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4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 18565. formance. Omlsstons—Interesting Vital Statistics. NEW YORK HERALD, J), | me ety Government—Promise end Per | The City Census—Complaints ef Wholesale JAMES GORDON BENN'agzypy, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. | OFFICE Nv WeOORNER OF NASSAU A’ @ prLTON STS. emt: por 91 per annunn. en THE WRERUE MENALD. conry Jeterday, ‘at OX cole, Pes (OF onmum the Buropeai <dition, $a per ann sea far Grae ruin OP $5104 gy part of the Montinent, both VOLUNTARY CORRESPON’ ENCE contsining important rence, solicited from any quarte af the 1: use liberally paid for. ‘OUR Poueian CORKESPONDENTA ARE PAKTICULARLY REQUESTED TO Apat att LETFANS AND PACKAGES Sent os, Sr NO NOTICE taken o/' aiv mymous connauaicutions, Wada not retur’ JOB P: MING ev utat with neainess, cheapness and des “AD VERTISEMEN 8 renewed coery day. Volume XX. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tan Cartive— Grau Monsen. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Mn. BuRtoN—BREAck OF Promise—WANDERING MINSTRELS, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Isvasion or Bairain— ‘TREMMNDOUS TRENIPIC TRAGEDIAN. La METROPOLITAN, Broadway—l pe qoR— Prix pe Down DiventisseMENT—La Mass DE SEVNIR—La Dexnigk HEURE re THE DIVELTISSEMENT, ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway. New York, Tuesday, Augast 14, 1855. Malls for Europe. NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Cunard mail steamehip Asia, Capt. Lott, will leave Boston, on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘Te European mails will close in this city at a quarter to two o'clock this afternoon. Mee Hear (printed in English and French) will be k in the morning. Single copies, pablished at ten o' im wrappers, sixpence, Subseriptions and advertisements for any edition of the @ew York Henaxp will be received at the following places John Hunger, No. 12 Exchange street, Haat. wi.) Sandford & Co,, No, 17 Cornhill. ©" Win. Thomax &Go., No. 19 Catharine street Panw..,....Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse. ‘The rontents gf the European edition of the Hxnai will embrace the news recelved by mailend telograph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of publication. The News. The steamship Union, from Southampton for this port, is now in her fourteenth day out, and the Ame- vica, from Liverpoo) for Halifax and Boston, is in her tenth day out. The arrival of either of these vessels at any moment may, therefore, be looked for. The first named brings three days latter news, and the latter a week later. A second indignation meeting, to protest aganist thé establishment of the emigration depot at Cas- tle Garden, was held last evening on the Battery. There were the usual demonstrations of artillery, bonfires, transparencies, music, &c. The meeting ‘was addressed by Theodore FE. Tomlinson, Captain Torner, D. B. Taylor, and Captain Young. The plans of the monopolists, who are said to be inter- ested.in the emigration scheme, were denounced in wnmeasured terms. Mr. Conckling and George Law camein specially fora large share of reprobation. The meeting was very large and enthusiastic. At the close of the proceedings a torchlight procession was formed and paraded through the principal streets of the down town wards, ‘The sloop-of-war Falmouth arrived at this port y from Havana, via Key West 4th instant. Boon after leaving the latter port, Midshipman Cain was attacked with yellow fever, which terminated fatally. His body was taken on shore yesterday, and interred in the hospital cemctery at Staten Island. No other case of fever had occurred on board the vessel during her voyage homeward. The accounts of the ravages of the yellow fever in Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the Gosport naval station, are becoming truly elarming. The epidemic is on she increase, and the inhabitants, seized with a panic, have left those places by thousands. We publish some accounts in another part of ihis morning's paper, which show to what extent the fever is rag- ing; and we also publish the important fact that efforts are making to raise money ja order to alle- viate the distresses of some of those who have suf- fered by the disease. This city has never been back- ward when appeals have been made on behalf of the distressed, and we have only io call to mind the liberality of ‘our citizens which was exhibited towards New Orleans, Mobile, Savanuah, Charleston and other Southern cities, when they were afflicted ina like manner, to warrant the conclusion that New York will appear well upon the list of cities granting aid to our unfortunate fellow citizens of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Gosport. