The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1854, Page 4

Ww YORK HERALD. { dhe bands of & v'gorous and energetic people. Vatil aaa detente * | the ceesion 0° California to th: orere and ORDON BENNETr. the rush of our prople thither, the rich gold deposits fA PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. | of the plares remained unkno#n ¢o its semi-ciril- be a9 re Qeric ¥. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON ra, ized inhabiants, What the effect would bo gards the product of silver in Mexic eee gous timated. It canno! THe Dai? HERALD 2 conte eunee. circumstances can be estima FaE WAERLY HERALD overy Saterdiry 05 80g conte Sal 4 Bdition $4 per annum, ‘he be doubted t's", with skill and indus piud eras Jeary ritatn, ‘ond silver m'nes could be made to yield double : id enclave pentane aia sane each pace smount gath*red in gold from the washings ; of the sierra: ot California. Thee suggestions are prompted by the interestiag commun cation of a corresponden’ cn the subject, which may be found in to-day’s paper. STATE OF THE MARKETS, Common brauds on Saturday were without mate- ria] change. White, Southern, Canadian, and good to extra State brands, weré heli firmer. Wheat was firm, with mod rate sales. Injian corn was firmer, snd sales wer? made at 79c.a8lc. Pork sold at $12 25¢. a $12 37, chiefly at the latter figure. Cot ton was ateady, with sales of about 700 a 800 baies. AMUSEMENTS THIS SVENING. GROADWAY THEATEE, Brestway.—Mantrans -Poos Phuc pv. asy Riven Boatman OUR BOWBEY THEA’ Buren GvaRpian— JARPENTSR WIBLO’S, Brosdway.— Younes Cover s-*roitsp City. BURTON'S Chambers street -Bex Borr -Movsracue Maria Texrzst. WATIONAL THEATRE. Chatham street.-Rac Pickan er Paxis—Wizanv’s x17. WALLACK’S THEATRE Manoe- Dove on Bors Ex MATROPOLITAN THEATER low Forty anv Firty Broadway.—Lopon Assu- 8 Important Movement—Secession of the da- tonal Whigs from the Seward Coaltdon, We are gratified to announce to our readers that the national conservatives of te late whig party of New York have been making arrange- ments jor openly “dissolvicg the connec ion” which has eo long and -o untor unate y subsist- ed between them and the Seward coalitionista, We are informed that all the national Union men of the late whig “Happy Family”—F |\more men, Webster men, aud Castle Garden Union Safety Committee men—haviug resolved upon another effort to maintain their national stand- ing, will meet to-morrow in a sort of indepen- dent confidential State convention—perhaps at Albany, or somewhere in the iaterior—for the purpose of shaping out their policy of action in the November election. The result will proba- bly be a transfer from the whig State ticket to some other ticket of from twenty-five to thirty thousand votes. This is the only course of self-respect and in- dependence which is left to the national whigs of this State. Inflated with pride and confidence, the Seward fusionists have very plainly intima- ted that they can disperse with all those over- nice conservatives who cannot cheerfally fra- ternize upon the Saratoga anti-slavery platform. This fastidious class of the party, after being thoroughly despised at Syracuse, have been ever since jeered at, and tauntingly challenged to abandon the Seward coalition if they dare. “Oh, yes! go o to Bronson; he will neei assietance; or to Seymour, who has but half the democratic party to back him; or to UNman, who at Jas: has got a nomination, and wants Go, ye defenders of the Fugitive Slave very and slaveholders, go to Bron- ‘ymour, or Utlman—we can spare ye all—we don’s want you. Go now, aud wel come, for we shall dispeuse with you after the election at ail events.’ Such, substantially has been the brotherly advice of the whig coali- tion organs to all those whigs who kesitate to joiu actively in the disunion abolition crusade of W. U. Seward against the South. Now it strikes us, as it will strike the reader, that any set of men who could passively submit to such insults and indignities would cease to be objects of respect, political or per- sonal, and that they would even be less entitled to individual pity than to general contempt. Doubtless the national whigs of this Common- MUSEUM.—Afternoon— fo Osticr Sexson CAN Mo reat, Rvening-Dom Cazan: fOOD'S MINSTREL BALL, 444 Broadway-Brwsortan Reaerk elsy Ay URLESQUE OPERA. SDOKLEY'S OPERA HOSE, 639 Broadway -Brox- war's Ernorran Orgna TROUPE # DOD'S ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELS.-Mecnamice’ Hay, Ga Grondway. PERMAM’S 3UR.ESQUE OPERA FROUPE-Eruio- oras PERFORMAncES. &POLLO ROOMS. Livine GuRrosirins, EG DEN~EqumstTRIAt ?ERFORMANCE ‘w York, Munday, October 23, 1854, Malls for Europe. NEW YORK HEKALD—EDICION POR BUROPE. The Cunard mail steams ip Europa, Captain Shannon ‘Will leave Boston on Wednesday at 12 o’clock M., for z, Liverpool. ‘The Evropesn meils will close in this city at half past two o’elock to-morrow afternoon. ‘The Hera (printed in French and English) will be Published at ton o’lock in the mozning Sing!e copies, in wrappors, sixpence, Budseriptions and advertisements for any edition of Ahe New York Herstp wiil be received at the following places in Europy :~ ik cous r No. Jise wtreet, rsh ee enatarerd ot Ne #17 Cornaill « No. 1 herioe atree'. Part...... Living# on, Wells & Co , 8 Place dela Bouse The contests of the Euronzan edition of the HERALD will embrees the news receiv d by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of publication. ANOTHER MEX\CAN TREATY. We ovunderstand from very excellent authority verbment of the United Sates at Wash dogton, ond the cabinet of His Imperial Highness Santa