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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. @PFTICE N. W. CORNER OF NAS6AU AND FULTON STS TERMB, cash in adeance. Y HERALD, 2 conta per copy, $1 per annus, FE WRERLY MELALD, cory Soturey, of 0 con Ebert Sect renin, or Bo ‘any part of the Continent, bo « postage. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, BROADWAY TREATRE, Broadway—Tee Cartive—Man- anzeti Brorures—Mavic Puss. WIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Davouter or tur Rect BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—MacBeta—RAvEN OF THR ‘Fomss. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—BREAcu oF PRo- wise—Kiss ut THE Dank—Dear 48 4 Post. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Les Drors ve L’Homme—Lss Honaces. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanic's Hall, 472 Broadway. BUCKLEY’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad- way—Buntesque OPERA AND NEGRO MINSTRELSY. New York, Sunday, September 2, 1655. ‘The News. We give elsewhere additional evidence taken be- fore the Coroner's jury with regard to the railroad catastrophe near Burlington. It will be seen that the employés of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Compa- By and the passengers give very different versions of this melancholy affair, the former alleging that the proper signals were given while the train was back- ing up, while the latter could hear no such warning. ‘The conduct of the engineer after the disaster, as teatified to by a respectable witness, should be suf- Bcient evidence on that point. It appears that fanctionary exhibited great remorse, and in em- phatic language charged himself with remissness in not blowing the whistle or giving proper warning. The investigation was resumed yesterday, and much interesting evidence adduced, of a character to throw suspicion on the whole conduct of the investigation. One of the jurors rose in bis seat and charged that persons who owned stock in the Cam- den and Amboy Railroad Compauy were acting as jurors in the case, whereupon ascene of much ex- citement ensued. One of the jurors admitted that he did own stock, but denied that it would in any way influence his verdict. Another juror admitied that he had formerly a free pass ontheroad. In the discussion that ensued it was frankly acknowledged by several of the jurors that all Jersey farmers were interested in the railroad company, as it paid their State taxes. The case was continued without set- ting aside either of the interested jurors, From present appearances the verdict will be very mild on the managers of the road, if it does not exonerate them altogether from blame. It will cast a stigma not easy to be effaced on Jerseymen if they let these wholesale homicides go free. The Cubans of this city and their friends met at the Tabernacle last evening, to commemorate the execution of Narciso Lopez, the martyr to Cuban independence. We give in another column a report of the proceedings and speeches delivered on the oc- casion. Gen. Wheat and Capt. Rynders addressed the audience. The latter defended the administra- tion of Gen. Pierce against the charge of truckling to foreign despots with characteristic impetuosity. The President and Mrs. Pierce arrived at Wash- ington yesterday afternoon from the Virginia Springs, after an absence of fifteen days. The steamship James Adger, with the Newfound- Jand Telegraph excursion party on board, arrived at Cape Breton, on Friday, took in coal, and left for New York direct yesterday. She will be due at this port on Wednesday. The party were all in good health. Judge William Cranch, eminent as the author of the Circuit Court Reports, died at Washington yes- terday afternoon, at the advanced age of eighty-siry He had been connected with the judiciary of the District of Columbia for half a century. The letters of our correspondents at Paris, Baden- Baden and Madrid, published in to-day's paper, contain a great variety of information upon the po- litics, literature, finance, poetry, fine arts, theatri- cals, travel and cookery of Europe. Our readers may post themselves up upon these matters, either separately or collectively, by glancing at the con- tenta of the letters referred to. The Gazette of Silesia (Germany) says that the United States government intends to address a cir- cular to the Earopean Cabinets relative to the Sound dues, The government of the Union will manifest ita intention to resist the payment of these dues, and will call upon the Continental States to follow its example. We are giad to learn from Norfolk and Portsmouth that the yellow fever has within the last day or two assumed a milder form in those striken cities. A sufficient number of physicians and nurses had ar- rived from Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans to take proper charge of the sick, anda rapid im- provement in the public health may be looked for with confidence. The health of the city continues remarkably good. The official report of the City Inspector gives 548 as the total number of deaths during the past week, namely, 77 men, 61 women, 192 boys and 218 girls. This is a falling off of 37 on the mortality of the week previous. The principal causes of death were —consumption, 39; bronchitis, 5; congestion of the lungs, 5; inflammation of the lungs, 6; diarrhea 46; dysentery, 35; dropsy in the head, 25; conges- tion of the brain, 9; inflammation of the brain, 5; inflammation of the bowels, 5; cholera infantum, 95; convalsions (infantile), 39; croup, 7; debility, (infantile), 