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4 NEW "yoRK HERALD. TANT oe GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR 4NO EDITOR, BFF" soe N. wW. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. | * flume XX No. 230 AMOSEMENTS THIS EVE BROADWAY Broadway—SaTaNita—Manni Serr JOCK. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broad ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery—IRBLaND AND AaERI0A— On Gal—Harry Man, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Kina Hexny 1. REATRE, y—Miss Pyxp—Ciypsemia’ 00D'S MINSTRELS, Mechanic's Hall, 472 Brondway. Malls for the Pacific. ®uP NEW YORK HERALD—OALIFORNIA EDITION. ‘Te United States mail steamship Empire City, Captain Wendie, will eave this port this afternoon at two o'clock, tor Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific will close at one o’cloek. The New York Weexry Hxraup—Culifornia edition— eontaining the latest int ence from all parts of the world, will be published at eleven o’clock this morning. Single copies, in wray ready for , Sixpence. gia will please fe there orders a8 early as possi- ‘The News. We give to-day among our political intelligence the resolutions and address adopted at a meeting of the State rights and Southern rights anti-Know Nothing citizens of Charleston, which was held in that city on the 15th inst. The meeting was largely attended, and the address and resolutions were adopted with a feeling of unanimity seldom wit. nessed at a political gathering. We also give the platform and principles of the South Carolina Know Nothings, adopted at the State Council ef the Order, which convened at Charleston on the ‘Vth inst., in which it was resolved that all connec- tion be repudiated and renounced with those coun- oils in the non-slnveholding States who have rejected the American platform of the National Coancil on the slavery issue, and hold that they no longer constitute a part of the Order or party which adopted it. Both documents are important, and will, of course, be looked after by politicians. News from Kansas to the 7th instant, which will be found in another part of this morning’s edition, eontains an account of the excitement created in Atchison by the whipping of an abolitionist from Cincinnati, named Kelly. A public meeting had been called, at which resolutions were passed de- elaratory of an intention to rid the Territory of all abolitionists. A committee was appointed to warn Kelly to leave the Territory within an hour, but when the committee waited upon him he was not to be found, having gone to parta unknown during the previous night. A billofa very stringent charac- ter in relation to abolitionists 18 now before the Kan- sas Legislature. It provides that every person who #hall be convicted of raising a rebellion of slaves, free negrces, or mulattoes, or do any act in forther- ance thereof, shall euffer death. We give in another part of this day's paper, an mteresting etter from our correspondent at St. Thomas, W.1. The yellow fever had nearly disap- peared from the island, after infticting great vavages—no Jess than five hundred cases. having eccurred. St. Thomas had: formerly the repitation of being the most healthy of the. West India islands, bat within the-jast-few years has been twice Visited wy yellow fever atid once by cholera. - tt is stated ‘as somewhat remarkable, that whites alone were at- tacked by the fever, and that the negroes were exempt; whilst the reverse was. the case with the @holera. It was hoped, now that the fever had dis @ppeared, that contidence would be restored and busi- mess revive, We give in this morning's issue 2 number of let- tere from our correspondents at the various water- ing places of the country. They will be found ex- twemely interesting, comprising as they do a resumé @f the doings at our most celebrated summer re- ‘treats, and of the amusements of our citizens when ‘Treed from the cares of business. Much curious and weeful information may be gathered from their peru- sal. To make our epitome complete, we give, in ad- dition to our own correspondence, selections from ‘thet of other journals in different parts of the coun- tay, the whole forming quite a history of fashion- able life for the summer months, some of which in- dicate a revolution in the Southern mind in regard to Northern watering places. Several hundred fect of gutta percha telegraph Wire, sunk under the river at the Highlands, and be- Jenging to the New York and Sandy Hook Telegraph Company, was stolen a few nights since. The line has been repaired and is now in working order, Telegraphic accounts from Baltimore state that the yellow fever had slightly obated at Norfolk, but at Portemouth it raged with increased virulence. The crew of the brig Abby Thaxter, lying at an- shor in the lower bay, mutinied yesterday. The mu- tiny wan suppressed by the officers, and the men were put in irons. The brig was expecting aid from the revenue cutter Washington, which had been nt for. WIL RenAsTOPOL Bb eur columns to-day the translation of an arti- ele under this head, published by the Jivalide Russe. This paper may be supposed to speak by the authority of the Russian government, and therefore the article in question isin the highest measure important and interesting. And £0 it has attracted much atiention on the eentinent, although we were unable to find a translation of it in any of the English papers. Hewever, that fact is easily accounted for by the tenor of the article itself, and by the cali, Aiepassionate, and yet eloquent reasoning by which it proves the negative of the question asked in the caption. “ Sebastopol will not be taken” calmly i mates the dnvalide Ru: bastopol will be taken” reply the English and French jour- mals The former does not even assert in terms it merely insinuates—that the siege will prove the most disastrous failure in the annals of war. It simply undertakes to point the inadequacy ef the means to attain the end, and shows, in a suppressedly exultant tone, that the garrison is more than able to repel all the efforts of the besiegers. The journals of ihe allies retort in a doggedly inconclusive assertion that Sebas- ¢epol will be taken, but they do not attempt to sustain the assertion by facts or arguments. One of the severest and most caustic state- ments contained in the article in question, is that wherein it shows that, had the allies un- dlertaken intrepidly and daringly to assault Sebastopol, when they first came before it, vie- tory would ipfallibly have crowned the effort. That is the unkindest cut ofall. The garrison was weak—says the article-—the city was only partly surrounded by a wall, and defended for the most part by sailors unused to fighting be- hind ramparts, and though the defence would have heen gallant and obstinate, the reeuli would have been unquestionable. Now in substance, the Jnvalide Russe—the fall of Se- bastopol is one of the most chimerical illusions that ever entered the head of @ rational man. We think the reasonings of the Jnoulide—par- ticularly when backed by (be experience of the last ten months ~ore wood; and when the ques- tion i# asked, “Wilt Sebastopol taken ?