---: --1‘7,411. :',..ri‘ v ;S,' P + ' " ~4.1 . • ''' . WEDNESDAY, 'AiTEKTST :4; 1858 SOdZIE FOliNtY ; S' 0:IA061011A :PRESS Will be Reidy at , this , • HIT gRi4BB, _No. 14.7:,gABST,itUT STREET, One iis?pioeTs. o . - Dal. , This paper la publialtetkopreasly for. , • o k upoiNin ,OLROULAMIONs • Nakeentahut_kocesplitialtugßuiry,oryrhai..has.trana pivot,. In our Olty, State, and the Atlantic States, 'lnca the 'departuXei °tithe:lBf lqsaiktierVtlyerula. Trios 81x tilos par_ copy, In kilns wrappers; and stamped, readrifer,nutillnj!„. „ l , All ideertisameni.;ll4 , ealtfe4,io; the • - •STRAMBIL-PREur •• Most be R,OLOOK. MU= " C 1.)1 4 3 immense eironlation of TI(E•PRESS re !" •ti uires- ;head' to blazon'lt•,. to • the world. Er'ery his daily walks, in the earepon :the steamboats, at the watering-plaoes, , -that 'Tits Trissit bin; become favorite with, eypry class and cimidition of mon. • Read .by theimarids, • and applauded •:' 4,twi11 4111 its jai:alone, it ,haiinbtalited an influenosin twelve, • months,that many4onroals - - have-•no . 'reached_ In twenty:Y*lM'. , Adyeilleera • filipidd bear these facts, in Mind. • = : • • The. Preitil foie California. TIIE Puss 'Folk a.. will be ready ' ' ffeliveri;tis:d4, We now cliculat4i an edition , of , Several , thousands on the, Pacific • Coast. 'Groat efforts have'bnen made by the :efflce-holffere.in , ,Califernia, acting, itis said, .under instrUctions,lncrush it oAt. he most pr 11146,":kihtii,:linie an ,enciont;,grudge -._against the Edit Or. -:ffhey , were nearly all4lie active and ;open' ezjemitus of' Mr. Zion/aux ; and altheugli;thei have, given the. Preiddent their,suppoo, In exchange for the confidence he liaA.heiteWi3d ripen thein, ; hey'reoeiro' the right We. are glad to say,' - and to..feet, however, that the masses of the people of, California, Oregon, Washing= ton, &c.,,are With us heartily; and that they generally anpport,onv California puhlicatlon; which le, ihdeed, nspleudid newspupei., careful ly made-up, apple iiiinted an•to be 0 for pre servation'and binalng. Our readers; say it is the nice}, aceeptable:Ohri popular 'o' all tlito jonrnals sea ll'orri the 'Atlantic The Aiws. Election's took place;, on toodap, in :Alabama, Arkansas, tKentuoky,- 'North Carolina, !Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, and Kanhas Territory', At the election in Louisuille on hitinday, the Aineriesn? candidate icir Judge of the Court of elppitali mad elmibei by 228 Majority. 'the candi• date of. the same :party fon Clerk of the . Court Of Appeals was .14.11' pleded.- ,the day an "affray" totd - priem'betiviten' Dr. Sterailfoid and Captain **eau,' daring 'which the litter was don• gerolusly wounded•;`•:., . ' A despaioh. from New. York informi:us of .the arrivafer the stearailiiPT,igo; recently purchasedus by thetiv,erpeol and Philadelphia Steam ohip Com pany. . Her dates have been antloipated! ' • The barque S. W: , 1Iolbrook arrived' tit Norfolk yestarday;:having pain because of the death of Capt. Holbrook. She was on her voyage to Ile veils frinVBt.llin , r7S, • -The 11 . 'EI. Jamestown siTlveci of New York 'yesterday from key- West..l She has some sickness on board. The oolored eon Volition at Now Bidfor4, ,ndjourned yeaterdaY, , after •adoiting resolutionp . agalistthereturn of fugitive slaves—agiiinst the emigration 'of free colored. tenons-411i favor of sending colored ohildren to - the , fiublid and recommending thefhartioring . of fugitive slaves: :" ,: l• - . G I Ai-Jetties; the_britisli Consul_ atiNorfotk, has been tendered the appointment ofi' Consul. ,Eteneral at :Ventlie, , which" it ie 6robibi:alhe will accept. - • Tlke Non. John Covode,. has been nominated for rkelsotion:to Congress, frol the • NinetiOntli'dis: Wet. , The Postmaateraetteral will return to the oily of Weehington,teit week.' They are baying' a military oeuventieja In De- troit. , The perpose;_of it. is to get laws passed giving aht.Mthe fOrination -of indopenOnt mill• tary companice. ' : • -- -At the cricket. match; yesterday,. in loboken, between 'eleven 'Canadians and Cavan of thi, United States, the linked States elevi4o *scored ' 141 'at the 'Ant inningti . the, Canadiani sooting bat gI . . - - " "*. ' —... the region of that eity"this'aeason may ''Ew dosig ' mated eitdmest - aWeittiffellurc. J E3inms fie , vino ' yarda. will have - 004W' of : It crop, but:, in - the , aggregate,_all the Wine produced. !pay the expenses of attondingle the crop.' • - ' . -John 'Woodward eras-arrested in thie'e ty'yes. . terday, • sconsed!: of the;. Marley' 'of' a: gentleman 'named Mdatiatim*:abotit• one iettr..erki, a hill ago , . .11.iiili'be;',remenitared by, many-that Mr. wait driggiii..and c rabbed, and that*, after , • wards died-froth the aced of the polsoative liar - optics administered 2 . In ttte'Coltit'at quit:ter Sisetans; y:4sitertjay,Er. P.C. Brewster o c cupied -in an alla arga• • meat for the.defendanis in the KirkpatriMc case, .4 11 this eks '44 be taken mittli. this • ) :) - - Settator ) ;Bigler., - • Our_ excellent ; United States Sonatpr, Mr. BiGLERs.i B filurninating"A part of this State on the eubjeet of- Lectinaptort:2=4 datic'sablect at beef; end;;Ope" not , capable of hoimi : made 'much clearer by - his most limping: l logic. • We' caw- Sympithisa With a 'Repreaeintative • who goes' 't.6l„ 'defend himaelf . against __ „ ordipary accusations; but .it is .the ;height -of ' Impertinence lbi• a man ' to , attornpt to justify' ikaalf tiMatt,4Oni he has shame tstra.Yedt 'N-frillOLES.(loes not -in- LeoOmpton, which be.. denouncedlinad • -vance and Yet ite” asitAt_ Otters to dri,iO4 ,', Be 4:lsrejot (7-guy:that he was, folly,commited to the very:principle:for which Douota'4 Con ' tenthi and yet he hasatiompted, with hi puny tont; to', 'rates, the 'ace against Dotrota4, only because the titter has head true to his pledge. "-,Wolik;si arell as reek - hiss; in his itiConsi4ancy, this man Would now make a *test upon tiro Do tncicracy of the' *erg doctrines which p":3‘ first repudiated and then swallowed. The-e, can be nO.MOtiv.p - iti"ait these efforts but, that of self. , There is , nologard- for the Ptw!lident, whom Bioini• has opposed, for ' ft,twelYe years,'.'and 'there Is certainly no love .fpr the -South, which lid has - successively betrafted. ' - We trust somtkof :the Democrats, itto are called neon to listen to Senator Bnat,sit, will .not hesitate- 40 remind hint of his record' on -the Kansas - question); and especially lof his in-,reply to „budge -DotiOasi, :This latter is a mine of . mll -and of-originality. • - • ). • schnyikill County. I -There seems to.be„ a good deal of confusion in the ranks of thopemocmtle party of Bishuyl • kill County.' The..iiites. of Mr. BgWAIVI s , first, for Lecomptim, and next Air the Bngliiihibribe, • Against his own proclaimed convictions, mel also ' against the wishes :Whitt Constituents , hav filled the distriet*lth dlifierfilons. We parcel: e that ' Mr. Damara W,. Mumma has thrown the . sight • of his Influence and 7 characterlm'favor of Mr. pEWAII.T. . This step is greatly :deplored by the trip friends of Mr. Etvciuse. Mr. DLWART gave his vote kir mmeasiare which he himself .•,' mlinitted — •to be jvping , ; and he,cannot complain ~ ,if tlii? iipoili, refuse ' to. second him fd.r re election, for doing nn • let ' which his .'own best 'judgment - condeins: We do not gOeition the i !.iincerity; of Mr. Huangs, but . we: belic4o-.4 - ali hia,:•hoitest instincts aro • against the Course oit.iii. •DiwART and in favor of the uolilif iltaisf*iieri by, ,Tudgo ,Douaras.. 'We • caw appreciate .ids inclination not to . give nri , the • dismal incapable who • appointed hitri' Attorney General, and we can admirehii iniritln standing by a cause so ;Alien as-that of loCompton. • But, thenithere are principles higher than men—greater than : - gratitnde—tind more)Owerfril thanorgaorganiza tions.A.ndl4.tufinEs cannot carry through , LecoMpion, covered as it-is with "crime and - With . Proserintlon. If 'We'kliovillie man hole .or will he-t , helast to force upon - the .people that,which they; ippose and condemn. Mr. - DEWART will of tonne go overboard :, and it `he 'is not &Waited' lie will Sink th:ll' ship of >which, he has lifionsolyrotched a pilot.,; PIM? PAalel , 4-I:l4knip9l *rims; L tte ri! • from opraieller;',l4lVACietia from` Old ; Niro* ; - leltoe fioiiitivtand; °;9n46fitl. 2L My, glist _ more.. - Kat.rit . Oxvoa,- : Jdr. 'Wfuldagtoa L. Blacten, 'newlysilsOadi Olarkef the Board of Health, ant co‘ntirodilftioil,licAltdbargo of hie,da Elem. -.Matti BO bad rliiiseari o ,4litiarlallee ao &entail' "of tho Board, old: je wolk qu alified for *6 The Philadelphia Post Onice. It is reported that a final decision is about being made at Washington in IA gold to location of the P,hiladelphia Post Office. We have repeatedly. , 'Mcpiessed our confident be lief that the sentinient Of our citizens is almost unanimously against the old Pennsyl vania Bank building; for this purpose, and their wishes should '•bo respected. By the construction, of painienger railways running through the whole length and breadth of the city, and the consequent destruction of the omnibus system, the Exchange will entirely lose its,position as a central point of local travel, and the only real argument which may have-heretofore eacieted in favor of that•local ity, will thus be entirely destroyed. The appropriations which have been made by the,National Government for its PI- 031 1C buildings inthis city, as compared, with the 1 sums spent elsewhere, have been of the most meagre and penurious character, when the amount of• business transacted here is con sidered, and it would 14 one of the greatest of outrages if the,ainall sums which aro to bo expended among : us; should be spiandered away ra tb 9 pin consummating the schemes of speculators, than in promoting the convent en,oof our citizens. , ',At Now Orleans a building is in progress of construction; designed for a customhouse, post office, and United States court rooms, upon Which $2,217,086.98 was expended up to Sep tember 30, 1857, and, which is estimated to cost, whop finished, $3,228,039. The balance of appropriation for this work in September 80, 1857, was $475,271.02, 'and $200,000, was appropriated for. its continuance at the last session-of. Congress. - At' Gharlostdd, South Carolina, a custom house is being erected, for which 41,903,000 has been appropriated, and $1,946,810.77 had been expended up to Sep tember 