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4 NEW YORK H . SAMES GORDON BENNETT, od PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. QYTICE N. W. COBNEE OF NASSAU AND FULTON 878. Far 4 cash in achoanes, AIL ¥Y HERALD. 2 conta copy, $7 per anna. is ‘ ee: ‘ cer Sear oe ements ‘] aro ; , oO Ee in or #0 ta ony part of the Continent, BAR SP IDVERTISENEN TS renciad cory dey. Welame XX... -Ne. 208 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway—Lapy or Lroxs— Mn. Gawoxn’s Buwaxrast Panty. WWBLO'S GARDEN, Broa¢way—Mnss Pyxz—Crnpeneia. XY THEATRE, Bowery—Pesasrorg.—Sauon oF PRasce. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers stroet—Tan Man or Mayy Friev—Joun ov Panis, WALLAGH’S THEATRE, Brovdway—Tax Max or Many Fursnbe— THe Seon, METROPOLITAN THEATRI Waraca—La Lowa Wananen: ’ MTHLO'S. SALOON, next door to Niblo's Garden—Couins Anw MiscuLiaNPous AND OARACTEMISNE, CONCERTS. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELA, 444 Broadway, BUCKLEY'S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUBE, 538 Broad. wiiy —BURLESQUE OFERA AKD NEGRO a “MECHANICS? HALL, 472 Broadway—Pror. MacaLuisrmn’s Somers M2c1gurs. Broadway—La CaLeta DE JUAN De ALYARCHE. BMPTRE HALL—Tovr or Sew York, Saturday, October 27, 1855. The News. "Phe European mails brought by the steamer Afri- ta reached this city yesterday afternoon. The let- “ters will be ready for delivery at the Post Office this merning. Financial affairs formed the principal ‘topic of discussion in the London press prior to the @eparture of the steamer; and in order that our ‘readers tay be well informed upon this important gubject, we have devoted alarge portion of our space today to the reproduction of articles from our foreign files, treating the question of the present and prospective condition of monetary matters in every conceivable phase of fact, sug- gestion and speculation. Of war news we have nothing of importance that was not embrac. ed in our telegraphic summaries publish- don Thursday and yesterday. All Europe was apxiously waiting for intelligence of the bombard- «ment of Odessa. We may, therefore, confidently Wook for exciting accounts by the next arrival. The Jetter of our correspondent at Madrid is very is- teresting. The Cortes opened on the Ist inst. A > —Sieae oF SEBASTOFOL. session was expected. The apprehended alli- ance with the Allies would, it was understood, meet with energetic opposition. A change in the cabinet ‘was regarded as inevitable. The sale of the lands of the clergy proceeded quietly and profitably, not- ewithstanding all purchasers were threatened by the “Pope and priests with unpleasant consequences in the world: to come. We have news from Venezuela to the 4th inst. Our private letters from Curacoa are to the 28th ult., and from Laguayra to the 2d inst. Col. Ramon Soto: ide-de-camp to Santa Anna, had arrived at Curacoa, to obtain the permission of the Venezuelan govern- ment io allow the ex-Dictator of Mexico to land and reside near the capital of Venezuela. It was thought that President Monagas would refuse the applica” tion. In that case Santa Anna would be compelled to proceed to his old estate near Carthagena. Our letters state that the cholera was raging in various parts of Venezuela, and that thirty to forty deaths gccurred daily at Caraccas, ‘We have received a brief telegraphic despatch from New Orleans, stating that later advices from Mexico report that Gen. Alvarez had resigned the ‘Presidency, and that Gen. Comonfort had been chosen in his place. new town council, as they thought that the old members had connived with the factioniste. Before the news of the Alvarez election had reached Tam- pico much anarchy prevailed in the city,and Gen. Juan B. Traconis had assumed the military com- mandof the place. The British brig Faithfal was burned outside the bar of. Tampico—no lives lost. From the Bahamas we have files of Nassau (N. P.) papers to the 4th inst. The news is unimpor- tant. The report of the fall of Sebastopol was re- ceived on the 6th, ond caused much popular rejoic- img. Benjamin Butler, chief clerk in the dry goods store of Palacios & Company, was drowned near Hog island on the %th instant. Several military deserters confined in Nassan prison had made a desperate assault ona deputy keeper, and then at- tempted an ezcape, but they. failed. We have news from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the lat inst. Mr. Gallegos had been re-elected dele- gate to Congress. The Indians had ceased their depredations,and a treaty had been agreed to by the Apaches. The famous Kit Carson, who has been acting as Indian agent Mr the government, bad been suspended from his duties, Owing to several telegraph reports having been received yesterday from various sections of the cot- ton region,.of a killing frost having occurred very extensively over the country, the market became ex- cited, and the sales embraced between 4,000 and 5,000 bales. The market recovered nearly all the previous decline. Flour opened firm, at the pre- vious day's prices, with free sales, but was less buoy- ant at the close. Wheat was in good demand for gxport, and good red was firmer, while other de- scriptions were without important change in prices. Corn closed at 96c. a 97c.; the chief sales, however, were made at the inside figure. Pork was rather active, but prices were without material variation. To Liverpool, shout 30,000 @ 40,000 bushels grain avere Freights were firm, with fair engagements. engaged, in bulk and bags, at lie.a M4e. The proceedings of the United States Agricultural Society at Bosten yesterday were unusally interest- ing. The number of visiiers f estimated at fifty thousond. In the afternoon two thousand persons partook of & hanquet, ander a magnificently deco- r ated tent, at which speeches were delivered by half a dozen distinguished gentlemen, among whom were Edward Everett and Robert C. Winthrop. We give full reporta ef the remarks of these eminent speckers, and also an account of the affair, which wag one of the most brilliant ever wituessed in this coum-y. The exhibition closes to-day with