The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON ® exNErr, PROPREZEOR AND F goon wiCe N. W. COBNER OF BS? aga AND FULTON STH OnPeICE a istcnclb VERMS, cash AOE 7) ALD, 2. cont op copy, $i per annie. LY BERALD, 2 conte pr oh 3 PS ene per yee Die Continent both | Yo# contuining aaportont p i—if wank will be news, soleied “ve “ ay OUR we : aoree sory pa Heyer 70 Sioal ALL LEVERES AND PACK AGHA FI rp saben / anonymous communioations, We do wk vine es EVE coveted with nentness, Cheapnens and ? pet NR TISE MENTS ronwced every JADWAY TREATRE Broadway—Tue Captiyz—Mar- pitt BROTHERS=M Ac tc Pins, ® © it y BLO’ GARDEN, Broadway—Daccurer or rus Reor k ¥, THEATRE, Bowery—Maorera—@aven ov enw . ary . =. * BURTON'S THEATRE, ¢ Bunacu or Pro- wish—Kiss iN THE Dank—De METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway~Lus Daors pe LHowmk—Les Honacrs. chan! WOOD'S MINSTRELS, *s Hall, 472 Broadway. $3 BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad ysqrt OrEra AND Negro MINSTRELSY. BUCK snoy—Boi New York, Monday, September 3, 1855. The News. We have received and publish in another co- umn the details of the news from Mexico to the 224 ult., a brief account of which, received by tele- graph, appeared several days since. The news of the flight of Santa Anna, the tevolution at the capi- tal, the adoption of the plan of Ayutla, and the es- tablisiment of a provisional government, with Gen. Carrera at its head, is confirmed. Santa Anna at- tempted to escape in the Mexican war vessel Ttar- bide, but being frustrated in his object embarked on poard another vessel. Whither he was bound or where he will turn up remains to be seen. A full report of what transpired hefore the Coro- ner’s jury on Saturday last, in relation to the Bar- Wogton railroad slaughter, will be found on the first page. The jury themselves, it will be seen, were ex- amined as to their being interested in the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, and one of them ac-- knowledged {0 owning stock in that corporation, It was then asked, had any of them free passes on the rad; but that juguiry. was stopped, and the ques- tioner silenced. The feeling among the farniers in gid arcund Burlington of course runs very ‘high; there being two partfes—those who blame the com-~ pany for not haying taken proper precautions, and those who exonerate them from all blame; the let- ter’predominating largely. The Grand Jury will sit at Mount Holly, N. J.,on Tuesday, and should the verdict of the Coroner's jury be too lenient on the corporation, as itis likely to be, the matter will come before the grand inquisition, to whom the pub- hie will look for decided measures against those whose carelessness and inattention caused this dire calamity We publish elsewhere the laws of the State of New Jersey relative to the liability of raflroad cor- porotions when they do not take proper precantion to prevent accidents on their roads. The law, it , does not occupy much space, and for it could effect] it might as well not be passed atall, The only penalty it contains is that of cue hundred dollars and costs for not complying with the most simple dictates of humanity and pru- aence in giving the enstomary warnings when pass- ing turnpike and high roads. This law, ineflicient as it is, has been clearly violated by the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company; for if the testimony of reliable witnesses, and of the engineer him: self, isto be helieved, the whistle was not blown, nor any signal given. The passengers can now have the immense satisfaction of making this wealthy corporation pay one hundred dollars and eoats, in retarn for killing and maiming ninety-one persons. Such is New Jersey ley Probably but few of onr readers ave aware that we have had a revolution among ns. While the pub Ke mind has been occupied with the horrifying detai!s of the Camden and Amboy Railroad massa- ere, the bombardment of Sweahorg, and the funy proceedings of the soft shells at Syracuse, the Cry nga Indians have revolted, deposed their chiefs, and set up new rnlers. The revolutionists have issned ‘their manifesto, and wich the whole world to kaow their proceedings; therefore we publish the docu ment, that the whole world may be enlightened, The Cayugas, it appears, have heen victimised by their chiefs. Imitating their more civilized neigh- the Cayuga oflice holders have kept a watehfal eye upon the spoils, and instead of administering the afuirs of the tribe honestly, have availed them- welves of their oflicial positions to unscrupulously plunder the people of the annuity received from the State by virtue of certain treaty stipulations. Smith Wheelbarrow, Casher Darkness, and others, availing themselves of “the modern and approved mode of deposing and creating chiefs, founded upon the sup- posed natural rights of man,” have concluded to put astop to such a state of things, and we hope they may succeed in the undertaking. We publish this morning the long-deferred com. munication of Mr. George N. Sanders upon Barc- pean and American politics. Red and black repub- Kicane, Cuban patriots, Spanish hidalgos, abolition- sta, hard and soft democrats, and refugees from the peopics abroad, of every clime and country, will no doubt read this curious epistie from the observing ex-Consal. A large Know Nothing meeting was held in Cin- cinnati on the 30th ult., to ratify the nomination of Allen Trimble as a candidate for the office of Gover- nor. The mecting was addressed by a number of distinguished speekers, ond the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Our correspondent at Rio Janeiro, writing on the 2eth July, gives a glowing secount of the present snd prospective prosperity of Brezil, His leiter, publisbed in another column, will be found yery in- teresting. The enbscriptions for the relief of the yellow fever #Werers in Virginia antount to upwards of On Saturday the sales of cotton embraced avout 1,000 bales. The sales since the receipt of the Faropean news by the Canada haye reached 7,900 Dales, the balk of which has heen made in tran- vita. The market closed at about Ile. for mid- Gling Uplands, J1\c. do. for Mobile, and Ilje. a lije. for New Orleans do, Flonr was heavy, and Gerlined 25e. for moxi deserptions, and on some West, ern grades, in rather full stock, from Sic, a 500, de- vline was submitted to. Southern red wheat sold at $1 72 2 $1.80, and white, prime, at #192 a #1 95,in eluding 4,800 bushels for export at $195, anda #mall tot James river at $1 Corn closed at 87. a Sile. Oate were heavy, and sold at 50c. a Ste, for Hate and Western. Pork was firm, with sales of new mees, for cash, and fifteen days, buyer's option, at $2257 0 Sugara were fc. a je. higher, with sales ) hhds, Coffee was in fair re- qnest, without further change in prices, Freights were higher for Liverpool and London, which had @ tendency to check engagenients. How sre THe Mtowty Wavuex t—Where is the whig party? Where is that came old coon? ‘Where are the Union Castle Garden whigs? The pariy seems now to consist of Mr, Franke Jin Dexter, of Maseachusctts : Mr. Washi on Yiun York, and Mr. Benjamin, of Louisiana. We might include Me. Bell, of Tea, New neesee, but he has dallied with the Know No things. Be coe away the glory of this world a _NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, Value of Life in Jersey, us Shown by the Late Railway Accident. From the accounts published elsewhere, it seems that the total number of deaths caused by the railway accident at Burlington wiil not fan short of thirty. It now remains to be seen whether in the State of New Jersey thirty persons can be put to death and some sixty odd mained without legal consequences. In this Siate, and ia civilized countries gene- rally, railway companies are held responsible for Joss of life by accident on their lines. Not ouly can a family of orphans obtain compen- sation for the mur of their father, or a wife for that of her husband, but in other cases also, where the dependence of the survivor on the deceased is not so obvious, a similar claim is sanctioned by law. It seems to be doubtful whether such is the law of New Jersey. It is said that.come time ago, an effort was made to pass a Dill-in that State rendering railway, corporations and others civilly responsible for the death of parties caused by their act; but that the Camden and Amboy monopoly in- stantly crushed it out, and severely reprimand-— ed their lacqueys in the Legislature for having ventured to propose such a measure. This seems likely enough. It would fave shown great want of foresight in the railway com- pany to have allowed their dependents in the Legislature to,declare, by statute, that railway killing was murder. As they knew very well that their single track must be the cause of accidents, if would have evinced gross negli- gence to have tolerated an enaciment for the prevention or punishment of such accidents. The Camden and Amboy folks are not given to err in this wise. We take it therefore that the case is governed by the common law; at which, as every one knows, the dependent is entitled to claim pecuniary compensation for the manslaughter by negligence of the person on whom he dgpends. We trust that we shall not violate the privacy of sorrow, if we in- stance the case of Mrs. Boyce and her surviv- ing children, who, by the homicide of Major Boyce, ave daprived of their natural protector and support. At common law, they are en- titled to recover from the company an amount equal to that which the remaining years of the late Major Boyce’s life might have been worth, had he lived to the usual term of existence.” So of the dependents of the other deceased Eyery child whose father has been killed has a tight to'claint of the company a sum equal to that» which the father might reasonably have spent on its education, support, and es- tablishment in life. And here it may be said that an important duty devol upon the friends of the orphans and widows whose mis- fortunes are due to this disaster. The agents of the monopoly are on the alert, and it may be taken for granted that they will strain every nerve to effect a cheap compromise with the injured and bereaved. Doors will not exelude them from the house of mourning, nor will one rebuff drive them away. If watch is not kept, they will take advantage of the distress of mind of the company’s creditors to worry them intoa settlement, The poor—the friendless—whose very daily bread hasbeen taken away by this ae- cident—will be bribed into an acquittal of the company. It is the sacred duty of the friends of the unfortunates to bafle these projects. Let the company’s agevts be denied access to the widows, and the orphans, and the wounded : me lawyer of let them he addressed to s pie in whose hands their may be placed. y Haven Railroad Company, by employing shrewd nn- serupulous agents, effected some remarkably cheap compromises with some of the victims of the Norwalk disaster ; obtaining a release for far Jess than a jury would have granted, Let there be no such errors committed now. The company cannot restore the life that is lost, or the face that is gone; but it can pay every dollar that the deceased would ever have earned, and it must not be forgiven a single mill. Ultimately, of course, if the monopoly re- «fuses to pay, the cases must go lefore a jury. Deeply, poignantly do we regret to odd that we cannot speak confidently of the result of such an appeal. Were the ease to be tried in New York or in New England, or in the South or in the West, it could be said emphatically that justice would be done, The circumstances, the enormously rich monopoly, the niggardly refusal to build a second track, the suicidal