80, 1857. The customhouse at Boston cost $1,101,110. For the Baltimore custom ,hpuse, court house, and post office, nearly $1,000,000 has been appropriated; for the Now York custom house, assay office, and .post office, nearly $2,500,000.' In Philadelphia, our cestom house cost but $256,987.82, while $300,000 has been appro priated , for our' poet office, and $78,000 to purchase a courthouse —in all but little points, Philadelphians $600,000. As compared with other Philadelphians have been entirely too modest in their requests . . and the Government too niggardly M its grants for those purposes. • 51noo, some little disposition has been shown to do us justice in the waypf appropriations for convenient public buildings, is it too much to ask that sinister motives should not be al lowed to divert these means into improper channels, mid to demand that the public wishes and interests should be'respected ? Washington's Tomb. There is no truth in the absurd report, ori ginating, itis said, with an evening paper in this city, that Mr. Toon A. WASHINOTON in tended to remove) the mortal remains of the Father of his Country from tho'vault at Mount Vernon, in which, they are deposited. His contract with the Ladies' Mount Vernon Asso ciation of the Union, to whom he has condi tionally sold the Mount Vernon estate, ex pressly provides 'as follows: tcAnd the said vault, the' remains in and around it, and the enclosure, shall never be removed or dis turbed; and that no other persons hereafter Will ever be interred or entombed within the said Vault or enclosure." • There does not appear to be any foundation for the report. Mr. Jona A. WAsutsorou obtains At fancy-price 'for Mount Vernon, en tirety because the purchasers desire the na tion to possess the last resting place of him who was ci first in peace, first In war, and first Id *the ` hearts 'of ,his countrymen." The burial-vault, minus the ashes of WASHINGTON, would be comparatively valueless. We take this,oPportunity of repeating the expression of our,hope that the public spirit and liberality of• tho 'Union will supply a suf ficippt sum, even within the present year, to enable the LadieS' Association to pay for the purchase. Foreign News by the 'Persia. ..The mail steamer Persia arrived at New York . yesterday from Livdrpool, on the 24th ult., but an abstract of her news had.provious ly „bean published in TEM PRESS. We have further, details now, and little more. The most important are that England and France ga, in for the fullest reparation for the massa cre of , the two Consuls and othor 'British '—• J i Jeddah; that; on the final passing of the India Bill; the Earl of DERBY de declaied foe full toleration In Hindostan to all religioaacreeds, but disavovied In the strongest language-May. intention, on the part of the Government, to • assist or _ sanction any mea ,sures.for proselytizing the natives, or • retn o- ving the distinctions'of caste; and that, on a friendly Overture from' the United States, the British Government were pieparini a plan foi putting down the slave traffic, without giving any cause for complaint to this country. ,_ Ntiango COndact Gov. Cumming at • - Utah. &tom the St. Loute.Deceocrat of the Slot.] GREAT BALT LAHR. CITY, June 28, 1858. You will have beard how our corpulent (lover nab hat been " liteptoed" by the Mormons. He seems to me to be almost insane. lie takes pains to quarrel -with every, Gentile within his reach, from Gen. Johnston, the Commissioners, and Judge Belles, down to your humble aeryant; and to affilliate with the worst put throats In the whole Mormon community. lie is alienating the only true friends he has—the only persona on whom ho roan expect to lean when ho finds that ha has been fooled by Brother Brigham. _ "The very table on which I am' writing has on It evidence of the rascality of the Mormons in re spect to-the mail. (I am seravrling this to you in the post office.) Directly is front of me is a pile 'of letters, all of which have boon opened by steam ing them until the gum on the envelop ceased to Mak ) , or by '.olitting open the ends of the enie lops and sticking' them carefully together regain. "They oalbthe present condition of affairs har mony or at least the Governor calls it so, but there Is not a Gentileln the city who does not sleep with a - revolver - undei his pillow. " The vanguard of the 'rainy Is expected to ar rive to-morrow, and then we shall breathe freer. If General Johnson had the supreme civil power of the Territory in his hands, as lie has the military, we might have a durable peace. Aa it is, this patched-up mass of Gdrernor Cum Ming's will cease to stick' as soon as it to steamed. (Coaxer:.—We do not believe one word of these assaults upon GoveriitiP 0131fEINC4 lie Is a man of, extraordinary ability; and is sustained 'alike by the President and by Colonel KANE. lie pill, we predict, be handsomely sustained by the country.—Eig From Montgomery Couuty. , • fOorreepondence of the Press.] • • ' • NORRISTOWN, Pa., Aug. 2, 1818. About twelve o'clock on Saturday night our communi4 was again startled by a brilliant flashing of light that suddenly illuminated the whole town, followed by the terrific) cry of " tire !" It proved to be the barri of Christopher Heebner, which Is situated on the corner of Mill and Wash legion streets, almost adjoining the Gotten mill of O'Neil k Co., and the large flour mill of Mr. Heeb ner. The flames spread very rapidly, so mush so, that, &capita the noble exertions of our firemen, several window sashes of the cotton mill wore com pletely burned. The cornice of Mr. Heebner's mill was of stone; this alone saved It from destruc tion. Fortunately, the horses were not in the Stable ' or they would have thevitably perished, so rapidly and surely did the fire' make its way. The hog-house and hen-roost adjoining the barn, were •also _burned, together with two bogs and forty pair of chickens. Had the wind been in a southeasterly direction, there Is no tolling whore the destruction .would have ended. It is said the barn and contents are fully Insured in the Mont gomery County Mutual Insurance Company. There is no doubt but that it was the work of in "di een ary. ,„ F.I. Letter from, Lebanon•-An other Fire. [Correapondenee of the Preps ] EAGLES noun, LEBANON, 'Aug. 2,1858. • I *Oust time before the mail closes to give You a.,briefietter containing the sad intelligence thatLobsnon was visited, so to speak, with another tire—making :three within the week past, and destroying thousands of dollars worth of property. oifturt, however, give you details as to the ex. tont Of the prisent calamity, nor the amount of the injury/Retained ; for while I am writing the Marti of 'giro; Arifilfe,',' is reheated by stentorian longs' in eveiY direetia of the town. I will take ,oeoitsion to-morrow to - spook upon this subject in connection with others of interest to the publio. .Plll7lll. • ' DlABlttAltie C9TTACIB BITFIS,-111bniel Tholl3llB & 01:111i will sell on Wednesday afternoon, I.lth Inst., ieveralValnableetottage alias on the Brietet Turn- pike; and Eleven Mlle lane. Bee advertisements and hand bills.' • It Is rumored at Saviirin'ah, Ga:, that the bawl:tie E: A, Rawlings, lute landed Borne 450 Afri cans somewhe're on the Mast in that neighbothood, hilt there Is, hoWeyer;en tmoortainty in the state ment. A new trial has been granted, by the Sn. Frain." Court, in. the ease of James M. Kelly, oon. olotea of the murder of Hoary Weissman, in Vol. llna tinriishtp, Allegheny county, in 1857. BY MIDNIGHT MA IL. LETTER FROM 64 OCCASIONAL." [Correspondence of• The Press.) , .I,lAsnmarii, August 3, 1858 , . The Washington States contains a complaint froth one of the clerks in the Departmentto the effeot that he and other poor fellows are taxed regularly to pay for printing of some live millions of Leoompton specchea,Made hy men from your State, to be circulated in Illinois to defeat Judge Douglas and the regular organisation of the Demo cratic party. Bigler's speeches aro thus dissemi nated from here by clerks, who are compelled to frank and address them What claim has this luau upon the consideration of his party ? Die is one of the noot active of the conspirators against the regular organization in Illinois. It Is stated that Dr. Ahl, the member of Con gress from the York,lPerry, and Cumberland dia. triot, whose relative got a contract for mules for the army at enormous prices; and who voted for Lecompton immediately after, is having some trouble to be renominated. • As the Doctor's rela tive has no doubt made a handsome pile out of his job, the defeat of the former can be handsomely compensated in the retirement that awaits him. The appointment of John Nugent, editor of the San Francisco Herald, as Commissioner to the Frazer river veglon, will do good. 'Nugent is an excellent man, and was fully entitled to a better plane. The refusal of Secretary Cobb to eonfirm certain of the appointments of Collector Scholl, of New York, produces mush bad blood.' The 'contest for °Moo in the Empire State is bitter, and the more' so as principle is wholly left out of view by the struggling partisani. • The Ohio Democrats, in State convention, in dorse the English bill as "a finality!" The Washington Union, on the other hand, shows that if the people of Kansas reject the bribe, Looomp ton is not dead, and any other Constitution will bo rejected that is ;not flpresented with Wall ratio of population. How, then, can the English bill set tle the question? • The recent report, by the way of England, that Spain proposed - to send an expedition of 10,00 D men against - Mexico, is stated to have bad its ori gin in the previously announced course of the Constitutional President of Mexico, at Vera Cruz, Senor Lafarge. He deliberately affronted the Court of Madrid, which was equivalent to alhreat of war. Deep regret is felt here that 54 dog. 40 min. was not insisted' upon, and obtained, in the adjustment of the Oregon question. Mr. Buohanan clearly deMOnstrated that we had a right to every inch of territory up to that line, and if the Old Jackson idea of asking for nothing that was not right, and submitting to nothing that was wrong, had boon adhered to, we would now have the full control of the nowly-diecovered gold fields, as well as of the fine harbors of the coast, and of the route over which a Pacific Railroad will probably soon bo built by British capital. Great Britain would have been left without any