Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR £ND EDITOR, @PFFICB M. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND PULTON STS i iy WERAED, 2 cents Wi por annum. Ie WEEKLY HERALD, coer Satay od 6 ot per SY, or SES al Beltain, or $8 to amy part of the Continent, COA SWitce poaage. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ¥ TREATRE, Broadway—Ine Twarn-Fack ae DUMENT OF PANIS—SEI'WAECE ON THE INDIAN Coase SIBLO’S CARDEN, Broadway—Miss Pyxe—Cripeasina, WKRY THEATRE, Bowery—Smaxpy McGurke—[ersm Amouares AND VA SKES MODROTY—PsRate Suir, WETROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Kixve Heyer We. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanic's Hall, 472 Broadway. Now York, Wednesday, August 2%, 1855. Matis for Europe. MEW YORK HESALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘Hue Collins mail steamship Baltic, Capt. Comstock, will weave this port to-doy, at noon, for Liverpool, ‘The Enropea mails will close im this city at halt-past weo o'clock thie morning, ‘he Henin (printed in Engiish and French) willbe patlished at ten o’clock in the morning. Single copies, iw wrappere, sixpenci @udscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the yw York Hensiy will be recetved at the following places itm Bur ope — Jobn Funter, No. 12 Fxe Sandford & Uo., No. 17 Corn! m, Thomas & Co., No, 19 Catharine street S2s,,...,.Livingston, Wells & Co., @ Place de la Bourse, ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hrrauw wi erabrace the mews received by mail and telegraph at. tae office Guring the previous week, and to the bour of pottcation. street, Kast. karvenrco’ Lemme. ‘The New: Vhe steamship Pacific, which left Liverpool on whe 11th inst.,and the North Star, from Havre eame @ate, aro now in their eleventh day ont, and their avrival ig momentarily expected. They bring ono week's later news. Intelligence from California to the Ist inst. is also fully due. ni The whig primary elections were held yesterday morning, hetween the hours of six and eight, to elect delegates to State, city, county, Senatorial and Judiciary conventions, Asa general thing the ex- treme Hewardites elected their men, thongh the «eramble for city offices interfered with the tactics of thore who wished to give a party complexion to the final result. There was a good deal aid about fusion at the polis, not with the republicans, how- ever, but for the spoils, There was a little more than the usual amount of corruption at work, but tees fighting in all, cave the Fourteenth ward, where fhe elociion wax agreeably diversified by a rough and tumble, and the ballot box broken. We give tleewhere fall details of the election. We onderstand that the collections made by the Commitice of the Corn Exchange, for the sufferers from the yellow fever at Portsmouth and Nortolk, ave reached about $4,500. Phe case of Col. Kianey, being a charge of vio a- ting the neutrality laws, was brought up in the Dnited States District Court of Philadelphia, yester- @ay. Anaffidavit was read by George M. Dallas, Beq., teiting forth the Colonel's proceedings subse- quent to big arrest, and, expressing the belief that be would return and take his trial for the offence ebarged, whereupon the Court ordered that hia re- eognizances be forfeited and respited until the first day of February. An ingnest was held yesterday at Astoria, npon tho body of Dyer, the highwayman who, in concert with two other ruffians, attempted to rob a Swisa pedlar named Joseph Taylor, at Hunter's Point, on Sunday night. Taylor, it will be remembered, killed one of bia assailants and wounded the other two, one of whom is now under arrest. The jury fully justified Taylor's conduct in the matter. The vobbers are said tobe old residents of the Five Points. The citizens of Boston met in Fanenil Hall on Monday, in order to determine on a fitting testimo- uja) of their appreciation of the character and pub- lic services of the late Abbott Lawrence. The most profound sorrow was expressed for the loss which the public bas susteined by his death, and the speakers vied with each other in bearing testimony te his moral worth, commercial integrity, and libe- ality in the cauee of education. Hon. Edward Wvere:t made an eloquent and feeling address, which we publish. Mr. Lawrence's funeral will take place at noon to-day. We are in receipt of files of Rio Janciro papers to whe 24 July, bat they contain no news of importance relative to political affairs, or with regard to the difficulty between Brazi! an) | araguay. The letters «cf our correspondents, however, Wweat upon a number of interesting topics fipencer, the alleged murderer of Captain Wrazer, of the ship Sea Witch, and several of the exew of that vessel, had been examined, and would ve rent home for trial in the storeship Relief. The Coolie emigrants, it appears, do not easily become reconciled te their new homes and altered cireum- stances. It is related that seven out of ten of this ease of Jaborera, who had been takea by our plan- ters, dressed themselves in thely best clothes, and went out aud hanged themselves This is a melan- eboly commentary vpon that peculiar philanthropy which substitutes the Chinaman for the African, Detailed accounts of the loss of the brig W 5 and of the outhreak of the yellow fever ou board the British ship-of-war Spy, in the harbor of Bahia, may be found elvewhere, together with ana ate matement of the condition of the coffee market. President Pierce arrived at Staunton, Va., on Thursday last. