The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1855, Page 4

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BUCKLEY’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad- ‘way—Bon.esque Oren AND NeGRO MINSTRELSY. APOLLO ROOMS, 410 Brocdway—Tae Hisexnia, BY Mas. ALEXANDER Gross. ‘The News. The steamships due at this port with California news tothe 5th had not been: telegraphed up to a Tate hour last night. By. an arrival at New Orleans, we have dates from the city of Mexico tothe 19th inst. The news is important. President Carrera had abdicated, but ‘we are not informed who has been appointed :his successor. The Provisional. Council had adopted fhe plan of Ayutla, thus harmonizing the army and people. Alvarez and Comontort had not reach- ed the capital. These generals must move very wlowly. Every arrival forthe past two months has reported them as being within a few leagues only of their destination. Vidaurri appears to have tried his hand at reformatory measures. He has imposed a. new and more liberal. tariff, and issued a decree reorganizing the army. Meanwhile, chaos reigns in every department of the gevernment. The steamship America, from Liverpool, with the Enropean mails, arrived at her dock at Boston, about nine o'clock last night. The mails will reach New York by the New Haven Railroad this after- moon. We have received some additional items of intelligence, including a brief description of the im™ posing scene presented at the cathedral of Notre Dame, on the occasion of Te Deum for the fall of Sebastopol, together with the names of the French generals killed and wounded at the assault upon the Malakoff. They are given under the telegraphic head. The Bilancia, of Milan, announces that fifty Maz- :@imians had arrived from London, designing to kid- map and carry off his Holiness, the Pope, when he should proceed to inspect the works in progress at Porte d’Anzio. The plot, however, was known to ‘the police, and the conspirators were obliged to take ‘tothe woods of Valmontone and Palestrina, where ‘they were pursued by the gens-d’armes. By the arrival of the steamship Granada we have mews from ‘Havana to the 23d September. By a weeent royal decree the old colonial council has been abolished, and a new Counil of Thirty appointed, of ‘which Manuel de la Concha, Marquis of Duero, is Vice President. Hon. Horatio Seymour, our late Governor, last evevening addressed an immense assemblage of our @itizens,at Tammany Hall. His speech, as every ether effort of that distinguished gentleman, was an able, happy, and effective one, and was well appre- ‘tiated and loudly applauded by his audience. We ; Bive a full report in to-day’s paper. The Hard Shell Assembly Conventions met last ‘night at their several head-quarters, but owing to wome wire-pulling arrangements but few nomina- . tions were made. It is reported in political circles, "that the soft shells are about toendorse the hard scounty ticket, and in retarn the hards will support wofts for legislative and ward offices. The soft pri- wary elections next week will determine whether , bis will be so or not. The President has appointed Charles Huffnagle, C sul far Calcutta, to be Consul-General of the United States for British India. ' The annual Protestant Episcopal .Cenvention of the ‘diocess of New York, adjourned sine die last eve ting, having been in session three days. The pro “edings‘have been devoted almost exclusively to tl miscellaneous business af the church, ¢he chief pabje ct of interest brought forward being, to increase the p. tovision for the maintenanee of the ruralclergy. ‘The | tev. Dr. Potter's address touched strongly upon the ad vancirg prosperity of the Protestant Epissapal Charch, and the-decay of Romanism in the State, Alarge number of the clergy an¢ laity attended @ach day, and took an active part in the proceedings, A detailed report will be found in car columns of Matters of interest which came before the conven- tion. We publish elsewhere the charge of Judge Kane, ‘>of the United States Distrik Court at Philadelphia, to the Jury in the case of Hertz and Perkins, tried ‘apon the charge of violating the neutrality laws in enlisting mento serve in the British Foreign Le- ion. Hertz was convicted, but Perkins, who seems sto have been a mere boaster, was acquitted. The Judge alludes pointedly to the part taken by Mr. Crampton, the British Envoy to our government, in starefully concocting an ingenious plan for violating Abe spirit of our neutrality Jaws without incurring their penalty. Qxr accounts from Norfolk and Portemouth are cheering. The epidemic is rapidly abating, and bu- sinees has been partially resumed in both cities, This ia gratifying intelligence. At Vicksburg, how- ever, a8 well as at nearly every other city contiguous to the Mississippi river, the fever is still raging. The cotton market yesterday was measurably at @ stand, and sales unimportant, as dealers were ‘waiting for jetters due by the America. Owing to ‘the advance in freights, breadstuffs experienced no improvement. Flour, however, sold freely, inclad- ing considerable portions for export. Wheat was irregular, with a fair amount of sales; incladed in the tronsactions were 20,000 bushels for delivery in November, at private terms, supposed to be at 170 cents. Corn waa about 1 cent per bushel! lower. Pork closed at lower rates for new mess. Rio cof: fee was more active, with sales of 1,800 a 2,000 bage, at full prices. Sugars were quite steady with Moderate transactions. F'reights were again higher, and flour to Liverpool was taken at 4s.; grain in bulk and bags, at 12d.; and a lot deliverable ahead, say in November, at 15 cents. The present state of the shipping interest is very peculiar. The change from a long period of low rates and unprofitable engagements to much higher prices has been as sudden as gratifying, caused mainly by the large crops and active foreign de- mand. Vessels are now scarce and jn great de- + mand, both at the South and the North. This, too, n Otwithstanding the immense increase in American tox ‘nage within the past four or five years. At last ‘acco ‘nts from New Orleans there were no full ves- gels ix | port to be had, and cotton for Liverpool had nearly .teached 1d., or about 2c. per pound. At Phis rate 4 vessel capable of carrying 2,000 bales of cotton to Liverpool would earn on its freightage about $16,0.