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NEW ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Miantinimo—Wat- Lack—Suvpex Tuovcurs. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Evening—Eruiorian, SoNGs, Dances, Lumtesaues, Living Cualositixs, BRYANTS’ MINSTR) BURLESQUES, Sonus, D. NATIONAL VARIETIES, Chatham street.—Jaxay Twrt- cueK—M. DecuaLummax—Tooviss, PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Vocat axp In- @TROMENTAL CONCERT. CANTERBURY CONCERT HALL, 663 Broadway.— Soxas, Dances, BURLESQUES, 0. ELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— ‘kc.—SHam Figur, New York, Sunday, August 5, 1860. The News. The steamship Australasian, from Liverpool ‘24th, and Queenstown 25th ult., arrived at this port last evening. The news is of a very interesting character. The intelligence from Sicily is important. The Sicilian army had attacked Melazo, and the King of Naples in order, as it is expressed, to avoid a civil war, had ordered the total evacuation of Sicily by the royalist forces. Accordingly Messina and other ports in the hands of the royal troops had been deserted by them. Garibaldi, it was reported, meditated a descent upon the continental pos- sessions of the King of Naples, and it is stated that the King of Sardinia had sent an aid-de-camp to Garibaldi urging him not to carry his design into execution. There is nothing new from Syria, save a report of the conclusion of a treaty of peace between the Maronites and Druses. Intervention by all the great Powers to puta stop to the massacres was expected. The question of making appropriations for the national defences of Great Britian had been brought up in Parliament, and Lord Palmerston delivered a speech on the subject, which created a great sen- sation both in England and France. The remarks of Lord Palmerston had caused increased firmness in public securities in London, and an adverse effect in Paris. Several additional failures in the leather trade in England are reported. The Princess Frederick William of Prussia had been confined with a daughter. In London, consols, on the 25th, opened at 93) for money, and 93) a 934 for account. At Liver- pool the previously reported quotations for cotton were fairly maintained. Breadstuffs had improved both in price and demand, while provisions were dull. Among our summary of religious intelligence may be found a list of the names of the American missionaries in Syria, the country that has recently been the scene of horrid massacres of Christians. According to the latest accounts received by the American Board of Missions from Syria all, or nearly all the missionaries, were at Beirut, and as that port was the rendezvous of a large European naval force the friends of the missionaries need be under no apprehensions.as to their safety from the fanatical Druses. The scattering retarns of the North Carolina election received last night show that although Ellis, the democratic candidate for Governor, is undoubtedly elected, yet the vote of the opposi- tion, as compared with that of 1853, is largely in- creased. We publish in to-day’s paper the first and se- cond day's proceedings of the fourteenth annual meeting of the American Scientific Association, now in session at Newport. The subjects under discus- sion were of an interesting character. The sales of cotton yesterday comprised about 3008 400 bales, closing on the basis of yesterday's quota- tions. Flour was steadier, and at the close exhibited rather more firmness, while prices were without impor- tant change. Wheat was Grmer and in steady request, ‘with some purchases for export. Corn was steady and the sales fair, at quotations given in another place. Pork ‘was leas buoyant and active. Sales of new moss were made at $19 10 0 $19 25, and of new prime at $14. Coffee was quiet but firm, An auction sale, to come off on the 8th inst., tended to check sales. Sugars closed with » rather firmer feeling, while the sales were confined to about 950 a 400 bhds. The present stock is estimated at 86,560 bhds., 8,000 melado, 24,400 boxes and about 129,200 bags. Freighw were steady, while engagements were moderate Tut Loxo Istaxp Ratroap Acerpent.—The disaster on the Long Island Railroad, which ocourred on Friday, proved, by some lucky chance, less fatal than it might have been under the circumstances; but it was owir: to no fault of the directors that a hundred lives, instead of one, were not sacrificed to their cupidity and carelessness. It is not the first time that accidents have oc- curred on this road from cattle straying upon the track; and yet the directors are too parsimo- nious to fence in the road, and thus prevent the possibility of disasters occurring from this cause. It is all the more extraordinary that a greater number of lives were not lost on Friday, from the fact that the wooden cross-tie, which broke under the sudden pressure of the loco- motive, was said to be perfectly rotten—almost as soft as a fungus—a fact that argues still grosser carelessness on the part of the managers of the road. If the Grand Jury of the county are disposed to do their duty they will have an excellent opportunity of administering a whole- some lesson to railroad directors generally, by indicting every one of the directors of the Long Island Railroad for the homicide of one of their employés. Tux Parsons anv Powtrics.