The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25. 1855. NEW YORK HERALD. |™ JAMES GORDON BENNETT; PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, OPvier N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STs a “ADVERTISEMENTS renewed ceery day. Woke XM....... ees ese ee ceeee eres NOs 93S AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—JcpcMEst or Panis =e ENTERTAINMENT—WRESTLERS—GREEN MONSTER— WIBLO’S GARDEN, Brosdway Mr. Bortor—Drar 48 A Vowr—Mun. Burtonis ADVENTURES IN RvssiaA—WANDERING Mavernez. sROwEEY THEATRE, Bowery—Inwa Liox—Inusu Kxow METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Rir Van Wix- ma—Tae Kenrockuy, ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broadway. New York, Saturday, August 25, 1855. The News. ‘We publish to-day a full report of the first day's proceedings of the State convention of the national @emocracy, furnished by our special reporter, and likewise a report by telegraph of the closing pro- @eedings yesterday. A list of the names of the de Jegates present, of whom there were one hundred and nineteen, out of one hundred and twenty-eight elected, is also given. The following is the ticket Sor State officers nominated by the convention:— Secretary of State, Aaron Ward. Comptroller; . B. Mitchell. ‘Treasurer, J. M. Lyons. @enal Commissione: . Frederick Follett. Stato Prison Inspector - Darius Clark, Attorney-General osiah Sutherland. State Engineer .George Cole. ) Long term, §. 8. Selden. * jShortterm, John Willard, Greene C. Bronson, Charles O’Conor, Samuel Beardsley, and George W. Clinton were chosen as delegates at large to represent the bard shel! demo- @racy in the National Convention. General Cass has published a leiter in a Detroit paper, defining fully and clearly his views upon Know Nothingixm and the power of Congress over the Territories. He has no sympnthy with the Know Nothing organization, none whatever: neither with the means it employs, nor the object it seeks to attain. ‘The steamship Norih Star, which Ieft South- Smpton onthe 11th instant, arrived at this port early yesterday morning with one day’s later news from Europe. It was reported that the allied fleets had commenced to bombard Sweaborg on the eyen- img of the 7th instant. By way of Vienna we hear of increased activity on the part of the allies in the Crimea. Large reinforcements of men, guus, ortars and gunboats, had left France. In Asia Minor the Russians were preparing to Jay down their first parallel lines for the siege of Kars. It was said that England and France had notified the Austrian Minister that they would not renew peace negotiations on'any terms, but trust the shaping of future events to the chances of war. Pius the Ninth had issued allocutions on the po- sition of the Catholic church in Sardinia, Spain and Switzerland, and in each case he censures se- verely the conduct of the secular governments with regard to church property bills, marriage laws and general interference with the clergy. Earl Grey had made a most important, speech in the British House of Lords in which he &eprecated the Turkish loan bill in all its provisions and warn- ed the peers of ulterior complications with France em account of England endorsing the solvency of such a corrupt, effete and tottering government as that of Turkey. It could not exist, he said, as a kingdom for forty years. In his opinion the war was demoralizing the people of Great Britain, and its consequent taxation would force the people to emigrate and thus aid a commercial rival beyond the Atlantic. The letter of our Curacoa correspondent, pub- lished on the eighth page of to-day’s paper, gives Aome account of the diftigulties between the United Btates Consul at that port and the Colonial authgri- fies, The revelations are important, and will no doubt attract general attention. Our correspondent at Rio Janeiro, writing on the Gth July, states that the ‘glorious Fourth” was cele- brated with great éc/at both by American officials, private individuals, and many native Brazilians. Shares in the railway undertaking were ata pre- mium. Great disappointment was felt by many at the mode of their distribution. The Supreme Court of the Second Judicial dis- trict has rendered a decision in the celebrated lager bier case, tried some time since at Poughkeepsie, in which the defendant was convicted by the County Court of violating the Prohibitory Liquor law. The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Court below, and ordered the discharge from arrest of the @efendant. The decision places lager bier in the list ef non-prohibited beverages. The particulars of the murder of a man named Henry Bloomer, bya P: an named Robert Balius, in Elm street, near Canal, carly yesterday morning, are given in another column. ‘The prisoner did not deny the charge, but frankly asserted that he had rid the world of a villain. