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NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28. 1855. : topher’s had been visited with earthqr Anim- migration bill had heen paseed in eee 4 NEW YORK HERALD. readed the republican party in 1822, when the civil that this flo Perritory already numbers THE urishing Territory yn LATEST NEWS. Mag Reman gr irl either here or in France, with a view of sup- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. seaside edt Osi WPVICE Y. W. CORNER OF NASHAU AND FULTON PRES, cosh (a adeance ome $1 per annunn, Fr ee Pasir crs Soe oe : Vaart of Gteal Brliain, or $0 fo any part of ‘he Continent, OORRESPONDENCE vorustaby he Jor. ‘rar Don Fouuas CORRESPONDENTS ARR PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SEXO NOTICE taken of anonymous conmmniction Wedo ‘JOB PRINTING executed with neatnes, cheapness end der ED VERTISEMENTS renewed coery dog. davportant sasN@. 238 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. 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The contents of the Europeam edition of the Herarp WM embrace the news recelved by mail and telegraph at ‘the office during the previous week, and to the hour of FuBlication. sireet, East. sd ‘The News, The Whig Judiciary Qonvention assembled last might in the Broadway House, ex-Recorder Tall- madge presiding. The session was a stormy one, and althoogh several names on the American ticket ‘were endorsed, the most violent abuse was indulged im with regard to the Know Nothing party. Judge Campbell cent a letter declining the nomination for Judge of the Superior Court, whereupon divers gmgry speeches were made, denouncing the Judge and the Kuow Nothings, ‘he following is a com- plete list of the American judiciary nominations made last week, together with those of the whigs Inst night:— YOR JUDGE OF THE SCPREMP COURT. Know Noi Whig. P. BP. Cowles. E. P. Cowles. FOR THE STPRUOR COVRT. Marray Hetima Murray Hofman, Lewis B, Woordrutt. Lewis B. Wools FOR TH: COMMON PUTAS. A Spaulding. Chanceltor Livingston. vor THE A. K. Maynard, Jacob H. Valentine has been nominated hy the whigs as a candidate for Alderman in the Righteenth ward. James Griffiths has been nominated for the game office in the Tenth ward, by the whigs, and @oanciiman Reed by the Know Nothivgs. An officer of the army, just arrived from the West, brings minute accounts from Fort Riley. When the cholera appeared at that post, all the troops were weouting except the band of the regiment. Major Ogden and Surgeon Simons were the only officers present, and there were many laborers employed in the Quartermaster’s department. Dr. Simons re- moved the band and ladies of the garrison to a place y. The doctor returned to his post imme- @iately after performing this duty, he and Major Ogden being then the only military men in the fort. The Major died, and the Surgeon himself was Wronght tothe point of death, Daring bis illness, the workmen plundered the public stores and fled. Ag soon as it was possible to remove Dr. Simons, he was taken to the place where he had left the band and afterwards to Fort Leavenworth. Our correspondents at San Juan (Greytown), writing on 12th and }7th of August, state that the ehbolera had abated in Nicaragua, but not until it had swept away nearly all the government forces, and that the remainder of the troops had been cen- wed at Granada. The epidemic had also visited Aeon, and the revolutionary ormy suffered much frow its attacks, The Costa Ricans kept up a strict quarantine both by land and water. The best jaterests of Nicaragua are represeated as ina very perilous position, Threatened with Colonel MARINE ¢ Kinney’ troops from the Atleutic, Colonel Walker's from the Pacifle, with her own evolutionists on the North, and the peo- ple of Costa Riea hostile on the South, her antegre| moral power was fast declining. The Ac- cessory Transit Company had a party of armed men ut Castillo in order to watch Col. Kinney’s move- ments. Kinney had from vihicen to twenty sol- @iers with him on the 17th, and it is said they were rather desponding in their hopes, and looking anx- wusly for reinforcements from the United States. ‘The natives took the matter quietly. Jt is said that the Nicaragnan goverument will disavow the Rand claim of the Colonel. His brig, the Han- tress, had sailed for New York. Some of the colonists were already ill of fever. The Colonel had given a grend sorige at (reytown. Mr. Nelson, United States Consul at Turk’s Yalands, had arrived at San Juan. It was reported that Generals Gardiola aud Lopez, with two hundred men from Guatemala, had attacked Honduras and outed General Cabanas. It was alo said that Co- fone) Kinney had made an attack on Rivas. The revolationists from J.eon bad attacked Managua, but were repulsed. Greytown (rebuilt) was looking weil, and all the sufferers hy the late bombardment, yrom the British Vice Consul downwards, were pr paring to subunit their claim for damages to Con gress. Our Costa Rica correspondent, writing from San José, encloses a translation from the Bolelin Oficial of that place, dated on August 1,in which the people are congratulated on the steady march of fnprovement which ia witnessed in the republic, and on their patriotic rejection of fillbastera schemes of imvasion. The large increase of the army is ac- eounted for as» measure taken to secure the happy peace Low existing. The democrats who sympa- thized with Col. Walker are heartily donounred, and the inhabitants warned e gains introdacing stran- gers in arms to arbitrate in domestic quarrels, The Boletin ot August the ith contains a } article on the affairs of Nicaragua, which we hove also translated. It wnnounees that the demorrats seized by Qnivos at Maracio, were summarily shot in the public square of Rivas. An oMcial account of the negotiations of the native republicans with Colonels Walker and