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 700 bales in separate smell lots, the market closing at about the decline of je., previously noticed. Four was more active, while prices were without change of moment. Some purchases of common State were made for export. Good Southern ved wheat sold at $1 91 a $1 92, and white at $2 15. About 1,000 bushels of new white Gon- nesce wheat, the first of the season in this market, was sold by Jones & Fergureon at 2 30, Corn sold freely at Sc, a 87c., including parcels for export. Pork was firmer, with sales of all kinds of aboot 2.600 a 2,800 Dble, Other provisions continued firm. Groceries remained quite steady, There were engagements of beth grain and flour to Eng- tieh ports, at rates stated in another column. The following directions relative to the returns of appraisers, has been ieued by the Treasury De pertment:—" The appraisers, in every case, are re- quired (o make theis report or return of appraise- ment in writing, and to sign the same, not by the initials of. their namos, but in fall. The report or veturn i¢ to be written on the invoice, if practicable; if not, on a separate paper, to be permauently at- tached to the invoice. The retarn of the appraisers is to describe, in all cases, the character or class of the merchandise, at nearly as possible in the terms of the Wotiff, and state noder what schedule, in their opinion, it falle, for the information of the collector o nave) officer Prouwor Presi xt Se says uh ne of his or- gone He al ambition, and is reti will be @ivt » politi He g called \imorlean she I ted to by Qi ever su¥.”? try (tag ward, bebe The State Convention of the national or hard shel} democracy, to come off to-morrow at Syracuse, revives the interesting question of New York in connection with national poli- tics, and the probable strength of the various factions of the State. There are now in the field seven distinct parties, with several off- shoots, First come the hards, with buckler and shield; and a respectable set of men they are. They constitute the Christian sect of American politics, with their self-denial, their resolute refusal to associate with the imps and sinners of the administration and Tammany Hall and their ‘noble army of martyrs.” In truth, resting upon the constitution as the ark of their political covenant, they have ad- hered to that compact with all the faith of the Apostles of old to the religion of the new dis- pensation. When General Pierce turned against them, and became their Pilate—their betrayer and their oppressor—they stood firm, and were ever ready to offer up sacrifices in honor of their principles. They rejected his oftices with scorn, because they could hold them only by evil association and the corrup tion of good manners. The Dlood of the mar- tyrs, it seems, has been the seed of the church, The debit of the administration is the credit of the hards, As the former sinks, the latter Tise. These men come together to-morrow in State convention. They are first in the field, They open the campaign—lay down their principles, and present the men by whom they will be guided. They will utterly repudiate this ut- terly faithless administration. They will talk of Pierce and Marcy precisely as they are— do justice to the Washington Union and the Kitchen Cabinet. We confess toa little liking of the hards. They are resolute, firm, honest, and withal generous, They are the only sect that could ever withstand the temptation of the spoils, and that is the true secret of Marey’s hostility to them. They rejected the baits of the administration with disdain—they had cou- age to speak right out, when to speak was to saffer. They lave now their reward. They occupy the vantage ground, especially over their soft competitors, The latter are encumbered with the administration, and that is enough to sink any party; the hards have the credit of all Gen. Pierce’s blunders, and that is enough to enrich them. Time has worn ont the offices in the hands of the President, hence those who look to the loaves and fishes see as much that is valuable in the four years of a new adminiz- tration as in the one of the present. Besides, Pierce has now deceived pretty much every- body, and his followers are leaving him like rats from a sinking ship. This is all to the ac- tual credit of the hards, It is obvious, then, that they have before them an important busi- ness, They are the “light of the political world” just now, the nucleus around which the great national democracy must concentrate, and, it may be, of the administration of the government for four years after the present imbecility shall expire. The vote for Bronson and Seymour last fall was no criterion, in « national point of view, of the strength of the two rival factions of the democracy of this State. The former took too much time to consider the temperance quea- tion, and then cut it in two, somewhere about the centre; while Seymour met that humbug by a slap in the face, and a bold challenge to fight. The excitement upon the subject was intense. It rode down every other issue, and Wnt for the interposition of the Know Nothings, whose injunctions and oaths kept their men to their candidates, Seymour would have been elected by thirty thousand plurality. The question, however, was not between Seymour and Bronson, but between the fanatics who were pressing the Maine law, and the great mass of the business men and the well disposed and orderly people of New York. This is plain, because, on the Congressional and