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

*/,mE8 GORDON BENNET?, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR shabaentannaiarmmnarer WP pce m. w. coRNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON O98. LE ep ate Bean at, Lerrees anv Pack- token of anonymous communications. We do executed with neainess, cheypness and der IISEMENTS reviewed every day. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BHIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadwey—Muss Euma Staniey ov Oma BevEN Acts or Woman. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Davin CorrenrretD>— Former Kose. BROADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Broadwey—Incoman, THE Bansanian, asd Pavtaeyia TRE GREEK Malven, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broa¢way—Ergiorian Min- murtey—Biack Buonpens. SELLER'S EMPIRE HALL. 596 Brondway—Paraiotic 46> MisoELLaNrous TABLE! USICAL SOIRER. DUSSELDORF GALLERY, No. 497 Broadway—Va.oass AINTANGH AND STATUARY—MaktTYRDOM OF Hoss, de. York, Saturday, July 19, 1856. Malls for Europe. WEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘Te Collins mail steamehip Baltic, Capt. Comstock, will eave this port to-day, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close in this city at half-past ten o'clock this morning. The Henatp (printed in Mnglish and French) will be pabUshed si ten o’clock im the morning. Single copies, fe wrappers, sixpence. Bedscriptions and advertisements for any odition of the Bew Youz Harazp will be received at the following places mm Burepe — Pam ag" do. bar phot Bourse. Livsaroo— do. do. 7 Rumford street. Leveerovi—John Hunter, 12 Exchange street, East. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hmmatp ‘Will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at be office during the previous week, and to the hour of pablicatioa. The News. From Mexico we have advices dated at the capi- tal to the 5th and at Vera Cruz to the Sth inst. ‘The departure of the Spanish fleet was hailed as a ‘*wiamph of Mexican diplomacy, and Spain will have to pay heavily for her warlik+ exhibition, in the shape of a high import tariff. Comonfort’s decree or the sale of the church property was hailed with great popular enthusiasm, and an immediate rise in ‘the valze of government stocks followed. The brevete and promotions in the army by Santa Anna have been annulled, except in a few cases specially provided for. Governor Traconis,of Puebla, has expelled the monks of the Order of Saint Vincent de Pacl, and they have consequently removed to the city of Mexico. We publish to-day the report of the Commission ere appointed by the Walker-Rivas government of Nicaragua to examine and report as to the indebted- ness of the Accessory Transit Company to that re- pablic. This report was finished at Granada on the 4tb of July, and is now printed for the first time. ‘The property of the company seized is valued at ene hundred and sixty-one thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars, five cents ($161,129 05), and ‘the Commissioners report that the company owes the government of Nicaragua four hundred and ‘twelve thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dol- Jars, ninety-six cents ($412,589 96), leaving the ‘company still indebted to the government in the vum of two bundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and sixty dollars, ninety-one cents ($251,400 91). The report is elaborately prepared, and gives some iuteresting statistics of the compa- ny’s operations on the Isthmus. We publish elsewhere additional particnlars of the recent terrible catastrophe on the Northern Penn- wylvania Railroad. At last accounts the number of ‘the killed reached fifty, and i is estimated that at Jeast one bundred have been wounded. Through- out yesterday the excitement in Philadelphia was irvense, and the lamentations of the people resid- ing in the neighborhood of the church where t)« victims attended school, are represented as tro» Deartrending and beyond the power of language \ express We have also further particulars relative to the barning of the steamer Northern Indiana. The ‘worst fears regarding the missing passengers are oonfirmed. The propeller which assisted in the res- @ue arrived at Detroit yesterday, but she had only two or three passengers on board. The clerk of the Northern Indiana is of opinion that at least fifty Lives were lost, and the captain of the propeller is : the came belief. We give elsewhere the names of some of those known to have Leen lost. ‘We have stili another disaster to record. The propeller Tinto was burned on Monday night, on Lake Ontario, and shout twelve persons lost their Vives. The purser and twelve of the crew were Paved. Nothing of importance transpired in the Senate yesterday. In the House the Illinois contested election case was settled by the adsption of a reso- Jution ousting Mr. Allen, (dem) the incambent, and referring the matter back to the people. Mile- age and the usual per diem were allowed the con- testant, Mr. Archer. ‘The various Know Nothing conventions for the nomination of candidates for Congress from this city met last evening. Our indefatigable reporters at- tended at their gatherings. and have detailed the re salt of the inquiries and investigations in another column. The Third, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh dis triet conventions adjourned without making nomina- tions. In the Eighth district, John Ballock, said to ‘de a resident of the Twentieth ward, was nominated. ‘The Fifth district convention did not hold a formal Meeting. We give elsewhere, in onr colamns, the parti- culars ofa horrible murder, perpetrated