The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-01
The News.


The News.
The union Democratic State Convention at SYRIA
cuse yesterday nominated the following ticket for
State officers
Gopernor :. Amasa J. Parker, soft shell.
Isesa Goue7nor John Vanderbilt Of Kings, hard shell.
oHal Com r. John L. Russell Of St Lawrence SON shell
Prison Inspector Mat Brennan, Of New York, soft she'll
Clerk Of Apps. H. G. Warner Of Monroe, hard she'll
The ticket for Presidential ele tors is headed with
the names Of Addison Gardiner soft, and David l..
Seymour, hard. The district delegates, list OF
whose names may be found in our report, are nearly
equally divided between the two factions Resolu-
hons as long as the nursery ballad euiogis-
tic of the exploits of that marine hero
Captain Kidd, and ringing the changes upon
the stereotyped party catchwords with mo
notony equal to that for which the dtty alluded TO
Is distinguished, were adopted with enthusiastic
applause" A Geographic message from Mr.. Ba-
chanan was read announcing that the union OF the
hars and softs is one of the grandest events in our
history II WILL however, be perceived by our re-
port that this grand event in our history" was at
tended by some circumstances leading irresistibly
10 the conviction that the democratic factions are
vet bitterly hostile to each other, and also that by
The merest chance the Convention was saved from
breaking up in an old fashioned Tammany Hall
free fight.
In the Senate yesterday the bill directing the
payment of the California war debt bonds, upon
order of the Commissioners, was passed. The
Secretary of War was requested to communicate in
formation respecting roads running into the int
rior Of the country from the Military Academy at
West Point. number Of river and harbor i'm
provement bills were passed, among them appro
priations for Newark harbor, Big and Little Sodus
and the Delaware Breakwater. In the House the
day was spent in discussing the merits OF the Kan
sas contested election case. Pending the reading OF
paper on the subjec. from Gov. Reeder, who is ~
ing sick in Philadelphia, the House adjourned. /.
is believed that Gen. Whitfield will be rejected, but
that the seat viii not be given TO Reeder. The main
question viii no doubt be decided to-day.
The ceremonies attendant upon breaking ground
for the erection of reservoir and water works for
furnishing the citizens of Brooklyn with water took
place yesterday, six miles from Brooklyn, near the
Cypress Hills plank road John Il. Prentice, Mayor
Hall, Drs. Storrs, Bethune and others made appro-
pirate addresses, which win be found elsewhere
fully reported.
The Commissioners of Health, as shown By re-
port OF their yesterdays session in another column,
are beginning 10 close up such slaughter houses in
he city as are deemed prejudicial 70 the safety Of
the public health. II is good move in right di
rec.ion. Meanwhile, the Commissioners wish no
Official announcement as yet Of The progress Of yel
low fever at Quarantine. II Is sufi. ent TO know
that thus far there is 10 ground for the slightest
alarm on the part Of residents in the city.
Advices from Port Loss. MaurtiGs, OF 18th OF
May, say The cholera, after carrying of nearly
500 victims, may now be said TO have left the
town in the meantime, il still continues its ravages
IN certain parts Of the island. The shipment Of the
last sugar crop Is drawing TO a close. The next
crop promises TO exceed that just completed. The
weather continues fine, bu, rains would greatly
benefit the plantations which are generally forward
II they are so favored the crop will be commenced
early, which means in July.
The semi-aanual meeting Of the Know Nothing
Grand Council of the State of New York viii be
held at Syracuse on Tuesday, the 26th OF Aug 81.
Among other business to be transacted will be ~
OF appointing the place for the State Convention u
the American party, which is to nominate caadi
dates for the State Offices 10 be elected next Noyen
Der, and also Presidential electoral ticket Th,
Convention win be held on the fourth Tuesday Of
September next.
The following table exhibits the number Of killed
and wounded by railroad and steamboat accidents
during the month just closed, the number OF lives
lost by fres and the amount Of property destroyed
by confagrstions. Fires which have no, destroyed
property estimated at twenty thousand dollars are
mt eruuerafed.-