The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1856, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. _ . sainltaaipmnananmpenanien gaM age GORDON B Pierce Administration. "The last intelligence from Kansas is really mat- ter for serious alarm. It is no longer rumors of war, Drrigs Id ladies of both CORNER OF NASSAU Feuron era. | ot up to frighten nervous o sexs, = ee but civil war exists there in its most dangerous ‘an frightful forms. Citizens of this republic- men of a common brotherhood, having a comms jn inte- rest in the prosperity and stability of the Union— are found madly arrayed against ea b other in open field, and in covert and treacher ous attack. They are marshalled under opposing ,anners, part belonging to what is designated ‘the “Army of the North,” led by aa indi vidual of the name of Lane, assuming the title of General, and part to what is @esignated “ the Border Ruflians,” mar- shalled by Messs. Atchison and Stringfellow. For many montke past these hostile bands have been gearauding through the Territory, commit- ting wanton depredations and unmanly atrocities on the weak ami defencebess of the opposite faction. But aow Gresk has met Greek. The ruffians of the Army of the North have come into deadly conflict with the rufians of the border. A regular battle hae been fought, wherein three hundred are re- ported to have been engaged on each side. The issue of this combat is said to have been that aloance. " ALD. 2 cants per copy, ST annum, peg Oey wey Bary 8% cents per 3 uropean edition, “ Be: Mjecat Brisain, or $3 to any part of tha Continent, CNTR Co -RESPONDENCE, containing import mae oh cat Fate Sotaoric aed 5 y D pe a Smal av. Lures axp Pack (Gens SENT US. Woke AKT... eee ceeceeceeee ore NOe B40 "AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVBNING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourvecwth st.—Iraut ay Orena— Manan. MIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Ticut Rore Feats-La Forronr—Asruopei., BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Mansux Heants—PRrexcu Baxper—Poca won 4s. THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond ee Cr Rivas A Loa ofa Bove. "$ AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway-Afernoen pRARNCMS AMT RH ATeGEE—Qette a Hoag. Evening —GrmaLs— Swiss SWALNS. @EO. CHRISTY & WOOD MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway— Bemorias Prcrormancrs—Bo: wasn Dix voLo, BROADWAY ATHEN a, Ook Brontoven—-deeenas, viotory remained with the pro-slavery forces, the Lm iinlooi ~ | corpsof the Army of the North retreating with a oss of some twenty men. The first question which men naturally ask themselves, when they read of this lamentable condition of affairs in Kansas, is :—* How has such a state of things arisen, and how has it ever been allowed to exist?’ The answer is a simple one. It could not have arisen if the President had been true to bis duties. It could never have ex- isted a week if he had had the requisite nerve and firmness to uphold the laws and to repress in- surrection. We charge him as the grand culprit in the premises. Minor instruments—accomplices and abettors in the crime—are such men as Jeffer- son Davis, Atchison and Stringfellow. But Frank- lin Pierce is the principal, and on his shoulders rest the consequences that have followed and are likely to follow. The bill for the organization of the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, which was passed by the last Congress, was the starting point for a train of circumstances which have involved the peace and safety of the entire country. That bill was in itself liable to no valid objection, although it was made the object of bitter denunciation by Northern abolitionists. Had it been observed and enforced as it should have been—had there been no improper interference with its regular operation—the government of the Territory would have gone on peacefully and constitutionally, and when the time came for its admission as a State into this Union, its people, in their sovereign ca- pacity, would have moulded and established its institutions as to themselves might seem right and proper. The organic law gave to the people of Kan- THIS EVENIN DEDO'S EMPIRE HALL, 506 way—Qnayp Sa fesmp Concent—Vorar axp INSTRUMENTAL. ATLANTIC GARDEN, Brostway—Gkaxp Concert sy BDopwokta s Barn. ——————_————————— New York, Sunday, September 7, 1856. To the Public. Advertisements must be banded into the publication @fice defvre nine o'clock in the evening. Aanounce- ments of deaths, or other equally urgent notices, are, of eourse, excepted. Whe News. (The free State fugitives from Kansas who have reached St. Louis corroborate the reports recently received relative to the proceedings of the pro-sla- very forces. The latter, it is asserted, not only per- sist in driving out the free soilers, but have ordered all the non-combatants to leave the Territory. “The Mount Vernon Hotel, at Cape May, probably the largest hotel of the kind in the world, has been totally destroyed by fire, and, melancholy to relate, the whole of the family of the proprietor, Mr. Philip Cain, with the exception of one son, perished ia the flames. Yo:tunately there had been no guests in the house for several days. The City Inspector's report for the past week ex- hibits a gratifying improvement in the general healthfulnese of the metropolis, the mortality list showing a decrease of 27 on the namber of deaths of the previous week. The figures compare as fol- bes— Men. Women. Boys. Girls. To'al Ca er 217867 ‘Week «nding Sept. 6.... 