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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT; PROPRIETOR AND ZDITOR. SPPFIO‘ M. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STEe os maven PERMB, cash in aie PHM DATEY WERALD, Beene per copy), $1 per anmwone Fae i tn Bh per anerame t Yo Ber aim, oF B60 ny Bart the Comtavent, bos » oP eS CORRESPONDENCE containing imy t eta paid foe” mp"OUn Powston Conuesraeannrs 2238 Panrictauty REQUESTED TO SuaL aL, AND Packsens sant ce. aT USHNENTS 70 MORROW EVENING. Aw BROADWAY TREATRE, Broadway~Ricmanp 1L1.—Wan WRRING MOSTRELS, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, Manitana. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Hawter—Kise 1 run Dank. BURTON'S, Chambers street—Avoxywovs Cornnsvon voxt—Stin Worek Runs Derr—CLocksaken’s Har, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Gaan or Love— Spiranerein’s WEAVER. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broaéway—Los Drows py Libouye, WVOD'S MINSTRALS, Mec POCKLEY'S BURLEAQUE OPERA HOUSE, 599 Broad ce Ores 28D NeGkO MINWTRRLSY, nicls Hall, 472 Broadway. The St. Nicholas Hotel last evening was again ‘the scene of another stabbing affray between two of its boarders, one of whom it is feared will not sur- vive his injury. Mach excitement prevailed through- out the house, as both parties are well known and possess an extensive circle of acquaintances. The names of the parties in this melancholy affair angj)Captain Wright, formerly of the steamship Jewess, and a Myr, R. S. Dean, of Baltimore. Some difficulty of long standing existed between them, aud Captain Wright dast evening, in the barroom, attempted to chastise Mr. Dean with a cowhide. A conflict immediately ensued, and before a separation could take place, Mr. Dean had drawn a dirk knife and inflicted two wounds of a fatal character in the body of his an- tagonist—one under the ribs on the left side, and the other in the upper portion of the stomach. Mr. Dean, in the excitement, inflicted a wound upon his own person, but not of a dangerous character. A full account of the tragedy will be fouad in another ‘column. A new and important political movement was in- augurated last evening by the temperance people. Five Telegntes from each ward were appointed to a general commitice. A strong platform of temperance principles was adopted, in which the Maine law and al forms of coercive legislation ave condemned, and the moral snaston policy recommended. The Maine Jew of this State was pronounced a failure by seve- val of the speakers, and the enactment of a stringent Jicenee law urged. The Carson League and Tempe- rance Alliance were severely denounced, and @ gene- ral ward and city organization advocated. Mr. Bpes E. Ellery presided, and Mv. Nathan Nesbitexplained the object of the movement to be a thorough re-or- ganization oi the temperance party of the city and county of New York. Several important special committees w also appointed. The executive committee of the State Temper- ance Society have issued a cali for a State Conven- vention, to be held in Utica on the 24 of October Per contre—the opponents of the Prohibitory Liquor law are summoned to meet in convention at Syracuse on the 10th of Octover. Onur intelligence from Washington is interesting. The action of the Naval Retiring Board continued tobe the subject of much remark, and no little animadversion. Our views upon this question are briefly given in the editorial columns. ‘Townsend Harris, Consul-General to Japan, left the capital yesterday. Mr. Harris is ordered to negotiate a new treaty with Siam, the one heretofore negotiated with that kingdom being in many important parti- evlars inapplicable to the wants of commerce. We give elsewhere the main points of a report of the executive committee of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Compcny on the Burlington catastrophe. Of course the committee make out a case. The regulations of the road were perfectly proper, and no one wae to blame for the loss of twenty-three Woable lives and the score or two of mangled end maimed survivors. We publish elsewhere another interesting article on the progress of our city improvements and of street architecture generally. It embraces in its strictures all the works in operation or in contem- plaiion on Murray Hill, and will be found to contain a good many suggestions worthy of attention on the part of property owners and erehitects. We present in another column the speech in full of General Rameey at the recent dinner on the an- niversary of the occupation of Meaico by the me- rican army. Ouv readers will be as much surprised onits perusal as were officers present, to find one among them so familiar with M and Mexicans, ‘as to furnish from memory ou a moment's notice sach eopions historical details and 1 .ainiscences con- nected with th ud especially of M an gf nerals since the war. We have long known Ger Ramecy as thoroughly versed ia ai that pertains our neighboring republic, but we must conf in this imprompt speech the exient of h vation and research has juereased our adiiration of jal report o2 the City Tnspector for the past week exhibits a very satisfactory condition of the public health. The total number of deaths was 503, namely, 48 men, 66 women, 109 boya and 190 