The New York Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1856, Page 4

\4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPPICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. FAR DAE HERIED: 2 ont $1 per annum. x EKLY ce Nooy A fat Oe cone per wm ‘cones alison, pores ‘scart of Great Briiain, or 94 10 any pari of the. Continent, VOLUNTLRY ENC! UNTLRY CORRESPONDENCE, staining import, GE taken of anonymous communications. We do spat return thoee SO PRINTING cxecwel with neainess, cheapness and de STISEMENTS renewed every day. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tus Sza or Ice— Poor Pusicoppry. NEBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Younc Hancisa ON THE ‘Seome Rore—Zaruyk anv FLona—Ponco. LAURA KEENE’S VARIETIES, Broadway—Cianissa Baniowz—Lorreny Ticker. BROADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadway—Six DecrEss ov Cuimz—By tHe Woop & Maxsa JUVENILES, ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Ermortaw Mun- penmisy—Tun MiscuEvoUS MONKEY. KELLER’S EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—BrBuical AND ‘MaCELLANEOUS TaBLEAUX—VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. DUSSELDORF GALLERY, 497 Broadway—VaLuasie Banmncs axp Starvany—Martrepomu or Huss, £c. New York, Thursday, June 19, 1856. Mails for the Pacific. ‘THE NEW YORK HERALD—CALIFORNIA EDITION. Whe United States steamship George Law, Captain Hern- den, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon, at two e’clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific, ‘will close at one o’clock. The New York Werkty Heratp—California edition— eentaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the ‘werld, will be published at eleven o’clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, sixpence. Agents will please send in their orders as carly as pos- ible. ‘The News. ‘The second day’s proceedings of the Republican . National Convention are fully reported in our co- Jamns this morning, A platform was presented by Mr. Wilmot and adopted. It is mainly composed ef familiar antislavery declarations, winding up with a fling at the Ostend Conference farce, an endorsement of the Rail- yead project, and the olf whig doctrine regarding river and harbor improvements, and a po- ‘We invitation to voters of foreign birth to support the party. On the first ballot John C. Fremont was Rominated as the republican candidate for the Pre- @ency, by nearly a unanimous vote. The result was received with the greatest enthusiasm. The ballot- ing for a candidate for Vice President was postponed ‘until to-day. By the arrival of the steamship America at Hali- Sax yesterday we have three days later news from Burope. The anxiety in England onthe subject of ‘Mx. Crampton’s anticipated dismissal had become intense, and in both Houses of Parliament interpel- ations had been put to Ministers to elicit informa- tion in regard to it. Lord Palmerston stated that ‘news bad been received through an indirect source dy the Cunard steamer which left Halifax on the ‘22d, that Mr. Crampton had received his passports, bat that this intelligence had not been confirmed by ‘the steamer which left New York on the 24th. The government was not, therefore, in the possession of avy official information on the subject. On the ‘Central American question-his Lordship again stated that no reply had as yet been received to the pro- position of the English government to refer the mat- ter to arbitration. The French Emperor, through the Morning Post—which is considered his London organ—claims the credit of having used every effort to remove these unhappy complications. The con- @uct of the Comte de Sartiges, and the tor: Cr the Courrier des Etaid "7%, aré evidences of the sincerity of this declaration. The inun- dations at Lyons and other parts of France had cansed an immense destruction of proper- ty. Ten mitlions of francs had been voted for the relief of the sufferers, and the Emperor had left for the provinces to superintend the distribution of the money. The liabilities of M. Place, late admi- nistrator of the Credit Mobilier, are estimated at eighteen millions of francs. The fleet sent by Spain to Mexico is reported to anamber eleven ships of the line, three frigates, two corvettes and four steamers. ‘The Italian question is becoming so critical that Count Cavour is obliged to undertake another jour- ney to Paris. It is said that Mazzini has announced his intention of retiring from political life, and end- img the remainder of his days in America. Our readers will be glad to learn that the new pabmarine telegraph cable, which is to form the first link in the connection between London and New York, left London on the 2d of June. It will be laid down across the Gulf of St. Lawrence to- wards the end of this or the beginning of next month, and it is expected that the whole line will be in successful operation within a year and a half. ‘The money market had undergone no change since the sailing of the Arago. Consols on the 6th inst. closed at 94} 2943. The bullion in the bank had increased £825,000. Cotton had declined one-six- teenth of a penny on middling, and one eighth on fair quality. Breadstuffs tere fiem, with a trifling advance in some descriptions of wheat. Provisions were unsettled. By the arrival of the steamship Texas at New Orleans we have news from the city of Mexico to the Sth and from Vera Cruz to the 8th inst. There existed a great excitement, caused by differences between the Congress and Cabinet, and by the ar- rival of the Spanish squadron at Vera Cruz. On the former subject, our correspondent at the city of Mexico furnishes an able letter, which shews that tthe difficulty was owing to the want of a proper an- derstanding