59 88 199 505 The following were among the principal causes of death the past week, as compared with those of the week preceding :— Week ending Weel: ending 4 Sept Ducavs. . 6. eS... = € sas the same rights enjoyed and exercised Cholera 1 + 97 Cholera mordu! 8 1 | by the people of other Territories—the power to Convulsions (infantile = determine their own social institutions, It was the bounden duty of the Executive of the United States to see that that law was observed, and that the people were protected in the exercise of their rights. The people of California and of other Territories required in their day no protec- tion from the general government. They wereable to take care of themselves. They framed their own State constitutions without any interference of the general government, aud by the regular action of heir local conventions established or prohibited the existence of slavery in their midst. But the case of Kansas was an exceptional one. It was formed nto a Territory while it was yet uninhabited by the white man, and when the Indian held undis- puted sway init. It was therefore especially the duty of the general government to have afforded protection and security to the settlers, and to have seen that the organic law was not openly violated. But how have the facts been? Daring the pen- dency of the bill in Congress, and ere it had be- come a law, broken down politicians from Mis- souri, seeking an opportunity to revive their for- tunes, and ambitious of the pecuniary and politi- cal advantages which an infant settlement offers to such characters, organized bodies of men there and in other parts of the South—who have since earned the cognomen of border raffians— and as soon as the bill became a law, crossed the border, took poseession of the Territory, and dedicated it to slavery. Northern demagogues pursued the same plan, organized emigrant aid societies, furnished emigrants with Bibles and Sharpe-Beecher rifles, and sent them to dis pute possession of the Territory. Reinforce- ments poured in from both sides, and naught but disorder reigned in that distracted region. But somehow the psalm singing riflemen have not been able to cope with their less devout antago nists. Lane is but a sorry specimen of a general, and his followers are not used to a border life. Atchison, Stringfellow and Company, as they or- ganized their plan under the guidance of Jeffer- son Davie, the Secretary of War, so they have re- ceived the countenance and support of the imbe- cile Pierce administration. To show how the organic law has been violated and trampled on—how the last rights of the citi- zens have been violently extinguished, aud how lawless bands of marauders, in conjunction with the troops of the United States, have choked every expression of the popular will—we have only to see pass in panoramic order the shadows of past events. There they are—the incursion of armed Missourians on the day of election; the driving from the polls all peaceable citizens who were not pledged to favor the establish- ment of slavery; the imposition, by these means, on the bona fide settlers, of a set of rathlees legislators; the enacting of laws a libel on republicanism and a disgrace to civiliza- Debility ( Inflammation of the bowels. Beariet fever Maresmus (infantile) ... . 45 82 There were also 5 deaths of bronchitis, 11 of con- gestion of the brain, 7 of croup, 16 of dropsy in the head, 4 of epilepsy, 2 of yellow fever, 6 of typhus fever, 7 of hooping cough, 6 of inflammation of the brain, § of inflammation of the lungs, 5 of small- pox, 6 of teething, 10 premature births, 14 cases of atillhorn, and 18 deaths fivu: yluient causes. With reference to the cases of yellow fever no- ticed above, it is stated, on the authority of Dr. Rockwell, Resident Physician, that one of them was typhus fever, and not yellow fever, as reported. The following gives the number of deaths last week, compared with the corresponding weeks in 1854 and 1855 :— ‘Week ending Sept. 9, 1854 ‘Week enting Sept. 8, 1855........ Week ending Sept. 6, 1856.. neds eh 506 The following table gives the classification of @iseases, and the total number of deaths caused by each disease, during the two weeks ending— Generative orgacs.- Heart ana blood vessels .... Lang?, throat, &c.. . a4 eruptive fevers... nd premature births Seomach, bowels & other digest: Uncertain seat and general fevers. Unknown... Chinary organ’ ° 1 - ‘The nativity table gives 395 natives of the United States, 60 of Ireland, 35 of Germany, 8 of England, 1 of China, 1 of Denmark, and 1 unknown. ‘Three new cases of yellow fever have occurred at Fort Hamilton, but they are ofa mild character, and will, it is believed, readily yield to medical The sick are getting on finely. No @eaths occurred yesterday. The annexed table shows the range of the ther- the past week. Rev. Ygnace Velasquez de la Cadena, a canon of the Metropolitan church of Mexico, one of the priests who had been recently banished by the go- vernment, under an accusation of conspiring to ‘overthrow it, died at New Orleans on the 29th alt. Hie was far advanced in years, and had been sick for some time previous to leaving Vera Cruz. Accounts from Mayaguez, P. R., to the 18te ult., sate that the cholera was taking off between forty and fifty persons daily. The epidemic was mainly