The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMKS GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. COMNEK OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS, cash én advonee Fish of the sender, Posia: men itt pamy HERALD THE WEEKLY HERAL Money sent by mail will be amps not re ed as wubscrip copy, oF $3 per annum, the Br rery Wedne al ms censor copy, $4 per a 1, Great Bri ny part of the aclude posta Calfornta Bitsion'on | I memth at ia California Bition on the 0. and 200s per copy, or $1 60 per annum Volume XXV seeeeeeeee Me 260 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, F. ath street.—ItaLiam Ore: Ba—Lucuetia Bona. Bromd way, Hamar, WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway.—Fauy Omeus—Law vou Lapins—Inisn THe BOWKKY THEATRE, Bowery.—Satan on Eautu—Mr Bon Diana NIBLO’S GARDEN, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—tar Rorausr— Fitesm vax. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 64 Broadway.—Tas Bosker Boy. NeW BOWERY, ‘Tex Carraun’s Not 4 BARNUW’B AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Evening—JOaarm Asp Hus Baxraken—Living Ovgios- ‘sis, do. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 473 Broadway.— Boncasques, Soncs, Dances, &c.—Wurte Was Anny. Bowery.—ANToxY axp OLEOrATRA— 18s. iway.—Hoovey & CaMreect’s NIBLO'S BALOON, &: a8, ueuesqes, Daxoxs, £0.— Minetxers ue Ermorias 5 Imaucuuation Batu. NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street.—Viagisivs— Deap Suor. CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL Dances, Ruxuesaves, £0 “Tew Work, Monday, September 17, 1860. MAILS FOR EUROPE, Whe New York Herald---KEdition for Europe. The Cunard mail steamship America, Capt. Moodie, will Jeave Boston, on Wednesday, for Liverpool. The ma\ls for Europe will close in this city to morrow afvornoon at a quarter past one o'clock to go by railroad, (Bod at a quarter to four o'clock to go by steamboat, ‘The Evxoraan Eprrion ov THs HxRatp will be published Bt ton o'clock im the morning. Single copies, in wrap- pers, six conte. The contents of the Evrorgan Evrriom or ram Hexaip will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at fhe office during the previous week, and up to tho hour f publication. ie News. The sub-committee of the Douglas State organ- ization have, it is said, marked out their pro- gramme for a compromise, and are to give to the Breckinridge strength six electors and perhaps one of the State candidates. It is reported that this ticket will be announced at the Union meeting to- night. Inall of this arrangement the Green-Tucker organization has been ignored. An address of the Breckinridge State Committee will be found else- where. Ata Douglas meeting in Philadelphia on Saturday night resolutions denouncing the fusion and ratify- ing the straight out Douglas ticket were unani- mously adopted. Gov. Johnson, it is said, will canvass the State, commencing at Lancaster to-day, and concluding at Pittsburg on Saturday. From Washington we learn that the objects of Mr. Lindsay's mission from England has been for nome time known to our government, and it is fioped that, besides the modification of the revenue laws, his visit may be the means of settling several other important questious pending between the iwo countries. The Prince of Wales yesterday attended divine service at the church at Chippewa, and listened to a sermon from Chronicles Il., nineteenth chapter, eleventh verse. Col. Magruder, of the United States Army, is at Niagara Falls, endeavoring to induce the Prince to visit Fort Leavenworth, and take part in a buffalo hunt. To-morrow the Prince will lay the corner stone of Brock’s Monument at Queenstown Heights, and receive an address from ihe Veterans of 1512. A full report of the proceedings of the radical abolitionists at their late National Convention at Syracuse is given in our paper to-day. The Con- vention nominated Gerrit Smith and Samuel McFar- Jand for President and Vice President, with a full clectoral ticket, the name of the persons composing which, with an odd letter from Gerrit Smith, ac- cepting the nomination, will be found among the proceedings. We give a few additional particulars this morn- relative to the recent calamity on Lake Michi- a. Itnow appears that the number of persons co board the steamer Lady Elgin when she left Chocago was 393, inclading the crew, of whom 114 have been reported as saved. \nother of those brilliant illaminations which have been quite frequent the present year was visible in this city on Saturday evening. About half past nine o'clock a brilliant light became visi- ble in the northern part of the sky, which soon changed to pink, crimson and blood red hues, ap- parently mingling with each other, and forming one of the most brilliant spectacles it is possible to conceive. The illumination was visible until about two o'clock Sunday morning. ‘The cotton market was firm, under the influence of the Sre.ga news, and the sales embraced about 1,500 bales, 00 the basis of 107%%¢. for middling uplands, and at Lic, for Florida middiiogs. The complete statistics of the cotton crop for the year ending September, 1860, shows that (t reached 4,675,770 