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, and adopted a report relative to the compensation to be allowed census marshals, As this subject is attract- ing considerable attention just now, our readers are referred to a report of the deimte upon the matter, which may be found in another column. In the Board of Aldermen last evening a message was received from the Mayor, giving his reasons for granting permits for those ten udiilional omni- buses in broadway. It appears that there have been forty-six omnibuses withdrawn from Broad- way since last January, and it was in compliance with a nomerously. signed petition of citizens re- siding on the east side of the city, that the Mayor authorized Mr. Marshall, of the avenue A line, to put on the extra number of stages. In the Board of Counciimen last night the report of the Committee on Markets, in regard to fur- mers’ wagons, came up. This report was the cial order of the day, and we give it in full where, and the debate upon it. There was a sti gle between the up-town and down-town interes! but the latter finally prevailed, and the report was adopted. A resolution was also adopted, instituting an inquiry into some of the rules of the Bighth Ave- nue Railroad Company. The Councilmen say that the manner in which this road is superintended calls for an inquiry to ascertain whether it is a nui- wance or a benefit to the public. The Councilmen’s Committee on Wharves, Piers and Slips met yesterday afternoon, and decided on | reporting to the Board in favor of granting the ex- clusive use of different piers and bulkheads on the Fast river to some individuals and trading finus pe- titioning. It was resolved to inquire of Comptroller Flagg why he refases to deliver a lease of pier No. 40, North river, to Henry B. Purdy, in defiance of a bargain made by the latter with the city. From Bermuda we have papers to the Ist of Au- gust. The Rev P. Kemp, @ Presbyterian minis- ter, was about to leave the istend, having accepted a call from a Montreal congregation, The Preshyte- rian Ministers’ Salary bill was ordered to a third reading in the Assembly. An additional police force was about to be iin Hamilton. Havana dates to the 8th instant have come to hand by way of New Orleans. There was no news to report. Cotton continued firh yesterday, while the sales aggregated about 1,200 bales Floor old ton fair extent, withoot change of moment fn price’. Wheat was tolerably active, and included good Southern red, at $190; common white, at $2; avd fair to prime do., at $2 12) a $2.20, Curn was active, with free sales at SCce. Pork was in good demand at vather better prices, New mes sold at $19 75 Sugars were firm, with fair sales at fall prices. About 1,000 bales ef cotton and 10,000 bashels of graip were taken for Liverpool, the former at last week's prices, and ihe laiter on private terms. Love’s Lanor Lost.—The lachrymose efforts of our negro-worshipping organs to make a martyr of that slave kidnapping abolitioniat, Passmoye Williamson, In his first message to the Common Council the Mayor foreshadowed a number of reforms for which the state of the city imperatively called. At the time Fernando Wood was elected it is not too much to say that every departmeut of the public service was in the most inefficient condition possible. Every de- partmext of the city government was disgrace- fully miemanaged. Want of power in some oflicers, want of will in more, had rendered the municipal machine a mere farce,and left the city a defenceless prey to anarchy. When Mr. Wood was elected, he very properly pointed out, in his message to the Common Council, what the most griev. us of the existing abuses were, and what means in his judgment ought to be adopted to cure them. When the head of the executive, whether in the federal or State or municipal government, makes a similar communication to the legisla- tive body, it is usual for the latter at least to pay him the compliment of taking it into con- sideration. It is customary, we say, for the legislative body—whether composed of Senate and Assembly, or of Aldermen and Council- men—to divide the message it receives by heads according to subjects, and to appoint a committee out of its own body to deliberate on each, The committees need not agree with the executive in the view he has taken. They may deny the existence of his facts, or recom- mend a totally different plan of dealing with them: but whatever they do, respect for them- selves and the public seems at least to require that they should give them their best conside- ration. Whether the city government—that is to say the Common Council—appointed the com- mittees to take into considegation the reforms suggested in the Mayor’s message, docs not appear certain, and indeed is not of the slightest consequence. For, whether the com- mittees were ever organized or not, it is quite certain that’ they never gave any serious thought to the reforms in question, and never either confirmed the proposals of the Mayor by acting on them,‘or superseded them by plans of their own. They did nothing in short. What reforms lay within the province of the executive, the Mayor tried to carry out. In some cases he failed, in others he succeeded. It appears probable that he did as much as could have been expected of him, and more than any former Mayor since 1830. But the much larger class of reforms which it was the business of the legislative body to shape and execute are precisely in the same condition as they were when Fernando Wood was elected. He performed his part by drawing the atten- tion of the Common Council officially to their existence in his message; they have not begun, in any single instance, to perform theirs, by inquiring into the methods of remedy pro- posed, or the extent of the evil to be amended. Tt would be a mistake, however, to suppose they have done nothing. On the contrary, there appears every reason to suppose they have been very busy. They have inquired for- mally of the Mayor where the members of the police force were born, and requested him to furnish them with such further information as he ‘possessed with regard to the events which heralded their advent into this world. The communication eliciting nothing, they appoint- ed a committee to pursue the inquiry; in lieu of a midwife, Alderman Briggs took the chair; and