The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1855, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1855. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. SPYFICE XN. W. CORNER 0} S3A0 AND FCLYON STR i DAILY HERALD, 2 coms 1 per ann. WEEKLY HERALD, coors Satur let Bs cons Der per annum; the editicm, $4 por annun, lo 8 cS alade “any part a/ Us Continent, both LU IRRESPONDENCE containing important 4 oe the world—if aad will be . REG: ESV ONGRNTS ap TO Sead Ald Larrehd 45D PACKAUES + MO. 353 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ROADWAY TREATRE. Breadway—Ticnt Rors—La Masa~MARTINETTI Brotunns—Maore Pus, WUBLO'S GARDEN Broedwey—Miss Prxe—Davonren or gap Reciuent. BOWERY THEATRE, —FLowens or Toe Fons 3 Bowery BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers st,—Stu. Waren Russ nannies Devu. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Gaus or Love~ an Catv ane Doing WELL. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—ApRienne La- SOUVREUR. ‘WOOD’B MINSTRELS, Mechanic's Hall, 472 Broacway. il RLESQUE OPERA HOUSS, 539 Broad- way SDuatadun Geena 250 Neuno MuxPennu. New York, Wednesday, September 12, 1853. en es ee The News. The Africa, which left Liverpool on September 1, arrived at Halifax carly yesterday morning, and the Avago, which left Southampton on August 25, en- tered this port during the afternoon. By these ar- rivals we have a week’s later news frem Europe. ‘The details are not of much importance. Sebasto- pol was not taken, but the French Emperor announ- es, in a letter.to General Pelissier, that he has cer- tain information “that the Russians cannot hold out during another winter, and that he hopes the eity will soon fall under the blows of the allies.” ‘This royal news did not seem to inspire the General with any fresh vigor, for up to the latest moment the positions of the besiegers and the besieged re- mained just the same as they did .at the date of our previous advices. On the 27th of August Prince Gortschakoff wrote that the allied fire was occa- sionally stronger, but that the state of affairs was unaltered. In fact, the allies dreaded a Russian attack on the Cemetery works and were concen- trating all their energies to meet it. They report that the Russians lost over nine thousand men, Killed, wounded, and prisoners, in the battle of Traktir Bridge, and claim the result of that engage- ment as a decisive victory. On the 23d of August the French soldiers carried a Russian ambuscade on the glacis of the Malakoff tower, and continued to hold the works. The Russians had doubled the gar- ison of the tower and were prepared for a desperate defence. The allied commanders had one hundred and fifty new mortars in position, but they still deny ‘that they had commenced a regular bombardment on the 17th of August. They say that the fire was merely to cover their works of approach. General Simpson insisted on resigning his command of the Englich forces, and Omer Pasha was finally ordered to Asia, where the Turkish army was ina bad con. dition, owing to the close investiture of Kars by the From the Baltic we learn that the late attack on Sweaborg was in fact a loss to the allied naval forces. The fortress, as such, was uninjured. The Russian gunboats from Riga had fought two English war vessels, but we are not informed of the result. Six Russian gunboats from Cronstadt had,on Au- gust 15th, attacked three British ships of war, and the engagement lasted for two hours, but the da- mage done by either party was small. Queen Victoria arrived at Portsmouth (England) on the 28th of August, from Paris. Previous to her departure from that city she visited the tomb of the great Napoleon, but as the ceremony took place at nightfall itis not very fully described. General Canro- bert was invested with the Order of the Bath. Her Majesty received the warmest demoustrations of re- spect from the French people up to the latest mo- ment. The Queen had arrived safely at Osborne. The Queen of Spain had decreed, in accordance with the request of her Ministers, that all the diplo- matic correspondence between her cabinet and the court of Rome, which dates from December of L804, ty’s reply tothe late allocution of his Holiness. ‘Che Spanish Ministers assert that this latter documentis highly aggressive. Frora Austria we have a summary of the terms of the concordat lately ratified with Rome by the Emperor Francia Joreph. The allied forces of France and England had ear- vied the war into Africa, and gallantly destroye: the town of St. Mary’s, on the river Gambia, ia July last. Previous to this the Marabous (natives) hid burnt three English villages, on which Governor O'Connor proceeded, with 260 men, to take St. Mary's, but was waylaid by the natives, who drove him back with a loss of 30 killed and £3 wounded. Governor O'Connor then obtained the assistance aFreuch man-of-war, the Entreprenante, and 450 white troops, who carried the town at the point of the bayonet. The natives are blacks, and the Eng- lish journals say that, “like all negroes, they are remarkable only for their vindictiveness.”’ There is news of a formidable insurrection in Ben- gal. The natives, to the number of fifty thougand, had armed themselves with their rude implements of warfare, and spread over the region of the Rajambol Hills, in Central Bengal, destroying everything En- ropean. They were said to be acting under a species of religious fanaticiam. The situation of the Huro- peans was extremely critical. , The London Money Market was easier. Consols closed at 91. Cotton and provisions are reported without change, and breadstuffs had somewhat declined. Before the receipt of the foreign news yesterday. about 300 a 400 bales of cotton were sold, without change in prices. After it came to hand no sales transpired, though there was some better feeling manifested. Flour closed steady, with pretty free sales, chiefly common to good State and Western brands. Among the transactions were about 3,000 a 4,000 bbls. extra Indiana, deliverable in October, at $8 a $8 25; and some parcels common State sold for delivery in November at $7 15. Wheat was firm. Southern red sold at $1 75 a $1 85, and white at $1 90a $1 95, witha smail lot prime reported at $3, and 1,000 bushels California large red or yellow sold at #1 95. Corn fell off one ox two cents. Pork was firmer, with sales of new mess at $22 50 a $22 624, and new prime at $21. Sugars and colfee were firm, with sales at fall prices. Freights to Liverpool and London were quite stiff, both for immediate +hipment and for future deliveries. The following important directions relative to the transportation of merchandise by the Telhuantepe> Treasury department:—* When merehaniise is teans- ported in bond over the isthiaus of Tehuantepee, or hy the route of SanJuac de Ni : mi- nations and certificates ave r¢ ed byt onsaland yevenue agent to test and inoure an ide the goods as when transported by Wie Pana Examination and cortiticate must made by the United States revenve one either at the port of orrival ronte, and by the United Stetes consnle one at the other terminns of €) U. S. revenue agent on the and certificate are required to consul at the port of arrival ov depar' but one, and by both if there i On the arrival of the goods at the port tien in the United States, th of the ew with the official cer ther deport vn the he dir wl It the wt once tothe Collector of the Customs. <ollector is satisiied as to the ident ty of thew je must admit the wae to entry for rewarcho Dut if noi sotished, Le must keep ~ | | : | the general : and report the case to the department for instruc- tions, Masters of vessels, or conductors of railroad cars, or other vehicles by which goods are conveyed from one part of the United States to another over the routes above indicated, are required to have and exhibit a manifest of the merchandise, as in other cases of transportation of goods. On the arrival of the goods at the port of destination, they must im- mi diately be entered for xe-wareheasing, the entry for which must be in all cases a copy of the with- drawal entry at the port of last wéthdrawal.” The State of Maine thas repudiated the odious pro hibitory law. The “sober second thought” of the people developed itself at the election for State offi- cersand members of the Legislature on Monday last. There is probably no choice for Governor by the popular vote, but both branches of the Legisla- tare are largely democratic-and anti-Maine law, thus securing the election of Samuel Wells, the nominee of the democrats and liberals, to the gubernatorial chair, and overwhelming the restrictionists, fusion- sts, republicans and abolitionists, at one blow. The contest was unusually spirited, and the vote isthe argest ever polled in the State. We refer to our telegraphic despatches for details. The Briggs Investigating Committee will resume their important inquiries to-day as to whether Mr. Mateell, the Chief of Police, is a Britisher or not, as also what disposition was made of the Heary Clay funeral pall, and whether Mr. Stephen H. Branch really did get-that large piece of which Mr. McKeF-, lar spoke. Judge Woodruff has issued an order directing the contumacious witnesses to appear be- fore him on the 17th instant, and show cause why they should not be attached for disobeying the order of Judge Daly, in refusing to answer the questions Propounded by the Briggs committee. We under- stand that the indomitable Briggs has issued his mandate to Mayor Wood to attend and take the stand as a witness. The trial of the suit of the United States against John D. Collyer, ex-Collector of the port of San Francisco, was commenced in the United States Cir cuit Court, before Juges Nelson and Betts, yesterday. We publish in another column a letter from Col. Kinney, addressed to Capt. Maury, his agent in Mobile, announcing the purchase of the ‘‘ Mosquito Grant,” comprising thirty millions of acres of land of unequalled quality. The Colonel is eloquent in praise of the capabilities and resources of his newly acquired plantation, and predicts that ina few months it will teem with an enterprising and indus- trious population. A gas explosion at Savannah, on Friday last, shockingly mangled a gas fitter, named James Daniel, and the mother, wife and child of Mr. John ‘V. Barbee. The child was not expected to recover. There were forty deaths in Norfolk and six in Portsmouth from yellow fever on Sunday. The disease appears to have slightly abated in those cities, but we learn that it has broken out in Suf- folk, a town sixteen miles from Portsmouth, and that the inhabitants were fleeing in every direction. News by the Arago and the Africa, The royal mail steamship Africa, with one week’s later dates from Europe, arrived yester- day at Halifax. She brings no important in- telligence from the seat of war, and as that is the absorbing point of political news, this arrival may be said to be entirely barren of interest. Our mails by the Arago are from London to the 29th ult, The English press is almost wholly occupied with the Queen’s late visit to Paris, There is nothing decisive from Sebastopol. Gen. Simpson’s despatch of the 14th August intimates a conviction that the Russians are preparing a vigorous effort to raise the siege by an attack from without. It is also stated that the Allies huve placed be- fore Sebastopol one hundred and fifty addi- tional mortars, and that the Russians have made large additions to the garrison. There is something remarkable, and almost alarming, in the very stillness of the scene where s0 much preparation has been made on either side fora fearful and deadly struggle. It is manifest that all estimates of the result of that struggle are of necessity visionary and unre- liable. It is not possible, indeed, to