bales. Assuming this statement put forth by the Shipping List to be correct, the crop, at the average value of $50 per bale, would give 8 total of $283,788,500, of which we have exported 3,774,000 bales, of the value of $188 ,500,000, and retained to the country, in stock, or copsumed and burat at the ports, 978,043 bales, of the value of $48,002 150. The forciga news tended to check salce of breads and to depress prices. Sales of dour were moderate, and from Ge. to We. per bbI. lower, and in some cases of low grades 6c lower, Wheat, for most grades, was from 2c. « 8c. per beshel lower, but it was active at the decline, Corn opened heavy and lower, with considerable salon, but clowed at about 660. a O6}g¢. for West- oro mixed, and at Tc. for Western yellow. Pork was comparatively quiet, with limited sales, in- cloding GeW mess at $19 25 8 $1987, and new prime at S14 12% & $1460. Sugar was steady; good to prime grocery goods were scarce, and called yc. better; the sacs embraced 1,200 hogsheads Cada mussovados, fad 000 boxes. Coffee was firmly held, with moderate fale, dealers were awaiting a public sale to come of noxt week. Freighte were steady and without change of moment in rates, while shipments of wheat were large Liverpoot " A Cuance ror New Evouann Carrranists.— In addition to the immense business patronage which our paper receives from New York, its colomas daily exhibit a large array of advertise- meuts sent to us from distant localities, including even the European capitals. Among these our readers may have observed the announcement of a sale which is to take place on the 25th of this month of # fae plantation in Virginia, con- sisting of about four thousand acres, situated on both sides of the Rappahannock, twelve miles below Fredericksburg, with one hundred and sixty-five valuable negroes. Here is a chaace for New England capitalists. They are always ready to go in where there is an op- portunity of making mopey, and it would be Aificalt to find a more profitable one, both ina ; ccuniary and political point of view. They ‘ unlearn the prejadices which they have ceived against Southern institutions, whilst are filling their pockets with the products o! slave labor. The Great Union Meeting To-Night. This evening will be held in and around the Cooper Institute the great Union meeting to consider what steps are necessary to be taken in the present alarming crisis in the history of the country. The black republicans menace the existence of the Union, and something must be done to repel the invaders. If Lincoln is elected, a large party in the South will regard it as a practical violation, on the part of the North, of the compact of the con- stitution; and even if there should be no seces- sion, on the result being announced in Novem- ber, and if the inauguration should take place without resistance, how, we ask, are the repub- lican party to carry on the government in the Southern States? How are they to collect the revenue! At least a passive resistance will be offered, and there is uo Jackson now to enforce obedience. What Southern man will dare to take or hold office under a republican Presi- dent, whose party are organized on a basis of deadly hostility to Southern institutions? What Northern man will dare to accept office in the South under such circumstances! The local federal offices must be filled by local men. Any attempt at coercion of the Southern people by the federal arm in their present temper would not only be vain, but putting the match to a mine which would blow up the Union. How, then, is the government to be conducted by a sectional President, breathing destruction to the interests of one-half the Union? To avoid the difficult and dangerous solution of this problem, it is essential that the North provide that the rail splitter of Lllinois be not elected. How is this to be done? Just by fol- lowing the advice which a dying father be- queathed to his seven sons. He told them to bring him seven twigs, each representing a son. He ordered them to be tied firmly together in one bundle, and desired each to try his strength in breaking it. None was able to break it. He then caused the bundle to be loosed, and gave each a rod to break, which was done in an instant. By this image he in- structed them that united they could come off victorious in every trial, but severed they must succumb. <A house divided against itself cannot stand. When Washington, the Father of his Country, was re- tiring from the government he gave similar advice in his “FareweM Address.” He cau- tioned his children against the sectional action, which has now been adopted, as the great dan- ger to be avoided. His counsel is despised by a rampant party at the North, whose policy can only result in breaking up the glorious Union which he did so much to establish. But those who profess to take heed to his warnings and are opposed to that party are not acting in the epirit of his advice. They are divided into several political sections, all arrayed against the common foe, but equally antagonistic to each other. They are not like brethren, dwell- ing together in unity, but like so many mu- tually hostile camps. It is evident that if these