The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1855, Page 4

4 _——— NEW YORK HERALD. a 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ~~~ OPPICE H. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULT’gN BTS — -No. 263 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Orngi.o—Traceoy Qussx. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway--Miss Prxe—Sown Mauna, WERY THEATRE, Bowery—Lirs axp Data or King L ore OBLIGE Baxson. CORTON, Chambers, strooi— ANONYMOUS Cor omy orn 'urex Roxs Desr—CiockMaker’s Hat. WALLACE?S THEATRE, Breedway—Gaz or Love— ROBINGON Cuvson THE SECOND. ‘WOODS MINSTRELS, Meckanice’ Hall, 472 Broadway. URLESQUE OPERA iE, 569 Broad- wey Duniseer OFana SRD NEGO MINITREIBY. New Yerk, Satarday, September 22, 1855. New York Fall Fashions, THE WEEKLY HERALD Wille published-at 10 o’clock this morning, and will eontain our report of the Fall Fashions, together with ‘the foreign news recetved by the Baltic, the latest news Dy mail and telograph from all parts of this continent, theatrical and commercial intelligence, &., &, Price sixpence, in*wrappers, ready for mailing. ‘The News. ‘There is an exciting struggle going on at Wash- ington between the freesoil and secession wings of the Cabinet, as to who shall be appointed to fill the Jndgeship made vacent by the death of the vene- rable Judge Cranch. The candidates for the place are Mr. Blairand Mr. Redcliff, and the latter is back- ed hy the President and the Secretary of War. Mr. Blair is a con of Francis P. Blair, of the Globe, and now holds the posttion of Solicitor of the Court of Clavns. R®icholas Hit, Jv.,of Albany, hes been selected by-the Soft Shell State Committee as candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals, insplace of John A. Lott, who declines. This is all very well; but where is Judge Lott’e-detter declining the soft shell nomi- nation? That isthe question. ‘Will any one ex- hume the letter of Judge Lott? Can any one tell where the little joker is? The Hard Shell and City and County Convention met last night'at Stuyvesants's Institute, and after organizing the several wards were called and a num- ber of persons were placed on nomination, who will be balloted for at the next meeting of the conven- tion. By reference to the report given elsewhere it will be seen that the candidates are quite numerous. Augustus Shell presided, and.in the opening speech bore hard on secret societies. A meeting of the Temperance Alliance was held last evening, and delegates elected from the differ- ent Assembly districts to the State Temperance Convention to be held at Utica on the 3d of Octo- ber. There were about fifty persons present, while the number of delegates elected was forty-eight— three from each district. ‘The immense consumption of gunpowder, which has been for some time going on between the belli- gerents in the Eastern war, has begun to tell upon the prices of lead and saltpetre. Since the arrival of the'Baitic lead has advanced to Gjc. a 6fc. per Jb., with free sales, on speculation, of both foreign and domestic. 3,200 pigs of Galena changed hands yesterday at the above quotations. At last accounts the stock.in England was very materially reduced, while prices ruled at higher figures. The stock of saltpetre in the United States has become very #mall, and prices have undergone a great advance. Crade, which before the war sold at about 7c. a 74c., ie now very firm at 15c. There can be no destructive wars without “villanous saltpetre.” It must be had in large supplies, or the system of war must go back to the use of hand to hand implements. Onr government, having ex- perienced great difficulties for the want of it daring the Revolution, as well as in the war of 1812, has since been more provident for future contin- gencies, and Congress has for some twenty or thirty years past appropriated about $20,000 per annum for the purchase and storage of saltpetre, so that we might now probably stand a five or ten years’ war even without entirely exhausting our supplies. This precantion was the more necessary as the most pro- Hific mines in the world, on the tributaries of the Ganges, in India, were under the control of Eng- land. Asgreat as the resources of this country are Imown to be, yet so far they are found to be defi- cient in supplies of saltpetre and tin. In case of ‘war we can get on without the latter, but not with- out the former. To be equal with other nations we must have ample stores of saltpetre, the chief ele- ment in the composition of gunpowder. ‘We publish this morning a correspondence that has taken place between the Secretary of the Navy ‘and the President, relative to the action of the Na- val Retiring Board. The Secretary, while not agree- ng with the Board in its action in individual cases, has a clear conviction, from his own knowledge, of the correctness of the opinion of the Board ina large number of cases, and has such confidence in the su- perior knowledge of the Board as to what consti- tutes efficiency in officers, that he cannot withhold his approval, nor advise the President to do so. The President briefly says that he examined and deli- berately considered the report of the Board and ap- proves its finding. William Scharfenberg, recently found guilty of the murder of Helena Myers in September last, was yes- terday sentenced by Recorder Smith to suffer the penalty of death on Friday, the 16th of November. ‘The prisoner listened to the remarks of the Court and the sentence with the utmost indifference. The Baptist Historical Society held its first meet- ing since its organization, in the Bible rooms, yes- terday, when a roll of officers was elected and the @ifferent committees chosen for the next twelve months. Mayor Wood has addressed a letter to Mayor Hincks, of Baltimore, in which he expresses the conviction that the Board of Health will soon repeal the ordinance imposing quarantine upon vessels from Southern ports. The Board