The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT®, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR ePICS N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON Sra, a » rr AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY TREATRE, Broadway—Lunvanp aN Awent- ca—Ovn Galr—Inist Pome, WTBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Miss Pyee—Bansza or Servis. aes sOWERY THEATRE, Sowery—Jouso Jom—Fauny Jane sBBASTOPOL, wRTON'S THEATRE, Chambers strest—-Tuz Man oF Many Puiesps—Le Onanir, WALLACK’S THRATRE, Broadwey—Tue Max or Many parmsts— £50) Rewako, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway. BUCKLEWS SURLESQUE OPERA AOUNE, 539 : way BORLEAQUS OFRRA A*” Werro MINSTRELS, baie TALL, 4/2 Broudway—Paor, MAcaLustan's Somes MaGiuvEs. ACADEMY HALL, 66% Brosdway—Barme or Boxxea nh. ’ New York, Thursday, November 1, 1855. The News. Tho steamship Baltic is now in her twelfth day out from Liverpool. The strong westerly winds which have recently prevailed account for her unusually Jong passage. The disturbed state of financial af- airs in Europe, and the probable receipt of intelli- gence of the bombardment of Odessa by the allied ficet, contribute to make her arrival anxiously look- ed for. Lieut. Parke, of the topagrapbical engineers, with his surveying party, arrived at San Antonio, Texas, on the 16th wlt., from the west. This party has been in the fleld since November 22, 1854. The months of June and July were spent in the examinatoin of that extensive and almost desert country which bor- ders the Gila river. According to the published re- ports of the results of ‘the expedition, Lieut. P. has been highly successful in his explorations, which go to prove that the line examined near the thirty-second parallel is the shorteat and easiest route to California, requiring no tunnelling, there being no steep ascents, and goods can be cur vied over the whole route ; and by avoiding Tuscan and striking for the Gila the long and dreaded jor- nada of nincty miles may be avoided. Even as a wagon and emigrant route, the new one propo. sed and travelled by Lieutenant Parke will save distance and fatigue to animals, as the facili- ties for obtaining grass and water are superior to the commission boundary route, or Colonel Cook's trail. By proceeding almost due west from Cock’s Springs, by Ojo de Vacca, a series of vallies running north and south isreacaed, bounded by short ranges which can be travelled round, these valleys looking round into each other, and tending northwest to the Gila river, which may be struck where the fertile little valley of San Pedro meets that river. In this course every mountain range is avoided, and a country well supplied with gamma grass is travelled over. Interesting news from Australia, dated at Mel- bourne August 8,and Sydney August 17, is pub- lished in our paper to-day. The Chinese who ha@ gove to the colony early were astonishing the bankers and government by shipping large amounts of gold direct to their native country. Many of them had also gone home quite rich with their valuable dust and ore about them. The Spanish Consul had proposed a plan for a large emigration from south of Spain to Australia to the Legisla- ture, which was well received. The report from the new diggings was favorable. Several very large nuggets had been found. The Italian opera was about to be duly inaugurated at Victoria, Melbourne and Sydney, under the auspices of Miss Catherine Hayes. The finctuations in the flour market: still eoutinued and caused much anxiety. Dry goods and boots and shoes went off well. Details of news from New Mexico to the 29th of September may be foundein another part of to-day’s paper. The majority given for Gallegos, delegate to Congress, was ninety-nine; but the election would be contested, ou the ground of illegality in some of the counties. Elias T. Clark had been appointed Territorial Treasurer, vice Charles L. Spencer, re signed. Gov. Merriwether had been to Abiquie to negotiate treaties with the Indians, who had become tired of war, aud desired to live on friendly terms with the whites, A full account of the trial of fire engines at the Crystal Palace yesterday is given in another column. No. 13, of Brooklyn, proved to be the most powerful machine. A concourse of people, unmbering five thousand, witnessed the contest. Our correspondent at Key West represents the salt yield of the present season to be less than ten thousand bushels—searcely sufficient to defray the expense of keeping the works in repair. Dealers in cotton yesterday were waiting for the receipt of later foreign news, due by the Baltic. The sales were restricted to about 700 a 800 bales, at steady prices. The stock is much reduced, and tends to limit transactions. DPlour declined about 12} cents per barre! on State and western common and medium grades. Wheat advanced from two to five cents per bushel, and corn also advanced about one cent per bushel. Pork was more active, without change of mon in prices. Coffee was dull. The market for sugar was material change, whilo sales were iight. The stock of hogs- heads in ths market is 11,439, against 3,919 at the seme period ty 1854, and 23,499 boxes against 10,737 do. 1s54. The ss of sugar, however, during the month of Octcher past have been nnusually light for the season of the year. Freights were st but engagements moderate, ag shippers were w ing for later foreign news. Tum Main Law Reropratep on Tae Pace vic.—The pe { Calitornia and Washington Tervitory have just repudiated the Maine law at the polls, In California, the majority against the Probibitory law was about five thousand, or ten per cent of the whole vote of the State. In Washington, the noes exceeded the ayes hy one hundred in a vote of twelve hundred. We believe that the law has been diated in every Stite this year where it » to the people on a direct issue, and in Maine, where it has had a fair three or four years’ trial, it has been thrown overboard without ceremony. .We must arrive at the conclusion that the co e temperance game has been played ont at last. Rs BY THE Bur- Somernme ror THE Surver LINGTON Massacne.