The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1855, Page 4

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The contents of the European -edition af the Hrnaw ‘will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and to the hour of publication. ‘The News. The storm which prevailed yesterday and last night put.a stop to telegraphic operations, and we are conrequently without any intelligence respecting the election in Georgia. ‘News has been received from the West Coast of Mexico of the success of the insurgents in -that quarter. Zapaltan had succumbed to the assaults of Gen. Comonfort. After its capture the city was sacked and entirely demolished. The fight last- ed two ‘hours, during which two hundred men were killed, and many wounded on both sides. Collima had surrendered, and the so!- diers of the garrison joined the revolutionists, Sub- sequently Gen. Comonfort marched with five thou- sand troops to attack Guadalajara, where Gen. Mar- ques and Gamboa were fighting, the former being in favor of Gen. Uraga for President, and the latter in favor of Gen. Ceballos. Uraga, but recently Mexican Minister to the court of Berlin, arrived in this city about. the time that these events were tran- spiring on the Pacific coast. It isa significant coin- cidence, of which we may learn more hereafter. The news of Santa Anna’s flight had reached the coast, and caused much contention among the mili- tary leaders. Gen. Cebullos, with seven thousand men, had marched for the capital. This person should not be confounded with the ex-President of ‘that name. He is not in that region, The Board of Supervisors, the Mayor in the chair, met last evening, but did not transact any business of importance. A few bills and other papers were referred. The “indicted” members and the chief magistrate maintained their equilibrium and self: possession as though there was not the slightest dif- ference or indifference existing between them. The Board of Aldermen were in session last evening, and transacted a good deal of routine busi- ness, a report of which we give elsewhere. In the Board of Councilmen last night the sub- ject-of the indicted members was again introduced. A series of resolutions was offered, characterising the communication of the Mayor upon the subject as denunciatory of the Board and intended to cast astigma upon the individual members. The reso- Jutions, by a rule of the Board, had to lie ever. A mesolution was passed inviting the indicted func- tionaries to resume their seats, with full enjoyment of the prerogatives appertaining thereto. Messrs. Wandell and Cooper meanwhile took occasion to explain their position. A discussion, of decisive in- terest in the tone of its conduct, arose upon the question of the extent to which free tickets upon our city railroads and public conveyances are en- joyed by this branch of our municipal government. The Committee on Law Department made a report in favor of declaring null and void the additional licenses granted some time since by his Honor the Mayor to the Madison avenue line of stages. ‘The trial of the six indicted Aldermen and Coun- cilmen is set down for Friday next, ia the Court of Oyer and Terminer, the cause having been removed to this Court from the Court of Sessions. Counsel for defendants haye announced that motions will be made to quash the indictments on the grounds of Groes misuanagement and abuse in the Grand Jary room. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday the second Monday in November was assigned for the trial of Louis Baker, who stands indicted as princi- palin the murder of Bill Poole. Turner and Mce- Laughlin charged as accessories, will be tried sepa- rately, after the conclusion of Baker's trial. ‘The soft shell democratic primary elections come off this evening between haif-past five and half-past six o'clock. A list of the places where the polls are to be held may be found in our advertising columns. The politicians are working with steam engine energy. Lastevening the hard shell nominating convention met. We give the details of their doings elsewhere. The whig joint executive committee met at the Broadway House. Resolutions endorsing the nominations of the fusionists at Syracuse, were offered, debated, and finally laid over to await the action of the Whig General Committee to-night. It js said that the republicans will support the whig ticket fer city and county officers, provided their candidates for State offices are adopted by the whigs. The half shells held @ mecting in the Nineteenth ward. It was well attended and very enthusiastic. We publish to-day a batch of interesting letters from our various correspondents at Havana and other points of Cuba, Santa Anna and suite sailed from Nuevitas for St. Thomas in the English mail steamer Derwent on the 12th ult., and reached his destination on the 16th. One of our correspondents aseerts that he brought to Caba seventy thousand dollars in specie, and that he acted very shabbily with the officers of the steamer Guerrero, whose cap tain abandoned his command and proceeded to St. Thomas. We have advices from Torks Islands to Sept. 18, The islands were all healthy. Business was very dull, and provisions of all kinds brought high prices The weather was wet and unfavorable for salt mak ing. Vessels for Rurope preferred leaving in ballast ‘w taking half a cargo. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday reached about 1,000 bales, based upon middling uplands at about 10c., with some lots at a fraction off, and at 10je. for sriddling New Orleans. Flonr was rather heavy, swith fair sales without change of moment in quo- tations. The transactions included some parcels to arrive and for export. Wheat was less buoyant; red ranged from 175c. to 192jc., the latter figure for prime Tennessee red; white varied from 200c. a 6c. and 208c. Corn closed at about 86c. a B6}c., with moderate sales. Rye sold at lise. Pork was wdall, and sales light. Froights continued firm, with atendency t hicher rate’ for both London and Liverpool. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1855. ‘Two Conventions at Syracase—The Sale of the Whigs to the Abolitionists. ‘We like to call things by their right names. We dislike technicalities in politics—we hate political trauds. For twenty-cight years, siace the organization of parties ia 1827 under the me@nagement and leadership of Martin Van Buren, on the spoils maxims and morals of William L. Marcy, subsequently fully adopted and carried oat by William H. Seward, New York has been the focus of a system of poli- tical stockjobbing which has done more to degrade American policy, to weaken the bonds of union between the States, and te foster sectional bitterness and local avimosities than all other causes combined. The work of poli- tical demoralization has now reached its cal- mination in the organization of an abolition party at Syracuse, based upon avowed hosti- lity to the constitution of the United States, and pledging its fiercest and most tireless labors to produce a dissolution of the American Union. The citadel of our institutions has been invested and besieged by the anarchists, and we congratulate the country that at length, by the issues made, we at least understand whe are enemies and who are friends, For more:than a year, in all private con- versations with what has been known as re- publicans and free soilers, they have avowed utter hostility to the institution of slavery. These avowals have been made by leading men of the old whig and democratic parties— by Seward, King, Greeley, Hale, Wade, Wilson, Giddings, Banks, Butler, Van Buren aad others. They have as often declared, in the language of Chase, that the constitution was a nullity, so far as it recognized human slavery; that majorities were omnipotent, and that the North had a right to make use of them to over- throw slavery everywhere in the States. They have denounced the partnerehip betweer the North and the South, and they have now or- ganized a party with a view to effect its dis- solution. league with the abolitionists, agreeing to-take the articles of faith and the rituals of service of the latter, and to combine the united forces under the republican name. There were two conventions, it will be re- membered—one calling itself republican and the other whig—their objects, purposes, plans and opinions being identical. The two calls were gotten up by the same men. It was be- lieved by some of the republicans that it was necessary to have a formal whig convention, for the purpose of releasing thousands of the old whig party from their allegiance thereto, and to bind them to the abolitionists by an authoritative declaration of their own chosen representatives. The farce was both weak and ridiculous, as it was played out. There were two bodies of men, presumed to have been chosen from and by two distinct parties and constituencies, They met in sepa- rate council at Syracuse. They had no sooner organized than their speakers respectively an- nounced the sitting of the other, and moved a committee of conference upon resolutions and nominations. The joint committee came to- gether, concurred at once upon a rank aboli- tion platform, excluding every other issue, and upon candidates to be supported by the coalition. Was there ever before known such wonderful harmony ? There was exhibited fidelity only to one in- terest, one party, one set of men. The two conventions were true in deed to the abolition- ists. The formal surrender of the whigs of the great State of New York by such an act to such men and in such a cause, is acommentary upon that old party more pregnant with bitter reflec- tions upon its integrity, upon the patriotism of its members, upon the folly of political con- ventions—and if submitted to, upon the inde- pendence of the people--than has ever before been made by its worst enemies. Is there a voter in the State that does not know that the meeting of this whig conven- tion at Syracuse, and its easy absorption into the abolition party, was intended as a whole- sale transfer of the whigs of New York to the anti-slavery party? Is there not abundant evidence of the truth of this in the very man- ner in which the two bodies conducted their proceedings? If it is answered that there was areal concurrence of opinion, and that the two representative bodies came together by virtue of the laws of attraction—by the force of political affinities—then we have to ask how it happened that the two constituencies did not thus unite in primary meetings, and there de- termine upon one conyention? In this coun- try the opinions of men are easily under- stood. It is quite impossible that two months ago it was not known that every man attend- ing the whig convention, so called, was not thoroughly an abolitionist. The truth is, that convention was a decoy for the other—a stool pigeon used to call in the whig flock to be canght in the abolition net. It was a po- litical fraud—a trick of Thurlow Weed and William H. Seward. Having not only aban- doned the old whig party, but sold themselves to the abolitionists, they first provided for a convention of traitors voluntary, and then, for traitors involuntary. The abolition (Seward) convention proper we have some