The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1856, Page 4

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The news from California is important, ait places us in possession of the pleasing intelligence that the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco had and daw and order agaia reigned supreme Tae Commitses, after releasing Judge Terry unconditionally, and with only the recommea- dation that be resign his office as Judge of the Sx- preme Court of the-State, consummated their labors and formally disbanded on the 1*th of Angust, cele- brating the event by a grand parade, in which be- tween six and seven thousand persons took part. It was thought that Judge Terry would not resign. A few daya after the discharge of Terry, the re- maining prisoners were zelessed, and the Committee fortitications. There was particclarly important im the way of politics @ on. The Fremont party were making rapid strides in all ports of the State, forming clubs and making all necesary preparations for the campaign, and bac already arnounced their convictions that the Siete waseure forthe Pa‘h finder. Business generally was on the increase, and a greatanmount of buildiug and other Kaprovements were going on in Sau Francisco. The mines were said to be yielding better than ever.before, and ac- counts from all parte of the State represented a larger amount of grain, fruits.and vegetatics thanany preceding year. The Goorge Law brought upwards of one million six hundsed thousand dollars in trea- sure. AJ] hail, California! Intelligence from New Granada hes been re- ceived. The news from Panama is to theth, and Aspinwall is @ the 2d i@st. Property velaed ot $60,000 bad been lost by five in the Playa Prictte, Penama. Senor Lorenzo , of Paname, had been killed in adel. The Legialavere had.mct, but found much difficulty in orgamizing. The supporters of Senor Riaz assert that they will resist the in auguration of Sensr Cavo, who has a wejovity of votes in the Senate, in the Speaker's chair, by force. In Aspinwall, General Mosqoere had, on the first day, a majority of votes for the office of Presi- dent. The cook of the Boston brig Palestine had a'tempted to poison the entire crew, stl then fed trom the vessel. Norwine, United States Con- missioner, had preferred a series of charges against the Isthmas authorities an connected wita-the late riots. E! Panameno, the official jouraal, dreads a seizure of the territory the republic by the “ talansof the Yankee eagle.’ New Graneda hal secured a eatisfactory settlement of her beandary @ispute with Costa Rica. The United States ship: pendence, bearing the broad pennant of Mer ed at Panama on the 31 Of Ang aat. Advices at Panama, by Britizh steamer from $20 at of August, represe Talker’s position in Nicaragna as very bad, and sxy that people laugbedat bis naval blockade decree. Costa Rica Lad promised to a'd Guatemala with @ fresh forve. Walker had been recraited with ten artillerymen from New ‘York. By way of Panama we have news from the South Pacific, dated Valparaiso Ist and Callao 11th of August. Over one hundred thousand dollars in specie bad beer forwarded on freight from Valpa- raiso to Parama hy the steamer Bolivia. In’ Chile the votes were being still takea for President, bat up to the last momeut ouly one elector had cast hia voice against Sencr Montt. Government had en- Gowed a number of schools. The customs duties tax bad been altered in favor of the Argentine re- mublic. The Valparsise Railroad works were being pushed forward vigoroxaly. Tranquillity prevailed atall potn Floor rated at $10 50 per 200 Ibs In Peru the Netional C on was still in session’ but the people were discontented with its labors. The trade dealings for Joly were very heavy both at Arica and Iquique. Some very sich gold diggin: had been discovered in Bolivia, op the river Choque, meta. Australian news to the 7th of Jane, has been re ceived from Sydney, New South Wales. During seven days the branch mint there had colned twenty thousand half sovereigns. One thousand one han- dred and eleven cances of gold bad been received at the treasury in ove dey, and one thousand six han dred and ninety eight ounces bad been left for coin e during the week. The Sydney dour market was dull. Fiue brought £25 and second £253 per ton. Our files from British Hondaras, dated Belize, August 25, state that the Legislatnre and Exeontive had passed a law a rizing the removal of sas pected aliens from the settlement. A duty had been imposed on sugar, rum and spirits mannufactared in the northern di-trict of the colony, for three years A reward of three thousand dollar Tered for the arrest of the incendiaries who fired the town of Belize on the 17th of July. Advices from Port au Prince to Angnst 24, report yellow fever and black vomit raging wih great violence. John Dilson, chief mate of the bark A. G. Washburn, had died. The markets for for produce were active. Advices from Kanans, received at &!. Loa form wa that General Richardson, the pro-livery leader, had been taken prisoner by the free State Jue oo men, and carrie fore General Lane, who relousod him and sent } back wader J Lane i still at Lawrence. Moo n prevailed among the people of lc hensive of an attack General Smith bad sent four ho were appre State fa sto f t darrived at Leoven the town. ¢ nor Geary } worth, and would proceed & wwrense in 4 fow deye. A great Fremon wa n Back county, Pa., near Trent n aturday aft nook. Prom eight to ten thewtond persons