The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1855, Page 4

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[ALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway~Lavarer—£500 RE- wietow Stour You" neGprrne i —— NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway—Dramanic Reavincs—Byr Mus Racur. be ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway. SUOKLEY’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broad- ‘wey—Buuiesque Oren AND Necro MuvsTREisy. APOLLO ROOMS, 410 Broadway—Tus Huseantsey Mrs, Aazanpre Greas. neg THE ALLEGHANIANS, ap tae Diorama oF THe Barres ov Burxen Hu, at Academy Hall, 663:Broadway. MPOHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Pxor. Macarzasren’s Semmss Maciques. Sew York, Saturday, October 13, 1855. ‘The News. From Washington we learn that ne messenger has been sent to Denmark, but that inetractions have een sent to Mr. Belmont to postpone the action of this government in regard tothe Sound dues for two years, in order that Denmark may be enabled ‘to extricate herself from the difficulties with which she is at present surrounded. It is said that a dea- perate effort will be made to induce Mr. Marcy to pay the capitalists who bold Santa Anna’s assign- ments the sum.due them out of the three millions ue Mexico on the Mesilla purchase. Again the Grand Jury have presented the public with another batch of indictments against a few more of the city officials for malfeasance in office. Jadge Stuart, Justice Connolly, and policeman Mal- holland, of the Tenth ward, are among the number who have now come under the displeasure of the | Grand Inquest. The iirst named of these officials is indicted for discharging a prisoner from the ‘Bombs who had been fully committed for trial on sharge of grand larceny. Justice Connolly is indict- ed fornct entertaining a complaint for assault and battery, (instead of so doing he held the party to bail for future good behevior.) The police officer in question is charged in the indictment with taking moneys from parties arrested for burglary, given to him for his trouble in procuring the requisite bail for these prisoners. The receipt of this present without the sanction or permission of the Mayor, constituted the misdemeanor. Justice Connolly gave bail in the sum of $500 last evening to answer the charge preferred against him. Bench warrants for arrest’ were issued in all Of the above cases. The trial of Wagner, charged with violating the neutrality laws by enlisting a man named Cook for wervice in the Crimea, was commenced yesterday in the United States District Court, before Judge In- gersoll. This is the first case tried for this offence in this city, and is a looked to with great interest. ‘There is a great array of counsel engaged for the defencc—Hon. Ogden Hoffman, Attorney General; ex-Judge Beebe, Mr. Carpentier and Mr. Fullerton, and Mr. Charles Edwards was in court watching the proceedings, as standing counsel of the British Con- sulate in this city. The District Attorney, Mr. McKeon, appeared for the prosecation. The report will be found in another column. Nothing of any moment was done last night in the Board of Councilmen. The evening was taken up by the third reading of bills. The only point made last night was accusing the Board of Alder- men of want of courtesy, in refusing to confer with the Board of Councilmen in the matter of making an appropriation for the Norfolk sufferers. Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher lectured in the Broadway Tabernacle last evening before an au- dience of fifteen hundred people, on the Life and Character of John Phillpot Curran. He portrayed, with great force, the early struggles of Curran, from the moment he left his native town of Newmarket in Cork; his career at the bar; his professional tri- emphe, and his senatorial services, concluding with @ pathetic description of his appearance on the night when the independence of his country was voted away by the Act of Union. Mr. Meagher was loudly cheered at various points of his discourse. In the United States District Court at Philadel- phia, Judge Kane yesterday delivered an opinion adversely to the petition of Jane Johnson to quash » the writ of habeas corpus in the case of Passmore Williamson, pronouncing her to have no status in court, and that the records of the court could not be opened for a stranger. We give the decision of Judge K. in another part of our paper. The letters from our Paris correspondents, and the extracts from European journals, given in our paper this morning, contain much information, and will prove interesting to the general reader. Interesting letters from a correspondent in the eamp of the liberating army of Mexico, giving a fall statement of the condition of things near Mata- moros, are given in our paper to-day. From Norfolk and Portsmouth we have news of the most cheering character. At our last accounts the fever had almost entirely disappeared; the weather was of a fine, bracing character, and busi- hess men were once more rousing themselves to activity. The speech of Wm. H. Seward at the republican Tatification meeting in Albany last evening, occu- pied two hours. In the course of his remarks he formally dissolved the whig party, stating that it ‘was broken down, and proclaimed himself a repub- lican. His speech is