The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1855, Page 4

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Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hxrap will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at ‘Whe office during the previous week, and to the hour of publication. ‘The News. ‘The city is full of rumors relative to more indict- mente against men in office. The Grand Jury now in session, it is averred, has indicted a Judge, one or two members of the Common Council, and several policemen. Namesof the indicted parties are freely used. We choose not to publish any of the rumors, preferring to wait the official public action of the Grand Jury. It isexpected that the presentment will be made this morning to Mayor Wood, in the abeence of Judge Stuart and Recorder Smith. The Court will undoubtedly be crowded with anxious and imterested spectators. Hats off ; walk light. Our special telegraphic dispatch from Elmira in relation to the proposed abandonment of the hard ticket has called out an indignant denial from the smal] hard shell organ in this city. We have no cause to doubt our special correspondent’s state- ments about the matter,as he has been on the ground several days. The matter is patent all through the southern tier, although the organ has not heard of it, and was first informed of a meeting of the Hard State Committee by the Herap of Thursday. If any of the hards in this city want to hear more about fusion with the Know Nothings, Jet them take a trip up to Binghamton, Elmira, or any other of the towns along the line of the Erie railroad. They might hear some news also at Rochester. G. 8. Holmes, Esq., U.S. Consul at Cape Town, (C. G. H.,) who arrived at Boston on the 4th inst., gucceeded previous to his departure from his post, im obtaining from the Colonial parliament and cxe- eutive some important relaxations of wharfage dues and other port payments hitherto made by Ameri- can whalers, which renders the matter very interest- ing to parties engaged in that trade. The laws for imposing duties customs were about to be revised in March last by government when Mr. Holmes made @ very timely application, pointing ont that our whaling marine should be permitted to land in pri- vate bonded stores surplus provisions, stores and other articles, free from wharfage dues either on Janding or shipping ; that they should be allowed to ship all stores they may require as stores out of bond ; and that they should be allowed to bond all oil on board required for transhipment to the United States or other ports also free from dues. It will be geen from the copy of the act, which we publish, that the parliament passed alaw giving effect to Mr. Holmes’ patriotic suggestions on June the 8th, and also from the Secretary’s proclamation that the measure went into effect at once. A special despatch from Washington this morn- img states that Gen. Cushing is much annoyed at the success of Col. Kinney, in Central America, and insiste that something shall be done in relation to the matter. A number of New York politicians are reported to be in Washington making extraordinary exertions to secure the vote of New York for Pierce in the Cincinnati Convention. Another despatch gives the facts in relation to the striking of the fag of the United States Consul at Matanzas, and the subsequent return of Dr. Worrell, the Consul, to the United States. Our Washington correspondence contains some important public documents in relation to the sup- pression of Gen. Cazneau’s treaty with the Domini- can republic by French and English interference. The details of the news from Mexico, which we publish this morning, will be found highly impor- tant. Among our extracts will be found the mani- festo of Gen. Carrera on retiring from the presi- Gency, the tariff of Ceballos that has been restored, and an account of the new commercial privileges provided. We have news from Utah to the 29th of August, The crops are likely to turn out better than was previously anticipated ; those in the north promised well, and corn and potatoes throughout the Terri- tory gave prospect of a fair yield; so the saints will not be starved out by the ravages of the grasshop pers this year. John M. Bernhisel had been re-elected delegate to Congress without opposition. A rich, racy and characteristic discourse by Brigham Young will be found among our extracts. Captain Brevoort, of the schooner Brontes, has banded us files of Kingston (Jamaica) papers to the 17th of September. The Hon. Dowell O’Reii- ly, for twenty-four years Attorney General of Ja- maica, died on the 14th ultimo, and was much re- gretted. Israel Levi Lewin, a well known abolition- ist, wae also dead. The island press advocated a re- laxation of the tariff. The Legislatare was to meet on the 16th instant, when warm debates were expected in both branches, A satisfactory Bap tist tea meeting had been held, and the Jewish an- nual feast was also observed. The Governor had gone on a country tour. Juvenile vagrancy was rife, Torrenta of rain had fallen in Dominica, and the young sugar canes were slightly injured. The sagar crop had been nearly all shipped. In