The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1855, Page 4

Trimming ial a a ai a 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON SENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND DITOR OF¥VICE N. W. COBNER OF NASSAU AND FULPON aT& Fae OATCY WERAED, 2 cots BF per ave, PUP WEEKLY WERALD, ery safaris al 6 col Pa Ry. or amnim; de Es eakitivrn, per 9 by s fread Bridain, of $8 any part 0/ ths “umdinent, adh voLURrany OORRESPONDENCE contcining nportant ‘olictledt ‘any quarter of the worldm—if wied will ba paid jor, GQrOun FOREN COKGRSVONGENTS ARB ABTIOULARLY REQUESTED TO SEAL ‘iL LETTRRS AND PACKAGES av. Velume xX -No. 258 AMUSE BROADWAY FREATRE, Broadway—Ticur Rorz—Diana Mii Puss. BYBLOS GARDEN Broad BOWERY THEATRE, Jsow SHEPPAKD. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers st—4 New War 10 Pay Orv Dasrs—Mx. Buwtos's Abvesrcnes IN Rossia. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—L, i > @BUI—MARIE STUART. ee een are Aes: WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanie’s Hall, 472 Broadway, BUCKLEY'S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSR, 529 Broad- way—Bunuesque Oren 4D Necro MINsTRELSY. \MENTS Tis EVRNING, Mine Pyxn—Crvpnet.a, ry—Six Decrers or Camp Sew York, Monday, September 10, 5855. Mails for Ei NEW YORE MERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The Cunard mail sicamship Canada, Capt. Stone, will ‘Wave Boston, on Weinesday, at noon, for Liverpoel. ‘Phe European mails will vlose in this city at a quarter te two o’clock to-morrow afternoon. Fhe Hm (printed in English and French) will be Bablished at ten o’clock in the morning, Sipgle copies, ‘> wrappers, sixpence, einbrcriptions and advertisements er any “Uitiog of the — Ne «e Yoru Hisaty will 34 secetyel nt ihe follow’ AS seme. ta Baropbia~ Sawmroor, John Hunter, No. 12 Exchange street, Fast. Benvon,....Sundford & Co., No, 17 Cornhil!, Pans, Livingston, Wella & Co., 8 Placo de 1a Bourse, The contents af tho Kuropean edition ef the oe wilt embrace the news reccived by mail and telegray the office during the previous week, and to the hour 4 pablication, he News, Our Washington gespoich states that Mr. Bu shanap, ouy sftalster at London, will not return home on the lst of October, certain complications with reference %o Central American affuirs rendering it necessary for him to prolong his term of service: Judge Scarborongh, of the Court of Claims, has ar- vivedl at the capital. A statement appears in the Jefferson (Missouri) Breaminer, of the 1st inst., to the effect that the Legislature of that State had held a session, and on the 30th ult. re-elected Hon. David R. Atchison to the United States Senate for six years from the 4th of March last. This statement is a hoax. The Legislature of Missouri meets biennially; but when the joint convention broke up in March | after having failed to electa United States Senator, they resolved that the Legislatare should meet again in 4856. There will be no election for members of the Legisleture this year; consequently the body which will organize on the last day of the present year will be composed of the same men who sat at Jeffor- son last winter. The ballot on which Atchison is reported to have been Pavid R. Atchison... M. Marmaduke, . On the 31st of January last the Legislature en- dered upon the fortieth hallot fur Senator, with the following resu Atchiso.n. Benton Doniph The election was then postponed until the 2d of March, at which time a few ineffectual efforts were made tw arrive at a choice, and the Legislature finally adjourned on the Sth, after a session of only three days. The Pierce administration isin such bad odor down in Portland, Me., that the people there held a public meeting on Saturday, and nominated an in. dependent ticket for rep: ntutives to the Legisla- ture, embracing whigs and democrats opposed to the spoilsmen at Washington and the abolition re- pudlican organization. Tho value of foreign goods imported into Boston @uring the week ending 7th inst., amounted o $755,891. We have shocking news from Norfolk. In addi- taon to the yellow fever, which continnes withont abatement, the loathsome smallpox has made its appearance, and on Saturday ten persons were taken down with it. It is stated, also, that the fever is spreading thronghout the country adjoining Norfolk. ‘The epidemic in New Orleans is on the decline. One of the Havana papers informs ns that the ultra Spanish journal, formerly published in New York under the title of La @ronica, aud which re cently succumbed to an exhausted treasury, is about to be resumed by its old director, San Murtin, its financial difficulties having been regulated. The inference from the paragraph is, that funds for the purpose haye been supplied by the spouish govern- ment. We give elsewhere a detailed account of the catas trophe on the Camden and Amboy railroad, near Beverly, N. J., on Satarday, a brief notice of which appeared under the telegraphic head in yesterday's paper. Mr. Holland, the engineer, whose injuries were so severe that amputation became nevessary, died in abont two hours after the operation was per- formed. Thorne, the fireman, though badly hart will probably recover. None of the passengers were injured. On Suturday the sales of cotton were confined to about 800 bales in lots, which indicated a decline of je. a Jc. per Ib.on lower grades, and about je. on the higher qualities, though the market could not be