* the Russian answer will t nfldent and de- cided “No.” N the A » leave the Crimea ; howcan they getaway! That is yet to be decided, and we maust therefore await the next Olay ~Wew York, Monday, August 20, 1855. We pubbish in sve~-and “§ says, be —_— $$ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1855. The Hurd Shell State ConverGon—Objects aud Prospects of this New Movement, The new movement of our democratic hard shells respecting their State Convention, in- volves contingencies, issues and party projects of the highest importance to the universal de- mocracy. In changing their day from a week after the time appointed for the soft shells to an appointment six days in advance of them, the hards have secured the initiative in the delicate diplomacy upon which a re-union, or 4 final divorce of the two factions, is soon to be decided. Between Thursday of this week and the Ist of September, upon the action of these New York hards and softs, the important question will probably be settled whether the democrats, North and South, shall be com- bined upon a Union ticket in 1856, or divided among the various other parties and factions preparing to take the field. A sine qua non of the hard shells, and the first condition to a re-union with fhe Marcy- Van Buren faction, will be the repudiation or abandonment of the administration, The free soil and secession spoils coalition which Mr. Pierce has persisted in attempting to fasten upon the country, as the genuine democratic party, must now be definitely adopted or set aside. The dodge of that “artful dodger,” W. L. Marcy, of whipping round the sharp corners of the Nebraska bill, must be put to the test. It has become eminently proper and expedient to know whether the administration faction in this State is for the law or against it—for adhering to it or for repealing it—and in taking the initiative at Syracuse, the hards, we presume, intend to solve this mystery at all hazards. But why should the soft shells demur to an endorsement of the Nebraska bill? Is it not an administration measure, and adopted as a desperate expedient for restoring the sinking caure of Mr. Pierce, his ministry, and his spoils- men? It was but a trick of thimble-rigging upon the South; and Marcy who would talk Nebraska in Virginia by the hour, is under- stood as having advised the softs of our Custom- house to give Kansas and Nebraska the go-by, and to give even Mr. Pierce the cold shoulder, #0 that there may be left an opening for his Premier at the Cincinnati Convention. One, at Jeast, of the Marcy organs of the interior, has been bold and frank enough to plead that Mr. Pierce is responsible for, and that Marcy is in- nocent as the new born babe, of this dreadful Nebraska bill, and of the troubles among the “border ruffians” of Kansas. The hards, we apprehend, will have no difficulty in determin- ing whether the President shall be sacrificed for the Premier, or whether both, and all concerned, shall be turned adrift as having been “weighed in the balances and found wanting.” Our Albany correspondent, in his solution of the complications of this hard shell coup d'etat, has clearly indicated their course and their prospects. Let them take hold of the doctrine ‘of popular ‘sovereignty as applied to Kansas and Nebraska, and upon which, as thua applied, the administration has had neither the courage nor the strength to stand, and let them make it the basis of the re-union of the New York de- mocracy, and they may safely abide the con- sequences. If the administration faction shirk the issue, and prefer to stand aloof, the hards will be free to de- nounce them as free soil disorganizers, un- worthy the association or confidence of the democracy of the country; and thus they must be regarded, as there can be no reconstruction of the party asa national organization, The exact policy of the administration free soilers is by no means definitely ascertained. The Van Burenites, par excellence, wish to set up the Seward platform of the restoration of the Missouri black line, and the denunciation of Mr. Pierce and all concerned in the bungling and imbecile management of the government of Kansas. They are tired of milk and water, and are hankering for another anti-slavery carnival like that of 48. The organs and disciples of Marey are urging a regimen of milk and water, well sweetened with brown sugar, as the only prescription for union, harmony and the spoila. Between these con- flicting cliques Mr. Pierce appears to have been overlooked, and his claims are evidently re- garded as of “no consequence.” In the conven- tion of these diverse elements of the Tammany faction, the result will probably be a proposi- tion to the hards to divide the spoils in Novem- ber, to give Kansas, Nebraska and the adminis- tration the slip for the present, and to limit the fall campaign to a tilt against the Know No- things and the new liquor law. The policy and the position of the hard de- mocracy admit of no such temporizing. Since 1853 they have stood out against this Pierce administration, and refused all overtures of as- sociation with it or its partizans, on the ground that it has been faithless and treacherous to the principles upon which it was elected, This position cuts off a re-union with the adverse faction now upon the administration as clearly as in ‘53, for Mr. Pierce has done nothing since to atone for the dismissal of Judge Bronson, but