The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1854, Page 4

nr ee NEW YORK HERALD. Roos —_ Vormmne I A¥SEMENTS THY EVENING @MseOAOWAY THEATA jreadwag—Poen Paiste ce ~Amoy DiaceP Amy BOWERY THEATRES fowery—Baueereaas Par PORKASC. 5 ~ FRECK OF TR RavEN NIBLO'S GARDEN, Groatway—Poom Guwrian+ Awrnos. 4¥b Cuzoraren BURTON'S, Chambers etrect—swe from > Tue loepuns. BATIONAL THRATRR, Chathom treet Tre Brwrer oer. s Davenran PALLACK'S THE. Wapping—Tux Basen OLITAN THEATRE, SuLET—Parwy liens Naren AMERICAN MUSEUM— Aton Bomp Gist oF Gayoso tae Chars. roadway De arren eon Wires Omsverr WOOD'S VARIEVIEG—Mechonles’ Wall, 9 Beosdway CRA MOTE —899 Broad reno MiesThatcey BUCKLEY'S PTHEORLA W7—-BeRLEMQUE UVERA AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS -Miusirel Hall, 4 Beoadway O4STLE GARDEN —Tav = Penroeearce FKW YORK RALD—EDITION FOR EVROTS. ‘The Cunard mail steamahip Arabia, Capt Jodhine Jeave this port, toanorrow, at 1 The European mails will close fen o'clock to-morrew morning. ‘The Henaiy (printed in French aad Rogiieh) © published at 10 o'clock In the morning. Single copter, te wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and edvertisements for any edition & the New York Hens will be received at the wing places in Europe —~ Barenroot. John Hunter, No. 2. Paradise etree Lowpos,, . Rawards, Samford & No. 17 Gornbiti “ Wm. ‘Thomas No. 19 Catherine tree Paxn....... Livingston, Wells & Co., 5 Placede fa our ‘The contents of the Eusopean edition of the Mena: wil embrace the news received by mail and + the office during the previous weekyand te ihe howr publication. The News. THE VOTE FOR GOVERNOR. ‘The rsturns reevived last night indicate the ele ‘tion of Clark more strongly than any that have @ome in fer como days pit, and the chances mow very much in kis favor, although the offi: @anyass, for which no doubt we will have to wait to decide the question, may materiaky change the complexion of the returns thus far received. It is wneafe to predict, when the yote ts so very clow who willbe the successfal candidate, particularly when we know that the official count often differ ‘three or four thousand votes in the aggregate fron the returns which aze hastily made up at the differ: ent poils ox the close of an clection, A vcording to our footing up of the returns received at this office the two prominent candidates atand as follows: Myron H. Clark... 1240 Horatio Seymour, d Clark’s plurality thus far... . 1,0) The Albany Argus, according toa despatch i: another column, sums up the returns rezeived i) ‘that city late Jast night as follows: Seymour. Clark's plurality. Nothsithstanding this the Journal (whig), wh» figures were made up yesterday, noon, puts Seymour four hundred and fifty ahead. ‘There remain now about one bunired towns to hear from, which are divided between more than one-third of the whole nmaber of counties, ard which embrace near'y fifty thousand votes. O. booking over our table we find that, the.« brass 8 lark has receive Beymour Ullman Bronson 29 Counti¢ w Ls it “ 1 Schohari THR MASSACHUSETTS ELECTION, We publish this morning all the returns received ‘from the Massachusetts election. As far as heard from, the Know Nothings have swe.t everything before thcm, and appear to have entirely swallowed up the old parties, Our despatch states tha: Gardner, the Know Nothing candidate, is un- Wonbteciy elected Governor, 4 he is 9,000 votes whesad in the towns already heard from. Mersre. Danvell, Banks, Oomins, Barlingame Davis and Knapp, Know Nothings, are said to be @lected to Congress, They bave elected twent; weven embers of the Senate, and for the lover house ite eliction of 160 Know Nothings has been ascertained, without the return of a single whig or democrat. LOSS OF THE SHIP NEW ERA. ‘We are compelled this morning to record the wreck of the ship New Era, Capt. Henry, from Bre men for New York, with the locs of one hundred and fifty human beings, who were smothered between @ecks, drowned by the flow of water, or swept over- board. The Ncw E:a made land ou Sunday last, and the next morning ran on the Jersey shore, detween Deal and Leng Branch, during a dense fog. majorities 10........048 . Her position was discovered early yestorday, | ‘and every exer ion was made by the people on mhore to save the passengers. Through their ef- forts a line was passed to the ship, and the captain ‘and twenty passengers rescued, from whom was the frightful loss of life recorded above, At the time of our last despatch it was the general ‘opinion that the vessel would go to pisces before morning, and tat, in their present exhausted con- ition, every soul on board would perish. All the emigrants were Germans, and ag ths consignee: had received no list of passengers, it is imporsible to re- lieve the anxiety of those who may be expecting re- Jatives or friends from Bremen. The New Era was ‘a new vessel, of 1,528 tons, built at Bath, Me, and valued at $71,000. It is said that there is insurance on her to the amount of $81,000 In Boston, Bata ‘and New York companies. She was consigned to Messrs. C. C. Duncan & Co. Ail the particulars it ‘was posible to obtain up to the hour of going to press will be found on the firet page of our paper today. ANOTHER KNOW NOTHING MEETING. Another mass meeting of the supporters of James W. Barker for Mayor, was holden in the Park