relations should be continued any longer, the success of Lincoln, and all the consequences naturally following in the train of his election, may be regarded as inevitable. Much is expected from the Union meeting this evening, and much depends on its action, and on the manner in which that action may be follow- ed up. It was again stated yesterday that Dean Richmond and Peter Cagger, the Douglas State Committee, had promised to have a ticket prepared to-day, to be composed of ten Bell and Everett electors, six Breckinridge electors and nineteen Douglas electors, to be presented to this meeting for ratification. If made in good faith, itis all right. But the merchants cannot be too careful. It is asserted that there is a secret understanding between the Albany Regency and the republican Junta of Albany, the Pacific Railroad scheme being the basis of the arrangement. This is to be one of the measures of the republiean administration, and the Pacific Railroad Company are to constitute an imperium in imperio, who will bear the same relation to the country at large as the Central Railroad Company does to the State of New York, and the Camden and Amboy to New Jersey. This is the only rational explanation of the persistent course of the Regency in eplit- ting the democratic party at Charleston and Baltimore. The negotiations with the Breck- inridge party were all sham, and intended to deceive and humbug the people on the eve of the Union meeting. Now Dean Richmond is ready to enter into negotiations with the merchants of New York. He will put on the ticket three, six, ten or twelve Breckinridge electors, just as the conservative merchants are willing to pay for them. What the Regency want is money, and they know where it can be had. But they will take the money if they can get it, and yet contrive to give the State to the republicans, perhaps use some of the money to accomplish that object. If the merchants enter into any arrangement with Richmond, Cagger & Co. about the proposed fusion, they must not let them han:!!» 9 cent of the money, but deposit it no the bh fa trustworthy treasurer, to be »btained trom him only by drafts endorsed by a Vigilance Committee, who will take good care that it be not employed in giving aid and com- fort to the enemy. But as for the Union meeting this evening, they must not put any faith in the professions of the Regency, but act independently of them, and as if they were spies and secret agents of the republican party. It is not without rea- son that Mr. Seward vaunts that the republican party will carry this State by 80,000 majority. He thinks be has the cards stocked. That cautious politician does not often intend to make empty boasts, and be could not reckon upon any majority without some under. standing of the sale of the election by the Regency, who hold the balance of power. ‘That is an element in bis calculation, he knows the men with whom he has to deal. ‘There is only one way of defeating both him and them, and that is by nominating a ticket with which they have nothing to do, and over which they cannot exercise exclusive control. Now for action. Let all Union, conservative men in the city, and within reach of the city, go to the meeting to-night, and, with one strong, united voice, proclaim a fusion electoral ticket that will sweep the State from Montauk to Lake Erie. Provizs or Gas Cowrantes.—Besides the ex- tortionate profits derived by gas companies from the supply of gas to their customers, the majority of them have been making considera- ble earnings from meter rents, interest on de- posits and surcharges on the laying of service pipes. The effect of these imposts has been to prt gre beyond the reach of a large class of persons, who, although able to pay fur the con sumption, were not sufficiently well off to leave money lying idle in the hands of the companies and to psy for fixings. We are glad to fiad that the influence of competition is likely to put an end to these exactions. In Brooklyn aa opposition company has been started, which undertakes to supply gas without any of these conditions, and at fifty cents the thousand feet cheaper than its rival. It is to be hoped that the new company will not follow the example of its predecessors, and, as soon as it gets sup- port, falsify the pledges on which it has ob- tained it. If it keeps its promises to its cus- tomers it will initiate reforms in the dealings of gas companies with the public which are sadly needed. The “Radical Abolitionists” Fairly in the Field. Our political readers will be illuminated this morning concerning the programme of the “radical abolitionists” from the perusal of the brief, pointed and business-like proceedings of their late National Convention at Syracuse, not forgetting the characteristic letter of Gerrit Smith, the “regular” radical abolition nominee for the Presidency. It appears, however, that Mr. Smith was not nominated by acclamation, but only “after con- siderable discussion,” and against “a very re- apectable minority preferring William Goodell,” who was subsequently nominated for Go- vernor. For Vice President Samuel McFar- land, of Pennsylvania, was chosen—a man of the Lucretia Mott