-—A few days since, in Lan- caster, Pennsyly: a widow of the name of Wilson recovered four thousand dollars dama- ges from a railway company, for the loss of her husband, whose death was caused by the breaking of a rail. Another Pennsylvanian has recovered five thousand dollars for injuries received by the upsetting of a stage coach. Now here are two cases where all due care was used—there was no culpable haste to save afew mioutes of time—no forgetting to sound the sig- nal of danger—no single track meanness on the part of « corporation rolling in wealth—yet the plaintiffs recovered round sums. The question that occurs to us is this—If these per-- “sons recovered so much when there was no criminal carelessness or despicable meanness on the part of the carriers, what onght the unfortunate sufferers by the Burlington mas- sacre to receive? We hope they will think about it before they accede to any terms of settlement. The victims and their survivors owe a duty to their fellow men, and it is to be hoped thgp they will listen to no comprouyjee. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1856. Prince John Van Baren’s Speech at Albany— President Pierce vs. the Administration. The speech of Prince John Van Buren at Albany, which we published exclusively yes- terday merning, was the best thing, by all odds, which has been breught out during eur present State canvass, It is a crack speech, a remarkably interesting speech—in fact, under all the peculiarly perplexing circumstances of the case, it is a perfect jewel of a speech, and ought to exalt the Prince among all magueai- mous soft shells fall five hundred per cent above the par standard of “squatter sove- reignty.” We don’t allude to the funny observations of the Prince upon the liquor question; nor to his facetious remarks upon Mat. Brennan and the Know Nothings; nor to his caustis commeata- ries upon Seward, Horace Greeley and Heary J, Raymond, Gen. Nye, Mr. Stanton and such; nor to his anti-slavery reminiscences of Daniel 8. Dickinson; nor do we refer to his remarks concerning Mr. Peckham, John Wheeler and the Nebraska bill; nor to the fog bell of the Evening Post—upon all these interesting snb- jects the Prince, to be sure, touches with the hand of a skilful master of the piano, ran- ning over the keys with a perfect abunilen, but “discoursing most eloquent music” all the while. The great feature of this happy speech at Albany is that branch of it which defines the nice distinction between President Pierce and the administration at Washington. It is here that even we of the Heratp owe our especial thanks to the Prince ; for we had sup- posed down to last Tuesday evening that Franklin Pierce and the administration at Washington were pretty nearly the same thing. | But since the reading on Wednesday morning of the Prince’s nice and sensible distinctions, we fully appreciate the extent of our great mistake in this business, It is clear that the Prince hes found most satisfactorily that the Kitchen Cabinet and their organ, the Union, are the administration, while Franklin Pierce is nothing more than the President of the United States, de jure. The Prince proves that the President, from the appointment to the best of his offices of such men as Gen. Dix, Mr. Fowler, our Postmaster, and other Van Buren men of the Buffalo platform, is with the bona fide Van Buren soft shells; but from the assault of the Cabinet or- gan upon all those gentlemen and their princi- ples, including the President himself and his “Scarlet Letter,” we have the proof that the administration is opposed to the President. The Prince assures us, too, that this is not the first, but the second or third time that the administration has stood out in opposition to the President. At present, this division in the federal government is upon the White House succession. Tho President is for Mr. Pierce, and the administration is for Mr. Buchanan. Accordingly, while poor Mr. Pierce gave to the Prince at Washington all the comfort in his power, it was over- whelmed by the superior weight of the adminis- tration against him, including Marcy, who is shifting his sails to,catch the passing wind on Pennsylvania avenue. This explains the mystery of the “ milk in the cocoa nut,” and the ex-communication of the Prince from the democratic churcl: vy the Cabinet organ. Marcy wishes to shove Mr. Pierce and the Prince overboard, and the Kitchen Cabinet wish to make an opening—a half shell opening—in New York for Buchanan. But mark the results. The New York de- mocracy will not take their oysters this time on the half shell, and the Prince assures us that whatever Mr. Pierce may lose, the admin- stration will be defeated; and yet the de- moeracy will be triumphant. This may seem paradoxical to plain people, but still the ex- planation is perfectly consistent with the im- broglio between the Prince and the President on the one side, and Marcy and the adminis- tration on the other, The late visit of the Prince to Washington was a good thing, for it has resulted in these \ncid expositions concerning the soft shells, the President and the administration, without which we should have gone into the election next Tuesday all in the dark. Now, through the agencies of tele- graphs, railroads and fast horses, all the peo- ple of the State, including Herkimer and old benighted St. Lawrence, may be thoroughly i!uminated upon these three important points: First—that the President is a friend and devo- tee of the Van Buren Buffalo party. Second— that the administration is opposed to the President; and thirdly, that in no possible event can the success of any party or faction in this election be considered a victory either for Mr. Pierce or the administration. Spread the information. A certified copy from the latest authorities. Evive! or Priests mv Crimar Cases— Privitzers or TH8 ConresstonaL.