The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1855, Page 4

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By telegraph #rom New Orleans we-have advices from Vers Crugto the 22d inst. The intelligence is ‘highly importaw. Santa Anna left-the city of Mexi- odion the 9th, #igned his abdication at Perote, and preceeded to’ Vera Cruz, where he ~embarked on the VR for Havaita. This event has been expected fur wkoy months, aud, in view of the volcanic condi- tion of. Mexiov, the only wonder is, that it did not take place Jong ago. It is evident Santa Anna in- tended to fai! with dignity. He was escorted in his flight by 2,800 troops; but shortly-after leaving the capital onethird of them revolted, killed several of the officers, and then joined the-revolutionists. On arriving at Vera Cruz another revolt broke out; but asingle regiment continued faithful to their fallen chief, and the mutineers, vanquished, fled in confa- sion. With regard to the reconstruction of the gov- ercment, our intelligence is very briei. It appears, however, that the plan of Alvarez has been adopted, and that General Carro is Provisional President, and General La-Vega Commander-in-chief of the army. The mail steamer George Law arrived early yester «@ay morning, bringing two weeks’ later news from the Pacific coast, and nearly one million three hundred ‘bousand dollars in gold dust on freight. The news is unusually interesting, and a very full compilation will be found in our columns this morning. It will be seen that the largest portion of the allied fleet ‘has returned to San Francisco, after visiting Petro- paulowski, and finding the place entirely deserted by the Russians. The officers of the French aud Eng- Bish vessels were to receive a number of complimen- ary balls from the citizens of San Francisco during heir stay in the harbor, and in return they were to give like entertainments on board their vessels. The steamer Cortes, from San Juan, which arrived at an Francisco, had lost a number of her passengers by Cholera, but the disease was not so fatal as it proved on board the Sierra .Nevada on the previous voyage. Politics was nearly at a stand still through- out the State, all parties apparently waiting for the @ifferent organizations to complete their arrange: ments for the campaign. The crops in some por- tions of the State were represented as being rather inferior, while in other parts they would probably ome fully up to previous expectation. The general product of the mines was equal to any previous period. Business, although not as brisk as in former years, was quietly and steadily recovering from the financial shock which it experienced a few months back, and was building for its¢if a firm basis, which would not likely be shaken again for a long time to come. The steamship Golden Age brought down from San Francisco #1 583,576, of which amount $1,285,516 was consigned to New York, $277,701 to England, and 359 to Panama. The treasure for England is consigned as follows:—#30,141 to the City of + Glasgow Bank; #40,000 to F. A. Seillien; $18,660 to Baring Brothers & Company; and $195,800 to Rotha- «child & Son. From the Sandwich Islands we have news to the 30th of June. The Honolulu papers report a plenti- ful harvest. Maui wheat was in fine order, and it -was thoaght that native flour woutd rule at prices Jower than those of the Boston market. The King had dissilved the Leg re in a rather summary manner, owing to a dillicnlty between the two houses on the subject of passing a bill of government sup. ply. He justifies the act in a proclamation to the people. The local journals support.the claims of Honolulu as a whaling station ever those of San Francisco, in opposition to Governor Bigler, of California. From New Granada we have files of papers dated to the 16th of August. The news trem the Isthmus is varied and interesting. The Constituent Assem. bly of the.new State of Penama had signalized its opening by the passage of anew and most art shippirg bill, whi fully carried out, will very injuriously on the local interests of the countr, In this. Jaw the consular rights of foreign representa- tives are trenehed on very ly. people cel brated the inaugurat their representative sys: tem by a series of masquerades and bull fights. Tnone of the former George Law was represented in a fanny ebaracter. Commanication had heen opened be- ctween Panama and Aspinwall by electric telegraph on Saturday, the 11th inst , when messages and_re- plicawere sent ond received across the Isthmus in @ very satisfactory manner. Additional particular of the-ravages of the cholera on board the stermer , Sierra Nevada, during her passage from San Juan to.Panama,are given. The passengers who cnited _ Yately from this port to Aspinval!, in the Empire b Cit: complained of bad treatment on board Works of local improvement were progressiu ’ ‘Mbe weather had been singularly dry on the Ist ews during Ivly. Anstralian papers, dated at Sydney to June oth, Ihave been received. The harvest had been rather wbort, ond at latest date flour wasadvanced in price. The, stream of emigration had increased, and labor w ‘ages had fallen a little in consequence. The Le gi ative Council was to open at Syduey on the Sth of Jane. Heavy reins had fallen i y pF tom Nicaragua we