r spect for. Its members are open traitors to the constitution. They seek the overthrow of that great compact of union between the States, be- cause—as they term-it—it recognizes human slavery. They make themselves parties to sla- very, by being members of a government whose organic laws distinctly admit the legal exist- ence of that relation—thns estimating the ab- stract as superior to the practical—thus re- garding themselves as responsible for what they declare to be a positive wrong and a heinous moral stain upon the republic—and finding no other adequate remedy, they propose the dis- solution of the partnership betwen the free and the slave States, With little confidence in their honesty, and none at all in their jadgment--in the full conviction that they are political trick- stergand mischievous anarchists—we still have some regard for them, because they are open and virulent enemies, But for the members of the whig cunven- tion—for the tools and instruments of trai- tors—for the political stool-pigeons of William H. Seward—for his procuresses—for those who chose to play the game of fraud for the benefit of others, and at the expense of their ow: honor and the good of the country—for them we have no respect. Well do they represent the cast-off harlots of our social world, who, find- ing their old occupation gone, resort to the next step in crime, for which their past ex- perience has so well qualified them. We ro- peat again, we like to call things by their right names, and in this spirit of fairness, we desig- nate the huckstering movement by which the old whig party of New York has been sold out, To this end they have formed a without delivery, to the abolitionists, That the people composing that party will confirm the act of their—no not their—but the two Seward negro abolition conventions, we have no faith, no belief. ExPrexident Ceballos of Mexico—The Late Wevolution and tts Effeets. We give place below to a letter from ex- President Juan B. Ceballos on the subject of the comments in the Haran on the recent re- volution in Mexico:— Paris, Sept. 12, 1855. ‘VO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. ‘My correspondent in your city writes to me, under date of 27¢h of last Augast, that you have published an arti- ‘cle woncerning the late occarrences which determined the overthrow of General Santa Anna. He has informed mo, likewise, that you have mentioned my name ina particu- ar way, and that you have given an account of the rea- sens which compelled me to emigrate from the Mexican republic, Finally, he informs me that in the account of the influences and means which have hastened the recent revolution you establish the following facts:— Ist—That the focus of this revolution was established at New York. 2d—That in that city the emigrants had organized a club or meeting in the Metropolitan Hotel, and that several Americans of note were members of this meeting. 3d—That trom this same meeting sprung the plan of the revolution and the intrusting of its leader- ship to General Alvarez. As in this narration my name fs prominent, I cannothelp saying that whoever has given you such information has made jest of you, or has been deceived himself. 1 think it is my duty to assure you that all this is pure nonsense, and that the events you make mention of never happened. I do not recollect to have heard the least allusion to the meetings at the Metropolitan Hotel, and, consequently, I cannot conceive how any American, whatever be his po- sition, may have taken part. There were some few emigrants of Mexico whe used to meet in that place, merely in an accidental way, and with the only purpose of social intercourse, asit is cus- tomary with all persons in a foreign country, especially when misfortune fastens them together. To suppose that this pretended meeting formed the pian of the revolution and gave mandate to General Alvarez, is to fall into an evident and incredible anachronism, for the plan was dated 11th Mareb, 1854, whereas Ihad only arrived at New York 19th May, and the other Mexicans of whom you speak had arrived only in July and August of the same year. I would now ask how is it possible thet we could have plotted the Mexican revolution in the city of New York? That fact is decisive. According to my correspondent you enter into several political considerations concerning the influence of the revolution in both countries, destined to become one; that is to say, ‘(that the present revolution is made with the intention of annexation between Mexico and the Uni- ted States.” I well understand that you should conjec- ture or think so, and take your desire for the reality. Under this head you are completely free; but allow me to protest against the conclusion you draw from the events. * I will not dwell longer on this matter, because I think it isimpossible to change your opinions; and besides, I have not undertaken a political discussion, My only end is to rectify those facts which now begin to belong to histo- ry and which concern me personally. I hope you will be kind enough to insert this rectifica- tion in your journal. I thank you beforehand, and beg of you to consider me, sir, Your very humble servant, JUAN R, CEBALLOS, Senor Ceballos relies, it seems, upon one of his New York correspondents for information concerning the course of the Heraup toward himself and his numerous emigrant Mexican associates in this country, in connection with the recent revolution. We need hardly say that he has been wholly misinformed. We never asserted that the plan of revolution was the result of a conference at the Metropolitan Hotel. What we