in this city on Thursday night or Friday morning, upon the person of Bartholomew Burke, a porter in the store of Mr. Joyce, comer of Broadway and White streets. Advices from the Mauritias, dated a’ Port Louis on 2ist of April, say :~The cholera has been al lowed to come to our shores, and its ravages have spread desolation through the land. True, the ha- yoo has not been equal to that of 1854, but we have suffered seriously, and some of the most esteemed and beloved amongst us have succumbed to this cruel devastator. The Singapore, E. 1, Journal of Commerce, of April 29, says:—It is with feelings of deep regret Ghat we notice the breaking ont of cholera at Cal- eutta and other parte of India, carrying off the na tive population. Buropeans of all ages are falling victims to ite virulence. ‘The cotton market continued to rule very firm yesterday, whiie the sales reached shont 1500 bales, at full prices. The private advices by the Niagara imperted a firmer tone to the floor market, and in- creased sales were made, chiefly for export, with a alight improvement in prices for common to fair extra brands. Wheat was firm for prime lots, and irregular for common qualities, Good white Cana- dian sold at $1 72; white Southern at $1 70; new white Southern at $1 70, and new Southern red do. at #1 67. Spring Chicago and common red Milwaukie sold at $1 20 a #1 31. Corn was firmer, with eales of mixed at 55c. a 57c. for distilling, 5%e. fa Gle. for sound mixed, 62c. fer sound, and 650. for Southern yellow. Pork was inactive at #20 62) for mess. Sugars were steady, with sales of 600 hhds.,- inclading 300 Porto Rico and 300 Cuba, at rates given in another column. Coffee was quiet. Preights were without change of importance, while 2 fais wp upl of engagemen's Was Marie. } South ; and th: ern Disunion Abelidenists Going for Bu- chanan. Wecall the attention of our intelligent and think- ing readers of all parties te the article which we transfer to our columns to-day from the Rich- mond Znguirer, on Mr. Buchanai 5 election and the price of niggers, and the appended speeches of William Lioyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips at an abolition Fourth of July celebration in Massachusetts. It will be seen from this testi- mony, that while the nigger driving and secession democracy of the South desire the election of Mr. Buchanaa, because it will extend the area of slavery aml increase the price of niggers, the Massachusetts abolition leaders are of the opinion that Fremont and the republican party will never answer their purpose, but that the election of Bu- chanan will have a decided tendency to facilitate the great Garrisonian ultimatam of a dissolution of the Union. This compound dish of Southern nigger driving and secession democracy and Northern disunion abe litioniam, which we thus tender our readers to-lay, they will find to be somewhat stronger diet than the ordinary slops and water gruel of most of our party organs and orators at this ex- traordinary political crisis. For example we turn to our democratic and Fillmore exchanges, and we find them absorbed in the patriotic labor of proving Fremont a Roman Catholic, and inquiring into the mysteries of his run- away match with Colonel Benton's favorite daughter, and who baptized Fremont’s children, and who was his father and his mother, dead and gone, and what they were, and where they lived, and where they died, and who buried them, and what were the funeral expenses. And so in some of the republican journals we find them proving that the deceased wife of Millard Fill- more was of Irish Catholic extraction, and that his deceased daughter (cut off in the flower and hopes of her youth) was educated ina Roman Catholic seminary; and that very likely Millard Fillmore himself, while at Rome did as the Romans do, even to the kissing of the Pope's toe. Others of the anti-democratic press are puzzled to know whether Mr. Buchanan ever bad “a drop of democratic blood in his veins,’ and whether he ever condescended to kiss a lady's hand, or has lived all the days of his life—in deed and in thought-a cold blooded, imperturbable and selfish old bachelor. In contrast with all such partizan stuff and rubbish, the solid matter which we far- nish this moxning from the Richmond Enquirer and the Boston Lileretor, upon the great and start- ling issues which underlie this Presidential agita- tion, North and South, will doubtless be read with real interest by men of all parties, ‘The Richmond Enquirer undertakes very delibe- rat:ly to show that there was no mistake in the estimates of Governor Wise concerning the rise in the price of niggers—two, three or four bun- dred per cent—that will follow the election of Mr. Buchanan. The argument advanced in support of the Governor's calculations isa goodone. With Mi. Suchanan’s election, and under his adminis- tration, Kansas will come in as a slave State, other Territories will come in as slave States, in- cluding perhaps a slice or two trom Mexico, and Cuba and several others of the West India Islands. (See Cincinnati platform and Ostend manifesto.) These accessions wil! comprebead a largely increased demand for niggers —a demand so large that the cash price of all healthy slaves in Virginia, end throughout the South, will most ikely rise from the average of a thousand to three, four or five thousand dollars ahead. And our Virginia cotemporary undertakes to show that in this extension of the area of slavery, and in this corresponding increase in the cash value of niggers. the North will share in the profits of the accordingly, in an economical od financie) view, the practical dollar-and-cent wople of the