learn that Colouel Kinney and Sie party had become very popular with the peop, © and oficials of Greytown. They had plenty of casi Band were execedingly well behaved. From the South Pacific we have advices dated at Vaipara #0 on July 1, and at Callao on 25th of the game mo, Wh. in Chile the import aad export re turns for the year iS54 were very satisfactory, showing amt iuerease of thirty-three per cent on those of the prev {cas twelve mouths. The shipping retarn of port entr tes were also pleasing. Questions of edn cation, bauk yegulation, end steamship and railroad commmuicatiom, engaged the attention of the govern- meat. “ady Franklin's steamer—the Isahel—had gaiied for Londoa from Iquique. In Bolivda, Belzn had centered all the ‘yuilitary for. ce of the epnblic at Chuquisaca. It was thonght that he inteaded thus to force Cordova—his souin law- into the Presidential chair, Fron 1 Peru there is little news. Cartilla’s chances for the } ‘residency were still good. Amorican and German p. ‘ties were forming for the parpose of ex- ploring othe " gold mines, News from t. \¢ River Plate provinces states that five additional war Vessels of Brazil had entered the waters of Paragua,”, and that the free navigation of rivers to vessels of every ficg would form the basis of peace negotiations tetween the two countries. Tiade was dull at ValParaiso, vith trifling sales. Flour was wanted. Cotton was ple."ty, with a slow wale. In exports flour had oso up to s'0 for 200 Tbe, Barn Bulow, of Costa Nica, inyites tue enigra- Se NEW YORK HERALD. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1855. tion of mechanics, farmers and laborers to that ooun- try, in two able official letters, which we publish: Judging from his statement it is an eligible place for hard workers and men of small means to go. We rive to-day a full report of the second day's proceedings of the National Democratic State Con- vention, which has been in session at Syracuse. There were two prominent sentiments developed and brought into opposition in the Convention. The first and overwhelmingly strongest o! them was Dickin- sonism carried into Pickwickian disregard of every- thing elke. The other, puny and weak—though ap- parently containing the germs of great strength— was the thought of sisking factional quarrels, and combining with the other section of the State de mocracy to overthrow all whig, Know Nothing and abolition opposition. By those few who represented this fusion sentiment an able effort was made to have the olive branch extended to promote the co- operation of all the divided members of the party, and,as a means toward that end, tonomina‘e voly half aticket. But the majority was so dispropurtionate- ly large against fusionism, and there was evinced such antagonism to the project, that all the efforts toward that end-sigually failed. The pecdominant element seemed to have but one great odject in view, namely, the elimination from their cour cils and delegations of everything that might p i a bly exercive an unfavorable intluence oa the Presi- dential prespects of Mr. Dickinson, though whether their modus operandi was the most seusible is an open question. So determinedly was this course of action followed, that the Convention evem ventured to infringe upon the rights of their constituents by taking upon themselves to elect delegates to the next National Convention at Cincinnati. The New York city members seemed to be tractable aad open to conviction; but even with them the idea of di- minishing the offices by one-half was hard to swal low. The country members, on the other hand, were intractably wedded to the policy of separate and distinct action. That sentiment prevailed; the in- vitation towards fusionism was not made, the whele ticket was nominated, and the Convention adjourned sine die to brood over the desperate condition of parties in this State. The accounts from Fort Riley, Kansas, should be receivd with great caution. The War Department has received official intelligence from Fort Riley, and the only deaths from cholera oflicially reported are those of Major Ogden, United States Quartermaster at Fort Riley; the wife and two children of Major Woods; and wife of Major Armistead; aod about filty of the laborers, who had just arrived under command of Major Ogden Major Woods had left Fort Riley with his command on 28th July for Fort Kearny, about two hundred miles west of Fort Riley, and Major Armistead had also left with his command. Major Ogden was in command, and Dr. Simona, United States Surgeon, and the Rev. Mr. Clarkson, chaplain, were the ouly officers at Fort Riley when the cholera broke out on 31st of July. The reports that the army ‘money chest was broken epen, that men had dexerted and committed varions outrages, are not credited at the Department, as no official im- formation had reached the War Department. The wife of Major Woods was a daughter of the late Major W. B. Barney, of Bultimore, and she and her two children and servant died within one hour from the attack; they occupicdthe same house with Major Ogden. Surgeon Simons married a daughter of Lambert Gittings, Esq., of Baltimore. The Paris journal La Patrie, has devoted an ar- ticle to the _Kenney-Waiker expedition against Ni- caragua, which we translate for the edification