the city was amused, if it was not instruct- ed or edified, by the persevering efforts that were made to ascertain the circumstances under which the elder Mrs, Matsell was brought to bed. Much time was likewise devoted to an inquiry into the Joseph Walker case, in which the sum at stake did not exceed thirteen thou- sand dollars, and the contractor's prospect of losing money appears very promising. Then the Common Council, having nothing more important on hand, bethought itself of putting a stop to the frightful leak in the city finances occasioned by the Mayor’s habit of riding in carriages, at the public expense. It is. under- stood that a resolution has been transmitted to ihe Comptroller requiring him to state to the Common Council how many carriages the Mayor has used this year, and what sums have heen paid to the drivers in consequence. Upon the reply of the Comptroller, a motion will probably be made for a committee to inquire into the state of Mayor Wood's legs, and to ascertain how many miles a dey the city can afford to allow its chieT officer to travel at the public expense, in such follies have the sittings of the Com- mon Council been wasied, while the most urgent grievances wait for settlement. From present appearances it looks as though the next annual message ot the Mayor might, in respect of the legislative reforms needed, be a mere duplicate copy of the last. For unless a change comes over the Council, nothing will be done this year towards reform. Jens Doretas anp tHe Presipentr—Ws Cay Tus Bu So%—The new Wail street ally of the Seward coalition, the Cheva- lier Webb, in an article yesterday upon Mr. Pierce and Governor Reeder, throws out the idea t ihe present visit of JIndge Douglas, at Washington, is a mission of civil war. He is there, we are given to understand, to in- ite rioting and bloodshed among the squat- ters and “border ruffiaus” of Kansas, for the purpose of striking terror among the enemies of the Nebraska bill thronghout the North, We had not supposed that the “Little Giant” Cowie wasin the leagne of Atchison, Stringfellow, and company; but if the suspicions of Gen. Webb beve any foundation in fact, then a crimmage may be expected in Kansas timme- diately after the fallelections, And there may he something in it, Judge Douglas recently dined at the White House, and it is not likely that he would go there mevely for the purpose of eating and drinking. No, there is a plot in it: and before going out to Kansas it would be well for the new Governor, Mr. Shannon, to have a talk with Douglas, It may save a world of rouble. Deatocrarte Peston No Go,—From our latest information, the labors of the Kitchen Cabinet and the Custom Honse to reconcile the hard shells to a joint stock fusion, at Syracuse, on the 290, have resulted in nothing. Another ‘tempt, however, issoon to be made under the auspiecs of a special missionary or two from Washington, and several may be expected at Syracuse, But we fear it is too late. The hards, we snepect, have made up their minds for a new departure; and the softs should ac- comlingly prepare to go it alone, Let there he a meeting upon the snhject in the Tammany + goal bole, withgpt su ; ; We publiched yesterday a Jetter from the Seventh ward, complaining of very extensive omissions by the Marshals in the enumeration of ,its people ; but the following note, subse- quently received, presents the subject in a more satisfactory light:— New Yorx, Aug. 13, 1855. Sur—The cenrus district in the Seventh ward, that in- cluding Kast Broadway, Henry and Madison, between Ca- therine and Piko streets, also the east side of Division, be- tween the above-named streets, apparently an omission of nearly four hundred houses, as referred to in @ former communicat is evidently an ostimated re- turn, and not offic understand the Marshal is still in the discha duty in this district. As youhave bliahed my former communteation in this morning's ERALD, oblige notici ing u im_your morn- ing’s paper of tomers, hy bs erage 80 as to remove wrot res ms adi: PecSEVENTH. WARD. N. B.—You give the returns of the Seventh ward this morning as complete in the census of the city. This is certai ami re. And perhaps in the following named wards the Marshals may have not yet given up their work as perfected :— a Auveusr 13, 1855. Error or Tux Hematp:—Your paper gives the census returns from the ‘Iwenty-second ward as te. My- eelf and some twenty ap ee would like to know when the Marshal called information to fill up his re- turns, or whether his report.was made. FORTY-) ‘To Tux Eprror or Tre HERALD :— Sur—I wish to inform the publle, aoe the medium of your widely circulated journal, that the Census Mar- ted calling at my residence, uently the fetaras for the Eighth ward ,, COMBE are 80 far incorrect. in- sorting the above, you wit Oh GIYERS, 417 Broudway. From these complaints from different sections of the city, it is probable that, upon a more thorough enumeration of its inhabitants, in- stead of a beggarly sum total of 640,000 souls, an aggregate of at least 700,000 would be en- rolled as the census of New York for 1855. The foilowing table, made up from the re- turns of the Marshals, exhibits the number of people, dwellings and families, and the average number of families to each dwelling, in the several wards :— TH STREET. A’ge No. Fum’s to Wards. Pop'n. Dwellings. Families. a house. 1 . 