stated to have been dry and argumentative, and to have called forth but little applause, A powder mill at Gorham, Me., owned by New- hall & Co., of Boston, took fire yesterday morning and blew up, killing seven men and wounding seve. ral others. The miil had been very actively run for some time, past both night and day. The market for flour was again heavy yesterday, and closed at a decline for common and medium grades of 12} cents per barrel, Wheat was dall, and prices unsettled. There was a good show of samples, both white and red, on ‘Change, but buyers mostly stood aloof, being unwilling to meet holders atthe prices asked. The difference between the views of buyers and sellers varied in some cases as mach as 10c. a 15. per bushel. A lot of Delaware Ted sold at #1 95. Sound red was nominal, at about $1 80 a $195, and white at $2 16. Corn was firm, With free sales, at 94c. from store, aud 95jc. afloat, Rye again advanced. Sales on the spot were made at #1 40, and 20,000 bushels to arrive in November at $145. Chicago oats sold at 48¢. Pork advanced to $23 50 a ‘24 for mess, A cargo of 3,200 bags Rio coffee, per Gambia, was sold on private terms. There was rather more tone in the sugar market, Freights opened easier for grain in the forenoon: with free engagements, but they again rallied and closed firmer in the afternoon. The sales of cotton reached about 700 @ 800 bales, while prices were steady and unchanged. Tables of statistics have been carefully kept for ® number of years, by dealers in the trade, showing the inSnence of the weather ou the yield of the out NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1855. ton “cropsof the United States. It hasbeen found that the magnitude of the crop has generally cor- responded-with the date at which the plants produce their first bleoms in spring, and the advent of frost in autumn. It is clear that the blooms or blossoms might appear in Louisiana and Florida several weeka before their appearance in Carolina or the upper sections of the cotton region, By close observation it has been ascertained that, taking the average pe- riod at-which blooms usually appear, it extemds from the last week in May to the 15th of June; hence, the nearer the blooming approaches the one or the other of these periods, in connection with early or late frest, will be the yield of the crop. Early blooms and late frosts produce large crops. Late bloomsand early frost, on the contrary, produce short crops,or such is the theory. The growth of one year’s crop is concluded in the statistics up to the lst September of the following year. Hence an early frost in 1852 would appear in the statistics of 1853. In examining a table extending over a pe- riod of nineteen years, we find the earliest notice of a killing frost on the 7th of October, 1838, when the crop was. only 1,360,100 bales. The latest-date at which ituppeared was on the 10th December, 1848, when the crop waa 2,000,000 to 2,100,000, )In 1851 no frost occurred until after the full maturity of the plant to injure it, when the crop was 2,355,000. For the nineteen years we find an average occurrence of frost to be during the last week in October and the first few days of November. These observations have been drawn out by the reports of frost having pretty generally occurred in the cotton region of the South—if we except Lousiana, Texas and Florida, and probably South Alabama—on the 7th, Sth and 9th inst., at Columbia, and near Charleston, in South Carolina, and at Macon, Georgia, &., which is the earliest periad on record since Oct. 7, 1838. Theugh its advent is tuus early, and must inflict considerable injury, we must still recollect that there was more planted, and that the weather in the late midsum- mer was more favorable, and that the season has been good for gathering the yield. Thecrop grown last year (1854) was a small one, amounting to 2,847,339 bales, against 2,930,027 in 1853, and 3,262,582 bales in 1852. Hence we have every rea- | son to suppose, frost or no frost, that the growth of the present year (1855) must exceed that of 1854, and which has been variously estimated at from 3,200,000 a 3,500,000-bales. There is no doubt but the occurrence of theilate early frost may cut off, to some extent, what is called the top growth of the plants in considerable portions of the cotton region, and hence the circumstance has imparted more tone to the market here and at the Southern ports, irre- spective of the European news. Chace, the republican or fusion’ candidate for Governor of Ohio, has a majority of 20,000 in sixty- six counties, '* Qur Minister at Paris avd the Administra- tion—the Te Deum Difficulty. We published yesterday a report from Wash- ington that Mr. Mason, our Minister at Paris, would probably be recalled, anless he could satisfactorily explain his attendance at the Te Dewn, at Notre Dame, in hover of the fall of Sebastopol; that Marcy has leng wished for a pretext for superseding him, and that it is supposed this will be sufficient. By a singular coineidence, simultaneously with this report we received the letter from one of our intelli- gent correspondents which we publish to-day; and as the testimony of a dispassionate witness in behalf of Mr. Mason ag a reliable and capa- ble diplomat, we deem it worthy at this strange Conjuncture of events, of some special