The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1855, Page 4

4 JEW YORK HERALD. JamES GORDOS BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR eseri0E H.W. CORNER OF NASAAT AND FULTON STS Lp aA iets ts 3 a aod Ftp nse Macon sos ra th MTOLUNTANT CORRESPONDESUB onduining important whictied oe cok te far WHERE Y BaA20, from amy quarter of Be worki—if used will be Maid, fore Bar OER FORMOR OOUREAPONGRNTS ARB ABT ULARLY REQUESTED PO MEAL ALL axb Package euat va. ? BROADWAY TREATRE, Broadway—He«.er—Wanoen one Minstart. NTBLOVS OARDEN, Broadway Miss Pyxr—Davourer or yup Reorest, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Wrannn—haton Boy. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers st.—Srir, Warn Russ Daxr—Wasveniye MeveTrer. SWALLACKS THEATRE, Broidway—Ganr ov Love Pivauyinip's WEAVER, WHTROPOLITAN THEATRE, Daorrk—ANaELo. Web's MINSTRELS, Mechante'n Vall, 472 Broadway. BUCKLEY'S ‘BURLESQUE 0 OPERA HOUSE, 539 Bros way--BURLESOUE Orrxka 4ND NeGuo MinSTAMLST. Sew Work, Wednesday, September 19, RE. ——_—_—_—_———————————————— Broadway-La Laos Mails for Europe. WEW YORK BERALD—EDITION FOR BUROPR. ‘Moo Collins mai] steamship Atlantic, Capt West, will feave this port to-day at noon, for Liverpool. ‘We Furopean mails will close in this city at helf-past ten o'clock t i ‘The Fexavp (primted in Fnglish and French) will be papiiphed at fen o’dock in the morning, Single copies, & wrappers, sixpenct Babecriptions ax rilkoments fer any edition of the New Youu ims wil be received at the following placoe tm Europe:— Ja av001, John Wunter, No, 12 Exchany Faspoy,....Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill, Fam. Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place dea Bourse. The contents af tho Faropean edition of the Hera wh} embrace the news revolved by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of pudiication. street, Fast. Matix for the Pachfic. @HE NEW YORK HERALD—CALIFORNIA EDITION. Me United State mail steamship lilinois, will leave Mia port to-morrow afiernoon at two o'clock, for Aspin- wal. The mails for California and other will close at one w'clock. The New York Werxry Henacp—California edition— eontaining the t intelligence from ali parts ot the world, Will be pubdiched at eleven o'clock in the morning, Bing!o copier, in wrappers, ready for mailing, sixpence, Agente will please send in their orders as early as possi- bie. parts of the Pacitio Wie which left Liverpool on the She brings The steaniship Baltic, Sth inst. for this port, is now fully due. one week's laternews. We give elsewhere details of news from Mexico to the Sth inet. Afiairs were still in a very unsettled state, The government of Carrera was decided- Jy unpopular, and in Vera Cruz and Zacatecas its partizans had been attacked and defeated by the @upporters of the plan of Ayutla. Among the legion ef candidates for the Presidency, Alvarez appears te be the most prominent. At last acoounts he was within twenty leagnes of the capital. It was re- ported that Carrera had officially signified his dispo- uition to deliver the government into the hands of Alvarez, and it is not improbable that, upon the meeting of the revolutionary chiefs, he will carry eat his design. Newspapers have multiplied with @mazing rapidity at the capital since the fight of Banta Anna. They are filled with proclamations of the new officials. Every person clothed with au- ‘thority seems to impose such laws and regulations ashe thinks fit. Carrera has issued an address to the nation, in which he developes his policy. He proposes to reform the army, establish the National uard upon a better footing, and lay the foundation ra more desirable order of things generally. Gen Gadsden is the only diplomatic representative who has failed to visit the Provisional President and eongratalate him on his accession to power. The emission had caused much surprise and comment. The steamer Nautilus recently arrived at New Orlewns with dates trom the Rio Grande to the Sth fmst. Gen. Woll came passenger in the Nautilus. Vandaurri, the revolutionary chief, was at Monterey. He attributes the evils that affect Mexico to corrup- tion in the army. A detachment of government ®roops had been defeated near Reynosa. Gen. Castro ‘was at Matamoros, with 1,800 men, and it was ex- ‘pected he would join the revolutionary party. Late accounts from Texas state that there is a strong probability that Ward, democrat, is elected to Congress in the Eastern district, over Evans, the Know Nothing candidate. Heavy rains had prevailed previous to the Sth inst., filling the rivers, and damaging the cotton crop con:iderably, ‘We publish in another column the official correspon- a@ence of the Secretary of State and Lloratio J. Perry, Exgq,, the late Secretary of Legation of the United States to the Court of Madrid. The letter of Mr. Perry bears immediately npon his dismissal from office, Mr. Soule’s condnct, and the Ostend Confe- rence documents. Mr. Perry has «ls 1, iu an elaborately written letter, ta the criticisms and charges of the Washington Union upon the co pondence made public some months since. interesting paper, aud we may find sy our columns hereafler, One letter this topic is enflicient, we apprehend, to satiety sharpest appetite for such matters. Judge Clerke, of the Supreme Court, hos rendered an important decision in the case of the people at the relation of De La Fignanera st the Justices wf the Marine Court, argued by exWudge A. A. Phillips on behalf of his former assoviates. The motion was for a mandamus to compel the Justices of the Marize Court to vacate an order made by them