The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YoRK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. A OFTICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS, in advance. ¥ LD, 2 cents per copy, $7 per annum, MERGED. a say a 6% cents per wepy, oF B per annum; the Buroy Dik eee gh Great Britain, or i ‘postage. mn ‘annuni, 19 to any part af the Continent, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, —IrAAN OPERA LACABFMY OP MUSIC, Fourteenth st,—Inaiss MIKLOS GARDEN, Broadway—Zernye & Fiona—Ticat Rore PeaTs—Biancne. Pr. BOWERY THEATRE—Maxsie Ieaxrs—Dancing—As ‘Semeuve Feats wy tHe Cauixto TRours. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond sireet—Wincn Wire—Dax Twick KILLED. 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Single copice, fm wrappers, sixpenc » Bebdscriptions apd advertt-ements for apy edition of the Rew York Hekalp will be received at the tonowiag places in Durope — Lemoox—am. & Suropean Exprees Co., 61 King William st Par do do. 8 Place de la Bourse. avanrco!— do. do. Bavanroor—Jobo Hunter, 12 Me contents of the European edition of the Harary ‘will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of pobicuon ‘The News. A terrible catastrophe happened on Lake Michi- gan on Wednesday. The steamer Niagara, when two hours out from Sheboygan, took fire near the engine room,and in a few minutes was a shee’ of flame fore and aft. It is believed that there were abont one b-=dred and seventy passengers on board, together with the crew, and of the whole number but eighty are known to have been picked up by the vessels that went to the assistance of the burn- ing boat. George Steers, who has attained a world-wide eelebrity for bis +kill in ship building, was thrown from his carriage while going to Little Neck, L.L, yesterday, and received such serious injary that he expired in a short time afterwards. The de tails of the accident, which terminatzd so disas- trously, are given clsewbere. We puvlish in another colamn a letter from the Secretary of the Fort Hamilton Relief Society, ap- pealing for more funds to carry out the benevolent designs of the society with regard to the sick and @estitnte of that plague-stricken locality. We can- not doubt! bet that the Secretary's appeal will meet with a quick and liberal response from our fellow- sitizens. Reod the letter referred to, and seni in yeur contribations withoat delay. Mr. Speaker Banks addressed yesterday afternoon ap immense assemblage of citizens of New York, from the front of the Merchant's Exchange, ia Wall street. He discussed the various questions that enter inio the Presidentia! cauvass with ability aad moderation. We give @ verbatim report of his speech. There was a mean and inefiectua! attempt made to-distarh the meeting by political rowdies. We have advices from Caraccas to the 2d, and from Port» Cabelio to the 6th inst. Venezuela was tranquil. There had been an elevtion of a Vice Presi- dent, forty-eigh* Senators, and an entire delegation to the Clomter of Pepresentatives. An unusual quantity of rain had fallen. Coffee was very searce indeed. Small lets only of inferior qualities came into market of the remuan's of the old crop, which command $11. $12 per quintal. Hides continued in demand, ard brought $21 per quintal readily. Indigo was scarce. Ceocoa was in great request at $26 a $28 per favega. A letter from Westport. Kansas, dated 1th inst., states that Governor Geary, accompanied by a party of dragoour, was in hot pursuit of Gen. Lane, with the intention of arresting him: Lane was making his way to Nelracka. It in said that the action of Gov, Geary bas met with the approba'don of the autho- rities at Washington. The report that the President had directed a dismissal of the charges aguinst the Kanvas free State prisoners is denied. The Committee of Repairs and Supplies of the Board of Aldermen had a second meeting at the City Hall yeeterdwy, to investigate the manner in which Mr. Irving gets the repairs of public build ings attended to. The examination developes facts that all toxpayers feel interested ip. Mr. Irving is enbpenved to appear before the committee at their pext meeting. The testimony in the Parish will case was re- @omed cn Weonrrday at the Surrogate’s Court. Leroy N. Wiley, one of (he former business partners, and a chief witness in the case, is upon the stand. A report of the proceedings of the second day's session of the Episcopal Convention may be found elsewhere in ovr colnuns. Bishop Potter delivered his annual address, from which it appears that the eflaire of the church are in a flourishing condition. The New Jersey American State Convention met at Trenton yesterday. Commodore Stockton was nominated one of the Presidential electors at large. Is the Commodore really sound on the * goose ques- The jury ia the case of Mr. De Canha Reise, tried upon the charge of fitting out the slave ship Altiva, yesterday retorned a veraict of acquittal, and the defendant was disc! a ged. Accounts from Naswu, N. P., to the 13th instant, state that a hurricane hal passed over the island of Jnagua, prosteating thirty houses and driving five vessels on shore. Four lives were lost. The other Babama,jslands escaped. ‘The particulars of a frand upona railroad com- pany in France, involving the sam of three million france, are detailed in today's paper. The perpe- trators of the crime—two young men in the employ of the company—are supposed to have escaped to the United States. ‘The steamer Texas, which was to Lave sailed Wed- needay efternoon, at 3 o'clock, for Nicaragua, bnt ‘was prevented going on account of some needed re- pairs to one of ber boilers, succeeded, after the com- pletion of the repairs, ia getting away yesterday gprning, shortly alter daylight though leaving ot this eariy hour, there was quite a large assem- Holage to ee te steamer off. On the evening pre- vious, subseque.