order to the conductor, and the worning af- forded by the previous accident of August, 1853, when four persons were killed and twenty seriously injured, would all be taken into account, and a verdict rendered which would compensate the sufferers, so far a3 money could. But the cases will be tried in New Jersey and nothing so comforting ean be said. Ii is notorious that, so far as political move- ments are concerned, the people of the State of New Jersey are sold to the railway. Their souls are not their own. They elect a Legisla- ture nominated in part by the railway, ond that Legislature passes bills drafted to snit the rail- way. Can it be expected that these men will evince more independence in the discharge of their duty as jurymen? Can it be hoped that twelve men will be found in New Jersey torea- der a verdict against the railway?) Those who arsume to know the Jerseys say that when the cases come to trial the monopoly will have sue- ceeded in blinding the people so thorouchly that not a verdict will be obtained, They think (hat i4 is more likely that the plaintiffs who have lost a father or a son, or a limb, will be cast in the costs likewise, than that twelve Jerseymen can he found to condemn their lord and master of Camden and Amboy. And they assert that even ai this time the company’s agents are afoot, with this argument in thei boldly proclaiming the unspeaica tion of the people of Jersey, and threaten that if the sufferers do not come they will never get a cent, aims mouths, legrada- to terms, It would be worth a quarier of a million to see 80 staring a fact proved beyond question, Some politicians object to the aanexavion Mexico that it would not anawer for us to mix with the inferior race; but if the Jerseymen justify these predictions, there cam be no race in the wildest South Sea island with whom it would not be better and more honorable to be confederaicd. But we have oar hopes in the people of that State; we have our hopes that New Jersey will not permit this «tain to rest upon its eseutcheon. of The point will coon he decided, and the public will not lose sight of it. With the singly exeep- tion of the Snsqnehanneh Railroad collision on July 4, 1854, this Burlington accident has injured more persons than any of the recent | TiWvoad ynassaeres, The Norwalk iraged b killed 4¢ ud wounded 24—tolal 70; the colli- sion between the Mlinofs Central and the South- ern Michigan on April 26, 1853, killed 21, and wounded 50; this accident has injured $1 per- sons, of whom 30 are dead or are not expected to survive. TELEGRAPHIC News, Reporters ano Parc SAN Eprrors.—Some of our contemporariesseem recently to have imbibed new and strange notions concerning the duties of telegraphic reporters. Hitherto it has been generally understood that the province of such reporters Wasto send to their employers true and ua- Diassed aceounts of whatever transactions of interest came under their notice in their im- mediate localities. They were expected to state events just as they occurred, without re- gard to the bearing, political or otherwise, of the particular information they were convey- ing, and without stopping to consider whether they could not so word their despatches as not ‘0 offend by the truthfulness of their language the attachés of some excessively squeamish jour- nal within the circle of the Association. This requirement from them on the part of the Association was rendered the more necessary, by the fact that the Associated Press is com- | posed of journals of all shades of politics and opinions; so that any attempt on the part of the reporter, if he should be disposed to make one, to render his labors more acceptable to some particular journal, by falling in with its peculiar isms, or ministering to its violent pre- judices, at the expense of all the other journals inthe Association, would cause instant and general dissatisfaction. But, as we have already intimated, a few of our contemporaries “seem to have recently received new light on this subject, and are beginning to kick against this well understood relation of the agents of the press to their employers; and they have, accordingly, commenced the hunting down of certain gentlemen in the employ of the press who do not see fit prostitute their oppor- tunities for the gratification of insignificant sectional parties or cliques. They say, in effect, to these gentlemen—“ either so con- struct yq@ir reports, by garnishing or suppres- sion, or direct or covert falsehood, as not to offend the idiosynoracies and prejudices of our editors and readers, or we will drive yon from your employment.” All this is manifestly wrong. If what a reporter sends to ns be facts —~if he has told us nothing but the-trath, and has told us the whole truth, so far asit came to his knowledge—we hold that he has done his duty, and his whole duty, whatever party, or class, or faction, or ism may have been un- pleasantly compromised by those facts; and all fair-minded and liberally disposed editors will acquiesce in this conclusion. 