at General Term, modifying a judgment on the verdict of a jury rendered 1 in favor of the relator: The motion was made on the grovnd that the Ma” rine Court had no power to hear appeals at Generay Term except on application to open defuilts; or, it was contended, if their power exceeded that, then only in such cases as the Supreme Court at General Term can hear on appeals from the decision of a single Judge. Judge Clerke decides that the powers of the Genera! Term of the Marine Court to hear appeals are unrestricted and unlimited, and that the act of 1853 only prescribed the “ manner” of taking ‘the eppeal and the “ effect” thereof; and before the party can appeal to the Common Pleas, he must ex- Aust bis remedy by appeal to the General Term of the Marine Court. This decision is important to a Bumerous class of our citizens, as the act provides that all appeals from the Marine Court shall be taken in twenty days. 1) many cases where appeals are now pending more than that time has elapsed What will become of them’? Have the parties lost their remedy? By this decision of the Sapreme Court, sustaining the court below, the Common Pleas will be relieved from immense labor oecasioned by parties appealing merely for the purpose of delay. A violen@gale raged at Milwankie and Chicago yesterday. The steamer Sebastopol went ashore Near the mouth of Milwankig river, and it was thonght she would be a total loss. There were a large umber of passengers on board, but thelr fate bad not been ascertained. ‘There will be a meeting of the New York bar held thie morning, at ten o'clock, to express their feelings on the occasion of the death of Mr. Henry 8. Dodge, ‘a member of the legal profession, Bteamboats arriving at New Orleans report flat- doats loaded with cotton aground at the mouth of the Arkansas river and near Montgomery's Pojnt, The Common Conneil of Baltimore on Monday adopted a resolution instracting the Commissioner of Beglth of that city to address the Board of Health es Itis an ce for it in at a time npon the rr sssess—tse NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1855. of New York, to ascertain the cause of enforcing qrarantine on vessels from Baltimore, there beiug no sickness at the present time in that city. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to about 600 bales, and the marke steady, with. out change in prices. Dealers were inclined to await the receipt of later news, due by the Baltic. Flour declined 12h¢. per bbl., all round. Wheat was in good demand and quite firm, with sales at full prices. Gorn was also firm, with a fair amount of tales. Pork was inactive, while prices were an- changed. Svgars languid, with light sales at pre- vions prices. Coffee was sold in small lots at about previous rates. There was a slight reaction in freights to Liverpool! and London, especially as far as breadstuffs were concerned, while they closed at firmer rates for Havre. Qux Sea Const Defences—The Art of Fortifi- cation, The Lombardment and reported destruction of the Sweahorg works by the Allied sqnad- rons, have enabled a great many people to abuse the old system of defences and to thrust into prominence a world of undefined inventions and “improvements” in the art of fortifica- tion. The public is inclined to look with favor upon new theories, They are startling and novel, A failure ofan old work isa signal for condemning all that has been done in the past, without considering the circumstances, The Edinburg Review gives an elaborate article to show that the system of modern fortifications is unworthy of confidence; and, without waiting for facts, our own press, on the strength of the reported success of the Allies at Sweaborg, follows in its wake and pro- nounces ouy great works at New York, Newport and other places as unworthy of public confidence. It turns out that aoth- ing was effected at Sweaborg beyond the blowing up of some magazines, not proper- ly constructed; the burning of some huild- ings and the destruction of a considerable amount of property; and that the forts and other works of defence, are in as good, or nearly as good, condition, at this very hour, as when the Allies began the bombardment. How happens it, then, it may be asked, that the gun boats effected even what they did? The an- swer is by no means dificult. The Russians, anticipating an ottack from vessels of heavy draught, may have left some points unguarded, trusting to the shallowness of the water, and their infernal machines, for security. But the latter proved to be of litle use, and the for- mer was no obstacle to the gun boats, which undoubtedly were able to take position where they were safe from the guns of the forts, but still could play upon the town. If the works of defence had been destroyed, or even much damaged, a landing would have been made; but this the Allies did not even attempt todo, well knowing that without au army and a siege train, they would soon have been forced either to embark or surrender, The writer in the Ldinburg Review, generally copied and adopted by our press, takes up many of the important operations of the war, gives us his views of the facts, draws his own inferences, and then assures us with amusing Woldness that new principles have been disco- vered inthe science of engineering—ineinuat- ing at the same time that the delay of the Al- lies before Sebastopol is, to a certain extent, attributable to the ce of the French and English engineers, who apparently are blind to the new lights which Russian genius is developi lavishes great praise on Montalambert’s system, but tells us how it Buglish and French