St. Lu- cia fine weather had been succeeded by a heavy storm, which damaged many boats. A severe hurri- cane swept over St. Croix on August 24, which oc- Casioned great damage. Many lives were lost. On the south side of the island the French bark Con- tent was wrecked, and all hands perished. She was bound to Marseilles, St. Croix was healthy. Smallpox had appeared at St. Thomas. Our files of Bahama papers are from Nassau (N. P.) to September 19th. On the 17th ultimo a vessel had arrived there from Rum Cay, with the intelli- gence that owing to @ continuance of heavy rains the salt crop for this season was completely destroy: ed. About 40,000 bushels remained on hand, and ie latent price Woe sisten cents (cash) per bushel, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1855. Athol ijtand has been purchased by the English gover.ament for a hospital site. News bad been re- cei ved at Nassan that the British schooner Lady F annerman, laden with mahogany, had been cap- tured near Yueatan by boats from the Mosquito shore, and the captain and crew taken prisoners. ‘The schooner Galvanic was chased by a war steamer near the same place, and only barely escaped her. From Bermuda we have advices to September 26. ‘The weather was very fine, and invalids were much benefitted by ite mildness. The farmers anticipated & most luxuriant crop. The legislatare had voted £1,000 in order to encourage immigration to the islands, and it was thought that many of the dis- treased inhabitants of Madeira would be invited to labor there. The Assembly had passed a law lower- ing the tolls on foreign steamers carrying mails, to the following standard :—For every packet exceed- ing six hundred tons the sum of pounds, and for every packet not exceeding six b @red tons the sum of one pound four shillings time of her arrival at the islands. A report of the dedication of the new Presbyte- rian church in Thirteenth street, between Fifth and Rixth avenues, and an abstract of the sermon of the Rev. Mr. Burchard, pastor, on the occasion, will be found in another part of our paper. Dr. Baird delivered @ lecture before the Ameri- can and Foreign Christian Union, last evening, on the regeneration of Protestantism and the reato- ration of pure Christianity, a report of which will be found in our paper this morning. A fall report of the proceedings of the conven- tion of the new temperance party, held on Saturday evening last to nominate candidates for city and county offices, and a list of their nominces, will be found among our city politics, The Legislature of Tennessee assembled on the 1st instant. Colonel Chatham, American, was elect- ed Speaker of the Senate. The House on the first day failed to elect a presiding officer. There was much excitement in breadstuffs on Saturday, with large transactions, chiefly for export to the continent. Flour advanced 12}c. per barrel for good common and medium grades. The sales em- braced about 15,000 a 18,000 bbls. Wheat advanced some 5c. a 10c. per bushel for prime white, in shipping order. The sales included prime white Canadian at $2 20, and fair to good Southern do. at $206 a $212. Southern, Western and Upeer Lake red were also firm. The aggregate sales for the day, including parcels to arrive, approxi- mated to about 150,000- bushels. Indian corn sold pretty freely at 88c. a 89¢., which was a slight ad- vance. Pork was dull. Sugars were inactive—deal- ers were waiting for the auction sale of refined su- gars to come off on Tuesday, the 9th inst. A cargo of 11,700 bags Rio coffe sold at private terms. Freights were firm, both to England and to the continent. Owing to some more room to Liverpool grain was engaged at slightly easier rates. The value of the transactions made in breadstaffs Satar- day probably surpassed anything heretofore wit- nessed in this market since the famine year of 1847-48, The Anglo-French Protectorate of St. Domin- go—Important and Rather Startling Om- clal Correspondence, The official correspondence on the affairs of the republic of Dominica, which will be found embodied in a letter from Washington, which we publish to-day, is well worthy a deliberate perusal by our readers of all classes and par- ties. We would, however, especially com- mend this correspondence to the attention of our Custom House democracy, who were bold enough to venture the endorsement of the ad- ministration, at Syracuse, for the masterly manner in which it has sustained American rights and interests in foreign countries. Gen. Cazneau, our late Ambassador to the republic of Dominica, was sent there, as we understand, for the express purpose of making atreaty for the establishment of more inti- mate and commercial relations between the two countries than those already in existence. He undertook, accordingly, on his arrival out, the fulfilment of the task assigned him—he framed a treaty, and had secured the consent of the Dominican government thereto—in short, the treaty had become substantially a compact between the contracting parties, when Schomburgh, the English Consul, getting wind of it, proceeded at once with his ally, the French Consul, Darass, to quash the whole business, and to