—It is worthy of remark that the parsons who formerly talked and wrote so much on politics, particularly on the question of the almighty nigger, whom they seemed to worship in preference to the Al mighty God or even the almighty dollar, are now silent on this and every other political pubject. They no longer take any interest in tee gampaign—not even Cheever or Leary Ward Beecher, Is it because the revelations of the corruptions of party politics which have been recently laid before the country are too gross for the clergy to be mixed up with? Do the ministers of the gospel fear that their charac- ters would be too much sullied by coming any longer in contact with the dirt and grime of the republican party with which they have been hitherto indentified’ There must be some cause of this kind for their sudden silence at a time when their services would be more valua- ble than ever. The election is now near at hand, and yet these watchmen are as dumb dogs which open not their mouths and give no alarm of the presence of the enemy. It is an- other of the signs of the times indicating the widespread political revolution which ramifies North and South, East and West, and threatens to overwhelm all party organizations in chaos and night. Progress of the New Revolution—Signs of @ Southern Conservative Reaction. From the scanty returns received of the North Carolina election, we cannot form a definite opinion as to the general results; but the figures before us are, nevertheless, sufficient to show that the democracy, if not defeated, have been pretty roughly handled by the Bell-Eve- rett Union party of that quiet conservative old Southern commonwealth. There is something very significant in the reported gains of the Union party; and if in anything like the same ratio they hold good upon the full returns, then we may calculate upon Bell and Everett carry- ing half a dozen of the most important Southern States. Such are the indications of our first reports from North Carolina; and it must be remem bered that in this late contest the democracy were united. The election was apparently un- touched by the divisions of the party upon the Presidential issue. But to-morrow the State elections of Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas come off, and in the two most important, if not in all of these States, the Presidential im- broglio among the democracy will seriously af- fect them, and will probably turn over Ken- tucky and Missouri into the hands of the Bell- Everett party. In Missouri they have to elect a Governor, a whole delegation to the next Congress, and one to fill the vacancy in the St. Louis district for the present Congress, and members of the Legislature. There are four candidates for Governor in the field—a Breckinridge demo- crat, a Douglas democrat, a Bell candidate, and arepublican. In 1856 the democratic majority in the State was near 10,000. But in this con- test there will probably be ten or fifteen thou- sand opposition votes thrown away upon the re- publican candidate. Against the solid vote of the democracy the Bell candidate will thus, perhaps, have 25,000 plurality to overcome. But the democratic vote will not be solid. It will be divided between their two candidates, and from present appearances it will be so divided that the Bell candidate for Governor will be hand- somely elected. In Kentucky the contest will be for the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, an office of importance in that State. There are two democratic candidates—one, the regular no- minee (a Breckinridge man), McClarty; the other an independent Douglas candidate, pronounced a bolter (Bolling); while the opposition are united upon General Leslie Combs, a distinguished politician of the Henry Clay school, and a popular old soldier of the war of 1812. A Breckinridge democratic jour- nal upon this subject says:—“The few Douglas journals in the State are out in favor of the bolter; but we would not be surprised to see the most of the Douglas men of the State cast their votes for the Bell candidate, thus making the result doubtful.” In 1856 the democratic majority for President was 7,000, but if the Douglas movement were to reduce it to a mi- nority of a