were present, and the enthusinen is doo cribed a8 aml yed e of imports of foreign g 6 Monday, our police fw mpriking acconnts of riots, ov NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1856. account of the firs in Hamersley street, will befound | The Nissowri-Hanses ‘Regisiavere and its elsewhere. Dr. J. Dubois, of New ‘Utrecht, who contracted the yellow fever hy attending upon the sick, died of the disease on Seturdsy afternoon. "The marxet for cottva and wool at Providence continues firm. The Gemand for printing cleths wes active, with an upward tendency in prices. Sixty-seven thousand pieces were sold during the week, most of which %as yet to be manu factored. The foreign news:per Cambria and Arabie caused holders of cotton on Saturday to mauifest greater firmness; the sales were confined to ebout 860 bales, without quotable change in prices. Flouredvanced 5je.a 10c. per berrel, and wheat from 2c. 3c. per bushel; the sales cf wheat on the spot, and to ar- rive, on Friday and Saturday last, exceeded 200,000 bushels, taken chiefly for export. Common to choice new white Southern, Western and Canadian sold from $1 65 a $170 a $175, the latter figure for choice Canadien, and red do. at $1 50, $1 55 a $1 60. Corn was also 2c. a 3c. higher, and was eeld at 70c. a 7240. for sound mixed. Pork sold at $19 87, check on the same day; while in the usual way it closed at 220. Sugars were active,and purchases were made pretty freely by the trade, and by reGaers, at full prices. ‘Fhe sales embraced about 2,000 hhds. Cuba museovado, 40 Porto Rico, 400 boxes browa Havana aed 7,400 bags Manila for refining, the prices for all of which are given in auether colama. In some descriptions, the market closed at }d. at vance. Goffee was firm, with fair transactions at full prices, The sales embraced 1,600 bags Rie, and gbout 400 do. Laguayra, at prices given in an- other plece. Freights were steady, with engage ments of grain to Liverpool and London at 8d.a Sid.,and flour at 2s.a 2s. 3d. The News from California—Voluntary Dis~ banding of the Vigilance Committee. The intelligence which is brongkt us from California by the mails of the George Law is of an important character. It appears that-on the 15th. of August last, after a grand military parade, the Committee of Vigilance, at San Francisoo, velantarily ceased to exist. Its respective companies were dishanded, its mili- y organization was dissolved, and nothing remained of it but an Executive Committee of a merely nominal character. One of its latest acts was the release.of Judge Terry, whose victim having recovered from what was deemed a mortal wound, stood no longer in the way of the Judge's. discharge. The termination of these diffeulties: was not. marked by any further disorders—every- thing went on as if nothing extraordinary had. happened. The existence of the Committee was bat.a political parenthesis, which is now Jeft cut, without injuring the sense of anything. he sleap-of-war John Adams arrived in port a few days previously to this event, and her cem- mander used his influence for the release .of Jadge Terry; but the Committee acted upea their own, motion and ja their own way. Thus las ended a very remarkable phase, not only in the history of California, but in the his tory of the United States. Those who predicted a reign of ter or suspected the underlayizg of a spit of disunion and secession, have been, we are happy to sey, greatly mistaken. It is to be obsersed that this spontaneons movement of the people of San Francisco hel a peculiar ob- ject. It wasnot to create, but <o put dowa dis order; not 40 overthrew, but to ¢ecure the supre- macy of the laws; not to do apyvviolence to the State, but to pi ve tranquility. Their ar- rangem ough effective, were merely pr2- cautionary; aml moderate counse’s—wonderful as it may appear—marked their proceedings during their thive months’ admiuistratioa. If abolnte necessity, if the most appalling dan- if perfect inseaurity of life and property be for the essumptien of extraordinary he friends ef the Committee claim that they are The readiness with which they have laid them down certainly vin- the bonesty end integrisy of their mo- tives. At all events, 2a important problem has been satisfactorily solved, which affected the rerican character and threatened the stability institutions. It was supposed by many that the dissolution of the Committee would not have taken place until after the election, at whieh it was expected their influ.nce would be paramowat and immuni- ty secured; but they did not wait for that; they have submiticd themselves to the calm judgment of the people, and California is again tranquil. The people kaviog successfully tried their strength, will, wo trast, be able to sustain them- selves from any fature outrages by an appeal to the ballot box, and the exercise of their ordinary and legitimateremedies. It appears that our insti- tutions are, after all, driumphaat over all the inci- dental difficnities which belong to political commu- nities; that the messes rely on them as their best and safest citodel, aud that their loyalty to the constitution and laws wader which they have heen bred and prospered is proof against every trial: their first and last thought in every dan Whatever instructions President Pierce Secretary Davis may have sent out to the federal authorities in California, it is fair to suppose that they will prove a nullity when they reach their destination. It is not probable that the adminis tration, in the present position of affairs, will aid the local authorities ia making any arrests or in creating any greater hostility to the democratic party then now prevails in that State. powers, t exeused. dicates Rowoyiem or Batrmons.