send Gen. Cazneau back to Washington with a flea in hisear. The corres- pondence of these allied Consuls in the very outset, confirms all that has been alleged of the wide scope of Lord Clarendon’s “ balance of power” in both hemispheres, The proof is here that this French and English alliance in- volves particularly a policy of active hostility tothe North American policy of the United States, which is the Monroe policy of non-in- tervention on the part of the European Powers in the domestic affairs of the independent na- tions of this continent. Mr. President Pierce, in his inaugural mes- sage, gave the world very distinctly to un- derstand that thenceforth the Monroe doctrine was to be the living law of Amerivan diplo- macy. The American people hailed the de- claration with pleasure as the announcement of anew epoch inthe progress of American opinions, institutions and commercial recipro- cities, from Cuba at least as far down as the Isthmus of Panama. But, alas! though Mr. Pierce has fallen short of all his fine promises, in none of them have we been more egregious- ly humbugged than in his high sounding re- production of this Monroe doctrine. His Cen- tral American diplomacy dispelled the illusion of the inaugural before the lapse of a year. It prepared us for almost any degree of submis- sion to British pretensions, though we confess that (hese St. Domingo revelations do some- what exceed in passive resignation our ex- tremest estimates of Mr. Pierce’s amiahility. What is the result of Gen, Cazneau’s mis- sion to Dominica? He was authorized to make a new and enlarged treaty of amity and commerce with the republic. He framed such a treaty; it was accepted by the other side; but, being confronted by the threats of England and France, the poor Dominicans were compelled to retract it. The worst of it is, that on being informed of the proceedings of his ambassador, our Secre- tary of State becomes alarmed at his presump- tion, and without delay undertakes the delight- ful task of appeasing the rising wrath of the allied Powers, Thus, at liberty to dictate their own terms, the English Consul Schom burgh, and the French Consul Durass, put thetr heads together, and lay down the fundamental law of the Dominican republic. Their requisi- tions make her, to all practical intents and pur- poses, a dependency of the allied Powers ; and the cream of the matter lies in those stipula- tions extorted from the Dominicans, that in all their diplomatic engagements hereafter there shall be no distinctions of caste or color con- ceded to any foreign Power, and no admission of any colonizing adventurers from other coun- tries, armed or unarmed. Tt is manifest that these exactions can refer to no other country than the United States, and to nothing else than our Southern institu tion of slavery. It was the policy of Mr. Cal- houa, when Secretary of State under President Tyler, to strengthen as far as possible the Do. minican republic against the black empire of Solouque, at the other end of the island of Hayti, under the belief that the destiny of slavery in our Southern States was largely in- volved in the ultimate issue between slavery and emancipation in the West India Islands. He believed that those islands must ultimately become a confederation of free black estab- lishments ; or that, where emancipation and African independence had been tried, they must revert back to the old institution of African slavery. He understood the abolition designs of England, and foresaw that with emancipation once established throughout the other West Indies, Cuba would soon follow in the same channel. From this point it was easy to foresee that a more active and direct war- fare against slavery in our Southern States would be the next proceeding, all with the great object in view of breaking up this for- midable American Union and its fast ap- proaching naval and commercial supremacy. Hence the object of Mr. Calhoun was to make of Dominica a nucleus against the abolition West India policy of England. The official letters in these columns show how bravely this policy was attempted, and how pitifully it has fallen through under the auspices of Messrs. Pierce and Marcy. ‘We should not be surprised, with these dis- coveries before us, if we were next to be offi- cially informed of the formal consent of the administration to the immediate A fricanization of Cuba, notwithstanding the terrible threats of war, havoc and desolation which the cabi- net organ at Washington has heretofore so re- peatedly uttered as warnings to England and France. Read this Dominican correspondence. Thus closes another chapter of Pierce’s inter- pretation of the Monroe doctrine. ‘The Insult to our Consul at Matanzas—Con- cha and Marcy. The return of Mr. Consul Worrell from Matan- zas—having demanded his passports because of some disagreement with Captain-General Con- cha—brings up again the exciting questions of Consular jurisdiction and the rights of our citizens in Cuba. - We have not received from any well informed source the particulars of the quarrel between the two official gentlemen, and we see that the Havana correspondents of the press generally