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“The Campeign—The Teét Qucstion—Shall ‘Mansas be a Free State or'a Ginve State? For the first time since‘ the adoption of the fe- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, Frenege FOLTONW, tio Jepending upon the test. lon very, pe wet | tn ie. clea; Glatinet’ aiid ahaciply. doen’. lake This iseue is, shall African -slevery be excluded trom or established on, the soX: of Kansas? And the solution of this problem, one way or the “other, is to be determined with the election of @Bremont or Buchanan. Jf +Fremont shall be elected, it will be equivalont toa verdict from «he American people in tahalf of the admission «of Kansas asa free State; if Buchanan is elected, swe have no doubt that the destiny of Kansas ewill be her admission inte the Union as a slave >Btate. The contest is thus between Fremont and Bu- echanan, and for Kansas ae a free State or Kan- ras asaslave State. Thejposition of Fremont ‘and the party supporting him, is the adinission vof Kansas into the Union as a free State; and so Jowell satisfied are our Southern politicians that -Fremont’s election will #e tautamount to the exclusion of slavery from Kansas, that they have forewarned us of the Nerth that his election ‘will and ought to be the end of the Union.” ‘Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Buchanan have both adopted and recommended this alternative of Southern secession in the event of Fremont’s success; so that both Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Fill- anore stand upon the same identical platform with Mr. Toombs, to wit—the adaission of Kansas as aslave State or the dissolution of the Union. Fremont occupies the more manly, honest and oonservative ground of submission to the will ef the people, whether elected or defeated; but if elected, he is pledged to carry cut the policy of free te labor for Kansas, to the exclusion of black slave labor. He is out of the fight in the Sowth—and Fillmore, in that seetion, is but a maa of straw; for upon this single issue of Kan- sas, sve presume that the vote of every Southern State will be cast for Buchanan—every one. There can be no mistake in regazd to this solid concentration of the South gpon Bu- chanan—it is for Kansas as a slave State. The overwhelming furore for Fremout .tbrough- out the North is but the reverse of the picture— it is for,ansas as a free State. Every man voting.for Fremont votes for the exclusion of black slavery from Kansas, and the estabtish- ment of fea white labor; every man voting for Buchanan, or.bis “ good man Friday,” more, votes fer the exclusion of free white from Kansas ay] the substitution of African siave labor. Kansas, at present, isa neutral or debste- able Territory—African slavery does not exist there except as uader an armistice; and the mat- - ter to be determined is whether this Southern in- stitution shall be-excluded from or permanently spread over a Texritory of the Union heretofore free. The main and abacrbing issue of this remark- able campaign is thus brought out into the bold- est relief. We have gever had anything of the sort in any previous contest. The purchases of Louisiana and Florida, the aanexation of Texas, and the later acquisitions from Mexico, compre- hended other issues then slavery or slavery ex- Wolumme XX1.........-ceeeseceseeoreenecee VOs B43 "AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. — ACADBMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth st.—ZraLian Orwaa— Be Trower one. NIBLOS GARDEN, Broadway—Pavs Pay-s0ve row + BOWMEY THEATRE, Bowery—Lapy er Lyons— Dancing —Warve sine Minsruet. AMERICAN MUSBUM, Breadway— Afternoon PR Mag oe > ar Home aNd AsRosd, Evening—Money —CymropeTiEs, ke. » DEDO'S RF HALL, 196 Broadway—La Carre a BPavek-ke we Avpience—Pas o& FUMEE Sams Peo. & WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway— ce eeey tee oan havaam Disvous. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, 08 Broadway—Krmorian Mmorumsy—Tx0V 4108) OHINBSE BUILDINGS, 599 Broadway—Necro Sorxcs Dances exp BueLEsuw LOOKER PROMBS ADE. ADWAY ATH M, G4 Beoadway—SevEn Aces | eet Concaxt—Jovanux #erivirims, ee New York, Monday, September 1, 1856. Ponti ees At erste Ra The News. Our correspondents in Havana, writing on the 26th ult., state that the leading politicians of the island of Cuba had resolved to remain attached to ‘the royal rule of Queen Isabella, even if a republi- can form of government were inaugurated at Mad- rid. Geeeral Concha was not so popular wich the masees ao usual, but amongstthe “ placemen” his new titles had increased his reputation. General Morales bad returned from his mission to Central America., The arrival of Jonathan Elliot, Esq., United States Commissioner in San Domingo, had created a sensation, during which the intrigues of Spain and France against the United States interests im that country were freely canvassed. Robberies im open dag were still rife. Some imposing re ligious fétes had been celebrated. The health of Havana was) improving. We publish this morning some very iuteresting news from Nicaragua, in addition to that which ap- peared in yesterday’s Hexatp. Our Granada and Wirgin Bay correspondents furnish details of Sala- zer’s treason, de intrigues of the English, the poli- ey. of President Walker, with other matters of mo- ment. Onur fileaof papers from Granada city, dated to 26th of Augue, contain full reports of the move- ments ot the new-government, army promotions, the revised tariff chazes, with an obituary hist; all of which we also give. Ax abstract of the address which President Mora, of Cocta Rica, delivered to the legislative body of ‘that