of our readers. It classes those worthies in the same category as the famous Spanish captains and free booters, Cortez, Pizarro, &c., and it confesses that if they and their handful of men are able to over- throw the Nicaraguan government, that govern- ment richly deserves its fate. The humbug story of the proposed annexation by purchase of Platte county, Missouri, to Kansas, has again been started on its travels through the coun- try. The boundaries of Kansas are clearly defined by the Jaw uder which it was orgauized into a Territory, and no addition can be made thereto, or any portion teken therefrom, without the sanction of a special act of Congress. News from Great Salt Lake City to the Ist ult. has come to hand. The grasshoppers had destroyed the third crop of grain, and starvation or an aban- donment of the settlements were the alternatives presented to the Mormons. The death of Judge Sharer is announced. The event took place on the 20th of June. The city continues remarkably healthy, the deaths during the past week numbering 585—namely, 57 men, 54 women, 246 boys and 228 girls, exhiviting a decrease of 45:3 compared with the mortality of the week previous. The principal causes of death were:—Consumption, 41; diarrhaa, 49; dysentery, 30; congestion of the lungs, 5; inflammation of the lungs, 11; dropsy in the head, 26; congestion of the brain, 6; inflammation of the brain, 12; cholera in- fantum, 89; convulsions (infantile), 50; croup, 6; debility, 8; acerlet tever, 18; all other fevers, 12; hooping cough, 13; marasmus (infantile), 5: measles, 9; and teething, 6. There were 16 deaths ses, 15 premature births, and 34 iliborn. tu the twenty-tive public instivu- tions but 28 deaths occurred during the week —a lees number by nearly one half than has happened in the same space of time for years, and a circum: stance highly creditable to the persons having charge of those establishments. The official classifi- cation of diseases is.as_follows:—Bones, joints, &c. 3; brain and nerves, heart aud blood ves lungs, throat, &e skin, &c., and eraptive stillborn and pre- mature Lirths, 47; stomaeh, bowels aud other diges- tive organs, 2 uncertain seat and general fevers, 84; old age, unknown, !. The nativity tible gives 468 natives of the United States, 78 of Ire- land, 20 of Germany, 7 of Exgland, and the balance of various European countries. The sales of cotton yesterday reached 500 bales the market closing without change in prices. Fiour sold to a fair extent, without material alteratioa in quotations. Southern new red wheat sold at $1 80 for common, ard $190 for good quality. A sale of 20,000 bushels Maryland white was made, delivera- bie in October, at $1.80. Corn sold to a moderate extent at toll prices. Pork was firmer: new mes sold at 222, and £22 124 was offered for 590 bils., without sellers, and 1,000 bbls. sold, deliverable ia all the present year, seller's option, at $20. Other provisions were firm. Sugars continved firm, with a fair amount of sales. Coffee was also quite steady, with moderate transactions. Freights were steady, with some engagements of flour and cotton to Liver- pool, aud wheat to London. Secession Aone Order of Frees trouble, if we Th ssons.—The Ancient sous seems to be getting into 1oy judge from a manifesto Volland Ledge No. 8 of this city, in which their secession fiom the Grand Lodge of the State is defeaded by a commit- tee of ten, on various grounds. It is not long since we suggested a division of the State for political purposes, and here is a step mado by an influential body of men in that divectivn. All the adjacent islauds must come in—Long Island, Staten Island and Coney [Wand, all embraced in the State of Manbattan. We give the pith of the document, and recomend it to all practical seceders. A Fir Orricr.—We ara told that the yoli- ans consider the office of Street Commis- sioner wort!t forty thousand dollars per an- num, at least. This estimate is made on the supposition that the commissioner is mode- rately honest; but a clover politician of the modern school might make jt a hundred thoyeand. Allied Successes in the Pacific. It seems that the Allies intend to atone for their failure in the Black Sea by successes in the Pacific. Less than a year ago, it will %e remembered, the fort of St. Peter and St, Paul ~ Petropaulowski—near the extremity of the Kamschatkan peninsula, was attacked by a small Allied squadron. Whether ¢hey foolishly expected to find the Russians unprepared, or whether after a fair fight, the Allies were found the worst men, the assailants were repulsed with loss, The siege of Petropaulowski was raised at once, and the Allied squadron with- drew, leaving the Russians to bury their dead. The event so preyed upon the mind of the commanders that the English Admiral put an end to his life by blewing out bis brains, and his French colleague died shortly afterwards of chagrin. In the month of May last the attempt was renewed with better success. It appears that after the battle of last year the Governor of Siberia, in whose jurisdiction Petropaulowski. lies, sent orders'to strengthen ihe fort there, and accordingly works were commenced with a view of erecting a double tier of guns, &c. But these measures were not approved at St. Petersburg, and in March last a