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The Senate yesterday again amended the Asny bill by striking out the Kansas provis>, and ‘the House determined, by two majority, to adhere thereto. The Senate adjourned pending. a motion to A caucus of Senators is to be held this morning, to consider-what course shall be pursued. ‘The excitement at the capital is becoming intense. ‘Belegraphic messages have been sent off in all di- rections, recalling the absentees, and the arrival of every train brings accessions to the strength of adhere also. ‘both parties. So far, however, the republicans ‘Srmly hold their ground. There is much specula- ‘tion as to what will be done if the Senate do not recede, and it is stated that if Congress adjourn ‘without granting the army appropriations the Pre- ident will immediately call them together again. We publish elsewhere full particulars of the ex- pulsicn from Mobile by a Vigilance Committee of «Mesars. Strickland and Upson, booksellers, who were eonvicted, after due investigation, of selling incen- diary publications. We are not apprised of the titles of the obnoxious works, buta Mobile paper, win! ite report of the affair, says that “ the character of the evidence and of the books brought before the -eommittee were such that it was thought not only tdépnjudicious but unsafe to make them public.” Sab- eaeqnent to the action of the committee, a large pub- ‘Bic meeting was held, and their course approved. “The Mayor of the city was present, and urged the audience to preserve order, assuring them that the «action of the committee was perfectly satisfactory. Acoounts from Kansas by way of St. Louis con- sirm the report of the capture of the town of Le sempton by the free State men, and the flight of ‘many of the inbabitants, includisg Governor Shan- wen.and Gen. Olark, Indian agent. Mr. Woodson, Acting Governor, and Sheriff Jones, were taken prisoners. The proslavery men were rallying from all points; everywhere preparations were making for war,.and a bloody conflict is anticipated. Werhave Jate da’es from Texas. The election on ‘the ath inst. was for Chief Justice and Associate Jastices.cf the Supreme Court, Attoracy General, Comptroller, Treasurer, District Judges and county seficers. Straggling returns from some counties had Leen received, but not sufficient to indicate the remit. In Austin county, which last year gave a large Know Xothing majority, the entire democra- tie ticket was chosen hy cearly one hundred ma- jority. We poblish in another part of oar paper a very important opinion of Judge Whiting in relation to the $200,000 appropriation made by the Board of Bupervisore for the present expenses of the Cen- tral Park. The Judge continues the injunction against the Mayor, Ac.,and is of opinion that there fe no power conferred by the general law regulating the powers of this particular body authorizing the imposition of (se tax in question. He examined the several statutes relating to the Central Park, and has found no warrant or authority for the levy of such 4 tax a thia by the Board of Bupervisors. If the Sa- pervisore in the assessment of atax exceed the sum ‘anthorized to be raised, or assess a tax for an object not within their corporate powers, or if they blend in one assessment an illegal tax with one that fs legal, the whole is uncollectable. The power claimed is anlimited; and Judge Whiting says that @ they can avsess $200,000 they can assess two or ‘eo millions of dollars,and the citizen would thas be subjected, not to the unlimited power of the Le- gialcture, but to the unrestricted power of the Board ot Srpervisore. Jt seems from the opinion of Justice Harris, of the Baprenve Court at Alvany, that the court have no control over the Attormey General to direct the bringing of ¢ awit to try the title of the claimant to the place on the bench of the Supreme Court in this district. Tbe Attorney General refases to bring i, and lawyera and litigants seem destined to remain in doubt as to who is properly the Judge. A race between the six oared boats Robert Em meti and Unknoen canve of on Charles river, Bos ton, on Thursday afternwon. The race was wit- messed by many thousand *pectators, and it was Pronounced the most closely contested that ever took place in tose waters. The Emmett took the Jead from the start and kept 't during the entire race, winning by about two Loat's lengths. The distance rowed was six miles, and the time made by the winning boat was one hour aiid three minutes, notwithstanding the wind, which was blowing a The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 500 8 600 bales. The market closed steady, and without change of moment in prices. Owing toa break in the canal, produced by the late rain storm, common to good and medium extra brands of State and Western flour improved about 5 centa per bar- rel. Prime to choice new white Southern and West ern wheat again advanced, and sales were made at $1 65 a $1 66, and red do. sold at $1 5049156, Old wheat continued dull, and Canadian white sold at $1.40. Western red, as in quality, sold at $1 20 2 91 45. Corn was firmer, with sales of sound ‘Western mixed at 62}c. 9 64c. Pork was dall, with sales of mess at #19 31jc. $19 3740. Sagare were active, but the market closed at about jc. decline from the previous highest rates, with sales of about 1,800 hhda. at prices stated in another column. The auction sale of ee eee? and spirited company, whole cargo of Seas tagetsania es t0e-6 114, making an ave. rage of 10.69. aes year ped ayn factory. Freights were steady, about 50,900 Duskela of wheat were engaged for Liverpool at 74., ip ebip's bogs, with Gour