The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1856, Page 4

ES GORDON BEN EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, pens Samoan ©7FI0R M. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON OTS. —— Volume XX1. .......-.» --~ Ne. 845 AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING, WIBLO'S GARDEN. Brosdway—Jonx Joxns—fnar Birserae Ravy—Jexay Linn. BOWERY THFATRE, Bowery—|.apy or Lrons— Dancing SIOLLY COBBLEN. CADEMY OF MUSTO, Stee tianemnoon. BARNUW'S AMERICAN MUSKUM, Broadway—Afternoon Monkey. Been ng—Taip Lover —Marp or Mossreu—Goop vox Norumxu. “at GEO. CHRISTY 4 WOOD'S MINSTRELS. 444 Broadwey— 5 PexroRmances—Bons Squasm Diavo.o. Fourteenth st.—Itauax OreRa— BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, 58 Broadway—Ernioruan Mamornesiy—TRov 4: CHINESE BUILDINGS, 899, Broatway—NacKo Boxas, ‘Dawoxs ax Buuesques— Ripusy Fasrivate BROADWAY ATHEN UM, Broadway—SEvVEN AGES ee Max—Grend eee evenan ‘P eSTiviTims. , New York, Wednesday, September 3, 1856, Malls for Europe. NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPS. ‘The Cunard steamship Africa, Capt. Shannon, will leave this moruing, at ten o'clock, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close in this city at eight @elock, A. M. ‘The Humaty (printed in English and French) will be peblished at «ix o’clock in the morning. Single copies, fm wrappers, sixpence. @abecriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Wew Your Hunarp will be received at the following places in Europe:— Lospox—Am. [aaa iaieaar 1:7 Etro enema do. Lsvenrooi—John Hunter, #8 acnange Soe ‘Zhe contents of the Eurcpean edition of the Hmnatp ‘will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at She office during the previous week, and to the hour of pebiioation. The News. ‘Phe steamship Persia, now fully due at this port from Liverpool, had not been telegraphed up to one o'clock this morning. The Khersonese, from Liver- pool for St. Johns, Halifax and Portland, isin her eleventh dsy out. The Ericsson is in her fourteenth @ay from Liverpool, and the Barcelone in her fif- ‘teenth day from Havre, both bound for this port. The State election in Vermont yesterday resulted im the choice of the republican candidates by Sargely increased majorities. Our telegraphic despatch from Washington rep- resents the Secretary of War as busily engaged im seeking for authority to put down the San Fran- «isco Vigilance Committee. Should he ascertain ‘that he is clothed with the necessary power, he will, 8 is stated, transmit orders to Gen. Wool, by the next steamer, to concentrate his whole available feree upon San Francisco. Doubtless a portion of ‘the naval force in the Pacific will be ordered to co- operate with the army, and we may possibly have another demonstration, & /a Greytown, in this at- tempt of the administration to crush out the vigi- ants. We publish elsewhere details of news from Vera Cruz to the 22d, and from the City of Mexico to the 29th ult. Under the firm band of Comonfort the government was prospering, and the affairs of the nation exhibit general improvement. A conspiracy had been discovered at the capital and promptly suppressed. Several of the leaders were arrested ‘and banished the country. They have arrived at New Orleans. Among the names we notice Gen. La Vega, well known in connection with the late Mexi- ean war; Gen. Blanco, Gen. Saurez, two other mili- tary gentlemen, together with about twenty other exiles, military, lay and clerical. Yellow fever still prevailed at Vera Cruz. The article in the new constitution on religious toleration had been reject- ed by Congress by a vote of sixty-seven to forty- Sour. In the Board of Councilmen, last evening, a reso- lution was adopted directing the Corporation Coun- gel to commence legal proceedings against Rudolph Garrigue for contempt of the Board in refusiag ‘to appear to testify before a special committee of the Board, appointed to inquire into the expediency ef removing the emigrant depot from Castle Gar- den. A resolution to petition the Legislature at its next session for the removal of Quarantine to Sandy Hook was referred to the Commissioners of Health. Those celebrated trotting horses, Flora Temple aud Tacony, contended fora stake of $1,000, over the Union Course, L. I., yesterday—Flora in harness, Ta- eony in saddle—mile heats. The race was won by Flora in one heat, which she accomplished in the as- tonishingly quick time of two minates twenty-four and a balf seconds, distancing Tacony. There is no record in the annals of the tarf of a mile being passe} over so quickly, Read our report of the exploit, poblished elsewhere in our columns. The Board of Almshouse Governors met yester. day. Nothing of importance transpired. George B. Gilbert was appointed Chief Clerk of the Board, im place of FE. B. Corwin, deceased. We have Porto Cabello (Venezuela) dates to the 12th vlt. Everything was quiet. The elections parsed off peacefully, and favorably to the existing Wovernment. Produce was quite scarce, especially cofiee. Cocoa was abundant, and in request for France and Spain. It sold as high as $2%a $30 per . William J. McAlpin has been re-elected State Railroad Commissioner. The elections in thie city for delegates to the Republican State Convention take place on the sth mnt. There not being a safficient number of (rand Ju- yors in attendance at the Court of General Sessions yesterday morning, Recorder Smith was obliged te adjourn witout doing any business. There is a harge calendar to be disposed of this term, but the Court is compelled to wait for the action of the Grand Jury, a+ no indictments have yet been found. ‘The court adjourned to Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, at which time gentlemen summoned as Grand Jurors are requested to be in attendance. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales, chiefly in transita, with some lots for export and spinners’ use. The market was without change in quotations. In flour the receipts con- tinued good, while the demand was light, and the market declined 5¢.a lOc. per barrel on commor medium and low extra grades. In some cases a much as lic. per barrel was claimed. New red wheat was Jc. a 5c. lower, while new white was un ehanged. Corn was steady, at 62e. a (2). for sound Western mixed, with free sales. Pork was firm, with sales of mess at $19 <7) a $20, and prime at $17 75 2 $18; and 1,000 bbls. mess s¢ deliver able in all this month, bayer's option, at $20. Sales of sugars were confined to 500.4 600 hhds, Cuba mus covado, at Tic. a Bic. Coffee was steady, with mo- derate sales. Freights were firmer for Liverpool, with engagements ot 50,000 a 60,000 bushels grain, n bulk and bags, at Se. a 8c Farse Rev or YF that some of the Philadelphia deavoring to spread the report there, to the effect that yellow fever prevails extensively in this city. [1 is almost unnecessary to say that this report is without the slightest foundation in fact. There has been no yellow fever in the city, and the no danger that there will be any. There have been a brought there by vex at Quarantine Southern ports, pr Philadelphia, Boston, ely as they or any oth big or little—to which ships and sailors come. These eases are, however, seven miles away from the city, and excite no particular notice. The city was never more healthy than at present. The deuibs for the current year will count up two og NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, ‘three thousand less than that preceding. Our city is cool, comfortable, delightful; our hotels are crowded with strangers; and Broadway never looked more brilliant. If the Philadel- phians hope to get the New York trade, they must try some n: w dodge, ‘The United States Se ate on Kansas Affairs— Douglas versus Wilson, We spread before our read»rs this morning, the speech of Mr. Douglas and the speech of Mr. Wilson, delivered in the United States Senate on the 27th ultimo, on the House proviso to the Army bill; and we submit them to the candid attention of men ef all parties, as about the fair- est presentation we can make of the two sides of the Kansas controversy. Judge Douglas and General Wilson are both politicians of the best modern school—practical, pointed and pungent in their views of the salient points of a great question ; and while the former is the acknow- ledged exponent of the policy and principles of the democratic party upon Kansas affairs, the latter stands no less prominent as one of the great guns of the Fremont republicans. In reading over this particular speech of Mr. Douglas, however, vis-a-vis with the speech of his powerful adversary of the same day, it must be admitted that while the latter sticks like wax to his text, his facts and his argument—as if pleading to convince the Senate—the distinguished Senator from Hlinois, on the other hand, falls short of the mark, in limiting himself to the prejudices and presumptions of the galleries, Ingenious and prolific as Mr. Douglas unquestionably is in his discoveries of the motives and objects of his adversaries, he fails, in this instance, to grapple with the facts and the real issue, as the occasion requires. He says that the Fremont party in Congress have not in reality sought or desired the abrogation of the bloody code of Kansas—that they have rather sought to keep it an open question for Presidential agitation—that they rejected the several bills passed by the Se- nate to repeal those infamous laws—that there would be no trouble in Kansas were there no Presidential election pending—that the Fremont party are rejoiced at every new atrocity which occurs in Kansas, as furnishing so much addi- tional capital for political agitation—that the House proviso itself was but an ingenious device to promote agitation, iu still keeping alive those atrocious Territorial laws, &c. But what has all this to do with the facts in the case, and the real merits of the question between the two houses? Let us examine. The following is the House proviso to the army bill, upon which this Senatorial debate took place, Cena, 1. That no part of the military force of the United States ehall be employed iu aid of the enforcement of any enactment of the body ciaiming to be the Territo ria! Legislature of Kansas, until sucn eaactments shall have been ailirmed anc approved by Congress. 2. This proviso shall not be #0 coustrued as to prevent the President from employing an adequate military force. but it sball be hie duty to employ such force to prevent the invasion of saiu Territory by armed bands of aon-re sidents, or apy other body ‘of non residents, acting, or clauming to act, as a posse comitatus of any officer in said Territory, in the enforcement of any such enactment, and to protect the persons and property’ therein, and upou the patonal highways leading t) said Lerritory, trom all un- lawful searches and seizures. 