of the section of the plan of Ayutla which provided for the election of a President ad interim, Comonfort’s enemies argued that General Alvarez being appointed only as President ad in- terim, could not delegate the Executive authority to another person. If Congress had sustained this view, it was thought that Degollados or Ocampo would be elected. To parry this blow, Comonfort re-estab- lished the Privy Council ; but as the former Coun- cil was opposed to his views, he displaced all whe were deputies in Congress and filled the vacancies with his friends. The Council being thus reorganized, bas authority to nominate a President ad interim. Both parties had, however, proposed compromises. A proposition has been introduced into Congress declaring the decree which reorganizes the Privy Council illegal. It was in the end agreed that the new councillors should resign, and that Congress should refuse to accept the remgnation of Alvarez. The Cabinet had posi- tively refused to receive the new Spanish Minister 80 long as his demands were backed by the presence ‘of a fleet of vessels of war, and it was thought that Spain would not gain anything by the mission. An alliance with the United States was advocated by many. Generals Santa Anna and Woll had been as deserters by the military commission. The Jesuits were about to be deprived of their property, and the decree of Santa Anna for their restoration revoked. Don Buenaventura Vivo had returned to Mexico. By the latest arrivals from Englind we are in- formed of the departure of vessels of war. from dif- ferent dockyards bound to the Canadian coast. The Arago brought us the following information:—-“A despatch from Plymouth to Liverpool, dated on Monday night, June 3, says the Anchor, 14, screw, Captain Heathcote, has been ordered, by electric mmcseoge, thig greuing, © provegd t Halifax with all possible despatch. It is reported that the Esk, 21, screw, has had her destination (South America) changed to Halifax.” ‘The House of Representatives was in seasion yes- terday, but no business of importance was transact- ed. The Senate did not meet. Wall street was in a state of great excitement yes terday, growing out of an assault with a cowhide, committed by Benjamin Wood, brother to Mayor Wood, on John 8. Bradford, @ broker. There was but little injury done either party, as will be seen by the account given elsewhere. An anonymous news- paper article, which Wood supposed reflected upon him, was the canse of the difficulty. The Emigration Commissioners met yesterday and transacted considerable routine business. The affairs of the commission are improving rapidly, owing to the increased emigration. During the past week 4,963 persons landed at this port, making 47,316 so far this year; about 10,000 less, however, than to the same period last year. The overdraft in bank has been reduced to $65,893 31. ‘The schooner Julia M. Hallock arrived at quaran- teen yesterday from Port au Prince, having the cap tain, mate and ome passenger sick on board with yellow fever. One of the crew died of the same dis- ease on the passage. There was a decreased supply of beef cattle in market yesterday, and prices advanced 1} cents per pound, the average being 10}c.a llc. The qus- lity of the stock, however, was pronounced superior to that offered last week. Previous rates for sheep and lambs were well sustained. Calves were in re- quest at 4 a 7 cents per pound, according to quality. In the Philadelphia market yesterday beef cattle were quite active, prices ranging from 9} to 103 cents per pound. Sales reached 1,324 head. Sheep and lambs were in good supply, and sold at $3 a $5 per head for the former, and $250 s $4 per head for the latter. The gales of cotton yesterday were confined to about 500 a 600 bales, closing without change in prices. Holders, notwithstanding the America’s news, continued firm in their views, while pur- chasers were disposed to pause, and wait the re- ceipt of private letters by the steamer. Flour was firmer, with more doing, and common to good grades advanced 5 to 10 cents per barrel. Prime wheat was scarce and firm. Common to medium and fair qualities sold freely, without change of importance in prices. Corn was quiet; sales confined to inferior to good sound Western mixed, at 44c.a 45c. Prime yellow and white were quite firm, with little or none offering. Pork was firmer, with sales of mess at $19 25. Lard was firm at llc. alljc. Short and long middles of bacon were sold at 10jc. a 10ic. Sugars were less active, but prices continued firm, with sales of 800 a 900 bhds. Cuba at full prices. Molasses was firm, with sales of New Orleans at 52c., and Porto Rico at 45¢. Coffee was quiet. Freights were firm. To Liverpool about 50,000 bushels of grain were engaged at 6d.a 7d., in bulk and bags, and flour at 2s. 3d. a 2s. 43d. a 2s. 6d. To London flour was at 2s. 9d. a 2s. 10jd. asked, and wheat at 9d. a 94d., in bags. The Philadelphia Fusion Convention—Fre- mont Nominated—Clear the Track! The results of the Philadelphia Fusion Con- vention of the anti-administration elements of the North, are thus far before our readers, John Charles Fremont is nominated as their candidate for. the Presidency, with a remarkable degree of enthusiastic satisfaction, That success being glory enough for one day, the Convention de- ferred the nomination till this morning of their candidate for Vice President. In the nomination of Col. Fremont the mana- gers and conflicting pipelayers of the Convention have unquestionably been borne down by the irresistible undercurrent of fhe prevailing senti- ment of the opposition masses of the North. This sentiment for Fremont has been too plainly manifest for a week or two to be doubted or rifled with. The