7; maramus (infantile), 59; hoop- ing cough, 17; scarlet fever, 8; all other fevers, 11; palsy, 6; and from violent causes, 15. There were nine premature births and 19 cases of stillborn. We observe from the re port that one death occured at the new hospital from yellow fever. One death from cholera is also reported. The total number of deaths in the public institu- tions was 43, including 14 at the emigrant hospital The following is the classification of diseases:— Brain and nerves, 100; generative organs, 5; heart and blood vessels, 5; lungs, throat, &c., 93; skin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 13: stillborn and prema- ture births, 28; stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 267; uncertain seat and general fevers, 50; urinary organs, 2; old age,3; unknown, 1. The na- tivity table gives 443 natives of the United States, 64 of Ireland, 17 of Germany, 10 of England, 6 of Scotland, and the balance of various European coun- tries, We complete to-day the publication of our specia! Teport of the proceedings of the Soft Shell Democra tic State Convention, which has closed its session at Syracuse. The debates and incidents are extremely rich, and will afford an appropriate fand of light reading for the Sabbath. The sales of cotton, yesterday, embraced about 1,000 bales, and inclnding the sales since the receipt of the Canada's news, amounted to abont 6,000 a 7,000 bales, a considerable portion of which has been made in transitu. The market closed at about lle for middling Uplands, 11)0. do. for Mobile, and 11je, a 11 je. for New Orleans do. Flour was heavy, and declined 25¢. for most descrptions, and on some West ern grades, in rather full stock, from 37c. a 50c. de. cline was submitted to. Southern red wheat sold at $1 72 a $180, and white, prime, at $1 92 a $1 95, in- cluding 4800 bushels for export at $195, anda small lot James river at $192. Corn closed at 87c, @ 8ihe. Onts were heavy, and sold at 50c, a 646. for State ae P shore Pork was firm, with sales of new , for cash, and fifteen days, buyer's at $22.97 0 $22 50.” Sugars ‘were te. a Je. hg with sales of 1,200 hhds. Coffee was in fair re- quest, withont further change in prices, Freights were higher for Liverpool and London, which had p ‘cadency to check engagements, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1855. ‘The Removal of Jndge Elmore of Kansas— "The Power of the Executive Over the Ju- diciary- We bave already announced the removal of Rush Elmore, Esq., one of the Associate Jus- tices of the Supreme Court of Kansas, We re- ceived yesterday, the subjoined note froma member of the Kansas Legislature, accompany- ing the opinion of the Chief Justice of K anzas upon the removal of thecapital. Here is the note :— J, G. Besnerr, Esq.— Judge Ekmore will resist, or rather contest, the right of the President to remove him from office, upor the ground that he has been appointed for four years, and cannot-be removed until that time expires. The re question is now w: very warm in this Peis he United States. The pro-slavery men are fully jetermined to carry the question in this Territory, even at the point of the bayonet. There is a much more se- rious condition of aftairs here than the people generally imagine. Ispeak from a certain knowledge of the facta. We are prepared to defend ourselves in every way that ciroumstances may require. ‘Youre, W. H. TIBBS. The alleged cause of Judge Elmore’s remoy- al was some speculations in Indian reserved lands, in which it is said he was engaged with Mr. Reeder. It wasdone probably to satisfy the North that Reeder was not removed on ac- count of his free soil proclivities. This was the old story of the ostrich hiding his head in the sand, and believing that his whole body was concealed. Nobody believed it, and the Judge denies the right of the Executive to touch the judicial ermine, unless the wearer of it has been proved to be guilty of misbehavior in office, and then only after trial and impeach- ment by the concurrent appointing power—the United States Senate. We believe that the President has stepped beyond the bounds of his power as they are fixed by the constitution and the law; and without regard to the personal matters involy- ed in the case of Judge Elmore, we desire to show that he isrightin the position which he has assumed. Tt the first place, we are accustomed to look to the judicial bench as the fountain of sound Jaw, pure justice, and opinions unbiassed by par- ty prejudice and political corruption. This cenfi- dence in the judiciary is nothing new. One of the complaints in the Declaration of Independence against King George the Third, isthat “he has made Judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices and the payment of their salaries.” And it has always been held hoth by the law and by unanimous agreement of public sentiment, that a Judge is to be con- sidered as holding his place by a tenure en- tirely different from that of an ordinary office- holder. Let us examine the facts. The ninth section of the act passed in May, 1854, to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, provides “ that the Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and two Asso- ciate Justices, any two of whom shall consti- stute a quorum, and who shall hold a term at the seat of government of said Territory an- nually ; and they shall hold their officesduring the period of four years, and until their suc- cessors shall be appointed and qualified.” This is the law under which Judge Elmore was ap- pointed; and we hold that it is not in the power