are disposed to cast slurs upon the conduct of the Consul. With all due deference to the judgments of these gentlemen—which deference would have been much greater had they told us more of the particulars and less of their own opinions in the matter—we are disposed to believe that the Consul has acted under a sense of duty towards his own country and the rights of its citizens, until we have some evidence to the contrary. In this view of the case we unhesi- tatingly conclude that Consul Worrell is en- titled to far more support from the govern- ment than he is at all likely to receive from the Marcy and Pierce administration that now mismanages affairs at Washington. The question is not a new one, it being whe- ther the American Consul or the Probate tri- bunal of Cuba shall administer upon the per- sonal effects of an American citizen dying in that island, and has been repeatedly urged upon the government for settlement. We have no space to-day to examine the question as laid down in the treatises on international law or existing treaties. In support of the view taken by Dr. Worrell, we will cite the fact that Nathaniel Cross, Esq., while acting Consul for the United States at the same place, remained in prison there several months be- cause he refused to give up the point to the Spanieh authorities, while the administration was too busy with other matters to attend to an imprisoned Consular agent. We believe also that General Campbell, for several years Consul at Havana, and now in the same office in London, repeatedly and urgently requested | the government to instruct him on this point, as one of great importance. But our govern- ment seems to have been too busy catching fili- busters during the late whig and present ad- ministration, to take up the question, and so it has remained in abeyance. We are informed that the Consul has gone to Washington to see the Premier, confident that he will be sustained by the author of the Koszta letter—the principles laid down in which have been his gospel in the proceedings relating to this matter. We fear he will find nothing but disappointment—that with the Secretary of State preaching is one thing and practice quite another, with which he has nothing to do. Will Marcy dare to open the record of our consular intercourse with Cuba, even for a few years back only? We do not believe he will, and therefore we will cite for his view and that of the public a few of the cases it pre- sents. . Mr. Cross, acting Consul at Matanzas, recog- nized by our own and the Spanish government, was arrested and thrown into prison for seve- ral months, for putting the consular seals upon the effects of an American woman who died there. Mr. Sewall, appointed Consul at St. Jago de Cuba, was refused the archives, seal and flag of the consulate by a British subject, with whom they were deposited, and the Spanish Governor sustained him in the refusal. After some months of vain effort, Mr. S. retired from the conflict, and a new Consul was appointed. Althougkhe carried a positive order from the Secretary of State to take the archives, seal and flag by force if necessary, still they were not delivered, the Spanish authorities at St. Jago refusing to compel the delivery. Mr. West, Consular agent at Sagua la Grande, was arrested on a frivolows charge, and subjected to great expense and long imprison- ment, the chief motive for which can only be found in the fact that he was the American Consular agent. Mr. Thompson, Consular agent at the same place, was arrested, tied upon a horse, and car- ried with great indignity prisoner to Havana, because he would not take down from the wall of an inner room, in fifteen minutes, the arms of the United States—they having hung there for two years. We need not cite numerous smaller insults to our Consuls in Cuba. The principal cul- prits are enough to vindicate the law. We ask what will Marcy do? It may be that he cannot understand the reason of Gen, Concha’s vio- lent course in relation to Dr. Worrell, after he, Marcy, has done Concha such good and dirty service during the past winter. We think we can inform bim. About the time of the difficulty, Concha was called upon to hand over $50,000 for the Black Warrior affair. This reparation was calculated to give the Ameri- cap government come little prestige in revolu- tionary Cuba if not immediately counteracted. So Gen. Concha sends the $50,000 and an in- sulted American Consul to New York in the same steamer. Reparation is made, and the dignity of the Spanish hidalgo sustained. Concha relies upon his friend Marcy. What will Marcy do? We shall see. AncupisHop HuGHEs aND THE ProPHeET Bric- uam Younc—Wuar a Conrrast !