18,253 609 2,708 8% 3,249 203 crt a | 7,000 — a 23,650 «1,177 «4,600 21,661 Y501 4,246 23,689 1,270 5,099 82506 = 244838, 85T 34612 = -2)560 7,100 7,050 8848 7,788 25,000 —, ae 53,334 2,498 ©1087 18451 1,776 = 23308 26,208 737 SAT 24,000 — — 23,776 2,260,685 40680 31050-8180 60,952 3479 123526 29,851 7,551 40,000 — — 46,925 2,027 10,008, 0,475 25365 6,085 23,078 «= 2332 4,857 The average number of persons to a family in the respective wards may be ascertained by dividing the population by the families. Thus, for example, in the Seventeenth ward, the largest in population, numbering 60,952 souls, according to the returns, there are 3,479 dwell- ings, and 12,526 families—which averages some 18 people, and four families to each house, and about five persons to cach family. In this ward, however, as in some others, there are dwellings whose occupants may be counted by fifties and by hundreds, crowded together as on shipboard. In the Fifteenth, the aristo- cratic ward, par excellence, the people number 23,776, the houses 2,269, and the families 3,685; being an average of about three families to every two houses, and something over an ave- rage of six persons to each family. Why should this be so? How is it that the families of the rich outnumber those of the poor, when we know that while the laboring poor are proverbially prolific, the luxurious wealthy are proverbially deficient in their contributions to the population? Let us see. In the crowded and unhealthy quarters occupied by so many of our poor people, their children, from foul air, bad food, want of pro- per nourishment, and from ignorance, neglect, and other causes, rapidly die off—die off, as may be seen from our weekly bills of mor- tality of the several wards. Still, the average number of the poor man’s living children, even under the most unfavorable circumstances, is perhaps not less than three to one of the wholesale dealer in calicoes or codfish on the Fifth avenue. The deficiency in the rich man’s family is made up of servants, He may have but a wife and an only daughter; but with half a dozen servants, drawn from the repro- ductive elements of Old Ireland, his family will be fully equal to that of the poor Irish laborer with his “crown diamonds” of seven small children, and one at the breast. This will explain the average excess in cach family of the Fifteenth, over the average of each in the Seventeenth ward. Our census, however, upon the main question of the total population of the several wards of the city isas yet good for nothing, until the omissions specified against the Marshals, and all others not specified, are supplied. We hope that this will be done. The NewrounpLanp Tevecrarn and Evro- reaN News-—-The Boston Traveller say ‘The company who are about to connect Newfoundland with Halifax, by a aub-marine telegraph, propose to far- nish the foreign news to the American press in anticipa- tion of the arrival of the steomers, for the sum of about $200,000 per aunum, or $2,000 per steamer, calculating that they shail anticipate the arrival of about one han- dred steamers a year. ‘Ihe newa by the steamer bound to New ‘York could be anticipated se- veral days, and that by stopping at Halifax ten or ele- ven hours. The cost of the Halifax despatch of foreign news, received once a fortnight, is not probably much under $30,000, The above, we have reason to believe, is not, in all respects, quite correct. The distance, hy the course the steamers run, is greater from Newfoundland to Halifax than it is from Hali- fax to Boston; and as the news generally reaches this city, from Halifax, from twenty- five to thirty hours ahead of the steamer's ar- rival at Boston, we can imagine no good rea- son why there should not be an equal or great. er gain between St. Johns and Halifax. The American press, therefore, will be likely to get the European news, via the Newfoundland line, if at all, about four days ahead of the steamers bound to New York, and full three days ahead of those bound to Boston. if the Traveller is right in its estimate of the cost of the steamers’ news, we suspect that some of our cotemporaries will not have left a very wide margin for profits. We hope the Newfoundland company may realize their brightest hopes, for their enterprise is traly a magnificent one; hut we hardly think ghe American press will feel disposed to contribute two hundred thousand dollars per annum for the poor satisfaction of seeing themselves abused for “monopolizing the wires,” to the exclusion of a certain class of speculative des patches, which, in the aggregate, might ‘per- haps yield the telegraph company the paltry stun of three or five thousand dollars per an- num, in tolls. We prestme the New York Associated Press will, in due time, notify the public of their ar- rangemonts for securing the earliest and fall- Giapeh of ue Luropeau dens aad a the * cut the oid of oe Caluoraca wy) meantime we recommend speculators, and out- siders generally, to begin to “pick their flints”” for the latest intelligence’ from the other side of the water. Orvice or Free Marsuar—Tue Srimir or Centratization.—Chief Engineer Carson is a man who has won his way to an honorable re- putation by the uprightness and energy of his character. No public officer could have dis- played more entire devotion to his duties, or greater intelligence in their general adminis- tration, than he has done. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Carson, like the rest of the world, some- times makes mistakes, and that too, in matters which come within the scope of his own person- al experience. His last annual report, for in- stance, to the Mayor and Common Council, contains a recommendation which: is so gla- ringly objectionable that we are ‘surprised at its emanating from a man of Mr. Carson’s good sense and acknowledged zeal for the public service. ‘ In this document the Chief Engineer says:— Mr. Alfred FE. Baker, employed by the insurance com- nies to investigate the in of rea, Ze 3 that {us the year ending May 21, one hundred and fifty- nine have been purposely set. This conclustyely. proves my previous statements, that one-half the fires were the work of design. He that twenty- four persons were arrested, all of whom were discharged except three. The chief cause why so few are arrested and convicted, is that the pues Fire Marshal has no authority to act, except by in each case procuring war- ranta, &e., from’ the city magistrates. number of fires for the past year is much less than for any of the several preceding ones. This may be safely attributed to the fact of a probable i tion. As the year ad- vanced the number has gradually decreased from what they were at its begin » Being satisfied that the in- vestigations of an diy authorized to proceed forth- with would be attended with still more beneficial results, I would again urgently recommend an early appli ‘to the lature, for the: segpen teens of a Tere he. shal, with power to pr ‘as a magistrate, whore duty it shall be to thoroughly investigate the cause of every fire that occurs. Before we proceed to state our main objec- tion to Mr. Carson’s proposition, let us correct one or two errors of fact into which he has fall- en. In the first place, he states that the Fire Marshal is employed by the insurance offices. Now this is only so far true that his salary and expenses are defrayed by them, but he receives his appointment direct from the Police Jus- tices. In the next, he alleges that the Fire Mar- shal is not armed with sufficient authority to render his office as effective as it might be. Were he invested with magisterial powers it seems to us that he would not be as efficient as he now is. His time would be almost entirely occupied in judicial inquiries, and he would be unable to devote any portion of it to that most important branch of his duties—personal in- vestigation upon the spot into the origin of fires. A delegate of the Police Justices, he may be said to exercise all the authority that is ne- cessary, for he brings offences under their notice, prepares the evidence for them, and sees that proper vigilance is exercised by the police subordinates in regard to the parties criminated. Were he to be clothed with magisterial powers, he could do nothing more. He could not control the ac- tion of juries, or take any more active steps than he does at present to secure the ends of justice. He would simply have a power of committal, like the Police Justices ; but there would be this objection to it in his case—that he would be exercising at once both the func, tions of Judge and public prosecutor. There is a still stronger argument, however to be urged against the carrying out of Mr. Car- son’s recommendation. From the admission which he himself makes in the extract above quoted, it is clear that the institution of the office of Fire Marshal has been attended with great public benefit. The loss of life and pro perty has been relatively less during the past year than it was ever before known to be, not withstanding the rapid increase in the number of dwellings and of population. This result is 80 satisfactory that if no other reasons existed for opposing it we should be adverse to any change in the constitution of the office. As the Fire Marshal is at present appointed, he has every motive to urge him to the strict and conscientious discharge of his duties Paid by the insurance offices, and acting under the immediate supervision of the Police Jus- tices, he knows that any neglect or absence of vigilance on his part, will be visited with cen- sure, and, if repeated, with removal. We have seen how admirably this system works. Mr. Baker, who created the office, and who brought to it long experience in the police department, has shown how well served the public may be by men whose appointments render them inde- pendent of political influences. Carry out Mr. Carson’s recommendation of vesting the no- mination in the State, and what will be the re- sult? The office will become what almost every other public appointment in this country now virtually is—the prize of political partizan- ship. Its duties will become a sinecure, and its works will be nil. For heaven's sake, do not let us carry this spirit of centralization into everything. Its fruits have not been so satisfactory as to render us enamored of the principle. When we find the independent ac- tion of private associations effecting what legislation has failed to do, let us not remove out of their hands the power of protecting their own interests, We look upon Mr. Car- son's proposition as a most ill-judged and mis- chievous one. [t could only have been sug- gested to him by some of the tribe of craving ofliceseekers who seek to render our worthy Chief Engineer the unconscious instrument of their eupidity. Corton Manuractere IN THE Sour AND West—In another column will be found a letter on this subject, from a Western corres- pondent, who maintains that the materials (including food, fuel, &c.) of which cotton goods are made, can be obtained and combined cheaper in his district than anywhere else. This nay be. Coals at $1 50 per ton, ona navigable stream, close by the cotton fields, aml in the centre of the American granary, certainly should attracta matufacturing popu- lation. In these times of