yeater- day afternoon. The meeting was called to hear a report from the committee appointed to investigate the alledged frauds in the ci y election returas, and ‘to listen to speeches from Hon. John M. Clayton, of Delaware, and Hon. Jacoh Broom, of Philidelphiy. Mr. Broom was the native American candidate for President in 1852, and is a member of Congress «lect. The committee did not re: and the speakers announced wore not on 5 but iieeres aoe by others. Th ‘was very and enthusiastic, though not 80 ordefly as the first “rally.” ‘There some hustling of an Irish target company, one or two fights, A resolution was 4, declaring that the party would oppose, by , any attempt made by Fernando Wood to fi ‘the Mayoralty chair. Mr. Jones, of Brooklyn, sai! aid ii F mee: Mr. Woot went to the City Hall on New ’s day, he would have to walk over dead bodins. ‘The ig was in session about an honr and a half. people afterwards formed a procession, several thousands strong, and marched to the resi of Mr. Barker in Monroe street, A fali re- port is given. | Warren was not a resident of the district in which = an ne TWH KOTOCTATIO Fou DMPvoOvIKO THE Corprt oa; perhaps aqueter of a century tecrme. And {" Ww oF Tae roo. ‘The Gleventh anviverary the above society wee DEM 6 te Unive s hape, Washiogton eqns av evenin © sn! sport was read, end wifi be sinte) an’ clr ulate). It appears that what are the prcspec’s with these rew and ex- tracrdinary | oli ical organizstions? | Can @ Presi ental tick t ne cleo'e! uon | the anti-l.very col tion +i union pr> racice 20,806 persons were relive di» og the year, when o Sewend and | 8 co fede» tes? No; because, | 455,65) were recely d.a0\ 846 lee wributel t0 go mo U ther, t eb.lanc: of p wer held saan get the poor. Som q en) adresses were against Dim on t:e Nor |: by tie Know No-4 ae » things isqu’e sufficient to dies hm © n| ATVAU&S IN THE — toted tor a ticket upon b+ narrow, sec/arian, intoler: t | tn the case of Cha le A. Pev telly, indict tform of the N uhings ae attempt te bere own bie warehouse, 147 Pront extliAseerican pla ober nee vk suceeed? 0; for without crossing Ma on agi Dixon’s line, the no-P, pery candii: e woud be checkmate by the Sew rd aiti- !.very ateee’, <0 the might of ve Oth Jaly last, the jury yes- vortey cepdered a verdict of quicy. The prisoner's wre reerved. et oars @ A eran mot lastevening. The coaition. As between the Know Nothing report of the */@ re ative to the compromise and the antislavery alliance, John \. Cliy- between Me Moyne’ l) the offs comtesector, aed the ton and William H. Seward neut lize cach owvhorttive, wae tecewed, Ind on the tab'e, other in the Nort, whic tie Svatb et erdere’ be prited. The committee state wi)] undoubted y s'rike out « diff.re \t course corone Doe agreeing to the compromive of from either. Cana Presiteatial caavilate be $55,000,008 vocomaond that it be approved; they |. 4, : ie . xpected to weather the strong cross currea Sh SEA Sad grageets bs Satara? of the election up n the narrov plik of the F om *, and t st antil ib contract " ot aati —- t er ty t ost aren Airecteg Maine liquor law? No; the absurdity of the proposition answer ; itself. to provide for th: ¢ va! of all off! im the most : 5 eoonetmies! warner withla hie power, Toey advise But while it is thus manifest that neither a the porttese fom Me Reprolde of bis lease of Seward coalitionist, nor a Know Nothing, nor a Rare bleed, eet thot the sew contrector shall Maine law candidate, can possibly succeed tabe 1 trom th the price at whieh it halt be | gpon an abolition crnsade against the Soath, or veld. in a relig ous crusade against the Catholics, or © Heeed of Commotion met last evening *2 upon g despotic law of prosivition agaiust wand @ ceases Gor about two hoary, dsriPg jiuop selling, wholesale or retail, may not bs = oe _ Hey seb afeger sonc a these parties and their principles be combined camel tie Sean a one of ny emia in a joint stock ticket for the Presidency ? criginated fost evening, The report of the Never ; for although there has been a fasion of commiciee fom the Board of Al@ermen on these parties toa very great extent in Ohio, the Rew ond led coetreet for paving the Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, in the late elec Bowery, was received and referred, after ome de bate. The Brick Church matter was taken fom the table in committe of tue whole, and its merits and demerita fully des anted upor, bat no defaite ack. u wastaken thereon. The Board adjoursed Res until this evening, at 5 o'clock. dantly proved by their separate State ticket in T is , New York. This was the test ; and from the — wn craton te haa ot dene | deadly hostility betrayed between the Se- tion for athoo! purposes for 1856 were reesived ant ward ccalitionists and the Know Nothings oedered to be printed. A resolutioneuthoriaiog the | in this election, it is very clear that parchere of portrait of Baron Stomden wasrefes | in no contingency can there be a junc- ted, and efter ‘he tranmection of some other bei | tion of the new order of natives with neat ibs B: ard edjourced to Thursday. | the entitlavery leagne for the Pveslden- Cuiy niae members of the New York Medical So | oy Ty fact, the Know Nothings, contemplating Ce ee ee ee ee ie’ meeting, «run in all sections of the Union, are ra acr which wae called for lest vveming. The society, | ative than otherwise upon the slavery therefore, adjourned until the evening of the Tth of ; CopFer¥ . f ; December next. question. In the Jate speech of Mr. Clayton, in Patrick MeLeughila,chened with ermelly beating | Delaware, be expresses the coaviction that the and breakirg the jewboae of G.