of the President to remove him until the expi- ration of his term of office. This question has been broneht before the United States Supreme Court several times, and it has never been decided that the Presi- dent had power to remove a Judge. In fact, the contrary has always been held to be good Jaw. In the celebrated case of Marbury against Madison, a mandamus was applied for to command the Secretary of State to deliver commissions to certain persons appointed Jus- tices of the Peace for the District of Colum- bia—they holding office by the same tenure as Territorial Judges. The question was fully argued. It was decided that some point of time must be taken when the power of the Executive over an officer not removable at his will, must cease. That point of time must be when the constitutional power of appointment has been exercised. When the President ap- points a civil officer he may revoke the appoint- ment at his pleasure. But when an officer is not removable at the will of the Executive, the appointment is not revocable, and cannot be annulled. It has conferred legal rights which cannot be resumed. The appointment of Judge Elmore was made under the conditions last named. In allsuch appointments the dis- cretion of the Executive isto be exercised until the appointment has been made. But having once made the appointment, his power over the office is terminated in all cases where by law the officer is not removable by him. That is the law which applies to the Judges appoint- ed by act of Congress, whether for the District or for Territories, And as the law creating the office gave the officer a right to hold for five years, independent of the Executive, the appointment was not revocable. Mark that the appointment of Judge Elmore, according to a settled principle of law, announced from the Supreme bench before President Pierce was born, is not revocable. The rights ac- quired by Judge Elmore under his appoint- ment remain to him during four years, and they are not resumable by the President until the expiration of that time. The appointment conferred on him a legal right to the office for the space of five years, We further hold that the President has not the power to remove a Judge, because no such power is given to him by the constitution and the laws; whereas, special acts of Congress have been deemed necessary to give him power to remove civil officers employed under the se- veral heads of departments, They hold their offices at the pleasure of the President; but no such clause appearsin the commission of a Judge. The President is a lawyer, and we keep a le- gal adviser for him, Their united knowledge of the law should have tanght them that El- more’s decapitation would be a gross blunder. They should have remembered that our govern- ment Is one of laws, notof men. The Attorney General seems to have slidden back to some of his old federal doctrines, according to which all the power was to be placed in the hands of the Executive, while the President seems to have forgotten some of those pure democratic prin- ciples which were instilled into his youthful mind by Captain Benjamin Pierce, in the White Hills of the Granite State. In the case of the Judge of Minnesota, which the Attorney General will probably remember, it was declared from the bench that the Presi- dent has no more power to remove a Judge than to repeal a law ; and that it would be in- consistent with the principles of our govern- ment for the Judges to be subject to removal by the Executive. Inconsistent, because if it were the rule that the President could remove a Judge the bench might be corrupted, and any olvil or griminal case decided aeggrding to the willof the President, no matter how great villain he might be. ; Already the administration is in trouble in all quarters gn account of Elmore’s removal. It has failed to satisfy the squatters in Kansas or their friends at the Northand South, and we see that a resolution denying the right of the President to do the act, is under consideration in the Kansas Legislature. Tue Late Session OF THE AMERICAN SCIEN- sinic Association.—This body closed its anaual session a few days ago. The papers read and the discussions they elicited are among the most interesting which it has been the means of producing. We noticed many of them in an.article which appeared a week ago; those which were read afterwards need not detain us long. Probably the most valuable astronomical paper read before the association was that of Professor Alexander on the lost planet be- tween Mars and Jupiter. He pretends to have discovered its form, orbit, and conditions. It was, he says, a disk—not a globe, like the ether. planets—being only eight miles from pole to pole, while its equatorial diameter was seventy thousand miles, or nearly nine times as long as that of the earth. Rolling through space with a rapidity hardly excelled by any of the planetary. bodies, this thin slice of a planet coukl not long hold together. It burst and split into fragments—some of which, thirty-five in number—we have discovered, and christened by various heathen names. If Professor Alexander's discovery be confirmed by the calculations of other astronomers, his scientific rank is safe. We ought likewise to mention among the members who endeavored to throw light on this branch of science the Reverend Mr. Jones, of the Navy, who, during a cruise in the South- ern Pacific, made the first recorded Southern observations on the zodiacal light. Mr. Jones’ theory is ingenious and plausible; it received the general approval of the association, The