girls—an increase of two on the mortality of the week previous. The diseases prevalent are those affecting the brain and nerves and dig of other complaints the mortality is comparative trifling. The timely action of the Board of Health in imposing stringent quarantine restrictions upon all vessels ar ing from Ballimore and ports th thereof, has relieved the public mind of mueh ax ty, induced by the reports of the terrible rava of the yellow fever at Virginia wud New The principal causes of death during the week tive organs; past were—Consumption, 99; congestion of the brain, 9; inflammation of the brain, 16; in famyation of the longs, 8; drop in the head, 23; other dropsies,7; diarrhea, dysentery, 26; inflammation of the bowela, 15; cholera iufan- tum, (1; convulsions infantile), 4 scarlet fever, 9; Looping cough, 13; marasmus (infantile , tecthing, 5; typhus fever, 6; other fevers, 10; and scrofula, 4. There were two suicides by hanging, two by prussic acid, and one by shooting; one mur- der, one premature birth, and thirty-threé ¢asos of stillborn. The following is the clasvification of digeases:—Bones, joints, Kc. 2; brain and nerves, 120; generative organs, 5; heart and blood vessels, 5; lungs, throat, &e., 84; skin, &e., and eruptive fevers, 14; stillborn and premature births, 34; sto- mach, bowels, and other ¢ ans, 210; un- certain seat and general f inary organa, 3; old age, 4. Of the torege from violent causes. Of the whole number 36 were inmates of the public institutions. The nativity table gives 491 natives of the United States, 62 of Ireland, 42 of Germany, 4 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries, ‘The French joarnal La Patrie makes some strong comments on the duties of neutrality which the United States should ofMerve in connection with the Eastern war. The article—which we translate —is based upon the alleged discovery of a lot of re- volvers concealed in a cargo of cotton, shipped from Antwerp for Warsaw, by order of an American house, The heavy fine imposed upon the shippers will act as a double incentive to the observance ofa striet neutrality on the part of our citizens? In to-day’s paper may be found letters from our correspondents at Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Lima, Cal fornia, Osegon, Toronto (Capada), Boston New YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1855. Beaufort, N.C, They contain a great variety of in- teresting information upon topics important to poli- tivians and business men. Our aecounta from Norfolk are hopeful. The let- tere of our correspondents, written on the 13th, re- pricent the epidemic as abating. There were, how- ever, about one thousand cases under treatment ab that date, though a large proportion of them Were of a mild type, and readily yielded to proper medi- cal treatment. The Pensacola papers deny that the steam frigate Fulton, at that port, had yellow fever on board. Her officers and crew were all well at fast accounts. ‘The result of the recent census of Boston shows that the foreign population and their children under twenty-one years of age outnumber the natives by ten thousand, We have received files of Bermuda papers to the lst of September, but they contain no news of in- terest. The sales of cotton yesterday, reached 1,500 bales, the market closing steady. Flour was without change of moment, while a fair. amount of sales were made. Prime wheat was scarce, and sales of all kinds moderate, without change in prices. Corn was in light supply, and sales quite limited, while pric med at 85c. a S6c. a 87c., the latter figure for a single cargo. Pork was firm, without change in prices. Sugars were less active, but prices re- mained frm. Coffee without change. Freights were less active, but rates to English ports continued firm, The Courter and Enquirer and the Rump of the Old Whig Party. Tt is generally understood that it was the editor of the Courier and Enquirer who christen- ed the whig party in or about 1833; itis fitting that he should now be the man to bury it. Clergymen always consider they have a pre- emptive right to inter persons they have bap- tized. The function, too, will divert attention from the Courier itself,which will not bear close inspection just now. While the editor is wrap- ping a pompous winding sheet of words round the old whig corpse, and sobbing obituary paragraphs profusely over the coflin, the crowd may forget to notice his own oddities and ridi- cules. On looking back, indeed, over the two histories—that of the whig party, and that of the Couviev—it may be doubtful which affords most food for merriment: but the former cer- tainly possesses the advantage in point of grandeur, The whigs, as every one knows, were manu- factured by the manufacturers of the North and their friends in the West to be used as a new labor-saving machine in the factories. It was calculated by their inventor that, wilh good management, they might effect a saving of fifty per cent to each manufactarer by in- creasing his profits to that extent by means of protective tayitls, The dangers to be appre- hended in working the machine were restive- ness on the part of the taxpayers, folly leading to exorbitant greed on the part of the menufacturers, and rust in the machinery itself owing to corruption among its component