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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. peur OPTION N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON ETS onnunn. eet conte por PERMA, cash in wdoance. FHP DAILY WELALD, 2 conts per oop per annum, 10 THK WEEKLY HERALD, every orig, wey, oF & per annum; the ‘dition "part of Great Britain, or $5 lo any part of He VULURTARY CORRESPONDENCE amumining spartans newee. from JORRESPONDENTS ARK Fiera pat fore a oe ene oe AES Panricutancy Reavestap 10 Seat att L SNE ON cE taken of anonymous communications, We do not return Mion IrTvi execual with neatness, cheapness and dee Meh oe RTISEMENTS renewed every day. == AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WAY THEATRE, Broadway—Ticut Rore—Turee Baus. FRENCYMAN—MAMILSETH BROTHEKS—Vou av VENT. (IBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway In ap Our or Prace— e Turon—Ikis AssURANCE ep ‘Yankee Mopyerr. @OWERY THEATRE, Lowery—Carrentar or Roven— Baves or me Toss. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broadway. LEVIS BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 569 Broad- ‘aa § payed Mi wey.—Boniesque Nuoro Mixsrngisy. To gg The News. All things sublunary must have an end, and so the Boft Shell Convention of this State, which convened en Wednesday last at Syracuse, closed ita session yesterday, after having nominated the following ticket, which we place below in parallel columns with the names of the nominees of the unquenchable ards :— BOFT SHELLS. HARD SHELIA, Seeretary of State. Israel T. Hatch. ‘Aaron Ward. Comptroller. ’ Samuel Stebbins. L. B. Mitchell. Treasurer. Andrew §. ThurytoD amyl Me Home x ial Commissioner. Curtis Hawley. ag Frederick Follett. ° Patrick H. Agun. s Inspector. State Prison Fuapetor, Attorney General. Samuel J. Tilden. , R. J. Dillon, ‘State Engineer. John B. Jervis. Short term—John a Lathe ee gobi Wilts, Long term—Samuel 8. Selden. Samuel 8. Selden, Ag will be observed, Judge Selden is the only per- son upon whom both factions of the democracy have anited. The convention contained a large number fold and foxy politicians, and the straggle for ‘ascendancy was both fierce and protracted. There were two autagonistic principles represented in pearly equal force—the principle of free soilism, and the principle of devotion to the spoils. The latter predomincted somewhat, and after along and brilliant debate, participated in by Lorenzo B. Shepard, John Cochrane and.John Kelly, onthe side of the adminis- trationista, and Gen. Nye, Mr. Jenkins of Oneida, Lt. Gen. Sandford E. Church, and Mr. Hunt of Oneida, on the side of the fie soilera, and by Prince John Ven Buren as a compensating balance, leaning equally to either side, a meaningless resolution de- Runciatory of the Kansas outrages, and another ap- proving in qualified terms of the financial course of the administration, were adopted and incorporated imto the platform. But the free goilers procured the adoption of a resolution pledging the party to ostility to the extension of slavery into free Terri. tories. There was no step taken toward fusion with the “ hards.’ The idea was not even once sug. gested. We give elsewhere a lengthened report of the proceedings. The Canada’s mails were delivered in this city from Boston at an early hour yesterday morning, Dut the papers contain little news in addition to that alrendy telegraphed. I: appears by the latest ac- counts from the Crimes—published in Liverpool on the morning of the 1sth ult.—that the Rassian army, under Gen. Liprandi, after its defeat on the 15th of Angust, had passed Mackenzie's Hill, aud was in fall retreat towards the interior. Gen. Monteviccitio, ef the Sardinian army, was mortally wounded in the combat. The completeness of the victory of the allies may be estimated from the statement that four thousand Rus prisoners were taken in the con- flict. The Emperor Napoleon has regulated the court precedence of all the branches of his family by decree. We publish an account of the robbery of some American female tourists in Italy. We give to-day some important news from Spain. Itis ofticially announced that the Cabinet, which has been for some time wavering, has finally throwa iteelf into the embrace of the Western Powers; and, providing moncy enough can be raised to pay for the expenses, twenty-five thousand men will be sent to the Crimea. The conditions, of course, ave that the Western Powers will protect Cuba against the United States. It is said, however, that the Cortes will upset this nice little arrangement. There hus been another shocking case of brutality ‘on the estate of the Duke of Sutherland, particulars ef which will be found elsewhere. Her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland is the person who was 80 6x- ceedingly swift to interfere with elaveholdera at the South. Her hushand’s white serfs should first do- mand her attention. AGditional particolars relative to the condition of the enfferera by the railroad catastrophe near Bur. lington, together with the proceedings of the coro- ner’e inguicition into the causes of the appalling disaster, are given in to-day’s paper. A telegraphic despatch from Sydney, N. 8., re- ecived by way of Halifax, announces the loss of the sabmarine cable intended to connect Newfoundiand and Cape Breton. The accident occurred whea the veszels engared in the work were forty miles from land. Two days had beon taken up in paying out Bhe cable that distance. How it was lost, or whether 4 would be recovered, is not stated. Dates from Fort Riley to the 11th inst., state that the cholera still prevails there, though in a miid form. Dr. Simons had recovered. A serious accident happened on the Ohio and Pennsylvania raiiroed, about twenty miles from Pittsburg, yesterday morning. Three cars were thrown off the track iy coUision with a cow. One car was mashed in pioces, and ten persons injured, foar of them dangerously. The commitiece of the Board of Counciimen ap- poirted to investigate certain charges of corraption preferred against treet Commissioner Furey, met yesterday afternoon. Dennis McCarty and George