—In another colomn will be found the report of the murder case which has just been tried in Richmond, Va., and which, owing to some novel features that it presented, seems to have excited a good deal of interest. It appears that the accused— aman named Cronin-—had grounds for believ- ing that his wife had become too intimate with a person named Byron, and in a fit of rage, caused by finding the latter in company with her, he inflicted on the unfortunate woman se- vere injuries, of which she sickened and died. Previous to her decease she made several statements denying her culpability, and affirm. ing that she was persecuted by the attentions of Byron without there existing any favorable disposition towards him on her part, and that at the moment ber husband discovered her with him, she, was actually sheltering herself from his pursuit, On the part of the defence, the Rev. Mr. Teeling, a Catholic clergyman, was called, who stated tha@t the deceased had de- nied her guilt to him, in her husband’s pre- sence, and that on ‘inding her about to make, in the nsnal sacramental form, a confession, he ordered the husband to leave the room, Questions were then put by counsel to lay a ground for the introduction of this confession as evidence; but it appeared from the state- ment, not ovly of Mr. Teeling, but of the doc. tor who attended the deceased, that there was no reason to suppose that she felt herself in extreme danger when she made it. In declia. ing to answer to the interrogatories put to him in connection with her confession, Mr. Teeling took occasion to enter upon a lengthened ex- position of the doctrine and discipline of the Romish church, and declared that no power on earth—not even the Pope himself—could induce him to divulge the statements made to him under the seal of that sacrament. The en- ergy of his language and the elaborate char- acter of hia explanations, caused a great sen- tation in court; and the scene, according to the description given of it in our report, re- minds one somewhat of the effect of those bursts of fanatical eloquence with which the reformers of old were in the habit of electri- fying their hearers, The decision given by Ju@ge Meredith on the pointe raised by counsel, however con- forwable they may be to the tolerant spirit of our institutions, seems to us to He -ruled that no-feundation had been laid for the in- troduction of the woman’s confession; but not content-with this, he takes the extra-judicial course of deciding in the affirmative the ques- tion—not properly before ‘bim—that a priest enjoyed the privilege of exemption from re- vealing what was communicated to him in the confessional. He based this latter opinion on two cases stated to have been decided in the English courts, in which even declarations made by Catholics to Protestant ministers were held to be inadmissible, though the clergy- men, not.regarding their confessiogs as sacra- mental, were willing to disclose all that was be not quite sound in law. communicated to them, We apprehend that the cases in question were decided in Scotland, and not in England, and that they presented some other features than those thus briefly stated. The law of England and Ireland, unlike that of Scotland and other countries subject to the. Roman law, does not regard penitential confession to a priest in the light of privileged communica- tions, It is the same with the law of this country, except when the common law is superseded by the statute Jaw of the different States. By the law of New York, for instance, (sec. 2 Revised Statutes, 406, 72,) it is enacted “that no minister of the gospel, .or priest ot any denomination whatsoever, shall be allowed to disclose any confessions made to ‘him in his professional character in the course of disci- pline enjoined by the rules or practice of such denomination.” In the commencement of last year a decision was rendered to this.effect in our own courts in a case almost identical in ite features with that of Cronin. <A similar statute exists in Missouri, but we are not aware that it has yet been adopted by Virginia or any of the other States of the Union. Should we be right in this assumption, the decision of Judge Meredith would be manifestly unsound in law, however much it might be consonant to our notions of religions toleration. The Young Troubles of Australia—Immigra- tion, It appears that the young colonists of Aus- tralia are destined to their share of troubles in peopling their new country. The early settlers of America, we are told, did not know which was the greater evil, to lack hands to dig the soil, or to introduce into their new home for- eigners whom they judged would make bad neighbors and mischievous citizens. Thus while Kieft and Stuyvesant in New Nether- lands were holding out promise efter promise, and the Dutch West India Company was offer- ing free passages, free land, and toojs and cat- tle to stock it with, to such as chose to emi- grate to their portion of the continent, the rigid men of Massachusetts were even refusing hospitality to those who did not profess the “trae Christian religion,” all New England was shutting its door against the Quakers, and even Virginia would not suffer “ Papishers’’ to spend more than five days within the Province. The Australians appear to be passing through this stage of their existence. On the one side, their country offers capacities for ten-fold the labor which it contains; on the other, they find that they have already among them a class of foreigners who are a lossrather than a gain, These last, it must be mentioned, are the Chinese. They have flocked to Australia in such numbers that they constitute already an important body in the State, and exercise no small influence on the market price of labor. Thus we find it stated in an Australian journal that cotton may probably be grown in certain regions of the continent, the great ob- jection—the cost of production—being likely to be obviated by the increasing