courier arrived at Petropaulowski with orders to abandon the works and the place at the first attack. Accordingly, when the steamers Encounter ‘and Baracounter proceeded to blockade the harbor, the Russians took advantage of the first fog to make their escape. Four vessels— one frigate, one corvette and two merchant- men—dexterously sailed out of the harbor without detection, and steered for the mouth of the Amoor. When the Allies landed they found in Petropaulowski one hundred dogs, two Americans, and one Frenchman,who called himself an American citizen. They do not appear to have done any injury either to the canine inhabitants or to our countrymen ; but having blown up the fortifications, sailed away as they came, It is understood that the next point to be attacked will be the forts in the Gulf of Saghalien, at the mouth of the Amoor river. These forts are situate on the boundary line between Chinese Tartary and Siberia ; indeed, according to the latest maps, they appear to stand rather on the soil of the Tartar pro- vince of Ghillaka than on Russian territory. But we know that’ in that part of the world nations are not particular about boundaries, and the Russians may well be supposed to stand on no sort of ceremony with such neigh- bors as the Chinese. The fortifications on this spot are said to be immensely strong. We know that for years Russia has been collecting munitions of war and provisions at Kiakta, further inland, en the same frontier. Means have doubtless been taken to place the two points in direct and speedy communication with each other, so as to render the latter the basis of any military operations that might take place on the coast. It is not impossible but we may hear of a second Sebastopol in the Pacific, and a fresh Black Sea campaign in the Sea of Ochotsk. The Negro Worshippers Snagged in Kansas. The elder Seward organ heaves a little in its comments on the address of the national democracy and the positioa of Hon. D. Ss. Dickinson in 1847 and_now on the rights of popular sovercignty. The Tribune don’t believe a word of those rights; and yet its edi- tor is one of more than three millions of peo- ple in this State who are daily exercising them. It is the creed of his church here, anda rank heresy in Kansas. After all, there is no way but to defend them when they are assailed, and particularly when the attack comes from the slave side. of the line, and all we would have the negro worshippers do is to be equally ready to take up their defence against the encroash- ments of Congress. But the fusion republi- cans are in advance of their organ. At two or three of their meetings they have passed re- solutions in favor of the people of Kansas act- ing for themselves and’ against the “border ruftians,” and thus snagged their craft on the admitted rights of Territorial and State sove- reignty, which, consequently, is just now assail- ing them in the rear, For instance, they undertook to settle that Territory by force of the Emigrant Aid or- ganization. The Missourians, living hard by, had a little advantage of them in point of dis- tance, numbers, and fronticr experienc ad the result is, they swamped the negro worship- pers and their disciples at the very first elec- tion. That that election was regular ahd or- derly, and such as it should have been,we haye no means of knowing. A vast amount of com piaint has been made against it, and, like al! border trials of the kind, it is quite likely that it was not altogether a heavenly affair. Th negro worehippers call itan invasion upon the actual residents, whose rights were trampled under foot, and loudly assert that Kaasas must be freed from the invaders, and be sustained in the exercise of absolute self-government There is no question at all but in this instance they are right. If Missourians bave gone ia and violated the ye franchise, aad thu- put into operation the well known schemes of frand perpetrated so successfully in thie city aud Philadelphia in the Harrison election of 1540, and between this State and Pennsylvanta it is clearly & wrong inflicted, not upon New York and Massachusetts, but upon the people of Kansas, But the negro worshippers, in or- der tobe able to denounce the Missourians are compelled to defend the rights of popula sovereignty, including, of course, its most prominent example in the admission of Cali- fornia, which was during the tence of the Missouri compromise, and in utter disregard of its provisions, Thus they are brought up all standing against the snags of their own in- congruous theories. It has come to this: they cannot defend the rights of the peopleof Kan- sus without assailing that compromise, which is a restriction upon those rights, but which, notwithstanding, they ask to have restored, As we regard it, there is no dite tween an invasion by Congress, by which the people are probihited from acting, and an in- vasion by Missouri, by which their voice is drowned in numbers, In either cave the powers of legislation are actually taken away. Both are foreignand controlling elements, having no actual interest in the election, and no nee be- earthly right to intervene. The effort to pre- vent Missouri from controlling the elections, and to give such control to Congress by the restoration of the compromise, is an odd way of