pt le 0% ‘ansas, tee Administretien, the Army BIN the Washington Union, on the “alleged revola- tionary action of the black republican party in the House of Representatives.” The House has done nothing more than insist upon a certain proviso fer the security of the settlers of Kansas, and ‘emigrants bound there, as a condition of the pas- ‘sage of the Army Appropriation bill; and it is *for doing this that they are charged with having laid “ violent hands upon the constitution, and »perpetrated a revolutionary act im order te ena- NEW YORE HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1856. ‘or starved out. It is the treasury of the United better to fall back upon a different system of eus- Statesthat has subsisted the land pirates of Kan- sae. ‘Let the fountain be stopped and the stream anid'the House of Representatives. ‘We transfer to this paper a leading article from ble them to recommence a civil war,” &c. This is cool. A kidnapper renning dewn the highway with a little nigger under bis cloak,-and crying out lustily, “Stop thief!” could not be more adroitly impudent. But the President's } organ grinder keeps up the cry with the gusto of an “artful dodger.” He says that “the act re- fusing, under the circumstances, support to the army, was not only revolutionary, but was moral freason against the government.” Worse than all this: we are told that the House sought, in this business, “to clothe the President with dictatorial power, and to put Kansas under martial law.” Nor is this all; but, horrible to relate, it seems that the object of the House majority in their contu- macious conduct, was “to disband the army, and let anarchy come with all its horrors.” The pious indignation with which these terrible things language of Col. Forney in that letter of his to Forrest. In this case the President of the United States holds the same relation to Kansas that Col. Forney held to the poor man Jamieson in meanness, hypocrisy and treachery. What is the sum and substance.of all these crimes charged upon the House of Representa- tives in reference to the Army bill? The follow- ing House proviso to that bill embraces the whole catalogue of its offences:— part of the military force of the United States, tor the support of which appropriations are made by this act, shall be employed in ald of the euforcement of any cnact- ment of the body claiming to be the Territorial Legislatare of Kansas, unti! such enactm ents shall bave doen aflirmed 80 construed as to prevent the President from employing en adequa‘e military force, but it shail be bis duty to employ euch force to prevent the invasion of said Terri- tory by armed bands of non-resilents, or any other body of non-resivents, acting or claiming to act as & pose comi- tatus of at of any such enactment, and to protect the persou® and any law of the United States authorizing ‘the distribution of arms to the States and Territories. All these accusations of the President's organ, of “ moral treason,” “ revolution,” “ civil war,” “violent hands upon the constitution,” and what not, refer to the adhesion of the House to this proviso ; but we defy the shrewdest lawyer of the Tombs to find anything like “ moral treason,” or “anarchy,” or a blow at “the constitution,” in the said proviso, after reading it over twenty or fifty times. mate. this or that item. Nor is there anything revolu- ter, though it should cause the defeat of the bill. We concur, in this view, with one of our morning cotemporaries, “that the House have the right and the constitution on their side ;’ and we-hold that the declaration of James Madison, the “father of the constitution,” to wit:—“the House of Representatives can not only refuse, bat they alone can propose the supplies requisite for the support of the government”—outweighs a ehip load of such rul@ish as thie of our Cabinet organ. We go further. We eay that the parties guilty of the offences charged by the President's organ | upon the House of Representatives, are the Pre- sident himself and the democratic party, includ- ing its leaders in the Senate, ite jugglers at Cin- cinnati, and their willing tool at Wheatland. If there be “ moral treason” any where, it is not in this House proviso to the Army bili for the pro- tection of the bona fide settlers of Kansans against the4sorder ruffians; but it is in the democratic Bughanan leaders of the Senate, who, in obedience to Me. Toombs and others of their nigger-driving masten®, insist upon subsisting these vagabond loafing Lorder ruffians upon the public treasury. If “ violent hands” have been “ laid upon the constivation,”’ the crime has not been done by the House in withholding the public moneys from the bogus Legislature of Kansas “ until its acts shall have deen approved by Congress,” bat it has been committed by that Kansas Legislature itself, in a series of acts which would add horrors to the bloody code of Draco; by the President, who has sustained these atrocities, and whose hands are red with iamocent blood; and by the democratic Senate, which, under the thumb of Mr. Toombs, sustains Mr. Pierce and that whiskey drinking raffianism lorling it over Kansas, to the infamy of this administration and the disgrace of our country before the civilized world. In the consideration of this Army bill and th'« provieo in the Senate, we have been astonished not at the pro-slavery zeal, fidelity and flexi- bility of Douglas, nor at the painful servility of Pugh and Bigler to their democratic secession masters, but at the humiliating acquiescence of men who have nothing further to expect from sec- tional demagogues or party conventions. We allude to such men as