among the blacks. The officers and crew of the ship John Carrier, from Mobile, arrived at Charleston yesterday, the weme! having been abandoned at sea while leaking badly. Anearrival at Charleston reports the total Joss of the s:hooner Canton, from the Baltic, off Arecibo, on the 18th ult. Six drovers were scalded to death on Friday even ing, in consequence of a collision on the Central Railroad, near Port Byron. The names of the de ceased, and other particulars of the disaster, are given in another column. A young man has been arrested at Norfolk with & quantity of jewelry in his possession, which he ways he obtained from the ship Colchis, of Boston, some time since wrecked on the Bahama banks. ‘There were four deaths from yellow fever at Charleston, 5. C., on the Sd inst. ‘The cales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,500 bales—the market closing firm at about life. for middling uplands. Flour was less active, while prices were quite steady at yesterday's quotations. Wheat was less active and buoyant, the receipts were light, and choice new white was scarce; new ged ranged from $145 a $1 52, and fair to choice white Western and Southern ranged from $157} a $1 67}. Corn was active, though less booyant. Bound Western mixed sold at 66c. a 67e., and South- ern yellow at 73e. Old and new rye mixed, from slip and store, sold at 88c. a 9c. Pork was dali, with gales of mess at $19 314 a $19 57) a $19 50, closing at $19 37}. Coffee was steady. Sugars were un- changed, with moderate sales. Freights were en- to a fair extent, including about 60,000 Dushele of grain to Liverpool at 74. a 7fd. a Sd., in gulb and bess tion; the requirement of test daths for voters and office holders; the annihilation of free press and free speech, by casting into the river types and printing materials. and making the expression of opinions inimical to slavery a penal offence; the est and long imprisonment of men on an winary charge of treason; the cannonading and ruction of a hotel in Lawrence because free State mem happened to board there; the Crom- wellian disp@rsion by the armed troops of the United States of citizens who assembled at Topeka under the constitutional guarantee of the right of petition; the systematic guarding of the high- ways leadimg into the Territory, and disarming and turning back emigrants fromthe free States, and now, as a natural catastrophe, the moet- ing in eanguinary and fatal conflict of corps of the Army of the North and of the army of the borders. Who ie responsible for all this? On whore shoulders lies the blame of initiating @ civil war, which may enwrap the whole Union in blood and flames? The fault lies not at the door of the people of the South or of the people of the North. However incendiaries and demagogues may be able to ingame and exacerbate te restless mate- tending to civil discord. It isnot the people who are to be blamed. It is our corrupt, rotten, im- becile administration, It is Franklin Pierce: with his unsteady and purposeless backing and filing, advancing and retiring, appointing a Governor one day and superseding him the next, issuing one sett of instructions to officers now ami anon issuing an opposite set. It is he who is to be blamed, and Jefferson Davis, with his steady, malicious, unchanging idea in view-—the making a slave State of Kan- sas, The one had not the resoluteness to prevent civil war. With the other the motto was, “ Kan- sas a slave State, or the Union shattered to pieces.” What deep, damning execration do not both deserve, and will not both receive! Until this administration be hurled out of power, it is mpossible to say where all this may end. But not only must power be taken out of the hands of those who have go disastrously misused it, but it must not be suffered to fall into the hands of those who are pledged, by their adhesion to the Cincinnati platform, to pursue the same course of policy. The Kansas question has become the great, the absorbing question on which the Presidential election turns. Mr. Buchanan is the representative of the system which, in the effort to fasten slavery on that Territory vi e¢ armis, has placed one seetion of the republic in antagonism to the other, and has inaugurated a civil war of the most menacing character. Mr. Fremont is the representative of the opposite idea—the idea which would protect the citizens of every portion of the Union in the exercise of their inalienable rights. Between these opposing ideas and their champions lies the contest. Mr. Fillmore isa nonentity, and his party but the ghost of an ab- surd chimera. He or it need not be taken into consideration at all. The only effect they can have is to weaken Buchanan. Between Buchanan and Fremont—between the lawlessness which would crush out civil liberty and the firm rule which would protect it—the people of this repub- lie are now called on to choose. In the meantime let the wise men and good of the whole country frown down every attempt to engage them in this mad sectional struggle. Let their motto be, “ The Union of these States—now and for ever—one and inseparable.” . Taxmnc Great Mey’s Lives py 4 New Pro- crss.