&. Leaeraft, near | Know Nothings, upon the vitalissue between one ofthe olection polls of the Bighth ward,on | the North and South, are destied to be the election day, has been arrested and held to bail in| cowservators of the perce and of the Union. the vam of 96,000 | From these observations let us take our bear- Acaier comet Goa Wellington en Sanday ings, cur latitude and longitude the point of | Seon tes sae SS = cotter somed BY the wind, the course of the ship and tae drift of well, at a boarcing house im Chesnut street, during a om o . which he vtrvbed Plwell on the head with aahewn | te tide, The Know Nothings, as an indepen- knife. Wellington has been arrested aud committed | ent party, are in the fielé—the Seward anti- for examination. avery coalition are al-o upon the course, in The statement of John B. Holmes in relationt, | cluding the bulk of the temperance party; for, the killing of officer Gon dey, of the Pirt ward po | singularly enough, the most intemperate fana- lice, wil! be found in our paper to day. tics upon slavery are the most inveterate advo- | The complaint egainst the inspectors of election | cates of cold water. We hall have, then, a | ia the fourth district of the Nuath ward, charged | Kuyw Nothing’ ticket upon the native Ameri- with reusing to take the vote of Joseph G Waren | oan and anti-Catholic platform, and a Seward | = bt yt Rompe nr er ticket for the Presidency upon the new coali- prrvoewe se: pen oe tion platform. And we shall probably have a third—an adtinistration ticket; for, though despoiled of the great democratic party, the administration bas still a large body of organ- ized officeholders and their dependants through- ‘The notes of ‘he Noperevitle Bank oud she Bank | out the Unien, The conservative whigs aud of Elgin are refused in Chicago. democrats throughout the country, who stand by The Farmers’ Joint Stock Bank has closed it | the constitution and the Union upon the slavery doors. A card published in the Buffalo Commercial allen, ont 1 1 A qu " upon all religious and moral Advertiser, by persons interested in the stock, questions, and who are disgusted with the states that the bills will be redeemed in real estate or other property at fair prices. miserable spoils policy of an inefficient and mischievous administration, will still be at MISCELLANBOUS. Accounts from Texas state that Gen. Sam Hons. | large and without a Heket, for ther aeihere ton was organizing the Know Nothinw wo) Soni or the Seward coalition, or the ‘hspretieally ocourred on Sunday in » German | Cybinct spoilsimen. oo chetoh is UGS. Se mene ® But there is a saving alternative very plainiy legal decision recently made against the priest in | ; favor of the St, Joseph's Society, te used angaage | tuggested. What has brought upon us this in his pulpit that led to a Gigut, and four of the par. | Weeping destructiin of the old democratic fictponte were arrested au) held to bail. | party, and this su'd-n uprising and inter Charles W. Stewart, an officer of the House of | mingling of whigs and democrats, in these d+ Repreceutatives, committed suicide in Washington | organizing ond revo'utionary parties which Seaterdsy, by taking poison. | hold possession of the North! The spoils cos A break cccurred in the Erie caual, two miles | tition of free so lers and secesdonisis and the West of Troy, yesterdsy, waich will intercupt Davi | wretched domestic ani foccign policy of the otmamaniiesahd nen oi | umbecile cdm stration at Wasnington, Pro- STATE OF THR MARKETS, * The flour market, yesterd sy, was easier, at Sata~ mising retrenciment, 11 hea increased the ex- penses of our peace esiablisument from fifty to day’s quotations, A favorable feature in the mar ‘ } ket W@ the fact that about 5,000 bbls. common | Seventy-five milomy of dollars —prowisin brands of State were purchased for export, at $8 09 | Teform, it hes wasved the public revenues upon per bbl. Wheat was about 10c, a I5e. per bushel | Gadsden treaties and spoils jobbing specula- lower jand sales of Canada white, in bond, and Sth | ors, Boastfully prowising tho protection of | Gm white, were madeyat $195 per bashel. Indian | American citix.nehip oud American rights | abroad, it hes given ws some ridicntous eireu | corn was without material change, and sold freely Jars on diplomatic costume, # Koszta letter, 9 | at SIc.a 90c., including large parcels for export. Cotton was quiet, and prices unchanged. Pork was | recantation of the Kovnta letter, the fizzle of the Black Warrior cave and the bombardment firmer. | Freights were firmer for English ports, aad among | " ‘ the shipments were 25,000 bushels of oats and 1,60) | Of Greytown, Refused the beuelit of a war bbls. flour to London, the latter wt Is. 64. and the | With Spain by » vote of Congres, this dexperate former ut 4id., bulk, the measured bushel, which { aéministration has venture! upon on act of war were probably forwarded for the use of the army. without author.ty, and in violation of the eon- We learn that the bills of Mr, Oliver, of Liverpoo’, | stitution. which