Legis- lative, vote the national democracy were deci- dedly stronger than the administration softs. On the election of United States Senator by the Legislature, Dickinson had more votes than the soft candidate, Seymour was supported for Governor notwithstanding his identification with the administration. That was his curse, and it was overlooked. The truth is, now that the softs, without drawing to themselves any sympathy from the other factions, are alterly borne down by the Custom Mouse, Pierce and Marcy. It is well to look into these things, be- cause, in the minute subdivision of our State politics, we are liable to lose all landmarks of rational caleulations, and to under or over- estimate the strength of factions. We have, for instance, the hards, the softs, the old whig, the Seward republican, the Know Nothing, the liqnor and anti-liquor parties, and perhaps others. Two of these are probably destined to | great disappoiutment—the republicans and the softs. The latter is a stench in the nostrils of { all fair men. It is enough that it carries the | administration. Jts convention will seek to ignore all the great questions which divide the country—to prostrate the democracy at the feet of the fanatics, and make them suppliants of alms, rather than soldiers of the true faith of the constitution. The national democracy are fairly glorified hy the treachery of their soft opponents. They must march up and seize the very horns of the altar—they must avow national principles— they must endorse Kansas—sustain popular sovereignty there—denonnce the Missouri compromise—all interventions with slavery, the administration of General Pierce and all connection and responsibility for its blunders and crimes. The effect of such a movement will be, in view of the non-committal policy of the softs, to unite the great Northern, Southern and Western democracy, and ultimately, in the eli- mination of the American movement, when its religious proseriptions and secret rituals hall have been removed—when they shall see that o be an American is to live here, understand our institutions, abide by the laws and consti- (ution, and wholly to disregard the mere place ) of birth to bring the national Know Nothings into their s as a homogenous element of yb Thus will be formed a great | National party, resting upon the compact of } union as its by and pledged to the support ovly of such men and measures as will sub- rerve the common interests of the whole peo- ple. Ieis quite immaterial what course the admi- nistration softs may take. They will do inst } what they th Will promote thelr Interests, | They threaten to nominate the whole hard | ticket, and thus, by.a kind of « wp de main, to ‘ vhvow the national democracy into dlegrage. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, Té becomes the latter, ‘to be positive and distinct in the enunciation of its princi- ples and of its views of the administration. Tas Wura Pamary Execrions—Fosion wit Tux Kxow Normmos.—We give to-day the result of the whig primary elections for the several conventions shortly tobe held in thie State, city, andcounty. Weexpectthat there will be some curious demonstrations at the striped State Convention of thie party, and that what- ever may be the result of the general election, 4 vigorous attempt will be made to secure the city and county spoils for the fused whigs and Know Nothings, overlooking all important political questions, and going in for the six- pences only. The call for the election of yesterday is rather vague; first we are told that the whiga till adhere to the old silver grey principles, and next that they are earnest for the resto- ation of the Missouri compromise. We do not exactly understand this, unless the Gene- ral Committee desire to tell out the party in the city to the fusionists, and to blind the eyes of the victims while the operation Is being performed. We learn, however, that the gene- ral issues did not enter into this election, and that if any advantage was gained at the polls, it was by holding the meetings between six and eight o’clock in the morning. The old fogy whigs were all asleep, and Yourg America had everything its own way. In consequence of this fact the elections went in favor of a partial fusion with the American party—decidedly the party for young men, as far as nominations go—and it is probable that the whigs and Know Nothings will nomi- nate pretty nearly the same ticket; so that the next election in the city will be a struggle between Tammany and the Know Nothing». Go in, gentlemen! Get ready for a good fight. The spoils are worth trying for! Tue Hanvest—Iurontant Ivrormarioy.— We see that a sale of new flour was made in Albany, a few days since, at $13 per barrel, and there still appears to be an insane desire on the part of the bulls to keep up present prices. It cannot last much longer, however. We have received the following statement from a gen- tleman who returned yesterday from an ex- tended tour in the Northern wheat growing country :— TO THE EDITOR OF THR HFRALD. I returned yesterday from an exploring tour in the heat growing districts of New York, Pennsylvania, Northern afta Central Ohfo, Northern Inilana, Northorn Tinos, and the whole of Michigan. Fmployed by somo of the most extensive grain and four dealers to examine and report facts as Tfound them, I have passed length- wire through Michigan on two different routes, crossed through the centre of tie State at right angles visited the extreme north, on Take Huron, si ping ‘af all the large market towns from five to ten hours, {aquiring ef produce dealers, merchant and farmers, Into such parte of the country 24] conld not go by railroad, 1 went with horee and wagon, Northern Indiana, Mlinois, Northern and Central Ohio and Central Pennsyl- yania were equally well examined. The wheat crop ts the largest. by more than 100 per cent, ever grown, and in no county will the damage from grown wheat exceed 10 per cent, The rains felf in the two last w but some very good weather in the last improved to secure # part of the o > August the weather bas been as good a sized. The corn now standing covers mare breadth of ground than Lever saw, and, with some exceptions, uniformly good, although somewhat later than usual. The oat crap js tremendous, and well secured. Potatoes cover an im- mense breadth of ground, and ihe yield, so far as tested, is large, and free trom any indications of rot. Hay and grass good everywhere, Farmers are yet engaged in sowing fall wheat and other farm work; but will soon rush their wheat to the market towns and millers. The price of wheat varied, according to circumstances, from $1 to $1 08. Walter Chestor, of Detroit, purchased on Thursday last for $111. 1 am permitted by my employers to make this state- ment. New York, August 21, 1856. Now this is a most cheering state of things, Our correspondent has evidently made carnest inquiries, and gives us the result very suc- cinctly. We recommend his letter to the care- ful consideration of both bulls and bears, pro- ducers, sellers and consumers. Waar 1s 10 ue Gaivep By Ir?—The Western papers, tired of endeavoring to settle the im- portant question, “ Who began it?” in rela- tion to the Louisville riots, have commenced pitching into each other personally. Accord- ing to the Louisville Journal, the editor of the St. Louis Democrat is Colonel Benton’s “cur, his mastiff, his hound, his spaniel, his bull-dog, his wolf, his tiger, his hog, his ass, iis hyena, fond- ling, whining, growling, barking, biting, scratching, grunting, howling, kicking and digging up dead bodies, according to the suc- cessive orders of bis relentless master. He isa whole menagerie of little and great beasts, and Col. Benton is the Van Amburgh.” The canine editor talks back, and calls the Journal man, “this less than man and more than monster,” and favors him with other choice ex- pressions. Again, he is called a “vile, de- banched and bratal poltroon,” “a gory but cher,” “a miserable craven,” “a monster,” “a depraved creature,” and he is comforted with the assurance that the worst torments of hell are too good for him. We commend these elegant extracts from Western newspaper lite- rature to the attention of the Westiniaster Re- view; and, at the same time, call upon these naughty little boys to be a little more polite to each other. They are entrenching on the reserved rights of the New York vihuac. “Sfow pleasant and how sweet it i &e. GeneraL Quirvan ty A New Rone. —We see that the valiant General Quitman, erstwhile the distinguished Mexican campaigner, and more recently the standard-bearer of Cuban re- volution, has resolved to appear in a new role, He is a candidate as member from Mississippi to the next House of Representatives. But for his having withdrawn himself from the cause of the Junta, he might have ambitioned to be one day Governor of the State of Cuba, or at least to represent that gem of the Antilles in the Senate of the United States, But all his hopes n that line are, we conceive, knocked into a cocked hat, or will he, so s00n as Wee receive that exposé which the Caban Junta promise to give of the causes which induced his with- drawal from their movement. As it is, how- ever, we do not see why the gallant General hould not werthily represent his State in the federal Congress, he haying probably by this ime recognized that, Peace hath its victories No less renowned than wer Soveruine ror Joux Cocnraxu.—One of the up-country papers says that the hards in thess settlements would rather “steal sheep” than fase with the softs, Good gracious! what an awful state of things! The Custom Honee committee may as well postpone that excursion to Syracuse until next week. The hards won't listen to them, according to the rural papors, Axovwen Movurner.—Senator Benjamin, of | Louisiana, has come out with an obi tice for the whig party ia the South. nator cannot fase with the Know N and, like Mr. Webster, b where to go. His ide ern party exploded Jor g This body hae -been in session for several days, at Providence. Its proceedings have been peculiarly interesting. The attendance has been better than of late years, and the spirit of the members has been more active and conse- quently more useful. We notice with great Satisfaction a tendgnoy among the more dis tinguished savents to allow no theory to pas? without a searching inquiry into its merits, and, if need be, a thorough exposure of its fallacies. This ig as it should be, The old system, when learned men dragged each other by the beard because they belonged to rival sehools of philosophy, was undoubtedly bad; but the new plan, according to which polite- ness bars the way for inquiry, and tenderness of feeling strikes criticiam dumb, is still more injurious to the best interests of setence. Philosophers must find a mean between the two—a course which shall conciliate the ut- most independence of opinion and rebellion against error with euch outward civility as AUGUST 22, 1855. . ‘anexplored by fossilologists. But he