The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. annem ne OFFICE XN. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. AARNet Epa, Meehan Ss 9 o wae Soe Se des or Ge to ong part ofthe Cont monk ——— ESE Wolwme XNE...... 20.020. 0 ee seesseeeesess NOs 33F AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tux Exoramznt—T gut Rore | g.1s—AsrRopgL. BOWERY THBATRE, Bowery—Po-cé von T48—" ARCING Lire iy New York. si -" @EO. CHRIATY & WOODS MINSTRELS, 444 Broa way —Bruiorlas Mexvormanons—Yu Loarger lone. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, 58 Broadwey—Etmoran MuxetTkitsy— !RovaToRe. CBINESE BUILDINGS, 539 Brondway—Kecro Soncs, Dances axp hivn.es@ues—Ox, HUSA. ODFON, Fifth sweet, Widiamsburg—Ermieriaw Exrer- ‘AMPBELL MUNSTRELS. New Vork, Tuesday, August 26, 1856. Mat's for Europe. WEW YORE HERALD—MDITION FOR EUROPE. & The Cunard re!) steamship Canada, Captain Lang, will feave Boclon on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘Tee European meile will close in this city at balf-past ‘two o’ciock this afternoon. ‘he Braary (printed in English and French) will be peblished st ten o'clock in the morning. single copies, fm wrappere, ixpence. Subscriptions and adverticements for ary edition of the Www Yous Hxkscp wil) be received at the following aropean Express Co., €2 King William st, al Place do la Bouree. Lrvmxroot—_ da. do. 9 Coapel street. Laamrooi—Jchr Sunter, 12 Exchange sireet, East. ‘The contents «f the Burepean edition of the Hmrarp wi embrace (he news reve'ved by mail and telegraph at the office dering the previous week, andi’ he hour of pablicericn. The News. We have three days later news from Earope, breught by the steamship Niagara, which left Liverpool on the forencon of the 16th inst., and arrived at Halifax early last evening. The po- litical intelligence is not of the slightest interest. Louis Napoleon's féte day was celebrated on the 15th inst. with umusual splendor. There were ru- mors in Paris of aa insurrectionary movement at Naples, snd of an outbreak at Cadiz, but neither were regarded as wortby of serious consideration. Rassia has at last given up all claims to Kars and the Isle of Serpents. Sebastopol is to be rebuilt without delay. Marshal Peliesier has been created Duke of the Malakoff, with a pension of 100,000 frs. On the outward passage of the Canadian, from Quebec, Rey. Wm. Marsh, a passenger, drank by mistake a quantity of disinfecting fiuid, which caused his death. The body was taken to Liverpool. In financial and cowmercia! affairs there is no ma- terial change to notice. The money market con- tinced tieht, and American stocks dull. Consols are cneted at 95 a 954. Cotton was inactive, bu prices remained without alteration. The crops throughout Great Britein promired an average yield. Breaéstuifs maintained the advance reported by the steamer North American. Provisions were dall. Doth houses of Congress adjourned at an early bour yesterday, after the delivery of appropriate eulogies upon the character of the late Mr. Meacham, of Vermont, and the adoption of the tomary resolutions of respect for the deceased. Nothing has ae yet been bronght forward tending to an ad- Justent of the dispute on the Army bill. Senator Weller yesterday introduced a bill intended as a compromise. It embodies the eighteeath section of ‘he bil) providing for the admission of Kansas into the Union, which repeals the last act. and the laws restricting the freedom of the press and the liberty of speech, passed by the Territorial Legislatare. There is, however, no chance for this proposition in the House, even if it should pass the Senate, of which there is a reasonable doabt. The Board of Health yesterday were oc-pled with the usu! routine business, a report of which, togetber with some account of the Health Commis- sioners and their duties, may be found elsewhere in our columrs. Since the report of the Health Officer of Brooklyn for the week ending on Saturday last, be reports four new cases of yellow fever as having eceurred up to yesterday morning—one in Van Brunt street, another in Columbia street, and two caresin Clinton avenue, at the residence of Mr. George S. Howland, near Myrtle avenne. The tw: last are Mr. Prince, whose father died of the same ~Aiseaee a few days ago, and the servant girl who Sitended him. They now! came from the infec'ed @ist-igt within a week. A maQ Pamed Jobn Desery, member of Engine Company No. 7, of Will’ants barg, dled at the county hospi’al on Saturday after- noon, He Lad Veen at work on a vease) anchored at Quarantine, where he sickened and came home, when be was septto the hospital. Private advices from Charleston, received at Columbix, Soath Cx rolina, yesterday, report that a large increase of cases of yellow fever had taken place in that city. ‘The regular semi-annual meeting of the New York State Council of the American Order takes place a’ Syracure today. Up to last evening a large nam ber of delegates were on ihe ground, and a very full attendance is anticipated. The Convention will pro- bably be a strong one, as it ia understood that the George Law wing of the party will introduce resola tions repudiating the American nominees for Presi dent and Vice President. The resolations, if offered, will undoubtedly be rejected, when the minority will bolt and organize av independent Convention. Among our police intelligence will be foand the particulars of a bicody fight in the Twelfch ward, on Sunday night, between a white man named Gorman and 2 negro named Williams, in the course of which the former received wounds which wil) in ail proba- bility cause his death. The room of Colonel Smeltzer, at the City Hotel, Newark, N.J., was entered on Sanday night, by Worglare, who robbed it of his pocketbook aad gold watch. His pocketbook coptined a few dollars In money and stock certificates to the amount of $12,700, which, however, are useless to thy A reward of one hundred dott is offere recovery of the property and the conviction of the robber. Mr. Andrew Craft was last evening elected Fire Commissioner, to fill the vacaney oecasioned by the resignation of Mr. McDouga!. ‘The Vigilance Committee example is «preading. The people of St. Pant, Minnesota, held a public meeting recently, with the view to the adoption of summary Measures for the extirpation of the gam- blers, entthroats and thieves who infest that city. ‘The clipper bark Kate Cleather sailed from Que- bec on the 7th ult., and arrived in Liverpool on the morning of the 20th. She was detained fourteen o° the twenty-two days in the river and Galfof St. Lawrence, thns making the passage across the At- lantic in the extracidinary short pace of eight days. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to about 500 » 600 bales, without change in prices. Common to good and medinm grates of extra flonr advanced from 5c.a 10c. per bbl. The receipts con tinued light, with a good home demand. Prime white Sonthern wheat advanced 2c. per bushel, and sold at $1 66 a $1 68. A cargo of amber colored new Tennesvee sold at #1 60. Old wheat was dall and unchanged. Corn was easier, and sound Wes- tern mixed sold at 63c. Pork was easier, with sales of mess at $19 18}. $19 25. At the first figures a check was given yesterday. Sugars sold to the ex- tont of £00 a 900 hhda., at Sc. @ %jc., both for Porto Rico and for Caba. The sales of coffee were confined to 000 bags Bio, at 10§e. a 11je. Freights were nn- changed and eng: gemep's werg moderate, are the NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1856. Civil War in Kansas—The Cause, the Danger, and the Remedy. Civil war exists in Kansas. The fact can no longer be disputed. It is not a mere border feud ameng hostile squatters, land speculators, aboli- tionists and border ruffians, bat it is civil war—a war not for the enforcement of the popular sove- veignty doctrine of the Kansas-Nebraska Dill against a horde of lawless marauders, but a war for the establishment of slavery in Kansas, or its expulsion from Kansas by fevce of arms, Read our telegraphic reports elsewhere in these columns. The belligerents are arrayed against each other, fight each other, aad treat for the ex- change of peisoners accordiag to the usages of a regular war; as, fer example, between the Allies and the Russians. On the one eide are the free State settlers, who, upon the strength of late colonial reinforcements, have thought it expedient to assume the offen- sive in attacking end dismantling certain block house fortifications of the pro-slavery party. The plea for this coarse of action is that the border uffians have been establishing a cordon of mili- tary posts and depots round about and through the Territory, with Missouri as their base of ope- rations; and that all these preparations have been made in view ofa simultaneous assault for the extermination or expulsion of the free State set- tlers at a single well directed blow. In this view, in a strictly military examination of the ease, it must be admitted that the course adopted by the free State party was the only course con- sistent with safety. To hesitate was to court destruction, while to break the lines of the enemy, and to throw their plans into confusion, was a process by which at least time could be gained for more regular and systematic opera- tions of defence. Thus, then, stands the case. The pro-slavery Kaneas party have been anticipated and attack- ed and defeated at several of their military positions before they were ready to strike all together. They have fallen back, accordingly, upon their base of operations in Missouri, and are actively employed in collecting reinforee- ments and supplies for a more formidable inva- sion of the disputed battleground. When we next hear of their taking the field it will most probably be with the intelligence of a movement of a well appointed army of four or five thousand men. Inthe meantime it is not likely that the other side will be idle, but they, too, will be re- inforced by perhaps several thousand men from the North and Northwest, so that when these hostile forces again come together in the field, the chivalry, the feelings, and the State pride of half a dozen or more Northern States, and of as mony Southern States, will be involved in the collision. A battle, or several battles, thus organized and thus fought, however decisive the immediate is- sne, will be but the signal for more extended operations on Doth sides. The contagion of the war will be carried like an epidemic, and more rapidly, into the neighboring States, North and South; and if not arrested by some healing compromise, the flames of civil strife will spread from Kansas across the Mississippi agd across the Alleghanies to the Atlantic coast, until the two sections stand in the armed and deadly array against each other of” the ent-throat houses of York and Lancaster, And herein, visibly and palpably before us, lies the danger to the Union. Mr. Fillmore, Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Toombs would have us believe that peril to the confede- racy is from the spontaneous popular Northern Fremont movement; and they flatly tell us that the election of Fremont “ will and ought to be the end of the Union.” The Buchanan organs, too, from the Washington trumpeter and Charles- ton Meeury, down to the smallest provincial piper, play the same music. “Fremont,” “black republicaniem,” “ abolition aggressions on Southern rights,” “a sectional edministration,” and such things, are to bring about the dissolu- tion of the republic, and the, e: iment of a Southern confederacy. One of our Southern correspondents has informed us that there