5 One of the cases of persecution to which we have alluded, is that of the reporter of the As- sociated Press at Louisville. That gentleman prepared and sent over the wires the facts of the late riots, such as he-was enabled to learn ' on the spot, at the instant, and amidst the in- tense excitement of their occurrence. Subse- quent investigation by the City Councils of Louisville, as well as by private citizens, have proved beyond a doubt that his first reports of that aflair were remarkably correct. But the tone of bis despatches, truthful as they were, did not happen to snit the prejudices of that portion of the press to which we have alluded, and hence they have opened their columns upon him in a stream of abuse and denuneia- tion that is evidently intended to drive him from his position. They first accuse him of being a Know Nothing, without a particle of evidence to prove their acensation, but evi- dently with the purpose of ereating a parti- san fecling against him; and then cherge him with having colored and even fal- sified his reports to suit his own pe- litical prejudices, when the evidence subse- quently elicited, as we have already shown, and as those editors well knew, proved that his statements were, in the main, correct. One point on which the most stress is laid, is the fact stated in the Lonisville report, that “the first shot was fired hy a foreigner.” The evi- dence broughi out at the investigation by the City Couycil distinctly proves this fact, not only by the oaths of respectable American citi- zens, but by those also of Jvish Catholics them- selves, But it is not necessary to go into details. The Henavp has already given, in ample pro- fusion, the various reports of those riois, co- pied from papers in the interest of both par- ties, and our readers have, doubtless, drawn their own conclusions from the premises. We repeat, the general accuracy of the correspon- dent’s reports ¢ fully substantiated in those deta’ and this asertion cannot be coutro- verted or denied without doing violence to the truth. We are not personally acquainted with the gentleman who holds the situation of reporter to the press at Louisville : but we know that his position is a responsible one, and one such aso man Who is not eapable of having opin- ions of his own should occupy: and we tend that, whether those opinions lean to the Know Nothi w to the Sag-Nichts—io han- kerism or free sollery-to white-coated philoso- eophy or red-hearded infidelity—so long as he does his duty faidhfully and impartially, as we believe he did doin the matter of the Lou 7 Ville riots, he should be exempted from unm von- rited aPuse at the bands of those who emp! him. Onur captions contemporaries ought to know | that itis much easier to drive a capable man from a responsible tivation than it is to find another capable man who will be willing to Whig) the wojust newnbent would seem take the place on the term treatment of the former i to imply. ASSOCIATIONS. -We por: ive that the r dealers’ organization is extending. Thoy have a Ia and powerful society in New York, a sceret society in Penn- a, and they have just organized as a ical party, with a separate State ticket, In hn Of course these par would tirely contemptihle if they relied for their strength entirely upon persoris interested in the liquor trade, They secure the support ofa large number of citizens who are oppo: tosumptuary laws of any kind, and who that the Prohfhitory Liquor law is an invaston of the rights of the citizen, The liqnor men have the nucleus of a strong party. PReranarions ror Stave Trame iw Cons | We learn from an anthentic source, that con- | tracts have been made for the introduction | this year into the island of Cuba of large numbers of African slaves, One party alone 4s contracted for the supply of seven thou- | sand. Portuguese waking are now in this arrangem soon return from England, leaving the mission to the Court of St. James a vacancy, Who will | take his place?’ A Washington correspondent | of ne of our cotemporaries says that © the competition for the mission is not loud but deep. | Many candidates have already been named, It is suggested that the present is a favorable opportunity for redeeming the voluntary en- gagements of the President to General Dix; but the pendency of the New York election is an obstacle to that selection, The appointment is not expected to be made before October.” Gen. Dix has a pre-emption claim, we admit; but if certain inside reports from Washington may be relied upon, Governor Reeder, of Kan- sas, is entitled to some consideration. Then, again, the honest and well meant efforts of Prince John Van Ruren at the late soft con- vention, to avoid giving offence to the demo- cratic party by avoiding any endorsement or approval of the administration whatever, are certainly entitled to great respect at headquar- ters, But we should not be surprised if the dis- tinguished ministerial services of Col. Forney in the Kitehan Cabinet were to override the claims of all other candidates, His most for- midable competitor is Col. Greene of the Bos- ton Post, and his pretensions certainly appear to be the more reasonable as between the two favorites—for while Col. Greene from the pub- lie plunder has only been making his tens of thousands, Col. Forney {s reported as having turned over his hundreds of thousands at Wash- ington, in one way or another. Perhaps, after all,in order to get him out of the way as a slippery customer, Gen. Cushing may be slipped off to England just as Major Borland was sent down to Nicaragua, The President is harrassed with the cares of State and the affairs of Kansas, and the mission to England must wait till he is ready to receive the ultimatum of Marcy. That's all. Tyr James Apacer Excursroxists— tye CapLe.—Our readers will gee, from ex- tracts which we publish from the St. Johns, N. F., journals, that the excursionists on board the steamer James Adger had a very pleasant time while in that port. A splen- did banquet was given on board to the most prominent inhabitants of St. Johns, who returned the compliment by a grand ball and supper on a subsequent evening. Everything seems to have been ‘conducted on a liberal scale, and the enteriainment passed off most pleasantly. The James Adger, after this interchange of hospitalities with the good people of St. Johns, proceeded to Port au Basque. After having been two days engaged in laying the caple, the remainder of it was, a5 our readers are already aware, lost, probably in a gale of wind, when about forty miles from the New- foundland coast. This unfortunate contretemps ‘has necessitated the temporary abandonineni of the