The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1855, Page 4

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Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Baw York Hrearp will be reccived at the following places . Be Europe:— ee er ‘Wim. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catharine street ..+++seLivingston, Wella & Co,, 8 Place de la Bourse. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hmrau> ‘will embrace the news rccefved by mail and telegraph at {eo office during the previous week, and to the hour of «publication. | The News. ‘The Know Nothings are in the field with their weminations for city officers. The various conven- - -tiona were held last night, and the result of their -@eiberations is as follows :—For Judge of the 8u- .Jreme Court—E. P. Cowles; Superior Court—Murray Heffman and L. B. Woodruff; Common Pleas— Alexander Spaulding, William M. Allen and R. | reign andindependent? Restoration is point- 3h Shannon; Marine Court—A. R. Maynard, BL. Latimore and R. H. Meeks; Corporation Coun- sel—Louis N. Glover; Comptroller—J. 8. Giles; | ‘@ounty Clerk—R. Beatty, Jr.; Ooroners—Doctors | Bameey, Wetherill, Hill and Perry; Superintendent ef Repairs and Supplies—J. Southworth; Commis- | sioner of Streets—J. 8. Taylor; Sheriff—J.H. Toone; | . @ity Inspector—G. W. Morton; Almshouse Gover- ner—J.G. Oliver. Every thing passed off harmoni- @maly, and the Know Nothings are sanguine of suc- : 088. Accounts from Texas to the 10th instant state that there is no doubt whatever of the re-election -~@f Governor Pease, and the election of Bell to Con- gress. Gen. Houston, like many other distinguished men that have gone before him, seems to be with- at honor in his own country. In Washington -eoanty;his present place of abode, the Know No- ‘thing and democratic vote was nearly balanced, and: te Walker county, his former residence, the Know Nothing ticket received only forty-eight majority. Baltimore was the scene of a desperate and bloody @emeontre between several fire companies on Sa- @mpdoy night, the particulars of which are given <@bewhere. It seems evident that the combatants ‘Were prepared for the contest, as for some minutes @@ere was a sustained discharge of firearms that ‘weuld not have disgraced a battlefield. The fight @asted only about five minutes, during which time met less than fifty pistol shots were heard. It is surprising that the resulta were not more bloody ‘than the details of the encounter show themto have Been. This and other similar occurrences are attribut eddy a portion of the press of Baltimore to the volun- tazy fire department system, and a loud call is made mpon all citizens who would rid themselves of such fla grant violations of the peace, and a large amount of in- éndiaricm, to come forward in support of a paid fee department. There is no Jonger any doubt of the fact that edge Raggles, of the Court of Appeals, has resign- ed hiw office. The resignation takes effect on the ‘2th of October. ‘The judgment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylva- mia in the case of Dr. Beale, the Philadelphia den- ‘tist, was delivered last week by Chief Justice Lewis The Court refared to grant the motion for a new ‘twia), and directed that the prisoner be sentenced ac- eording to law. Of the five judges composing the Gourt but one dissented from this decision and fa- vored the granting ofa new trial. A few days since the hope was entertained that ‘the yellow fever at New Orleans had spent ita force, and that an improvement in the public health would soon be experienced. The hope turns out to have been a delusive one, as our despatch from New Orleans shows that the epidemic is raging with in- ereared virulence, as many as 394 having fallen vic- ‘tims during the past week. Gloomy accounts continue to reach us from Nor- folk and Portsmouth, Va. There has been noabate- ment ofthe fever. Twenty new cases occurred in Portsmouth on Saturday. Meantime, ample sup- plies of money are being remitted from different points in aid of the sufferers. Our Munich correspondeat has farnished us with ‘an abstract of the important official report on the eholera, which has just been drawn up by order of the Bavarian government. It will be found fall of ‘Rew and interesting fayts relative to the phenomena of the epidemic. “The result of the Fire Marshal's investigation into the origin of the recent calamitous fire at No. 534 Chatham street, will be found in another column. The evidence exhibits a very strange state af afhhirs. It will be recollected that six lives were sacrificed at the fire alluded to. The particulars of an attempt at highway rob- bery at Hunter's Point, on Sunday night, by three Germans, who decoyed a Swiss watch pedlar fron thie city, are given by our reporter. The three Tiecreants succeeded in getting the pedlar down; bat he was too much for them, and used his knife with such effect as to kill one of his assailants out- wight, and wounded the other two. One of the rob- bere was arrested, and prompt measures were taken for the apprehension of the other, but with what access we have not learned. The sales of cotton yesterday were limited to some 400 bales, at about jc. decline, noticed on Satarday ; middling Uplands closed at about lle. Floor was cull and easier for grades below medium and high qualities. Wheat was tore plenty, and prices favored purchasers ; coramon Southern red sold at 183c., and good do. at 190c.; white was at 210c. a 220c, Rye was down to lide. a lide. Corn declined about ic. per bushel. Pork was higher ; new mess sold at $20 25,and new prime at #18. Beef and cut meats were also firm. Lard sold at lijc. for prime. Sugara were firm, and coffee meady. Freights were firmer, but engagements were light. A Lirtie Too Fast.