%! to the detention ef the steamer, gome thirty new .eciuits for General Walker's go vernment secured .»88*age, making thus the total number of filibusters “caving nearly three bondred, The cotton market wa “rm yesterday, with salea reported of 1,000.9 1,200' bales, without quotable change in prices. The fore, gn news by the Canada, combined with private accou. t by the Washington, stiffened the market for breads ‘vif, and flour ad- vanced from 5c, a 10c. per bbl., with more doing. ‘Wheat improved from 3c. a Se. per bushel. Corn was firm at 640. 0 G5jc., with free sales, Pork was steady, with moderate sales of mens at #207 Sugars ‘NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1856. were again largely sold, the transactions having em- braced about 37,000 hhds., at full prices, Coffee was firm, with sales of 1,000 bage Rio, and 1,000 mats Java, at full prices. Freights were easier to Liverpool for grain, which was taken in bulk and bags at 94d. a 10d. in the morning, and closed a’ 9d. a 94d. for corn and wheat. ‘Who Are the Disuntonists The politicians and the people of this country are becoming quite interested in the question which of the three candidates for the Presidency is really the Union candidate. It was Millard Fillmore, as every one knows, who first hoisted the flag of disunion in his speeches in this State, in which he openly notified the South not to sub- mit to the election of Fremont. Afterwards the supporters of Mr. Buchanan, and that gentleman himself took up the cry, and far outstripped the Know Nothings in their cries for disunion. It was our intention to have furnished this morning a few extracts from leading Buchanan papers of the South, to show that they look orward to disunion asa quite probable and by no means regrettable contingency—indeed, that they will go for it if the North ventures to refuse them anything they want. But, really, ever since Mr. Buchanan was nominated, the tone of the South- ern Buchanan press bas so uniformly and unani- mously been of this character that we are some- what embarrassed which extracts to choose among so many that are suitable. We may say, briefly——and no extracts are need- ed to prove this—-that the Charleston Vereury, perhaps the ablest Buchanan paper in the South, goes openly for disunion, Parker and Garrison are far behind the Mercury in denunciation of the Union. Other Carolina papers are not behind- hand. The South Curolinizn says positively that this election “will decide whether we are to be one people or not, By it, we are to have Union and peace, or disunion and possibly revolution and bioodshed. The South will have equality either in the Union or out of it.’ All which means of course that the Carolinian goes for dis- union if it is disappointed. Similar language is found in other Buchanan papers of South Caro Passing to Virginia, we find the Richmond . 4 confidential organ of the present ad- ration, and high in the confidence of Mr. Buchanan, asserting that “should the black repub- licans triumph the Union could not be preserved” —“no time for disunion is better than the pre- ‘the South is compact, united, and ready to meet the traitors with arm d in another art calling for a crusade against Baltimore because that city declared itself in favor of the Union. Other Virginian Buchanan organs con- cur: the Norfolk Argus, since the present can- vars began,“ has been well convinced that the Union was worthless to the Soath.” In Alaba, ma, the Mobile Daily Register, whose editor, Mr. just been appointed to a foreign erce, and who is almost as intimate with Mr. Buchanan as Mr. Slidell, is out plainly and frankly for disunion. In a recent article it replied to some remarks of ours in reference to the lukewarmness of the non-slaveholding whites in the present contest, and added— 3 no class at the South who hold the abolitionists 4: ‘be North in such hearty aud especial abhorrence, aad we Say it with the most perfect coatdence—wno 1) more surely be found in the right place at the right ‘me--in the front rank--in defence of the rights of tne So th, whenever the iseue comes which is to settle those rights decistr And as that issue will assuredly come rc lung, w lair Opportunity will be presented to test our jrophevie weigst on this subject. When thousands of slavehoiders will be found cowering and trembliag at the mpending danger, the pop-eiaveholcers of the Sou:h will be found true to the honor acd interests of the country. He does not say that the issue wi'l come after Forsyth, ho sioa by M November; “ere long’ is safe enough. In a later article, the Register comes nearer to the point. Jt says :— Will avy Southorn map so debase himself, so disgrace otber that bore bim and the soli that has nurtured ‘a8 to hold in him. s heart one lingering feeling, or utter rom bis hpe one lingering lisp of Caton superstition, should Fremont be the l’resitent’ We owe this to our +clves, and we owe {t to our countrymen of the North, to wll them before the iratracidal deed is dove. For our veives ard for our swecan speak. We shall regard he eiection of Fremont by the nom slaveholding States #3 a om, 10 be fol mation of @ new govern Et the te nthern offices, should not be aliowed to exercise the nd ‘the Southern members of Congress, ia to their seats at Washington, ehould repair pective State capitals to take counsel with Executives and Legislatures as to what is best ne to guard the interests of the soverign States apd, tue rights of the sovereign people. Of Louisiana, Mr. John Slidell gave us a fore- taste in we are bound to say that be is not in advance ef the journals of his State, The Daily Delta, the great Bachanan paper, is