Philadelphia manufacturers of Presidents And public opinion have, therefore, like the democratic jugglers at Cincinnati, only made a virtue of necessity in seconding the nomi- nation in each case fixed upon by the prevailing opinion of the party throughout the country. And if Mesers. Pierce and Douglas when driven to the wall at Cincinnati, gracefully gave way to Mr. Buchanan, their self-sacrificing magnanimity falls short of that of Nathaniel P. Banks, W. H. Seward, Judge McLean and Goy. Chase, at Philadelphia—all of whom declined the honors of a Presidential nomination in advance of the first ballot. It must be conceded that, to an ex- traordinary extent, the saving qualities of con- cession, conciliation and compromise among the mixed and multitudinous commission at Phila- delphia were indispensable to a harmonious nomi- nation ; but never before, in any party Presiden- tial Convention within our recollection, has this great idea of everything for the cause and nothing for men, been so strikingly illustrated. There is something in this ominous of a resolute and des- perate fight with the Pierce and Buchanan demo- cracy, and no mistake. The platform of this Convention is a most re- markable piece of mechanism, and vis-a-vis with the Cincinnati platform we have the elements thus laid down of a regularly organized sectional contest on filibusters, niggers, Kansas and squat- ter sovereignty. The Philadelphia coalition plat- form may be thus summed up, with the names of the different architects, as far as our information extends :— First—The tripod of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, the Constitution, and the Union.—New York HERALD. Second—The denial of any power in Congress, or anywhere else, to give legal assistance to slavery in any Territory.—Judge McLean. Third—The assertion of the power in Con- gress to prohibit in the Territories “ those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery.” — Judge McLean. Fourth—A tremendous constitutional onslaught upon our Pierce administration and the “ border ruffians,” with a full schedule of their savage atrocities in Kansas.—Governor Reeder. Fifth—A declaration in favor of the immediate admission of Kansas as a free State—W. H. Seward. Sixth—The indignant repudiation of “the highwayman’s plea” of the Ostend manifesto— Francis P, Blair. Seventh—In favor of a Pacific Railroad and an emigrant wagon road.—Live Oak George Law. Eighth—In favor of river and harbor appro- priations —George Law. Ninth—Knocks the Know Nothings in the head. —Senator Wilson and Thaddeus Stevens, For proof of these original authorities see New York Heraxp of a week or so ago, Sudze McLean’s letter on slavery, George Law's late speech, W. H. Seward’s late speech in the Senate on Kansas, and Senator Wilson's original de ration that he was resolved to smash up this Know Nothing party into ten thousand frag. ments on the rock of the slavery question, &. The cool and vnceremonious style in which the poor Know Nothings are turned adrift is cer- tuinly a bold move, and we are not exactly cer- tain how it will tarn out; but we suppose that Senator Wilson, who knows all the mysteries of the dark lantern, and Thaddeus Stevens, who kuows a Litdy of everything, koew what they were about in this resolution. A still more re- markable plank in this Fremont party platform is the emphatic declaration that Congress has the constitutional power to expel polygamy as well as slavery from the Territories, This simply means that if this party is placed in power they will make short work of Brigham Young, Mr. Fillmore’s Governor and Mr. Pierce’s Governor of Utah, with his ninety-six wives of afl nations, and with the whole breed of his patriarchs and saints, with their twenty, ten, or half-dozen wives apiece. This isa good hit, and we presume it will bring Mra. Lucy Stone Blackwell and the women’s rights women of the North in a solid body to the ticket of Fremont, freedom and women’s righta, even among the Mormons, The Nortbern opposition forces, with Fremont anda formidable Northern platform, are thus fairly in for it. But they are not yet out of the woods, by a long shot. Any quantity of old logs and lumber, stumps, underwood and rubbish still obstruct their way out. What is to be done with Mr. Fillmore, for whose reception, on his return from Rome and the Pope, our city fathers are preparing a bit of pageantry second only to the reception of Kossuth or Captain Tyla? What becomes of the Know Nothing bolters of the New Jersey school, who believe that the great dangers that threaten our liberties are Popery, Archbishop Hughes and the Irish Catholics? Does Commodore Stockton surrender? These are serious obstacles that Me directly atross the track, amd must be removed before the train can run through. Then, again, the old whigs seem to be stirring in their graves here and there, and they threaten a resurrection in their shrouds without the aid of Judge Edmonds, How are they to be kept down? In fact, the hard work of the opposition forces just now begins in this first difficult and heavy job of clearing the track. “Live Oak George Law,” like a locomotive attempting to jump a chasm in a railroad bridge, has gone down and gone under, leaving nothing but the top of his smoke stack sticking above the water, Mr. Fillmore and the intractable anti- Popery “Americans,” however, unless they are whipped in, or coaxed back in some way, will probably carry off twenty-five thousand opposi- tion votes in the State of New York alone to the ticket of Fillmore and Donelson, when the whole of the opposition forces of the North, to be effective, must be concentrated upon Fremont. The Philadelphia fusionists, in convention, will doubtless nominate their