tree Xramj rotting matches. ‘Tho. xaminattion into the case of Nicholas Sacu- Jon, wlginied under the extradition treaty for on al- Jeged foxrery in Fragce, was resumed yeaterday before’ Squ missioner Morton, and is sill farther ad- jonrneds The Veit Reformed Synod adjourned sine die yeate lay: Fee question of the admission of the Nortp (woking Classis, which was iaid on the table the day pi eviaus, was called up agein, and elicited another war W Ggbate opon slavery, Jt was gually rettled by del. *cately ordering the slavewolders out of the house, A: ‘gpgvt of the digemawion may be found in another colam Y ‘The members ot ‘le#ench and bar yvill meet this morning at ten o'clo Us, te express their anse of the logs the community Uave austained in the deyth of Indge Morris, of the Sapreme Court. The case of Pansmore jWilliamson was yestody again brought before Judge Kane, of the United States District Court, at Philadelphia, on an appli- cation for leave to read a petition from the re spondent. Permission was granted counsel to argue the point whether the court could hear a peti- tion embreing a uarrative of facts, or arguing + a tn fevor of th? release of an | coped by the necessar legal «+ end the argument was procesdod *v/ ividnal im- « dhe court, This event has been expected for some time, and will create nosarprise. We have ‘Tampico dates to the 4th inst. The news is interest- ing. A portion of the citizens had made an at- tempt to abolish the Ceballos tariff by vote. This avas resisted by the majority of the people with guccess. They also held a mecting and appointed a NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1855. ‘The Presidential Election—A Blast from the Cabinet Organ—The Democratic Party. The Washington Union has favored us with a leader upon the next Presidency, in which the whole issue is narrowed down to a contest upon the slavery question, and in which it is finally declared that the only party of safety to the constitution and the Union is, and will be, the national democratic party. Now, as we understand it, the Washington Union is the anointed organ of the Pierce ad- ministration; and when it speaks of the nation- al democratic party it means that democratic the Presidettial contest upon the acts and the mon consent, the national convention at Cincinnati. tion Alliance. the chieftain of New Hampshire. cratic capital for the succession. all, therefore, be publi scattered detachments of the church. organ, the great democratic issue. Washington Union?’ Mr. Wise 0 Har Suriis-—A Most Learnep Es Read it :— verea, Virginia are often York. called a crabewa, sen fish, with fins and claws at both en anditcan ran either end foremost. is remarkabdle, mntlemen, for one tine catch N inner enticle, Ia that st; he is the hard era proper. 2e is bard be sure to crack his claw, ill find that, thoygh his oxter shell cuticle or film over the muscles. bursting hie shell. And as ‘ @ab. In ow by agagy, 2* Le hyd before softened fom harddo soft. Found in ths, his g¢gend mtermediate state, he has become poor bat more active, is not ro d for bet, and he is aatled a EE for that he is ao like the fabric of that nase, and his shell is then flexivle like vellum! So that you ace we hage an idea of some haris who are “peelerr,™ tending to soft, and of same softs arho are ing to harde. And there ix such a shardeaing to qott, asd anch a softening to , that we cannot distinguish the politicians of ‘ark as we do the crabe—somecimes Ut sometimes by tonch end sranetimes hy cracking thelr claws. But this I do say, that Ithink I can see you are demoerats; that] cau Oistinguish you nnmietakobly, by the platform of psincl- ple yan have put forth, and am jous and ready to hy and with ai rtion of the o€New Work who will unto oa dhe platiorm sofort sek the constitution and bills Keo Uberty, as defined 0, Crighta of our State and federal ané as de- 4ed by our State sovereigns inion. Trea, Wot anv will hot unite with any Witsoe teria. with any dx * lantern or with any sumptuary law party! Coukt anything more beautifully or gras phieally , “lustrate the exact differences of our verious type® of that political crab known as tbe democrat.” AS for Mr, buck rama”? tent party of Northern free soilers and Southern se- cesstonists set up ‘by Mr. President Pierce in the appointment of ‘his Cabinet, hie Ministers abroad, his Custom House officers, and other sudordinates. It és this mixed commission of epoilsmen, of which the Cabinet ‘is the basis, that the Washington organ is speaking about when it tells us*that our only reliance is the democratic party. This being the case, the question is noxt suggested, what prospect is there for the “democratic party entering into merits of our present delectable democratic ad- ministration? Upon this precise point we pro- pose briefly to fill up the principal hiatus in the twaddling harangue of the Cabinet organ. First, then, we undertake to say that there is a general impression, scarcely less than ‘2 universal resolution, as by com- among the masses of the democracy, North and the South, that Mr. Pierce, his Cabinet and his administration, are done for-—that they are to be ignored and su- perseded in the campaign of ’56 by a new de- mocratic shuffle and cut—a new ticket from This we verily believe isthe general understand- ing among the masses of the democratic par- ty. Rebellionhas broken up the party, and it continues broken up to this day, upon this absurd test of fidelity to Mr. Pierce and his Cabinet. This defection has gone so far that even Col. Forney must be aware that the Ty- lerizing of Mr. Pierce is the first essential to the reunion of the great but scattered demo- cratic family. We dare say that Mr. John Cochrane, who, in grateful consideration of his fat office, “carries the President in his arms,’’ has no more idea of a re-nomination of Mr. Pierce, or of the nomination of any mem- ber of his Cabinet for the succession, than has Benjamin ¥, Butler or Preston King, who have abandoned both the Cabinet and Kitchen Ca- binet, and-enlisted in the Seward Holy Aboli- It is manifest on every hand that the