satisfied that the time bas come to choose between disunion and dishonor, and its choice is made. it says :— We have one consolation at least, and that is, that we uil.ve the degredation of Fromoat 4 election. us. J: will hasten that event (a Southern com y cnbracing Cula, Nicaragua and Mexico,) wbich many regard at inevitable, by presentivg aa ‘issue in which the South will unite te & man. The ia#ult of such an clection of euch a man, on such a platform, will not be borne by the Southern people. It will be a biow ia the Tawe The clecticn of Jobe © Fremont would at least sccom- lish ene thing: it would show us exactly what we are to expect. Fremont may be placed, by aa overwhelming Northern vote in the Presidency, to rule over her with 1d, Sumner ano Hale aud Greeley, to plan her bu miliation. To rule over her? Never! The election of Fremom: whil be the knell of this Union. All these Buchanan papers call for disunion if they do not get what they want. We have shown that the speakers of the same party from first to last-—as well as the orators of the Fillmore party including Mr. Fillmore himself, were of the same mind, and went for disunion, if they were disap. pointed at the election; while, on the other hand, no speaker or writer of the Fremont party has even so much ag hinted at the possibility of rebel- lion or disunion in the event of Fillmore’s or Bu- chanan’s election. Now. there is no country or nation in the world, civilized or une (i, whose political existence rests on a surer basis than that of the United States, Any statesman of Europe will tell you that it would be impossible to divide England, or to cut France in pieces, or to disunite the States which constitute the monarchy of Spain, But it would he far easier to do any or all of these hings than to disunite the States constitating the American confederacy. For there is no coun- in the world where patriotism takes so tangi- ble ashspe and so firma hold of the mind as here; none where each individual feels so surely that he is an integral part of the great national whole, and that be will be an individual sufferer f that whole is diminished, Nor is this sen- timent of adherence to American nationality a new, or a latent sentiment. Everybody knows’ that it existe. calculates upon it, rea- sons about it, puts it promine forward in political calculations. Every leader of every political party always trie show that his ad- versaries are opposed to the Union, and that he is the man to save or maintain it, This hb: the invariable rule during many Pre contests, The first thing a politician who wants office is eure to do is to protest that he ie before aii a Union man. Theory and pragice concur therefore in prov- ing that the mass of the voters of the United States are in favor of the maintenance of the Union and opposed to its disruption. With the exceptions of portions of Mississippi aud South been idential | Carolina this is as true of the South as of the North, What, then, are we to think of these candi- dates? Simply this. That the Buchanan and Fillmore parties blinded by rage, and over- whelmed by the popular revolution which Fre- mont is leading, are, in spite of their better judg- ment, throwing themselves into the arms of dis- union though they know the people are against it; and that, in all human probability, that same people will punish their imbecile attempts at treason by a defeat so crushing, next November, that the history of this country contains none such. the Presidency and the New Element of Religion—Additional Newspaper Statistics. We published, some ten days ago, a general ar- icle on the new religious element which has been brought so actively to bear against the demoral- zed democracy in this canvass, on account of heir border ruffian policy for the establishment f slavery in Kansas, In that article, from sta- istics of the churches of the United States, and rom the overwhelming preponderance of the re- igious press of this great metropolis in favor of Col. Fremont, we endeavored to show that the eligious sentiment of the North, of all churches, was almost unanimously opposed to the democra- tie policy of making Kansas a slave State by fire and sword. Jn support of that general argument, we have been furnished with the following table of the religious press of Philadelphia, its circulation and the political predilections of the various de- nominations represented, to wit:— THE RELIGIOUS PRESS IN PHILADELPHIA. Names. Denomination. Circul'n. Sunday School Vis . . Presbyterian.. wees 49,000 American Sopday oo} Penny Gezette., «... United denominations, 82,000 Home and Foreign Record..Presbyterian . 19,000 Colonization Herald... bd Presby ter Presbyte Baptist Record , Ubi. Christian Aav Christian Chron'cl Banner of the Crose. spiscopal Recor de: Presbyterian. ; Friends’ Review... Presbyterian Baaner*,,....Dresbyterian, Bibles! Repertory... resbyterian, N. * Recently moved to Pittsbarg, but extensively circa lated in Philadelphia, suming that the two Catholic organs indi- cated are for Buchanan, we are yet assured that all these other religious yapers and periodicals of Philadelphia are directly operating against the forcible extension of slavery into free territory ; thus representing a circulation of the religious press of Phifadelphia on the side of Fremont, of 290,000 copies of papers and periodicals, against a Buchanan representation of 13,000, The same preponderance, we dare say, upon a careful in- quizy, would be found to hold good thronghout the State and the North. We apprehend that we within the mark in placing the weekly cireulation of the religions press throughout the North in favor of Fremont and cgnstitutional freedom, and against Buchanan and slavery by military coercion, at half a million, at least, of