candidate for Vice-Pre- sident and close up their labors to-day; but the real work, we say, of collecting together the loose opposition materials of the North is still to be done. The Fremont cause will doubtless have plenty of money, books, pamphlets, pictorials, songs, transparencies, and agitation in every shape and form; and they will, furthermore, have the stimulus of a clean sweep of the public plunder. On the other hand, while there is no- thing of enthusiasm in the name or history of Mr. Buchanan, it is very uncertain whether he will have even half a dozen good offices to give away, because he will find the bulk of the fat places already filled with good democrats that he can’t turn out. Ask Mr. Cochrane, Mr. Redfield or Mr. Fowler. Putting all these things together, and taking a bird's eye view of the field, are we not right in predicting the most curious, exciting, ferocious and momentous Presidential struggle in the history of the republic? Let all sides, then, go o work in earnest and clear the track! Important from Mexico—The Threatencd War with Spain. ‘The arrival of the steamer Texas at New Or- Jeans puts us in possession of advices from Mexico to June the 8th, one week later than those pre- viously received. Their contents are important as indicating the movements of Spain, and policy of France in connection with them. The Mexican government refuses to receive the Spanish Minis- ter or to entertain his proposition in regard to the Spanish claims until the fleet is withdrawn. It has two objects to attain by this passive atti- tude. In the first place it throws the onus of ac- tion on the Spanish government; in the next, it gains time for the payment of the money, if pay it must. We publish in another column a curious arti- cle from the Z'rait d’Union, the French organ in Mexico, emanating without a doubt from the French legation in that city, and therefore to be regarded as semi-official. Taken in connec- tion with the recent movements of Count Sar- tiges and the views enunciated by the Paris jour- nals, this article appears to us pregnant with menace. In the face of these movements a war with Spain would be popular in Mexico. Our private advices inform us that an alliance with the United States is very generally talked of there. The hatred of the half breed population of Mexico to the Spaniards is well known, and they would no doubt be glad to call in our aid to repel the haughty demands of their old oppressors, especially since they are made at a time when a patriotic government is endeavoring to relieve the country from its embarrassmente and raise it from the depth of degradation in which it has been plunged by the infamous rule of ‘their prede- ceseors, The project of Spain making war on Mexico for the payment of Spanish claims appears to have created as much astonishment in England as in this country. It seems’ such an out of the way policy for a country like Spain to adopt in face of the attitude of the United States toward Cuba. But the chances are that the movement did not originate here, but in the Spanish peninsula. It is probably some feint or other—a preparatory movement of some kind to get the Spanish troops out of the country in order to prepare for a coup d’.tat or new revolution. Queen Christina has been living lately at Malmaison, near Paris, on terms of great intimacy with the Empress of the French, the Jerome Bonapartes and the Murats, all invete- rate plotters: no one knows what schemes they may not have hatched between them, and with the aid of Girardin of the Presse. It would be a curious thing if, after all, the real solution of the Cuban difficulty were by a declaration of war by Spain against Mexico—an appeal by Mexico to the American people for de- fence—the victorious march of ten thousand Ame- ricans (they could be raised easily enough and paid out of the church revenues) through Mexico —the defeat of the Spaniards, and the capture of Cuba by the Americans under the Mexican flag, by way of punishment. But things stranger have happened. Warren, Fortawira—A good, graphic, com- pact and complete history of the birth, growth, ex- pansion, decline, collapse, death and burial of the late great Know Nothing party, for the use of all the political blockheads of the day during this Presidential contest. Sealed proposals, we dare say. will be received by the K. N. organ of Wall pucct. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1856. ‘The Distresses of France. The New York organ of the French govern- ment makes an appeal to the benevolent feelings of the American public in behalf of the French people of the rural districts, who have lost their harvest in consequence of the overflow of the Rhone, the Saone and the Loire. Almost simul- taneously we learn that M. Henri Place, one of the directors of the Credit Mobilier, has failed for some eighteen millions of francs, and that among his creditors are several of the leading celebrities of the financial and political Bonapartist world. These are facts pregnant with alarm for every true friend of France. ‘The overilew of rivers in France is a far more serious matter than our freshetshere. The latter never injure the harvest; if they impede travel and inconvenience canals and railroads, that is all that can be said against them. But when the banks of the rivers Rhone and Loire are covered by water, the whole country is destroyed. Nar- row, rapid rivers becomes vast still lakes, miles and miles across; the whole country, farms, vine- yards, houses, improved land of every kind is rendered useless: and the peasantry who for ge- nerations have lived on these fertile plains, sub- sisting from year to year on the produce of their fields, are reduced to absolute starvation. On