Anna, have already laid the basis of 4 new treaty, whicd is at the present mom nt in process of nego ction. This treaty will be entirely of a com mercial nature, aid itis considered that when com plete it will be worthy of being classed in she same Official catalogue with that known now as the “Gadeden treaty.” La fact, we are of opinion the’ the new treaty cominunicatious of the two govera- ments were orly com: ed after the return of General Gadsden to Me: Oar readers will} posted up from time to time as to the progress o: the negotiationy. RECEPTION OF CAPT. LUCE. We publish in another colamn an account of the padlic reception of Capt. Luce by his frieads ani neighbors at Yonkers on Saturday. The proveed- ings were marked by @ delicate propriety taat re flects credit on ali concerned. LARGE ARRIVAL OF EMIGRANTS. The number of vessels arrived yesterday from Eu- rope was unusually large, and the consequent in- eres to the population by immigration materially increased, rembesing between five and six thou- sand sou's. They come from various parts of Eu rope, but more than one half shipped at Liverpov! and Londen, Wow Livery voters law, of ron, or § Nor is there any ground of compromise upou which they cansapport the Syracuse whig co. alition ticket. It will not do to denounce the principles of the coalition and yet support their candidates. This, to reverse the old saying, would be declining the devil’s broth to eat the beef that was boiledin it. The only course ot self-respect, of consistency and independence, left to our national whigs, is to repudiate the candidates and the resolutions, the arch-agita- tor, his instruments, his allies, and his plans, as proclaimed ut Saratoga, adopted at Syracuse, Incob A. Westervalt From Ma re... J. R. Gilebrist k oe Laan and as ratified by the outside anti-slavery fac- Slip Wm. Layton. tions thus drawn into the Holy Alliance at Au- —1,587 | porn. From London....Sbip American Fagle + 498 . hp London + 566 We are, therefore, gratified to state to our From H Bork Cathar readers that the conservative whigs of New i -Rarr Lord Malgeave . York are to meet to-morrow to decide upo their course of action in the November election; and that they will most probably determine upon a formal separation trom the Seward coa- lition, But how will this effect the election ? Perhaps not materially; but for future opera- tions the movement will be of the highest im- portance. Should these national whigs fali back upon Ullman, the Kuow-Nothing nominee, as the candidate of all those in the field mo-t closely identified with their notions of whig principles, it will be equal to a loss of twenty « five or thirty thousand votes to Clark. A § suming the Know Nothings to number 80,000 electors in the State, and that they will all vote for Ullman, we venture to say, iacluding some silver greys, 70,000 of these 80,000 will be drawn from the original whig party. Yet, whatever the Know Nothings may do or fail to do, the separation of the whig conservatives of New York from the Seward interest will, of itself, be a most important victory of principles over plotting conspirators and spoilsmen, Itappears that there is to be another co vention, of the Know Nothings dissatisfied with the Ullman ticket, at Utica, on the 26th inst. As we understand, however, that these dis- renters belong to Clark’s little clique of out- side Know Nothings, it is most probable that their deliberations will end in smoke, without vitiating in the least degree the orders and ar- rangements of the grand State council held iu ‘his city. The anti-renters, it also appeare are to hold their State convention on the 26th; and it is supposed that their two or three thou- send votes will be carried over to Bronson or Seymour. At all events, it is not likely that the whig abolition coalition, with so many other irons in the fire, will suit the purpoges of the free farm party of Big Thunder. Dispensing with the Utica Know Nothing dissenters and the anti-renters, as entitled te no farther notice, where the i-sue depends upon the change of party est:mates not by thousands but by hurdreds of thousands, we return to the pro’ected combination of national whigs and Know Nothings. Were this mysterious or- der bent upon the defeat of Clark, we should say that Bronson or Seymour would be their man But we presume the Know Nothings are more desirous to show their sirength for the present than to achieve any definie State victory in the clection. Hence, we presume, their nomina. tion of Ullman. But the national whigs, in their proposed junction with the Know Nothings, count with very sanguine expectations upon the defeat of Clark by their candidate. Besides this they count upon laying down the basis of « Northern organization to operate actively and decisively against the Seward programme for 1856. % In this broad national, view it is that we are especially gratified that the conservative whigs of New York are about to cut adrift from Sow- Sup Richard Anderson. DEATHS AT SEA. ip J. R. Gilchrist, from Liverpool, arrived lost, the carpenter, Mr. A. Brandt, of Boe lera, on the passege, besides thirteen others, supposed passengers, Toe ship Jacob A. Wes-tervelt, also avvived yesterday from Liverpool, had thiity da hs on the passage. Toe nature of the di-eaie is not mentioned. JEALOUSY AND MURDER. On Saturday one of the Coroners held an inves tigation into the circumstances whereby a Germi git}, named Helena Meyer, came to her death from wounds infl.cied by her lover, William Schaffanberg, who has been under arrest since the occurrerc took place, on tie 24¢hu't. It resulted in 8 verdi:t