larger figure it would not be very surprising. In Arkansas the test will be for the Gover- nor. Here, too, the democracy are divided be- tween a Breckinridge and a Douglas candidate against the united opposition. But as ia 1856 the democratic majority was 11,000, or more than one-third of the whole vote of the State, it is hardly to be expected that this majority will be overcome, even if the Douglas men should unite upon the Bell candidate, as it is suspected they intend to do. In Texas, as the Douglas men have no organi- zation of their own to work upon, they will pro- bably co-operate with the Bell party, but with- out any practical results most likely; for Texas is one of the cotton States to which Mr. Douglas and his partisans are indebted for their disap- pointments at Baltimore and Charleston. The danger to Mr. Breckinridge lies in the first and second tiers of the Northern slave States, in- cluding Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri; and all these he may lose in November, should the results to-morrow in Kentucky and Missouri be against him. The apparent drift of the political current in North Carolina, in connection with the com- peting Douglas tickets in Kentucky and Missouri, justify the conclusion that these two States will be carried by the Bell-Everett party. In this event all the other States which we have indi- cated may be counted for Bell and Everett in November. Nor will the effect of the loss of Missouri and Kentucky to the democracy stop here. It will react upon the North, and in this section it will give a vigorous impulse to the Bell-Everett party, from the encouraging pros- pect of carrying the election into Congress, and for the chance, too, of baving their candidate for Vice President the second highest on the list. In this event, should the House fail to elect, as it certainly will, from the three highest candidates for President, we know what will follow. Should there be no election of Vice President by a majority of the whole electoral vote, then the two—only the two—highest candidates for Vice President go to the Senate; and should they be Hamlin and Everett, the latter, of course, will be elected the Vice President, who will become the President in default of an election by the House. We await further returns from North Caroli- na, and the issue in Kentucky and Missouri. There is evidently a conservative reaction at Yrork among the people of the Southern States, and we may have such manifestations to this end within afew days as will inspire all the conservatives of the North with confidence in their ability to throw the election into Con- gress, where there can be no doubt of a deci- sion against the republican party in the Senate, from the impossibility of an election by the House. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1860. The New Crusade Against Turkey — Who are the Druses? From the tone of the public journals in England and the debates in Parliament, as wel! as from the preparations for intervention is Turkey which are being made by France, Great Britain, Russia and the other Ohristian Powers, it is highly probable that the land of Islam will soon become the acene of a new cru sade. The massacre by the Druses of the Maronite Christians is the cause of this new movement against “the sick man.” But it will be found on inquiry that the Druses are as much sinned against as’ sinning, and that they were not the aggressors in this war of religion. Twenty years ago, in the struggle between Mehemet Ali and the Sultan, the Maronites espoused the side of Mehemet Ali, and the Druses the side of the Turkish Emperor. The Maronites were ordered to levy troops from among the Druses. But the latter refused, and the Maronites then waged war against them, which then, for the firet time in their history, became a religious war. It has been renewed at inter- vals since, and the enmity then created has never died away. Beyrout, whose Christian inbabi'ants are cow 6o filled with terror, was destroyed in 1840 by the Anglo-Austrian fleet be- cause Mehenet Ali, who then swayed that coun- ry, would not accede to the propositions of the Sultan and the four allied Powers. All Chris- tendom seems now to be thirsting for the blood of the Druses’ and the Turks, to whom they are tributary, and would uncharitably send them all to the bottomless pit, with their sins and their errors on their- heads. It is a curious fact in the history of the Druses, that two centuries ago they awakened the sympathies of all Christendom as warmly as they now excite its indignation and wrath At that time the intelligence reached Western Europe thata bold and gallant race in the mountains of Syria was maintaining a desperate struggle against the overwhelming forces of the Ottoman Empire. It was known tbat they