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday were confined toa few hundred bales without change in prices. There were no large lots pressing upon the market, and heavy holders were indisposed to accept rates under 11 cents for middling aplands. Flour was unchanged with a fair amount of sales, Southern fair to good red wheat sold at $1 88a $1 90, and white ranged from $2 a #2 10 asked. Corn was firmer, with lesa doing, and closed at 91 — 914 cents. The market for pork continued to be ex- cited and the aggregate sales reached about 5,000 barrels, including new mess at $21 75 a $21 87; 500 do. deliverable in thirty days, buyers’ option, ¢: and about 2,000 barrels were sold, deliverable all this year, sellers’ option, at $20, and brokeragagjéu- gars were firmer, with sales of about 900 hhds. Coffee was active and firmer, with sales of 6,000 bage Rio at terms stated in another column. There ‘was more doing in freights for Livempool and Lon- don at rather stiffer rates. The following routes for the transportation of merchandise in bond, from one port of entry to another port of entry, or delivery, have been author- ized by the Treasury Department: From the ports of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Raltimore, to Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Lonis, Nashville, Natchez, Evansville, New Al- bany, Burlington, *(Vermont,) Sackett’s Harbor, Rochester, Oswego, Lewiston, Buffalo, Ogdensburg, Plattsbarg, CapejVincent, Erie, Toledo, Sandusky, Cleveland, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Chicago, and Milwaukie, by canal, railroad, river, or lake, wholly or in part, a8 the party may select in hisentry. Also, from @ port or ports on the Atlantic to any other port on the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, or the Pacific, or vice versa, by such route and conveyance as the party in his entry may select. Also, from the port of New Orleans to any port of entry or delivery on the Mississippi and its tributaries, and by such con- veyance and route as the party selects in his entry. ‘Also, from the ports of Charleston and Savannah to the ports of Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis, by such conveyance and route as may be designated on the entry. Whatever mode of transportation may be adopted, whether by land or water, or partly by Jand and partly by water, the route is required to be ot forth and particularly dewcribed im the gutry. Jndges of Court of Appeals. National Party. The national democracy, at Syracuse, whose resolutions and address we published yester- day, have taken the bull by the horns, and ex- ecuted the trust reposed in them with a fidelity and honesty worthy of the days of Jefferson and Jackson. They are now fairly on the La- zarus side of the gulf. They prefer the con- stitution to the expedients of faction—they deride and spit upon this faithless and policy- bound administration—they reject fusion or contact with the scarlet hordes of Babylon who infest the Custom House, the Kitchen Ca- binet, and that sink of assignation, Tammany Hall—they repudiate the Missouri compromise —they endorse popular sovereignty and self- government in Kansas, and the Territorial acts of 1854, Thus the national democracy of New York present themselves to the country. In all this there {gs neither evasion or equivocation. , It is the issue of the constitution or disunion—the government or dissolution—order or anarchy —peace or servile war. We regard the pro- ceedings of the Syracuse Convention, in con- nection with the Seward and Garrison republi- can movement—the disintegration and decom- position of the old partiee—the re-formation of new ones—the severance of that of the Know Nothings at Philadelphia, and the adoption of the twelfth section, or national basis of action, by the majority of that Convention, as of the highest importance to the country. Itis the nucleus around which may be rallied the pa- triotism of the whole Union. It is folly to attempt to overlook the fact that the old parties have become radically tinctured with opinions and ideas which are incompatible with the successful operations of the national Union. The constitution hasbeen invaded by factions, and these factions have been courted and adopted by both the old parties, until one of them has expired in their grasp, and the other is but a sickly remnant of its former strength and integrity. They are no longer entitled to the support or the coun- * tenance of orderly and well disposed people. Por instance, Franklin Pierce is at the head of the old democratic party. The statement of this fact, in connection with his servile de- pendence upon the negro worshippers—his re- wards for their treason to the constitution— his proscription of the faithful representatives of the great Union party which elevated him to power, is of itself the severest commentary which can be made upon the treachery of that class of men who heretofore have been fore- most in public estimation and confidence. While this is matter of history, it is still unde- niable that in the rank and file of the democra- cy in New York, and all over the country, is tobe found the noblest sentiments and the most incorruptible integrity. We have reason to hope that this class, constituting the very heart and lungs of the sound judgment and commen sense of the American people, were faithfully represented by the State Convention at Syracuse—their views there uttered and their principles avowed. Never before, in the history of American politics, has it been so evident that old leaders could not be trusted—never so ap- parent that there must be a union of patriots all over the country, and from all parties, into one grand homogeneous organization, looking solely to the constitution of the United States for the basis of its existence and the guide to its action. The prominent evil of the day— the threatening element in our system of government—is to be found in the studied pro- pagation of sectional ideas and action. That has been the unpardonable sin of political his- tory, where