penetrate the works of either party so asto form a ra- tional estimate of their comparative strength. That they have employed the greatest skill and energy to strengthen their respective positions iscertain; and itis not unlikely, sustained as they are on either side by the whole power of the combatants, and fortified by unconquerable resolution and fortitude, the siege may be pro- longed still for many months, If determined courage and high and chivalrous deeds could take Sebastopol it would long since have fall- en into the hands of the Allies. But they are met by equal bravery, skill and energy, and it is not impossible that they are so equal- ly balanced as to compel a drawn battle at last. The Queen’s visit to Paris has, in our judg- ment, remarkable significance. Her Majesty is the guest of the nephew of the great Empe- ror. Her visit to the tomb of Napoleon, the thorough and cordial reception by the French people—the social and friendly cast of the whole proceeding—indicates something more than a mere state exchange of ceremonials. It is a noteworthy political episode; it evinces the union of France and England upon the basis of mutual beneiits—upon the policy incaatious- ly avowed by Lord Clarendon more than teen months ago. It is a union effected ante- rior to the present war. Its first fruit ripened in the United States, where it was intended first to execute its great controlling policy. The late visit of the French Emperor to London nd the present visit of the Queen at Paris are of course nothing more than expressions con- veying, in the most unequivocal mauner, the cordial and friendly character of the two Cabi- 4 ne policy evineed by the two great s towards the States of Western Europe, the rapid and certain decay of the Spanish monarchy, and the peculiar and amicable rela- ag veen the government of Vspartero and the Emperor Napoleon, indicate something more than a mere accidental con- currence of opinion, They look to the over- throw of the existing misrule in Spain, and sorption of that country, either in mpive or as a distinct dependence, It {s impossible that the government of tion | either Ir or Ex ean be indifferent to the condition of the Spanish people and the | weakness and imbecility of their present dy- | There is not a sign which does not in- | dicate the fall of that monarchy, and it is equal- ly apparent that the French Emperor has d termined that a republic shall not ris ruins, In this he , seeing the n only question left | of his position, Th is how the matter shall be disposed of. It is an easy task | to interpret the wishes Emperor, and it is not cleay how those wishes can be checked or evaded. Thi nt alliance with England » obstacle, certainly. the markets exhibit no important feature. t As our great crops ac- ing demand is we shal! wit- vl produce, and branch of interpose | lower. | } $ j eumulate and no ¢ | ival . y Rallroed Felenics and Prefits, The exactions upon travellers passing through New Jersey is a species of Algerine tribute—a kind of highway rebbery—having the sanction of the State, which receives a part o. te booty. It has its American counterpart in the career of Lafitte, the pirate, who com- mitted hisdepredations upon strangers, The State, over twenty years ego, chartered twoor three companies for carrying freight and passengers through the State. These charters were perpetual and exclusive; and it was made unlawful for anybody te compete with them. The right to buy the roads at the end of fifty years was reserved. Afterwards the constitu- tion of the State was amended so that it could not lean its credit, or create a debt of more than one hundred thousand dollars. Thus the privilege of buying was nullified—rendered useless, by depriving the proposed purchaser of the means of purchase. Thus transferred te the companies, which had become consolidated into one management, the nominal State made the best terms possible with their common masters. They fixed upon @ transit tax of ten. cents upon. strangers, and fifteen cents per ton of merchandise, The companies felt it their interest to accommodate their proteyes. They gave them two thousand shares of stock and allowed them to collect their tax. Up te 1850, their dividends and transit dues reached $1,077,000. Meanwhile, the company made their pockets good by col- lecting one dollar above legal fares upon strangers. The concern was an exclusive monopoly by law, and has grown to be supreme in govern- ment, fixing its own rates, and collecting them without being held to account. Its legal fares are about fifty per cent higher than in New England, and over thirty higher than in New York. Their roads are on a great thorough- fare ; in 1850 they carried three hundred and forty-five thousand passengers over their roads. The law allows them $300 a mile per annum for carrying the United States mails ; upon one road they collect $463 50, and upon another $449, They are a monopoly, and they are the grantees of all the highway privileges between New York and Philadelphia. Thus stands the case. The recent homicides at Burlington and Beverly—the inquiry and verdict of the coroner’s jury—the actual ac- quittal of the guilty within hearing of the groans of their victims, and in the very house of mourning, admonish us that to enforce the legal rights of the injured is difficult, and the criminal accountability impossible. The fountains of justice have been poisoned by the money of public offenders, Not less than two hundred aad fifty thousand dollars is annually paid to the State by the joint management. It is a bribe, and the people and the ministers of the law are silent, The jury at Burlington were faithful to the compact ; they uttered not aword of complaint against their masters— not a word about another track—not a word for the travellers. It was enough to suggest that human life was more valuable than time! They could not and