The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1856, Page 4

4 ANEW YORK HERALD. JABBS8 GORDON GENSNERPP, EDITOR 4ND PROPRIETOR OFFICE RK. W. CORNES OF NASSAU AND FULTON OTS. He baer ite LD. 2 conte n onan. fe WEEKLY HERALD. ‘ery Saturleay ‘ad Or cents per pe, 0° © per eneum,; the. Buropean ‘annum 10 $07 Great Brisoin, or W to any part ofthe Gentine, VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing import- news, solicited from any quarter of the wortd—i/ wed will be paid for, S@rOUR FOREIGN COKRESPONDENTS AKB ABTIOULAKLY REQUMSTED TO Skat att Larrens axp Pack- “NO NOTICE taken 0/ anonymous communication, We do met return those roosed. "FOR PRINTING executed with neainess, cheapness and dew VERTISEMENTS renewed svery day. Volume XXI. AMU;EMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—SHuAKSrEREAN Beonr—King Hesny iV. BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery—Maksis Heants—~Danc- wme—Po-ca HON Tas, ‘BUR m THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond Meare ponbas UF Nervi Dascine-SwWiks COFTAGR. ICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Afternoon ees tening. CitaiDa~Tisib LovEn. «Noe 255 @mO. CHRISTY & WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway = Bimonias Puarouaances—Warro. BUCKLEY'S SFRENADERS, 685 Broadway—Ermgorun Mapoen ELSyY—TROV TORE BROADWAY ATHEN.EUM, 64 Broadway—Srvew AGEs May—GuasD CONCERI—JUVENILE F 8STIVITIES. SSS “New York, Saturday, September 13, 1556. sett ntti cP SAE RR To the Public. advertisements must be oanded icto the publication “ne before sine o’clock in the evening. Announce- Neeete of deaths, or other equally urgent notices, are, of By the arrival of the Cambria at Halifax we have fhree days’ later intelligence irom Europe. I possesses but few features of interest. The Arabia had been subjected to a thorough examination, and it was found that the injury to her keel was but slight. Aiter undergoing the necessary repairs she was to leave on the 4th, for Halifax and Boston. The tory party in England were about to make ano ther grand attempt to overthrow the Palmerston administration, but there is nothing in the present aspect of affairs which seems to justify the expecta- tion that the effort will be successful. From France there is nothing of importance. The tribunals at Dijon were occupied with the prosecution of the members of another secret society, which had ex- ploded. No details are given as to its character, but it is probable that those who are concerned in it will follow the usual route of French political dé- tenus, and be sent to join their fellow con- spirators at Cayenne. Apropos of the settlement— the statements contained in Louis Blanc’s letter as to the cruelties practised on the prisoners there, have been circumstantially contradicted in the French papers by an anonymous writer. Tae pro- posed Orleans manifesto, of which there has lately been so much talk, is also formally contradicted by ‘we Berlin Kreuts Zeitung. From Madrid we learn that the Gazette was about to publish decrees for the distolation of the Cortes, the regulation of the press, the establishment of a Council of State, and the promulgation of the constitution of 1845. Six- teen of the civil governors of the provinces had deen dismissed, and some of the functionaries exiled ender former governments had been given permis- sion to return to Spain. The news of the definitive arrangement of the Spanish diffieaity with Mexico is confirmed. Smart shocks of earthquake had been experienced at different points in Algeria. Several Villages were destr yed, but, fortur ately, without loss of life. The Free Tra’e Congress Committee at Bruseels had received numerous influential political adhesions. The deliberations were to be conducted more in the form of a committee of inquiry than in that of an oratorica! demonstration. The reply of ‘the King of Naples to the Western Powers is stated ‘to be more moderate in tone than was at first re- ported. He protests against their intervention as an encroachment on the independence of his king- dom, but professes himself willing, if they have any Teal cause of grievance against him, to abide by the decision of a Buropean congress. Kars was com- pletely evacuated on the 4th of August, bat the Rus- sians had not entirely left the Isle of Serpents. Most of their troops had been withdrawn from the Crimea. The coronation at Moscow continued to form the principal topic of interest in the European capitals; the foreign papers are likely to be full of it for weeks to come. We have files of Mexican papers dated in Mexico eity on 13th, and at Vera Craz on 27th of August. The government had commissioned a scientific expedition to explore the mines on the peninsula of Lower California. The Indisns were committing dreadful ravages in all the northern and frontier States. Vidaurri had offered the peo- ple of Zacatecas both arms and money in order to protect themselves from the Indians, provided they joined him in h's opposition to Comonfort. Cor- poreal punishment has been abolished in the Mexi- can army. Various lines of railroad were about being built in the valley of Mexico. A steam en- ge, running near Vera Cruz, excited much atten- tion amongst the natives. The black vomit raged at Vera Cruz, whilst the locusts were desolating many other districts. Eight thousand seven hun- dred and nineteen persons died in Mexico City @aring the year 1°55. We publish an important decree of government, which defines theyright of fo- reigners in the republic, with a number of interest- ing pews items. ‘We have Bermuda papers to the 2d of September. The Royal Gazette of that day says:—Her Majesty's steamer Driver, Captain Chambers, has left for England. A bat made from the shacks of the ears of Indian corn, and very ingeniously construct- ‘ed, was shown to ax