implicating the pr soner, who now awaits the action ot the Grand Jury. The young woman, who is re presented as having been very beautiful, belonged, it is said, to that numerous class of abandoned Ger man females with which, unfortunately, certain sections of our :ity abound. MOKE BOWDYISM. On Suv day mor ing a fight took place at a dis reputable house in Leonard street, during which Capt. Carp nter, of the potice, while endeavoring to effect the arrest of the most prominent of the rioters, received several ssvere though not danger- ous stabs from a dik knife, He succeeded, how- ever, in capturing bis agsailant, a man named Haly, who was subsequently releesed on giving bail in fifteen hundred doilars to answer the charge of aa Sault and battery with intent to kill. UNLICENSED LIQUOR DEALERS, Twenty-five unlicersed liquor dealers in the Six teenta ward of this city were arrested om gatur- day oni held to bail to answer. In Jersey City re cently eleven bundred of the same sort have been arrested, severs! of whom have been tried aod mauleted in heavy sums for violating the law. TRIAL TRIP OF A MEXICAN WAR STEAMER. ‘The new Mexican war steamer Iiurbide, consort of the Santa Anna, which has been built by Messrs Westervelt & Sons, in this city, made her trial trip on Saturday, under very favorable auspices, and to the entire satisfaction of Colonel Butterfleld—the contractor—who wil! now have supplied eighteen ‘Veseels of war to the neighboring government. Tae Iturbide will mount ten twenty-four pounders on deck, along briss gun on her forecastle, and a evivel gun in ber boat (launch) on deck. She is « propeller of over five hundied tons, with oscillating engines and machivery of the most perfect descrip. tion, made by Messrs. Farren, of the Farren Iron Works, New Yor*. This steamer will be manne) by ® crew of ninety men, and, after her arrival at ‘Vera Croz, will b» commanded by Captain Carvel Ins of the Mexican.navy. She is now ander charge of Captain Bryant. A full description of the vesse! with a report of her trial trip are pnbliahed. WHERE SILVER COMES FROM. ‘The product o' the silver mines of Mexico for the year 1850 exceeded that of the rest of the world by one million doliars, the total yield being thirty three millions. When we reflect that this immense su» is dng out of the earth by a population compara Pvely destitute o sclence,or co oi al, or comprehen give system, i+ will readily be » ived how vast 1» € yield would be If these mines of wealta were in wealth have com?*to the same conclusion _ ard, his plans, his partisans, his principles, and bis fortunes. It is time. It is not too late to enter into new calculations for the November Fn een Roway Parnionisa iy Decexerate Dars— Srrciric Vatvx or 4 Seat wv Conoress.—Ma- thematical science has reduced tte money va. elections. The administration at Washington | lue of everything to a dead certainty, with the have insisted that the State shall be cast again solitary exception perhaps 0 « ‘ea in Con- into the hands of Seward ; and nothing but this | gress, Although v.rious in ,uiring ond patrio- movement of the national whigs has yet taken place among the opposition forces to the whig | coalition caleu'ated to defeat the Cabine: of | the solution of it as ever. their object. Let us, therefore, watch the move- ments of the conservative whigs. Scward’s Plans for the Campaign. The work goes on bravely. While the bulk of the people are engrossed in their own business, leaving the country to take care of itself as it can, and abandoning politics to rogues and idlers, the honora- ble William H. Seward and his coadjutors were never busier, or more energetic in the pur-uit of their great object. No time is being lost, we can answer for it, by the aboli- tionist junta. Such a ciance for the realiza- tion of Mr. Seward’s highest aims may never offer «gain, and he is by no means the man to neglect it. The Nebraska wave has not ceased tosurge: on its crest, the honorable Senator still thinks he may be carried into the Presi- dential chair. The temperance question agi- tates the public mind: it, to», may lend ahand towards his advancement. Even ‘he Irish, struggling under the heel of the Know Noth- ings, may swell his forces, and poll their usual enormous vote in his favor. All these elements of success he bears constantly in his mind, as his fancy sweeps round the coveted goal of his ambition, approaching nearer and nearer at every turn. Two years yet must elapse before the con- test begins in earnest. But it is high time to settle preliminaries. It is high time, for in- stance, to provide for defeat by securing another term in the Senate. This Mr. Seward intends to accomplish with his usual dexterity. Every candidate for the State Assembly is required to pledge himself iu favor of Mr. Seward’s re-appointment to the United Siafes Senate, under pain of being discarded by the Seward managers. In more than one in- stance, an eligible candidate has been set aside to make way for one manifestly einfe- rior, because the former would not, while the latter agreed to give so dishonorable a piedge. Attempts on the part of candidates to reserve aright of individaul judgment, reluctance to submit to the degrading dictation of political hacks, have been treated by the Seward execu- tive as ravk treason and visited with summary punishment, In the present day, in this State, no whig can pretend that his soul is his owa. It belongs to William H. Seward to do tuiere- with what to him seems fit. The Congressmen are dealt with ia like manner. The whig candidates are obliged’ to give the best security they can that, in the event