parts. Certainly the most wonderful triumph of the inventor—far greater than the invention itself—was his con- quest of Henry Clay. That Daniel Webster, after fighting for free trade in his youth, should have voted for protection in his mature years, against every dictate of his head and heart, may be explained to some extent by the character of the community he represented, and the peculiar view he took of bis duty as the exponent of their will, But that Henry Clay, born with every free impulse, aad led by every principle innate in his noble soul to scout selfish doctrines, whether in politics or morals—that he should have come to be the tool of the industrials, that he should have followed their predatory excursions with his name, and imparted respectability to their cause hy allowing himself to be identified with it—these are really mysteries, and fully jus- tify any encomium on the skill of the original inventors of whiggery. If General Jackson had had a Congress to work with him, and establish a Sub-Treasury ; if he had possessed suflicient strength in that body to exercise the influence he always de sired, and the constitution allowed him, over the currency of the country, it seems as cer- tain as any such event can be that the whigs never would have elected a Prosi- dent. They would have been obliged to content themselves, as John Van Buren says, with coming in occasionally, and taking alook at the books, They had not a single requisite for a national party. Take away the manufacturers—who were all for high tarifis and big profits—and the rest of the whigs were nothing at the best of times but unprincipled politicians in search of spoils, and the general riffratt of the political world. They had uo great principles to which a man could cling for support, and over which he could privately, when there was no one to see him and nothing to be made by it, grow warm at the heart. Their principles were make- shifts. In an age of insincerity they were the most insincere of parties. We have seen them, year afier year, at Baltimore aad elsewhere protest their undying fidelity to the Union: yet, the moment itis given out that the whig party is dead, we find all these same men looming up as abolitionists and free soilers. They swore, when they wanted the irish vote, that they believed the immi, vation of the country; yet, to-day, these same fellows are noisy Know Nothi will hardly let a Catholic go to would have gone for free trade long ago if it had offered the slightest promise of success, A more thoroughly contemptible party than these whigs, in short, is not to be found in the history of constitutional gov- ernments. 1 now rants were the sal- they are Webb, in gone. And poor who held the ill- his arms, covers the despised corpse with a handful of pious earth. But where Alas! poor man! he has heen drifting on unconsciously with the tide this many a-day; and when his friends who are on the bank see him drift past them, and hail to ask where he is drifting to, he cries in a feeble cvacked voice: Ob! we hfy'ni moved we're just where we always were, on the strong- hold of old conservative whigism. The hon- est old soul believes in his heart that he has'nt stirred an inch; and, when *he declares he would sooner see Garrison President than the Nebraska Act-unrepealed, he has‘nt the slight- evt idea that he has drifted miles away from old starred reneral infant now is he the conservative whigism which used to be typilied in Henry Clay. He does'nt see that the tide carries him on, on, on, and that in a few months or years he must be in the sea of abolition. Oh! if he had but a single prin- ciple to cling to in this his hour of trial, a single oar to stem that current; but no, the Utica, and made nomination of Fred. Doug- lass for ‘Secretary of State, are precisely the same ‘kidney as those who were mobbed in Beston some twenty years ago. They have no more public sympathy now than they had then!” And read in the 7ribune, an organ of the old whigs, the next day, a cordial ap- proval of the nomination of Fred. Douglass. General Webb will live to vote for him himeelf, -The fact is they must all come to that. There is no hope for the old whigs but in the arms of the abolitionists, Happily, there are not many of them, and they cannot do much mischief; the country survived them when they were strong enough to carry elec- tions, and it will not be frightened by them now, when they can barely make themselves heard. Whiggery has not been useless in this meridian. It has been the making of the editor of the Zribune—who has repaid it with black ingratitude in the day of its death; it gave the first start in life to the editor of the Times; and it secured to the editor of the Courier and Enquirer a political and for a few days a diplomatic position which he never could by any other means have at- tained, Here is enough to secure for it a Requiescat in pace. Tue Nava Bosrp.