did not belong to the followers of Mohammed, whence it was erroneously concluded that they must be Christians. The origin of the name Druses became a subject of investigation, and afforded ample scope for conjecture. At length an ingenious Tetymologist suggested that they had descended from the followers of the Count de Dreux, who was supposed to have settled in Palestine during the first Crusade. Fakbreddin, the able chief of these sturdy moun- taineers, taking advantage of this delusion, la- bored hard to propagate it, in the hope of gain- ing assistance from Europe. He visited Italy, and repreeented himself as allied by descent to the powerful house of Lorraine. The Nor- man origin of the Druses was instantly received throughout Europe as an established fact. It is even introduced into the graphic description of this interesting people given in Bishop He- ber’s poem of “Palestine:”— Fierce, hardy, proud, i2 conscious freedom bold, ‘Those stormy Seats the warrior Druses hold; From Norman blood their lofty line they trace, Their lion courage proves their generous race. They, only they, while all around them knee! Tn rullen to the Thracian steel, Teach their pale despot’s waning moon to fear ‘The patriot terrors of the mountain spear. I: was soon proved that the theory of their Norman origin was a fable, and that they were a remnant of the widespread Ismaelians. They call themselves Unitarians, asserting that they alone rightly understand the doctrine of the Divine Unity. The chief difference between them and the other Ismaelian sects is the au- thority they attribute to their prophet, Al Ha- kem, for, though they believe in the Koran, they are so far from reverencing Mohammed that they never pronounce his name without cursing bis memory. They are divided into the initiated and profane, and all the ceremonies of their religion are studiously enveloped in mys- tery. Their Helwas, or lodges, are isolated, usually built on the tops of hills, and none but the initiated are admitted to them. All writers complain of the difficulty of getting accurate information about them, and. their Turkish neighbors and rulers are just as ignorant on the subject as the Christian travellers, for the Druses outwardly conform to the established religion of the country where they may happen to be, while they practice their own peculiar rites only in their secret meetings. They are thorough demccrats in their social habits and domestic government. The relations between the chiefs and the people are of a very republican character. Their chief Emir would not deem it a degradation to admit the meanest peasant to his table. Hence their intercourse is marked by those traits of rustic simplicity which recall the memory of the patriarchal ages. The Druse government is, therefore, a especies of aristocratic federal republic. One of the chiefs enjoys nominal supremacy, and has the privilege of assessing the tribute paid to the Turks on the different chiefs of districts in pro- portion to their wealth. Compared with these wild warriors the Maro- nite Christians are a feeble, pusillanimous race, The present deadly strife has been fomented between them by the agents of other Powers, in order to give them an opportunity to step in and divide the possessions of the dying man who cannot keep bis subjects in order. Tne Democratic ConVENTIONS IN THIS SraTE.— On the 7th of August will be held two demo- cratic State Conventions at Syracuse—both, strange to say, not only in favor of the same party, but the same candidate for the Presi- dency. They are both for Breckinridge, but by a strange perversion, characteristic of the campaign, they are marshalled by different leaders, baving different interests. One is head- ed by John A. Green, Jr., of Syracuse, and the other by Augustus Schell, of this city. What they ought to do and what they will do, if they have any common sense and any real desire for the success of the party, is to unite their or- ganizations. It is bad enough to have the de mocratic party split upon two candidates, but to have it sub-divided again upon one of these is intolerable. Such divisions and subdivisions can only tend to one result—the triumph of Lincoln and the republican party, and that, we fear, will be the upshot of the insane course pursued by the democratic leaders everywhere. Trove. amone THe Rervmiicans.