republic on the 3d of August, is given else- whereta our columns. He reviews his war policy im Nicaragua, relates the ravages made by the cholera.in the army, predicts the speedy downfall of Walker,.and speaks of.the interruption of frieadly relations with the United. States government. The yellow fever is ragidly abating ia the neigh- borbvod of Fort Hamilton, and the patients ander treatment.are in a fair way to recover. We have important inteitigcnce from St. Domingo, the details.of which may be found on the first page. Ih appears that the Spanish officials on the island have been actively intriguing to effect the abroga- tion of the treaty recently negotiated between St. Domingo andthe United States. The value of foreign goods imported at the port ef Boston durigg the week endigg 20th u!t., amount- ed to $1,138,915. ‘The seles of cotton ou Saturday .cmbraced about 1,000 bales, without change in prices. Flour was heavy, aud sales moderate, The reveipts were not tension. Louisinua, Florida, Texas, Califor- ‘ nia were, each andall, intimately essential to our urge, but exhibited some increase iagmount. Wheat was not active, bat steady at previous rates. Prime to choice new Southern white sold et #165, and prime Western red at 31 55; old was a‘! and nomi- nal. Coro was firmer, with sales of soegd Western mixed at 6c. a 63c. Rge was firm, with sales of old snd new Northern mixed at 90c. Pork was firm, with cales in small lots at $19 87} 2 $20, and prime at $18. Sugars were steady, with moderate sales. About 200 hhds. Porto Rico, at 8jc., and 200 do. Coba muscovado, at Sc. a Sie. Coffee was quiet, at 10jc,a llc. for Rio. Grain continued to be pretty freely suipped for Liverpool, and about 80,000 baeh- els were eggaged in bulk and bags at Sjc., which was an adyance. Want or Stamina iy Tue Rerosiiean Parry —The, passage of the Army bill, and the triumph of the Senate, which took place on Saturday last, prove, what we sJl along conjectured, that the republican members of Congress were deficient in stamina, From Speaker Banks down to the commerce, our internal prosperity, and the eral defence and welfare” iz reference to fe Powers: and with these eersiderations in the foreground, the question of slavery became a secondary affair. The Missowiegitation had uo- thing to do with the Presidential election of nor had the election of 1852 any further connection with the agitation of 1850, thaa the n of the compromises then adopted. This Kaneas imbroglio thus comes before us in anew, striking and peculiar shape. Kansas is a Territory already within the Union: aud the issue pending, therefore, is wholly independent of our foreign affairs, It is purely a domestic question, social and political. The question is, ball Kansas be a free State or a slave State, and shall we vote for Fremont or Buchanan? The South have accepted the test, and are united against the North. Shall the North be divided? latest converts to republicanism, they all lack | The high northern latitude of Kansas, ite courage and relf-confklence. They can talk and climate, soil ond productions, and its an- jabber and write by the hour or the day or the | tecedents, ore all in favor of making it a free State. It cam never be de- week; but when it comes to action, they are weak in the knecs, aud a very slight contest wears them out. The least noise or clamor seares them out of their senses, and they are ready to vetreat, and wheel about and beg to be be forgiven. It is well understood that the event which frightened them on thie Army bill was the dis- charge of workmen from certain U. 8. armories by order of the President. They were afraid of the consequences—of what people might say—of what responsibility they were assuming. and dis- gracefully backed out. Any man of ordinary judgment and firm courage would have knowa pertectly well that by holding on for a few days the question of the dismissal of the workmen would have been laid before the country in its true shape, and the responsih for the deed would have been laid where it belongs, on the shoulders of the President. But the republicans had not the nerve to wait for this, Their craven bearis misgave them, and they surrendered. This is not the way to succeed either in politics or anything elee. Courage is as essential a re- quisite to the politician as to the soldier; the veloped to much advantage to the industry or commerce of the country as a slave State ; but it may become a very important producer and consumer as a free State. Admit it as such, and a field will be opened for hundreds of thousands of Northern laborers and European immigrants, who will otherwise be driven away, but who. with the State opened to them, would probably, in half a dozen years, make it equal in weight to Miesouri in both houses of Congress. With our Southern politicians this is the great difficulty. Already overshadowed by an over- whelming Northern majority in the House, and standing only as fifteen States in the Senate against sixteen, since the admission of California, the paramount object with the Sonth is Kansas as a political balance of power. Admit her as a slave State, and there is an equilibrium restored to the South in the Senate, and a breakwater againet Northern aggressions. But admit Kan- eas asa free State, and where, Mr. Toombs will ask, is there any safety for the South except in secession and an independent Southern confed»- racy? ter is not more sure of defeat than the former, if | This is a practical political view of the subject, their hearts fail them. We have watched the | excepting the secession alternative. We had that course of these republicans for some time, and | threat in reference