treason first hatched its brood of disunionists North and South—where the seeds of permanent disaffection were sown, and are now ripening into the fatal fruits of servile war. The remedy for all this exists in the patriotism and love of union of the American people ; and the question presented is, whether inet remedy gap kg wads available in the organization of a great party, drawing its sup- port alike from the North and the South, and from every shade of economical belief. Men have heretofore been divided upon questions of internal policy and administration—upon the effects of legislation ; they are now separated upon the radical question of union or disunien. Thus driven away from the old organizations— their lines obliterated, and their creeds and rituals abolished—what sense is there in longer separating those who agree upon this cardinal platform of the constitution against fanati- cism. The Syracuse proceedings, at this point, are of peculiar significance. Laying aside all questions of policy, hazarding mere temporary success by union with antagonistic political elements, they boldly denounce, by a vote of ninety-four to ten, all coalition with the rene- gade Custom House democracy of the negro stamp, and trust their cause to those only who embrace it for its devotion to principles. They utterly repudiate Gen. Pierce's plan of ¢ ing on the government by a system of com- pensation. Following the example of the Bos- ton liquor dealers, they will have nothing to do with the administration. Its votes are hy no means sufficient to reward them for the pal- pable discredit of such a connection. The American or Know Nothing State Coun- cil, to sit at Binghamton on the 28th instant, have now before them an opportunity, in con- nection with the proceedings at Syracuse, to achieve a noble service to the whole country. They have only to adopt the 12th section of the National Council of Philadelphia, to aban- don their diecreditable tenets upon the subject of religious opinions, to remove their unjust prejudices against foreign birth, and they stand identically upon the platform of the national democracy. Let them do this, and the great work of forming a party upon the basis of the constitution will have been done, The soft shell or administration branch of the demo- cracy, to meet in Syracuse on the 29th instant, will have no alternative but to slide into their ranks or go into that of the republicans, with Seward and Garrison. The result will be their dispersion, and ultimately, to a great extent, their amalgamation with the national party. The work goes bravely on. More Lrrenany Gews—The Tribune is grow- ing more elegant in its diction every day. Yes- terday, in a leading editorial, anent the demo- cratic convention, we are told that “they (” got off the usnal gas about civil and gious liberty”’—passed “ donghfaced resolu- tions;” and that the “proposal of ‘ Dan Sickles’ to give the softs half the State offices is cool, considering the splendid sight the hards have to fill thoee same offices.” It also calls eX-Governor Hunt and bis supporters “vene. | inched « First Step to the Organization of a Great | mons renegades.” a i rn It is precisely such slang as this which lowers the presse in the eyes of all sensible persons at home andabroad. The Zhi- dune should learn better manners, and study Lindley Murray. Its publication office should be removed to Kansas, among the “ruftians” whom it so earnestly belabors. at Home and Abroad— Latter Day Saints’ Literature. We have lately received several documents emanating from the presses of the Latter Day Saints, which contain many facts full of interest for the present, and warning for the future. We have published the immi- gration report from the Millenial Star, by which it appears that in about four months nearly four thousand converta have sailed from Liverpool en route for the modern Sodom at Great Salt Lake. This foreign immigra- tion, added to the recruits which are pouring into Utah from the Eastern States, will givg an increase of Bye or six thousand to its popu- lation for the present season, and hasten the time when Brigham, with his twelve stage loads of wives, will knock at the door of the Capitol asking for State rights and privileges, unless the swarms of grasshoppers drive them from their home and scatter them over the face of the earth. The Millennial Star, the principal foreign organ of the Latter Day Saints, is published weekly at Liverpool, neatly printed, and edited with some ability. There is also a French paper, called the Etoile du Deseret, organe de UEglise de Jesus Christ des Saints des Derniers, and a Welsh hebdomadal Udgorn Seion, (Zion’s Trumpet.) which latter publication has reached its eighth volame. These periodicals are very cheap, and are circulated by hundreds of thou- sands all over Europe. In addition to their journals, the Mormon elders have issued a large number of cheap text books, such as the Book of Mormon—that precious piece of trash compounded by Jo. Smith and Sidney Rigdon—“One Year in Scandinavia: Result of the Gospel in Sweden and Denmark;” “Latter Day Saints in Utah, with Bill to Establish Territoria] Government, List of Officers, &e.," at three pence; “Assas- sination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and History of the Expulsion of the Saints from Nauvoo;’ “Key to the Science of Theology,’ by Parley P. Pratt, one of the Twelve Apostles, (mirabile dictu !) “ Divine Au- thority, or was Joseph