—There is great trouble among the republi in this State. They have their trials and misfortunes as well as the democrats. There is a tremen- dous quarrel going on about the Governorship, in which Greeley is mixed up. The object is to kill him off before the Presidential election, so as to destroy his political influence and cheat him out of his fair share of the spoils of office. One section of the republicans desire the re- nomination of Morgan. But the Seward party are determined to defeat him because he was lukewarm to thei: chief Lf the Sewardites can, they will dever let Greeley get that postmaster- *bip for which be covenadted with Blair and Bates and Lincoln. The usual contest between the republican leaders of this elty and those of Albany and Western New York is now em- bittered by a new element of strife—the per- sonal quarrel between the philosopher of the Tribune and the apostle of the “ higher law.” Tae Last Revorm ww THe Post Orrice.— The newest Post Office reform which has been inflicted upon this city by the Postmaster Gene- ral, with the sanction and advice, we presume, of the city Postmaster, Mr. Dix, is the abolition of Boyd’s City Post, an establishment which gave general satisfaction to the business com- munity and our citizens generally, and the transfer of the delivery of city letters to the Post Office Department exclusively. There is no doubt of the legal right of the Post Office Department to do this; but the purpose which led to it is very questionable, and the result of it bas already proved disastrous, Some years ago the late Mr. Boyd, a most es- timable and upright man, established the City Post, and conducted it with consummate skill and energy. Upon his demise his son, a young man of strict integrity and excellent business capacity, carried it on, and with such precision and accuracy that every class in the community was satisfied. We never had such a regular de- livery of letters in the city before; it was a boon to every one in the metropolis. The sys- tem flourished and the business of the estab- lishment increased from year to year. Mr. Boyd employed fifty persons in carrying letters, many of them with families, to w..m he paid about twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars a year, the aggregate business of the concern amount- ing probably to some $70,000 annually. And this system the Post Office Department has now broken up, under the guise of instituting a re- form, It happened that previous to the last charter election one of our leading politicians, Mr. Mayor Wood, sent a huadred thousand circulars to his constituents through Boyd’s City Post, in the usual business way; and after they were de- posited, two Tammany men, agents of that in- stitution, called on Mr. Boyd while he was occu- pied with his duties, and proposed to him to consummate a great fraud by delivering up Mr. Wood's circulars to them, offering to pay the postage on them, and to “make it all right” be- sides. Mr. Boyd, like an honorable man, not only refused to accede to their infamous propo- sition, gat he showed up the two vagabonds who made it. Since that time some politicians have been earnestly pressing upon the Postmaster Gene- ral the fact that the government had a right to the emoluments derived from the delivery of city letters—as it certainly had—and that Boyd was appropriating a business which legiti- mately belonged to the Post Office. This view was pertinaciously presented to the gov- ernment again and again, and it appears with ultimate success. This, we presume, was the mode by which Boyd’s City Post was abolished, and our citizens deprived of one of the great- est conveniences to the entire community. If the Postmaster would employ Mr. Boyd to su- perintend the city delivery, we might expect something like regularity, but instead of that the business is entrusted to a set of stupid poli- ticians, who are entirely ignorant of what is to be done, and already, in one week, the whole business of the delivery of letters in the city is confused and disorganized. This is the way Postmaster General Holt manages the affairs of his department, in which be is advised and assisted by the Postmaster of New York—a pair of blundering bunglers. It is true that the Postmaster General has a legal right to absorp the delivery of letters in the city, but in doing so, under the circumstances, he evinces no regard for the interests of the me- tropolis, but, on the contrary, has inflicted seri- ous mischief upon its entire community. Tue Prixce oy Waites ix THe Unirep Srates.