foothold upon the Pa °Rio coast, and she could never have entered into that rivalry with us for the great trade of the Indies, over the North American continent, which may now become inevitable. Besides, the gold mines and railroad route ofibr such vast tempta tions to British cupidity, that England will never peaceably surrender her PROMO territory, and an insurmountable barrier is thus promoted to Ame rican progress - in that direction, unless a war is resorted to. Would it not be well, however, for the Adminietration'to make an effort to obtain the territory north of the British possessions? It be longs to Russia, and is of little or no value to her ; but as it is supposed that the gold region extends up through it, our citizens might find it greatly to their interest to develop its mineral treasures, and if the country belonged to the United States, and they could. be certain of American protection,- they would, no doubt, make the effort. Sir W. Gore Ousely la a connection—a brother • in-law, I think--of Judge Roosevelt, of Now York, and a great friend of the President He paid much - attention to the latter while ho was in Europe as Ainerican Minister. What his exact diplomatic connection Is at the British legation here, has not yet transpired. English, of the English bribe, has been nominated for re-election in his district in In diana. lie will soon hear some news from Ran gel; that will not help him back to Congress. Both Parrott and Stanton write that the bribe will be awfully kieked out by the people of Kansas. Geo. .W. Smith, late of Butler eounty, in your State, la the only free Stateleader who supported the, Eng lish bill ; and be would be Governor under the organization that would follow the adoption of that measure. If the weather continues as dull as it is at this writing, the President will abridge his visit at Bedford. Appleton denies that ho is connected with the Washington Union_ But he does net say that he is not interested in the publics printing, and that Wendell paYs him heavily for services of some sort. This real editor of the Union is said 'to be a gentleman from Virginia, named Hughes, and a Colonel Johnson, once of Detroit. and lat terly of New York. That paper, of this -Ar- Ines datn. rink. Or Judge - imagine, now tlgbtint the great battle of popular rights in Illinois. It is said that the Pre eident approves these attacks; and that Messrs. Black and Cobb are especially conspicuous in the same work. If this is true, then not only states men but States are to be ejected from the Demo. erotic party, because they will not give up that party's principles. I am not surprised that so many Southern mon and papers refdse to second the base assaults of the Union upon Judge Douglas In order to atiow how tho AdministrotlOn foes of Douglas, in Illinois, aro fighting for tho Demoora tio party. read tho following : "The Quinsy (Illinois) Herald quotes as follows from a letter addressed by Isaac Cook, the Danite postmaster at Chicago, to a friend of his in a neigh boring county : ' IT 103 THE TRUE POLICY Of all the friends of the Administration in Illinois TO VOTE FOR ItEMBLICAN CANDIDATEO FOR rue Litt• GISLATURZ, when they are not strong enough to run candidates of their own.' Gen. Duff Green has booome one of the groat supporters of the Administration. bouglas out and Green in. So we go. The Yrissari treaty has at last boon =opted by Nicaragua, but some important modifiestions have been made, which aro hot agreeable to the Secre tary of State. Mr. Dallas gives great satisfaction in the XIZIOYI can mission at London. Ido not think he will be' disturbed. OCCASIONAL. One Year Ago 'To-day. BY GRAYBEARD. Ono year ago co-dg—t. o. August 3d, 1858— marked a 'memorable epoch in the history of Graybeard. Unlike the nabtebrlo gloom with which PhiMelilla lb to•day enveloped, the 3d of August, 1867, was a bright, sunny day, with the thermometer at 82°. So much for the weather. Noir for the day, and its memories : The date was August 3d—remember that!--Monday the day, Pittsburgh the place, the Iron City; with her busy environs, the scene, the society her noble sane, the eoev the first appearance of The Press in Pittsburgh, and the birth of Graybeard ! Ono week had elapsed, exactly, from the time I entered Pittsburgh, Saturday, July 25th, until Saturday, August Ist, the day on which the first number of The Press was issued. During that week the prospective now Democratic journal and its gallant editor constituted the theme of conver sation among men of all parties, not only in Pitts burgh, but in Allegheny City, Manchester, and Birmingham as well—a fact to which three hun dred constant readers there to-day will boar mo witness. A hearty greeting to.theso throe hundred, from their old friend Graybeard : A long life of dietin guided ueefulnese to them all. But to my task. A mote welcome budget never made its way into the western metropolis of the old Keystone through the mail-bag than the Presses,of August let, 1857, which were delivered at,the Pittsburgh Post office on the morning of the 3d. 41 1 was among that anxious throng, eager if possible to catch the first glimpse of a sheet which a kind of premonitory intimation told me was des tined to fill no ordinary niche, in the galaxy of journalism. In duo time the new paper was in the hands of subscribers, and every one was poring intently over its contents. That day—m, in foot, on many occasions since then—extra copies of The Press would have commanded a handsome premium. No had the first number boon read than ap proving comments were heard in every quarter. "Tue EDITOR 'TO HIS READERS " was a host In itself, and elicited encomiums upon its high-toned independence from even those who bad been the life-long political opponents of Its author. The second number of The Press, issued on Monday, August 3d, arrived in Pittsburgh on Tuesday morning; but before passing on to other develop merits. I will refer to the rough notes of my diary, in which I find the following : "PITTSBURGH, August 3, '57.—A calm, beauti ful day, thermometer at 82 ; smoke rare enough all day for the sun to penetrate; saw and devoured first number of The Press ; visited the glass man ufactory of Mr. William Philips in the morning, and there witnessed, for the first time in my life, the process of glass-making; went to Birmingham alone, (the speoilloation " alone" being noted to show that I was neither accompanied by my dis tinguished military friend, J. W., my big-hearted blacksmith pioneer, C. 8., or any one else;) found John Murray, Jr., at Birmingham, and, through him, John Murray, Sr.—bolli trumps, but not in any way connected; passed through Wile it Blam'e glass factory at night; saw the greatest blower in the country ; place go hot as to make it almost impossible for the men to drink 100 water fast enough to furnish perspiration; thermometer, at a guess, something less than two hundred "in the shade ; " returned to toy lodgings at the Bt. Charles, at 10 P. M. ; had a brl of chat with Harry Shirla and Brigadier General Egan ; wrote six letters, and retired." These are the mere bones tf a day's experience in and around the Iron Oity, the reminiscences of which I hope ever to treasure among my most pleasing recollections. But I have said that one tHE PRESS.---titff,ADELPITIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, Iggg: year ago to-day marked a memorable epoch in the history of Graybeard ; and this is surely true enough, if the intimation already given, concern ing his hitik bo correct. Oho Press published on the 31, and which came to hand at Pittsburg on, the 4th, contained the first letter ever published ever that veritable sign manual. Glorious anni versary ! One year old to-day—gray venerable ness in swaddling elothes; But enough : peradventure Graybeard's graver readers will already say, too much. There was, however, one feature in The Press of August 3, 1857, which will never bo forgotten. I allude to the editorial leader of that date, entitled " The Question of Kansas—Shall the Majority Rule " They who, after elapse of a year, will read that article now, will find that a more prophetic basis never heralded a more consistent future. I re member well the perfect furore of enthusiasito sanction that article elicite‘from the strong men of Pittsburgh when it appeared. Tho first number, said they, had dealt boldly in pro mises—the sooond, said they, had commena. 1 ed as boldly to redeem them. In It they saw embodied the very bean;ideal of the true De mobratio policy with regard to Kansas. It was then received as the strongest possible endorse ment of what would be the polio) , adhered to by the present Administration. The immortal doc trine, that the will of the majority shall govern, was then and there enunciated, and its harmony with the prihciples of the Administration, forti fied by unequivocal extracts from the President's letter of acceptance, the Cincinnati platform, Mr. Buchanan's inaugural, and the President's in structions to Oov. Walker. Well do I remember the hearty applause accorded than to the principle of popular sovereignty, as sot forth in The Press, and now, at the expiration of a year since that clearly defined chart of future action was laid before its readers, it is not among the least pleas ing of this day's remineseences to know, that the polioy then so warmly received by the people with whom, for the time being, my lot was east, has been adhered to with the most unfaltering fidelity from that dky to this. With the conclusion of my initial article, pub fished this day one year ago, it may not be improper to oonoludo the present. " A hearty greeting to both the reader and the pub. lisher of The Presi: That its shadow may never grow lees, and that its illuminating' beams may find an appreciative destiny, whore it may shine brighter and brighter, even unto the perfect day of newspaper usefulness, is the cordial wish, and, I may add, the reasonable hope of yours ever." THE LATEST NEWS Arrival of the Steamship Vigo. Nnw Yong., Aug. 3 —The steamship Vigo, re cently purchased by the Liverpool and Philndol• phin Steamship Company, which took the place of the steamship City of Baltimore, in consequence of her detention at Halifax, by an accident to hor machinery, arrived herelthis evening on hor fast trip from Liverpool. She loft on the .2lst ult., and her dates have boon anticipated by the Vanderbilt and Persia. Arrival of the Constellation. Boirrou, Aug. 3.