enterprise. By a telegraphic despatch received from Halifax, N.S. we learn that the James Adger had arrived at Sydney, Cape Breton, on Tuesday last, and was to leave next day for New York, where she will proba- bly arrive on Wednesday next. This unsuceessful termination of an enter- prise conceived and carried out with so mnch spirit and liberality. is much to be regretted. The expenses of the trip of the James Adger alone must have exceeded 330,000, fo say no- thing of the concurrent outlay, or of the loss resulting (o the company from the postpone- ment of the realization of their enterprise. It is only a postponement, however. Next year the company will renew the undertaking, and, Jet us hope, with complete success. . In connection with this subject, we may state that the Merlin rock, at the entrance of St. Johns harbor, has been removed by blasting, and the soundings now show twenty-seven feet below ordinary low water mark. No Ixvonmation There !—A few days since we published a paragraph headed “ Informa- tion Wanted,” and calling attention to the dis- crepancy in some of the printed copies of the constitution, by which the impression was con- veyed that no United States official could ac- cept a present from any foreign government. The Conunercial Advertivr, of Buffato, and the Argus, of AYbany, take occasion hereupon to remark on what ihey call our ignorance, and only make the matter still more involved by quoting the last clause of the 9th section of the first article of the constitution :—« No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or forcign State.” Now, the point that we made was that no one was debarred from accepting such presents by the failure of an amendment, which is thus des- cribed ina foot note to some editions of the constitution — In the edition of the laws of the United States, before referred to, there is an amendment, printed as article thirteen, prohibiting citizens from accepting titles of no- lity or honor, presents or offices, &e., from foreign na- But, by a message from the’ President of the ates, of the Jth of February, 1818, in answer to an of the House of Representatives, it appears mendinent had only been ratified by twelve a therefore, had not been adopted.—[se iv. of the printed papers of the filth Congress, No. 76.) Now, our point was that the failure of this amendment rendered the previous provision nulland void, because officials might accept any title or present as citizens, although not in their oftivial capacity, An oficeholder might be bribed to do an act of constractive treason, resign, and then accept the reward, was probably the view taken of the matter when the amendment last named was introduc- ed. We contend that its failure renders the clause in the first article altogether useless, because, though an officeholder might resign | without hesitation for something better under | another government, he would think twiee be- fore doing an act which would deprive hin of | his rights asa citizen, constitution and the law we shall not apply to either of the journals above mentioned. Their light is not brilliant enough to guide our feet, Jinon Erxone Sraxpirve This Grovyp.—It appears that at recent public meeting In Kanesar, Judge Elmore was present, (one of the Territorial officials lately dismissed on a charge of Jaad speculating, to cover over the removal of Reeder,) and that this Judge declared. his “dletermination to resist President Pierco’s usurpation of power,” as exercised in his re moval, This ts unfortunate, as it places the Executive in a position which may lose him the confidence of Atebison and Stringfellow, which it was hoped would be gained by the re- moval of Reeder. For the sake of the Presi- When we next desire information about the | 1855. Wuo Gors To Exciaxp.—Mr, Bachanan wilt | Mr. Pierce isnot frightened off by Judge Blmore. | And this | \ } distinguished inventor of the system If he should be, what would they think of it in Spain? Dodge would have to leave, and Cuba would be lost forever. Doy’r Strike A Man Wien oe ts Down. —~In the present aspect of political affairs it must be refreshing to Mr. Pierce to know that he hag one friend, Captain Rynders sticks tohim with a degree of perseverance worthy of a het- ter cause. This is owing to the innate chival- ry of the gallant Captain’s nature. If he sav a tight in the strect with two men upon one, he would help the minority, That’s precisely his position with Mr. Pierce. He sees that every hedy is “down” upon the President—and therefore leads the forlorn hope to his help, THE VATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETH: AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ‘The YeNow Fever at Portsmouth and Norfolk. Barrrvonr, Sept At Norfoll:, on Thursday, there were twer ty-six deaths from yellow féver, among them Dr, Thonias Constable and Dr. Nash, Mr, Cunningham, editor of the Beaom, had teen taken sick, On Friday there were twenty deaths, including Mra, Captain Starke, James 1. Holger, John G. H. Hallon, and a child of Commodore Whittle. On Saturday there were twelve deat! Iu was believed that the disease was abating, and the panic among the people was not so great. t. Among those who haye died ave the Rey. Mr, Dubre!l, Methodist minister; Ignatius Higgins, teller of the Bank of Virginia; and R. R, Dove. Among the new cases are Dr. Hillson, O, W. Edwards and Hugh Rogers, At Portsmouth, on Friday and xaturday, there were thirty-five deaths, z Foreign Importations at Boston. Boston, Sept. 1, 1855. ‘The following is a statement of the value of the foreign goods imported here for the week ending 31st August:— Dry goods... 1 $979,843 Tron'and size! 111,000 Coffees esses. 40/970 Linseed... 