said to have fairly opened since the lust news 5 hence the priceg were somewhat irregular. Com- mon and mediwm grades of flour advanced about 124 cents per barrel. Among the sales were 6,000 gacka, equal to about 1,500 barrels flour, received from California, made from wheat grown and ground in that State. Its quality, however, was probably affected by the long voyage it had endured in the close hold of the vessel; and hence it only ranked with inferior State, and sold at $7 per bbl. About 6,000 bushels of California wheat, here and to arrive, (it was reported,) also sold at $1 85 a $1 9S. Southern red wheat sold at $l 75 a #1 82. and white wheat at #1 95 a 42 rn geld at $8e. a Ole, chiefly at 8c. a Oe. Rye sold at lille. a Lic. There was some specula- tive feeling in pork, and sales were preity freely made on the spot, and for fature delivery, buyer's option, at $22.25 a $2250. Other provisions were also firm. Shears again advanced fe. a fe. and the aales reached about 1,200 a 1,400 bhds. Cuba musco- vado, 150 do. New Orleans, and about 2,000 boxes, Owing to the want of fall supplies of flour and grain and improvement in prices, freights to English porte continued firm, but ¢ nts were moderate. There were free offers f nents in October at 4d. for grain to Liverpoo!, and tlour for London was contracted for al Kansas Conventions Mokats.There weems to be no hetter morals in Kansas than in Wew York and New England. The convention which nominated Gen, Whitfleld as the candi dae for Congress of the extreme party South appvimed a committee to wait on him, inform him of his nomination, and request him to clear wp some muddy places in his character. The General promptly accepted the nomina- tion, re ¥erving to himself sovereign power over his reputation. The is, the candidate is just now e, wployed in clearing up a farm, and it was both Cwreasonable and unprecedented in the political” annals of the country to re. quire bim to clea® UP his character at the same ime. Besides, it would probably impair bis strength at the clectisa* AND NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1855. ‘The Crops—The Speculators, Producers and Prices. Flour has fallen one dollar in a week; pro- duce of every kind and of the finest quality is in the market—vegetables, beef, pork, mutton, never betier—never more abundant; butter, milk and hay equally so—and we turn down a leaf here and stop and rest, and inquire into the reason why, in getting clear of the famine, we cannot ged rid of its prices. There is very little use of such abundance unless it is held at corresponding rates. It is marvellous that, having so much, we are selling so high. Mere we are the greatest agricultural people in the world—our crops are lavishly excessive—they look like a special Providence—a reward to the American people for keeping cut of war, and attending to their own peacetul avoca- tions, And yet we are compelled every morn- ing, in fact, to think of famine, and to feel that want is near us by the little we get and the much we pay for it. The truth is Ameri- can producers have become speculators. They have got rich and are able to hold their pro- duce, They have a benevolent fancy for sup- plying only those who are in great need, But in candor, we had better look this smip ing form of Abundance fnlly in the face, and give her credit for just what she intends to do, and what she will do. She came amongst us to give us the blessings of all the good things of the earth, and she intended we should have them at very moderate rates; and so we must and so we will have them. We have a right to them under the provisions oF the laws of sop. J =e and demand, and although there ‘may be delay in the enforcement of 4), ..5 laws, they will nevertheless Enforced. Now, let ‘us look into th tter of the crops and the prices. Everywhere, in this country and in England, France, in Germany—all over the world, so far as information has come to us—-there are promises of an abundant yield. The allegation that it cannot he so, as many hundred thousand men have been withdrawn from the fields of production to the armies of the great Powers—thus performing the double service of cutting off supply, and providing consumers and increasing demand—all this is very plausible: so plansible as to have capti- vated a goo many minds in this country ‘and in Europe but is entitled to no weight. It is one of the propsrelied upon to sustain the pre- sent enormous rates for produce; but in truth it has no earthly vitality—the slightest amount of test pressure will crush it. Popalation in. Bngland and every part of Europe has been for many years crowding on production. There have been more people than were required to cullivate the earth— and even more than (under existing laws— unequal of course in their influence upon dis tribution between capital and labor,) could be supported. The removal of such excess of population has had no influence on production, while it taken away, We may suppose in all, some iwo million consuming stomachs, The immediate effect of this would seem io be to relieve Europe and to cut off even the demand which we have had for our produce in that direction. But it is answered to this that the vast armies maintained by Russia, France, Kogland and Turkey, in actual war, and by Ausivia and Prussia, and nearly all the other States in preparations for war, must now he fed ont of American granaries; as Europe at best can no more