Cass, Clayton, Houston and Crittenden, on the Presidential retired list, and therefore in a position to be independent; but instead of independence or a half-way dispo- sition to conciliation, we find these venerable and distinguished men reduced to the degrading po- sition of mere camp followers of the Cincinnati nigger-drivers and their wild young Presidential champion of the Ostend manifesto. With such moral degradation before our eyes as that of the democratic Senate of the United States, can we wonder at the reactionary spirit of the House of Representatives in behalf of law and order? Mr. Pierce, through his Washington or- gan, says that the object of the Honse, in this Kansas proviso, “is to recommencs, a civil war.” Our Executive is too modest by half. The honor belongs to him. “Civil war’ ex- iste in Kansas, and has existed there, and “ moral treason” and “martial law,”’ since the first Mis- sourt-Kansas election. The House proviso proposes to put an end to these atrocities; and as asimple constituijonal question, and as a qnee- tion of nw and juetice, North and South, we hold that proviso, under existing exigencies, to ‘be worth a dozen Army bills. The disgrace of that Missouri-Kansas Legislature and its laws bows be wiped from the fape of the Territory, are detailed, reminds us forcibly of the strong George Roberts, touching the wrongs o° his friend the Forrest case—a relation of immeasurable Provided, however, and it is hereby declared, that no and approved by Congress; but this provieo ahall not be officer in said Territory, ia the en‘orcement city Qberein, and apon the national highways \cacing ' Territory, from all unlawful searches aud seiqures ; itehat be bis further duty to take efficient massuros to compel the return of and withhold al! arme of the United States, distributed in or to said Ter: itory, °n pursuance of That proviso is perfectly germain and legiti- it is a common thing, and a proper thing, on the part of either house to specify the objects to which appropriations of the public money shall be limited. Wefind it in every clause of every appropriation bill; and it is no unusual thing to have a dozen provisos ina single appropriation bill, specifying the objects and the limitations of tionary in adhering to a proviso of this charac- will dry up. ‘Our readers will perceive from the proceed- ings of Congress yesterday, that the House sticks to that proviso, though reduced to a very slender majority. We await the final is- sue with deep anxiety If a carte blanche is given to Mr. Pierce over Kansas affairs, as proposed by the Senate, we fear that Governor Wise will never realize an increase in the price of niggers to five thousand dollars a head, but that, on the other hand, Kansas will be lost to the South, Cuba will be lost to the South, and probably Buchanan and Forney. The responsibility is with the Senate. Tue Recent Presmestu, Mxerines.—The political assemblages in this city on Thursday evening were numerous and respectable. The German population divided between the support of Fremont at the Tabernacle, and of Buchanan atastand in the Park triangle. The proceed- ings at Tammany Hall were tame and spiritleas. The distinguished speakers from 4 distance, Stevens and others, who were announced for the occasion, did not appear ; like actors when un- willing to face the footlights, they were conve- niently indisposed and would not perform. It is worthy of notice that at the Tabernacle the speeches in favor of Fremont were ardent, elo- quent and enthusiastic; those for Buchanan at the other places, were geierally dull and prozy. Judge Parker, the democratic candidate for Governor—a highly respectable man, and in his proper and appropriate pssition, worthy of all respect—attempted a justification of the course of the administration towards Kansas, and the rowdyism, tumults and bloodshed it has occa- sioned, in as plausible « manner as a good special pleader might be expected todo. But he utterly failed in makirg out his case, or stat- ing the true istue. Gen. Walbridge delivered a great and excellent spe:ch, but on a subject quite foreign ty the occasion, and having little to do with the electior. Taking up the State paper of Secretary Mary on the subject of pri- vateering, he presented a mass of interesting and important facts wth regard to the resources, power and commerce of this country, which dis- played the sagacity and foresight of a states- man. The General cemonstrated that while our commerce is as great as that of the nations of Europe altogether, our naval defences are not in the proportion of on2 sixtieth of the amount, and far less than theirs. He urged with force the establishment of 1 militia navy, an idea novel, but valuable, and which we cordially ap- prove. At the Taberaacle, the leading speech was from Julius Frobe, a thorough German re- publican, and it was worthy of the occasion. Mr. Dorsheimer, the wal known democratic ex- Postmaster of Buffalo,and a man of large in- fluence in the Western counties, among the Ger- mans, also made some mimated remarks, and to the point. The whole afair went off admirably, and gives assurance of the growing popularity of Fremont. Kansas anp THE Extra Srssion.