Nort’ should unite with the slave- holders of the South to elect Mr. Buchanan, just as they wou! unite in any other profitable joint stock specu! stion. With this sort of Virginia pleading in behalf of Mr. Buchanan it may appear very strange that such fanatical disunion nigger worshippers as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, *hould repel Fremont as unfit for the crisia, and ineline rather to the support of Buchanan. Yet they do. Gafrison says that Fremont and the republican party are unsatisfactory to the aboli- tionists, pure aud simple—because nothing is pro- mised and nothing can be expected from the election of Fremont towards the repeal of the Fugitive Slave the abolition of slavery in the District of Colum or the suppression of the inter-State slave trade. In fect, Garrison thinks that Fremont, as President, would be very apt to conseat to the admission of Kan«as o° a slave State, if he could not prevent it without dimolving the jt jection of Wendell Phillips to Fremont is the law, or same. He is not a disunionist, and is therefore rejected by the ion abolitionists, with whom “the Uaion isa covenant with death, and the constitution @ ¢ with bell.” Phillips, in view of the great ultimatum of revolution and disunion thinks the election of Buchanan would be more advantageous to the revolutionary ae with hie Os i fextos, cause, inasmuch 1 me Cincinnati platforms and nigger driving mana gers, he would be very « precipitate the decisive issue wid servile war. Read the speeche and Phi ‘Thus, in the strange. startling and fal party disruptions and complications of this exciting and momenions canvass, we find Mr. Bachanan standing before us the preferred candi- date of Southern nigger Crivers and secessioniste, and of Northern abolition disunionists, Governor Wise and his Richmond organ think that the ex. pected increase im the cash value of niggers from he election of Mr. Buchanan will pay for every- thing; but the trae and undisguised disunion agi- ation, North or South, sees, no doubt, like Wen- dell Philips, tha’ Buchanan's success will be but the signal for (hat is agitation which will des troy the republic and light the flames of civil nd servile war we must not overlook the an of W. HL. Seward and In this connectior position in this camp Thurlow Weed. Gen. Webb at Ppiladelphia stood almost “ solitary and alone av of Seward as the repnblican candid Tharlow Weed has said that Fremont’s nomination was car ried in that Convention by “an angovernable mob.” Bat ft was simply the general voice of the masses, opposed to this corrupt and demoral ized Pierce democracy, and aeking some better than Seward could give—it wae the inde- pendent people and the independent pres: that carried Fremont so triamphantly over all his con tracted nigger worshipping and Know Nothing competitor Seward and his disorganizing clique and anti-slavery anion programme were thrown ont at Phy ghia, and Fremon nomiuatcd upon whe genoral iseue of Kaa as a NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1856, free State, and a conservative, domestic and | will say that Pennsylvania is not in an incipient foreign policy, against Buchanan and his plat- form of Kansas as a #lave State, aud Cuba by fair means or by foul. Seward does not occupy the platform of the republican candidate, for our disappointed Senator has openly proclaimed in the Senate that the day of compromises is past, |. and the Charleston Mercury, the leading organ of the secession democracy, makes the same declara- tion, In fact, W. H. Seward, the secession demo- cracy and the Massauchusetts abolitionists must all be classed together. Fremont was not the choice of Seward, and his nomination was the defeat of Seward. Fremont is not aeceptable to Garrison and Phillips, for they are driving at dis- union; and he is equally obnoxious to the South- ern fire eaters, for they are driving at seces- sion, In this view, we can hardly resist the concin- sion that the election of Fvemont would be a fatal defeat to the principles of Seward, to Southern secessionists and Massachusetts abolitionisis, and a great victory of the people in bebal! of the Union and a new administration. Caypipares FoR THE Nexr Conaress.—The politicians are already beginning to canvass for candidates anxious to serve the city as its repre- sentatives in the next Congress. The Know No- things are new very busy in making ther ay rangements, being frightened inta these early no- minations by the great popular revolution in fu | wor of Fremont. Among the democ heerd some names mentioned. It i Mr. John Cochrane, of the Custom J! ; the candidate of that party in the «isirict represented by John Wheeler. Mr. Cochr an eloquent and talented man. He will make a capital member of Congres? He is just the right kind of stuff to send to Washington, and his back- bone should be straightened out at once, We hear, also, that Mike Walsh will shortly be back from Rassia, laden with all the knowledge he has picked up in his Eu- ropean travels, and that he will contest the seat now occupied by John Kelly, with a fair probability of ousting him from it. It is alo stated—and we see no reason to doubt it- General Walbridge will be a candidate in the Third district, and that he will run in any event It will be recollected that General Walbridge has already served two terms in Congress a: the democratic representative for this district. Some people have been stating that Mr. Daniel E. Sickles intended to remove to this distriet and run for Congress. We think there is some doubt | about this statement. He can occupy a much better position as a sort of deputy for Forney, and managing the elections