POSTSCUIPT.
SA_TITRDAY.
An American mail, brought by the steam-ship Hermann, was landed at Cowes yesterday morning. The news came down to the 14th, three days later than the Europa's. It is very important. A Free-soil Convention was held at Pittsburgh on the 11th of August ; and John P. Hale of New Hampshire, and George W. Julien of Indiana, were nominated as Free-soil candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President. Mr. Hale is a man of some ability, and notorious for his speeches in the Senate in favour of abolishing slavery by an act of Congress. Mr. Julien is a local leader of the same stamp. This double nomination has made the Democrats anxious about the success of Pierce and King ; but an intelligent correspondent of the ?Times is of opinion thdt the profound differences in the Whig party, added to the abstraction of Free-soil Whig votes, will render the chances of General Pierce fairer than ever. • The Fishery question remains pretty much where it was. Another de- bate took place in the Senate on the 12th, but it was not of great intereat ; and the impression that Mr. Crampton and Mr. Webster would settle mat- ters amicably prevailed. Nevertheless, seizures in the fishing-grounds are still reported, and some vessels lying in the Bay of Chaleur had been ordered off by the steam-ship Devastation. Commodore Perry, command- ing the Mississippi, landed at St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 9th of August, and was received by a guard of honour. On the next day he set out for Frederick Town, to have an interview with the Governor.
In the matter of Keine, which had come before Judge Nelson, it was formally decided that the case should be argued before the Supreme Court of Washington sitting in hence: meanwhile, Keine remains in the cus- tody of Tallmadge, the United States Marshal, at New York.
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