elder Silliman started the vexed question of meteors once more; which brought Mr, Law- rence Smith to his legs, and he informed us that meteors were parts of our system, though not parts of the earth. More evidence—and that of a more decided character—will be needed before the scientific world will regard the question as settled. Finally, Professor Alexander placed on record a very careful observation of the eclipse of the sun which took place on 26th May, 1854. It does not disclose any new phenomena; but as an accu- rate and nice observation is worth imitating, Geology was well represented towards the close of the session. Mr. Blake unfolded the fruit of long and not useless labors in Califor- nia. Itisa field for the geologist that can hardly be excelled, and no disrespect to Mr. Blake is meant when we sobserve that it is, comparatively speaking, virgin still. Mr. James Hall read a most useful and interesting paper on the geology and general telluric ap- pearances of that most desolate portion of our continent, Nebraska and the mauvaises terres. We were aware before that the latter might compare with the most hopeless deserts of Africa, Nothing grows there, hardly a tree or a tuft of moss. The traveller who starts from Fond du Lac or Superior City to make his way to the Mississippi Valley must provide himself with everything beforehand, for he will not meet game on the way to support himself for a single day. Mr. Hal) confirms the worst that has been said of the region which the French voyageurs happily described as les mauvaises terres. They are, says he, a per- fect desert, wholly incapable of sustaining the life of man or beast. We had supposed that whatever was the condition of geology in the Western States, New England had nothing toreproach herself on that score. But it ap- pears from a paper read by Professor Guyot, that the geologist can find plenty of employ- ment there still. Except the coast maps, says the Professor, we have none on which we can rely. Who will volunteer on a voyage of discovery among the natives of Massachusetts and Rhode Island? Papers on various scattered branches and twigs of science were abundant. Moses G. Far- mer says he has invented a new telegraph, or combination of the Morse and House lines, by which from two to twenty-eight messages can be sent over the same wire at the same time. Professor Rogers explained at great length the merits and peculiarities of the stereoscope, but added nothing to what we knew before. Lieutenant Hunt showed how sods from salt marshes can be used on slopes and other in- clined planes where the common grass sod will not grow—a very useful and timely discovery. Professor Holton, whose dreams are disturb- ed by the prospect of the Centigrade thermome- ter superseding the old Fahrenheit, read a warm plea in favor of our favorite domestic instrument. We think the Professor may make his mind easy. Fahrenheit has his faults of course; but until nature adopts the decimal system in her freezing and boiling and melting operations, it does not seem imperative that we should, The Rev. Charles Brooks read a paper of useful advice to young men about to marry. The point of it is that they should not marry their grandmothers or their cousins, and that if they live on anisland they should cross over to the main land and choose a wife from thence. The reverend gentleman appears to have investigated the subject with assiduity and care; and it is clear that his arguments will produce a profound sensation among the inhabitants of Martha’s Vineyard, for whom hey seem to have been chiefly intended. Altogether the session was a useful and pleasant one. It has added much to the mass of our scientific knowledge, and in after years may be contemplated by the members with an honest feeling of pride and satisfaction. Re-Oreninc oF THE Cuvrcies.—One of the first signs of cool weather is given to-day, in the announcement that cight or ten of the fashion- able places of public worship will re-open for the season. Religion, it seems, like amusements, does not flourish with the thermometer up to ninety degrees, and so the pastor and flock seck the springs, the sea shore or the mountain, and there worship the goddess of fashion. In the autumn they all get devout again; and we may expect soon to hear of a general awakening on the subject ofreligion, and a large number of con- versions, We hope that if the subject of the late railway murder is touched from the pulpit to-day, it will be treated properly, It is idle cant to call the result of man’s carelessness, cupidity and criminality a demonstration of Ged's providence. ‘The Will of Lawrence—Intelligent Charity. The late Abbott Lawrence completed a ca- reer of beneficence by leaving by his willasum of fifty thousand dollars to be expended under certain conditions in the erection of model lodging houses, According to the provisions of the will, this sum must be spent in the build- ing of model lodging houses on the most prac- tical and best esteemed plan. Each dwelling when complete must be leased at a low but re- munerative rent to a respectable mpchanic’s or laborer’s family. It is calculated that ail the lodgings will be occupied permanently, as on no other plan can so much comfort and well being be secured to the tenant for the same amount of money. Proper persons are ap- pointed to receive the rents; one-half they are allowed to expend in keeping the lodging houses in repair and building others ; the other half is to be laid out in judicious charities. Such is the scheme. Now let us see how much good Mr. Lawrence