rendeys it subject to imoeach- drawn on ah a Esq, of this city, wereduly | ment, And, as a last resort, through the fol- honored, and that Mr. Oliver's friends bad retired | 4, of a filibuster. ng French ref appoint- | | others put upon the market at Liverpool. ae ena mpeg ae | | Mr, Leary reczived a leter from Mr. Oliver of to hates, 8 Gas toonges os, st Che cope | | stating that he should be able to pay every dollar he sition of Cute, “ with a banéeed millions ta one | {| owed. hand, and war In the othét,” but the question | j scecinttinaiinnlnatasana f relati | The Late Sweeping Elections=Driff of the Ito- . Se Se PES ee | volution=The Presidential Question=Trne | T° | And yet, ap a minirtration, thus tried and | Policy for 1856, Like a succession of West India hurricanes, | condemned, assumes with ite legions of office | the late autumnal elections have swept over | holders to be the head of the great democratic theland. Along their destructive tracks the | party, In this asewmed character it will pro | drift end the rubbish of the old whig and de- | bably take the feld4a 1556, and, from « packed | mocratic parties are scattered in every direc- | convention, enter the campaign with Pierce, | tion. The whig party was, in fact, dispersed, | Marcy, Cushing, or Davie, as did Van Baren ih | disbanded and demoltshed in the campaign of | 1940. The true polley, then, of the masses of °52, and the democratic party has been torn | the conservative democrats and whigs of the | into fragments and thrown into a hopeless con- | Union, North and Soath, is the nomination of | fusion of factions, through the disorganiziag. | a common ticket for the expres: parpose of demoralizing and ‘suicidal spoils policy of a | euperveding this faithlew and imbecile admin. | corrupt and imbecile administration. istration. Thi will be sufficient for the cam- | There is no whig party—there is no demo | paign, leaving ent rely out of the question the cratic party. There remains only of the late”! principles of the Koow Nothings, the Seward ‘fons it amounts to nothing. In those State: the Know Nothings combined with the Sewari league to “crush out” the administration ; but they were playing their own game, as is aban- } | he wished to deposit tis bailot. BANK SCS "ENSIONS. The Merchints’ and Meshau'c,’ Bask of Chicago surpended se terday, overwhelming democratic forces which brought | coalition, and all other more sectional, sects } General Pie:ce into power, a party of demo | rian, or local feewes Tt will be sufficient to | cratic spoilsmen, like the office holders’ party | supersede this fallare at Washington, in having | of John Tyler, or the epotls party of Van Buren | a competent ticket pledged to carry out the | in 1840, But, from the ruins, the loose mate- | great national pricciples apon which Pierce rials, the disbanded battalions of the two old | was elected. parties of the last twenty-five years, there have A party thas organized, with either Crittenden suddenly sprung up several new political or- | or Fillmore, or Everett, or Gea. Wool, or any ganizations; and as the first fruits of a great | other good national man, known to be qualified political revalsion, these organizations are very | for the trust, would speedily throw the Seward naturally of a contracted or disorganizing and | party and the Know Nothings among the out- revolutionary character. They are— side factions of the contest. Mr. Buchanao 1. The Seward anti-slavery coalition. would have been available for this proposed 2. The Know Nothings. national party, but he has identified his fortunes 8. The temperance party. with the Cabinet, and must siok with them. We Each of these organizations, from the develope- | submit to the late decree of Pennsylvania. ments of the recent elections in this State, in | Short, however, of some national organization Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and elsewhere, is | upon national, constitutional and evidently in the field. as @ political party in | issues, directly taking the field against the reference to the great campaign of 1856, which | Cabinet spoilsmen, the approaching campaign will definitely determino, not only the recon- | will be but a eorab race of revolutionary fac- struction of parties, but the policy of the gov- | tions, giving active pley to all the elements of ernment and the destinies of the country, for ' social discord and political disruption, platf rm, we may bave, in 1856, an avalanche like that of 1:40 ag. net a corrup and ruinous administration, s'kng all sde issu im the main quest on of a Dew e tablishment at W eb- in ton Who leads ‘be way? Our Foreign Ministers=M. Sonle. } Tre cloer we vi wt e recent « courrcaces which have t.ken place i: Europe, and in which cur minister t Madrid bas borue so consjfiea- usa part, the more imminent appears the prospect of trouble for this country. There are very many reasons for supposing that the stp taken by the Emperor Napo'eoa, in ex- cludins M. Soulé from France, was fully pre meditated; and, notwithstanding the intima | tions we Lave received, we cannot conceive by | what process of r-asoning this nmprecedented | treatment of an accredited ster plenipoten- tiary can be softened down into & mere persoo- | alinsult. The facts, itis true, are not yet ful- | ly before us; and itis just possible that