% What bas become of American ton- mage which within a year past appeared to be Jargely in exces ‘Of dentand? The answer is, that ‘between sixty and Seventy American vessels are in the transport serview of the Allies, and chiefly em- ployed in the Black Sea. Anothes'eonsiderable portion either in the Pacific, or boun. jo China aud Ly. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1856. dia, directly or via California. Some have beenen- gaged in the deal trade. Some have gone under charters to Buenos Ayres and other South American ports. Others again are in the guano trade, be- ‘tween the Chincha Islands and Spain or the United States; while some have been lost. Ship owners themiselves, six months since, did not anticipate such heavy crops, with such an export demand, and such an advance in rates of freight. Many ship- ping houses who have vessels under low ratesof charter in different parts of the world—some of which are bound on long voyages to India or Aus- twalia—sincerely regret their absence, and sigh for their return. The Great Republic, purchased so cheaply, and chartered by the French government, ifat present at home might clear first cost ina voyageor two. The scarcity of vessels is likely to embarrass to some extent our export trade, especially in cotton from the South, and retard acti- vity in its movements. At the last data there were said to be about thirty-seven vessels on their way to New Orleans, and it was difficult to tell where further supplies could be obtained at the North. They are also wanted at other Southern ports, and in the coasting trade. The case appears as though ships are to be scarce and freights high during the autumn and winter, and if much addi- tional shipping is added to our present available tonnage it must come to some extent from the other side of the Atlantic. With the advance of freights in the merchant service the rates of trans- port service will be augmented and enhance there- by the expenses of the war to France and England. Clippers to Liverpool from New York uniformly get higher rates than ordinary sailing vessels, on ac- count of the saving of time in the voyage. The aver- age receipts of grain daily at this port amount now to about 70,000 a 80,000 bushels of corn, about 30,000 or 40,000 bushels of wheat, 20,000 or 30,000 bushels of oats and 15,000 or 20,000 bush- els of rye and barley, 10,000 or 15,000 bbls. of flour, varying, of course, from day to day, and week to week, according to circumstances. With such receipts the maintenance of the present high prices for both grain and flour can only be ex- plained by the existence of an active export de- mand, Had we to rely on a home market, which “‘tariffites” have so freely advocated, prices would soon become ruinously low to producers, and the shipping interest would have to fall back into the old story of supreme dullness. The Fall of Southern Sebastopol. There was nothing talked of on the evening of Thursday and all day yesterday but the as- tounding news of the fall of Southern Sebasto- pol. If American armies had been engaged the interest felt could hardly have been greater. We had been so sorely hoaxed by the Tartar, now nearly a year ago—the papers so often reminded us in capitals, on the arrival of each European mail, that Sebastopol was not taken —the Russians had won so high a reputation for steady endurance, and their General, Todleben, for consummate skill—and the Allies had shown so lamentable a deficiency of mili- tary talent, that it had come to be the settled belief of the people of this country that Sebas- topol would not fall, and that the Crimean expedition would culminate in failure and dis- grace. It was not so much, as the British press imagines, that the wish was father to the thought; but ever since the war broke out asystematic course of misrepresentation has been practiced by the journals in the interest of the Allies, disasters have been concealed, successes have been exaggerated, even positive misstatements of fact have been uttered, with a view, probably, to keep up the spirits of the people of England and France, but with the more direct effect of engendering in the mind of foreigners a general distrust of everything the Allies might say. Hence it was that the British and French prognostications of the fall of Sebastopol were disbelieved, and the more sober and reliable announcements of Prince Gortschakoff regarded with respect. So deeply rooted in the popular mind is the feeling to which we allude, that even at this moment. there are many persons who have not overcome their incredulity, and who await the arrival of the next mail in the confident ex- pectation that it will expose a new tissue of exaggerations on the part of the Allies. The position of the hostile armies at the time our last advices left—that is to say, on the 12th September—is easily understood. Gortschakoff, having crossed the harbor, and strengthened the garrison in the Severnaia and other northern forts, seemed