everything to aggravate that indignity to the party concerned. In fact, any basis of re- union with the softs, except upon the primary condition of the abandonment of the adminis- tration, will be a disgraceful capitulation of the hards, We shall await the issues of this hard con- vention of Thursday with that interest which the subject commands. The initiative of the reorganization of the democratic party for 1856 rests with this convention. If it cannot be reunited upon the doctrine of “popular sovereignty,” re-union is a hopeless task. And if the hards are refused the support of the Cabinet and its spoilsmen, they may command throughout the country the support of the masses of the conservative people of all sec- tions, in a new national Union party, and upon a sound, national, practical American candi- date for the succession. The American peo- ple, in the State clections of the last two years, have decisively pronounced in favor of a new administration. Let the hards act upon this decree; and if the spoils democracy prove intractable, there is the nucleus of a great national party already existing, competent and ready to vindicate the popular will, guided and strengthened by the counsels, the experi- ence, and the support of the trae democrats of the Union. Let the hard shells look more to the mani- fostations tendencies of public opinion, he Cincinnati Democratic Conven- tion, (which will most likely end In a disas trous explosiou,) and they may inaugurate at Syracuse the triumphant national movement for the Preeidency. Who gove up thie week to Syracuse trow Washington an and lee to ‘The Merchant Princes of the Untted States— Death of Abbott Lawrence, Marvachuretts bas lost another of her glo- ries; New England almost the last of the cluster of great hearted men to whose wortl and manliness and nobility of soul her fame is mostly due. Abbott Lawrence was one of the few turvivors ot the illustrious circle which Webster had gathered round him, and which, drinking deep draughts of wholesome patriot- ism from the fountain of the great whig leader, gratefully repaid the loan by sharing the bur- then he bore, and giving by their support and example fresh courage to his heart and strength to his nerves. He was one of the pillars of the Old Bay State; if less prominent, less or- namented than others who stood beside him, he yielded to none in massive solidity, or prac- tical usefulness. He was not by trade a pub- lic servant. Not a soldier, though in the hour of danger he shouldered the musket, and cheerfully offered for his country all he had to give—his life. Nor yet a politician, though for a large segment of a century his counsels were eagerly sought by State parties, his influ- ence was potent and widely extended, and he actually filled with unblemished fame the high- est diplomatic office in the gift of the Presi- dent. He was nothing but a merchant—a manufacturer, a buyer of other men’s wares, a seller of the fruits of his own industry. And if his life—succersful in every respect as it was—teaches no other lesson, it proves at all events that a calling which is supposed to call into play the smallest and meanest feelings of human nature—a calling in which the ignorant and the vicious regard fraud and avarice as eesential to success—can be s0 followed as to develope the very highest instincts, and ripen the noblest impulses of which humanity is capable. We need not waste time in quoting the career of Mr. Lawrence as an example of a triumphant struggle against poverty and ob- security. The country swarms with instances of similar struggles ending in similar tri- umphe, It is the glory and the blessing of the United States that a poor man, endowed with energy and honesty, may always look forward with some large degree of confidence to the prorpect of affluent prosperity. But wherein Mr. Lawrence differed from the mass of suc- ceesful traders is in the manner he used the wealth and the influence he had gained. Any one of us can count on our fingers the names of a dozen individuals whose riches— fruit of their own exertions—are a marvel to the people and a theme of envy to their rivals; but how many of these are anything but mere rich men? There are a few—there have been others——a small select band, who, having won the legitimate reward of industry and in- tegrity, have diverted their minds from the thought of amassing more, and devoted the remainder of their energies to works of patriotism and benevolence. We have had au Astor to whose last hours the task of founding a great public library was more grateful than the acquisition of fresh millions, Philadelphia has had a Girard, whose boundless liberality and enlarged experience have ensured, to her, institutions of value inestimable, to him a name that is more sure of immortality than that of any general now commanding armies at Sebastopol. Boston has had a Perkins, who will always be remembered as the man who gave his own house—a princely mansion—for an asylum for the blind. Others we might mention—for there are many more—a Leake, to whom New York owes one of her most use- ful institutions; a Demilt, who toiled a life- time to earn a fund to establish the Demilt Dis- pensary; Amos Lawrence, brother of Abbott, to whom a gift of $20,000 to a school was a mere trifle, and the extent of whose grand charities—amounting to nearly half a million of dollars-—was only discovered when his books revealed a secret the Christian had never di- vulged; and not a few such true-hearted men, to whom wealth was really only an instrument for the accomplishmentof public good. These are the aristocracy of America. They are our nobles, whose single-handed munificence sup- plies the place of State endowments, and raises monuments so useful, so desired, that the despotisms of Europe have often purchased se- curity and almost popular affection by erecting them. They are the true merchant princes of the United States; men who possess such mer- cantile eagacity that they amass wealth, while others around them are prostrated; and yet who are imbued with so princely a spirit that their money is spent as though the notion of profit had never entered their minds, To this class Abbott Lawrence pre-eminently belonged. Like his brother, he did not let his right hand know what his left hand