—The eontagion of the late ruffianly scence at Washington, and of the border ruffianiem which overshadows Kanes. appears to have broken out rather violently among the Fillmore and Buchanan politicians at Baltimore. One day we are informed that a Fremont meeting there is violently broken up by a set of rowdies, or patriots, whose knowledge of the constitution is about equal to their knowledge of the Koran; and the next day we are informed of a regular bloody battle in the same thriving and hospitable city between a detatchment of Fillmorites and a gang of the “unterrified demo. cracy.”’ From the violence of the fight and the deadly animosity which seems to have controlled these parties in it, we fear that there is but little hope of a fusion between the Know Nothinge, or American Order, and the apparently blood thirs- ty democracy, upon Mr. Buchanan or Mr. Will- more. Nations goto war to conquer a peace; but when democrats and Kaow Nothings go to fighting on the e: Presidential election, it signifies anything but We really fear that that Baltimore figh men for the demo- cracy, and that they will not be able to make much out of the Ko . Sexator Crayton Gives it Ur.—Hon. J. M, Olayton. of Delaware, has, it appears, written a letter to the A ? Intelligencer at Wash de his intention to express no prefer and no part in thie Presidential election, That's very queer a» nisa K.N., and Why abandon Mr. Fill last extremity, when he wants so he vote of Delaware for a beginning? Mr, sak N, k ‘bing aftenys, es alLof whieh, together | Clayton evidently gives it wp, He has heard of usugl local matter, iaglading a graphic | the Maine election. Spartous Lawse—Who Are the Traitors? The administration at Washington, the Bu- chanan democracy, the spurious-civil authorities of Kansas, the United States army, and Mr. Pieree’s ‘border ruffians, have now openly and avowedly entered upon a war-of extermination against the free State settlers of Kansas, upon the terzible charge that they-ere traitors and in a state of armed ingerrection against the laws and the regularly constituted authorities of the Terxitory. Follow us, reader, through a brief and dispassionate examination of this matter, and you will soon see who are the traitors and where this crime of treason belongs. ‘The federal constitution is the supreme law. (All laws, Congyresstonel, State or Territorial, violative of this constitution, are null and void. ‘This supreme law, therefore, over all the States and Territories—over New York and over Kan- ras—establishes the freedom of speech, the free- dom of opinion, the freedom of the pres:, “ the ight of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for the redress of their grievances; and it erdains, too, that * the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” and that “ the right of the people 10 be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effets, against unreasonable searches and seiz- ures shall not be violated,” &e. And it farther provides, ‘that no person shall “be deprived of Jife, liberty, or property, with- out due process-of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without ju compensation ;’. and it also declares that “ cessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punish- ments inflicted,” &c. This is the supreme law of all the States and Territories—the federal con- stitution. And here we stick a pin, and proceed to another branch of our subject. The Kansas-Nebraska law—ihe organic Terri- torial law of Karnsas—was framed in pursuance of this constitation ; and the saving feature of the act, which Col. Benton calls “the stamp speech inthe belly of the bill,” distinctly declares that “it is net the Intention of this act to legislate slavery into the Territory, or to exclude it there- from, bat to leave it to the people thereof, to be settled in their ownway, subject only to the con- stitution of the United States.” This is the organic Territorial law of Kansas, The settlers of the Territory are left perfectly free to settle their domestic institutions “ in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States.” Tiere, then, are the landmarks of ihe constitution and of the popular sovereignty of the act of Con- gress known as the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Now for the traitors; and we shall flad them without the aid of a telescope. On the day of his inauguration, the President of the United States took a solemn oath of fidelity to the constituiion—the whole of it, to all the fpecifications we have given, and all that we have not given, iucluding the special injunction that “he shall sce the laws faithfully executed.” Vipon this Jast injunction hengs our maiz ques- tion of the Kansas treason aad the Kansas trai- tors, and we shall see presemily who, what, and where they are. We are close pon their trail. With an eye to the constitutional rights of the peoplo.of Kansas, the organic Tecritorial law pro- vides that none but Lona fide settiors in the Tex:i- tory #hall have the right to vote, and this safo- guavd is hedged and fenced about with the necee- sary means for enforcing this just restriction of the eleotive franchise. Mark, too, the President had «sworn to maintain the constitution and to see this