intends to do with his fifty thousand dollars. If the ground is carefully selected, and a large economy practised in building the model lodg- ing house, it will accommodate one hundred and twenty-five families or five hundred per- sons for the next fifty years,/These people will enjoy the great blessings of cleanliness, health, : examples of morality, and/respectable society. They will not be taught idleness or depen- denee, for they will have to pay their rent just asif they lived in the vilest dens in Boston ; but their landlord will not regard them as mere money paying machines, they will not be al- lowed to starve in case of illness, and they will be encouraged to respect themselves. It is quite certain that the two children whom we have allowed as an average to each family will have every incentive to industry, order, clean- liness and virtue, and none to vice and ruin. Allowing that each lodging changes its tenant every ten years, which is probably only half as often as would really be the case, the lodging house will have been the saving, physically and morally, of twenty-five hundred persons. Twen- ty-five hundred souls, we say, will have been rescued from the fangs of vice and crime by this house; twenty-five hundred bodies will have been lifted out of the gutter and cleansed and made whole by the same cause. This is just twenty dollars a head—for soul and body together. But the good intended by Mr. Lawrence does not stop here. Inthe first place, the repairs to the lodging house will not absorb fifty per cent of the rent. The latter will probably ave- rage $5,000a year ; of this, perhaps a thousand dollars may be laid aside every year for the purpose of rebuilding or enlarging the house. In twenty-five years, this fund will be large enough to build another lodging hou like the first, and before the end of the fifty years two others on the same scale may be built. For as there will be no one to live on the interest of the deposit it will accumulate at compound interest, and the first lodging house will in course of time be the mother of a village. The other half of the rent—eay two thousand five hundred dollars-—may be given in chari- tice. If the distributors of this sum are judi- cious, it may be a godsend to no less than five hundred persons. There exists a class of people—each of us can call to mind some representatives of it—who hardly ever spend three consecutive years without undergoing the extreme of human misery. They are the thoughtless, who live from hand to mouth. Either they fall ill, or they lose their work, or they happen a bodily accident, or some such mishap befalls them ; and as they have made no provision for such disasters, misfortune takes them unawares, and strikes them down at once. For atime the pawnbroker and the small auctioneer come to their aid, but these resources last but a short while, and then they stare hunger in the face. Now it is nota quarter of a dollar or a few cents or a loaf of bread these sufferers want. Such alms would cost them more in self-abasement than any temporary bodily relief could repay. They need a small loan, five or ten dollars, which will give bread to the family while the father is recovering, or seeking work. Such a loan they can only get from a charitable institue tion, for they can offer no security, and the chances of its being repaid depend entirely on the character of the borrower. That it would be repaid, and gratefully, in many cases, no one who has studied human nature can question. In some cases, of course, the managers would be deceived by plausible rogues ; but a very large proportion of the recipients of such bounty would lay Ly their very first earnings to pay so sacred a debt. This appear to be a very proper and likely manner for the $2,500 a year to be distributed, If it is so disposed of—or on anyranalogous plan--something like five hundred heads of families will be relieved every year, and in all probability a fund of large amount will be col- lected from the sums returned by those who have received aid in hard times. Should some such plan as this be adopted, Mr. Lawrence’s fifty thousand dollars will be the means of rendering a vital service to one thousand persons every year. One thousand persons each year will have cause to bless his name. Now, compare this system of charity with that which is practised by so many of our rich men, who give fifty or a hundred dollars to soup kitchens, or charity concerts, or calico balls, or this or that religious society. The point of the latter order of charity appears to be the principle that benevolence is a dis- graceful propensity, of which a man should be ashamed, and which he should endeavor to conceal under a cloak of some kind—by call- ing it a ball, or a concert, for instance. The point of the others is that no one—not even the poorest--should be allowed to imagine that his poverty gives him any claim upon bis fellows; but that if he is aided in his hour of trial he ought to repay it in his hour of plenty. The one plan teaches dependence and idleness, the other manliness and self-reliance. In the one, the cloak costs as'much as the wearer— the disguise as the charity; in the other, the charity becomes self-sustaining, and the longer it lasts, and the more it gives, the greater grows its capacity for doing good. We are amply provided with materials for a choice when the next hard times come. Coronet Kinyey IN THE FrkLD.