of Councilmen met last evening. The session was devoted to the third reading of bills, the majority of them having reference to streets and the Fire Department. The case of Coleman & Stetson, proprietors of the Astor House, charged with violating the provisions of the prohibitory liquor law, was tried in the Court of Special Sessions yesterday. A report of the evi- dence is given in another column. A large crowd of spectators was in attendance. A jary of eleven men in the Marine Court yes- terdiay rendered 8 verdict of $200 damages against female for an assault on a California runner—es- tablishing the fact, as far as their decision goes, that 2 man may calla woman opprobious names, nd wee indecent language in her presence, without ligble to imprompta punishment at her hands. nok Brady’s husband chastised Mr. Quinn, it is doubtful if the verdict Would have been greater. Some astounding developments, contained in an Wit made before Police Justice Pearcy, affect- the reputation of a Lexington avenue physician ud quite a number of females, may be found under the head of Police Intelligence. : ‘The steamship Black Warrior has arrived at Now Orleans with Havana dates to the 17th. There was news. Sagar wes firm, with an upward po poirtical tendency in prices. ‘The Camden and Amboy Railroad Company will te deeply involved in Jaw for some time to come, s having commenced actions for arising out of the deaths and fn i it Bar- casioned by the late lamentable catastrophe at ington. fe directors, in view of their involvements, NEW YORK FARRALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 185%, . be ive already retained the legal services of Messrs. ‘George Wood, Charies O’Conor, and James T. Brady to defend the various suits against them. Cotton was more active yesterday, and the sales reached about 3,000 bales, though in the piain at ra- ther irregular prices, middling uplands having in some cases changed from 10c.a 10jc. At the close the market exhibited more steadiness. Flour was active, with a good demand both for home use and for export. Prime wheat, in good shipping order, was scarce and very firm. Sales of other kinds were freely made, in Jota, at full prices. Among the transactions were 16,000 bushels white Canada, to arrive before the 15th of October, at $2 07. Corn ad- vanced 76. to 2c. per buehel. Pork was in moderate demand; for new mess, $22 25 a $22 37; and 1,000 bbls. prime, deliverabie all this year, seller’s option, sold st 218, Beef wys somewhat firmer. Freights were more active, with pretty free engagements at firmer rates. Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fusion Conven. thon—Governor Gardner Superseded. The State Convention of the anti-slavery fusionists of Massachusetts, held at Worcester on Thursday, is represented as having been at- tended by a thousand delegates, including several ex-whig members of Congress, several Know Nothing Congressmen, Senator Wilson, and many of the rankand file of the late whig, free soil and Know Nothing parties. Accord- ing, therefore, to this representation, the fusion of the negro worshippers of the Old Bay State is complete, and, prostrated by the infamy of the Inte Hiss Legislature, the Massachusetts bogus Know Nothings have been swallowed up by the Holy Anti-Slavery Alliance. The most striking incident of this Worcester conglomeration was the superseding of Gov- erpor Gardner, and the nomination over his head, for the office which he now holds, of Hon, Julius Rockwell, who within a year has be- come one of the shining lights of the anti-sla- very coalition. Gov. Gardner was elected by the American party last year, over whigs, democrats and free soilers, separately and col- lectively, by @ majority absolutely astounding, and for some time really incomprehensible. But his majority last year was scarcely more remarkable than is now his rejection at Wor- cester, although we may account for it very satisfactorily. When the Know Nothing Legislature, elected with the Governor, went over to the seditious work of the abolitionists and free soilers, in their proceedings against Judge Loring, the Fugitive Slave law, &c., it was manifest that the new party of Massachusetts had cut themselves aloof from the general Ameri- can organization as a great national party. Governor Gardner was seized with this idea, and partly, no doubt, through the suggestions of the independent conserva- tive press outside of Massachusetts, and partly, it is said, through the humane counsels of ex- President Fillmore, who took the trouble to go to Boston upon that particular business— and from a hope that a national party might be formed out of the constitutional elements of the American order in the State—he (the Governor) resolved upon a new political de- parture. He resolved to imitate Mr. Webster, by ignoring the narrow limits of Massachu- setts, and by spreading himself over the broad and ample area of the constitution and the Union. His debut was full of promise. He refused to obey the order of the Hiss Legislature for the removal of Judge Loring; he vetoed their sedi- ious bill repealing the Fugitive Slave law, and though they subsequently passed it over his protest, the merit of that protest was none the less on that account. But the mischievous work of an overwhelming bogus Know Nothing Legislature fell with a crushing effect upon he orthodox American party in Virginia— Governor Gardner became disheartened—he could see no prospect fora new conservative American party in his meridian, and so he quietly surrendered to the predominant anti-slavery pressure around him. At the National American Convention at Phila- delphia his conservative backbone was broken. He had undertaken a task too great for his strength, and he succumbed; but in a struggle which crushed a Webster we may perhaps excuse the capitulation of a Gardner. From the Philadelphia National American party he seceded under the protection of Sena- tor Wilson, and