to the admission of California all along we have seen symptoms that they were | 48 @ free State; and we had a couple of Nashville as a body deficient in courage: whence we have | Conventions and various Southern elections upoa the matter; but where did they all end? In the crushing defeat of the secessionists from stem to stern, in acquiescence to the law, and in the fusion of the secessionists themeelves with the Vin Buren Buffalo free soilers in 1452, for the spoiler, The South, however, are entitled, under the com- promises of the Constitution, to at least an equilibrium of power in the Senate: and we have no doubt that with the election of Fremont and he admission of Kansas as a free State, they wi} inferred that when the final tussle did come be- they tween themselves and their opponents would, unless they altered their charac tially, inevitably go to the wall. turday's d bate abundantly confirms our impress! Had the republican leaders possessed as much courage as those of the Southern party, they might have carried their point, and thrown all the odium of the stoppage of work in the national armories upon the imbecile adminietration of Franklin Pierce. Instead of this, they have given way ai | readily granted another slave State or two, the first onset, and by thus suffering a defeat | *ceording to the compact of the Texas annex: § tion, and for the sake of pe in the family. In any case, this cry of secession in the event \ injured thelr prospects of have without qnestio ter contest that ix at hand. suceess in the gr We have a misgiving that many of the men | Of Fremont’s election is a humbug. He is in who flourish as republican leaders are not fitted | {Vor of making a free State of the free Torr itory for the stormy life of politics. They ave essay. | Of Kansas, and that is all which the South can ists, philosophers and Iiterary men; afraid of | U@e against him. In every other respect, Mr Toombs himself must admit that the platform of Fremont is safer for the North, the South and the Union than the world-lefying filibustering policy of Buchanan. We are not afraid of the consequences of this direct Presidential isue upon Kansas and slavery. Politicians have been using this thing of slavery, and abusing and dodging it long enough. All honest men should be glad that they have reduced it at length into a shape from which there can be no mory dodging. Let Buchavan b) strife, and casily frightened. If these are to be the leaders of the party throughout, all ideas of success may be abandoned. Hitherto, the uni- versal popular fevulsion against the imbecile and demoralized regime of which Franklin Pierce is the last expression, bas given to the republicans a strength which has surprised no one more than thomeclves ; but they will never be able to re- tain or make use of this strength unless they find more courage than they Savelitnerso shown. It ‘will be as cary to ala oi was to raise thym. “Jexkd constitution, we have & ‘Freeidential elec- | electet, and the North will be prepared for the | adwiesion of Kansas as a slave State; let Fre- mont’de elected, and Kansas will come in a froe | State, with normore damage to the Usion than | the ddmission of California, AAW that we ask is that the question upoa whiti. this Presidential election hinges shall be cleafly understood. It is Fremont anf Kansas as affree State, or Buchanan and Kansas asa tlave State; and a vote for Fillmore fs a vote for Buekanan—nothing more. Let the people de- cide, and the politicians must obey. The News from Northern Mexico. We alluded some days since to the signs of dis- sobu.ion that were apparent in the Mexican hori- zon, and to the state of social and political dis- integration of the communities inhabited by the Latina race south of us. Our remarks upon the causes of this decline, exhibited ag it is not by any one country, but by all those inhabited by the descendants of the Spanish colonists, have excited extensive comment in many quarters, and arecuniversally received as being the only trae view of the political kaleidoseope now existing in Mexico and the Isthmus countries of this conci- nent. We showed the signs of disintegration that were; apparent in Mexico; and now the mail bring us the news of a movement in the Northern Statee of that republic, where General Vidaurri has declared the government under his contro! “ free and independent of the despotic powers of Mexieo.” In the received advices some doubt is expressed as to whether Tamaulipas wit! join in this movement ; and what the government under the control of General Vidaurri is, is not very clearly set forth. We can throw some light-upon the matter. ‘The late revolution which resulted in the over- throw and expulsion of Santa Anna from Mexico, has brought forward two prominent men in the Northern States of that republic. These are General Vidaurri and Governor Garza—the first being now Governor of the State of Nuevo Leon, and the latter of that of Tamaulipas, When Vidaurri found himself firmly seated in Nuevo Leon, he paid little attention to the wishes of the general goverament, and some time since annexed ; to his State the contiguous one of Coahuila, with | the consent of a large portion of the people of that State. This consent was given because the | Indian tribes of the border were ravaging the country, and the people felt the necessity of that assistance aud protection which the general go- vernment would not ar.could not give to them. These two States comprise an extent of territory nearly equal to that of Texas, but the State of Tamaulipas forms a long narrow strip that sepa- rates them from the sea, and holds the ports of Matameras, Soto