to have fallen back with his main body on the Belbek, doubt- Jess in order to form a junction with the corps darmée under Lippendi, which is understood to occupy the heights between BcKenzie’s farm aad the Bakchiserai road. The Allies had occupied the line of defences,from the South Fort to the head of Carcenizg Bay, including the Redan and the Malaketf: other- wise, they had not moved from the grouud ihey occupied on the 5th September. They wore, as appears from their telegraphie mes- eager, watching events, afreid to enter the Karabelnaia, and somewhat doubtful how to move. Without stopping to dwell on the six gular want of vigor indicated by this attitude of theirs, it may be safely aecumed that but two courses are epen to the allied gen- erals, one of which must be taken imuediately. They must either offer battle and compel Gort- schakoff to meet them, on the ground between the head of Inkermaun Bay and the Beivek, or they must proceed slowly and cautiously to invest the Star Fort. And as, without great timidity on the part of the Russiaas, the Alfies can hardly invest the north side of that work without dislodging the Russians whose right rests on it, with their left on the Belbek, it would appear that the necessity for a battle in the field is common to both courses. We may therefore look forward, with very tolerable confidence, to hear by the next or the follow: ing mail of a sharp engagement, in which, it may certainly be predicted, the Allies, ic nearly equal in numbers to their assailants, will be the victors. Our information is yet too scanty to com ment upon details. But it appears that the same ill fortune which has attended the Uritish army throughout the war did not desert them has been show ‘herwmdes kuch o eyctem as | 1853, gives us the following catalogue ofthe] THE LATEST NEWS. thetrs, Where birth and money take the place ofeducation and merit, ignorance and inca pacity must be the rule; yet.no change has been made, and in the face of warning after warning, the highest military authorities of Great Britain persist in regarding the present plan as the best that could be devised. We shall see whether the cutting sarcasm of Queen Victoria herself—the message in which Gen. Simperon is directed to compliment Gen. Pelis- sier “on his victory”—will shake their faith in the supreme advantages of aristocratic man- agement, and old fashioned routine. The Siege of Schastopoi—The Losses of the Bebiyerentsa—Rusiian Means and Motertals or War, Land and Naval, Destroyed. We published yesterday from the confused aud imperfect details of the military opera- tions of the last twelve months, in and about the Crimea, a summary, month by month, of the losses of the belligerents. But we may safely assume that this record of the events in connection with the siege of Sebastopdl does not tell one-half the fearful story of the fatali- ties of this sanguinary and disastrous war. If the truth were all known we have no doabt that the loss of life to the parties involved in this struggle before, and chargeable to, Sebas- topol would exceed the fearful aggregate of three hundred thousand able bodied men. There bave probably been slaughtered out- right, within a circuit of a hundred miles of that devoted city, not less than seventy-five thousand soldiers; and to these must be added the formidable bills of mortality on all sides from the diseases and sufferings of the climate and the camp. By referring to the official re- ports of our late war with Mexico, it will be seen that toevery American there killed in battle there were more than five who died from the swift diseases incident to the elimate and the camp. And when it is remembered that our troops in Mexico were neither decima. ted by the Asiatic cholera, nor by the rigors of a Crimean winter, we may justly assume that frost, heat, pestilence, famine, and the extreme hardships and privations of the Crimean camp, winter and summer, have been to the Russians and the Allies equally fatal as the same causes among our armies in Mexico, The com- parison is fair in every view, for in proportion to the numbers engaged, our killed and wound- ed in the Mexican war were as numerous as those of the Allies in the Crimea, Upon a basis, then, of seventy-five thousand men. French, English, Turks, Sardinians and Rus- sians, killed in connection with this siege, there has been an aggregate loss of three hun- dred and seventy-five thousand to the general mortality, from the diseases and casualties of the climate and the camp, which would give us four hundred and fifty thousand men, sacri- ficed in the desperate and protracted strug- gle for Sebastopol. Of this grand total from their greater recklessness of human life, and from their larger supplies of the raw material, the Russian loss has been perhaps a third great- er than that of the Allies; but in proportion to their reserves and the resources of their mili- tary system, it has been immeasurably less. In fact, from the seventy millions of Russia, scattered over the empire in agricultural vil- lages, a larger proportionate military force may be drawn, without detriment to the gene- ral industrial interests of thé State, than from any other nation in the world. But in the loss of Sebastopol, Russia has lost in a more vulnerable point than in the destruction of her armies. The labors and ex" penditures of half a century upon the spacious docks and gigantic fortifications of Sebastopol are destroyed—the key of the Euxine, of Con- stantinople and the East has fallen into the hands of her encmies—her Black Sea squadrou is annihilated, and her road to the Golden Horn, as traversed and laid @own by Catherine and Potemkin, has ceased to be by way of the isthmus of Perekop and the ruins of Inker mann, The regular fortitications on the South side of Sebastopol harbor, built for its defence against a naval attack, are as follows, begin- ning on the sea side— Quarantine Battery, Fort Alexandes Fort, ee Fort'si.’ Nichola For! Paul Batiery.. Total,. These have been comparatively useless in the late siege, any naval attack having been cut oft by the sinking of those eight men of war across the mouth of the harbor, between forts Alexander and Constantine. The Allies have been occupied for the past year with the loop- holed wall and the impromptu defences thrown up around the land side or the rear of the city—including the Garden battery, the Ce- metety works, the round South fort, or Cen- tral Jvatéery, the Great Reden, the Mamelon, the M:vlakoff, the rifle pits, the White Works, Ahe Lit tle Redan, and other works, comprising altogether, perhaps, not less than five hun. dvd pieces.of artillery, brought up from the arsenal, sca side forts, and the ships sunk aevess the ymouth of the harbor, All these works (not previously captured) and the naval fortific: Vigus above named, fell into the possession of th'e x\llies, with the abandonment by the Bussians 4° the town and the South side of the harbor. On the North side of the harbor, to which the Kussian garrison fa Vd retreated, and which yet remained intact at the last advices, there are:— Sage onoveas 856 In addition to these, there is the Wasp fort various earthworks and the gra Star fort even in the hour of allied victory. The men who allowed themselves to be uselessly cut to pieces at Alma, who were massacred, through a blunder, at Balaklava, who risked the safety of the whole army through their negligence, and only owed their own salvation to the as. sistance of the French under Bosquet, at [nker- mann, were consistent in misfortune at the assault on Sebastopol; and, while the gallant Bosquet was raising the tri-color over the Ma- lakoff, were flying in disorder from the Redan, Yet no man denies to the British soldier cour. age unsurpassed, coolness in presence of dan- ger, strength superior to the average of man. The long list of British disasters only proves once more that mere courage without skill— the vis consili expers of the poet—must break down of its own weight. Over and over again the woeful inefficiency of the British officers has been pointed out by their own journals; it self of holding a garg, ison of ten thousand men, with an amount o,” artillery equal perhaps to two hundred additio, Vl guns which would give an aggregate to the regular forts, batteries and earthworks on the North side of upwards of 500 guns. These hav @ yet to be taken: but as they occupy a line’ of cliffs commanding the town, they cannot be taken by bombardment from the opposite side, The Russians (unless they shall have deemed it expedient to leave the Crimea) must be met on those heights before Sebastopol is complete- ly in the occupation of the enemy, We must have the issue on the North side, before we can make up our summary of the losses of the Russians or the gains of the Allies, We bave no specific data of the Russian Black Sea equadron at the beginning of the siege. Prince Demidoff, in his beautiful work on Southern Russia, published ja London, ia capable Black Sea fleet of His Imperial Majesty :-— ‘SHIPS OF THE LINE. + 126 . 0 BER | 33338 esse Sizopoli Iphigenia, ‘4 Brig Mercury, 20; twc and one tender. In addition to this list, we find in the Rus- sian account of the destruction of the Turkish fleet at Sinope, three ships, the City of Paris, the Grand Duke Constantine, and the Tri Svia- titelia, each of 120 guns, mentioned as among the Russian squadron; also the frigates Restis- luff, the Kajonl and Koulevtcha, and the war steamers Odessa, Crimea, Bessarabia and Cher- sonesus—imaking an aggregate of some thirty ships of war, of all which not a vessel now re- mains afloat. These specifications, military and naval, will afford some idea of the necessities to Russia of her courageous and desperate defence of Se- bastopol; for not only was the key to Con- stantinople and the possession of the Crimea involved in the contest, but her Black Sea squadron, without which her great commercial outlets of the Dnieper and the Don, and hur world-supplying granaries of Odessa, are at the mercy even of the Turk. The price which the Allies have paid, and will yet-have to pay for Sebastopol, is and must be upon a scale commensurate with the resistance involved. What will they do with Sebastopol, and with the Crimea, if they conquer it? What have they gained but a lot of dam- aged artillery, and the present of an elephant? If Russia still refuse to accept the four points, what next? There is no other point of-her ex- tremities where she may be assailed with im- punity—there is no admission by sea to St. Pe- tersburg; and her vast Baltic fleet is safe be- hind the walls of Cronstadt. What next, if Russia, withdrawing her armies from the Cri- mea, defies her enemies to do their worst? Shall we have another campaign to Moscow, or the adoption of Kossuth’s plan of a liberating expedition to Poland? Austria and Prussia have a sbare of that partition, and how can Po- land be restored without a spoliation of their territories? Let us not be too sanguine of the submission of Russia from the fall ef Sebasto- pol. It may be but the overture to a general war. 24 schooners, 14 each; one cutter Tur Great News.