at Key West, on the morning of 3d inst., from Havana. Capt. $. found at the Post Office despatches from the Navy Bureau ordering him to Norfolk, and he would sail at daylight the following morning. No sickness on board. ‘The U. S sloop-of-war Jolim Adams, E. B. Boutwell commander, sailed from Panarma July 16, for the Fegee Is- lands. Coroner's Inquests. KILLED BY THE FALUNG oF AN Ewnankweyt.—Coroner Hilton peld an inquest yesterday, at the New York Hos- pital, upon the bedy of aman named James Coyle, who was killed by the falling in of an ombankment at Oyster Bay, L. I. The accident happened on the 2ist ult., since which date the deceared lingered at the Hospital, suifer- ing from fracture of both legs and a compound fracture of the right arm, The jury rendered a verdict of acei- dental death. Deceased was 45 years of age, and was auative of Ireland. here were two other persons in- stantly hillgl by this occurrence: Desi ny ‘Drowsixe.—Albert Norton, @ lad about 18 years of age, was drowned on Saturday afternoon by aceidentally falling overboard at th of Highteenth strect, Enst River. The body of deceased was recovered in about an hour after the accident. Williamsburg City News. Faree WaiGitts AxD MEASUKES..—A wagon pedlar named Wanser was arrested on Saturday on a complaint of Mr. Powell, Sealer for the Eastern district, for using false measures, they having been regulated » few days pre- vious by him, Accused gave bonds to appear, The same a Jar, driving wagon No. 5%, was discovered w.th inive bottoms in his measures, On Saturday evening ell detected three grocery men in the Fourteentis ising light weights, Complaints will be eatered them. InTEwrEnaNce.—There were four arrests in the Sixth police district for druzkenness for the twenty-four hours ending last evening. In the Fifth district there was but ene arrest for intoxication, Bretat Hesnaxps,—Yesterday afternoon a man named Henry Schaffer, residing in Leonard street, Eastern dis- trict, netuated by motives of jealousy, beat his wife ina most inhuman manner. An alarm of murder drew the attenticn of officer Young, who took Schaffer to the lock up. dames Duffey was arrested about 12 o’eloe turday night, by officer Waters, of the Fifth di ou acharge of aseault and battery and attemps to kill his wife, He was locked up to await cxansination, " Rercoveny oF A Stork’ Horsk.—A gray horse, supposed to have been stolen at Hastings, N. ¥., on Tuesday night last, was recovered by officer Morris, of the 13t) Ward cn Saturday night. Officer Morris was on his Beit at the cornet of South Tenth and Second streets, and tis ; tlon was called to the team acelentally, ant coming ch se up, the driver jomped out, and knocking the oficur dvwn, ran away, and left the horse in his possesion Lacrn Bren Gcanns.—A target company undor the above name fs being formed in Dutch town and yletni y he priaes are to be kegs of lager bier of various the leer to be drunk belore the return of the cun;any: As there are a nomber of Americans in the company. 4 fair opportunity will be offered to ascertain wire lager Wier intoxicates or not. sae 'y, a ther Theatres and Exhibitions. At the Broadway this evening, “The Cap!ive” and the: “Green Monster,’ are the attractzons. Grose, Dalucher, and Mademoiselle C. Franck willappear in the former; and Cabriel Ravel, with V. Martinetti and Mademoiselle J. Martinetti in the latter. A grand historical military spectacle, entitled the ‘In vasion of Brifain,? will be brought forward at the Bow- ery. It will Lea fine drameticeffort, as the usual company” will be assisted by two hundred auxiliaries. The military, evolutions, battles, and triumphal processions will be brilliant. ‘At Niblo’s, the Pyne and Harrison trouge will render> the grand romantic fairy opera of Cinderella,” whtchs has attracted such crowds nightly, this evening. ‘the ballet troupe of French and Spanish dancers will appear at the Metropclitan in some excalient pieces, The vaudeville, ‘ La@ariie de Piquet,” will be produced: for the first time, $ George Christy and Woods’ Minstrels will conclude their usual performances with a new masquerade ball. White’s Opera, Rowery, is as laughable as ever. Char- ley White appears as old Bob Ridley. ‘Tas Wank Comrunesy at WaALLAck’s.