are some ultra secessionists in Alabama, who really desire the election of Fremoat. because they wish to see this Union broken up. and a great Southern millenium established, with the inanguration of q Southern confederacy: and because they think, with Mr. Fillmore, Mr. Buchanan aod Mr. Toomba, that “the election of Fremont will and ought to he the end of the Union.” All this is stuff, rubbish and humbug. The holy horror of Mr. Fillmore of the consequences of Fremont’s election is sheer hypocrisy; the pions alarm of Mr. Buchanen is bat the meaa and dirty trickery of a desperate Forney politician, and the boisterous Mr. Toombs Is bat a bag of wind. We are aware, however, that there are many honest, but deluded, men in the South, and some few old nervous grannies and party hacks in the North, who fear the worst of consequences from the euccess of Fremont and the republican party; and there is another impression which is pretty gencral throughout the country, to-wit: that if the Union should explode, it will be from the in- tolerable pressure of Northera aggressions upon Southern institutions, and the secessionist: through the government at Washington. Now, in reply to all this, while we concede that the destruction of this Union by suicide is not an imposeibie thing, we begin to think that our cronkers and alarmiste are looking in the wrong direction for the fatal biow. It has very often happened, in the history of uations, that there has been a public presentiment of a great impending national calamity: but the calamity itself has juet ax frequently taken the prophets by surprise, in its unexpeeted shape, and from the uncaleulated circumstances through which it had fallen apon them. Thus, the people of France and all Europe apprebended revolution with the death of Louis Philippe; but it came upon them at the very time it was supposed that Louis Philippe was moet firmly seated upon his throne. Again. in i851 it was expected that in 1852 there would be another French revolation and a red republican trinmph; but the coup dt of Louis Napoleon anticipated the event. and provided a totally different entertainment for the champions of © Liberté Ege Fraternité.” So in numerous examples. while politicians have had the sagacity to foresee a9 impending national catastrophe or revolution. have they failed to quess the shape in which it fnaliy came, and the direct agencies which worked it ont, So with the question of the dissolution of the American Union. There may be danger: the evil may be impending; but if it does come, it will not be through a Northern President ora Northern Congress at Washington; but it will result from a civil war like thet which now exists in Kansas, There ie “leaven enough,” even in this K e war, to leaven the wholelamp,” from the Mississippi to the Atinntic, with the leaven of intestine strife and disruption; and unless the peagemakers in Congress aud the soversiga voice of an offended people shall interpose at once for peace, reconciliation and concord, this Kansas war may be aggravated into a general fratricidal war between the North and the South. This woald at once break up the Union, and after such a collapse the restoration of the fragments again under ome commen gov- save through the conquering arm of some military chieftain, and the cohesive appliances of a mili- ernment would be utterly inspossible, tary despotism. The danger is before us in a tangible shape. The high road to disunion leads through Kansas, and this road to ruin has been opened by the Pierce administration; and the spoils democracy and their Ostend candidate have cheerfully con sented to walk therein. It is the treachery, the imbecility, the double-dealing and skulking cow- ardice of this Pierce administration, and the en- couragement it has received from a corrupt and reckless party of conspiring spoilsmen, that have brought us to this critical pass, ‘Thus fools rush in where angels fear to tread, And thus desperate political gamblers play their desperate game of rule or ruin. Had Mr. Pierce been a man of moral courage he would have seen the Kansas-Nebraska law faithfully execut- ed; bad he been guided by the simple considera- tions of honesty and fidelity to the constitution, there would have been peace among us of the States, and peace in allour borders, His inangu- ration was hailed as the advent of peace; but his retirement may possibly be marked by a general civil war. Such are the evils of a feeble and yacilJating ruler like Pierce, in the hands of such scheming and reckless managers as Cushing, Jeff. Davis and Forney; and such will be the dis- asters of a continuance of this Pierce policy and these Pierce managers over Mr. Buchanan as Pierce's suecessor and legatee. There is a way of escape, and a way of safety. Congress may yet provide the ways and means for peace in Kansas; and the American people may very readily provide security for the future in the election of Fremont. In 1840 General Harrison was carried up to the White House as upon an avalanche, upon the simple plea that “ things cannot be worse than they are, and may be much better with achange in the govern- ment.” So now, as we cannot possibly have. with any change that may be made with the overthrow of the spoils democracy, a more mis- chievous policy at Washington than that of Pierce and his managers, we have nothing to fear, but everything to hope, from the election of Fre- mont. We repeat it, everything to hope; for while Mr. Buchanan is blindly pledged to walk in the footsteps of this unhappy man Pierce, we have in Fremont the rep- resentative of an independent people in an independent candidate, whose only pledges are for the Union and the Constitution, and against border ruffianism and buccaneering forays into our neighbors’ territories. Having shown that, if there