3. It shall be bis duty to take etficient measures to com- pel the return of, and withbold. al! arms of the United Mates distributed in or to said Territory. Was that proviso right or wrong? Ten thou- sand precedents affirm that in a parliamentary sense it was right, while the ruffianiem which had been lording it for many long months over Kan- sas, under the treacherous, doubie-dealing and imbecile administration of Mr. Pierce, recom- mended that proviso, not only as right, but as really necessary for the peace of the Territory. if Mr. Doug! jjected to it because it did uot distinctly repesl those barbarian laws of Kansas, could be not have proposed a modification to suit his peculiar ? But no; the Senator and the Senate would listen to nothing short of the absolute submission of the House to the Pre- sident: and that being at length secured, through a Fillmore and Buchanan majority. the S adjourned. In the interval, they voted down the proposition of 1 the bill of Mr. Crittenden for the abolition of those ferocious Kansas laws, and forthe substitutiun of law and order—voted them down, too, upon the plea of leading Southern de- mocratic secessionists, that nothing should be lone for K s short of the absolute surrender of the House, Mr. Douglas, as the responsible godfather of the Kans ka «bill, will = remember that the N « Hersanp was the first Northern public journal to come out in support of the repeal of the Missouri npromise as the repeal of an uncon- stitutional act, and for the substitution of popular sovereignty in the Territories, as more consistent with the spirit and intent of the con- stitution. Mr. Douglas will also remember that the Henan defended the Territorial Legislature and laws of Kansas, and rebuked the rebellious acts of the State settlers, until a Congres- had established the tact, be- xe shadow of a doubt. that the Kansas gislature was an outrage upon popular sove- reignty, and that its laws. and the appliances used by Mr. Pierce to enforce them, were among free nittee the grossest of outrages upon popular rights. From the day when that report was made to Congress, it should have been the duty of both houses, and especially of Mr. Douglas, first of all to supersede this spurious Legislature and these bogus laws of Kansas, by a constitutional, lawful and republican form of government; and then there would have been no difficulty and no chaffering between the two houses upon provisos to the appropriation bills. But unfortunately in the supervision of the KansasNebraska law our weak and truckling President fell under the mischievous counsels of that arch-se- cessionist Davis, the Secretary of War. an confederate of Messrs, Atchison and Stringfellow. and a party to » to make of Kansas a slave State From that unhappy gnty in Kansas was sup- their sche preseed by ruffian sovereignty, and from that day to this, this border ruffianism has been protected, encouraged and enlarged by the administration until the whole democratic party are involved in the plot. Even the godfather of the Nebraska bill and the Cincinnati nominee for the succession, have become identified with. and pledged to, this secession policy of Jel. Davis, which is to estab- lish slavery in Kansas, and Kansas as a slave State, by force of arms This speech of Mr. Douglas, th falle short of the mark. while ihe speech of Gen. Wil- eon strikes home to the main question. It does not treat upon motives, suspicions, presumptions and suppositions, but upon facts, acts and cir- cumstances directly affecting the main issue. He exhibits the bloody code of Kansas in its naked deformity to the world. His views of this infa- mous code are substantially endorsed by Messrs, Caes, Douglas and all the leading democrats of the Senate; yet they reject the House proviso to the Army bill for the suppression of these Kansas ought to be. Fremont will be elected without a party ; amd the country will escape the tyranny under which it suffered in the days of the old de- mocratic and whig dynasties, Hereafter we want no regularly organized parties to oppress the people, When there is a President to be elected, let there be an opportunity for full, free discus- atrceities, and reject all attempts to control the President and his officers and agents within the limits of impartial justice. They succeed at length in drumming upa pliant ma- jority in the House; they carry their point of leaving Kansas, the Kanses Legislature, the bloody code of Kansas, the civil war in Kansas, and a weak and truckling administration, ex- actly as they found them, A dispassionate perusal of the speech of Mr. Douglas and the speech of Mr. Wilson, at the same sitting, will afford a most striking ilustra- tion of the difference between a desperate law- yer defending a notorious criminal, and an advo- cate with a bundle of proofs in his hands of the guilt of the indicted party. If Douglas appears weak and frivolous by the side of Wilson, it does not prove the inferiority of Douglas as a pleader, but the badness of his cause. It is evident that he has no stomach for his work; but it will be worse with him before the battle is over. We have no sympathy with the abolition proclivities of Wilson, but we can scarcely confess to any further endorsement of Douglas, considering the secession nigger-driving company into which he has fallen. Jeff. Davis and his set will use him and drop him, as they dropped the little man from New Hampshire. But the world will still certain broad, general principles, instead of the misty diatribes called platforms, which only con- fuse the people. Then let the matter come before the great tribunal of four millions of voters; and never fear that the right man will not be found for the right place. But we want no parties nor party organizations. They belong to a bygone age, and Young America rejects them altogether. A Lrrerary Duri—Wesp anp THE BrooxsEs 1s Arus.