than meet her own de mands at home. ff this were all true, the conchision isstil! forced, that we are to pro- vide the supplies. It happens ihat the world is with the most gigantic trials of brute strengih which have ever disgraced the annals of history, Lt is not too much to claim that there are now four millions of people in Kurope engaged or reserved, or in some way set apart, for the ficld of battle. We grant that this is withdrawing from the agriculiural classes large numbers, but ithappens that they had them to spare without affecting produc tion. Well, notwithstanding the war, the commerce of the world is going on as regnia ly as ever. ot a rippl seen upon the sur face of its broad waters, War is upon ihe land, and not upon the sea, The armios arrayed against each other are in astern Europe, on the very contines of Asia—in the very centre of that fabulous region of production which has been the wonder of mankind since the days of the Patriarchs. The fact is obvious that while the Western Powers are defending Turkey they are providing a market for her productions in Europe, in Asia, and even in Africa. The great armies of the West have been sent to the East to consume the flour, wheat and corn of the Ottoman people, and of those neutral States in the north and south of Europe which “have enough and to spare.” Let ussum up this matter in a few words: The year 1855 has produced more subsistence for man, in all p: of the world, than any of its predecessors. Granting that four millions of men have been withdrawn from their places and from agricultural labor, they haye not, it is manifest, caused diminution of productions in Western Europe, while they have been transferred to the very granaries of the East, and become the consumers of its long hoarded stores, How, then, are American farmers to find « | market for their vast surplus at anything like present We are pr cisely in the condition that we were in 18s8~ ours is the highest market in the world for those articles of whieh we have a greater snp- W it is dite ficult to pass trom a year ef searcity and high rates in this country? ply than any other people. We k rates to one of abundauce and lower prices. There obstacles to over reaching our true position. Those who have large supplies on und purchased at high rates—the great macs of producers whose in tereets art the same-~the which all the great Powers of Europe are ine volved, directly or indirectly—~the wealth of many ome in existence of war, in our farmers, especially in tho West, and their ability to bold their produce—all these con. siderations ®hstruct the operations of the laws of supply and demand, and. for (he time being inislead the public judgment. Meanwhile the truth is working its own to light— «applies are greater than the demand produce ts more anxiously the market, and is yrodually «inking to the level of con sumption, hy which its real value must be de- termined. We ave all interested in standing our irue position, un Prices dispropor- tioned to supplies are a public evil, xtremely unjust and oppressiy ployments. Meanwhile, general prospe of commere to all mechanical em- the ity of all ¢ ond the enterp © of money, the *, the activity of our people, Assure fair remunerating cates for everythin These will have a ten to Walniels ae prices; but they should be regarded as inci- dents, and not laws—something that may help us, but not absolutely reliable. ‘The City Census and the City Suburbs, There isan air of alarm in the ranks of the people, becanse the last five years have added only one hudred and eight thonsand to our population. We see nothing extraordinary in this, and nothing which is not susceptible of easy explanation. The increase from 1840 to 1850 was two hundred and three thousand, which is precisely equal to the entire popula- tion of the city in 1830, The alarm is caused by the fact that the percentage of gain is not as great in the last five years, This is so, in the face of confident predictions that it would be nearly double. Well informed persons re- garded our population as likely to exceed eight hundred and fifty thousand; whereas the figures reduce it to 624,179; and this is looked upon as an alarming fact. Hence inaccuracies, and blunders, and carelessness, are freely charged upon the persons entrusted with the enumeration. It is one of the wisest and best ordinances of the day, that of ma.sag periodical returns of the number of our inhabitants, Jt is the log- book and the dead reckoning of thd éhip be- fore the discovery of solar computations, “.Sud such is the estimate of the public; for an ap- parent falling off in our population has alarm- | ed our sensitive property holders—as we think } for no cog reasot. Without an accurate con- Sus, no well founded estimates can be made of the worth of real estate, and its improvements, which in this and all other rapidly advancing cities, is fixed upon an ascending scale of va- luation. A landlord regards his rents and the appreciation of his estates as a part of his in- come—a buyer comes to the same conclusion; and although we must find the end of this way of settling values, it is certain that we have yet discovered nothing to indicate an approach toit. To a great extent the large fortunes in this city are the results of appreciation of real property. That is the chief clement of wealth and the basis of very extended ope- rations, in which there are employed vast gums of