sustaining the resolutions they passin fa®r of popular sovereignty. in the case of Cali- fornia, its residents uadertook to act for shem- and the admission of that a bit of history of remarkable signiticange | just at this time. It wasa part of the terri- ‘ory of the United States, and subject to their ‘awe, and of course to the provisions of the act of 1820 among others, It becomes, then, exceedingly important to the American people, in the present attitude of affairs and the noise which is made about “the encroachments of slavery,” particularly in the alleged violation of faith by and the gross perfidy of the South in the repeal of that act, (the North now demanding its restoration,) and the erection of Territorial governments in Kansas and Nebraska on the principle of popu- lar sovereignty—which we concede to be in violation of the compromise—to ascertain if the admission of California did not practically set aside all the covenants and guarantees of the Missouri law on the subject of slavery in the Territories? Aswe read the law of 1820, and that admit- ting California in 1850, both enacted by the same authority, they are wholly incompatible. The latter is not simply a violation of the principle of the former, but it is a specific abandonment of the general policy it proposed to fix for the government of the Territories in the matter of slavery, and by fair intendment a repeal of its provisions to that extent. We know that laws of such a nature are not often intended to settle general principles, but to answer present necessities, It was so with the act of 1820, the principle of which prevailed till it was succeeded by a counter policy in the admission of California in 1850, which sub- stituted the control of the people for the con- trol of Congress in the government of the Ter- ritories. The two laws springing from the same authority, we are driven to the conclu: sion that the later act is in force by its repeal of the former. We repeat that it is important fully to un- derstand this matter, because it involves the character of the North for good faith and fair dealing; and, if our view of the legal effect of the admission of California upon the covenants of the Missouri compromise be correct, it leaves the free States, in the present controversy—they having voted for the admission of California—in the disgraceful position of having utterly abandoned and annulled those covenants in 1850, when it was their interest, and of at- tempting, with no higher motive, their resusci- tation and enforcement in 1855, In other words, they abandoned the compromise to prevent the establishment of slavery seuth of the line of 36 deg. 30 min., in 1850, then asserting the right of the people to settle the question for themselves, and thus clearly abro- gating the covenants of the Missouri act, and now deny those rights and demand the enforce- ment of those covenants. They were eitherright in 1850 or they are right now. They cannot defend that act and call for the restoration of the Missouri compromise at the same time without being self-convicted of duplicity and double dealing. California was admitted on her application—that application was based upon the sovereign power of its people thus to act in a primary capacity; and her admis- sion into the Union was an acknowledgment by Congress—the authority that enacted the Missouri compromise—that they were right, and of course that the restrictions imposed by that compromise were wrong, and no longer binding. There can be no restoration, then, without a repeal of the California act—a pro- position just as possible of execution, and practically as effective, as would be the repeal of the Kansas bill of 1854, which is identical in scope and spirit, including the repealing clause, with that admitting California. Every blow now laid on the Missourians for intervening in Kansas is a sidewinder at Con- gress, and every defence of the Kansas people against their border neighbors is an assault upon the Missouri compromise. Thus the con- stitution employs its enemies to vindicate its integrity and its power. Popular Feeling in Europe. In reasoning on the remarkable financial phenomenon presented by the tender of three billion six hundred and fifty million of francs to supply a government necessity of seven hundred and fifty millions, proper allow- ance must be made for the gambling fever —lesprit Cagiotage—always prevalent on the Bourse of Paris. It isa notorious fact that the French are the greatest gamblers in the world. Anglo-Saxons are moderate and cautious in comparison. A Frenchman of fortune is al- ways an operator. About half the young men of family in Paris are rained by gambling on the Aausse and the baisse ; and a crowd of indi- viduals, at least twenty times as numerous as our stockjobbing community, make a living by serving their propensity. Now, it was pretty obvious from the skill of the {mperial govern- ment, and the immensity of its stake at issue, that the loan was certain to prove a profitable thing for those who obtained it at the upset price. Neither Louis Napoleon nor his ally the Britisn government, could afford to let the French eredit sink in the eyes of Europe, es- pecially when the amount needed was only thirty millions of pounds, and the difference between a good