—Our Wall street magnates, the Brookses and Chevalier Webb, are carrying on a terrible war about the funniest thing in the world—their own private characters, For some time past the Chevaliers Brooks have been slandering and abusing Colonel and Mrs. Fremont, and in retura the Chevalier Webb has been amusing the leisure hours which even a great man must have, by pitching into Mr. Fillmore and his friends. This agreeable exercise was carried on for some time; sion through the press, and the annunciation of go on. Important Move iv Menicrpan Pourtics—Re- Nomrvation or Ferxaxpo Woop ‘or Mayor.— We publish in our columns to-day a correspon- dence of some importance to the people of this city, which has taken place between Fernando Wood, the present Mayor, and a committee or body of nearly one hundred gentlemen, compris- ing the most reputable, influential and worthy citizens of this great metropolis. It is only ne- cessary to read the li of names headed by Wil- liam Brown and William B. Astor, to be con- vinced of the truth and accuracy of this state- ment. The letter addressed to Mr. Wood by these gen- tlemen deprecates in pointed language the ru- mor that he is no longer a candidate for the of- fice he now fills, requesting him at the same time to forego his private advantage for the public good, and calling him forth afresh as a candi- date for the Mayoralty of this city during the present crisis in its internal affairs. In his reply, the Mayor at great length recapitulates the course of his administration, the policy which he adopted on his inauguration, the difficulties by which he has been beset and the obstacles which, accumulating round him, prevented him as chief magistrate from reaching that point of eficiency which he hoped to attain on his first introduction to office. We must admit that there is a great deal of force in what the Mayor says. The municipal government of this city is a bundle of incongrui- ties, inconsistencies and absurdities; in fact, a hydra of ten heads, with any quantity of horns. With such an incongruous and absurd system it must be owned that few men could have accom- plished even the little that has been effected by Mr. Wood. Surrounded as he is by departments entirely independent of his office, and, indeed, of the Corporation itself, to say nothing of the maas of miserable corruption of which the two boards are composed, it {a utterly impossible for this city to be well governed under such a system, even if an angel or archangel were to descend from heaven and assume the reins of power. This correspondence, coming out at this par- ticular time, is of more than ordinary political importance. It may be considered a re-nomina- tion of Mr. Wood by a committee of the wisest and most respectable men in this metropolis. The subscribers to it are not vagrants, shoulder hit- ters, loafers or vagabonds, like those who exer- cise power at the primary elections, and who have neither character, responsibility nor inte- rests to risk in the issues involved in them. Those who have attached their names to this nomination —which may be called an independent no- mination, inasmuch as it is independent of individuals, factions and parties—are men who, by their talents, virtues, en- ergy and perseverance, have raised themselves to high social and mercantile consideration. This isthe kind of nomination that we want in New York. It is placed beyond the reach of the cor- rupt and degrading influences of party politics, as well as of the local despotixm of the profes sional bullies who sway the primary elections. It is the bea ideal that we have vainly sought for: and now, out of the abundance of patriotism, vir- tue and intelligence that exist amongst us, it springs up of its own accord, with a force and energy that must command public attention, and lead to an entire reform in the administration of our municipal affairs. It is probable that the gentlemen who have put forward Mr. Wood differ in opinion on politi- cal questions, and more especially as to their choice of a Presidential candidate. Some are, no doubt, for Buchanan, some for Fremont, and some for Fillmore. But in this great metropolis we want acity government organized on other grounds and springing from otber influences than national politics. In this nomination we have what we have so long been looking for: and it is to be hoped that the example will spread and bear its legitimate fruit. During the last few years all the various parties—democrate, Know Nothings and republicans—have exhausted their ingenuity and skill in trying to keep their nominations free from the corruption, trickery and violence which have hitherto distinguished them, At the present moment we understand that the democratic party is torn into two factions on the question of the best mode of putting forward their municipal candidates. One faction is in favor of the old plan of primary elections, and the other of multiplying convention upon con- vention for the nomination of distinct candidates for each office. We trust that the movement now begun by the nomination of Mr. Wood will give the quietus to this rotten patchwork system, and that the gentlemen who lave set it on foot will display the same freedom and independence of action in the nominations for other munici- pal offices which they have done for that of Mayor No Reevniicas Party.