—The news of the fall of Sebastopol created the greatest excitement that the city has experienced since the loss of the Arctic. We published the first despatches at half-past two on Thursday afternoon, and hetween that time and eight o’clock on Fri- day morning eighty thousand sheets of the HeRaxp were printed and distributed all over the country. The celerity with which the news was received and printed, is quite as won- derful as the siege itself. The event took place on the 9th of September, and by the aid of the telegraph and our fast ocean steamships we are able to give an extended account of it in less than twenty days afterwards. This must slightly astonish our elderly citizens, who were obliged to wait three months for very meagre and one-sided reports of the battles of the first Napoleon. Things are changed now. The age of steam and electricity has brought about many wonders in war, diplomacy and newspapers. The effect of the news on our English and French residents was almost overpowering. Subjected as they have been, for the past eight or nine months, to the sarcasms of the pro- Russian party, they had become almost dis- heartened. The little bits of glory, from time to time, did not approximate their boasts when the war commenced, and they could not retort upon their opponents. But on Thursday night, when there was no doubt that a part of the Gibraltar of the Black Sea had fallen before French impetuosity, they had good cause to rejoice, and they improved the occasion to the fullest extent. Our readers have seen that the successful at- tacks on the Malakoff were led by Generals Bo-quet aud M’Mahon. The last named officer is said to have fallen in the moment of victory. Although a general in the French army, he is really a British subject. Gen. M’Mahon was born in Ireland; his father was a distinguished physician, and was one of the leaders in the memorable insurrection of 1798. Like many other gallant Irishmen of that day, he sought an asylum in France, and was for many years librarian in the College of Medicine at Paris. His son, the hero of the Malakoff, was educated at Napoleon’s military academy, the Ecole Politechnique, and distinguished himself in the Algerian campaigns. This is not the first time that men who have been outlawed by the British government have done it essential ser- vice, Tne Anonition Leacun at Syracuse--Tae Maixe Law Repcprarep By ITs VERY APosTLes. —One of the not least eurious and remarkable facts in the history of the abolition league in- augurated in Syracuse on Thursday was the repudiation of the Maine Liquor law by Gree- ley, Culver, Jay, Leigh, and the other temper- ance apostles and philosophers. Mr. Stebbins, of Monroe county, having presented a minori- ty report from the Committee on Platform, pledging the convention to resist the efforts of the opponents of the Maine law, Horace Gree- ley moved to lay such resolution on the table. On this motion the yeasand nays were called, and in the list of those who voted to lay Mr. Stebbins’ resolution on the table are found the names of Horace Greeley, E. D. Culver, dobn Jay, C.C. Leigh, and a host of others who have been prominent in the temperance agitation. If this fact does not open the eyes of Maine law men to the perception that they have been all along made the shallow dupes 0 political tricksters, why then their stupidity is more chronic and incurable thaa we could have even supposed it to be. We were obliged, in consequence of the tre- mendous pressure upon our columas yesterday, to withhold our detailed report of the pro- ceedings which preceded and followed the in- auguration of this abolition league. We shall, , owever, though at much inconvenience, make room for it to-morrow, 48 well because it is of intecest at the present moment, as that a reKa- ble historical record of the “vent may be pre- served. Marine Affairs Captain H. T. Walter, of the bark Phan ‘om, of Ral- timore, will accept our thanks for hiy Madness fa far piebing us with late popers, dc. from sho Janeira. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ADDITIONAL NEWS FROM EUROPE. The Killed and Wounded French Generals. INTERESTING FROM MEXICO. Abd cation of President Carrera, &e., &e., &e. Arrival of the America at Boston. GRAND TE DEUM AT PARIS—THEKILLED AND WOUND- ED FRENCH GENERALS—ENGLISH REINFORCE- MENTS FORK THE CRIMEA—THE SPECULATIONS AS TO THE PLANS OF THE RUSSIANS, ETO., ETC. od Boston, Sept. 28, 1855. The royal mail steamer America arrived here from Halifax at about nine o’clock this evening. The mails brought by her will be forwarded by the early train to- morrow morning, over the New Haven road, and will be due in New York at five o'clock the same afternoon. ‘A letter from Paris, dated 13th inst., says:— The te deum ordered by the Emperor at the church of Notre Dame, asa thankagiving to God for the capture of Sebastopol, ‘was chaunted this morning, with all the pomp which the Catholic church is capable of dis- Pisyios—the Ministers, he great Deputaries of, the ate, reveral of the foreign Ambassadors, numerous generals, the Senators, the members of the Le- fiistive body, the, Juagos, and, ns word, all the great ies of the State. together with the different members 01 the academic and learned institutions, were present. Amore brilliant display of uniforms, embroideries and Gecorations has seldom been seen. The Emperor went to the cathedral in grand procession, esc »rted by strong detachments of Guides, Cussiers of the Guard and Cent Gardes. His Majesty, who was in Seaniage drawn EA eight horses, led his by lackeys, in splendid liveries. He was accompanied by Prince Jerome, and wore the uni- form of a General. The Empress was not present. The National Guards and troops of the line were drawn up upon doth sides ot the streets leading from the Tuileries to the Notre Dame. vast crowd of spectators lined the streets along which