Smith sent of God,” at two pence; the “Italian Mission and the Prussian Mission; “ Reports of Missionaries to Archbishop Young,” and many others. Nearly all of these works have been translated and published in the French, German, Italian, Danish and Welsh languages. The Danes have an organ of their own, the Scandinavian Star, edited and published at Copenhagen, semi- weekly ; and the Germans are favored with a book bearing the pleasant title “Eine Gott- liche Offenbarung und Belehrung uber den Destand,” (Revelations of Marriage, and Pa- triarchal Order or Plurality of Wives.) The Welsh have a large number of cheap works, written by native authors, and by the report published elsewhere it will be seen that Wales furnished more converts, in proportion to its population, than any other country, Denmark, perhaps, excepted. Nor is the muse of poetry lost sight of in the sharp controversial and theological strug- gles carried on by the scribes of the Latter Day Saints. We find that Brother John Lyon has written a series of lyrics, called “ The Harp of Zion,” which is sold from six shillings down to three, according to binding, and a hymn book can be had in morocco extra for four shillings, while the last number of the Star is enriched by the subjoined poetic gem :— FAINT NOT. Air,—“ Love not.” Faint not! faint not! ye Saints of Latter Days, Though tribulations may upon you fall ; ‘Trust in the Lord, your prayers unto him raise, Ho will support those who upon Him call. Faint not! faint not} Faint not! faint not ! should death himself draw nigh, Our God unto the uttermost can save 5 Let us, then, on His promises rely, Whose power extends beyond death and the grave. Faint not! faint not! Faint not! faint not! nor think that God will change ; His promises will stand for ever sure ; And though, at times, appearances be strange, Blessed are they who to the end endure. Faint not! faint not! Taint not! faint not! but prove that you are Saints, Faithfor unto the covenants you've made ; Fulfilling, without murmurs or complaints, ‘All duties which upon you may be laid. Faint not! faint not! Gupat Sart Lane City. HENRY MAIBEN, This is not quite so good as the original, but we have no doubt that thegifted authoress (the Hon. Mrs. Norton) will feel highly delighted with it, and much obliged to Brother Maiben. The elders seem to have been highly sue- cessful in Scotland, Wales, England, and Den- mark; in the last named country we read that the Saints were put tosore persecution, but the “blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church,” and the Danish converts, encouraged by the promise of numerous concubines in Deseret, remained firm in the faith, The Frevch seem loth to adopt the Mormon doctrine; although they generally run after every thing new, good or bad, they seem to be disgusted with Joe Smith's transparent platitudes, At the late Manchester convention some fifteen hundred converts were present, and one brother from Ame as we learn from the Star, “made a stir- ring speech upon the ‘rough side’ of Mormonism, which caused the saints to think about Yankee doodle-do-doing it.” That last elegant expres- sion is, we presume, Manehester slang for im- migration. The “P. E. Fund” referred to in the Emi- gration report, is thus explained in’ the Star, in answer to a letter from a person who announces “hime as a “clergyman of the Chureh of Eng First, You ask whether, of the mean cotlectel among the }atier any part Is appropriated to agaist destitute menibers to emigen’ Yes, pone such pe are so assisted every year— » handed mresent year, al Conference, held a Great Salt Lake City, N. A €, 1849, bw ears alter the arrival of the first Latter Pay Saints in thove primitive regions, the subject of helping the poor to gaiher or emigrate to that pleee, was introduced; a unani was taken to raise a fand for that purpoee, mmittee was ap- inted to and dollars an agent or Faint who were wore thence expelled by mob foree, Perpetual Fmigra\ivg Fund. In March, 1850, th wns introduced (o the Saints in Britain, and sere imme ommenced. This funiis app Iy termed “per for the following eae and is supported hy voluntary donations, an every person assisted by it hinds himeelf to refund the amount expended for him. at the earliest oppartunity oiter his arrival in Great Salt Lake Valley, or wherever pray be the headquarters of the church. The object of the fund, fn hensive view, is to assist all those comp her to the bosom of the t left among the na st ing gathered. The interests of atched over hy the “Porpetnal Emigrating is which Brigham Young ia President. The f ns of the faud is wholly under the contro! of eaident of the company. tol to the fond io the British Ides, 7 £500 from other paete of this hemis: eet ere et one persons port under the aue- es of the it Gi City, via Rey eres yee rb een, er mt wi from this port through the fund, in 1863, 1854, the nt ear, ph yh oommencemen hemisphere, 2,801 persons, - The above facts do not need extended com- ments, Every sensible man must see from them that the doctrines of the Mormons are daily being embraced by numerous mix guided people, seduced from their homes by promises of a paradise in the Eastern world, hardly inferior to that promised by the Koran to the good Mussulman who fell fighting for God and the Prophet. The Mormons go aatep beyond Mahommedanism in sensuality, and it would appear from their progress that the nineteenth century is not quite so enlightened an age as our orators and authors would have us think, What is to he done with the Mormons? The territory of Utah is daily increasing in wealth, power and population. President Pierce has given it up, and Col. Steptoe has gone to Cali- fornia in disgust. Consequently these is no despotism in the world more complete than that exercised by Brigham Young, who is “Governor, in spite of all the Powers of the earth.” What shall we do with the Mormons? Will the grasshoppers drive them to the four quarters of the globe? Mcstcrrat Corrvpriox—Hemava Isvesrica- TIoNs.