—The republican party has vanished like a free lunch before a hungry Alderman. Some of the papers are endeavoring to excuse or apologize for the caving in of the republican members of the House of Representa- tives, who skulked and allowed the Army bill to I without the Kansas proviso. It won't do, gentlemen. Such eonduct in party men admits of veither excuse nor apology. There was a ma- jority against the paseage of the bill; but three or four who were in the Honse, skulked, and al- lowed the bill to pass. That's not the way to make a political party. They must fight and conqner, or go down with their drums beating and colore flying. But the republicans ran away, and allowed the minority to gain the victory. That's the end of them, This is progisely as ig but the Brookses being the younger blackguards of the trio, soon ran ahead of the Nestorian Che- valier. Whereupon Webb gets out of temper. He sits down and gives the Brookses one of his little column sermons—one of those pleasant homilies which merchants go to sleep upon these long summer afternoons. The Chevalier Webb sends a whole Chesterfield charge into the Brooks camp. They are, he says, “engaged in a crusade against decency,’’ and are “manufacturers of slanders;’’ furthermore, they are “ scurrilous,’ “ born without the instincts of refinement,’’ “ no gentlemen,” “authors and fomenters of all the discord which deranges and disorganizes society; they have told * deliberate falsehoods” and “ cir- culated infamous slanders;” they have the “fiend- ish malevolence of vulgar minds;” they are “reckless fools’—in fact, the conviction is irre- sistible that, according to Chevalier Webb's idea, the Chevaliers Brooks are as bad as Dogberry’s prisoners:-— Marry, sir, they bave commitied falee report; more over, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are sianderers; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to con clude, they are lying knaves. And Chevalier Webb finally winds up in the Old Bailey style, with a “God have mercy on all such !’’ Whereupon the gallant Chevaliers of the Expres do charge violently upon viewx mous- quetaire of the Courier, The Brookses say first, that Webb is a “disagreeable subject;’’ that he is an “ass in a lion’s skin;” a “rascal,” who ought to be ‘lashed naked through the world;” a “Sir Bobabil;’ a “beggar on horseback; that he has a « brazen front;” that it isn’t worth while calling him a liar, because “ that hand has been burned in and lashed in publicly and pri- vately;” that he carries the mark of Cain on his brow: that he is ~ general or colonel of some ir- regular army, nobody knows where; that he was“ publicly flogged in Wall street for prying into the bedroom of a married lady in the ab- sence of her husband:” that he “ sold himself for fifty-two thousand dollars; that the “finger of scorn” is pointed at him “all along the path- way of life; that “he wantonly dragged before the world the private eorrespondence of a lady,” and “sent one broken heart to an early grave;” that “he was the cause of the murder of Cilley;” “aider and abettor of a mob that drove Mrs. Wood from the stage of the Park theatre;” that he is a“ bully,” a “blusterer,” a “ convicted felon,” and thatif he is a gentleman, “the sooner the reign of the bullies and blackguards driven from California by the Vigilance Committee be- gins here, the better for private decency and pub- lie morals.” That's fine reading for a cool September morn- ing, and Wall street must be much edified by the very pretty quarrel between these chevaliers, who have left the candidates to abuse each other. Such controversies always end in that way. The grand secret of this row seems to be a difference of opinion as to what constitutes a gentle man. The Chevalier Webb says that he is a gentleman by birth, and that the Che- valiers Brooks are no gentlemen, Thereupon the Brookses say Webb is “no sort of a gentle- man,” and thus the thing comes to a dead lock. ‘There's been a good deal of dispute of late on this very question--what constitutes a gentleman ? It was the grand turning pointin the Burlingame affair, and it seems as much a vexed question as the theory of perpetual motion or the squaring of the circle. The next Scientific Convention ought to offer a premium for its settlement. Meanwhile, it is to be ardently hoped, by all par- ties, that the chevaliers in Wall strect will go on abusing each other as violently as possible until after election. This exercise will, by employing all their faculties, prevent them from injuring the cause they profess to defend, and afford an agreeable entertainment for the lovers of light, spicy literature. Frewost’s Baxkine Orenations.—For some time past the Buchanan and Fillmore papers have been asserting roundly that Colonel Fremont was a partner in the banking house of Palmer, Cook & Company, of San Francisco, The fol- lowing card, from one of the partners in that house, settles the hash :— A CARD. Whereas, it baving been asserted that Colonel John C. Fremont is « partoer of the house of l’almer, Cook & Co., the subscriber, a partner of said house, deems it proper to state that there is no foundation in fact for said report. Colonel Fremont is not and has never were partner of Palmer, Cook & Co. G, WRIGHT. New York, Sept. 2, 1866, The thousand and one stories that have been set on foot from time to time by the nigger driv- ing democracy, and published in their organs, accusing Fremont of all kinds of misdeeds, are as false as that which we have just branded. But it is hardly worth the time and trouble to take them up for the purpase of proving their falsity, For fifteen years the name of Fremont as a pub- lie man has been constantly eulogized by the united press of the civilized world. It is only now, when he is candidate for the highest office in the gift of the people, that the miserable politi- cal