bat- teries at Bomarsund; and he complains of the “ obstructiveness ” of the adminisirative de- partment, because they would not adopt Fer- ignora crumbled before the guson’s theory of defence, which has never yetreceived the sanction of experience. Montalambert’s system when first published gave rise tomuch discussion among the French engineers; and was never fully acquiesced in by them Carnot being the only person of emi- nence who believed in its soundness. Lt has since, to some extent, been adopted by the Germans; but the late experience at Bor sund tells heavily against it, and justifies the French and Aimer generally followed other systems. Jt is not contended that art has exhausted itscif and left no farther room for improvement; but when it is considered that in this branch of science how thoroughly every principle must be tested before it can receive the sanetion of profound thinkers, and that two centuries have been employed in perfecting the present plans, it is Nite less than absurd to pretend that a discovery has been made which rightfully su- persedes the whole labors of the past. Even aduitting al) the facts as stated re- specting the siege of Sebastopol, is there no other way of explaining why the Russianshave been able to make so noble a defence, than by jumping at the conclusion that they possess some concealed art of fortification? There certainly is, and we have only to regard at- tentively the circumstances attending that siege to find it. In all ordinary cases the besiegers begin by reducing the besieged to their own resources; and therefore it seldom happens that the gar- rison is large enough to repair even ihe da- mages done, much less to undergke tle con- struction of extensive field works. That any new principle of engineering has been deve Joped Lefore Schastopol, there ts yet no good reason to believe; and while too much pra cannot be given to the Russian engineers, ‘their success is due uot to their skill alone, but to the possession of vaster resources than Lave ever before been placed at the command of other The value of earthen works has long been acknowledged, as well roth n engineers, who have engineers. as the important part they could be made to play in defence; but the difficulty usually en- countered the want of hands to execute them, and men afterwards to man them, Owing to the absence of tenacity in the material of which they are constructed, they must have sloping embankments instead of perpendicular walls, They are thus accessible withont scal- ing ladders, and although they may possess great advantages, it is on the presumption that they are well provided with men. They should be regarded more in the light of advantage- ous positions than as works of defence, as tech- nical fortifications. All fortifications are not alike, nor does it follow because Bomarsund makes a weak re- sistance, that there is no reliance to be placed on oiber stone works, Forts, no matter how well planned, or how well constructed, offer a mere passive resistance, and their virtues can only be made manifest in the hands of those who know how to use them; no correct infer- ence, therefore, can be drawn from the fall of one work and the successful resistance of another, without a full knowledge of every at- tendant fagt and gircumstance, A San Juan may fall into the hands of an enemy because of the explosion of a magazine, but, notwith- standing this accident, a vigorous garrison, in- stead of capitulating, would have driven the French off, and not yielded up to them a work which, for all purposes of defence, was still quite uninjured. It is certainly a strange idea, prevalent as it may be, that “stone walls are no matches for wooden ones.” In the one case there is a massive wall varying from six to ten feet in thickness, and in the other the mere side ofa vesse), The guns behind the first are in every case placed on a sotid basis, and can be fired with great accuracy, whereas on ship. boaré they are subject to every motion of the water, and must frequently strike wide of their mark, Forts can mount heavier guns than ships. Whence, then, arises the great superi- ovity of the latter? Is it imagination, or is it fact, that by transferring the same gun from its earthen bed to one that is afloat, ita charac- terischanged? Ifso, it must be brought about Dy magic, not by art, and military engineers will be under the deepest obligation to him who will bring forward an authentic account of a modern fortification, well defended, being demolished by the batteries of a ship. Stone walls cannot resist cannon; but this is true only where the'cannon are brought very near to them, and breaches, save in thin walls, pre only made from just beyond the crest of the outer works, Whatever changes the future may have in store for us, of one thing we may be certain: that the gun boat bas not yet been made, nor the floating batteries invented, that is to crush any of the works erected for the protection of the principal cities of our seaboard, Thelr in- habitants, therefore, need not feel any uneasi- ness at the new theories advanced with so much boldness by an Edinburg reviewer, nor by what the English and French fleets ean do against Russia’s best forts. A Yrar’s War OPERATIONS IN THE CRIMEA— Over ayear has elapsed since the Crimean Tar- tars were astonished by the appearance on their desolate coast of the French and English black sea fleets escorting to Eupatoria a convoy of one hundred vessels with an army of fifty- eight thousand men on board. A year will have elapsed to-morrow since that army met the enemy on the heights of Alma, and