—The daily papers yesterday contained reports of the proccedings of two investigating committees of the Common Council, which be- gun and ended on Thursday. The first was an Aldermanic committee, empowered to ascertain the factsrelative to the statements made by Alderman Hoflmire against Alderman Moser. When the complainant came before the com- nittee, it was found that he had no charges to make, or, what amounts to the same thing, he refused to specify them. Alderman Herrick refused to proceed unless the charges were specified, and Alderman Ely claimed that the committee had power to make a general inves- tigation into Alderman Moser’s character, And 60 the committee adjourned; that is pro- bably the last we shall hear of the matter. Now, this is not justice to either party, and Alderman Ely ought to know that itis the right of Alderman Moser to demand a copy of specific charges made against him. Alderman Hoffmire charges him with oficial corruption, and then fails to substantiate it. But the stain is not taken from the city, or from the Board to which these gentlemen belong. The next case is that of Mr. James Furey, Commissioner of Streets, who is charged with taking a bribe for a contract to build a ter- race wall on the shore of the East river, near Fifty-first street. It is alleged that Mr. Philip Fohey paid five hundred dollars for the con- tract. There have been two or three stories about the same transaction, and a committee of the Councilmen was appointed to investi- gate the facts, Inthe meantime Mr. Fohey has taken himself off to a farmin Michigan, and there is nothing but hearsay evidence—and not very good, even, at that—to substantiate the charge against Mr. Furey. Only two wit- nesses could be found, viz.: Alderman Her- rick and Mr. 8. D. Moulton. The last named gentleman was supposed to be well informed on the subject, because he “kept Mr. Fohey’s accounts, and knew all his affairs.” All he knew was, that he had heard Mr. Fohey say that he had paid five hundred dollars to get his plan of the wall accepted. If the money was paid, why could not the accountant say to what it was charged, and when and to whom paid? Mr. Herrick knew nothing important about the matter. The above cases are by no means singular, Almost every week some one connected with the city government is charged with corrup- tion. A committee of investigation is raised— some stationery, as well as good humor, is used up—and, after a great deal of talk, there is an adjournment to Delmonico’s for broiled chicken and champagne, and then the matter is dropped. But the people of New York, who place these men in office, are not satisfied with this shuffling. Many of them think that where there is so much smoke there must be a little fire, and they demand that all such investigations shall be strictly carried through, and that even handed justice shall be done to all parties. In the Moser case, Hoff- mire should make- his charges at once, and if they are proven, the offending Alderman should be expelled from the Board which be disgraces. In the case of Furey, he is a can- didate for re-election in November, and if he is a rogue, we all desire to give our votes for an honest man in his place. Let us hear from Moffmire and Fohey. Avonition w K. s—A Stare Coysrrre- TIONAL ConvENTION.—We perceive that the free soil element in Kansas is already at work, and that a convention of delegates of this stripe is tobe held at Big Springs on the 5th proximo. The election of delegates, five from each re- presentative district, will take place to-day. This isa sort of coup d'état of the Garrison clique to get control of the constitutional con- vention, or rather to have it entirely to them- selves, Furthermore, the free soilers hope to make out population enough—sixty thousand ~—in Kansas previous to the adjournment of the new Congress, to demand admission into the Union asa free State. Extensive prepa- rations are being made in New England to increase the population of Kansas, in order to help the free soilers along. The majority of the next Congress being against slavery in Kansas, the free soilers think there will be no difficulty in getting in with an abolition con- stitution, which will probably be made at the convention above named. The national men have heretofore beaten the abolitionists in Kansas in every election, and it is very possible that the movement now in progress may turn out differently from what has been expected by our amiable friends in New England. Garrison ought to go out at once and take some “fusion” along with him. We are further convinced that the free soil- ers will not be able to carry out their plans, by the proceedings of the Kansas Legislature on the Ith inst., when— In the House, Dr. Stringfellow offered a resolution to the effect that n convention be called to framea constitu. tion, pe to Kansas being admitted into the Union. It sets the first Monday in October as the day on which the polls should be opened, and the people are to vote “con vention’? or ‘‘no convention’’ on that day, This resolution was referred to a select com- mittee, to report next day. The resolution will pass undoubtedly, and another collision must take place between the opposing forces. There's not much hope for the abolitionists. Resvirs or raz Cexsvs—Tue Nexr Asseu- BLY.