cam- paign of %56 will hinge upon the slavery ques- tion ; itis altogether probable that the demo- cratic party will be reorganized upon a con- servative platform against the sectional cru- sade of Seward and the black republicans, But slavery will not be the sole issue of the contest. There will be some practical adminis- trative questions involved in it, such as the ne- cessity of retrenchment and reform inthe dis- bursement of the spoils of the Treasury—reform in our diplomatic appointments, and in our foreign pelicy; and a reform embracing some- thing more of moral courage, consistency and honesty in-our domestic affairs than anything which has signalized the Presidential career of And as the democratic party can realize nothing but a dead Joss in endorsing the Koszta letter, the Cuban diplomacy of Mr. Pierce, or the bom- bardment of Greytown; and as the dispensa- tion of the spoils since the 4th of March, 1853 from the appointment of Marcy and Jeff. Davis to the dismissal of Reeder, is a sore subject, none of these things will be available demo- They must ly repudiated or quiet- ly ignored at the Cincinnati reunion of the democratic We close, accordingly, with an amendment to the Presidential manifesto of the Cabinet It says there is but one party that does or can defend the constitution and the Union against the anti-slavery disunionists, and that that is the national democratic party. Our amendment is, that the first essential to the reunion and success of this party is some definite repudiation of Mr. Pierce, his Cabinet and his administration. The party expect it: the Cincinnati Convention must fulfil this ex- pectation or be certainly defeated. This is What says the Harp Snexrs, Sorr Saenis ann VANATION.-— Hon. H. A. Wise of Va.,. electrified the hard shells at their late Metropolitan ratification, with a long, enthusiastic letter on democra- tie principles, recognizing the hards and their Syracuse platform, as embodying the genuine principles of the true democratic faith. ‘But the gem of this long and cestatic letter is a learned description of the mutations of the crab from the hard shell to the soft, and vica must not wonder that your democratic friends in fused by names. and things in Now We mish to reo a urited demoevscy there on the Md grounds of Jefferson and Jackson. We hear of hard, and soft, and half shells, and the ideas we form of them can be best illustrated by a subject of natural history, We have in our waters, gentlemen, a crustacious. animal ds, Pake at him this way ond he suns thet—thatevay and he rans this! He is transformations. At Foe ree porter jomn predietd DS shell is ard, very hard, hard epough for barnacles t his back, and it will not separate or be detached frost the At another time, catch him amd crack hie claw—ten genilemea, and you is still very hard, yet it will separate and can Le detached from tho inner He is them called the “peeler:”’ his shell will pool off from, without breaki the inner shell. Later, catch him and you nee pet cack his claw to see what he is, for Jhis outer sbell ix thee open at every suture, and the crab is swolling oy’ of its hard and tak: ing 4 well its aoft chell, In that state he is called peeler”’ or “bustee’’ he is very tat, aad a bgit.fit to catch the very “monazehs of the deep” wich ! Later still he hes slipper out of hi 'staltic motion, and Jot it along: the strand, and bas became wholly a’ soft iat state he'ia goad bait too. and iepreye! ope hard crabs and other tches, audhe is enert and caw hordly crew! out of harm‘a.way. {hen, . th some crab, goxtlomen, begins tofarden from woh te hard ly changed from *, soft toa hard shell, as, we presume, the late speech of Prince John Van Buren, at Osvvego (who has been hard, peeler, buster and xoft), will convince him. Mr. Wise is great af; a political letter writer, but his pro- per vocr,tion is natural history; and we hope he wi) next enlighten us concerning “that same old coon.” Gen. Webb says he is dead— Corporal Brooks says he “still lives” What says Mr. Wise? cain Privizcep Cxasses—A New Tacx.—-Gov. Seward runs nearer to the wind than any other political navigator in this country. He navi- gated the higher law plank right in among the breakers of the Constitution, and he is now astride of “the privileged classes” —the slave- holders of the South. There are plenty of dough faces who believe that Mr. Seward is 4 great hypocrite and demagogue in this in- tance, as in‘mearly all others where he has moved forward in advance of his abolition as- sociates with a newtheory. He has discovered that the slaveholders are a privileged class in this republic of absolute freedom; and he pro- poses thatthe higher law shall be applied, like Murat’s scythe of equality, to cut off all heads down to the negro level. After hearing so much of the slave oligarchy, the slave pow- er, and its fierce aggressions, it was natural to expect that somebody would find a privileged class. That it has existed in the country for more than seventy years—speaking freely by its press and in the halls of legislation— that its labor has entered into the common field of production, and its fruits into the pockets of every Northern manufacturer, im- porter and jebber—that ithas paid its taxes into the general treasury—that it even fought the battlesof the Revolution, and furnished its ablest generals and some of its wisest counsel- lors—that it-entered into a political compact with the-dough faces for a perpetual union of the States on settled principles of reciprocal interest—it is, perhaps, a little strange that this privileged ¢lass was not sooner discovered. But it must be remembered that it is only once in an age that mankind is furnished with such statesmen as Seward and such philosophers and patriots as Greeley and Garrison. Those who consented to allow three-fifths of the negroes to be counted as a basis of repre- sentation in’ Congress, and covenanted to sur- render fugitive slaves, and made these cove- nants a part of the organic laws of the repub- lic, were dough faces; and those wha sccured those covenants were a privileged class. Since