law “faithfully executed.” But let us inquire pow what he bas done ; beeouse, as the supreme exocutive guardicn over the Territories, he is veaponsible for all those civil and military proceedings in Kansas, under cover of the law, which are among the must atrocious, ferocious and infamous violations of law. in the first plaoe, President Pierce has adopted the Missouri-Kansas Legislature and officialeas the legitimate government of the Territory. But Governor Reeder had isformed him otherwise, and had disclored to him fully and specifically all the outrageously illegal means aed instruments through which the said Missouri authorities were placed over the people of Kansas. Subsequently, a special Congressional committee, detailed to Kansas for the purpose, entered ints a careful and methodical inquiry, and from the sworn tes- timony of hundreds of credible witnesses, the fol- lowing facts were established: — By the census of November, 1854, and that of Sonuory and February, 1855, it was ascertained that the number of legal voters in the Territory was 2,905. At the election of a delegate to Con- gress, the legal votes cast only amounted to about 550, while the illegal votes were 1.700 and upwards. Little interest seems to have beea taken by the residents at this time in the slavery question. They were thinking of their personal interests, and engaged in the engrossing occupa- tions necessarily attending a first settlem ont. At the next election, while another census pre- sented no larger number of legal voters than the previous one, the yotes of the pro-slavery party bad risen to 5,427, and the free State vote to only 791. The illegal vote was, therefore, 3,813. if the whole number of legitimate votes, 2.905, had been taken at this election. The report of the committee estimated the illegal vote to be 4,908. In addition to the frauds thas committed in voting, was witnessed a premeditated invasion of the Territory by armed borderers, who came some of them hundreds of miles, armed, as already stated, and in companies, under the com- mand of officers, with baggage trains and all the appointments of an army, for the avowed pur- peve of carrying the election at all bazards. There being eighteen districts, or places where th® polls were held. reserves of the invaders were held at different conrenient points, from which were despatched, as: were wanted, men enough to turn the elections at all the doubtful precincts, When the judges appointed by the Governor refused to receive votes, they were driven from their posts, or intimidated into ac- quiescence by loaded pistols presented at their breasts, Many of the anti-slavery electors were not permitted to come near the polls, and, in some instances, the ballots were found (ballot stuffing) to exceed the tally lists in large quanti When a free State voter was willing to be ewern as to his qualifications, he was driven off, with the ery of “shoot him,” “rip him up.” In district but two or three, the greatest vio- tenee and disorder prevailed. and after the elec- tion was over the borderers would strike their tenis, do a little plundering. and cros: the Microuri to their own homes, This isthe way the rufian “law and order perty” succeeded in carrying the Territorial Le- gislatare, and in this way began the troubles and the bloodehed { ens, These are facta, and this is histe iebed hy the sworn testi- mony « a witne ties. ave to We infamous and ing potiey, then, of recognizizg this spurious Missoari Legislature as | clement. It does not run about the lawful government of Kansas, we are brought within short range of the ‘first, most conspicnous and most criminal Kanses traitor, and it is no lees | @ personage than Franklin Pierce, President of the United States, Here was his first overt act of infidelity to his constitutional oath “to see the law”—the'Kansas organic law—‘faithfully exe- cuted.” Apprised of this ruthless armed inva- sion of spurious votersfrom Missouri, and of the mockery, insult and contempt which they had thrown upon the Lona de settlers of Kansas, and their rights under the law and the constitation, it was the first duty of ‘the President to repudiate that bogus Missouri Legislature, and te lay the fucts before Congress, But the party necessities of Mr, Pierce were more imperative than his oath; and so, in adopting that Missouri-Kansas Legis- lature, be beeame a traitor, in the vain delusion of thus-seeuring, through Southern nigger driving sympathy, the Cincinnati democratic nomina- tion. «Nhe tree is known by its fruit.” She bloody laws passed by the Missouri border ruffian Legislature of Kansas are on a par with the instra- ments employed to clect that Legislature. They are unconstitutional, iNegal, atrocious, savage and infamous, and we use but the words of Gen. Cass, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Weller and other demo- cratic Senators, in so declaring them, while they still sustain the traitorous administration, and the demoralized and utterly rotten and abandoned democratic, party that would enforce the bloody code, even to the slaughter of every free white settler in Kansas. These democratic Senators, whe are now elec- tioneering through the country for Mr. Buchanan as the anointed legatee of Mr. Pierce and his po- licy of ruffian sovercignty, denounce the treason, yet support the traitors, Illustrious democratic Senators, and artful dodgers! No one cares whether they are willing to repeal this or that section of the laws of