be now existing any danger to the Union, it exists in Kansas, and that this double-dealing and imbecile Pierce ad- ministration and the spoils democracy ace respon- sible; and knowing, as we all do know, that Mr. Buchanan is pledged to perpetuate all the abomi- nations of Pieree’s border ruffianism, with some filibustering additions on a larger scale, it ne- cessarily follows that the first thing to demand is the intervention of Congress for peace in Kansas; and that the next thing for the peace of the whole country is the election of Fremont gad anew administration. We cannot cure a cancer by a bread poultice. We must strike at the roots of he disease. Britis AssoctaTion FOR THE ApVANCEMENT or Semxce—Tre Meerixe at Avoaxy—Tae Comer or Dr. Perens—The 26th annual meet- ing of this body was held in Cheltenham, on the Cth of this month—the learned Dr. Danberry in the chair. It was attended by eminent sayans of England and other countries ; and their selec- tion of a watering place for their session may have been owing to their desire to make use of purgative water to carry off the ill humors whieh sometimes prevail in the most scientific bodies. Tt would have been well, perhaps, if on this prin- ciple our savans at Albany had chosen Saratoga as their place of assembling. The President's ad- ress alluded to the progress of chemistry, and the great practical Tesults which had followed its Aiseoveries, Te mentioned among other things, the probable reproduction of quinine from the elements of ammonia—ihe fact that the loss of cochinea), with its beautiful dye, may be repaired from guano; that of animal food, by the concen- trated juices which can be collected in the anti- poder by boiling down the flesh of cattle now wasted and thrown aside in those countries ; and the possible scarcity of useful metals, for which aluminum affords a brilliant and malleable sub- stitute. He explained some curious and tulooked for analogies between plants and anisuals; the existence of moving molecules in ferns and other eryptograms ; the distinction of sexes (the idea of Linneus) in the lower algw; the lon- gevity of seeds; the explanation of the Cam- brian and Silurian systems, carrying us back to periods previously unknown to us, and finally giving force to the opinions of cminent geologists, that, from the earliest to the latest periad of the earth's history, no gradation of beings can, ia reality, be detected. The discoveries in geography during tho last year were also alluded to in the instance of Dr. Kane ; of Mr. Kelly, of this city, who instituted the surveys of the Atrato for the purpose of inter-oce: canal navigation; of the Agstralian exploring expeditions, and of further examina- tions otmong the Rocky Mountains (commenced by Colonel Fremont.) He maintained that seien- tifle studies were in no way inimical to revealed religion, buat quite the contrary. The programme of the business was highly interesting. The lee- turers were Profescor Powell.on meteors ; Smyth, on solar radiation; Pearson, on bismuth and chromium ; Voelcker, on the corrosive action o smoke on buildings; Owen, on fossils; Hartland, on the eruptions of Vesuvius ; Macdonald, on the carly races and distribution of mankind, and Mr. Danson, on the connection between slavery in th» United States and the cotton manufactures o Great Britain—a curious and well timed subject of discussion. Many other distinguished per- ronages were announced to read paperaof im- portance. Thus we see on both sides of the Ab lantic the eavans are busily at work. Among the communications which have been made to the Association at Albany we notige one by Professor Peters, who has called their attention to the periodicity of a small comet which he dis covered ome years ago at Naples, aad which he expects will re-appear the present year. He did not state the elements of his calentation, and though we have them before uz, we do not think they ere ne attractive to goneral readers as many others of the 248 comets of which we have a catalogue, and which have been subjected to obecryation and caleulation, Thy thirtesa For the Prerident, pe' eb years’ comet of Dr. Peters is a small affair com-| THE LATEST NEWS. pared with that of 1556, which is expected to reappear during the present year, with a tail ninety degrees in leugth, and illuminating the sky with its blaze. It is to be hoped that the Albany astronomers will keep a sharp lookout for it, as it would seem from the irish papers that something in the heavens has already been seen at Limerick, as large as an orange, with more brilliancy than Jupiter, and casying a very respectable train. SixevLarn Newsrarer Movewents.—Some sin- gular movements have recently taken place in the newspaper world, having a bearing upen the Presidential election, Beverly Tucker, who was the sole editor, body and breeches of the Sentinel, heretofore published at Washington, has discontinued the publication of that journal, and announced the important fact in a most lachry- mose card, which, singularly enough, appears in the National Intelligencer. It will be recollected that the Sentinel, under the guidance of Tucker, was the only advocate in Washington of Mr. Buchanan’s nomination previous to the meeting of the Cincinnati Convention. The caving in of this journal, just at this time, is a sign of some extensive movement and some important echeme initiated by the Buchanan dv- mocracy. There have been rumors of extensive feuds in the National Committee, of which a Mr. Faulkner is the hezd and Forney the tail. It is said that these feuds have grown out of differen- ces of opinion on the nigger question. This is likely, but it is just as likely that they have ori- ginated by troubles about the money question, and that there have been too many hungry fellows pulling at the funds to satisfy