these occasions it has been the policy—it has been a necessity—for the governments of France, since the Revolution, to take in hand, at whatever cost, the feeding of the un- fortunate sufferers, who have remained pension- aries upon its bounty long after the waters sub- sided. The horrors of similar inundafiens have furnished the painters of France with some of their most effective—because most familiar— themes. The revolts and riots to which they used to give rise under the old regim: constitute some of the most thrilling passages of French history. The inundation of this year appears to be even a more terrible visitation of the calamity than was witnessed in 1847. It is not to be questioned but hundreds of thousands o/ persons will become dependent on the government for food. How can that demand be supplied ? In the last annual report of the Credit Mobilier, an analysis of which we published some days since, it is urged as one of the leading merits of the concern that it had, in trying times, come boldly to the support of the government, and by its example and pecuniary aid enabled the Em- peror to surmount obstacles of no ordinary character. Nor is there any reason to question the accuracy of the boast. The directors of the Credit Mobilier might, in fact, have said more— they might have said that they were the finan- cial backstay of the government ; that without their encouragement the Emperor would never have overcome the difficulties which drove him to sequestrate the Orleans property, much less paid his share of the cost of the Eastern war. For they, and they alone, have succeeded én changing the character of the French nation; in dissemi- nating through all ranks a spirit of gambling ; in breaking down the barriers of distrust which for the last hundred years have prevented French- men of small means from embarking their capital in corporate enterprises. ‘ It was the astonishing fortunes made by speculators in the stock of the Credit Mobilier which lured the public to the stock exchange: and it was the large profits of the first operations of that mammoth concern, together with the skilful puffing it obtained from its creator and patron, the Emperor, which led to a state of society in which every man who has twenty francs sayed, naturally invests them in a venture ‘nthe stock market. Hence—in the hope of profit on are-sale—the enormous subscriptions for stock in Louis Napoleon’s loans: hence the apparent plethora of money and lavish expenditure at Paris. But—when we add that the Credit Mobi- lier still retains its position in the financial world, and that its operations are more expanded than ever—it will at once be seen that the stability of the expansion it has created, like its own, and consequently the financial condition of the gov- ernment, are all conjointly dependent upon the soundness of the principle on which the Credit Mobilier reste. That principle is very simple. Fifty persons, instead of keeping their money and using it, give itto one of their number in order that he may use it for all, The problem is, will he make more of it than the whole fifty would have done separately? And the answer, accord- ing to our American notions of political econo- my is, that he will not; because, though an ag- gregate sum is undoubtedly more lucrative than several smaller separate sums, yet the animus of the party using the money is more to be regarded still, asa cause of gain. If the money of the whole fifty belonged to the administrator, he would make more of it than the fifty would in using each a fiftieth; but as he only owns a fif- tieth of the whole amount he has in his hands, the law is that he will evince less care, prudence and foresight in the management of the same than the owners would, and therefore that he will make less than they. This appears to be conclusive against the Credit Mobilier in the long run; and consequently against the whole financial state of France. It is to be hoped that M. Place’s failure is not the beginning of the convulsion; but it looks uu- commonly like it. All these Bonapartists and stockjobbers have lived high, and spent more money than they carncd; that some of them must fail is clear, and when they begin, no one can tell where they will end. Should their failure be simultaneous with a famine in the South, and the return of a discontented army from the East, a revolution may be the result. At all events, Louis Napoleon will have enough to do at home without meddling with Costa Rica or the United States. Srovtar Document Comixe Ovr—We clip the following ominous warning from the columns of the Louisville Journal:— So fur as Mr, Buchanan’s conduct towards Henry Clay js concerned, his record is a most accused on we cun lay our hands upon the decume thall make this abundantly manifest. dead; but he did not die without leaving in most damning testimony against James Bu writing the ehanan. In mercy he spared Mr. B. for nearly a quarter tury; but near the close of his illustrious life he ‘an exposition of hanan’s condyet in the I tin 1825 due to his own terity—and he made it, Very likely there is something in this, The late published private correspondence of Mr. Clay revealed to us some very curious secrets concerning the nomination of Gen. Taylor in 1848, showing that although Mr. Clay kept quiet during the canvass, he still jotted down his wrongs and his treacherous friends for the benefit of history. In this view, it is highly probable that the whole history and mystery of the charge of “bargain and corruption” against Mr. Clay in the House election of J. Q. Adams as President, was hunted up by Mr. Clay and put upon record for future use. Very well. Let us have the letter, Let us see what itis. The fire will bogin * to crackle prerentiy. Tax Cuevauien Weep axp THE Cope oF Hoxor.