for that Great Mogul haat Of the modern democracy. After everything is settled ) the event of Buchanan’s election, it will be easy coough Sickles as Minister to England unli 1 command of the se- cret service find. Everything seems t» indicate that the system of primary elections—which are nothing more than impudent riots—will be thrown overboard this year, and that the leading candidates for Congress and for State and municipal offices will be brought before the people without the aid of those corrupt combinations which have so long disgraced our city and State. It is certainly necessury that there should be some change. If ‘he old, rotten, corrupt system shall continue here, it will bring abou: results as disastrous to New York as have already been climinated by precisely the same method in San Francisco. “Tar Prosrects or Nicaragca—We pab lish to-day some additional intelligence from Nicaragua, and ivwo interesting documents. The first is a letter from Thomas Lord, Vice President of the old Transit Company, to Mr. Hosea Birdsall, an American citizen and an agent of the company. Lord requests Birdsall to endeavor to obtain the aid of Captain Tarleton, of her British Majesty's frigate Eurydice, to stop re- inforcements for Walker during his war with Costa Rica, and thereby secure the overthrow of the bold adventurer who has assumed the reins 0. | power in Nicaragua. The document is i: portant, inasmuch as it acquits the British vernment of any participation In the acts Captain Tarleton, and shows that the old Tans Company desires to have Walker cut off, r and branch, and labored assiduously to accom plish that end. At the same time, we have the report of ti Commissioners appointed by Walker to arbitrate between the old Transit Company and the Nica raguan government. They bring ina bill against Vanderbilt & Company of a quarter of a million which, of course, Vanderbilt & Company will never pay; aud thus the Transit route pass the hands of Walker & Compan It does not appear that W can sustain himeelf in Nicaragua. He has establicied a military despotiem; but having no moacy where- with to pay his troops or to feed them, his down- fall seems more than probable. The men who go to Nicaragua now are not the sort of om who will develope the resources of the count They generally join the army instead of ti! the soil. They are consumers—not producers Such emigrants do not benefit any country. 1) is idle to suppose that the great natural resources of Nicaragua can ever be developed while the re- public is at war with the surrounding States and constantly torn by interr dissensions, Whether or not the Walker party will succeed ir maintaining a foothold in Nicaragua depend upon the amount of business transacted by thr company that now controls the Transit route. It they eucceed in securing a moiety of the Califor- nia travel, they may, possibly, maintain their ground; but until they can restore peace to the State, within and without her borders, they car give no real security to life and property, and therefore their route will be choowed by ihe peaceable and profitable portio. of the travelling community. The work which Walker has ‘:iled to do, will, however. be accomplished. vtral America ato atts will be redeemed—the Honduras railway will be completed; and then, with three routes from country will be ation who will the Atlantic to the Pacific fille] with an Anglo-Saxon | carry with them the spirit of ; ment, of enterprise, of high their Kestern homes, Then, ‘lization from and not till then, will the great agridultaral and commercial re- sources of the States be developed. Central America will then take her proper position among the nations. Porstieat. Stexs tx Pexsevivanta—We re- ceive at this office sixty five political newspapers from the State of Pennsylvania, published there. These are divided hetween the three leading poli- tical parties in the following proportions:—For Buchanan there are twenty-one, with a cireula- 900; for Fillmore there are three, with f 1.700; while ‘remont there will dation of 84,512 tion of ie state of revolution? ‘The Central Railread. ‘The approaching election in this State presents some very novel features. Not only is it a Presi- @ential election hotly contested by three rival candidates, but in the contest is involved a groat moneyed oligarchy which has lately matured ‘its profits and perfected ite plans by a grand con- sdlidation of interesta. The managers of the ‘Central Railroad—for that of course is the cor- poration we mean—kave conjoined to control ‘the politics of the State. They have undertaken to render subservient to their interests all the party journals at Albany, and all the leading newspapers in the villages and towns on their route. The Albany Evening Journal is wholly in the interest of the railroad and its political movements; its candidate is Morgan, who is an officer of one of the railroads. The Albany Atlas and Argus is under the same influence, con- tends for the same interests, and brings forward candidates pledged to the same purposes and the same projects. The subject of the members of the next Legis- lature of Albany—who exercise all the rea! in- fluence in railroad matters—is now beginning to attract the attention of the leading political organizations of all kinds. The last number cf the Albany Atlas and Argus says :— Wo have seen other names presented in our exchanges, Goveruor,) prominent among which are Erastus roing, Addison Gardiner, David L. Seymour, Fernando \ od and John Vanderbilt. Of these the name that is first mentioned— hat of Erastus Corning—is the one that is most ly to be successful at the Convention. But which ever