—During the past two or three months we have seen two or three lives of Fillmore, oae or two of Buchanan, and six or seven biographies of Colonel Fremont. Thebooks about Buchanaa and Fillmore are dull, harmless, sleepy affairs ; they will do nobody any good nor harm, for that matter, except that the poor booksellers and printers, who have got them up on speculation, will find themselves injured. The so-called lives of Fremont, with one exception, are execrable ; they are beyond example the most atrocious at- tempts at murder that we have ever seen in the way of biography. There has been one written by a Mr. Bigelow, and another by a Mr. Upham. We have looked into these volumes, and really cannot conceive that it would be possible to pro- duce anything more calculated to injure and weaken the candidate. Bigelow dives into the most absurd and ridiculous researches, raking and scraping up all sorts of private matters, ap- parently for the purpose of giving material to the enemy; for the very events upon which have been based at least one-half tie personal assaults which have been directed against Colo- el Fremont, have been first given in this book. Blockheads should never be politicians, particu- arly among an intelligent, thinking people like ‘hose of this country. The only life of Fremont that was necessary was issued in a small pamphlet of twenty or thirty pages. The history of Fremont for the past fifteen years is a portion of the history of the country, and there was no necessity of digging into the remote past, as Master Bigelow has done, poking away after every ridiculous event that may have taken place in his childhood, as if mining for fossils or excavating for the most salient points in the private life of an Egyptian mummy. If Colonel Fremont be elect- ed—and he probably will be—it will be in spite of the harm done him by his foolish biographers, and because the great lineaments of his history are vividly impressed upon the history of the country. His private affairs are of not the slight- est importance to the country; neither are his private religious views. His public career is found in the history of his country. The people are familiar with it; and from it they have learned that he has the vigor, ability, energy, talent and honesty to fill the office for whicti he has been nominated. That is sufficient to make him vafe in the position he has assumed before the people. Beyond that, his biographers have acted like simpletons. They have been merely purveyors of scandal for the miserable defamers of the opposition, headed by the Brothers Brooks, of this city. Colonel Fremont is the representa- tive of the great national principle of popular sovercignty—that the people shall determine their own institutions, without military intervention. On that principle he bas taken the field, and on the endorsement of that by the people alone de- pends the result. Tue Great Pravopy Recertioy.—The pro- jected reception to be given to George Peabody, the famous American banker, is not only making a wonderful excitement in this magnificent metro- polis, but is also awakening the most energetic tuft hunters in Baltimore, Beston, several vil- lages in New England, and other parts and por- tions of this mighty republic. We have no doubt that the proposed Peabody pageant will surpass that given to Koseuth. It will certainly equal it in extraordinary speeches and eloquent balder- dach, while it will be immensely superior in the display of choice wines, magnificent dinners, echerehe cookery, Gull toasts, and all the sophis- tries of the enisine. The committee of gentlemen hailing from Wall treet—that avenue for the parade of bulls and bears and other wild animals—are as much divi- ded as to the arrangements for the great re- ception as the consolidated democracy of Tammany Hall as to’what they shall do with Fernando Wood. One portion of the com- mittee is in favor of giving the illustrious guest a grand dinner in the best style of the St. Nicholas Hotel, winding ap with a ball and an oration. Already six or eight rooms have been engaged at the St. Nicholas for the proper reception of the banker, and the prelimineries duly settled. The other wing of the committee desire to engage the Academy of Musico—there to have the grand din- ner and ball. They purpose to keep the grand orchestra and a number of the principal artiste. This force is to be stationed in the gallery to sing and play between the courses, and fill up the gaps in the dull speeches and bright toaste. ‘This great business is sti) under gousideration , but 8s soon as we receive the intelligence that the child is born, we will announce the important fact. Beyond the limits of this great metropolis— in Boston, Baltimore and other small towns—we have no further particulars. No doubt the demonstrations in these places will take form and. body from the great effects gotten up by the worshippers of mammon in the Empire City. Rallroad Legislation in One of the most remarkable features of modern legislation in this country is the easy manner in which the representatives of the people enrich themselves and certain railroad companies, at the expense of the nation. Grants of land to aid in the construction of railroads have become so very common and matter-of-course things that people generally might imagine that there was a chapter of the constitution devoted to the advancement of that special object. And when their repre- sentatives return home to render an account of their stewardship, they cither blink the subject of railroad grants altogether—unless for the benefit of their own States—or if they refer to them at all, they do so as matters of the most trivial im- portanee : whereas in point of fact they are