on Saturday last, by the inven- tor, in whoee family it was manufactured. Advices from Washington inform us that Gover- nor Geary and General Smith have been informed by telegraph that they will be furnished with sufficient force to preserve order and bring to justice all offeaders against the public peace in Kansas. A serious riot occurred at Baltimore yesterday, between a Fillmore fishing clnb and a party of men fat the democratic headquarters in the Seventeenth ward. The fight was of short duration, bat during its continuance two men were shot dead, and twenty ‘wounded, some it is said fatally. The men killed had not participated in the fight. Most of those ‘wounded resided in the vicinity, and were drawn there by the disturbance. One hortired free State men from Kanaas arrived fat St. Louis on Wednesday ina very destitate con- dition. They report that many families had taken refage at Fort Leavenworth. A meeting was held at Easton, Pa., on Thursday evening in relation to affairs in Kansas, Governor Reeder addressed the meeting. A committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions. There was a great Fillmore demonstration in Tinion square last evening, with the usual accompa- niments of music, banners, torches, sky rocketa and indifferent speaking. 1t ended with a grand torch- light procession & /a Rynders. ‘The cricket match between Canada and the United tates was decided yesterday in favor of the United States eleven, with nine wickets to go down. ‘The anujversary of the battle of North Point was celebrated yesterday at Baltimore with great epirit. Mr. Burifngame was received at Boston last even fing with great enthusiasm. He made a speech in the main hall of the Tremont Temple, which was crowded. Mr. Wilson spoke at the same time in the lower hall. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, but there not being a quorum present, an adjournment ‘was made to Monday evening, at 5 o'clock. The Board of Supervisors jast evening received one petition, and after each member present pad : NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1856. signed the tax warrant, they adjourned to the first Monday in October. Several very singular accounts of the origin of fires which have occurred in the city are given in the records of the Fire Marshal. See the report in another column. Another infamous ticket swindle was perpetrated yesterday by one of those harpies who are ever on the alert to catch the ignorant and unwary. The subject was a poor English woman, who was de- frauded of all she possessed while on her way home to join her husband. The offender was arrested, and held to bail for examination. A curious case of bigamy came up before the Police Court yesterday, in which a young woman was charged with the offence of having two has- bands. The details are given under the appropriate head. The steamship Niagara, for Liverpool from Bos ton, arrived at Halifax yesterday morning, and sailed again at 11 o'clock. The cotton market was firm yesterday, with sales of 600 a 800 bales. Flour was in moderate demand, with sales to a fair extent, without change of moment in prices. Wheat was from 2c. to 3c. per bushel higher, with a good export demand and free sales. The transactions embraced white at $1 65 a $1 73, the latter figure for choice white Ca- nadian, and Southern and Western red and yellow at $150 a $1 56 and $1 60. Corn was also sold freely at 68c. a 69¢, for sound Western mixed. Rye was at 85c.a 89c. for new and old. Pork sold at $20 for mess, but the market was rathor tame at the close. Sugars improved about jc. per Ib. The sales embraced about 2,500 hhds., at prices given in another column. Coffee sold to the extent of about 1,600 bags, at 104c. a 12c., the latter figure for prime. Grain was freely offered for Liverpool, and about 120,000 bushels were engaged, in bulk and bags, at 74d. a 8d. A Great Element at Work in the Pending Election. Religion, with all its warmth and earnestness, with all its sentiment and depth of feeling, con- stitutes, for the first time in the history of our country, an essential element in the pending Pre- sidevtial election. In all former elections, although religious par- ties may have interfered, and certain sects may have been influenced by their preferences, their hopes, or their fears, to take side for one or the other of the candidates, yet the po) i sentiment which prevails deeply throughout every community, has never before this election been called into action nor roused into feeling. The reason is, because, until the present election, no abstract question involving religious sentiment or touching doubtful matters, open to the ‘iry whether they may or may not be religiously right or religiously wrong, hasever been put in issue. But now slavery has been put in issue, and is unmis- takably the great and paramount issue of the day. The whole question—both in the abstract and in its practical action and bearings, both as respects its policy as a matter of political economy, and as respects its abstract religious propriety— is now at issue in this election. We deprecate this result, but we cannot help it. If the coun- sels and warnings of the Herap had been heed- ed in time it would have been prevented. It is an issue which ought never to have been raised. The question now before the American people ought never to have been made a national one, as now, because it is in itself purely sectional and of a municipal and domestic nature, such as ought never to have been made a general and national question. Those who have been the cause of making this the leading and great issue of the Presidential election, have also brought it up before the people in its most obnoxious form. The question could not possibly have been put in issue in a worse shape. It comes before the people as the question