the cortege passed, and the windows of the houses were filled with people. His Majesty, both going and returning, was greeted with hearty aoclamations of “ Vive VEmpereur?? All the houses on the line of the rocession were profusely decorated with English and French flags. Tire cathedral of Notre Dame ‘was deco- rated internally and externally with English, French, Turkish and Sardinian On the column, also, was a large escutcheon, bearing the my eer and French arms, The sight of the standard of the Protestant English in the venerable Catholic cathedral of Paris, was very re- markable. It was, in fact, one of the most curious things that ‘has occurred in the course of the alliance. A despatch dated Paris, Wednesday, September 12, says that fresh reinforeements are ordered to proceed to the Crimes immediately, to join the grenadiers and the guards. Adespatch from Vienna states that Baron Kubeck, President of the Council, had died from cholera. In regard to the losses of the French, a French letter saysi— “‘It ia reported in Paris that no less than four French Generals were killed in the attack on Sebastopol on Sa- turday. The death of General Desalles, however, who mage the attack on the Central Bastion, is not confirmed. The names.of those killed are Generals Rivet, Le Breton and Neil, Gen, De Marolles is missing, and it is feared that he has met his death from the explosion of a mine. General Couestoen is severely wounded, aud the favorite aide-de-camp of General Pelessier mortally so. Of the French casualties otherwise, we know nothing positive. The total number, is as yet, not allowed to transpire. Some believe that it will be found to amount to 10,000, including the English loss, while others form a lower estimate. Probably the returns will not be given until after the celebration of the #e Dewm in Paris. The London Times speaks of the ability of the Rus- siansin maining themselves in the Northern Forts, but says the works there are inferior in strength to those they have gutted and do not comprise the resources of an arsenal and ® town, and that they are supplied with water by wells only. it also says:—'We take the final destruction of the Russian steamers by the orders of Prinee Gortschakoff, to be a further proof of his intention toretreat, otherwise these uessels might have been shel- tered for a short time under the large Northern batteries. From these indications we conclude that the present object of the Russian Generals is mainly to save the re- amains of their army, and the strat question which remains to be determined by the skill and vigor of the respective belligerents, is whether the allied forces will tot prevent that object.” The, Times Paris correspondent writes that the Russian artillé-ymen were at the guns, but with that exception a complete panic took possessien of the Russian army at the appearance of the nilies at the Malakoff tower. The Jndepondence Belge cays that at the third assault generals officers, and soldiers were all mixed together. ‘An order has been received at Marseilles to suspend the embarkation of bombshells, and to land those al- ready shi jo Gencral Canrobert was offered the dignity of Marshal of France, but tectined to accept it that he might not de- tract fiom the lustre of the achievements of General Fe- lessier. ‘the America, on her arrival at Halifax, fired thirly-six guns in commemmoration of the victory. Important from Mexico. ABDICATION OF PRESIDENT CARRERA—THE PLAN OF AYULTA ADOPTED BY THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL, ETO, ETC. New Onteans, Sept. 26, 1855. By the arrival of the steamer Orizaba we have dates from tho city of Mexico to the 19th inst., from which we learn that Carrera had abdicated his office of Provisional President. ‘The Council had decided to adopt the plan of Ayutla, thus putting an end to all fear of collision between the army and civilians. Still, however, it cannot be said tha’ there 1s any actual government, and there are well grounded fears that anarchy will yet prevail in the city 1 country. jenerals Alvarez and Comonfort were daily expected at Caernoaca, Yucatan, Carmen, and several other places had de- clared for the revolution. General Larcasno’s brigade of a thousand strong had surrendered to the new national troops. Vidaureri has published a new and more liberal tariff, and a decree had been issued reorganizing the army. At Vera Cruz over 500 national guards been enrlled, The Pennsylvania Fusion Convention. Harnisnuna, Sept. 28, 1855. The Fusion Convention last night nominated Mr. Thoinas Nicholson, at present Cashier of the State Trea- sury, for Canal Commissioner, in place of Passmore jamson, whose name is withdrawn, Lancaerer, Sept. 28, 1855. The nomination of Thomas Nicholson for Canal Com- missioner, is well received here. Peter Martin, the previous Know Nothing nominee, expressed his determi- nation todo all in his power to secure the election of the fusion nominee. Grand Fireman's Celebration at Springfield, Mass Srivarmp, (Mass.,) Sept. 28, 1855, ‘The firemen’s muster in this city to-day, attracted from other towns an immense crowd of spectators, variously estimated at from four to five thousand, and gathered to- gether twenty-three fire companies from abroad. Ac+om- panying the latter were thirteen brass ban and the procession included not far from 1,5.0 persons. At the convention yesterday, some forty companies were repre- sented by one hundred and fifty delegates, and a perma- nent New England organization was perfected, in the choice of Levi W. Park, Chief Fngineer of the Fire De- partment of this ciiy, as President; one Vice President and an Executive Committee, consisting of two from