Kivney is givea, os also a report of Walker'slanding, battlesand defeat, The General praises the people highly for their resiet- ance to him, ond concindes hy asserting that the only Jand which the invader will ever be granted in Nicaragua will be just a antl y for his grave. From Kington (Jamaica) we have files dated to the 14th of August. A seifous riot had ocenrred in Kingston between the nevre soldiers stationed inthe barracks and the people and pe The soldiers had aseaulted the citizens wantonly. The August holidays were being celebrated. Anniversary day had pasved over withont notice Emigration from Faurope was recommended as a means of arresting the decay of the island. Inthe Kingeton markets trade was inactive. In Antigua the worable and the cost of jabor was high mg St. Vincent was healthy, with stor my weather. The reply of Mr. F. W. Edm pis, late cashier of sna | the Mechanice’ Bank,-to 0 40 charges preferred against him whilst an office’ , of that institution, ap- pears in another part of this day’s paper.» It is a complete vindication of 45 omcial conduct, and places some of those still c* nected with the concern in no very enviable por stion. We felt confident from the weed veilt bo | first that Mr. Edr sonds would, at the proper time, clear up the my ,tery and expose the machinery by not | Which some of, oar banking institutions are worked. It cannot + particularly gratitying to the stock- elders of, the Mechanics’ Bank to know that ita ‘affaira eco now managed by ment so little experi- enc Mr. Edmonds was the mainstay, and when he left the bank lost its principal prop. An address to the people of Pennsylvania has been published by the free soil abolition branch of the Reading Know Nothing Council, in which the official announcement is made that the Know No- things of Pennsylvania, or at least that portion of them who follow the free soil section, have broken the bond that bound them to the national organiza- tion as they were represented in their late Council at Philadelphia. The address declares that Penr- sylvania was always opposed to the extension of slavery, the passage of the Nebraska bill, and the repeal of the Missouri compromise, and so forth, and that on these issues the Know Nothings tri- umphed in the last election. It farther declares that the State Council at Reading (the free soil portion) trampled the twelfth section of the national plat- form “ in the dust, where it belongs.” Terrible fel- low, is Governor Johnston. Our correspondent at Bermuda, writing on the 16th instant, informs us that the building of the new hotel, undertaken by the corporation of Hamil- ton, had commenced, and that in a short time tourists and invalids can be amply accommodated there. The next California mai) is expected to bring dates to August 18. After that date, with the con- currence of the Post Office Department, the depar- tures from San Francisco will be permanently changed from the Ist and 16th to the 5th and 20th of each month. Under the new arrangement it is understood that the movements of the steamers will be so regulated as to enable the Atlantic boats to leave Aspinwall invariably on the 4th and 19th, and arrive at this port punctually on the 13th and 29th. The sailing days from New York will remain unchanged, but the same certainty as to time will be observed as on the eastern passage. ‘The steamship Granada, Capt. Griffin, from Ha- vyana, arrived at this port last evening, bringing one week’s laternews. At the time the G. left Havana it was wuknown whether or not Santa Anna had arrived. Our correspondent states that a British yeesel of war was at Vera Cruz for the purpose of taking him eway, and thet a Spanish steamer had beeff cent to his assistance. Sickness was on the increase in the city. The steamship Daniel Webster, Capt. Miner, ar- rived yesterday morning from Punta Arenas, bring- ing $712,000 in specic, and 356 passengers. By her arrival we learn that a terrific hurricane swept over the Mosquito coast on the night of the 14th inst., by which the British sloop-of-war Woolverein became a total loss. No case of cholera, it is stated, had ap- peared in Nicaragua for the past few weeks. Gen. Pierce received a public reception at the White Sulphur Springs, Va. Ex-President Tyler welcomed him; and the President, in reply, compli- mented Mr. T. on the purity of his administration, adc. The President, during his speech, indirectly ascailed the Know Nothings, and denounced their principles as contrary to th of the constitution. An interesting sketch of the life of Santa A.na, who his receutly fled from ™M for the third ime, will be found in our paper to-day. Our Albany despatch this morning furnishes us with the rumors current in that city relative to the srobable action of the Mree Soil State Convention which is to meet in Syracuse on Wednesday next. The Grand Jury of Cumberland, Maine, have re- used to find a Lil of indictment agaiust Neal Dow for his connection with the death of Robbins, in the ate liquor riots in Portland. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to ahont 500 bales, chiefly to spizners, without change in prices. Dealers were disposed to await the re- ceipt of later foreign news, via Halifax. Buyers could not purchase except at about Le. for middling Uplands; 11 Je. a J1 je. for Mobile, and 11je. a Nje. for New Orleans; while persons disposed to press sales conld not effect them withent some concession in prices. Flour was easier, especially for lower and common grades, and sales were made to a fair ave- rage extent. Common to good Southern red wheat sold at $1 57a 31 90; white was $2 a $2 05. Corn sold at e8e. a “We. Pork advanced 50c. per barrel for new mess, with free sales, including parcels set- tled by contract at the same figure. Other pro- Visions were also firm. Sagaes were firm, and coflee steady, with moderate sales. Freights were without quotable change, but dull, with light engagements. The French Censorship upon the Amertean Press. There is fur more than meets the eye at any single glance, in the establishment in the city of New York, by authority of the French gov- ernment, of an active clandestine censorship upon the newspapers of the United States, by which it is proposed to interfere between them and their American readers in foreign lands, All will admit that it is a measure of extreme severity, to be justified only by urgent and un- controllable necessity. Itis an intervention in our affairs exercised by a foreign State apon our own soil, wider the actual protection of our Jaws, institutions and journals, which in turn it violates, insuits and betrays. Aside from the question of the exereise of sach ano- malous powers here, unless the suppression of our papers is demanded by the disturbing in- fluence they exert in the dominions of Napo- leon, such a proceeding is in the last degree of- fonsive to our national pride. We do not like. to he visited with the mere caprices of power; and this feeling is all the stronger because our conduct is regulated by principles at once 30 peaceful, orderly and conservative as justly to rescue us from the suspicions implied in the execution of the measure to. Satis. fied that stringent laws are necessary to the preservation of good government, in the pre- sent condition of (he humena mind, oa the other side of the water, We are content to see their rulers exercive even despotic powers over their subjects, But whea they « estimate Americans, to measure the nd fa. terpret their designs hy the standard European republicanism, and to raise the presumption which is forced upon us hy the interdiction of the journals addressed to them in France and Europe, that they are parties to the schemes of violence which are continually hatched from the warvets of crazy reformers, (hey simply do Viemselves and us a very grave injury. Ameri re honored all over th} world for obedience to laws—tiberty is with them a normal condition of society. They are not real or imaginary grievances, and hatching plots of revolution. They constitute 2 community where most peaceful, orderly and perfect government fe found in poputar liberty. Henee their devo- tion to law os a primary source of power, and their abhorvence of anarchy as the deadliest en of mankind and the sure precursor of y and weakness, It is establishment of 2 to haracter ans constantly brooding over vident, there. + consorship that the preesing the circulation of American journals, is wholly uncalled for. Asa remedy, were the case diferent, it is inappropriate and useless, There {s not a government in Europa, including that of France, which does mot possess the power to eject from its dominions thdse who offend against its laws, or are even suspected of hostility to the public peace. This gives the means of detailing punishments, and of course of reaching those who may be guilty. The denunciation, therefore, of a whole clase, without reference to guilt or innocence, is both oppressive and unjustifiable, certainly so as far as the journals interested are concerned, and tle persons to whem they are ad- dressed. It is so again, because no discrimination is made between the papers which habitually traduce and villify the French government and those that treat it with ean- dor and fairness. This leads us to a view of the subject still more insulting to the people of the United States, It is evident from it that the blow is aimed at general ideas, too— peculiar opinions upon governmental policy, liberal sentiments, repablican theories, and current criticisms upon European rule and management; that these, in fact, are the objects of hatred and interdiction. If this be true, it involves questions higher, than even the violation of our laws, the abuse of our hospitality, and the comities of intercourse subsisting between this country and Europe. It is the proscription of the people of the United States—an offensive and insulting effort to degrade their government, their jour- nals and their fellow-citizens In foreign lands, Louis Napoleon ought to know, and does know, that Americans abroad do not require American newspapers to enable them to utter liberal sentiments on proper occasions, or to criticise with severity even his or any other government, They go from home with politi- cal opinions and ideas already settled. It is idle to attribute the slightest disturbance to the American press. It communicatse with its countrymen, gives the current history of the times, and there its office and influence cease, If, then, it is proposed, by establishing a foreiga censorship upon our journals, to in- terdict the utterance, even to Americans in France or Europe, of liberal sentiments, we have only to say that the remedy is partial, inadequate and-useless. To eftect this there must be non-intercourse of men—American travellers must be stopped, the channels of commerce closed, post offices suppressed, pri- vate correspondence inhibited, and a great many other impossible measures enforced. The suppression of papers, merely, will haveno other practical effect than to excite indigna- tion in the minds of the American people, sub- ject their citizens abroad to annoyance and their press to injury. As a mere precaution- ary measure of police, then, it is obvious that the French government has simply made a mistake, Certainly, ithas not weighed with proper judgment the consequences of persist- ing in acts so useless to itself, so offensive to us, and so injnrious to one of the most effective organs of public opion in America. The sys- tem of journalism in the United States is an institution with scarcely less power here than that exercised by Louis Napoleon in France. There is, and has been since the revolution, an active sympathy between the two governments; but it is evident that if such a plan of pro- scription is carried out against us—if we are to he degraded by an attempt to suppress the most potent of all mediums of American thought, by putting our cilizens abroad under the han of suspicion, by Invading our soil with a clandestine police—then will be seen an end both of our friendship and our forbearance, As a measure of government, it is insulting to vs asa people and a violation of our laws; as a police remedy, it is peurile and inadequate ; as a fling at our institutions, it is iv bad taste, and will find no sympathy. The sooner it is removed the better for all partics. Tie Sorr Suet Democratic CONVENTION AT Syraccse.