money. Perhaps to some extent values may be influenced by the peculiar configuration of the city and the points at which its chief improvements were first made. For instance, from the Battery northward, extending to the East and Hudson rivers, and up as high as the City Mall, peculiar commercial advantages are enjoyed—the effect of which is to concentrate there the most active and wealihy of our busi- ness men. Real estate within that range has gradually but certainly risen in value up to the present time; and it is remarkable, as illus- trative of the effect of crowding population upon real property, that it is most appreciated precisely where it is most uselessly employed. For instance, in Wall street it is higher than in any other part of the city, The actual pro- ductive uses of that street are not equal to those of any good butter-farm in Orange county. It isa large hive of speculators, aud they are so elhowed in with each other that property has become minutely subdivided by their pressure, and any price can be obtained for it. Precisely the same law of supply and demand governs values in other parts of the city. The question is, whether property is needed for business purposes? It is manifest, for instance, that should the union of the States be dissolved, and the constiintional free trade now existing be followed hy restrictions upon commerce, the adoption of a high tariff by one, and a countervailing policy by another, at least one-third of the business now done in the city would be lost to us. One-third, or somewhere in that proportion, of the inhabi- tants would be thrown out of employment. In mechanical pursuits the proportion would be somewhat greater, because there would be little use for the hordes of carpenters, cabinet makers, ship workmen, and many others, who would—the population being reduced so much —have a supply of their productions on hand for ten or fifteen years to come. That the effect of reducing business would soon be to reduce the number of our inhabitants no one will question. We allude to the sudject in this light for the purpose of showing the importance of being accurately posicd by the census, @ad also to impress upon our people the nature of the tenure by which, in fact, they hold their estates. New York isto avery considerable extent a political production—she owes her metropolitan sirength to benefits derived from the political union of the Siates. In regard to the returns of thé Census Mar- shals, we have a word to say. We see no ground for charging them with neglect of duty or inacenracy. The time has come when we should begin to estimate the population of this city in connection with those of the surrounding suburbaa towns, which in reality constitute as much « part of New York as the hands and feet, the arms and legs, are a part of the human body. It is the heart of the system, and sends out to the extremities whatever of life and animation they possess. Jiow else do we maintain seventeen or eighteen ferries in connection with Brooklyn, Staten Ssland, Jersey City, Moboken and other points, and perhaps as many steamboats whose busi- nessit isto carry New York passengers to and from their residence a short distance in the country? Uf we add to this the Hudson River, the Harlem, the Flushing and the New Jersey railroads, all of which do an indepen- dent business in connection with seeson city passengers back and forth, we shall have some idea of the thorough sameness of New York and its suburbs, For instan mated that twenty thousand people cress at the Fulton ferry from Brooklyn every morn- ing between the hours of seven and ten o'clock. Those who have looked into the subject regard the whole number of pe ged in busi- ness in Now York, and rc 10,000, , i is esti- mut of the city, as exceedin The rapid rise in the valuc of property down | town within the last five years, has driven ont | residents, They have gone to the surronading cities; and this accounts for the striking full ing of population in the First and Se- cond wards, The rapid improvements in the | upper part of the cit had the same ef- | tect, by raising the price of rents and inereas ing distance from businoss potits by ow, In other words from the peculiar wedy figuration of the city, and the impoesibility of accommodating its inunense population with out removing them too far from their hastaess, an equilibrium has been produced between New York and its suburban towns, More municipal organizations and names have had no influence upon the people. They have gone to Brooklyn, when it was their interest, | Many have gone there to avoid the payment of personal taxes upon their property, which they succeed in getting rid of by the confu- sion attending their residence jn one place and their business in another, But it may be said that all the ferry and other communications with the city existed five years ago. That is true; but within that time New York has ex- tended northward, property has risen down town, and adjacent city tots have come into comparative requisition. This city hasrun off so far that our neighbors are brought near. Another fact may be mentioned in connec- tion with the census of this year, which is enti- tied, perbaps, to some influence: The work of the’marshals was commenced in June, but did not end till the close of July. During the lat- ter month a very large number of our citizens and families were in the country. Many of their city establishments