abolition and women’s rights school. While they were about it, we wonder why the Convention did not put up the venera- ble Lucretia herself, or Abby Kelly Foster, or some strong minded, radical abolition type woman of that calibre, as suggested by their platform. The resolutions of the Convention are pun- gent. They regard the Breckinridge party with “unmitigated abhorrence,” and the fear is expressed that the parties respectively sup- porting Lincoln, Douglas and Bell will all, in due season, be “ranged under the Piratical flag of the universality of the rights of slavery;” and it is emphatically declared “that for abolitionists to vote for a candidate like Abraham Lincoln, who stands ready to execute the accursed Fugitive Slave law, to suppress insurrections among slaves, to admit new slave States, and to support the ostracism, socially and politically, of the black men of the North, isto give the lie to their professions;” and “that the almost infinitessimal amount of anti- elavery professions made by the republican party is entirely inadequate to cover or ex- cuse the Heaven-defying effrontery with which it proclaims its intentions to quiet agitation upon the subject of the slave’s right to liberty.” ‘Thus it appears that there is to be no fusion between the radical abolitionists and their halt- ing, halfway brethren of the “irrepressible con- flict.” Besides, the republicans have proved faithless touching “the desolating scourges of the rum traffic.” This Convention further de- clares tbat all social and political distinctions of sey and color should be abolished--that free farms and a statute against landed monopoly are wanted—that for all the social and political dangers of these times the “popular religion of the country is mainly responsible,” and that until this thing is reformed “we shall continue to be cursed with the rule of slavery, rum, and so forth. Such is this radical abolition platform, and we have no doubt that Frederick (the black Dougiass) had a finger in this pie, inasmuch as he was put at the head of the radi- cal abolition electoral ticket for the State of New York. How many other “free colored Americans” are on the ticket we cannot deter- mine from the names, but we dare say that there are at least three or four, in deference to the proportion of the African element in the = religious branch of this national aboli- tion platform is very learnedly expounded in the letter of Gerrit Smith. His health, which “was poor,” is “now vigorous.” He has reco- vered from the prostrating effects of that terri- ble John Brown foray; but still, as the head of his church, and its candidaté for the Presiden- cy, Mr. Smith speaks in a most sorrowful tone, and urges a very unique system of electioneer- ing. He says:—“As I view things, the Conven- tion will do well not to call for any great outlay of time and money to increase the vote for its ticket.” He has had enough of that, and has doubtless become as much dis- gusted with his money begging partisans as was “Live Oak George Law” in 1856. But here are the radical abolitionists in the field as the distinctive Presidential party of freedom, temperance, equality of sexes and co- lors, and all that. And the question is: what can or will they do? In 1844 and 1848 these abolition elements decided the Presidential election. Now, it will be seen that their efforts will extend from Massachusetts westward to the Mississippi river—that a State Radical Aboli- tion Convention has been called in Ohio, and another in Illinois; and we may safely predict that the party concerned will poll a vote against the halfway abolition professions of Lincoln and the republicans which will aston- ish them in November. Let the anti-black republican conservative odds and ends which make up the popular ma- jority of this State combine, with or without the consent of Dean Richmond, on a single electoral ticket, and where they would fall ehort of a majority over Lincoln of twenty, thirty or forty thousand, if Lincoln were sup- ported by the radical abolitionists, the highest of these figures may be reached against the republicans, deducting the radical abolition vote for Smith. There are very good reasons for the belief that Old Abe Lincoln's recognition of the Fugi- tive Slave law will, with any exertions on their part, give to the party ticket of Smith full fifty thonsand votes in New York. It will be re- membered that on the first impulse after the passage of the Fugitive Slave act it was #0 ob- poxious to our free soilers that even John Van Buren took the field against it What was his opinion then is still the opinion of at least one bundred thousand anti-slavery men in New York who voted for Fremont. Can they stultify themselves by supporting Lincoln, who has publicly declared his adhesion to the Fugitive Slave law? We know that this adhesion amounts to nothing—that his “irrepressible conflict” sweeps away all his professed conservatism; but can our radical abolitionists, whose especial abhorrence is this Pugitive Slave law, support Lincoln with his recognition of it? This radical abolition convention has given us the answer. Henry Clay, in 1844, on account of a little Alabama letter, mildly favoring » conditional NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1860. - apuexation of Texas, lost the abolition balance of power in this State, which otherwise would bave made him President; andsonow Abraham Lincolo may be counting without his host in supposing that our radical abolitionists will wink at bis professed acquiesgence in the Fugi- tive Slave law, or that all our abolition worship- pers of Mr. Seward have forgotten the time- serving expediences which slaughtered him at the Chicago Convention. Tuvriow Weep wy Morion—Fimst Srer to- warps Secorina Truk Next Lecistature.