—There is a good deal of curiosity in various quarters as to what kind of a reception the Prince of Wales is to receive in New York, and there seems to be a general wish felt that the Corporation shall have nothing to do with any celebration which may be got up. We had a precious sample of the Corporation in the re- ception of the Japanese. His Excellency the Mayor, as he is called in the English official correspondence, we believe, intends to invite the whole military force in the city and suburbs, to the number of fifteen or twenty thousand men, if they can be got together, to turn out and receive the Prince, as the most appropriate manner to welcome him to the metropolis of the Union. The Mayor himself will, no doubt, en- tertain him privately in his own way, but, nevertheless, it seems quite proper that the Baron of Renfrew—for though taking that title he is still a Prince—should be received in some marked manner by the citizens of New York. Several British residents, it appears, have issued a call for a meeting to get up a grand ball in honor of the Prince, but that is not the kind of reception he wants. He does not come here to see any number of his mother’s sub- jects; he has seen enough of them in Nova Sco- tia and Canada, He comes here to visit the American people, and by them he should be received. On such an event as the visit of the heir to the English throne there is wealth enough in the city to raise a munificent fund for his reception. According to the tax list there are one hundred and fifty millionaires in New York, each with incomes, say of nearly a hundred thousand a year; five hundred semi- millionaires, with incomes of forty or fifty thou- sand a year, while the property owned in the city and suburbs is valued at some seven hun- dred millions of dollars, and the population is enumerated at a million and a half, Surely, in a community like this there can be no reason why the reception of the Prince of Wales should be left to a few resident British subjects; and we would suggest that in getting up a meeting to organize some public recep tion every class in the community should be represented—merchants, mechanics, laborers, clerks, bankers, editors, artists and literateurs, and all the different professions, the lawyers, doctors, preachers, &c. Thus, the reception would come literally from the people, as it ought to, and not from any particular class or clique. Toe Great Eastern an Axwnican Ipea.— As a crowning misfortane to the excursion trip of the Great Eastern to Cape May, a suit has been brought against her captain for an in- fringement of an American patent, in the com- bined use of the side wheel and stern screw as a motive power. The damages are laid at fifty thousand dollers, and (he pastigulars of the claim will be found fully set forth in another column. What the builders of the Great East- ern call the “wave line,” and about which their countrymen boast so much im her model, is nothing but the curve line first used by George Steers in a New York pilot boat, after- wards in the yacht America, and is now to be found in several New York ships, and in the steamer Queen City on the Western lakes; and it would seem that the motive power is also purely an American idea—so that the monster steamship, in her construction, machinery and equipment, is altogether a cis-Atlantic plagiarism. The North Carolina Election. Prrsxsavra, Va., August 4, 1960. ‘The returns from North Carolina come in slowly. Ellis’ majority in Granville county is 160, and the de- mocratic legislative ticket is elected. Hertford ceuuty is reported as a gain for Ellis of 135. Warren county gives an increased majority for Ellis, and the democratic legislative ticket is elected. Halifax county gives a gain for Ellis. Carroll county—Pool gains slightly. New Hanover county—Pool gains slightly. Orange county—Pool gains 200. Rowan county—Large gains for Pool, and Mr. Fisher defeated for the Senate—a democratic loss. Wake county—Pool gains 680. Forsyth county—Large gains for Poot. Randolph county—Small gain for Pool. Returns from Washington, Chowan, Perquimous, Bertie and Tyrell, all in Smith’s (opposition) Congres- sional district, show a gain of over 400 for Pool as com- pared with the vote of 1858. Pool, as far as heard from, leads Ellis 106 votes. LATER. Orange county—Poo! 1,238; Ellis 1,109. ‘The whole opposition legislative ticket ia elected—a gain of two members. Wayne county—Ellis 1,374; Poo! 402. Brunswick county—Ellis 410, Poo! 402. New Banover county—Ellis 1,549, Pool 713. Sampson county—Ellis 1,031, Pool 680. Duylin county—Ellis 1,300, Poo! 197. Colum us county—Ellis’ majority 165, a democratic lors. Edgecombe county—Ellis gains 180. Carteret county—The opposition elect a Senator and member of the Commons, both gains. Ellis gains in Mecklenberg, Wilson and Nash counties. ‘THE LATEST RETURNS, Davison county—Ellis 884, Poo! 1,240. Forsyth county—Ellis 1,015, Pool 1,028. Rowan county—Ellis 1,138, Pool 1,059. Mecklenburg county—Ellis 1,003, Pool 650. Cabarras county—Pool’s majority about 250. Guilford county—Ellis 550, Pool 2,121. Almana coun }y—Ellis 771, Pool 793. Wake county, (complete)—ENis 1,400, Pool 1,503; a heavy democratic loss. Johnson county—Ellis 1,184, Pool 860. ‘The losses and gains are estimated by the vote of 1858 between Ellis and McRae, when Ellis was elected by 16,- 885. The gains for Pool are heavy, but insufficient to af- fect the result. Well informed parties give the State to the democrats by 8,000 to 10,000. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York, August 4, 1860. Your paper of this morning contains a short editorial on the late elections in North Carolina, in which the in- ference is drawn that, from the defeat or greatly reduced majority of the democratic party in that State, in the election of Governor and members of the Legislature, just bad, a revolution in sentiment is impending all over ‘the South, and North Carolina, it is predicted, will go with the opposition next November. I do not think the election in question any indication of @ revolution in feeling or reaction in the sentiments of the South; nor can it be inferred from them which way oes State will heh pnd for this reason:—It must Oxp Pout Comront, August 4, 1860. ‘The Great Eastern passed Cape Henry at five o'clock last evening. She was met and saluted by steamers crowded with passengers. The ship was making fifteen knots an hour, beating all the boats. The weather was delightful. She arrived here at six o'clock, when hor salute was returned from the guns of Fort Monroe. The excitement here is great. There were 108 passengers. Ata meeting held on board, complimentary resolutions were passed relative to the ship, her officers, manage- ment, fare, &c. ‘There has been a grand time on board last night and to-day, including music and a ball, aad immense crowds arenow on board from Norfolk, Portamouth and Old Point. New York 8 Politics, Curton Srrivos, August 4, 1860, John L. J. Dix,of Geneva, has boen elected delegate to the Breckinridge State Convention for the first district of Ontario county, and Isaac Roy, of Phelps, alternate, Povonxmersim, August 4, 1960. ‘A national democratic convention held here to-day elected Daniel D. Aiken and James Outwater as delegates, and James P. Van Wagner and G. P. Pelton as alternates to the Breckinridge and Lane Convention at Syracuse. Batavia, August 4, 1960. The Breckinridge apd Lane County Convention to-day was weil attended. Dr. Wm. M. Spragus presided. Wm. G. Bryan, Baq., was elected delegate to the Democratic ‘State Convention at Syracuse. Syracuse, August 4, 1960. The report current in some rural Douglas papers and copied into the republican papers of this place to-day, that the Green (democratic) State Convention called for August 7, would be adjourned to August 16, is entirely unfounded. No such arrangement is contemplated. The Present probabilities are that the national democracy will Proceed with their business, Explosion of the Boiler of a Locomotive, Hasmurow, ©. W., August 4, 1960. As the Toronto train was leaving bere at three o'clock this afternoon, the boiler of the locomotive exploded throwing the engine and tender off the track. The engi’ peer was bruised and the firemaa scalded, but nove of the passengers were injured. Hoecape of a Forger frem Custody. PHILADELPHIA, August 4, 1860. Col. J. Buchanan Croes, the noted forger, escaped from the custody of tipstaff Porter this morning, while on the way to the court to receive sentence, There is no trace as yet of his whereabouts. Fire in Malden, Mass. Boston, August 4, 1960. The large stable in Malden owned by the Barrett heirs, was burned this morning with six horses. The lower story was used for the storage of Logwood and chemicals for a dye house, Loss $8,000; partially insured, The Turf. Saratoga, August 4, 1860, The trot between Brown Dick and Ethan Allen has been postponed unti] Monday, the 6th, at five o'clock. Seutherm Ocean Steamer Movements. Savaxwan, August 5, 1860, The United States mail steamship Star of the South, from New York, arrived at her wharf at seven P.M. All well. Craniasron, August 4, 1860. ‘The United States mail steamship James Adger, Capt. Adams, from New York, arrived bere at 11 o'clock last Bight, ee The >."OMbles at Occoquan., Va. 1 » August 4, 1870. ‘The reptDlicans of declared their deter- mination to rserect the, “incoln and Hamiia Liberty pole, and aconfict 4@ wntietp. “Yd The national autho. rities have been consulted, and ."*¥¢ taken measures to have the rights of the citize..