la Marina and Tampico. These ports are necessary to Vidaurri, as foreign com- 4 merce is the principal source of revenue for Lim, as well as for every other Mexiean leader. The doubts expreeved as to the adhesion of ‘Tamaulipas to the new movement, originate in the diiference known to exist between Vidaurri and Garza as to the proper division between the two States of this sea coast revenue. Vidaarri claims two-thirds of it, because the population of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila are the principal coa- sumer of the goods imported through Tamauli- pas, while Garza opines that one-half is as much ae Nuevo Leon ought to have. That these two ‘eaders are working together there is no doubt, and that they are backed by parties in this city there is every reasoa to believe. The New York parties to the enterprise give a small amount of money, or arma and armunition, in returo for large grants of land, ang expect to make a good speculation out of it, ‘The federal government of Mexico have for ome time been anticipating this movement, and have been making preparetions to mect it. A body of troops have been kept at and near Jalapa, for the purpose of sending them down to Vera Cruz, and thence by sea to Tampico, whenever Vidaurri should pronounce; and every effort has been made by Comonfort to detach Garza from the movement and from Vidaurri. If this scheme is successtul, the federal forces can be easily disem- barked at Tampico, and Vidaurri not only held in cheek, but he will be deprived of the revenue he looks for from the ports of Tamaulipas. Should Garza, however, unite cordially with him, the federal government will not be able to land its forces at Tampico, and no man probably can re- peat the feat of Santa Anna of marching troops from San Luis de Potosi across the intervening desert to Monterey, which is the capital of Vi- daurri. ‘The most instructive fact in this new move- ment is, that although Vidaurri and Garza unite to carry out the project of separation from Mexi- co, there is no plan for subsequent union. Oa the centrary, each wishes to revolve, an indepen- dent potentate, upon his own centre, and they are already at disagreement about the division of the revenue of the two States, now separated by geo- graphical lines, but which, in an economi- eal and commercial view, are really but one. The philosophy of this is found in the law of social and political existence of these Spanish American communities—disinte- gration; and Vidaurri and Garza must follow in its train until they work out the appointed end. They may succeed or fail in their attempt to separate from Mexico; but the result will depend upon their own wisdom more than upon any other cauge. The horseleeches that cling around the corpse of public credit in Mexico will ery out until they are hoarse against this excision of © portion of their prey, and a venal press will dilate upon national honor and national integrity; but the feeling, asa preponderating sentiment, has ceased to exist in the bosoms of the masses of that country. Vera Cruz cares little what becomes of Tamaulipas; Guerrero will not wil- lingly pay one dime towards the recovery Nuevo Leon; Guanajuato, where the church is supreme, is more likely to aid and foster the vecessioniats froma temporal power that des poils her; and Oajaca, instead of caring to coerce Northern Mexico into the national cypher, is cogitating how she, too, best may become a unit, and looks longingly oa her Tehuantepec position to aid ber ia that hope. Should any one deem this t) be an imaginary statement, we heve only to point to the jealousy with which a small band of laborers, armed with spade and pick, who have lately gone to open a wagon road across the Isth- mus of Tehuantepec, are regarded by the central pewer in the city of Mexico. We had intended presenting some remarks upon the trae policy that must yet be introduced in these movements south of us, but we have already exceeded the limit of our disposable space. We will only remark, in calling attention to this sub- ject, that the Vidaurri and Garza movement in Northern Mexico is but the type of a rapid sueces- sion of movements that will present themselves in thore regions during the next degade, They will look for sympathy and aid here, and they will re- ceiveit. Speculatoersstand ready toadvaace monary on land, clzee Pierce set them the example in the ten million purchase, The young, enterprising and ambitious stand ready by thousands to em- brace the shadow of an opening for advance, and every successful establishment of a new and stable government upon our theories, will moet with the hearty approbation of the country. These are not new truths, though some may deem them such, and we shall not share the sur- prise of Harvey when he discovered the circula- tion.of the blood, that no man over forty years of age would receive the new doctrine. Old fogies.are proverbially obtuse in this respect, and it is the new men, who are coming upon the stage, who will be called mpon to meet and solve these questions, The old Jeaders that have lately passed away—Calhoun, Clay, Webster aud many others—laid the foundations of their fame more than thirty years ago, when new lights broke upon ‘the world from Mexico, Colombia and Greece, in their struggles for freedom. The new struggle of these nations to slough their old and dead social and political theories will bring for- ward new men, too, and the third and fourth rate intellects that gleamed with a feeble light in the trains of Jackson, Webster and Clay must give way before the coming men that are to fultil the coming duty. Iurortant rrom Dominica—Spanisa Iy- TRIGUES IN THAT RepuBLic.