—Complaints are made from various sources against the proceedings of the Naval Board. We give the views of our Washington corrspondent on this subject. He signates these procecdings secret and jesuitical in character, arbitrary in action, and likely to result in vast injury to the service. We know yet but little of what has been done—as far as we are advised, with one or two exceptions, we see no special cause to complain. It cannot have éscaped public notice that the Naval Board is an anomalous institution in American politics. It is a service of peculiar delicacy. It isa kind of Star Chamber com- mission required to sit in judgment upon the character, habits and qualifications of persons connected with an important branch of the pub- lic service. Aside from the judiciary, it is the most responsible trust committed to public agents. Its proceedings, then, are likely to be tolerated only when conducted in the most disinterested and honest manner. A high duty is devolved upon the Board—a most thankless service. Those who are retained and endorsed az capable and worthy will re- gard the Board as having done that only which they were absolutely required to do; while others, proscribed, will inevitably mark its proceedings with personal malice, favoritism and venal motives. And yet, in the whole range of public ser- vice there is no point where healthy reform is more imperatively demanded than in the navy. We have accumulated a vast amount of use- less material, and under the old system there was no way in which we could be relieved from it. Our naval expenses have grown into a frightful burden. The service has been the most useless and inefficient, if not the most disreputable, of any connected with the gene- ral administration. Practical men had witness- ed this without being able to apply a remedy. That the evils complained of are to be found in the ignorance, the incapacity and the legal independence of the individuals composing the naval service, increased by the weakness and inexperience of the chief of the Navy depart- ment—which has grown into a chronic disease in the American government—very few have doubted. The Nayal Board was directed by Congress, and wisely, with a view of cleansing the Augean stable—of putting the service upon an efficient and practical basis, and of holding ofiicials to a continual accountability. Its ac- tion should be altogether honest and wise, and its decisions just and impartial. INTERNATIONAL KissivG--Tue Seat or THE Covenaxt.—* The Emperor took her Majesty’s hand and saluted her on both cheeks,” or as they would say in Pennsylvania and down in Nan- tucket, the Emperor kissed her Majesty the Queen of England twice. We fear this will be misunderstood, and will be the canse of seri- ous personal delinquencies amongst those who have no State customs and reasons to justify them. Such examples are ko contagions, Hone were left unpunished, all would he outrageous. It ought to be known, then, that the kiss of the Emperor of France impressed upon the cheek of the Queen of England is altogether impersonal. It is a political act, having a bearing upon the Eastern war—a sign of cor- dial union between the two cabinets—a seal of the compact by which the British Premier was authorized, the other day, to declare that there was, in fact, but one government, hold- ing its councils alternately in London and Paris. Literally, this shuts out Prince Albert and Eugenie, and the latter at an exceedingly critical moment. A kiss in court—in our vul- gar courts—is regarded as a very equivocal affair, Ithas no moral character and no public defenders; and so the English who witnessed the imperial salute “seemed at first a little taken by surprise,” many of them regarding it “an unusual act of amity; but they soon recovered, It is certainly a new provision in the law of international intercourse; and al- though very well with European sovereigns, who “can do no wrong,” we fear it may be adopted by our Presidents and Governors, and even by the sovereigns of Kansas, to the great scandal of our republican morals, As an institution, then, we must regard political kissing as dangerous, and we advise the Know Nothings to take up the subject at once, and “to erush it out’ by strong resolution If the habit gets a strong hold of the public, like araging fire it will take a vast deal of cold water toextinguishit, Besides, nothing could be more appropriate than to place it in the hands of aseeret society, and if can't be stopped, let it be regulated by grips and signa, Bexsawy F. Burien Hons ox.-In a recent letter to a black republican convention of Pittsburg, Po., Mr, Benjamin F, Butler, one of the great guns of our Van Buren free soil democracy, says: “That the people of the free States should submit permanently to the in- justice and humiliation of the repeal of the Missouri compromise, f hold to be impossible,” &c. Ile holds on to the Saratoga arrangement. He adheres to his speech in the Park, in which he declared he would rather vote for Seward for resident than Douglas, of Ulinois. He is no candidate for the honors of the Cincinnati democPatic convention of 56. Perhaps, after that convention, all the old Van Buren Buifalo party will join him. What says the Prince? whigs never had principle or oar. Listen to the bewitched mariner as he sings:—“The aud j handful of fanatics that have just met at or, can Mr. John Cochrane (with the Scarlet Letter in his pocket) tellus anything of the signs of the times? ‘Prospect of a Dramatic Copyright. Ifa slight exertion be made, it will be pos sible this winter, to establish the principle that a dramatic author has a righ’ to the pro- duce of his