then we have grown wiser, and but for the ef- fort on our part—on the part of the abolition- ists—to set aside our obligations, to refuse to fulfil our contracts, we should say more honest. At this point there isa little confusion. The wisdom of the abolitionists has given us the higher law, a blessed dispensation intended to repeal such provisions of the federal constitu- tion as may conflict with either our interests or our prejudices; but it isa misfortune that three-fourths of the North and the entire South believe that dispensation to rank ex- actly on a par with those of Joe Smith and Brigham Young, and to proceed from the same ethical fountain as Fourierism and the de- lectable free love concern which lately en- gaged the attention of the police, and which Greeley has so porsevoringly attempted to In- troduce in this community. But aside from the constitution and the higher law, Mr. Sew- ard is positive that he has found a privileged class. Tor instance, the slaveholders regard their slaves as property, three-fifths of whom are counted as a basis of representation in Congress. Here is an exclusive and a pe- culiar privilege at once; asin the free States populaticn alone is a basis of representation, In the North, free negroes, who are generally useless members of society—who are proscribed by the laws, degraded in the social scale—are thus counted in the population and represent- ed in Congress. The North is the nursery of emigration. It receives thousands and hun- dreds of thousands, many of whom do not un- derstand our language—more know nothing of our institutions, have no right to vote, but are still a part of our population and represented in Congress. Now, if this is no offset to the three-fifths basis of-slave representation in the South, it isa fact which goes far to show the equities of our political system and the equi- valents secured to all parties by its theory and its practice. But let us suppose that Virginia abolishes slavery. She has five hundred thou- sand slaves—three hundred thousand of whom are counted in her Congressional census. It is clear that if ehe should abolish slavery she would be entitled to two more members. The same principle applied to the entire slave States. would give them more than twenty ad- ditional members. It would appear from this practical showing that Mr. Seward’s “privi- leged class” is not much of an affair, after all. His remedy would add to their privileges with- out changing the character of the population. In truth, the North have a decided adyan- tage in the organization of the govern- ment. Labor constitutes an essential part of government everywhere ; and it will be re- membered that in the North its entire labor and its great.asylum of European emigration, its vagrants end its paupers, are represented in Congress, while the “privileged class” of the South has onty three-fifths of its orderly and most productive labor counted. Tue ALperman Herrick Case.—The result of the trial of Alderman Herrick is just what every one expected. No one believed that the jury would agree; or if they did, that the case would proceed to a termination without some nullifying incident. Of the offence charged against the Alderman we are now bound av- cording to the common law to consider him innocext; for after a dull and fair trial, he has not beex proved to be guilty. The fact is not very fiatéering to the jueisprudence of the age; but such, ao it is, we must take it. The mors! of the whole business jis, first, that laws agains corruption awd legal machinery to carry thew into effect caunot be relied upon to check the wee. Corrupt men are never so utterly friendlezs as to be caught and puvish- ed. They may Ue accused and even brought to trial; tot it iss certain as the diurnal mo- tion of the earth thet before the peuelty is in- flicted some accident will occur to releaae them from custody and suspicion. Corruption, it is to be hoped, will only be met hereafter in the manner in which such vices should be correct- ed-—namely, by the general reprobation of the community as testified at the ballot boxes, Those who seck to have an honest city govern- ment or State government will next week dis. cover what honest men are upon the tickets, and will vote for them irrespective of party, The otber Leeson tanght by the Herrick caso » Wise, be has wisg- J is thas Grand Jusiee must be more careful in | their proceedings. In another case, the party indicted was accused of an act which by no possibility could be construed as an evidence of corruption; and in a third, the prosecut- ing officer was obliged to enter a nolle prosequi at the very, commencement of the proceedings. It is not right that Grand Juries should pro- ceed so lightly to make away with men’s cha- racters, In cases like Mr. Herrick’s—where the evidence for the people rested upon; the testimony of a single witness, and that one not unimpeached, more discretion and caution in finding a true bill would have been more cre- ditable to the jury, and satisfactory to the public, Tue Myruinoxs or tHE Heratp.—The Al- bany Atlas copies our report of Prince Joba Van Buren’s speech at Oswego, endorses it as “wonderfully accurate,” but says that “Mr. Van Buren was not aware himself that he was overtaken by the myrmidons of the Heratp, when speaking at Oswego.” It was the same with Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, with Forney at Tammany Hall, and with other political stumpers caught in the act of talking rather largely to the dear people. But the compli- ment paid our reporters by the AWas, like the ignorance attributed to the Prince, is all stuff. The Prince must have known that he was over- taken by pen, ink and paper, or perhaps he would have said a good deal more on the soft, persuasive side of the nigger question. “Myr- midons!” What ungrateful scamps are these free soil offshoots of the Albany Regency! THE LATEST NEWS. BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Interesting from Washington. COM. PAULDING AND THE NAVAL RETIBING BOARD— ‘THE NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE--JOHN VAN