became a fusionist of the Cleve- land Conventicle, and of the type of Hale, Giddings, Wilson, Seward, Webb and John Jay. The Worcester Convention finishes the Gov- ernor. His retractation of conservative princi- ples was too late, too sudden; too violent to be trusted; and so the fusionists resolved to dispense with his services for the future, and they ungratefully thrust him aside. We are sorry for the Governor—sorry that he did not persevere, in the face of all obstacles, in the path indicated by his resistance to the sedi- tious acts of a disorganizing Assembly. In this good old path, though he might not have secured the renewal of his office, he would have achieved a solid national reputation. Now, his political consistency and his office are gone toge- ther. His indignant anti-slavery Know Nothing friends may advise and resolve upon resistance to the Worcester decree; but it will avail them nothing. Inside or outside the anti-slavery alliance there is now no alternative for Gov- ernor Gardner than a trial of faith by proba- tion, or an absolute retirement from the dirty arena of party politics, and all concerned. Consider, “Oh! ye of little faith,” the rise and fall of Governor Gardner. Mexican Arrams—Srrvcenes ror Presipency.—Our files of journals from Mexi- co have come to hand. They bring us infor- mation from the capital up to the Ist of September. The capital and country at large were in a more deplorably unsettled condition than while the revolution was in full blast. Now that Santa Anna has taken himself—and two of the national steamers—olf, the revo- lutionary elements seem disposed to imitate the action of the famous Kilkenny cats, and devour each other. There are at present no less than three political plans—as they call them—before the country. The best and most popular plan is that known as the plan Ayutla, the base on which the revolution edifice was erected. Next is the plan of M co, supposed to have been concocted by the expiring efforts of the Santa Anna administra- tion, ond under which Gen. Carrera was elected President ad interim. This is supported by the faithful servants and soldiers of the late gov- ernment, and is, ¢ onsequently, more or less ob- noxious to the people. And tly, there is a new plan got up by an ambitious individual at San Luis, who would like very much to try his hand at the governme: Poor Gen. C , the present | of the presidential office, come hea rae ambeg tily ti of his place, aod would most willingly part with it if he could find proper and authorized hands into which to surrender it. The great objection to him is that he is too much the antipodes of Santa Anna, In other words, he is too humane, too gentle, tco unselfish to please the tastes of the Mexicans, now trained to the highest seasoned condiments in the way of despotic and sanguinary government. Car- rera, it must be said, has so far acted faithful- ly, and discharged honorably the trust reposed in him. He has convened the chiefs of the re- volution to meet on the 16th inst., at the town of Dolores, and he avows himself ready to abide by their deeision. There are several candidates named for the Presidency. The most prominent among them are Carrera, Ceballos and Comonfort. The latter seems to be the most popular, and to combine the most chances of success. A new revolution has been also projected, with the object of raising Gen. Blanco—Santa Anna’s minister of war—to the Presidency; but it was discovered in time, and Gen. Blanco has been re-called to the capital, and deprived of hig command. Altogether, our sister republic is at the present moment a greater object of sympathy than she has been since the revolu- tion was initiated. Wno Dxsertep Tae O1p Wure Party Finsr? —It is about as dangerous for modern politi- cians to run backwards as it was for the cars Mr. Seward said in the Senate in 1850: “TI will do the whig party the justice or the injustice to say that I have on the Camden Railroad. been a member of it all my active life; and I will do it the great disservice to say, that no matter what may happen, and who may put me under the ban, I shall be the last to leave it, how- ever individuals may disown me or the princi- ples I maintain.” Strangely enough, ex-Go- vernor Hunt is still smarting under the bast- ing he has received from the Seward organs for adhertag to the whig party—the same par- ty that Mr. Seward was to “be the last to leave.” George Evans, of Maine, who was once the financial organ of the whigs in the Senate of the United States, and who predicted that the tariff of 1846 would not yield a reve- nue exceeding twenty-two millions of dollars per annum, for which he was roundly praised by the Tribune, is now, for clinging to the old organization, to his old friends, to the princi- ples of the whig party, “an old fogy, an ab- stractionist, a doughface and a rumite.” In 1850 Mr. Seward, besides avowing his ad- hesion, for all time to come, to the whig party, from which he would not be driven, with Hale, and Wade, and Chase, and Sumner, and all the abolitionists, was opposed to the Missouri com- promise. They would not have the arbitrary line of 36 deg. 30 min. as the boundary be- tween free and slave territory—now, they look upon the restoration of the compromise as the saving ordinance of their creed, and upon the whig party as adjuncts of the “slave oligar- chy.” maining true to the faith. utter. On a previous occasion Mr. Seward was thoroughly wedded to anti-masonry, and in the Senate of New York made his last will and testament, bequeathing to his children the blessed fruits of his early political labors in He then seemed to doubt whether he should have anything else to give, but was consoled by the glorious reflection that such a patrimony was suflicient to enrich the that vineyard. progeny of any one man. He labors now to disinter the Missouri com- promise, and to form a joint stock company for that purpose, of all the odds and ends