—The Washington Union ig regaling its readers with a series of disser- tations on the glories of the democratic par- ty. The writer is a little too fast. Why can’t he wait the results of the hard and soft con- ventions at Syracuse? Perhaps they will give him glory enough for one day. Now 18 THe Trwe.-—One of the Irish organs in this city rays that now isthe time for a rally for freland. John Mitchell, meantime, has set tled in Te NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 71. 1855. Polit! 2a1 Movements North and South—The Ay sorbing Element and the Contest of 1836. ‘fhe national or hard shell democrats meet in State convention at Syracuse on Thursday next. It is an important movement and will be the first authoritive action of the democre- cy in opposition to the Seward Holy Alliance and to the Order of Americans. It is easy to anticipate the result of that com ention—to pre-announce the principles and policy by which it will be guided. It will sustain the Kansas act of 1854, denounce the Missouri compromise, the Know Nothings, the-sdminis- tration and the Maine law—aseert the doctrines of popular sovereignty in the States and in the Territories, avow uncompromising hosti- lity to negro worship in all its phases, and ut- terly to soft managementand ‘men. This con- vention, in connection with the recent meet- ings in Georgia and Louisiane, and that of ‘South Oarolina on the 15th inst., becomes ex- ceedingly important. Having in view the is- sues precipitated upon the country by the Seward ‘republicang—the restoration of the Miseouri eompromise—the repeal of the Ne- braska hww--the abolition of slavery in the District.of Columbia, it is easy to see that the national democrats of New York will at once place themselves in alliance with the great democracy of the South and West, and leave the latter only the choice to select for sup- port either the adini tion or the true pria- ciples.of the constitution. The most prominent, as far as the North is concerned, of these issues, and that which ex- cites the deepest interest, is that of the reste- ration:of the Missouri compromise. It has ke- come to the negro worshippers what the polar star is to the mariner—a point of general obser- vation. It is.a good time to look into the question. Now, what is its specific nature, its character and its office? It is simply a restriction upon and limita- tion of the people in the exercise of the rightsof election and legislation within pre- scribed territory; hence its restoration now involves the broad question whether the pee- ple of.Kansas and Nebraska, for instance, like the citizens of New York, are or are not seve- Jess upon.any other bases. Either Congrese, without:reference to the provisions of the con- stitution,.and by virtue of the existence of the government, is sovereign or the people are sovereign, ‘Those who advocate the Missouri compromise act as a governing principle in this republic, deny that the people are the to stop at—no middle ground in this matter. it is then manifest that the passage of the act of 1820 was at least the exercise by Congress of great powers, and the assumption of a fearful responsibility—of sovereignty, in fact, certain- jy so north of a given line of latitude, and over a portion of our people. If it was competent for that body thus to act, there is an end to the boasted equality of American citizenship ; for while New York is at liberty to govern itself, to authorize or ‘prohibit slavery, for instance, the people of a Territory lying north of a stated parallel of latitude are restricted by Congressional dictation from doing so. It is subversive of equality, because the people of one section of the Union are permitted to do that which is absolutely prohibited in another. The moral bearings of this species of legis- lation and government are still more incon- gruous and absurd; for if slavery is an evil, and Congress has the power to permit or in- hibit it in the public territory, its confinement to geographical limits—a species of political quarantine—is an act of casuistic folly quite incomprehensible. But the mischief does not end here. Say what we will, ite restoration and the enforce ment of its limitations upon the people, is the subversion of the whole doctrines of American policy and the substitution in their stead of the monarchical canons of the