C. Harsan were examined, but ther testimony con- tained no eesential fact hearing upen the point at igsne. The committee meet again on Monday next. The American Svciety for the Advancement of Education, which his been fn session in this city since Tuesdey last, finally adjourned yesterday. It will reassemble at Detroit on the second ‘Tuesday of August next, An interesting biographical sketch of Gen. aArista, ex-Prosident of Mexioo, the intelligence of wiose decease Was reevived by the Hermann, is giver in another pert of to-day's paper. The seles of cotton, yesterday, reached abont 2.500 bales, closing at full je. advance since the 1a ceipt of the steamer's nows. The letters per Cana- da were considered quite favorable. Plour was doll, and prices tended in favor of hasers. Wheat was heavy, and lower rates were accepted. Indian ccrm was unchanged, while sules were pretty freely made. Pork closed. firm at $22 25 a $22 37 for new mess. Sngara and coffee were firm, with fair sales, Freights were rather firmer, with more offering for J.iverpool and London. A Denavance Qvestion.—The Castor House democracy at Syracuse have given their “hearty concurrence and commendation” to the “attitude assumed by the adininistration to support the American name abroad.” What do they mean ?—the circulars of Marey on di- plomatie coats and breecties, the Koezta letter, the Ostend convention, the Gadsdea treaty, or the bomvardment of Greytown’ Will the Prince or Mr. Cochrane explain? NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1855. Cus Mow York Portios ana thetr November Piattorms—The Divided Democracy and the Nigger Quesilon—What Will the Hards beer ce bas at length been made in the party politics of this State, which, if judicious- ly followed up, will secure the extinction of the administration free soil faction and the overthrow of the Seward nigger worshipping coalition in November. The democratic hards and softs have failed to coalesce. Their late conventions have widened the breach between them, and they now stand as broadly separated upon the nigger question as upon their Baiti- more and Buffalo platforms in 1848, The hards repudiate the administration—the softs give it their “hearty concurrence aod commendation”’—the hards endorse and adopt the doctrine of. squatter sovereignty, as em- bodied in the Kansas and Nebraska bill—the softs denounce the “border ruffians,’ and “deem this an appropriate occasion to declare their hostility to the extension of slavery into free territory.” Thus, upon these two vital issues between the administration epoilsmen and the Dickinson democracy, there has been no fusion, no compromise, no “diplo- matic half-way house of rest,” where the two factions may meet and join their forces in No- vember. The plan of re-union proposed in a half-and-half ticket by Mr. Daniel E. Sickles, at the hard convention, was indignantly de- clined, and the plan of Prince John, at the soft convention, of conciliating Dickinson by a dead silence upon the administration, and the free soil clique of the Evening Dost by an art- ful dodge of all the slavery issues of the day, was scornfully rejected. The voice of Tam- many was overwhelmed by the rural dis- tricts, and the counsels of the Prince and Jobn Cochrane (with the Scarlet Letter in his pocket) were overruled by the unadul- terated Buffalo free soilers. And thus the divided democracy have formally placed them- selves in reference to our November election. Whatever the agreements in the hard and soft shell platforms, upon the canals, the liquor law and the Know Nothings, the two factions have signally failed to come to any agreement upon the administration, and they cannot act together. The question then recurs, what will these two factions do in November? The roast beef and plum pudding of the Custom House party, after their endorsement of Mr. Pierce, will compel them to try his strength in the election, whatever the temptations to fuse with Seward and his allies. In this light, any fusion of the hards with the softs would be equivalent -to a disgraceful surrendcr, and all their professions of principles and nationality, and so forth, of the last two or three ycars, would be resolved into fuss and feathers. One of three courses the hards will be constrained to adopt. They must capitulate to the Custom House spoils- men, or fight the battle of the fall election as an independent party claiming to be the le- : democracy of the State, or fuse with the American party by way of a diversion to- wards the organization of a new national par- ty snovement in 1856. The hards and the Know Nothings agree in their opinions of the administration; they concur upon the compromises of the constitu- tion, and, particularly, they hold the same ground of acquiescence in the doctrines of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. They are equally op- posed in this State to Pierce, Forney, Marcy & Co., aad the Seward coalition; and, as a junction of the hards with the American or- ganization would put the State in the frout ronk for a new national party against all dis- organizers, North and South, this fusion is clearly suggested as the true policy of the adamantines for our November ecrab race. We cannot suppose that the hards are as yet prepared to capitulate to the Custom House; and apart from this alternative, they have only to choose between the success of Seward and the success of the Know Nothings. If the hards prefer to expose their own weakness, and to consolidate the Seward Holy Alliance, they will stand aloof from all other parties in November upon e bas's of forty or fifty thou- sand votes; but if they prefer the extinction of the Cabinet spoilsmen, and a deadly blow to the Seward combination, they will unite with the American party, and carry the State. Of the general result we have our misgiv- ings. The soft shells have returned to the nigger-worshippers, as the “sow that was washed returns to her wallowing in the mire They are done for, or have only the hope of Micawber that between this and next June “something may turn up” to restore them to the fold of the reguiar democracy. The