papers and periodicals. The pressure of this powerful religious cle- ment will operate in the North alone, to a greater or less extent, upon at least a million of voters; and with thousands of men, of all pre-existing and existing political parties, religious considera- tlons of resistance to the demoralized democratic party. as it now stands before the country upon the Kansas question, will be decisive in reference to their votes in November. Mr. Calhoun con- sidered the split in the great Methodist Episcopal Chureb--into a Church North and a Church South--as “the napping of one of the cords” which bad previously bound the Union together ; and he locked to similac tendencies in other cburehes, as all contributing to weaken the re- maining religious and social ties between the two sections. This was in his last dying speech in the United States Senate, and he dwelt upon the Northern religious sentiment of hostility to slavery with marked forebodings of evil to South- ern institutions. Mr. Calhoun overlooked the prevailing con- servative character of this Northera religious seu- timent. Practically, there would have been no- thing to fear from the “religious fanaticism,” so called, of the North, had Southern politicians re- strained their policy for the extension of slavery within the limits of the constitution of the Unit- ed States, The masses of the religious people of the North, as well as of the Sout, are conserva- tive. They may be from principle opposed to the institution of slavery, but they have been, and would be, content to acquiesce, in behalf of peace, even to the extension of slavery, as long as it involved no flagrant infractions of constita- tional law and popular rights. But unhappily the fierce, barbarous and law-defying scheme set in motion by Mr. Atchison, and adopted by Mr. Pierce and the democratic party, for the purpose of making a slave State of the free Territory of Kansas, has brought ont this dormant religious element of the North in the most formidable ar- ray of patriotic and conscienti stance. The results of the late Vermont and Maine elections, and the largely increased vote there in a population comparatively stationary, indicate a ++ Preebyterian. - Quaker .. is re the practical power of this religions ele- ment in this canvass, and the dormant vote which it is capable of calling into the field. As in Iowa, Vermont and Maine, so we believe will it result in all the other Northern States, in bringing every available voter to the polls, and thousands among them. who, upon re- ligions considerations, have been indifferent here- tofore whether whigs or democrats, North or South, were successful in State or Presidential clections, In reference to the State of Pennsylvania, eve- ty body knows that, lying at the bottom of the character of her sturdy yeomanry, are the princi- ples of the Christian religion in their pure An- glo-Saxon simplicity. They are essentially a Christian people; and a prevailing belief that African slavery is an evil and a wrong, is with them a religion The journals of their legislature, for fifty years past, furnish abundant evidences of this fixed fact ; but the most significant proof was furnished in their popular political revolution against the Kansas Nebraska bill. Ix all probability, however upon the sober second thought,” they would have been content to abide by that bill had the administration and the democracy in power faith- fully executed the important item of popular sovereignty. But instead of this, the policy of coercing the free State settlers of Ka into submission to the pro-slavery designs and pro. ceedings of Atchison and Jeff. Davie. haa deve- loped a scheme in regard to which there ean be no collusion and no acquiescence from aa inde pendent, conecrvative, conscientions and religious people, like thore of the old Keystone State. We think, therefore, that onr tables of the re. ligiove prees of Philadelphia, and ite political us conviction. State ‘omplexion, may be regarded as an index of the prevailing religious sentiment of the whole State, and of the power which it is destined to wield in the approaching clections, there and elsewhere. But we apprehend nothing of the danger to the Union so gloomily foreshadowed by Mr. Cal- houn, should the vote of every Northern State, by an overwhelming majority, be given to Fre- mont, from the pressure of this inborn Northern sentiment of religious hostility to the extension of slavery into free territory by force of arms. Mr. Calhoun never dreamed of the slavery ques- tion being thrust upon the North in a shape 90 obnoxious as this. The whole scope of his politi; cal philosophy was confined to Southern resist- ance against Northern aggressions, He never dreamed of a Southern aggression upon the North like this of Kansas, coupled with a gene- ral outery of secession should the North refuse to endorse the spoliation. Thus it happens that this concentration of the religious sentiment of the North against the ex- tension of slavery by force of arms, instead of resulting in driving the South from the Union, should Fremont be elected, is exactly adapted to the preservation of the Union and the constitu- tion, and the restoration of the Seuth to a spirit of conciliation and compromise. There can be no danger to the South from a sectional and re- ligious uprising of the North, the object of which is nothing more than the maintenance of popular and constitutional rights in the Territories, against a demoralized and rotten disunion party and its perfidious policy of forcing slavery into Kansas at the point of the bayonet. ApoLITIONISTS AND Disuntonists—WHERE ARE Tuxy’—The Fillmore and Buchanan organs keep up the eenseless and useless hue and cry of abolitionists and disunionists against the over- whelming independent conservative masses that have rallied, and are still rallying, to Fremont. But where are the abolitionists and disunionists in reality? The former have publicly repudiated Fremont, because he adheres to the constitution and the Union, and they prefer Buchanan; the latter constitute @e leading and controlling spirits of the Buchanan disunion democracy of the South. Mr. Toombs says, “ The election of Fremont will, and ought to be, the end of the Union.” Mr. Fillmore says, “The South will not, and ought not, to submit to Fremont’s elec- tion.” Mr. Buchanan echoes the same idea; Gov. Wise and Mr. Brooks—the bully, not the booby— propose to march upon Washington and seize the Treasury, and Mr. Keitt denounces every South- erm man who can submit to Fremont’s election as “a coward and a traitor.’ And yet the chances are infinitely worse for us all with the election of Buchanan; for in that event Kansas will be made a slave State by United States muskets and dragoon sabres; and Cuba will be “wrested from Spain, if we have the power.” This programme wears the blackest possible aspect of disunion. Clearly, it is safest for the Union to risk the traitorous threats of these de- mocratic and Know Nothing disunionists, by electing Fremont, rather than hazard the fulfil- ment of Atchison’s policy in Kansas, and Mr. Bucbenan’s in reference toCuba. Let us, there- fore, elect Fremont, and keep down both the Northern abolitionists and the Southern dis- unionists. Tue Srcessionisis Baviy Scarep.—The New Orleans Delia, the special organ of that arch secessionist and filibuster, Jeffereon Davis, shows that the terrified democracy down South are beginning to understand that the chances of Fremont’s election are mighty strong. The late Congressional elections in Towa, Vermont and Maine are appealed to as the proofs of a tremendous Northern ground- swell in active operation. And really every- thing going on north of Mason & Dixon does look like it, to a most astonishing extent, In an- tictpation of the success of Fremont, would it not be well for Mr. Fillmore, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Toombs, Mr. Bully Brooks, Gov. Wise, Jeff. Da- vis, Atchison, and all the rest who bave declared that they will smash up the Union if Fremont is eleeted—would it not be well, we say, for them to hold a convention, at Nashville, for instance, to determine how they are to begin the work? Brooks and Wise declare for seizing the treasury, “Rob me the exchequer, Hal,” was also Faletaff’s great financial scheme. But now there isno time to be lost, Choose your man. Who is to commence the disunion game? Who is to rob the treasury ? Apaxpoxmest or Mr. Browanan.—We are more and more eatiefied by the accounts we re- ceive every day from the interior of this State, North, West and Albany, that the great mass of the old democracy are leaving Buchanan, the nigger driving candidate, in shoals, and they will go for Fremont for President and Parker for Governor. The unfortunate nomination of Joha A. King, brought about by the intrigues of Thur- low Weed and the Central Railway Company, in order to erect a regency at Albany, will, after all, be beneficial to the Fremont ticket in this State, by relieving the old democrats from the dilemma in which they would have been placed had any candidate other than John A. King been placed before them. Buchanan, as a Presidential candidate, will be abandoned ; the old democracy will vote the Fremont electoral ticket, and sup- port Judge Parker for Governor. This move- ment will give Fremont forty or fifty thousand more votes in the State than he would have had but for the mischievous intrigues of Thurlow Weed. Picayexe Wit.--The Picayune, a sort of Punch in New York, says a good thing occasionally. Here's a pair:—George Peebody declined the dinner tendered to him by the financiers of Wall street, because they hadn't a live lord to sit on one side of him and a decayed baronet on the other, Another flash is this:—John A. King, who boasted in his speech at Syracuse, when tendered the nomination for Governor, of the purity of his blood, has a legitimate claim to that boast, because, we presume, he bas demolished, within the last few years, several packages of Brandreth’s pills. We presume that Brandreth will state the fact in his next advertisement, and claim for his pills the merit of having introdaced a candidate for the post of Governor of the State of New York Tar Guest Cour oF 1956.—We have on a former occa sion alluded to the probable return, during the present year, of the great cornet of 1264 and 1656, with @ tail of 00 degrees and mvch bistorical celebrity, We now per ceive that Mr. Hind. a ¢ietipgvished Eng'ish astronomer, who has fortie/ied the best xscount of the comet: obsery- ed dering many hundred years, bas enlisted Profexor Latrew, of the Jarperial Ooservatory of Vienna, w his inquiries. The rowit is the discovery of the original chart and cheer atione of the cotetrated astronomer, Fabricius, and thoee of the Nuremburg observer, Joachim Helier. Their opinions, aupported by ‘bat of Hal confirm Mr. Hind {n bis own, that this mag, ‘ificent com may be momentarily looked fur. ite re-eppen “anos, bays Mr. B, it near at band, THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE. Burning of the Steamer Niagara on Lake Michigan. ONE HUNDRED LIVES REPORTED LOST, NAMES OF SOME OF THE RESCUED, wm, &e., ko Mirwarmir, Sept. 25, 1856. The steamer Niagara, of the Collingwood line, was burnt, near Port Washington, on Lake Michigan, last evening. One hundred lives are reported lost. ‘The Hon. Jobn B, Macy, of blichigan, is supposed to be amcng the lost. ‘The captain (Miller) was saved. The Laily Sentinel, extra, says:—The Niagara took fire four miles from Port