BUREN READ OUT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BY THE UNION——PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS, ETC. ‘Wasmnotoy, Oct. 26, 1855. Commodore Paulding arrived this morning, and is stopping at Willard’s, There is not, 1 understand, any significance in his being ordered here at this time. The Seoretary of the Navy merely wished to consult with him in regard to matters in which he was particularly inter- ested. The Commodore, it appears, is down on the ac- tion of the Naval Board. the Navy Department to give him a correst list of those ’ now in the Navy. The clerk handed hima list taken from the Hrrarp, aud remarked that he believed it was correct. The Commodore glanzed his eye over the list, und before he had read the names seemed quite indig- nant, and said there was at least three out of ten who, from his personal knowledge, were not fit to be in the service, and intimated that the action of the Naval Board could not and ought not to be sustained. ‘The new Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Addison ‘Thomas, arrived yesterday, and presented himself to the old Premier. He will not commence operations until the first of next month. To-day’s Union reviews Prince John’s specch at some length, and finally very reluctantly read him out of the democratic party. Where’s Marcy now? ‘The argument in the Cherokee case occupied the whole of to-day in the Court of Claims, The closing speech, by Colonel Rogers, the hulf breed Cherokee, was a specimen of true Indian cloquence—equal to any effort of Red Jacket in his palmiost days. The Florids cases stand first onthe docket for to-morrow morning. Col. Sherman will open the argument on the part of the claimants, and will be followed by Hon. Geo. F. Badger on the sane side. The grgument will consume several days. President Pierce did not dine at the National yesterday The individual taken for his Ex- cellency was Commander Ringgold, of the United States navy. The wine, however, which was sent up with toe compliments of Mr. Guy to President Pierce, received the most considerate attention from Prince John and the gal- with Mr. Van Buren. lant captain. The Protection Fire Company, of Rochester, New York, was handsomely entertained to-day at the American Hotel, and left this afternoon for Philadelphia. American Maes Mccting at Albany. Atnany, Oct. 26, 1855, A large and enthusiastic mecting was held at the Capi. tol this evening, to ratify the nominations of the Ameri- can party. Erastus Brooks, of Now York, and S. G. Haven, of Buffalo, were the principal speakers. re RPA SETI TI American Mass Meeting at Utica, Unica, Oct. 26, 1855. The American party held a meeting here, at Concert Hall, to-night. About 400 people were present, Mr. Hammond delivered an address, which was enthusias- tically received. American Jadicial Nomination. Cot Sprine, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1855. The Americans at Peekskill to-day nominated Charles Ganun, of Putnam county, for Justice of the Sessions Court for the Second Judicial District. Massachusetts Politics. Boston, Oct. 26, 1855. The whigs of Suffolk county had their ratification meet- ing in Funeuil Hall this evening. Between two and three thousand persons were present. Hon, Pelog W. Chandler presided, and speeches were made by him, Hon. J. T. Ste- venton, and others. The Know Nothings also had a large torehtight sion, parading the streets with bands of music, transpa- rencies, banners and fireworks. The French Government acd Rassian Batit Ships. Roaror, Oct. 26, 1855. ‘The French Consul, at this port, in ac:ordance with instructions from his government, publishes a card re- minding the merchants of Boston of the risk they will incur in purchariog Russian built ships at this point. The following is the French regulation upon the’ sud- ject :— Ships of hostile origia, or which have boon the pro- perty of the enemy, are not to be reputed nentrals or aliies unless authentic acts issued by public officers are found on board certifying that the date of the sale mide to some subject of the al eS amd or to @ neutral was before the beginning of hostilities, and unless these acts of transfer are locally registered at the office of the princi officer of the French at the port of exhibition, And signed by such officor or his deputy. ‘The Case of Passmore Wiiltamson, Partaperrura, Oct, 26, 1855. Mesars. Meredith and Gilpin agai applied to the United States District Court to-day for permission to read ‘8 petition from Passmore Williamson. Mr. Van Dyke opposed the reading, and Judge Kane refused to hear any petition from Williamson except one for permission to purge himeelf from contempt of court. After considerable discussion the Judgo granted the res- pondents leave to argue the question, whether the Court can hear a petition arguing in favor of his release from ‘a person in contempt. Mr. Gilpin opened the argament and was followed by Mr. Meredith for Williamson. The case is to be continued to-morrow morning. Deaths Doings. DEATH OF A BAPTIST MINISTER. Bostox, Oct. 26, 1855. The Rev. Mr. Worrell, « Baptist minister, of Melrose, of some celebrity, while passing over Charleston bridge, a few days since, was #0 badly injured by coming in con- tact with a wagon that be died yesterday. He was an eloquent preacher. DEATH OF JUDGE WHIPPLE, OF MICHIGAN. Durrorr, Oct. 25, 1856, ‘The Hon. Charles W. Whipple, Justice of our Suprome Court, died im this city this evening. DEATH OF AN EDITOR. Mwppigtowy, ct, 26, 1855. Wm. D. Starr, for thirty-three years editor and pro- pria tor of the Sentinel and Witness, died here this morn- ox” disease of the heart. He retired last night to bed in bis grsaal health, with the exception of a slight cold, and wae found dead by his wife at 6 o'clock this morning. Mr. Stare held the office of Collector at this port. He leaves a wide and sven children, —— Wire at Rockland, Me. WOCKLAED (Mo.), Oct. 26, 1855. ‘The large rah and door m Soufactory, owned by Mossra, Berry, Kimbail & Libby, was «'etroyed by fire this eve- ning, with ite cuthe contents, ort $14,000—no insu- 1anee. BEPORTED