atten- tion. It may be that the administration has been somewhat disturbed by the attendance of Mr. Mason at that Ze Deum; indeed, it must be so, from the article in the Washington Union, to which we adverted the other day; but what can be the motive of Marcy for the recall of Mason upon this pretext, or upon any other, it is not so easy to divine. We can only account for it from a desire to make an opening abroad for Mr. Horatio Seymour, or some other de- mocratic leader believed to be standing more directly in the way of our Premier than Mr. Mason. We have no doubt that to a conside- ration of this kind the country is indebted for the retention of Mr. Buchanan at London till the spring. There he will be more out of the way of Marey’s mancuvres for the democratic nomination, while the presence of the great Pennsylvania candidate here would interfere with such movements very materially. Possibly the broad hint of the Cabinet organ concerning Mr. Mason and the Ze Deum, was rather jutended as a proof of the innocence and the rigid neutrality of Mr. Pierce on this Eu- ropean war than as an indication of the recall of our Minister at Paris. It does not appear that Judge Mason h&s asked to be relieved ; but it does appear, as we are gratified to state, that his late sickness has notin the least degree affected his capacities for the full discharge of his official duties. Our correspondent testifies to the ability with which he managed the set- tlement of the personal imbroglio between Louis Napoleon and Mr. Soulé, our late Minis ter to Spain, and the entangled case of the French Consul Dillon at San Francisco. We might also advert to the well-timed efforts of our Minister to France to sustain the com- mercial rights of neutrals pending this Russian war, and to the general prudence which he has exhibited in avoiding the filibustering red re- publican programme of the Kitchen Cabinet, notwithstanding he was entrapped by the special emissaries of the administration into the Cuban manifesto of Aix la Chapelle. But it may be that for this very prudence in avoiding any unnecessary filibustering quarrel with the French imperial government, that Mr. Mason bas become distasteful to the Kitchen bureau at Washington. Our readers will re- member that the original diplomatic chart of Mr. Pierce’s administration for Paris, as drawn up by Mr. Dudley Mann, wasa policy of the in- tensest red republicanism, and that the ridicu- lous circulars of Marcy, prescribing his linsey- woolsey republican court costume for our Min- isters and Consuls abroad, was but the opening of Mr. Mann’s revolutionary outline. Those circulars have fallen into disrepute—the whole of that radical programme seems to have col- lapsed with the Ostend Convention ; but still it may be that the conservative and common sense policy of our Minister at Paris is dis- pleasing to the Kitchen Cabinet, and that they have a more pliable man in their eye to take his place. Meantime, the Cabinet organ having called for an explanation fromour Minister at Paris concerning his attendance @ the Ze Deum aforesaid, we must await his reply before we can finally pronounce upon this question of his recall. It isasmall affair, to be sure; but we must remember that the spoils of the adminis- tration are well nigh exhausted, and that our democratic place hunters still infest the White House by night and by day. Let Mr. Mason prepare himself accordingly for a confession of the curiosity which carried him to Notre Dame, and for a humble apology, or proceed at once to pack up his trunk for a speedy return from the gaieties of Paris to the solitudes of the Ola Dominion, nasty of the Great Napoleon. Our advices by the steamer Canada, in re ference to the attitude of dffairs in France and Europe, are of the most important character. | Perbaps the most interesting. political problem of this or any other age is now being solved in the re-establishment of the Napoleonic dy- nasty. Its rise, near the close of the last century, in the person of the great Emperor ; the combination of all the Powers to obliterate it from the face of Europe ; its fall; its pre- scription at Vienna ; the death of its founder ; the poverty and disgrace: of his heirs; their imprisonment; their resort to the United States as an.asylum; the republican revole- tions of 1848 the election of Louis Napoleon, on the principles of democracy, to the Presi- dency of the French Republic ; the coup d'état ; the restoration.of the Empire and the Bona- parte dynasty.; their pnempt recognition by every sovereign in Europe, except the Em- peror Nicholas; the alliance with England ; the war ; the signal exaltation of France ; the debasement of England ; the position of Rome, of Naples, of Spain, of Austria and Turkey— all these wonderful events and signs, chiefly the production of the last three years, present a problem for solution of the most startling and interesting character. That they look to the single point of the re-establishment of the Napoleonic dynasty, on something of the grand and comprehensive scale of its great origi- nator—to the extension of its power beyond the limits of France—to Spain—to Rome—to Italy—to portions of the Austrian, Russian and Turkish empires—and, perhaps, to a family alliance with England, as the seal of the new dispensation, few careful and thoughtful