British consti- tution. “It is an assumption, whether it is con- stitutional or not, that sovereignty exists in the government and not in the people, as we have said—that power is delegated from and not to Congress—in fact, that that hody is a divine appointment, sovereign and absolute in its nature. Under such a construction of the powers of the government,the establishment of a territorial or colonial system, and the grant to and limitation of rights of legislation to its subjects, even upon the arbitrary and tyranni- cal basis of a geographical line, is natural enough. But if we reverse this doctrine, and lodge the sovereign authority with the peo- ple—make Congress a representative body, limited to the sphere prescribed in the charter of its existence, we must recognize the equali- ty of every political community within the juriediction of the Union. It is the people, then, that limit Congressional action, and we hear no more of the absurd proposition of the agent and representative dictating terms to his principal. Butagain. The enforcement of the limita tions of the act of 1820 is utterly impractica- ble. This is manifest, because it is seen to be impossible to interpose the will of Congress between the people of Kansas and the exercise by them of the ordinary privileges of election and legislation. If such privileges were not inherent in them, prescription has set- tled the question in their favor; for Con- gress has never pretended to interfere with the sovereignty of its territorial citizens, and up to the year 1836, in the case of Wis- consin, never asserted its right to do so. There isa wide difference in a popular government between the assertion of a right and its en- forcement, as the States of Massachusetts, Vermont and Wisconsin, in the case of the Fu- gitive law, can attest. But the question still recurs—did the con- stitution authorize Congress to pass the act of 1820? That body derives all its just powers from the consent of the people—that is the law of the revolution, and the basis of our existence as a nation. What powers of limita- tion upon the action of the people in this respect, have they conferred upon Congress? “Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respect- ing the territory and other property of the Unit- ed States.” “The territory and other property.” Does this mean “the people and other pro- perty?” Is “territory” a synonym of peo- ple? The Supreme Court of the United States hes decided that the government, ander the grants of the public territory from the States, and this provision of the constitution, stands in the attitude, and is clothed with the powers and no other, of an individual proprietor, Does the conveyance of a freehold estate in thie country carry with it the right to govern ite accidental tenantry? Yet this is the ab- hooh we are led by confer source of power. There is no half-way house | Ting upon Congress, under its sathority to “make needful rules and regulations” respect- ‘ing the public territory, the power to limit the sovereign action of the people therein. It {s much easier to receive and endorse the doc- trines of governmental sovereignty, and thus to refuse to recognise the existence of any rights or powers outside of the States and Congress than to acquiesce in this construction of the constitution. Even the claim to absolute government by Congress in the Territories, under the treaty-making power, coupling the right to govern with the right to acquire, is more plausible and sstisfactory. The'first rests upon a naked perversion of language to suit @ political exigency, and is made te minis- ter to the designs of revolutionary factions; ‘he second and third are remeants of @ consti- tational tendency on the part of many of our public men to strengthen the arm of the go- vermment at the expense of the people—an dea borrowed from England, to be paid back n.attempts to bring Amorican policy into sub- ection to British ideas, In the case of the District of Columbia, the grant is: “Congress shall have power to ‘exercise exclusive legisla- tion in all cases whatsoever.” Here the right is conferred by the constitution, but it is clear in the case of the'Werritories no such power was intended to be:given, and none was given. It is obvious, then, that the Missouri compro- mise, upon which ‘the negro worshippers have staked their game-of agitation, is neither a law, a treaty, or a compact. It has never been re- spected as such. When California formed her constitution, which was ‘done by virtue of the sovercignty of its people, and wholly regardless -of the powers of:Congress, and applied for ad- mission into the Union as a State, the efficacy of the act of 1820 was directly put to the test, aswell as the faith of the North, upon the question of her-admission, without reference to the limitations.of that .act upon the matter of slavery. Half ofther territory wassituated north of the parallel -of thirty-six and a half degrees sof latitude. California demanded an uncondi- tional admission into the family of States hy virtue of needful