hards, too, appear to Le contending more for a recep- tion at the Cincinnati Democratic Convention than for the ancient principles of the party. At the exme time, certain newspaper reports from Binghamton show that the spies of S ard are busy in the Know Nothing camp; and though the mischief which they have thus far accomplished has scarcely paid them for their trouble, we are admon‘shed, from the experi- ence ef our last Legislature, to beware of the temptations of the spoils which new recruits may eecure by their adhesion to the Seward managers of the public plunder at Alvany. Two or three points are perfectly clear— first, that there is no re-union between the hard and ihe soft ehell democracy; second, that they can accomplish nothing even if they should unite: and, finally, that the ouly plan by which the hards can effect a telling blow ia November, ugainst Marey, Van Buren, Pierce and Seward, is by a fusion with the American party. A few days more, and we shall proba- bly understand the whole game, and the prow pects of all parties concerned. The odds and ends of the Seward alliance have yet to take the field. Jous Van Purry ann ms Wire Serener Instrvetions—The Prince hurriéd up from the Virginia White Sulphur Springs to ma- nage the soft convention at Syracuse, in be half of Mr. Pierce. His instructions, douvt- less, Were to say nothing about the adminictra. tion, Nothing about Kansas, nothing about aig gers, He tried it on; but the ro-kindling tires of the ond Bufulo platform were not so easily tobe put ont. The Prince surrenders—the Prince is saty,*ed with @ denunciation of the “border ruffians ” Of Kansas, so that Mr. Pleres and his man Mare.¥ are not held respoasiblo. What a fall for a Py ince!—whata plaviorm for © Prince! Wonder i” Mr. Pierce will be satis- fied with the upshot of ,his White Sulphur in- structions. Invormation Wanrep,—Thy’ ame of Capt, Rynders does not fare among the actors at the late Custom House conventie What's the matter? Did they pereuade the Captain to keep in the back ground till called fu." or did the boat leave him? ‘ The Stuughter on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. The fearful and most shocking tragedy on the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the details of which we continue to give, involves interests and responsibilities far deeper than those of ordinary murders and manslaughters, It is a great public evil. Its occurrence is to a cer- tain extent the result of a national habit. Hu- man life, instead of being the primary object of protection and preservation, is made secon- dary to that of semi-annual dividends. Un- doubtedly ia the incipient stages of railroad enterprises in this country, before their profits were determined and their values settled, ab- solute security to travellers was impossible. No uch defence can be urged on behalf of the New Jersey company. It isa rich and power- ful corporation. It is planted on the greatest thoroughfare in America—between our two largest cities. It is daily entrusted with the iives of thousands of our people. No other company is permitted to be its competitor. That its object, and itssole object, has been to accumulate profits and to divide them amongst its stockholders, the slightest exami- nation into its history will abundantly prove. It owes nothing to the community, which it taxes and sacrifices in turn. It is a mortgage alike upon our money and our lives, The Camden and Amboy Railroad was cre- ated and endowed by the Legislature of New Jersey with the exclusive privilege of carry- ing passengers through that State upon the sixty miles of its line. Like all ofher roads, it hag its time-table ; but unlike most others, at one end ‘ts departures depend upon the arrival of a steamboat, which makes a part of its line from New York to Philadelphia. It is, then, uncertain of its ability to meet its arrange- ments for running its cars. The boat is liable to detenticn from fogs and many other causes which obstruct navigation. Indeed, it would appear from the ten minutes’ detention of the cars, required by the company’s arrangements, that the time-table is made a mere matter of form, and their trains trusted to the hazards of daily collision. Be this as it may, a fearful responsibility rests upon the company. It is not alone the loss of human life that the public have now to consider. It is not alone for the maimed survivors and the representa- tives of the dead to complain, and to seek re- dress. It isa great public grievance—an un- mitigated slaughter of our fellow beings. Un- like kindred effects produced by the hand of an individual, the homicide lives, and to-day performs his usual avocations amongst our fellow-beings. We are again within his power, ministering to his avarice, and again ‘subjected to his eacrifices.- He does not retire abashed by the blood which flows at his feet—a scorned and detested homicide—a hated monster, who, through years of exertion has thought only of his gains, which has been secured by the wanton slaughter of his fellow-beings. It is in this light that we view the conduct and re- sponsibility of the Camden company. On no other road in the country has there been so great anecessity of adouble track, and no other company has had such ample means to build one. No other route carries more passen- gers—is so protected by chartered privileges and monopolies—has been so utterly oblivious tothe voice of reasonable expostulation and complaint. The refusal of the company to protect the public, when it had the power and the amplest means todo so—when by its ma- nagement collisions and loss of life were almost inevitable--ia our judgment fixes their guiltin the present case, and opens to the wounded and to the representatives of the dead almost boundless pecuniary damages. The prosecution for the recovery of those damages we regard as in the nature of a pub- lie duty by the parties interested. They will be measured by the circumstances of the case, involving the most aggravated, and even pre- meditated, disregard of life—an habitual avoid- ance of duty—a refusal, with the amplest means, tomake needful