—It will be seem. by the following programme, that the complimentary tri- bute to Mr. Ware, which ix to take pliee on Wednesday next at Wallack’s, will be an affair of no ordinary at- traction end interest:— Grand dramatic compliment to Charles T..P. Ware, and: debut of Ada Clare, on which occasion Mr, Ware will take part, (for the first time, ina dramatic perfcmance,) ae Maater Walter, in Knowles? admirable. play of thes \-Bunchtack,” supported by several distinguished writers. C80... W. Bennett, Ea, (Author of the Viking, Ke.) HLS, fmith, (Author of Love’s Vicissitudes, &o.) aa Fathom. F, Underhill, (of the Tribune,) asModus Mr. H. Reeves. Mr. Morehead, Signor La Manus, ‘The entertainment will take place at Wallack’s Thea- tre, on Wednesday evening, August Sth, 1855, Tickets can be obtained at Jollie’s music store, St. Nicholas, Hotel, and of Wm. Hall & Son, 230 Broadway, ‘This testimonial to a member of the literary profession» by his collatorateurs and artistic friends, is highly credi- table net only to the object af ft, but to the body to which he belongs. It shows that there exists among them a. good feeling anda readiness to appreciate professional merit, which are not always to be found in other call- ings. It is to be hoped that the publicgenerally will as~ sist in rendering the compliment worthy of the talents and services of the gentleman to whom it is offered. Miss Fanny Osborne, being incapacitated by iil health. frcm a further exercise of her profession, her friends are actively engaged in arranging to give her a benetit at Wallack’s, about the close of the present month. The aid of ladies and gentlemen of the profession 5s solicited. The commiitee will meet at the City Hotel, at eight o’clock to-morrow (Tuesday) evening. Political Intelligence. A POLITICAL PREACHER IN MAINE. ‘The following letter from the Rev, Mr, Hill, of Saco, is. + a curiosity. The way the reverend gentleman mixes up God and religion with politics aud the slave question, is truly admirable. Elder Hill is rampant :— Saco, July 29, 1855. My Dear Dr. :—How goes the battle? How does your soul? How is the health of your family? Peace be with + thee and thine. How goes the battle on temperance and slavery? It. seems almost as thorgh hell liad boiled over and cast ite scum on or shores. Loman priests, Irish Catholics, infidels and murderers, the cargo, are landed on our shores to meet the Aimericans at the ballot-box and con- test our civil freedom, while the slave power are bent upen our destruction. All the vile out ef hell are~ pressing together against the Lord and his Christ to de- stroy truth from the earth, and bring down God's suds. ment upon us. Lrunkards’ have had the power already: too long. ‘the four great national sins, fatompe ance, slavery, Romanism, and political correpyions, can never be cured or checked by the whig or demoomtic pariy—never, never! We must come out and form a new combination. against sin, and hell, end the devil. Agaimat Romant the ballot-box we must meoi them. ‘They won churches end hear us prea 1 they. We can pray, but we must act alse. ell you, Br, ——, unless the» goed and true of ail of politics come out and up together,we are gone, M Koadtield, has beens nominated by ihice large conventiens, for our next Gevyernor, 1 was at the convention, and I never saw more earnestness and ren} grit than at those conventions. Now his eneinies will not hesitate to sey all manner of evil ugainst him. J say I know him, and hays for years, o bewn honest man, “He camnot be bought or sold, f Can assure you, I thought fT would drop you a line about he matter, hoping it might stir us up together for the ood of the cause tf God on earth. T hope if you look at hings as I do you may influence the good and virtuous «f your acquaintance, and members of our church to go Ven-born movement. The blew tall Love io all the family and friends im ——. {remember old times, Yours, in Chris tian Jove, HILL. VERMONT WHIG STATE CONVENTION. ‘The whigs of Vennont Leld a State Convention, on the at White River Junction. A State Commitioe avi oon appointed for the ensuing year, a commitioe was appoinied to draft an address to the whigs of the Mate, nnd a string of resolutions were reported an‘ ap- proved of, ‘These declared that whig principles and whig measures cannot be abandoned by whigs without danger to the permanent interests and tategrity of the country; that they viewed with alarm the disposition, on the part of many whigs, to identify themselys, in their pelitical action, ‘with a faction that has ever beenentively yepugnant to there principles; that every thoughtfal man must be startled at the prospects of sectional par- tier ; of the people of the Union ranging themselvee under & Northern and «Southern party; of the attempt to administer the gencral government by on ascendant rectional party. ‘hey further affirmed that our re- peal of the Missouri ‘compromise, being the act of the administration and not of the South, ft was wrong ~ that their reseniment should be directed against that reeticn of the country; that the whig has ever been the conservative party of thie