did say was, that many of the distinguished exiles, under the régime of Santa Anna, frequently met at that place and con- ferred together upon the condition of their dis- tracted and oppressed country. This was quite notorious; and it was equally well known that Gen. Ceballos was regarded as not only the most distinguished and prominent Mexican in this city, but as a favorite candidate of the re- yolutionary party for the executive office of their republic, as announced by their leaders at Acapulco. He was particularly applauded wherever Santa Anna was denounced. He had been regarded as an able and upright chief for the Mexican people. He had steadily refused and discarded the favors which Santa Anna had conferred upon him. He had been tendered the Grand Cross of the order of Gaudalupe, which he took upon himself to reject; and on the 13th of February, 1854, on his arrival at New Orleans, he published a formal and very elaborate address to the Mexican people, through their then Minister of Foreign Rela- tions, in which he said vastly more than can be inferred from any conversations he may have had at the Metropolitan in this city. Now, let us repeat again what we said on the occasion referred to by our distinguished cor- respondent. Santa Anna had gained power in Mexico by violence and fraud. He superseded President Ceballos. That gentleman refused again and again to enter into his government, or to receive office or honor at his hands, He became a revolutionary exile from his State. He did not come alone. He was accompanied by numerous countrymen, all of whom concurred in opinion concerning the character of the Dictator’s government, They sympathized with the efforts to over- throw it. They often met at the Metropolitan Hotel—and yet, without forming there a plan f revo}ution—which we had previously pub. lished as the work of other men—that plan, and the persons engaged in it, both Mexicans and Americans, were the subjects of frequent conversation. And among the number of Mexicans at that hotel at the time was no less a personage than Gen. Comonfort, the dis- tinguished coadjutant of Alvarez. Upon the tendencies of things towards the absorption of Mexico by the United States we have a word to say. It is not possible to close our eyes to the past. A third of that republic within ten years has fallen into our hands, We have extended our boundaries and our im. provements up to its very borders on some- thing more than two sides. While our people are undeniably advancing, the Mexicans are paralyzed by internal wars. At this moment we are fearfully agitated on the subject of slavery—the south bank of the Rio Grande presents a field for the employment of slave labor which is no where else to be found. For sugar, it is superior to Cuba—for cotton and tobacco, it is better than Alabama and Texas, What we intended to say, was that, in view of our own rapid progress and the rotrogression of the Mexicans—the manifest identification of our people with the recent revolution—the great triumph of slavery in Texas—wo saw no way but to admit the States of Mexico into the American confederation. It will be a great favor extended to them and to Gen. Ceballos, and to the yearly exiles from his country, to whom we are in the habit of extending our hospitality and our counsel—but we are pre- paring to doit. If the abolitionists break up the Union, that act will certainly be followed by the absorption of the States bordering upon the Rio Grande into the Southern confederacy. Mark that. The Exportations of Gold—Mffect of the Ea- ropean War. The impression that we shall continue to ex- port specie without regard to the condition of our foreign trade is gradually gaining ground. The continuance ef the war upon a scale more extensive than has yet. been realized will make it necessary for the governments of Great Bri- tain and France to obtain supplies of gold at any cost, and their financial agents will natu- rally look to our receipts from California to meet thatdemand, It has been our belief for some time that the outward movement of gold has not been entirely regulated by the laws of trade. The Bank of England is being steadily and rapidly drained of gold, and has been com- pelled to raise the rate of interest to preserve ita present supply. The Bank of France has also had its specie balance largely reduced, and but for the importations from this side of the At- Jantic both of these institutions would have exhibited a very small amount of gold in their vaults. The Crimeais the maelstrom that is swallowing up the precious metals of the three great commercial nations of the world; and so Jong as such an immense army has to be sus- tained in that region, so long must gold be drawn from the natural channels of commerce, and serve to derange to a greater or less ex- tent the financial and commercial operations of the three maritime Powers. Within our own limits all the elements of prosperity are ina -sound and healthy condition. We have added hundreds of millions to our national wealth by the crops which have just been secured, and we are able to supply any foreign demand with the raw material for food or raiment. So far as this goes all is well, and we may for the time benefit considerably by the abundance of food here and the scarcity in Europe; but it is a question whether ultimately the position and necessities of our best customers will not react upon us and bring about derangement and dis- tress within our own limits. With all our resources; with the richness of our harvests; with the enormous surplus we possess of all the necessaries of life; with Cali- fornia