Washington. In a short time she was consumed and sunk, The light was seen from here at7 P.M. The steamer Traveller, bound bere, went to the assistance of the burning boat. Her captain and of- ficers exerted themselves to the atmost to save the lives of those on board the burning boat. Tho foliowing is a list of those saved by the Traveller : Harvey Ainsworth, of Royaltou, Vt.; J. B. Curtis, of Steuben county, N. Y.; Henry Loce, of Washington, Vt.; Wm. Hoag, of Batfaio; John Hill, of Collingwood; H Chambers and lady, of Hamilton; J. Locke, of Water- bury, Vt.; Henry Locke, do.; Lewis Hart, Utica, N. ¥.; J. P. Kennedy, St. Lawrence county, N. ¥.; Julia Kenne- dy, do.; C. D. Westbrook, of Green Bay, Wis.; Dr. 8. B. Allen, of Concord, N. H.; Jas. Robinson, of Knox county, Ulinois. Hugh Kennedy Jost bis wife and daughter. There are three dead bodies at Port Washington, ali ladies; one had a ring marked ‘‘Z. D. G.”” The Niagara bad a very large freight, and there was not # pound sayed. Captain F. 8. Miller and the crew were saved, The propelier Illinvis and several sail vessels picked up a large number of the passengers The Hon, John B. Mecy is reported to have been on board the Niagara. The water was 20 cold that fow could tive in it. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. Cincaco, Sept. 25, 1856. The Niagara Jeft Collingwood at 2P. M., on Monday, with between one hundred and fifty and one hundred and seventy-five passengers. Twenty five left tho boat at Sheboygan where she arrived at 2 P. M. yesterday. ‘When two hours out from Sheboygan, the passengers discovered fire iseuing from the engine room, and in a few minutes the whole cabin was in flames. The wildest consternation followed The boats were lowered and all filled, tb ctcapsized, except one containing twenty pas serger Numbers jumped overboard, aud were instant: ly drowned. The steamer Traveller was ten miles distant when the fire was discovered, but raved thirty persons. The pro- pelier Ilinois, bound down, also picked up about thirty, and landed them at Sheboygan. life boat at Port Wash- ington rescued twenty persons, Their names have not been received. George Haley, clerk of the Niagara, is supposed to be lost. Probably fifty or sixty lives are lost ip all. There ig a rumor in the city this P. M. that the fire was the work of an incendiary. It is stated that immediately afier the fire was discovered a keg of powder exploded, blowing the flames in every direction. The {iret engineer was pot on board. There is no telegraph to port Washington or Sheboy- gan, and we have consequently to wait for a fall bet of those lost by the buruing of the Niagara. 1adecd, we may not get it at all, as the passenger list was burned on board the boat. President Plerce’s Visit to New Hampshire. Wasuixcron, Sept. 25, 1856, The Unicn says that President Pierce will leave Wash- ington early next week, and expects to reach Concord by the 2d of October. He will remain there from ten days to two weeks. The President will leave on Tuesday or Wednesday, going directly through to New Hampshire by railroad, his object being to attend to his long neglected private affairs. He bad last night a return of the chilis. Bosron, Sept. 25, 1856. The New Hampshire Patriot states that President Pierce will arrive in Concord at ll A. M. on the 2d of October, and in view of the fact that the citizens, irre spective of party, had declined extenaing to him a public welcome, the Patriot calls on the democrats throughout the State to arrange for a proper reception of the distin- guished visiter. Ata meeting of Keystone Club, No. 1, of Boston, last evening, acommittee was appointed to make arrange- ments to welcome the President. From Washington. Wasnixotox, Sept. 25, 1866. ‘There is no truth in the statement of letters from Kansas, made on the reputed authority of General Smith, that the President has ordered a nolle prosayui to be en- tered in the cases of the free State prisoners. Recent official advices from Governor Geary and Gene ral Smith bave inspired the beticf that order will soon be restored in Kansas, while thelr action thus far re- ceives the cordial approval of the administration, The Panama question is still pending before the Cabi- net, aud definite action is anticipated thereun next week. News from Nassau, N. P. Cuanteston, Sept. 25, 1966. An arrival here from Naseau brings dates from therce to the 19th inst. A hurricane had done great damage at Inagua, Thirty houses bad been blown down and five vessels stranded. Four lives were lost. The other Ba ama Islands escaped. News from Kansas. Sr. Lovia, Sept. 25, 1856. A letter to the Republican, dated Westport 19th, says Gov. Geary, atthe head of several companies of dra- goons, had gone in search of Gen. Lane with the deter mination to arrest him if in the Territory. He was en route for Nebraska. The pro slavery party wore taking Measures to thoroughly organize for the election on the first Monday of October. The Yellow Fever at Charleston, Cuanuestos, 8. ©., Sept. 26, 1858. ‘There were twenty-four deaths by yellow fever in this elty last wock. The weather is very cold. There was a frost near this city this morping. Oa Monday the doaths were four, ‘The Case of Passmore Williamson vs. Judge Kane. Pin.apeirina, Sept. 26, 1956. The sult brought by Passmore Williamson against Judge Kane, came up for argument yesterday, at Medis, before Haines. Mr, Shepard. the defendant's coun- ‘sel, discussed the question of protection given by the ju dicial character ot jurisdiction of the court, in allowing a habeas corpus and commitment for contempt. The coun se} on the other side asked t!me to prepare thelr reply. Mr. 6. M. Wharton, the defendant's senior counsel, con tended that the time for argument had been fixed by