were closed. It is highly probable that thirty to fifty thousand have thus been lost to the aggregate number returned. This, however, in the face of the explanations we have given, is of little com- parative consequence. It is manifest that an accurate return of all the persons whose chief -interest, and business is in this city—-who re- ceive their letters here, do all their correspon- dence here, who hail from New York and are New Yorkers in every conceivable sense, and at Wl times when not a sleep—would show at Teast eight hundred and fitty thousand, We are udw 40 extended up town that hereafier safe and prudent men will give greater weight to neighboring cities as competitors, and make less extravagant estimates of the increase of New York proper. Confined and accommodat- ed within narrow limits, we had no rival, and could have none—extended, we bring other points into use, and this will have great influence upon rea) estate in the upper wards, and of course will continue to secure its ap- preciation in the lower. Brooklyn and Jersey City, and all the surrounding country, contri- bute to the value of property at the latter point and to depreciate it at the former. Tab Prstience art NorrotkK—A Hint to New Yorkers.—Our latest accounts from Nor- folk show that the fever is on the increase, and we trust that the material aid for the sufferers will not be allowed to diminish. Be not weary in well doing. The Baitimoreans have acted nobly, in sending food, medicines, wines and other necessaries. Another important gift, two hundred tons of ice, has been sent from New Haven. New York hasdone well, having subscribed about eleven thousand dollars, out of cighty thousand, raised so far. But Phila- delphia has done better, and our amount, there- fore, seems small for the centre of business, wealth and commerce. We would suggest that our business men should contribute of their stock of articles of necessity, food, grain, flour, &c., and thata ship load be sent down from this port to Norfolk. This sort of relief will be better than money. If we could fit a ship with food for starving Ireland, how much more ready should we be to help our own coun- trymen who are perishing for the want of what we can readily spare out of our abundaace. The meeting of Saturday was a very interest- ing occasion. The committee were requested to renew their efforts. The sum of fifteen hun- dred dollars was ordered to be remitted at once to Norfolk. An offer was received from Mr. Henry Ludlum, offering to take to Norfolk any contributions that might be offered. Here, now, isan opportunity to carry out the idea sug- gested above. Articles of necessity should be contributed, and in such shape that they can he made useful at Norfolk immediately after the arrival of the ship. Those who will not give money cannot refuse a barre] of flour, a Wlanket, ov a bottle of wine. Mademoiselle Rachel’s donation of a thou- sand dollars is highly creditable to her. It proves that she has not imitated other artists, who have given charities in advance to hum- bug the public. Her position could not be improved by it, and the act must have been suggested by the best motiv Ovr Seamer Resorts—Crose or tun TF asuron- ABLE SEASON IN THE CounTRY.—As the last of the season, we publish to-day a batch of in- teresting letters, in the way of light reading, from the summer resorts of health and plea- sure and fashion seekers of the mountains, the lakes and springs of the interior, and the sea shore, The fashionables, who have returned to town by thousands, will find these reminiscen- ced of the places they have deserted somewhat refreshing, with another “heated term’ upon us, threatening to atone as far as possible for the general coldness of the summer. Short, however, as the season has been, we are grati- fied to state that from our abounding crops and the fair prospect of “a good time coming,” all our watering places have done much better than was in the outset expected by any of them. Next summer, if Mr. Marcy and his man at Madrid, Mr. Dodge, keep us clear of a war ou the Cuba question, we may anticipate a splen- did American fashionable campaign at home and abroad, mixed up with the most uproari- ous Presidential carnival in the history of the United States, For the present, let us rejoice that the fall trade, the churches and the theatres are again in full blast—that business, fashion, religion and folly have returned to town, and that Alderman Briggs is resolved to solve those mysteries of the dog pound, the black trunk and that piece of black cloth, neck or nothing. Appication oF Demoeracy iN Massscirusirrs. — The administration Custom House democracy of Massachusetts have abdicated in favor of the liquor candidates. Democracy then, in the Old Day State is fairly jugged. It has been of con venient dimensions for that kind of nse for many ycars—a retail concern—the suttlers and camp followers of the old Jackson and Polk party—or perhaps better said, on the retired list, with full pay. We trust now, smiled up- on by Gen. Pierce, permitted to enter the so- ciety of the respectable liquor dealers as ser vants and dependents, sustained by the federal offices, advised and encouraged by Gen. Cush- ing, they will make themselves useful. They have no longer the cares of a distinet po litical organization—their numbers about equal to their oflices, their friends searee, their intimates few, and grow'ng “small by degrees and beautifully less” day by day, they may be said to be the very soul of good Inck. Their resolutions are orthodox, their ritual and erecd thoroughly and purely democratic. They go for Kansas, for popular sovereignty, for non-intervention with slavery, for them- solves, for the adiinistration, and against the restoration of the Missouri compromise, Gen. Pierce fs certainly sustained in Massachasettia, Col. Win, enim man Viliarnevten, Ha Tue Sorts Hanpenep anp tHe Harps Sorrex- £D.