party wins, the railroad is safe. It has men pledged to it in every party, and can look forward to the contest with comparative in- difference. It cares nothing for the President ; they may elect whom they please ; what it does care for is the consolidation of the Hudson River Railroad with the Central, and ultimately the profit to arise from the sale and purchase of the State canals, which will enable it to control all the avenues of the politics of the State to the day of judgment. ‘This is not the first time that moneyed corpora- tions have attempted to control politics in this country. In a limited sense the Safety Fund cor- porations were organized by Mr. Van Buren with a view to political effect and political power, ving the pendency of the Albany Regency. Poople revolted against them ; refused to be held n the shackles of a moneyed corporation ; and ut- terly broke down the system by throwing opea the business of banking. A similar project to this one of Mr. Van Buren’s was the attempt of the late ambitious and accomplished Nicholas Biddle, who wanted to create a power that would control the government of the Union. His power also was in the shape of a bank: the reader is aware how it disappeared and was finally defeated by the inexorable will of President Jackson. There have been other attempts since to create moneyed oligarchies; but the railroads are now offering a better opportunity than ever for creations of the kind. They have lately as- sumed enormous power and obtained great wealth, Some of them have been judicious. The intlu- ence of the Western and other railroads in Massa- chusetts has been moderately exercised, and has created no alarm. The case has been different in New York and New Jersey. In the latter State arailroad monopoly manages State politics and controls parties, as we all know to our cost from the badness of the road, the high rates of travel, and other inconveniences, In Lllinois an organi- zation has been effected similar to the one in New Jersey, and an effort is being made to in- troduce it bers The New York Central has prepared everything for the assumption of pow- er, and has subsidized all the party presses not only in the State capital bat in all the towns and villages in the neighborhood of the roads and canals, It is absolutely necessary for all independent men to rise up and look the matter in the face, unless they wish the State to be handed over bo- dily to Thurlow Weed, his coadjutors and asso- | cates, to levy contribution thereonas they please. | Yet it is difficult to tell what Is to be done, Bat what we have ecen of the railroad indicates sutti- ciently that it designs to make itself an indepen- dent imperium in imperio—a power behind the throne—and to secure for its oligarehy control of the elections of the Legislature and of the finances of the State. Sometmye tat Coxoress Suouny Atrenp o.—We trust that as Congress has got through with the chivalry, the members will pay some attent'on to a matter of practical importance, as expre-ed in the bill introduced in the House by Mr. Pelton of New York, of which the following ie & copy:— A Birt to authorize the President of the United States to canee to be procured, by purchase or other suitable steamer to be stationed at the port York, aa a revenue cutter, aat ing relief to distressed vessels, their passengers and crews. Bie it enected by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United Stales of America, in Con: assem: bled, That the President of the United Stat hereby, authorized to cause to be procared, by 7 of otherwise, wuitable steatner to be stationed at the port of New York, at a revenue cutter, and for the par pore of affor ting relief to distressed vessels, their passen ers and crews, aud that the sum of one hundred and Eity thourand doliars be, and is hereby, appropriated for that purpose, out of any moneys now in the treasury of the United States, and not otherwise appropriated. We have previously alluded to this matter, and we now desire to pressit upon the attention of Congress, On the firet of July we publiehed a list of marine disasters during the preceding six months. By this list it appeared that three bun- dred and fifty vessels and cargoes, valued at fif- teen millions of dollars, were lost, and we now learn that by only sixteen of these disasters fif- teen hundred lives were lost. The duties to have heen colleeted on the lost cargoes would have amounted to over two millions of dollars. There can be no doubt that many of these diso-ters might have been prevented by the em- ployment of stout steam cutters, which could live in weather where sailing cutters would be obliged to eck shelter. The cost to the government would be saved ten times over by the duties col- lected, as the above statistics show. We trust that the representatives of this State will spare no pains to push the bill through. Tun Cextrat, American Imenoerto.—Our London correspondent to-day confirms the state- mente made hy another correspondent, and pub- lished yesterday, to the effect that the Central American question has been virtually settled ; and we are further informed that the Hondaras government offers to give equal shares in the railway from Puerto Ceballos, on the Atlantic, to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific, to Rag land, France and the United States. With this railway finished, we shall have an Anglo-Saxon population in Central America—euch men as will govern themeclvee, and never allow their affyirs settled hy third partios IsvenssTinG Mexican News.