each New England State. the companies present from other towns entered ior prizes to-day, of which there were two—one of $300 and one of $200, for the beat playing. ‘Ihe Bay State Company, of Westieli, Heory Barrett, foremun, bore off the first prize by a play of 148 feet, and the Mechanics’s Company, of Holyoke, the second, by a ploy of 147 feet. ‘Ihe wind was unfavorable for some of the machines, while by a temporary lull others had an advantage. The Plas tng is far below tha year’s muster. ‘The firet winning is’ of the Button manufac tnre, while the eecond was made by Howard, Davis & Co., of Boston. ‘The occasion passed off without accident and the result appeared satisfactory to all outbreak, ent. Agricaltural Fairs. FAIR OF THE NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL society. Euamma, Mept. 28, 1855, Extensive preparations have been made here for the fair of the New York State Agricultural Socie’y, which commences next Thursday. The grounds are all in readl- ness, and already a large number of entries of stock, im- plements of agriculture, &c., &e., have been made. It is expected there will be a mullitude of visiters to the exhi- Vition, and the hotel proprietors are making every exer- tion to accommodate all who come. Extra trains will be run on the New \ork and Erie, Williamsport and Elmira, and Canandaigua Railroads, to convey toand fram all the neighnoring villages. A purtl: the of- core of the State Society are here actively engaged in ar ranging the details of the fair in union with the local committee, A ladies’ grand equestrian match will take place ow Saturday, Uetober 6th, which will be the closing feature at the exhibition. THY PENMSYLVANIA STATE FAIR—GENERAL Prence KEADING THE NEWS. PHILADELPULA, Sept, 28, 1855. One Flate fait closed this afternoon. Upwards of 20,000 persons were present to hear the address delivered by Mr. Waita. fhe premiums were announced by Secre- splendid ai lent, who read the exe , which creased a great vensa tion, smn ing for Washingtov, THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION—MR. BUCHAN: AN NOT COMING HOME—PRESTON KING'S NoMINA- TION, ETC. > ‘Wasumaron, Sept. 28, 1855. | I understand that the Secretary of the Interior has re- ceived information from Major Emery, Boundary Com- missioner, stating that he will not leave for the States untilNovember, owing to recent difficulties that have: arisen since Santa Anna’s abdication. Iam informed to-day by a friend of Mr. Buchanan, that he will take the Herarp’s advice, and not return before: March next. To-day’s Union announces that Preston King has been. nominated for Secretary of State by the abolition conven. tion of New York. Where’s Maroy? ‘The Atalanta (Ga.) Bank. Conumnia, (8. C.,) Sept. 282—6 P.M, Our correspondent at Augusta learns, in reference to: the rumored failure of the Atalanta Bank, that certain parties at Chicago have recently drawn heavil; specie, and that some of the As notes peat hail tested. We have seen » private despatch trom a re- ‘ble source dated at Macon, Ga., to-day, which. states that the rumors to the prejudice of the are without foundation, The Epidemic on the Mississippt. ‘New Ontzans, Sept. 28, 1855.) During the past week there have been 40 deaths from: the yellow fever at Vicksburg, and 170 new cases. At Canton the number of deaths have been 20, Passmore Williamson and the Abducted Slaves. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28, 1855. A suit has been commenced in the District Court against Passmore Willi , for the value of the ab~ ducted slaves belonging to Mr. Wheeler. ‘The Africa at Halifax. Hau \t. 28, 1855. The steamship Africa arrived here at 950, and again at 11 o'clock last night for Liverpool. ¢ Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PHILADELPHIA, yt. 28, 1855. Stocks were dull at our first board y, at the fol- Jowing qvotations:-—Pennuyivania State O's, 86}; Read. ing RR., 47; “ng Inland, 1436; Morr Canal, 143; Pean- sylvania RR, New ORLEANS, 26, 1855. Cotton has recovered from its fiche d line, and is firm at 9c. a 944. for bg ays 4,500 bales. Sugar has advanced 3¢c.. and is quoted at 6%¢. a Tc. for fair quality. Prime lard is selling at 1144¢. There is @ little more firmness in our flour market, and we advance quotations to $7 25. Western white corn is worth 5lc. CHARLESTON, Sept. 27, 1855. The sales of cotton for the week foot up 3,500 bales. Prices have declined 3c. a Sc. Middling fair is quoted at 9c. a 9%ec. The receipts of the week 7,500 bales, and the stock on handis 7,000 bales. Rice has undergone no. change. Wheat advanced 2c. a 6c. Flour steady, at for. mer rates. Freights to Liverpool, 016d. 8 4d, LTIMORE, Sept. 28, 1855.) ‘At our cattle market yesterday the offerings of beeves amounted to 1,050 head. The dema.d was brisk, but prices slightly declined, the range boing $0.0 $8 % per 100 Ibs. net. Hogs were scarce and in demand, sales at $8 50.2 $9 per cwt. Burra, 28, Flour dull; sales of 900 bbls. at $7 a $7 60 for common Wisconsin, and fancy Ohio and Indiana. . . frei corn 18c., and wheat 17c. to New York. Lake imports yesterday! flour, £,000 bble.; whent, 1,654 bushels; corn, 22.121 bushels; oats, 440 do. Camel exports: flour, 1,663 bbls.; wheat, 46,103 bushels; corn, 28,196 do. Sept; 28, 1855. Flour in fair demand; sales 1,800 to 1,900 bbis.; prices unchanged. Wheat and corn, no sales. ‘Barley continues in speculative demand, with a fair business to the ti 5 sales 26,000 busnels, at 81 26 for two-rowed, und $1 28 a $1 27 for four-rowed. Oats 43c., measure, for State. Receipts by canal to-day—2.400 bbls. flo bushels corn; 15,405 bushels barley; 2,155 bus! 8,900 bushels wheat. Political {ntelligence. THE