ecoundrels are inventing slanders against him, vainly hoping to stop the progress of the great revolution which will sweep all the old fogies far away in the sea of oblivion, and, carrying young Fremont on its topmost wave, place him triumph- antly in the Presidential chai Tux Covrrtmer pes Erats Unis. —In justice to the alteram partem we inserted yesterday the let- ter of Mr. Lassalle, the actual proprietor of the Courrier des Etats Unis of this city, wherein he positively declares that the statement which ap- peared in our columns, to the effect that he was still in debt to M. Gaillardet, formerly of New York, is “a malicious and deliberate falsehood.” ‘This may be the case, for all we know or care; but we beg toinform Mr. Lassalle that the author of the said “molicigus and deliberate falsehood” SEPTEMBER 3, 1856. is no other than M, Gaillardet himself. In a letter recently written to a gentleman of this place, M. Gaillardet expresses himself in the fol- lowing enpucit languages ey 1 as decided to a over ae New Sao as ad and make 4 Spal effort to settle up my clams on the Guurrier des Fiat Unis, which have been dragging on for several years pagt. In case I do not succeed to my satisfaction, I a quite resolved to estabiish another journal in New York. I have already ea arrangements for that purpore with some fou moet distinguished writers. F. GATLLARDET, The above extract from M. Gaillardet’s let- ‘ter fully justified the paragraph we published, and we cannot forbear expressing our surprise at the rejoinder ithas brought forth. Nothing can be clearer than that M. Gaillardet or Mr. Lassalle has uttered “a malicious and deliberate false- hood,” as it seems to us; but we must leave it to these worthy gentlemen to put the cap on the head to which it really belongs. Here goes the cap—where’s the head ? THE LATEST NEWS. BY DABHETIE AND sD PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, mxpected Steamer from Liverpool. Haurax, N. S., Sept. 2-10 P. M. ‘The screw steamer Khersoncse, from Liverpool on the 23d ult., is now fully due at this port, via St. John’s, N. F., en route for Portland, Me., her port of destination. The weather is clear and calm. Vermont State Election, Moyrretier, Vt., Sept. 2, 1856. Our State election for Governor, members of Congress, Legislature, &c., took piace today. The vote, judging from the returns received thus far, is very large. Last year the republican majority for Gov. Royce was about 13,000. The cancidates this ycar were Ryland Fletcher, republican, and Henry Keyes, democrat. The returns show a large republican increase on last year’s yote, electing Mr. Fletcher Governor by at least 20,000 majori. ty, and the three republican members of Congress and nearly the entire Legislature. The vote in some of the principal towns for Governor stands as follows :— Fletcher, Rep. Keyes, Dem. » 885 109 109 ot iM 123 44 In seventy ‘towns heard from the democrats have elect- ed but three members of the Legislature, ‘The republicans have swept the State completely. Interesting from Washington. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SAN FRANCISCO VIGI- LANCE COMMITTEE—OUR TREATY WITH DOMINICA —REPORT ON THE PANAMA RIOT—VESSELS OF WAR ORDERED TO PANAMA, ETC., ETO. Wasmetoy, Sept. 2, 1858. A great pressure has been brought to bear upoa the President, to induce him to interfere in the California dif. ficulties. Senators Clay and Weller have been closeted most of the day with Secretary Davis, urging him to use the army to put down the Vigilance Committee. Mr. D. expressed a willingness to do so if he had the constitu. tional authority, but this he much doabted. His authori- ty is now being investigated; and if by possibility it be determined that the military can be used, orders will go out by Mr. Weller, in Friday’s steamer, to Gen. Wool to pour into San Francigco his whole available force. Mr. Willard, of New York, and Mr. Anderson, former- ly United States Senator from Tennessee, haye been ap- pointed to assist the Attorney General in the California suits. leaac B. Bowdish, of Vermont, bas been appointed Con- sul General at Constantinople. Charies W. Welch, the popular Chief Clerk of the Navy Department, has been appointed Acting Secretary during the temporary absence of Mr. Dobbin, who goes home, as I bave previously stated. Secretary Marcy, since Congress has finally adjourned, bas taken up the report of Mir. Corwine, who was sent out by the administration to ascertain the facts and re. port the same to the department, io regard to the riot which took place at Panama, some time since. The re- port is quite lengthy and exceedingly able. He clearly implicates the Panamains in that disgraceful transaction; and argues conclusively, that unless our government take rigid and peremptory measures, and keep a vigilant eye upon them, they will continue their depredations upon the persons and property crossing the Isthmus. Mr. Corwine, who bas recently been appointed Consul at Panama, will, 1am informed, leave in a few days for his post, and is clothed with full power to maintain the rights apd protect the property of American citizens at that piace. The administration have already, owing to the report which is current in many quarters that the authorities at Panama threatened to seize the United States mails, ordered two veesels in that vicinity to hold themselves in readiness for any emergency that may arte. ‘The members of the Ca)inet will avail themselves of the dull season and make flying visits to their homes, General Walbridge’s proposition for organizing a com- mercial nayy seems to meet