iurvher information on the subject may furnish some opportunity for drawing a distinction be- | tween M. Soulé, the man, and the U.S. minister | to Mudrid. But we darenot entertain a saa “guine hope of such a turn in the affair, As it stands at present, we cannot but regard M. Soulé’s expulsion from the soil of a friendly Power as a national affront, which we are bound | asa nation to resent. Even if it should appear that the act of the Emperor of the Freach was not intended to wouni our national pride, the fact will not be the less glaring that one of our ambassadors has been treated by a friendly Power with the same contumely as an outlaw, or a convict: and it will need very strong rea- ons to convince the American people that it is either wise or politic or honorable to tolerate such an indignity offered to the person of their representative, whatever personal provoca- tion he may have given. On the other hand, we can easily conceive such a tem- per in the French Emperor, as would preclude the Dyes of apologies or retrac- tation on bis part. From his point of view, M. Soulé is nothing more than a proscribed French- man who fled his country to escape a political prosecution some years ago; and whose subse- quent notoriety has been wholly due to displays of a violent, lawless, revolutionary spirit, He has perhaps read his filibustero speeches in the United States Senate on the subject of Cuba; and must be quite familiar with the not very creditable quarrels in which he involved him- self with the Emperor’s brother-in-law and his envoy at Madrid. Napoleon no doubt believes,- as every Spaniard seems to do, that M. Soulé, under cover ef his diplomatic character, fo mented rebellion and disturbance in the king- dom to which he was sent, thus rendering him- self an absolute nuisance to the government: and may have likewise lent a ready ear to the stories of M. Soulé’s correspondence with the ‘h » national Union party, tice: md | service the offeourings of other countrics. | pointing the aticotion of our readers to tl Net a litt ¢ of the native feeling dixplayed at able charge of Judge Beebe to the jury ¢ the receyt elections way be fairly aecribed to | Peverelly’s trial. It presents a lucid and _ the developem-nt of similar inquirles among ourselves The end of M. Seule’e affair must be reen before we can teil bow mach oar imbe- | eile adarinistration wil! cect us. Tus Orena——An atvertivement in another | coloten appeunees the re-opening, this evening. of the Academy of Music, ander anew arrange- ment, Madame Griei aod Signer Mario are to appeer, o8 We understand it, for the benefit of the etcekh. liers of the Academy, who become impresarios of the opera as well as owners of the opera huse. The judictoosness of this ar- rangement will at onee suggest iteelf to every | mind. It is, we presume, no longer a secret to any one that the “season” which closed a few night» since with © Semiramide” was in most retpects a complete failure. And that had Sixnor Mario escaped the malady which has ufflicted bim, some less respectable termination of the performances would ia ail probability have ocourred shortly afterwards. Oa the causes of that failure it is at present needless to enlarge. They were not unknown at the time; nor were warnings wanting to guard the manager against the consequences of the errors that were being mate. With the past we have now no further eoucern tian what @ regard for the reputation of New York society and the fame of the noble artists now among us may seem to involve, It is certainly dae to ourselves that the im pression should uot go abroad that artists of sach u.doubted genius as Madame Griei and Signor Mario came bere and were not appreciated. If it were 20, the musical taste of New York would at once be set down all over the civilized world as beneath notice. Every cultivated man, every women of the world from St. Petersburg to Madrid knows how great Grisi is, and how un- rivalied is the voice of Mario. To talk of ob- jects being discovered here which eluded the notice of the first critics of Hurope, would simply provoke a smile. It is right, therefore, that it should be known that both these eminent artists have been appreciated in New York ; and that there is but one opi- nion with regard to their unrivalled merit, and the delightful pleasure they impart to an | audience. The failure of the opera—as a speculation—was in spite of them. Had there been no dealing in claptrap and humbug before their performances began; had the prices of admission been more reasopable and better suited to the times; had the management been prepared with music, so as not to be reduced to play one very hacknied opera, in which Mario appeared @ contre-caur—“ Norma ”—nine times, two othere—“ Puritani” dnd ~ Sonnambula ”— which contained no parts adapted to Madame Griri, five or six, and a fourth, “Lucrezia,” which, with the exception of the parts of Lu- crezia herself and Orsini, we had seen better ieaders and connivance at the plote of the band of revolutionary agitators who are constaatiy menacing the Imperial throne. These stories way be false, but M. Soulé’s character and an tecedents invest them with so strong an air v! peobubility, that we cannot reasonably com- plain of their being credited at the Tui eries. Under circumstances, and just after the publ of a revolutionary manifesto by anetie@ American, M. Soulé presents himself ior the second time at the French frontier, and is refused admittance. Only a short while be- fore, he bad been suffered to traverse France from south to north, and had remained some time at Paris; but now, things are changed, Tumors sre abroad of his sympathy wi p the falistg hic ata * est) is bi mee te for the government that he thould enter France. We can well im- agine the Emperor of the French, review- ing all these circumstances, and replying to our government that he had a right to ex- clude daagerous persons from his dominions, that he chose to consider M. Soulé dangerous, and that however painful to our pride, he aust claim the right of forming such opinions with regard to all individuals at all times. Wh.