immigration of Chinese, who are willing to work for next to nothing. At the same time, moderate as their expectations are, they spend so little that after a few years labor they contrive to save a small fortune, which they invariably remit to China. In one journal before us we find it mentioned that passengers by the Nile for Hong Kong had paid duty on 170 ounces of gold which they were taking away with them. <A day or two before the paper stated that “shipments by Chinese immigrants amounted on the aggregate, in one day, to 1,228 ounces;” and another statement men. tions the export to China per the Vigilant at 4,762 ounces. It is not surprising that the Australians should begin to ask themselves whether the country derives any benefit at all from a class of laborers who, while they dis- turb the natural proportions of labor and de- mand for it, make no return to society by using the wealth they gain in the place where it is amassed. No country can prosper where itis the rule for any extensive class of the people to hoard up money until they have made a fortune and then go abroad and spend it; this is the worst kind of absentecism, and the re- cent report to the Legislature of California, in which it is seriously stated that the Chinese emigrants are a curse instead of being a bless- ing, and that it devolves upon the Legislature to devise means actually to protect the State against their inroads, does them no injustice, and only reflects the honest opinion of sensible men on the subject. The Australians do not yet seem to have gone so far as to think of ex- cluding the Chinese from their country. But if vessels bound for Hong Kong continue to carry home four thousand ounces at a time, the immigration will increase, and the Coolies will soon drive all other labor out of the mar- ket, and drain the country of the capital neces. sary for its developement. This, of course, will not be tolerated, and, possibly a precedent may be afforded the embarrassed Legislature of California for expelling the Chinese, and prohibiting their future importation save under new and peculiar conditions. While these questions are arising on one side, some noise is made on auother by the Spanish Consul—the last person in the world one would have expected to hear of in Australia. He, it seems, was directed by his government to ascertain what advan- tages Australia would hold out to Spanish emigrants over the United States and the Spanish colonies in America. The government officials politely referred him. to the published regulations respecting foreign immigrants in general, and declined to make any difference in favor of Spaniards, This by no means eatisfied the Consul, who strangely enough seems to have imagined that the ‘Aus. tralian government would be willing to pro- vide work for ‘the Spanish immigrants from the day of their arrival—so little de these continental Europeans dream of independence. He even found a member of the Australien Assembly to bring the matter before the House, and to argue that it would be so great an ad- vantage for the colony to have the Spaniards settled within it, that a trifle might be paid to each to encourage them. The matter is taken up by a writer in.one of the local journals and He shows that the Spaniards whom the government seeks to get rid of are the .old Carlists of the northern provinces, who are obnoxions to Isabella’s government ; thet at home they are ignorant, idle, bigoted, and devoid of enterprise; that they are rabid Catholics, while the colony is mostly Protestant; in short, that they would It ap- pears, however, that this sentiment, is not that of the ruling powers. And we must not be sur- prised if we hear that Spain, which the geogra- phies tell us is a large thinly peopled country with some twelve or thirteen millions of inha- bitants, where there used to be far more, is so, troubled by a superfluous population that she has been obliged to ship off her peasantry to handled with some ability. be as great a nuisance as the Chinese. Australia, like cattle, at so much a head. numbers to $27,500,000, while has.only shipped $31,697,631. Gen. Scorr snp His Back Pay—Mran Con- pucT OF THE ADMINISTRATION.—Several of the morning papers having announced that, after adelay of more than eight months, General Scott’s claim to the back pay ic. of a lieutenant-general from the capture of Vera Cruz, the date of his brevet—now amounting tor the -eight or nine years to some forty thousand.dollars—had been fully allowed at Washington, brought about the veteran, yes- terday forenoon, troops ef congratulating We have just seen one of that crowd, who himself had quite an audience in the street, who represents the General as most in- dignant at the final decision, as it gives him only about a fourth of the above amount so justly claimed by him, and which pittance he will, we learn, reject with disdain, as was clear- friends. ly foreseen and desired at Washington. If we are rightly informed, Attorney General Cushing decided that the rank, pay and emoluments of lieutenant-general were all, by the recent law, in favor of Gen. Scott, revived and re-established as they severally at- tached to ex-President Washington in 1798-'9 ; but that Secretary Davis, a bitter personal enemy of Gen. Scott, has had the influence to defeat the intention of Congress to the extent above stated. Wasurycton News.—We publish a copious mass of information from Washington in our special correspondence of this morning's issue. intrigues within and without the kitchen, for the succession, are very curious and suggestive. Marcy’s position on the Danish Sound difficul- ty, and Seward’s late visit to Washington, are satisfactorily accounted for; and the newe from Madrid, including the official programme of Mr. Dodge, is exceedingly interesting. We commend the whole dish to the digestion of The statements concerning the our politicians and readers generally. 