intelligence and easy locomotion, workmen are very apt to carry their tools where they can be used to the great- est advantage. Great Britain has, for many years, based her supremacy on her cheap supply of coals and iron, As our West now produces these essen- tial elements of uational wealth with greater cheapness, and perhaps in greater purity, and bas, besides, fibrous materials. and subsistence in unlimited abundance, and in close proximity to the coals and fron, it does not require the gift of prophecy to say that the chicf seats of the cotton manufacture will, before many years, be outside the limits of England. ‘The United States have now every possible facility for working up its great staple into its most remunerative forms. When this is done we ean make all our foreign exchanges with- Stary Pourrics—Kxow Noraiwe Movemenrs. The Know Nothings of this city and county tre to make their city and county nominations for the November election, on the 20th inst., and their Senatorial nominations on the 22d. ‘The Seward organs are somewhat apprehensive that they will operate against our new Liquor law. Perhaps they will. On the 28th instant a State Council of the American party will be held at Binghamton, upon routine business; and perhaps they may determine the place where their State Nominat- ing Council, appointed for the 25th of Septem- ber, shall be held. The Know Nothings will have a very important and a very delicate game to playin this State in November; but if they manage their cards judiciously between the wrangling democracy and the Seward fusion- ists, they may carry the State. The result will be of the highest importance in reference to the reconstruction of parties in 1856. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From W: * MILITARY COURT MARTIAL AT FORT LEAVENWORTH —FORTHUOMING REPORT OF THE NAVAL BOARD— YELLOW FEVER AT THE CAPITAL—TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS, ETC. Wasurnatoy, Aug. 13, 1855. A general military Court Martial has been ordered to semble at Fort Leavenworth, on the 24th of September. Orders wore issued to-flay to the Judge Advocate, now at Fort Independence, to report himself at the War Depart- ment, for instructions, The result of the labors of the late Naval Board, to promote the efticency of the Navy, will be made public upon the return of Secretary Dobbin. ‘The contract for supplying the Department of the Inte- vior and ita bureaus with stationery for the ensuing fis- cal year, has boen again awarded to Messrs. Taylor & Maury, of this city. ‘There are certainly two cases of yellow fever at the ‘Washington Navy Yard, of persons from Portsmouth, Three other cases are reported in the city. More than two hundred persons from the fever infected places in Virginia, have arrived here within a week. ‘Two have died. Col. Steptoe, instead of being at Carson valley, as the newspapers have recently stated, awaiting the reply of the President to hia proposed conditional acceptance of the Governorship of Utah, was, on the 12th of July, at Benicia, California, with his command. Wilson Shannon has accepted the Governorship of Kan- sas, and will depart forthwith for that Territory. The State Blection. ALABAMA. Battowors, August 13, 1855. John A. Winston, democrat, is elected Governor of Ala- bama by a large majority, The Congressional delegation will stand five democrats and two Know Nothings. The complexion of the Legislature is democratic. NORTH CAROLINA. Wasuincton, August 13, 1855. It is now definitely ascertained that the Congressional delegation from North Carolina will stand three Know Nothings and five democrats. Puryear, K. N., is elected to Congress from the Sixth district, by 300, and Clingman, dem., in the Fighth, by 600 majority. Later from Havana. New Orueans, August 11, 1855. The steamship Granada has arrived at this port with Havana dates to the 8th inst., but there is no news worth telegraphing. The Epidemic at New Orleans. ‘New Onteans, August 11, 1855. ‘The yellow fever deaths from the Charity Hospital in thiscity, during the past week, amounted to 125, and the number of cases cured to 100, Anabatement of the disease, owing to a change in the weather, is looked for. Most of the above cases occurred in the early part of the week. Yellow Fever in Virginia. Barmmors, August 13, 1855. At Norfolk and Portsmouth the yellow fever is increas- Ing to an alarming extent. Several physicians have died of it. There have been twenty deaths in Norfolk since Saturday, and seven in Portsmouth. A number of case have occurred in the Navy Yard and on board the ship Pennsylvania. The Loutsville Riots. Gwewxan, August 13, 1855. The Louisville Journal of this morning, contains many affidavits as to the cause of the commencement of the riots in the Eighth ward—some of them by Irish Catholics in the vicinity, They go to show that they (the Irish,) were armed several days previous to the election. Serlous Railroad Accident. Aunany, August 13, 1855. As the express train on the Boston Railroad was pass- ing the depot at Chatham this afternoon, a Mr. D. Tafft, of Charleston, 8. C., and a person named Brecker, of Al- bany, were sitting with their arms out of the car window, and the current of air raised by the passoge of the train blew open the side door of a freight car standing at the depot, breaking the arm of Mr. Brecker, and cutting the left arm of Mr. Taft clean off between the shoulder and the elbow, the part cut off falling on the rtack. Mr. Taft is now at the Delavan House in this city. Five Men Drowned Below Niagara Falls. Borrato, August 13, 1855. At Niagara Falls yesterday, five men got intoe skiff near the Suspension Bridge. Unfortunately one of their oars broke, and they could not then manage the boats, and were carried down the stream into the whirlpool, where the boat upset and was broken to pieces. All the men were drowned, Their names have not been ascer- tained. [(Norr.