—While a po- litical struggle is going or in Congress, of a most serious character, a bloody one is in progress in Kansas, exciting the bitterest feelings between the Northern and Southern population of that Territory—created, excited, stimulated and tole- rated by the present administration. This fratri- cidal war is reviving with new fury, and no one can foresee how it will terminate. Who ie to blame for this? Why has it occurred? Why is it permitted? Why is Congress engaged in the wretched contest? It is because the question of slavery is at the bottom, and political interests are the leaven which leavens the whole lump. The administration secretly and opealy are as sisting in the further extension of slavery by the most unjustifiable means, and have done so from the beginning. If slavery is the wish of the le gal majority of the people of Kansas, if they adopt it as a domestic institution by regular and constitutional means, there can be no sound and valid objections to their doing so, But all right minded persons have most serious objections to its violent introduction, or the use of the army t© force it upon an unwilling people. This is what the President seeks to do, and his possible moceesor, Mr. Buchanan, does not object to do- ing. The slavery excitement can be quicted easily and fizally by admitting Kansasas a slave State, if the majority eo decide. There should be kept up an equality of States in the North and South. The whale scheme was as unnecessary as it was fraudulent. Other slave States will come into the Union from Texas, in due time, and corres ponding additions will be gradually made from the Northern Territories, where slavery cannot exist. The balance of power will thus be harmo- niously preserved. But it is another and a very different question whether this administration and its legatee shall force the people of Kansas to submit to the moet anti-republican oppression and abominable laws, which strike at the very foun- dations of free government, and annihilate at a blow all our guarantees of personal liberty. And it remains to be aeen whether Congress, at this extra session, will permit it to be done by the ure of the army of the United States, Fraxcts P. Bram ow James Bocwanay—A large proportion of our news columns is appro- priated this morning to the letter of Francis P. Blair on James Buchanan and the old story of the “bargain and sale,” whereby, in 1824, as alleged by the democracy of that day, Mr. Adams was made President and Mr. Clay Secre- tary of State. It has always been well under- stood that Mr. Buchanan had a long finger in that pie; but there has always been some mys tery about his conduct as a go-between from Old Hickory to Henry Clay. This exposé of Mr. Blair clears up this mystery, and leaves Mr. Buchanan in the most disagreeable position. Mr. Blair's letter is a long one; but it is the most curious, refreshing and inetructive chapter upon Presidential politics which this campaign has yet brought out. Rend it, Consequences aNd Resvits or Mr. Bocnaxan’s Exxcrion.—If Mr. Buchanan should happen to be elected to the Presidency, it may be well to con- tider what will be his foreign policy. He seems to look on the Kansas difficulties with a real or affected apathy, which gives rise to some grave epeculations as to his future conduct. To escape from the civil war now raging in that Territory, to get rid of our internal difficulties in the settle- ment of its affairs—in short, to cut the knot which he may be unable or is unwilling to untie, a war with Spain, on the plan of the Ostend con- epiracy, will be hie most probable course and his earliest policy. On the other hand, if Fremont ie elected by the Lee Siaves, Ube Sout wil eee that it wil) be taining iteelf, than to resort to threats of disunion or force. The new slave States carved out of Texas will come peaceably into the Union, and Kansas can be let alone, The balance of power would be fully kept up, and that without conflict or disorder, In one short year, secessionism would be abolished, and abolitionism annihilated, Here, then, is the simple and inevitable solution ofall our difficulties, and to obtain it we must adhere to the candidate who is of all others the most certain of working it out, and that is Fremont, THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Important from Washington. THE STRUGGLE IN CONGRESS ON THE ARMY BILL —BOTH PARTIES STAND FIBM—WHAT 18 TO BE DONE? ‘Wasmnaron, Aug. 22, 1858. The proepect for the paseage of the Army Appropria- tion bill is now regarded as hopeless, the republicans having exhibited to-day a stubborn determination to de- feat it at all hazards, There was no discussion in the House; but the debate in the Senate was highly instruct- tye and impressive. While Senators Bell, Hunter, Cass and others deplored the consequences, but thought 1: better to loge the appropriation and disband the army than to permit the House of Representatives to assume all the legislative powers of the government, by forcing upon the Senate independent legislation contrary wo their judgment and constitutional rights, Senators on the other side of the chamber applauded the House and urged them to persist in their action, whether it be revo- lutionary or not, It now remains with the Senate to determine what shall be done, If they sustain Huater’s motion to adhere, both Houses, will adjourn; if not, then the Senate will not agree to adjourn; and thereupon the House will be compelled to go on with the regular order of business, as there ig @ strong disposition to do on all sides. ‘The joint rules require that all general appropriation bills be confined to carrying out existing laws. If, then, the Kansas proviso changes apy law }t, violates the joint rule; if not, it is surplusage. Gen. Cass gave it as his deliberate opinion thatthe days of the republic were numbered. Mr. Wade, of Ohio, de- fended thefaction of the House, and was very abusive of the Executive. The Senate was much divided on a pro- position to adjourn again sine die. The House refused to eptertain the proposition. ‘Those who profess