‘ answer could we make to this?’ That our honor bad been outraged, and that if the Emperor chose to consider M. Sculé dangerous to-day, he might icclude all Americans in the same category to-morrow, and so terminate all inter- courre between the two countries? This would not help an amicable settlement of the difficulty; yet, what more conciliatory ground conld we tuke? In fact, itis probable that before this the matter has been decided by the joint action of Mr. Mason and Mr, Buchanan, and we have no choice left. There is every reason for be- lieving that at the moment we write, our diplo- matic relations with France are broken off, at least on one side : and a dispute bas commenced, of which it is impossible to see the end, and of which we can predict nothing with certainty except that it will be costly and irksome to this country and possibly fraught with vast peril and injury to our most important intereste, ‘The deeper we are plunged into the quarrel, the more impossible does it become for us to recede; and in the present condition of European affairs, there is less likelihood than ever that #0 stubborn a man as the Emperor of the French will directly disavow one of his own acts to ive satisfection to a Power whose strength he does not fear, and whose sympathies he has bad many grounds for suspecting are not with him in the pending war, Into such a strait are we forced by the folly and imbecility of the Pierce Cabinet in select- ing ench men as M. Soulé to represent the Uoited States abroad. At a time when this country should be exercising a large share of moral influence in Europe, and the soundness of our political course should be giving practical comfort to the lovers of freedom throughout the world, our name is be g tobe men- tioned abroad with a ger, and the title of American «+ ning a perilous badge. Mr. Preroe ! so thoroughly to dingust the fy che disgracefal trickery an a! | administration: bis nominees have rally .made them- selves nuisances wid: ! enemies wherever they bave gon 1 such blastering folly and recklessness have been displayed whenever a calm dignified vindication of American rights wes required, that all the credit and respect we gained through the wiedom and moderation of former governments and former ministers are well nigh lost. When the United States are represented by a French socialist, in whom age seems rather to have increased than tempered native rashness and indiscretion—by an Eng- lich infidel of the communist school—and by a Jew banker, who has already betrayed the in- terests of the country in the only important matter confided to his charge—foreigners may weil inquire if there are any respectable, any sensible men on this side the Atlantic, of if the nation is so destitute of the material for minis ters that we are compelled to gulist in ous played before, about as often ; in fine, had the impresario displayed as much judgment as any of his predecessors, he would undoubtedly have reaped 4 handsome harvest. Scores of people have not heard Grisi because, whenever they had arranged to go, they found she was playing Norma, which they had heard dozens of times before ; others have been once, and seeing her in a part so utterly unsuited to her as Amina, have never cared to return. < ‘These mistakes are the more to be regretted, as they work a visible injustice to the great artists themselves, Both have reached the close of a long and unprecedentedly successful career. Covered with fame, laden with honors, and hearing away the best wishes and warmest Tegard of thoes wnose delight they have been for nearly twenty years, Madame Grisi and her husband did not deserve that the unblem- ished reputation they have hitherto enjoyed should be tarnished by even the suspicion of a failure in the United States. It was, one would imagine, the duty of their manager to be as jealous of their fame as he was anxious for his own pecuniary success; and in effecting r { rangements by which he might hope to secure the latter, to see to it that the former—which was of far more importance—was not rashly placed in jeopardy. This has not been done: and it only now rests for us to hope that under better auspices and more judicious direction, an opportunity may yet be afforded them to efface from our recollection and that of the world, all traces of the season that has closed. Coxviction or Cartes A. PEVERELLY FoR Arsoy.