and bad price for the scrip would not exceed three. Add to this the fact, already explained, that a portion of the loan was adjudged to each tender, in proportion to its amount, whereby parties who wanted 20,000 francs, asked for 100,000, and the mag- nificent financial tour de force appears in its true light—a pretty gambling operation. It does not appear, from the best information that can be had on the point, that the war is popular in France. In the first place, it is too for off. Frenchmen are accustomed to fight on the Rhine, in Germany, in Spain, in Algiers, They are close to their homes, return easily if they are wounded, and comfort themselves in the hour of danger with the thought that la belle France is hard by, Then again, no one seems to derive any glory from this war. In Napoleon's wars, there was not a sergeant in his army who did not expect confidently to be immortalized for some daring feat. Every offi- cer hoped to lead an attack upon some impor- tant place. They were fall of movement, change, excitement. Armies, in those days, flew about like a conjuror’s ball. Now they were at Leipsic, now at Madrid, yesterday un- der the Pyramids. In this war, on the contrary, dullness and inertia are the rule. The army lays idly, month after month, before a fortress which no French engineer of eminence believes they can take. Once in a while there isa Lrush over some rifle pits or an anthill; but the end of the whole is a return to the old tents, in the old place, in the old, dreary, humdrum way. Thisis not the sort of war for Freneh- men. It would suit Germans better, Nor must it be forgotten that the Frengh are by no means satisfied with their allies. Their own experience has convinced them of the in- capacity of British generals. Nor has the Bri- tish press been backward in confirming the be- lief that the main reliance of the Allies is in the French. The latter would be more than human if they abstained from murmuring un- der such circumstances. And though policy and politeness impose the duty of silence on the leading organs of French opinion, journals less burthened with dignity, though perhaps not less faithful exponents of public sentiment do not scruple to give EXpresyna to their re- gret at their being used as the cats-paw of England. As for the British people, it is apparent that the falsity of the position of the Allies is be- coming daily more conspicuous and more bur- thensome. Day after day, the British press teems with assertions that the war is one of freedom against despotism; yet Austria, the flower of the despots, is allowed to give secret aid to Russia with impunity. Englishmen are growing tired of this. So long as there was a plausiblechance of Austria’s joining the West- ern alliance, they prudently allowed the aris- tocracy to negociate with the young Emperor: but now that the negociations have ended in failure, and that Austria’s want of sympathy is undeniable, it is the idea of the masses in Great Britain that honesty will be the best policy, and that the nation should “go in” for democracy all over Europe. Of course the British government does not share this notion. So conservative a set of gentlemen as Lord Palmerston, Aberdeen, Sidney Herbert, and the other hereditary rulers of the British kiug- dom would rather fight for the Hapsburg than against him—nay, even for Alexander, if the thing could be done decently. But, so far as can be inferred from the tone of the peess— especially that new and cheap portion of it to which the repeal of the stamp duty has given rise, and which obviously emanates from and speaks the mind of the people—it appears certain that before long the bone and sinew of England will be aroused, and in full cry for a coalition with the nationalities. Such an event would change the aspect of the war entirely. In judging, however, of the popular feeling from the newspapers, allowance must be made for the private motives of the publishers and printers. War news is eminently saleable. It is certain that were peace declared the circu- lation of most of the leading journals of Eng- land would fall off considerably. Doubtless this must exercise some influence on the opin- ions of the editors, especially those of the cheaper journals, whose position is the most precarious. We know that in this country when the Mexican war was being carried on, the circulation of all the newspapers increased largely, and many journals which at first were loth to give any kind of support te Mr. Polk’s administration, became warm advocates for the war when they found how it swelled their receipts. All men are led more or less by their interests, editors as well as others; and itis probable that an erroneous impres- sign of the state of British feeling might be formed, if this incentive to martial ardor in the press were wholly ignored. Not a dag passes without some change, how- ever. Twelve months ago, the chief British authorities were Austria’s best friends, and sneered cruelly—Lord Palmerston leading them—at the Hungarians, Italians and Poles. Nowthose same authorities are civil to Kos suth and obsequious to Mazzini; while none are so poor as todo honor to the young Aus- trian Emperor. Yet a short while, perhaps, and Napoleon may execute his threat of com- pelling the British government to try to maz- zle their press. He would have the full sup- port of the Court party in such an undertak- ing. How changed would be the tone of the Times and the cheap London press then! How forgotten their amenities, how altered their manner of dealing with their ally! How dif- ferently would a foreigner, speculating as we do on popular opinion as reflected in the press, construe the position and prospects of the bel- ligerents ! Tue Censorsuip BY THE French Govern- MENT IN THIS Crry.