—The softs are made very hard by the Jour- nal of Commerce; but it won’t do, gentlemen—it won't do, The effort to turn the nationals and the conservative Know Nothings into that “valley of the shadow of death,” at present oc- eupied by the administration soft democracy, will prove an utter failure. The soft Syracuse resolution against Kansas and the extension ot slavery into free territory—the old “corner stone” of the abolitionists at Buffalo in 1848— and in favor of the Missouri compromise, can- not be tempered into orthodox nationalism by voting ata public meeting in this city that “it was expressly understood as the expression of an abstract opinion only.” John Van Buren in the convention took good care to rebut this presumption by declaring that the New York delegation and the people of New York were practical men, and hated mere ab- stractions. His free soil-anti-Nebraski-Mis- souri compromise-Seward-republican platform, which was adopted by the convention, was made a “corner stone and foundation” of his party; an article of faith, and a saving ordi- nance at that: and the General Committee are open heretics, dissenters, Protestants, outlaws. They have gone over to the hards, and their effort is to elbow that order of political saints out of their temples—and it isa hard case all round. Tue Borper Rurrians—The convention in Kansas of the “border ruffians,” which nomi- nated Whitfield as the pro-slavery candidate for Congress, was composed of all classes and conditions of men. The ‘‘ruffians” did’nt have it all their own way, for as a well informed correspondent tells us, “the biggest fools had as much to say as anybody.” This shows that the negro worshippers, the Emigrant Aids and the republicans were there, and were _Per- mitted to speak, and did speak as much as any- body. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. MR. BUCHANAN NOT COMING HOME—THE COURT OF CLAIMS, ETC. ETC. Wasninaton, Sept. 9, 1855. The state of negotiations at the Court of St. James is such that the public interest will require the con- tinuance of Mr. Buchanan longer in London than he or his friends in this country anticipated. His connection with that mission will not, therefyre, terminate at the time heretofore announced, namely, the 1st of (tober, It is presumed that his detention hay reference to the Central American question. : Judge Scarborough, of the Court of Claims, arrived here this morning. He will remain for some time, as there is a vast quantity of business before the Court to Aispose of. Senator Hunter, of Virginia, also arrived this merning, and is stopping at Willard’s Hotel. The Yellow Fever at Norfolk and Ports- mouth—Sad Accounts. Batimore, Sept. 0, 1855, The Norfolk boat arrived here to-day, brings the awful tidings that there is no abatement of the yellow. fever, and that the small pox has also broken out in Norfolk, of which there were ten cases on Saturday, Two nurses from this city are dead. Dr. Bryant of Philadelphia is dying. ‘The fever is epreading to the adjoining country. At Norfolk, on Friday, there were forty deaths from yellow fever, and on Saturday up to noon, there had been twenty-five deaths. At Portemouth, on Friday, there were twenty-two deaths and fifty new cases. On Saturday, up to noon, there had been fifteen deaths. Dr. Morris, of this city, was sick. Dr. Marshall was aying. Seventy-six terts were taken down from here on Friday, 1o Norfolk, under direction of the Mayor and Councils of this city, which were pitched on the site of Cla P¢ Veautifuland healthy site. The American flag wa and it was expected a steambeat load of refugees would land theve this morning. To-morrow a steamer will take down a load of provis- ions for the camp. A small supply was taken down on Satuxdey. Yellow Fever at New Orleans. New Onseane, Sept. 7, 1855. ‘The yellow fever is sensibly abating in this cfty, and the week's returns will doubtless show a geatifying de- crease in the number of deaths. Republican Movement tn Massachusetts. Srmuxcruap, Sept. 9, 1855. Several hundred citizens of Springfield, composed of all the old parties, assembled at Hampden Hall, on Satur- day night, to appoint delegates to the Republican Union Conyention at Worcester, on the 20th inst, Harmony and enthusiasm prevailed. George Bliss presiled, and eloquent speeches in behalf of union agains compromises with slavery, orany more slave made by Mr. Bliss, Wm, B. Calhoun, Oliver B. Mo De. Chaffee, Henry V Rufus Elner, Geo, Walker, and F, A. Paretow. Twenty-four of our leadimg « were appointed delegates and substitutes for the novi- nating convention, and between 200 and 400 were selocted to attend the mass meeting at the same time. Other towns in this State ace responding to the calls for union conventions. Anti-Administration Movement In Maine, |, 1855. A large weeting of our citizens was held last evening, at which aticket was nominated for State Representa- embracing whigs and democrats opposed to the present