did; and we shall only learn the true extent of his pa- triotic benevolence when his executors shall have examined his estate. But there is little reason to doubt that the foundation of the Lawrence Scientific School was but a single one among 4 long list of similar deeds, Descended from an old Puritan stock, n- herited from his forefathers many of the Puri- tan virtues, while the softening influence of time and enlightenment effaced in him their frailties, He was upright, untlinching, uneom- promising in pursuance of what he conceived to be his duty; but the uniform testimony of those who knew him acquits him of the least tendency to bigotry. Surely a man who should possess those large, massive qualities of the old Cromwellian hero, and combine with them the liberal principles of the leading intellects of the present day, would be a type of character worthy of all veneration. Somewhat such was Abbott Lawrence. And it is safe to say that asa private individual, as a merchant, and as a member of the commonwealth of Massachu- setts, he has left behind him a reputation which has rarely been equalled, and can hard- ly be surpassed. ANOTHER MANIFESTO FROM THE CuBAN JUNTA. —The Secretary of the Cuban Junta, Senor Valiente, has published in the New York or- gan of the revolution—Le Verdad—another pa- per, in which he presents a resume of the ideas, principles, objects and acts of the movement— the influences through which it has hitherto mircarried, and the condition in which it is now placed, and introduces the discussion of the question whether the idea of annexation which has been hitherto inseparably engrafted on and yoked to the movement, has been pro- ductive of more good or evil effects, This ar- ticle we have translated and published in our columns to-day, inasmuch as we deem it of considerable interest and importance in ob- taining aright understanding of the question. The Secretary points ont in deprecating terms the influence which hax been exerted by our goverament during the past thirty years in preventing the separation of the island of Cuba from the Spanish dominion, This influence commenced to be exercised by President John Quincy Adams in 1826, when the aid of the victorious Polivar was sought for by, and pro- mised to, the Cuban revolutionists, and con- tinued down to the recent period when the ac- tions of the Junta were ferreted out by our government, and dishonorably denounced to the authorities in Cuba, and when, through the same means, the defection of Gen, Quitman was brought about. The acts of the Fillmore and Pierce adminis- trations in regard to this question, come in, as might be expected, for a large share of denun- ciation, and are grouped together to show that nothing can be expected either from the direct favor of our government or from its indirect toleration of the revolutionary enterprise; and the writer labors to show, and in fact does show, that not only is the annexationist charac- ter of the movement of no beneficial effect in attracting to it the sympathies and support of our government, but that it has brought the cause into disfavor in Europe, where the ques- tion is regarded more as an American than a Cuban one. In connection with this view of the subject, the Anglo-French alliance is shown to have pre-existed for other causes than those of resisting Russian prowess, and to have been probably formed to prevent the absorption of Cuba by the United States; and in proof of this a communication is cited from the English Secretary of State to the first Lord of the Ad- miralty, dated April 10, 1852, informing him that the Minister of Foreign Affairs—Lord Malmesbury—was about to conenlt with the French government as to the orders to be given in conjunction to the admirals of the English and French West India squadrons, looking to the event of another Cuban demon- stration, This, and the several other topics touched upon in this manifesto bearing upon the quee- tion of Cuba, will render the document worthy of an attentive perusal. To be sure, it must be confessed that nothing definite as to the j future course of the movement is foreshadowed. | Nor was that to be expected. Enough that the subject of eliminating the annexationist scheme is broadly brought under consideration. In fact, that seems to be the real aim and object of the Cuban Juntain this publication. But whether the extrusion of that feature from their programme would or would not give rise to new and more unconquerable impediments, it is for them wisely to consider. They cite the American motto that Cuba must either belong to the United States or Spain, and if that motto is to be regarded as fixed law they should pause before they run counter to it. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Affairs In Washington. Wasmneroy, August 1°, 1855, Owing {0 a slim attendance at the meeting of the Ke- publican Association last night, the cflicess were not elected. The names of its members have not yet been made publics The Ohio River—Relief for the Suffercrs in Virginia, PuLaDELwas, August 19, 1855, Accounts from Vittsburg, under this morning's date, per telegraph, represents the channel of the Ohio river, opposite that place, to contain 7} feet, and rising, in consequence of the heavy rains that fell on Friday night. The Relief Committees appointed at a late meeting in the Board of Trade Exchange, for tho relief of the suf- ferers im Virginia, are energetic and prosperous im thelr movements. Upwards of four thousand dollars have al ready been contributed, nearly half of which has been transmitted to the scenes of necessity. Donations are pouring in from all quarters, and the friends of humanity, here and elsewhere, are gladdencd by the favorable responses their applications have been attended with. Mutiny on Board the Abby Thaxter—A Vil- lanous Transaction. Yaxpy Hook, August 19, 1856. ‘This morning, while the brig Abby Thaxter, Capt. Wir- well, bound for Lisbon, was preparing to sail, witha pilot on board, the crew attempted a mutiny, but were sub dued by the officers, and are now in irons. The reasons for mutinying are not known. ‘The brig is at anchor in the lower bay, awaiting assist- ance from the revenue cutter Washington, which ha been sent for and is momentarily expected. The gutta percha telegraph