the more honest portion of the committee. At any rate, the suspension of the leading Buchanan organ at Washington—taken in connection with the stop- page of various other Buchanan papers in the North, and particularly in Pennsylvania—forms a bad omen for the rigger democracy. Well, how do things look on the other side? Fremont journals are springing up everywhere, and flourishing to an extent that we never before witnessed in the history of the political newspa- per world. In Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, and all over the North, the journals supporting Fremont are more numerous than those in the interest of Buchanan and Fillmore put together, and new papers advocating Fremont’s cause are springing up every day. A new one has been established in this city, and is creating great sensation, It is edited by Mr. Joseph A. Scoville, and called the Evening Register. the friends of Mr. Fillmore in such a style that not a rag will be left of them long before Novem- ber. prospering, we learn that Mr. Robert J. Walker, who has been scudding about this city for some time, has not been able to raise money enough to pay for the printing of the first number of the new Buchanan paper. thousand dollars subscribed, on paper—precisely the same sort of subscription as the ten millions for the Pacific Railway, which Walker intended to build. One is equally as valuable as the other. It pitches into While the Fremont jocrnals are thus He has about one hundred Tf, therefore, this revolution in journalism is of any effect, there can be no doubt that Fremont will sweep the whole Northern States like a | whirlwind. In this city and State the circulation of the Fremont press is tremendous—certainly twenty to one against that of the Buchanaa and Fillmore journals united. Purtosorner GREELEY on Saanres.—Our co- temporary, the Chevalier Greeley, isa prodigious philosopher for minute things. He has lately ve- corded his bitter hostility against the recent emall advance in the pay of members of Con- grees, and pitches into poor Giddings and his as- sociates with little merey towards the animal creation. This philosopher ought to have made his appearance in the world during the tenth cen- tury, when great men lived in mud houses and kings cooked their own mutton chops in the best way they could. We are entirely opposed to the civilization and salaries patronized by this phi- losopher. It is true that, at the last session of Congress, the members advanced their own wages thirty or forty per centam; but if they will take a leaf from our advice, we should counsel them before they adjourn, to pass a bill embracing the following schcedule:— PROPOSED RATES PAY POR THE PRESIDENT AND a UNITED STATES. ‘100, CwIEF Ort For the Vice Prerident, por ann’ ),00° for Yecretaries or Heads of Lepe rt 26,000 For members of the Senate, each, peranuum,... 16,209 “ “ House, * “ wees 12,000 This table will doubtless horrify the philoso- pher, and make hima roll up his eyes at the as tonishing idea of such a draft on the treasury for the pay of the Executive and Legislative officers, But would it not be better to pay to all these statesmen (or rather gentlemen, for very few of them are have designated, than to have them stealing by means of contracts, railroad land bills, and all sorts of corrupt jobe that human ingenuity can devise, and which have depleted the treasury during the past ten years? What is the reason that this system bas been eo unblushingly carried on by the present and past Congresses, until betweea statesmen.) the sums which we two and three hundred millions of the public property, in money and land, has been frittered away? It is because the men at the head of the government are secret participants in the spoils gained by these schemes, and that the poor devils are compelled to this course by the boggarly pit- tances which they receive. Their miserable «a laries compel them to exhaust their ingenuity ia devising schemes to rob the treasury, in all sorts of ways, from stealing haifa million acres of public lead down to taking a share in a thousand dollar contract, or selling a vote for a box of segare, or a dozen pairs of kid gloves anda bottle of cologne for their wives. Rewrrraxces To THE Frexcu Svawercen.— The citizens of New York have remitted to the sufferers hy the inundations in France the sum of ten thousand dollars, which, with the amount already forwarded by the French residents, is equal to 100,000 francs. New York never for- gets itself when these great calamities appeal to its benevolence and liberality, Coroners’ Inquests. Steppes feat oF 4 Hexcumack.—Coroner Gamble belt on inquert yetterday, at the Seventh ward station house, open the body of Rore Brady, a honch¥ack, who was taken suddenly ill on bonrd of the ship Ortent, while abe was departing for Liverpool, and died on reaching tho above station house. The deceased had on one of her fingers a gold ring, on the inside of which was engraved “Joba MeGovern.” Some change, amounting in ail to £2 46, was found cpon the person of deceased. Dr. © Bavie’ Wie A post mortem examination wpon the body of the woman, and found that she died from peri copditia, The jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the above facts Favat Fats ruroves a Seytcmt Coroner Gamble held fh inquest yesterday at No, 166 Wooster strost, upon the body of an adopted ehitd of Mes, Fisher's, living as ahove, who died from the effects of ie juries received by failing through the scuttle upon the roof of the said honre, Verciet aecording'y, Tho deceased's reql name was Catharine Murphy, — BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ‘The Civth War in Kansas, Sr, Lovie, Aug. 23, 1856, Advices from Lawrence to the 17th inst. mention that nesrly 500 free State men marched upon what is cailed Col. Titus’s