—The U. B. frigate Conatella tton arrived this afternoon from Key West. WAsnixorosi, Augusta —The Postmaster Gene• ral will. return to the city next week. G. P. R. James, the British Consul at Norfolk, has been tendered the appointment of Consul Gene ral at Venice, which it is probable he will accept. WAonicarox, Aug. 3.—The following-nomad officers have been ordered to the Sabine, which is to be the flog•ship of the Brazilian squadron: Commander Thorbnrn; Lioutollits Woodhull, McDonough, Creighton ' Gibson; man and Mo. Cann; Fleet Surgeon Greene; Passed Assistant Surgeon Ilartolette; Purser Steele; Master Brad ford ;• Chaplain John Blake; Boatswain Atkin. son ; Gunner Cooper; Carpenter Jenkins; Sail maker Jones. The following officers are ordered to the sloop Cyan.), fitting out for the Paeitio squadron: Commander, Lockwood; Lieutenants, Bryant, Lowry, Livngstop i and MeCortney ; Surgeon, Williams; Assinfitt Surgeon, Lining' Purser, Murray; Master, Briebcnan ; Acting Boatswain, Briseo ' • Assistant Gunner, Hallett; Carpenter, Knight; Sailmaker, Bothwell. Commanders Thornburn and Lockwood wore affected by the action of the Navel Retiring Board, but woro afterwardif restored to the active list. Cricket Match—Canada vs. the United ' States. NEW Yon . :, August 3 —The_ cricket matbh be twoen the first eleven 'of Canada against the firs eleven oft the United States, which was cote mewed yesterday at the New York cricket groom. Hoboken, was resumed to-day. The Canadian made a total of eighty-one at the first innings which, though commenced yesterday, was not com plated in consequence of the delays caused by flu rain. Upon the conclusion of the first innings, tie United States eleven took the wickets and scord one hundred and forty-one. ••• The eanadialls commenced their second innints, when the Match was postponed until to-mellow, The Negro ConvehtOtt at New Bedfotd, Nam- IIEDFORD. o.="l"he Negro Conven tion, whiula commenced yesterday on the occasion of the anniversary of the British West India emancipation, adjourned today at one o'clock. Resolutions wore edoptod against, the rotuip of fugitivo slaves ; against the emigration of free colored persona •, in favor of sending colored thil dren to the public schools; recommending' the harboring of fugitive slaves, and vigilance to airo'd imposition. A motion was made to appoint a committee to address• the slaves o tho South, reeommenaing them to rise in their majesty for their [medial, but, after some discussion, it was lost by a snail majority. LOUISVILLE, Auguet 3.—Tho State °lotion te m/ rre cl yesterday. In the city proper, the Ameri can candidate for Judge of the Court of Appoile received 228 majority. George R, McKee, tie American candidate for Clerk of the Court of Ap peal, received 307 majority Tho American county ticket la all probaby elected by a timell majority. Tho elootion gem. rally passed off quietly. .F.lcction Affray. Loursvmk, August 3.—During tho eleollm yesterday, Dr Standiford shot Captain Itoussetu daugeronely. .Tho affray originated from a pa , sonal grudge and partly from political feeling. Congressional Nomination. BLAIRSIILLE, Pa., August 3. —Tho Hon. Johi Corode has been nominated for ro•oloation to Con gross, from the Nineteenth distriot. Nonromt, Aug. B.—The barquo S. W. Holbrook, arrived hers to day, having put in bocause of the death of Capt. Holbrook. She had been, out nine days from St. Mary's, Florida , bound to Havana. Accident to Senator Chandler, of Mich. DRTROIT, August 3.—Senator Chandler was se. rionely, though it is believed, not dangerously in jured last evening, by the explosion of gas at hie residence in this city. Michigan Military Convention: DETROIT, MICEIRAN, AllgUSt 3.-A State Mili tary Convention, for the purpose of adopting measures to secure the passage of laws giving proper encouragement for the formation of inde pendent military companies, assembled hero to day. The Yrisearri treaty with Nicaragua, which hos been so long upon the carpet; has at length arrived at Washington, ratified by the Nicaraguan au thorities, but not without two important moditlea cations. By the treaty as modified, though the American Government still possesses the right to protect the neutrality of the Transit, yet it is not to land troops upon the Isthmus, except at the re quest of the Nicaraguan Government. The other alteration relates to the right conferred by the treaty on the American Government to transport troops over the Isthmus, which by the amended treaty it is not to exeroiee except after notice pro viously given on each occasion to the Nicaraguan Government of such intended transport. This modified treaty has been brought to Wash ington by General Jerez, who has been commis sioned to succeed Yrissarri as Resident Minister of the Nicaraguan Government. General Jerez is said is be an enlightened and intelligent man. lie was actively concerned, indeed, in the first invite- Rol, extended to Walker to come to Nicaragua to 'aid in overturning the Administration of Ohamor ro, but, from the moment that Walker threw off the character of an auxiliary and undertook to sot himself up as a conqueror and master, Jerez be came one of his most determined opponents. It is reported from Washington that the amend ments made to the treaty are ill received there, and that Secretary Cass will insist upon the original provisions. That we think can hardly be the case. The latter of the two modifications ROOMS entirely reasonable, while the former appears to be essential 118 a recognition of the sovereignty of Nicaragua. It is highly impertant that whatever concessions we obtain should be with the full and free consent of the people of Nicaragua, whose natural susceptibi lities are, after all that has happened, entitled to some indulgence on our part. The great thing is to have the neutrality of tho route placed under our protection. The mere fact that wo may be called upon to protest It will go very far to prevent the necessity of any actual protection. At all events, the treaty, an modified by the Nicaraguan Government, will answer sufilelently well to begin with. The Transit route is quite as important to them as to us; indeed, we may say much more important, since we have other avenues of com munication between our Atlantic and Pectin° ter ritories, while this transit route is the sole avenue for Nicaraguan trade and travel. It can hardly be doubted, then, that the Nicaraguan Govern ment will always be ready to preserve the peace fulness and safety of the route, and quite prompt to call upoll'us whenever her own means shall fail to preserve it. At present, the great thing is to reopen the route, so unfortunately broken up by Walker and his filibusters, and that can hardly be expected so long as it continues a subject of con troversy between the two Governments. We de not consider the changes in the treaty matters of any praotioal Importance; but, even If they were. we ought to be ready to sacrifice something by way of concession to those prejudices and appre hensions, which the Walker foray, and the sop- Port given to it in the United States, have so nu turally excited against 1111.—New York Tribune. Leroy Rusher, the young than who pleaded guilty of manslaughter in tho first degree, in kill ing John McCarthy, in New York, some time since, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. On Sunday last, an old man named David Watt, residing in Manybaster, near Pittsburgh, committed suicide byoutting his throat. BY TELEGRAPH. Washington Affairs. Naval Intelligence. Kentucky Election. Death of Capt. Holbrook. The Yrissarri Treaty. FOREIGN NEWS BY THE PERSIA - The Royal Mail steamship Persia, Captain Jud kins, from Liverpool on Saturday, July 24th, ar rived at Now York yesterday. The steamer City of Baltimore from Halifax July 11th, arrived at Liverpool on the night of the 22d ult. The Ariel reached Southampton on the morning of the 23d. The screw steamship Vigo took the place of the City of Baltimore and sailed from Liverpool for Now York on: the 21st July. The Ministerial white-bait dinner at Green wich, anticipative of the adjournment of Parlia ment, was to take place on the day' the Persia sailed. • HUDSON'S BAT COSIPANY.—Captain Shepherd is about to resign' the °film orgovernor of the compa ny, and will be succeeded by Mr. Behrings; the Earl of Selkirk has been offered the post of depu ty•governor, and Mr. Thomas Fraser has been ap pointed secretary. Inc ' ATDANTIO TS DEORAPII EXPRDlTlON—Queens toin:July 18.—There are to . new arrangements to'iocord -reiarding the present expedition, save that there is every reason to believe the whole matter will bo decided •on one way or the other early it August next. In ease of any accident occurring to the cable, the ,first serious loss will of necessity be the last, as there is now scarcely more than suflioient to acoomnlish the distance between Velentia and Newfound land, allowing, of. course, the usual margin for slack and waste. Of the 1200 miles of wire on the Agamemnon, 1100 are stowed in tho hold, and only 100 miles is now coiled on the upper deck in place of the 240 miles lost. This change in the arrangement of the cable has made the process of aibmerging loss clamorous, while the relief of the spper deck franc a weight of 140 tons has, of course, lade considerable and most beneficial - influence on the trim of the vessel itself. There seems marcely any possibility of a recurrence of the lame tempestuous weather which was so near proving fatal to the last expedition, though, even if it should occur, the Agamemnon is beyond all comparison better fitted to contend with it. She Is, however, undermanned for her size and what she has to do.