—Not the least important result of the census will be the new arrangement of the As- sembly districts, which is rendered imperative by the changes which have taken place during the past five years, The census has been completed in twenty- two counties. Annexed is a table showing the population and number of members of the State Assembly at both periods :— -Poplation~», -—No, of Memberi— ‘1850. 1855. 1850-55. 1856-10. 50 53,702 3 2 25,262 1 1 29/810 2 2 38,871 2 2 39001 2 2 2A, 740 1 1 23,289 1 1 20/046 2 1 7,650 2 1 48;661 2 2 96,687 3 4 45:43 2 2 107,054 4 4 69,501 2 3 86,343, r1 3 61,307 3 2 13,935 1 1 80,174 3 3 80,002 3 3 25, 2 1 45,725 2 2 20,400 19,497 1 1 615,645 624,170 16 rt Total,.,.....1,548,488 1,713,744 63 68 The above apportionment represents 1,713,000 of the population, which leaves sixty members of Assembly to be divided among the remaining 1,662,000 of the inhabitants of the State, in the other thirty-nine counties in which the census has not yet been completed. The population of the State in 1850 was 3,097,000 ; present population, 3,375,000. The basis ‘of representation is one member for 26,360 population, by which New York city gains eight members for its increased popula- tion. This calculation is based on the esti- mate that the total population of the State is 3,375,000. The city, as it will be seen, has grown to be avery important power in the State, and it is to be hoped that our country friends will take 2 good look at the figures before they attempt to press any more Maine Liquor laws upon us. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ‘Vermont Know Nothing Convention. Bostox, Aug. 24, 1855 A State Convention of Know Nothings was held at Bel- lows Faille, Vermont, this week, at which Governor Royce ‘was nominated for re-election. The Convention wes con- siderably split up in opinion and far from harmonious, The Yellow Fever in Virginia. Norrouk, Avgust 23, 1855. The number of deaths from yellow fever in this city dvring the twenty-four hours ending at uoon to-day, was sixteen, There are now over 300 cases under treatment here. In Portsmouth, during the twenty-four hours ending at noon on Wednesday, there were 27 deaths; and for the twenty-four hours ending at noon to-day, the number has been 22. About four hundred are under treat- meni, and the number is daily increasing. Relief for the Sufferers at Norfolk and Ports- mouth, New ORLEANS, Aug. 24, 1855. At a meeting of Virginians in this city, to-day, it was resolved to raise 2 subscription to defray the expenses of sending ten nurses to Norfolk and Portsmouth. They will leave for those places to-morrow. PuaneipHia, August 24, 1 The collection taken up in this city for the N ic sufferers now amounts to over ten thousand dollars. Nine thousand dollars have been remitted, Several of our physicians leave for there to-morrow. Railroad Excursiontats. Oswreo, Aug. 24, 1855, To-day there has been quite a festival going on here, attending the reception of over thtee hundred excur- sionists from Hamilton and Toronto, C. W. Speeches were made by C. J. Bridges, of the Great Western Rail- way; F. H. Bond, Mr, Littlejohn, Mr. Beardsley, of Os- wego; and Mayor MeGill, and others, of Hamilton. A great ball comes off to-night. ‘The Will of Abbott Lawrence. Bostox, Aug. 24, 1855. The will of the late Abbott Lawrence donates $10,000 to the Boston Public Litary, and $50,000 to the Law- rence Scientific Schoo} in Cambridge. Hiv other bequests have not yet been made publi Death of Dr. Simon. St, Louis, Aug. 24, 1855, Dr. Simon, Army Surveyor at Fort Riley, during the cholera there, recently died of that disease at Fort Leaven- worth. Army Intelligence. Wasuixoron, August 24, 1855, First Lientenant J.C. McFerran has been appointed Assistant Quartermaster of the United States Army, vice Major ‘Ogden, deceased. Lieut. McFerran is now on duty in New Mexico, but will be ordered immediately to the Upper Missourl. Mortality of New Orleans, New Orteays, August 2: The semi-weekly report of interments here, of ten cemeteries, shows one hundred and nivety-six deaths, including one hundred and sixty-four from yel- low fever. IMPORTANT FROM CURACOA. Our Curacoa Correspondence. Crnscoa, July 21, 1855. Difficulties Between the U. 8. Consul and the Colonial Government—Outrages and Insults Offered ta Him—His Life Menaced—Insuficiency of Protection for the Rights Of American Citizens—Necessity for Energetic Action on the Part of our Government. Tembrace the épportunity of the sailing of the bark M. W. Babbidge, to place you in possession of the facts rela- tve tothe outrage committed upon the United States Commercial Agent at this port by the authorities of the island. Mr. Young’s course as United States Commercial Agent at Curacoa was very fully noticed by the press through- out the United States when he was ebiiged to leave the island last year. The circumstances of the present difl- eulties, and the interference of the authorities in his rights as an officer of the governmont of the United States, will probably receive the prompt attention of the government at