Kansas; no one thanks them for saying inthe Senate that the Missouri- Kansas ball and chain were cruelties, or that it was very wrong to chain aud imprison a man because he had opinions of his own on slavery; or that it was unjust to reject a man asa juror because he had said he was opposed:to slavery; or that it is very unpleasant to be obliged to hang a man because he had whispered that if he were a slave he would run away. Ne one—we re- peat it—cares whether these humane Senators uttered these very liberal opinions, or voted for them in one bill, designed to upset another, which went further, and cut off all these op- pressive enactments at a blow, by compelling the President to sheath the sword. This is not the point. If they had been in earnest in their humanity and sineere in their horror, they would not have confined their action to the repeal of sections or parts of the Missouri-Kansas Territo- rial laws : they would have gone manfully in for the repeal of the whole. They knew that the whole code was illegally adopted—the whele elec- tion which gave vitality to it was a fraud; they knew that its test oaths, its jury qualifications, its suppression of the freedom of speech and of the press, and its violation of the rights of con- science, were unconstitutional and illegal, without their tardy admission of the fact. It was, there- fore, a brazen mockery, @ political fraud, and an insult to the people of this country, to propose a repeal merely of certain sections of a code, which partial repeal carried with it a confirmation, an affirmance, and an indorsement of that illegal legislation itself. x The Kansas traitors, the border ruffian Legis- lature of Kansas and their infamous laws, with all their atrocities, the administration at Washington apholds at the point of the bayonet, and the rotten end demoralized nigger-driving democratic party which upholds the edministration is pledged to ite policy. In every way, and atevery point, the free State settlers of Kansas are the aggrieved and outraged party. The constitution and the Kaneee-Nebraska bill are on their side. They are not traitors in resisting the bloody code of Kan- sas asthe offspring of unlawful authority. They are clearly right in this sesistance. They are simply etanding upon their lewful and conetitn- tional rights as American citizens, in a common Territory of the Union; and every man of them who bas seffered, in person or property, from the bloody rafian policy of the adminisiration, ia Kansas, has @ rightful claim upon the government tor indemnity. On the other hand, the first proceeding at the reassembling of Congress ehould be a resolution in the House of Represerttatives for the impeach- ment of the President of the United States as a traitor—false io his cath to support the constitu- tion, and false to his sworn duty of seeing the “Jaws faithfully executed.” The rest, we pre- sume, will be attended to by the American peo- ple in November; for the whole demoralized democratic party, and their poliey and their can didate, are involved in this Kansas treason. Tur Rewiciocs Evement wx tax Comte Re- VoLeTton.—The religious element in the present contest between the supporters of Mr. Fremont on one side, and Mr. Buchanan on the other, is one of the most significant facts of the day. The protest of the three thousand New England cler- gymen against the course ef Mr. Douglas in the Senate three years ago, was a considerable fact in its way: but the two great organs of Christianity and political morality on the question of the pre- sent day, are the press and the churches, and not #0 much the pauper parsons. The religious pross of this city alone issues two hundred thousand ebeets per week, and with the exception of some ten or twelve thousand, the whole of this vast in- fluence is against the atrocious and wicked poli- cy of the administration, the democracy, and its nominee, in relation to the forcing of slavery up- on Kansas at the point of the bayonet, The power of the religious pres: in all the free States is immense, and it has been most active daring the past three years in preparing *he minds of the members of the churches, 6° a) denominw tions. ‘The other organ is found in the church organi- zation of the various sects. There are ia thef States some four or five thousand churches be- longing to the Protestant and Catholic organiza- tions, They have probably five millions of com- municants, of which number at least a million and a half are voters. This vast force, actuated by religions motives on the Kansas question, is coming out against Buchanan and the adminis tration as it never did before. It is a great ele- ment, which has never yet been thoroughly awakened in any political contest in thiscountry. Hence, therefore, in these facts we find a clue to the real causes at the bottom of the recent elections in Iowa, Vermont and Maino. There must be something else beside more political causes to have brought about these overwhelming changes-—these sweeping revolutions. « ‘This element, now for the first time thoroughly awakened, is a quict, modest, unobtrusive free the etreets getting up torchlight processions, swearing, curelng, and employing other low, beastly, brutal and vulgar means to get up an unenviable democratic notoriety. No, this cle- ment only manifests itself in a small, still voice until the day of election, when it will appear at the polls, overwhelming the opposition and sweeping everything before it with resistless force. Heasu or tHe Ciry.