—The Courier and Enquirer of Monday last contained an extraordinary article, introduc- tory to a long letter alleged to have been written by a member of Congress, discussing the rights of private belligerents who have long tongues and cannot keep them quiet. The home editor, with great gravity of discourse, and much shak- ing of the head, comes to the conclusion that self- defence is very permissable, and that upon the whole he has no right to prescribe to another how, or when, or where that right shall be consummated. In other words, he vindicates the duello, The member of Congress, whom every one knows to be the Chevalier Webb himself, an- nounces that at Washington we arc on the eve of a volcanic eruption—a terrific explosion—that Blood will follow where the knife is driven, ‘The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. Mr. Brenton, of Indiana, has been informed by a Southern member that he will not be permitted to make a speech, at least in the terms proposed; and thereupon it was determined, says the Cheva- lier, by “our friends in his vicinity,” that they will speak freely, come what may. Still more, the matter lias been under discusssion. A general affray in the House is anticipated, and Mr. (an alias of the Chevalier probably) proclaims the principles on which a free fight may be defended, either on the floor of the House or in the village of Bladensburg. ‘I have been in personal combats before, and regret them,” says the Chevalier. (We are aware of his exploits in the DuffGreen business, the Cilley affair, and the Marshall hitin the heel.) “I regret all these, and particularly the last, which came near limiting the area of my freedom. But Iam nota non-combatant. I of- fered my services to the government during the Mexican war, and I did not get the appointment of a Brigadier, although I was well qualified by my previous services as a sous Lieutenant. I am also a religious man, having recently become 80, but Iam not afraid todo my duty for aly that. If we ‘may notrun away from danger,’ can we not defend ourselves in the way we think best? If we have no chance ina row, by all means let us go to the code of honor and avail ourselves of all the chances of etiquette. In these matters we are told every man must act ac- cording to his own convictions, (which rule, by the by, leads to many other kinds of convictions). Therefore let us build up a sound opinion in the North, let it know that the duel is now to be our arbitrament, and that we will speak our minds at all hazards, sink or swim, live or die.” Well done, the Chevalier! The country is safe. But would it not be well to consider the duty of courtesy as well as the right of shooting—should not a peni- tent of the church recommend forbearance and charity as well as gunpowder? This war of vituperation began at the North, It is the rhetoric of the Zrilune and the logic of Beecher and Garrison. The whole difficulty of the slavery question, of the Kansas question and of the freedom of debate, has arisen out of the North, and is the stock in trade of our dema- goguce. The whole tendency of this Bobadilian correspondence in the Courier is bad and inexcu- sable, It shadows forth a desire to produce the very disorders it deplores, and if our country is to be disgraced by a general assault of arms in the House of Representatives,we may thank for it “the mahogany lock, stock and barrel,”’ which peep out of the Chevalier’s pocket, and are rea dy—for some one else to use. THE LATEST NEWS. BV MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ‘The Latest from Philadelphia. INDIGNATION OF TNE KNOW NOTHINGS—DIFFICULTY IN THE SELECTION OF A CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRE- SIDENT, ETC. Pmaperrma, June 18, 1856. Mr. Giddings made a terrible blunder this afternoon in getting the communication from the North Americans laid on the table. Thurlow Weed and others crowded round him, and made him take the back track. The North Americans were ferociously indignant, and said, though the Philistines might have put out their eyes, they would, like Samson, pull the temple about their ears. Mr. Cleveland, of Mass., and others told the Convention very plainly that they would lose every New England yote. Senator Wilson has been trying to smooth the matter over with the North Americans, but some of them say it is too late, and that they were insulted beyond apology. The nomination of Fremont creates no great excite- ment, but Mr. Buchanan’s friends are a little afraid of it. They take heart of grace from the North Americans, King Caucus is hard at work for the Vice Presidency. Senator Wilson has been requested by several delega- tions to allow his name to be used in Convention, but he positively declines. The feeling seems to run in favor of some old conservative whig, like William L, Dayton, or A.C. M. Pennington, of New Jersey. In the best inform- ed quarters it is thought Dayton will be the man. With Young America and democracy at the head of the ticket, they want conservatism and whiggism at the tail. Others desire to conciliate Pennsylvania by giving her Johnston, but a a good many Pennsylvauians say he can- not carry his own State. At the instant the result of the ballotting in Convention was declared an American flag, bearing Fremont’s name, was raised from the platform, and the broad penant, in- scribed “John C, Fremont for President,” was drawn across the platform in front of the Speaker’s desk, reach- ing from end to end of the hail. Banners were also displayed from the windows to noti- fy outsiders, and the shouts within the hall were caught up and echoed by the crowd in the strects. Outside the hall the