gained a brilliant victory. The following week or fort- night was expected to have witnessed the fall of Sebastopol ; and so confident were the Allies that this was the inevitable destiny of the city that it was looked upon just as if it were alrea- dy in their hands, and even the cautious Em- peror of the French had no hesitation in im- mortalizing one of his brilliant reviews at Boulogne by the announcement that Sebastopol est prise. But how stands the case? This an- nouncement of Louis Napoleon has become as famous as the motto of the great Roman, Cur- thago est delenda—(Carthage must be destroyed); and the probability is, from what we have al- ready scen, that with respect to Sebastopol the tense is to be always future, It is impossible to form anything like an ap- proximate estimate of the stupendous loss of human life which has attended the efforts of the Allies to reduce this now historic fortress, built and defended by a people denominated rude and barbarous. Jf we were to say that half a million of lives have been already sacri- ficed by fire, and sword, and pestilence, and shipwreck, and the horrors of a Crimean win- ter, it would certainly be below the real figure. And if a correct estimate of the loss of life al- ready sustained is impossible, how much more £0 is it to fixany limit to the destruction of life which a reckless obstinacy on the part of the besiegers, and a much more rational obsti. nacy on the part of the besieged, will involve! A daring coup de main on the part of the Allies might have overpowered its proportfnately small means of resistance when its battlements first came in sight. Now those means have been magnified perhaps tenfold; and even the fiery valor of the Frenchman and the intrepidity of the Briton pale and quail before the terrific dangers of an assault, The fact seems to be conceded on all sides that the lapse of a year since the siege was un- dertaken has not appreciably improved the prospects of the besiegers, even although their numerical force is increased fourfold. Sebastopol, in all probability, siands, on the 19th of September, 1855, the same virgin fortress as she stood on thie same date in 1854. There is no doubt of its being better fortified and garrisoned now than it was then, and it would seem that its important works of defence are as scathless as if they had never undergone the terrific bombard- ments to which they have been subjected. The events which time may have in store incon- nection with it, it is not for man to predict, but if we may judge the future by the past we may take it for granted that still another year’s siege of Sebastopol will not materially alter the idea of its impregnability. Tue Resroration or THE Missovms Cowpro- wise Rervpraren—The antistiquor fanatics and madmen who set up business in Maine, have surrendered in Maine. The fusion repub- lican negro worshippers who started in S: cuse—the very centre of the abolitionists city devoted to all manner of crazy fie it iniguitiee—have utterly repudiated the repub- lican Seward platform. At a convention of their order for the county of Onondaga, held last week at Syracuse, their chairman, on taking his seat, said that he was utterly op- posed to the restoration of the Missouri com promise. He would not restore a law that was oppored by Seward, Chase, Hale and his whole party, five years ago, The convention con- curred with him, and the subject was dsopped. In four or five other counties the fusionists have done the same thing. What is the mat- ter? With the Maine law repudiated in Maine, and the republicans repudiated at Syracuse, it is not easy to see how the negroes are to be made any better than white people. There is certainly a screw loose somewhere. fas the Maine election affected the arrangements? What is the matter? Womens's Rrouts.—According to Lloyd Gar- rison’s negro Liberator, “a Woman's Rights Convention is to be held in Boston this day; and Lucy Stone Blackwell, Ernestine L. Rose, Paulina W. Davis, Antoinette L.. Brown, Sara® M. Grimke, Lucretia Mott, and Harriet K. unt, are expected among the speakers. Aleo, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Wen- dell Phillips. pated,” and considerable fun. It isto be hoped they will propose some plan of relief for their sisters at the Great Salt Lake. One husband for forty women! Let them make a dead set | report. at Brigham Young. A large attendance is antici- | Qvarantinine Bartimore Vessets.—We pub- liehed yesterday a correspondence which has just taken place between Mayor Hincks of Bal- timore and Mayor Wood of New York, on the subject of having vessels arriving from Baltimore at this port, subjected to quarantine. Mayor Hincka is justly indignant at this ac- tion of our Board of Health, at once palpably absurd and unjust, and threatens retaliation on vessels arriving there from New York, un- lees the order be revoked. Mayor Wood vir- tually acknowledges the justice of the com- plaint, but shows that the ordinance only ap- plies in cases-where yellow fever is actually found on board. But even with that qualitica- tion, he states that the precaution so timidly and foolishly adopted, as between Baltimore and New York, did not meet with his concur- rence, It the order be persevered in, it will, without acting by any means as a sentinel to keep out yellow fever, have a very injurious effect on the commerce between these two cities, If a ease of common bilious fever, sure to be pretty prevalent at this season, be found on board a vessel arriving from Baltimore there is every chance of its being magnified into one of yel- low fever; and the vessel