Washington. Tt appears that the course pursued by Mr. Young, a+ United States Commercial Agent, has not met with the approval of the greater portion of the mercantile com- munity of this island, who are chiefly Jews. ‘The vigilant exertions of our Consul has materially in- terfered with the views of the merchants, so far ax the American law regulates the importation of merchandise into our ports, In consequence of these facts Mr. Young has the mortal hatred of this portion of the community of Curacoa. It is the custom of the Jew merchants of this island to establish houses in New York and Boston for the purpose of carrying out their mercantile operations. As citizens are often made in a few days in the States, the Curacoa mer chant, so soon as he becomes « naturalized citizen, takes the money farnished by his brethren and purchases ves- nels in the ports of New York and Boston, and sends them here, under the American flag, to be controlled by the Jew who has furnished the means for the purchase, and claims ownership as soon as the vessel arrives. The effect of this system of registering vessels in the United States, places our Consul in the position of a di- lapidated building, the walls of which fall, for want of support, with the first blast that drives against thom, The crew have no rights in which he can sustain them, because the government of the Netherlands does not re- cognice Consuls, although a great ceal has been said rola- live to the Belmont consular convention, ratified by the (wo governments some months since, I cannot see why the American government should «nd their Consuls abroad, and allow the ship owner to tell him that he must not interfere with the master or crew, As bis authority over her as consignee (calling Dimself the owner) will be sustained by the Netherlands government, in violation of all his rights under his com- mission, his instructions fall powerless to the ground, thus placing at degance his authority, The Ameyican bark Ricot, Niles Parrup master, om tered this port on the 2st day of June, from Savannah, having on board & corgo of lumber for the person wha claims to be her owner, and who figured in the difiicul- ties here last year relative to the importation of invoices, The commander is well known to the Custom House offi- cials in New York. It appears by the testimony, which the Consul bas by his vigilance procured and placed upon the records of the consulate, that the first officer of the vessel had been in the habit of beating the crew, upon the voyage, with loaded canes, and slung shots, The crew has had no op- portunity of laying their complaints before the Consul, except in one case, when the Consul boarded the vesset and demanded that the crew should be heard; on that occasion, although the master defied the authority of the Consul, the crew appeared at the consulate, and re- corded their testimony relative to the treatment om board. ‘The Consul explained the law to the master, that he must cither discharge the seamen who entered the complaint, or discharge the mate. He refused to discharge either, and Mr. Young at once discharged the mate out of the b: He then informed the master that he must procure other officer for the vessel; but no attention was paid to any of the despatches of the Consul by the master. On the 15th July the Consul addressed a note to the master, in- fol im that he wished him to man his boat, (the g over a mile from the consulate,) as he wished ‘official visiton board. The Consul was informed ‘ould not go on board of the burk in the ship's io efforts hud as yet been made to ship d mate, or to procure one from St. Thomas, the regular steamer: having left here twice and. returned again, also two sail- ing vessels. ‘There are at all seasons shipwrecked officers at that port; but the Jew who controlled all the move- ments of Captain Fasrap had determined to ship a Dutch citizen as mate, in the face of the solemn protests of the crew. Isbould have remarked that our Consul, finding it impossible to see the crew at his office, repaired on board of the vessel, and found tht the crew were deter- mined not to proceed upon the voyage with foreign. ofti- cers. The government of the Island require the crew list of all foreign vessels, in order to clear them out of the port, this being the only ship papers which the Consul is al- lowed to hold in his possession, the vor being held the government. The Consul refused to produce his paper, in consequence of Captain Farvup not havi complied ‘with the laws regulating the rights seamen. Mr. Young then laid before the govern- ment his protest against clearing the vessel; also, the protest of the crew against proceeding upon the voyage; but no attention was paid to these protests bear- ing the seal of the United States; but gave the con- signee and the master (a naturalized Dane,) a Dutch crew list, iu the face of the protests of the Consul aut crew. Mr. Young, nothing daunted, and being deter- mined to give the’ crew their rights; then addressed a summons to Capt. Farrup, under tho seal of the Consulate, to show cause why the Yessel should proceed upon the voyage against the solemn protests of the erew, and his own protest against her clearance, contrary to American taw. At last the summons was respected, White gue Cop. ud Was sending the prvtest vf (he seow to the waster, (he latter used the most insulting language to him; whereupon the Consul ordered him out of bis otlice, and refusing to go, the Consul used all the means in his power to oblige him to do so. In the meantime the consignee hast ap~ peared, to help Capt. Farrup resist the authority of the Consul, being well assured that the authorities would take no notice of any acts he might commit, although the treaty states that the rights of the Consul and the Con- sulate shall be sacred. But what cares the Netherlands government tor treaties? 