—Our reporter at Buffalo attempted to get the names of the men, but could learn nothing definite, and as contradictory storles were afloat, he regarded the whele matter as doubtful.) Two Persons Drowned at Atlantic City. Pritaprurata, August 13, 1855. Asa party of four persons belonging to Mauch Chunk were bathing in the surf at Atlantie City on Sunday morn- ing, they were carried out beyond their depth, and two of them, alady named Andrews, anda Mr. Boyd, accom- penying her, were drowned. The other two were res- ened. id Lake Captain, Bervare, August 15, 1895. Captain Titus, an old lake commander, was drowned at Sendusky yesterday. Ho was captain of the r Eve, and eaved from that vessel when sho wes burned several Death of years ago. He was also saved from the steamer Alabama on she sunk last year, Markets. New ORDeANS, August 10, 1895, ‘The recetpt of the Baltic’s news here had no effect upon our cotton market, ‘The sales te-day add up 1,300 bales, at unchanged rates. The sales of the week have been 5,500 bales, and the receipts 6,000 bales, ageinst 2,250 bales the sume time last year. The stuck on hand is 26,600 bales. The receipts up to this date, as compared with those of last year, full short 184,000 Vales. Flour is lower, Sales at $7.0 $4.25. Corn dull and cheaper; 78c. for Western white, Coffee.—The sulos of the week amounted to 4,000 bags. We quote the price at 10\c, ‘The stock on hand is 4,000 bags. New Onteans, Aogust 12, 1855. Our cotton market is firm, at unchai ices. Sales to-day, 1,000 bales. Sugnr’ 67,c.. Cora lower: mixed 6lc. a Oc., white 70¢. Feights--cotton to Liverpool td Burra, August 15—12:00 P. M. Flour scarce, Sales 200 bbls, at $7 75 for Black Rock, and $8 68 for extra Wisconsin. Wheat in moderate de mand. Sales 60 bushels, in bags, at $190, Corn dull. Sales 18,000 bushels, at Thc. a THe. Onte held at 47e. Canal freights unchanged; 10c. for corn to Albany and Troy. Lake imports for the last forty-eight houra: 1,685 Dbix, flour; 9,240 bushels wheat; 14,648 bushels corn. Canal exports for the same time: 280 bbls. flour; 3,500 bushels wheat; $4,149 bushels corn: 10,200 bushels oats. BurraLo, August 13—6:30 P. M. Flour quiet —Stock, very ght —sales 400 barrels at $7 75 a $8 85 for Black Rock and choice fown. Wheat—de- nd moderat 200 bushels Upper Lake spring. at $1 58, and 650 bushels white Milwaukio at $1 90. tendency downward—salex 22,000 bushels at Oats held at both Canal —— com for corn to New York ke importa for the #8 hours up bates te jay —Flour 1 parriier wheat 5,625 bushels; corn 46,295 bushels; oats 7,006 bushels. Canal exports for, the same time:—-Flour 23 Obarrels; wheat 6,100 bush- els! corn 34,691 bushels; oats 10,200 bushels. " Aunayy, Aug. 25:30 P.M. Flour unchanged, Wheat.—Sales 1,500 bushels at $2124 for inferior Capadian, and $2 25 for white Michi- va. Corn lower. Sales 18,000 bushels Western mised, ft fe, in,lota and afloat. Cuts, 1 Ae. a Sue. weight. Fece pis by canal to-lay—74 bbls. flour; 24,700 }yache! when: te dvi Se, & Tees — Alleged Mutiny on the Lakes, Cicaco, Augus’ 15, 1855. Your seamen, the erew of the brig Blick Hawk, from Buffalo, named Henry Gill, Wm. §, Pillaghe:, John Kelly, and Jobn Reid, were arrested here on Saturday charged with mutiny. Captain Gudeden made an afilavit that they matipied on the 20th of July, when wo days out frem Buffalo, The United States Commissions, gave his decision this morning, anT discharged the p:t- ners. Sentence of Dennison, the Mail Robber. Cmcago, Aug. 15, 1866. Jndge Drummond, in the United States Dixwict Court, this morning, sentenced Yennison, the mail rubber, to ten years imprisonment in the county jail, the peniten- tiary being in the Southern Judicial district, waieh was. vet off last Congress. Navigation of the Ohio, The river here measures four feet ten i falling. Freight to Cincinnati is taken at 1ix.; to Louls- - ville at 20c., and to St, Louis at 40c, First class goods, five cents additional. Steamers are abundant, —_— Naval Intelligence. ARRIVAL) OF THE SLOOP OF WARK FALMOUTE— DEATHS FROM YELLOW. PEVEL:. The U, 8. sluop-of-war Falmouth, Commander Shaw, i rrived at Quarantine yesterday from a crul c. ‘The fol owing is a Ust of her officers :— Commander—T. Darrah Shaw. z First’ Lieutenant and Executive Oficer---amuel Re nox. Furser—Francis B, Stockton. Second Lieutenant—Francis Winslow. ‘Third Lieuteuant—J. Wilkinson. Fourth Lieutenant—Abner Read. Acting Master—George E. Belknap. Apsistant Surggon—Michae) O'Hara. ishipman—Wm. G. Dozier. Commander’s Clerk—C. H. Bates. Boatswain—Francls A, Oliver. Gunner—James A. Lilleston, Curpenter—George Wisner. Sailmaker—John J. Stamford. Licutenant of Marines—John 0, Payne. ‘The Falmouth has been absent from the | nited States about nine months, during which period she has been am active cruiser, visiting the Windward and Leoward islands of the West Indies ; also the coast of Venezuela, Darien, New Granada, Aspinwall, the leeward coast ud Gulf of Mexico. We are informed that her officers nud crew are now all well, though they have had some sickness om board in consequence of having passed throvigh pestilen- tial climates during the cruise, yellow fever and cholera prevailing at many of the ports