at our back, yielding its three and four millions of gold per month, it remains to be seen whether we shall escape the general depression and prostration which sooner or later must grow out of the present European war. We are certainly in a position to feel it less than either of the commercial nations engaged, but we may be sensibly affected by the absorption of our specie and the withdrawal of the basis upon which rests the prosperity of all our great interests. We do not apprehend any immedi- ate difficulty in our local finances, for the rea- son that our affairs are in such a contracted and healthy condition. The universal liqui- dation of 1854 and the early part of 1855 has been our salvation. Coming as it did at the commencement.of the European war, it placed us in a position of security as that war pro- greseed. We are now comparatively safe, and may escape with little loss; but had the present position of things in Europe found us expand- ed and in the midst of enormous speculations, the effect would have been most disastrous. The only way to prevent or mitigate the evils which are about visiting our European customers, is to confine our commercial operations, as much as possible, to the legitimate wants for con- sumption, and leave all transactions partaking of a speculative character to some future and more propitious period. This is not the time to launch out into ex- travagant expenditures in any enterprise. The future is too uncertain and too much burdened with great events to give much encouragement tospeculation. It is the time for every one to keep himself snug and easy, and strive to do a safe and moderately profitable business, instead of a large and dangerous one, even if attended with the prospect of great returns. Our security and the permanency of our pre- sent prosperity depend entirely upon steering clear of all irregular and unusual entangle- ments, and keeping ourselves prepared to meet any contingency. It must be borne in mind that hundreds of millions of our securi- ties are held in Europe, and we know not how soon the necessities of foreign holders may deluge our markets with them. A large amount of American stocks has already been returned, and more must soon follow. The News from Nicaragua—Colonization of Central America. The news from Central America brought by the Star of the West gives a new coloring to the proceedings of Col. Kinney, Col. Walker, and the other American citizens whose names have been so often coupled of late with the epithet of filibustero. It is not to be denied that the narrative of the events of the first fortnight of September is calculated to leave an impression on the mind very different from that which the names of Kinney and Walker have been accustomed to produce. The former has fulfilled his promises thus far to the letter. He has pursued his purpose peaceably, ro- maining on good terms not only with the State of Nicaragua, which officially recog- nizes him, but likewise with the British ves- sels on the coast, and even the Nicaragua Transit Company. He has organized a gov- ernment on a sensible practical basis, and {s- sued an inaugural that will compare favorably with many similar effusions from much higher authorities in this country. One of his follow- ers has already given anew and startling sti- mulus to the agriculture, while another has brought that great civilizer—the printing prese—to bear on the intelligence of the coun- try. From all sides, the story is that the Kin- ney party are sanguine of the success of their colonization scheme, and that the natives are nothing loath to see them prosper. Col. Walker, meanwhile, has accepted a commission from the Leon revolutionary party in Nicaragua, and already done good service in the field. On the 3d September, he crossed over from San Juan del Sur to the Lake, with some one hundred and fifty men. Gen. Guar- diola immediately marched down from Rivas, gave bim battle with a much superior force, and was defeated with loss. Of the conse- quences of the defeat we cannot speak with certainty. One authority states that Walker returned to San Juan del Sur, and was ex- pected to menace Rivas. But another—from Costa Rica—asaerts that Rivas had already fallen into the hands of the Leon party with whom Walker is affiliated; that the latter was daily expected to attack Granada, and that great consternation prevailed on the Lake. Whatever be the true version of the facts, it seems certain that Walker’s enlistment in the service of the revolutionary party has been of service to them, and that their prospect of overturning the established government is promising. It is likewise obvious that Walker’s acceptance of a commission from the Leon chiefs divests his movements of the equivocal with the length of which we hat occasion to find faulty Pe some judicious alterations have been made. A character they lately bore. He is now @| deal ofdreary recitation which clogged the easy flow the piece has been cut out, and more piquancy hes been: infuned into the comic v Indeed we are surprised that with such a capit local and political allue sions the librattixt did not nike more of that featur, Im. other respects his work has been very creditably per- formed. The poetry of his ballads is of more than aver merit, and though it does not always rise to that of the, level of the music, is yet better than we are accustomed to find in these lyrical stage compositions, The music af some of these songs is Tr charming. The ballad, “When circled round in youth’s glad spring,” is one of - those graceful, flowing inclodies which haunt the ear long after it is heard, It