to these same representatives the means of speedy enrichment. One of the arguments most strongly urged in the House of Representatives for the passage of the bill giving a respectable salary to members of Congress, was that it would render them more independent and less liable to be swayed in their legislative action by corrupt and improper mo- tives. The idea was good; and if the people thought that the iacrease of salary would work that desirable result, they might regard that bill as the only wise and politic piece of legislation enacted in the first session of the 34th Congress. Let there be but even a slight hope that the $3,000 salary will conduce to common honesty among the representatives of the nation, and those members who voted for that bill—albeit in fear and trembling—need entertain no alarm as to the consequences of such vote. But when we glance back at the stupendous frauds perpetrated within the last nine months by the whole- sale alienation of the public domain, and when we calculate the profits derived from such operations by those members who are not troubled with over scrupulousness of conscience, we cannot lay the flattering unction to our soul that the servants of the people are going to be a whit more honest in the future than they have been in the past. During the session which closed on the 18th of August, the enormous haul of from ten to twelve millions of acres of the public lands was made by means of those gentlemen who were sent to Con- gress under the old fashioned idea that they were to be the honest agents and servants of the peo- ple. This haul was divided among real or im- aginary railroad companies in the States of Iowa, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Michi- gan and Mississippi. The value of these lands, at the minimum government price, is fifteen millions of dollars. To the railroad operators and mono- polists who have got them they cannot be of less value than eighty or a hundred millions of dollars. The history of the Illinois Central Railroad—the line which initiated this system of plunder—proves that we do not over estimate the value of these lands. This company, after defraying the entire cost of the road by mortgazing a portion of the lands granted to it, has been selling the remainder at prices ranging from $5 to $20 per acre. Take, then, the value of the lands ceded to rail- road companies at the last session to be $100,000,000, and it will be seen how omnipo- tent are the influences that can be and are brought to bear on members of Congress in matters of this sort, and on what a very slight foundation the hope of improved honesty among our legislators rests, In the first place, most of the representa- tives of the States benefitted by these grants are directly interested, either as ctockholders in the companies or as owners of property near the pro- posed routes, Of course the profit which they derive from the plunder is incalculable, depending altogether on the amount of property or stock which they hold, and on the increase of value given to it, We presume that with these members it is not necessary to resort to any more direct means of influencing their action, Their votes are always to be reckoned on. But the members from States which have no interest in the grants must be brought over by other influences. To accomplish their conversion, a set of unprincipled and unscrupulous knaves, consisting of ex-mem- bers of Congress, pettifogging lawyers, broken down politicians and newspaper correspondents, are employed under the denomination of lobby agents, whose business it is to purchase or wheedle members out of their votes. These prowling sharks are, to the disgrace of the American Congress, admitted to the lobby of both houses, and even within the bar—their very presence being enough to contaminate the halls of legislation and infect them with the taint of corruption. Through these and other. kindred instruments, the purchaseable members—those who have their votes to sell— are approached and dealt with. On the very moderate assumption that one-half the members of the House come within this category—having no direct interest in the railroad grants, and having votes to sell—and that five per cent of the total value of the grants would be dedicated to their conversion, there would be for such pur- pose no lessa sum for the last session than five millions of dollars, What amount of safety is there in three thousand a year against the irre- sistible battery of five millions a session? The managers of the Pacific Railroad bill are said to have offered, even to lobby agents, thirty thou- sand acres for each hostile vote they could bring round. ‘When we look at the motives for and means of corruption—at the manner in which those railroad bills are pushed through Cangress, under the pressure of the previous question, without discussion or explanation—at the gene- ral character of many of the men who are got to vote for them, and at the utter disregard of everything like sound policy or economy evinced in their passage, we cannot resist the conviction that that which everybody about Washington says must be true; namely, that all these railroad schemes are founded and carried out in fraud, and that © majority of the mem- bers of Congress are men who can be infla- enced by corrupt motives, If we persist in sending such men to represent us, the time will soon be when the public domain will be absorbed into the hands of schemers and monopolists. As it is, we are fast coming to that condition; and worse still, we are earning the reputation of a people who have no public virtue left among them. It is for the American people to say whe- ther they will submit to such frauds, and agknow- ledge the justice of euch a reputation, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1856. War m Kansas—Infamous Policy of the | ria! , of society, the mass of the people of both £€ ctions have patriotism enough and common f guse enough to avoid and deprecate everything Trovaxs ar Tawmany—Turors or THE Dae fs mooracy.