1 only wonder that the Consul, with his usual decision in such @ases, did not shoot theny down. For this reason Mr. Young bas been dragged e the courts of the island, and the King’s Attorney has asked for three months’ imprisonment, for him, for defending his rights against the course of the governs ment in clearing the vessel. The Court found, after a long and tedious examination of the witnesses dn the part of the government of the island, that no proofs had been produced to sustain the King’s Attorney in prosecuting,the cause. After the ex- amination of Captain Babbidge, who was one of the witnesses summoned on the part of the prosecution, the King’s Attorney rose and addressed the Court, tuforming them,that he had every reason to believe that Capt. Bab- biage ad taken a false oath, and that hia testimony was of such a character as to warrant him in commencing am action against the captain for perjury. The reply of Captain Babbidge was characteristic ‘of the American “ind the high bred gentleman—viz., that he had not beer brought into these courts, contrary to all law, to be ine sulted by the court; and entered his solemn protest, as an American, against the action of the King’s Attorney, in even summoning him into conrt. Are Americans an! American citizens to be trampled upon in this manner, by the Netherlands government?—is our Consul to be dragged into their courts for obeying his instructions, and acting nce with his rights, under his commission? attempts have been made to assassinate the Consul since the difficulties in the case of the bark Ricot. 1 understand that our Consul has called upon the proper authe for protection, as an American citizen, under the treaty between the two governments; but no notice has been taken of this communication. Are our citizens to be treated in this manner by the Netherlands ga- vermnent, in violation of the most solem treaties ? For what reason is Mr. Young left here without protec- tion from his government? What is his commission to him but a disgrace, if there are no powers under his com- mission. Why was he sent here for American seamen; be can do nothing for any outrage cominitted upon American citizens. He cannot even raise his voice, protests have even heen refused from him, bearing the seal of the United States, and he has been told that they must be placed upon butch stamped paper. This, our Consul has refused to do. The tea party in Boston harbor, some years since, spoiled the face of stamped paper for United States government protests. Theg to know why Mr. Young's exequater has not been forwarded to him, ere this; or has Holland made a consular convention, to do as she pleases under it, and to place us in the same position we were in previous to ihe so-called Belmont treaty. ‘These are questions w call for fhe serious conside- ration of our government. it is to be hoped that im- mediate action will be tal at Washington relative to the action of the Dutch authorities of this Island. Ina sonversation with the Consul to-lay, he sail to me that fe bad repeatedly called the attention of the Secretary of State to the fact that it would be useless for him to igain return to the island, unless a government vease} waa sent here. If no respect is even paid to the rights of citizenship by the Holland government, then let us pur- sue England's course, and compel her to do #0, giving her to understand that she can protect her Jew citizens in their rights, if they have any, but at all times must respect the diplomatic agents of our government, whether she respects the treaties acknowledging them or not. The Kicot sailed from the port on the 21st. The seamen having refused to proceed in her without their crew list and under Dutch ofiicera, the government placed on board two boat’s crews from the Dutch men-of-war inthe harbor, and took the vessel to sea; but I have no idea that the crew will do duty, and the probability is that What course our government will pursue in regard to her in Amsterdam, is yet to transpire, as I am told that. the will not return to the United States, but is to be kept running from this port, asap American vessel, to Holland. ‘The American brig Abram sailed for Amsterdam on the 30th; she carries out a memorial from the Jew merchants to the Colonial Minister in Holland, praying him to ask for our Consul’s recall. The Babbidge also carries a me- morial to New York, to be transmitted to the Dutch Min- ister at Washington, to use all his influence to procure Mr. Young’s removal. ‘Mr. Young remains here, rogardles« of all conse- quences, He has frequently said to me that he is deter- mined to act fully up to his instructions, and as far aa lies in his power to enforce them; but I fear that he will not be able, unless strongly supported by the government at home, to maintain the position he has taken, But you may look out for another Gibson case before matters are settled here, VENEZUELA. Gentiemen’s Hats, Fall Fashion for 1855, will be introduced by ESPENSCHETD on Saturday the 25th inst. 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