own brains. It may appear singu- lar that, in a country where iudustry and in- telligence are the best kind of property, those of so deserving a class of individuals as wri- ters for the stage should be unprotected against thieves. Such is the case, however. In the present state of the law the author of a dramatic work is held to have no such right of property therein as can hinder any manager from producing and performing it without so much as a “thank you’’ to the author. I{ Mr. Everett or Mr. Bancroft were to write a first class drama and bring it out at the Broadway, Mr. Burton, Mr. Wallack, and every country manager from Portland to New Orleans might play it night after night without paying one cent for the right of doing so. To say that they might is to imply that they would. Every piece produced at Boston, Philadelphia or here that is worth pirating is pirated, and played all over the country; if an author com- plains, he is regarded ag a greenhorn and langhed at, ‘The anomaly can be easily traced to its ori- gin. When the people of this country, acting ly their representatives, nearly three quar- ters of a century ago, secured to inventors and authors patent rights and copyrights in their works, the old Puritan prejudice against thea- tres prevented the extension of the principle to dramatic performances. At that time, the dramatic interest was weak and young. Ina large section of the country, play-acting was still contraband, Even in the more liberal ci- ties, the patronage extended to theatricals was not large enough to invest the stage with any national importance. So it fell out, that when the rights of authors and inventors were dis- cussed, no one thought of writers for the stage, save one or two who were quickly overpower- ed by the Puritans, If the theatre was an in- vention of the devil, as the men of Hartford and Providence were convinced, then the less of it the better; rather discourage than foster dramatic literature. As they thought, so they acted. While the inventor of a shoe-string was—and justly, too—secured in possession of ihe right of furnishing the country with all similar shoe-strings for a given number of years, so as toreap the full truit of his 1fbor, the author of a comedy as good as Moliére’s, a drama like Shakspeare’s, or a vaudeville like Scribe’s was refused any right of property therein at all. His work became common pro- perty, to which any man who chose might help himself. That it cost him severe and protracted labor, that it evinced a rare imagi- nation, that it added to the public knowledge of human nature, that it was calculated to ren- der vice ridiculous, that it afforded a pleasing diversion to nightly audiences, the early legis- lators of this country neither knew nor cared; their whole views respecting the theatre were summed up in the sentence that it was immo- ral, and ought not to be encourged, Without intending to cast a slur on a class of men who have had no rivals in history, it may safely be said that the opinion of the founders of the republic respecting the drama isnot that of the American people to-day. No one but a few clergymen, and very old per- sons living in retired places, regards the thea- tre as an immoral institution. There are fathers who object to their children frequent- ing theatres, because they believe there are better places to frequent ; and there are many individuals, who go rarely to theatres, because they find more congenial and useful occnpa- tions at home. But no class of society that is worth considering view the stage as the old Puritans did. No one—with any claim to at- tention or respect—would advocate the exclu- sion of actors from burial grounds ; or would refuse to associate with an actor whose social habits were unexceptionable; or would deem ill of a lady because she went to the theatre; or would set down all actresses as women of immoral life. These old fallacies have been exploded long since ; even Hartford has begun to laugh at them, Is it not time to drop that other old fallacy—which grew out of the con- tempt in which the stage was held—that the dramatic author was an outcast whom it was lawful to waylay, rob, and strip? The drama is one of the most important and highly prized branches of all foreign litera- tures, Certainly no British writer represents the languege so thoroughly and so universally as Shakspeare. Take Racine, Corneille, Vol- faire and Moliére from the French, and they have no old school poetry worth reading. Take the plays of Lessing, Schiller and others from the Germans, and they lose mofe than their literature can spare. So of the Spanish and Italian, In every review of their national literatures, the drama must occupy one-third of the whole space, and absorb more than half the interest hestowed on the whole. Now, we have no dramatic literature and can have none, se long as the present defective law endures, No man can afford to write plays, which every manager shall be at liberty to steal after the first performance, No manager can afford to givea decent sum for a manuscript comedy, which the rival house over the way shall be at liberty to pirate the very week after it is produced. We should have no books, if there were no copyright to secure to authors « pittance from their sale: and certainly we shall