camp, near Lecompton, ou the preceding day, and took the party there assemoled—twenty in all—pri- soners. They defended themrelyes from the log houses seme time, and wounded ten of the free State party, amongst them Capt. J W. Schombree, recently from Richmond, Ind., who, it is thought, cannot survive. Col, ‘Titus is also badly injured. The injuries to the others are only slight. One hundred United States dragoons interfered to pre- vent an attack upon Lecompton, whereupon the free State men returned to Lawrence with their prisoners. Gov. Shannon, Major Sedgwick, aud Dr. Roderick, of Lecompton, went to lawrence on the 17th to demand the release of the prisoners. After @ conference, it was agreed that when six of the free State prisoners held by the authorities were delivered up, the howitzers taken from Lawrence returned, and all the camps of armed pro-slavery men dispersed, the prisoners should be re- Sr. Loris, Ang. 24, 1856. Reliable intelligence from Kansas to the 20th states that Lecompton bad not yet been attacked by Jane's party, although an attack was expected hourly. It is said that the free State men number two thousand atrong in the Territory, and are preparing to fortify Lawrence in cage a retreat to any particular point becomes neces- rary. It is reported that four companiesof Unised States troops are near Lecompton, and {; is thought their pre- sence will deter further attacks. Sr. Lovis, Aug. 25, 1856, ‘The stefmer David Tatum, from Missouri river, yester day, brings the information that four hundred volunteers, from Jackson county, went into Kansas on Thursday. Two hundred had been raised in Lafayette, and a large force was being raised in Clay. Lane’s regiment was said to be fortifying in Wakinga, Gov. Robinson and Mr. Brown, and other prisoners, were still in the custody of the United States troops. One hundred and twenty reeruits, from Carlisle barracks, arrived bere yesterday, and were immediately forwarded to Fort Leavenworth; also several from Jefferson barracke—Gen. Smith baying made @ requisition for all the disposable force at that Place. Orders have been handed to the commandiag officer at Fort Riley to bave bis troops in readiness for service. ‘The New York American State Council. Syractsn, Aug. 25, 1856, About two hundred of the delegates to the American State Council, to assembie to morrow, have arrived. The Council will-meet in the City Hall. A respectable num ber, if not denied admission, will yote for resolutions re- pudiating Fillmore and Donelson, After the failure of the regolutions the minority, it is said, will bolt and or- ganize @ separate meeting at Myers’ lial, From Washington. PROPOSITION FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE KANSAS TROUBLES, ETC. Wasurnctox, Aug. 25, 1956. Senator Weller introduced the olive branch to day, in the sbape of a bill to annul the obnoxious portion of the Kansas laws. It being a literal transcript of the eighteenth eection of Douglas’ bill providing for the ad- mission of Kansas as a State, this section, baving passed the Senate once, there will be n0good reason for opposing it pow, although Senator Bigge, of North Carolina, who voted for it before, objected to its introduction to-day, which caused it to lle over one day under the rules. Even should it pars the Senate the House will reject it, as it does not annul the Legislature as well as the laws. ‘The feeling of the Sepate now is to sit the seseion tbrough until next March, unless the Army bill is sooner passed. An eflort will be made totike up the regular order of business, no!withstanding they agreed in caucus to do nothing until the Army Dill was disposed of. They are evidently not united om this point. General Casa had & protracted interview this morning with Secretary Davis, who urged that there should be no adjournment uniil supplies were voted the army. At least a cozen propositions are tn the bands of mem. bers to settle the present cifficulties, cach of whom are anxious to get the other to believe that ifthey can get all their strength here they can carry ‘he bill without the proviso. They find it very difficult to keep their forces together. ¥.P, Blair's letter, which appeared exclusively in the Hxxain, bas caused a good deal of squirming among the Buchanan men. The Heap is in great demand. Appropriate eulogies were pronounced to-day in each house over the late Hon, Mr. Meacham. Hon. lreston 8. Brooks Jeft for home this afternoon, having paired off with Mr. Nichols, of Ohio. He said be could wait no longer for Mr. Burlingame, as it was evi- dent he woul! not return so long as he (Brooks) continued in the city. Mr. Carlile returned to-night, and with Mr. Greenwood beutralizes the strength which the republicans acquired this morning by the arrival of Mesars. Brenton and Rob ding. THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, EXTKA SESSION, Senate. ‘Wasuixorom, Aug. 25, 1856. Mr. Warten, (dem.) of Cal., gave notice of his intention to introduce # bil) to abrogate certaia laws enacted by the Legtelature of Kansas, It tw the famo as the eighteenth section of the Seuate Koneas bill, abolishing test oaths, providing for freedom of speech and the press, and for the security of the people in person and property, in accordance with the coustita- top, &e., Xe. A mesenge was received from the House announcing the death of the Hon, James Measham, of Vermont. Mr. loore, of Vt, dwelt with much eloquence on the Jearving and public and private usefulness of the de- conred, who was removed hence at the age of forty-six years. He traced him from the time that pepe @pbap boy in a cabinet maker's shop, up to the high position that he occepied at the time of his decease. Mr. Doveras, of lil, seid be was born in the same county with Mr. Meacham, and was acy ainted with him ‘a early life. Re bore testimony to hia honesty of pur Pens uaual revolutions, of reepsct were then adopted ” at were then ard the Senste adjourned. House of Representatives. Warumetox, August 26. 