—We are now in the middle of September, and the apprehensions felt with regard to the appearance of the yellow fever amongst us, have not been justified by the facts. On Staten Island the disease has nearly died out, and at Fort Hamilton and Governor's Island it is also on the decrease, From the facts which have been disclosed in the inquiries set on foot concerning it during the present season, it is pldin that by a little care and foresight, the deaths that have already occurred from ii in those places might have been prevented. Against the alarm created in towns and cities near us, we have the gratifying fact of the marked improvement which is observable in the health of this city. Comparing the mor- tality of the week ending September 13 with that.of the corresponding weeks of the two pre- vious years, it will be seen that the balance of health is in favor of the former. The numbers, according to the City Inspector's report, were, 1854, 681; 1855, 503; 1856, 476. This improve- ment is, of course, directly traceable to the greater attention paid to sanitary precautions on the part of the city authorities, although, as we daily have occasion to show, much more might be effected under this head. Another fact dis- closed by the Inspector’s report is also deserving of remark as being calculated to dispel any re- maining uneasiness as to the prospect of the spread of epidemic disease amongst us. As we advance into September the general mor- tality seems to be rapidly diminishing. Thus we find that the week ending September 13 shows a decrease of twenty-seven deaths on the previous weck, and of forty on the week before. Of these deaths there is a large increase of cholera infantum, which consequently makes the adult mortality more than usually small. With such data before us, we may congratulate our fellow citizens on our having passed over the dangers of the summer with a less amount of mortality than we have ever before had to re- cord. The most gratifying feature in all this is the fact that this improvement appears to be steadily progressive, year after year, and that, too, in spite of the large additions that have been made to our population. Under such circumstances, the attempts made by rival cities to divert the trade of New York into their own marts, by spreading exaggereted reports as to the state of the public health here, must always fail of their purpose. The efforts made in this way this season had, for a few weeks, partial success, but buyers were soon dis- abused of their error, and soon began to flock into the city from all parte. Since then our merchants have all been doing a flourishing business ; and it is a remarkable fact that at no former period has the trade of New York exhi- bited co much healthful activity, or made such generally profitable returns, as during the present season. It is proved that the peculiar site and other local advantages of our city must, even in spite of the mismanagement and neglect of its local government, protect it from extensive visi- tations of epidemic disease. Catt Hot Ovr.—Mr. Breckinridge, the South ern democratic ¢andidate for Vice President, is electioneering and speechmaking ail over the North; but where is Mr. Dayton, the republican candidate for Viec President ? He is a first class lawyer, a powerful constitutional pleader, and might do a world of service for the Fremont cause inthe South. Why not send Dayton into the South as an offset for Breckiaridge in the North? The respected associate of Clay, Webster, and Cal- houn, in the Senate, could not fail to be well re- ceived, even in South Carolina, Why not, at all events, have Mr. Dayton deliver us one of his great speeches in the city of New York—in the Academy of Music, for instance, or in the Taber- nacle—at so much the ticket, for the relief of the women and children in Kanass, whose supplies have been cut off by the admiuistration and the United States army? Why not? Breckinridge is at work; why should Dayton he idle? Call him out. Escarep Tunoven Porsrica Trickeny.—Io our telegraphic reports of the late K. N. and de- mocratic battle at Baltimore, it is said that “ the greatest offenders escaped through political trickery.” Thus it appears that the “short boys” are not limited in their political influence, and exemption from punishment to the model corpo- ration of New York, but that even Baltimore enjoys something of this peculiar luxury. The next steps in our political progress are fore- thadowed, perhaps, in the San Francisco Vigi- lance Committee. We must wait for the millen- ium a little longer. News rrom Berrien Mosporas. '@ have Miles of the Honduras Gazetle, dated Belize, August 23. The follow ing offcial notices appesr in it)‘ Her Majesty's Supor- intendent bas been pleased to assent to the following acte passed at the late session of the Legiclative Assembly, viz: An act to authorise, during « limited tims, the re. moval from the settlement of certain aliens and other persons, under circumstances of suspicion. An act to impose a duty pon all sugar, rum tored in the Northern district, from the firat day of Sop tember, 1856, until the 29th day of February, 1960." A reward of $5,000 is offered by the Council! for in formation which may cause the arrest of the person or Persons who fired the town of Belize on the 17th of July Inst, a8 the executive bas little doubt but that the act war committed by an incendiary, City Intelligence. MIOT IN CHATHAM STREET—SUNDAY MORNING