1 pot is beginning to simmer at Washingtoi but it will boil terribly with the meeting of Congress, when the most horrible ingredients will be thrown upon the surface. Awfal times are coming. Stand firm, Excuse Orena—Tar Pex aNp Harrtsow Troure.—After a season of unprecedented length and wonderfully sus tained success, the engagement of this excellent com- pany is drawing toa close. To-morrow night Louisa Pyne takes her benefit. dict that tt will bé something more than is contemplated by the theatrical acceptation of the word. regular ovation. No foreign artlet that bas visited our shores, with the exception of Jenny Lind, has ever succeeded in so com pletely establishing « home in the hearts of the American public as this admirable vocalist, Sho came amongst us heralded not only by the fame of great talents, but that reputation of high principles an correct conduct which, unfortunately, is not always the concomitant o eminence, but which, with a peeple Hike us, will yrove a strong recommendation to support. One of the mort affectionate and devoted of daughters, she would not yield her consent to the tempting inducements held ont to her to visit thiy country unless on the con: diffon that the was to be accompanied by ber parents— both, we regret to say, confirmed invalids. In her professional tours since her arrival here, they have invariably travelled with her, her affec- tion, as well as her delicate sense of propriety, rendering their society indispensable to her. We mention these facts because they bring out into volder relief the virtue and amiability of a character which we have instinctive- ly learned to love and esteem from such slight evidence as the stage aifords us. It is but the homage due to the union of qualities which we rarely fiud combined ina profession offering greater temptations than prizes. It is to be hoped that the public will, on Friday next, mant- test their sense of its justice by thronging in crowds to Niblo’s, to pay a farewell compliment to an artist whose services have conferred upon them so much gratifica- tion, Itis a feature of some interest in the career of this troupe that it was reserved for it to bring out the first American opera that has ever been produced. For the effective'man- ner in which it was pat upon the stage, and the success which it has bad, the composer is in a great degree in debted to the taste and judgment of that excellent artist Mr. Harrison, who «pared neither trouble nor expense in rendering it worthy of #o interesting an occasion as the inauguration of a national opera. Howhe succeeded our readers can testily, Notwithstanding the prejudice which, unfortunately, existe against native musical talent, “Rip Van Winkle”? has had a greater share of success than the most sanguine friends of the composer anticipated for it. We trust that the professional tour which this excel- lent troupe are about making through the South and West, will be as fruitful in triamphs and pecuniary re wards as their last Feason here, Should it prove other. wise, we can only say that the good people of those re. gions have no ear for the appreciation of really fine music. ANOTHER OCEAN Link oF Tkrwerart.—Since the partial fai'ure of the attempt to lay the submarine telegraph at Point au Basque, public attention has been direct- ed to the other route proposed, via Greenland, Iceland and the Farce Islands. Mr. Horace B, Tebbets of this city, has obtained the exclusive right from the gor. ernment of Denmark, to land cables on the shores of its dependencies, and the Philadelphia Board of Trade has recently passed @ resolution calling upon govern. ment to send out @ surveying, exploring and sounding expedition, to explore the coasts and waters of the coun- tries above named. Our navy might be much more pro- fitably employed than it is generally, and such an eXpe- dition as that proposed by the Board of Trade would be useful, even if no telegraph cables were ever laid, peSeee deiner Axorner Prize Front.—Another ic dis is to come off on the La the course of two weeks, The “knock down’ tris to Unie nd hos te peomaae 1 , a The is 9600.—, fule Conver, BLO Of course the eolony is thriving or there would not be so much anxiety to get there. Politics are quiet once more, the home govern- ment having enough to do, for the time, with the Russians, The .gold supply keeps up; according to the official returns, the shipments for the first six months of the year 1855 were fifty-seven tons twelve cwt., equal in round California during the first nine months of the same year It is unnecessary for us to pro- It will bea THE LATEST NEWS. BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Ws GEN. SCOTT'S BACK PAY—THE LATE VIOLATION OF THE NEUTRALITY LAWS, ETC. Wasmnaron, Oct. 80, 1855, his pay and emoluments as Major General, the West Indies shortly. ing October. Crimea, Gov. Seymour on the &tamp. Syracuse, Oct. 31, 1855. ‘The place was crowded, Massachusetts Politics. Boston, Oct. 31, 1855. .our political canvass, Later from Havana. New OnieaNs, Oct. 30, 1855, ‘bat the news is wholly unimportant. Destruction of a Ferryboat by Fire. PHLavgtrni, Oct. 31, 1855. time. The loss is $26,000. Insurance $10,000. Fire In Buffalo, Burrawo, Oct. 81, 1855, last night. Loss $10,000—fully insured, Dissater to the Ship Gossamer, Bostos, Oct. 31, 1855. afternoon and proceeded on her way. Steamer Exchange Barnt. New Orieans, Oct. 30, 1855. Red River, with 250 baies of cotton on board. were lost. The Alabama at Savannah. Savannan, Oct. 30, 1855. this morning. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PRiapstema, Oot. 31, 1855. lowing rates Pennsylvania State 8's, Kallroad, 427¢; Long island Rail 13; Pennsylvania Keitroud, 4 Nuw Onurane, Ost, 30, 1855, New fair sugar ix selling here at 03g¢. a 6gc. quoted at $8 44.0 $8 54, Corn, 70c. Atnasy, Oct. 31~6:90 P. M. nckwheat flour $2 0, and dull. sales. rowed, and 91 254; a $1 08 for feur rowed. for State and Western. Whickey—Sales 146 barrels at 403%, bushels barley, 19,850 bushel Borraro, Oct, 31—8.30 P, M. Flour quiet, Market very firm. 800 bbis. at $8 75 a $0 for good to fancy Ohio, a: for choice to extra do. Wheat rather duil. red winter Ilinvis, $1 90; 2, Michigan, at $2 10; 3,000 busl Corn dull. eales 8,000 bushel mand. 3,000 bushels at 3714/0. afloat, and store, Rye has advanerd. Sales 6,000 bust Barley very firm. Sules 1,200 bushels at $1 25. key active at 872, a S8e ending noon te bushels; oats, 73,0 Flour, 1,669. bbis. bushels} Zata, 2 s do, Cunadiag, at 82 1234. at Bie 7 els at $1 10. Whis- bushels.” Canal exports same ti wheaty 59,272 bushels; Corn, 6 bushels ——_- Interesting from Washington. SPRUIAL CORRESPONOENCE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Wasuinotoy, Oct. 20, 1855. New —Mr. Dodge's Instructions, des, de. tration fugleman of New York. Kitchen wishes of Mr. Pierce, which, detached from the Kitchen, amounts to nothing, The Prince, in fact, is consi teced as floored. This is what Marcy has beon striving to ae- complish, and he can now console himself that the last of the Van Burens is overboard. now is to get Dickinson out of the way; but his next move to bring the softs upon the hard platform will, he ex- pects, make 4 clean job of it. thing fora hold upon the plander. Meantime John Coch- rane haa the daty assigned him of weeding out of your Custom House all the Van Buren soft ahoils who cannot sing the shibboleth of squatter goverciguty for Kansas, slavery or no slavery, ard two appraisers, at least, are already marked out for execution by way of a beginning. Be it further understovd that Cochrane is the agent of Marey in this business, while affesting to “carry the President tn his arms.”? A man with two strings to his bow is comparatively «aie. Among the Presidential cliques here, there are three or four, in other respects deverving of uotice just now— the Pierce clique, the Buchanan clique, ané the Dalfas clique. Pierce is doing his very best to carry water on both shoulders, and to keep himself and his Van Buren followers within reach of the Cincinnati Conyention—the Buchanan clique are working the half shell movement in New York, ond the Jeff, Davis Senatorial movement in Mississippi; their ticket is Buchanan aed Jeif. Davis, or Buchanan and Wise, but Davia dret, for Wise is a very singular fellow, and aptto take his own course—so thuy are a little afraid of him. The Dallas movement is in opposttion to Buchanan; but the latter clique are etcong while, Dallas is weak, and the Kitchen have fixed upom « compromise, which is the transfer of Dallas to Zoglaad on the retarn of Buchanan, This, it ed, will watisty Dallas, and get him completel he way, A remarkable feature of the Pierce movement for a second term is this :—It is supportet by the democrati, officeholders here w his eye, while the outsiders, from all parts of the TY, are for a new shuille and deal of the cards, from the President down lepaty portmasters of five hundred a year. And this thing alone will swamp Mr. Pierce at Cincinnati, though in the meantime he should acquire Cuba and anaex the whole of Mexico and Central America; fir the outside demo- cracy, including the ol: nal hunkers of alt sections intend to bave a share in the division of the «poila in 1867. The outsiders, any day, cam boat the insiders, ten to one; ani they have rever filed to do it since the death of Gen. Jackson. Old Hickory, in 1840, procured a second nominstion of Van Buren; but what was the re- sult? Precisely the same that would follow another nomination cf Mr. Pierce. Hence the confidence of the Buchanan men, and the hopes even of old Mr. Marey, Gen. Cass, Douglas, Bright, Hunter, and such, seem to be among the tide waiters of the honr—~ the Virginia and Pennsylvania elections having placed Wise and Buchanan a head and shoulders above them all, ‘The only other man of the old set that holds anything like a chance, at present, §y Diskinsom; but he has yet to vanquish or to conciliate Marcy before le can soe day- light, for the Cincinnati Convention will take some out- sider, as in 1844 and 1852, rather than risk the oxpert- ment of sacrificing New York, os in 1848. Here, again Pierce fails, and Marcy and Cass and Douglay volun. tarily retire. T understaA that the Cabinet have virtually decided to reject the Congress of Nations on the Danish Sound question, but to accept the mediation of Russia. Marey says: 1 am informed that the Congress of Nations is ba, '& device for patching op ® peace with Russia, and that Lieut. Gemeral Scott will receive upwards of $10,500 back pay, by virtue of his brevet appointment, dating from March 29, 1847, or about $1,300 9 year additional to Commodore Paulding ‘eft here thie afternoon, to join his flag ship, the Potomac, at New York, which sails for The whole umber of applicatians for bounty land war- rants, at the Pension offices, underthe late act, is 222,- 800, and of warranta iasned, 50,043. ‘The applications are now decreasing, cnly 5,500 having been received dur- Nothing has been heard from the British government respecting the representations of our goveromeni to it concerning the violations of our neutrality laws by Eng- Ush officials im the matter of enlisting troops for the Governor Seymour addressed the democracy this after- noon, and John Van Buren this evening, at Wieting Hall. Messrs. Rufus Choate, George 8. Hilliard, and Peleg W. Chandler, addressed the whigs in Faneut Hall this even- ing, The hall was crowded to ita utmost capactty, and the enthusiasm wes ahead of anything yet witnessed in By the Granada we have Havana dates to the 27th inst., Ths steamboat Mariner, belonging to the West Jer- sey Ferry, was totally destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock this morning, while lying at her wharf at Camden. The Com- pony had just completed some repairs upon her, and the fires were kindled under her boilers yesterday for the first ‘The machine shop of the Buffalo Car Works was burned The ship Gossamer, which lelt Boston on Monday night in tow of the steamer Achilles, for New York, strack on