with general fayor, Since that great speech at Tammany Hall, in which he laid the foundation for this 8} m, his star is evidently in the ascendant, and {t\) 0 the settled conviction here that he will represent the Third district of New York in the next Congress. The treaty which our government has been requested by the Dominican government to return, was, it is said, made by Mr. Elliott with Bobadiila, a mulatto, who was forced into the Senato Consulto by foreign inflaence, in order, as represented, to defeat the treaty made with Gencral Cazeneau a year ago, Elliott's treaty has been in the possession of the government about four months, bat was not submitted to the Senate for ratification, as unofficial representations bad prejudiced that body against it. Adviees bave been received by the administration giving glowing assurance of Walker's ultimate success in Nicaragua. It is understood here tha! Soulé’s visit to Nicaragua is in connection with the negotiation of the pro Jected $2,000,000 loan. There is nothing officially known here as to whether Consul Livingston had been shot or not, though the pre- sumption is that he is still alive. Commencement of Brown University. Provipencr, R. I., Sept. 2, 1566, ‘The commencement exercises of Brown University be- gan to-day. ‘he oration before the Mhi feta Kappa So- ciety was delivered by the Rey. lr, Huntington, of Harvard University, Bis subject was “The lelation of Scholarship to Human Welfare, of Thought to Society, and of Literature to Life.’ The sermon before the Society of Missionary Inquiry, was preached by the Rev. Dr. Ro- binson, of the Rochester University. The discourses of both geatlemen were highly praised. Severe Storm at the South. Batriwonm, Sept. 2, 1956. North Carolina and Southern Virginia papers received here, give accounts of a severe storm of wind and rain, lasting from Saturday night to Monday morning. An im mense amount of rain fell, and great damage was done to the crops. As the wind blew violently ou the coast, re- ports of marine disasters are feared. At Goldsborough, North Carolina, considerable snow had fallen, Boston Weekly Bank Statement. Bostox, Sept. 2, 1856. Statement for the past week, compared with those of the week previous — Fatal Ratlroad Accident. Scnasron, Pa., Sept. 2, 1856. ‘The freight and coal trains came in collision below here, on the road to Newton, this morning, and both engines ‘were smashed, one fireman killed and a brakeman fatally injured. Large Fire at Newburg, Nuwnvne, Sept. 2, 1866. ‘The stables connected with the Clinton Hotel, kept by J. Richards, together with théir contents, including eight valuable horres, carriages, &c., were destroyed by fire thie afternoon. The buildings were owned by Wm. ©. Flaabrovck, who was insured, Mr, Richards bad no in- purance, and loses heayily, Interesting from Kansas. Sr. Louis, Sept. 2, 1856. Letters to the Republican, dated St, Josephs, 27th ult., stato that Major Bakiwin, agent of the Kickapoo Indians, has just returned from a visit to the Indians, He reports the country between Grasshopper and St. Josephs full of armed bodies. Free State men were moving along the western border of the Kickapoo reservation. Capt. Scott, with a hundred men, bad moved in that direction, an@ * otber forces were to join bim to cut off further accesstong in that quarter to the ranks of the free State men. The pro-slavery party were alxo stationing strong bodies off men along the northern line of the Territory, to prevent. the ingress end egress of any free State parties there, and along the Missouri river it is so well fertified that no free State forces can approach in that direction, The pro- slavery men are arranging plans for a speedy concentra- tion of their forces upon Lawrence, The excitemens in the Territory and border counties continues, Pennsyh Politics. MEETING OF THE EDIL AMERICAN STATE COUNCIL: PrrrsnerG, Pa., Sept. 2, 1856. Last night a delegation of difty-three left here, at 10 o'clock, in the Eastern train, for some council or convea- tion unknown. Their objcct was kept a profound secret; . but as they were ticketed to Lancaster, it is supposed, they have gone to attend a State Council to be held there to-day. The Fillmore Americans here are greatly ex- cited, and surmise that the object of the delegation is to Procure the endorsement of Fremont and the repudiation of Fillmore by the Council. They assert that this delega- tion is spurious, representing only the disbanded Coun-- ctls of this snd other counties, All the delegates are resi- dents of Pittsburg and Allegheny city, Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 2, 1856. The Edie American State Council of Pennsylvania met here today. Forty one Counclis were represented by one hundred and twelve delegates. J.J. Clyde, of Har- risburg, was elected President, and Gen, Wm. H. Irwin, Vice President, and the minor offices filled. No other business of apy consequence wes transacted. Pending e. resolution endorsing Fillmore and Donelson, the Conven- tion adjourned sine die. Democratle Congressional Nomination. PutLapenrm, Sept. 2, 1856. Henry M. Phiilips was to-day nominated on the first. ballot as the democratic candidate for Congress in the- Fourth district. The vote etood 34 for Phillips, 11 for In« gereoll. PHitApELrHia, Sept. 2, 1866. The following democratic Congressional nominations: bave been made:—Firet district, Thomas B. Klorence> Second, John A. Marsha!l; Third, James Landy. Democratic Meeting at Indianapolis. Cixcixwsts, Sept. 2, 1856. Senators Douglas, Cass and Bright are addressing e. great democratic meeting at