ob- servers will question. It will be borne in mind that Prince Napo- leon Bonaparte, the son of Prince Jerome—a young man about thirty-three years of age—is the heir presumptive to the throne of France. in the event of a failure of male issue of the present Emperor, on his death young Na- poleon, under the Gallic law, will assume the imperial robes of state. His marriage to the eldest daughter of the Queen of Eng- land—Victoria Adalaide—an event by no means improbable, and, indeed, most in har- mony with the present attitude of political offainsiia the two countries—in the possible con- tingency of the death of the reigning sove- reigns—avould be a union of the crowns of England and France in the persons of Na- poleon IV. and Victoria II. This is one phase of political affairs ; and although it is buried in the future and may never be realised, it is entitled to weight in explaining the remarkable amity and concord now subsisting between the two governments. It would fortify the titles of the present incumbent of the French throne. England could certainly contribute to its strength and respectability; and although their systems are widely different, it is probable they would, in time, so far assimilate as to assure @ cordial co-operation in all matters re- lating to international politics. The ad- vantage of such an arrangement, at all events, to France would be most signal—for the Napo- leons thus sustained might defy the world. The grand object sought by the great Napo- leon, and which made him act solely on the defensive up to the peace of Tilsit—an alliance with England, with a view of fixing his dynasty in the public statutes of Europe—in the event of the marriage alluded to, will have been fully accomplished by his illustrious nephew. Thus we have an interesting episode in the movements of the present Emperor. His purpose is to fortify his dynastic title:--to strengthen the doubtful tenure of his political estates. In this work he first effected a breach between the ancient enemies of his house—be- tween the parties to the Congress of Sovereigns of 1815, who made his family outlaws in Europe, and who specifically covenanted never to recognize the dynastic titles of the Bonapartes. He withdrew England, the controlling naval Power of that Congress and of the world—the acknowledged mistress of the seas; and in effecting this great diplomatic triumph, hel utterly paralyzed the arms of the Austrianand Prussian monarchs, and placed Naples, Rome and Spain at his feet. This is shown in the position he previously occupied in the gov- ernment of the Pope, and his very re- ception into the family of sovereigns. In regard to the latter event, it will be remembered that the Emperors of Russia and Austria and the King of Prussia, imme- diately after his assumption of the impe- rial estates, consulted together upon the ques- tion of the acknowledgment of his govern- ment. They agreed upon receiving it into the family of States, but expressly determined not to recognize the dynastic title of Napoleon Ill, First, they had covenanted at Vienna in 1815 not to do so; secondly, there neve been even a colorable Napoleon Il, tn a dance with this understanding, sovereigns determined to despatch envoy Paris to carry out their conclusio wards, without consulting Nicholas, the other two authorized their ambassadors to achnow- ledge the full estates of the new Emp This bit of history, in connection present position of affairs, and the sign of Louis Napoleon to extend of his family in Europe, and to fir dynastic titles to the empire, has significance. It explains to a great object of the war with Russia, and us a flood of light with respect toi duration. That it will be continued, » success has crowned the al Crimea, so long as the confusior can be made advantageous to the rong! nasty; that it will end when that effected its objects in Spain, in and in Turkey, we hold to be certa view of the great contest in the E which should be considered the chron’ 7 of the British government in connection with the growing naval power of Russia in (he Black Sea, we are able to comprehend the rea- sons which have urged the ¢ of London and Paris, at such immense s to un- dertake to cripple and paralyse the Russian Empire. What Napoleon wants is th ablishment of the Bonaparte dynasty, i tension into italy, Rome and Spain; what England wanted (for her purposes are accomplished) struction of the Russian navy in the Pl and a substantial guarantee that the Mascovite shall never become her commercial rival upoa the ocean. It was manifest that as Russia should sink, France would rise. The former was the soul of the league that overturned the empire of the great Napoleon. vtent the Surope ne lees, thede- } the vicissitudes of revolutions, about which there are no questions of title—no rival claim- ants; it was, therefore, more likely to resist the Bonaparte movement and to be feared by Louis Napoleon, than any-ether. Thus the humbling: of the Russian dynasty was regarded asthe only means of building up that of France, There is a certain ‘measure of consistency in all great and successful enterprises. Both the elder and the junior Napoleon rode into power years ago, on account of its illegitimacy, it in- volved the country in » measureless debt and a long and:frightful war; that have compelled even the Asigtic