—Correspondent of deo Times% The London Timox' correspondent on board the Agamemnon, pronounces the wire covered tele graph cable wholly unfit for a submarine telegraph across the Atlantic, and suggests a. thin copper wire covered with gutta-percha and greased yarn. A scandalous paragraph having appeared to the effect that Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Attorney-General of England, had secretly married his dairymaid, the t gentleman writes to the papers contradicting the story and pronouncing. it little elm than a t mite of falsehoods. Mr. George Bartley, a celebrated actor, who re tired from the stage same years ago, is dead. A grand banquet had been given in Galway to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in celebration of the establishment of a transatlantic line of steam ers from tho port of Galway. The India bill finally passed the House of Lords. The Archbishop of Canterbury expressed a hops that in future -the distinctions of caste in India would cones to exist. , The Earl of Dorby said 'Go. vernment would give indiscriminate and impartial protection to all creeds and religions, but would give no material assistance to any measure 'for converting the natives. Be thought it would ho moat undesirable to attempt to remove the dis tinctions of caste which woro so intorwovon with the principles and feelings of the Dindoo. Mr. D'art naked the President of the Board of Control what reinforcements are going or prepar ing to be sent out to India. Lord Stanley said that from Ist January to lot July 17,000 troops were sett to India, It was intended to strike a decisive blow when colder weather set in, and ar rangements were made to that affect. On the 21st of July in the House of Commons, the bill from the Lords which admits Jews into Parliament was finally passed by a vote of 12i to 55. In the Bowie of Commons, on the 22d, a debate took plate between Sir C. G. Lewis and Mr. Dis raeli en the financial condition of the country The former showed that the appropriations were considerably in excess of the estimated revenue for the year, and the latter explained that the actual receipts were largely in excess of the esti mates, and fully justified the appropriations that had been made. Do believed that the finances of the country had never been in a more healthy con dition than at present. In reply to an enquiry, Mr. S. Fitzgerald stated thaLthe war-steamer Cyclops was on her way to 'Jeddah to demand ample compensation, end insist on the punishment of the parties eoncerned in the recent oubreak. Tho Cyclops was so heavily armed that she could execute any service. The Porto was notified that it was not sufficient to send a Pasha to Jeddah, but measures must bo taken to vindicate British prestige in the East. The Sultan had expressed his indignation at the outrage, and his firm determination to exact exemplary punishment for it. lie had also placed at the die ' posal of the British Minister at Constantinople, 50,000 piastres, and announced his intention to confer n pension of upwards of .E4OO on the daugh ter of the French Vies Consul, and the English Vice Consul. The Pasha sent to Jeddah was armed with full powers to act without reference to Constantinople, and to declare martial law if ne cessary. On the 23d, in the House of Lords the bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister was rejected by a majority of 24. THE RIGHT OF VISIT. Mr. Fortesoue asked the Government whether they intended to adhere to or depart from the po licy of their predecessors with rospoot to the right of visiting ships suspected of slave trading, and asked what oourso they intended to pupae on that sub,jeet. Mr. Fitzgerald replied, the matter was under the consideration of Government, but he could not be expected to state what course they would take under circumstances which had not yet occurred. De bad, however, every hope and belief, from the language of the Ameriorn Government and the shortly arrive eta ' satisfactory conclusion. Lord Palmerston considered this reply unsatia factory. More information ought to be given. From what had been stated by the United States Minister, he considered there had been some completed transaction. Mo, therefore, asked what 'pretensions had had been given up, or what right conceded ? Mr. Disraeli said there bad been oommtmloations between the two Governments respecting the al leged acts of British cruisers, and those oommu- nloationo wore now in abeyance. During the abeyance, the Government of the United States had made a friendly overture that her Majesty's Government should offer to the United States a plan for their consideration which should accom plish alt the objects that both Governments had in vie W—namely, to put down the slave trade with out producing misunderstandings. Her Majesty's Goverment had accepted that offer, and they were now engaged in the consideration of a plan ivhich„they believed, would satisfactorily accom plish all the objects that both parties desired. (Cheers.) . . PRANCE It was thought that Prince Napoleon would soon bo named Minister of Marino, and oven Minister of War sooner or later. Despatches from the:commandant of the French naval [(Whin. off Newfoundland. announce that after several interviews with the Legislative body of the colony, he had succeeded In establishing the basis of a new treaty relative to tbd fisheries, and of such a nature as to give satisfaction to all the interests concerned. The Monitear de ea Flotto announces that an American state corvette, used for the instruction of the pupils of the naval academy,'has left the United States to be present at the fetes of Cher bourg. The yacht of the King of Prussia, the Grille, has been fixed on to represent the Prussian navy at the lame fetes. La Preme announces that the crew. of the French ship Marie Caroline have been murdered, and the ship burnt on the coast of Madagascar. It appears that ehe wont to the island to take free laborers for the Front% colonies, which one of the Madagascar chiefs promised to supply. When the captain went on shore to receive them ho was treacherously murdered. SPAIN. The Minister of Fore;gn Affairs le to said to have had a conference with the English Ambassador on the subject of the insults offered to Spain in a speech by Lad Malmosbury. TURKEY. ciintaTlAX lIFIVOMITIONARy MOVFMENTS A Marseilles telegram says: "A serious revolutionary movement has broken out amongst the Christian population of Syria. It iisaid that Tripoli and Latakia are in astate of in strreetion. In Onndia the Christiana had either barricaded tlemsolves or taken ifireht INDIA. The Renee of Jhensi is reported to have boon killed. Oudo continued disturbed. In Rohilcund al was tranquil. The Calcutta import market ens quiet hupplies of exports small. Money market unchanged. Sterling Exchange 2s dida2s 1 for credits. Six hundred—not six thousand—French troops, originally destined for Coohin China, wore on their wily to the Gulf of Peoholi. Tho French are said to have suffered severely by the explosion of a mine nt the capture of the Poiho forts At Can tor, trade was almost at a complete stand-still. At Kong Kong, exchange was quoted at 4s. 7d. for oredi ts. At Shanghai (May 31) trade was unsettled by the news from Peilio. The now silk crop was favor obi! reported upon. Adlspatoh from Hong llong says that serious alarmwas felt nt Canton, and that quantities of goose were being sent to Hong Kong for safety. LONDON MONEY -MARKET. Friday Evening, July 23.—There is en evident change for the better taking place in the moneta ry aid commoreial world. Money is plentiful and cheat); operations in the produce markets aro as suming larger proportions; and the advises from the manufacturing districts are very hopeful—the manufacturer is doing more business; and, the workman Is now receiving constant employment. Tho husk rate of discount still continues at 3 per cent; but so large is the supply of money in the open market, in exceptionable eases, the choicest paper is discounted as low as 21 per cent. Tho bank returns show an increase of £314,271 in the coin arid bullion. and an increase of £348,730 in the reserve of notes. TIIE 'ILLINOIS CENTRAL SIIATIEHOLDHES —A meeting of the shareholders in the Illinois Cen tral Railroad Company was held in London on the 22d of July. It was resolved to appoint a pernmrient London Committee, and to endeavor to make provision for a regular audit at New York on behalf of the European shareholders. It was likewise determined that a deputation of Euro pean shareholders should proceed to New York to prevent M:, Company being pledged to further expenditure without the previous concurrence of the London Committee; and a general opinion was expressed that the railway is now in a condi tion in which, after the payment of the call of 20 per cent, about to fall due, no more mousy should be required. Commercial Intelligence. LIVERPOOL BREADBTUFFS MARKET, July 23. The weather has been favorable for the crops. Flour closes very dull, prites *meter but quotations un changed. Philadelphia and Bahimore Flour, 2250229 Ca; Ohio, 225024 a; Weetern Canal 21em2ls 0.1. Wheat cloned at a declining tendency, the quotations being 3d lower. Sales of Southern red at 640139 2d; white Os lid m7s 2d; red western, 6s 6dwOe 2d; white, 6a ve6a 4d. Corn la also declining; prices are (idols lolver. Yellow is quoted at 639 ild; white, 339033 e Cid. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, July 23 Beef is heavy, with little inquiry at weak prices; Pork is ateady ; Bacon la dull, at a decline of 2s. Lard firm at 63a67613il LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, July 23.—The salsa of Cotton for the week bnve been 40,000 bales, of which speculators took 16,000 hales, and exporters 4 000 babe. Lower qualities have deelined and (air and middling 146. The sales to-day (Friday) are 7,000 balee, of which ----- spear atom tied ex ortera took each 10.1.10 boles. The and fall, was heard to exclaim, "T/,erets my Joe closing quotations are— —if that sable plume goes down I am Milled." Fair. Mfddlior So it was with the people of the United States as New Orleans 7 11.16 6 1546 Mobile, 7 , ' er a they turned their eyes with anxious solicitude to Uplaude, 7 3-16 644 ward the Capitol of their country. and In the great The stock of cotton in port la 662 000 bales, of which .'ectuncil-ok)apbetritlhe Nation watched the rteing 600.000 bales are American. , and falithg , plumett the brave champion of theig The blanchester advicee are unfavorable, and the rights: It ins fearful odds, as one man battling sales of manufactures unimportant 1 against a hundred. Now that plume was lost to LIVERPOOL. PRODUCE MARKET4 I duIy 2.3.—C0f• fee is firm in price; for tea there Is but little inquiry and , view and the voice hushedn amid the clangor of the conflict, and Isow it rggie shining above the battle-• prices are weak. Sugar buoyant. R'ce is stersly, Caroli na selling at 20a. for cash. • , I cloud like ii bent to cheer the nation ! He - Philadelphia Bark 10.1; Baltimore is. • 1 triumphed! Like Marshal Noy he made the Rosin dell, at 4s for common • Spirits, Turpentine ( Matnelukes fall or fly before him, and in a few heavy at 390405. Linseed Oil 34et ' ain 61. - ; . dive more, when the glad tidings come to tut from LONDON MARKEII3, Jay 2 _3.