of a scrub race of President throwing the final choice into the House of Representatives, they will vote for William H. Seward and use their influence on his behalf. Ifa candidate demur to this preposterous request, he is handed over to a St. Nicholas Hotel inquisition. His case is first treated with gentle aperients. If he be the son of an Irishman, he is shown Seward’s speech on the Know Nothings, and it is delicate- ly hinted that under Mr. Seward’s Presidency, none but Irish names will appear in the list of office holders. If, on the contrary, he bea Kaow Nothing, he will be told that policy required Mr. Seward to make that famous speech, but that at heart, no one is so American as he, A teetotaller is bidden to read the articles in the Tritune, written, as he is told, under the eye and with the approval of William H. Seward. A friend to the liquor interest is reminded that Seward has never committed himself in favor of Clark’s bill, and that privately he objects to it. Strong abolitionists are referred to the whole tenor of Mr. Seward’s carcer as a guarantee of what he would do were he Presi- dent: constitutional anti-Nebra:ka whigs are advised to remember the strong attachment to the constitution which the New York Senator has always expressed. If the candidate, or patient, is not brought round by any of these applications, the final question is put to him: and his negative reply is his death warrant. He must give up the keeping of his soul ua- conditionally to William H. Seward, or he is thrown aside by the wirepullers at once. We :ee, however, from the list of candidates, tiat the mild treatment has been generally success- ful; and from the facility with which their owners parted with them, we are inclined to believe that whig souls do not rauk high in the market at present. Sickening as is the spectacle of all this scheming, trickery, corruption, and dishon- esty, it is neither peculiar to the party which isled by Mr. Seward, nor the first instance of such proceedings in his own career. He has risen by these very means ; and only follows his own precedent when he offers to barter a seat in Congress against a vote for himsclf as President. Other leaders have done, and still do the same things. There are however some notable differences between Mr. Seward and his rivals. Weare not aware that any political party was ever sunk so low before as to make fidelity to the cause of one particular man the sole qualification for party preferment. On former occasions, the party has been the main thing, and particular leaders have ranked second in consideration: with the New York whigs, considerations of party are laid aside al- together, and Mr. Seward’s advancement is the sole aim of the managers. So complete a des- potism on the side of the chief, and so abject a subserviency on that of his followers, were never, we venture to say witnessed before. And for what aim? To make a President of @ man who is notoriously hostile to the consti- tution, whose whole life has been spent in fos- tering fanatical pre/udice against it among his fellow citizens, whose greatest triumphs have always been won by his condescension to fac- tion, and his adherence to sectional bias. If we were to hear that Louis Blanc or Ledra Rollin had suddenly become ruler of France; that some obscure chartist had been appointed Prime Min- ister in England; that Mazzini had been invited to take the government of Lombardy; or Kos- suth begged to accept the place of Metternich: what ehould we say? Every schoolboy would see at once an overwhelming proof that the people who effected these changes were satisfied that their former government was radically and eseentially bad. Are we, then, 60 universally satisfied of the worthlessness of our constitution and our system of government as to confer the post of chief magistrate on one who, both to the one and the other, occupies the same position of hostility that Ledra Rollin occupies to the French empire, the chartists to the British aris- tecracy, Kossuth and Mazzini to the rule of the Emperor Francis? The whigs must answer, tic mins have oxupied themse!ves with the latter question, we ‘ear that we are as far from ‘The estimates dif- fer eo widely, according to the opportunities of the candidate, that we despai- of ever arriving at anything like an accurate conclusion on the subject. A letter from a congressional can- didate in the Wes: to one of his friends, which lately accidental'y fvund its way into one of the papers, earnest y entreats of him to assist in securing his election, as in the event of his return he can mike $5,000 a session out of it. We yesterday ‘eceived a flaming extra of The Roman Citizen, published at Rome, in this State, containing an exposé of five co- lumns long of the conduct of Mr. O. B. Mat- teson, one of the whig candidates in the con- gressional canvass now goingon in the Oneida district, and which, on the strength of sworn affidavits, charges that gentleman with having endeavored to induce another whig candidate to withdraw bis opposition and give him his political support by the offer of a bribe of $25,000 of railway stocks, There are several other attempis at ihe corruption of influential electors deposed to as having been made. What pretty pickings a member must ex- pectto cbta’n out of his congressional privi- leges, to induce bim to offer bribes io such an enormous amount to his opponents. His op- portunities must be infinitely more extensive than those of the Western candidate, who moa- estly estimates his at $5,000a year. If we are to form any conclusion from the heavy pecuniary sacrifices which Mr. Matteson seems prepared to make for it, his seat in Congress must be an inexhaustible field of auriferous wealth to him. There is one gratifying feature in these curi- ous transactions which is deserving of com- ment. We learn from The Roman Citizen that the parties who were subjected to these severe ordeals resisted with Spartan sternness the seductions of the evil one. Citizens of Oneida, we are proud of you! You are the true bricks of the social editic Tur Ten Governors AND THE FRexcn Ap- wmraL.