of the old parties, and especially of the one he was determined to “be the last to leave.” We fear this operation will scarcely turn out better than his anti-masonic enterprise. The signs of the times indicate rank rebellion against the projected restoration. Practical men believe that if the body of the old thing is exhumed it will “stink in the nostrils” of all not favored with an immediate association with the negroes, besides requiring a miracle even greater than that by which Weed trans- formed Timothy Monroe into “a good enough Morgan till after election,” to give it vitality and energy. And then, again, the form and the life being restored, how is the illegitimate bantling to maintain a character outside of the 7ribune office and the free love circles, and, perhaps, in bigamatic Mormondon’? ‘These things ought to be thought of, for if the Mis- souri bastard gets back into the world only to he neglected, and the object 6f scorn and con- tempt, the poor thing will surely end its life hy violence, or be laid aside as before, by its present friends, by putting another California in the family way of our brother and sister- hood of States. lt was the ingenious author of Tristram Shandy that began the life of his hero before he was born. The effort to organize a party on the idea of the restoration of the Missouri compromise, was certainly borrowed from that work, It is altogether a mysterious, ante- nuptial affair, an intrigue, a kind of political assignation between the scarlet woman of Ba- bylon of the negro school, and the charlatans about the temple of Maine lawism, and is not likely, from present appearances, to outlive its period of gestation, Enporstne THe ApMINISTRATION.-The Phila- delphia Pennsylvanian complains that in pub- lishing the proceedings of the democratic mass meeting at Philadelphi: omitted the resolution endorsing Mr. Pierce's administra- tion. We hasten to supply the oversight, and are only sorry that the resolution was not a little stronger. Here it is: 10. Resolved, That the present distinguished position of the United States, at home and ab: i, results from an administration of its government upon princip! purely constitutional—and that President. Pierce, ha administered the government upon these principl 3 Joys the confidence of every trie lover of the constitie tion. “Principles purely constitutional!” Gre town—Kansas—Cuba ! ‘onfidence of e io i trne lover of th Mr. John Cochr: “holds the I Forney, of th Inq our Custom House, t in hie ben € Being the first instead of the last to leave it, it does, however, seem very cruel in Mr. Seward to compel his organs to castigate Washington Hunt and George Evans for re- But converts are always enthusiastic, and very imprudent too. They are permitted to wipe off the past in consideration of the new and better life into which they are born—and this is a great privi- lege to the Seward politicians, who can’t pass a year without being disturbed by the appari- tion of some foolish and very ridiculous speech, like that of Seward noted above. Pub- lic sentiment, too, towards such men is very in- dulgent; mainly because neither the people nor themselves believe a word of what they M. Feux as 4 Lerrer Warrer.—M. Raphae’ Felix, the manager of the Rachel Drame tic Company, has addressed the public se aang times through the Heraup, and we pr bli shed another satisfactory effort from b‘ us pen on Thursday. M. Felix announces + ey aad cess of his enterprise, thus far, asbeen beyond his anticipation, This is a Wile Rachel went to Lo 4 ieapontadh: Sits cig eg adon thirteen years ago for the first time ; 8 played a few nights to cold audiences, and , Mataened to Paria ale gusted. She comes + Now York, is at once appreciated to the gyrtost extent, and acts during three Weeky, to an average amount of receipts of over three thousand dollars per night. This, we, think, settles the question as ta whether Prother Jonathan has a more re- fined taste iy art matters than John Bull. Mademeiselle Rachel having thus proved that she can draw at prices double those of the Opero , and six times greater than those of the regv.lar theatres, desires that the prices shall be reduced; and M. Felix announces a reduction of one-third to the best parts of the house, and throws open the spacious third circle at half a dollar. He also remits the extra charge for securing seats. We learn also that M’lle Ra- chel will give a series of public readings,a la Fanny Kemble Butler; and thus it will be their own fault if all our people do not enjoy the great intellectual treat which she offers to them. We think that M. Felix has answered all the objections that have been made to his manage- ment. It was first suggested in this journal that the prices should be arranged on a more liberal scale. Mirabeau said, “the voice of the people admonishes kings,” and M. Felix has gracefully yielded to the public will. Some other little matters complained of by our correspondents, have been righted—the pieces have been presented with due attention to the mise en scene, the arrangements in front of the house improved, and we can see no rea- son why those who visit the Metropolitan during the few nights that the great actress will remain with us, should not enjoy unalloyed pleasure. M. Feltx being a stranger here, and neces- sarily unused to our idosyncracies, may have made some little mistakes. He has, however, pursued a manly, straightforward course, dis- régarding all the managerial tricks by which some artists may have put a few dollars in their pockets, but eternally ruined their repu- tations. He has certainly labored to deserve success, and should be sustained by all who love art in one of its highest and most beauti- ful forms. Tue Connecticut Liquor Law.