inquired #0 minutely into every subject discus sed by the convention, and shed so much light oneach by a few pertinent critical remarks, that he ought to belong to all the committees. Of Professor Heuzy, who threw out a few practical suggestions respecting heat—showing that fire-brick radiates a higher degree of heat than fire itself—~and read a paper on building materials, fall of useful hinte for architects and builders, we have no room to say what we would. Such men vindicate the claims of sei- ence to be considered the highest pursuit in life. Nor should we pass over in silence the extremely interesting paper read by Professor Bache on the earthquake of the 23d December 1854, which overthrew the city of Simoda, in Japan, and wrecked the Russian ship Diana. He says among other things that the waves caused by the submarine convulsion travelled the Pacitic ocean in the course of the day. In twelve hours thirty-eight minutes, they crossed from Simoda, in Japan, to San Diego, California, a distance of 5,400 miles, being at the rate of seven miles shall soothe the feelings of the criticised--if they desire to lay us under obligation, Astronomy, as usual, has been the favorite topic of discussion, Nor is it a matter of wonder that the more popular and least cer- tain branches of the science have heen those which have attracted most attention. Per- haps the most successful paper of this kind was Professor Loomis’ essay on the plancts, and their capacity for sustaining life. Are the planets inhabited? is a question as old as Confucius and Zoroaster at the least. We regret to say that Professor Loomis has not added as much as we might have hoped from his eminence to our knowledge on this inte- resting subject. His ground is that the tempe- rature of the planets precludes their being the residence of any forms of vegetable or ani- mal life with which we are acquainted. For instance, he tells us that the mean temperature of Jupiter and the larger planets at the equa- tor—which is the warmest part of their cir- cumference—is eighty degrees Fahrenheit be- low zero, or considerably colder than the cold- est weather experienced in the polar latitudes of our planet. On the other hand, as most of our readers are aware, the temperature of the planet Mars is almost that of liquid iron; and Venus at the equator is as hot as boiling wa- ter, Hence, says Professor Loomis, a¢ neither animal nor vegetable life can be sustained under acold of 80 degreca helow, or 500 degrees above, or even 212 degrees above, it may sale: ly be inferred that the greater planets—that is to say, all those outside the earth in the solar system—on the one hand, and the whole of Mars and the equatorial regions of Venus on the inside, are destitute of living creatures, In the polar regions of Venus according to the Professor, 2 mean temperature of 52 degrees above prevails—which is perhaps not far from the mean temperature of the city where the association is now sitting: there, consequently, Professor Loomis fs ready to believe that ano- ther world is actively discharging sublimar functions, But this is the only exception to the rule. As for the moon, he adheres to the old theory of the absence of air and ‘water there; and when Messrs. Gould and Winlock ventured to question their observations regard- ing the penumbra they had seen in the moon, they were incontinently snubbed. Still, for all the learning displayed by the Professor, it is impossible not té agree with those more daring speculators who, reasoning from the hypothesis that it is not probable that this one little planet of ours is the only one in the system inhabited, prefer to suppose that the denizens of Jupiter and Saturn are framed to bask in a temperature where the mercury congeals, while the tenants of Mercury would shiver to death in a kettle of boiling water, than to imagine that they were created for no other purpose than an enjoyment. Even the rings of Saturn, which Professor Loomis be- lieves consist of alcohol, must have their occu- pants, or the universe would cease to prove the unvarying wisdom of its Creator. We are forbidden by want of space to de more than mention the fact that other astro- nomers likewise contributed the fruit of their researches, Mr. Mitchell, whose works on the subject are the most poetical in existence, treated the association to some desperately tough figures on parallax, Mr. Peters of D:a- mark was ingenious and learned on the spots on the sun; his description of their rise, pro- gress, decline and ultimate disruption was al- most dramatic; we found ourselves sympathiz- ing warmly over the unhappy fate of the “poor spot” cut off in its prime. Take, says Mr. Peters, a tub of water; pour oil on the sar- face; then through a tube which reaches to the bottom of the tub, blew bubbles of air: the consequence will be that the water will force itself through the oi} in spots, which in course of time will obey the laws of gravity and redescend through the oil. This is the history of the spots on the sum. The of) and water are its two atmospheres: the air tube is the volcanoes in incessant eruption, Geology was represented by Professor Dana, whose lecture was worthy of the association and of the name he bears, We have discover- ed Int few new parts in this performance, though the manner in which they are presonted is novel and striking. Mr. Dana’s classifica- tion of strata is a slight improvement on Lycll's, and is continued 60 a8 to make allow- ance for the recent discoveries of Miller, Vivi- an, Abrabam, and others. He divides the known strata into seven classes, Ist, the Azoie or lifelessstrata, 2d, the Mollusc, where fossils of Mollusscs are found, 34, the Fishes, 4th, the Acrogens, or the old carboniferous strata, Sth, the Reptiles. th, the Mammals. 