Indianapolis to-night. John C. Breckinridge is also expected to speak. Delegates to the Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention. RRavinG, Pa., Sept. 2, 1856. The Berks County Democratic Convention to-day nomi- pated five delegates to the State Convention. They are in favor of Gen. W. F. Packer for Governor, and W. Strong for Supreme Court Judge. Maryland Old Line Whig State Conventions Baumimore, Sept. 2, 1856, A large number of prominent old line whigs are in town, to attend the State Convention to be held here to- morrow to nominate delegates to the National Conven- tion. Republican Rally at Hartford. Hartyorp, Conn., Sept. 2, 1856, The Fremont camp, in this city, is crowded to over- flowing this evening, to hear addresses from George W, Curtis and Thomas Van Buren. From three thousand to five thousand persons are present. American Congressional Nomination, ConsixG, Sept. 2, 1856. The Americans of the Twenty-eighth Congressional dis- trict have nomipated Samuel Hallett, of Hornelisville, as their candidate. Fatal Termii m of the Assault on Pires Sweetzer. Bostox, Sept. 2, 1966. Mr. Henry Sweetzer, of Jamaica Plain, died this morn- ng. Baccroft, the colored man, who inflicted the fata) jury, was arrested and committed to Dedham jail. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PmLapetpnia, Sept. 2, 1856. Stocks dull. Pennsylvania Fives, 83; Reading Rail- oad, 42',; Long Island Railroad, 12);; Morris Canal, 13),; Pennsytvania Railroad, 4855. Burrato, Sept. 2-6 P. M. Flour 12c. lower, Sales 900 bbis., at $6 12 for com- mon Wirconsin and Ohio; $6 37 a $6 60 for choice to ex- tra Michigan, Obio and Indiana, and $0 75 for aouble ex- tras. Wheat 2c. a 4c. lower. Sales 27,000 bushels, at $1 12a $1 13 for Chicago spring; $1 40 for white gan, $1.45 for choice do, and liimois, Corn heavy. Sales 5,000 bushels at S0c. Cats quiet at 390. Canal freighte ubehar ged—183¢. for corn and 17}4¢, for wheat to New Receipte for the twenty four hours ending at noow bbis flour, 69,900 bushels wheat, 58,599 els ‘n, 18,500 bushels oats. Canal exports same time-—24,938 bushels whest, 89,160 bushels corn, 6,640 buebels oats, 20, Sept. 2—6 P. . M. Flour a shade lower, and pap good demand. Sales 700 Dbis., at $6.0 96 75 for common to extra Uswego, and $6 80 for superfine Canadian, Wheat dull, Sales, 4,000 bushels of white Canadian, at $1 44a $146, Corn quiet: tales since last evening 16,600 bushels, on Brivate terms. Canal freights to New York steady; for wheat, IL Lake imports in the twenty four hoars, at to noon to 62,00 bushels wheat, Canal ex 200 bbls. ‘sour, 81,261 bushels wheat, and 16,200 ushelg corn. "Cuicaco, Sept. 2—6 P. M. Wheat—Prices are a trifle lower. pments to Buflaic 30,000, and to Ow: 29,000 bushels. Corn declined 2c. Receipts to day 112,500 bushels. Shipments to Buifalo 000 buthele and to Oswego 16,000, Freights Tc. a e for corn to Butlalo. Tur Orens.—Monday was agreat night at the Academy. The treasury overflowed, and the house nsver looked more magnificent. The only drawback wasa want of discipline among the oflicers and attendants. People should not be allowed to stand in the parque:te aisles, or to monopolize other people’s seats, Max must reform this. Tonight we are to have “Lucia,’’ with the new tenor, Tiberini, and La Grarge in the principal parts, There will be something good at the Academy every night this week. Personal Intelligence. James Ff. Eaq., of Richmond, orga » formeriy Commissioner of Pension, had his thigh by a fail on a bard pavement at Warrenton, on "be ‘8 ‘ult. Gen. Cazeneau, of Texas; D, 4. Smalley, of Vt.; Major Chase, U. 8. A., and Col. Young, editor’ of the Central Amerwan, Mearagua, are in Washington. ARRIVALS. At the Everett Mouse—Erastus Hopking, Northampton; Jobo P. Chapin, 9 ie, . Alston Marsh, New York, M: ers, Tri CN Pulhpa, deimatens Morris © Miller Stephenson, New York; Arch, Young, A. Meweil, New York. At the, Clasendon holas Ludlum, New. York: Benj. Maulehy, Albay Mr.) and a Heston ; Philadelphia, Jn the stenmahip Nasbrilie, from Charleston—Mra A Ro: erison, Mrs Kichards, Mine Ragerion, WH Kw Miss M T's Murkin, Bele Davide” . " bonneaw, JL Barnwell wea W Whaley. H Gortde, Mre F iicharda and four chil Miss Richineus, © MeAlilister and lady, Mra Dupree, ath and three children, ¥ Kelly, and I] steerage. Miss Dupree, fer Je Ww Mt /EPARTURES. , in pleamsbip Edimburgh—Mr Micmillen and , allen, Statem Taland: Misa © Stewart, NYork. irs Jas Fisher, Detroit; ¢ oy = tg hey Load Yor Hrotiebank, C Wm ir relans james an mi RYork: Miss Warrington, Chicago; John mil wi Misa Wallace, Glasgow; Wm NO: Rogers, Newark, Patric Brown, ao ster, P Glasg ante J Brad iy, NYork; 1 Muthot ny raward ital, and, NY¥c R Smith, NYork: David Win Briggs, Wm Mac ton; = Alle. mou Rdward i i Me 2 i ‘ ip! hi nd, ay Connol Jove 7 Richthon "sprait, NYork: Beli: Tecan Rovt Remeny, James Walker, popert Black, N York: 1% Booth, Alex ‘teow ay Alex McMaster, Mary Wheeler, N 7 Kelly? NYork; Mra NY¥ork; Mrs B Uhap. ronda, Bridge; ‘George Moore. A York; Mrs Sum Copper, Manchest Jas Brownless, ion; f Furgerso el, Viinons: AC MraJus Devang, ‘Mrs Smith, New Work: Mice Smith, Jobinsvil inois; Mrs M Quigiey, Mee i Baker, NY ork. Theatrical, Mustea' we. Acaprny oF M goor Tiberim, of whose merits we bave heard the most flattering accounts, i# to make he dewt in America to-night, as Rugardo in “Incia dt Lammermoor.’ The favorite Ia personates Lucia, and the other characters are in bie nands of Amodio, Gasparoni, ke. Ninto's# Gaxney.— Mr. Burton will bring bis bighty Prosperous engagement (o & vlogs Lig py Fag, Od HAIER