odministration, but forming an organized com- bination against the republican movement. Another Ratlroad Accident. Wastineton, Sept, 9, 1555. The train from Baltimore last night ran over a bell near Annapolis Janetion, and threw the train off the track. The mail, baggage and smoking smashed. Tho latter was fall of passengers, al! mi- raculously cacaped without the least injury. The passen- gers arrived here at 12 o'clock at night. ats were Destruction of « Cotten Factory by Fre. Error (Mass.), Sept. 9, 1855, The cotton factory of the Getewoldvt Coloraine, Franklin county, was destroyed urday morning, Loss, $40,000, i Company, at ¢ on Sat The Weather in Boston. Bowroy, The weather bere to-day was most opp with but little air stirring. At one o’clo noon the thermometer stood at 90 dorroes in the New Onreans, Sept. 2, 1855, Our rotton market hae undergone no enauge. The ales yesterday reached 2,500 bale PROVIDENCE, Cotton has been in steady demand daving the week, « of about 1,6 Wool—she market wort aupply i ‘ J are running less than bolf thelr machinery for tho want of water, und without heavy tains occur soon they will have to close ely, ‘The stock on hand is very light. Sales 41,000 —_-_ Personal Intelligence. Governor Price, of Missouri, is in Washington for the purpose of perfecting the title of the State to the swamp dw donated in 1850, and to transact other important Dusiness for the State. Ton. D. &, Dickinsan arrived tn the city yesterday, and will remain a few days at the Metropolilan Hotel. Dimond, R. 1.; Col. P. W, Sandwich’ tsiandy; Charles 8. A.: A. G, Seatuan, or How, Bt. Delgada, Cuba, mfthsontan House.—R, Rove, Virginia; F, Vanbask, 1 Agitation, Abang, ©. Shell, U.S A.; Rev, 7. Roanake’ ver Hinge Piower, Utlen : Charles Lac Boston; Professor G Rearborourh, Ky.: Daniel Roiner,8!. Paul, Minnesota; Rev. render, x ‘Capt. J.P. . teamert Black Warrtor; K, Tender, OO baie Win. Con, Movannats Oa. ‘ From St Jago de Cuba, Jobn Castner—Pedro Cantd. Antonio Magnao, LM ‘arner. Hane eat Oeitacs, a sbip Trwadullad X Bleckman, Met Hotel. pale Heston ‘rade Le Ualiowel, tia: Washington The Yellow Fever in Virginia, OUR NORFOLK CORRESPONDENCE. " Norroik, Sept. 7, 1865, Thave heard it frequently stated that over one thous sand are sick with the fever in this city, I made inquiry to-day, and find that there are over nine hundred under medical treatment, besides those who were waited upom at home by their friends and relatives, The number of deaths since the commencement of the plague is varlous« dy estimated at 500and £00, I think the correct amount ‘to be about 550, The Association and the doctors here have sent off after: more nurses, and in eight or ten dhys we may expect twenty or thirty. A mojority of the most eminent phystdans have lett for home, but we have a goodly number of young prac- titioners yet, wito appear torender very efficient -ervices Among those who have kindly volunteered to kave home, friends and ease, to nurse the sick here in this pestilential city, have crept in scoundrels of the deepest. dye, whose lite would disgrace @ prison. An incident I will reiate, which came under my notice aday age: In ‘one of the houses of our cilizend where there were seven deaths, a nurse very kindly (+) offered himsel!, and when ‘no one was pre-ent but four littie babies pilfered 2 trunk of a set of diamonds and other costly jewelry; but for- tunately they were nearly all recovered. The di fellow—whose name is Marks—was requested by some of his friends to leave, which advice he happily followed. Had he remained another day the citizens would certain- Jy have lynched lim. How a man can rob the dead ia s eA tom, Perhaps its is a but Ca instance of is carried on every day, honses§ of the sick everything is neziected—everything expoved. ‘The following is @ list of those admitted, in the Woodig Hospital since yesterday morning: —* Sardine, slave of Dr. Andrews, Mr. McSwain, Mr. Augustus Chandler, Mr, Ed. J. Mallory. The deaths at Woodis Hospital since yesterday were a9 follows :— James Welch, Mr. Solomon, Mrs. Wilson, Darby aay Names of @ who have died throughout the city since yesterday :— Mr. McAnally. Wn. P. Burnham. Mrs, Anna Burnham and son. Mre. Bonnet Bedout. - Ca on fashington Cam Master Noland, aged |} Avon street. Child of Mr. Kornerman, Muin street. Child of Mra. Fisher, Town Point, Caroline Gillmore, 34 years, Duke #treet. Simmons, Queen street. Robert Howler, #5 years. Colored woman of Mr. Sylvester, Bank strect. Wife of Thor, Owens. Wife of Wm. T. Whitehead. Mrs. Me}iowell, Manter Fervett, dyi laster Ferri ing. Tam hapry. to tate, that the mumber of deaths are much less, and evidently on the decline, The eky is overcast with some appearance of rain, Weather mild; wind from N. E.; thermometer at 75. The boats from Baltimore still continue to bring provi- sions for the poor, and means for Howard Association. NORFOLK, THE RELIEF FUND. Charlestown N.Yard $1,500 Baltimore 025 Fhilanelphia ichmon: rg, Washington Brooklyn Navy Yard 1,003 Norfolk... Augusta, Ga 1,000 New Orlean: Mobile., 1,000 . Ni Geo! x > 1,000 W. Sulphur 3 1,000 - § Other sources,..... 