—The united and harmonious democra- cy were never in such a terrible as they are at present. The developements made of scenes at Tammany on Thursday night have caused a deep excitement throughout the city. Here was ex-Consul Sanders, fresh from the arms of Ledru Rollin, Kossuth, and other red re- publicans, pitching into the original friends of Mr. Buchanan. No doubt Sanders understands what he is about. He is late from Wheatland, and undoubtedly received his instructions from Forney, the chief cook of the Pennsylvania de- mocracy. Whatcan be the matter? Here we find on one hand Fernando Wood and his friends, the original supporters @f Mr. Buchanan. His opponents Were the frienls of Mr. Pierce, and utterty oppdsed to the nomination of our venera- ble friend at Wheatland. Now, we find Forney and red republican Sanders engaged in denounc- ing the Wood party and taking to their bosoms the old enemies of Buchanan. There is some screw loose at Wheatland, or this state of things never could have come about. No matter. The primary meetings for the election of delegates to the nominating conventions are ordered to as- semble in the several wards on Thursday, be- tween the hours of four and seven, in the after- noon. We think that it will be safe to predict, without consulting Philosopher Meriam, the Sage of Brooklyn, that during these hours there will be a heated term. There may be also thunder and lightning, and some rain, before the affair is over. However, we request Professor E. Me- riam, the Sage of Brooklyn aforesaid, to consult the aspect of the heavens, and let us know a day or two beforehand as to the probabilities for clear or thick weather on this portentous day, big with the fate of Fernando Wood, Forney and the other lights of the modern democracy. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, News from Kansas. ARRIVAL OF FUGITIVES AT 8f. LOUIS—THEIR RE- PORTS, ETC. Sr. Lovia, Sept. 6, 1856. The Democrat publishes the statement of the free soilers who arrived in this city yesterday from Kansas. They confirm the burning of Ossawatomie, aad say that but fifty free soilers were in town at the time, and that the attacking party numbered four hundred. S>veral free soilers were killed, and seven taken prisoners, of whom two afterwards were shot. Mr. Brown and his ton were killed. They also confirm the killing of William Phillips at Leavenworth, by a party of Southerners under Capt. Emery, and the driving out of the Territory of all persons unwilling to take arms wgainst the free soilérs. Cuicaco, Sept. 5, 1858. It is presumed here that the Mr. Phillips reported in the despatch from St. Louis to have been killed at Leaven- worth, was of the frm of Phillips & Brother, merchants in Leavenworth, as the gentleman of that name who cor responds with the New York 7'vibune from Kansas, is at pregent absent from the Territory. Fremont Gathering at Rome. Rome, Sept. 6, 1856. An immense Fremont gathering was held in the Park here this afternoon, Hon. Joshua A. Spencer presided, with thirty-two Vice Presidents. Mr. Spencer made a strong conservative and effective speech for Fremont. He was followed by the Hon. Anson Burlingame, of Mas eachusetts, who held his audience tn cloee attention for ‘three hours. Atsix o'clock a rain storm came op, and the meeting adjourned amid frequent cheers for the can- cidates and speakers, Democratic Mass Mectings in Michigan, Dernrorr, Sept. 6, 1856. The democrats held a large maes mecting at Kalamazoo, yesterday. Eloquent and able speeches were made by Hon. John C. Breckenridge, Col. Preston, Hon. Daniel 8. Dickinson, Senators Cass, Bright and others. There was also a large democratic mass meeting to- day at Pontiac, which was addressed by some of the speakers above named. ‘Welcome to Hon, N. P. Banks, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Wonce-ren, Mass., Sept. 6, 1856. A crowd of two to three thousand persons assembled bere at noon to-day to welcome the Hon. N.P. Banks. He was addressed by Hon. Henry Chapin on behalf of the committee, and responded in a brief and appropriate wes Bostow, Sept. 6, 1855. Mr. Banks was received at Waltham this afternoon by 20,000 persons. He was met at Newton, and escorted to Waltham by « procession of the civil and military powers. Mr. Hales addressed him, welcoming bim back Mr. Banks replied in an elaborate speech, occupying over an hour and a baif in its delivery. Shooting Affray—A New Yorker tn Trouble, New Haven, Sept, 6, 1856, Stephen J, Botsford, just from New York, had « quar- rel yester¢ay with Thomas Gordon, ® cooper, and this afternoon fired two shots into his head and one into his shoulder, from a revolver. Gordon is not expected to live. Botsford has been arrested. The United States Frigate Macedonian. Bosrow, Sept. 6, 1856. ‘The United States frigate Macedonian, which has been