—The trial of Charles A. Peverelly, for the crime of arson, which has excited so mach anterest from the previously respectable position occupied by the prisoner, terminated yesterday in his comviction, after a patient and impartial investigation of his case. This result is general- ly regarded with satisfaction, from the frequen- cy of the offence with which the prisoner was charged, and which has latterly been fearfully on the increase, owing to the inefficiency of tle measures dhat have hitherto been adopted to arrest it. This has been in a great degree at- tributable to the want of concert which pre- vailed between the insurance companies and the authorities, or rather from the commercial repugnance of the former to endanger their re- putation for promptness of payment in cases of loss by fire, which rendered them naturally un- willing to resist the claims made upon them, even where reasonable suspicions existed of the demands being fraudulent, The creation of the office of Fire Marshal by the authorities has happily removed most of these difficulties, the odium of resistance to doubtful claims being by this measure taken from the shoulders of the ingurance companies, whilst the efficient sid rendered by this officer to the magistrates makes the tack of investigation and the convic- tion of offenders matters of less difficulty than before. The conviction of Peverelly is the se- cond that has taken place since the appointment of the Fire Marshal, and it has served to de- monstrate the advantages that the public are likely to derive from his labors. It will be seen by the following extracts from the Revised Statutes that the laws bearing upon this of- fence are sufficiently stringent for the purpose of prevention, when certainty is imparted to their operation :— person who shall attempt to commit an offence hibited by law, and in such attempt shall do any act wards the commiasion of such offence, but shall fail in the en ee, or shall be prevented or inter- cepted in executing the same; upon conviction thereof, shall, in cases where no provision is made by law for the punishment of such attempt, be punished as follows:— If the offence so attempted be punishable by impri- sonment in a State prison for four years or more, or by imprisonment in a county jail, the person convicted of such attempt shall be punishable by imprisonment in a State prison or in a county jail, as the case may be, for @ term not exceeding one halt the longest term of impri- sonment prescribed upon a conviction for the offence 80 attempted.—Revised Statutes, 2 vol. p, 881. The punishment of the prisoner will be at least @ term of five years in the State prison. A few more such examples amongst the incen- diaries who, in seeking to accomplish their vile ends, so frequently sacrifice the lives and pro- perty of others, will greatly diminish, if it cannot wholly put ® stop to the repetition of this offence, We cannot conglude without perate exposition of the laws bearing upon ti crime with which the prisoner was charge! ond places the dangers resulting from it in forcible light. ‘The Late Mrs. Hamilton. Dy the death of Mrs. Alexander Hamilton is severd ‘one M{ the most cherished and interesting of the tons of this age with that of Washington, Of the ladi who were personally intimate with the chief, seve survived their husbands nearly or quite half ac Within alfa dozen years have died Mrs, Rush, wido| of the celebrated Dr. Benfamin Rush, a signer of tH Declaration of Independence; the widow of Madison, and the widow of Vice-President Gerry. TH death of Mrs. Hamilton leaves but two of the illustriou coterie of beautiful and accomplished women who conspicuous in the drawing-rooms of Mra. Ws Mrs. Bradford, widow of the second Attorney General q the United States, amd Mrs. Carsoll, widow of Char! Carroll the younger, of Carrollton, Mra. Hamilton, the second daughter of General Phili| Schuyler, of the old French war and the Revolution, born in 1767, at her father’s place called The Flats, a fe miles north of Albany. The same yearaScottigh offic named Duncan McVicker arrived in this country wit! his regiment, and his daughter, afterwards Mra, Gran of Laggan, then two years old, became the intimat, child-guard of General Schuyler’s little girls, who, 0: attaining to womanhood were respectively married t'] | Mr. Van Rensselaer (grandfather of the present patroon’ | Colonel Hamilteu, and Mr. Church. Mrs. Grant's “« moirs of an American Lady’’ has for its heroine Hamilton’s mother, The work isa classic in our his| torical literature. It is the most charming picture o| primitive manvers, of social life in America before th Revolution, that was ever written. Elizabeth Schuyler, then twenty-three years of was married to Colonel Hamilton, an aide-de-camp anc private secretary of Washington, on the 14th of Decem | ber, 1780, at Albany. She was very petite, but hand some, and was distinguished for lively and manners. A portrait of her, in her twenty-seventh was painted by a Mr. Earl, who discharged a debt t¢ Eegeble| General Schuyler by painting likenesses of all his family It has been admirably engraved for the splendid worl | about to be issued by the Appleton’s, under the title o | “The Republican Court, or American Society in the di of Washington.”” It represents her in the quaint co | of that period, with hair fantastically frissled and powdered, and s gown of pearl colored and figured sill | cut in the most prim fashion, the sleeves fitting as tight as hose. | In 1787 the famous Brissot