ABOLITION STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. © The Presidents of the respective abolition gatherings recently held at Syracuse have designated the following named persons as the Republican State Contral Commit-| tee New York—Edwin D. Morgan, Dudley D. Fie, Simeon| Draper, Joreph Blunt, Jas. B. Taylor, Jas. W. > ye. ‘Al- bany—John L. Schoolcraft, Thos. Hun, Deodatus Wright, C. P, Williams, Joseph Davis, John McB. Davidsou. Troy—George Gould, A. B. Ulin. Delaware—Stepen C. Johnson. Otsego—Levi C. Turner. Broome—Llevi Dim-| mick. Gnondago—allan Munroe, Daniel T. Jones. roe—Samuel P. Allen, Orleans—Silas M. Burroughs. Erie—E. G. Spaulding, Philip Dorshelmer. Chas. 0. Shepard. Cattaraugus—A. G, Rice. Hérkimel tandish Barry. WESTCHESTER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. The democrats of the First Assembly district of West- chester county, on the 26th inst., nominated Abon R.. Strang, of Yorktown, for member of Assembly. Calvin Frost, Esq., was chosen judicial delegate; B. J. Horton, Francis Larkin, Abram Putney, Joroph T. Car- enter and Amos Northrop were chosen Senatorial dele- ates. ‘Ihe straight-out whigs of the State of Vermont hat single repreentative in the Legislature of that Stat Our neighbors of the Courier say:—“It is to be ho} that he will bear the honor of iis position with a consciousness of its importance and dignity.” ‘The State Temperance Convention of New Jersey met on the 26th inst. at Trenton. We understand that Governor Gardner has come to the| determination to acegpt @ nomination from the Know] Nothings, which will frobably be made at the convention| to be held in Boston on the 2d of October. ‘The Briggs Contempt Case—Order Discharged.| COMMON PLEAS—IN CHAMBERS. Before Hon. Judge Woodruff. Serr. 28.—In the matter of Alderman Briggs vs. Mackel- lar, Webster and McCann —This case again come up on &n order for respondents to show cause why they should’ not be punished for contempt in refusing to obey an order| of this Court directing them to answer questions of an in- vestigating committee of the Board of men, of weich Mr. Briggs is chairman, Mr. Brady made some preliminary objections, and after| reading a variety of papers submitted that there was no| contempt committed by the respondents, and that they| had never been served with the amended order of Judge Daly. After considerable discussion between the counsel on neh side, the Jadge made the following’ order -— A motion having been made in the above entitled pro- ceedings for attachment against the respondents respec- tively for not complying ith an order made by the . Chas, P. Daly fied in, i ome of the clerk of this court, on the of Angu: ut purporting to have been made as of the 18th ‘of pata it appearing that such an not 'di served upon said defendants, or either of them,| it is now, after hearing counsel for the motion, and John! D. Burehardand James T. Brady in opposition, that for the want of such service of said order, the order to shew cause made by me on the 1th day of September, 1855, be and the same is hereby, discharged . B. WOODRUFF. ue| The parties then left the Court. Naval Intelligence. The Dnited States frigate Savannah, Commodore’Salter, and brig Bainbridge, were at Rio Janeiro on the 1th of| August—all well. SERENADE TO RACHEL Last Nicut.—Mademoiselle Rache, played Adrienne Lecouvreur last evening toa very fal house, the receipts being upwards of four thousand dol, Jars. This completes the fourth week of her season. After the performance, at @ little past midnight, she] was comphmented with a serenade by the band of the| Garde Lafayette; conducted by Mr. Gaffé, ‘The night was a very fine one, and a pretty large| crowd was collected in front of M’lle Rachel's residence, Clinton place, near Brow The band played the grand march from “Athalie’’ (Mendelssohn), a schot- lische and polka, selections from “The Daughter of the| Regiment,” “Hail Columbia,”” “Yankee Doodle,’ and| concluded with the ‘Marseilles Hymn.’ The French an ericar national airs were received} with great cheering, and M’lle Rachel, who, with her| sisters and brother appeared at the open window, re-| ceived repeated demonstrations of popular appreciati After tLe band had concluded the serenade, the crowd gave three cheers for Rachel. M. Raphael Felix appear ed cutside and made suitable acknowledgments on th: part of his sister, After three more cheers for M. Felix the crowd quivtly dispersed. Puxerot FOR THR NORFOLK SvPrERERS.—We have been| fay red with copies of correspondence between W. N. Marcus, Eaq., of the Relief Committee, and Mr. William Nibio, manager of Niblo’s Garden, Mr. W. F. Brough, egent for the Pyne and Harrison English Opera troupe, and Mr. Henry Wood, manager of Wood's Minstrels, 472] Breadway. Mr, Niblo tenders the use of his house gratis, for a Lenefit for the sufferers by the pestilence at Norfolts and Portemouth, and the Opera Company give thelr ser vices free of charge. The benefit will take place on the 6th Cetober. Mr. Henry Wood will give the entire re ceipis at 472 Broadway, this evening, to the «ame object. Will not the other managers follow suit in the goo work? Resiasation oF Jeper Pent, oF LvDIANA.—The follow! fs ex-United States Senator Petit’s letter resigning hi seat as Circuit Judge of Indiana;— Lavaverre, Ind., Sept. 15, 1866. Ibereby resign the office of Jwige of the Twelfth Ju- dicia! Ciroult, to take effect on the 8th day of October, 1856. In doing this [ tender to your Excellency wy tte. cere thanks for the kindness and confidence maai in giving me the appointment, but! cannot longer hol office, the salary of which will not sustain a famwiiy ip this city, JOMN PEYTIE.