—Letters published in another column, from the republic of Do- minica, show that the Spanish representative near that government is proceeding to extra- ordinary lengths in his patriotic endeayors to reduce the State to the condition of a depen- dency of Spain. We had occasion some time since to allude tothe recent treaty between Do- minica and Spain, one of the articles of which stipulated that any citizen of Dominica of Span- ish birth or extraction, who desired to return to the allegiance of Spain, could do so, on fulfilling certain formalities in the office of the Spanish Charge, Senor Segovia. Under this article, Se- nor Segovia has erected himself into an imperium in imperio, a power practically greater than that of the State. Wilfully misapprehending the de- sign of the treaty, or perhaps only too faithfully carrying out its secret design on the part of at least one of the negotiators, he has begum a sys- tem of “ matriculation,” as it is called, in virtue of which he enregisters as Spanish subjects all who apply to him, whether of Spanish, Dutch, Italian or other origin. To these persons he awards his entire protection, and with the aid of two Spanish vessels of war lying in the port, effectually ehields them from the pursuit of the national authorities. The system has been car- ried to euch an extent, and so many persons have been induced, by considerations of fear or gain, to accept this impromptu sort of naturalization, that the government of Do- minica is paralysed, and the whole real power rests in the hands of Senor Segovia. It seems that he has reduced the government to the condition in which that of the Porte existed dur- ing the tenyears previous to the Russian war. He dictates their policy; selects their members; controls their police; carries out their laws. It is only in so far as this usurpation of Senor Segovia’s concerns us that we propose to draw it into notice. All the influence which he has ac- quired over the republican authorities by the effect of the treaty, by the moral welght of the ships of war lying in the harbor, and by alleged promisesof Spanish eupportin the event of future wars Hayti, is used for the purpose of thwarting the designs of the American party on the island, and defeating the projected commer- cial treaty between the United States and Domi- nica, We understand that every Dominican who is suspected of American sympathies is marked out for punishment, and that a persevering course of terrorism is rapidly thinning out our friends in that republic. There is even a prospect of an actual collision between the two countries, On a recent occasion, a well known American sym- pathiser was attacked in thestreet. Being armed he shot down his assailant. Knowing how small a chance of justice he could expect from Segovia, who controlled the administration of justice, he fled, and, it was supposed, took refuge on board an American ves sel lying in the offing. Segovia hastened in pursuit with the crew of a Spanish man-of- war's boat. He also ordered that no vessel should sail from port, until after a thorough search by hiseatellites, The American Consul, under these circumstances, ordered the American captain not to suffer his vessel to be boarded, but to resist until he was fired upon, and then to strike his flag and surrender his vessel. We have not heard how this aflair terminated. Meanwhile every effort is being made te de- feat the ratification of the treaty recently made between Dominica and the United States. The Dominican government, at the instigation of Se- govia, have requested the United States admin- istration—in whose hands the treaty now lies— to return it to Dominica in order to make some alterations. It is well understood that this is only « ruse, in order to obtain possession of the treaty and kill it off. That some euch scheme is really on foot, and that its realization is immi- nent, may be inferred from the haste with which Mr. Elliott, the United States Consul to Domini- ca, left that State in a British man-of-war, and came to this country, arriving here on Saturday in the Philadelphia. Obviously the duty of the administration in the premises is to lose no time in concluding the treaty at once, and then send- ing a man-of-war to Dominica to see to its honest execution. Nothing short of this will guarantee us against some awkward accident, Rewer ron Fort Hamtrox.—There are about twenty still on the sick list at Fort Hamilton. They will soon euffer for the want of funds. There are only a few of the wealthy inhabitants left, and all the expefise thus far has fallen on them. Let the benevolent think of this, Let money be sent to-day, to-morrow, and every day till the fever ceases to exist. Any contribu. tions sent to this office will be handed over to the Board of Health of New Utrecht. * A New Fresen Paren ty Prosrsct.—The Pa- risian correspondent of the Courrier des Bias Unis announces in his last letter, his arrival by the Bareelone. Mr. Gaillardet was the original edi- tor and proprietor of the Cburrier, and it is stated that the present proprietors are heavily indebted to him. He comes here, it is said, to settle his accounts with the Courrier people ; or, failing in this, to establich a new French paper. Let M. Gaillardet go ahead—there is plenty of room for another French paper. Yei.ow Fever ar Capron, Mise—-The M News \earns by « letter from ’ the 1sth inst., that a case occurred there on the night pre- Hite ie nl at” Re tet {he caizene were up to leaye, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1856. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, News fro ‘Washington. REJOMCINGE ON THE PASSAGE OF THE ARMY BILL— ‘TH PRESIDENT COMING EALT—sTAMPeDE OF CON- GRESSMEN— BUCHANAN’R CABINET—THE ARMORY EMPLOYRES KEINSTATED, ETC, Wasuinsrox, Aug. 31, 1856. President Pierce is exultant over the passage of tho Army Dill, and gave # grand dinner party yesterday, which was attended by Mesers. Howell Cobb, Orr, Han- ter, Toucey and others of the faithful. A general con- gratulation took place, and the opinion was expressed that tho resuitestablished the wisdom of the Presideny’s couree im calting the extra session. | ‘The President, 1 am ixformed, contempiates in a few days paying a short vieit to New Hampshire, for the bo- nett of his health. Many members of Congress loft ast evening, others to- day, and to-morrow morniog witness the complete desertion of Washington by our national legisiators. Hon. J, M. Eliiots, of Kentucky, may be detained a few days, af he ts still weak frota his iste severe tadisposi tion. Senator Toucey is spoken of as Mr. Buchanan’s Secretary of State, in the event of his election, with General Quitman as Secretary of War, aud General Rusk as Postmaster General. The exact character of the recent despatches from Eng- land is not yet hnown outside of the State Department. Mr. Marcy fret at the fact that the Heraip's editorial was adopted as the basis for the settiement of the Central American question. General Case, Judge Douglas and Senator Bright left here this evening, to be present atthe great gathering which is soon to come off at Tippecanoe, Indiana, Gover- nor Dickinson and Jchn C. Breckinridge will also be present. ‘The Board established. recently to settle the accounts on war bonds of California, which passed Congress a short time since, docs not seem to work yery emoothly. Five per cent, I understand, is charged the holders of bonds, to pay cer‘aip parties who lobbied the bill through, Gen, Walbridge arrived last evenivg, having been re- quested to come here for the purpose of giving the de- tails of his plan for organization of our commercial navy. This proposed change in our naval system meets the con- currence of many of the ablees men here. ‘The Cabinet is greatly exercised net only with Califor- nia but with our relations with New Granada, growing out of the Panama massacre. The administration were preparing to make a clean sweep of a!] the workmen a! all the military stations, ar. senals and workshops. Five hundred were on the eve of dismizeal at Harper’s Ferry. Thie general sweep was wholly unnecessary even if the Army Dill failed, and the workmen will probably appreciate the sincerity and ob- ject of the movement at the November election. They were to have been made the ‘‘scare crows” for the feon- test. Orders have been issued for the re-employment of the discharged hands. The United States Armories. DISCHARGE OF THE 8MPLOYEES IN THE ARSENAL AT ‘WATERTOWN. Boston, Ang. 30, 1856. By an order received from Washington, the employees inthe United States Arsenal at Watertown, were dis- charged to-day from further employment. Fillmore Gubernatorial Nomination tn Mas- Bostox, Aug. 30, 1856. George W. Gordon, Fsq., of this city, formerly the Post- master here, was nominated by the American Fillmore party to-day for Governor, in place of Amos Lawrence, who declined, It is considered by many a strong nomi- nation. Mr. Gordon is very popular in Boston. He has accepted the nomination. Demucratic Muss Meeting In Pennsylvania. Svsqvemaxna, Pa., Aug. 30, 1868. A large and enthusiestic democratic mass meeting was held at this place this afternoon. Hon. Kdward Tompkins, of New York, addressed the assemblage. Over four thousand people were present. Marine Disasters. SCHOONER SIGNAL ASHORE—SINKING OF THE PRO PRLLER PROTECTION. Osweao, Aug. 30, 1856. The schooner Signal, of and for Erie, with a cargo of salt and lime, was driven ashore last night below the East pier, and is leaking badly. The vessel is insured. The steamer Boston and propeller Protection came in collision on Thursday, on the St. Lawrence, near Gana- naque. The latter sank in twenty feet of water almost immediately afterwards. She bad a valuable cargo of European merchandise on board for Toronto, which was mostly insured. The Late Accident to the Belvidere and Delaware Railroad. Easton, Aug. 31, 1856. The dimage to the Belvidere and Delaware Railroad by the fall of the bridge bas been repaired, and the cars passed over the bridge to-day. ‘The Morris anal is clear, and will resume operations to-morrow. Burning of a Stcamboat. Provingson, Aug. 31, 1956, ‘The new steamboat New Clifton, which was inteaded to r ween Bristol and Newport, was found to be on dre on Saturday evening, at Warren. The Gre was extin- guished, with a loes of about two thousand dollars, She belongs to Capt. Albert De Groot, of New York. A Newspaper Denounced. Syracuse, Aug. 30, 1866. The democrats of Onondaga county held a meeting bere this afternoon, and denounced, in severe terms, the course of the Daily Standard of this city. They have issued an address to democrats to discontinue the paper, and have taken steps to establish a new party organ. The Southern Mall, Barrowone, Aug. 31, 1856. We have no mail to day south of Augasta. Mr. Aiken, of South Caroliva, declines @ re-election to Congress. Ae bec bushels 040 bushels oats. Sp 1856. iar bushels oate. whest, 61,586 bushels corn, ora, and New cau, Fe 4 4. Sales to- + day, 400 anes, OM per cent Shentuns Omeaco, Al Wheat—Prices are a trifle lower. fulo, 57,000 bushels. = to ower 66, changed: sales at 4c. Shipments to ele. Freights a shade higher. Fiour steady. Sales, 400 bbis., tee i f Wheat is,dull. Choice™ scarce. Sales. uushels of new prime white = at “ 59, = oo 3800 bushels new Chi My) Canal treights unchang four hours up to noon to-day, ng wheat, Canal ox to same time, 0h,06 bashele wheat oad 9,622 bushels cora. Provipeyce, Aug, 90, 1864. Cotton—Sales moderate at fail prices. Wool in fair demand, Steck light for the season, Prices unch Salees for the week, 45,300 pouns. Printing cloths—Mar- Ket continues active and Prices firm, Sales of the week, 62,300 pieces. TROCRLE IN Broapway.