—The Courrier des Etats Unis undertakes to deny the existence of acen- sorship of the American newspapers intended for circulation in Europe, in the office of the French Consulate General in this city. This semi- official answer to the assertions and state- ments of fact by the Hexaup is altogether too technical to entitle it to public credit. We did not pretend to say that the Consul- General exercised such objectionable powe! nor did we assert that M. de Persigny so in- formed the American Legation at Paris, but that his government employed a person or persons to perform those services, and that they were connected with the Consulate, that being the superintendency of French affairs in the United States. The material question is the existence of such an office, which we repeat again has been established here, and is exercising daily its illegal and most discour- teous powers in this city. And this is not de- nied by the Courrier. It matters little how the work is done, or how successfully the Consul- General of the Emperor Napoleon is able to clear his skirts of its responsibility. All this proves its clandestine and offensive character. If the office is legal, orderly and inofiensive, what is the necessity of denying its existence by mere implication—by aitri- buting such duties to the Department of the Interior at Paris? We know they pertain to that department, but they are really exer- cised in the city of New York. Tre TukaTRrs.—By reference to the advertising columns it will be perceived that the Broadway, Bowery, Niblo’s and Metropoliten theatres have provided bills of enter tainments which cannot fail to please; and also that Wood's and Buckley’s Minstrels are to appear in new features. ‘The Young Men’s Dramatic Association play in Brooklyn to-morrow evening for the benefit of two of their members. Naval Intelligence. The U.S. sloop-of-war Decatur was ven July 20 in the Straits of Juan de Faca, bound up Puget Sound, all well. Thed steamer Massachusetts, Commander Meade, arrived at San Francisco July 22, from Astona. Marine Affairs. The steamship Lebanon sailed yesterday for Liverpool. She took out six passengers. The crew of the bark Orion, Capt. Stevens, lying be- low Governor’s Island, and bound out, mutinied last evening. The coptain applied to the cutter Washington for assistance, and the officer of that vessel quelled the mutiny by putting six men in irons. The men allege that they received bad treatment. Lavsen or A Curren Bark.—The clipper bark Clara Haxwll, for Currie, Haxall & Brothers, of Richmond, Va., was launched at 63g o'clock last evening, from the ship yard of PF. Williams, at Greenpoint, The vewel glited off (Le way’ in fine style. Her dimensions, &e., we gave serterday. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. Flight of General Santa Anna.. FORMATION OF A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, State Prisoners Set at Liberty, he, bier, Sie Highly Important from Mexico—Abdication: of Santa Anna, New Ogteans, August 25, 1855. The steamer Orizaba has arrived here, with dates from Vera Cruz to the-22d inst. fanta Anna left the city of Mexico on the 9th inst., with an escort of 2,500 men, and signed his abdication at Perote. He embarked on the 17th at Vera Cruz for Havana, Two days after he left Mexico seven or eight hundred of his escort revolted, killing one or two of thein officers. . ‘They then joined the insurgents. The Alvarez platform has been adopted. Generak Carro is Provisional President of Mexico, and ‘La Vega Commander-in-Chief of the army. All the State prison-., ers had been liberated. ‘A mob had gutted a large number of houses, including - that of Santa Anna’s mother-in-law. The appointment of Senor Vidal as minister to the, United States (who comes a passenger in the. Orizaba), is revoked. A fight occurred at Vera Cruz between-two revolted battalions and a regiment that continued faithful ta. The former were beaten, and left for the Fifteen or twenty were killed before order ‘was restored. News from Utah Territory. DESTRUOTION OF THE CROPS—DEATH..OF JUDGE SHARER. Sr. Louis, August 26,1855. We are in receipt of dates from the Great Salt Lake to the Ist of July. The third crop of grain had been des- troyed, and the prospects of famine were still imminent. ‘The Hon. L. Sharer, one of the Judges‘of the Territory, was found dead in his bed on the 29th of June, and wat Santa Anna. mountains. The Telegraphic Excurstonists. Haurax, August 25, 1855. We have news to-day of the arrival of the steamship Merlin at Sydney from St. Johns, N. F., en route for this port. From her we learn that the steamship James Ad- ger, with the telegraphic excursionists on board, arrived at St, Johns on the 14th inst. After leaving Halifax the Adger touched at Port au Basque, in search of the vesseE