—Our citizens are aware that New York harbor has lately been honored with the visits of severs! French vessels of war, and that al- though the officers have received many courte- sies at the hands of private citizens, there has beon no public demonstrations tewards them by the city authorities. A resolution providing for the appropriation of twenty-five hundred dollars to pay the expenses of a reception of the French officers, passed the Council, but was killed by the Aldermen. Here was a terrible state of things, and it seemed probable that the gallant tars would sail away without so much as a cracker and a-glaes ofsherry from ‘the city -of New York. Shocking—positively shocking ! At this juncture somebody thought of the Ten Governors of the Almshouse. The Governors have the covtrol of funds—they are indepen- dent of Flagg—no obstinate reformers stand in their way—when they want a dinner anda jolly good spree, they go down to the Island, and with starving, emaciated paupers on one side and howling maniacs on the other, they eat their roast beef and toss off bumpers of fleur de siilery. Itall comes out of the pauper fand. This being the case, the Ten Governors came to the breach; for the honor and glory of the country and the city, they resolved that it would be a disgrace to eend away the gallant Frenchmen hungry and thirsty, and the follow- ing currespondence took place:— CHTICE OF THE GOVERNORS OF THE ALMSHOUSE New York, Uctoder 12, 1854. M. 18 Carmaink DE Valsskac ce edant la Division Navale des Antilles & bord de \’¥phigénie. ‘Lhe Governors of the Alms House of tho city of New York most respectfully tender to Mr. le Capitaine de Vaissean Mazeres, and the officers attachsd to the na- tional French vereels in this an invitation to visit the charitable and other institu under their man. agement, end the undersigued, the President and Secre- tary of the Board of Governors, take pleasure in commu- nicating the same, and to Teg ii oan Arend at such time a may be most sgreeable. On being informed of the time elected suitable arrangements will be made for our visit, Very respecifully, i 7 TPS SIMEON DRAPER, President. Gvetavvs A. Coxover, Secretary. DIVISION NAVALE DES ANTILLES ET DU GOLFE DU MEXIQUE C. 4MIRAL COMMANDANT EN CHEF. emp Yrsierni®, New York, Oct 19, 1864. Messrs. Governors, I sincerely thank you for the kind invitation which you have extended to me your letter of the 12th inst., and I assure I woula accept of it with great pleasure if I was not incessantly occupied every moment, preparing for our departure from this port. Please begs i] gentlemen, with the greatest Ry shea of regret, the assurance 0? my sen- Vimente of high consi¢eration and regard towards you. The Commander of the French 81 of the Antilles. To THe GOVERNORS OF THE ALMSHOUsE, N. Y. The invitation was civilly declined, and “Messieurs Governors ” must wait for another foreign arrival before that dinner can come off. The French officers, doubtless, thought they could see enough ineane paupers without taking the trouble to go ten miles afver them. How- ever, the “hospitalities ” have been tendered to them ard our municipal honor is eatisfied. Discovery or FRANKLIN’s Remains.—From the details we havé received from Montreal it appears that the remains which have been iden- tified as those of Sir John Franklin’s party were found on the banks of the Fish river, otherwise called Back’s river, which flows northward into one of the inlets of the Arctic Ocean. Conjecture places the point where the unfortunate men perished at about the inter- section of line 97 deg. longitude with line 67 deg. N. latitude. It will be remembered Sir John Franklin’s ships were last seen in Bar- row’s Straits, in July, 1845. We can now in- fer that either in that or a subsequent wiater they perished in “the pack,” and that their crews ora portion of them escaped over the ice. The eurvivors must have attempted to go southward, in the hope of reaching one of the company’s settlements on Hudson’s Bay. They had accomplished more than three-fourths of their journey when they succumbed. Their sufferings must have been dreadful in the ex- treme. JUVENILE Festiva. IN THE Mormon Country. —The Mormons are very eccentric people, and by the last accounts, they appear to be bringing up their children in the same path which they have found £0 profitable. We give this morning the programme of a celebration at Salt Lake City in July last. It is rich. Prograss OF THE Mexican Bounpary Commis sox —Lettere have been received from Mr. Charles Kad. siminabi, the secretary of the commissionor, dated at Powder orn, near Indianols, Texas, Oct. 2. Major Em ory, the Commissioner, left that station on the 30th Sep tember, en route for the theatre of his operations, teking with hi the members of his party, ex ept some who wore sick, and Mr. Kacziminski, who remained to take charge of the wagons, the schooner conveying whish was coming in sigat as be wrote. He expected to follow after the Ce pene peed pene Sikaaees pron aur ledged ability and energy of Major ory, a @ chie! us port Ao bim, we look forward to an early and auccensftl completion of the extensive, laborious, and bazardous operations connested with this impor. tent survey. Tho New Brunswick Tegisiature ia to meet on the 10th instant, to act on the Reciprocity bill, | | Dramatic and Musical Mattors, ‘This eeseon of the year is a harvest time for the man- ogers, ard neasly all the places of amusement in the sity sre doing an exceedingly Incrative business. The unfor- tumate {llness of Signor Mario somewhat dimisished the attendance at the Opera House; he continues too iil to sing, and the opera is, trerefore, wuspendea for the present.