—The Hart- ford Courant confesses that “there are sneaking evasions going on all the while there, and that doubtless night and day secret violations of the law are practised in that city.” Why don’t they get up the right kind of a law—something like ours, for example, where the “statute” is openly nullified by everybody, and where liquor may be sold freely by everybody, with- out the expense of a license? And yet they talk of repealing our law because it is too des- potic! What would our people do if they were under the Connecticut law, where, day and night, they are compelled to sell and drink even lager bier upon the sly? We pity the Connecticut people. They don’t know how to get up a liquor law. Our Seward law makers do. They go on a spree to Blackwell’s Island, and then prohibit all liquor drinking by abol-, ishing all licenses and establishing free trade. A New Union Party Proposrp.—Hon. Tho- mas G. Pratt, U. S. Senator, has written a letter in favor of a new Union party, to be composed of conservative whigs and democrats. We be- lieve the American party are aiming at the same ultimatum. True, they have had some hitches and catches and breakdowns here and there, and, looking over the whole field of the Union, their organization is somewhat un- harmonious and incohesive and indecisive, and uncertain ; but as all other parties are ina state of effervescence, fasion and reconstruc- tion, the Know Nothings have still as good a chance as the best of them for the succession. The approaching session of Congress will pro- bably be followed by an entire re-organization of the American party upon the living, practi- cal union and constitutional issues of the day. But Mr. Pratt is, perhaps, a little too fast. Nothing positive can be done in the recon- struction of parties, old or new, for 1856, short of month or two after the meeting of Con- gress, Tue Navy Rermep List—Nor Bap ror tur Ustox.—The Washington Union has lately got off a piece of sarcasm on the Naval Board which was hardly to be looked for in such a quarter. It says that the retired list published by the Herato is incorrect, and adduces as a proof the fact that it contains the names of two of the officers of the Examining Board. The insinuation is, of course, that the Board would not cut off the heads of two of its own mem- bers, no matter how old or incompetent they may be. Good for the Union! When the or- gan reflects so caustically. on these officers sitting at Washington, it is not to be wondered at that their action should be freely commented on by the independent press of the country. ForticominG ATTRACTIONS AT Nimio’s Garpuy.—Th return of Mr. Niblo from Europe, and the arrival of Antoine Ravel in this country, suddenly followed by hi return to France, accompanied by his brother Frangois gave assurance that some extraordinary arrapgemont were in progress, preparatory to the opening of the rer lar winter campaign. We now learn, from good authoviiy that Mr. Niblo has entered inta an arrangement with the celebrated brothers Antoine, Frangois, and Jerome Ra vel, to organize @ powerfal company of talented avtist in the various branches of the drama, pantomime, spec- tacle and ballet, in combination with operatic and scenic effects at once novel and striking in their character. This grand combination will enable them to produce a series of entertainments of unparalleled attractions, com bining all the most popular features of opera, drama, spectacle and ballet in the same piece, each department being filled by artists of the highest ability, either as singers, actors, pantomimists or dancers. The vast re. sources of the establishment, backed hy immense capital, guided by such experienced directors, and headed by Mr. Niblo himse'f, must ensure success to this great enter- prize. During his last tour Mr. Niblo visited all the most celebrated operatic and dramatic establishments in the great capitals of Europe, and secured the artistes most essentially needed for the consummation of this gigantic plan. Jerome Ravel is now in italy, closing other en- gagements, and the brothers Antoine and Frangols leave to-day for France, in order to muster their whole forces together and bring them to this city. This new arrange- ment will go into effect, we hear, in about two months, In the meantime, the Pyne and Harrison Opera company will continue their highly successfal performances. In a few days this telented company will produce Bristow's new grand American opera of “Rip Van Winkle,”? which has been mounted with the greatest care and liberality, ‘ i nel, however, is in fine condition, and he is welcome THE LATEST NEWS. back to his post of responsibility. Quite an amusing insident occurred yesterday in the BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Yen;ion (fice, which took the new Commissioner aback not alittle. An elderly lady, some 70 years of age, was PARNER EB His ah Sine yp urging with great yolubility ‘her claim to a land warrant From Washington, THE HALIVAX CONSULSHIP—WBO WILL BE THE in virtue of her father’s services in the revolution. Judge Minot very politely pointed her to the law, that SUCCESSOR OF JUDGE CRANCH—sENATOR DoU- GLAS AND THE BOSTON ABOLITIONISTS, ETC. enly minor children were entitled. “But,” replied the The President, I was informed to-day, has appointed applicant, “you must understand Judge, that T am a child; Lem in my second childhood, sir.” The J ex-Governor Pillsbury, of Maine, Consul at Halifax, vice Robt. N. Frayzer, removed. did not faint, but an explosion of laughter followed irom, The struggle now going on with reference to who shall the passages. 