expenditures upon their works for the purpose of protecting the mil- lions of beings entrusted to their care, The motive which has led to this neglect is to be found in the semi-annual dividends to the com- pany’s stockholders, and only fixes more surely upon the concern an exemplary legal reponsi- bility. The personal bearings of this horrid man- slaughter, we repeat, assume something of a public character. With no disposition to pre- judge the action of the tribuuals in New Jer- sey towhich may be entrusted the criminal inquiry into the case, we cannot overlook the fact that the stockholders and the immediate direction of the Camden road are amongst, and in the hands of, the most wealthy and power- ful men in that State. Besides, there is always difficulty in such matters in fixing the personal accountability, which is the necessary base of criminal awards and punishments. It is pos sible, then, that the only remedy left to the people against the company may be that which springs from injuries inflicted by their care- lessness upon individuals, The public, thea, aside from the manifest justice of personal claims, have an interest in their enforcement. it is not too much to insist that a half a mil- ‘on of dollars would be a small cquivalent— an insuficient award to the victims, This gmourt and more has been paid into the hands of stockholders and favorites, instead of being employed to put their road in e condition to prevent precisely such massacres as that we complain of. There is, then, a fitness in the re- tribution which demands its transfer to those who are the victims of such a heartless and parsimonious policy, Perhaps, too, the sever- west punishment which can be inflicted upon such men would be that of condemning them to the payment of pecuniary damages, We call the attention of the sufferers to the Fubject. Without wishing to invade the sanc- tnaries of mourning, or to intrude npoa the agonies of the maimed, we cannot omit to cau tien them againsta too casy setdement with the nte of the comp: A fearful wrong bas been done; aud while the responsibility of it is eo readily fixed, it is stili likely that indi viduel suflerers have the sole power of redress in theirhands, The corporation is a houticide beyond question—it is guilty of wilful murder by legal intendment. It ts guilty by neglect of Guty—a neglect running through the whole time of its legal existence a negleet chronic in ite character, mercenary in its objects, aad murderous in its effects, But it is a body cor- porate-—a body with many heads and hands and lying tongucs, and money, and power. It Wasmade ty the Legislature, but in tarn it row makes legislatures, and law, and jndges, and publie opinion. It ia New dersy embodied nies railroad company, irresponsible, save to {s vietims, gud to them it should be held to fearful agegunt. Tux Atronvey Gexrrt’s Mame Law Ormioy SurrresseD By THE GoveRNoz.—Hon, Ogden Hofman, tht Nestor of the New York lar and the Attorney General of the State, bas come out in a letter which gives the lie direct to the Seward organs. Mr. HoTman elutes that pe bas furnished the Governor with his opinion, adverse to the Maine law; aud what makes matters worse, he further charges that the document has been suppressed by the Executive, We all know thas when this state- ment was made, some weeks since, it was con- thadicted by the 7ribune and by the Lieuten- ant Governor’s paper—the big and little or- yans of Seward and his cher ami, Gevernor Clark. ‘Lhe Governor is in a bad place, and it will be hard tor his organs to explain away the diffculties that surround him; and his tergi- verration on this point, asexpressed through his organ, will injure the Seward party in No- vember. Mr. Hofiman was put on the.whig State ticket last fall, to make it respectably strong, and it seems that the Sewardites and other fanatics connected with them have found in him a man who was not to be bullied or seduced from the path of duty. We must have that opinion at once. It is the finishing blow to the Prohibitory law, which, if dead before, may now be considered as totally anni- hilated. The next time that Mr. Delavan, Mr. Bur- leigh, and others of their friends, attempt to frame a Draconian code, they would do well to pay some competent lawyer to revise their work, Tur Kxow Noruina Liquor PiatrorM.—At the meeting of the State Council at Binghamton this week, the liquor question was ignomini- ously dodged in the platform, But the dele- gates silently testified their admiration of the liquor dealers’ platform, by the introduction of numerous private bottles, from which they, when wearied by their patriotic exertions, re- freshed the inner man. According to the best accounts, the consumption of all kinds of liquors, foreign and home-made, must have been immense. One correspondent says that four-fifths of the delegates were provided with private bottles. Well, liquor is a great argu- ment in politice—vide the city primary elec- tions, Grear Success oF THE ALLIES ON THE TcHER- Naya.--It appears that the firet telegraph from Sebastopol with regard to the battle of the Tchernaya was incorrect, inasmuch as it stated the number of Russian prisoners taken by the Allies to be 400, It now turns out that 4,000 is the correct figure—a larger number than have been taken at some of the greatest battles on record. Whether the Russians got intoa tight place and finding themselves there, sur- rendered without fighting, or not, it appears evident from this figure that the battle must have been a most important affair and very disastrous for Liprandi. A loss of 4,000 in prisoners would suppose a loss at least double in killed and wounded--asecond Inkermann in fact. The practical inference from the event would appear to be that if the Allies cannot take Sebastppol, they can beat the Russians with ease whenever they get a chance in the field. It looks as though the tide of fortune was turning. Perhaps Radetsky will make a diversion in favor of the Czar by way of re storing the balance, —The softs have come out in plain, flat-footed style for the repeal of the liquor law, and they declare that “legislation should not supersede moral discipline.” The “moral discipline” of Tammany Hall and the Custom House! Pretty good. One of the Prince’s broad jokes. Mora Discirut Tee Deut or M’1u8 RACHEL—ARRANGEMENTS AT THE Mernoportay TiaTke.