whether slavery shall be extended over free States and Territories by force and violence, by fire aud sword—in a word, by the use of methods the most revolting and un- justifiable. This, which is the real issue of this election, and the question now put before the people, necessarily brings up with it the whole question of slavery. The South has cause to exe- crate the men who have madly and recklessly brought about this result. It is not the Kansas and Nebraska bill which is to blame in this matter. When that bill be- came a law, if the Executive had honorably, tair- ly and impartially provided for the execution o' that law, as his bounden duty was, all would have been well. That bill was in strictn departure from the principles and spirit of our government, nor from the old and recognized principles of the democratic party. It submitted the question of slavery in Kansas to the voice and will of the people of Kansas, That was fair enough, We see nothing to find fault with in making the people the judges. and submitting a great question to their arbitrament and deci- sion. It was not wise, perhaps, to put the ques tion of slavery at all in issue before the people of a Territory; but the deed was done, and the South found no fault with it. That bill was fair enough, if it had fallen to the lot of wise beads and of a just Executive to execute the law it enacted. By the action, however, of a most in- sane, corrupt and foolish administration, that bill, and the law it carried, has been so perverted to the purposes of oppression aud injustice—such outrageous means have been directly employed by the Executive to crush one portion of the people and elevate another—that an issue con- fined originally by law to the Territories and the people of the Territories, has been spread out and extended over the whole Union. All this is owing to the gross stupidity and corruption of a weak minded Executive and impotent adminis tration. The consequence is, that all the blood and treasure which the administration has ex- pended in Kansas, and is now expending there, in order to give Kansas to the South, in violation of the principle of that bill, have not succeeded in giving anything to the South, but have brought up before the whole American people, and, we may say, the whole world, the issue of slavery, in all ite merits and demerits. It has made that to be a general and national issue, which ought forever to have been kept out of general and na- tional consideration, being purely a private ques- tion of municipal law and social organization. It bas raised up a religious iame. Hence it is that the religious clement has be- come an essential element of this election. It could not be otherwise. For when immense bo- dies of religious men, when great communities deeply imbued with the religious sentiment, are invited to decide upon the extension of slaverv in Kansas by fire and eword, by bloodshed and violence, by brute force and hired hordes of reck- Jess ruffians, can it be a matter of donbt how they will decide? Franklin Pierce, in hie hot zeal patronize the South, has raised on issue ton tive to her; for men will not merely vote that slavery ought not to be extended by bloodshed and violence, and by troops of United States dra- goons, but they will enlarge the issue and vote that it shall not be extended any low, nor at all. All the abstract merits of slavery are now put in issue, Not only ite political merits and its com- patibility with obstragt Liberty and Laman rights 83 no are made questions, but whether it’ is abstractly and per sécompatible with Christian precepts and with Christian love and duty. Hence the issue. which, in its true origin, was first confined to the Territories, and which next, by the bad manage- ment of a bad administration, became the ques- tion whether federal money and troops and ad- ministrative injustice shall be used to extend slavery, has been enlarged and spread out before the world into the one great issue of slavery, un- der all its aspects and in all its merits, Now, this is, in fact, a religious issue. It putsreligious men upon the inquiry, not whether A B or C D isa fit person to be elected President of this Union, but whether slavery is in itself a good or an evil. In this manner it is that religion for the first time is rendered aa absolute element of our Presiden- tial election. Considering the weight and importance of the element now called into action, and acting, too, with sure and quiet effect, we have been curious to inquire into and ascertain the number and circulation of religious papers published in New York city. The following is a tabular view of he same, together with the sentiments of each paper on the slavery question :— KELIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Names. Denom'n. | Cire. Political Bias. Anti extension, silent Methodist. ]29,000} ly. 281000] Aii-extension, open ly and decidedly. School|22,000|Pro slavery, — but Presbyterian! claiming to be nea tral. lew School/15,000]Anti-extension, de- bay Presbyterian cided. Examiner Bapust..... 12,600] Anti-extension. Cbristian Am Universatist.| 8,000] Anti-extension. Duteh Re: Autlextension, but tormed....| 7,000] said nentrai » faint Baptist. 6,000] 1y. Episcopal. | 6,00))Nen'ral. D ni an....] 3,000] Anti extension, Episcopal. | 3,000/Nentral. Churchman, ......|High Church} 2,800] Nentral, Freemaus Journal|Catholic, — | 6,00! Buchanan & «1 profes’g net Awerican J, | Baptisy. 