—The soft shell democracy, who are to hold a State convention at Syracuse to-mor- row, love the administration and the Custom House; but “ the course of true love never did run smooth,” They are in difficulty, and it isthe difficulty of worshipping at two altars at the same time—of dividing their allegiance be- tween principle and policy. There is on one side the administration, the Custom House and Tammany Hall, and on the other the chances for the loaves and fishes which may, in the fu- ture, spring up under the furore of negro wor- ship. The first isa certainty, and the softs have an eye to such advantages, They are practical men in matters of office; they confine their theories to their conveations and stump speeches, But this is neither here nor there. They are now on their way either to rule or ruin, and nobody seenis to be able to tell which. They can no longer serve two masters: they must go to the right with the national demo- cracy, or to the left with the Seward hybrids; to the right they run into the harde, and sink the administration; to the left, into the repub- licans, and lose the Custom House. It is'a terrible state of things, There is no middle ground, and no long sleepy probation; the thing must he done now. We can imagine that un- der the strict moral teachings of John Coch- rone, and the sharp intellectnal lessons of t. Rynders, there could be no didiculty in getting the soft democracy to adopt the reso- lutions of their hard brothers, and even to be more unequivocal about the folly of attempt- ing the repeal of the Missouri compromise, the rights of popular sovereignty and the like; but the ouble is that the hards got up ear- liest in the morning; and now, to repeat what they uttered will carry the impression of a ca- pitulation, and yet to refuge to do so will send the whole soft faction over to the Seward hy- Lrids. Here is the difficulty. The ugly ques- tions which divide men have been brought to an issue. The hards have token up their posi- tion on one side, and Seward and his negro Worshippers oceapy the other, Which way will the softs go? As doubtfal as we regard them, in view of the strong weights of five lnndred good offices in possession, drawing them towards the constitution, and softening their asperities towards their local opponents jnet now the anomatlons * vnts” of demo sracy we believe they will, as far as human pride will permit, rush into the embrace of the na- tionals, and enlist for the war against the ne- gro worshippers. We shall see. si ra | } -Before the new Con- grees has finished its work, we shall have Min- | nesota arking for admission into the Union. The late census shows that its population al most comes upto the required number, and fifty-five thousand inhabitants, St. Paul, the capital, has dver tive thousand inhabitants. Minnesota will, of course, come in ag a free State, and thus preserve the balance of power with Kansas, which wil) probably ask for ad- mission at the same time, as a slave State. Fawmuy Jupitxes.—Recently, in Massacha- setts, there have been several re-unions of the members of old Puritan families ; aud we see that a call is issued for a general meeting of the Rice family, as follows :— ‘The descendants (and those connected with thom) of Fémund Rice, born 1594, settled in Sudbury, (that part now Wayland,) Masi., 1639, and died at Marlboro’, 1643, will convene at the homestead of their ancestor, in the southerly part of Wayland, one avd a half miles from, Saxonville, and onthe road from that place to Weston, cn Wednesday, the 29th day of August, at 8 o'clock A. M., to exchange congratulations, and strengthen the ties of family kindred; to behold new cousins, and with them walk over the grounds trodden and cultivated by their ancestor, and drink of the spring from which be drank more than two centuries ago, ‘An addresa will be deliverod by W. W. Rice, Esq., of Worcester. Retreshments will be provided for the occasion. ‘A genealogical history of the family, from Edmund to the present time, embracing several thousands of his de- tcendants, male aud female, their births, marriages, places of residence, and deaths, is in a good degree of for- wardness for publication, Those who wish their families to be enrolled therein wiil send, if they have not already done so, a record of themselves and families to Andrew H. Ward, Fsq., West Newton, Mass. MARSHALL &. RICE, of Newton, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, Bricuton, Mass., July 25, 1855, This pride of ancestry may seem a little sin- gular in an unterrified democratic republic; but such meetings are always harmless, and if properly carried out, may do a great deal of good. Two or three weeks ago, at Plymouth, there was a meeting of the descendants of Robert Cushman, a stout old Commonwealth man, who came outin the May Flower. On this occasion, over one thousand members of the family met together to talk over old times. At this meeting nearly every State in the Union was represented, and political disputes were buried in the pleasant reminiscences of the good old times, when there was no differ- ence of opinion between the first families of Virginia and the Puritans vf New England. We hope that the Rice family will have a “ good time generally,” and that their example will be imitated by other old families North and South. In gathering together the scatiered Aescendants of the Pilgrims from all parts of the United States, the members of the families now resident in New England may be brought to a better understanding of Mr. Webster's meaning, when he said: “I know no North, no South, no East, no West, under the constitu- tion.” New England owes much of its wealth and power to the South, but it occasionally forgets the obligation. A Uservr, Misston.