ruler of all the Russias to coalesce with the middling and the lower orders, and confer the chief places in his Cabi- net upon persons of those classes, in order to defend his government against the aristocracy of the Empire—we repeat, that the curious reader will not fail to attribute these wonder- ful events to the influence of the institutions of the United States, All these changes, it will be remembered, have taken.place since the establishment of the American government. If they are coincidences, they are certainly very remarkable; for every step that has been taken by the rulers of the Old World has been in the direction.of the institutions of the New. The present dynasty of France is en authorita- tive recognition .of the doctrines of popular ’ rights—doctrines now almost universally ac- quiesced in in Europe, even in palpable viola- tion of the statutes.of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, which were declared to be the “unal- terable law” of the States represented in that body. The emigration to the United States, and the intimate manner, through that agency, in which we have become linked to the Old World, by its reactive influence, is enough of itself ulti- mately to effecta complete revolution in Eu- rope. Tins we have a view of the interest which the governing classes on the other side have in destroying the federal Union. It is their only remedy. They cannot stop the work by proscribing persons. They cannot localize or individualize the principle that is warring upon the tenures of absolute power. Newspa- pers may be interdicted, personal restraints may be imposed, the public voice may be sup- pressed; but there is no power to prevent men from thinking or ideas from circulating. There may be aristocracy in government; but there will ever be democracy in thought. We have thus, then, to fight in the coming Presidential election the combined aristocracy of Europe and the combined abolitionists of our own country. Arctic Exploring Expeditions. The return of Dr. Kane and his party, safe, naturally leads the mind to dwell upon the general subject of Arctic discovery. Three hundred years ago the problem which so many Englishmen lost their lives in endeavoring to solve was the discovery of a passage to China. It was in searching for this passage, as every one knows, that Hudson sailed up the river which bears his name, and that Baffin explored the bay by which he is remembered; a list of gallant names, beginning with Willoughby and stretching down to Foxe and Smith, proves how many there were in thatday who were ready to sacrifice their lives in the cause of discove- ry. After the colonization of America, and especially after Lasalle’s voyages on the Mis sissippi had proved that no passage existed through which a ship might sail to China, ex- ploring expeditions were diverted into a differ- ent channel. During the eighteenth century, no one made a distinct attempt to sail to the northward of the continent. close, Captain Vancouver's voyage in the Pacific, and his ,discoveries in what is now Towards its Russian America, once more stimulated public curiosity. As before, Great Britain took the lead. One of the first expeditions which sailed with the definite object of passing to the north- ward of America was commanded by the great man whose bones have long since bleached under the Arctic snows—John Franklin. Then followed others of scarcely less note—Ross, Parry, Lyon, Back, Crozier, In 1839, the ex istence of a Northwest passage was abundant- ly proved by the journey of Dease and Simp- son, who walked from the point reached by Ross on the one side to that reached by Parry on the other. But science was not satisfied, nor the explorers tired. Again sailed Sir John Franklin, on his great, last journey, in May, 1845, From that time to this, every expedition that has sailed to the northwest has had for its chief object the rescue of Franklin and his companions. Accidentally, the operation per- formed by Dease and Simpson in 1839 was re- peated in 1851 by McClure, and this time, the Lritich government was very glad to put an end to the voyages of discovery by acknowledging that the pro) lem was solved and the reward won. But the chief thing in view both in the Detiish and American expeditions which have sailed since the year 1848, has been to find some trace of tho first of Arctic navigators. Three expeditions have sailed from the United States—the first, the Grinnell expedi- tion, under Lieut. De Haven, which sailed in May 1850, and returned unsuccessful; the se- cond, Dr, Kane's expedition in the Advanc aud the third, ihe expedition sent for his re in the Release and Active under Lieut. Hort- stein. The last expedition of Kane has led to valuable discoveries in science, The United States may now claim the honor of having iirst sent a ship to discover the great open sea near the Pole, as they have the honor of having given birth to the men who first dis- covered the Southern Continent. What use these discoveries may hereafter prove to be, no one can yet conjecture ; but, as they have cost so little, one cannot but rejoice that they have been brought to light. Science may possibly derive some benefit from the curious meteoro- logical and geographical observations made by Dv. Kane. Itis well to know that the north coast of Greenland has been