—English opera at the Broadway hes been igh}y prosperous and proftable both to managers and | the public. As this company is announced to appear | im Philadelphia on Morday next, ita stay here, cannot be prolonged beyond next Saturiay night. | The “event” of this week was the production 0! Wallace’s | “Maritana,” which has been highly successful. —— | At the Metropolitan Theatre, the stock company have appeared in *‘Othello,”’ ““Pizarro,”’ ‘Julius Casar, “The Courier of Lyons,”’ and‘‘The Poor Gentieman.”’ Mr. Eddy and Mr. Marshall have played the principal parts in these pieces, and played them well. Mrs. M. Jones | a very excellent actress, hag played ‘Portia’ in Julius Cesar, ‘‘Deedemona’’ and‘ Elvira.”’ The houses have not been full. Mr. E. Eddy bas purchased a portion 07 Mr. Willaré’s interest in this house, and is, from and after to day, the manager. Mr. Eddy has tact, energy acd ability, and bis many friends will expect much from him in his new position—At Wallack’s, Rosa Bonnett has meade whet is technically called a “great hit.” She has played Lady Gay Spanker in ‘London Assurance” three times, and the same play is an- nounced for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of ibis week. Tne house has been crowded on each evering when this piese has been played.—At Bur- ton’s, the only novelty of the week has beem the pro duction of ‘Ben Bolt,” & nautical drama by J. B. JSennstone, who bas given to the world several portraits of that most remarkable animal, a stage catlor, Ben Bolt ia, however, somewhat better than the msjority of dramas of this kind, and Mr. Fisher, Mr. Johnstone, and Miss Meearthy, bave made it success by the capital manner in which they have played their parts. Mr. Burton ani Mr. Placide have appeared in several of their fa vorite parts, very much to the satisfaction of full houses.——At Miblo’s the Ravels have given their arewell performances. A portion of the company in- texd making professionel tour to South Amerivs and California. ——At the Bowery Theatre no novelty hes been presented. On Friday night Mr. W. H Hamblin tock a farewell benefit. Mr. Hamblin goes to New Or- Jeans, where he will be a‘tached to the stock company of the Varieties. On his bensfit night, Mr. J, E. Duri- ‘vege, the well known dramatic author, played Waddilove in “To Parents and Guardians.’’ It wes agood perform ance.——4t the National Theatre, Mr. J, R. Scott ha® played ‘‘Ben Bolt,”’ in the new drama of that nams.—— At Barnum’s the French drama ‘Eustache”’ is still ran ning.——Mr. De Walden is the author of) the new ver-ion of the ‘Courier of Lyons,”’ which bas been played at the Metropolitan, We uncerstand that he is also the author of the farce called ‘‘The Filibuster,” and the comedy ‘Now a-daye,’’ both of which pieces have been successful at Burton’s theatre ——The manager of Wallack’s theatre has presented a sflver cup to Mr. Williams, the costumer, as ‘‘a token of esteem, apd inremembrance of the admirabie taste and talent Gieplayed by him in the decoration of the theatre.” ar. rapgements are now being made for # benefit for the re- list of the widew and children of the la'é J.zsander Thompson ——The Charjeston theatre company sailod on Saturday in the Nashville Mile Ducy Barre is the premiere dangeuse ——Mr. Trimble, the architect of the Metropoliten theatre, had a benefit at that houss on Faturdey night. Mr. F. 8. Chanfrau played Doctor Clla- pod, in “The Qoor Gentlemen,” on this ocoasion, It way ® decided bit, Mr.C. W, Clarke and Mies Mesiaycr also volunteered and played the principal parts in ‘“Faiat Heart Never Won Fair Lady.” Mme, Isadora Clark gives her first concert in this city to-morrow night. The Pitts- burg, Pa, theatre bas been closed twice on account of the cholera. Several of the company, including Mr J. 8. Prior, the leading tragedian, bave thrown up their ergagements, and are now in this city.——A new Ger- man theatre bas been opened in the Bowery, ani the “Barber of Seville” was to have been done last week, with Signora D’Ormy as Rosina.——Wood’s and Buck- ley’s minstrels are still doing a fine business. Counter attractions, however great, ¢o_not seem to diminish the attendance at their unique exhibitions. ——There are se- veral interesting events in the theatrical world this evening. Atthe Academy of Musis, ‘I Puritani,’”’ was announced with Grisi, Mario, Bernardi ani Susini, but the con tinued iness of Mario has compelled Mr. Hzckett to suspend the opera for the present. At the Broadway theatre ‘* Maritans,”’ for the third time, and for the benefit of Mr. Harrison, the popular tenor. As this is Mr. Barrison’s first appeal to the American public he should have a substantial token o? appreciation, Mr. Wallace will conduct. At the Metropolitan theatre, Mrs. Baker (nee Alaxina Ficher) and Mr. Baker will play ‘ Ion” and ‘ Adrastus ” ‘The trage3y “Ton,” has slways been a favorite piece with New York audiences since ite production at the Park with Mrs. Kean as the hero, With the further attra: tion of two new names there will probably be a very full house to