was sung deliciously by Miss Louisa Pyne, and brought down a rapturous encore. most original and pleasing melody of another or- soldier of fortune, serving, like Lafayette, Korkiusko, Pulaski, Steuben, Lord Cochrane, Lord Byron, Admiral Slade, and our own coun- trymen who are in the service of the Czar, in the ranks of a foreign army; and when he as- serts that he is there because he sympathizes with the objects sought by the Leon party, he iz entitled to be believed. Without expressing an opinion favorable or otherwise with regard to these persons and their orpri isi i i 1 der is the camp song sung by Edward (Mr. Har- enterprises, it is impossible to dismiss them from rsca). rae tee Soe anh bi Bir ae phy a the mind without dwelling fora moment on the | ferent from anything we have before heard. | The of the vivandiere is one «f those light. ole trifles, which serve to form the nuanc positions, but in which neve: thele may be shown. Rendered by Louisa loses nothing of its ornate qualitie The death scene might have been made more of by the composer, but he seems to have been timid in availing himself of the op- ortunities it afforded him. ‘The Curse ’’ is, neverthe- jess, a fine paseage, although by no means approaching» to the grand and impressive On the whole, the music of this piece is less open to tue charge of plagiarism or imitation thon almost any of the operas of the modern English composers. It is full of beauties, entirely the author’s own; its faults arise less from am ambitious de- sire to compete with any of the acknowledged models, than from inexperience in turning to account the inspi- rations of hiaown genius. probable future of Central America, Atten- tion has already been drawn in these columns to the anarchy which has been the normal con- dition of the five Central American States ever since their separation from each other. It is notorious that neither in moral nor material welfare has there been the slightest progress made in any of them for the last thirty years ; that they have gone backward, in fact, while the rest of the world was advancing. At the same time, it is well known that no part of the globe offers greater natural advantages to the agriculturist, and none is better situate for purposes of commerce. That the phenomenon its of course, OvRk ARMY Orricens At SrnavTorol—ERRor Conrecran.—- ‘A paragraph has been going the rounds of the papers to the effect that Major Delafield, of the United States Army, had visited Sebastopol and had pronounced it impregna~ is directly and wholly due to the indolence and incapacity of the half-breed races which inhabit these States, is also tolerably certain. When these things are considered, it may seem more properly a matter of wonder that so fine a country should have been left to decay for a quarter of a century, than that efferts should now be made by daring men to reclaim it. It has been said by Macaulay that the condition of the existence of the British empire in Asi was conquest—incessant conquest. Our na- tional prosperity depends on no such condi- tion ; but the extension of the Anglo-Saxon race, and the absorption or subjection of all in- ferior races appear to proceed quite as unswervingly here as there. Ten years have elapsed since Texas was absorbed ; seven since the creation of a new State in California; the time for new fulfilment of the hidden law cannot be fur distant. Already one American railroad, ‘on soil owned by Americans, con- nects the oceans at the Isthmus; and a tele- graph line likewise owned by Americans is about to be constructed in the same region. Further north, Honduras has already alienated land, privileges, and rights of way to American citizens; and not content with this, has distinctly solicited admission to the Union, while her neighbor, Costa Rica, less fastidious, has offered her favors to any one who chooses to pay for them. Nicaragua is traversed from end to end by an American transit company which owns land, material, boats, &c., and possesses a patronage equal to that of the State. One thousand Americans travel through the country every month. More than thie, at the rate things are proceed- ing, the chances are that ina shcrt time, the most stable authority in the State will be in the hands of two Americans, Walker on the Pacific, Kinney on the Atlantic coast. Of Central America what remains? Guatemala, quivering in chronic revolutionary throes, which have reduced her strength so low that there is no reaction, now, after the spasms; and San Salvador, a heap of ruins! ble. Itturns oud'to be that the Major has not been to Sebastopol, and could not, therefore, have expressed any- such opinion. We learn from his brother, a merchant in this city, that he had received a letter from the May jor by the late steamer, dated at Berlin, in which he stated that he was then on his way to visit Sebastopol Marine Affairs. ‘Lors OF TH# Bark Epva, or THs rort.—The bark Edna, Captain Groton, which sailed from this port, under char- ter, for Rio Grande, Brazil, on the 16th of June last, was ed on the 12th of August, about sixty miles from fer port of destination. All the crew and passengers; among whom were the wife and child of Captain Groton, were saved. The Versel and cargo were a total loss, The Edna was about 260 tons Durthen, and was owned by Van Brunt & Slaght, of this city, and Captsin Groton, and was, we believe, fully insured. The bark Maria Morton, from Savannah, arrived yes- terday morning, brings 5,140 sacks wheat for various parties in this city, besides a large number of barrels of flour and bales of cotton. Despatcu.