—Every ohe has probably read the modest announcement of M. Felix, the manager of the Rachel Dramatic Company, which is somewhat singalar, inasmuch as there is a total absence of all the humbug and big words usually employed in the preliminary ad- vertisements of great artists, There has been no non- sense of any kind—the books have been opened for a week ahead, and there has been no attempt to get up a ficti- tious rush for seats, and no sham sales of tickets by auc- tion, If the visit of M’lle Rachel has no other effect, it will, at least, fendi managers that the day has gone by for weak imitations of Barnum’sgenny Lind and wooliy horse tricks, and that, while the widest publicity should be given to all the details of the performances, care should Le taken, at the same time, to avoid the disgust and con- tempt of the judisious, by little tricks to catch and dazule the unthinking. M. Felix will make such improvements in the Metropo- litan theatre as may be possible during the short time which will intervene between Mr. Huckett’s retiremen: and the appearance of M’lie Rachel. New cloak rooms for ladies and gentlemen will be opened; new carpets and curtains will be placed where they are neoded, anda re- ‘owned Licadway glacier will preside over @ pleasant re- fresment salgon. Kacine and Corneille being a little “dry” sometimes, this is aguod arrangement. The stage here will never be good for much until it is entirely, re- buflt. It has radical faults, which are apparent to every one familiar with theatricala, But the acenery will be new, and painted by M, Bonillét, a French artist, ex- presely for these pieces. Costumes for the whole company have been brough, out from Haris, They will be better, of course, than Ragihing of the kind ever acon here vefore. The French are celebrated for the attentioa which they pay to scenery and cootmes, and as only & few pieces ae played, ihe work’ of dressing them is com. paratively easy. ‘There will be an orchestra of thirty performers, led by M. Halma, a resident musician ot note, This is something new in Rachei’s performances, end bas never been given in Paris, London, Germany or St. Petersburg. Our people, however, would be sadly perplexed without their lively polkas at the end of an act of uw long tragedy, The “bark” of M. Felix may now be consifered as ‘Sen the sea”? of public favor. Tickets are going off rapidly, and Rachel stock is something above par. Naval Intelligence. In the Navy Yard at Philadelphia at presont, there are employed over 1,106 men, which is the largest number known for many years. Poth ship and frigate house ave veing newly rocfed, and the following vessels have beon thorovgbly overhauled, repaired, and in 9 few days will be ready for ra—Frigate Wabash, steam frigate Susque- hanna and sloop-oi-war St. Louis. The following officers have been appointed to the sloop- of war Saratoga, now fitting out al the Charlestown, Navy Yard te join the Tome Squadron;—Commander, Edw. Jilton; Lieutenants, Win. Rogers Taylor, Fr ow, Jokn Wilkinson, and James Hi Frownl aut do., Michael u’! Master, G.eonlesf Cilley; ft Gherardi Geo. ¥. Belk: J Ber Mid-hip- swaln, Francis ‘arpenier, Geo, ond Liewtemaat A Oliver; Gunner, Je Wiener ; Sailmak Marines, John ©. 1 The U, & steamship F Lieut. Commanding J. K. Mitchell, was at Jeunsacola, about 18th inst, Stackwater Navreation—We learn from the Whean Citizen thata flackwaier navigation ts to be con structed from Smithport, fa., to Clean, N. ¥., by way of fhe dlegheny river. ‘The condition of the stream is «ica { the cost will probably not exceet $20,000, and that amon’ can eusily be raised by the sale of rtock to tho vho sveon the line of the work. it is intende! to furufel £m cutlet for the coal and lumber of that region, { orbatig seins of cannel and bituminons coal are found in Mel eet county, but @ +hort distance from the pro. fred neviga.((B Low mines are also found withia easy feneh, theugh at Present not worked. Should this «lack- ewer navigution Dé constructed, the effect of it will be fo throw che cecal, amber and iron trade of that region jen the York and trie railrcad at Olean, To avort hiv ard secure that tra'e tu ourselves, we have oaly to haven the cowpletten of ie Sunbury and Erte Mail-on ', deroute ef whlch passea through MeKean county. 7 hicor hia American, Avg, 60. TAK LaTENT NEWB. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, itch just received to tus oh ay aes just rece! is city from Y * Bere owing to some mismanagement in the ying of the eubmerine cable between Newfoundland and Breton, when forty miles out from the Newfoumtland const the cable waa lost. ‘Ihe vessels had been engaged two days in laying the cable when the accident bap- pened. The despaich does not inform us in what man- ner the loss was occasioned, und it is also sil as to the probability of recovering the cable. The company are bucersiocd (o beve had an insurance on the cable to the extent of $70,000. Another Serious Railroad Accident. TEN PERSONS BADLY HURT. Prrmuena, Aug. 31, 1855, This morning, about two o'clock, the express traia on the (Ohio and Yennvylvania railroad, going west, ran over a cow, and three of the cars were thrown off the track, about twenty miles from this eity. One car was completely wrecked, and ten persons were more or less wounded, four of them seriously. J, W. Glenn, of my coun- ty, had a leg broken; Theodore Adams, of iacrisburg, was severely but not dangerously hurt; Daniel Fisher, o: Flat Rock, Ubio, bad an arm broken; and Joseph Rein- hart, of Nevada, Ohio, waa badly injured. The train was going very fast at the time of the accident. Know Nothing Rejoicings. Som, nah 31, 1855. ‘The American party made an imposing demonstration here last evening. The meeting was ressed by Gen, Scroggs, C. C, burr, Mr. Crooks of Livingston, Mr, Sam- mons of Montgomery, and J.T. Headley. The meeting continued ‘ill late