Pollock Rip, this morning, but got off at4o’clock this The steamer Exchange was destroyed by fire to-day in No lives The steomehip Alabama, from New York, arrived here Our stock market was steady this morning at the fol- 8534; Reading 4, 1214; Morris Canal, Flour is Flour—€ales 3,200 barrels ut $8 75 a $9 for common to cod State, and $9 @ $925 for common to fancy Western. Whest and corn, no Burley—Sales 26,000 bushels at $1 25 for’ two Onts—d5c. Hye—$i 21 a $1 22 in the street. Receip's by canal to-day:--5,169 barrels flour, 6,510 bushels com, 10,510 Is Gata, 12,855 bushels wheat, Supply light, Sales d $9 25 Sales 3,600 bushels Wisconsin, spring, at $1 80; 2,000 bushels prime 400 bushels prime white Lake imp: rts for tho 24 hours ny :—Flour, 8.816 bbls; wheat, 69,404 York Politic-—John Cochrane Up, John Van Buren Down—Democratic Intrigues for the Presidency—Very Curiour—No Chance for Pieree—Buchanan Leating the Woy—Marcy Bringing Up the Rear—The Danish Ques- tion—Santa Anna’s Assignments—General Scott's Pay— Seward’s Visit and dts Object—Extraordinary News from nn Cosbrane may now be considered as the adminis- He has the car of the net, while the Prince has only the good His grest difficulty the time for that bas not yet-areived.” Besides, he wishes, if possible, to make a little capital om the Danish question, on bis own account; and so he is working up & warlike paragraph on the Sound dues for the Président’s message. Gen, Cushing bas at las’ decided that Gen, Seott is en- titled to his back pay, according to the act of Congress, making him a Lieutepant General. Magnanimous Caleb, what a lawyer is he! The agents of Aspinwall, Hargous & Co. are here looke ing after ghose two millions assigned them by Santa Foy Aree the three millions stihuny to Mexico of the elon money, A (remendous effort will be made {o stop the money irom gving to Mexico; but the treaty is positive, and Guthrie ix inflexible. Look out for some extraordinary proceedinys in this for Kiebeatebat ere th tee ease ee bes to see the Goy. Seward dropped in the other Jay of the lund concerning the organization of the House. upon the Speakership, and every Reeder is to be the test Northern man will be required to show his hand apes that issue in caucus. Lunderstand that a correspondence 4 goto iy cg Fos o> the Seward men now, 3@ when they in Washi tn found rea eut aid atts Se ome curious information wis received here by steamer from Spain. It appears that on the ‘aotn ot ms tober the Queen of Spain enters Mad/id amid the ringing ot bells and the cheering wt br subjects. She comes ta - open the Cortes. from ber summer residence at the Escurial, where she had soug):t setuge from the scourge ot been which has fuilen with severity over the greater her country. But the retveat of Isabella haan entirely beyond the reach of human woo, or straggle of of the ea ee, pe e nuMerOUs pa I for a days have been filled with tbe ciiarges made against an odnor, and the mcsrceration of him for alleged libel on the sovereign, and equally, the imprisonment of the Private. Secretary of Her dvjurty for other misconduct. Bat the truth has not yet venched the world. The king bas been taken in #n attempt to revotu- tionize Spain ; his printed manifestoes have been dia covered, and bis sword, at the moment of drawing t as it were, has been wre-ted from his hand. The is known to the se:retary of the Queeny but who were to. have guided, and where they were to have risen, has not et been made out, or it dixeovered, is-prudently, per~ aps, concealed by the officers of government from the people. The railying fa:tion is supposed to be of the priesthood and Carliste, but beyond suspicion ever the best tnformed pretend to know nothing, Mr. Dodge, our minister at Madrid, at is hero under- stood, is ‘to koep perfectly quiet pending these distnre hances; but is enjoined to watch closely the diplomacy of England and France, and to keep up @ safe. and intimate correspondence with the State department. and with Mr, Buchanan on the subject. . Dodge, otherwise, is to await the exact instruction of the ce- tment from time to time, The administration thus ‘eeps hauled he erg to the wind, with a very cleat conviction that Cuba ts indefinitely postponed. Merine Affairs ‘The steamship Atlantic, Capt. West, sailed yesterday , for Liverpool. She took out $426,000 in specie and 103 passengers. Sm Berpme,—Mesers. Ch°pman & Dunbar have conte menced building @ ship at their yard, foot of North Se- cond street, Williamsburg. She will be 165 feet long, 3% feet breadth of beam, 233g feet deep, and about 1,200 ° tons burthen. City Intesligence. New Yorx OpTHaLuic Hosritar—LNTRODUCTORY LECTURE —Dr. Mark Stevenson delivered last night, at the New York Medical College, Fourteenth street, a very interest ing lecture, to @ large audience, on the ‘pains, plea- sures and responsibilities incident to profeasional Hfe, with some general remarks on opthalmic surgery.” [¢ ‘was the introductory to the fourth special course of Dr. 8, which will be followed up henceforth till March 1st, ory Nene evening, at the New York Opthal- mic Hospital, No. 6 Stuyvecant street, one of our moat truly benevolent instituiions. ‘The lectures will be ik Tustrated by models, paintings, dissections and v= ings on the pathology of the eye, and the profits from the course will be given to aid in the erection of anew building for the hospital. the pressure upon our ad yertiing eclumns andthe curren: newe of the day de- bars us even from a sketch et the Doctor’s lecture laat evening, or otherwise it be the best assurance we could give of the instrv which will be furnished through the series yet to come, Asst CELEBRATION oF THe ALUMsT oF Cotompia Cote Lrck.