have no drama, until we establish a copyright for the stage. We shall not argue here that it is desirable that we should have a national drama. There may be persons who do not think so; but we cannot, life being short, attempt to convince them. We address ourselves to the thinking mass of the people who believe that the pro- gressand developement of any branch of letters or art or science is an advantage to the coun- try. To them we say that nothing is wanting to ensure the creation of a national drama but a law which shall protect the author against its piratical reproduction by managers, This law need not be long or complicated. It need only say that, as in Europe, in the case of dramatic works a representation on the stage shall be held to constitute a publication in law. A single section added to any patent bill would answer the purpose. Its passage would direct to the stage a stream of talent which now ne- cessarily seeks other channels, and as already American law books, American works on me- dicine, American histories, and American no- vels are slowly but steadily driving the foreign articles out of this market and competing suc- cessfully with them in their own, there is no reeson to doubt that in the course of a few years the American drama would hold an equally gratifying rank on the stage. We understand that an effort is about to be made to CYrry this matter through. A peti- tion to YMich it is hoped that all members of the press, men of letters, Managers, actors, and citizens taking an interest in theatrical mat- ters will affix their names, will be laid before Congress‘at the opening, and some exertion made to achieve a reform which, it seems, ought to have no opponents, Tur Sewarp Kyow Someriutye Frsios Cox- VENTION August last there was a fusion convention at Rochester of the new anti-slavery order of Know Somethings, and of the Utica or Sew- ard branch of the Know Nothings of this State. They agreed to fuse upon the common plat- form of the restoration of the Missouri com- promise—no more slave States, &e.-and ad- journed their State Council to meet in conven- tion in Corinthian Hall, Syracuse, on the 25th of September, at 12 o'clock, “to which conven- tion, (we quote from the official ctreular) each subordinate council is authorized and request- ed to send three delegates, independent of the county deputies, who are standing delegates (Signed, B. F. Romaine, State Secretary, Al- bany.] Now, as the Black Republican Seward Con- vention, and the Whig Seward Convention, and the Bradford R. Wood Auxiliary Anti- Slavery Convention all meet in Syracuse on the 26th of September, this fusion gathering of nigger-worshipping Seward Know Some- things and Know Nothings at the same place on the 25th, will be a very appropriate over- ture to the grand programme of fusion of the black republicans, the Seward whigs and Maine law men, and the Bradford R. Wood party. The regular orthodox Know Nothings will also hold their nominating State Council on the 25th of September; but their place is Au- burn—the town where W. H. Seward resides— while his bogus nigger-worshipping Know No- thing and Know Something fusionists meet at Syracuse, a distinction which all members of the regular American party who aspire to an independent national ticket in 1856 will do well to remember. We presume that the Syracuse bogus Know Nothing Convention of the 25th will simply provide for their share of the nominations of the grand fusion gatherings of the suc- ceeding day ; and very likely, if the Utica Know Nothings and Rochester Know Some- things can’t get of the Seward whigs, black republicans, and Bradford R. Wood coalition- ists all that they ask, they will be content to take what they can get. The whole object of this convention of the 25th is nothing more than a trap to catch such noodles of the regu- lar American party as may be silly enough to be coaxed into it. They will be tempted, no doubt, with large promises of the spoils and emoluments of a fusion victory; but such pro- mises, if relied upon, will prove in the end to be moonshine. The twenty-fifth of September will determine not only the availability of the regular Know Nothings of New York as an in- dependent party, but it will go far to reorgan- ize upon a solid basis, or to disband the Order The regulars meet at Auburn, the bogus fusionists at Syracuse. With this notification, and with these suggestions, we leave the regular Know throughout the State and the Union. Nothings of the State to take their choice. Tue Recent Army Aprornty ments in the army. The ground of objection to the course pursued by the War Department is this:—That vacancies occurring in the grade of second Lieutenants have been filled from the people, and not as usual from the gra- duates of the Military Academy at West Point. For instance, great numbers of appointments were made from citizens on the 30th of June, just in time to rank the July graduating class of the Academy. It is alleged in support of these complaints that the young men educated at West Point are far better qualified for mili- tary serviee than the persons selected by the War Department. There is certainly good reason for this position, but it is not found in the fact presented by our correspondent, that hecause young men have graduated