The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-10
The News.

The News.
Nothing important traDspired in the Know
Nothing National Convention yesterday, all dis
eusson and business having been postponed until
the platform committee report. Their report will,
NJ we are informed by our correspondent, b made
tomorrow. With reference to the allabsorbing
subject of slavery, the committee has arrived at
determination The Kansas Nebraska act will be
resfirmed in all its parts. The principle of popu-
lar sovereignty, as defined by that measure, will be
fully sustained by the report. On Monday, there
fore, the real business of the Convention viii com.
mence, and we shall soon learn the result. Our
correspondent details the causes Of the defeat Of
James w. Barker, in the election for President OF
The Convention, and they appear to be perfectly
reasonable and satisfactory. To have President
Of the United States and President of the Order
hAiling from the same State was certainty an moon
gruity to be avoided.
The Beard Of Health of New Orleans has rescind
I'd the resolution recently passed, declaring the
cholera epidemic.
Accounts from the Rio Granae state tina. the
whole of Northern Mexico is in ferment of rsvolu.
tion in consequence Of the arrival of an emissary Of
Santa Anna at Monterey, vita orders to
arrest and put to death several of the
leading citizens. The Governor was forced to sur
render, and the lives of the victims were spared.
The insurgents made q demonstration upon the
town, and the Governor fed. Masamoras dates to
the 18th un. state that the revolutionists in San
Luis Potcsi had issued o pronunciamento, and
troops were preparing to leave Matamoras to quell
the instruction. Chihuahua is reported as ON the
eve OF revolution.
We give to-day reports from almost every sec
ton Of the Union the state and condition of the
crops. After nine months probation Of high
prices and with -four yet at thirteen dollars bar
rel 10 the consumer, nothing could be more cheer
ing than the intelligence which reaches Us from
every quarter that the crops promise yield far
eusstrpping any previous season. Bot few weeks
will now elapse before wheat rye and oats, will be
ready for the farmers cradle, and then ne -four
viii speedily be upon the market, to the almost
total exclusion of that which is now held at such
enormous prices. That the new crop will come in
ut o greatly reduced rate we think there can be
NO doubt. This is also, it seems, the opinion o.
holders Of -four at the present tims as it will be
seen that the price of flour has been the decline
for the past week, and it will doubt, continue to
90 down as the season advances. For the ground
work of opinion we refer to the reports in an
other column.
Under the head of a Visit to the Brooklyn Navy
Yard" We publish to-day full account Of the per
Manent improvements which are making for the
government in and around that establishment. It
will be found very nterestiDgshowing, as 1t does,
TO the people how the late Congressional appropria
lion Of three hundred and fifty Thousand dollars il be-
ing expended under the direction of the heads of the
different departments A list of all the war vessels
building, repairing or laid up in ordinary, is also
given, with o notice of the new steam frgate
Niagara which MIR. George Steers is now construct
ing When completed she will be OF the largest,
as well as the mos. beautiful, ship in the world.
Some elegant and most useful work is being flushed
in all the shops of the master mechanics. TIE
officers of the yard are very attentive to stranger
visitsrs.
Judge Hoffman, of the Superior Court. rendered
an elaborate decision yesterday in the matter Of
motion fer an injunction against the Commissioners
of Emigration, to restrain them from establishing
depot for emigrants at Castle Garden, concluding
with denying the motion, and discharging the tenn
Pcrary order heretofore made in the case.
We have received late news from South Amer.
ca. The various republics in that region are gene
rally in state of peace, although the people of
Bolivia aud Ecuador are much affected with fears
OF invasions by Flores and Santa Cruz, who are
bsrpored and allowed to prepare hostile expeditions
in Peru. So severely had the abolition of slavery
fallen the cultivstors of land in Venez1el that
a project of law has been introduced in Congress,
considerably diminisbiug the rates OF taxes now
imposed upon agricultural produce. A significant
fact for our insane sboltionists!
From the Danish West Indies we have tiles of
the st. Thomas Times TO the Goth Of May. The
>ountry was quiet. The American bark Cattle
nne Augusta, with the steamer Benjamin Franklin
had left port amidst the good wishes Of the people,
The bark Governor 0xholm had sailed for New
York. We give list of her passengers.
There were 356 deaths in this city last week as
we learn by the official report of the City Ius
tor, including 81 men, So women, 122 boys, aud
100 girls, showing decrease Of 43 on the mortali.
ty OF the week previous. Bronchitis carried off 6,
cancers 5, congestion Of the brain 8, consumption
80, dropsy in the head IL, other dropscal com
plants 8, diarrh@a 6, dysentery 10, typhus fever
a. remiteRt fever g. heart disease g. Inflammation Of
the lungs IL, Inflammation Of the brain S, other in
fiammatory diseases l6 smallpox 6, convulsons
infantils) 81, Group 8, debility s. scarlet fever
20, whooping cough s, marasmus Cufantile)
Is, and measles 4. There were 5 prena-
ture births, Is cases Of stilibsrn, and IL deaths
from violent causes. The following is the classf.
cation Of diseases: Bones joints, &C., 81 brain aud
nerves II; csnerative organs, 5; heart and hood
vessels, Q; lungs, throat, &C., 80; skin, &C., aad
eruptiye fevers, 3O stflborn and premature births,
30; stomach, bowels, end other digestive organs,
81; uncertain seat and general levers, A; urinary
organs, 2; old age, 2. OF the whole number, 226
we're natives Of the United States, 4s Of Ireland,
"a Of Germany, Of England, and the balance Of
ether European countries.
Cotton continued active yesterday, with sales Of
8 OC0 bales, and thenarket closed firm. The sggrs-
rate sales for the past week reached about 10000
bales, he heaviest nes ever bfore made IN single