hour, and acoapted the new plat- form of the party with much apparent enthusiasm, ‘Wisconsin Democratic State Convention. Mapison, August 30, 1855. ‘The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention to-ley nominated Governor Barstow for re-clection, by 108 votes out of 226, Items from Washh 5 WASmINGTON, Al 31, 1855. William M. Burwell and John W. Bryce liave bargained for the entire ownership of the American Organ, in this city, which ia held at $15,000. ee entize wumher Of opplications under the Boouty Land law of March last. up to the present time, is 209,- 800, of which 10.760 were filed in August. During the same month 8,700 warrants were issued. The entire number issued in now 24,000. ‘The amount of money in the public Treasury subject ‘to draft is $10,916,619. Government has advices which state that no fever existe on board the frigate St. Lawrence, at Norfolk, us previourly reports News from Fort Riley. Bartimone, Aug. 31, 1855. A letter dated Fort Riley, August 11th, received in this city, states that Dr. Simons, had recovered from his recent illness. Cholera still prevailed there, but was more manageable. From Kanses. Curcaco, Aug. 31, 1855. Chief Justice Lecompte gave a dinner at Shawnee Mis- sion on the 22d inst., to the Kansas Legislature, for the honcr done him in locating the capitalat the town named ‘after him. Judgo Elmore was present, and was toasted enthusiastically. He announced his determination to resist President Pierce’s usurpation of power. From the Plains. Sr. Louis, August 31, 1855. ‘We have news from Fort Pierce to the 18th inst. The health of the troops continued good, The Indians wore quiet. Lieutenant Warren and Topographical Engineer Mr. Carre had gone to Fort Kearney to survey a road for connecting Forts Pierce and Laramie. From Boston. CHARGE OF FITTING OUT A VESSEL FOR THE SLAVE TRADE. Bostox, August 31, 1855. James E. Simpson, a merchant of this city, has been arvested, charged with ftgipg out the schooner Mary 1 Smith for the African slav@rade. Jacob R. Sunt, one of our barber pilots, who took the Mary E. smith’to sea, carrying off the United States Marshals who had boarted her for the purpote of serving provess on the officers, has algo been arrested on @ charge of obstructing the said officers in their duty. Yellow Fever at Virgini * Barmwore, August 31, 1855. Norfolk letters to. last evening report the fever ax bad asever. Ameng the new cases were Lieut. Richard L. Tege, Lieut. James Henderson, Mra. Tazewell, and two Philadelphia physicians—one ‘of them Dr. Mfc Yaiden. ‘The wife of Commodore Whittle is dead. Dr. Constable was in a dying state, The new cases are generally of a milder type. The deaths in the two cities during the twenty-four hours ending at noon yesterday reached about 26, Death of Gov. Brown, of Missouri. St. Louis, Aagust 31, 1855. Wilson Frown, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, died on the 27th inst. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Friapernra, Aug. 20, 1855. Our money market is more stringent this norning. Stocks were steady at the following rates:—Pennsylvania Fives, &735; Reading Railroad, 4739; Long Island Rail- cad, 16. Morris Canal, 1535; Pennsylvania Railroad, BA. PHILADELPHIA IRON MARKET. Parapet, August 31, 1855. The transactions in pig iron during the past week have less ‘han the general average, though there has an increased inquiry. Prices have advanced. We e No.1 at $28; ordinary, $27; No. 2, $26 a $26; forge, $24 50, ‘The sales for the week foot up 3,600 tons. rican bars firm. ‘mall ales at an advance; quoted 70a $75. Rails firm, at $65, cash. Other ‘deserip- tins unchanged, New Ont. ugnat 30, 1835. The Canada’s news excreised b le effect upon our cotton market,"although prices to-day, without being lewer were somewhat easier. Sales of 1,000 bales at ®34c, for middling. Flour is dull at $7 Berraro, Aug. 81—6.90 P. M. Flour—Moderately active, and easier for good grades; rales of 1,700 bbls., at $7 a $7.50 for common to funcy new Ohio and Michigan; receipts almost wholly from Cbio, and in excess ot the ¢emond. Wheat—Inqniry fair for miiling, and prices some:hat easicr; saiea of 10,000 burhela, af $150 for mixed f pper Lake, $1 60 for com- mon white winter do., $1 82 for choice white, and $1 88 a $1 0 for prime white Nlinoie, Corn—Dull, with a down- ward tendency; sales of 40,000 bushels, at 75.9 753sc., closing at the iuside figure. 'Oats—Dull.’ Canal freighta —Firm; 1c. for corn to New York. Take imports for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day—Flour, 5,120 bbls. ; wheat, 45,114 bushels; corn, 18,700 bushels; oats, 49.996 dushels, Canal exporta same time—Flour, 100 bbls.; wheat, 4,060 bushels; corn, 59,137 bushels; oats, 14,680 bushels, We received yesterday intelligence of the recent death of General Arista, ex-President of Mexico, which ocurred at Cadiz, where he was en route for England. Generel Arista waa ono of ‘he best of Mexican public mon, and was poreersed of talents a8 a statesman,’ a diplomat and agenerai of a high order, He was born at San Luis de Rotosi in 1802. His father, Don Pedro Arista, emigrated from Spain to Mexico at an early age, and served with considerable distinction in the Spanish army, as military secretary and lieutenant colonel. He married a lady o¢ 1 vebla, and was blessed with the son who is the subject of thjs eketch. Of noble extraction, he was admitted a cadet in the active militia, at eleven years of age. In the year 1621 be joined the cause of independense, as a cavalry officer, and was not long in presenting himself in the field as lender of hia squadron, In the army he soon became known by his knowledge of military tactics, and by his bravery, while, through the actions in which he distinguished bimself, he rapidly ascended the grades, and was a general of brigade in 1873. Up to that time, carried away by the political passions which distracted his country, he took part in its civil wars, in which he sometimes made o conspicuous figure. Bauished in 1834, through the failure ofa rising which he himself had headed, General Arista profited in the United States by ILe