plaint.1's comme! that nothing bad been advanced but what should bave been anticipated. The case, how- ever, was (nally postponed till the of December Governor Clark In Canada, Kisasrox, Sept, 25, 1960, Governor Clark, with bis fai y and seoretary, arrived here yesterday, and visited the Crystal Palace in com: pany with the Governor, Sir Hdmund Head. Ho \s to ak tend the Volunteers’ dinner to-night. Short Vield of the Cotton Crop. Netw Onuraws, Sopt, 25, 1958, A frost at Vicksburg occurred on Tuesday night. Let ters from Missistipp!, Alabama and Tennessee stato that cotton will not yield more than hall a crop in some sec- tions of those State, Damage to the Tobacco Crop by Frost. le c, Sept. 25, 1966, Advices from as far sonth ae Olarkesvilie, Tonsessee, stete that the tobacco crop in Tennessee and Kentacky has been seriously injured by recent frosts, BALTiNONN, Sept, 25, 1956 In oor cattle market to-day the number of beoves offered wae 1,400, of whieh 600 were driven to Phila- éelphia, and 200 lefiover. The remainder sold at $60 $826 net. Hogs were dull at $7 9 87 50 per hundred. The Canton Company. Barrons, Bont 28 1856. The Canton Compagy old nearly $60,000 worth of ground rents to day, Grand Fremont Demonstration at Pough- SPEECH OF DAVID DUDLEY FIELD—OLD pvyrcHESS SURE YOR FREMONT. Povcukssrsre, Sept. 25, 1856. A large republican meeting was held in this city to-day, Mayor Silkineon, pretiding. More than five thousand Pr reons were in attendance, After an able address from Senator Foote, of Vermont, David Dudley Field, of New York, delivered the following eloquent and convincing speech — PgLOW Crnzxns—A large part of this meeting is com- sed of the farmers and mecnanics of Dutchess. Pough- Peeps ie ip Glled witb the sins of manulacturing industry. and the county is divided into rich and well cultivated? farms, A more pleuriug example of a mechanical ame’, agricultural society cagnot be jound, Nature has b bountiful to profusion, and mao bas taken advantage of the bounty. From the place where we stand, the scen@ is ono of unequalled beauty. The noble river, the ee of the Highlanas through which it ebbs and he long ridge of bille ov either side, the culti slopes, the rich greev meadows, the orchards, the lawne, the dwellings interposed, al) belp to form’ one of the most beautiful ures on which the eye any where can Follow iver up er down, and the picture is repeated With intinite variations. You may begin at the reat city by the sea, and sail northward to tha: sapital of the State, and you will see on every ride the marvellous resulis of free labor—largo owns, thriving vilages, heavily laden vessels, busy jactories, fertile farms. and moat finished landscapes. Go now to another State—ono of the oli thirteea which’, stood gide by ide with New York in the days of the Re- volution to Virgiris. Stand upon the banks of her preatriver You see # different picture—one which na- ture bas painted fair, but which man has neglected. You fee there plantations of thousands of acres, iustead of farms of hundreds; planters iostead of farmers, and slaves instead of free laborers. Which do you prefer? Whick copatitutes the bapprest, the most intelligent, the most prosperous community? Atter contemplating (hese two Giflerent pictures consider what is now passing in a Terri- tory of this republic. Man is there contending with man, and brother with brother, m one of the most ferocious wars of which history ‘vruishes an example, to establish: one or tho other of hese system—the system of New York or the system of Virgiuia. This war is waged by intruders from Missouri, ana the federal officeholders and federal army agaiast the settlers. All our people are specta- tor#,or | might rather eay astors; for since the election must decide the question, aii must take part with one side or the otber. Consider then what is to be the result of this contest. Consider the different fate of Kansas, whether she have ove or the other of these systems. She cannot have both. Nothing is more certain than that. There cannot be plantations with slaves and algo farms wita free labor- ers. The law of msn’s nature forbids it. No nation ever yet to be what he js, In settii one of these two conditions must bo chosen. We urge ingen is better for Territory that the system of farmmsand free laborers sbould be adopted; better also for the eoun- try, and better for you, the free farmers and mechanics of tae North, + First, it is better for the rerio? Ieee comparison of the free and the slave States. the most prospe- rous free State, New York, and com it with the moat prosperous slave State, Georgia. the oldest free a'e, Massachusetts, and compare it with the oldest slave State, Virginia. Compare the schools of each, the pro- portion of persons who can read and write, tue relative density of population, the reiative wealth, the relative in- dustry, the number of books written in each, the number of newspapers, the number of patents, and the immense superiority of freedom over slavery is manifest. I have been informed by a person who examined the sub- ject, that more patents were granted to the citizens of New York alone, auring the last year, than have beon granted to the citizens of all the slave States during the whole period since the orgsnization of the goverament, = that noue has ever yes been granted to a citizen Arkapeay. Second, It ie better also for the country that Kansas should have free institutions, Whatever promotes the happineee or increases the prosperity of any of the States, pron otes the bappiness and increases the prosperity of the Union; for the happiness and prosperity of the whole are but the sum of the bappiness and prosperity of the difieren* parts. It Maryland had been a free State, how much richer and better cultivated, more