5,W)| Decided ~ ant sion Anti-extension, silent- 16,000] 3,0W| Buchanan & |. Profes’g n American C 2.000) Buchanan & 8! F profes g neutrality Church] jolie 700] Buchanan & slavery. Lutheran. | 5,000] Anti extension. is view of the action and extension of the religious press in the single city of New York is eminently suggestive. It will be perceived that the circulation of those papers which may be said to go for slavery and Buchanan is small compared with all the others. Out of an entire circulation of 179,200, the religious journals which are represented as going for Buchanan and slavery, have only 14,700 of that circula- tion, leaving a circulation of 166,500 to the others. From the above we may form some idea of the influence set in motion in favor of Fremont and free Kansas in the State of New York alone; for it will readily be understood that the circula- tion above described is spread over the State, and not confined to the city. To measure approximately the amount and weight of this element in other States, we will add to the above a tabular view of the vari- ous evangelical charches in the United States. For this table we are indebted to the valuable work of Dr. Baird, on the “ State of Religion in the United States of North America,” a work recently published in this city :— A GENERAL VIEW, IN TABULAR FORM, OF THE CAL CHURCHES. s. Licent's. Members. Popul’ n. — 405,550 1,000,000 Episcopal church With the Moravian. 3 — — S500 "12,000 2 1,012,000 27 2,000,000 Bapush cburcbes 5,000 000 Presbyterian cl 45, $ 3.500.000 Me hodiet, esti 40) 5,500) Ob) Lutheran church. y 700,000 476.481 17,762,000 coca ABD 240 It will be perceived that the numbers ac- tively professing religion in the United States, and supposed to be implicitly guided by its dic- tates, are estimated at the enormous amount of Toial. reventeen millions, and more. When all these numbers are considered, it will be evident to eve- ry reflecting mind that the religious element en- tering into this election, and burning like a fire in the breasts of so many millions of people, is no insignificant nor unimportant element. It would be a gigantic power, acting as a solidarized opinion, if none of these many mi 3 were voters; but it may be fairly estimated that one- fifth of the whole are free, untrammelled voters Here we have a formidable array of numt of whom it may be said that all of them them to be sincere in their religion—will fee! themselves bound, as a matter of conse ence and religious duty, to vote against Buchanan and slavery, and by necessity in favor of Fremont. It isto be regretted that euch an i has been introduced into the politics of our Pre- sidential election. Religious men would never have thought of raising this issue. Politicians, thinking to patronize the South, and thereby help themselves, have raised it for them. Religious people would rather not have had to decide upon a question of religious import in a Presidential election. But when the decision is forced upon them, as it now is, not only they cannot avoid it, but it becomes a matter of conscience and duty with them to decide the question as they deem it right in a religions point of view. Hence it is that the bad manage- ment of a short sighted and corrupt adminis tration has not only raised a religions quee- tion as a national issue, but has made reli- gion to enter as an interested. zealous and irritated element, into our election. It has raised a power which is great and deep in its course, though quiet and unobtrusive in its ac- tion. It is a still, small voice, wich exercises greater power than all the shouts and huzzas of polftt@al rowdies, with their drnms end fifes and pyrotechnic displays and torchlight processions. They Fave Gor tae News.—The Washing- ton Union has got the news from Maine, and bas “no doubt of the election of Mr. Hamlin for Go- vernor.”’ The Union, however, thinks the demo- cracy of Maine have been deceived by Mr. Ham- lin, and that they voted for him because he was an old line democrat. That's not much of a compliment to the intelligence of the Union's party. The Union thinks that the demo- cracy will “take vengeance on the fourth of No- vember for the deception which has been prac- ticed upon thers.” Finally, the Union is nota “% afraid that other States will be influenced by the example of Maine. The Union man is a great Philosopher. He can get comfort out of any- thing—out of nothing, in fact. He is as cool as fhe chap who went to see a frind hanged, and, shaking his hand, said, “ Good bye, old fellow! take care of yourself.” Our venerable friend at Wheatland could not be more icy than bis Wash- ington organ. Perhaps the Union will explain why, if the Maine democrats were deceived into electing one old line democrat—Mr. Hamlin—for Governor, they may not give their votes for another old line democrat—Colonel Fremont for President? Tell mo that, Master Brook! General Dix on the Stand—An Unexpected Witness. At a meeting of the Democratic Club of Rye, held on Thursday last at Port Chester, Westches- ter county, General Dix, a distinguished demo- crat, defined his position and made a speech. Al- though this gentleman was served very shabbily by President Pierce, and for a time held aloof from any marked support of his administration, he seems to have recovered the usual temper of his mind, and he now frigidly rejoins his party and takes up the cause of Mr. Buchanan. But even now he cannot go “ the whole hog;” he is not quite “right on the goose,” nor does he go it blind “ for the hemp,” in the phraseology of border ruffianism. According to the report, he has made many unexpected admissions, which it is well enough to notice and record, since they confirm the views taken by the opposition in all the most important particulars. Thus, with re- gard to the principle of “non-interference with the Territories,” as “a practical rule of conduct” to be inflexibly maintained, he told his audience— ‘They all bnew that it bad not been maintained—they all knew that orgap'zed bands of armed men from ac adjoiming State hud evtered the Territory of Kansas, sur. rounded the polls in military array, and controlled the election; ana they aiso knew that the