1856. Messrs. Greenwood, Robbins and Brenton have re- vorned. Mr, Curenas, (\lem.) of N.C., asked leave to offera resolution directing the “ergeant-at Arms to arrest and bring before the bar of the House all such absent mem bore as are in the city, and that the Clerk cause a copy of this resolution to be telegrapbed to the capital of each State, and published In two papers there, of the largest circulation, paying (he expenses of the same out of the contingent fuad. Mr. Campa, (rigne on the ground that remedy to compel ti Mr. Crisemtas moi to introduce Motion di y against 99, Mr. Monnet, of Vt. announced the death of bis col league, the Flom. James Meacham, passing an elojuent and feeling eulogy on his public nod private charactor, and citering the &: ions of reepect Mr. Howann, of for more than a quarter of a century he bad ba. quaintance of Mr. Meachom. He ‘an elo; nent tribute tothe memory of his departed friend. Mr. Eraeniper, of Tenn. ald bie heart ylelded a roaty response to the remarks of the geotleman who had pre- ceded him, Though solemn the hour, it wae plearant ty know that under the many conflicting influences which control the conduct and opinions of members, there was not one here to withhold the tear of ayinpathy. Mesers. Dickson and Gioorxes severally boro testimony to the bigh character of Mr. Meacham, as a statesman anc honest man. ‘The resolutions of respect wore then adopted. Adjourned. Kansas Ald Meetings. CALL FOR A MERTING IN NEW ORLFANS. New Onutixs, Aug. 94, 1959. A call baa been signed by editors and the principal firins of our business med, to the number of a hundred, for 9 meeting to ald the Southerners in Kansas. CALL FOR A MERTING IN ST. LOUTS. St. Lovm, Aug. 24, 1950. ‘The Bepublican of this moriing publishes a call signed by a iarge number of the most iniluentiai citizens of thie Cty, for a public meeting to morrow evening. to comsiter the present siteotion of affates in Kansas, and expres the opinion of the people of St. Louis in connection there with worsl ipper) of Maio, objestet, Me Hovse afforded ample fabseptece. of the roles in order Burning of a Pork Warchowser, Crverwat, Avg. 95, 1896 ‘The pork warehouse of Messrs. Wilson, Eggleston & Co,, in this city, was burned Inst night. Lows 825.000 Fully ineured. Several small stores adjoining wore slice burwed, but hey werg mostly Inwurgd, Pennsylvania Polities, FILLMORE MEETING AT HARRISBURG. Aackisnena, Pa., Aug. 25, 2656, ‘There was an immevse Fillmore meeting here this evening. Speeches were made by Meserg. Sellers and Moore, of Philadelphia, and by Mr. Benedict, of Hunt- ingdon. The Democratic County Convention have nominated Genera} Wm. F, Miller tor Congress, trom this district, REPUBLICAN MEBTING AT HARRISBUKG. flarrianurs, Aug. 25, 1856. ‘The Fremont mer are holding an imposing meeting at the Court House to-night General Simon Cameron pre+ tides, assisted by some fifty Vice-Presidents and Secre> taries. Mr. Burlingame {x now speaking, The large Court House is filled, aud the avenues leading thereto are perfectly blockaded witb poople. THE LOSS OF THE STEAMER NAUTILUS, RTO, New ORLBANS, August 26, 1856. From information ob uimed from the steward of the steamer Nautilus, who ba~ recovered, it is supposed that all thoee who were upon that vessel must be looked upon as lost. There were niveteen cabin and eeveral stecrage passengers. Some of the holies were washed ashore at ‘Timbalier and Car)lion islands, Several of the persous suppozed to haye been lost om Jast Island have been picked up. 4 Six of the pirates who robbed the dead bodiex there have been arrested, and a large amount of moncy and Jewelry recovered. A considerable portion of the cargo of the ehip Manila bas been saved. pee me GE ol BN Axrival of the Fiorida at Savannah. Savinwan, Aug. 23, 1954. ‘The steamsbip Florida arrived here from New York this (Saturday) morving Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. YmLADELPHIA, Aug. 25, 1854. Stocks dull. Penpsy!vana sta‘e 5s," 83; Resting, 43; fore Island RR., 12%; sorris Canal, 13){; Peuasylvauia ny 48 55 ; New Orreans, Aug. 23, 1856. Cotton stiffer, Sales today 2,400 bales, leaving tho market nearly bare. Middling is quoted at 105. & 1eA{c. Burrato, Aug, 25—6.50 P. M. Flour ac'ive—eales, 3,009 pvis. at $6 50 a $6 62 for ex- tra Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Whest—good demand. Sales, 73,000 bushels at $1 16a $117 for new Chicago spring; 91 35 for red Icdista and Linois; $150 for white entucky. Corn in consi rahe demand. Sales, 43,000 bushels at 62c. a 52340. ; cl.sing at the inside figure. Oats steady—eales, 22,000 bushots at ddc. Rye—smal! saics ai Ode. Whirkey, 3ic. Cuoal freighte—I3c. for corn, and lic. for wheat to New York. Receipts in the 48 hours till noon to day—5,92% bbis flour; 82,754 bushels wheat; 215,111 bushels corn; 52,690 buchels oats © ports—42,126 bushels wheat; 1(3,279 bushels corn bushels outs. Osweco, dug. 25—5 P.M. Flour dull; sales Orwego superfine at $6 =Whea: ratuer quiet; sales’3,900 bushels, at $1 47 for old and new white Canadian Corn in good demand, and market tales, 32,000 bushels, at 6ic. a S60. Canal fre: on corn, which is aken at %c. to New York. ports today:—105 bbls flour, 81,309 bushels wheat, 30,227 bushels corn. Canal exports:—1,860 bbls. iiour, 31,672 bushels wheat, bushels corn. Grand Revival of the colored Native Ameri, can Opera. Weethat ie, those of us who are musically ‘ncline2— are supposed to be anxiously awaiting the reopening of the Italian Opera House, in Fourteenth street, uncer the Uaton of Max Maretzek ; but, as a sort of scattering sire from the outposts before the heavy artillery is put in play, we bad a great and glorious revival of the colored native American opera last night. In the fret place, tha Buekleys, lopg time jixtures at Chinese jiall, have moved a little further up town, and erected a splendid temple, which was Jast night consecrated witb a] the ho- nors of the muse of Ethiopian minstrelsy; said muse being, We presume, a sort of mulatto Calliope. Tne new house is a perfect ‘4jow in its way, with @ peat slage, ex cellent accommodations for an audience of eighteca bun- dred persons, and convenient entrances on Prou!