numbers and the seve- reign action of her. people. The South then pleaded for the enforcement of the limitations of the Missourilaw ; the North unanimously re- fused such enforcement. The South asked for the extension of the act of 1820 to the Pacific ; the North refused such extension. These were forma] propositions and rejections. ‘They testud alike the efficacy:of the compromise and tae faith of the negro worshippers, and, as might have been expected of a bad Jaw and bad men, both were found wanting. California was ad- mitted into the Union, and rightly. Popular sovereignty was vindicated in the act; the folly of Congressional limitations upon the people was made apparent. The treachery of the abolitionists was exposed. Thus the prac- tical enforcement of the great principle that the people shall rule, has been attended with nothing but benefits to the country. It has overturned an unconstitutional law, exposed the knavery of the negro worshippers, turned the currents of emigration to the public terri- tory, and will end by the prostration of the Holy Alliance of Abolitionists—Seward, Van Buren, Chase & Co, Rewer ror Norrotx.—The following note was sent to us yesterday. It speaks for itself :— 70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Enclosed please find fifty-five dollars for the sufferers at Norfolk —being the collection at the Pavilion Hotel, Long Branch, N. J. J. RK We perceive that over twenty thousand dollars have already been raised by sub- scription for the Norfolk sufferers; of which $4,500 were collected in this city. The fact is undoubtedly creditable to the people, though the amount falls considerably short of what Norfolk needs and what she will obtain before the labors of the bencvolent committees end. We know of no more gra- tifying theme of contemplation for the lover of humanity than the success which has re- cently attended charitable appeals of various kinds, Almost as soon as the first British sol- dier fell in the Crimea, subscriptions began to be raised for the relief of the widows and orphans of soldiers killed during the campaign; and with such spirit was the enterprise carried out, subecriptions pouring in from every quarter of the globe from Hong Kong to Canada, that an amount exceeding a million of pounds sterling has already been amassed, and the prospect of something better than beggary secured to eve- ry British soldier's widow. In our own coun- try, charitable appeals are still more success- ful. We had occasion yesterday to allude to the names of several individuals who have signalized their benevolence by donations of sums, half a million at atime. The liberality of poorer citizens isas strikingly evinced by reveral appeals which have recently been made. No sooner does distress break out any- where—be it an epidemic in a Southern city or afamine in so distant a region as Madeira— than donations of ten and twenty and fifty dollars pour into the hands of relief associa- tions, and in a marvellously short period of time a fund is collected which effects what money can avail to heal the suffering. New York has always been pre-eminent among the donors on such occasions: a fact the more pleasant to reflect on as the name of New York isseldom mentioned in the smaller cities of the Union with a sneer at the avarice or the selfishness or the dishonesty of its citizens, Tue SvPERINTENDENTS OF THE PooR AND THE Boarp or Ewtaratioy.—We publish elsewhere some resolutions passed at the Convention of the Superintendents of the Poor, at Utica, by which it will be seen that effect is about to be given to the complaints so frequently made against the Board of Emigration of eing too local in its organization, and not representing sufficiently the general interests of the several counties of the State. For this purpose a com- mittee of five was appointed by the convention to examine and report upon the subject, and their recommendations will probably be laid before the adjourned meeting, which is to be held at Syracuse on the 25th of September next. We are happy to find that some steps have been taken towards the reconstitution of a body which exercises so important an influ- ence upon the distribution of the burdens fall- ing upon the different localities throughout the State. We have always thought that a board exercising such powers should embody the prin- ciple of representation to its fullest extent, Without it, it can never he expected to work satisfactorily, or to exclude all opportunities of abuse and peculation. Let the movement be energetically followed up, and the question pressed upon the attention of the Legislatare. Reform is the order of the day More of the “Ceresco Free Love Union”— Fourtertsm Reduced to First Principles, We published on Friday last, from a Wis- copsin paper, an article on anew social organit zation set up in , under the sug- gestive title of the “Cerweso Free Love Union,” embracing the substance of a report to amass meeting of the citizens of the neighborhood, from a committee appointed upon the subject. We have since received