enthusiasm appeared to be equally as great as it had been inside, and it would haye been diffi- cult to find where the former opposition could have come from, Groups gathored in the streets and endorsed the action of the Convgition unreservedly. The headquar- ters of the Fremont “dgtional Club of New York was, im- mediately after the ar ®™ancement of Mr. Fremont’s noii- nation, the scene of great bustle and excitement, and flags were liberally distributed, bearing the name of Fremont. This evening acrowded meeting was held at National Hall, at which David Wilmot and othars addressed the citizens. Mipwicur. The North Americans are holding a meeting at the Franklin House, and several specches ale. They insist upon having Johnston for Vice President, and an apology for the manner in which their communication was treated by the Convention, ‘The committee appointed by the New York§Convention of which George Law was the chairman, to confer with the Convention, are now in session with the committee to which the communication was referred this afternoon, Col. Fremont’s Nominatt 't Boston. Boston, June 18, 1856. One hundred guns were fired here this evening on the announcement of Col. Fremont’s nomination for the Pre- sidency. The Young Men’s Republican Club brilliantly illuminated their headquarters. Departure of the Niagara, Bostox, June, 18, 1856. The royal mail steamship Niagara sailed at noon to- day with 108 passengers for Liverpool, and 21 for Halifux, She took out nearly a million dollars in specie. Markets, CHaniestoy, June Cotton—Sales to-day 4,700 bales, at an Friday of gc. a ge. Middling fair is que 7 OsWPGO, Wheat is in good demand; sales to: at $115 for white Indiana, $1.08 for Coicago’ sprin, carly tuthe day $1.04 a $1 06 for red Indiana, Cor Just, night 19,000 bushels, afloat, at 383g. - Rye—20,000 bushels Canadian, at 700, Freights are firmer—Wheat, igije. and corn Ie, to New York, Lake imports, 48.000 bushels wheat and 30,000 corn; exports, 60,000 bbi, flour, 26,000 bushels wheat, 81,000 eora and 30,000 Aye Interesting from W: GEN. GADSDEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE—DOUBTS CON’ CERNING THE REPORTED TREATY WITH MEXICO—~ THE SPANISH DEMONSTRATION UPUN VERA ChUZ— NEWS FROM KANSA8—BUCHANAN RATIFICATION MEETING, ETC.; !Wasmcton, June 18, 1856. Gen. Gadsden called on the President to-day and had @ long interview with him. He has said nothmg about the mew commercial treaty with Mexico, of which mentiog has been made; and further, Mr. Marcy told a gentlemam to-day that he was not aware that any such treaty hag been made. ‘The administration are a good deal exercised at the po- sition of things in Mexico just now. The attitude of the Spanish fleet at Vera Cruz, and the position of France and England—to use the language efa distinguished functions ary of government—is exceedingly menacing; and he stated further, that our government cannot sit quietly by. and permit this interference. A despatch was received here to-day from Kansas, by the President, stating that Col. Sumner has a large force n the fleld and was driving out the hostile invaders, and that quiet would soon be restored. There was an immense gathering in front of the City Hall to-night to ratify the nominations of Buchanan and Breckenridge. Many ladics were present. Messrs, Quitman and Weller alluded, with marked acceptance, to territorial expansion, and Mr, Florence, of Pennsylvanimy. and others addressed the assemblage. The greatest en- husiasin was manifested. Boufires were lighted, rocketp ‘ set off, and cannon fired. THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. House of Representatives. Wasiunatox, June 18, 1866, THE CAPITOL EMBELLISHMENTS. Mr. Harnion introduced a resolution requesting the _ President to inform the House what measures, iff any, have been taken under the act of Congress ap- propriating twenty-five thousand dollars to procure from Hiram Powers, the sculptor, some work of art to ornae ment the Capitol extension. Adopted. SOMETHING ABOUT GOVERNOR REEDER. Mr. Grow, (nigger worshipper) of Pa., said that for some days past there had appeared in the public prints whas purports to be a letter from Governor Reeder to him. Im justice to Mr. Reeder, and to vindicate himself from an ime putation of gross breach of confidence in publishing @ private communication, he declared that no letter had been received by him from Mr. Reeder on any subs ject whatever. He made this explanation that the forgery may be known to the public. ‘Mr. Pairs, (dem.) of Mo., said the letter to which the gentleman just referred was addressed to Mr. Grove, of” Kansas, purporting to have been written from this city by Mr. Reeder, and in which allusion is made to the Wy= andott ftleat. Mr. Gxow, replied that his object was merely to cleat himself from any connection with the letter. REPORT ON THE SUMNER ASSAULT. Mr. CamPreit, (nigger worshi, of Ohio, gave notice that he would, ou next Monday, endeayor to take up the report of the Select Committee on the Sumner asa. Adjourned. New York State Temperance Convention. Aunany, June 18, 1856, ‘The semi-annual meeting of the State Temperance Se ciety convened in this city to-day. An address was read. by Mr. E. C. Delavan, President of the Society. On moe- tion of Amasa McCoy, a committee of nine was appointed) to report business for the Convention. During the abe gence of the committee, Mr. Thompson, of Massachusetts, addressed the Convention. Letters in furtherance of they objects of the Conveution were read, from the State Tem- perance Society of New Hampshire, froin Mr. Bartlett, of Poughkeepsie, and B. Joy, of Tompkins. The Convention: then took a recess till 3 o'clock. On re-assembling, the Baginess Committee reported im