—The news from Mexico and Washington, published to-day, may afford more satisfaction in this city than in Washington among the members of the Cabinet. It is not to be doubted that a constitution estab- lishing toleration of religion in Mexico will be popular everywhere. But the decree of Comon- fort, which looks to the future appropriation of the vast wealth of the church and the immediate receipt of a few millions, will certainly upset some of the calculations of Premier Marcy, and all others of Pacific Railroad authority. Now Mexico will not sell another patch of land in the Mesilla neighborhood, and the boundary, as lately established by proclamation, will stand for the present. We sincerely sympathise with the Cabinet in the failure of their recent attempt to induce Mexico to take six millions of dollars in conside- ration for a new boundary line on the thirty-first parallel of latitude to the Gulf of California. The proposition was drawn up with care, the arti- cles—seven, we believe—were very neatly writ- ten, and signed by Mr. Marcy; and six millions of dollars was a tempting offer to a government poor as Mexico was supposed to be. But all would not answer. Comonfort is not now in the market to sell lands, but is buying up church property and giving mortgages in payment. It would have been well for the Cabinet, before paying the last three million drafts on the Gads- den purchase, to have reflected on the subject whether the payment on the order of Santa Anna would be the most amiable mode of making a friend of Comonfort. One good turn deserves another. You would not give Comonfort the three millions aforesaid. He will not now take the six that are offered. It would have been much better to have treated Comonfort with the usual dis- tinguished consideration, and perhaps he might have received the other consideration of six millions. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. IMPORTANT RELATIVE TO MEXICO—ATTEMPT TO BUY MORE LAND, ETC. Wosninetox, July 18, 1856. Since Gen. Gadsden left town there has been some talk relative to another attempt of the government to pur- chase more Mexican territory. From what | can learn, Mr. .Marey a short time since drew up a proposition embracing eeven article, which he desired Gen. Comon- fort to agree to, and thus constitute a treaty by which Mexico was to surrender the thirty-first parallel of latitude to the Gulf of California, as the boun dary line of the two happy republics. For this land Marcy agreed to give siz millions o dollors in cosh, This additional slice of territory would be a continuation of the Mesilla purchase. Our line now runs down to the thirty-first degree, but only touches it, forming a triangle, and running north- ‘West to a point north of the Gulf of California. By run- ning the tbirty-firet parallel to the gulf several ports would be gained. But notwithstaneing the tempting bait of $6,000,000, Comonfort refused point blank to have anything to¢o with the proposition. Secretary Marcy and Gen, Gadaden will therefore have to be satisiled with the Mosiila poechase, the postal treaty and the abolition of the tobaceo monopoly. The Presiden] to-day sent the nominations of John For- syth as Minister, and Walker Fearne as Secretary of Le- gation at Mexico, in place of Messrs, Gadsden and Cripps, recalled, Messrs, Foreyth and Fearne are from Alabama, ‘Those having the subject immediately in charge have concluded got now to prevent the application of the peo- ple of Utah for adinission as a S.ate into the Union. During the progress of the Herbert trial to-day, one of the juror became so exhauste! and prosirated by heat ‘as to cause the adjournment of the court. Disaster on Lake Ontario—Twelve Lives Lost. Kivostoy, C. W., July 18, 1856, The propeller Tinto was burned iast night off Nine Mile Point, and is a total wreck, Abont twelve persons are ost—among them Captain Campbell and a Mr. Hender- son. The purser and twelve of the crew are saved. The Burning of the Steamer Northern Indi- ana—Fifty Lives Supposed to be Lost. Burvazo, July 18, 1856, We hare the following additional particulars of the burning of the Northern Indiana. The fire originated in the wood work around one of the chimnies, and spread very rapidly. The vessel burned to the water's edge in Ofty minutes. Mr. Wetmore, the first mate, commanding in “the absence of Captain Pheat, exerted himself to the ut- most to save the passengers, and was the last to leave the burning vessel, He stood at his post, throwing dvore, life proservers, stools, &e., to the passengers, who, wild with exeltement, were leaping overboard in marees, The weather was pleasant, and a dead calm prevailed, and Mr. Wetmore says that could he hay» controlled the reckic#ness of the passenzers in jump- ing overboard, not one of them would bave been lost. During the «xcitement some «f the firemen and deck bands launched a smail beat, into which several of them jumped, but it was drawn under the wheels of the steamer, and they were lost. ‘The steamer was towed in shore by the propeller Re public, and now Hes in Pigeon Hay, above Point ax Melee, in tem feet of water. Her bull is said to be uninjured. With favorable we f she can be towed into port. With regard to the nutrber lost the reports are conflict- ing, and a correct estimate cannot be mavle, as the trip heets wore destroyed. Mr. Marsh, the clerk of the ves- sel, arrived at Cleveland this morning. He says that not less than fifty have been lost. The propeller Republic, supposed to have save! a num- ber of the passengers, arrived at Detroit this morning with several of the crew, but with only two of the pas- rengers. We have no names of the persons cither known or supposed to be lost. Deraorr, Jaly 18, 1856. The number of passengers saved from the Northern