RESIGNATION OF ALVAREZ AND ELECTION owing to his advanced years and feeble health, had re- signed the Presidency, and that General Comonfort had been chosen in his place. ‘He asked one of the clerks of In from Mixtco. OF COMONFORT TO THE PRESIDENCY. Alvarez. New Onrxovs, Oct. 25, 1855. Later advices from Mexico report that General Alzarez, News from St. Thomas. Bostoy, Oct. 26, 1855. We have dates from St. Thomas, via Halifax, to the Cth inst, Santa Apna had recently paid a visit to that island, accompanied by bia daughter and a numerous suite, He was waited upon by the Governor and all the leading dignitaries of the island. The United States Con- sul also paid bis s respects to the ex-President of Mexico, News from New Mexico. Sr. Louis, Oct. 25, 1855. ‘The Santa Fe mail arrived at Independence on the instant, with dates to the 1st of October. ‘Mr. Gallegos had been elected delogate to Congress, ‘There was a strong anti-American: fecling prevalent in the country. ‘The Indian troubles had measurably ceased, and a treaty had been made with the Apaches. ‘The misunderstanding between Kit Carson and the gov- ernment had resulted in the suspension of Carson from his duties. Colonel Brooks and Cuptain Ewell were to leave for the States in a few days. ‘The mail party saw very few Indians. Additional from the Plains. St. Louis, Oct. 25, 1855, We have received dates from Fort Laramie to the 20th ult, Colonel Cooke has been ordered to the command at Fort Riley, General Harney was to leave Laramie on the 29th, to establish a fort at White Earth fiver, with a view of chastising the Minnesagos Indians, the most hos- tile tribe in the country. The Aligaba Brule Indians had agreed to deliver to General Harney #he murderers of the mail party, and hereafter to confine themselves to their own boundaries. The chief Little Taunder was not killed in the engagement at Blue Water. The general impression at Laramie was that there would be no more fighting at present, the winter having set in with un- usual severity. The court martial ordered for the trial of Capt. Howe hand dissolved without transacting any business, on ac- count of the irregularity of the order constituting it. en route for Laramie. ‘The Canada Outward Bound. TTramPax, Oct. 26, 1855. for Liverpool. Marine Disaster. Bostox, Oct. 26, 1855. crew either abandoned or went down with her. name could net be learned. fresh and blowing from the west. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PHLADELPina, Oct, 26, 1855. PHILADELPHIA IRON MARKET. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26, 1855. iron, at $37 $26 & $27; forge metal, $23 a $2, with some sales at $65, for cash. Avpany, Oct, 26—6:30 P. M. about $1 86, Barley inactive, and considerable’ store—$1 29 a $1 30 for two rowed, and $1 rowed Corn, S4c. a 9c, Oats, 443¢c. Burra, Oct. 26—6:30 P. M. Flour has advanced. Sales 2, extra Ohio. Wheat in good de consin spring at $1 78’a $1 sa!en 30,000 bueh the inside figur 8TKe.n 380. Cau to Albany and the latter to New York. four hours ending at noon to-day—Flour, wheat: 143,065 bushels; corn, 8,800 busheld; dats, 14, pushels, bushels. The Winter Fashions. coming. only a few weeks ago occupy their places. like enough to deceive an unpractised eye. ‘The mort fashionable furs for the coming winter will be sable (Hodson Bay or Russian), mink and ermine, but marten, fitch and equirrel will find more purchasers, Wo have seen a set ot Russian sable—the set, meaning the muff, cape and cuffs—which was valued at fourteen hundred dollars. It was soft as down and glossy as satin, end the color was of that rich, dark hue so mach sought afer and esteemed. strikingly elegant and disingué than the capo, de- scending below the waist in » slight point, then sweeping round the arms in a graceful fullaess and ending in long square tabs in front, The muff, which was emall, was lined with brown silk, and drawn with cord and tassels of the samo color, and the effect was greatly heightened vy this uniformity of hue. In strong, but pleasing contrast with the sable, was a set of ‘ pro- cious ermine,” of the came style, the daszling brightness of iis enow-white surface rendered more striking by the jetty wifte sprinkled over ti. A set of ermine will cost from four to five hundred dol@s. I is preferred by many to its more expensive rival and is the opera fur, Jar cacellence. For this distinction it is indebted to its fes- tal color and brilliant elegance so much in keeping with a blaze of light and scence of splendid gaicty, and this distine- tion is all that remains of the former glory of ermine, ouce sncred to reyalty! ‘The ermine iy not confined to the Old World, for the s‘ont or weasel of the United States, whore coat whitens in the winter, is the same species, though its fur is greatly inferior to that of its Siberian congener. ‘The ure ot ture, by civilized nations, ia as ancient as tae establishment of the French monarchy, and contempo- vaneous with the introduction of «lk, as a branch of manufacture, from Chiva, for in the sixth ceatury sables brought from the shores of the Arctic ovean were offered tor eale in Rome, and Marco Volo, the celebrated Vene- tion traveller, who flourished in the thictoeath contury, mentions that he ‘ound the tents of the Cham of Tartary ined with sable and ermine, brought from the “land of darkness,”” the torm then employed to designate the hy- perborean regions, In the following centary the rage for furs was #o great in England, that royal interference became necessary, and Edward the Third decreed that 0 person was privileged to wear furs that could not spond & bundred pounds a year. At that timo Italy was the great Furopean entrepot for furs; ehe supplied the en- tire continent, and for a long time enjoyed a monopoly of this lucrative branch of commerce. Ermine and sable will this yeat find a dangerous com- petitor in mink, which, as we before stated, was an ox- cellent counterpart of the latter. This far is a new arti cle in the martet, and though it porreses no prestige, no adventitious advantages, though It cannot boast of great antiquity nor historic