—A great many of our re- presentatives abroad have been of the lightest kind of timber, and it seems to have been the ambition of all our politicians who have been nuisances at home, to secure a few years of ig- noble ease by gettinga place on the diplomatic or consular staff. Aw an offset to this purely ornamental class of persons, we percieve that Mr. Browne, the manager of the agricultural division of the Patent Ofiice, will sail for Eu- rope iu the steamer of the Sth September. Mr. Browne will bring back a large number of seeds, and will endeavor to introduce the sea cance, which protects the shores of seaboard places from the unwelcome visits of Neptune, li is very useful in Jolanda. Mv. Browne's mission is a very useful one, and he deserves credit for his devotion to ag- ricultural science, It is asingular fact that nearly every seed that has been brought here —and we have had them from all parts of the world-—has flourished. The only exception to this rule that we are aware of is the case of the Japan bean, which would not positively grow either in city or country. The Japanese did not give their seed rice to the officers of the American squadron, which fully accounts for the fact that mothing has been done for that. Our country contains so many varieties of cli- mate and topography that we can raise any- thing that grows in any part of the world, So we eay success to Mr. Browne. His department is a most important one, and we trust that Con- gress will be liberal in granting appropriations for ite support. The Tarf. UNION COURSE, L, I—TROTTING. A match for $500 was announced to come off yesterday afternoon, between the celebrated trotting nags Lady Franklin and Miller's Damsel; but owing to some under- standing between the drivers—Hiram Woodruff and Wm. Whelan (both tavern keepers on the road)—the race was postponed until another day, when probably they will have a larger crowd. New Trupcnarn Lox 10 Montant.—The House Printing Telegraph Company have just completed a new and ex- cellent line to Montreal, hy the way of Troy, Saratoga, Plattsburg, &e., which has been placed under the ma- nagement of Mr. Alphonso Prescott, for some time past connected with the Astor House line in this city, Meeting of the New York Druggists. TRE LATE EDICT FROM SECRETARY GUTHRIE. A large nceting of the wholesale druggists and import- ers of drugs, of the city of New York, was held at the office of Messrs. Davis, Morris & Co., in Wall street, last Satur- day afternoon, to devise some measures to have rescinded the late edict of Secretary Guthrie, requiring all drags Uable to adulteration to pass through the public stores. It was stated that a compliance with the order would render the importation of certain articles #0 expensive as to amount to a prohibition; articles, too, that are nevor adulterated, 8 coperas, . The expenses attending th sportation to and from the public store wil, in. some cases, be. more than the original cost of the article, not to count the damage likely te ncerne by the transfer. After the above points had been made in a goneral Achate, it was moved and carried unanimously that a cemmities of font be appointed to draft a memorial to the Secretary of the Treasury, laying the grievances of the meoting before him in’ full, and request of him a withdrawal of the order. ‘The following gentlemen were secordingly appointed ujon this committee Henry Meyer, Llwelyn Hasselt, Engeno Dutith, Carl 1. Becknago). ‘This memorial is to be prosentod to all the prominent druggists in the elly, who are injuriously affected ly this orver, for their rignature, i Mr. Cole Declines. We find in the Buffalo Republic, of the 25th inst., the following letter from George Cole, Ksq.,of Buf. falo, from which it will be seen that he declines the nomination of State Engineer, tendered him by the Syracuse Convention:— ” BUPPALO, Ang. 24, 1855, Mosers, B.S. Comme and others, State Central Committ NTIAW StI learn by tel which was held at 8yrace as the candidat tate Pngineer and Surveyor, highly esteem the good opinion of my follow. whether it be expressed in the tee in public assemblies, and should appr of an (ection to the office for which you h 1 em not willing io become the candidete of a convention cempored of a section of the democratic party in whose | og nL Love not participated. ing a candidate lor nomination to the same oiice hy the convention which is to assemble on the 29h inst., T ea unwilling to be placed Ina doubtful position pollti- cally, by axventing fo any act which may subject me to a enspieicn of having attempted to forestull the action of the convention on the 20th inst. | 2 that at the Conven- torday and to-lay, that body for the Ubad hopes, and still desire, that the democracy of this State may unite in the political coutert of this fall, and that its wuited energies would redeem us from the mis | rule of ¢ This surely cannot be accom- pli ion was serious in its action, Pegging that you will make known to your assoclates this my declension, [remain your obediont servant, GEORGE COLE, vioniste in Massachusetts are in some degree of confusion Jart now, A mass convention {s called, howe ( ever, to be bold tedoy at New Sglom Contre BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, New York Politics, GOSSIP IN POLITICAL CIROLES—PROBABLE ACTION OF THD SOPT SHELL