47,022 Gunny cloth sad’ bogs 34,401 Capye ore : : yu... Other articles Total... see svecee e 8838,866 Terns State Election. Bautimorr, Sept. 2, 1855. We have received New Orleans papers of Monday last. ‘The returns trom the election in Texas leave the Fa! ern Congressional district in doubt. Evans, the Ameri- can candidate, was thought to have the best chance. Markets. CHaruEsto, Sept. 1, 1855. ‘The sales of cotton for the week add up 550 balos, at prices ranging from 8a 114;c. Market unsettled. ‘The receipts of the week have been 934 bales. The stock on hand is 1100 bales. Rico unchanged and demand mo- derate. Wheat dull and declining. Sales at $1 00. PRoVIpENCE, Sept. 1, 1855. Cotton has heen in moderate demand during the week, at unchanged prices. Wool—Sales for the weel large, amounting to 151,500 Ibs., with fprices more fem Printing Cloths—Market quiet. | Sales 32,100 pious. Cur Washington Correspondence. Wasmixerox, Aug. 30, 1855, Judge Perkins Again—The Amende Honovable—Who is liam Marks, of New York?—Lool: Out for Such In- postors in this Latitude—Continued Opposition to the Court of Claims—Expected Return of Mr. King. I notice the arrival again in this city, of the Hon, Judge Perkins, of Louisiana, A few days since T gave you # enrrent rumor of an interview between this distinguished gentleman and the Secretary of State, which it was said id him great injustice. Being unwilling to wrong, Knowingly, any individual, I have taken the pains to in- vestigate (he matter, and inquire into the facts from those who alone could know them, and T am satisfied that his visit to Mr. Marcy was a mere ceyemonial call, n no way conneeted with public matters. In justice to Judge Perkins [hasten to make this amende honorable, and to say that his presence here is connected with the wmfinfshed “business of his constitu- ents before the General Land Office. Judge Perkins is a gentlem in of large private fortune, and [am satisfied neither seeks nor will accept any office; and in saying this I feel bound to add, that during the late Congress he proved himself a most faithful legislator, and possessed | the fullest confidence of the administration, I see an article in the Hgxarn of Saturday last, taken frem the London Times, noticing the financial and agency operations of Mr. William Mark, of 92 Warren street, New ‘ork. ‘Though this business gentleman holds forth os- tensibly in your city, it is believed that he inhabits a latitude nearer Washington, but under a different cogno- men. If these suspicions be true, it will soon be ascer- tained, as @ sharp look out ts being kept over his move- ments, It ia the duty of the press to warn the public against such swindlers, and that of the police to detect and expose them if possible, Mr. William Marks, whatey- sinay be, had better be cautious as to’ any fur- We of his €1cireulars, Are there not more William Marks than one ? cupon the Court of Claims seems to be kept ap by the Attorney General, who fears lest some of his very learned opinions may have to undergo a review before ‘ ly given an opinion that Jee ver heads of departments of ar 53 conclusive, and is not subject n by any other authority in’ the United states, provided the law coniides the matter to the disevetion of the Fxeeutive. Mr. King, the assistant Postmaster General, who so sides over the appointment office, is now absent ensure North, but is expected bask n Mr. K. has worked his way © position in ibe Post Oflice department to the responsible one he now holds, Such instances of re ward to meritorious officers chould be multiplied nner our «ystem of gor Ttu induenee ia lilghly hone- Helal to the publ kr, fox, Ang. 51, 1855. the Pacific Retoad AppropriationsiTow Expanded by Secretary DavioIhe Character of His Report—hs Value es @ History—New System of Marine Signal Viel of Mr. Rogers lo Europe—A Universal Cole Contemplate The Telegraph Boplained. . When the bill making appropriations for a survey of the several contemplated Pacific railroad routos was under consideration by the last Congress, much of the powerful opposition with which it met was based upon the idea that the appropriation was too small to accom- plish any good, and too large to be foolishly squandered; yet, with this meagre appropriation placed at his dis- poral, Jeif. Davis, Secretary of War, has made a scientific Cxploration, in three grand divisions, of the whole of the va-t regions lying betwen the Mississippi and the Pacide slope; and his report thereon furnishes to the country a minute and suthentic diseriptive history invaluable of itself, and, independent of all railroad questions, worth many times the amount of the appro- priation expended, Much of the country surveyed has been heretofore an unknown wilderness, and tracked only by the Indian and the buffalo, The report of Secretar; Davis spreads out before us this wilderness like a m and fainiliarizes ux with every part and parcel of it, with all the beautiful scenery and natural advautages of the country. If all the appropriations made by Congress officers public interests as ‘ailroad, the coun- would be much better off, and there would be less vse of complaint among the people who have to fur- 1 the money. ould Secretary Davis leave no other monument be- him to mark the able manner in whieh he has pre- sided over one of the exeentive departments of the coun- the manner in which he has executed the trust i Railroad bill, will, of ion, and entiile Itim te to be expended under the supervision of pubic wore made to tell as weil upon the has this appropriation for the Phvifie i the grasiturle of the nation. 