—The steamtug Titan, Captain Hoyt, brought to this city Inst night, in tow, the ship Atlantic, from New London. The Titan was absent about twenty-three hours. ‘The packet ship Tuscarora, Captain Dunlevy, left Wal- nut street wharf, Philadelphis, at 12.30 P. M. on Setur- day, in tow of steam tug America, bound to Live: 1, with 190 sand 6,900 barre® of flour, 24,135 ele Sieh at coe oil, and 56 packages of merehan- ine. Dgarn or 4 Sea Caprain,—The bark Exact, Capt. Robert:+ Saunders, of Fairti for Savannah, bound to Mobile,. was spoken in lat. 27.18N., long. 75 W., out 17 days. On the twelfth day out Captain Saunders, a native of Brooklyn, died of fever. iverpool, thus speakezof Bngish ‘hats ¢ shape, weight and texture of the hats were absolutely horrifying to's person whose taste. had not become depraved by long familiarity with the see and bandling of them.” ‘Think of thie, and then visit KNOX: establishinent, on the corner of Broadway and Fulton street, or at 638 Broadway. The eleganoe, lightness, beauty and da- rability of his bats cannot fail to command your admiration, as it has that of the famous philosopher, Mike Walsh, Genlw’s Excelstor.—A Superb Novelty in Soft hats.—At length, after many experimen‘s, Genin has suecead- ed in obtaining a richer and more becoming color for the full: and winter soft hats, than has ever heretofore been produced, either in France or America. He invites especial attention his Excelsior—for by that term be has designated this new #tyle—Inened for the first time to day. ‘The shape and the peca. Mar sat of the brim impart an air of elegance to the Excelsior which would aloue render it popular; but the color—a rich dark claret brown—is its special atiraction, In bi ont this chef d’couvre the mode! has been so varied as to sult per- es. For young men ihe low crown has been: adopted, and the higher crown for gentlemen of maturer years. There can be but little donbt that the Excelsior, when seen, will ‘be pronounced the most elegant undress hat as yet introduced, GENIN, No. 214 Broadway, Opposite St. Pau!’s Church. Espenscheid 1s the Leader of Fashion in hats.—The great demand from the mo»t fashionable source, as well as from the public at larse, triumpbantl: the popularity of his splendid fil hat for 1855, A few years Ago it wouid have been deemed impossible to produce such a ‘hat for leas than froma $6 to $7, Lut owing to the great mprove- menis which Expenscheld has introduced in his fuctory, he ie enabled to sell splendid ae three dollars and fifty eents. a, in this country. THE LATEST NEWS. — 8 Nassau street, near Bec BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Henry H. Leeds, Auctioneer.—Henry H. — byt will eon Reetemenn October 8, 12 o’clock, a ARSC by os ys mache Pete From Rio Janeiro. Cxhibited at the Crypial’ Palsce, ‘irom the celebrated makers, Jennins & Bettudger, of Birm: eninge tables, screens, tea caddies, consisting of arm chairs, papetries, writing desks, An arrival at this port from Rio Janeiro brings dates | jewel cases, card pintes, folios/and other goods, richly deco, to the 224 of August. The quotations for coffee had un- | M64, al! uf which will bo sold without reserve. “By order of dergone no change, and good grades were still scarce. ‘The ship Sparkling Sea, from Boston for Callao, had put into Kio leaking. Freshet in the Schuylkill River. Purapevrnta, Oct. 1, 1855. There is @ heavy freshet in the Schuy)kill river, caused by the heavy rain storm of yesterday. At Fairmoun’ the water raised six ect. We cannot ascertain the amount of damage that has been done, as the telegraphic wires are down. Fashionable Well Made Clothing.—Alfred Munroe & Co, No, 441 Broadway, have never been so weil* prepared to please their friends and customen as at the present time. All sizes, for men and boys. Call and examine their assortment. Gur Old Place, corner of John and Nassaw , 1k now well stocked with winter clothing, fresh, faahlon- Kile Well mace and cheap, ur weil earned repuiatio for the sale of © ‘a8 above described, we are determined maintain.“ DEVEIN & JEBSUL, 88 and 36 John street Great Novelty in India Rubher Overcoats— Similar in appearance to silk, either side being worn out, und Weigh only a few ounces; unequalled tn elegance and dura- Railroad Accident, bili) price moderate. Soid by LEARY & OO, Astor House, Pumapetemsa, Oct. 1,1865, | BPoedway- A train from Harrisburg, on the Columbia Railroad, Great Ba: in Carpeting. We have now ran off the track this morning near Parksburg, in conse. | ¥ Store # large stock of fail comprising velvet, ‘wpeniry, Brussels, three-ply amd in floor oY Bich brussels fx. unt tr per ‘yaees, SMUTH"s LOUNGE BY, 466 Broadway, noar Grand street, Carpet ptervon & Hum quence of the breaking of a rail. The engine remained on the track, but the mail, express and one passenger car ran off, Some trees along side the road saved them from being precipitated down an embankment, and four passengers only were slightly injured. The train was de- tained four hoare. 15%. =e Pete: 1 37> Breadway, are selling off their entire stock of rich carpets.at i—Velvet carpets, 1 Brussel the follor er Yard; rich tapes Is dove ta Reply, ingraia' cl EI WUMPAREY, 379 Broadway, Carpeting.—Great inducements are offered: PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PHILADELPHIA, Uct. 1, 1855. at YOUNG & JAYNU’S, 84 Broadway, opposite Taylor's» Money unchanged. Stocks dull. Pennsylvania State | §t'pur'ysmucmrer urialn, materials fc; good Brussels at b's, 863; Reading, 471; 434; Morris Canal, 1434; Pennsylvania T. 3 LHANE, Sept. 30, 1955, Cotton unchanged. Salen yesterday 1,700 bales. Freighte—Cotton to Havre 1c. Sterling exchange 1'; 4 83, per cent premium, —— Academy of Music—«Ii Trovatore.” Inland, © rte? tat Ci Eg gh romain ta per yar, S00 yards betetnah ngrate Sade and tes poo pace floor oli 28.64. 