de Warville, the friend o | Madame Roland, and founder of the anti-Robespi party called Brissotines, was in New York, and dined one day at Colonel Hamilton’s, whose residence was at that time on the south-east corner of Broad and Ws streets. He describes Mrs. Hamilton as ‘ach ng} woman, who joins to the graces all the candor and sig plicity of an American wife.” Since the death of her illustrious husband, Mra. Ham- ilton has lived in retirement, engrossed for years the education of Ler children, then for a long period tive in schemes of unosientatious benevolence, and in | her extreme old age, cheered by the respectful considera-| tion of the most dignified characters of the country, awaiting calmly the end of her long separation from the partners of her earlier end happier life. Mrs. Hamilton has always dressed very plainly, and there was little in her appearance likely to arrest the at- tention of strangers. A devout member of the Episcopal. Church, she aways attended its public worship until the feebleness of her advanced years prevented. On one oc- casion, being on a visit to this city, she entered St. ‘Thomas’s,jn the upper part of Broadway, and took @ place in a pew which had probably been formerly owned by some friend. Just before the sermon, a dashing Fifth avenue personage came in, and perceiving an old lady in his spacious and never half-filled seats, stepped with an indignant look into the aislo, and beckoned to her to come out. She rose with dignity and obeyed, and tha parvenu was astonished and humbled on perceiving that the representatives of all the hereditary respectability im the church stood suddenly atthe opened doors of their pews, soliciting, by every gesture expressive of affection- ate reverence, the venerable lady in her ‘‘customary auit, of solemn black”? toenter. The rebuke was deserved for his disrespect to a woman, still more for his disrespect. to age; and the offender must have felt particularly cheap when he learned that he had acted in this manner toward the widew uf Alexander Hamilton. ‘We mentioned in the beginning of this article two of ‘Mrs. Hamilton’s cotemporaries who are still living—Mra. Charles Carroll and Mrs. William Bradford. Mrs. Carroll is a daughter of the celebrated Judge Chew, whose baro- \ial residence at Germantown is still standing. ‘The widow of Mr. Bradford,’’ writes the Hon. Richard Rush in a recent letter, ‘still lives inan ancient town on the banks of the Delaware, a beautiful relict of the days hera retailed; her house the abode of hospitality as abundant as it is cordial and el ant; and fouracore years and more not having im the courtesy, the the habitual suaviiy kindness, or even that Gretplined carriege of the person, all made part of her nature her early intercourse and the school im winich sya wow reared: for if Portia, speaking of herself as Cato’s ter and tho wife of Brutus, could exclaim, Think am no stronger than my sex, being #0 busbanded it may be permitted us to say of this rear circle, erable relict, once of the Ws and bei: ‘fathered and husbanded’ as we have also seen, she could not be other than she is.’” City News. Tax Exxcrion Riot—Anotaer Vicrim.—Last night, shortly after 10 o’clock, Mr. John H. Smith, who was fatally injured in the election riot in the Fourteenth ward, expired after lingering six days in great agony. His death was caused by a fracture of the skull just back of the left ear. The funeral will take place on Wednesday afternoon, from the late residence of de- ceased, in Eighth street, near Norih Second street, and will be attended by Engine Company, No. 8, (of. which he was a member,) and also by members of the fire de- partment generally. REWARD FOR THE MURDERERS OF HARRWON.—At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last evening, a roso- lution was adopted authorizing the Mayor to offer a re- ward of $1,000 for the arrest of person or persons the who murdered Mr. Wm. Henry election: riot in the Fourteenth ward, on Tueeday inst Mextoax Bounpany Commisston.—Private letters from San Francisco announce the safe arrival of .ieutenant N. Michler and party, of the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission. The whole party are in excel. lent health and spirits, and after « few days engaged ia fitting out their mules an® wagons, will proceed on their long journey to meet the Commissioner, Major Emory, via San Diego and Fort Yuma. CuRaP AMUSEMENT.—A man, named Morgan, who shot Mr. Parsons, editor of the Tyler Telegraph, in Texas, about eighteen months ago, waa tried at the late term of the Cass county court, found guilty, and fined one cent, THE STEAMSHIP STAR OF THR West sailed yesterday for San Juan, with a large number of passengers bound to California. TELEGRAPHIC, ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER NASHVILLE AT CHARLES TON. CuaRumstox, Nov. 11, 1854. ‘The United States mail steamer Nashville, Captain M, Berry, from New York, arrived at her wharf here at ten. o’clock last (Friday) night, DEPARTURE OF THE STEAMSHIP Goma, New Onteana, Nov. 9, 1864, ‘The steamship Cahawba sailed from here to-day New York, via Havana, with $14,500 in specie and hundred bales of cotton on board, Four Eastern mails have arrived to-day. Anson's Dagnerreotypes, Large Stue, fer 50 Hotel. FEEaes ae lwo Pats each, States patent double shooting the people into