acopy of the Ripon Herald, (Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin,) two pages of which are ocoupied by a report of the proceedings of the mass meeting aforesaid, involving a mass of verbiage fpr which we have no room in our columns, Saiffice it to say, that this public meeting adopted a series of resolutions denouncing these free love re- formers, their text books, and principles, al- together and severally, as “vile and licen- tious,” “inculeating as a duty a foul system of prostitution,” as “a moral plague” and “a blighting curse,” and providing against them accordingly, “a Committee of Vigilance to watch and guard the interests of the commu- nity,” the people of the meeting pledging themeelves to sustain the committee, “and se- cond its efforts, until the blighting curse is removed from among us.” The paper in which we find this apparently impartial report, in its prospectus at the head of its first page, “aims to be free, and to advocate liberty for all. Its edi- tor believes that man is more sacred than in- stitutions, human rights of more value than the preservation of any organization,” &c., and hence, it was quite natural that such a paper should become the organ of the ‘free lovers,” and proper thet any further support should be refused to it By the mass of the people at large. In the letters on the part of the defence, which we publikh to-day, we can recognize no- thing but a confession of the horrible and dis- gusting doctrines and abominations charged against the parties concerned. One of these letters, however, furnishes us some interesting information of the origin of this Ceresco Socie- ty. It is a Fouriexte establishment, reduced to first principles, It has thrown off the mask and the false pretences of the “attractiveness of labor,” a “community of property,” &., and has boldly adopted that which our Fourierite phalanxes and organs have endeavored to hide from the public view—the great ultimatum of “free love,” according to the free usages of the cannibals of the Fejee islands. In these disclosures we are admonished of the most remarkable instance of brazen effron- tery in the history of public journalism. For years the New York Tribune has been an earnest and leading organ of Fourierism—that identical Fourierism the logical developement of which is atlength se clearly illustrated in this Wiscon- sin free love association, and its affiliated so- cieties in this city and elsewhere. Yet this same oracle and propagandist of Fourierism has assumed to be a living model of decency and morality, denouncing our theatres as hot beds of vice and crime, joining the crusade of the liquor prohibitionists, and circulating “hot corn” literature with that air of innocent be- nevolence with which a holy Pharisee would steal the sacred vestments of the church to serve the devilin. This organ of Fourierism and its kindred abominations is largely respon sible for the insidious diffusion of these hideous and fiendish doctrines of our ‘free love’ phi- losuphers and their deluded disciples. The Tribune's labors in the cause of abolitionism spiritualism, the Rochester rappers, the wo- men’s rights women and amalgamationists, and all the other sickening political and social or- ganizations amongst us, of leprous fanatics and unprincipled knaves, come to a fitting culmination in this Ceresco gang of “free love” reformers. We are informed that these “free lovers” expect to be driven out of Wisconsin, and that, having but little hope of success in any civilized community, they will probably follow the example of the Mormons, and con- centrate their forces upon some distant and unoccupied territory, where they may set up a State for themselves. We are in favor of this movement, because, in the first place, if fully carried out, it would result to the advantage of society, in the removal of all this promiscuous infidel and “free love” rif-raff from its mis- chievous contact with a Christian community; and, secondly, because if concentrated into a self-supporting colony, removed from outside assistance, it would soon perish from its excesses, end become extinct. If, too, our “ free love” communists would escape a Mormon expulsion by fire and sword, wherever one of their con- venticles may be detected east of the Rocky Mountains, let them profit from the experience of the Latter Day Saints, and move off in sea- son. Fourierites, women’s rights women, abo- litionists, amalgamationiets, spiritualists, and their leaders and organs, all as a band of free lovers— Black spirits and white, Blue spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, mingie, ou that mingle may. But mingle and pack off, for the day of retri- bution may be at hand. No Necesstry ror Atarm.