part through their chairman, Amasa McCoy. ‘The first ree solution delares that 5,000 liquor bars were closed by the- law when the society last met, but that the decision of* the Court of Appeals had caused a sudden and fearfal ine crease of drunkenness. The second resolution declares that as the law while in doubt effected so much, it would have achieved vast. reguits, if sustained, and’ that the history of prohibition in New York alone p the experiment successful. The third resolution commends the opinions of the- three Judges who sustained the law. The fourth resoluti jares that a majority of the: yeople would be glad if the majority of the court would resign. The fifth resolution refers to the fact that the Court of” Appeals overruled Dillou’s imported liquor doctrine una. nimously. The sixth resolution refers to the fact that the opinions. of Daniel Lord and other lawyers against any and every prohibitory law as unconstitutional, were also unanimouge ly overruled. The resolutions wer cess was taken till 7, At 7 o'clock Dr. Tyng of New York, spoke in p ssed i 6 me M., Sade a re ar an address from Dr. Tyng. not present, but Dr. Marsh, of hun, Fatal Railroad Accident. Haxtrorp, June 18, 1856. David Driscoll, of this city, in jumping from the South-- ern express train as it entered the city last evening, was- caught under the wheels and fatally injured. He leaves. a wife and family. He lived one hour after the accident, Our Venezuelan Correspondence. Canscas, Venezuela, May 21, 1856. Dissolution of Congress—i'he Country Placed at the Entire» Control of the President—Dreadful Ravages of the Cho- lera, Ee. The Congress was dissolved on the 8th inst., after thee passage of an act inc the number of provinces from. sixteen to twenty-one, d ing the functions of all the: old Governors at an end, and authorizing the President to- appoint new ones for the twenty-one provinces. All mem; Vers of Congress, either of the House or Senate, whether their time had expired or not, were also to cease their. functions, so that an entire new Congress may be elected: in August. It is understood that the President is to de- signate the members who are to be el through the» newly appointed Governors ; and of course no citiaen will. Presume to yoto for auy member who is not thus nomi- hated, The President has’ not been declared ‘ Dictator,” as. was contemplated, but the new Congress will be under his immediate control, and will act precixely as he de- sires, thus relieving lim from any responsibility to the: people. Who can say aiter this that his Excellency Gone ral José Tadeo Monagas ix not a wise man? We shall see what another year will bring forth, ‘The cholera has returned to Caracas with all its direfal. consequences. ‘The troops have been almost annihilated, City Intelligence. ‘Tre WeaTier.—A heavy rain storm visited the city yew terday, which continued up toa late hour last night. It was very welcome, as the city was full of dust, and it is tobe hoped that this visitation will rid us of it for a time. It cannot but have an excellent effect on the young: potatoes and corn, soon to come in, and indeed upon vegetation, Let it pour; we haye had dry weather enough, Mustaxy.—The Ninth Regiment paraded to Hamiltom square on Tuesday, for drill and parade, commanded by Col. Pitkin, The rank and file turned ont in full force, and did very well. Two companies of Coutinentals also paraded on Tuesday. ALARM oF Fine.—The alarm of fire for the Eighth dis- trict, Inst evening, about 7 o'clock, was caused by smoker seen ing from the building No. 81 Dey street, occu pied by Nelson Wells & Co., dealers in fish. It appears: that Mr. Wells is in the habit of smoking fish in the store,, and on closing the store last night they make up a fire: for that purpose, leaving the smoke to find its way out ats the xcuttle. The weather being stormy, the smoke was, Deut down and forced its Way out at the Iront windows. Boy Drowxen.—Paldwin Robinson, aged 12 years, was + drowned near the Br reet ferry, on Tuesday, they 17th inst., about 12 , in attempting to get upome some logs lying in the w His body could not be» found. He had on brown pantaloons aid white shirt, and resided at No. 15 Charles street. Fire is West Tweet Streer.—Shortly after 8 o'clock: n Wednesday mor © broke out in the manu~ factory of James tTwollth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. JThe firemen were soon extinguished the fire. At men were at work in the fag- y he boiling over of some Comnposition for rooting, with Which Mr. Conkwright was trying experiments. ‘The lows to the building will amount © about $200, and to stock about $150. No insurance, The Turf. FASHION COURSE, L. 1.—S) Should the weather VOND DAY. © propitiousjwe may look for two great contests t ‘The first race will be between Nicholas I. and Vrioress, mile heats, The second race will be between Pryor and Floride, four mile heats. Should the condition of the tract admit of fist tine, this may be one of the quickest races ever run. Pryor is noted as having beaten Lecomte ew Orleans, and Floride » Winner at Haltimoré, Augusta is’ alse entered for this race, but itis not positively known that she will appear. innenneessenntemnnene AFFRAY AND MuRpeR IN C1ncrInnAtTI.—OnB May Kituep axp Axotin Fatanty Wouxpen.—An affray occurred about half-past eleven o'clock last night, at the Gereral Scott coffee house, on Water street, west of Main, during which am 1 Thomas McKee drew a knife and stabb named Thomas on his body, and % wounds of such a character that it is thought npossible for him to recover. Mo~ Kee then fled to Geo. Keltey’s boarding house, on Front near Walnut, where he was arrested and ta to rl strect station house—Cincinnali C minevial, the F dune