dare not assert that it was more valuable than money. Self-convicted in- struments of the monopoly, honest it may be, in submission they uttered nota word about a double track—not a word about that mockery of management called a time table, though they acquitted the conductor of blame, because he complied with its requirements. The Beverly slaughter has sunken already into oblivion, Only one or two lives were sa- crificed. What of that? It is but the shadow of the affair at Burlington. A double track might not have prevented it, but an investiga- tion would probably be followed by another fearful neglect by the management. The axle broke. What was its condition? When had it been examined and tested? How long had it been running? Masses Over the Tomb of Fouricrism. Of a surety the pitifallest fellows ever spawned on this planet are the Fourierites. Never had men a finer chance of doing some- thing for themselves and the world; never men did less. No one had ever seen before such fierceness of zeal as they displayed in advo- cating their doctrines in the days of their prosperity, or such extremities of meanness as they evince in denying them in this the hour of their decline. What portion of their creed they borrowed from the modern French communist school, or whether all the Fourierites in America were agreed upon the same points of doctrine, it is not material to inquire. I could deepen the baseness of the present at- tempt of the leaders to recant their past pro- fessions, it would be their repudiation of the name of Fourier, from whom by their owa con- fession they derived the only notion they ever had which was at all susceptible of practical experiment—that of association. But they are uniformly contemptible. They stole Fourier’s ideas and his name; and when the former had broken down, they spat the latter out of their mouths, turned a somerset, and began to abuse those wicked free lovers. What was there to be so much ashamed of in Fourierism? Nobody denies that there are a great number of points in our social system which are susceptible of improvement. No one, to whom it is decent to listen, considers society perfect, or the rules which govern our mutual intercourse and dependence, as des- tined to last forever. Now, all that the Fourierites said they wanted was to reform the social system in the interests of humanity; what was there so shameful in this that Mr. Horace Greeley should use bad language every time he is reminded of his share in the busi- ness? It is true that the promised reform did not make its appearance. Tried practically, asso- ciation was a failure, as every one who exam- ined it with care saw at the outset it would be. It ignored the main spring to exertion; presup- posed a predominance of good over evil quali- ties in every associate; weakened if it did not destroy the family feeling, which is parent to mére good impulses than any other; and was predicated on the principle of increasing the despotism of the association at the cost of the freedom of its members. Hence it failed; not once, but many times, in different States and under different circumstances; so completely in fact as forever to settle the problem of asso- ciation in this country. And it is, no doubt, unpleasant to think that a scheme which Mr. Greeley and his associates spent some ten years in pressing on the public as the only pana- cea for our social evils, has been found on ex- periment wholly worthless and impractica- ble. The poignancy of this recollection may possibly explain our ueighbor’s irritability when the entyect is mentionrd: tho ono might acd that his expe ) o'ntments would have endowed him with more philod@phy. There is, however, another reason for the phe- nomenon. The endeavor to disconnect Fourier- ism from the swarms of little villanies which have grown out of it or clustered round it-— such as free love societies, and the anti-mar- riage associations—cannot and ought not to succeed. It is perfectly well understood by the public that these latter were and are com- posed of those Fourierites who had the courage to carry out their doctrines to their legitimate consequences, and ‘proclaim these consequences in the face of day. And though it has never been proved, with respect to certain members of the Fourierite associations, that they were personally implicated in free love debauche- ries, yet, as it is quite certain that ‘free love grew out of Fourierism, that the free love societies recruited their ranks from the Fourier- ites, and that free love can be deduced from Fourier’s theory of passional attraction, the public cannot be blamed for placing under the same ban Fourierites and free lovers—the pa- rent and the daughter institution together. There is apparently but little unfairness in this. And the old Fourierites, who desire to escape the stigma proceeding from their past conduct, must find some better plea than an impudent parallel between themselves and the early Christians and early Protestants, who were both accused of lewdness. Preswwential—Mr. Bucuanay’s Movements. —We understand from a correspondent on the other side of the water, (who may be mis- taken,) that Mr. Buchanan will leave London about the first of October, via Havana, for Washington, and that he will land in the United States at New Orleans, where Mr. Senator Sli- dell will have made all the necessary arrange- ments for a brilliant democratic reception. It is said that the distinguished Pennsylvanian will take the circuitous route homeward of New Orleans and the Mississippi river, in order to avoid becoming mixed up with the squab- bles of our New York hards and softs, and that at New Orleans Mr. Slidell will place him in the front rank for ’56 on the Cuban question, upon the programme of the manifesto of Aix- la-Chapelle. Mr. Soulé, at this reception, we presume, will keep quiet. Too busy with his book on that mission to Spain. Our Faut Campaien or Bustness AnD PLEA- SURE—NOoRFOLK AND PortsmouTu.