pros. perous and powerful woula she now have been! How much more would she have contributed to the wealth and strength of the Union. Third, It is beter aiso for you, the free farmers and mechanics of the North. Your children do not all remain cn the old homesteads —thes will emigrate, seeking homes inthe West. You and they have ever looked upon our free territories as the future if not ¢f some of yourselves, yet of rour clildren or their ts. But if you do pot keep the Territory of Kansas free, you cannot keep it for yourselves or them. Tne point now which I desire to impress upon your stiention, ig thie—that while it is so desirable for every Kansas should remain fsee, as it was eolemnly dec! to be by the law of 1620, the party which supports Bu. chanan is striving to force slavery upon it against the wishes of the people of the Teritory, This polat T ibink can be made clear—proven indeed—by evidence which would prove apy fact ina court of justice. The po.ition they the prople of Kansas are against slavery, @ establigbed by three fnots:— 1, The several inve of the Miesouri borderers to 1) the ballot boxes with spurious votes in favor of slave pettutions, If the inbavitemts were agaist elavery, here could be no motive to bring iu other voters. 2. A great majority of tne people cast their votes for Mr. Reeder, as dele, to Congress, on the ground that be was for making Kausas a tree State. 3. The people bave actually formed a constitution (that of Topeka) which prob) ita siavery. ‘The position that the party of Me, Buchanan is seeking to force siayery upon the Territory is established by seve- ral face. I do pot pow enter into the merits of she Kan. tae act, though I think it can be shown, both by the rinsic character of the act and by the circumstances ‘ Bder which it was introduced and passed, that the pur- ore Of its authors was the establishment of slavery. Fut that I pare by, and | aseume for the present that ‘bough the iptreduetion of the bill was an act ot ineanity, “ that it was really desigoed to give the people of ‘erritory the righi admit or exciude slavery, as they pleased; and og that, I assert that the fubsequent cond: of Mr. Bucbanan’s party, or, perbaps I should ray, of ite leaders, shows as plainly af words can express that they mean to keep tlavery there, The first ‘There are ba A reagons and euly body claiming to be » Legulature, was chosen, not by the settlers of Kansas, but by the people of Mis- sovri, This is proved so clearly since the investigation of the Commitice of the House of Representatives that I do not know that anybody now ventures to deny it, The body thus chosen pasred certain acta to eeta>lish and con Un ve slavery, and these were 80 bareb ia (neir as to be revolting and lofamous. The executive officers, who, if anybody, were to put these laws in force, and the judges who were to administer them, if were to be ‘edministered at ali, were ail appoiated by the President and able at bie wil’, And yet the President and rnors and Judges alldeclare that thie Legislatare. wa must be obeyed and on- appointed Governor, just ralded as the messenger of peace, sent to introduce er into the Terrhory, declares thathe will ¢ zi these laws with all the power of the government, Tho iasue is, therefore, thie, neither more nor less: These lows and that Legisiature were rightful and valid, or they were wrongful and void. If the former, stave oe ob a ond will mene pope if the latter wicked perverre enough to endea- vor to uphold and evforce them. That they are in no saaee Se szpeeeeee Cath ty Ba eo ee and bave never been sanctioned by them \s, too clear to “ewe'bave, then, an sdminiatration secking by «ave, then, an > its power yA wd eee upwilliog taavl. ute odious: es ad’ a perpetuating the of as userping aliens non we ok made by 4! na and repress nting aliens. Tt bad no more warrant for ite Cop f than if you bad sent on your votes from New York and thereby , elected it. It 2 to talk of regularity or certidcates.” The whole thing ‘A monstrous fraud. le to the sense of all men, ee y every officer and every person BB Governor, 'e bave his proclamation, dictated, no ington, and we see what he means to do, force there laws and any others same tore may enact, All ‘t be has to settiorn is rid of bie Missouri allies, who im to sasist in subjngating the settlers. thie be bas not yet socom i; be shal! have accomplished |t, he Raneell 00 0 butter inirentant=the Setar ree eee Fresno aio ell have attempted to Hungary through Austrie or Rossia in the late Hangarian ar as era of free settlers aiween neat ‘tail the people of all the hy moane, t {thie double process of expulsion and exclusion, it Is ery prob Ne'ibet there wilt not be free settlers enough eft on iret Monday of October to eloct a free House { Assembly. But if there were, and an Assembiy were to meet on tho firat of January, 1867, desirous oF seem the laws which establish slavery, and make criminals of all who oppore it, is there any likelihood o: the Counet) passing the fawn? iflerence, it must be fae ana eng! making a law, Mr. Boobanan La has aw—the task js now to wn it. ing partly of Missourians and elected principally by the Fecie of Dat patriotic isas little hkely to vote for ibe repeal as the present of the United States. with Tougise and as its leaders, is likely to vote for the repeal of the Kaneas act. therefore, under the rule of this administration to Savery out of Kansas before the election and ession of a new Council in 1558. Are you willing to trust the of the election for that after slavery iv that pare a law rey the slave 3 a gure thet a Governor pa—-3 by Mr, the trong pro slavery influences bim, wil! sanction such « inw’—and if he does be re-paased Lay thirds of iting to risk Will it be said that Con grees