—We publish to-day the late speech of Archbishop Hughes to the Benevolent Irish Society of Newfound- land, on the occasion of a complimentary din- ner to “ his Grace” and the other prelates of the Catholic church ; and we also lay before our readers, in these columns, certain extracts from the latest ecclesiastico-political speeches of the Mormon prophet, Brigham Young, at Great Salt Lake. What a contrast! Could anything be imagined more at variance than these speeches of these two conspicuous men! Mark how they run. The speech of the Archbishop is full of peace and good will. He is pleased with almost everything. He can find no ground of re- proach against President Pierce or the demo- cratic party. Could the benevolence of even an archbishop go further than this? Nothing of reproach—all right-——Mormonism, Greytown, hard shells, soft shells, short boys and all. It will be great news, however, to the divided democracy to hear from the Archbishop that Mr. Pierce is worthy of the office he fills. They are divided upon that subject ; but now they will certainly unite, unless it should be con- cluded that the Archbishop felt bound to en dorse Mr. Pierce, being in a foreign country. He could hardly do less under the circum- stances. This speech at Newfoundland, in fact, should not be considered as a democratic speech for home consumption. It was not in- tended to rally the Catholic vote in the United States to the support of Mr. Pierce at the Cin- cinnati Democratic National Convention. Who could think so? Nor was it intended to bring the Catholics of New York to the sup- port of the soft shell ticket in our November election. Nothing of the sort. The Archbishop was in a kindly humor at Newfoundland, the result no doubt of a good dinner, including fresh codfish, genial spirits, a cordial welcome, and general good feeling. How else could he have treated the Know Nothings so leniently? What a fine opportu- nity he had for tearing them to pieces ; but mark how affectionately he deals with them. The Catholics will not leave the society of their American Know Nothing friends; but if the latter wish to separate, they can go. Is not this about as far as Christian charity could be exercised in the premises? We should like to know. Now mark the contrast between this affec- tionate peace-promoting speech and the latest pronunciamentos of the false prophet, Brigham Young. Take the following extract for a sam- ple. He is speaking, of course, of Joe Smith, the Mormons and their saintly institution of polygamy :— Up to this time we have carried the world on our backs, Joseph did it in his day, besides carrying this whole people, and now all this is upon my back, with my family to provide for at the same timo, and we will carry it all and bear off the Kingdom of God. And you may pile on State after State, kingdom after kingdom, and all hell on top, and we will rell on the Kingdom of our God, gather out the seed of Abraham, build the cities and’ temples of Zion, and establish the Kingdom of God to bear rule over all the earth, and let the oppressed of all nations go free, Ihave never yet talked so rough in these mountains as I did in the United States when they killed Joseph. I there said boldly and aloud, ‘Ifever a man should lay his, hands on me and say, (on account of my religion,) you are my prisoner,” the Lord Almighty helping me, Iwould send that man to hell acrogs lots. I feel +o now. Let mobbers keep their hands off trom me, or I will send them where they belong; I am always prepared for such an emergency. This conveys the idea that the Prophet car- ries a revolver, and from some other extracts in another part of this paper, there is some danger that he may be called to use it ere long in defence of his monopoly of ninety-six wives and two hundred children. Briefly, while the whole tone of the Archbi- shop’s speech is that of Christian charity and peace, the whole spirit of the Mormon Pro- phet’s is war to the knife. And yet if the Archbishop is right, the prophet of Mormon- dom cannot be far wrong, for he is Governor of Utah, under the authority of Mr. Pierce; and the Archbishop tells us “ there is no ground of reproach against’ his administration. In this sweeping approval of Mr. Pierce, the pro- phet is endorsed by the Archbishop, and thus we leave all three together. Mexican Comriications.—We give space to- day to much interesting and important matter which we have compiled from our last files of Mexican journals. We have already announced the fact that Gen. Martin Carrera, who was appointed President ad interim, after the flight of Santa Anna, had abdicated the Presidency on the 12th of September, having held power for hardly a month. The causes which in- duced him to resign are set out in his official proclamation to the people, a translation of which we publish to-day. In it he modestly and manfully avows is consciousness of inca- pacity to cope with the situation, disclaims all personal ambition, asserts that his aim and ob” ject was to restore peace and prosperity to the country, and throws the blame of his failure on the chiefs of the revolution, who repudiated the authority under which he acted. Disheart ened and sorrowful, he resolved not to hold o place in which he had not the confidence of the people, and therefore resigned, placing the military government of the capital and district in the hands of Gen. de la Vega. This officer and the chiefs of the garrison in the capital had proclaimed their adhesion to the political revolutionary platform, known asthe plan of Ayutla. Alvarez, Comonfort, Vidauri and the other revolutionary officers of distinction were daily expected in