—As an evi- dence of the brisk opening of our fall cam- paign of business and amusements look at our advertising columns. Good crops, good pros- pects, and exemption from pestilence, our people may well afford to be generous to their suffering neighbors of Norfolk and Portsmouth, As yet, New York, in her contributions of relief, is behind Baltimore and Philadelphia ; while from her population, her position, and her means, the Empire city should be first upon the list. What say our city fathers? Try AGaiy.—The Richmond Ezaminer (demo- cratic Southern States rights,) argues, through nearly a page of editorial, that the late nation- al proceedings of the Soft Shell Democratic Union Club of this city are all gammon ; that Mr. Wise has been taken in at their mock auc- tion, and must abandon them, notwithstanding he is foresworn as their brother, with “all his head, and all his heart, and all his might.” Mr. Wise is evidently ignorant of New York democratic politics. He is among the buffa- loes. Let him try again. Music and the Drama. ‘We are compelled to omit the usual notices of the vari- ous places of amusement in this day's issue, owing to the great press of foreign news and other important matter. Excellent entertainments have been provided. Miss Franeis takes a benefit at the Broadway. The farewell concert of Signorina Vestvali takes place this evening, at Niblo’s Saloon. The fair prima donna is about leaving us for Mexico, and we expect to see a general rally of her admirers at Niblo’s this evening. No artiste that has ever visited us has been more generally popular than Signorina Vestvali. ‘The season at the Italian opera, Fourteenth street, will commence on the 2 of October, with the ‘‘Trovatore,”’ M’mela Grange in the principal part. Mr. Paine is the director, with Mr. Ullman as his lieutenant. The con- tralto D’Ormy is engaged. The seats have been newly numbered, andthe new plan is much better. We shail publish the official programme in a few days. Mr. Wallack opens his very pleasant and popular thea- tre this evening. A new comedy, said to be from the fruitful pen of Mr. Brougham, is announced for this & ing. It is called ‘The Game of Love,’ and the principal parts will be played by Mrs. Hoey, (whom every one will be glad to welcome again on these boards) ; Mr. Lester, Mr. H. Placide, Mr. Brougham an@ Mr. George Holland. A good cast that. Ifany of our readers desire to be com- fortable at Wallack’s this eveniog, they must apply arly. 4 The name of Mrs, Buckland was accidentally omitted from the list of the Broadway theatre company. City Politics. AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. The Cent ‘ommittee of the American democracy met on Mo vening at the Westchester House, and made the following nominations for Councilmen :— Fifth District. —Wm. Cleary. Seventornth D —John Coben. Bightenth —Charles Baldwin. Treentith Di . Brewer Twenty-sizth Distr ter B. Williams, THE TEMPPRANCE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT. The Twe' th Ward Republican Association met last evening at Continental Hail, corner of Fighth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, J. Welslayer in the chair, and elect- ed the three following delegates to the Central Committce of the city and county:—J. C, Bennet, J.8. Fountain and J. Welsloyer. Another meeting will be held next Tues- day evening, at 8 o'clock. THE WORKING MEN'S PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. ‘This committee met last evening at the Cooper House —Mr. Arbuthnut in the chair and Mr. West acting as ccretary. Ward organizations were reported in the Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-second wards, The following gentlemen were added to the com- mittee:—J. McSwyney, from the Sixth ward, and Wm. Rowe from the Sixteenth. The filling of vacancies was postponed to the next meeting. Financial, correspond- Ing and printing committees ‘were appointed, of which we give only the first named, as follows:—A. Y. William. son, Wm. Arbuthnot, William West, D.C. Henderson, John A. Smith, FE. W.’Morgan and G. W. Jaques. ‘The following named gentlemen were then recom- mended to the workingwen of the Third and Tenth As- sembly districte reepectivuly, as Mt and proper persons to represent their interests inthe Assembly of the Stato of New York:-Third district, William West; Tenth dis. trict, George W. Jaques. REPUBLICAN GENERAL COMMITTER. An adjourned meeting of the Central Republican Com- mittee was held last evening at the Mercer House. Tho convention permanently organized by the choive of E. A. Stansbury, of the Fifteenth ward, for President: C, Leigh, Vice President, and Messrs. Coachman and Watts for Secretaries, The Committee on the Eleventh ward made @ partial report, but no definite action was taken in the matter. A long series of resolutions was adopted, protesting against the repeal of the Missouri compromise, snd in favor of the republican principles. A’ vote of thanks was extended to the temporary otticers. “Bam” In the Ascendant—Branch in Eestasy. COURT OP COMMON PLEAS—IN CHAMBERS. Before Hon. Judge Woolruff. Sert. U.—Jn the Matter of MeKellar, Webster and Mo Cann.—In this ease, reported yestenlay, tho Judge mate an order this morning en the affidavits and papers, that the respondents show canse on the 17h inet. w attachment directed in the order of the Hon, Daly should not iseur against the ANIIVAL OF STKAMENS.