—The Texas Nueces Valley and Corpus Christi: Advertiser nomi- nates Colonel Kinney for the Presidency, on the presumption, we suppose, that he is to re- volutionize all Central America between this time and next June, and then to come forward on the question of annexation, What say Senor Marcoleta and Colonel White? Are they ready ? Wurre Surruvr Deciararions.—Mr. Presi- dent Pierce, in his speech at the Virginia White Sulphur Springs, to Captain John Tyler, took occasion to say that: “Let it be remem- bered that whenever in a State or Territory, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, a single citizen of the republic is deprived of the right guaranteed to him by law, there is a blow aim- ed at the constitution itself. It matters not whether that citizen be so wronged by evasion or violence. The whole framework of our sys- tem, to a greatér or less extent, inevitably feels the shock.” And the Albany Argus says that “the functionary who utters these fine phrases has the whole army, navy and police of the Union at his beck. And yet he stands by and sees mobs lynch peaceable citizens, control elections, usurp power, destroy ballot boxes, and condemn men to death for pretended offen- cese—and lifts not a finger.’ And a member of the Kansas Legislature says, that the reason Mr. Pierce has done nothing to establish order in the Territory is that he is a coward. Let the aforesaid Kansas Assemblyman read the Presi- dent’s White Sulphur speech and tremble. A Bmp iw tae Hanp Worts Two In THE ‘Busn,—There never was a better example of the truth of this ancient saying than in the case of Mr. George Cole, the City Surveyor of Buffalo, Mr. Cole wanted to be State Engi- neer. He was nominated by the hards, and declined, fearing that if he accepted. he would be injured with the softs. But the last named politicians are a slippery set of fellows, and were committed to nominate Mr. Hatch, of Buffalo, for Secretary ofState. Of course two persons on @ State ticket could not be taken from the same county, and all the efforts of Mr. Cole’s friends to kill off Mr. Hatch failed. So Cole has gone down to the tomb of the Capu- lets, where he can take a calm survey of the state of politics and reflect on the entire ab- surdity of putting one’s trust in princes or conventions, We hope that Cole is a philoso- pher, and that he will console himself with the very nice thing he has of it in Buffalo. Erie is awhig county, but it turns out an immense number of democratic office seekers. Tue Harp Suet Oraan on THE Sorr SHELL Piatrorm.—Ir Won’r Do.—The hard shell or- gan of this city thus briefly exhibits the Syra- cuse platform of the softs, or the administra- tion, and the slavery question. He is speaking of the soft convention:-— First, it laid on the table all resolutions relating to ge Kansas quest‘on, on motion of a Custom House elegate. Secondly, it took up again for consideration the Cassidy resolution denouncing'the Missouri emigrants into Kan- sas, but discreetly maintaining silence as to the Massa- chusetts free oil emigrants, and the associations by which the latter has been sent out. Thirdly, it adopted the Cassidy resolution with some amendment, and in connection with it, the Van Buren resolution—which is the Wilmot proviso resolution of Field, tabled in 1847, as we have already remarked. Fourthly, 1 adopted a resolution endorsing the finan- cial policy ‘ot the administration, but is silent as toall other merits or demerits. With this much the dejected and out-manceuyred Cus- tom House delegates were forced to rest content | Now, we hope that without any unnecessary delay, the Cabinet organs at Washington and Richmond will give us their opinions upon this platform of the New York administration fac- tion, They stick to their Buffalo principles. Is th2 administration satisfied? Does Mr. Wise, of Virginia, still adhere to our soft sheil democracy, with “all his head, and all his heart, and all his might’ We should like to hear from “Only, near Onancock,” upon the subject. Wnat’s ww tue Winp Now?—Our elder Se- ward organ says that “Governor Seward is an able and a patriotic statesman, whose past career has been a noble one; but there are others equally faithful, equally deserving. If the action of the whig party were really im- pelled by the sole desire of making him Pre- sident, it would be melancholy indeed.” “Whig party!’ What whig party? And why “melan- choly?” We fear that the “little villain” has been taking the wind out of the sails of its uncle, and that the venerable philosopher is accordingly casting about for another idol. Let Master Seward beware of Wilson, Chase, Hale, and the rest of the coalition philoso- phers nearest to Tammany Hall. From Port av Prixce.—Capt, Graham, of the brig Vir- ginia, arrived yesterday morning from Port au Prince August 16, reports it very sickly when he left, parti- cularly amongst the shipping. City Politics. DELEGATE TO THE WHIG STATE CONVENTION. Secon ASSEMBLY DistRiCT.