—We see it stated that Mr. James McQuade has been renominated for member of Assembly by the republicans of the First Assembly district of Oneida county. Strong resolutions were also adopted, endorsing his action in the last Legie- lature, as being worthy of emulation. This action was expected and looked for from the black republicans of Utica. That lo. cality has, ever since the organization of the re- publican party, been looked upon as one of the strongholds of Weed—ready to endorse any scheme that he might offer, whether in State Convention, Legislature or Congress. The party that could endorse their late representative and leader of a peculating cabal in Congress —Hon. Orsamus B, Matteson—could very well say to the man who weted away the chartered rights of our city in the last Legislature, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” This renomi- nation of McQuade Is in perfect keeping with the endorsement of Matteaon by the republi- cans of Utica. The several gridirons that passed the Legislature last winter, robbing the city of New York of franchises worth in the neigbborbood of two millions of dollars, were under his special charge whilst before the As- sembly, both before and after the Governor ve- toed them. It was McQuade who offered the resolution to make them a special order; it was McQuade who moved that the committee rise and report progress before a portion of the bills had even been read. On motion of Mc- Quade the Committee of the Whole was dis- charged from their further consideration, and the whole batch of gridirons ordered to a third reading; it was the same McQuade who made the several motions on their final passage, and it was for his motions that the corrupt and ve- nal combination in the Assembly voted after the Governor had sent in his veto. Whenever the city railroads were under consideration the eyes of every person, both in the chamber and lobby, were upon the member from Oneids, it being understood that his movements would be in accordance with instructions from the chiefs of the third house. We find his name recorded in favor of the West Washington Market bill, and also amongst the “yeas” upon the question Shall the Commissioner of Records swindle pass notwithstanding the objections of the Gover- nor? He was, in fact, one of the leaders in the last Legislature—the most infamous body that ever assembled at the State capital. With this record he is nominated, we are told, by acclamation, and all of his acts endorsed by the republicans of Utica, which the citizens of this metropolis may take as evidence that the party to which he belongs in the interior of the State intend to continue their raid against the rights of the city. We shall watch closely all the nominations made for Assembly, and, whenever any of those who wore Legislative robes last winter are renominated, will give their record, as we have in this case that of Mr. McQuade. It is to be hoped that all the jour- nals throughout the State will follow our ex- ample, and thus prevent, if possible, the re- election of any of those who were found vot- ing for the corrupt schemes that were before the last Legislature. When the nominations are all made we shall also publish a complete list, and keep the record of such as were found in the se- veral venal coalitions of the last Legislature constantly before our readers. Tur Boastru Presvumrtios or Tak New Yore Press.—Under the above caption one of the spoils organs in Philadelphia—a balf-starved sheet, with an omnibus load of subscribers— accuses the New York Heratn of indulging in vainglorious boasting in the matter of Mr. Breckinridge’s speech. The fact is, we gave merely the facts in the case. The speech came to the Associated Press, and was given to such of the Philadelphia papers as are in the associ- ation. How many of them published it we do not know nor care. Even in their own village they are read by very few people, and no one expects anything like “ enterprise” from them. What we said about the Breckinridge speech was that it was our intention to have reporters are now travelling in almost every section of the Union. Their letters come through the telegraph office, as a of the mail or express. Our bills despatches, exclusive of the news furnished to the Associated Press, week ending the 8th instant, amounted twelve hundred and seventy-five dollars—for last week, to one thousand and twenty-six dol- Two thousand three hundred and one dol- lars for spesial despatches in too weeks is a greater sum than the combined Philadelphia press pays for special despatches in a whole year, Our