to have aright to speak say that the President will take the reeponsibility to use the pub- lic money, and pay the army, if Congress still refuses to yote supplies. I understand this evening, however, from a gentleman high in authority, that if the two houses adjourn without passing the Army bill the President will immediately cal) them together again. Col. Benton appeared in the lobby of the House to day, surrounded by his republican friends. The democrats jooked on, The committee appointed yesterday to wait on the Pre- fident bas never reported. The message was delivered in advance of such report. ‘The Senate ratified the extradition treaty with Baden, and postponed that with the Sandwich Islands till the next session, Mesers. Ball, Dann, Tyson, Porter and Oliver, of Mis- sourt, members of the House, returned this evenlog Others bave been telegrapbed to hasten back. The democratic Senators bold a caucus to-morrow morning in relation to the subject. ‘The republican members continue to receive despatches advising them to stand firm. The critical eoudition of the Army bill is everywhere ciscusged, SHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESE. EXTRA SESSION. Senate. Wasninctox, Aug. 22, 1866, The Army bill was received from the Gouse. Mr. Heasox, (dem.) of Va., sald there was no neces tity for ite reference, as it was precisely the same as that Jost on Monday. It was not bis purpose to enter iato a debate, and he thought the question at issue should be decided to day. He moved to strike out the Kausas res- trictive proviso. Mr. Sawanp, (nigger worshipper) of N. ¥., agreed with Mr. Hunter that the eudject was perfectly uader- stood. He hal heretofore said what he wanted w say, and contented himecif by demanding the yeas and nays, stating that he had paired off with Mr. Toombs. ‘The motion to strike out the proviso prevailed, by 35 against 7, and the bill was paased. A message was received from the House stating tha; they “adhere.” . Hexten thought, under the circumstances the bill should be allowed to fail. He moved that the Senate “acbere’’ also. Mr. Beta (national of Tenn.,) said the House had taken @ very unuseal, upparliamentary and imexcnsable Proviso, alter all, was but an abstract nce Congress could never contro! the Executive in (iscbarge of his duties. He boped the bill would not be allowed to fail, and suggested asking a Committ se of Conferen se. Mr. Hewree replied, if he belley 2d a Committee of Con- ference could agree, ‘he would consent, but the action of the two heuses on the former bill, aud the vote of the House of Representatives to adhere now satisfied bim that there was no hope of pasting the bill in a proper form. He would epeted the constitution, and ict ap- ‘lation bille fail \f necessary. ir. Cass, (dem.) of Mich., regarded this as the moat solemn crisis that had ever occurred in the history of the country, and he expressed the hope that the people bey awake to the sense of their danger before vas te, Mr. Wave said instead of the House trying to dictate to the Benate, the Senate were in {act trying to dictate to the House. He urged the propriety of recoding, 20 as to pars the bills. fhe Senate; without coming toa conclusion oo (he sab Ject, then adjourned, House of Representatives. Wasinxotom, Aug. 22, 1886, ‘On motion of Mr. Ketiy, (dem.) of N. ¥., a resolution ‘was adopted requesting the Speaker to draw his warrant in Gevor of Thomas Childs, for mileage and per diom for the last session, during which he had not appeared in the Honte in coneeque nce of illness. A message was received from the Senate relative to its action om the Army bill. The question was taken on striking out, and was lost by yeas 04, nays 06, Mr. Casrrect, (nigger worshipper) of Obio, moved to reconsider the vote, and lay that motion on the table, Carried by two majority. A message waa then received from the Senate with re gard to the Army bill. Mr. Camrpsit, of Ohio, moved that the House insist on their proviso and ask a Committee of Conference. Mr. Comm, (dem ) of Ga.—Allow me to make a motion, that the House recede and regard this aa @ test question. Mr. Camnunnt, of OLiomJ will pot yield my point at this tage of the game. Mr. Campbe!! otion was lost by three majority. Mr. Conn, of Ca., moved that the House recede, Moticn lost by 44°ngainst 96. Mr. Waenncxs, (nigger worshipper) of Me., moved the Hovre adhere to ita disagreement. Mr. Orn, (dem.) of 8. C.— What will be the effect of ad- hering ? ‘Chies of “ Order,” “ Order.” The Sreaxrr—Debate is not admissable. M. Conn. of Ga.—You reject the bill. Mr. Wasneny’s motion was agreed to by 07 against 03, Mr. Bocock (dem.) of #. C., voted in tae affirmative, with the view of moying a reconsideration, but did not roceeed in a the Soor for that purpose, Mr. Wasanvns, of Me., moved to reconsider the rote by which the Lovee adbered to its provieo, and to lay that wotion on the table. Motion carried by one majority. Mr. Serna saigger worsbipper), of Objo, asked leare to offer a resolu Tan adjournment, sine die, at four o'clock this afternoon. . Mr. Mitten (dem.), of Va., made an jneifectyal effort to have reconsidered the vote by which the House ro- tured to inrist on the Kansas amendment, and asked a Committee of Conference. veedings, emid the House would Mr. Orr, during the doubtiess, to-morrow, be nnader the necessity of proceed- ing With gemeral legislation sated unsuiccersful motions were made to adjourn when the Houre took short recess to await the result Ie eer ene tw yo reameetn » e nate come to no - clusion, the House béJoursed. i — netts Politics, Bowron, Aug. 22, 1856, ‘The Marsachusette Whig State Committee