goverumert thus chcsen had passed laws which were iately declared, up on the floor of the Senate, by Gen. Cass, to be diagraceful to the country, und by Senator Weller, of Catiferma, to xe the most arbitrary and tyraunical laws ever euacted ip any country He also stated, in relation to the plan of emi- gration adopted in the North, that the Magtachusetts society was a peaceful organization, con- templating legitimate aid to emigration, and obuosious to no severer censure than that of indiscretion, And he thought it was very indiscreet, though it afforded no justitication of the armed intervention in the affairs ot Kaptas by persons going there trom other@:ates, to con- trol the élections, aud, through them, the organic lawe and ultimate destiny of the Territory. Speaking of the difficulties in Kansas, he stated that Toe acts of aggression committed there, the expulsion of the tree State settlerg, the forcible subversion of tree dom of speech and of the press, and the acts of retaliation w uhich (hese have given rise, bai, for the moment, given an ascendency to disorder and riot. But be did not be: lieve that this state of things woutd Inst The publir feel ang revolted at those out ages; and they wonld be pat down In regard to the attack on Mr. Sumner, he spurned, as Mr. Cathoun would have done, As unworthy of his J/'e, any attempt to put down discus- tion by brute force, avd especially an assault by a man armed wo the teeth on oue utterly deteuceless. It was 4 humiliating truth that the city of Washiagtoa, waere, for the public hon {er and decorum should be most scrupulousiy observed, had vecome diatingursh ed for acts of lawlessness which usd become disgraceful to us a8 a civilized community. With respect to the finangial administration of affairs, he admitted He had looked for the growing finane Wasbington ; and r there was more need of tals than there is now, Here we have, then, from e prominent partizan of Mr. Buchanan, a denunciation of his whole policy, of the Kansas outrages, of the bands of armed men who entered the Territary and illegal- ly controlled the elections, and of the bloody laws which an illegally chosen Legislature has enacted. We have, tov, his admission that the conduct of the Massachusetts Emi- grant Society, though indiscreet, furnished no vindication of en “armed intervention” in the affairs of Kansas, and that the public feeling revolts at “ those outrages.” He denounces the acts of * lawlessness” which have taken place at Washington as disgraceful to “a civilized na tion, and he deplores the financial demoraliza- tion” existing at headyuarters. General Dix bas thus fully confirmed the trath of the charges brought against Pierce and his care with deep anprehension upon Vizatton at Albany aud at over was atime when gh reform at both capi administration, his policy aud his party. Here, from a witness on the administration side, we have positive testimony of the unworthiness of those who have administered the government, and of the necessity of reform. No language used by the opposition in the present canvass can be more intelligible or more to the point than that we have quoted. But General Dix, after all this, does not come to the right conclu- sion. He is ready to reinstate this very policy which he condemns, by the election of a man who is pledged to pursue it. The very outrages he deplores he is willing to perpetuate—the in- tervention of armed forces is to continue, the disorder is to be increased, blood is yet to tlow. His own line of conduct is opposite to his reason- ing. His own maxims he is about to confute by his personal disregard of their obligations. It ix well, therefore, in this moment of excitement— during this heated political term—to remember this testimony of a political opponent. We now ask the honest men rem: their own voluntary witn they car whether they can avoid rendering a verdict against the corrupt administration and the reck- less partizans who seek to perpetiiate the vi lence, military despotism and bloodshed which now threaten to ov Im us. We are obliged to General Dix for bis testimony. 1t comes at the right stage of the proceedings; and for the present he may step aside. Tow to Ger News Curar.y—Liverauity or tue Country.—Our readers are probably aware that the leading journals in this city are com- bined into an association for the purpose of ob taining news by telegraph from ell parts of the Union. The work of this association extends over thousands of miles, and it has its agente in every place of importance in the country. The expense of this enterprise, always great, is very much increased during election times, and ar- rangements are made to give by telegraph and express the fullest returns that can be had. A proposition is made to the journals of other cities and towns on the line of the telegraph to take this important news, paying for it pro rata. This would so divide the expense as to make it com- paratively small, and spread the news before all the people, instead of giving its monopoly to the readers of metropolitan journals, But these newspapers, includ'ag some of the richest of those in Philadelphia and Boston, refuse to pay any- thing for the news, preferring to steal it from the New York journals; and we ave thus obliged to buy news not only for our own readers, but also supply it to other people wio are too mean to pay for it. These facts should be known to the public, They fully account for the power and preponderance of the New York press—a power that is founded upon enterprise, progress and liberality—the waut of which requisites has made even the best of the provincial presses merely local gazettes, overgrown with prejudice and fos silized by the combined influences of lazinese and meanness. Great Processions anyn Great Heweves.