- way and Mercer street. It i# located at No. 685 Broadway, directly oppesite the Metropolitan Ho- te}, and has been built at a cost of thirty thousand dollars. Last night it was crowded to excess, and bane dreds were cbliged to go away without getting acight at the new house. All the old favorites, the Messrs. Back~ ley, Percival, Carroll and others, were received with great applause. The first part ofthe programme inclated several pew songs, and as an addenda was givcn a new burlesque ou Verdi's ‘Trovatore.”” The names of the characters are absurdly travestied, and the music isan admixture of Verdi's score with the most popular negro melodies, The finale is an improvement on the opera, as everything ends pleasantly to the air of ‘l'op Goes the Weasel." Everything was couleur de rose at thie house, ond Buckleys have every reason to be eatiafed with their initie! night in the new hail. ‘There was another great crowd at Wood's new hall, No. 444 BroadWhy, which was re-opened for the seasow last evening. The artists attached to this estabjisnment —one of the mest elegant music halls in the world—have beeu giving the people in the rural districts a taste of their quality for the past six weeks, more or lees, and bave come back with lots of new songs aad iresb jokes, How giad their old friends were to sec them was made apparcnt by the fact that ihe house was crowded jong before the performance commenced. The programme was fall of novelty srd variety, and the performance was highly eatlefactory to all those who got within hall- ing distance of it. Yet another openick took place at the Culnese Hall, No, £29 Broadway, where White's Serenaders bave taken ‘up their quarters for a short season, awaiting the redoco- ration of their plonsant houge jn the Bowery, There was 4 fall houre here, The chief attraction was (he appear. ance of Mr. B. Horn, an exceedingly clever (Airican) tuffo yarlante. Mr. liorn is & most exeelient comedian, and is aueurpasecd in his delineations of negro eceon- tricity. Well, that is doing pretty well for one night, is it not ? Foar or five thousand people assembled to bear the co Jored native American opera isa good sign. Let us see if they can co as well in Fourteenth street. Political Gossip. ‘Two of the honorabie members of Congress, it is re- ported, have recently played false to their pledges to ab- sent members with whom they had paired off, ant voted upon important questions before the House, particularly the Army Appropriation bill, by which, in one instance, it was defeated. It appears that Hou. John A. Biogham, ‘of Obio, bad paired off with Hon. Augustus Hall, of Jowa, when the latter gentleman left Washington, but ia viola on of bie pledge, Mr. Bingham voted on the Arary Dill, giving as an cxcuse that he had subsequently paired Mr. Hall off with Mr. Burlingame, who bad not been in bit seat for thirty days, and thus releasea himself. The other case was (hat of Messrs. Dennett, of New York, and Greenwood, of Arkansas. The latter left the cliy under an impression that Mr. B., with whom it was his custom to pair of, bad agreed eo to do on this occarion. Mr, Bennett claimed that Mr. Greenwood bad mitapprehend- ed him—had gono off under the impression that he bad ogreed to pair off with bim, when be bad merely promised to obtain a pair for On the cars between Cleveland and Coleman, Orio, ome offictous individual proceeded to take a yt? among the parsengers, Col. Bouton was among the party, and when the aforesaid individual, who happened to be auac- quainter with Old Bullion, asked him how he inteaded to vote, he received the following reply — Sir! by what authority, sir, do you ack me for whom t shall vote? Sir, I will answer that question at the batiot box, not to sou. Mr. Jobn D, Duberry, an old resident of Columbus, Migs., is to be tried before the Circuit Court of tha) Con- grees, on the charge of being an abolitioniet. Mr. Dix Derry denics the charge, and asks @ suspension of pablig opinion, On the 93d inet. the Scandinavian population of Chicaga held a meeting, and took measures to aid in the election of Fremont and Dayton. The Democratic, and the Know Nothing Copventions have met Ip the First Congressional district of Virginia, and bave respectively nominated their candidates for Congress. The democrats bave nominated Muscoe R. H. Garnett, of Hseex, and the Know Nothings have nomi. pated Rebert Saunders, Feq., of Williamsbere. Besides these two candidates, there is another, and a valiant Rich- mond in the field, Edward T. Mapp, Eeq., of ¢ tern Shore of Virginia, who if also a member of tho Kaow Nothing party, and an (o/lopondett can tigate. ‘The Portland Stete of Maine has classidied its ex iaoges in that State with reference to their poi and finds them to be divided a8 follows —Fremont, 2 10, Fittmore, 1; Independent, 17, OF the Boot pore, eight are directly or iad jy Owned and controlied by United States office holters On th A vit, Mr. Mryen introteced in the House of Representatives of Teves 8 int rosotation which requires the Governor to convene 4 poeta legincatere on or be- fore the tet Jarcary. 1867, shonkt the anti slavery eam). ate for the Prewkieney be elected, amd fortucr. that the Ceperner forward 8 enpy of Uhene reROIatiON ty Wg a