—The Whig Assembly Con- vention of the Second district, (Third and Sixth wards,) met last evening at Patten’s Hotel, and organized, on motion of Owen W. Brennan, of the Sixth ward, who no- minated George W. Williams for chairman and Charles B. Foote for secretary. It appeared that the Third ward was contested. Messrs. McMullen and Costa spoke in be- half of the rival delegations, After this hearing they with- drew, and the Sherwood or College place ticket was re- ceived by a unanimous vote, the same delegation ower been admitted into all the conventions held at the - way Houre and at the Senatorial Convention. On motion, Mr. Otis B. Cobleigh, of Sixth ward, was admitted as a delegate at large. James B. Taylor, ‘of Sixth ward, was then unanimously chosen delegate to the Whig State Con- vention, and Sheridan Shook, of the Third ward, as alter- nate. The Convention then adjourned. DELEGATES TO THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION: Tarp AssRwnty District Rercntican CoNVENTION,—A preliminary meeting of the republican electers of the Fourth ward (Third Assembly district) was held last evening at the Shakspeare Hotel, D. McLaughlin presid- ing, and M. Jones acting av sec . It was decided to meet at the seme place on Monday evening, to elect <le- legates to the State Convention to be held at Syracuse. WORKINGMEN’S MASS MEETING. The Park Committee held a meeting recently and re solved to take action immediately against the contract system, and other so called reforms. In order to enlist the working men in their cause, they have determined to hold a meeting on Tuesday evening, at Hope Chapel, as will be seen by an advertisement given elsewhere, The Tarf. UNION COURSE, L. I.—TROTTING. ‘Two trotting matches came off on Thursday last, be- tween b. g. Billy Button and b. m. Eliza Logan, mile heats, in harness. James Whelpley drove Billy Button, Hiram Woodruff having charge of the mare. The first race was for $500, the second for $400, The odds were on Hiram’s mare before the start at 100 to 30, and he was distanced the first heat, Not satisfied with his de- feat, he matched again for a single dash for $400, and was beaten a second time. The result of these races show the fallacy of the opinion that it is the skill of the dnmver and not the power of the horse that wins the race, This —— idea has led many men astray to their cost. one who have suffered in the present in- stance will bave learned a lesson they will not soon forget. The following is a summary :— Tuvrspay, August 30,—Match, $500, mile heats, best three in five, in barness, James Whelpley named b. g. Billy Button os aala H. Woodruff named b. m. ‘Time 94. Sam Day.--Match, $400, le dash of a mile. Jamer Mowe named b. § Button. Hi. Wocdruff named b. m. Biza Logan.... Time, 2:44%¢. Saorpay, Sept. 1.—Match, $1,000, two mile heats, in harness. Fe eae aed vik, etalon, Treonderopa H, Woodruff nam 7) Time, 5:43—5:45, 1 2 fered Tavxem—Mr. Abram (. Bell launched from his yard, foot of Stanton street, on Thursday morning, about eleven o'clock, @ fine schooner of about 400 tons, called the Thomas Holcombe. She is to be commanded hy Captain R. W. Goslee, and is intended for Messrs, Stanton & Tall- man’s ling of Savapmad packets, THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. ‘Wasinxaroy, Sept. 1, 1855. RETURN OF TBE PRESIDENT AND WIFE—DEATH OF JUDGE CRANCH, ‘The President, wi‘eand suite arrived here this after- noon, after an absence of seventeen days at the Virginia, Springs. William Cranch died this P, M., at the age of 86 years. He has served as Judge in the courts of the Dis- trict of Columbia for nearly fifty-five years, He wad eminent for his learning, for the soundness of his opine ions, and for the purity of his character. He received his appointment at the outgoing of the administration of, the elder Adams. Judge Cranch was the auther of tha Cireuit Court Reports. The Telegraphic Excursionists and Sabmae rine Telegraph Cable. Huurax, (N. 8.) Sept. 1, 1855. The steamer James Adger and party arrived at Sydney, Cape Breton, yesterday, where the steamer took in coat and would leave to-day for New York direct The party were all in excellent health and spirits, notwithstanding the unfortunate termination of the attempt to lay dowm the telegraph cable to Newfoundland. We have beem unable to learn the ymecise cause of the failure. Tha Adger will be due at New York on Wednesday. Kansas News. JUDGE ELMORE DEFINING HIS POSITION—GOV. SHAN NON’S ORTHODOXY ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION IN DOUBT. Cmicaso, Sept. 1, 1855, Judge Elmore has written o letter to the Hon, Cale Wushing, dated Shawnee Mission, Aug. 23, in which he states he has not violated a single law of Congress og order of the department, and that he is satisfied that hie case is prejudiced, and that his removal is decidedly om the grounds of policy. He also says that, by the 27th section of the Kansas-Nebraska act, he holds office for four years, and gives notice that he will resist the actiom of the President through the Courts. The last number of the Squatter Sovercign doubts tha reliability of Governor Shannon in regard to the slavery question, Massachussetts Politics. MOVEMENT OF THE KANSAS AID SOCIETY, ETC. Bosrox, Sept. 1, 1855. A meeting of the Kansas Emigrant Aid Society wad held last evening. Addresses were made by the Reva Edward E. Hale, of Worcester, G. B. Emerson, Rev. Mr. Wilcox, a resident of Kansas, and others. Three com- mittees were choren—the first to consider and act on the best method of making all the ministers of Boston life members of the Aid Company; the second to correspon® with the various religious societies of Massachusetts om the wants of Kansas, and to invite their contributions; and the third to raise by general subscription in thia State a fund reaching, with the other contributions, $20,000. The Hon. Geo, 8. Hillard, of this city, was nominate? for State Attorney General by the late Anti-Maine Law Convention without his knowledge or consent. The Yellow Fever in Virginia. Barrimore, Sept. 1, 1856. During the twenty-four hours ending at noon on Fri« day there were fifteen deaths from yellow fever in Nore folk, including amongst them Dr. Thomas Nach, Capt. ‘Wm. Starke, and his wife and daughter. In Portsmouth, during the same time, the number of deaths was