wire, sunk under the river at the Highlands, and belonging to the New York and Sandy Hook Telegraph Company, was badly hacked and cut, and several hundred feet of it stolen, a few nights since, by come unknown scoundrels. Temporary repa.i+ have been made, ro that the line is now again in working T. Rioting among Philadelphia Firemen. Punaprivma, August 19, 1855. A sanguinary sfot occurred here on Saturday night be- tween the New Market and Mount Vernon fire companies. ‘Three of the rioters were shot, two of whom are not expected to live, ‘The Yellow Fever tn virginia. Barmmonn, August 19, 1855. ‘At Norfolk the fever is slightly abating, but at Ports- mouth it is reported to be more violent than ever. Markets. New Onteans, August 18, 1855, Our cotton market is firm. Sales to-day of 2,500 bales. We quote middling at 94s. a 93¢c.; 10c. for new crop. Flour is a trifle higher. Sales at $7 373;. Provipence, August 18, 1855. Cotton has been in moderate request during the week, at unchanged prices. W. » market remains quiet, 1—t! and prices unaltered. + 46,300 Ibs. Printing oths quiet, and no change in pr Sales, 26,500 pieces. — City Politics. THE KNOW NOTHING CITY AND COUNTY CONV: TIONS. The city and county nominating conventions of the Know Nothings mect to-night to open the ball for the fall campaign. The following are a few of the names of candidates whose claims will be pressed upon the conven- tions between the hours of seven and twelve o’elock this | | evening:— Fox Suray—J H. Toone, a popular retired ship mas- ter; Walter Briggs, butcher. Counsk To THR CoRPORATION—Hon. Ogden Hoffman, present Attorney General of the State; Richard Mott, ex- Alderman of Twenty-first ward; Chauncey Schaffer, Daniel Bowley, John H. White, L. M. Glover. Covsty Crank—Douglas Leffingwell, President of the New York Literary Union; J. Sherman Brownell. COMMISSIONER OF REPAIRS AND . T. Moulton. Street Commissionen——Joseph S. Taylor, present Gover- nor of the Almshouse; Alderman Voorhis, Crry Iverrctor—ltrr, J. W. Ranney present Conncil- man; Geo. W. Morton, present First Clerk of City In r. PRIOR oF ALMsHOvER—Tenae J. ¢ Courrrotien—John &. Gilet, Trews: partment Funs. Conovene—Dr, James W, Slaight, Dr. Hyalip, De. Derry, Dr. Kiersted, Dr, Ramsey, Dr.@nernsey, De. Southworth, Jepar oy Manisy Covrt—Judge A. K. Maynard, Alfred MeIntire. ver, vr of the Fire De- Personal Intelligence. The Navy Yard nenr Portsmouth, N. H., was the Hon. Kalph Metealf, Governor of New ‘Hampshire the Lith inst. On the 16th inst. the Hon, Joel A. Mat son, Governor of Iinola, visited the yard. ‘These officials were honored with the customary salute, ARRIVALS At the Howard Hotel—Hon. H. T. Buckos, Detroit; Dr. 1. ©. White, San Francisco; Rev. 8. P. Marvin, Jamestown, Jobe Milnes, Eaq., Lowell; JT. Aldrick, Lockport; Hon. Peter J Perrick, St. Doraingo; Honry Tanner, aq., Bullalo; A. it, Nichols. Sterling, Lil.; J.D. ¢ nl Police Intellige ice. ARRESTS FORK DRUNK N) ESS. There was a marked increase in the number of arrests fer intexicatien throughout the city for the pat forty eight hours, Amazing quantities of brandy punches, gin cocktails, soda do., and halfand-halfs were disposed of All the police courts were in a lively state from ‘early dawn All dewy eve.” ‘he following figures avo state of affairs in the liquor dealing community — Mcp istrates, Commmen vurt,.Jumice Anderson. . Justice Davison . fine First dirtriet police Second ‘third ee Justice Brennan Fourth Justice Pearson. PELONIOUS ASSAULT. On Saturday afternoon, John Goram, keeping a board- ing house at No, 39 Oliver street, was severely assaulted by a party of young scoundrels, who tor some time past have annoyed him very much by stealing weod from his yard, He caught several of them Joitering aboat the premises, and insisted on their immediate departure. Gne of the party, more obstinate than the rest, refused to accede to the request, when Mr. Goram caught hold of him and endeavored to expel him, when oue of the gang came behind Mr. G. and struck him a violent blow on the head with a billet of wood, felling him to the ground and producing temporary insenribility. Mr. Goram’s in- juries are very severe, but are not considered fatal by the physician in attendance, The youngsters escaped, but the perpetrator of the assault will probably be soon arrested and punithed for his conduct. OPERATION IN HORSE FLESH. An individual named Charles Jackson was taken into custody by officer Park, of the Ninth ward police, charged with stealing a horse valued at $125, from the stable of Hendrich Hastye, of 160 Cherry street. The animal was found in a stable at No, 20 Roosevelt street, where it was placed for safekeeping by the prisoner, ‘The accused was taken before Justice Brennan, at the Exsex Market Police Court, where be wax committed for trial. Jackson denies the charge preferred against him, and says he found the horse astray in the etreets, SERIOUS ASSAULT WITH A CLUB. Frank Travis was brought before Justice Brennan yes- terday morning, charged, along with several others not yet arrested, with having committed a previous assault upon the person of John Meyers, who, it is alleged, they beat in « cruel manner with chibs, injuring him #0 badly that he ix confined to bia bed. The complaint is made by Mr. Andrew Harneman, of 162 Third street, who, being a wit- ness to the assauit, a red before the magistrate, and, in the absence of the injured man, made such a deposi- tion as to warrant the commiital of the accused, War- rants have been issued for the arrest of Travis’ confede- rates. AN ALLEGED HOUSE THIEF CAUGHT. Joseph Morrin was brought before Justice Davison yes- terday, charged with having stolen lot of clothing, valued at $100, froin the dwelling house of Antonio Viada, of No. $0 South Third street, Williamsburg. The ac- , it ts alleged, was discovered in the act of leaving }e house with the bundle in hiv ion, by one of Mr. Viada’s domestica, who appeared against the prisoner asa Wi ‘The magistrate commitied the aceused to priton preparatory to being conveyed to Kings county for trial. CHARGE OF GRAND LARCENY. Awan nemed Patrick O'Brien was arrested on the mplaint of hix brother, John O'Brien, charged with steal- ing $95 frem the latter. Tho complainant, who lives in Williameburg, alleges that while he was