— Among the pleasant fictions of a Presidential contest none are more absurd than the reports of party journals as to the number of free and inde- pendent voters gathered at their meetings, torchlight processions, parades, barbecues, con- ventions, &c., &. [i has grown to be com. mon to talk about thousands of men as one talke about a drove of cattle. Thus the demo. cratic organs claim forty thensand in their torch. light procession on Tuesday. The Fillmore men will aot bg in the rear, and will probably glainy forty thousand for their demonstration ia Union equare, last evening. If the Fremonters make a similar splurge, they will claim as great an at- tendance as the opposition; and thus we shall have one hundred and twenty thousand per- sons engaged in politics—double the number of votes in the city. When we consider that as many as half the voters in New York pay no at- tention to political meetings, but get their infor- mation and their argument from the press, it will be seen at once how foolish these stories are, Poxrricat Row at Bautrmone.—The telegraph informs us that on Tharsday night a meeting of the citizens of Baltimore—the object of which was to form a Fremont electoral ticket for that State— was broken up by rowdies, and that the lead- ers narrowly escaped bodily injury. These preceedings are disgraceful to the city and the State, and we have no doubt that they are so regarded by the respectable citizens of Baltimore, who certainly should not be held accountable for the lawless acts of a few black- guards and shoulder hitters—men who always in- fest every great city, and finally bring up in the penitentiary. Nevertheless, the naked fact will have a political significancy, and it will strengthen Fremont at the North. The intelligent men of the South know this to be true, and therefore keep aloof from rows, which only react upon their originators. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Terrible Riot at Baltimore. TWO MEN KILLED AND TWENTY WOUNDED—CULE- BRATION OF THE BATTLE OF NORTH POINT. Baxtimong, Sept. 12, 1255. Aterrible riot occurred this afternoon between a Fiil- more fishing lub and a party of ymen at the Seventeenth ward democratic headquarters in this city. Two men were thot dead and some twenty others wounded, seve ral, it is believed, fatally. The,fight lasted cnly a few minuies, but the fring was heavy and severe. Neither of the men killed were engaged in the fight, and most of those wounded were residents in the vicinity, attracted to the spot by the disturbance. The anniversary of the battle of North Point was spi- ritedly celebrated to-day, The military paraded, and the Association of Defenders held their usual celebration op the battleground at North Point. From Washington. EXTRA PAY TO CLERKS REFUSED—ADDITIONAL FORCE FOR KANSAS. Wasuinaroy, Sept. 12, 1856. The First Comptroller of the Treasury, Mr. Whittlesey, having refused to pass the requisition for the extra pay voted by the House of Representatives to its oiflcers, clerks and messengers, his decision has been laid before the Secretary of the Treasury, who sanctions Mr. Whittle sey’s official conduct. The precise ground of the refusal does not appear, but Congress, in the miscellaneous Dill approved August 18, 1859, inserted the following clause: ‘And to enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the additional compensation to its employés and others, authorized by the resolution of the House of Ro- presentaiives of August 15, 1856, a sum for that purpose is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and is hereby added to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives.”” It is understood that the telegraphic despatch trans- mitted by the State Department to Gov. Geary, in Kansas, is to the following effect:—“ Ifthe militia, which pre- vious orders sent by Col. Kmery made subject to the requisition of General Smith, are not suflicient for the exigency, Mr. Marcy wishes to be notified by telegraph, remarking that the ingurrectionary invasion of Kansas by way of Nebraska, and the subsequent hostile at- tacks on the Post Office at Brank!in, and on the dwellings of Col. Titus and Mr Clark, seem to have stimulated to unlawful acts of the same character on the bor- der of Missouri, and that the President ox pecta Governor Geary to maintain the public peace, and bring to punishment al) acta of violence or disorder, by whomsoever perpetrated, relying ou hie (Geary’s) energy and discretion, and the approved co- pacity, decision and coolness of character of Genera! Smite, to prevent or suppress all attempts to kindle civil war in the Territory. The telegraphic despatch from the War Department to General Smith bears date the 9th inst., acquainting bim that it is the purpose of the President to secure to him ail the militia force necessary to maintain order and sup- press insurrection, and that no military operations shall de carried on in Kansas otherwise than under his instruc- tions and orders— hence he is instructed not to permit the employment of militia, or any armed bodies of mea, un- lest they have been regularly mustered into the serytce of the United States. It was deci fed at (he Treasury Department to-day that, under the operation of the resolution of the House of Representaiives those employes only who receive per diem compensation are entitled to extra pay, while the clerks—thirty or more in number—also attached to that branch of Congress, receiving anaual salaries, are ex- cluded. The resolution of August 15, referred to, directs the Clerk to pay out of the contingent fund of the House to euch of its employ és as received the same atthe last Congress, the usual extra compensation, and to the other employes of the House respectively twenty per cent upon their an nual compersation. The employ re of course amazed At the decision, in view of the above law and