—The steuanship Alabama, Capt. Sehenck, and the Marion, Capt. Foster, arrived yesterday morning; the former in 60 hours from Savanneh, and the ge in disap, | taiter iy $5 Bowre trea Chariosiom, THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. Wasinsarox, Sept. 11, 1855. ‘The Cabinet had a protracted session yesterday, and matters of great importance were called up, both foreign and domestic. They meet again on Thureday, when, it is believed, something definite will be determined on in re- ference to the complicated affairs which have puzzled them for a short time. Pieree is also sorely vexed at the present position of things in New York. I was in- formed to-day that he begins to distrust Prince John. Maine State Election, Porrianp, Sept. 11, 1855. ‘The following are the returns from several of the prin- cipal cities and towns in this State, for Governor:— Morrill, Wells, Reed, Rep. & Tem. Dem, & Anti M.L. I. a, 933 Mie 4 1, 1,902 372 554 280 * & 28 854 172 253 149 199 89 582 145, 278 42 130 O44 65 76 190 90 386 134 307 89 190 50 163 13 189 2 105 21 107 41 570 18 197 50 379 81 327 1 31 WW 252 16 93 43 Ellsworth... wee 452 27 49 In the same towns last year Mr. Morrill had 11,565; Mr. Parris, 4,724: Mr. Reed, 3,508, We have received up to the present time, 4 0’clock A. M., returns from one hundred and sixty towns, which foot up as follows :—Morrill, 29,165; Wells, 26,060; Reed, 6,262. The present tions are favorable for the suc- cess of the anti-republicans in the election of a majority of Senators and Representatives. Governor Morrill Jeads the poll, but the vote for Reed destroys a choice by the people. The liberals have the Senate and the House by a largo jority, and will elect either Wells or Reed. ‘The vote is the heaviest ever cast in the State, and ex- ceeds one hundred thousand. ‘The Prohibitory Liquor Law in Utica. Unica, Sept. 12, 1855. The Grand Jury to-day, by a vote of seven for, to ten against, refused to find bills for the violation of the Pro- hibitory Liquor Jaw. There were twenty-nine cases be- fore them. Pennsylvania Whig State Convention. Harnisuura, Sept. 11, 1855. The Whig State Convention assembled in the House of Representatives at 10 o’clock this morning. Only thirty- three delegates were present. Joseph Henderson, of Washington county, was appointed Chairman pro tem.; J. K. shechne, of Fravklin ties Secretary. cae Upon re-assembling the Convention nominated Joseph Henderson, of Washington county, for Canal Commission- er. On the first ballot Henderson seceived 29 votes, Pass- more Williamson 6, R. M. Lemon 4. The whole proceed- ings were very tame. ‘The resolutions adopted are strong- lyanti-slavery. ‘The whole affair was a complete abortion. Democratic Judicial Nomination. ‘Auany, Sept. 11, 1855. Amara J. Parker has been unanimously nominated Judge of Supreme Court by the Bemocratic Convention of the Third Judicial district. Know Nothing Successes in Texas. Battimore, Sept. 11, 1855. Tate advices from Texas confirm the success of Evans, the American nominee for Congress in the Eastern district. The election of the American candidates for Lieutenant Governor and Land Commissioner, is also claimed. The Know Nothings of Massachusetts. Bostox, Sept. 11, 1855. A pure Native or Know Nothing Convention has been officially called, to aasembie in Boston on the 3d of Octo- der, to nominate State officers. The Yellow Fever at Norfolk and Ports- mouth, Barrimone, Sept. 11, 1855. At Norfolk on Sunday there were forty deaths from the fever, anda considerable diminution {n the number of new cases. ‘At Portsmouth on Sunday there wore six deaths. Dra, Marsall and Fleats, of Baltimore; Dr. Craycrott, of Philadelphia; Dr. Smith, of Columbia, Pa., and Drs. Gouch and Morse, of Richmond, are dead. Dr. Balfour, of Norfolk, is also dead. The fever has broken out at Suffolk, sixteen miles from Portsmouth, and the people are flying panic stricken, RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS. Convmmia, 8. C., Sep. 10, 1855. A meeting of our citizens was held to-day for ‘the pur- one of aiding the Portsmouth and Norfolk sufferers. The Mayor presided. The City Councils have subscribed one thousand dollars Rallroad Catastrophies. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MAD RIVER RAILROAD, Saxpusky, Sept. 10, 1855. The morning express train frem Cincinnati, on the Maa River Railroad, was thrown off the track, three uiles from Kenton, owing’ to a plank at a crossing being placed too near the rail. The fireman was instantly killed, and the ginecr, Geo. Bristol, and the conductor, Wetherell, were serfously injured, but all the passengers escaped. PATAL ACCIDENT NEAR CUMBERLAND, PA. RRIBBURG, Sept. 11, 1855. ‘The mail train which left here yesterday afternoon for the West was thrown off the track in co jnence of running over a cow near Cumberland. Wm. Able, one of the firemen, was instantly killed. John (. Miller, mail agent; John’ Struby, engineer; Quintin Rateliife, conduc- tor, and Mr. Falls, agent of Adams’ express, wero seci- outly inyured. The wounded were taken to New Cumber- land, None of the passengers were injured. Cricket Match at Albany. ‘ALuaxy, Sept. 11, 1855. The cricket match between the Harlem and Albany clubs terminated this afternoon in the success of the Al- bany club by the large majority of 75. The score was as follows:—Albany club’s first innings, 68; second innings, 172; total, 240. Harlem club’s first’ innings, 64; secos innings, 101; total, 165. Boston Weekly Bank Statement. Bostow, Sept. 11, 1855. The following are the footings of our bank statement for the past wee Capital stock... «+ $82,710,000 Loans and discounts. 1 54,242,035, Specie in bank... 848,528 Amount due from other banks, 8,021,430 ‘Amount due to other bank 15,961,681 Greulation.... 