ATATE CONVENTION. ALBANY, Aug. 27, 1855, The political circles of this city ave full of rumors rela tive to the probable action of the Soft Shell Democratic Convention, which {a called to meet at Syracuse on Wed- nesday next. There is no doubt that a majority of the convention is in favor of a fusion with the hards, and itis even stated that the hard platform will be adopted tn fofo, and that several persona on that ticket will be taken up by the softs, including Messrs, Selden and Willard for Judges of tho Court of Appeals, and Mr. Cole for State Engineer. Mf this course should be adopted the convention may split on the Kansas rock; many of the delegates from the rural districts will not endorse the Nebraska bill. It was only by a great oratorical effort on the part of John Cochrane that the half way endorsement was carried through last year. The leaders of the republican con- vention are helping along this disadection among the softs, and will promise the outsiders the nomination of Willlam C. Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post, as Secretary of State, and David Dudley Field as Attorney General. ‘This is probably all humbug, but still they may make the country people be- ieve it until after Wednesday. It is further said here that State matters were lost sight of in the late hard convention, and that the whole affair was a contest between the friends of Dickinson and Buchanan, as rival candidates for the Presidency. The Dickinson men, largely in the majority, were bitterly op- posed to fusion, and beat the ten Buchananites all out of the field, From Washington. HEALTH OF THE PRESIDENT. Wasuxoroy, Aug. 27, 1855. Information received here from the White Sul- phur Springs, represents President Pierce as recovered from the slight attacks of chills and fevers to which he was subjected, and as attending a ball there. About thirty-five hundred dollara bhaye been sub- bed here for tho re'ief of the yellow fover sufferers in rr Virginta, It is said that the Coast Survey office has re- ceived a despatch, stating that the steamer Hetze! exploded her boiler, near the Capes of Chesapeake, killing a Greman and seriously wounding assistant en- gincer Latimer. President Pierce at the White Sulphur Springs. Barrigore, August 27, 1855. A public reception was given to President Pierce at the White Sulphur Springs, Virginia. He was welcomed by ex-President Tyler, and in replying, complimented that gentleman on the purity of his administration, and its high purposes, bravely and wisely executed, He indi- rectly denounced Know Nothingism as antagonistic to the doctrines and principles of the constitution, and ho hoped that none of the modern isms would be potent for evil or powerless for good. He urged his hearers to avoid all heresies which were in direct antagonism with the basex, doctrines and principles of the constitution, Physicians from this city, at present in Norfolk, repre- sent the ravages of yellow fever as unabated. Governor Shannon en route for Kansas. Sr. Lovie, August 27, 1855. Governor Shannon passed through this city yesterday, en voute for Kansas. Kentucky Election. Louisviiix, Aug. 27, 1855. The official majority for Morehead, Know Nothing can- date {for Governor of the State, is four thousand four hundred and three. The Telegraphic Excursionists. Hauax, August 27, 1855, The steamship Merlin, from St. Johns, N. F., arrived here yesterday afterpoon. The St. Johns papers contain glowing acconnts of a grand ball, and other complimen- tary demonstrations by the citizens, during the time the telegraphic excursionists were in port. The excursion- ists, it was expected, would meet the chip and cable from London at Port au Basque, on the return of the steamer Adger to that port. We may, therefore, shortly expect to hear from the party at Cape Breton. The Will of the Late Abbott Lawrence. Bostox, August 27, 1855. Besides numerous private gifts, the willof the late Ab- hott Lawrence bequeaths $130,000 for public benevolence, rrenoe Scientific School, $50,000; for building model lodging houses, $50,000; Boston Publie Library, $10,000; Franklin Library, in the city of Lawrence, $5,000; American Bible Society, $5,000; American Tract Society, $5,000; and Home Missionary Society, $5,000, One-half of the net rents of the lodging houses is to be annually distributed to various charitable institutions in Boston, and the other half is to accumulate, in order to consti- tute a fund for keeping the lodging houses in order. Railroad Movements in Ohio. Curveaxp, August 27, 1855. ‘The Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company have leased the use of the track of the Cleveland, Columbus and Cin cinnati Railroad from Berea to this place, a distance of twelve wiles, The gauge ix to be changed to 4 feet 934 inches, in order to accommodate the trains of both This arrangement scttles t idge controversy The Late Liquor Riot at Portland. Bostox, August 27, 1855. The Geand Jury of Cumberland, Maine, have refused to find a bill of indiciment against Mayor Neal Dow for con. nection with the death of Robbins, in the late Portland liquor riot. Several of the alleged rioters, however, have een indicted. Nayigation of the Ohio. Prrrenvna, August 27, 1855. Ai noon to-day the river measured five feet six inches, anc is falling. roads, Markets. Atnany. August 27—6:10 P. M. Corn—Sules 26,000 bush- Viour dull and unchanged, la Western for sound, "<Sales 1,000 bushels State, at 49. a 50c. measured, and 7,000 bushels Chicago, at 60c. Rarley—Sales 600 bushels two rowed, at 96c.