country, and that its exiat- ence, for the safety of the Union, waa never more needed than at present; and that, while a single whig remains alive in Vermout, the whig banner shall wave iu the breeze, That we will erick a little of the feelings of Clay, who would rather be right than be Vresilent, and of our own fomortal Webster, who would not, even for that exalted office, bend to the prejudices of his loved New England. ‘Lhe Committee on Nominations ted the following State ticket: Jobn Wheeler, of Burlingwia, Gover- { Castletom, Lieutenant Governor; . jradfovd, Treasurer. legates at large to the next National Me K. Ormeby, of Bradford; H. Wright, T. Wright, of Castleton; Charles H. Joyce substitute, must be struck soon, tute; Taac , of Northtield, KNOW NOTHING CONVENTION. The Pinghempton Lepudlian states on official autho- rity that the Know Nothings of the State af New York will hold @ State Convention at Brigham Hall, in Bing- hemton, on Tuesday, August 28, commencing at 10 o'clock A.M. Over 1000 mwombers are expected to be present, and the cession will probably continue through- out the week, Ample preparations are now making to provide for this large body of visiters comfortable quar- tere. The gession Will be an important one, as the plat- form and operations of the party will be considered, and the time and place of the Convention to nominate a State ticket defiuitely settled—the announcement of the nominating Convention at Syracuse being premature. THE KANSAS TRICK It will be een that Judge Mmore, of Alabama, one of the Judges in Konsas, has removed on the same grounds upen which Cov, Reeder was dismissed. What are those grounds? ‘he only truthful answer is, for speculations in the Indian reserved lands. It can not be ecntended that Fimore, a Southern man, waa dismisset for Lis free soiliom. ‘the only charge brought against him grew out of his alleged speculations in the public lends. Twill be remembered that Secretary Marey ad- Grested a letter to Gev. Reeder some time sinee, in which he called his attention, and that of Judge Elmore and cther effieials, to this charge, ant intimated that they could not be retained in office without satisfactory ex- plenations. To this notification Gov. Reeder replied, as will be by refereree to another part of this day's japer, defending Ix conduct as best he could. His ex- Jenation was not comidered satisfactory, however, and as dismissed come days ago. It is evident, there- ore, that he was icmoved for his alleged speculations, of which the fresilent was aware several months since, and not for his gross interference against the South, but why was not Jucge Elmore dismissed at the same time And if he Why was it not announced’ Ree- CoP WHS Lemneverd just in time to operate upom the elec- tion in North Carclicg, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ala- tema ; ard the oonct neement of Elmore’s eviction from office was kept buck vntil after these elections, especially bat in Alnboma. where he resided. Such trickery anil ublerfuger ace worthy of the presemt eluifling adininis- ration.—sarcnnak Lepetiican, Auguat 9. MISCELLANROUS. A mors meeting. ir the discussion of political ques- tens, is announeed to be held at New Salem Centre, in }ranklin county, Maas., on the S8th inst., at which the ollowing gentletocn have # their intention to be prencni:—Hepry Wilson, of Natick; Lient. Gov. Brown ‘£Cenecid; Jolin W. Foster, uf Monson; Timothy Davis, fh of Borton; A. A, Richmon’, K. Hawkes, of Northampton: an’ 1. F. Cont ost In the courre of some speculations upon i fo frie, ax affected by the recent lection. the” eevee: 1ort, Moss, Hered Wns the following remarks :— Hut the American party is divided. So they are: but it does not follow ‘hat they will remain eo. If they have half the sagneity of children, they will throw platforms to the winds, and nominating « candidate, preveat an un- broken front. ‘They will see, too, that they ba South- ern nan; firet, becouse he will command the confidence of the South; and, second, becanse he will be more favo~ rable to the North. But if they do not unite, what then’ if the free soilers can carry New England, Ohio, anil some of the emailer Western States, and the Kuow Nothings carry New York, Pensylvania and half the South, there will be no choice by oe and the next Houve of Representatives is anti-Nebraska Know Nothing, and would choose a President of the swine views, The New Bedford Mercury recommends a eon ot the whige of Massachusetts, as follows:—In this state of affairs, the most feasible and proper thing seems t) bem convention, not a formal, wire-pulled, cat and drie gathering of delegates to make nominations ani wte foe 1 t « 4