mapped, and the coasts of Smith Sound surveyed. In other points of view, the researches of these bold men into the gloom of the Polar night may not prove wholly devoid of profit. At the same time, no prudent man will re- frain from reflecting how different our feelings would have been if Dr. Kane had shared’ the fate of Sir John Franklin, and his family and nds and our own impulses had now been calling upon us to send more expeditions in search of him. And how little was wanting but this was the case! Jt is quite doubt- fal whether the population of the United States is vaftiviently dense, or good men plenty enough, to encourage expeditions to the North Pole in search of Greenland icebergs or Polar It is the only | seas, if they are to cost every now and then throng ip the world Gnmly gstablished against | sugh a man as Posie Boag, Tue Mayor axp Tue Josers Watxer—A Fiasu mw Pan—There never has been a more unfair or absurd proceeding, even on the part of our Board of Aldermen, than the ac- tion of the majority with reference to the rais- ing-of the ship Joseph Walker. The circumstances are yet fresh in the pub- Vie mind, The ship was sunk, with a cargo on board, at her dock, near one of the most popu- lous districts of the city. It was represented to the Mayor that there was danger of a pesti- lence if the wreck and the partially decom- posed cargo were not removed. He took the initiative steps in the matter—wrote to several contractors to ascertain the probable cost of the removal, and summoned the Board of Health, The Board ratified the contract which had been arranged between the Mayor and Mr. Walter R. Jones, and payments to the amount of $7,500 were made on account of the work after it had been commenced. In this action the Mayor was justified by the Jaws of the State, and his conduct was endorsed by the Board of Health. The conviction is ir- resistible that he acted from what he considered to be the best interests of the city and the pre- servation of the public health. At this time the Board of Aldermen was equally divided in its political complexion, but soon after the Alderman of the Nineteenth ward--Mr. Herrick—went over to the whig side. He had been mortally offended by the refusal of the Mayor to appoint a pet of the Alderman’s as Captain of Police. The Alder- man’s influence in his ward was almost ruined, and he joined the Mayor’s opponents, led by the Alderman of the Seventeenth ward—Mr. Ely-—who may be Mayor himself come fine day. A desperate onslaught was made upon Mayor Wood--he was charged with corruption, with making a job for his friends and sharing in the spoils, and an organized attempt wasset on foot to ruin him with the people. A special com- mittee was appointed to investigate the affair, and after a long interval they have made a report, signed by two of their number. This report has already been given to our readers, Its salient point is that the Mayor acted ille- gally in initiating the proceedings for the re- moval of the ship, but no charges are made against him. He stands to-day unimpeached, even by his enemies, who could find nothing to report against him. The report is very care- fully drawn up, and endeavors to show that the contract was illegal. It says nothing about the State law which gives the Mayor the power to remove nuisances which endanger the pub- lic health, and although it states clearly that one contractor was found who would do the work at a Jess price than that promised to Mr Jones, it carefully omits another fact, that this contractor made it a condition that the city should guarantee to him the ship and cargo, unincumbered. The city could not do this, be- cause when ihe vessel is raised she becomes ihe property of the underwriters, and the con- tractor has only a claim for salvage. In con- clusion, the committee report a resolution di- recting the Counsel to the Corporation to com- mence asuit for the recovery of the moneys already payed on this contract. This isabsurd in the extreme. No such suit could be enter- tained; and if the resolution should be adopted, the city will only have the satisfaction of pay- ing a bil) of costs. So much for the report, on its own merits. But the individual action of the committee will receive universal condemnation. The re- port is signed by the Aldermen of the Seventeenth and Ninth wards—Messrs, Ely and Voorhis, But the third member of the committee—the Alderman of the Twenty- first ward, Mr. Varian—protested against its reception, on the ground that he had no time to read it. His protest was overslaughed, and the report is now put forth in an unfair man- ner, and by abody against which there are many grave suspicions, and some positive charges, intimating that its members are guilty of the misdemeanors which they have failed to prove against the Mayor, While all these things are going on, the wheels of reform are stopped, and the city is disgraced before the country and the world. Instead of a wise, prudent, practical govern- ment, the legislative branch is made up of a set of politicians who are eagerly scrambling for the spoils of office, laboring earnestly to defeat the efforts of the Executive to canse a thorough reform in all the departments, quar- reling about petty contracts, while thousands are being wasted on political partisans, and occupying the public time with such