—Messrs. Baringe' 1 the pinion of Kansas that the people have given circular quotes Wheat dull, at a decline of lan on the Ihe death-blow to fraud and cheat, wo will give week. the conqurejoice.eror such a shout as will make his heart Sugar closes buryant, the advance for the week being , 6a9d. Rice is dull. Tea Inactive. 1 YOUKNOWIYHO, Turpentine dull at 40s. Linseed Oil 2,13 s 3da34. Lin- ' seed Oakes have advanced New York Cakes .L 10155. Boston 15 guineas. The Wool sales are buoyant at full prices. Letter front New York. [Correspondence of the Press.] New Youw, August 3,1858. Investigations today, into the case of parties charged with the murder of Brady, in a " Dead Rabbit" assault, have not resulted in any deiinite information as to the parties who committed the deed But the testimony thus far exhibits a fearful state of society in and around the locality of the crime. Branch's trial came on to-day, and another great crowd was present at the Court of General Sessions. Several witneves were examined on both aides. The prisoner is charged with threa libels, on Gova. 8011, Tiemann, and Draper, of the Almshouse. The Odd Fellows are holding their annual con ventions in the city, and will continue in session till Thursday next. The"groat cricket Match, at Hoboken, Is going on to-day, and attracts much attention. Thorn are large battings on " our side" of the house.. The stook market is depressed still. Reading continued Use liveliest in the Board, its sales amounting to four thousand shares. It opened at 511, but receded from this figure to 50, and,olosed at 501, regular, and 491, Seller sixty. .Delaware and Hudson was sold nt yesterday's priOe. Now York Central closed. at 841, a (Molina of 1. Erie likowise declined 1. In Pacific Mai,. Steamship thorn was a decline of 2, closing at 82. The Western roads shoWed a general dePreoia tion. About 1,000 shares Chicago and Rooklsland wore sold, beginning at 761, and closing at 76i— which is a fall of 1 sines yesterday.. Michigari Southern, old stook, brought at, first 291, bat sub sequently fell, and closed at 23, and the guaran tied declined 1, Michigan Central declined 1. La Crosse nod hipwaultea brought our last quoted price; Milwaukee and Mississippi fell 1 ; Cleve land and Toledo declined b ; Pamir's Railioad commenced selling at 1151, and closed at last evening's price, which was 115. The sales of Railroad bonds amounted to forty two thousand dollais. La Crosse Land Grant, be ginning at 241, advanced I. [The committee ap pointed at a previous s meeting in relation to the La Crosse interest troubles, made their report ex onerating its directors from nay desire to deceive the public, and expressing their opinion that no further notion ought to bb taken by the stock ex change.] Erie Convertibles of 1871, closed? at 313, 1 deslino on last previous saie ; ditto second mortgage at 91 ; ditto third ditto at 75 ; Harlem ditto at 561; Hudson River ditto ditto at 661: dit to convertibles at fill; Illinois, Central at 881, yesterday's price; Chicago, St. Paul, and Eon da Lao land grant at 181, 1 advance, and Hannibal and St. Joseph's at 59. State stooks wore not active, but prices remain ed steady. Virginia 6's closed at 921; North Carolina at 07, Louisiana at 93, and Itiissouri at 851. In Bank shares the only sales were of American Exchange, and Importers' sod Traders' at 105. A lot of Groat Western Insuranee was taken at 1191- In Foreign exchange the business continues light r 4 t.ho market remaining firm. The range for bank and bankers' bills on London is 10911010, and for commeroiatifignatures, which aro scares. On Paris, Of 131ti1' 141. Tho exchange abtho bank Clearing Homo the morning, wore $18,298,708 ot, and the balances, $1,273,835.01. By persias' adviaos, received this morning, we learn that the London'money market reuaairx quiet, and that foreign stocks are very active. The London Times of the 23d ult., contains a long article on the Illinois Central Railroad. It con. eludes that " if this railroad proves to be a delu sion, the fact must ba hold established that under no conceivable circumstances can American rail ways bo made to pay, and the benefit will have been attained of putting an end to all further blases in connexion with them. Upon its results, therefore, interests of wider scope depend than could attach to the ordinary proceedings of a single undertaking, however large." The London Times also notices sales on the 22d ult. of Illinois Central shares at 27 and 28 discount, the price being 29 at the close; ditto sevens at 81; New York Central shares at 76i and Pennsylvania sterling bonds at 90 and 891. The following is Tuesday's business at the Ace of the Assistant Treasurer: Receipts.. The receipts include $lBO,OOO from Customs. Sterling bills close dull, and 1091 is the beet price paid. Tho demand foQie mail has been em all. Stooks at the second board were irregular. pa cific Mail rose ; Michigan Central fell ; do. Southern rose j; Cleveland and Toledo fell h; Rook Island rose 1: and Milwaukee and Miss Reading sold at 504 cash. kiXl9 YORK STOCK EKORANGE—Angust 8. SECOND lIISARD, 2100 Miooouri 614 85% - 350 Ohio & Rock I 75% 2000 do sm no do eOO 763 ICOO Tenn St Se '9O 02h; 100 do 030 - 63 12000 Vir 81 Sc 92% 90 Mil & MIrO 11 15% 600 Erie R co't '7l 31% 600 N Y Clea It opg 813 1000 Goa , ollr , hl,l 65 03 do pke 84% 10 Continental Bk 08 lOO do 060 84% 5 Pac Mail 13 Co 83 100 Read It b3O 50% 50 do e•rg 300 do 50% 60 Mich Con It 611 100 do aog 60 MI 8& N Ia b3O 233 200 do 300 49% 100 do 23% 100 do 310 40% 50 do 330 23% i 200 do 0130 49% 100 Clev & Tol R al% Ftonn.—Marketqulte unsettled. Two-thirds of the supply le refused a WS by the Inspectors Miming un sound. Bales 8,7000 bbis at $4 16e54.20 for sound en. pertne Rate and $4 35 m $1.50 for sound extra State; FA 164;4.25 for superfine Western; $4.86m6 'for common to medium extra Western, and $4.000.50 for shipping brands of extra round hoop Ohto. Oanadian Flourtirmer. Sales 666 bbla at $1.60a5.20 for common to good ex tra. Southern flour la also doing better with sales 1600 bble at Esms 10' for superflon nod $.5.9.6,03.76 for fancy and Extra. Ryo Flour and Corn Meal remain no last noticed. Goats.—Market dulb • Sales 00,030 bushels at 90092 c for unsound MilwaukiciC.ub; $1.03 for Spring Wiscon sin (thebovgan;) $l.OlOllO for Winter red Western $1.1201.10 for white {Postern; $1 2001.90 for prime and very choice white Canadian; $1 20 for handsome new crop red Michigan, the first lot of the season and received by Menace. Nation le Collins; $1.15 for very handsome new red, and $1.45 for do white Southern. Peed! rose —Pork le livelier. Meet improving, but prices generally deprensed. Sales 675 bbls nt $l7 400 17 60 for mese ; $l7 for sour and thin do; and $14.200 14 45 for prime ; priroo mess is quiet and noininal,y quoted at $l6 Beef oontinues in good demand and with a limited Mock offering, prioee tend upward; miss 460 bbls at $l2 00 for Country Mena: $l2 25014.03 for repacked Western Mess; and $l4 75015.00 for Ext a Prime Moss lleof is dull and nominally held at $19.00022,00 Beef hams continue coerce, and arm at $19.00 for Prime ; the range it $17019. Bacon in quiet and un changed. Nut Sicev.—The isinore active and firm; Rates 2,250 bblo at 250, part last evening. Souse —Thera is a very buoyant feeling in the mar ket, and the tendency is toe further advance. Fele, since our last 2,400 hhcin at ?Sal% for Cube, and 270 hhdo Meiotic, at 3.,r5,4c, the inside prices for a very poor article. DlorA , Ses.—The market remains firm, but the trans actions are only to a moderate extent at about previous prices. Comm.—The market it quiet, but held firmly at previous pricer. By auction, this morning, 6 800 begs Sautes sold at 9,lieollyie, average 10 68-100. There was a good attendance, and the prices brought showed a nun. tabled market. Letter from► Centre County. fOorrespendenee or The Press.) The harvest will soon be over here, and the sum mer past, but not muds grain saved. The weevil has been very destructive to the wheat crop in this and adjoining counties, particularly the late grain. Much of the wheat in the low lands, late inripon• ing, Is almost entirely destroyed, while early wheat on high ground is not much damaged. This clearly seems to point out the expediency of sowing early grain and upon high land during the next two or three years; while the weevil will most likely pre• vail. J. L. Gillis of the Wild Cat district, will doubt less be renominated for Congress, but cannot, I think, bo re-eleoted. Your min "Occasional" is a sharp follow, and never speaks to us through the columns of The Press but he says something. In my last I promised I would glee you some account of the political manoeuvring by the Re. publicans in this district Col. W. W. Brown, editor of the Centre Demo crat, is the most prominent candidate they have in the fiold. Four papers are out in his support, and ho will doubtless be nominated, unless Judge Hale should consent to be a candidate. Judge Halo is a thorough-bredgentleman and justly popular with the people. He enjoys a large share of public favor, but is not a candidate for any office. He prefers a lucrative practice of the law at home to the toils and honors of the Capitol. Col. A. G. Curtin, late Secretary of State under Pollock, is out for the nomination in opposition to Brown The Republicans of Clinton county brought out Col. Rush B Petriken as their candidate for Con gress. Mr. Petriken is an able man and will no doubt get the delegates from Clinton, but the delegates of Lyooming will bo opposed to him. Col. A. Gregg is out for re-election to the Senate, and Dr. Richardson, of Lycoming, has been favor ably spoken of in connection with that ailed. It is now pretty certain, however, that Mr. Johnston, of Lycoming will be nominated. No one appears willing to accept the nomination for Assembly on the Republican ticket in this county, as there is little prospect of success. The fact of the matter is, running for the 'Legislature is not the most honorable business in the world of late years. While Douglas and Walker and Forney are with us we will not despair. Well might the people ex claim, while Douglas stood alone on the floor rf the Senate battling for their rights against suoh fear ful odds, "if Douglas' Jail us eau are lost." It is said of Napoleon that when in Egypt, (I think it wai,) at the battle of the Pyramids, ho eat a little way off on an eminence watching the contest, and following with anxious eye the movements of Nay. At one time when the Mamelukes poured round the gallant soldier by thousands and all seemed log, Napoleon, gazing at his sable plume mitt rose THE AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. War.rtes NATIONAL T IINATRIL- 4. .T.r0mb00"- 4, The • Wet Tutor." • Religious Inlelligince.