7,559, 705, Later from the Plains. Sr. Lovns, Sept. 10, 1855. We have later advieos from Fort Laramie, which state that the health of the troops was good. The Indians in that locality were quiet. Rhode Island Cattle Exhibition. Provipence, Sept. 11, 1855. ‘The cattle show commenced here to-day. The number of cattle entered is rather small, the efforts of the tocioty having been more especially directed to the horse exhibition, which opens to-morrow. The city ix rapidly filling up with strangers. Marder Trial at Buffalo. Burvato, Sept. 11, 1855. Forbes, the returned Californian, who has been on trial for shooting Shaler in April last, for seducing his wife, was this morning nequitte ! on the ground of insanity. Mechanics for Kansas. Syracuse, Sept. 10, 1855, A party of fifty first class mechanics left this city to day for Kansas. “They are engaged to work on govern- ment buildings at Fort Leavenworth. The Agricultural Fair. Pintapeurma, Sept. 11, 1856. The city ia thronged with peop!e, who have come to at- tend the agricultural fair at ¢ Florida w vannah, SAVANNAM, Sept. 11, 1855, The steamship Florida arrived here from New York, at 10 o'clock this mornin Arrival of Arrival of the Nashville at Charleston. CHAKLERTON, Sept. 11, 1866. ‘The United Stater moll steamship Nashville, Capt. M. Berry, arrived here at 4 o'cloek this (Tuesday) morning. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Puctapeuria, Sept. 11, 1855. Our money market is without change. | Stocks are steady at the following quotations:—Pennsylvania “tate 5s, 87; Heading KR,, 48; 1 ca nal, 15; fenneylvania New ORLEANS, Sep. 10, 1855. The prices of cotton are easier, but pot quvtaby lower. Flour relis at $7 12 per bbls Borvao, Sept. 11, 1855, Flour fs searee and a shade better; sales 1,100'pbls., at $7 a $7 0 for good (o choice Obio, Tlinois and Tadiana, and $7 623¢ a 87 #734 fur fancy and extra do. Wheat in good request and a shouie firmer; eales 17,000 buchele Chicago at $100; 6,000 bushels rod Kentucky at $1 50. seme email Inte white do. and Canadian at ‘orn wihont « sions. Unica, Sept, 11, 2655, The Board of American Commissioners of Foreign Mids sions assembled here to-day, with President Theodore Frelinghuysen in the chair. ‘The attendance was large. In the afternoon the Treasurer and Prudential resented their reporte. The Cay sermon was dew jivered this evening by the Rev. Dr. Adams, of Boston, Reported Election of Senator Atchison. Sr. Loum, Sept. 11, 1855, At Jefferson, in this State, there isa society erga of young stud mite, who, with view to perfect theme selves in parliamentary usages, have organized a shana egislature, the proceedings of which are conducted im the style and with quite as m ch gravity os many real ones, miner prin’ roceedings 0 s— lature, and it was this, mock ir that elected Atehisor: and hoaxed one of the New York journals. feats Naar a i tive Fire at Destructive bg eg The we bitt i Vhs elty, agricultural works of H. A. in , word: destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The loss is abou 925,000, which in covered’ by insue the patent separator is’ covered by insurance. five of” t grain sepai rious at tie Paria Exhibiti ‘Twenty- which lately proved victo~ were burned. ‘The Recent Murder at Fletcher, Vt. Mon Vt., Sept. 11, 1855. ; Fulton, who murdered his neighbor, Chase, last week, in Fletcher, was found yesterday by the officers in pur— , but he committed suicide before they could secure him. ea res ger ee JUAN fonTe, August 1! 5 My Dan Mavny :—I have Just completed the par chaes of thirty millions of acres of the most mag- nificent —T in the world—a country which, I ven- ture to predict, will, before many months, teem witl: the enterprising and industrious masses ‘of the Uni- ted States and Europe. Messrs. Shepherds and Haly posed of their entire » title and it the celebrated ‘Mosquito Grant” to me for $500, I shall proceed at once to invite that emigration he is needed for the development of its unequalled resources. There are three hundred miles of seaboard te it, and, further back, an elevated table land, healthy itr climate, and capable of producing every staple of the- tropic or temperate zones. Sugar, coffee, tobacco, cochi- neal, cocoa, are produced in abundance, in addition to the substantial supplies of cattle and grain required the exigencies of a large population, Much of the la in the interiorextends along the banks of the San Juan river, the navigable highway of inter-oceanic commerce,. whence produce can be shipped, without change of trans portation, to any port on the globe, I need not say any- thing of the mining resources. The old Californians wl have lately been up there, say they aro the Dest in the world, and a large accession is looked for from thelr State. ‘The eval of Boca del ‘Toro, towards the Southern bounda- ry, Whigh has been opened of late, isso situated, on ac— count of the deep water, that steamships of the largest. class ean come alongside and load up without further trouble. I hope, therefore, that you and your friends may be early upon the ground to share in the prospective. advantages of this vast addition to the field of American enterprise, Excuse the haste with which this is written, and belive me, truly your friend, H. L, KINNEY. New Discoverics in the Arts. ‘We have given, from time to time, articles on the fine: arts, and the progress that haa been made in the parti- cular branch which bears the name of M. Daguerre.. When he made known his very important discovery, it ‘was supposed that it could not be improved upon. But: recent discoveries demonstrate that daguerreotyping is but the infancy of the art. Our free galleries in Broad- way—more particularly those of Mr. Brady—ave lately been adorned with the most beautiful pictures, to whiclz: has been given the distinctive name of photograph. It- is in reference to the late efforts of Mr. Brady in this speciality that we would speak at this time, His repu- tation a8 a daguerrean artist hag always been sang reproche, The photograph, while produced by the samo agencies employed in daguerreotyping, differs from that process in these particulars: The picture is produced upon pa- yer, similar to engraving; is not reversed; any re- quired number may be produced from a single sitting; they may be made of tho full size of life, and are sus- ceptible of receiving any variety of finish, ‘The favorita methods, however, are the application of oil and water