—bolders ask 90¢. $1 for the whole range of two rowed, to arrive—buyers for milling or on Western account offer 90c. Receipts by canal to- Jay:-821 bbls, flour; (3,960 bushels corn; 7,460 bushels is. hy Rereato, Aug. 27-6:90 P, M. Flour accumulating and unchanged; enles 1,000. bbls, at $7.75 0 $8 for good to fancy Olfo und Michigan,. and 38 26 for extra southern Mili Wheat—Sales 3,000 bushels common white Milwaukie winter at $1 6 d 2,600 bushels pure white, part Cana‘tion, at $1 90. Corn dull and lower; sales 20,000 bushels at Tbe. ; part to arnive ina day or two, und closing at the inside figare. Oats in demand; sales’ 4,000 bushels on private terms. Canal fceights unchanged, Lake imports for the forty- eight hours ending at noon to-day:—Flour, 3,162 bbls.; wheat, 8,730 bushels; corn, 130,427 bushels; ata, 4,490 bushe Exports, same time:—Wheat, 8,576 bushels; corn, 43,491 bushels; oats, 13,050 bushels, A Oawneo, Ang. 27—6:30 P. M. Flovr in good demand for Montreal and Quebec—salos 5,600 bola. Upper Lake, at $8 1245. Wheat unchanged— sales 2,000 bushels Upper Lake, at $1 70. Corn firm, with an improved tendency—snles 13,000 bushels, at Sle. Reeeipts to-day:—Wheat, 7,600 bushels; corm) 13,509 bushels, sai _—_—_—_— General Santa Anna—His Third Exode from Mexico—Sketch of his Career, d&e., Ke. A pay or two since we announced that His Serene Highness Antonio Lopez de Santa Afia had fled from Mexico, signed his abdication at Perote, and arrived in Vera Cruz just in time to catch the boat for Havana, where he will spend some time enjoy- ing the sweets of classic retirement and the refined amusements of the cock-pit and monte-table, Santa Anna isa most remarkable military hero. He never had a parallel in history; and as his name is im the United States as familiar in the mouth as ‘ honsehold words,” we have compiled a brief sketch of his career. Antonio Lopez, afterwards called de Santa Aja, was horn at Vera Cruz about 1790. Little is known of his ancestry, and he may be called a self-made man. He joined the Spanish service in 1912, and early distinguished himself; in 1821 he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. At about this time General Tturbide proclaimed the plan of “Tguala,” and Santa Aja joined his party. He commanded the cavalry at the battle of Cordova, and afterwards took Vera Craz, where he was appointed military Governor. The Spanish forces retreated into the castle of San Juan d’Ulloa, and ultimately went home. Ttarbide assumed the imperial purple, and Santa Aida, reasoning that, a8 he had conquered the Empe- ror's eneygiea, be wight easily bdne the iimperor, the empire and death of Iturbide. The family lay all their subaequent misfortunes at Santa Afia’s. door. As a reward for his services, our rising young patriot was continued in the government of Vera Cruz, and was considered as the leader of the demo- cratic party in Mexico. He supported their peculiar tenets in what was called the plan of Lobato, which sought the expulsion of all the native Spaniards from the country; which did drive out a large por- tion of the wealthiest, and with an enormous capi- tal, the loss of which, in a financial point of view, Mexico has felt to the present day. Tn 1833 our hero first reached the Presidency; and in 1835, backed by a strong party, he declared the dissolution of the federal and adopted the central system of government. Here commenced the Texan difficulty, which has had so important an influence upon the fortunes, not only of Santa Afia alone ‘but of the whole Mexican republic—if such it could ever fuirly be called. A great portion of the colo- nista of Texas had emigrated from the United States of the North, and had been accustomed to a strictly republican constitution. The constitution adopted by Mexico in 1824, and which, nominally at least, had been in force up to this period, was modelled after that of the American Union. It was under the provisions of this constitution,and at the invitation of the Mexican government, con- tained in the grant to Stephen Austin, that they had made their homes in Texas. The Texan colonists then naturally murmured at the newly adopted cen tralizing system, which was in fact but little better than a mere military dictatorship. The attempt to coerce their submission precipitated a revolution ia that State—a declaration of independence; and a long war. Every one remembers the struggle co gallantly carried onby the Texaus—their sufferings --the imprisonment at Mier—the massacre of tho Alamo, and the decisive victory at San Jacinto, where the hero of a hundred fights, the great Santa iia himself, was found up to his knees in ditch mud, begging for his life, which on account of many eruelties practised in his name, was in no small’ danger. General Houston caved his miserable life, however; and aftera short captivity he was relcased.. He spent a short time in retirement at his heaatiful” retreatof Mango de Clavo. Here we might pause and look at his first ten or fifteen years of public life. We should find that he had betrayed his country and his friends in every emergency. First fighting against the liberty of the people, in the pay of Spain—next deserting his colors for Iturbide’s money—then professing violent: attachment for pure democracy, and overthrowing, Iturbide because he called himself Emperor—and lastly, forcing himself, by the help of the army, into the Presidential chair, and getting upa dicta- torship no less severe than the despotic rule of the Czar of all the Russiag. Thus, in 1828, he appeared on the scene as a republican, laboring to support Guerrero as President against Pedrazza. In 1830 he wheeled about and espoused the cause of Pedraz- za, defeated the army sent againsf him, and Pedraze za was President until 1833. At the next election, Santa Afia himself was chosen President of Mexico,. defeated Arista and D’Arran, who took up arms against him, ond held his seat until 1835, when an ingurrection, headed by Lacatecos, broke out. against him. Having quelled this outbreak, he pro- claimed himself dictator. Nearly all the commerce of Mexico is carried om by Englishmen, who liked Santa Afia because he kept the country quiet; they were. always ready to assist him in