associations, yet it is rapidly gain- ing in public estimation. We have seen a set of mink, which, for brillianey of gloss and depth of color, almost rivalled the sable, with which it was placed in juxtaposi- tion. The cape was of the prevailing style, pointed in the back and suare in the front, it was furnished with a collar, and this added to the fullness over the acm, whic’ had pil the ellect of a sleeve, gave it quite » imished ap- in mourning, their subdued color hat the ‘customary suit of solemn black’? prescribed for such occasions, but sable is also used and is more fashion able than either. Colonel Sumner, with seven companies of cavalry, was ‘The Cunard steamship Cana. arrived here from Boston at 4 o'clock this morning, and sailed again at 5 o'clock A fore and aft schooner was sunk in the Sound last night. She lies about seven miles from Hyannis. ‘The Her ‘The steamer Mercury, Capt. Yates, left Hyannis this morning for New York. Wind Stocks steady. Pennsylvania State '6’s, 83; Reading, 44; Long island, 12%; Morris Canal, 1334; Pennsylvania Raliroad, 4234. Tron—fales of the week, 5,600 tona pig and car wheel 1, at $28 a $90; No. 2, at $28; forge, or delivery at Columbia, ‘at $23. American bars active. Refined, for California) $80. American sheet deliverable next summer, at12c, Nails, $4 104 $4 15. Rails firm, Flour very active—Sales 3,000 bushels red Ohio, at ing into for four bbls. at $8 a $8 50 for common to extra Michigan; $8 874, a $9 for fancy and mand, and at the close firmer, Seles 30,000 bushels, at 81 70 for Miinois spring; $1 75 for Wisconsin do. ; $2 for white Milwaukee; $2207 a $2 10 for white Canadian, focluding 8,000 bushels Wis- 80. Corn—Fair demand; nels, at 8440. a 85¢., closing inactive at Gats easier; sales 30,000 bushels, at al freights—Corn 13c., and wheat 163¢e. and 10c. for the former and 2le. for Take imports for,the twenty- 377 bbla.; ‘anal exports same ‘time—Flour, 2,365 LbI; wheat, 96,476 bushels; corn, 17,500 bushels; oats, 52,273 THE FURS WORN BY THE LADIES OF NEW YORK. Noth ing marks the change of geasons so unmistakenbly as the display of goods in the different business streets of the city, and at the present moment a five minutes? walk in any given direction will prove conclusively that winter is The stores huye put on their wintry look; summer and autumn goods are “gone in the wind,”? and fabrics that would have made one feverish to look at Everything is changed, ard to judgo from the indications around us our position on the globe must have changed also, for the duplay of furs in the differcnt establishments looks like preparations for an Arctic winter, and might warm the shivering tenants of the frozen zone.” Furope, Asia and America furnish their contingent, and nothing can be more rich aud varied than the selection for the coming reason. Rusia sends her priceless sables, soft, dark and glossy, worth a king's tansom; Peru her eurling chinchilla, beautiful but rather pavsie; Siberia her er- wine, a8 purely white and unsuilied as the eowy wastes over which it wanders; and America her mink and mar- ten, the latter a soft, beautiful far, its surface colar of éark, rich olive brown, contrasting finely with its thick under-growth of white; the former an excellent imitation of the sable, lighter m color and less valuable, but still thing could be more Pearance. Mink is found in great abundanee on this con- tinent, as is also the diferent specion of marten. A set of mink can be purchases for five hundred dollars, and mar- ten for considerably less. ‘The only fur-bearing animals peculiar to America, are the black fox, the silver fox, and ‘the opossum, which yields a very excellent fur, known ine commerce as the reck marten, The grey furs, chinchilla, squirrel, &c., are much used! well with Fur trimmings will be mach worn this winter, andon. every variety of material. Velvet, mofre antique, silk cloth and merino. In fact, they will be worn wherever there: is am excuse for wearing them, for never has the desire for furs reached such « height—never has it been so unt- versal and absorbing. that the extreme beauty of those now in fashion almost justifies it, for in pliwbiliiy and elegance of shape they compare favorably with (he lightest materials, It must be admitted, hozever, Besides, there is something tavcinating in a garment that com- Dines in an equal degree comfort, grace and Iuxury, and! the fur cape tor the pr always thought that o fi nt season does this, We have tippet reaching only to the shoulder was the clumsiest and most unbecoming thing a lady could put ov; the slightest and mos! gracefu figure could not wear 1! with impunity, for it hed a ten- dency to make even them appear short-necked and high shouldered. ‘This was reinedied in the round tippet, for it descended below the waist; but here again there wa» an awkward defect; tho hands were covered, or suffered to protrude through « narrow slit that served for an armhole, and in which tuey hung -uspendedas ina sling. Never was there. m re miserable contrivance. In the present siyle these inclegancies have disappeared, and we have uo a garment at once symmetrical and com. foriable. ‘While mink and marten are becoming every year more: popular, other varieties are disappearing from the mar- ket, and leaving it in possession of the moderns, Bear skin, otter, seal, lynx avd fox are nowhere to be seen. Even the lustrous silver fox of Oregon has been set aside: in accordance with the arbitrary decrees of fashion, which only the sable and the ermine can resist. But though fashion. may have depressed one species it has elevated the whole; for what | ‘ fashion has metamor- phosed the simple covering of the savage into a highly prized luxury of civilized life—a iuxury, too, which has connected with it the strangest and most interesting associations. No other article of dress can call up such exciting images. What a bond of connection it is be- tween the fashionables of New York and the solitary hunter of Siberia! Strange that the destruction of ani- mal life in these distant regions should be affected by the fashions of our metropolis; yet so it is, and it would take Zeruh Colburn himself to compute the number sacri- ficed to supply the warerooms of New York for this win- ter’ consumption alone, At no former season were furs in such demand; and this is owing in a great measure'to the universal prosperity of our people, the absence of al] depressing influences, and the activity observable in. every department of business. Those things are as good as gold to the furriers, who, altogether, have bright prox pects for the dreary winter, CoLuNs aT Nrato’s SaLoon.