1 |carn with pleasure that Mr. Henry J. Rogers, the marine signals, as at present employed in aur merchant and naval ser: vice, ts about to visit Karope with the view of intro- Aneing a perfect system of international mariae siguals, or of se @ now in use in the Earopoan ser- at the merits of each may be om be died in one universal code. The advontages to be derived from this highly impor- (ont a jnnet to commerce seem to be but little aypr ect \tidstecpuse mot vnderstood; yet, through the Inbors and practices! knowledge of Mr. Rogers it hax been re- dnced to a simplicity adapted to the comprehension of the mot primitive intelligence. It is nothing more nor lees thon a system of telegraphing, by which vessels at an communicate with each other nt a distance, and F wants and necessities, js done by means of fi painted in different ways, ripes lateral, longitudinal and oblique, and «ta n ten different Parr these distinctions being: = gedas to be visible and intelligible in all poss:ble poritions, whether flying or drooplog. Rach flag repre: sents @ unit. and corresponds to a question oF answer in catalogs, ‘These ten Rags tay be madete vonote any number, and ef course any were or signal, 40 that by a proyer understanding among the different cones cal nationsa periectly universal system may be cstab- Hehed. oped that this system may be edhinenrmenty te de dard of al our national vests “4 iment due (othe laboring research and patient as he ; ho mevitorious American eitizon who con seslduity fen,” OFA uretuines® there cxn be no doubt. yereant with the frequent ne rond Ocean for communicating with a when the waves are (oo bor to ty the wind too high to allo’ «el to another, will at once ackne its demand upon the a of the | dential office, however, let Marcy see to it that | ny Mr, Regere The September Term of the Courts ‘Yhe Septemherterm of the Conrts will commence to-day, but the cnly jury trials dering the month wilt bgin the Supreme Court, Cirenft ond the Common Pleas, The Coveral Tern: of the Superior Court will meet to-day for motions, and the United States District Court will be opened toanorrow, Tittle business, however. wilt be transaeted until the Octeber ferm, when the legal armor will be fully buckled on, and the Oyer and Tetminér will he opened for murder trials and other enpital offences, ‘the Court of General Sessions will comfhenee operations to-day, Recorder Smith will open the Court this fore- noon, and empannel the Grand Jury. Judge Stuart, whor has spent but a short time in the country during the summer, will unite with the Recorder this month in holding a double session, Judge Stuart was on duty nearly a) of last month, and iy willing to continue work ing, for the purpose of reducing the calentur of crime, which is now very heavy. ‘The Recorder will hold court in the Sessions room, and Judge Stuart in the yoom ad oining. Seme of the capital cases which have been upon the calendar for come months will probably be die. posed of at ‘his term. ‘The following is ‘the calondar:— Burglary, 31; grand larceny, 11; robbery, 7: murder, ¥ orgery, 7; felonious assault, 8; rape, 3; attempt at rape, 2: stabbing, 1; perjury, 1; disorderly house, 2; #bandon ment, 1—Total, 14. : é Tue Convon Cousct.—The Board of Supervisors com mence their September session this evening, at 4 o'clock; and the Board of Aldermen will atsemble at 5, and sit every night, Saturday and Sunday excepte:l, unui the-. business of the month is fished. The Board of Council- amen begin theiv fall work to-day. The first meeting of the Board for the month of September will be held this afternoon, at five o’clock, in their cham- vers, in the City Hall, There is no special subject upon the catalogue for this month that is impor- tant over any other, but the business marked out is all common place and uninteresting, excepting perhaps to contractors and lobby men, ‘Iwo of the most impor- lant reports thai will come up for discussion is Dr. Ran- ney’s report im favor of conceding Custle Garden for an emigrant depot, and the report of Councilman Swan, pro- viding for an ordinance against driving cattle through the streets, Both of these papers, when they come up, will probably create a Hitle excitement in the Board, Commisstoners of Emigration, THE RESULTS OF TREIR SECRET MEETINGS. The secret meetings of the Commissioners of Emigra- tion have been alluded to on several occastons, and thefr purpose sought to be discovered; but, until the meeting on Wednesday last, at 2 o'clock instead of 4, the objects were not entirely ascertained. It appears now, that im: yiew of the shortness in their funds and the increased overdraft, various expedients have heen projected to remedy, if possible, this deficiency. The changs in the medical system was one of the results of thee private meetings. This change, though ostensibly designed to re- duce the expenses of the Ward’s Island establishment, suc- ceeds in nereasing them. Then, over one hundved persons were discharged at one awoop, the pay of the remainder reduced, so that the most experienced, or most exposed, are, alike with others, to receive not exceeding $8 per month. Now, another reform fs In contemplation,and near. ly ready for completion. It is designed to make this hospi- tal a self-supporting concern, and to sueceed in doing so, to convert it into a sort of penitentiary, in which the in- mates are to be compelled to Inbor, ‘To make it suce an officer is to be imported who has large experience as a prison superintendent, and who, it is will be able by prison discipline to establish a system there which will enforce labor from 4he invalid to such an ex- tent as to secure the object in view, The economical movement is to be secured by paying $4,000 per annum toa prison experienced superintendent, fnstead of $1,200, the amount that has heretofore been ‘the -alary of the office, ‘These are the session, and which would have been consummated had not anappearance of failure presented itself by an equal divi sion in the members present. Scveral of them were un- willing to hazard their votes for an increase in the salacy of one office $2,800, at a time when the deposit bai was reminding them of an overdraft of over # , and rarsimony had ent down the pay of the poor