expenses for special telegraphing alone during the current year will amount to more than fifty thousand dol- lars. Thus we supply thef news, not only to New Yorkers, but to the provincial editors, who show their contempt for the Henain by making up their papers almost entirely from it, and giving no credit. More than this, they per- mit their miserable vagabonds of correspond: ents to invent and publish the most absurd lies about men and things inthe metropolis. And it is difficult to know which is the more contemptible, the forger of the scandal or the editor who endorses it. That is all for today. Tue Sraurepe Houewarp or American Torrists—The homeward tide of American oummer travel in Europe has ect in with « rush. Each successive steamer comes back freighted to ite utmost capacity of accommodation with our wealthy business people and fashionable idlers, ‘The European capitals have never before been 80 full of American visiters as this year, and on all the great highways of travel they are to be encountered at every second step. But as there are limits even to the largest incomes, and home yearnings will overpower the thirst of novelty, our absentees feel the necessity of re cupersting their purses a well as their domes- tic ties. There is, accordingly, euch a stampede amongst them towards home that the steamers cannot supply accommodation for one-balf the number of applicants for etaterooms. We know of several parties who have pressing bu- siness here who will be compelled to wait from four to six weeks in London from the impossi- bility of obtaining berths. For the next two or three months the different companies will make a large harvest from the unusual number of passengers that they will have to carry. The profita from this source, and from the rise in freights to which the shipping interests con- fidently look this season, will compensate their stockholders for the short returns from the traffic of the last year or two. —_———— AFFAIRS AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, Wasiuncron, Sept. 16, 1660. THR MOSSION OF MR. LINDSAY TO THE UNITED STATES. Tt appears that our government have for some time been aware of the objects and purposes of the special mission of Mr. Lindsay to this country. His visit may be the means of settling and adjusting several other important questions besides the modification of the navigation laws, now pending between the two govern. ments. Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Lindsay were warm rieuds while the former was Minister at the Court of St. James. HOWR’S SEWING MACHIN® PATRNT. Protes# are still pouring in from all over the country, from the poor working women, against the infamous ex tension of Howe's sewing machine patent. It may not be too late for Congress to revise ani reverse the action of the Commissioner of Patents in this matter. It is con- sidered a clear violation of the Patent laws, and should be repealed by special legislation. * THE CASE OF CAPT. MEIGS. ‘The Secretary of War has taken no action as yet in Capt, Meigs’ case. It is probable be will have him tried by court martial, The wonder is that the President does not at once dismiss him from the service That is the way Jackson used to serve refractory officers who re {used to obey their superiors. AFFAIRS IN UTAH, Official advices from Utah represent the condition of affairs as peaceful, and every disposition is manifested by the Mormons to respect the United States officials. Our Washington Correspondence. ‘Wasumroton, Sept. 14, 1860. ‘The Late Election in Maine—Douglas Beaten from His Stronghold—The Tolai Overthrow of His Cause—The Ques tion to be Decided by the People—The Only Way to Defeat Lincoln—Duty of the Conservative Masses, dic., dic. A totally new phase is given to the Presidential elec tion, in the opinion of the thoughtful ana observing among al! parties here, by the result in the State of Maine. It is demonstrated that Dougias bas not strength to carry the State which he felt he was most sure to triumph in, Maine was one of bis strongest of strongholds. It is of no use to talk hereafter of his prowess or his station in ‘any other quarter. The people will not believe it, The thorough rout in Maine ends the matter as to Douglas. From this time forth he will have scarcely « corporal’s guard anywhere in the South. Cortain green politicians in that region took him up for the nonce, under the idea ‘that be was « strorg man in the North. They will fly from him now as they would from a political aspirant dead and buried, never again to be resuscitated by any force of par- have had their day, and it is over. If the country shall be saved from the reign of the sectional destrud- Lives 1 means bo dene by the, conservative masees rising or tbat . muss or tat “lester,” thin ‘that com. mittee, to cast their voter in such manner aa will tell eS It is really monstrous Sa, wa of a great lw card personal, social an: it perity of whcle dvnmenitioedhoula be atthe morey ef all a ie Tay ‘The Empire State cab ‘wre aside torrent ‘destruct: she Will only do #0 all will be well, os Pennsylvania Politics. Parapmrima, Sept. 16, 1860. Resolutions were unanimously adopted at the Dougias