aspect of thie republic. He saw that public progress was the result of individual security, aud that sociay oréer eprung from obedience to the law. From that time he laid down as his principle subordination and Ledience to legally constituted authorities. He returned home, and us Inspector of the Active Mili- lia, under General Burasmante, General Arista distin- ;uirked bimeelf by the reforms he effected. Removed frem this employment, we next find him heading a chosen ivision of the army, and ordered to Vera Cruz to defen: it egainst the maritime attacks of the French General Pandin (18:8). Here he became prisoner of war, and was ent on beard the frigate La Gloire. Afier his liberation he was employed in vaxious {ims jortant expeditions, As General commanding on the northern frontier (180 and 1841), he led public opinion ro well thet after defeating the partisans of annexation, be converted them into staunch auxiliaries of Mexican independence. On the Sthof May, 1847, we find Arista in arms against his old triends of the United States army, with whom he had been Intimate during bis residence in the Untied States. Put he was beaten both on the 8th and %h aad retreated to Matamoros, and basly reorganizing his diepersed and frightened troops, made a good retreat, although obliged to leave a large quantity of stores wad emmunition. He was not again in command. At the close of the war he demanded a judicial invostigation of hie military conduct, and the award was the most flat- fering which a man of honor could desire, In 1848 he was named Minicter of War, and was un ceasing in Ms efforta to increase the effictency of the Mexican army. Whatever good they did then, or since haye done, miust be attri buted olungst entirely jo Arista’s management. Jn 1850 ho was almost unanimously elected Freeident of the Republic; which he held about two years, ond then resigned under the pressurcof op- posing factions. In a recent sketch of ~amta Anna’s career, we endea. vored to give a clear understanding of Mexican politics, anda prrallel Le’ ween Santa Anna and Arista might be better. Mexico, according to law, is a republie after the fashicn of ours, and the consent of each State ia required 4o any act or law. Bat ever since 1820 there have been two factions struggling for supremacy. Arista headed the party of progres —ofdemocraey—of devotion to the constitution and the lowe. He put down the war of castes; he arranged the finances on @ new basis, and warmly advceated seme provision for paying the heavy foreign debt, and he has left tor Mexico the only correct sectional map of the country ever made. He learned moch in the United States, and forgot nothing. He introduced new agricultural ma- chines—be steadily opposed revolutions, and err- nestty Iubored to develope the resources of his native land. Be was atrue patriot, Sauta Anua, on the con- trary, belonged to ihe odious party who desired to cen- ralize all ihe power in the hands ofa dictator for lifo— oment dissension» in the several States so that union wouk! be impos ible, and they be kept at the mercy of he central power, He wax only a soldier and a bad man, He used the revenues of the State for his own base pur- Eee and was driven out with the garote gaping for his Arista’s administration wes pure and constitutional, but not cevere enough for the troublous time when he took office. The friends of Santa Anna spared no pains in their endcavors to overthrow him. He was pressed to meet the factiovs opposition offered to him, by a coup @aat, But he resolutely refused to violate the oath he had taken to govern according to the laws and the con- stitution; and rather than do so, he gracefuily deposited in the hands of the Legislature that power which he felt; he could no longer exercise for the benefit of his country. It bas been mos) erroneously supposed that Genera? Arista abdicated his power to make way for Genera? Senta Anna. Such ix not the case, Four months before the advent of the latter, revolution had been rife, and suddenly ended by the bold movement of General Santa Anna’s adherents in calling him to return to Mexico. After General Arista bad sailed from Vera Cruz, by order of the new government, a clumsy attempt, by means of a forgery, was made to implicate him as an open advo- cate of annexation—a calumny which he triumphantly expored and refuted. ~ After leaving Mexico, Gencral Arista resided for some time in London, where his courteous and refined demean- or secured to him many friends. The Queen was parti- cularly pleased with him, and sent tofhim through Lord. Clarendon a magnificent diamond snuff box. Genera? Arista had many warm friends in this country, who wil? sincerely regret his doath. His ungrateful country hat few such men to lore, : Political Intelligence. The Rochester Lemocrat publishes a call for 9 republi- can county convention. About one-half of the names attached to the call have hitherto acted with the soft shell democrats. The Nueces Vallvy (Texas) hotsta the name of Colone? Kinney for the Fresivency in 1856. If notoriety is of any advantage Cof. hinney has acquired mare of it than usually falls to the lot of one man, Fravputent Passrorts.—Ever since the govern- ment was establish: d, it has been the practice of the Secretary of State to furnish passpoits gratuitously to every arplicant whose eftizenship might be known or ee- tablished by satisfactory proof. In the caso of naturalized citizens, the presentation of the certificate of naturaliza- tion is requixed. Fersons born abroad, however, who may have merely declared their Intention to become citt- zens, frequently have occasion to return to Europe, be- fore they have resided in the United States long enough to enable them to carry their intention into eect pursu- ant to law. No doubt most of tl na have an honest purpose to consummate their intention, and there- fore decm it hard that they cannot obtain upassport from this government. They do not reflect, however, that a passport is substantially a mere certificate of citizenship, which it would be a falsehood and a fraud for the Secretary of State 10 give to any foreigner