4,000 AID FROM BALTIMORE. ‘The Following articles were sent to Norfolk f more, on the 6th inst.:—The people of: Baltimore con- tinue to make their coniributions im ald of th people of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and three times per week sup- plies are sent down, ‘The foliowing is @ list ot the sup~ lies sent down on Saturday, Tuesday and Weds 6 rrels flotir; 1,400 loaves ot bread; 70 barrel: crackers 8 barrels do.. a donation from Walt & Son; 8 casks rice; 2 hogsiead? bacon, 6 bbls. pork; 6 bbls. bel; 3 quarters fresh beef; 2 bbls. dried beet; 1 bbl. sausage; 400 Ibs, but- ter; 1,175 Ibe, lard; 15 sheep; 25 cheeses; 50 boxes her- ving; 16 dozen chickens; 16 hoxes mustartl; 3 bbls. coffees 5 kegs tamarinds; 25 bags mal; 75 bushels potatoes; & cherts black tea? 4 chests green do.; 17 bbls. sugar; Z cnsk cooked hama; one 4 cask brandy; one 1% cask wines 8 dozen wine; 2 boxes oranges; 100 cots; 100 nuttresses$ 150 pillows; 200 coffins; 2 doctors’ buggies; 5 sacks salty 2 boxes lemons; 160 bags oats, and 20 bustdles of hay; 1 boxes candles, and 2 pieces dsted beef, a donation fom & lady. Besides the above, there were 500 leecties, a lai quantity of medicines and cupping inst hundred loaves of bread have been osdered fe Thre was also 34 metal burial cases sent do: 10 an order from one of the undertakers. Tb $10,000 have been expended, and there remains in the hands of the treasurer about $1,000, which will soon be xhausted ty Poltti ERRCTION.—In our report in Priday’s Heracn of @ of the Hard Shel! Democratic State Committee, House, we seid Mr. Lewis N. Glover officiat~ learned thut the secre. (dover, and. snow Noth- tary upon th not Mr. Lewis \ G ings for Corporation Counsel of this city, who long to the party. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. In the Hynarp of Tharaday: last you publish my nana among the ‘‘demoeratie” aspirants for office. Please to correct the error by saying that I am now, as | have ever been, a whig of the old school Dr, J. W. RANNEY Marine Affairs. The travelling public cannot but feel pleased that the fine steamship Ericsson has been put upon the Bremen line, totouch at Southampton. She is unsurpassed im ber arrangements for the comfort of her passengers, and Will give satisfaction to all who may eross the Atlantic inher, ‘he is the only steamer from this port for Europe this week. Lavscure,—On Satarday morning, from the shipyard of Messrs, Wolters and Stewart, on Petty's Island, wag Jaunched a handsome bark, calied the Davia G, Wilson, of 500 tons burthen, which went off very handsomely, to the great delight of some 2,000 spectators. This bark ed for the New Orleans trade, under the com- Captain Fencock, who ia well and favorably known as a sea traveller. Mr. James Houre, of Richmond, alko launched, came day, at noon, a fine bark, called the Dennis Kelley, bure 550 tone, owned hy Messrs. Heron and Martin, who intend her for the New Orleans trade, under com ¥ aptain Corson. rong of these vessels ace a credit antes, hia mech, for the taste, skill and finish displayes PRovosED REVIVAL OF 1.4 CRovioa.—The journal formers ly published in this city in the Spanish lenguage, under the title of lo Cronica, was suspended some months since on account of ‘Xxhaustion of fands, The following pa- ragraph from the Havana paper Ja Prensa, promises tta speedy revival— We have just been assured that all the difficulties hav- ing heen removed, which inGuenced or caused the suse of la Cronica of New York, a journa! which has 1 such interesting services to the holy t* establishment, its pubs newed, still under the die he indefatiguble and zealoug write: well Rnown among us," ic in defending the rights of jus” of our race, and having so much ne having ‘a realiy Spanish and ighted at this, and impatiently 5 ich, re-knotting the broken thread ting and patriotic labors, he will return to powertal arsistance im the agreeable mission urling and firmly sustaining the illustriong Henry Clay, whose 1 Mr. avestigntion, and I supe neholy pleas sentry. Put uttered it under oath, am? it was pi Hens, L presume i should re~ spond t only declare, before the sor of Rventy, that} did not have the cloth end that all | know about it i what TE heard sea at preceding investigations of that some inhaman monsters sole the pall of the great Kentuckian, and wore it as their daily garb, and now ory stop thief. ip order to divert the pul ie attention and ex from themselves. Could Henry Clay have open thly eyes upon them at they outrrged. his glanee would have © Vultures to the onrt never vise. STEPHEN H. BRANCH. Great 0) Obtinary. nm A. Kevxepy, 8, 1, whore death te ame was born in thiseity, For sometime he ‘8 chair in Georgetown College, ond sab- sequently in the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester. Frova thence be was sent on the mieston to Maine, where he died nt the enrly age of thirty-seven years, in the fanctty cf his fe enogte his foal, ant guia tes wotity of bi endeared him 1, hin many converts, Tle Oe ee ai Ex-Govyrxon Conse, of Alabama, dfel at Ratley’s Springs on the 20th ult.’ His disease was cholera worbue. Governor Collier was for several! years a Jadge of the Su preme Court, from which poxition be was transferred to the Chief Fxeoutive office of the State, in which he servo two terms. He waa a man of good abilities, a trne pa triet and an howe Chrintian. He resided at Tasha Joona, where his family etfll rematn, Perm Cossiwonam, the il carrier betwee: Va, and St, Johns, died last wook, He was am Irie toeong and fought under Wellington at the battle of Waterloo, Potatoes are selling in Woodstock, bushel. acly ay they sold as high av $159 r bushel. Ap] 26 cents per bu tam to 75 cents, and peaches 60 conta, re for 50 conte pee