resolutipus. The President, it is said, has abandoned his intention of returning to the Warrenton (Va.) Springs. Affairs of Kansas. REFUGEES FROM KANSAS. Cmcaao, Sept. 11, 1958. One bundred free State refugees arrived at St. Louls yesterday, entirely destitute. They state that a large bumber of families had taken refoge at Fort Leavenworth, It is reported that a large number of free State women and children were killed at Stanger's Creek on Wednes- day, the third instant. RELIEF FOR KANSAS. Easton, Pa., Sept. 12, 1856, Governor Reeder addressed a large number of his fel- low citizens at this place, on benalf of Kansas, in front of the Court House, last evening. Colonel Abraham Miller presided. A committee was appowted to call upon the citizens for subscriptions to ald Kansas, and from the feeling manifested a respectable contribution may be expected. Republican Movements, GRAND DEMONSTRATION IN BOSTON. Bowros, Sept. 12 1866. ‘The German Turners Association of Boston and vicinity held their second annual festiva) at Needham yesterday ‘The gathertog was decidedly republican, and the speechos made by Henry Wilson, Gustave Struve, Mr. Douac, for merly of Texas, and others, were listened to with inte reat and enthusiasm. Resolutions, heartily ondorsing Fremont and Dayton and the platform of the repubican party, were unanimously adopted. Large Fremont gatherings were held yesterday at Abington and Manchester, Mass. MEETING AT SPRINGFIELD. ., Sept. 11, 1884, tho City Hall thin evening of jadies and gentlemen, in response to a call from the citizens’ Fremont Club. Large delegations were also present from Northampton, Holyoke, Chicopeo and Longmeadow. Speeches were mado by Mr. Erastus Hop. kins, of Northampton, and Mr. Patterson, of Miseouri, ‘The latter gentleman told grapbically the story of Kan. as. Great enthusiasm prevailed. Vermont Fillmore Whig Convention, Benuixaroy, Vt., September 12, 1866. ‘The Fillmore Whig Convention assembled here to day and appointed delegates to the National Convention to be held in Baltimore on the 17th inst. A call was issued for convening State Convention to nominate a Fillmore electoral ticket Erastus Brooks, Eeq., of New York, addressed the Convention, Celebration of the Battie of North Point. Bautimone, Sept, 12, 1966. ‘The anniversary of the battle of North Point ia being celebrated to-day with a military parade, The old defen- ders have gone to spend the day at North Point. The city is decorated with flags, and presente a gay sppear- ance. ‘The Southern mail as inte as due is to band. Movements of Hon. Anson Bur! SrxiNGHTELD, Mass., Sept. 12, 1856, ‘The Hon, Anson Burlingame arrived here at 1 o'clock, on his way to Boston Several hundred people gathered At the cars and greeted him most . He made them a brief speech in return, from the Massasoit House. The affair passed of! with much spirit, Bostoy, Sept. 12, 1856, The reception of Mr. Burlingame this evening consti. tuted the greatest political demonstration thus far exht. bited in Bestom. He reached Tremont Temple s0on after seven o’clock, and made a speech in the main hall, which was packed. General Wilson spoke at the same time in the lower hall, which was also crowded. In the: meantime the numerous clubs of Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, Roxbury, and other places, had gathered in front of the Temble, occupying nearly the whole space’ from School to Broomfleld street. In response to loud calls Mr, Burlingame made a second specch from the balcony of the Temple. Fireworks and bands of music added to the excitement of the affair, which closed with: grand procession. ‘The Niagara Outward Bound. Haurax, Sept. 12, 1856. ‘The s'eamship Niagara arrived bere at balf-past nine o’clock this morning, and sailed again at eleven o'clock, for Liverpool, The weather is clear, with a westerly wind, Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. YHULADALPHIA, Sept. 12, 1856. Stocks firm. Pennsylvania state 6’ 5 y road, 439¢; Long Island Railroad, 13, Pennsylvania allroad, 487, Flour Stendy. Sales 2600 vbis., at $6 60a $6 56 for choice Obio, Indiana and Michigan; $6 62 a $6 75 for ex- tra do , and $6 37 a $6 62 for good to extra Wisconsin. Wheat closed at an advance, Sales 150,000 bushels, at $1 15 a$1 1624 tor Chicago spring, $130 a $1 S4,for red Michigan and Iliinois aud $1 45 a $1 47 for white Mi- chigan. Wisconsin, Canaoian and Kentucky. Corn firmer. Sales 122,000 bushels, at 52c. a 680. Oats steady, Sslee 6,000 bushels, a: 86c. Whiskey, 313g. Canal f 3 163gc. On corn, and 20c. a 20s,¢. on wheat to New York, Receipts for the twenty tour hours ending at noon to~ y—5,572 bbig, flour, 85,183 bushels wheat, 45,100° bushelv corn, 16,100 busneis ovis. Canal exports same time :—25,350 bushels wheat. $1,725 bushels corn, 23,600 bushels oats. Osweao, Sept. 12—6 P. M. Wheat—A rhade better and demand good. 20,000 busbels, at $1 5% a $1 55 for prime white Cana- dian afloat apd delivered to boata; $1 60 for white indiana, slightly mixed, and $1 38 for red do. Corn dull. Sales 3.000 bushels. Barley active Sales 12,000 bushels, on Canal frewhts steady. Flour 38¢. a 390., .. and corn 1c to New York. Lake importa bbis. flour; 31,690 bushela wheat; 26,640 . corn; 5,568 do. barley ' Canal exports:—900 bbla. , 61,508 bushels wheat, 0 do. corn, 2,828 doy Political Gossip, It is stated that Mr. Breckinridge really made a propo- sition to Mr. Buchanan, a) the Wheatlands, yesterday, says. the Philadelphia Bulletin of the 11th instant, on the sub~ ject of his withdrawal. The plan is to get Mr. Donelson also to withdraw, and unite the democratic and American tickets in the persons of Fillmore and Breckinridge. Such a ticket, Mr. Breckinridge thinks, will be likely to suc- ceed against Fremont and Dayton, What is to be dono about the two platforms does uot appear, Nor have we learned what response Mr. Buchanan made to the proposition. The Charleston Mercury, the secession democratic organ of the South, has retired from the canvass in disgust, Probably paired off with the Washington National Intel- ligencer. The Charleston Courier some days ago promised to pro~ duce proof as reliable as holy writ, that Fremont was a Catholic, In answer to various inquiries in relation there- to it says now if its word cannot be believed, the proof would not, and consequently they have concluded to drop the matter, Hon. Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, in hia speech at Kala- mazoo, Michigan, said there was no danger of disruption in the Union, and that neither Congress nor all the politi- cians in the country can dissolve the confederacy our fa- thers made and handed down to us. A resolution was offered and rejected, in the Buchanan ‘Massachusetts State Convention, to invite Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, to address the democracy of the Commonwealth. There were seven hundred and twenty-five delegates missing at the recent Massachusetts Bachanan State Con. vention, Had the State beer fully represented, accord- ing to the basis of representation laid down, there would have been 1,725 delegates present. There were about 1,€00 delegates. The republicans of indiana bave made arrangements for the holding of an immense Fremont mass meoting on the battleground of Tippecanoe. The citizens will assem- ble on the Ist of Octover, and the proceedings will be continued on the second and third of that month. All the States of the Northwest will be fully represented, an@ Hon. Senator Sumner bas promised to address the malti- tude, if his health permits. An invitation is addressed to republicans from all parts of the Union to be present on this interesting occasion The Richmond Enquirer says the Hon. John M. Botts, who is stumping Virginia for Fillmore, “ can be convicted of bisck republicantrm on the evidence of his own decla- ration, in the speech which he recently delivered”? in Richmond. It says ‘the speech will be published, and. that if Botte is not arrested under the act for the sup- pression of incendiary language, the law is either a dead letter or our progecuting attorneys are not true to their duties.”? Haj! Columbia | Gen. ©. D. Fontaine, the Kaow Nothing candidate for Governor in Mississippi, against Governor McRae, at the last election, has quitted Fillmore, and declared himself in favor of Buchanan and Breckipridge, A Buchanan man, lately riding on the cars in Indiana, determined to test the truth of the fusion reports, took the vote on the train himself, He burried through the cara with a paper and pencil, asking this one and that for whom they voted; some said Buchanan, some said Fre. mout, and some said Filimore. At last he came to a white cravated, biack coated, demure looxing individual. “Sir,’? said he, “who do you go for ”” “My friend,” answered the saintly personage, “I go for Jesus Christ." The democrat looked over his paper, ‘“Sir,’’ said he, “there is no such candidate running. If there is, I wilt bet youa hundred doliars be don’t get fifty votes in Indiana.” Hon, Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, since his re-nomina. tion for Congress, bas addressed a long letter to his con- stituents explaining bis reasons for voting for the bill to: increase the pay of the members. He says everybody round Warhington have had their pay increased, and why pot (he members of Congress? James R. Stauberg bas heen nominated for Congre@ by the Fillmoreltes in the Twelfth district of Obio, Dr. Young, 1.L. L., of the Edinburg University, aad author of two celebrated works published in thie coun- try, Writes.a friend in this city: “That crisie (the triumply of despetism over freedom) must fill with ansious emo- tions every right mindec and patriotic soul im the New World, Even here, in the Old World, men’s hearts ara trembling. The interests of the entire human race ara involved in the action of your government. May the ‘free aod the right’ gain noble triamph in this crisis, and America lif up her giant head tn spite of ail who either ignorantly or maliciously would bring dishonor upon it, May she once more, and with a deeper emphasis, pro- claim in the ears of the world the eternal sacredness of principle and human liberty.’’ Maseachuseita is likely to loom up largely in contribu. tions for Kansas, A private letter from @oncord, Mass.,, +f the 10th inst,, says :— ‘The citizens of Concord are wide awake about Kenzas, ‘pn July, at & meeting held at the Town Hall, « eer ition paper was ata: ted ‘and in a short time the fome sum of $1,360 was contributed, On the 34 upotber meeting was called, to hear @ statement from ¥. B. Sanborn, who had just returaed City. Another subscription paper ‘were contributed. The ladies have likewise taken an ao,. the porn of making op. nad fending oe cloning. "> think tet ola Concord wn safely be called ner tows, Two thourend dojliart for a village habitants, weuld give one million of dollars Hae 2. = : churette, if each city, town and village contributed pro. portionally. The Rochestor Democrat says:— For some weeks past romors have been floati: charging Colketor Camphell with various thy for which his removal was asked. We have never the: soribed deputies, It seoms to be wi movale aro ify ing to Colletor Campbell. that Dr, Smylen isa brother in-law of the etitor of the Union, bevween whom and Mr. Campbe!| there bas long been hostile feel ings. This waa suposed to have been settiod when Butte consented that Campbell should be a delegate to Cincin- dati, bat it seeme to have heen only a trace. There trore a this sudden removal of democratic officials before an elertion than appears upon the surface, ther this if a proludy to ® more publie show of host