—Inquiries have been made of us in relation tothe prospect of the importation of the yellow fever into New York from the infected districts. We think there is no occasion for the slightest alarm, Our last visitation of the yellow fever was in 1821, at which time we had neither sewers, Croton water, nor clean streets; and the north- ern suburbs, now among the most densely popu- lated down town districts, were a succession of unwholesome pools, swamps, and ferment- ng garbage and vegetation. Since that time our commercial intercourse has brought us into contact every season, more or less, with vessels charged with yellow fever, from the West In- dies or South America; but the disease no longer appears to be adapted to New York. At this time, considering our comparatively clean streets, and the near approach of the cool weather of autumn, we feel confident that there s but little danger of yellow fever, or any epidemic of the kind. Prerarinc To Weicome THe Goverxor— The citizens of Easton, I’a., have been making preparations for a hospitable reception of Gov. Reeder, on his return from the “border ruf- fians” of Kansas, On the occasion of his re- ception we may expect another speech, and if Reeder has half the pluck of Soulé he will make the fur fly from the back of the ad- ministration. Let Marcy be spared, for his organs say that he is innocent as a lamb of any hand in the removal of the Governor. Send an invitation to Marcy. Tr Haxos Fre—The “republican” abolition movement in Washington. They should call for advice at the State Department. Trovste mw Tue Coan Hore—Dsciwepty Ricu.—We are informed that there is consider- able anxiety and trouble in the Coal Hole of Tammany Hall, concerning the hard shell convention of the 23d; and that a fall soft committee of persuasion will be sent up from the Custom House to Syracuse by Thursday, to see what they can do. But this is nothing com- pared with the trouble concerning the soft convention of the 29th. We understand that there was an anxious meeting of the Tammany wire-pullers in the Surveyor’s office at the Custom House, yester- day, in reference to the platform of their Syra- cuse Convention, Mr. John Cochrane acting as prime minister on the occasion. There were present a goodly number of city soft shell dele- gates, and there were interspersed among them a fair sprinkling of the bone and sinew of the “rural districts.” Mr. Cochrane, still faithful o his promiee of the 4th of July, 1854, to “carry the President in his arms,” proposed, asa programme for the Tammany assemblage at Syracuse, the following schedule, to wit :— 1. A dead set at the Know Nothings, in good round set terms, as perfectly safe. 2. An unequivocal, double-breasted demo- cratic onslaught upon the new Liquor law, and all such despotic acts of class legislation. 3, A general endorsement, drawing it as mild as possible, but still some sort of approval of the administration, in consideration of its wise dispensation of the public plunder. 4, A judicious silence upon the Missouri compromise, the Kansas trowitdes, “the border ruffians,” the removal of Governor Reeder, and all those bothersome iseues which have sprang up with this new Northern nigger agitation. ar. Cochrane, with the Scarlet Letter in the bottom of his pocket, argued the policy of this schedule with his accustomed logical acuteness and classical skill, and in a tone half confident, and half dictatorial, asked his country brethren if they thought that wouldn’t do, and there was a very emphatic response that it wouldn’t. A delegate from the rural districts, having no immediate interest in the cotton trade, and none in the science of Custom House politics, very flatly said that the shirking of the nig- As for the ad- ministeation, the least said about it, perhaps, He might, however, gulp down the bombardment of Greytown; but Kansas, “the border ruffians’” and Governor Reeder ger question wouldn’t do. the better. were “fixed facts” which could not be dodged. And the soft shell country delegates would in- sist upon a showing of hands on these ques- tions; and upon a clean breast of it against the Kansas-Nebraska bill, the doing# of Achi- son and Stringfellow, and the “border ruf- fians,” and the removal of Reeder. In regard to Reeder there were country delegates who would prefer him as the democratic candidate for President to any man in the adminie- tration, or ang of its recipients or aspirante for the succession. “It was all folly to talk of silence on the Kansas question, when all the country is in a perfect blaze of indigna- tion. And so there was no agreement upon the soft shell Syracuse platform; and the dele- gates dispersed with gloomy forebodings of a precious row and an awful split in the soft convention of the 29th. The next meeting upon the platform, will probably be by gas light down in the Coal Hole. Will nobody send by telegraph to the Prince, in Virginia, to come post-haste to the relief of Mr. Cochrane? Tue Mexican Revowvution—Derats oF THE AFFAIR OF SaLtTILLo.