night. The prineipal parte are thus distribu- ted, and a good performance is expected: Ion, Mrs Ba ker; Adrastus, Mr. Baker; Phocion, Mr Etynge Me- don, Mr. Thompson; Clemanthe, Mrs. Coaway. irs Baker has played a b:ief engagement at the Broad- way, and as Alexina Fisher she stands high in the profession. She is an American by birth, Ler native place being Kentucky, where her father, Mr. Pal- mer Fisher, and her mother, now the wife cf Mr. Edward N. Thayer, were professionally engaged Mr. Baker has never played in New York, but is said to be @ good actor. As both Mr. and Mrs, Baker are thoroughly American they will undoubtedly be cordially received, and judged ‘according to their deserts.”” At Wallack’s theatre, “London Assurance,” with the excellent cast—Wallack, Lester, Blake, Brougham, Vin- cent, Chippendale, Rosa Bennett, Mrs. Hoey and Mrs. Stephens, being included in it. The farce of ‘Done on Both Sides,”” with Mr. Vincent in the principal part, wili be played for the first time here. At Burton’s theatre, the “Tempest,”’ one of the glorions Shakaperian revivals of last season, will be played, with the scenery, music, costumes, &., Which were so high- 1 praised at that time. Miss “acarthy will be the ariel Otherwise the cast remains nearly the same as last sea. fon. Burton’s Caliban alone is worth the price of admis. sion. At Niblo’s theatre the Bateman Children make their first appearance since their return from California. ‘Ihe Young Couple,’’ and ‘The Spoiled Child,” aro the plays ‘to be dome on this occasion. At the Bowery three favorite melodramas are an nounced, with Mr. Arnold and Miss Ellen Grey in the principal parts. At the National, the ‘Rag Picker of Paria’ and “The Wizard Skiff” are to be played. Mr. J. R. Soott appears in the first piece, and Miss Hathaway in the las’. Miss Theresa Esmonde will give readings from the poets this evening at the Brooklyn athenmum. Asan locutionist Mics Femonde is not surpassed, and although buts comparatively short time before the public, she has already acquired s most enviable reputation among critics. The last entertainment she gave in this city was sttended by most fashionable and appreciative audi- ence, and was as successful as the most sanguine aspirant for public patronage could dese Her reading of “The Dying Alchemist,” ‘‘the baleony scene from Romeo and Juliet,”’ “Bingen on the Khine,” “Tne Building of the Ship,” and the “Polish Boy,” was characterized by the most thorough appreciation of her subjects, and ex- hibited fa versatility of dramatic talent rarely dis. played by the same person. Those who have not seen this talented yourg Jady should not neglect this oppor tunity. Castle Garden will be opened to night for equestrian performances, The company includes several well- known names, and the prices being on the demecratic scale, the affair will, no doubt, be a successful one. Excellent bills are offered at various other plases of amusement, and full particulars will be found in the proper place. PHILADELPHIA —Mr. Forrest is drawing great crowds to the Welnut street theatre. Mrs. Farren has been play- ing at the Chestnut to thin houses. Miss Makeah is en- gaged. ‘Burtache” is the attraction at the Museum, and ‘the Comedy of Errors” at the Arch. Bostor.—Mies Dean has conclated her engagement at the Boston theatre. Mr. Forrest is the next star. No- thing new at the other theatres,——Mr. G. H. Finn, « young comedian attached during the past three seasons to the Museum, died at Boston, on Tuosday. Mr. Finn had hardly resched his majority, but he had already at tained a respectable position in his profession. Person- ally, he was highly esteemed; his deportment was that of s gentleman, and he was the idol of the circle in which he moved. His carly death will be regretted by « host of friends. He was the second son of the late Senry James Finn, the di: tinguished comedian, who perished in the ill-fated Lexington, . ‘The Florences are st Cincinnati.——Mr. Farren and Wins Howard have produced “Plot and Passioa,” at Clevelond.——Mien Margaret Mitche!l, who is star. ing it in the Western citier, will roon appear in this ofiy.—— Mz, Lanergan, of the Bromiway, bas been pleying a atox engeg¢went at Hartford, 9t. Athis benefit om Fri | Mde. Ponisi and Mr G. Sanéford piayed. Mde. pley in Hartford during this week.—The Am Theatre, New Orleans, bas been opened by & company. Politieal Summary., The Know Nothings of Massachusetts have nomint Eenry J Gardver for Governor, which makes the fov candidate in the field, Awhig meeting was bela in Delaware city on the J inst, which was addressed by Hon. John M. Clay’ who stated thet it was inexveaieat to form a whig ti: and a resvlution to that effect was adopted by the ing. Tre contest ip Delaware will therefore be betw the democrats and the Know Nothings. ‘The ola line whigs and the fusionists in the Verm Legisiatuze are at loggerheads in regard to the choic State officers. The Democratic Btate Convention of Virginia wil held st Steunton on the 30th of November. It is that « majority of the State Central Committees an favor of Henry A. Wise for Govervor. The democrats of the First Congressiona! distric Massachusetts have nominated Hon. H. Howland, New Bedford, aud in the Fifth William Parmenter is democratic candidate. Both conventions passed ree. tions in fevor ot the Nebraska principle, Judge Conrad, ex Governor Johnson, General Came. and Jucge Wi mot, are spoken of for United States tor from Pearsylvanis to succeed Hon. Jémes Coo whose term expires with the present Congress. ‘A majority of the lower branch of the South Caro Legislature are in favor of giving the