the capi- tal, and until after their re-union the republic would be absolutely without an organized civil government. In the meantime, however, Vidauri in Mon- terey, and Comonfort in Guadelajara, had is- sued new tariffs, That of the former was a modification of that already existing, but its precise terms are as yet unknown to us. That of the latter was the Ceballos tariff, with some modifications, which we have reported. For instance, according to this decree, on all goods imported into any of the Pacific ports there is an abatement of duty to the extent of twelve per cent; the duty on the internal transportation of specie is abolished, and the export duties are fixed at—eilver coin, three per cent; silver bul- lion, eight per cent; gold coin, one per cent, and gold bullion five per cent. For the in- struction of our mercantilé classes, we pub- lish a literal translation of this decree of Co- monfort’s, and also the original tariff of Ce- ballos, The news which we give under the head of Mexico will be found highly instruc- tive to all interested in the condition of that riven and geeolated republiy. Tue Gram Cnors axp Tue Evrorean De- ManD.—The extraordinary movements in pro- duce on Saturday, embracing sales to the ex- tent of nearly half a million of dollars, is cal- culated to provoke the minutest inquiry into the causes which are operating upon buyers. A few days ago were published from the London Times and the Paris Moniteur positive declara- tions of a considerable deficiency in the grain crops in both England and France—in the latter country to the extent of seventeen mil- lions ef bushels. We were further advised that considerable orders had been sent to this coun- try to supply the demand in France ; and we are now informed of an alarming deficiency in portions of Germany. Our Berlin correspon dent says that orders from that country had also been sent to the United States, and that the government had determined to supply the army from our productions. See our market report in anther column. It is now certain that there is a very marked failure of the crops of France and portions of Germany, and to some extent in England; and that there isa large surplus in the United States. The first effect of deficiency in Europe is already visible in the movement of specula- tors who have extensively accumulated the stocks on hand, which they hold for higher rates. It is quite probable this fact may acconnt for the large orders sent to this coun- try and the extraordinary activity of our grain markets at the present time. Granting our surplus to be fifty millions of bushels—the amount we long since estimated —it seems now probable, since the Danubian productions are wholly locked out from the army of the East and from the demands of the west of Europe, that all of it will be required to meet the deficiencies in the three countries referred to. It should be borne in mind by American producers that an alarm in the old countries upon the question of food may be stimulated to some extent by interested opera- tors; and in this view it is quite likely that prices may range as high at the present moment as at any future time. Those who have operated in advance, who have large stocks on hand, are apt, standing behind their own immenge accumula- tions, to under-estimate the stocks of others. To some extent this is the case in our own country, where means of acquiring informatio on all subjects is limitless. In Europe the pul lic mind is still more liable to be misdi- rected. It is, therefore, not unlikely that the present moment is the very best time we shall have to get rid of our surplus at good paying rates. The movement of grains upon the exchange market must be favorable. There is one thing to be thought of in this connection, and that is the effect of the war upon the manufactures and commerce of Europe, and upon the con- sumption by its people of our cottons and grains. Itis quite impossible that there can be anything like ordinary activity in the great branches of industry in England or France. If no other cause can be found, the immense derangement of the money market, the diver- sion at short periods of the disposable re- sources of individuals in what is thought to be safe and profitable stock investments, to carry on the operations of the war, will, of itself, raise the rates of commercial interest, and re- strict and cramp the movements of trade and manufacturing industry. In Europe, far more than this country, all the branches of labor are linked together, and share, to a great extent, the same fate. If the great cotton works of England are seriously affected, it will be because grain is high—be- cause the rates of interest have advanced—be- cause commerce is paralyzed—and as we are the chief producers of the raw material, it is quite likely that we shall witness a limited de- mand for that kind of production. This fact should be considered, in connection with the activity of the grain trade, in estimating the probable effect of the general markets upon our foreign exchanges. Again, in reference to the shipment of specie, it should not be forgotten that the great money establishments of England and on the Conti- nent, in consequence of the war, are liable to be driven to extreme measures to sustain them- selves; and at such seasons we may look to the overthrow of all ordinary laws of exchange, in obedience to the force that shall be used to withdraw from us a portion of our precious metals. ABATEMENT OF THE PesTILENCE IN Norrouk AND PortsmovuTH.