they are entitled to precedence in appointments. The case ishere: We support an academy for the education of persons for military ser- vice. It is the duty of the War Department in making appointments, to select those best qualified for the place assigned them. Ii is clear enough that the West Point graduates possess higher qualifications in this respect than citizens. They have been instructed at the public expense—are educated in military matters. When the department, then, makes its selections of citizens in preference over them, they virtually say to the country. “Your Academy is useless and expensive. We can find men better qualificd than its graduates for the public service.” It is not the young men leaving the school with the highest sanctio: of its professors for scholarship and mili qualifications that are assailed; it is the Acade- my itself. The graduates have no special cause to complain, but the country has. It is an assault upon the West Point institution. Now, aside from political favoritism, the case is obvious enough. If we maintain the Acade. my, we should give effect to its labors by placing its graduates prominently, and moat prominently, in the line of promotion. if we fail todo this and resort to the people, we should abolish the institution entirely. There is neither sense nor justification in the recent proceedings of the War Department. It is saying that qualifications have nothing to do with appointments. We know that demagogues talk of the equal rights of all classes. This is olly, in the face of the fact that “all classes” ustain the Academy, Ocr State Exnxcrion snp THe Spots ano Privcirtes Ixvorvep—The Albany Evening Journal of Friday last says that, ~! Fight weeks from noxt Tuesday is election day. We have this year to elect a Secretary of State, a Comptroll- tr, a Canal Commissioner, a n Biate pcg M ae ra Treasurer, an Attorney-General, a S ineer ani urveyor, two Judges of the Const of Appeals, eight sindges cf the Supreme Court, a Senate of thirty-two members, an Assembly of a hundred and twenty-eight members, besides County Judges in all the counties, and clerks and sheriffs in most of the counties of the State. Some of the Judges will hold thetr offices for eight ae us, the other officers for one, two, three, or four. although neither Governor nor lected, nearly the whole intern: police of the Blate, and no ineonsiderable portion of its external action towards other States, for some years to come, depend upon the results of the poll of the oth of November. Just so, And let all men opposed to the corruptions and extravagant squanderings of the public money by the Seward dynasty at Albany remember these things—tet all oppos- ed to such abominable compulsory temperance legislation as the Seward Liquor law, remom- ver'them. Above all, let all men interested in the Union, and in our social, politi¢al, ani —On the 3lst of July and the Ist of ENTS.—A_ cor- respondent, in another column, complains of the injustice exhibited in the recent appoint- dais a commercial relations with the South, remember that much may be done in New York in No vember to settle the question whether thig Union shall continue, or be dissolved. Our- Albany Seward organ rests his plea upon the spoils; but let not the conservative people of this commonwealth overlook the vita! princi- ples involved in our November elections, Give us an anti-Seward, anti-Liquor law Le- gislature, and the arch-agitator wil) ne cor nered. THE LarssT NEWS. BY MAGNETIC NP PHINTING TELEGKAES, Interesting from Washington. DEPARTUNE OF THE CONSUL GENERAL TO JAPAN— THE TREATY WITH SIAM—NEW NEGOTIATIONS ORDERED, ETC. ETC. Wasmnoton, Sept. Townsend Harris, Consul General to Japan, le afternoon tor New York. Since Mr, Harris has been in ngton, he has been charged with making a new cormercial treaty with thekingdom of Siam, it appears that the treaty with that power made by Mr. Roberts i of no value, in consequence of the absurd way in which the tonnage duties were leyfed and the reyal yronopoliess He has been instructed to make such a trenty as will open that rich country to the enterprise of our more chants, And this is of peculiar importance, in view of » the opening trade with Japan, for most of the products of Siam are peculiarly qualified to meet a good market in Japan, He will proceed overland to one ot the India ports, where be is to be taken up by the United States steam frigate San Jacinto, which will convey him ta Sangkok, in Siam, and after he has completed his nego- tiations, will take him to Hong Kong, from which place he will proceed to Japan in one of our men-of-war, The report of the Naval Retiring Board is the generad theme of conversation, and creates great excitement. ‘Those directly interested have been notified through the post office, Secretary McClelland has returned from his visit ta- Pennsylvania, The Yellow Fever at Norfolk Abaiing. Barrimore, Sept. 15, 1855. The news from Norfolk is rather more fayorable. The new cases were diminishing, and during the 24 houre ending at noon on Friday, there were 29 deaths at Nor- folk, and 12 at Portsmouth. The Petersburg Express says that the Rey. Mr. Chey holm is not dead, but is improving. Twenty-eight of the Portsmouth orphans arrived at Richmond on Friday evening. A number of others