—The news from the Rio Grande, published in another part of our pa- per, shows that, in spite of the attempts made to disguise the fact by the Dictator’s journals, the revolutionists are fast making head in the North. The defeat at Saltillo isa much more important one than we were first led to sup- pose—two-thirds of Santa Anna’s forces under Guitian and Cruz having been either killed, wounded or taken prisoners. The battle com- menced at about eight o’clock A. M., on the 22d, and lasted until 11 o'clock A. M., next day, when the Plaza fell into the possession of the insurgents, The remains of the government forces, consisting of about 200 infantry and about 250 of the Dragoons of the Guard and of “the Guides,” fled towards San Luis Potosi, but were hotly pursued by mounted riflemen, who succeeded in completely dispersing them and in capturing about $60,000 in specie, be- sides a large amount of stores and ammuni- tion. The moral effect of this victory will be dis- astrous to Santa Anna’s arms. It will rally round the standard of insurrection all those who are wavering and undecided. The fede ralists seem to have men of energy and capa- city at their head, whilst the Dictator’s minions betray all the weakness of purpose and vacil- lation which usually accompany the conscious ness of a bad cause. In such a state of things it is impossible that the struggle can be of long duration. The government forces, instead of being able to assume the offensive, are every- where driven within the protection of strong- holds; and too weak even to hold these against the valor and impetuosity of their enemies, there soon not be an adherent of the Dic- tator ieft in ihe whole of the Northern de- partments. As to Woll, his case seems hopeless, Shutup in Matamoros with a force of only 1,700 or 1,800 men, and rendered hateful to the sur- rounding population by the unnecessary harsh- ness of his measures, he cannot possible resist the overwhelming numbers with which Vi- daurri is advancing against him. Should he be taken, the nearest tree will probably end a career marked by but too many incidents of sanguinary brutality. Marine Affairs. Momsy on Boarp Tue Bric Anpy Traxren.—About 3 o’block on Paturday afternoon, the crew of the brig Abby ‘Thaxter mutinted and refused to go to ea in the vossel, ‘The captain immediately applied to the revenue cutter Washington for assistance. Lieut. Richard B. Locke re- ‘aired on board, with a crew of six men, and upon ask- Big the season of the ssutinsers far not Wolng tees Oat : they replied that the brig was full of vermin, and the forecastle in a dirty state, Lieut. Locke then examined the same, and found it to be perfectly clean. The men were then ordered to turn to, and upon refasing were put in irons. The crew of the cutter then got the under way, and accompapied her as far aa the narrows. Reorrrocrry 1m Venmont.—The records of the Custom House at Island Pond show very upon wee ere rec Dave paid duties to the amount of $13,000. The amount which they in fact paid was only one hundred dollars. More business is Houee than at establishment at Sherbrooke, doy with Inmber, and several pearly equal to that~— Windsor Journel, Aug. 17. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, News Items from Washington. ‘Wasurvaroy, Aug. 20, 1855, The United States Attorney General has decided that every applicant for a patent right has the right to with- draw his application and demand a restoration of two- thirds of the duty money at any time anterior to making oath anew and proceeding upon the ulterior stages of in- quiry, after an adverse report by the Commissioner, ‘The whole number of claims under the Bounty Land law of March, 1855, received at the Pension office up to to-day bas been 206,400, the number examined has been 41,800, and the number issued 20,236. All the heads of the executive departments are now here. Governor Reeder’s Return. Punapntpua, August 20, 1855. The friends of ex-Governor Reeder hold a meeting at Easton to-day to make arrangements for giving him a re- ception on his arrival there. He is not expected there for several days yet. Kentucky Election.. Geman, Aug. 20, 1865, The ofcial returns from 98 counties in Kentucky give Morehead, American, for Governor, a majority of 6,641. The five remaining counties gave Pierce about 300 ma- Jority, while it is now reported they give Clark, demo- crat, 2,000 majority. AntKnow Nothing Meeting at Milwaukie. Mniwavxiz, August 20, 1855. ‘A large democratic meeting was held here on Saturday evening for the purpose of sympathising with the suffer- ers of the late riot at Louisville. The Hon, A. J, Upham. presided. Resolutions reflecting upon the Know No- things were adopted. Good order prevailed throughout. Democratic Mecting at Easton, Pa. Easton, Pa., Aug. 20, 1855. The democrats of Northampton county held their regular meeting at the Court House, in this city, to-day, and the attendance was quite large. Hon. Richard Brodhead was the principal speaker. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the Know Nothings, and declaring that Governor Reeder had discharged bis duty in Kansas. nobly and manfully. ‘The Death of Abbott Lawrence. Bostoy, August 20, 1866. The merchants of Boston assembled in Faneuil Hall this forenoon, for the purpose of appropriately noticing the death of Hon. Abbott Lawrence. Wu. Sturges pre- sided, and speeches were made by Hon. J. Thomas Stevon- son, Robert C. Winthrop, Edward Everett, &. It was resolved to close the stores on the day of his funeral. Other public bodies have also held meetings upon the same subject. The Yellow Fever in Virginia. Barrmorr, August 20, 1855. Intelligence received via Petersburgh from Norfolk and Portsmouth, down to Sunday evening, represents that there is no decrease of the yellow fever in those cities. Twenty new cases had occurred at Portsmouth on Satur- day. r The collections in Baltimore for the sufferers now reach. $9,000. PurLaDELPMA, August 20; 1885. The committee in this city for making collections far the yellow fever sufferers, remitted another thousand dollars to Norfolk to-day, making thus far thirty-six hundred. Wasmcron, August 20, 1865. It is said that over one thousand dollars has been sub- scribed in the Washington Navy Yard for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers in Virginia, eer ieee, Yellow Fever at New Orleans. New ORLEANS, Aug. 20, 1855. The yellow fever is again rapidly increasing in thie city. The total number of deaths during the past woek was 517, including 304 from the fever. Relief for the Sufferers from Yellow Feves. Wasunicrox, August 20, 1855. A fund of about $1,000 has Leen raised here for therelief of the sufferers from the yellow fever at Norfolk and Porta- mouth. This morning five Sisters of Charity left hese for the infected districts, Resignation of Judge Ruggles. Atnany, Aug. 20, 1855. The resignation of Judge Ruggles, as one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals, is to take effect from and after October 20. It has been filed in the office of the Secretasy f State. —$<$<$____.. Destructive Fire at Lewiston, Maine. Boston, August 20, 1855. A destructive fire occurred at Lewiston Falls, Maine, on Friday last. Twenty-six dwellings were consumed, and the total loss is about $100,000. The fire commenced in the old tannery of Miller & Raa- dall, on the weet side of the river, destroying every build- ing on Main to Elm street, and on the opposite side of Main street, from Mr. Ingalls’ confectionery to Messrs. Gould & Co.'s building, comprising the greater portion ofthe business part of the village on the west side. Among the principal losers are D. 8. Sti dealer; T. Bailey, two stores and per ccvahased Dexter, and goods; Hall & Briggs, jewelry store; James Goff store and goods; R. Penley’s store and goods; Small & Littleficld’s bookstore; U. B. Reynolds? drug store; J. Dingley & Co., store and goods—losa about $10,000; Roak, Pickards & o., shoe manufactory—losa $15,000; 8. Woods, hat store; the ofice room of the Democratic Advocate; the counting room of the Auburn Bank; papers and valuables all saved. The insurance te but partial. Destruction of a Cotton Mill by Fire. Unica, August 20, 1855. The Kirkland cotton mill at Manchester, about ning miles from this city, was totally destroyed by fire yester- day morning. It was owned by E. S. Brayton, of Utica. ‘The loss is about $30,000, Insurance $20,000, Alleged Heavy Frauds. Boetoy, Aug. 20, 1885, Two traders of Lawrence, Massachusetts, named Row- land H. Macy and E. F. Cushman were brought to this city to-day, on ® charge of defrauding sundry merchants of this city of twenty-five thousand dollars worth of goods by false pretences. They were held to bail in five thousassd dollars each for examination. Marine Disaster. Bostox, Angust 20, 1855. The pilot boat Coquette, in coming up the harbor last night, was run into by the schooner Wyvern, bound out, and was badly damaged. Ne Ohio, javigation of the ~ Bins iki, The river is now six feet two fachey and al Freights are low--fve hundred tons ‘arrived from th eastward to-day. ‘Wheat is now carried forward very low. Movements of Southern Steamers. ARRIVAL OF THE AUGUSTA AT SAVANNAH. SAVANNAR, August 18, 1855. The steamship Augueta has arrived here after a pas sage of sixty-seven hours from New York. ARRIVAL OF THE SOUTHERNER AT CHARLESTON. Cuanustow, August 18, 1865. The United States mail steamship Routherner, Capta‘: ‘Thomas Ewen, arrived here at half’past one o'clock thi (Saturday) morning, from New York. ALBANY, August 20—12:30 P. M. Flour—Dull. Sales 300 bbls. new Ohio at $8 25 a $8 6 for common to choice. Wheat—Quiet and scarce. Sale 60 bushels white Ohio at $1 2, delivered; 1,200 bushe! ed do. on private terms; 400 bushels white Wisconsin « $1 70. Corm—Heavy and lower. Sales 90,000 bushels » Tée., closing with to sell at The. © 154ye. Onte—N tales, Receipta to-day:—Flour, 2,000 bbla.; wheat, 20, (60 bushels; corn, 42,000 bushels; oats, 20,000 bushel ALBANY, Aug. 2, 1855. Flour stendy. Sales 1,400 bole, Wheat—No rale Corn—fales 27,000 bushels Western mized at 83 isc. S4c. for damaged, and &bc. for sound, afloat. Receip’ by canal to-day 018 bbis. flour, 40,135 bushels corn. Connaciox.—The telegraphic despatch published in 0: morning edition yerterday, as toa firemen’s riot on % tarday evening, should have been dated Baltimore in«te: of Philadelphia, the occurrence having taken place fa t1 former city. equal temperament.) HORACE WATERS, 03 trom sy.