investi- gations as that to which we have alluded above. a Snch is briefly the state of things at the City Hall. The Mayor is almost powerless to do good, the coming election engrosses the atten- tion of the AJdermen, and the public business is uiterly neglected or grossly mismanaged. W. H. Sewanp is tux Freep—When W. HH. Seward takes the stump there must be some- thing in the wind. Heretofore he has been the invisible arch-agitator, never seen anywhere, but working everywhere, through the agencies of bis big and “ little villains,” runners, tide- waiters and pipe layers. Like the old rat in the fable, his policy has been to keep out of harm’s way. But the present agitation has unearthed him, and he turned up in propria persone at the Albany black republican rati- fieation last night, and made a speech on the occasion. We have a brief report of it, indi- cating that it is but the repetition of the old story, modified for the exigencies of the day-- a sophomore speech, not a spontaneous stump speech, fresh from the heart and the lips of the orator, like that of Gen. Nye, but a deliberate and carefully studied speech, sdrojtly avoiding the full exhibition of the cloven hoof, but ‘tin- sidiously instilling the elements of sedition and discord from beginning to end. Perhaps no public man in the United States can speak so long without saying anything as W. H. Seward; and yet in his vague abstractions and sophistries his partisans find al) the essentials to them of wisdom and profundity. We learn that this Albany speech of Masier Seward, like the President’s message, was in print at head-quarters before its delivery. We await its production for the farther enlight- enment of our readers upon such special pe- culiarities as may be worthy of general atten- tion. Of one thing we may be assured—that when the arch agitator takes the field his stakes are directly involved in the contest and there is some doubt of the result, At the Criminal Court, St. Louis, on the 28th ult., Pratt Medlet was indicted, and held In $3,000 bail, for chatleng. ing a gentleman of that city to fight a duel: staindherinaltinilileaitenlein sos, 1188, 1208 "t212, 1295, 296, 1: ." Part 2.1109, 1202, 1208, 1014 1210'to 123, 708, 1028, 1020, 1152, 1008, 1224. ‘The vibes couste, moslops and doeisions. THE LATEST NEWS: BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From W: THE SOUND DUKS—NEW YORE CAPITALISTS any THE THREE MILLIONS DUE MEXICO, ETc, Wasmnatox, Oct. 12, 1885. ‘There are at present various opinions afloat as to what course our government will pursue with reference to the Sound dues, I pave it from bigh authority that thie government has not sent out a messenger to Denmark, but that instructions have been sent to Mr. Belmont to postpone time for two years, in order to give Denmark an opportunity to extricate herself from difficulties that overwhelm her on all -idea. Another delegation ‘rom New York arrived here to- fay, among whom ae Messrs, Aspinwall and Barlow. Prince Jobn is expected thia evening. ‘There will be a des yerate effort made, I understand, to persuade Mazcy to pay money to those who hold Santa Anna's assignments, which includes a number of New Yorkers. The President has ordered the name of Capt. Reynolds, Assistant Quartermaster, to be dropped from he United States army from the 8th inst. Mass Republican Meeting at Albany. SPEECHES SY WM. H. SEWARD AND GEN. NYE. Aunany, October 12, 1855, The republican mass meeting at the Capitel called out a gathering of about five hundred people, Wm. H. Seward addressed the meeting for two hours. Be alluded first to the foundation principle of our gov- esnment, the equality of all men, and then to the exist. ence of a priviledged class that threatened to degrade our republic to an aristocracy. That privileged class, he said, was the slav lers, established upon a specia) foundation, with special guarantees and growing stronger continually, The President he styled the deputy of this claes, He traced the eggressions of the slave power and the continued concessions of the North up to the crown- ing acte—the fugitive slave bill and the Kansas act. He concluded by denouncing the American party as proscriptive and opposed to the principle of universal equality. The softs and hards he gave a passing notice, and declared the whig party a thing of the past, and that. the republican party was established upon the valuable, permanent element of the other parties. He was not certain that they could earry the coming election, neither was he sanguine that the objectaof the republican party would be accomplished during his own lifetime, He said nothing concerning the election of Chase fa Ohio, neither did be advance any opinion upon the prohibicory liquor Jaw, or any other whig measure of the rulers in thia State. His speech was too dry and argumentative for the audience, as was evidenced by a want of applause. He was followed by General Nye in support of the re- publican platform, A series of resolutions, re-affirming the Syracuse plat) form and endorsing the nominations made there, were then adopted, and the meeting adjourned. The State Elections, PENNSYLVANIA. PurLapetrnta, Ost, 12, 1855. The following additional democratic mejorities have been ascertained :—Lchigh county, 898; Carbon county, 400; Monrce county, 1,260; Northampton county, 1,800. OHIO. Cincinnati, October 12, 1855. In 66 counties heard from Chase has « majority of 20,000, To the Icgislature, as far as heard from, there are 26 reptiblican =enators and 60 republican Represen- tatives elected, and 6 democratic Senators and 19 demo- cratic Representatives, The New Hampshire Legislature. Coxoorp, N. H., Oct. 12, 1855. Lieut. Governor Fletcher received the oath of office to- day, and took his seat as President of the Senate.’ C. H. Chapman, of Ludlow, wae chosen Secretary. Mr. Powers, of Woodstock, has introduced into the House a bill in amendment of the present Liquor law, which fs said to. be the most stringent yet framed. Doubts are expressed’ about its passage. Powderm!l Explosion—Seven Persons Killed and others wounded. Portiann, Me., Oct. 12, 1855, The powdermil! at Gorham took fire this morning at ten o'clock, and biew up, killing seven men and wound- ing several others. The fire took in the pressmill, which: was blown to atoms. The mill was formerly owned by (liver Whipple, of Lowell, Massachusetts, whose brother and son axe among the killed. The present owners aro G, G. Newhall & Co., of Boston. The names of the killed, as fer as ascertained, are Franklin Hawkes, of Windham, George Whipple, James Whipple, Samuel Phinney, and John Sweet. The will has been very actively employed for some time, running night and day. <Uinols State Fair. Cincaco, October 12, 1855, It fs estimated that 20,000 people visited the fair grounds yesterday. Thia afternoon a series of resola- tions were offered condemning all Georgia currency, and: passed by acclamation, Senator Douglass is now making aspeech. The falr closes to-morrow. The Suspected Murder at New Haven. New Haven, Oct. 12, 1855. The colored man, Randolph, arrested on suspicion of the murdor of his wife, was carried to prison this morn- ing to look upon her mutilated remains. He showed some emotion, but soon recovered himself. He denies ail knowledge of the crime, and says that her brother had threatened to take her life because she did not invite him to her wedding. Rallrond Accident. CuavEtanp, Oct. 12, 1855. A portion of the emigrant train which left Erie last night was thrown off the track near Kingsville, in con- sequence of disarrangement of the switch. Three cars wore thrown off, and three or four persons badly hurt, The America Outward Bound. Hauwax, Oct. 12, 1855, The steamship America arrived here from Boston at three o'clock, and sailed again for Liverpool at half-past four o'clock this morning. Markets. PUILADELPRIA STOCK BOARD. Prumapetrita, Oct. 12, 1855. Stocks dull. Penmaylvania State fives, 81; Readi 47, ; Long Island, 13%; Morris Canal 1434; Pennryivants Railrowd, 404. New On Oct. 10, 1855. The Canada’s news was received to-day and published in the evening editions of the associated prese, Her ad- vices ¢ 4 the cotton market, and weakened the prices to-lay 2,500 bales, at easier but not quo- tally lower prices. ALTIMORE, Oct. 12, 1856, R, Flour dull and held at $8 76, without’ buyers, Wheat declined de. Mixnoroutan TwRAnoMWie Racnet.— Polyeucte” was played last evening for the second time, and ’lle Teche! completed the sixth week of her first engagement in New York. M. Raphael Felix made hie début in the part of Volyevete, and was quite successful. His read- ing was correct and scholar-like, his bearing gracefal and dignified, and his action fall of empressement, We have already notieed M’lle Rachel’s Pauline. Mile Ra- che! gave the Maraeillais after the tragedy, much to the delight of the very lare and appreciative audience. On. Menday she will take her benefit and play Jeanne a’ Are. She will act every night next week, and on Saturday afternoon, M’lie Rachel will appear at the Boston thea- tre on Tuesday, 22a inst., in “ Horace. Dispaicn KsigkeRvockeR 4 Tae OreRs.—On Thursdsy: evening, daring the performance of Mr. Bristow’s new opera, ‘ip Van Winkle," at Niblo’s Garden, the atten- tion ofa partot the audience was sometimes diverted from the stage to the parquette, where sat Washington Irving, the illustrious anthor of the legend upon which the play is founded, Mr. Irving was highly delighted with the opera and the artists, and after the fall of the curtain he went upon the stage. Miss Louisa Pyne, Mr. Harricom, Mr. Bristow, and the other artusts, were presented to him, and were highly complimented. Mr, Brough was the cicerone of Mr. Irving to those mysterious regions behind the scenes, and tho veteran artist and manager performed his pleasing duty with that gentle. mauly ease for which he is so eminently distinguished, Board of Councilmen. ‘This Board met at their chambers theta 4 fternoon at 4 o'clock, the President, D. D. Conover, aan ‘The minutes of the last meeting were read and opted. This was the evening for third reading of bills, None of importance were acted upon. Fetitions were next in order, but none worth noticing were handed in, Councilman Hxavy offered a resolation asking for am approy ep Lynd = eS apt for the proper ce. lebration of Byacuation day, This was referret to Com. mittee of the Whole, whe reports of committees were next in which, a* soon as presented, were referred of the Whole. A report from the Committee of Conferen: some Vine -. to confer with the Bowrd of the propores order, all of to Committes oe) appointed sparopriation to tbe Norile guforcen pat