7th, Man, or the present surface of the globe. When we compare this beautiful classification with the stupid and senseless ones of the last century, we cannot help feeling that we are only at the threshold of science. Mr, Wolcott Gibbs contributed a highly useful paper on “organic chemistry,” or the system of organizing substances in a chemical point of view. This is one of those papers which do not catch the public eye. It is cnything but light reading, and bristles with symbols ant algebraic signs. But it must be yomembered that these tough letters and figures | are the bone and muscle of the ecience; and | in all probability Mr, Woleott Gibbs’ contribu- | tien to the records of the association was onv of the moet useful it received. | Professor Agassiz is of course on hand as ¢ | et Camp Dapow' per minute, The transactions of this body are worthy of the responsible name they bear, and will com- pare favorably with those of any scientific body in Europe. Tre Hersto Sure News.—The Journal of Commerce, of yesterday, has the subjoined an- nouncement ;-— OUR MARNE DePARTMENT.—Our commercial readers will bow ms to learn that we have placed this important de- ment of the Journal of Commerce under the charge of ir, William Barton, who for the last five years has occu- pied the same position in the New York arp. The ex- cellence of the marine department of that paper, under his supervision, iv weil known to our readers, All this ie very true, discreditable as the announcement is to the proprietors of the Journal, Merchants and shippers have always considered our marine department the most reli- able of any in the United States. It is also true that the Heraxp had this reputation for years before Mr. Barton was attached to the office; and the chip news department is now in the very able hands of the gentleman who preceded Mr. Barton as ite euperintendent. Other departments of the Journel of Commerce need revision very much, and there are several gvaduates of the Henarp Newsrarer Coutecn yeady to aid in giving the readers of that jour- nal @ decent paper. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, EWS Kentacky Election. Loosen, Aug. 21, 1855. Yuk returns of ony State lection shows the election of six Know Nethings and four anti» to Congress. The n Kuow Nothings and se- om, and the House of Representatives of 61 8 to 3@ opposition. Morehead’s (K. N.) majority for Governor fe ahout 4,000, Texas Election. New Ourpaxe, Aug. 21, 1855. Later dates fom Texas show tbat Pease, democrat, is elected Governor by # majority of severat thousand. The whole democratic Swte ticket ie chosen, Ward, democrat, is elected to Congrese from the Eastern dis- iiet. Delegate to the Hard Shell Convention. Varatia, Aug. 21, 1855, Fawin Hoes, of Valatia, was this day chosen delegate to the National Democratic State Convention for the Northern district of jormbia county. American Meeting at Easton, Pa. Eastoy, Pa., August 21, 1855, The ‘American Repablicans” held their county meet- ing here this afternoon, It was largely attended, and quite enthusiastic intone. The resolutions passed re- aflirm the leading doctrines of the Philadelphie platform, but strongly denounce the repeal of the Missouri com- promise as a gross and wicked violation of a solemn na- tional compact. Nothing was said in regard to Gov. Reeder or the national administration. Mascachusctts Politics. Bostoy, August 21, 1855. ‘The official call for a Liberal Union Convention at Wor- center, August 30, is signed by the State Committee of twenty-four persons, including Bradford 1. Wales, a for- mer hunker democratic candidate for Governor; Isaac H. Wright, late Navy Agent, and formerly a distinguish- ed democrat; and others, formerly whiga and democrats. They say: “We are determined to resist fanatical legisla- tion in every form to the last extremity, and to substi- tute for the present demoralizing liquor enactment a just and practicable license law. We are willing, therefore, to forego our connection with every other political party, for the time being, to wage a war of extermination with this and every kindred enactment.” They give as their reason for not joining other parties, in substance, that they cannot trust them—that they have lent themselves to the faction which passed the law. News from Kansas. St. Louis, Auguat 21, 1855. Rumors are current that Judge Elmore, of Kansas, tn- tends resisting the government in the matter of his re- moval, He says President Perce has no right to remove him, because he cannot interfere with the judiciary. ‘The Territory was eaffering from heavy rains. Bridge= had been swept away, and the streams rendered unforda- vie. ‘The Legislature had done nothing of importance. One hundred persons had ‘lied of cholera at Fort Riley, up to the lntest datos. ‘The Yellow Fever in Virginia, Bartvore, Augast 21, 1855. In Norfolk there were twenty-five deaths feom yellow fever during the forty-eight hours ending at two o'clock on Monday, and at Portsmouth during the same period the number of deaths was (wenty-four, ‘The Howard Association vent an order here this morn- ing fora large quantity of provisions, mattrosse:, &c., and they will be sent down by boat this evening. The authorities of Portsmouth sent a request