AMUSEMENTS. Abeut iwo o'clock on Sunday morning, a serious riot cronred in Chatham street, between the ronners at ached to certain engine companies in the Fourth and Fieth wards, between whom an arcrimonious feeling has # leted for come time. An alarm of fire was raised, the combatants met near Duane, in Chatham street. Some ria paved, when a Stove was thrown by one of th uties. Thia was the signal for a goneral melee; a num ver of paving stones, which were lying about the street were called into immediate requisition, and for a time our inf nt states, they flew about like hal’stones, crashing sgainat the houses, breaking windows and sigas, and injuring innocent people who were passing, unsuspi clovs of apy danger, The street next morning was covered with stones, brick bats and ments of glase The riot continoed for rome time, en @ strong de. mont of police arrived, ard finally ausceeded in. dis the mob that had collected, and arresting three Hleged rioters, The irs were brought be hore Justice Osborn, at the fTombs, yesterday, and gave thely nameg ag, featc Simmons, Robi. J. Brown and John Duyer. They were ati locked up by the Justice, to answer a charge of riotous conduct. Tue New Yous Voresrenes will celebrate the math an- niversary of the surrender of the city of Mexco, this day, by & full drers parade at the Mercer House, a dinner ¢ Florence Hotel at 6)¢ 7. M., and an attendance at ove of the theatres. Ove FoR Boston.—The crow of the Metropolitan Regatta Ciab, who are to row the great race in Bostom on Satur day next, with the best oaremen of St. John, N. 8, will exye' or Boston on board the steamer Comhectt xi this evoning. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Later from Mansas, Cricaco, Sept. 12, 1886, Private advicee from Kansas City, (furnished by 9 mers chant, who arrived here today direct from Kensas,) an nounca that Lane was about to attack Westport, Kansas City and Independence. ilso that the free Sta‘e men had surrounded Richardson's forces north of Lawrerce, and cutoff bis retreat and his means of gettiog reioforce- ments. Governor Geary had arrived at Leavenworth, bed a consultation with Genera! Smith, aud would pro+ ceed to Lawrenos in a fow days, Cmcago, Sept. 13, 1856. TheSt. Louis Democrat of yoaterday, announces that General Richardson was jaken pritoner by tho free State men porth of Lawrence, énd was carried before Genera) Lane, who restored his arcs and sent him back anegcort, Great constervation was exhibited at worth, in consequence o* tLe rumors of an attack by Lane. General Smith had cont ur compaules to protecd the town. Lape, meanwhile, wus still at Lawrence, witb no intention of leaviug his Avabia at Boston. Boston, Sept. 14, 1853, The steamship Cambria arrived here at 5 o'clock this morniug, and the Arabia at 6 thisevempg. The mails were despatcoed in the night train, due in New York about 5 9’clock on Monday morning. Gur Evglich Giles contain nothing of importance 203 embraced in the Halifax dorpatehes, Arrival of the Camb: Great Fremont Demonstration Tuuxtos, N. J., Sept. M4, 1856, A Fremont mecting was ueld on Saturday efternoon ip Bucks county, Pennsylvania, near this place. From eight to ten thousand people were present, and one thonsaed Wagons were on the ground. Thero was agreat display of banners, &e., and the entbusiasm was unbounded, The Fremontere of this place are holding nightly meet ipgs, and the democrats are about commencing an eni+ mated campaign. The Weather—West, the Murderer, &e. Purapecrma, Sept. 14, 1866. ‘The weather ts very fine, being mild, clear aad plea~ fant, and, as usual, the city is almost deserted, by all the working people having repaired to the country. Over 1,100 persons start<d from Camden last evening, in the care, to Atlantic City, being the last excursion for the seacon to that charming watering place. West, who stabbed himself after killing bis wile, is re- covering fast inthe Peunsylvania Hospital, where he is at present. He will be removed to-morrow to Moyamen- ing prison, . Markets. New ORtmans, Sept. 12, 1858. Cotton—Sales to-day, 1,800 bales; midiling quoted ad W12jc. a11}40. Sales for the weet, 9,200 bales. Receipts. thus far this season, 18,000,bales, against 41,500 to same: date last season, Stock an hsnc, 21,0v0 bales, Bagging is rather higher. Wheat, red, $1 40; white, $1 45. Pkovipexcr, Sept. 14, 1358, Our cotton market is firm, with moderato sales. Stock light. Wool market very active aud firm, with light stock; sales of the week, cigbty thousand five bundred pounds. Printing cloth:—Market continucs active, and prices tend upwards. Nearly all the goods sold are to be made. Sales of the week, sixty-seven thousand five bundred pieces. Cmcaco, Sept. 12—8 P. M. Wheat—Prices are considerabiy higher. Receipts to- day, 40,000 bushels. Shipmenta to Bailato, 126,000 busbels;’ to Oswego, 41,000 bushels; and to Ogdensburg, 10,060 bushels. Corn—Prices are advanced under the influence of the Arabia's nows, and holders are holding back for higher prices. Sales at 423, a 43. Shipments to Buflaio, 160,060 bushels; and to Oswego, 25,000 bushels. Burvaso, Sept. 13, 1856. Fiour favors the buyer. Sales 8,300 bbis. at $4.0 $6 12 for common lilinois; $6 £04 $6 56 for choice Obio and Indiana; $6 62 a $6 ¢5 for extra do. and Michigan; $3 76 & $6 57 for good to double extras. firmer. Sales 26,000 bush. at $1 18 for Cb: epring; $1 3734 for red winter Ihinois, Corn firmer. les 95, jush. et 630, steady, Sales, 12,000 bush. at 38.0290, Barley