3 fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Cranch, WaAsiixatoy, Sept. 20, 1855. The Cabinet and the Kansas Executive—Gov, Shannong is tremendous, The Cabinet have had it in charge for some time. Mr, Marcy and the free soilers are in favor Appointment—The Territorial Elections—Steredary Marcy aul the President—The Kansas Question at the Top of the Heap—Policy of ex-Governor Reeler—Slavery, Avolitions of Blair, while General Pierce and Jeff. Davis are for Radcliffe. It is believed now that Radcliffe is abead. The Union of to-morrow will contain a letter from ism, and Prospects of Union Dissolution, dic. Judge Douglas to the Anti-Slavery Society of Boston, ‘The letter on Kansas, from your corresponient, pubs lished in last Saturday’s Henaip, has been the cause o declining an imvitation to address them on the slavery question. unusual excitement in this city, among the members of” our cabinet politicians, and the public generally. On all hands it is conceded that a fatal and irretrievable mis- take has been made in the appointment of Shannon to rt ett Shell Cnndiiate Sor Judge of the Court | TO A ee ae Pe saree sy, Sept 21, 1855, | *t¥bbornese, with no hetter effect than an acknowledg- wx, Sept 21, 1865. ‘The Soft Shell State Cammittee have selected Nicholas | Ment of its truth from his Excellency. The concession is Hill, barnburner, for Judge ot the Court of Appeals, in place of John A. Lott, hunker, declined. Mr. Lott’s let- ter declining the nomination is suppressed. admitted that nothing can be done to change the condi- tion of aftairs until the meeting of the next Congress. Precautionary steps to guard against @ revolution im- pending over the bead of the ill-fated Territory, have een under warm debate for several days in cabinet meeting. The President is in favor of having in Kansas, at the time of election, all the United States military corce that can be got together from the adjacent States and Territories, a proposition that meets with no favor from a single member of his Cabinet. It will surprise you to learn that the strongest o} nent to this measure is to be found in the person of Sec- retary Marcy. His reasonings are drawn from common. sense. “Let it be known,” argues the Secretary, that the United States government, at Washington, has resolved upon such a step, and you will arouse an oppo- sition to this order of things that the whole mili force of the United States can’t suppress. Marcy’s pol- icy is to let as little of this government interierence as possible appear in the revolution now going on in unfor- tunate Kansas. wich the Hmratp +o be satisfied of this fact—that nei- ther the Cuban, Spanish, South American or any other question, ts regarded with anything like equal importance to that of Kansas. A definite settlement of the slavery question, and a more important one gout of it—a dissolution of the Union—are now fairly before the administration and the country. Where are we to find matter of more start- ling interest to the United States, than is contained in the few lines above given? r To help the affair along, Reeder is striving to inerease theexcitement; and his partizans, numerous as they are, are daily adding to their numbers. Those who e1 with Reeder in his land speculations, have all become free soilera, and as the property thus purchased—and which cost Reeder his gubernatorial chair—is increasing in value, itis but reasonable that the free soil efforts to put down the slavery party, should also be on the in- crease. An agent is to leave for Kansas with instructions to Governor Shannon, on the 20th inst. We have a ree port in the city this evening, that in the event of the government’s interference im the coming election, that ‘issouri will empty the full amount of her border force into Kansas, for the support of the slavery party. ‘The Yellow Fever in Virginia. Baxmimore, Sept. 21, 1855. There is no abatement in the ravages of the yellow fever; indeed, there has been quite a renewal of the panic amongst the remaining residents in the doomed cities. At Nortolk, on Wednesday, there were thirty deaths, and on Thursday, up to noon, twenty. Mr. Ferguson, the President of the Howard Association, ‘was very ill, as were also Drs. Turnstall and Blow. Dr. Gordon was still living. Dr. Caprie and Miss Willis, nurse from New York, were down with the disease. At Portsmouth, on Thursday, there were cleven deaths up to ncon. ‘The new cases in both cities were very numerous, and immense quantities of tar were being burned. Yellow Fever in Missiesipp!. Nww ORLEANS, Sept. 20, 1855. ‘There were ten deaths from yellow fever at Vicksburg, Mississippi, during yesterday. At Canton there were two deaths and twenty new cases. The disease prevails at Natchez, and is spreading to nearly all points on the Mississippi, Ouchita and Black rivers, Later from Havana. New Orteans, Sept. 20, 1855. The steamship Black Warrior has arrived at this port with Havana dates to the 17th inst. The news is wholly unimportant. Sugars were firm, and prices had an up- ward tendency. Judicial Convention. ‘Aunany, Sept. 21, 1855. The Soft Shell Judicial Convention of the Sixth district, has nominated Schuyler C. Rippen for Judge. The Hard Convention nominated Samuel Gordon, of Delaware. The Otsego delegates protested against this nomination, on the ground that he had been a free soiler. ‘The United States Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. Barmimone, Sept. 21, 1855. ‘The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows to-day, by a two-thirds vote, rejected the amendments to the constitution offered last year, proposing to strike therefrom all re- ference to encampments. Other important amendments were also rejected. The adjournment takes places to- morrow. Recruiting for the Forcign Legion. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21, 1855. ‘The case of the United States vs. Hertz, for recruiting men for the British Foreign Legion, came up in the United States District Court this morning. By the testi- mony of F, 0. Strobel, Mr. Crampton, the British Minis- ter, was implicated in the making of arrangements for recruiting in this country. Strobel was to command the company recruited in this city, and had been promised the appointment of Major of the Legion. Onondaga County Fair. SyRAcusE, Sept. 21, 1855. ‘The Onondaga County Fair closed to-day. The at- tendance has been larger than at any previous fair held in this city, as many as thirty thousand persons having been present to-day. The ladies’ riding match and the awarding of the premiums had to be postponed on account of the crowd. An Important Exreprmion—ANoTHER CHANCE YOR Youya Arnica.