# Of Oco. "(482 Protected but the republicans have no faith ! such Protection since their property was destroyed in th,” Presean? Of Governor Lotober’s Virginia militia. ‘The Reception of the Chicago 2_%#8ves im wi e INVASION OF THE WHITE HOUSE BY THE zov. \V=#— SPEECHES OF THE PRESIDENT AND COLONEL b. WORTH, ETC. Waaaryotom, August 4, 1860. ‘The Zouaves of Chicago bave been here, produced an extraordinary sensation, and have gone. They arrived at six o’clock this morning, and at eight proceeded, under escort of the Independent Grays, of Baltimore, to Mouat Vernon. They returned to this city at balf-past twelve. At the tomb of Washington the ceremony consisted of 4 dirge, performed by the Zouave Band and the Marine Band of Washington. ‘The Zouaves dined at Brown’s Hots, and then pro- ceeded to the executive mansion to pay their respects to the President, agreeably to the programme published ex- clusively in the Hxacp. Upon arriving at the White House, the Zouaves, with their Baltimore escort, march- ed into the East Room, and took their position to receive or be received by the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Soon after their arrival the President, accompanied a Miss Lane, acting Secretary of War Drinkard, Assistaat Attorney General MoCalmont, Assistant Secretary numerous offlcers of the army and other departments,’ entered the room, and were received by the Zoua ves with a “present arma’? never before witnessed in the White House. ‘The ceremony in the East Room was quite informal. ‘The President, after introduction, informed Col. Ellsworth that he observed in the local papers that his corps was te drill in front of the City Hall, and thought the selection was a bad one, and tenderei to the Colonel the privilege of the magnificent lawn south front of the White House, agreeably to the suggestion in the Hxraup. Col. Ells- worth replied that he would take great pleasure in drilling his corps in presence of the Chief Magistrate of the nation, and accepted the invitation. The Zouaves immediately proceeded to the lawn, and the President and suite and friends took @ position upon the south portico fand wit- eased their drill. Col. Elisworth was introduced to Miss Lane before leaving the East Room. ‘The Zouaves went through but a small portion of their drili, in consequence of the limited time allowed them; but it was wonderful to the President and the Washingto- nians generally, army officers included. The President, who had been witnessing the drill from the portico of the White House, descended to the lawn and addressed Col. Ellsworth’s command as follows: — Crnamx Souprens—I fee! myself greatly honored by this visit, and Textend to you a cordial welcome, Ae eminent degree you are benefactors of the country. Your excursion has been |. You have visi- ted our various cities, aud I have no doubt your example has infused the military it into the people. I think your drill is admirable for ite pre- cision. I bave never seen anything like it in any part of the world. You must have expended a great ot labor to arrive at the perfection you have attained. regular army of the United States is comparatively small. It never can be be transported to a point of defence of the country af any locally are, to jd the country, rien pot, | i ip E fy i 3 "Ee J hie etartel iialieg sE upon you J tat ity ria ples. ve were kind ‘caougn to reer Fog E 5 terms to our connection with the militia. If we can oaly the continued marching we have So we have gone with on this occasion is but a portion of rill; but it was the best we could do ‘Tax Praspent—Well, { think that after such a display an have made it is rather supererogat: . this allowance. wncaged wis CORRESPONDENT OF THE HERALO— seen balf yet, Mr. President. ialiveatetia This ceremony over, Col. Ellsworth proposed to give three times seven cheers anda Zouave for his Excel- ‘The President then retired to the balcony of the White House, after a polite bow, when the companies resumed Mar DELPHLA, August 4, 1860. Flour ‘Wheat advancing: white, $1 45a $1 60; red, $1 20 0 $1 30. eee ae one a Tic. alte. Whiskey dull at 212, pm A » x. s 4—1P. M. bushels wheat, 136,000 bushels corn, , ‘The exports of cotton for the ear at New Orleans 2,196,000 bales, instead of 708,000, as published ins ‘The Walton Marder. AN APPEAL FOR JOHN W. MATHEWS’ WIDOW. ‘TO THE ENITOR OF THE HERALD. T deem it no more than an act of justice to ask you ty insert in your very popular journal a brief sketch of the life of the late John W. Mathews, who nobly sacrificed his life im that fthe widow and son are ebarity, I enclose twenty dollars for the fund, which you will please forwaré A. W., 88 West Twenty second street. ‘The Case of Alleged Perjary. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Before Hon. Judge Fetts. Avatar d—The United States we. Wm. D. Haight— ‘The defendant, who is charged with perjury in swearing to & fictitious amount of property when tendered ae bafl for Da Costa, was brought up before the Judge on ® writ of babeas corpus. His discharge from custody was urged on the ground that the records which were relied upon as proof of the alleged perjury coald not be properly led as evidence in a criminal case Ir. Buchanan Henry, District Attorney, con- tended tbat the Map paws was sufficient to how probabil charge of perjary i The Judge ead ‘Ne we not to try this case, bot had merely to inquire into the facts to see that the defendant Was reserved gu sudlcigat evyideuce, Dygision reserved.