would in consequence be subjected to the usual delay for purification at Quarantine, This detention of vessels at Staten Island for several weeks would be a se- rious loss to the owners and shippers; and if that loss be duplicated by the adoption of re- taliatory measures on vessels arriving at Bal- timore from this port, there is no estimating the amount of injury which would be thereby inflicted on our commeree. And all for what? To appease silly and groundless appre- hensions. There is no pretence that Baltimore is now affected by the epidemic. There is no pretence that it does not enjoy even a better condition of public health than New York does, And even if this were not so—if Balti- more were being desolated hy yellow fever—of hew little effect would these quarantine restric- tions be while overland communication is unim- peded, and while half a dozen railroad trains, conveying nineteen-twentieths of the amount of trafic, daily connect one city with the other? Mayor Wood, like a sensible man, recognized the force of these truths, and therefore refused his assent and concurrence in the action of the Board of Wealth. The very fact of that non- concurrence in the silly measure on the part of our chief magistrate, does much to relieve the city from the odium which this order is calcu- lated to inflict upon it. But more must still be done. The order must be revoked. Wedo not here enter on the argument of the legality or illegality of this order, further than to say that the we understand that the Board of Wealth requested the opinion of the Counsel to the Corporation, and that that opi- nion was adverse to the power of the Board to establish such a rule in reference to Baltimore ~-an uninfected city, They would have just as much right to extend its application to Bos- ton at the present moment. Under all these circumstances, we hope that the Board of Health will see the propriety of at once res- cinding the order complained of. Tye St. Nicuoras Hore, any THE Fourtur- Ire Orc ‘The Fourierite philosophers of the New York Tribune seize the occasion of the late bloody affray at the St. Nicholas Hotel for a violent assault upon that establishment; and they express their wonder—their “special won- der—how gentlemen of respectubility and ele- vation of mind can permit their wives and daughters to dwell in such places,” &c. Now, from the facts in the case,the affray of Saturday night last was one of those personal collisions for which the proprietors of the house are no more responsible than if it had taken place in San Francisco, Nor has the affair anything to do with the gencral or particular discipline of the house; for it is hardly necessary to say that the St. Nicholas is one of the best, most orderly, refined and elegant hotels in this city or in the world. Its guests will appreciate its proper value the malignity of its assail- ants, in their attempt to identify it with “drunken brawls,”and “the belching brutality of the rioting rowdy in every passage. maniae may get into a church and disturb the peace of the congregation, and a despera man may assault another with deadly intent even ina court of justice. The occurrence, therefore, of the one thing or the other, ata public hotel, where thousands of citizens and strangers are daily brought into contaet with each other, proves nothing against the order or discipline of the establishment. On the con- trary, we dare say, that in proportion to the nwuber of its guests and visiters, there is not a Maine law hotel in the United States that can boast of the uniform good order, qnietude, and refined courtesies of social intercourse which characterize the inmates of the St. Nicholas Hotel. The attack upon it by our Zridune philoso- phers may be set down, perhaps, to an exaspe- rated state of wrath, resulting from the late overthrow of the fanatical nigger and liquor fu- sionists in Maine, and from the desperate straits to which that election has reduced the same coalition of this commonwealth, touching the abominable law which they have given us, and which the proprietors of every hotel, sa- loon, boarding house and private residence in this city treatas anullity and nuisance. But our liquor and Fourierite reformers should not per- mit their rage to carry them beyond the limits of sober discretion in their attacks upon their fellow-citizens, their characters, their business and their property, The Maine Liquor law can never be forced down the throats of this com- munity by sach disgraceful tricks of election- coring. Better fight the issue upon its merits, or give up this Liquor law as an impoesible im- position in New York. Brerpwwa rar Navy List.—We give else- where some interesting statistics relative to the report of the Naval Board. Onr article includes a great mass of facts, and contains the firet full and complete list of the retiring officers which has yet been published. The telegraph made some blunders in the report published in the Hernan of yesterday. The report of the Board has made a tremendous excitement among the naval officers and their hundred thousand friends, and public opinion seems to be divided upon the matter. Tre Centrat Park—Hvrny vr tim Reron The Commissioners in the matter of the Cen- tral Park were to have reported to the Com- mon Council during the current month. We are now in the last half of September; the ses- sions of the Common Council are limited to a very few more, and yet we hear nothing of the Gentlemen Commissioners, do your 1 duty! . with the Flushing railway, from Fulton market eli Tury Coyress Ir,—The devotion of the slaves of Norfolk and Portsmouth to their masters and mistresses, through all the severe trials of the late terrible pestilence in those cities, excites the admiration of our Seward organs. His central organ at Albany con- fesses it all, and argues that where there is such devotion among the slave they may be safely trusted with their liberty and equal rights, But, alas! there is Jamaica, and there is Hayti! Which would our Seward philan- thropists have Virginia to be?