choices of of President and Vice-Presideut to the people. The: jeot will come up during the next session. The whig convention of the Fourth Congresstonal trict of New Jeisey, after a short deliberation, conclo not to nominete # candidate, and recommendsd the a tion of P. C. Osborn, the domocratic anti-Nebri nominee. The Nebraska democ:ats in the same diet wilidivide their support betweer Hon. George Vail, regular r ominated eandida‘e, and V. M. Drake, who nounces himself es an iadependent Nebraskaite. ‘The Cleveland Plaindealer, speaking of the chara of the next Corgrese, ssys:— There will be a xwsjority of members. in the He elected soiely for theix sworn opposition and professed tredto ths South They wili te mst in that body by al, ove hundred meo elected from the <o1th, aad the che, champions of Southera rights North-men must e and every ore distioguish themselves in the ayes of { constituency by come tremendous onslaught upon Fouth ‘the South-r en must stacd firm the shoc Opposition, for their constituents allow no fiiash The Nortn-men wil cater to the aympathies and pass of the baters of slavery everywiere. The South will plant ‘hemrelves upon the constitution, and cont for a strict constraction of that instrumeat. Instr) ed to make ‘‘no more compromis?s with slavery,’ ba psy care rever yield, The south, if everpowe wileither withdraw from the Houre, or, remuin leave their fate, for the present, with a conserva Senate. Only two counties in Pennsylvania remain to be by from cn the Governor’a vote—Potter and McKean, returns now foot up as follows:— FOR GOVERNOR Jamer Pollock, whig and American William Bigler, cemocrat....... Poltock’s majority... .........008 FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER. Henry 8. Mott, democcat and Amexicsa, George Darsie, whig.,.., teneeeees Mott’s msjority........ eeeedeseeee FOR SUPREME JUDGE. Jeremiah ©. Black, cemoera: Thomse H. Baird, .mrricas, Danis] Sm) ser, whig. Black over Baird Pr Against » probibitocy tai For a probivitory law, Majority against a law. » 2 Nearly all the counties in Florida have been he) from, and show the following result for member of ( gress :— Au, E. Maxwell, (dem. themes E Brown, Cong Mojority thus far. cael sone Res Matwel.” in jor making xr. wel’s jorit; State nearly'1,000, = cena Compared vith the election in 1852, these coun. show a large democratic gain—Mr. Maxwe'l then 8,298, Mr Cabell 8,711—majority 82 Now it {sin ssmae counties 770. Gov. Brown’s vote is less by than that given to the woig candidate two years ag The vote op the removal of the capital will bev pone ahha figures give 8,542 for removal, to 3, *g Fire Marshal's *fflce. ARREST OF MICE AKL DOBSON FOR ARSON. On Friday night, at about 9 o’eicck. & tire took p’ in the exbinei shop oscupiet by wichael Tobson, rit ted in therear of No 80 Pel! street. The fire was : covered by ‘he neighbors b-fore it had time to ex! much beyond the place where it originated. The firer Were quisksy ov tha spot and extinguished the flac, ‘The Fie Marsha! as also at che premives, and disso: ed that @ quantity of rpirits of turpertine had b thrown amocgst the ehsvings, end then the fire appli evidently for the purpore of wilf ‘burning do va remises. Such facts came te the kao’ ge of Marshal during the time of the fire and soon af: which led bim to believe Michael Do! the owner | the shop was the party concerned in the ply There was not more than $60 worth of stock and’ tc in the shop, yet he hel+ az insurance of $150 in arreat Dobson on the charge of it tees tonnes cust 0) before ‘Sastice Bogart who eoteatiied await the Fire Marshal’s Investigation, Marine Affairs. INCREASE OF ToxxaGE. — ihe fol 28,458 60- Portland.—In 1800, 18 ships, 16 17 schoone 6 sloops—tonrage, & 896 54-96. mnisbo, 1 brig, schooners § sioops—tonnage, 2,378 2995.’ In 1840, ships, }2 brigs, 4 schooners—tor nage, 6,095 (09-95. 1 ships, 2 brigs, 2 schooners, § sloops—tonna, 16,598 29. Boston —In 18(0, 11 ships, 18 11 schooners, nooow— tonnage, 6,206 10-48, Unless, 2 abtee 4 echooners—tonnege, 2,319 40-05. In 1840, 15 ani; 4 briga, 7 schooners—tonnage, 7,660 48-95. In 1864, on. Aa a 4 schooeers, 1 sloop, 3 steamers—tonna; New Fork.—In 1800, 8 ships, 10 brigs, 22 46 sloope—tonnago, 7,760 42 06. briga, 10, schooners %6 sloope—tonnage, In 1840, 6 ipa, 13 brigs, 17, scboonvrs, tonnage, 18.367 1695. In’ 1854, schooners, 81 sloops, 49 Court Calcndar—This ow -y Usitep States Drsraicr Court.—Nos. 67, 68, 69, 34, ¢ 83, 88, 86, 96, 12, 17, 21. SUPREMB —-Nos. 2089, 747, 775, 777, 7£ 20, 841, 866, 857 to 862, 564 © form —Nos. 96, 115, 28, 7, 4 Common Pizss—Genersl Term —No. 1 to 29. Surxmion Court, (four branches. )—Noe. biete 479, 608, 544 B71, 696, 602, 624, 626, 629 64, 116,25 861, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 427, 689, 640, 64 68; obo, 000" 601, c€2" es. Cod, G08, Gest 068; 600; oF bs ,, 661, 818, 814, 7, 189, 856, 15, 27. me Ad’s Fell Style for 1354.—The Hespprobstion hee slready stamped the Kspenscl hat, for the fall of 1864, as faahion’s favorite, In signing this syle his object has been to juce combining tie excei'encies of a1 th wtsioe that Fich, classically ie preceded it. It is unobtrusively it. All ite appointments are taste, and in wil Hate'will be toads for gentiotar to crteten tas eekraee i ! H yp GP) that are made elsewhere for 93. 689 Bra way, opposite Metropoittan Hotel, ‘The Best, saver nie ube atin s Cer Corner of Howard strest. 6. ATI, Artist. ee rerun esutatinne mien eee t ib} 2 RNAPP'S old established gallery, 660) 7 Weered and femily groups in every style of the art. 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