—According to the preparations making in Broadway, on the corner of Pear! stroet, there 8 likely to be a serions catastrophe some time today. A arge machine has arrived on the ground to scoop out, it 8 asserted, the earth along the foundation of the Broad way theatre, Ifthe machine is what it purports to be, ‘and is to be used in the way suggested, there is likely to be a great crash; and in this view it is the duty of the Mayor to place a cordon of ropes and police above and below and all around this dangerous locality, as he did several weeks ago around the corner of Murray street. Over five thousand spectators were about the premises yesterday, There will be more to-day, Desravetion or A Town sy Fine—The St. . of the 284 ‘ wan eis Be Lg a ECE SY Bote, owned by John Summers, consumed. } yanatnown wo re comantied any by an incendiary. ‘The september Cerm of the Law Courts. The General Term of the Supreme Court will ve opened this morning, but we underetand that it wil) be immodi- ately adjourned for # week. The Cireuit Court will not be ww session until the second Monday of the month. Ope Judge will eit in chambers and at special term, bas apart from motions very litie business wil be transacted. until October, In the Paperior Court there will be nothing dove untit the firet Mouday of next month, except the manufactur. ing of voters for the spproaching election, to which the: never-tiring Chief Justice reluctantly devotes bimself with the best possible grace, The celebrated s!auder suit of Fowles againet Bowen, of the firm of Bowen & McNa- mee, in which the plaintiff’ obtained on the firet tela $6,000 damages, bolds a prominent place on the csieudar for next month, and is looked forward to with reat anxi- ety by the mercantile commmnity, in which both parties are wellknown. These geutiemea (Bowen & MsNamee) are likely to have their hands full of law matters fer toe ‘winter, ag we understand that the lessee of the Broadway theatre bas commenced a. action for damages, occasioned by an alleged mahcious innovation oa bis premises, im erecting a new butiding aljoning the theatre, and which compelled the management to close last se ton some ‘weeks earlier than usual, acd wiil prevent them opening for some time to come. ‘The accommodations fur holding the Superior Court still remain ag they have been for the lust io yoars— the very worst of apy in tho city. In 1828, the year when this Court was first organizod, the acsommodatious: were far better than they now are, though the Court at that time consisted of only three Justices, anc re wore but two clerks in the office. At no period duriug the drat five years were there more than one hundred causes om @ the calendar, and the Court was then held in the large and airy rooms now occupied by the Board of Couacil- men in the City Hall. In September, 1832, tne trial ca- Jendar of this court contained ninety-six causes. and there was only one trial term held in each month during that year; yet the accommodations were then much better than they are now, when we have six Justices om tae bench, with monthly calendars containing two thousand causea, and four trial terms ¢ach month, desides the Gene- ra) and Special terms. The Superior Court, as now con- stituted, will compare favorably with any other bench in the United States, and we gee no reason way 80 poor accommodatiorg should be assigned them. in 1828 the clerk’s office was in the same miserable, narrow, diwgy room where it now is, and was even then considered too small for the of the business of the Court; yet, strange to say, main d there the same ever since, with ap accamulation of pearly thirty years’ records piled up to the very ceil- ing. The wonder is how papers, when once filed away, can be laid hands upon again, though we are aware that the clerks are rarely at a loss to fiad them, In fact, the whole court accommodation of the great and growing city of New York is bad—very bad; the rooms are all too ‘ cabinned, cribbed, confined;’’ in warm. weatber it is ‘(penal servitude’ for a juror or a witnees to attend, aud in winter time the atmosphere is equally in- sufferable from the immense hissing ‘‘red hot cemons” of stoves which occupy the greater portion of the apart. ments. Will the Common Council wake up, and save the Judges from the necessity of exercising the power invest- ed im them, to direct the Sheriff to furnieh them with suit- able and proper accommodation for the traneaction of the legal business of the city? No jury trials will be heard in the Common Pleas tilt October. Judge Brady has been occupied principally du- ring the past month in transforming about 800 foreigners into citizens of this republic. Out of that number of mabufactured freemen we are informed that more than three-fourths of them are in the Fremont interest—the German agents are more energetic than the Irish, and the consequence is that the republican ticket is daly gaining strength in this city. ‘The Marine Court, which is compelled by law to be open for the transaction of business all the year round, is daily increasing in importauce. Some very interesting cases are disposed of here. The calendar will be called this month by Justice McCarthy, who assisted Judge Mayvard in reduciug the number of