sales 20,00 bush. at $128. Canal ts to New York, pd to 17c. for corn, and 20!, alc. for wheat. Re- ceipts in the twenty four hoars tp to noon to-day, 68,787 bueh. wheat, 68,464 bush. corn, and 23,428 bush. oats, Canal exports, 102,521 bush. wheat, and 65,054 bushele corn, The Seventeenth of September. GREAT GATHERINGS—PRANKLIN CELEBRATION AT BOSTON. The moderu Atkenlats are to have a great civic display on Wednesday next, in honor of the inauguration of @ bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin, which is to be placed in frent of the City Hall, The day is celebrated as tho apniversary of the edoption of the constitution of the United States in Convention, audalseo as the day upon which Washington’s Farewell Ad dress is Gated. There will be quite a number of gatherings for various purposes all over the country, but that at Boston ems most interesting. The day wilibe ushered in with the ringing of bells, and the ig of Sa~ lutes, and a grand proceseion will be formed including the State and city officers, the military, and the firemen, the trades, including printers, and telograpbic operators at work, the Masouic fraternity, societies, children of Pubhe schools, &c., &c. The procession will pass by the birth place of Franklia, (Milk street), the old South Church where he was baptized, the site of the printing oflco where he worked as an apprentice, the shop where he made candles, and the piace where his parents were buried. At the City Hall Robert C. Winthrop wi!l deliver ‘the Inaugural oration, and the Masonic ceremomes of im~ Suguration will be performed by the Grand Master an@ Grand Wardens of the Grand Lodge of Marsachusetts. One feature oj the procession will be especially i iter- esting. Doctor Franklin left a fund, the interest of whiob Was devoted to the purchase of medala for the six bess male pupils of each of the public schools every your, Tho Frauklin medals have been regularly awarded every year from 1792 to 1856, and the medal scholars, old and young, will sppear in the procession. It is unfortunate that there is no record of these names prior to 1930, and the boys, wherever dispersed, aro inviled to Join in this reunion, and send their names, date of modal, and school where they received it, to William li. Dennett, care of James Munroe & Co. The number of medal» given must be nearcix thousand. As a pure’y Boston aflair we have no doubt that the procession will be very fine, They do these things very weil there. Otber demonstrations, cheifly poiitical, will be madeam the 1th. The old Jine whigs will meet in Nationa! Conven/ion ag. Baltimore under a call of the Convention beld at Rich- mond, Va., on the 16th July last. The Republican State Couvention will assemble at Syra- couse, at-1] o'clock, A. M., for the purpose of formiog @ Fremont cleetoral ticket, and nominating candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, one Canal Commissioner, one State Prison Inspector, and a Clerk for the Court of Appeals. ‘The American Fremont party wil! aleo hold 8 conver tion at the same time and placc, under call of the Chair+ man of their State Committee, Silas M. Stillwell. A grand Fremont demonstration is t> come off at Pitts. burg, Pa., oo the 17th. Preparations hays been made for ® great time. ‘The democrats of Kentucky, Indiana, Obio, &>, are to bold a grand mass Union convention at Dayten, Ohio, on day. Among a large number of distingulshod perrons invited to be preeent are Senators Pearce and Pratt, and John V. L. MeMahon, Keq., of Maryland; Mr. Choate, of Mess.; Gen. Cass, of Michigan; Senator Han- ter and Gov. Wise, of Va ; and J. B. Clay, of Ky. In Philadelphia, the democracy are going to have ® great meeting in Independence square. A large delega- ion from this city is expected, Including the Young Men's Democratic Association. rs’ Office. Deati rrom Vrotevck.—Samuel Irving, an iri*bman, tif. ty seven years of age, died on Saturday, at bis residence, 248 Monroe street, from violence, and an inquest being. held by Coroner Connery, it was shown that he had been for some time ious of an intimacy existing between bw wie and one Barney Barringeam. and that bocause ho ‘expressed his foeings in regard to the matter ad beaten him, It wes further shown that on account of bie Gomestic troubles he had taken to drinking, and severa) times bad follen ovt of bed, and into areag and other places, by this means sustairing fevera! wounds, on, showed foveral bruises Of ‘ms, which appear ve been in. ‘The jury rendered a verdict of theted with a club. “Death from rupture of an artery and compression, the reevlt of injuries at the bands of some person unkeowa,’* Deatn wy Viotever—Cartion TO Bovs.—John Ryan, & yad, sixty four years of age, died on Satur. cay evenizg, at his residence, No.3¢ Mulberry street, from internal hemorrbage, caured by being struck in the side with a stone, thrown at him, an hour or two previous, aboy. kt "6 that decoaaed was exhibiting a p etreet target at James «lip, when a gang of boy® collected sbout bim and abused him, He called them pick pockets.and shoved one of them aside, whereupon the latter threw @ paving stove st the old man and then ram away. Decensed felt mush pain from the blow, avd pro- ceeded to bis residence as soon as where he died @ couple of bourt afterwards, ‘ila yeator~ day held on acy nipon the body, when the above facts were elicited, but the name of the boy could not be as certe| The jury rendered # verdict im scoordancg, with the above statement,