have ap- proved of the nominations of Amos A. Lawrence tor Governor, and Homer Foote for Lieutenant Governor, the gentlemen nominated for thore offices by the recent Fillmore Convention. Maine Congressional Nomination. Portiaxn, Aug. 22, 1866, A Convention of whigs and democrats, beld in Rock. jand, Maine, on the’ 20th inst , mominated Henry Ingalls, of Wiscasset, democrat, for Congress. ‘The Steamship Jamestown Ashore. Nompoun, Aug. 22, 1856. ‘The tteamehip Jameetown {@ asbore on Cowpen shoals. ‘The scamer Bbults bes gone 0 ber relief, ‘The War tu Kansas. Sr. Louis, Aug. 22, 1856. A letter to the Republican, dated the 19th inst., states ta follows:—Governor Shannon and nearly all the citi- wens of Lecomptom have left town. Secretary Woodson bas been taken prisoner and his house burned. Sheriff Jones has also been taken prisoner, The house of Geno- ra} Clark, Indian agent, waa burned. Ho and his family had escaped to Leavenworth, Couriers aro riding through the river nnd border counties enlisting forces and rais- irg supplies. Everywhere preparations are making for war, and @ most bloody conflict is anticipated. General Richardson hag gone to Fort Leavenwopth to ascertain if General Smith acts by authority, and if not, he (Richard- sop) intends calling his militia into the fleld. The steam- er Polar Star came down last night with six companies of volunteers ready for the field. Three companies of ca- valry and one of artillery intended leaving Leavenworth City on the 1¢ American Association for the Advancement of Science. THIRD DAY. Aumany, August 22, 1856, ‘The association received several new members. Papers were read in the section of mathematics, but they generally were devoid of interest. Professor Rep- ELD read a very interesting paper on typhoons in the North Pacific, Professor Hane denied that there was such a thing ag a travelling whirlwind, and said he was about to publish a book proving his porition. In the section of geology, the morning was occupied in Gigcuseing the age of rocks. AFTERNOON SESSION. Profcsacr Rocers, in the section of mathematics, read & paper on the history aud theory of the instrument known as the rotoscope, which gave rise to @ very anl- mated debate, An interesting paper was read by Professor Bacas on the approximate cotidal lines of diurnal and reurdiurnal tides of the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico, ‘The paper read in the section of natural history was by Professor FoTer, on the geological position of the toauil elephant of North America. The Kentucky American State Council. Lexineacox, Aug. 21, 1856. Ata meeting of the American State Council of Kentucky a resolution was adopted, doing away with the secrecy and utensils of the Order. An address and resolutions were adopted, expressing the fullest confidence in the State going for Fillmore. Markets. PHILADELPEIA | STOCK BOARD. aie LADELPHIA, Aug. . Stocks steady. Pennsylvania State 5's, 83; Ri Railroad, 43; nsylvania Railroai, 48%; Long Is! Railroad, 1234; Morris Canal, 13%. Cmcaco, Aug. 22, 1856. Wheat unchanged. Receipta to-day, 50,000 bushels. Shipments to Buffalo, $1,000 bushels: to Ogdensburg, 12,- 600, and to St. Catbarine’s, 15,000 bushels. Corn unsettled. Receipts to-day, 82,600 bushels. Shipments to Buffalo, 90,000 bushels. Oswneo, Avg. 22—6 P. M. Flour closes dull. Sales extra Oswego at $675. Wheat in fair request; sales 16,000 bushels, including 5,500 busbels new white Obio, at $1424. Corn dull; sales 1,600 bushels, at 523;. Canal freights lower on grain; 13¢. for wheat to New York. Lake imports to-day—250 bbis. flour; 29,162 bushels wheat; 16,000 bushels corn. Canal exporte—18,757 bushels wheat; 18,258 bushels corn; 2,569 bushels rye, Burraro, Aug. 22—6 P. M Flour—A shipping demand towards the close; sales 1,€00 bbie., at $6 for good Illinois; $6 25 a $6 50 for to extra Michigan; $6 62 a $6 76 for extra Obio and Indi- ava, Wheat in fair demand, and firm at the close; sales 22,000 bushels, at $1 30 for red Illinois, $1 4334 for white co., and $145 for prime do. and Kentucky. Corn—Hold- ers very firm, and buyers ollering 500.a51c. Oatsa— Sales 13,000 bushels, at 39. a 4c. Ryc—Sales 5,000 bushels, at 60. Whiskey, 3c. a 303;0. Receipts fir the twenty four bours ending at noon to-day—1,832 bbls. four; 1,201 bushels wheat; 12,160 bushels corn; 21,134 bushels oats. Canal exporte—14,000 bushels wheat; 20,206 bushels corn; 27,250 bushels oats. Our Woshington Correspondence. Wasiixctox, Aug. 21, 1856. Our Matl Service with England. ‘The article in yesterday’s Hxnatp, from Le Siécle, as well as the one from your correspondent at Mayre, a few cay ce, are both the subject of conversation among our leading statesmen. The mercantile spirit of a coun try is always the most active and sagacious, for politician are quite apt to be “led by the nose, as asses are.” The anomaious state of aflairs in our correspondence and #teamehip intercourse with Europe «may wel) rouse us to action, The Cunard company seem to be having every- thing theirown way, With the money paid by the Bri- sh government in subsidies, and by the people of both countries in correspondence, traffic and travel, the Ca bard line pot ouly manages to carry off the cream of the business between this country and Great Britain, but to Monopelize nearly all the mail traffic between the United States and the continent of Europe; and, at the same time, with the surplus profits, this company sets up an opposition line of steamers be- tween Havre and New York, that seems likely to starve out and break down both the French and American steam. thip companies. Ja the face of all this, the French go- verpment bave managed by some means to give a dis- crimination in tonnage dues in favor of the Cunard eteam- ebips, and against both their own and our steamship com- panies. By these advantages, the Cunard company is revelling in their profits, and putting down freights from $40 to $1 a ton, with the direct purpose of breakiag down and driving off all opposition. That selfishness will in- evitably defeat its own ends, and, like the “ vaulting am- bition ” of Macbeth, “ o’erleap itself and fall on t’other efde.’’ That is, it will, if there isa particle of eagacity in the French and American governments. The cards aro in the hands of these two players, and bad gamestors they are if they cannot get up carly enough for Mr. Ball, Look at the state of correspondence in transit between this coun- try and the continent of Europe through Great Britain. The Britieh government manages to get a higher price—1 believe about double—for these mails that go about 230 nada, via Rome and Capo Vincent, a distance of over 400 miles, They manage, too, in great Britain, so as to get the great bulk of the Continental mails, particularly those coming this way, to come acroas the ocean by the British steamers instead of the American. They accomplish this in this way:—The Pot Office London Directory, a semi. oficial publication, and all of the offictal bulletias issued from the British Post Office, go to the different cities on the Continent of Europe, and these form the principal guide to show the rates of postage, times of departure of the mail steamers, and ail other postal matters between England and America, and between continental Europe and America through England. Now, tn these publications the times of rue and arrival of all the Conard steamers are carefully noted, but none of the American steamers, ‘These directions are so pointed as to induce the conti- nental States to send off their American mails, as well as the merchants and others to get their letters Feady to go to England to take the Saturday's (Canard) mail steamer from Liverpool. It is in vain for our government to re monstrate with England on the subject, for the British go- vernment claim the privilege of advertising their own mail chips, and not others. And what has been the Practical operation of this line of policy? Why, to throw the great bulk of the American and continental Europe correspondence into the British steamer, particularly that Passing t id beyond the German States—the “ Prussian ’ Here is the official record for three years Number of Letters to and from the Continent of Burope ‘nthe Proton Oloted Meas © 1866. Twal. 245,751 1,026,678 By Conard line. ** Coline, 442,018 "789,000 125,397 218,540 66,396 = 118,275 978,442 2,126,602 three Conard verse) carr re of the , next year but hte last yoar but a trifle over one-third. Part is due to the fact *i a great major! side, In i this 6,766,278; and of these sr country, end 2,174,001 receiv: Letters and papers sent and received in 1862 and 1859... 11,097,445 received im 1854 16, Total in four years . . , We eee not only the amount of idence, but the rast increase, The postage on the mails sent and Patageon Lette and Papers Sent end Receloet én Prustan om Letters a ” "Olea Mails. - 1864. Ry Conard Ime $112,248 69 © Coiling 68.376 48 pati interests and the convenience of our citizens.| have suffered ‘atively little, France has suffered vastly, and her two great commercial rivals to do the 1B trade, the steamship trafilc and the mail: service of the whole world. Let France concede the point. of a quarter ounce scale feeweee , anit adopt: the half ounce in use in Great and the United States, and fast coming into use the world over. The difference in the amount of collected: thronghout the empire will not be five per cent loss than: it is under the present ecale; were the scale altered for domestic as well as foreign letters, and the gain to the Mercantile interests of that country from equitable: Postal treaties will be ten times the amouut in a year. Besides, those having tho handling of mails’ will fnd a balf ounce scale one that ent far less trouble, and consequently far less expense than the lighter one of a quarter ounce. France happens to make a delicate superior article of paper that does not average over a quarter of an ounce 10 w letter, there is no reason why the great balk of the civilized world should be incouvenienced by coming down to that standard. Among individuals this spirit in 80 tmall ® matter would be called , OF a3 We BAY, “pieayunish,”” Wouid it not be the part of mie for a great government like France to concede it, and go with the great majority? The cost of mail service $s not the weight of the letters; and if it were, tho increased seale would nct make a diflerence of five per cent in weight throughout France. To check her own mercantile spirit, inconvenience her own citizens, and Cisoblige two neighboring nations as nearly ailied in in- terest with her a8 Great Britain and the United States are, ig unworthy the French government, so long as the ee asked ig tot to her of the value of a rushlight. ill not the Siécle look ut it in this light? As for the grasping spirit of Great Britain in the transit poatager, some leading statesmen in this country are discussing the propriety of an alteration in some of our tariff raves that will have a direct leaning on certain £oglish manufac- tures, and this as a retaliatory measure. are pow- erful interests here in favor of some of these changes, and if they get far advanced the B-itish government may nod be able to stop them. even by conceding the wished for tal reciprocity, Cannot John Bull—mercantile John read a