asleep the ac- enred pnt bis hand into his pantaloons pocket and ex- tracted the abovesum. The prisoner, who isa carpeater by trade, and resides in Thirty-ninth street, was brought before Justice Davison, at the Second Disirict Police Court, where on au examination he was fully committed for trial. QUARKEL AND STABBING AFFRAY. | At # late hour on Saturday night two young men, nawed Thomas C, Levins and James Campbell, became engaged in a quarrel, when Campbell received a danger- ons wound in the eye, alleged to have been committed by Levins with a pocket knife, The police being attracted by the cries of the injured youth, hastened to the scene of the coptiict in Houston street ‘and arrested Levins, while hell was conveyed to the station house for medical attendance. Dr, Keinbark, the district surgeon, dresred hia wound. The prisoner was locked up by dus Brennan to await an examination, CHARGE OF RECEIVING STOLEN Goons. ‘Two men named Lewis Clark and Lewis Fisher were arn by officers Qliver and Camptell, of the Tenth ward police, charged with having purchased a quantity bf stolen goods knowing the same to have been dishonest jy obtained. ‘Lhe complainants in thia case are Mesers, Yord & Taylor, Gry goods merchants of Grand street, who ullege that they have had at yarions times several pieces ot silk goods stolen from them by a lad named Patrick Connelly, who alleges he fold the same to the accused for little or nothing. A portion of the stalen goods found in tLe store of Mevnrs, Fisher & Clark were identified by the complainants, Justice Brennan committed the ac- cured for exemination, while Connolly was remanded as & Withers, City Intelligence. ‘Tue Styne 18 Wasine Away.—Between the high Lich walls which enclose our streets, the shadows of a Ceclining sun have very sensibly, since the last heated term, #borteped our Sunday afternoons. Yesterday, at twenty minutes part ots, im looking down Nassau «treet, from the corner of Fulton, we were admonished of thir impressive fact, in the limitation of the light of the sun to the tops of the highest buildings. If the cool weather which hay prevailed for the last few days is but continued for afew days longer, the watering places and summer retreats of the sea side and the in- terior will be deserted, and the city, by the first of Sep tember, will bave received an accession from the retarn of our ubsentees, of periapa twenty-five to thirty thou sand of our population. The expected advent’ ot Ra- chel, the great French tragdienne, will probably con- tiibute to shorten the stay of the upper-tendom in the Tural districts, and to bring them buck to witness the novelty of her first appearance, She will be followed by @ rapid succession of stars and novelties atour opera horses and theatres. Meantime, the fall ado emong the mereantile community promises to re- jwir much of the depression which the whole eommu- nity has enfiered frem the drought, the cholera, the dis- asters by flocds and fires, and Schuyler frauds and bank failures, and the wars a rumors of wars of { went- ful year of 1854. Bountiful ha~yests of all the esnentiais le, will crown the labors of our farmere and the of our people; and from the most fruitfyl sum- inthe history ‘of this American continent, we are parsing into an autumn of the highest promise to all classes of our citizens. We have during the past season been singularly exempt from epidemical diseases of all kinds—thanks to our clean streets, and their frequent purification by our abounding summer rains. And thus, le we regret with a sigh the decline of the golden ner, we. stand upon the threshold of a glo- the most favorable auspices. of rious automa under Notwithstanding the _ warlike delligerent administration, we still continue « with all the world and the rest of mankind,”” few wild tribes of the wandering aborigines and th der rottians’’ of Kansas, Mr. Guthrie has still a large surpl@ in the Treasury; our banks are doing as well as can be expected; and Our shipments of gold to England stil) continue to be redeemed by our receipt from Cali- fornia, Briefly, in view of the business incerests, the amusements and the pleasures of the fail campaign, everything appears to conspire to the fulfilment of & “good tine coming.” Then let us, Don Quixotte after hix battle with the windmills, and in view of the Prospect before us, thank God for our happy deliverance. Fine 1x RuoApway.—About 1 o'clock yesterday after- noon, a fire broke out in the attic of bul ing No. 160 Broadway. The basement, first floor and rear part of secoud floor are ocenpied by Smythe, (Rourke & Her- ring, dry goods dealers. The front part of second floor isocenped by Hatt & Joslyn, importers of Freach gooda, The third and fourth Goors acd wrtic nt ocenpied by Haxbrouk, Lynes & Case, dealers in faney goods, watches and jewelry. he fire originated among some empty packing boxes " damage to the occupants will be by ; the amount could not be ascertained, ‘Hasbroul yes & Case, in whose premises the fire originated, are insured in the Washington $5,000, Excelsior $5000, Mer. chants’ $5,000, Atlantic of Brooklyn $5,000. Smythe, C@Rouke & Herring are insured. Neither the amoun cmnpanies cout be ascertained, Hatt & Joslyn are suppored to be insured. Their loss will be but trifling, The building belongs to Mr. Marquand, and ix damaged about $500, believed to be covered by ineurance. oclivities our Fat ww Euzanerat Srreer..—About 9 o'clock last night, a fire broke out in the swall two story frame building No. 118 Flizabeth street, occupied on the firet floor ‘by Mr. George W. Lockwood as tailor shop, and by Mr, Frede- rick Hopper as @ boot and shoe tore, ‘The second story ot No. Wand 120 were ocew by Mr. Geo Spor as ing; and at the time cing ek, out thee wes noone on the premises. The ffire originated in the bed- room onthe second floor, but how or in what manner, could not be aecertained. Mr. Spor has an insurance on his furniture of $200 in the North River Ineurance Co, His loss will be about $100, Mr. Lockwood's loas will be about #20, no insurance. Mr. Hoy . 420, uo insueaice. Gelongea to Coden The baildi ¥ Teck, carriage makers, and is tareg abort $100, 00 Insurance, . Campnmyy La rp Accoest.