—another Hayti, or a second Jamaica? And will Mra Harriet Beecher Stowe be good enough to intorm the Duchess of Sutherland of the attachment of those slaves of Norfolk and Portsmouth to their masters aud mistresses, ag illustrated in hundreds of cases of this dreadful visitation of the yellow fever there? Where the relations of protection and dependence are thus beauti- fully developed, there must be something di- vine in the institution of Southern slavery, after all. It passes all human philosophy. Harp Pesnep ror Carrrat.—The Albany Evening Journal cites the imprisonment of the negro kidnapper, Passmore Williamson, in Philadelphia, as one of the issues of our No- vember election. Will he do for “a good enough Morgan till after the election?’ Per- haps, THE LATEST NEW BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Later from Mexico. New Orueays, Sept, 17, 1855. ‘The steamer Nautilus arrived here on Saturday, with Brownsville dates to the 6th inst. Gen. Woll camo pas- senger inher. Gen. Vidaurri was at Monterey. He charges all the evils that have afflicted Mexico on the army, and declares that there is now no army except a revolutionary one, Generals Parodi and Guitau had been taken prisoners at San Luis Potosi. A party of the government troops, numbering one hun- dred and forty, were attacked by the federalists near Rey- nosa, and routed with a loss of 30 killed, 80 wounded and 40 prisoners. General Castro, with 1,800 troops, was at Matamoras and would probably pronounce in favor of the federai Violent Gales at Milwaukie and Chicago. LOSS OF THE STEAMER SEBASTOPOL, ETC. Cmecaco, Sept. 18, 1885. During a violent gale which commenced here this af- ternoon, the brig Tuscarora, from the lower lakes, load- ed with coal, dragged her anchor, and bad her masts and rigging all carried away. The crew were saved by lite- boats, The vessel will probably go to pieces before morn- ing, The gale is increasing in fury. Several other ves- sels are in sight. We Searn from Milwaukie that during a storm this morning, the steamer Sebastopol, at 8A. M. went ashore two miles south of the mouth of the Milwaukie river.— ‘The latest accounts say she was on the bar with the waves breaking over her. Men, women, and chiliren were seen on board. She would probably go to pieces, unless the storm abated. Two men attempted to swim to the shore from the vessel, but one failed aud was drowned ; the other reports that there is a large number of passengers on board. A later account from Milwaukie states that there is no chance of saving the steamer Sebastopol, and that she had already commenced going to pieces. The Yellow Fever in Virginia, Baumniony, Sept. 18, 1855. AtNorfolk, during the 48 hours ending at noon on Monday, there were 48 deaths, and at Portsmouth, dur- ing the same time, the number of deaths was only 17. and in somo parts of Portsmouth the disease had altogether There were but few new cuses in either of the citi disappeared. The Rev. Mr. Chisholm, of the Episcopal, and Mr. Bag- nell, of the Baptist church, at Norfolk, were among the dead; also, Mrs. Jane Dewey, a wealthy lady of that city. were down Drs. Rosser and Briggs, of Philadelphia, with the fever. RELIEF FROM CINCINNATI. < Cincinnati, Sept., 18, 1855. Thr ee thousand dollars have been collected here thus for the relief of the sufferers at Norfolk and Ports- mouth. The Fever at New Orleans. New Onimans, Sept. 17, 1 The deaths in this city during the past week wer of which 150 were from yellow fever. From ‘Washington. Warnnxc ‘opt. 18, 18: Senator Pratt, of Maryland, arrived thie evening, and Senator Bayard, of Dela- Miller, of Mis- is stopping at Willard’s Hotel. ware, arrived this evening; also Hon. J. G souri. Grand Lodge of the Odd Fellows of the United States. Buaimone, Sept. 18, 1855. In the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, this morning, the Legislative Committee reported that though merging En- campment degrees into subordinate lodges is desir the time hax not yet arrived for specific action on the subject. Weather at Boston. Boste pt. 18, 1865, At noon to-day the thermometer indicated 85 degrees in the shade, A coo} easterly wind sprung up in the ag: ternoen and a bountiful rain storm commenced, which contingyd until sun down, Thys evening thore wer dications of more rain. Fire at Cleveland. ‘The livery stable of Messrs, Wells & Co., in this city, together with four adjoining wooden buildings, fifteen horses, and several buggies and carriages, have been de stroyed by fire. Maxine Disaster. Boron, Sept. 18, 1856 A violent northeast squall prevailed here this after- noon. The ships Revere, for Calloa, and Cohota for Mel- bourne, both started this morning and took the gale out side the lower light, and put back with loss of sails, The Cakota struck on Toddy rocks, in Nantasket roads, where she remained at sunset, with a signat of distros fying. ‘The iow boat R. B. Forbes has gone to her assistance, Nivw OnLRANS, Sept. 17, 185! The ship Venice, hence tor Boston, was damaged in the river on Sunday night, during a blow, and must return here for repairs. Arrival of the Marion at Charteston. CHanustoy, Sept. 18, 1855, The mail steamship