—A large and davhionatle audience assembled in Hoye Chapel last evening, to listen to the literary exer= cises which always take plice at the return of every ane niversary of the alumni. These cxerelses consisted of am address by Professor Henry Jares Auderson, and a poers by &. Weir Roosevelt. The subject of the address “The College a Unit, Alma Maier et Alumni2? Mr. Ane derton, in the course of his remarks, paid a high tribate to the Jenrning of the saculty of Columbia College, to the character of the instivutioa, and to the graduates who had distinguished themselves in the various positions of life, The college ¥as one of the most vencrable in the country, and might be looke? upon with pride as one of its ‘noblest institutions of learning. Mer. Anderson’a address was listened tu throughout with much interest, and was frequently interrupted by applause daring its delivery. At {ts clove, Mr. Roosevelt read Lis poom en- led ‘The Age of regress.” which was full of excellent bits at the fems and ;ccuinrities of the day. It isthe highest praise we cun give tt to say that it was laaghed at from beginning toend. When the exercises were com- cluded the audience, or that portion of it consisting of the alumni, adjourned to! aler’s saloon, where a suy per was prepared for the2m, aud the evening was spent toasting and speech making. Tre ConwmsstoneRs dF EMIGRATION —At a necting of the Board of Commissione.s of Emigracion, held yesterday af ternoon, a letter was received from the Hon. Wm. be Marcy in relation to frauds committed on emigrants idtending to come to this country, in the ports from which they sa‘led. Tt appears the Commissioners have taken measures to put a lop to the depredations of those who have plundered the emigrants, and the Secretary of State assures them that he will second their efforta, From the weekly stevement it appears that the Commis- sioners are nearly $100,000in devt. ‘The vaine per per= sun, in money, of the arrivals at Castle Garden was $37. Roy Away Casvatry.—James MeDermott, a coachman in the employ of Mrs. Hornby, residing at the corner of ‘Twenty-fifth street and Ninth avenue, was ounly injnred by being thrown from 14 seat. It appears that the team took fright, in Tenth aveoue, on Tuesday even= ing and ran with great speed util the exrringe eamne im eontect with a cart loaded with brick. MeDermott was by this eoltision thrown fom bt: seat and very severely: Sajuger, The horees contin’ ed their fight, but soon came incentact with an icon lamp post, where one of them was instantly The other was secured, and with the broken Carriage conveyed to the owner's stable, mott was taken to the New York Hospita), Fait, Mom A ScarvoLD—latrick Larkin, @ mechante, residing at No. M8 West Sixteenth street, yostettay fel} from a seaffold evecied in the new church corner of Four~ teenth street ond Seventh svenne, and sustained a frac~ ture of one leg anc severe injuries of the spine. He was taken to the New York Hospital, Fine rv Str AvENUR.—About 834 o'clock last night a fire broke out in the iron foundey of Small & Alden, ia Sixth avenue, between Forty-sixth and Vorty-seveath: streets. The firemen were promptly on the «pot and sor. extinguished the flames. It originated on the sesfiela surrounding the cnpoin, eupposes to have been csased by the molten iron from the furnace, left on the ground by the workmen. Lges about $40. No insurance. Fire iy Serivr Seve. little before 9 o’eloek lat. nigh* a fire broke out in the third story of Hoe & Co.’a machine and press manufactory, No, 10 Sheriff street. Jt orignated in the tool room, destroying » small portable forge ani bellows, ‘The dremen noon ran water into Use premises. which extinguished the fire avd damsged the Presres, &e., to the amount of about $200, Fully covers ed by insurance, Fine 1x Skyestm Aveve.—On Inst Monday morning, between 1 and 2 o'clock, a fire waa discovered in the liquor store of John [eglin, No, 282 Seventh avenne, corner of Thirty-fourth street. It was discovered by Policeman Munson, of the Twentieth ward, and a privace Watchman. The coor was forced open snd the flames Were extinguished with a (ew pails of water, withon® giving an alarm to the fire bell, The fire appears to have been the act of an in ry. Mr. Beglin has an in= surance upon his sto amount of $2,200 in the Hemilton pany. The case ie under the Fire Marshal's investigation. McDer- Coroners’ Inquests, Tox Lamm MURDER iy Morr S8Reer,—Coroner Hilton yesterday concluded the inquisition upon the pody @ Charles Cole, a colored man, who died from lojacies re ceived on Wednesday night of last week, ‘The wife of de ceased stated that he was brovght home insensible om. Wednesday night, and on slightly recovering, told har that he had been attacked and beaten by men toa slaughter house in Mott street, near ‘The police were not notified of the joer stem gee not know at the ‘ime of its having taken place, No witnesea could be found who knew anything aboot the afhur, and! the men belonging to the sinughter house swore that they knew nothing about ir ane that the deceased to their hnowledge was not assaulted fo front of the estab: Nehment. The jury rendeced a verdict of “denth from im niies infileted by some person or persons unknowa.” They aleo ark the Mayor to offer a reward for the appre~ hension of the guilty parties. Tor Lame Fats. Array on Simrnoant — Coroner Gamble yesterday concluded his investigation in the case of Thomas Williams, the sailor who was fatally stabbed om last Piday night, during an affray on board the ship: Wm, Tapscott, and the following verdict was readeret Syn tieae oe coe ees icted by Aome person to us unknowD. the meme the evi for not causing jaformation.of the rrence to be sont on hore, aod oall ups the proper authorities to have them arrested oo their reterm ty tole port.’ Meraxcnory Scrcipe.—Mr. James Warren, @ motive of Troy, N. ¥., committed suieite yesterday morning sx him boarding No. 34 Bast Seventeen b atrowt, by taleingr prussic Tt appears that thoogh formerly to good stances, he had of Inte been rev noel, and o «hort Te ince, borrowed $80 of Monroe & Co, art they ree cently had him arrested on 4 chai eutataing ib by falve prevences. In a conversetion a friend on Ten day evening, he alluded to the difficulty, ana vain that,