having the cableon board, but unfortunately she had not arrived from London, though about six weeks out. The Adger remained at St. Johns from Tuesday until Saturday, her company of excursionixts meantime receiving the kindest attentions from the hospitable citizens of St. John, whens she again put to sea, and would)proceed ulti- mately to Port au Basque, where she would remain until the arrival of the cable from London. The Proposed Annexation of Platte County, Miseourl, to Kansas. CaicaGo, August 25, 1865. The Kansas Herald of the 17th init. reiterates in the most positive manner its former assertion, that a pro- ject is on foot to annex Platte county, Missouri, by pur- chase, to Kansas Territory. : The Epidemic at the South. THE FEVER AT NORVOLK. Noxvouk, August 24, 1855. The yellow faver is still increasing at this place, and Mayor Woodis has been attacked by it. During the 2¢ hours ending at noon to-day, the number of deaths wag eventeen. A large number of nurses and physicians have arrived from various points. ° THE FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS. New ORLEANS, August 25, 1855. The number of deaths from yellow fever in the Charity Hospital, during the past week, has been 128—a decrease of ten from the previvus week. Thirty-four hundred dollars have been collected here or the Norfolk sufferers. Pumapetrura, August 24, 1855. The workmen in the Navy Yard yesterday contribute? $2,800 for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers at Nor- folk and Fortsmouth. Mortality of Boston. Bostoy, Augast 25, 1855. The deaths in this city for the week ending to-day number one hundred and twenty-five, of which seventy- nine were those of children under five years of age. Naval Affairs. Baurimore, August 24, 1855, ‘The rloop of war Cyane, at Pensacola, had been order- ed to New York, Purapeuema, August 25, 1855, Orders have been received at our Navy Yard to fit out the sloop of-war St. Louls, to be ready for sea in six days, The Ohio and Milssissipp! Ratlread. Cineaco, August 25, 1855. ‘Trains on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad commenced running agaiu on Thursday Inst. Markets. PHILADELPIA STOCK BOARD. ILADELPUIA, August 25, 1865. steady. Veunsylvania state i 4854; Long Island Railroad, anal, 1534; Fenosylvania Railroad, 4 NeW Onieays, August 24, 1855. Falex to-vay 600 bales. Sules for the . Reecipts for the week 9,000 bales. pts up to the present time, as compared with thove of last ycur, fall short 177.000 bal he stock on hand is $0,000 bales. Coffee—sales for week 7,500 bogs, Sicck on band 8,000 bags; prime selling at 11Ke. Tlour dull and declining; sales at $7874 a 87°50. Corn lower; sales at 4c, D reight»—Cotton to Liverpool 44d. , Burvavo, August 2—12:30 P.M. Flour lower. Stock increasing. Sales 1,400 bbls. a #7 60a $7 75 for common to good new Obid and Michi- gan; $8 for fancy do., amd $8 373g for extra old Mlinois. Whcat—No sales. Corn tieely oltered at 7c., with sales of $12,000 bushels at that, “Oate—mull sales of new tite, Whiskey—Sales of 100 bbla., Canal freight» dull, Corn, 1 nports yesterday—Flour, 9,28 els; corn, 48,089 bushels; oate, 4,090 same time—Flour 37’bbis. wheat, bushels. Hour moderately acti ci tee jour moderately activ eipts, and prices lower; sales 1,700 DbE 16. for, cominon to sic und Michigan; $8 for fwucy do., and #887 % a for extra old iMinols, Wheat in demand; salee bushels red Chio at $1 $0, and white do, at '$1 65, 40 bushels, mixed lois, ‘on private terms. Corm 1 with e Cowrward tendency; sales 26,000 busiiela ab . a i8c., cloning at tbe inside price, Onte—Sales 1,000 new Ubio oats at 4c. Cano! freights dull at Ue. for corn to New York, Lake imports for the 24 hours ending at noon to-cay:—Flour, 7,260 bbls.; wheat, 4,226 bushels; corn, 15,062 bushela! oats, 1,372 bashela. Cae nal ex) Oris, same time:—Viour, 37 Lbis.; wheat, 968 bu- shels; corn, 40,600 busiels. 0, Aug. %—6:30 P, Me Osw Corn firm; sales to-day, 3,500 bushels at 8c. a Ble. Freights are without change; 8c, for corn to New York. Receipts to-day, 10,500 bushels wheat; 95,000 bashel4 corn. 8's, 88); B 163g; Morris 2 City Poitties, MORE CANDIDATES. ert—It is supposed ihe following persons stant the mination:—Charles Missing Forbes, and Leidy Bilger. date. Commissioner of Repairs and Sujy lies—Michacl Burnt ie a candidate for the hard shell and workingmen’s no- minations. é Shery.—Ald, John W. Brown is working for the hard and soit nominations. Fphraim L. Snow is a candidate for the temperance nominat Compirelier—James Ti. Taylor and James Kelly are spoken ot for the whig nomination in connection with } or Haryer, Joseph C. Pinckney, Simeon Draper, «Dean, and N.C. Ely. For this nomination hanee for the Proadway House and fusion no- Dr, Ives, Ix-Counciiman ir, Newcomb is also @ candi- Miche will Lea great strife. Senctorial Condidates, 3.—David O'Keefe, soft; Ex-Al. kémurd Griffin, (whig.) of Third ward; Senator Barr, .H. Maguire, (Seward Anti-Know No ‘i candidates. hard and working- *s, or Geo. A. Schaffer, of Fourth ward; |. Duganne, by the kh. N’ —Kamuel Brevoort, by the K. N’«.; 11 and workingmen’s nomina- iDinms, Anti-seward, will be . Corks, d, will be re-norninated by the Members of Common Council.—Tenth ward, Horatio Reed, of the Board of Councilmen, has been nominated