—St. Paul'i Episco pal church, on Third street below Walnut, is un dergoing extensive repairlo -,iind alterations. A doorway has been out through the wall upo n th e south side, near the eastern edWpt' the church This doorway opens directly IMO' the audience chamber of the Church,' and it will furnish a pleasant and convenient means of ingress and egress in those whose pews are near the eastern end of the church. An iron stairway upon them/v. , aide leads to the new entrance. This will 'restore things somewhat to the condition they were in be-• fore the alterations made during the rectorship of the Rev., Stephan IL Tyng. Before time altera- Gone the audience chamber was open the'ground floor, the aisles were paved with brick, and a door way which now loads into the, estry room, Omni opened directly under the new passage into the eastern end of the church. Tho 'interior of the ancient building is to be entirely" renovated. A new pulpit is to bo put up, and th e walla and coil- Inge are to be frescoed. The expense of these al terations and improvements will be met by private ' subscription. ' Wo learn that tbe vestry intend carrying Into effect the wishes of the Rev. Joseph Pilmore, and .erect a steeple at the eastern end of the church. Dr. Pilmore, at the time of 'his death, thirty years ' ago, bequeathed a considerable slim of money for this object. The vestry have carefully 'attended to this trust, and the original sum has, of cOnrse, been greatly increased 'lYe learn that the consecration of Assistant-Fa shop Ho,wman, at Christ Church, in.this eity,'will j take place on Wednesday, the 25 th of the present month. It is understood that Bishop Romper, of Wisconsin, will preside, assisted by Bishop Potter, of New• York, Bishop tee, of Delaware, and As sistant Bishop Williams, of Connecticut. with probably another bishop, not yet nominated.- The canons of the Church require bat three to be pre sent, but it is.usuel to nominate and invite five, in ease any of those should be unexpectedly pre vented from attending - ' ' ' Bisporlant .drreit of an .4 !lege& Murderer. —On or about the firet of 'February, 1857, Mr. Montgomery, a wealthy and respectable gentle- man well known in the tipper portion of thcvoity, suddenly disappeared from his family. Ai he was ; a man of means, and as it was known that he had a considerable gam of money in his Possession, when he was last seen by his relatives, fears were entertained that he had been foully dealt with. It may be remembered liy some of our city readers ! that no little excitement was ciliated at the time of this occurrence, when after proper pollee, in vestigation, it was discovered that Mr. Montgome -1 ry had been takes into a tavern on the German . town rout, drugged and robbed of all the money be had about him. 1 Ito was taken from the tavern to hie residence . on the Frankford road, near Hart lane, where bo expired from the effects of the drug. An indi ' vidual named John Woodward, in company with others, it was alleged at the time before the in ! quest of Coroner Dolavau, had drugged Mr Mont ; gomery. A warrant - wee 'at once issued for the arrest of this person, but he effected his escape from tho city, and managed to elude the Officers of I the law unti, yesterday morning when he -was 1 taken into custody by Officer Fleming, of the Fifth I ward, and locked up in the station-house. He was 1 drinking in a tavern near Front and Dock streets, when he was met by the keen-eyed 'officer, who at once placed him under arrest. The evidence of ! his participation in the fatal drugging of Mr. Montgomery is said to be quite positive. If he should bo punished, it will bo but another exem plification of the fast that though justice is often times lame, it is sure. Police Business.—A German, named Si i_meon. who boarded for a short period at a house si ! trotted in the vicinity of Twenty-fourth and Spring Garden.streots, left Me abiding place on Monday, i taking with him two gold and two silver watches, two gold chains, Seven shirts, and a small amount lOf money belonging to other boarders. I:e has not . since been beard of. John MeCay, James Clark, and John MeLaugh lin, were arrested on Monday evening at Ninth and Chestnut streets, for insulting decent females pass ing along that way. They were bound over by Alderman Freeman to answer. A man giving the name of Pierce Stroup' was arrested on Monday evening, at Twelfth and Brown street?, having in his possession twenty five pairs of leather uppers for shoes, abotit which he could not give a satisfactory account. Ile was committed by Alderman Conrow. A man named John Adamson was taken into custody, in tho vicinity of Ninth and George streets, on Monday evening, on the charge of stoal• lug a gold watch. Ito was committed by Alder man Freeman. John Rogers, M. Donnelly, and Robert Devlin were arrested on Monday evening, in the neigh borhood of Raco and Ninth streets, on the charge of inciting to riot. They wore held in $5OO bail by Alderman Freeman to answer. Fall of a Building.—About ono o'clock yesterday morning a large building on the south eido of .treat, below Sixth, in the First fell to the ground with a tremendous crash,' which caused no little alarm in tho neighborhood, brit fortunately without hurting any person. The struoture was originally built fOr a ohuroh. It was about fifty feet deep by thirty in width, and - was a single high story in height. While need for religious worship it, was known by the nick name of the " Tioklybender Church." In high Native American times the building be cam° a sort of political headquarters, and it was called iWashington Hall. It was afterwards used for 'temperance lectures, ko. ' and more re cently for a machine shop. Quite lately, and up to the time of its fall, it was used as a rag-shop by James Higgins. The fall of the building is at tributed to the wide span of the roof, and to the great weight of the latter, which bad been cover ed over with hoary cpmposition and gravel. The roof crushed in throwing out the walls, and con verting the building, with its stook-of rags, into a general wreck. The property is owned by the estate of Captain Moore. $395,236 76 _itaajuin 10 $5,264,088 21 Pennsylvania Railroad Emigrant The Pennsylvania Railroad Company carried 1,828 emigrant passongerg over their road during the month of July. Of ,this number 70 were way. passengers, 537; stopped at Pitteburgh ! and 1,214 had tickets for Cincinnati, Toledo, Chicago, Mil. waukee, bunleith, Bt. Louis, Kansas, and various other stations in the West These passengers bad with them 20,005 pounds of extra baggage, and moat of them were well provided with' means for the purpose of purchasing farms in the new country in .which they wore seeking_ homes. A great majority of those,who go ' West; to buy farms are (throning, and thrive in emigrant ships at New York, 1,282 of the 1,828 passing over the road during the pant month having come from that city. This fact, no doubt, Is owing to the many conveniences afforded 'passengers by the Penn sylvania Railroad Oonipany, and the vast supe riority of the Pennsylvania route over that of New York. Death of a Custom-House Officer.—Mr. George Saotzline, an Inspector In the Custom House, died on Monday night, at his residence at Roxborough, of malignant fever, contracted while In the performance of his official duties on board the barque Elizabeth J. Mr. S. was taken ill on Saturday. The vesrel has been ordered out of the port by the Board of Health. During an alarm of fire last evening a col lision occurred between some of the adherents of the Wecorame and Southwark Engines, at Fifth and Monroe streets. Several arrests were made. Entered on His Dufiest—Mr.' - W. L,. Bla don, the chief clerk of the Bonny of Health has entered upon the discharge of his official duties. THE COURTS. The Kirkpatrick' oisoning Case. (Reported for The. Pren I QUARTER SESSIONS—Judge Allison.—Mr. F. 0. Brewster occupied the attention of the court up to the hour of adjour nrnent, with a very interest lig and able argum out for the defendants. He will conclud e this morning. It is understood that Messrs. Hazlehurst and Kelley will speak to-day. It is just possible, therefore, there may be some disposition of the ease this week. QUARTEU Se MONS—Judge Ludlow.—Otto the man, an Italian, wee tried - on the charge. of steal ing a piece of °Basil:lmre from a store door. The prisoner said that ho came from Now York with a man who gave him the goods. The testimony showed that the goods were taken from the store of Messrs. Leo it Co. Verdict guilty Michael Comber, a lad, was tried on the charge of larceny, in stealing 594 from Edward Lynch Tho prosecutor, on the 9th of June, went into a public house to got a drink, at the prisoner's in vitation, and they played a game of cards for ale. After this, as ho wont mit the door, a crowd out side asked Lynch if he would treat, and ho said he would not The tavern-keeper then demanded the pay for the previous drinks, and a ten dollar note woe handed over to take out fifty cents. While this was going on his pocket book was taken'. Comber, it was testified to, got ton dollars of the money. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to six - months imprisonment. Winifred Fitzpatrick alias -Maria Mullin, was put on her trial on the charge of stealing a piece of muslin, a plaid dress,' and other articles. She was living with Mrs. Eddie as a domestic. The defendant is a good-looking girl; and told a story that was calculated to enlist the sympathies of the sternest. She did not; however, affocit,the' jury, who rendered a verdict of guilty. The same defendant was tried on the charge of stealing a piece of Swiss muslin from a store door. The explanation given in reaped to the second charge was that she got the muslin frill , another girl. Verdict guilty., She'vnis sentenced to four months' imprisonment. Rebecca Marshall, colored, was tried on the charge of stealing some e nverware, the property of SamuelJ. Freeman. The defendant was in the employ of Mr. Freemen about a week, and stole the silverware and a variety of other articles, in cluding 'it diamond breastpin. She admitted the theft. Verdict guilty. IVhen' she entered the erlloy azir. Freeman she had a good reoommen dat on. Sentenced to four months. George W. Turner for larceny, was sentenced to fourteen months' imprisonment. Elizabeth Pryor, for larceny, was sentenced to three months. Hall, a young man convicted of burglary, was sentenced to an Imprisonment of two years in the Eastern penitentiary. Burns, also a young man oonvietha of the same offence, woe sentenced to same term. • George Turner, convicted 'of the same offence, was Renton(' od to an imprisonment of fourteen months. A fire occurred in Columbia, S. C., on the 30th nit., which destroyed the stables of Meters. Green k Bailey, and the erorkehops of O. Deck, carpenter. Leas, $3,000. No insurance. FINANCIAL AND CO UM EIiCIAL. The , Moncy—ltlnrketi -- • Pait,SDELplliAi August 3, 1858. The changes that preluco the greatest astonish- Mont to him who reeds the history of menkind ate in very many owes the results of dilutes whieh are so apparently trivial as to be altogether overlooked. One of our American orators, alluding to this feet, gives an instanc e in the conclinion of the wain Of Great Marlborough, in Queen Anne's ,reign, *hieh had been fostered for; the sake of honer and profit that the Doke was reaping by-Sit -wife,wid was the. Queen's favorite. Ariother fdoorite wag in sulted by the Duchess of kfailborolighi, who Pur posely spilled `dome tea npob her clothing. the; quarrel whinh followed, the Queen took sides against the Duchess, whose loss of influence at court was followed by the disfavor of the Nuke, and the stoppage of the war. And so, a cup Of tea spilled on Mrs. Masham's apron restored peace to exhausted Europe. ' ' Ten years ago, when a few bold and energetic spirits were trying to effect the laying of a railidad from the Atlantic to 'the Lawrence, for, thsi purpose of getting &litho More trade For their be loved town of Portland, the Boater' folks laughed ? their owri neigfibdiVdoebted; and the people of Neir York did not glie the matter a theught. _ The romtwas but partially eomplated, howevei, before the Grand Trunk Raildray of Canaan Mid 0 an offer for the use of that pert Nelda was finished, connected - it with end - made it ik part of lta own 'mammoth enterprise; and to-day the enthesiaslic Portlandoro, awakened from the dreamy lathers* of the few years past, are looking with wonder, yet with most sanguine.expeotatione, to what the the next ten years will do for their beautiful city. In the last ten years, under the influence of this railroad that was begdn to procure . a little trade with the British provinces, they have setin great blocks -of stokes arise, a line of •-sitlan: tic ',Maulers established with Portland, for one terminus, a railway connection of a feet hoidi time established with Quebec aid the Canada; on the ope hand, and Eetroit, Chicago and theireat Northwest on the other, and their sons, established in new homes in Wisconiiin, lowa, and Minnesota, receiving their 9upplies by the Grand Trunk rail: way, and • sending iie'rettlrn to the Seaboard at Portland thousands on thousands at barrels of flour by the same railway, which 'they conhdeiit4 talk of extending ae the best line to the PaciEe. This railroad has ahead, suet sixty millions of dollars. It is extended as far as Grand Raven in Michigan. It is powerfully supported by Eng land, and iethe idol of the Canadians. A report to the Now York Legislature last winter said that the present tendency of traffio is, for some reason or ocher, to desert the great channels which con- Sect the Westoritb the seaboard through the State Of Now York, and Mae& those now channels Which Canadian enterpri se has lately opened, in the shape of the Cliand, Trunk Railway, and the line of the Canadiariateamers to Europe. - The following is astatement of the-amount of coal transported over the Lehigh Valley Railroad, for the week ending J uly 31, MS': ' rummy. Tour.. • Miens. Tone. Cwt. Tons. Cat. Torus. Cwt. Spring - M0untain....2,829 19 - 63,498 00 68,075 19 East Sugar Lour...-.2 ; 811 Os 98,958 00 • 43,289 08 N. York 3:Lebigh...1,030 10 Vitro" 01 27,480 15 Council Ridge - 1 389 18 33,698 04 31,938 01 German Pa. 91 04 1 308 15 1.169 19 Coleraine &11 Mead.l,l7o 09 42,571 04 43,741 12 Ilazietoe 1,788 07 54,199 00 55,987 07 North Spriny, 709 18 16,034 13 16.744 31. South, .. 36 09 • 2,505 04 2,541 13 Mt. P1ea5ant........148 13 953 06 1,101 19 Nast Lehigh - 97 15 97 16 Summit 280 18 281 18 Total 11,766 16 271,652 03 233,419 01 Oorresponding week . last year 12,055 90 250,161 07 262,246 07 Increase. Decrease The following is the amount of coal shipped on the Lehigh canal, for the week ending July 31 FROM FOR WERE, Naterh Chunk. Tow.. Cwt. &Mani!. Mum - 7 693 19 Tunnel No. ? Room nun Mines.. East Lehigh Mine D. Mummy god others, Pea and Dust Coal " East 4lfants Chunk. Spring Mountain Minds East Sugar Loaf - do. Coleraine Beater Meadow do. N. Y. and Lehigh Coal C 0... (I erman Penn. Coal Co South Spring Mountain Cool North Spring Mountain Coal. Penn Haven llaaleton Coal Co East Sugar Loaf Council Ridge Mt. Pleasant Coal Rockport: Buck Mountain Coal Co White Harm. Wilkesbarre Coal Co Andenrled Coal Cot. Hartford Coal C 0... Lumber. For the week... Per last report Total —17,157,809 PHILADELPhIA STOCK 13X0IIANGE BitLEl3; Aug. 3, 1855. IWPORSZD BY IiAMILBY, BROWN, & CO "BANC-N0714 wroax, AND BIORANON BROOROS, HOI4I3WEBT COIRIII ?BIRD AHD OHBSTNUT APIRINSS. 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Asked. lla 8 , 9 97 973 do R 97% 979 do Row .102 mg ealitt 4 .7lv 54 89% SO Reading 25% 25 do bd '70100076% 78 do mt ett '44.... .. do mt 'BO-68 613% Penns R 41% 41% do latm 88 in0[798% 9 9 11 do 2dm 86in off 87% 67% %orris Oata 00n..43 46 I Bid. Asked. d& Nat Imp Oa .... .. do Amok.... 91e 9% do pref.,...17 1716 Wmep't & Rim R.:11 Ilx 1:- do 'Valet mt .70 ~.. do gd r0t.....48 49 Long Island 12.1( 123 i Girard , Bank 11% 11% 'Leh Coal & Nay..48)6 60 N peons It 9 9 16 -do Ws 69 1916 Saw Crook ,4i .% -.7-- do pref div offl7X 9834 &hal N 82 LAT C►t►wise► B OX Lehigh Zino.. ..... 1 . lx EST. ' 'Reading c105ee...25S 253( 26 Heading PHILADELPHIA MADKETS, AugUla.3—Evening.— Breadstufre are unchanged. In Flour them is no new feature ; the stocks are light, but there is no demand for export, and the market continuos dull; the only sales are to supply the wants of the home trade at from $4.50a55 for superfine, thelatter for strictly fresh ground from new wheat; $4.75a $5 25 for extra, and $5.50a55 75 for extra family and fancy lets, as in quality. Old stock superfine is offered at $4 25054 371 per bbl, without finding buyers. A small sale of sour Flour was made at S 4 per bbl. Of Rye Flour and Corn Meal the mar ket is nearly bare; we quote the former at $3 . 371, and the latter at $3.75 per bbl for Pennsylvania Meal. Wheat—There is very little offering, and fine lots are scares and wanted at an advance on prices of yesterday; sales include about 2,000 bushels, in kits, at $1.20 for good - Pennsylvania and Southern red, and $1.25 to $1.40 for fine to prime white. Rye is stringent and but little offer-,. ing ; 730 for old, and 650 for new. Corn is better, and generally held above the views of buyers, with sales of 600 bus yellow and 600 bus white, both at 950, which establishes an advance ; sales are re ported late in the day 990. Oats remain about stationary, with sales of 3,000 bus now Southern at 37a38c, the latter for prime Delaware. Bark— Quercitron continues scarce and in demand, and holders are asking $33 for first, No, 1 Cotton— The market remains quiet but steady at previous qu3tations, with a small business to'botice in the way of sales. Groceries and Provisions—There is little or nothing doing, owing to the firmness of holders and the want of stooks of the former arti cle. Seeds are moving off More freely, and 270 hags Cloverseed sold, to go out of the market, at 90 per lb. ; now Timothy is beginnieg to arrive, and the dealers are buying -at $2.25 per bushel. Whiskey Is firmer,atith - salon of 200 this Western at 20c; Adriltre, woith, t lso, and 'drudge 24a241e per gillen: • Mar Vets by Tegraplt. °Meal), Aueuat 3 —Flour active.- Wheat firm, and to better. Corn him an advancing tendeory, but the ...bey is eicited awl unedited ; sales at 6130. an ad vance of 60. Oath firm. Shipmeute to Buffalo—No Four; 14.600 bushels of Wheat. Receipts-000 bble of norm; 14,000 buehele of Wheat, and 44,000 bushels of Corn. BALTImOns, Ang. 3.—Plonr is very dull, but Howard street and Ohio are held at $4 624'4 75. Wheat is du II but unchanged Corn dull and lower—sales of mixed at 80®820; white at 85c, and yellow at 90e93e. 1 ro ylsions are firmer. Baron—Shoulders. 7c ; Bides, Be. Mess Pork is quoted at $17.75. Whiskey steady at 20,ti 27e. -01301NX 4 11, Aug. 3.—Flour and Provisions are un changed. Sales of Whiskey at 23c. A heavy shower of rain fell this afternoon, flooding the streets. ARRIVAL OP THE JAIIESTOWN.—The United States sloop-of-war Jamestown, late one of the squadron cruising in Cuban waters, arrived here this morning from Rey West, which she left on the 25th ult. She has a few cases of fever and ague on board, but no other sickness. The fallow ing is a list of her officers : "Commander, C. Kennedy ; Lieutenants, George B. Balob, Samuel Edwards, John W. Bennett, Stephen B. Luce, Elias K. Owens; Surgeon of Marines, Duvall; undetant'du., Thomas Marlton ; Captain's Clerk, Washington Irving, Jr ; Purser's Clerk, Joseph A. Berry; let Lieutenant Marines, C. G. McCaw ley; Acting Boatswain, William Laverry ; Gun ner, Benjamin Thinlier - ; Carpenter, B. M. Lohry ; Acting Sailmaker, Robert Hunter." There was but one case of yellow fever during the voyage, and that person recovered. The vereel has not lost a man during the eruise.—N, Y. Evening Post. -- --- - T 21,49016 21,11314 TOTAL. Tom. Cut 128,440 08 910 00 5,700, 18 2,184.02 24,818 01 1,317 12 18,438 dr 11,664 13 1if,366 14 21,132 10 2,032 09 493 00 . 5.624 00 317 10 2066 09 963 03 6,467 40 1,124 02 10,631 13 342 43 .6,114 16 296 08 • 2,411,01. 5 199 11 50,291 OS 1,221 02 9.800 10 664 04 44.654 09 693 07 6,346 14 1,89818 28,80514 979 - 03 16 192 03 899 06 7,777 17 770 04 12,269 12 29,040 04 030,019 00 • ,2216 ....... 1,102,009 16,064,201•