—On Saturday night, shortly after 8 o’eloc! ® fire waa occasioned in the clothing store of Mr. Peyver, 602 Grand street, caused by the up- setting of acamphene lamp. Tt seems that a small boy was at play upon the counter, and accidentally knocked his head against the lamp, which upset, burning the boy badly about the head and arms, ‘The ‘damage done to the clothing amounted to about $100, No insurance, Jersey City Intelligence, Pyrat Acciest ov THe New York axp Brie Rarenoan.— At Middletown, Orange county, on Thursday loct, » named Walter Miller, about sixty years of age, was kill y J ondit, Terre Hate; J. M. Myers Prq., Plauisburg: : [At the Sutthsonian House—Capt, 8. Porier, Now Or} Rilise, do. J. Watson, Mase: Col. G. 8. Lock! Memphis Dr. Deck, Eogland; Wm, Sherman, New Orleans: Fenty 4 ton, ns 5 th Cnrotien Stamford; T. L. Nelaon, do.; J. Hopewell, Ne lina, yj, dow; 8. ou Ghloy W. B. Loder, do, Weagooer, ship New Yo W rk—Wm Chamberlain, of Phi- 0 D bong by being struck by the locomotive of a passing train. He was standing pon one of the tracks of the road, at- tentively reading a newnpaper; and be stepped from that traci: which a train wos approaching from the o' tion. The whistle was blown, and the thouted, bat he appeared no’ -ar it, and the bur ot the Jocomotive struck him in his left ride, !njuring 40 that he died y afterwards, . Yellow Fever at Norfoik and Portsmouth, OUR NORPOLK CONRESPONDENCE. 7 ., Aug. 17, 1858: Fever Increase of the ¥eila Now fever Is on th crease he is dissemi «if into parts of the city hithe couched. | *, one of our moat eminent phy>icigns, is red among the victims. Thousands hay. left town, and many others would giadly do so, b poevented frem the antine regulations that exist all acound ue. he fever will con It is the generat opinion that til the middle of October, as that time, The number of deat bly average twelve daily. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. [From the Norfolk Herald, Aug. one mm, ) Nonrotk, Aug. aah Report of deaths by the fever for the 24 hours ending thin day at 2 P.M. + . Win. Banten, aged 40, trom Portsmouth—intemperate, Wm. Hudgen, 62, Main et., No. 88. George Billups, 1 Cumberland st., occupation in the infected district. iumbue Khea, 2%, Phea’s lane, Dr, R. W. Sylvester, 54, Granby st. Mr. Creistan, No. 27 W. Main et. Capt. Jas? E. Henderson, 28, Cumberland st., occupation in the in- fected district. Mrs, Curtain, 67, N. Church st. Caroline Philips, 23, Rhea’s lane,—Total 9. Agreeably to our suggestion the Board of Health met yesterday at the office of the Howard Association, and by comparing their report with the records of the asso- ciation, arrived at the above correct report. , A resolution was pasted by the Board, that a resident physician should be appointed to attend the hospital at Lambert’s Point, that he have full and equal powers with the attending physicians, and shall co-operate with he attending physicians and during their absence exer- cise proper police authority in all cases where it may be } roper to interfere; and that the emoluments of the reai- cent physicians shall be the same asthe attending physi- cian, and that Dr. Wm. M. Wilson be appointed nh resi- dent physician, and be informed of his appointinent by the Secretary. It was ordered that the practice of ringing (except for fire) or tolling the fire bells, be suspended daring the pending sickness. 4 ‘ Miss Lucy E. Andrews, of Syracuse, N. Y., arrivedhere esterday morning, and tendered her services to his Yloner the Mayor,’ ax a nurse in the hospital. Misa ‘Andrews is a very pretty young lady, whose e thropie spirit has prompted Hier to this noble sucrifiee of self. His Honor promptly accepted her service, and as promptly escorted her down, to dalappl, where she wae tnly Installed. bins Andrews made a contribntion to the Howard fund. It is our melancholy duty to record the death of Dr. R. W. Sylvester, one of our mort eminent physicians, and a member of the newly appointed Bourd of Health. ‘He ex- pired at 11 o’clock yesterday morning, after an illness of rix days of the fever, aged fifty-four years. Dr. Sylvester was formerly ‘resident of Norfolk county, but has resided in thia city for many years past. Hewas one of the best men in evcry relation of life, and is a grout Joss, not only to his family, but to our community. [Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. | Norwotk, August 16, 1856. Since my Jast, at this hour yesterday, 1 have to report: the death by fever, of Captain James E. Henderson, well and favorably known along the shores of the Chesapeake and its tributary streams, some year or two since, as an accomplished steamboat commander. He had been im bad health for some time, and fell an easy victim to the sent epidemic, And while I am writing, I earn the leath of Dr. R. W. Sylvester, one of our mort skilful phy- sicians, and a most worthy and extimable citizen, ‘There were inall ten burials yesterday—six deaths by fever. To-day there have been eight fanerala—six deaths by fever. Ium sorry to add that the physicians report an increase of the disease, though they differ as to intensity of form, and also as to the probability of its continuance. It seems to have spread from the infected. district (which forms the portion of our city to the south of Main street) in a northerly direction, thongh the ma- jority of the cases may be traced to the said district. Be this aa it may, it has ity victims residing in every por- tion of the city, embracing all ages and conditions, and blacks a4 well as whites—!he former comparatively few. Inmy future letters I shail be able to give you the names, residences, &., of the deceased. This worning Miss Lucy E. Andrews, of Syracuse, N. Y., arrived here via your city. and tendered her servicos ae a nursein the hospital. His Honor the Mayor (who I am happy,to cay is out again in the discharge of his nu- merous duties) accepted the noble offer, and promptly escorted ber down to Jalappi, where she was duly in- stalled with her noble predecessors, the two Sisters of Charity. Mise A. ia a yery pretty and educated a young Jady; aeks for no remuneration, and has contribut liberally to the objects of the Howard Association. May her reward be grent. 