—The colored people in the United States are gradually yielding to the outside pressure, and have generally become protty well satisfied that if they do nob emigrate, they will be extinguished, The Republie off Liberia has proved @ successful experiment, despite of the fanatical opposition of Garrison’s gang, who desire to keep the negro here in order to get his money. Arrange- ments have been made in this city for a still further ex- tension of emigration facilities, and we hear of an expeli- tion which will shortly set out from this city, to make explorations into the interior of Africa, south and east of Liberia,, A great deal of attention has been paid to Afci-- ca lately. On the north the French have Algiers, and are making still further additions to its primitive boun~ daries. Further down the wost coast we find Spanish, Portuguese and American settlements, while the Cape is in the possession of the English and the Dutch. All these people are anxious to get into the interior, where the climate is said to be much more ‘healthy and the soil much more fertile. The English government lave sent two scientific expeditions to explore the interior, and much useful information haa been thus gained. It is now proposed by a number of bold spirits here, headed by the Rev. J. Morris Pease, an agent of the Colo« nization Society, to get up an expedition to explore the rich country south and cast of Laberia, and, if possible, to mark out the boundaries of a new republic for colored men, emigrants from the United States, This territory is almost equal to the United States in extent, and mach better for agricultural purposes. The territory, once set~ tied, would sustain the same relation to us that Liberia does at the present time. The expedition will be a difi- cult and very dangerous one. People who value life and health will not join it, Africa was made for the African, and for no one else. Mr. Roberts, late President of Li- beria, has written a letter on the subject. It is eviient that he docs not think the expedition can succeed. roe ther Pease is leading a forlorn hope; bat Anglo-Saxon se perseverance, activity and enterprise will accomplish much. Meanwhile, let young Africa watch and pray. Marine Affairs. Launcn.—Messra. Roosevelt & Joyce will launch to~ day, about half-past 5 P. M., from their yard, foot of Houston street, a three masted schooner for A. Low & Brothers. She is to be commanded by Capt. Fle‘cher, late of the ship Oriental, and is to be employed in the Chinese waters. She is named Maury, in honor of Lieut. Maury, who has done so much for the benefit of navi+ gators. The M. isa finely modelled and superior built vessel, and fully sustains the reputation of her builders, Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Puapenrma, Sept. 21, 1855. Our stock market is steady, at the following quota- Pennsylvania 5’s, 86; Reading Railroad, 47; Morris Canal, 15; Long Island Railroad, 15; Pennsylvan Railroad, 46. PHILADELPHIA IRON MARKET. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21, 1855. The transactions in our iron market for the week foot up 4,600 tons. No. 1 foundry is quoted at $30; No. 2 at $27 a $28, and No. 3 at $24.0 $25. Bars are in demand at improving prices. Sales at $72 50; Blooms sell at $80, and foggot iron at $90. Sheet is in good request at $110. Boiler p! te, de. a Se. New ORLEANS, Sept. 20, 1855. ‘The Baltio’s advices were received to-day, but too late to develope the effect upon our markets. Cotton sales to-day, 6,500 bales at 9c. a 94¢c. for middling fair. Sugar sells at 6340. a 7c. Cuartestox, Sept. 21, 1855. The sales of cotton during the past’ week have been 1,900 bales, at a decline upon previous rates. Good mid- dling is quoted at 10%(c. The receipts of the week have She is 585 tons burthen, 133 feet on the keel, 52 feet been 2,500 bales. Rice shows adecline of %e. a 1c. per | beam, and 18 deep. Ib. ‘The receipts of the week foot up 1,100 tierces, and | The proprietors of the above yard have on the stocks the stock on hand is 800 tierces. Corn is dull and deoop- ing. Wheat is rather higher; sales at $1 60 a $1 75. Flour $8 a $8 50. Freights have advanced to 9-16d. a 46a. to Liverpool. a ship of 915 tons for Wm. Nelson & Son, for tne New Orleans trade, and ina few days will lay the keel fc bark of 520 tons for Messrs. Eagle ke fas rd, to be ene ployed by them in the Southern trade. New Sines on te MenRmtack.—The Newburyport Herald reports that shipbuilding on the Merrimack river is brisk. There are now in the course of construction at Our Washington Correspondence. Wasnnoton, Sept. 20, 1855. The Retived Naval List—Secretary Dobbin Provoked—Why | the yards in Newburyport and Salisbury 10 ships, 1 bark, Let the Cat out of the Bag?—Why Dissatisfaction and inten keels, with an agyregite of Surprise at the Action of the Board’’—Gevernor of Lincoln (Ne Minnesota on hand—General Shields ‘in the Grass” — | parteigantaln (emeastle) Democrat says that lange pre- tions are being for ship building in that vil- during the coming season, and unless the appear- ance of affairs change very much we shall have as many ships on the stocks another year ag ever bofore—a plea~ vant chi from the comparative inactivity which has characterized the present season Organization of the Next Congress—Relurn of Officials— Scene in the United States Pension Office, dbo., eu, bee The efforts made by Secretary Dobbin to keep secret the retired list of naval officers were really as amusing as ridiculous. Not only were injunctions laid upon the em- ployés of the Navy Department, but orders were even Mayor’s Office. sent to the Fourth Auditor—a branch of the Treavary— | TH¥ CRESCENT CITY AVVAIR AND THE QUARANTINE that ‘mum was the word,”’ and that not a syllable of 4 letter