Marion, Capt. Win. Foster, arrived here early this (Tuosday) morning. Market PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PIULADELIMLA, Sept. 18, 1865, —— inchanged. Stocks dall, Pennsylvania State ives Reading, 4734; Long Islond Railroad, 1514; Mortis Canal, 154, ; pete Railroad, 45. CHARLESTON, Sept. 18, 1855, Cotton is much depressod, and the receipts are ia creasing. Bales for the last’ three days sum up 1,000 bales. Tice has declined ‘jc. a %e. New ORLRAN®, Sept. 17, 1855. Cotton firm. Sales to-day, 2,500 bak Middling quoted a Fair sugars, 6c. Flour, $6 75. Lard, Bp hegs, Mae —_—_— Acriccirerat Examttons.The New York State Agri- cultural Society will hold it# annual exhibition at Et- mira,on the 2d, 3d, 4th and bth days of October next. It will undoubtedly be well attended, and, as usual, very instructive, To-morrow (20th,) the Queens County Agricultural Society will give its annual exhibition— agricultural, horticultural and animal—st Flushing, The Society will give # dinner to its special gueste, Persona desirous to attend can take the steamboat connecting t 8. @ of 10 o’elock in the forenoon, The “beauty and the chivalry’ of Long Island wil be well represented, Ninto’s GAaRDEN.—The unpropitious state of the weather had no effect on the attendance at Niblo’s last evening—the Pyne and{ Harrison opera company baving performed to an excellent house, Mr. Stretton, the cele. brated English basso, arrived yesterday, and will make his firet appearance in George Bristow’s now Auierican opers, which is now in active preperation, Memororin THEsTRE.—M'lle Rachel will appear to- night as Thisde, in Victor Hugo’s drama of ‘Angelo, the Tyrant of Padua.”” The pertormance announced to take place on Friday will be given on Tharsday next. This change has been made by the desire of M’lie Rachel, im consequence of Friday being the greatest Jewish holiday, and generally observed by the Hebrew people all over the world, The comedies played by this company will be published hereafte: Racine ax mie Respina Fisk.—We learn that there ix a probability that the eminent French actress will give one or two readings, probably at the Tabernacle, for the benesit of many persons who desire to hear her, but who are not theatre-goers. M’lle Rachel's lessons ism declamation will be of immense value to any public speaker. Oty Politics. REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT. The Committee of Sixteen were in session again yester- day, making further preparsiious for the Republtear Mass County Convention to be held at the Broadway Tabernacle, The fall quora of delegates from this county Wes agreed upon after considerable discussion. The great trife yesierday was as to (he names of two persons as Acegates, to whom objections wore made by a minority ofthe commitiee. Everything points towar esting and lively time a ong he republican even ing: The cominittey of sixieen have overlooked alto- gether the claims of the Sinte delegates elocted by the ward organizations. The great contest was on this point, REPUBLICAN GENERAL COMMITTEE. This committee met last evening at the Mercer House, Fdward A, Stansbury presiding. Messrs, Wheeler, Cars ter and Hallam appeared as delegates trom the Second ward, anda double delegation appeared from the Twen- ty-second werd, A new election was ordered, The Com- mittee upon Rules and Regulations made a report. A warm and animating debate arose on a reaotation to endorse the action of the Astor House Committee of Six - teen in nominating thirty-two delegates to the Republi- can State Convention, to be submitted to the Masa €on- vention at the broadway Tabernacle this evening. Gen. Chambers, Mr, Blunt and others spoke at 0 length on this resolution, and it was finally carried, Some of the members dissented to this action, and protested that the Central Committee and the Committee of Six- teen had no power in the matter, and were contident that the State Convention would admit only the delegates chosen by the district conventions of this city. pursuant to the amended State call, the time having expired for the election of delegates by ¢sunty masa meetings, Much feeling was manifested by the frieads of some.of the acle- gutes chozen to the State Convention by the district sy tem, and they all appeared animated with the resolve to attend the mass convention at the Tabernacle this evening, and to present the claims of the several favor- ites. The republicans of the lirstand Second Assembly districts and the friends of the ward clubs and organizi- tions who have elected their delegates by district con- ventions, were partienlarly indignant. It is antieipaied that at the meeting to-night there will be quite a row ard some beautiful exhibitions of union and harmony will be presented for the amusement doubt leas of the performers, the public and the distinguished invited speakei fe look out for fan, WORKINGMEN’S PROVISIONAL COMMITTER* ‘The Workingmen’s Provisional Committee inet last eve- ning at the ( ‘ooper House, Mr, William Arbuthnot, of the ifth ward, presiding. They adjourned to meet again on Saturday evening, hen iit te understood they will make their county nominations. THE WHIG CITY CONVENTION. It is understood that the Whig City Convention is soom about to be called together, probably for some new work- ing arrangement. Wuia Ciry Couyen, Nomiyanion—Forty-third district, Dr. Booraem. Disocraric Cary Couxem, Nomivanoxs—Eleventh dis triet, Matthew Murray; Thirteenth district, Richard Barry. THE CENSUS MARSHALS. A conyention of the Census Marshals will be held at, O*Donnell’s, corner of Third avenue and Twentieth streets, on Friday evening, the lst inst., at 8 o'clock, for the transaction of important business connected with the taking of fhe cengus, As some action of sn important character will be taken, none but marshals are to be admitted. Marine Affairs. The steamship Atlantic, Captain West, sails to-day at noon for Liverpool. We learn that she takes out abont one hundred and thirty passengers. The steamship Florida, Captain Woodhull, arrived at an early hour yesterday morning from Savannah, SMIPRUILDING IN Wrutiamsperc.