1 am just informed of two deaths in the horpital—one «child. “Nine cases are in readiness to be taken down im the lighter employed for that purpose. It is noticed that euser taken there generally yield to treatment. Commander 8. Barron, ‘U. S. N., who was removed from the nevy yard some time since, is doing very well, ae also Dr, Fehooiieli, of Portamouth. 1 Lave been un- able to get the report trom Portsmouth to-day. There is hut litte eommunics'ion between the two places, and the people are still so panic stricken that one cannot place the least reliance on what one hears, ‘The assistants, Mersrs, Cook and Garrett, mentioned in my last, are so busily engaged that 1 have not been able to learn from them the reliable state of affairs at the hospital, The conduct of our own citizens who have fed from here has tended in a great measure to develope the an- kindness which has been exhibited towards us by neigh- voring cities, villages and counties. Circulating the most absurd and exaggerated report of the ravages of the *fever’? in Jorfolk, they have infected others with teir own cowardice. Yet, these all disclaim being frightened. Invariably, their reason for flight is—‘iny wife in Ko much excited,” or ‘my children are so mach alarmed, that J think it is prudent to take them away from dan- ger.” Leaving their property and friends to the care of others, they have shrunk from the discharge of their duty a4 good citizens. Many have left here who could not afford to leave their occupations, and some have gone off without taking care to provide for the wants of their rervants. Some will be compelled to return before we have « frost, and the consequence, in all probability, will be, that “the fever’ will continue its ravages much longer than it would have done if they had remained at. heme, Many from Portsmouth and Norfolk have ensamp- ed in the woods, who will thereby contract bilious and intermittent fevers, and fill the two places with sickness: during the fall mont More than three-fourths of the stores in the cily are , and a majority of their proprietors have united in the stampede, Gur streets are not, however, entirely de- serted either by day or night. Our market is, as yet, well supplied with vegetables, fruit and fish, Many of the people, however, in the sur rounding counties are afraid to come to the city, ‘The Howard Association is at work extending relief to the indigent and all others who may need their asaistance. A committee is in attendance day and night at thet office to receive applications for sid, and their noble efforts will aBord them a rich boon, in the consciousness that they have wiped away the tears of suffering humanity, T regret to learn that the fever hae spread rapidly with in the last forty-eight hours, hough the number of deaths as reported by the Board of Health, would not indicate that it is of a malignant type. In che twenty-four hours ending at 2 o'clock on Tuesday, seven deaths from yel- low fever are reported, and in the subsequent twenty-four hours, nine deaths, Amoug those who are reported to have the fever, we have heard the following names mentioned: —Mrs, Stubbs wife of the former Mayor, and danghter; 3. R. Boram, the firm of Borum & Mclean; W. H. Broughton, Horatio Moore, F. W. Seabury, Among the deaths, within a fow days past, are Mrs, Rhea, wifeof Mr. Robert Rhea, Columbus Rhea, Mra. James, wife of John Jaines, commission merchant; Geo. Billups, clerk for Seth March; Captain James He A. Kayton, watchmaker. Dr. Samuel Lightfoot, an in- spector in the Custom House, died yesterday. {From the Baltimore Sun, Aug. 18.) Aw it may be a satisfaction to contributors to know, we state that the committee to purchase rupplies for the velief of the more destitute, om Thursday atternoon ship- ped on board the steamer Louisiana ‘the following ar ticles:—4 casks bacon, sides; 20 barrels crackers; 30 half barrels do; 16 barrels tour; 20 half barrela flour; 40 bage meal; 3 chests tea; 7 barrely sugar; 4 bags coffee; 2 casks rice; a large cheese; and also ordered to be sent yonterday, per steamer Georma, 600 loaves fresh bread, In addition, Messrs. Jax. D. Mason & Co. have made a do- natfen in crackers to the amount of $70, and intend bak- ing this morning a large lot of wine biscuit, +o ax to have them fresh to send by the Louisiana this afternoon. THE RELIEF FUND. The following is the amount of money which has al- ready been rained for the relief of the sufferers by the yellow fever in Norfolk, Portsmouth and Goxport:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. In the statements from the South regarding the yellow fever, the fact is so apparent that many die withont (if not for the want of care) sympathy, it compela me to ask if you will not suggest a plan wnereby ladies, who feel inclined, can tender their services a4 nurses most veneficially, Tampure there are at leasta few hearts who would respond gladly to the present call from our rister State, if they but knew how to proveed, I, for one, would joyfully add my mite, in the way ot watching with and caring for those who feel thatnone careth tor thera, 1. Re D, News from Mexico. We published in yesterday's Himitp «© summary of Mexican news, with dates from Vera Cruz to the 8th of Avgust. We have since recelved our tileg of journals from the capital up to the dist of July, but we do not find in them anything of importance, Mr. Wm, George Stewart has submitted « proposition to connect all the ports of (he country with the city ot Mexico by means of electric telegraph. We subjoin the following correeponde Delta of New Orleans:— of of the Daily ™ bis i My Cnez, A B, 1855. ¢ community is amusrd each day-—T may say rack hour—with * rumors worse confounded.”” wen Yankee guessing cannot be relied on—' reckoning” i¢ out of the question, except where aj to the plunder which pe ses into Santa Anna's pockcta and those of his satte it One thing ix certoin, the Palace is bewildered, anc me can penetrate what is doing within, if anythin, Yon may rest aseured therv is no disagreement between the President and Ministere—report to shat effect 14 ai blind to mislead the publio—thev bold tovether emis aul will only dissolve copartnership when there ier. moore hope, or when drives o@. Tn ere OGD ‘Arrests of suspected persons atv made at the rate of vlaty to eigh'y dally, aud ‘all ‘de places of sonticement are fall, Among the prisoners aretwo Amerioon journal speabe of a grew) coneplou y Lecoyered,