here to- day for medical aid. They state that the fover is still on the increa: ‘The collections (or the uth this ofty. ow reach $10,500 in Relief for the Norfolk Safferers. Bostos, August 21, 1855, ‘The mechanics at the Charlestown Navy Yard held a meeting yesterday, which was called to order by Com. Gregory, and voted to give one day's pay to the sulfering mechanics at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The amount thus obtained i¢ about $1,600. | Death of Ex-Governor Metealf, of Kentacky. Civersnats, Aug. 21, 1856, Ix.Governor Metealf, of Kentucky, died of cholera on sturday last, at his residence, Forest Retreat, j Destructive Fire at Cleveland, CORVELAND, Augruat 21, 1856, A life ocourred in this city last night, consuming the rug store of Gaylord & Co., and damaging the edjotaing stores of Mr, Loeb, clothier, and Mr. Mould, confectioner. Messrs, @ lovs {+ estimated at $35,000; in sured as 000; Hartford Company, $5,000; Atlantic, $3,000; London and Liver. pool, $10,000; Commonwealth, $2,000; Lorillard, $3,000. The losaes of the others are sinall, and believed to be covered hy insuranes Death of a Veteran Officer, Prncapmivata, Angust 21, 1856, “ho way commandant of a company ig the war of 1892, died this morn- Cloment © Biddle ng, eed eixty-iv visual, ag aative, & searching, as overflowlag with learning as ever, His great paper, up to ibis hour, has been @ discourse on zoology, al- ways bia favorite & oht to light «onie very « "1. ology of Tinote Poston Weekly Bank Statement. Capital «tock Leate and © pects tn by . Amanat dus frow banks A Jue to bambe ——s The Caso of Passmore Williamson. Pumaperrma, August 21, 18). The decision of the Supreme. Court in Passmore Wil- Vewson’s case, will probably be announced in a fw days. ‘The case wae argued om the last day of the session at Bedford. The judges desired to examine the cuchorities quoted in the arguments, before deciding. Thi was im- possible at Bedford. There will be no unnceessi-y Aela y iu announcing the result of the application. ‘Tho Bucks County Agricultural Exidbition. PuiLapEvPHa, August 21, 1856. The Bucks County (Pa.) Agricultural Exbil!ien com- menced at Doylestown to-day. Twenty thovsend poople were on the grounds. There isa very fino d'eplay of implements and cattle, and the Mechanics! Hall is crowded with specimens of manufuetares from New York, Vhiladelphia, and other cities. Horace Greeley delivered an address on the subject of industrial progress, a6 ex~ emplified in the London, New York and Paris exiibitions. He was wuch applauded. There was @ beautiful display «f blooded horses on the race course, The citiveas have brown open their houses for the accommodation of strangers. Telegxyaph Company Closed by Injunction. Boston, August 22, 1855. The opposition telegraph line to Cape Cod, which has been partially built by Messrs. Brewer & Baldwin, under a pretended grant from F. 0. J. Smith t use the Moree patent, has been closed by order of the Court. The authorized line from Boston to Provincetown, Holmes’ Hole and Nantucket, is progressing as rapidly 29 possi- vie, and will be completed this season, The Presidency of Brown University. PRovipEsce, August 21, 21855. ‘the Rev. Dr. Sears was this morning univimously elected President of Brown University. Lehigh Railroad Extension. Maven Cuunx, Pa , Ang. 21, 1855. ‘The Lehigh Valley Railroad was opened to-day to the Gap. A large party of citizens proceeded on an excur- tion over the line, and numerous complimentary epeoch- es were exchanged. Fire at Bristol, Pa, Bristos, Pa., August 21, 1855. Whartou’s large stable at this place was destroyed by fire this morning, together with fifteen horses and mules. Death from Shooting. Baurmors, Augutt 22, 1855. one of the parties shot in the late firemen’s riot city, died to-day, Arrival of the Alabama at Savannah, dic. } SAvannan, August 21, 1855. The steamer Alabama has arrived here after a passage of sixty hours from New York. ‘The eteamer Augusta will be detained here until Thurs- @ay noon. in th Markets. New Onreans, Augnst 20, 1805. Cotton unchanged. Sales to-day 1,000 bales. ‘The re- eeipte of the new crop to this date foot up 4. bales. Freights—Cotton, to Havre Lge, Flour a higher ; ales at $7.50, Corn T5c. a 80c. in side#, 10%4¢. Burraro, August 21— P.M. Your in gcod demand and a shade easier; sales 900 bis, at $8 for good new Ohio; $8 25 for choice Indiana; $8 60 for extra new Illinois and Ohio, and $9 for favorite parcels of old wheat. Wheat—Prices unchanged, with a good milling inquiry; sales 4,500 bushels now red Illinois At $1 83; 2,000 bushels mixed Obio on private tems, anc 400 bushels white Wisconsin at $185, Co:m—Without material change; sales 22.000 bushels at 70c. Oats nomi- nally 41c tor new. Canal freights unchangec. Lake im porte yesterday:-—Flour, 1,079 bbls; wheat, 5,306 bushels: corn, 34,580 bushels, Cunal exports same ti Flour, Yo bUie.) wheat, 1,807 bushels; corn, 2,300 Uushels; oats, 9,600 bubbe] BUFFALO, Aug. 21—6:30 P.M. There has beoma good inquiry for four to-day, holders submitting toa concession. There is scarcety ‘any old four in the inarket, and there ix none included in the sales, Sales 1,600 bbls. at $8 a $8 50 for good to very: choice Ohio, and $8 94 for do. Michigan and Indtana- Wheat in request for milling. Sales in lote of 12,600 bush., at $1 €0 for red Ohio; $1 4 for oll Upper Lake spring; $183 for new red Minois winter: $185 for old white win- ter Wisconsin, and #1 (0 for new do. and Canadian. Corn teas and without