were reclaimed by their friends. The Howard Association of Norfolk refuses to allow the orphan children to be removed from that city. Cases of fever were occurring among them every day, and q large number had died of it. RELIEF FROM CINCINNATI. Cixciynati, Sept. 15, 1855. ‘The committee appointed yesterday by the Chamber of Commerce to solicit subscriptions for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers at Norfolk and Portsmouth, ree mitted one thousand dollars this morning to Baltimore, to be applied for that purpose. A commitice, consiste ing of two from each ward, has heen appointed to obtaim further contributions. The citizens are giving liberally, RELIEF FROM CHICAGO. CmwaGo, Sept. 15, 1855. Three thousand dollars have been forwarded from this city for the relief of the sufferers at Norfolk and Portse mouth, From Boston. RESULT OF THE CENSUS—HEAVY RODBERY—FIRB AT NASHUA, N. H. Boston, Sept. 15, 1855, The result of the census of Boston has just been obe tained, The total population of the city is 162.628. Tha number born in foreign countries, with their childverr under 21 years of age, is as followa:—Ivish, 69,239; Ger- mans, 4,586; other countries, 12,511—a sum total of 10,000 more than the native population and their chil- dren. Out of the 23,841 increase during the past five years 16,296 was by the Irish population,1,920 by the Ger- mans,and 4,634 by other foreigners, making the increase of natives only 997. It is estimated, however, that Bos- ton business men, with their families to the number of 50,000, reside in the neighboring towns, Saturday while Mr. John M. Folsom, cattle dealer, wag. purchasing a railroad ticket for his home in Newbury-| port, he had his carpet bag, containing $4,000 in bank| bills, stolen. The thief made good his escay On Thursday night the card manufactory of Gage, Mars} ray & Co,, at Nashua, N. H., was destroyed by fire. The} loss is estimated at frcm $12,000 to $15,000, one-half of| whieh ix covered by insurance. Indian Attack on a Sarveying Party. Cinesco, Sep’, 15, 1855, We have received dates from Nebraska City to the Sh instant. Colonel Monnies’ party of government sur- Veyors was attacked by a band of Pawnee Loups, about thirty miles up the Platte river. Colonel Monnies andl five others reached Nebraska City safoly, but six others were dispersed, and haye not been heard from. A come pany of fifty men was immediately raised an’ started in pursuit, (ene meeessscoeeesdaninmenrensics The Burlington Catastrophe. Bornsatoy, Sept, 15, 1855. Mrs, Gillespie, who was so badly injare’ in the recen)) railroad catastrophe, died here yesterday. From Hava New ORwaNs, Sept. 13, 1855. The steamship Granada has arrived here from Havana but brings no news of importance. Onelda County Whig Co: vention. Uniea, Sept. 15, 1855. At the whig convention of the First Assembly distrie ofthe county of Oneida, hela to-day, J. A. Shearman wa elected delegate to the Whig State Convention, andJame MeQuade, alternate. Michael McQuade was chosen dele gate to the Judictary Convention, The New York Quarantine Rogulations, Bavrnwore, Sep:. 15, 1855. ‘The announcement that the New York Board of Healt?) has determined to quarantine vessels from Baltimore, { strongly censured here as being eutirely unnecessary Baltimore was never in a ‘better sanitary no fears are entertained of tho introd: fover. Our boats do not go within ten m and every precaution is taken to prevent those bavin Sever from coming to this city, Railroad Accident and Death. Vunmapeueiia, Sept 15, 1865. Last evening the accommodation train on the Baltimor Railroad ran over a Mrs, Upayke, near Newport, Delaware killing her instantly. She was walking on the track an was very deaf, She leaves a husband and family. N blame is atdached to thore in charge of tho train, Loss of the Brig Glide, with all Hands, Fastport, Sept. 15, 1855. The brig Glide, of Windsor, Ellis, from Glasgow for Ha Hax, loaded with railroad tron, struck on the Maine ledg about the Ist foxt., and sunk. It is supposed all han were lost. Some wreckors with diving bells succeeded ye terday in getting up about twenty tons of the fron. Extension of the Coul Trade of New York Macew Cnexk, Sept. 15, 1856. The first coal train from here for New York, left yoste day afternoon. The Steam Frigate Fulton. Bartmmone, Sept. 15, 1856. The Pensacola Gasetie denies the report that tl steamer Fulton has yellow fever on boo, and says tl officers and crew are all well. Mortality of Boston. Bostox, Sept. 15, 1865. The deaths in this city for the week ending to-da have been 125, am increase of 37 over the previo week, Western Prodace Afloat. : Osweao, Sept. 15, 1855. By reliable da it is ascertained there are now 364,0 bushels of wheat and about 100,000 bushels of corn afic from Upper Lake ports, bound here. Markets. New Onukaxe, Sept. 19, 1855. The sales of cotton to-day add up 3,500 bales, and ¢ market is steady. Flour—St. Louis, $6 62'a $6 Sugar slightly declined. Whiskey, dde, a J6e, Freigh | no clinnge. Borvaro, Sept, 15—12:90 P, M_ Flour—Demand better; prices about the same, Sa | 1,600 bbls. at $7 a $7.50 for good to fancy Michigan, Ir ana and Ohio, and $7 623, 487 75 for extras, When! good request and firm. Sales 20,000 bushels at $150 Wisconsin mixed; $1 (2 for_do, winter; fg begs, $1 04