Indiaoa, brought up by the Mississippi, is one hundred and forty-two. ‘The following persons are known to be lost:— Sewell Tarner wud Daunte! Gray, of Rome, Maine. Michael Burke and Thomas Farie, firemen, of Bu‘Talo, Mrs. Fliza Blanchard, of Angurta, Me. Henry Nims and child, of Tully, N. ¥. Avgustine Fortvalie, of Buffalo. George Dawson, of Rrockport, S. Y. Mrs. Mary Ladayerd, of England Mra. Mary Ackroyde, her father, mother, husband and two obildren, of Eng G, Smith, of Battal Bugene Cary end chtld, of Greenvnsh, Wis Mies Jeunings, of Waverley, Il. Hevekiah Thomas, of Buffalo. Nicholas Commerford, of Roeliester. A lady ud a child, of Louisville. Three «ol heavers, a deck hand and a child It i feared that moge than these have been lost, ‘The Capiain of the Republic thinks none were saved exeept those on board his own vessel and fuhe Mis- ise ipl. Une citizens held a meeting last night, and raised $800 for the sufli rors, and several more hundreds were raised for them to fay. Every attention is paid tothem. Free rajiromd and steamboat passes are furnished them, and the botels and the telegraph are also free to them. The Canada Outward Bound, Manivax, July 18, 1856, The eteamship, Canada arrived bere from Boston at @ quarter-past eleven o'clock last might, and sailed again for Liverpool at half-past twelve. Shipment of Wheat to Liverpool. Curcaco, July 17, 1366. The echooner Dean Michmond cleared this afternoon with twelve thousand buchels of wheat for Liverpool direct, at O6c. freight. Part of the cargo is from Chicago and part from Milwaukie. Disaster to the Ship Amelia, Crantestox, July 18, 1856. ‘The chip Amelia, from Cardiff, with railroad iron for Savannah, wont ashore on Monday night, near Tybee. fhe will probably be lust. A culter Is alongaide of ber. THIRTY4FOURTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Senate. ‘Wasnincton July 18, 1856, ‘The Senate, after passing an act to repeal the law au-- thorizing the erection of an armory in Washington, prov ceeded to the consideration of private bills. ‘The Senate discussed, without coming to any conclu- sion upon it, the bill extending the patent of Obed Hus-- sey’s reaping machine. Mr. YuLgr reported a bill providing for the compulsory” prepayment of postage on all transient printed matter, Adjourned to Monday. House of Representatives, Wasuincton, July 18, 1866°. ‘The }linoie contested election case was taken uyj amu’ Mr. Archer addressed the House in his own behalf. The resolution that Mr. Allen was not entitled’ tora seat was adopted by 94 against 90, and the rezolution that Mr. Archer was entitied rejected by 89 against 91. An effort was made to reconsider the last vote, but it was lost by four majority. Resolutions were then passed deslaring that a vacancy xists in the Seventh Congressional district of Ilnois, eferringghe election back to the people, and giving Mr. Archer, contestant, mileage and per diem to date. Adjourned, Address to the Whigs of Massachnsetts. Boston, July 18, 1856. An address to the whigs of Massachusetts, from the State Central Committee, is published this morning, It recommends the true and sound whigs of Massachu- setts to avoid committing themselves at present to either” of the candidates of other parties now prominently pre-- senting themselves; urges @ thorough organization and full representation at the State Convention to be held om the third of September next; and further, that in the ab- gence of a candidate freely selected by themselves, shey’ may be compeiled eventually to make a choice of that one who shall seem upon the whole either the least ob- jectionable or the most nearly conformable to their owy wishes and principles, and that they should reverve, untit after the sitting of the Convention, the elements of a strength which may become, through united action, the means of true public service, and may be made to form| the basis of future important results. The address closes by averring that the first tt whig principle must be unwavering fidelity to the Union and the eonstitution of| the country, ‘Whig Fremont and wayton Mecting in Boston. Bostox, July 18, 1856, A meeting of the whigs of Botton in favor of John C, Fremont for President, was held in Faneuil Hall this) evening. About 1,200 were present. The mecting wag! called to order by Hon. W. T. Eustis, and Robt. J. Burb elected President, with numerous Vice Presidents, inclu~| diog Franklin Dexter, Gardner Brewer, Patrick T. Jack- son, and other well known whigs. Speeches were mad by ‘Col. Burbank, Hon. Wm. M. Evarts, of New York. and others, mainly urging the propriety, importance and necessity of a united rally for Fremont and !ayton, ag) the on'y means of defeating the democracy. The meet ing was very enthusiastic. Half a dozen Fillmoreites created a brief disturbance in the middle of the Hall, but were ejected, Markets. PEILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. , July 18, 1856, Railroad, S515) Long Tnicad Haitrond, 1334; Mortis Canal ) $5355 stan 1334; Morris 14a; Pebnsyivania Railroad, 48%. Bervato, July 18—1 P. M. Flour tends downward; sales 500 bbis., at $6 252 $6 for good to choice Ohio, Java and Indiana. Wheat qu Corn lower, aud dull; ealcs, 6,000 bushels, at 46c. a 47¢, Cats nominal; sales at 36c. Rye, Oc. Whiskey, 38. Canal freights dull. Receipts yesterday—3,462 bbis. flour; 37,168 bushels wheat; 139,067 bushels corn. Ci exports rame Ume—7,762 bushels wheat; 44,686; bushe corn. Atpayy, July 18—1 P. M. Oats, 42¢ 2 44c.; eales 20,000 bushels. Cora is again arriving by canal; no sales of Western afloat; sales from store at 58c., and yellow in lots at 6c, 2,000 bushels spring malt, from Canada. Barley, $1 