visited. During her absence she lost two officers au \ four men ¢ two of the men of yellow fever at Gonaives. Mayti; two at Pensacola, with cholera, and one officer «\:/.e recently at Bea, At Pensacola she remained sufficiently }yug to com- plete some necessary repairs and victuai the -hip; from thence she sailed for Key We — then cruising between Cardenas (Cuba) and Cape St. Antonio, to protect in its lawful pursuit all American commerce and trade; then to Havana, where her commander met with « hospitable reception from the Captain General and othe: oficials. From Havana she proceeded again to Key \Vest, where orders were received for her return to tie North. The ‘unusual exemption from sickness may be uit+ihuted in a very great degree to the sanitary measures sdopted om board, and the care taken of the men, not iaving thena cxpoged to the burning sun of the tropics any wore than was absolutely necessary, keeping them out of the heavy: rains, and a clean ship. The ship is apparently in fine order, nn: ler officers and crew all seem to be happy. She left Hi.y.na on the 2d und Key West on the 4th inst. ADDITIONAL PARTICULAKS. Soon after the Falmouth left the latter port, Midship- man Cain was attacked with yellow fiv and died about twenty-four hours previous to her a>rival at the Quarantine anchorage. The body wus sent yesterday af- ternoon to the Marine Hospital, whence it will be con- veyed to the Hospital Cemetery for burial, where most Likely it will remain until the occurrence of the first frost, when, as we understand, it is to be exhumed and re- interred in the burial place of his family. No further evidences of the vessel’s being infected have yet made their appearance, and it is to be sincerely hoped that the above may be the last as well as the first cas: occurring. Cricket. NEWARK, N. J., V8. NEW YORE Chit This match, which was hastily arranged on Fri- day, was played yesterday on the New York ground, at Hoboken. New York got a great victory—2 runs and 10 wickets; almost one innings. Newark open- ed the ball, and played well, with Smith, J. Elver- ton, Jefferson, Baker, Wheatcroft and Warner; but the bowling of New York was too much for them. Richards, Scott and Willby kept them up to the mark. Sharp played beautifu‘ly, and made the score of the day—38 runs among them, 4 threes,and 9 twos. Harrison came next on the list, and made a capital 4, 2 threes and a double. Spivey, Scott, Tower and Wharton also deserve notice. Calverly, who long stopped well, caught Ford ont in gallant style. The day was all a cricketer could desire, and drew together a large body of visiters. (in Monday they play the retarz match at Newark. Harlem Club plays a match at Newark, Monday fortnight. Newark Cure. Second Tiiitnys. Pirst Innings Beaver c. Sharp b. Rich- ards. Ford b. Scott. Warner c. Sharp b. Rich- rds Jefferson ¢. and b. Rich- Smith b. Scott. 0 not out,. «8 c. Calverly i re | ¢. Parker b. Willby, 6 12 wicket b. Will- Elverson, J., c. Spivey b. Richards. ag = c. Will b. Wily nd by. 1 7 6 4 0 6 Scott. Sharp b. Scott: Greathead not out. . anand 2 6 4 1 2 rm Sl Soo ae Total......... “ New Yorx Civn. Seott c. Warner b. G. El- VOTBOD..,.+.eeeeeeees Parker ¢. Seaman b. G. Fiversot st eeeeeses Torver c. Wheatcroft b. & San ce & Harrison c. G: Jefferso: Preston c. Jefferson. Spivey not Calverly c. Wheatcroft Wheaton run out, Riehards b. Wheatcroft. Byes... 0. Total. «inroeeys cai 5 Metropolitan Theatre—The French Vaude ville and Ballet Troupes. ‘The performances at this theatre doserve « more gen- erous patronage than they are receiving. Iecween the clever and piquant acting of the French eomypeny, and the charming dancing of Senorita Soto and jc: Cair asso- ciates of the ballet, we know no place where an evening can be more delightfully spent. Unfor oly, it is faehion rather than merit which decides the wocoss of performances of this sort, and the class whe + ould have given the vogue to them are just now out of (own. ‘There was a slight alteration in the progra’vine of last evening, owing to the indisposition of.one of ‘ue Hrengl: actors, We had no reason, however, to regret the change. That lively little trife “Cn Caprice, will always be popular with an audience. It w yed with great spirit by M. Gu , Madame Aiesondre Mad'lie Aline, all performers excellent in their way The beautiful Little Spanish ballet “Ie Maja de Seville,” followed, and was capitally Seto and Carrene. le Demiere Hew Filatre,”’ an affecting monologue, founded on t of America, was given with great feeling anv force by M. Gustave. His delivery of it was all that correctness of intonation and gestny tinguich the French school. Wich dis- The entertainuw nts com cluded with a ballet divertissement in Whick beveral well known and popular dances were introduce’. Thi evening a new grand French baile! called ‘Lele des Nymphes’? id to be brought out here, Considerable expense hae veew gone to in its preparation, and from what we hear of it, itis likely to be a success. Broapway TiksTRt—she Gabriel Rayel | oupe—lor the brothers bave divided thelr interests immense business at this house. Tawt nfight + was crowded to suffocation, and hundreds were viliged te go away disappointed of vents. It was the ame nearly every night Inst week, and 8 there is no stock company to pay, the management must be coining money. The popu- larity of this troupe always ensures good houses, but the atiraction is increased in the present instance by the splendid mise om scene of ibe Green Monster") 9 grand yreiacle jentomime Wik cacels al t Liavely ee ee