fourteen. The disease was assuming a milder form. An abundance of physicians and nurses bad arrive? from Savannah, Charleston and New Orleans. The Case of the Boston Siaver. Bosros, Sept. 1, 1855. Jacob K. Lunt, the pilot charged with obstructing legal process of the United States Court, in piloting the alleged slave schooner Mary FE. Smith to sea, has beer held for trial. He gave bail in five hundred dollars. The case of James E. Simpson, merchant, charged with fitting out the schooner as a slaver, is postponed til? ‘Thursday next. The Buffalo and Brantford Railroad. Burra1o, Sept. 1, 1855, A meeting of the directors of the Buffalo and Brant- ford Railroad was held to-day at Brantford, C. W., to consider @ proposition of the English first mortgage bond- holders to lease the road. The proposition was accept+ ed with but one dissenting vote. The terms are to pay the interest bonds now due, to finish the road, and ta keep it im good condition. Conviction for Murder. Coxconn, N. H., Sept. 1, 1855. Cornelius Haskell and Sarah Ann A. Brown, his re- puted wife, were convicted to-day before the Suprema Judicial Court, in this city, of the murder of Stephen C. Washer, at Hopkinton, on the Sist of last May. Haskel? isa mulatto, Sentence has been deferred until Monday. Mortality of Boston. Boston, Sept. 1, 1855. The deaths in this city for the week ending to-day were ninety-six, showing a decrease of twenty-nine from last week, Arrival of the Augusta at Savannah, Savannag, Sept. 1, 1856. The steamer Augusta arrived here from New York at five o'clock this morning. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BORRD. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1, 1855. Money unchanged. Stocks dull. Pennsylvania State fives, 873; Reading Railroad, 47%; Long Island Railroad 16; Morris Canal, 163; Peotasiveiae Railroad, 4s," Burvato, Sept, 1127 Flour—Fair demand, and 25c.’lower. bbls. at $6 75 8 $7 for common to fancy Ohio - gan, and $7 26 for extra do. | Wheat @ of 2,000 yushels Chicago on private terms. Corn favors ayers. Sales of 23,000 buahels at 75c. Osts—Sales of 1,000 bushels new Chicago, afloat, and to arrive, at 36e, Cana? Freights—10c. for corn to Albany and nd 120, to Lake importa yesterda; ur, bushels;"corn, 22,975 do, same time—Flour, 1,870 bbls, corn, 77,491 do.; oats, 14,680 do, ee Naval Intelligence. The United States sloop of war Falmouth i« still at Quarantine. It is thought that she will be released ing few days, and go to the Navy Yard. It was more alarn® than reality, in the idea that the Falmouth was infected with the yellow fever, It is the Levant that is fitting out at the Navy Yard. alnneneinineneciontials Personal Intelligence, A the Clarendon—Hon-Atnos Kenda en fon. ter yg: G Ferrer, Tew fork, Wan A ‘inne val, lodson, a Mrs J C Brune, Baiumore. Pe ee a ‘Smithsonian House—Rev J Stille, Maryland; Revit M New Haven: J G Holeman, U 8 N; bonpeon, Port age, Wis. HC Barnum, Albany; Jos H Oakes, Charleston, 8 0; M RB Moore, ‘iphia; Dr Lyons, Louisiana; EA Starr, Boston; WR Haynard, :@ $C; Col Robin: son, Atigueta, Geo; R Stand, Panama; L Roe, Jamaica, W I. From Liyerpool, in ahip Gazetieer~Mr P L Gill, of Boston; J Booth, of Ollo; F Bmith, lady and sister, of England rs From Liverpool, in ship’ Webster—Francis Mot'arihy, wer, UBS AZ DEPABTURES. For Sotibampton and Havre, in the steamship North Star— HS Fearing, N. ¥.; Rev James Stephens, Ireland; cinco paae F D |, family and servant, ts Inn ley two cl Goets rc Wi Clarkand indy, Norshanaycon, Mase J Wagner Henrs Bere ind Indy, Ne w York: 40 Alexander, Hon. Sydney Smal, PP, wite and sister, Coburg,’ Canada West; Joh Dayid Smith, Joseph Streeter, "eatthe Pot Hope, © Ws T omaga Hernandez, A Miranda, Cubai Louis Roccoy New York; Ruis Hiniely, Leopold Villegas, Havana; Carlos B Ser- ba, R Canizo, C Ramos, A P Chamberlain, wife and two sons, A harlatn, New York; J. Van Ryckerersal, New York, Mist Lanndie, F’Conchennai, M Cantador, NY; Rev joffman, Baltimore; Mur E Kerney, Mr PO NY Charles Todd, St Louis; B Riley, J Jacob NY; Mme Welpecke, Jobn 3 fat Iomega ind son, z Niagara’ Fall, AY; OF Fumivall, Niagara 4 ‘Haring, “Bianori, Alex Mackey, Robert Wolf, dingiistas Piny, Stra ime Lieder Feliz, © AB Jacot, Luis Ganthy, B Ferraul, J Fastet, EC We x A Forte, Mre 8 9 Hyai and 3 citdree, ay james HE don Vanther, Mexico: ¥ A ¢ 2 Lindsay, Geo Hermann and wife, SYorke ten a * For Charleston, in the steamer Marion—=@ MC Wilkina, W iH Schroeder, J Klin Thos Palen, HH Wid Kame TT Windsor, E Ormstcads Jae Proton iar i GN Jobnson, HE Nichols and daughter, Ca Cbrisholn, HM Beach, J Me P Creighton, JT Rivers, Misa B.S %, Mra Burkelt, H Denning, lady and 2 servante; Mrs MA Morris, Mr Pullian and family, A Isaace, CF Qu Bi a Davia, Jobn Gruse, Mis hepsi ia * ony Mien Homder son, ‘motth a: " St I a Sharp, Geo F Drade, Jas Stration, Se Momrarie For Old Point, Petersburg and Richmond, in the steamshi Jamenigwne Luke Taylor, Dr A Teer, A'J O'Hallon, R Tally. lady and two children: P Johnson and son, Mrs Wlastons ‘Thotnas Pemberton, Thos D Quarles, © Robinson, Mr Fisher, and 33 in the steerage, For Favanpab, im the steamer Alabama8,B Wrish!, Gao fharSia W' Foutkro Wie Copa Poutkroy A he Wp ; ; aw T'King, Ceorge Murtagh, War M Post, Charley Newman DF Wilco end indy, M Martiry iss Hamlin, Mrs Bradley, @ ¢ Wendelkin, and child; BW Doe and lady. Dd 4 Jolin Ro'man, Jean Ty Buxman, M Aspill, FD Foow, M dalla” her, P Hayden, W_A Thomas, Jacob Straus and JG Sprague, Mra Neibnr and three cbildren, (8 Cavin, M ‘4 Carles G Stewart, James Rikeman, Jeremiah Buckley, Johy