undergoing an examination for the past week is pronoun- ced unseaworthy, ber timbers being found to be much rotted. She will have to undergo very thorough repairs to make ber {it for sea. Cholera at Mayaguez, P. R. Bostow, Sept. 6, 1956, Dates from Mayaguez to August 18, state that the cholera was raging fearfully at that place, carrying of forty to fifty persons daily, The mortality was mostly among the blacks. Disaster to the Brig Susan—Yellow Fever at Charleston. Cuantewtox, 8. C., Sept. 4, 1856. The brig Susan, Capt. Ray, from Boston the Sist ult., bas arrived here. She experience.! a severe gale from the south-southeast, during which she shipped a sea, bad her foremast, with the rigging, and galley ani bulwarks carried away, and her cabin filled with water, and sus- tained other damage. The Board of Health of this city report four deaths by yellow fever in the last twenty-four hours. Marine Disasters, LOSS OF SHIP JOHN CARRIER AND SCHOONER CAN- TON—RESCUR OF SCHOONER LYDIA B. COPrSR- THWAITE—ACCIDENT TO SHIP NEW YORK. Cuarcecror, 8. C., Sept. 6, 1856. ‘The ship Samoset bas arrived from Boston with the officers and crew of the ship John Carrier, from Mobile Sist July. TheSamoset fell in with the J. ©, at sea, and found her leaking badiy. ‘The schooner Francis Satterly bas arrived from New York. She fell in with, on the 24th, off Cape Romain, the echooner Lydia B, Copperthwaite, from Darien for New York, full of water, and took off three of her men. The balance of her officers and crew were on board the schooner Storm Ciow!, from New York for Savannah, which veste! took the L. B. ©, in tow, and brought ber to this port. ‘The ship New York, trom Cape Edward, with a valua ble eargo, ran ashore off Sullivan's Island, but was got off, and has arrived at her wharf. The brig Telegraph, from tho West Indies, reports that the schooner Canton, from the Baltic, was totally wrecked off Ariecibo on the 18th of August. Tha Wrecked Ship Colchts, Barriwonr, Sept. 6, 1856. A youth, named Penfleld, has been arrested, in Norfolk, for having in his possession a considerable amount of jewelry, which he alleges he got from the ship Coichis, of Boston, which was wrecked on the Bahama Banks. He alleges that the captain, officers and crew of the Col chis all helped themselves to the valuable property aboard, left the vessel in the hands of wreckers, went to Nassant and then ceparated. Penfield came a passenger from Naseau in the British brig Waep, bound to New York, and blows mborg acar Cape Monry, Markets. PHILADELPHIA § STOCK BOARD, on oe i 5 Pesneyivenie Lh rs ' Rail- road, 425,; Long Railroad, ; Morrig 14; Pennsylvania Railroad, 48, i Burvato, Sept. 6—12 36 P. M. Flour steady. Sales 1,800 bbls. at $6 25 for good Wis- consin ; $6 50 a $6 66 for choice Indiana, Obio and Michi- gan; $6 62 a $6 75 for to best extra, Wheat $1a $2 and’ firmer. Sales 31,000 bushels at $116 for choice Titeolp spring; $144 for common white Indiana, and $1 46 for choice do, and Kentucky. Corn heavier, owing to the rise in freights. Saler 15,000 bushels, at 82340. b8c., closing at 52c. Oats and rye quiet. Canal 16e. for corn and 190. for wheat to New York. yesterday—9,147 bbls flour ; 69,078 bushels wheats 161,454 do. corn, Saabs pats. Canal exports— 48,821 bushels wheat, 10.454 do. corn, 6,240 do, oats. —_ FARRW2L! PERFORMANCE at BuRTON’S THEATRE.—Prepa- ratory to the opening of his new theatre, ‘ Broadway, opposite Bond street,’’ on Monday night, Mr. Burton gave & farewell performance at the old house in Chambers street, with his company of last season, The bill included the two pleces which bave been ‘most successful here— the “Toodies”’ and the ‘‘Serious Family,”’ The house was about two-thirds filled. After the first piece Mr, Burton was called out, and addressed the audience, He said that this was the last hour of this house’s existence as a thea- tre, and he was caed upon for a dying speech and con- fession previous to the falling of the drop. He pleaded guilty and threw himseif on the mercy of the audience. He had directed the fortunes of this theatre through nine years of upinterrupted prosperity. When he com- menced, bis prospects were dark, and many prog- nosticated a failure, but with the generous aid of the public his success had been unoxampled. He alluded feelingly to the many happy hours passed in this bouge, and, adverting to his new enterprise up town, said that he intended to make it “the” theatre of the country. Hoping for their kindly aid he, for the present, bade them farewell. The remarks of Mr. Burton wero received with much favor by the audience, ‘Tur Orera AT Nivro’s Garven.—We have several times alluded to the enterprise of Messrs. Von Berkel & Berg- mann, who have leased Niblo’s Garden fer a series of operatic representations of German, French and Italian operas. German opera, however, will be the s:aple of the enfertainment, and we are assured that the artisis willbe much superior to anything we have bad in this way. The following named are the principal artists:— Prima dor na, Mme. Von Berkel, Miss Anna Pickea, Mme. Schutz-Witt, First tenors, Messrs. Pickaneser and Mar- loff, sccond tenor, M Beutler; baritone, M. Becker; bass}, Messrs. Weinlich and Ocbriein, (buffo;) conductor, Car} Bergmann; chorus master, Mr. Meyenhofer. Mr. B man’s merits as a conductor are well known in this co munity. The season will commence on the 16th Septe! ber, with “Rbbert le Diable,” the incidental ballet by th Ravel troupe. The regular nights will be Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday, and the price as usual at this hou half a dollar. The programme looks well, and we the empreario all success. The prosperity of a city depends in nosmail degree upon the variety of it public amusements. Tue DRAMA AT THR ACADEMY.