who may have merely declared his inteution to become a citizen. In this emergency such persons usually apply to notaries public in the large citfes, some of whom have printed cer- lifieates, in a showy fm, with blanks for vie name of the applicant, testitying to his being an affiliated citizen: of the United Staier. A high price is charged for these documents, and the persons secking them are induced to believe that they will answer for’ passports in Europe. ‘This, however, ix not the fact, and we understand that the Department of State teems with complaints of persons who have thus been imposed upon, and who, after the rouble and expense ot « voyage to Europe, have found themselves unable to stir from the port ‘where they anded, and, in some instances, bave been imprisoned ind treated as dangerous characters. — Washington Union, Aug. 29. Office of Boyd's City No. 45 Express —A complaint lnving been made to the agent el, that cireuiars prepaid by him, had been 1 two cente postage for delivery, particularly in Union square—ihe tsubseriber would deem it an act of Jus- tice (o himself to have the address of the party. ai must also add that he bas the (ullest coufideuce in livering letters on thet route, arieved; be men de- JOHN T. BOYD, Proprietor. To the Public.—There appeared in the New York Times of yeaterdey, an editori»| article headed “From Nicarag in which the writer descants with great tlippan Uupom condiiet waerivved to the seory Transit Company, And Which winds up as tollows:—"it is staod moreover, and 80 far as We know Is not denied, tbe company acta Ir the most arbitrary manner with regaed (6 the mails—examining letters ANG paprrs, and refusing to c re that they be- Hove are inl 3 ‘wot Col. Rinney's edition ev ended ior_m Exp + We eanuot believe that they have any right thu to at under Department; and we triist their contract with the Post Office steps will be taken by the proper authority to protect private correspondence trom such wanton and ol violation.”* If the author intended to convey the Lm of that Jet the public emthat the msuagers of ihe Transit Compa- ny, or thelr r cousent, violate the sanclity of Beals, and Ext of letters without the consent heir owners, the Insiauation te gratalions aad false. “An t * Company hus not, nor never had, a cortract the Fost Office zepartment, the appenl of the ‘Times to the De- partment to interpoe for te pro.cetion of private correspou- dence from their invasion, i labor lost. In ig to con~ vey letters by thelr ships, the company conceive dat they have the right to dictate thelr terms even to the requiring, tn certain cases, to be toformed of thelr coutents, and 1a others of rota: sing fo take them atali. Of course, in’ All but the last ease, the option of arrecing to their terms or not, ia with the public, ‘This right i# not only tnherent, bat is sanctioned by law universal custom.” From this instance of tT undering of the Times, the publie can judge what credit due to their communications generally reg the Transit. Company. It the managers ct that paper would devote more: aicendon fo their iegitmate business of eullecting facts and giv- ing them publicity, and less to every idie rumor the cheracter and property of citizens and cor] v Would, in my Judgment, be beiter emp! New York, Aug. 31, 1855. Espercheid’s Fail Style of Hats for 1855 tn eotirely paw and unique, It is tho richest fabric wo havo yet seer. SHOCK HOLDER, ‘ho wouid pay $4 for a hat in Broadway when ono sa- perior in every respect can be purchased for $3 6) at 18 Nas- fau mireet, near Beekman. Satarday, the Ist Duy of anber, Knox, widely known ge “the” hatter, will fesue hiv fall style of hate, Originality, beauty,’ richness of and_un- equalied excell mnantuactirethe ‘of ‘his last production—mnxi render his “full hat” the favorita of every enlleman of taste ond discernment in the city. Price only r dollars. ‘White's Assortment of the Fall Style Dreas hat ls now complete, besides everything in the way of « goftbat cloth cap, and white hat. Give him a call. WHITE, Leader of Fashions, $21 Broadway. David’s Tall Style of Gentlemen's Hats are new ready. Those in want of @ beaudful hat should give him ‘a call at 21 Broadway, second door from Duane where fall tastes can be suit Beche & Co., 156 Broadway.—Fall Fashion for gentiemen's hata and caps; their assortment is complete, Fall Style for 1855 Now Ready. =Best Mole= kin #4 only, ‘Ihe only place tbat eingle hats are sold at whole- sale prices, is at the New Hat Company's, 14€ and 16 Nassaa street. Fall ftyle of Gentlemen’s Hats—Lee dé PORCHER, 227 Greenwich «treet, between Barclay and hay 4 streela, are LOW pared (0 offe: (o their customers their full fashions of gentlemen's hais, whieh for beauty of style and finish excess any!ling that we save ~een tp the hat line. To the Patroi of Fasi We Take pleasure in informing our readers that D. BEAUDIN, tha famous French duties. 4 Broatway, will introduoe Bo‘day. ember Ist, his fall style of hats, wuleh we are 1 te meet ine approbation of all genviemen of taste and ‘asiion, “Mr. T's huts are_ always modele of ele- gance, while bey cannot be surpassed for durablicy. They cre sold, (op, at the very cheapest rates. Mr. B., always in- roduces his new styles every quarter day. Give’ him a call. Kid Gloves Fray BE. E. LIADPEATER & O0., £47 Cily, obe ease of Ludien’ Fre Cents per Patr.— Bromdwe kid gloves, iy her pair; sleo gents, crava’s, under garments, ac. Silke, Stiks, Prom Auction.Several large ‘ots of new o tyles of di silks will be offered w- Cay at preat jot of saperior black sls, " warranted (0 W Dp. At & CO. 347 Broadway. September, i8° paign at EVANS? clot y, wud will this day b Ti and cizens in ge tofit. We are also p ods for the prestut , hosiery, robes, dc ka PE Madame Rachel t# Celebrated tn . foare MOODY & WIOGANS, 984 Broadway, (onst a . Re ihe eXeellenee of their shirte—made to measure, at one , and st eeonomleal prices, Ploce in the World where of being avcurately fitted with aapert. er place Where you always cat, ‘The piace where 3 iways can is GREEN'S, No. 1 Astor House, the lace where you always cau’ is every where else,