—This is the last night of Collins’ attractive entertainment at Niblo’s Saloon. On Monday he goes, we believe, to Philadelphia, We should think, from the style of these performances, that they could easily be permanently established in this city. They are what are wanted. Will Collins think of this?’ Beventeen ladies competed for the equéstrian prizes at the Iowa State Fair on the Ith inst, Fifteen of them were single, and two married. ‘The following was award of prizes:—The first premiam—a fine , and martingales-was awarded to Miss Ellen Whitcomb, of Wapello county. The second—a ‘whip—to Miss Kate Pope, of Henry county. Tho third premium—ta Miss L. B. Salter, of Wapello county, The New York Weekly Herald. NEWS FROM EUROPE, CHINA, MEXICO, HAYTI, ET, The New York Weekty Hxravp will be published at ten o'clock this morning. The contents will embrace the latest newsfrom Europe, China, Mexico, etc.; Religions, Commer: cial, Financial, Theatrical, Pctitical, Sporting and Shippipg- Intelligence; Editorials on various subjects; latest Telegraphia News, anda great variety of Local and Miscellaneous Items. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, can be had at, the counter. Price, sixpence, ‘We have no doubt that Knox, the grest batier, will become, in -he course of time, world-renowoed, Jor both his stores are constantly filled with eager and de- lighted customers, ‘There are certainly no hats to surpass, and very few to equal those of Knox’s manufacture. ‘They are the quintescence of beauty; the embodiment of elezance, and the ultra perfection of workmanship, and withal they are sold et the Jowest rates known fa the trade. One of Knox's siorea ia at the corner of Brosdway and Fulton stroet, the other is un- der the Prescott House, corner of Broadway ana Spring st. Mealio’s Fall Style of Huts is Supertor- to any in the city; light, durabje, and of a superior finish. Cor- ner of Broadway and Caual street, Not the Crasar—But White the Hatter, has the best and finest assortment of furs in the city. Everything in the way of ladies’ and gentlemen's furs White has. Give him ac WHITE, 321 Broadway, opposite the Theatre. Anson’s ‘rreoty pes, lurge size, for Fifty Sori Celerra ee cane ene sos sigs ae matty coatee fon', Bad Broadway: oppoaiva Metropollanetiowls SA Camco—Dag ucrreoty pes Williamson’: Fulton street, Brooklyn, 7 =" Mr. Brady’s Eloquent Address to the Ji in summing the case of Alderman Herrick, in the Court of Gyer and Terminer reported by Koberta & Warburton, short- hand wricers, will be published in dhe Sunday Atlas to-morrow, In full, together with a concise review of that remarkable (ris. If you want your Dagucrreotype taken the cheapest system on record, go to the machine picture rid 280 Broadway. Price 25 cents and $2 50 per dozen, Lampre: Mercantile Library Association.—The Board of Direction have he pleasure to announce that Mr, M, tex: y,Yill deliver « course of four lectares on jand, an during igus, “hapin's church, “No. 648, Broadway. near inee rect, on. Mon ursday evenings of each week, cy = Thureda; ‘Ov. Ist. rr Monday, Koy. fib George Becoaa, Monday Noy. iat Scorke Font, lon joy. ih... Couree tickets, to member: pe oy #1 to non-mem! Single Siena. niece Course tickets (with reserved non ace ekate (wi ed weats) can be obial a2 Hmited number of ‘ingle admission Ucke's can be had ay e brary rooms, (unless previously disposed of) at eH TiMesOR, on door. % SOS i OWN CRERA! eX Com, Wa. H. WickHAM, fests At A. & J. Saunders, No. 7 Astor Houss, and 287 Broadway, can be foond the fines! quality of dressing cases; {aocy cutlery, brushes and combs of all Kinds for the toler Lubin’s extracts, direct from the manufacturer. Enlargement of the Sunday Mercary.— The Mercury to morrow wilt be the largest paper pablished In ihe worid for three cents per copy. Anew sory Wil! be com. menced, entitled “Leonora,” a tale of human passion exposed, Don’t fall to secure a copy bright and early. Pionofortes and Mciodcons=Manufact ty JOUN P. WAKE & CO.. No. 107 Canal atoe!, near Vi Lily, Warrant and workmanship equal to any fhe city, and 20 cent less than Broad vices. FB Heeond ‘hand pinton at great bargain» ‘Silks! lor cena bagte eter this morning & large lot ofrich brocade, wiped nnd laid wilks, parc, the late auction sales and will be old at bargains. WAL naa Dine Ari € 08.1947 Hrvadas. Superior Winter Clothing. Fresh, fash<- sll Wks bed eau.“ apieecoiememen oroeeee: b a contr, pantaloone and vows: made up for ibe prevent find 6'Joln street, corner of Nascent ee eee, DEVLIN & JESSUP. Non Send Vana mea Phen een on. & 4 Md one Now 10 Frlion stret, ‘he price is marked ot James Little d& Co, No. 412 Broaiway, merchant tailors, wherg enn be Yound the bes! slosk ct reaxe mate clothing in the ey, Coeds made to order a’ (> short+ Evans Clothing Warehouse, 66 and 68 Fulton strect.—Fashionable dress and frock coat: 8; bls Gress conts, $6; splendia. black cloth ee ea se ribbed beaver overcoats, 8; casvimere pants, $2, upw Readi—Talmas and Overeonts, of cloth, pis oun, Ne rr tee Perens ROOST GROOT & SON, 8 and 16 Palion siceets are pow ready at 120 Paiton. ky Sights Fr st 4 ‘. isefon e H ¥ Re Mee A a Mons. @RUMGOLD, Caterer. Embsotdertes! Kmbrotd Just Stree from anction, five cases of pops i re, bands, i % ae., whieh one thelr real valine. BAL TEADBIA v4 0, Broadway. w Dyer pee PETE RSO! ec Rpauc’, nee 379 Broalway.t corner sues, Floor Ottcloth Cheap—At the Old Stand 20% aia hates at half price, at the established siand 258 ae Bosse ant Shoca.— Watkins, at No. Ne and shows ‘ng iol eear Tres ore primae tea Py bien. UJ