—We have received the deep- ly gratifying intelligence—for which we refer to another column—that the pestilence which has so fearfully ravaged the two seaport towns of Norfolk and Portsmouth, has at length ex- hibited unmistakeable signs of abatement. History has few or no parallels to the mortali- ty which has been witnessed during the rag- ing of the fever in these stricken cities. It will remain recorded as one of the most terri- ble instances of the effects of the plague. But we desire not to enlarge on the subject, it be- ing a much more pleasant duty to inform our readers that at length the desolator has begun to desist from his death-garncring. We published in Sunday’s Heraxn a full re- port of the proceedings of a meeting held on the previous evening, in the Metropolitan thea- tre, to devise measures for the relief of the or- phans made go by the pestilence. Though the rain, which fell incessantly all day, materially interfered with the success of the meeting, still its movement, which was there initiated, will, we have no doubt, go on and become an emi- nently successful one. The noble charities of our city cannot be evoked in any holier cause. The Pyne and Harrison troupe also devoted the proceeds of their performance, at Niblo’s, on the same evening, to the aid of the yellow fe- ver sufferers. As one of the speakers at the Metropolitan theatre well remarked, these ma- nifestations of sympathy are stronger bonds of union between the North and South than any mere conventional or political ties. The North has acted generously towards these Southern cities in this their hour of affliction. The contri- butions which poured in from New York, Bos ton, Philadelphia, and the cities and towns in this section, cannot have fallen in the aggregate short of a quarter million of dollars, And the South will not, in its chivalrous nature, forget this Northern manifestation of sym- pathy. Caxapian Resorcrxes at THE Fa. or Se- BasToroL.—We transfer to our columns to-day a report of the illuminations, feux de joie, ring- of bells, firing of big guns, chanting of 7% Deums, and other outward manifestations of rejoicing which the good citizens of Montreal have been recently indulging in, in honor of the victory of the Malakoff A perusal of the doings on that occasion i a ‘ will prove highly en- ‘The following paragraph we clip from on¢ of the Montreal papers :— At New York, we learn that news, the at the House were at half- Canadian resident there declares of illuminating his house, he did he should have his windows smashed. The gentleman who supplied th above pie of news was, perhaps, in too excited a eondition to make inquiry as to the matter, else he would not have rushed into makitk guch a statement. The flags at the Metryolitan Hotel and Astor House were on the \gy in question certainly displayed at half-mas\ But. that signal had no reference to the fall og¢- bastopol, but rather to the death of a respeted old citizen and hotel-keeper, who was bong to his grave that day. This was the late Mr Preston Hodges, whom Messrs. Leland of the Metropolitan succeeded in the proprietorship of the Clinton House, and to whom Messrs. Coleman and Stetson of the Astor had been near neighbors. As to the declaration of the Canadian resident, that he was afraid to illu- minate his house, we have no doubt that he may have had the apprehension he speaks of. But if so, its only foundation was in his excessive timidity. He might have illu- minated his house from cellar to attic, and the crowd who would gather to see it would feel perfectly indifferent whether he was re- joicing at the fall of Sebastopol or the fall of Gibraltar. If this apprehensive gentleman will create bugbears to frighten children with,. he should not make such a fool of himself az. to put them in print. We recommend him shower baths. SomxeTninc New Unper tue Suy.—The la- dies’ riding matches which have lately taken place at several te and country fairs are really refreshing novelties. No less than thir- ty-eight of these exhibitions of female eques- trianship have been made at the various fairs in the Union within the last month, Young Ameri- ca gets very much excited about these matters, and we see that at a country fair last week, where a fair equestrienne was ruled off the course because she did not reside in the coun- ty lady rode “on her own hook,” and nile population made up a purse of se~ y dollars for her asa token of spontaneous, miary and unaffected adoration. They re very interesting and harmless amusements, these matches, and ought to be encouraged. Elsewhere will be found a full account of the Sate Fair match at Elmira on Saturday. These- are stirring times among the women. Bring up your horses, THE LATEST NEWB. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Inte: from Washington. ANOTHER SPANISH DIFFICULTY—STRIKING OF THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES CONSULATE IN MA- TANZAS—THE REASONS WHY—GENERAL CONCHA ORDERS A VIOLATION OF THE SEALS OF OFFIOR— THEY ARE BROKEN BY THE SPANISH ALOALDE—THE UNITED STATES CONSUL PROTESTS AND LEAVES— OUR REPRESENTATIVE RIGH7S. Wasuincton, October 7, 1855. Doctor Edward Worrell, United States Consul at Ma- tanzas, who arrived in New York by the Black Warrior from Havana, is in this city at present, seeking an inter- view with the State Department on the subject of the recent striking of his flag and his subsequent departure from his post, 1 have not yet seen him, nor am I aware if he has had an opportunity of submitting his case to the Secretary, but I understand that when he does so, it will be found to present some very delicate points both of treaty interpretation and international law. I hear that about three months ago, an American citizen, named Hatfield, died in Matanzas, when Consul Worrell proceeded, as bound by his duty, to place the seals of the consulate on his effects, in order to seek out probate, so as to render them available to his heirs. After a short time he was directed by the alcalde to re- move the seals of office, in order that a government in ventory of the property should be taken. This he re- fused to do, standing on the ground that the United States, by treaty with Spain, was on an equality with other countries, France for instance, and that when citi- zens of such countries died, as Hatifield had, in Cuba, their personal effects came at once into the possession of the Consul representing the government to which de- ceased had been subject during life, and that in French cases no such inventory as that then demanded was re- quired. However, the doctor offered to have an interview with the officer of the Spanish government, when he (the Consul) would remove the seals, so as that the inventory of the property should be taken in his pre- wence. This was declined peremptorily, and the doctor’s keys were demanded for govern- ment use. He refused to give them, and. then said he would not even remove the seals. (n this the alcalde reported to the Captain General, who, in reply, instructed him to perform the work of removing the con- sular seals by force, if necessary for his purposes, Thia the latter proceeded to do, Dr. Worrell protosting. When replying to the alcalde, General Concha wrote to Consul Worrell, and.I am told that he stiffly denied to the Doctor the right to assume any jurisdiction over the ‘North Americans” travelling in the Spanish dominions. He meant, it 18 supposed, by ‘North Americans,” Ameri- can citizens and their properties. Dr. Worrell having firmly and ably resisted the outrages of a government violation of the seals of our Consul’s office—a thing which would not be hazarded in the case of Fngland or France—struck his flag and left, and now will, as Iam informed, place a glaring national grievance before Secre- tary Marcy. It is said that he is a man who will attend to bis case to the last. We are anxious here to know how the Premier will act. The treaty of 1795, between Spain and the United States, expressly apys:—‘ Consuls (i. ¢.U. 8, Consuls) shall be reciprocally received with the seme power and privilege of the most favored na- 288 tome tions.” This is what the treaty says, but what oar _ government will do is another question. COL, KINNEY IN CENTRAL AMERIOA—ANNOY ANCE OP CUSHING—NEW YQRE POLITICIANS. Wasnrvaton, October 7, 1855. ‘The success of Col. Kinney;in Central America isa source of great annoyance to Gen. Cushing. On two occasions he has introduced the subject in cabinet meetings. Both times he has been foiled. At the last meeting (Thurs- day) he manifested great indignation at Marcy and Pierce because of their refusal to act. ‘Unless there ix something done,”’ raid he, to the old Premier, “Kinney, Fabens & Co. will be back here in an official capacity, and God knows I would rather see the devil and all imps than that unscrupulous man Kinney and his asso- cistes.”” Marcy finally assured Cushing that something should be done. There is now here quite a number of leading New York politicians who invariably refuse to register thei: names, who, immediately on their arrival, are closeted with Pierce and Marcy. A gentleman informed me to-day hat these politicians, office-holders, were moving heaven and earth to secure the Empire State for Pie vor t the Cincinnati convention. Georgia Election. Coucvanta, 8, C., Oct. 7, 1855. Robert P. Trippe is the only Know Nothing certainly elected to Congress. Mesars. ‘Seward, Warner, Cobb, Lumpkin and A. H. Stephens, democrats, are certainiy elected. Two districts, the second and seventh, are «tilt in doubt. Johnson’s majority for Governor {s large. The Legislature ia decidedly democratic. ——___—- ‘Tennessee Legislatare. Barrons, Oct. 7, 1866 ‘The Legislature of Tennessee met on the Ist inst. The Femate elected Col. Chatham, American, Speaker. Tho House failed to elect « Speaker on the first day. ‘We have received no mail south of Savannah to- iay. _ ePaormicn Oks 7, 1865, Cotton bes bee dul) during the past week, with «mally