raising money to pay. Of his mercena- ries. A Mr. Martin, an Englishman in the minea saw him in 1828, and thus describes his personal ap- pearance :— In appearance, then, Santa Anna was one of the finost looking and most gentlemanly men [had ever scen, and his behavior towards me, announcing myself, as [ df, as on Englishman, was courteous and atlable.in (he extreme, and without showing the annoyance ho must have felt in knowing that the English, at the instigation of the gov- ernment de facto, were doing ll they could to cause hia personal estruetion; on the contrary, he not only pro- ised to take my countrymen under his protection when he entered Oaxaca, should his tuilitary operations prove ¥afal-—which provaise he subsequently performed ta the letter—but he also invited me to partake of is frugal meal, contisting of the “olla podrida,” brought into an Tudian hut by agoldier. A very penctrating, tine dark blue. eye. keen, but cool, determined glance,’ with an oper countenayce and lofty forehead, formed the most promi- nent features of the person of the general. He appeared thoughtful, and had the air occasionally of a philosophee at the age of thirly-two. His officers paid him the great- est deference; but he spoke little, On the following day I witnessed an attack made by him in. person, at the head of some Iancers, upon a division of cavalry, infantry and artillery, about ‘ive leagues from the place where L met him, Ihave seen some hard Sighting since, and have witneseed some very brave men in action in close quar- ters, but I never saw a more determined onset than that Jed ‘on by Santa Anna, heading only 250 horse against. the advanced guard of the enemy opposed to him, con- bed of 700 men, supported by 2 pieces of ar- lery. In 1838 we hear of Santa Aja again in the field, at the bombardment and attack upon Vera Craz by the French naval force under the Prince de Join- ville. The French took the castle, but gave up the town. One of Santa A‘ia’s legs was taken off by a eeere shot. He says it struck him when the ‘rench were retreating to their boats, and that he had hold of the Prince de Joinyilie’s coat tail at the time, but the French say that they seel the donghty hero ranning away in the moment pis stg sent the shot after him asa sort of P. P.C. card. In 1841 he went into power again on one leg, and governed asan absolute monarch anti) 1844, when a new revolution sent him abroad for the second time. In 1946 war broke ont between Mexico and the United States. Santa Afia was in Cuba an exile; hut pledging himself to bring about a speedy peace, he was permitted by the government of the United States to land at Vera Cruz. He was received with loud acclaims, and immediately took the fleld against the American army. He was soundly whipped at Buena Vista, and his capital was taken from hin, “— 4 Gyros Ll ol yee Gordo. Shortly after the treaty of peace, we find out hero again “stamped out” and obliged to take refuge in Kingston, Jamaica, and Carthage, in New jranada. He built a house at the latter place, and engaged in trade. He remained here quietly until 1862, when, taking advantage of an ‘neurcection headed by Generals Uraga and Woll, he returned, and resumed his seat in the halls of the Montezu- mas. He had outlived the revolution of Parcdes, the American war, and the administration of Her- tera, and was recalled because the Mexicans be- lieved that he was the only person who could keep the country quiet. Although known to be a great scoundrel, a liar, a traitor, a gambler and an assas- sin, be never countenanced sin of any stripe in others. He was a severely just dictator. The history of Santa Afa’s last administration may be briefly told. He soon set up the central ays- tem, and proclaimed the “ Plan of Jalisco,” which was to the effect that he should be President for life and have the privilege of naming his snecessor in a sealed packet, to he deposited in the Department of Relations, and nat to be opened until after his death. This was accepted by several States, and soon Santa Aiia procecded to inangurate an entire isin He has just been overthrown again by a revolution, and is for the fourth time a itive. Who ia the coming man to succeed him? Not Alvarez, cer- tainly. He ts only a rough soldier, without know- ledge of the theory or practice of government. La Vega and Carro are second rate men, and things da not look any the lighter ‘on gecount of the fact that of filibusters is hoverin, northea fronti dna fined stern ier. The above facts go to show that Santa Ana ia & man of unquestionable ability and undaunted perve- verance. If any Spaniard or creole could rule Mex- co, he is the man, He has tried four times, and failed. In his last attempt he waa assisted by Messrs. Gadsden and Pierce with seven millions ot our money fora strip of land not worth seven thon- sand, Noteven their disinterested bounty, joined to the support of the English ment, could keep Hix idorene Highness on fhe throne of the Aztecs. His careér, and the general hi of all the South American republics, prove ely that no Spanish government can be permanent om thiscontinent; while the prosportiy and glory of the United States as fully demonstrate the of the doctrine of Mr. Douglas, Geo. Sanders and others— that the whole hemisphere is destined to ackuow- Jedge the Anglo-Saxon sway. nerine © ington O correspondent of the Wasbington Gryan, writing fidtn this chy, under date of the 2th inst,, nays Cape tain West, of the steamship Atlantic, is now in this el superintending the building of the new ship of the Colling line, and it ia supposed that he will bave command of hr, he being tho oliast captain of the lina, As he is ane ot the mort popular officers in our merchant service, appointment cannot but give the great Captain Luce, of the lost it is eal the Pacific, having reling ‘of the new vessel. wen good judgment, has gone to