56, Cmncaco, July 178 P.M. ‘Wheat firm, but transactions small.” Shipments Oswego, 17,000 bushels. Corn advanced le, 2c. Ship ments to Bufiulo, 69,000, and to Oswego, 14,000 bush Oats firm; shipments to Buffalo, 19,000 bushels. Chicago, July 186 P. M. Wheat dull. Corn firm. Sales to-day, 44,000 bushe at 44ijc.ad5c. Shipments—To Bullalo, 56,000, and Oswego, 27,000 bushels, Oswxeo, July 18, 1856, Wheat ip fair request for prime parcels, Sales, 24,0 bushels, at $1 60a 1 66 for white Canadian. Corn inacti reights unchanged. Lake imports to-day—422 bb! flour, 63,211 bashels wheat. Canal e: 324 bb flovr, 1,084 bushels wheat, 24,121 bushels corn, 5,62 bushels cass. Our Washington Correspondence, Wastnyoros, July 17, 1856. Senator Toombs’? Naval Bi—Commodore Slewart—Mr. let's Case—Southern Votes for Colonel Fre Buchanan's Plans, de. There is much feeling shown by parties immedi interested, in the defeat of Senator Toombs’ substitute to the bill which has parsed ths Senate, for a great efficiency in tho naval service of the United Dtates. It reasoned by several of the parties who are su! under the act of last year that in reality their cases not be'tered by the cecision of the Senate, and that influence which brought about the report of the com tee for their retirement and dismissal, wili have fj weight with the President. An attempt will be made the House to amend it, by substituting the principal tures of Toorms’s Dill, but it is hardly probable that can succeed, Ihave heard it hinted that upon the re-tastalation Commodore Stewart to his original rank in the navy, old veteran will send in his resignation, and thus pre further experims upon his well earned reputatio whieh is about ell the riches theold hero im» vow him, after a bulf century's service to his country. Public feeling has greatly changed in the case of M Herbert, vince the receipt of the last intalligence fro fap Francisco. Hix pos on of member of Congress h {ta influence largely in bis favor with the eumm it this support ie now ta his character by th fornia press, and hence difflewlty in gettiug a second jury to try his case. friends of Mr. Herbert charge these assaults a character to partizan hostility, which they will show the ve of bie tral ft is certainly unfortunate Mr Herbert that these California representations 4! have reached Washington just at this time. On @ visit yesterday to Alexandria, on a Washingt steamer, a Presidential vote of the passengers was cail for, and out of the thirty eeven passen; thirteen ¢ clared themselves tor Fremont. Curiosity led me afd ward to introduce myself to the parties who had favo Fremont, whereupon I ascertained that all but two them were from the South. This is an actual fact, have thought it worth recording. Although ho may be deprived of the privilege of voting tor Fre it le nevertheless certain that bis cause has many and true frier ‘s ir that section of the Union. George M. Dallas it to be Secretary of State in event of Mr. Buchanan's election, and Wim. L. Marcy be offered the vacant port at London. Thus much] known throug) Forney aiready, who wamte Marcy of the country, a» the first move in Buchanan's in possession ol the White House, ‘The Court Dress Question in England- PROFESSOR MAMAN'S LETTER AND MARCY’S J DORSEMBNT. Dr. H. Mahan, the Amerivan gentleman who was | admitted to the Queen's levee, has addressed the fold ing letter to the London papers :— As “a stranger in a strange land,” it might seem t allectation were I longer to keep silenee, after | have designated in a manner so unmistakeable, and held ug] ridicule, by severe! of what are termed the leading pers of London. That 1 have not only done nothing deserve this, but, on the contrary, had taken every | caution which forethought aud presence of mind co aevise to prevent it, both before and at the time of |) oceurrence referred to, | wuet beg your readers to lieve on my word as a genileman—it is unnecessary] me tate bere in what wey, asa particular statem) of the facts has been placed by me inthe possession of | of her Majesty's Mmisters of State, aleo in that of a © mercial house of the buyhest standing in London, wih the Athenwum Club, and the Secretary of Wi the United States, to whom I am officially amenaty my conduct as a gentleman and an officer of the mili Fervies. It is painful to be forced into this net of 1 riety. but lam happy to know it was = | seeking. Ihave the honor to be, sir, your oleic . Doin, Manag in the Untied States Military Acad 7 vant, Professor, &c., ———. New Theatre for Miss Laura Keene. On Tuesday next Mr. John M Trimble will com work on a new theatre for Miss Laura Keene, whic) contracts to complete in sixty days, 80 that it o opened for dramatic represcutations on the Ist of Oct! ensuing. The site is in Proadway— Nos, 622 and 624 ground now occupied by the Grinnell House. mensions of the land ar ) feet front on Broadway 185 feet deep, the lot runaing back to Crosby street. auditorium will include a parquette and two boxes, The lower floor will be devoted entirely te parquette, which will scat eight hundred persons. ground is eligibly situated, being in the best A | Broadway, one block below the theatre formerly pied by Miss Keene, and half a block above Ni Garden. ‘The premises have been leased to Miss Keene for ty-one years, and the house will be built expres Mies Keene, she having a large pecuniary inter being a joint proprietor. With the numerous ji ments lately introduced in buildings of this ki Trimble will have an opportunity to ereet one d nicest theatres in the world; and from his known « we have no doubt that he will succeed in #0 doing. Miss Keene, of course, re tres gracefelly from any