meeting last night denouncing the Cresson fusion and ra- tifying the straight Douglass ticket. The mocting was The National Fair. Covenevati, Sept. 16, 1860. Upwards of thirty-five horses arrived here to-day from Kentucky and this State, to compete for premiums at the National Fair this week. Among them wore Lexington, Fashion and Bonnie Scotland. Fine displays are antici. pated before the fair closes, on Thursday. The cotrice are now nearly five thousand, and the arrangements all perfected Fire and Loss of Lite. Comsive, Sept. 16, 1860. The dwellirg of Rufus Gordon, one mile cast of this Place, was burned thie morning. A son of Mr. Gordon, aged 23, perished in the flames. Another son was badly burned. ‘The Third Regiment of Comnecticat. New Lowvow, Conn., Sept. 15, 1960. ‘The annual parade of the Third regiment of the State troops, under the command of Col. W. 0. Irish, came off saan et ‘The regiment comprises all the mili- companies of the county, bp eg suite reviewed the this afternoon. A mahitede of people here to witness the dis- it a E [ i rs i: wu i i iff Bs i § : ; i g i f, z : declit | Fe: ili The Rumored Purchase of American ‘Tramsports for the French Navy. In yesterday's edition there appeared in the foreign news brought (by the steamship Melita, the following paragraph, alluding to an increase of the French navy >= A Paris correspondent of the London Herald says that bas Peano hee inst parohased ton lange steam transports im steamers in question, with whatever other information migbt please the public. His researches, however, do not throw much light upon the subject, as all the gom- tlemen visited were entirely ignorant of any such move- ment on the part of the French government, and mang regarded it in the light of a canard, got up by the cor- respondent of the London Herald. At all events, if suck ‘an addition has beea made it must have been made outside of New York 4 yet this city is the only one in the United States capable of furnishing ‘ten large steamers” at a very shortnotice. As some doubts existed in the minds of the people as to the feasibility of obtaining so many vessels without going to the extra expense of building them, or baving to take inferior ones, we would state that there are at all times steamers of very hoavy tonnage lying at our docks tbat the owners would gladly part with could they get anything like a fair price for them. There are alse steam lines running between this and other porte that de not pay their owners the common interest on the money invested, beside the loss occasioned by the wear and abuse the vessels get. These parties would {no doubt willingly part with their vessels provided the Freach government would pay their price. We mention theese facts simply to show that if the Em- peror bad any wish to increase his naval forces he cas easily do so by sending an agent to this city. ‘the fact of his having done so there is considerable doubt. However, should anything of a definite character reach us, we will acquaint eur readers at once. New Yorx Mxpicat Coutzas anp Cnamrrr Hosrrrat.— Ata meeting of the Board of Trustees on Saturday eve- ning, the Hon Fernando Wood occupied the chair and Pro- fomsor Doremus acted as Secretary. The Board, after dis- posing of the usual matters of business, elected bis Ex- cellency Governor Morgan President of the Board, whe was conducted to the Chair; Mayor Wood being obliged to retire by ® previous engagement, after expressing the deep interest be felt in the institution, and promising to visit the Hospital in the morning. The Board, having beard from Profesor Doremus the action of the faculty in relation to founding « Charity Hospital and appropriating ‘& large portion of the college building for the purpose, which had been fitted up and was mow in readiness for the reception of the patients, warmly approved the object ‘and appointed a committee to raise funds for the Charity Hospital by soliciting subscriptions and donations from {he benevolent. A number of liberal donations were re- ported from Meesrs. Doremus and Nixon, Mr. Haughwout, Counsellor Busteed and other gentlemen, and the Board then adjourned to inspest the wards of the Charity Hos- pital and the museum, laboratory and lecture rooms of the college, with all of which they expressed much grati- Beation. ‘This institution commences its preliminary course of lectures this morning at eleven o'clock; by a lecture from Professor Carnochan on Amputations. In the circular of the College we notice several innovations which will doubtless enhance the facilities for medical instruction. The corps of Professors has been increased to nearly double the numbor of other institutions, and the bospital ta connection with the school is the first of the kind ever ‘them binding upon the competing roads and their coa- necting lines. One of the pointe to which they gave their special attention was the expensive mode of advertising by placards. It is at present the custom of all the main roads to put up in every city, village or town of any im- portance, bandbills in all public places, giving their route i Hl i i bi E e ing tll th ite ip fi i j if Fa] i Hi rf t Nie #3 393 £3 i i 3 ii Fi = Fs = g 3 J