orderlies and nurses, who were risking their lives iu their arduous employment, from $10 and $12 to the sum of $8 per month, They seemed unwilling to make up the large salary toone man from the cribbages of $2 and $4 per month from the poor widows who haye beon employed. as nurses and helps, It fs but. proper to say that the present, Warten promptly tendered his resignation on ascertaining the character and object of the scheme—a course which he had contemplated taking for other reasons, six month ans now under consideraifon im secret ago. FF this Roava expect the public to sustain them, they must economire in some other way than taking pennies trem the and making dollars of them to jay ex- i favorites. Nor need they feel secare avor to change @ charity, the fund of whieh is contributed by the unfortunates themselves, into workhouse or pentienthary. City Intelligence. Conor Comiencrsmnts,—To-day St. John’s College, at: Fordham, opens for the fall term, with, we understand, quit ccession of pupils, The New York University alo commences this week, under the chancellorshtp of Dr. Isaac Ferris, with excellent Prospects. The high state of discipline recently introduced into this jnstitu- tion is fast placing it im the front rank among our educa- tional institutions, The Free Academy and Columbia College will also shortly open. Our elty ev neyer bad *o many pupils ax the present scason will bring em. Fin oy Carusie Srfter.—Shortly after 3 o'clock om Sunday morning a five broke out in an emigrant German boarding house, at No. 1 Carlfsle street, kept by Srederick Maas. ‘The fire was found to originate in the front ga ret bedroom, amongst some straw beds and bedsteads. Captain Halpin, of the First ward police, was near at hand at the time, and saw the flamos issuing trom the garret window. He forthwith broke in the front door, and as he entered the house ho met @ man coming out. The Captain then proceeded up stairs to a bedroom om the second floor; there he found Mrs. Maas and her four children. The Captain conveyed two of the children from the house, and the mother bronght the other two in vatety. Mans was nol, it is said, in the house at the time, nor was he seen al the premises during the time the fire was burning. Mrs. Mans says that #he let a iman up stairs to lodge on that nicht, but she don’t know hii. “No other lodgers were in the Rouse to her know ledge. Tt appears there is an insurance on the honse- hold property to the amount of $1,600 in the Jefferson Insurance Company. The loss by fire and water will probably amount to about $50, The fire was quickly ex- tinguished by the fremen. The whole matter fs wnder- going an investigation by the Fire Marshal. ’ Ranxoad Accieyr.—A man named Win. Coneklin Jumped from a Harlem train, at William's bridge, yesterday morning, while it was in motion, and fell before the wheels, one of which crushed his rightarm. He was brought to the city and placed in the New York hospital, where his lim) was amputated. ArrEMrTeD SciowE.—Mr, James Boyd, residing at the corner of Greenwich and Horatio streets, attempted sel! destruction yesterday aflernoon by cutting his throat with a razor. Tle was discovered bleeding from a deep fesh which }.e had inflicted, and taken to the Hovpital.— Jomestic afiliction led him to make the rash atvempt up- on his Ide. It is thought that the wound will not prove faial, Busey 7 Deari—Foseph Frazer, a child fonr years ld, died yesterday, at the residence of his parents, 110 Fast Broadway, from burns receivedon Friday afternoon, when his clothes canght fire, as ie supposed, from some matebes which became ignited while ho-w: ccsing himself with them, His parents were in an upper room at the time. Coroner O'Donuell held an inqnest upon the body, and the jury rendered a veruivt of * accidental death,” Arrsurrep Shire Harrie! Bertram, on unfortunate young woman, living at 38 West Broadway, attempted self lestruc m Saturday night by swallowing lendanata. She was discovered soon after, suffering from its effvets, ond taken to the New York Hoxpital, Foun Prowsen.—Coroner O'Donnell yesterday held n the body of an unknown man, abou found drowned in the East river, near pior Deceased was dressed fn plod pants, bine aver- bine ehfet and old boots. He was 5 fect 8 inshew Ht, stout butt. Had brown haly and whiskers, en about, two week« in (he water. Pollce Intelligences Atieoen Murnenovs Aesartr—fohn G. Smith, a boat owain in the U.S Nevy, while paseing through Howard strect at two ofelock yesterday morning, and when near the corner of Crosby street, was attacked by a man, who truck him upon the bead with @ club, knocking him tox he pavewent, The mivereant then stabbed bin {nthe lip, nose and head with a dirk knife, and thea avempted to reb him, but became frightened before he had aecom- plished his purpose, and fled. Some of the Fourteenth a gr soon after came to the place and found Staith: suffering from bis wounds, and abo a fractured log which he received in the fall, and conveyed him to the hospital. A man who wax near at the time the police arrived, stated that he had seen Sinith, @ short tine pre- vious, at 4 grog shop called “The Sinai located on the corner ef Howard and Mereer streets, and it ix probable: that one of the frequenters of that place followed hiuw out and commyted the outrage. Anerer of \ PockemooK Pnorrrm—Swixptixe 4 Covy THYMAS.=-Mr. Selim Rider, a Downeaster, fram Wiudham, Conn. was yesterday swindled out of $50, by, a¢ is al loged, one Wm. Forshay or Frenchy. It apponrs sat Frenchy dropped a woll filled wailet at the foot o lim Rider, and picking it ap, endeavored to porsu Individual that be had dropped tt Mr. R. d Iv rersuaced to gixg, . s plunder nd band an accom plig TM was w Pde ce timber and acide the epoils not long in finding out that the nothing bat shop cards mad nm inquest years of 9 9, ‘Ae ne