was to be seen by mortal man, except by those di- rectly interested. Thus matters stood on Monéay, when numerous applications were being made atthe depart- ment for information. ‘The clerks had suddenly become “Know Nothings,”’ and friend Welsh was like a hen upon a hot griddie, lest by a lool or wink something might leak out. The extra copies of the Navy Rogister all sud- denly disappeared, having been carefully locked up, lest indeed they might betray the profound mystery to which the department seemed to cling so fondly. But it ali would not do, You may manufacture bars and bolts and locks, but so long as human hands must torn the keys, just so long will the greatest secrets be unsafe. Just so with the secret list of retired officers; for when the Secretary was congratulating himself last evening upon the complete suecess of his precautions, a copy of the New York HeRatp was placed in his hands, with the glaring capitals staring him in the face, “Official List of Retired Officers of the Navy.’ Here was the d—I to pay. Dr. Thompson, the Health Officer at Quarantine, ins tends te make an example of all the principal persons concerned in the recent violation of the Quarantine lawa, in order to deter ‘others from committing a like offence, He has wade, or will very soon make, an afidavit beiore Justice Osborne, accusing the persons in charge of the two tug-boats: which came alongside the Crescent City, ‘the pilot, Capt. McSowan, and a Mr. Clark, a shipping agent of thecompany to which the steamer delongs, of ‘violating the Quarantine laws. John W. Bennett, the emigrant officer left in ebarge of the Crescent City” has already made an affidavit against the above persons serting that they boarded the steamer in disregard of hia Penrett’s) [araisg and notice that the veerel was un- ler quarantine, that the Health Ofticer had ordered that no one should be allowed to approach her. Dr. Thompson states that he has already prosecuted a man named Silvy, who boarded a veasel under quarantine, in the Court of General Sessions, but that the Recorder has treated the offence too leniently. He thinks that offend- eoee should be. panished to the full extent of the law, aw el 'y only encourages titions, and the proper Of ‘the Quarantige laws fs of the cratest enforcement Who had let the eat out of the bag? ‘Keho answered, | importance in order to ensu peop! Who," and Mr. “\Who"’ was immediately dismissed trom | Nee You, Mote tia hs completes tetore the Diateise service as unworthy public confide But seriously spenking, T find dissatisfaction’ which exist among the officers result more from the classification adopt by the Board, than irom their having been retired from active service.’ Many ‘fthose who have been placed on “leave pay” should have been furloughed, and vice versa; while many of the urloughed should have been dropped. This is the talk among the officers themrelves. The greatest astonish. ment seems to be in relation to the case of Lieut. M. F. Maury, of the National Observatory, Lieut. and therefore, under the wording of the law, to be retired, not being ‘‘competent to discharge his cain, both fale es afloat,’ but that he on have een reduced tofurlough pay ($600 per annum), fs unac countable. It is aupposed Pe\‘witl termedintely decline the stinted bounty, and leave the navy, which he has so highly adorned by his scientific discoveries, Governor Gorman, of Minnesota, has been spending come days in Washington, and is looking remarkably well. He reports General James Shields as having re lired beyond the limits of civilization, and as living | portion of Minnesota “where no foot save the red wai ever pressed the grass.”” ‘. ‘The organization of the next ¢ of the exciting topics among Orr, of South Carolina, seems to be a reapective of party; while John Wi Ger eral Land office, is leadi Letters ave pouring in open of all parties, wishing him \\ comfort.’* ce, at, the surprise ant | Attommey, who is the public prosecutor, but thinks that the degree of attention which the ner of the wid. ject demands has not been paid to it. He is dete “mined, however, to do his duty in the promises, and to follow . even at the risk of some personal exrense. following ie # letter went to Mayor Hineks, of Balti- more, in relation to the proceedings of the ‘Hoa: Health, on Thursday last ;— fe coe AYOR’'S Ovvice. New York, Sopt. $1, 16s My Dean Sti—Our Board of Health resolved yoseeiee te continue the examination of vessels from Baltimore itil’ the Orst of November. [hope that the authorities and slicons of Baltimore will not deem this measure as an intended a or as arising from any but prudential reasons. The board Pears to be over sensitive as to the slightest probability of sppronch of conlagion to this city, and notwithstanding my mnt srentions exertions, and ihe rveeramendations the Donte missioners of Health, it bns resolved to continue the restret referred to. Iam confident that few weeks wil enaula the board to look at ibe matter in another light, and repeal the or- dipance altogether. Rest assured that the authoriies end oni. zens of New York are sincerely desirous of main ai most friendly relations with the people of Baltimare, nothing shall disturb. the ood Teehing that hae bere’ sted. “Very respectfully, FERNANDO WOOD, Hon. Sakven Hovcks, Mayor, Baltimore, The Turf. . CENTREVILLE COURSE, L. I-—rrotrine. The race for a purse between Flora Temple ani Prank Forrester, on Thursday noon, was a failure. Flora led from end to end on a joe. Jack and Miller's Damse! wore drawn, and ¢ tend for the money. A summery will «usice 0 nile eas, ess is becoming one here, Hon. J. 1. late of the Md for the Clerk hip. n the members ele: fishes Cyleago Foveral of (he public Wing for ecme weeks, h yirite. Horatio King, ot and of which all who have had an opportunity of heaving the music entertain most sanguine expectations of istant Post win at his desk, an! as "Slanypenny'e' ett G, Bp Mr. Daw n negotia