30, Mie ron carpe eaablshen of ACA ANDEAN ia Jet Ornaments.—A Cony Assortment... ee bg Sey brooches, F-4 Sr eyarey chains, 1, onl 18, J WON bi, The opera season opened last night under rather un- | Tyyeeeyi gr My studs, at OSBORN, BOARDMAN & propitious circumstances. The rain kept away hundreds of the habitués of the house who would unquestionably have been there, the weather permitting, whilst the repe- tition of an opera now become familiar to our musical public, did not stimulate the curiosity of those who might have been tempted to brave it. The non-production of one of the promised novelties of which we are told the forthcoming season is to be fruitful is explained in a little publication, called the Enér’acte, which was placed in our hands on entering the theatre, and which we pre- sume is intended to be the official organ of the establish- ment. It is there stated that another opera, with the new artists engaged in Europe, had been gelected for the first night, but that the non-arrival of Madame Castellan and Signori Silviani and Gaspani, who embarked ouly on the 20th of last month, had compelled the manager to abandon his original intention. The consequence of this contreims in the arrangements of the establishment was, that the ‘‘Trovatore’’ had, aa it were, to be almost Engraving and Printing.—The Neatest and most iashionable styles of wedding and visiting cards. Speci mens sent aod orders received by mail for cards and Kind of engraving and prinung. WM. N. DUNNELL, way, corner of Dey street. Tuttie’s Fancy Store, 345 Broadway, Pre~ sents a collection of rich and cieeant gocte Gat completely roadway. ers establishment on nad care clipes every other visiting (he elty will find here every conceivable article designed for presents, tokens and mementos, Toys of all Ctl jones for MF a Bad at home,” as well as per- sonal and housebold ornaments, and articles of convenience, uch ag porve monnales, walking canes, opera glasses, elegant jane, A0., AC. Singer's cobb, # Machines.—We have the plaasure of announeing to our friends and customers that our manufacturing department with ali possible wor! a caused a su rush orders, days we aball have doubled our weekly product ot pe will supply oll orders prowl Ai IN. SINGER & CO., 323 Broadway. The most Successful of late has en and pencil case, (Lownd's ‘-extemporised,” neither Madame Lagrat nor | been the iniroduction of the new Mile Aldini knowing a bar of the pn. Aa 4 patent), made by WILWARTH, 44 Maiden lane. Simple, con- days ago. Unsntistactory an this explanation is | [uycD\ cud durable; it ie, fast superseding the use of other in one point of view, in another {t places the excellence ti — of these artists and the general resources cf the house in & most favorable light. The new cast afforded no evi- dences of undue haste in ree or imperfect se. quaintance with the music. was never more at home in any of the parts in which we have been in the habit of seeing her. She and acted witha spirit, freshness, and a tho: conception of her text, which rendered her Leonora a part worthy of bet runked with the best in her Signora ‘Aldine who was the Azucena of the evening, has not, perhay as much as Vestvali, who originally performed oe part here, but her voice is sweet and sympathetic, and she is wanting neither in grace nor expression, From Dinner Sets, ‘Ten Bets, and Vases—W . on A stant Fea nies” cate Mate ee peer lower than ever before offied. W. J. ‘00. Marble sores, 631 and way. Gas Fixtares!! Gas Fixtures!!1—A Variety det trent pastor” Pike podgrae etre diag Marble sores, 63) and 633 Broadway. Clocks! Clocks !! jocks } Paris made clocks, in black marble, white ditto, and real whot.we have rs of C7 ‘we should say that ane will | rooze cases, mavy o! the styles are y new.’ cae '@ & mos juable ac sition to the troupe. Brignol’s a Maurico was as usual carefully studied and elfective, Marble stores, 631 and 633 Broadway. Could he but infuse @ little more mobility Into his fes- | London Brown Stout Porter, Pints tures and action it would contribute to enbance the valae «f bis representations. (Gn the whole the opera lef but little to regret in its former cast, and that was con- fined to the subordinate parts. Mibio’s Garden— Rip Van Winkle.” The offect of the weather was apparent at this house as well as at all theother places of amusement last night notwithstanding the strong attraction of the new opera. ‘The attendance, although far from being as thronged as on the first few evenings of its representation, was mich better than we expected to witness. This falling off in sumbers from the immense houses assembled on those occasions was evidently attributable to the cause wo Lave indicated, for nothing can exceed the satisfaction testified on each succeeding representation with the mer- its of the piece. The music is of that character which wins upon and thoroughly seizes hold of the ear and heart of an audience, and which leaves after it is conclu and and quarts. Also, Crosse & Biackwell’ sauces, ‘sups, mustard, curries, bioaters, og ag oad fnedmg ox pion, from London. For sale b SOHN DUNCAN & SONS, 405 Broadway. Hair Dye, Wigs and Toupees, !] Competition. erent drive's rooms for app ing bis ‘ainove are, tha gromiens ‘ tte Hh + new style Wholesale nod reall i" ded a lasting impression. There can be no better proot one than this of ite genius and originality, In the libretto, | i f'RinTANORO'S, Ko Avtor Hone,