lesson in the above figures, and in the plang now at work in this country? They are not mere idie menace, but Lona fide truths. Wasuincro, August 21, 1856. Reassembling of Congress—The Army Appropriation —Our Foreign Relations—Accession of Slaveholders to the Fre- ‘mont Ranks in Virginia. Tho President's proclamaticn brought Congress toge- ther to-day at twelve o’clock. The customary frmalli- ties of announcing the readiness of each body to proceed to business being got through with, the business of the session was commenced. On the part of the House, eeveral unimportsnt motions were made, when the mes- sage of the President was received and read. Following this a receas took place. The President will doubtless) gain bis point, and the army—which was at no time in danger from loss of the Appropriation bill—will be per- mitted to continue a fixed fact, for the present at least. It is somewhat singular, but yet it is a substantial tact, that with all the blunderings of the Pierce administration, our relations with the Powers of the world are in » more! promising and satietactory condition at this moment,| than they have been for the last half century. Whether this state of things is the result of accident, I shall not attempt to determine; but the fact as above stated) is found to exist. So far the country has of congratulation; and in the prospect of a long continuance of friendly and peaceable rela- tions with the world, trade commerce, and the neral interests of the United States, will tecl the advan. tage. The settlement of the Central American questio with England removes the remaining and last subject o difficulty and misunderstanding between the two govern: ments, With France, our relations are every way favor: able, but Louis Napolcon and Lord Palmerston, nerver. thelesa, will both require watching, having the rep on of being rather slippery subjects, Austria hag h hands at home, and desi peace with the Us States; the same can be said of Prussia, whose wm c bas been heard to pronounce bis belief in the United States being a formidable Power. From Russia, scarce; ‘& mail comes to us, without renewed assurances of h dispotition to increase the cordial alliance existing between herself and the United States, aad poe P the evidence of this sentiment as sincere b; Bouoral le marks of distixctions, which from time to tim she ig found bestowing u American citizens. The third or fourth rate Powers of Europe seldom give us any trou bie; the settlement of our negotiations with Denmark wil! be Jeft for a new administration to arrange. Spsia is only black sheep of nations that ts in any way at b with the United States at this moment; she is proud poor; ber intentions are doubtless: and her promises, we well , are generous abundant She money, and she can’t Pay with Eogiand she ho J and even that Power has not ye: been ab! to make her come to terms. This, then, in brief, is al a fair running account of our relations with ths se governments of Europe at the close of the admin} wtration. Let Kansas setile satisfactorily ; difficulties at once, and in the message of President Fremont the announcement can be made that the United Sass pees em ie Werle eee the rest of Thave been shown a list cf names of Fremont tors in Virginia. Two of the number who have sig their readiness to serve in that capacity are a8 slave holders, and gentlemen of wealth and po in thetr Ye districts. So much for the por Siac ee ean aeete cople wi of bowie knives and revolvers. r fact that fanaticism and misunderstood interest \? givil way, even in the South, to reason and the public good. New Mvsic Hatt iv Broapway,—The Buckley Mis tmaugurated their new hall, No. 685 Broadway, last irg. The Buckleys have been well known here for past five years, during which time they have occup the Chinese Hall, No. 630 Broadway, and they hay won an enviable repatation for the chaste and 3 style in which they bave proseated the chefs deur the colored native American opera,’ Their now has a fine stage, new sets of scenery and comfortad! seats for eighteen hundred persons, Every thing about ft is arranged in the best of taste, and their past suce fsa guaraates that their future efforts will not gow rewarded. The new hall was lighted for the {irst last evening, in the presence of s large number of diettanti and \ts arrangement elicited the most fled approbation. The hal! will be opened to the p on Monday evening next, with the burlesque on Verdi’ opera “Il Trovatore.’* Dnamanic Avtuors’ Corrnicnt.—We publish el: & copy of the act recently passed by Congress, extendi: the benefits of the copyright to dramatic authors. It received the siguature of the President, and is now a law. It is one of the few good things done by this Congress, and under its operation we hope to see a revival in matic literature, Axvsements at Rockaway.—Tho sojournera at Pleasant resort are to be amused this evening, with "rand concert by Signora Patania, assisted by Morelli, Paul Julien, Manzocehi, and Matzka. The prog! r for the concert is exceilent, and it is to be succeeded &@ grand ball. Good for Rockaway. ——_—__ The Second Avenue Railroad. SUPERIOR COURT—SPRCIAL TERM. Before Hon. Judge Duer. Avcver 22—Motion for Injunction.—Atgument was in the case of the Second Avenue Railroad © , against Joseph 8. Taylor, Street Commissioner, to strain him from taking up the rails of the company the purpose of building a sewer in Forty-ninth acroes the avenue to the North river. The company Seenees iain aah Gana aod & temporary injunction, which is now wo be perpetual, The case is still ponding. Weekly Herald. 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