causes on the August calendar. ‘The trial of Louis Baker and others, for the homicide of ‘William Poole, has been removed (as already notived in the legs! intelligence of the Henatp) by the Supreme Court to Newburg, Oraxge county, aud will take place here ou the second Monday in November. In the Surrogate’s Court, the colebrated larish will case—which has already occupied several weeks, the testimony extending to nearly eight hundred pages—will be resumed on Monday, the 22d of September. It i¢ likely to occupy the attention of the Surrogate acd coun. sei for some time, as we understand the evidence is litle more than half through. ‘The United States Cirenlt Court will open for arga- ments on Monday the 8th inst.; and im the United States District Cour} there will be the usual quantity of cases for fitting out slavers, azsaults on the high seas, and other offences, of which the federal government aloue cau take cognizance. Altogether, the winter campaign in the law courts, if we may judge from the length of the calendar, promises to be one of multifarious interest and considerable excite- ment. ‘The September term of the Court of General Sessions commences to-day—Recorder Smith presiding. The cri- minal calendar is large, owing to the great number of cases put over at the last two terms, Bail cases, ‘such as are ready, will be tried first. The following ta the calendar of the caves awaiting trial at the City Pri- son :—Grand larceny, 26; 'Y, 81; robbery, 7; for- gery, 3; disorderly house, 1; felonious assault and batte- ry, £; murder, 3; receiving stolen goods, 1; abandon- ment, 3; bigamy, 3; embezzlement, 2; rape, 1; perjury, 2; accessory to murder, 3; seduction, 1; false pretences, 2; stabbing, 5; witnesses, 4. Total, 98. Theatrical, Musical, d&e. The Orera.—There will doubtless be a grand ot the dilettanti this evening, at the Academy of Music, for the purpose of giving eclat to the initial performance of Mr. Maret zek's opera season of twelve nights, which will most likely be the last we shal) have of opera atthis house for an indefinite period, unless the proprietors consent to some ti whereby managers and performers can have a fair opportu. nity of making something for themaecives, Mr. Mareizek has secured an efficient corps of artists—the favorite, Mme. La Grange, beading the list—and will use all the tact and energy necessary to render (his season as brilliant and worthy of snp- port as was the last. The selection for to-night is “Ii Trova- tore,” with Mme. La Grange as Leonora, and Signorina Von- taldi as Azucena; the other characters are to be filled by Signort Brignoli, Amodio, Gasparoul, Ac. On the alternate nights we are to have a series of dramatic representations under the direction of Mr. Hacket, who is to commence to-morrow evening with his renowned character of Falstaff, in “Henry TV,” and will be admirably supported by Messrs. J. W. Wal- lnck, Jr., G, Jordan, Mra, Vernon and others. Nisto's Ganbes,—Those great rival companies, the Burton dramatic corps and the Ravel Family, who play on alternate evenings, again did an immense business last week. The multitudes of admirers of the respective parties seem to have turned out ¢1 maser—the house being literally packed every night. As for Mr. Burton, he haa, if possible, added to bie hitherto unrivalled popularity a8 a comedian during his brief ement at this theatre, the frequenters of which will no. regret to learn that he is not to perform in it after this ‘To-night we are to have “Paul Pry,” with Mr. Burton a8 the inquisitive hero, and Mrs. Howard as Phosbe. “Out for a Holiday” is the aferpiece, Mr. Holland playing the comical. week. TRE. —This time honored temple of Thespis, become so unprecedentedly popular under the Mr. John Brougham, is to be re-opened, for the fatl campaign, this ¢ ment has been material! very full and eficient company engaged, Mr. B. cannot fail to) reap the reward be is evidently striving so mueb to gain, and to which he is so justly entitled. Among the poplar artists perform here, for the first time to night, in Bulwer's celebrated play of the “Lady of Lyons,” are Miss Fanny Morant, Mesars, Carlton Howard, W. H. Bailey and A. T. Morton. The M Henrarde an‘ other favorites appear ina grand diver:ievement, and the whole closes with the comicality of the “Wanderia Minstrel,” in which Mr. W. Davidge is to make bis debut ay his house as Jem Baggs. Bertos’s Tueatae.—Ii is said that Manager Barton wi give a farewell entertainment at bis Chambers street theatre | the scene of so many brilliant triumphs, prior to in his elegant establishment in Broadway. He is under to have made the requisite arrangements for one of the strong est companies ever congregated in this country. Wattack’s Treatee isto reopen next month under # direction of the popular manager and actor afer whom it V. bas isened a card notifying the nni ous talented artists engaged by him for the coming season, they will forfeit their situations If they hereafter perform any other theatre without his writien consent, Lavea Keese's Vanceries.—The builders are py ‘very rapidly in the construction of this theatre. No doubt now entertained with regard to ite being in complete order the reception of Miss Keene and her talented corps of auxilia ries by the middie of next month. Daring the interim M! Reene and her company will perform in Washington and Bal: timore, In both of which places the Indy te almost as grent ® vorite as she is in this eity, Bansems American Moser, with ite multitndinons lection of animate and inanimate, natural and unnatural cosities, including the leanest man and smailest womaa in World, will open fy the (Ab sonepa WUT: A Tey