colors, Uhe photograph acting as a substitute for the las borious and elaborate drawing of the pencil. To persons having in their possession daguerreotypes of deceased friends, it appears the only reliable method of reproduc- ing perfect portra its. We saw some life sizes made fcom a single sitting; which seemed to embody the rarest excellences of por- traiture. The cabinet portraits in water color (the favo- orite finish for that size) we have nover seen surpassed by original drawings. Mr. Brady has been fortunate in fecuring the services of some of the most eminent artists in the country in these departments. There is something in jthe rapid and certain operation of photography which peculiarly adapts it to-the necesat- ties of our times. Men of business (a class constituting the greater part cf the community) can usually find n> ime to devote to the frivolity of prolonged sittings t>- artiste, Merchants from the West, and families from the South, transiently resident here, find the photograph « facile and perfect substitute for the ordinary portrait; and as its production involves no expenditure of time, it is held in general and deserved esteem. ‘Mhe latest novelty in the sun picturo line is the in~ stantaneous production of likenesses upon glass. They: are stmilar to the daguerreotype, but refined end perfect ed to the Inst degree. Mr. Brady, with characteristic enterprise, was the first to introduce this branch, and his gallery is still the only establishment in this ely at which they are attainable, We are glad to record instances of enterpsise in any branch of effort so eminently deserving such distinetion as the photographic and daguerreotypic arte. We be- lieve that in addition to their fulflmeutof a necessity which they have rendered universal, they are exer- cising an influence upon the higher wsthelic revela- tions of the intellect, none the less considerable ant controlling, because, as a rule, unrecognized. lie their simple and severe truth they teach the artist a lesson not learned in the midst of tho affluent mag- nificence of the Louvre, nor the classic seclusion of the Vatican. We believe—and are not alone in this senti- ment—that Mr. Brady has sought, during fifteen years experience, to render hia art sccessory and auxiliary to the pencil,'and that, more fully than any other in his. country, he has succeeded. What the photograph maj become under the influence of his energy and ill, it te Imporsible to, predict. ‘The indications affos.et by its present porition, ‘ever, suggest the mos probabilities for ite tuture. a he United States District Court. Befcre Hon. Judge Betts. Serr. 11.—This court opened this morning for the regular September term. The Grand Jury having been sworn, Judge Betts proceeded to charge them, to the fol- lowing eflect:—That the court had been adjourned for a week, owing to the non-attendance of gentlemen who had been summoned to do jury duty; that it had been cus- tomary to fine only thoee absentees who had receivaa per- sonally & summons, but that in order to expedite busi- ness the court would be compelled hereafter to be strin- gent in the imposition of penalties for the neglect to ap- pou: The business of this curt is not by any means ae rgeas that in the ordinary State courts,though the calen- dac lor the Grand Jury comprised a larger number of cases than usual, The range of offences was happily only of the degree of misdemeanors and those of the ordinary kind of eifences on shipboard; but there were two or three descriptions of cases a) ring on the docket to which he call their special atiention. The first was the vio~ of shipowners and tnasters of the provisions of the act of Cong ess of 1865, relative to the carrying of pas- sengers. Tam sure that you, gentlemen, wilt see to the strict execution of the benevole: violation of the neutrality war in Europe. I hope that you will not allow an} parties to @Auenee you in, passing upon these cases when your duty is to maintain the igalty i the United States and of their laws, ‘The Grand Jury w: re then dis- mised {0 their room. ‘Tue panel of petit been called, the Judge announced that in con quence of his presence being required in the Circuit Court with Juage Nelson, all further business mast be postponed until to-morrow, when another Judge will be in attend ance and continue the District Court. Supreme Court—General Term. Hon, Judges Mitchell, Roosevelt and Morris, presiding, THE CARROLL WILL CASE. Pa 11.—D. J. Carroll es. OH. Carroll and othert.— Lia long tigated ease came up on appeal f cision of Judge Mitchell, rendered at Speci 185. The argument is ‘still on. The crower state of cur columns prevents our giving a report of the case to- Gay. Tonacco Ixsrecrion 1x Ricamoxy.—The Rich- A Whig rays accounts from the tobacco growing sec- sare encouraging as to the outstanding crop, and if injured by a continuance of the recent wet weather, the product of the State will exceed that of last year, AS a f general interest we subjoin a statement of inspections to Slst ultimo, whieh, if gorreet, shows am excess for the State, of upwards of 9,600 hhds. over last r to anme time:— obacce yections toend August, 1854. 1855. sais assess bhds. 22,226 27, 803 timated oggregate for all laces. 22,199 26,000 Dosis sv vies gs teasers me oar ti vs 45% — 88,908 Fxeona for 1856,..... svekeoeee aio se sagenseses + 9468 The Cincinnatl Gazal wiates that Judge Wilkins, Pro bate Judge, who left Hemilton some time since, in con. sequence of the indignation of the citizens furan infa- mony outrage charged to have been attempted by him on two children, retarned a few days since andl attempted to resume hii offiee, and adds that a moeting of the citi- zene had been called to take steps to remove bim from office Med 26k-SRETE3 a sseeT NW tyexesat y feelings or rympathics with any of tho belligerent B o « r We b L o i w “ ve re ooo Pare S er : . ; f = 3 1