—The second di tic! performance at the Academy, uader the direction of MrJ Hackett, came off last night. The play was Shakspero’t “Henry 1V.,’’ cast as before, with Hackett, Wallack, Jr. G. Jordan, Miss Kate Saxon, &e., &c., in the princip parts. The house was not full, and considerable d tiefaction was expressed at the extra charge for seats. The performance was very good. The ‘« Wives ot Windsor’’ will be done next week. Dratn or MACALUSTER, THE WizaARD.—A private despatch! received here yester¢ay, announces the death of Mr. A) Macallister, the well known practiser of legerdemain. Macallister was a Scotchman, and came to tne United States come ten years ago. He was very c’ever inb art, and made a fortune. Political Gossip. The San Antonio (Texas) Ledger says there isa deal of difference between the theory and practice of Know Nothings. At the recent election in that city th were found concentrating and voting for Mr. Carolan, Irishman, and Messrs. Navarro and Rodriguez, Mexican in opposition to Messrs. Egan, Nelson, and Radaza. three native Americans. Alphonso Taft kas been nominated for Congress in th First district of Ohio, in place of Hon. Timothy C. D who declines @ re elestion. The following joint resolution is now before the I ture of Texas, having been favorably reported upon b| the Committee on Federal Relations in the House :-— Sec 1. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State q Texas, That as it possible that the candidate of anti sla party (commonly calied bl sepublican) may be elected (Rosen os rs cf the votes of the Lext; and, should he be inaugu: will be mander in-Chief of the Army and Ni ‘Dtates ; Therefore, in the event of his els Lor is hereby requested to convene, on or before the pF EO the Legislature in extra session, consult upon, state of the Union, the South, and the duty of Texas under the circums'ances. Sec. 2. That the Governor and he ts hereby, = to forward a copy these resolutions to sovernor of each one of the slave: States of Union ; and these resolutions shall take effect from pasenge. The lawyers in attendance upon the Supreme Co now in session in Rochester, are politically inclined given below. It ts understood that of the three Ju holding the term, Judge Strong supports Buch Judge Smith, Fillmore, and Judge Welles, Fremont. Buchanan, 15; Fillmore, 17; Fremont, 26. BaThe great Fillmore ratification meeting which was bave been held in Boston on the 8d inst., when the fu between the old line whigs and the Know Nothings to have taken place, has boen indefinitely postpo ‘The declination of Mr, Lawrence to run for Governor cut the Fillmore party loove from its moorings, and Jeaders are drifting out to sea without pilot or compass.| Ex Governor William Medill is the democratic date for Congress in the Eleventh district of Ohio. The Cincinnati Commercial says—There is a ru afloat in that city that Hon. J. B. Weller, United Senator from California, has discovered the error of ‘ways, and intends to ‘come out from among the party,’’ and make « pronunciamento in favor of mont. Full returns of the Governor's vote from all the cou) ties of North Carolina have been received, (all official cept from eleven counties,) and Governor Bragg’s jority is 12,604, Whole yote for— 48,705; Dockery, (whig,) 46,620. Majority for 2,086, City Intelligence: IsPirx oF SrRavGers to Tae Orry.—Oar hotel k ‘are making lots of money. There have not been so strangers in town since the opening of Crystal ‘The opera and the theatres, of course, feel the good fects of this state of things, and are nightly filed fever? Annet ror Attrcen Hicnway Ronprry. Dixon was arrested on Friday, charged with silver watch, valued at $20, from Richard O’Brien. appears that the latter was walking through street, when he was set upon by a gang of “e! boys '’—one of whom puffed another pulled the watch out of ‘The pawn ticket for the watch He was committed, in default O'Connor was arrested, charged with pulled the smoke in O'Brien's about 18 years of age each. Boat Rack. —Quite an animated epectacte was ed on Friday afternoon all along the shore from Mc mery street dock to the Battery. A large number of ple crowded the docks, shipping and buildings, to wi the great aquatic contest that was announced to pase The water also was covered with row and of all sizes and rig. The race was between “Lucy,” rowed bj brothers Donohue, and the ‘El beth,” rowed by T. Riordon and §, Patterson, This is better known as the ‘Burns’ Champion Poat,’? Se a ing ¢ Lucy was seon was tes. They started from the foot ot Montgomery Hs £. R., and pulled around Governor's Island end ‘The Lucy won with great case, making the @ forty minutes—said to be the quickest time on The Lucy is one of Iogersoli’s boats, Drowsen.—Mr. John 8. Moore, a cooper, resid Brooklyn, while returning to the Atlantic Docks fro vessel on which he bad been at work, on Friday eveni = pte two lighters and was accidentally dro iy wae recovered yerte: and the Corone, tifled, Hie leaves a wite and many: 7 AtrRCED ASeAtiT With A SLON@ SHT—Peter Da’ the keeper Of a daace house at 68 Oherry street, was