—Mr, Eckford Webb bas just commenced laying the keel of a three masted sehoon- er, at his yardin Greenpoint, for parties in Virginia. She will be 142 feet long, 82 feet beam, 20 feet deep, and about 650 tons measurement. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘The steamebip Artel was spoken by pilot voat Fawin Forrest, about 150 miles east of Sandy Hook, on Thurs- day, the 13th September, and refused to take a pilot. ‘The boat passe! so near the steamer that the person hail ing from the iotter vessel asked if the boat wished to get un down’ The steamer proceeded on to the Hook, where she took a pilot from the pilot boat Enebantress, the pilots of which boat are employed to take out steam- era, no matter who brings them in, The pilots think it ra- ther a hard case that they have to cruise to rea at great risk and expense in order to bring in vessels for these two three pilots to take out—a duty which the youngest and experienced pilot in the business is espable of Some of the steamers, especially those outh, refuse to take pilots ny atance from the Hook, expecting to find {he Enchantress there, are de‘ained for the want of a pilc ot y, and consequently risk, and dis” favtion among the passengers—and who are blamed ¢ —the pilots, generally. Court Galenday—This Day. Burm Cork by 288, 264, 1,218, 1,219, 1,068, 277, 207, 004, 1,005, 1,507, L644, 1,645. 1,600, 1,617, 1,648, 1,566 Svrreve Cocrt—Chr 3. 1,607, 1,872, 276, 224, 56, 791, 831, 215, 336, 57 814, 516, 316, 519 to 3: Gommon PLEAS=-Now, 637, 471. 740, Hats which are Hats.—Gentlemen desirous ofan elegant chapeaus are jnvi‘ed (o call on BBPENSCHEID, Ls Nassau street, neat Beekman, where they Leet trope the best hats thai are made in the city of 3 Prise What the Critics Say —Paffers by Profes« sion tay praise other hats, hut they all wear Knox's. Merit, like murder, can’t be concealed; and thus {t is that you find al? found judges ‘of appropriateness in bats congregating at KNOX S stores, 212 Broadway, corner of Fulton stree’, and £33 Broad way, | Call and purctiase one, ne ew York. The extraordinary Jow prices that Cacut- ture, miler re sold for at Auc- z . Come this morn ‘gains, The qaall of the Pie ‘yeni cei, 9 2 and $2 ut moment by i the best aml daguerreotypes in the elty, at i Pianos.—Herace Waters’ Pinwos Having hon hetr tmprovemente of aetion greretringe, lange of and power oftoneednal to the grand Dinerth » os, withor without the moliais, Halle & Owinee *, Roe ¥ Brown, aud Jacob Chiekering’s pianos, ana imome of five. of the best Now York makers: new 644 octave plagos, for $150, second hand pianos of all va: at great bargains, prices fom $00 (0 $140, Pianos to ind rent allowed oo par. shase. Pianos for sale on monthiy payments. Bole agenoy of 8. D. & H. W. Smith’ meloteans the equal tempera went.) Each instrument evarant enuire sasisfaction or purchtee money refunded HORACE f WATERS, 299 Broadway Pianor—#econd hand, $25, $90, $160 and $140, Twenty new ones (same make as commanded the {iret premio at the World's Pale), now at BASSPORDS: finishing roams, G03 Broadway, up and @ genera » same building, dow Sale very arches, eqnal invited to call, low, from $20 to $475, Melos to an organ of $600, for $200, See Musical Wortd, COLBURN & NASH, Agent, 423 Broadway. The Smithsonian House, on the European Plan, Broadway, corner of Houston ntreet.—This new and arge hotel, newly furnished and in thorough order, with ai) Berconyenlences of the highest priced hotels, oilers to travel ‘ers and the puplic, including farailies, stay aay oer at lower rates than can be aiorded by onher first dass hotel. SIDNE ‘Kora N. Paris Millinery, Dress eae and Head Dresses.—MRS, LEV 110 Bleecker siroot, near Broad way, invites the apecial aitention of the ladies to har super as sorituent of Paxix millinery, 2¢., of the choicest style und. lilo moe, whlch Wil! be displayed 6a Thurwdtay, ata Satin De Latnes, Worsted “Dum apn Git gornices, window shades, &e.—KELTY & FURGUSON, 201 Broadway, have just reeelved per steamer a splendid. stock ot the above goods ; some new paiterns very benylfal and rich Alec the largest ‘oek of wincow find other window or: tamnents in New York. We » re prepared to offer induoenvant« to purchase "sx the above gonds.. SH Broadway. Brodie’s Fail Clonks—George Brodie, No. 81 Canal and 6 Liepeoard Ww in More A’ large assortment of novelties in vel ih and moire antique cloaks and moniillan, to whieh ew the avlention oF whoie sale cash and short ime buyers. toes were never known to commit such depredations on the foelings of citizens aa at the present time: protect yourarlyes against beta, also your chikdran, and & ny guiter ( to be torvured he ber * any more, or to Keop you awake of nighis on i peace whieh you ean do by galing on W. ar A TrON, Chambers wreet, the sole agen for the Haskins’ patent improved canopy and net,a eure QUATanIee Aalust mosquitos, Great ina in Cerpeting—We have ney Ja store 8 large siock of fall innportationg, comprisins, v+t- yet, i y, Brnsee rr eanyetin ‘ trhieh wb are odbeing avery tots halos eons ands. per yard. SMITH & TOCNSBEARY, sane sir