iwateria) change in price, Salew 35,000 bushels, at 7éc., both affout and from store. Onte in {air request. Sales 10,000 bushels, at 46c. Canad freight«—Qe. for corn to Albany, and Lic. to New York. Lake imports for the last twenty-four boars—Flour, ;804 Dbis.; wheat, 1,720 bushels; corn, 97,188 bushels: (ate, 1,490 bushels, | Cans? exports same’ time—Flour, 106 bbis.; wheat, 7,057 bushels; corn, 47,700 bushels: ate, 15,600 boshelt, Acaany, Aug. 216.90 P. M, There ie lesa doing in flour, but prices heve nde: no change. No salse.,O0ca, Set Ao action. fales of 16,000 bushels of Western mixed wt 84i<c.; heated, 85¢. a 860. for sound, closing at 86c. Ryo in the rtrect down to $102, Oats, 56c. 4 66%cc., weight, for Shicaro. Receipta by canal to-day:—1,360 bbls. four, 91,640 bushels corn. Our Washington Correspondence. Wasmctoy, August 21, 1855. Thon. Mr. Perkins of Louisiana—What con t& Done for Him—The Postmaster General at Home—Prise of Fuct to be Raducedd—Lonaconing Coal Company, hex, &e. The Hon. Mr. Perkins, of Louisians, arrived in thix city yesterday, and took lodgings at Willard’s. This means something more than merely stopping at thix popular establishment, As understood among politicians, when a certain class of individuals arrive bere, an! stop at ‘Willard’s,”’ the nogrest hotel to the President's man- sion, there is something in the wind. Mr, Perkins, it will be vecollected, identified himself with that rare production, called ihe Diplomatic bill of the last Congress—a bill which required 300 pages from the pen of Caleb Cushing to explain and interpret. Yesterday he paid court to Secretary Marcy, but the old Premier had had enough of Mr. I’. while trying to unra- vel the mystifications of his celebrated bill, I is ramor- ed the Secretary of State gave Mr. %. the cold shoulder, which aroused considerably his Southern vieod, and caused him to “let the cat out of the bag.” Jt waa no go. In the words of Bir. Collamer to the little French man, ‘there was no place for bim.”” The Postmaster General has returned heme in flue health, and finds his establishment all newly painted, pa- pered and furnished ready for the winter campaign of solrees, routs and balls, Mr. Campbell is one of the la- Dorions men under the nimiatstration, and «pends few idle houre, His enstom is to return to bis offiee every afternoon, and labor for several houre. No man enter- tains more handsomely thaa he daring the winter month-, we the tT, 2 — more grace rs jt is anticipa at previo exorbitant hi ices of fuel will be comsidersbly reduced iy one “he juring the approaching fail and winter season, Not only have the old coal companies extended thi Lites for furnishing iner supplies, but mew compe- titfon will have entered the marke t, which mut neges- sarily tend to reduce the price of coal here, The Lo- naconing Coal and Transyorta ion Company wil! be ready y the first of October to furnish, at their wharves in Georgetown, any quantity of that justly celebrated George's freck coal, at they conte per ton'less than the samo article can be furnished in Baltimore. This com- Fany, lately organized in thle eliy, and eleted Alexan- der Ray, Faq, «gentleman ‘Sing eminent abilitfe: for the position, President of the company. The capita stock of the company is one million of dollare, divided into ten thousand shares of oar hundred dobar’ each— the corporation to exist for Gfty years. The company own four thousand nine hundred and t acres of land, covering a aa ortion of the ‘ big vein” of coal ve rhea : “kk, : pene D. — be emi- mt geologist, remarks ‘Most of Vin Ge 1 Creek Valley, in Maryland, tune: the very highest renk in the whole list of American coals now in use, for purity, ge cor crepe gear 0? in the matter of wood, too, the price.m: to living rates. Severs) large ienaheldere’ fa'Vicginte and Maryland have contracted to furnish cxversl Gane. fand cords of wood each, at prices averaging 25 per cent less than those of last w » So T conclude t the poor of our various clties any cafely caloulate upon « considerable reduction in the prices of fuel. The weather is remarkabiy ool for the season, Ly aneernantititetnaciinisibaniatienteds Tar Prescot TATE. M. AsTHONY's BRYRPit.—To-mor- owevening the Frencl company at Wailack’s will give the lart performance of the saxon, for the benefit of M. Anthony, the director. ‘Tiree pleasant vaudevilles are announced, a balla divertisement, and an exhibition, “Les Quartre Globes,” by the Siegrist brotherr. Mile Zoe and M. Patre will appear, M, Anthony hae worked hard to inculeate a taste for the French stage, a+ am vant courier for Rachel, axd Le ought to have a good house, a enmeitis Nmto’s Ganoex,—The attractions nightly precented by this house secure it overflowing audiences. Between “Cimierella,’” the most poputay opera of the whole range of the lyrical drama, amd the drolleries of Burton, the most popular comedian of lils day, the public mag felici tounly alternate notween tro of the Itgheet intelectual enjoyment: that the stage can offer. We perceive that Mr. Burton is shout to close hk performances he i . Mis benefit is announced for Thursilay night, ond wil,we have no doubt, attract an immense throng of his admirers, tp ts on eveh asions that the popularity of ay actor ix iging by thelr ueval revolts, Barton | Iways aeons Weare glad to find that 6 ceses nO chan well eatddetes the absence « or interrnyt Dishment, Everyibing seome >We managed with ibe sume regularity, promptitade and onder that have for many yeiry marke! ite 2) rent os: