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

4 NEW YORK "{ERALD. JANES GORDI BENNETT, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1855. Oresina oF THE Jsxcrore Szason —Mr, TwackeRay oN Groror THe First.—The com- mittee of the Mercantile Library Association opened the lecture season last evening to a crowded house, at the Rev. Mr. Chapin’s chureb, Broadway. The lecturer was Mr. W. tt es neers enn, THE L4TEST NEWS. City Intettigence. t ages ond Figw iv Gow srum—Shortly defore two e’clock BY ELEM Ric AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, yesterday morning a fire was discovered in the }- ike seo quer store kept by James Gaffney, at No. 99 Gold From Washington. street. The Fourth ward police immediately tele Wasixctos; Noy. 1, 1855. Terrie Logte—Sewart on Soverclynty and | Evrorean, Excuances—Prosirs or Tue Fi- “ Legiatattve Power. vancrers,—It is well known to all who have It is common for merchants te keep three or | 5, sinets with Europe that the usual—in fect four bank xecounts, so thatin a pinch they | ino only—mode of transmitting money to Lon- may have as many strings to their how—so | gon, Paris and the E centres of trade, many reliances, The thezght, doubtless, has . sapepab Bevin W. CORNER, Op AseAT AND FULTON Ott grapbe? to the Chiet’s office, directing the hell bell ta ring the alarm for the Seventh district. However, b ?, is by bills o: on those places ag? + in the United States Tre: ‘ject to : 4 RG oF eae 2 conte per copy, M1 per w military orizin—not trasting too much on a by f cupbange drawn New © de- | M. Thackeray, a successful writer, and thelast | » pes — Ak, one een ole ongatibe > subject the bell rang, Acsistant Engineer Bauleh, who reviles in WEERL' / HAR ete am y Aya by the great bankers, If A of New York de Fy 2s he sight byagye * ger the vicinity, was alarmed, and was ino few seconds at mapy, oF 83 por ® aan; the Eur mh edition, $4 perannumea | single poivi, aud providing for a retreas, Mr. sires to pay a hundred thousand doltars to B British lion who has favored us with the sig! Secrotsrien Davis, Guthrie and M:Clelland visit Balti: | {he premisds. On arriving at, the house ke koscet the Bek ne ee eam Neat A Seward has done al this, and more, in his " of his mane and the sound of his roar. Th?,{ yore te-dey to attend the Agricultural Fair. docx open, end found the fire burning st tho rear part of vf London, he buys from C,a banker of the former pJace, a bill of exchange on London, at the store in two liquor ensks, He then t rge and clesed the door, prebibliing any one trom entering anti the firemen were ready to throw in the water. In 9 sh wt time, severa) streams of water being ia readiness, Mr. subject of his lecture last night was the re' pn Teac pos ace, é VOLUNT AR YOORRRST ONDER ere of George the First, King of England, from the wees, soll ted from ony quarter of the used will be ber Jor.” R@F-OUR FORMGN CORRESPONDENTS ARB PaR- *ULA) LY REQUESTED TO SEAL ALL LOTTRAS AND PACKAGes Buffalo speech. He has not only deposited the pelitical power of the country in three differ- ‘The Vermont Central Railroad. Norrevieyp, Vt., Now. 1, 1865. “No Norse taken eff anonymous communtentions. We do not quem tho rejected. JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapnses and dew PDVERTISEMENTS renewced every day. AMUSEMENTS TRES EVENING. BROADWAY TREATRE, Broadway—Basuvc. niseeaN— Wdovesn Muruistor a Gal—Buian O'LYNN. NIBLO'S GABDEN, Bresdway—Lovs Sreu—Mostwat Ix ~ REM BEZO. ime BOWERY, Fowery—GoLo—Sex isroron. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers st,—Seniovs Pawir= ‘wo Toons. WALLACK'S ee, Brostway—Tae Maw or Mary Prmenpe— Cartan OF THE WaTce—TuE Secret. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Ermorux Pes: PRAM E, LEY’S BORL! UE 6PERA HOUSE, 839 Broad way ob toms De Necro Minerneisy. MBCHANTCS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Paor. Macatsssrca’s Seamane MAcigezs. ave ACADEMY “TIALL, 663 Broadway—Barme or Bowker . BMPINE HALL—Tore oF Eveore-- ven OF SueASD0roL, —— New ork, Friday, November 2, 1855, ———————————————— ‘The News. The M@eamship Baltic, now in her thirteenth day eat from Liverpool, had not been telegraphed up toalate hour last might. Throughout the even- ing a derse fog cover] the lower bay and rivers. ThefSandy Hook telegraph line, between 2ix and seven o'clock last evening, reported a steamer pass- ‘mg im, supposed to be the Star of the West, from San Jean, with passengers and gold dust ‘from Cali- fornia. She was doubtless detained in sue lower way by the fog, or at‘Quarantine. The Municipal Reform Association held a mass meeting atthe Metropolitan theatre fast evening. In point of numbers it was a slim affair, We give a veport of the proceedings elsewhere, including: the} address and resolutions adopted by the meeting. The -Soft Shel! Judiciary Convention met last evening, and nominated Henry Hilton for Judge -of the Supreme Court, in place of Hon. Robert H. Maris, deceased. The hard shells alse met, and nominated Wm. H: Leonard for the vacwnt judge- ship. The whigs.met at the Broadway Bunse,and selected Charles A. Peabody for their candidate. ‘The members of the Democratic National Com. mittee are requested, by a notification which we peblish in another column, to meet at the National Hotel, in Washingten city, at noon on Tuesday, January 8, 1656. The-call is signed by Geo. Read Riddle, of Delaware. At the regular monthly meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Mr. Barstow read the report of the special committee on the usury Jews of this State. The report opposed these laws, inasmuch as they interfered with the operations of commerce. Bankers and business men generally were opposed, and only Jawyers and money lenders were in favor of them. ko England very great bene- ite, had arisen from their abolition, and in that country, as here, it wae found that profits were greater when rates of interest raled low. He pro- pared that the report be adopted and printed as a circular, and forwarded to all the towns in the State, iuviting the opinion af buisness and commer- cial men generally upon tke points stated therein. The motion was unanimously agreed to. A case of considerable importance to theatrical managers .2nd the profession generally was tried within a few days, before Judge McCurthy, in the Marine Court, without a jury. It was av action on & contract, and the report whicitappears in this day's HeERAvp explains the nature ofthe agreement, its «onditions and construction. The decision of the Judge is able, sound and erudite, and will be read est by the theatrical profession. convicted of enlisting men for the British foreign legion to serve in the Crimea, was yesterday ventenced by Judge Ingersoll, of the United States District Court, to two years’ imprison- ment and to pay a fine of one hundred dollars. We publish elsewhere an interesting article from @ St. Louis paper, containing some singular disclo, #ures respecting the organization of a secret military Jeague of abolitionists in Kansas Territory. Bvery tember is furnished with arms, and the association ia abundantly supplied with the sinews of war by their co-lavorers in the North. The design of this wilitary secret organization is to control the affairs of the Territory, and to resist the execution of any Jaw passed Ly the Legislature. Last night, at about 11 o'clock, a fire broke out im the premises No. 92 Chambers street, ocenpied by Martin Beir, silk and ribbon importer. The ap- pearance of the burning indicated the work of an moendisry. An account of the fire will be found elsewhere The delay in the receipt of the Baltic’s news, with a light stock in the market, -tiil tended to check sales of cotton y 1day, which were con- fined to a few hundred bales, without chauge in prices. The flour market was without change of moment, while sales weve to a moderate extent for bome use and for export. Wheat, especially for the better qualities of red end white, continued firm, ard with fair sales at foll prices, and in some cases at an advance 2eva 3c. per bushel fe of choice white and red. Corn was st closed at about . Tye was at $1 Pork was more active, and meas cloxed firm at $22 50. We refer to another colamn for a monthly statement of stocks of pork and beef. There was more doing in sagars, thongh ai low figares. Coffee was dull. Freights were steady, but inactive, ship- pers being disposed to await the receipt of the Baitic’s news, Cheese was taken at 55a Whiskey wae firmer, with sales of 1,200 barrels, Ov Rio Janeiro ssreéspdndent, writing on the 22d September, furnishes an official statement of the exports of coffee to the first of that month from January last. Compared with what took place dar- ing the same period of 1854, it shows that the trade was more ve th m. With respect to the mortality existing ‘ound Rio, it appears that sixty persons died daily, bat not from cholera. The poor population and blacks were sevorely affect- ed with gastroenteritis—a sharp inflammation of the coats of the stomach—which may arise from the continued use of improper or insuMicient food. The shipping in port was perfectly froo from the affee- tion, and clean bills of health were given in every case. Our correspondent at Port au Spain, (Trinidad,) sriting on the 10th ult., states that the market for American produce was still very dull. Flour was a perfect drug, and sold for $10 25 per barrel. The accounts from England and the United States had Breatly simulated the planters, and sngar aud m- Taeses were in active demand for both countries. Two Huxpney 4 Monrn,.—We hear that the Chevalier Webb, our venorable Seward cotem- porary of the Cowrier, has rented a house in Washington, for the winter, on President's square, at $200a month. We shali have great times in Washington this winter, Increased Exention.—Tue Builalo Express (Seward black republican) pleads the “neces. sity of increased exertion” in order to carry the State, What bas frightened him? ont places, to be contingently used by himself and his abolitier cohorts, bat has absolutely dispersed with its exercise at all, by proving that there is no such authority anywhere. Hiséngenuity-exceeds that of the lawyer in the great kettle case: “The kettle was broken when we gd it ; it was whole when we retarn- ed it; andhirdly, gentlemen, we never had ‘the kettle at all.” Mr. Seward weuld have added, ‘there never was any such kettle.” On theTuesday election the orator says: “Let the republican party prevailin this and the next-canvass, and Kansas wii be a free State.” Upon us, then, is the responsibility. Not se clear; for after asserting’that over all the Territories there is “plemery and abse- lute -sovereignty semewhere,” he inquires, “ where does it reside?” “Iu the people of the United States,” is his enswer. Right in hetween these twe-conclusions he avows “‘that the people of Kensas have the right now to establish a free ftate.” First, the electers in New York, “in this and’ the next canvess,” mist decide the question of slavery in the Porritories ; secondly, itmust be decided by the people of the United States, who possess “plenary and absolute pewer’’ over the .mat~ ter; thirdly, # devolvesen the squatiers-of Kansas. Mr. Sewaré. proceeds to-¢lear up the matter ‘by defining the legislative power ; fer it-is that, after all, which is capable of solving the problem. Heo inguires, then, “By whom is the legislative power to -be exercised?” And she answers, “'y Congress:elone,” and in thie wise: “Congress can make all needful rules and regulations concernizg the public lands and other property of the United States,” aad he is clear “that the prokibition of slavery is the most needful of all eeles and regulations” about’ lands. How this argument is hitched on to his two previons propositions—that the people of ‘Kansas can exercise the legislative power, (which “Congress alone” possesees,) and that in this and the next canvass “ tke electors of New York are to settle the ques- tion of freedom in that Territory’’—we do not exactly: see. i No motier: it is generous, after giving Congress. the legislative . power, plenary ané absolute, to-concede it. to'the people of Kan- sas; but it is very ungeneveus, after giving it to Congrees and to Kansas, to take it away; from both and give it to New York; but it be-; comes capricious aud unendurable thus depo-| sited in Kansas, in Congress, and in the elec- tors of New York, to take it away from all three by declaring, “It, (slavery) is absolutely deroga- tory from the rights of human nature, and no human power cen subvert those rights.” This carries off “the plenary absolute sovereignty,” the legislative power of “Congress alone,” squatter sovereignty, the authority to make Kansas free “inthis and the next canvass,” and the constitutional provision to make “needful rules and regulations” concerning the sale of the public lands, which the sagacious logician anderstands as a grant of legislative authority! After this, he who gives his neigh- bor a power of attorney to sell a house and lot will understand that the agent is to do the domestic work, the thinking and the house- hold duties of his principal. He hasa right to take possession and turn him out, retainieg such of his family as he may think proper. To make needful “rules about lands and other preper- ty” was an awful conveyanee of power. Ac- cording to Mr. Seward, it gives plenary abso- lute jurisdietion to Congress, to Kansas, to New York, to the people of the United States; and then, to show what he considers plenary and absolute, he takes the power to establish slavery away from all of them, by a plenary and absolute interdiction from the statutes of human nature. Of course, as human nature ex- tends into the Southern States, and according to Mr. Seward is chiefly absorbed by the negro race, slavery is void there. The slaves are supreme. This theory is a little clouded by Mr. Seward’s invocation to his followers to act under the penalties herein suspended over their heads :-— If you do not, slavery, which is now firmly planted on the coast of Mexico, and which extends upwards to the border of Kansas, will cross that border and fasten its outposts on the Southern border ot British America. Thus the free States will be shut out from the Pacific coast. Divided by this wall, the free States become imbecile, and slavery grasps the dominion of the republic. Do: minion over this republic, by whomsoever exercised, is dominion over the continent and all its islands, Where will freedom, impartial freedom, find a refuge? Will it even find one in British America?” Are you willing to be driven to find it there? If it cannot be inulatainet here, can it be seoured there? Mr, Seward comes to the defence of his Eu- ropean allies. Not only the free States, but British North America is in danger! This is sagacious—it is more : it evinces a prevision, a clairvoyance, which is frightful. How are the seercts of the fature to be hidden from such a man? How are the past, the present and the hereafter to be kept separated? What way he not see through after this? Is a wo- man’s clothing any protection against such prying, plercing, penetrating eyes? How {t is that such a gentas has lived to his present ago, is past all comprehension, In imitation of the French red republicans who crowded the canse of popular government into “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity,’ Mr. Seward comes out with Justice, Equality and Freedom. Jf Mr. Seward had justice done him it would sadly diminish his freedom; equality would take away nearly all his fortune, and freedom would release his mind from a world of vagaries. Te must be joking. This is the man and this is the cause upon which the republican negro party rest their claims to popular support in the coming elec- tion. By such counsellors they are guided and directed, and by such arguments. Tne Dirrerence Amone tHe Docrors.—The Rochester American says :-—* We congratulate our American fri upon the assured pros- pect of a brilliant Wetory. All advices—all indications—from every part of the State, are of the most cheering character. We cannot be mistaken in predicting a sweeping triamph —securing an American State ticket, an American Legislature, and an American county ticket.” Prince John Van Baren says the democracy (V. B.) will carry the State by fifty thousand plurality; and the Sewardites claim the State by forty thousand. It would he curions if the liquor ticket should beat them all. Tuesday will decide it, sixty days sight, for that sum, and sends it by post. The operation originated in this way. New York merchants bought flonr, cotton and other produce here for export to Europe; by specie? arrangement, when ‘they shipped these commodities they drew on ‘tke European con- signee for a specified sam which he had agreed tewdvance on each cargo; paid the farmer or producer with the proceeds of the sale of their drafts in this market, end allowed the bank of Aiscourt to send to ‘Harope the discounted sdraftd for collection—-with the bills of lading year 1714 to 1727. Mr. Thackerayy will con- tinue these lectures until the reirns of ali the Georges have been analyzed, The Lecture Committee of the Society are entitled to credit for their enterprise in securing this star, whose terms are about three hundred dollars per night. The receipts of the lectures will increase the fueds of ‘the society; and enable the young fellows to see lots of pretty girls, who will come to hear the lion roar, not kaow- ing that he is only €nug the Joiner, after all. attagied. These drafts were drawn at sixty day, because it was the intention of all parties that the cargo against which they were €rawn sheald arrive at tho port of destination ‘before they fell due. This arrangement was made at a time when ficur, cotton and provisions were the only ex- } ports of this countzy ; and when slow sailing vessels were the-only vehicles of communica- tion. Of late years some changes have taken place in thesemetters, Steamers have replac- ed sailing vessels: hence all articles save the bulky staples:‘can be sent from New York to Liverpool with almost junerring certainty within a fortnight. Again, since the discovery of Cafifornis,-e new article of export has figured largely in our trade table: this is gold. We send between thirty-five and forty-five millions of gold every year to Liverpool. The bulk of this goes from‘New York. A few parcels are shipped from Boston, but they are usually made up hereycnd forwarded by express for shipment. The whole-of this gold is sent oxt ‘hy a ‘few large houses, .in the steamers. The shippers draw againstit: but though the gold reaches its destination in a fortnight, and is instantly convertible into cash, the drawers here will not draw on their. correspondents at any shorter date than the-eld sixty days, without charg- ing a much.bigher rate. They adhere to the old plan, cn the pretended principle ef conservation. .But the fact is obvious that their real object in drawing at sixty days isto ‘etain the use.of the money for forty or forty- five, paying nly the low rate ef interest charged in Engiand, The American debtor is at their mercy. He desires to pay his British creditor, and would prefer, as he has the gold here, to pay him-by a sight draft. But it is “ugainst the general custom of the bankers to grant any suchdrafts, and he is compelled to accept a sixty dey draft, or pay a high pre- mium for one payebdle in London at sight, That this practice is fraught with much in- convenience to small dealers here, trading with small dealers on the other side, is too ob: vious to need illustration. Indeed, that they should be at all at the mercy of the large houses, as they are, isan evil which ought to be cured. Nothing-shows more clearly the ne- ceesity of a thorough shake-down and revolu- tion in our commercial world than the fact that theze mammoth bankers who give the law to the,street and the trading community are in fact for the most part traders on capital which they obtain on mere specious pretexts, and hy the force of their influence, from mer- chants weaker than themselves. A good solid house, with powerful connections on the other side, that.would agree to draw ai sight for any sums, is sadly needed to. set the public free from these financial despots; that it would be richly repaid for its independence, cannot be questioned. Sewarp ano THe Catnorse Vore.—The Catholic Sentind, the organ of Bishop Timon at Buffalo, scouts and ridicules the late abolition speech of Seward at Albany, and says, speak- ing of the Seward fusionists and the Seward Know Nothings:— Any political party fostering such an anti-constitutional party should be opposed by all conservatives, whieh must ondoybtedly be the For Northern Know Nothings are going to vote with the free soilers in the end; ond the great body of Catholics will remain along with the democratic party ax long as it keeps above water, and is not tinged with the fanaticism of the day. We eee no reason yet for giving up the democratic party. It fs the most conservative, withowt doubt. Somnuch for the labors of Seward. They go for nothing withthe Catholics. But which demo- cratic party is ii?—the hard or the soft, or half. shell? Which is it?—the anti-adminictration democratic party, or the administration, or the Pierce and Van Buren democracy? “We see no reason yet for giving up the democratic party” neither—that is, the real democratic party, if we only knew where to find it. Ac- cording to Prince John Van Buren, it is the Buffalo party of 1848 ; according to Mr. D. S. Dickinson, it is the old hard shell Cass party ; but according to the Cabinet organ at Wash- ington, the real democratic party has ceased to exist in New York, and the administration don’t care a button till next week, how the election goes, As the hard shell party, how- ever, have the inside track for the Cincinnati Democratic National Convention, we presume that they are the democratic party indicated by our conservative Catholic cotemporary at Buffalo, Very well. So let ithe, A Poxrricas. Portrait or Gey. Nyr.--We transfer to our colums this morning, from an Albany cotemporary, a lamprotype potitieal portrait of Gen. Nye, the great soft shell de- serter to the Seward coalition. Dark colored as were the Van Buren and Cassidy Syracuse resolutions, they were not the thing for Gen. Nye--they denounced the Kansas “ border ruffians,” while they approved Mr. Pierce and the administration, which was more than the frank and plain dealing Gen. Nye conld stand. Accordingly, he has gone over to Seward, and is stumping it in his cause with the plack of a Gortschakoff, who blows up in his retreat the forts and magazines which he lately occupied, leaving nothing but fire, blood, smoke, ashes and ruins behind him. Our own knowledge of Gen. Nye, on the Maine law issue, is exceed- ingly limited, He may fuse with the liquor people “now and then,” or he may be a teeto- taller for all that we know. We give the lamprotype in question, as we find it, from the camera of a political opponent. Its lights and shedows may be too highly drawa, bat upon the whole it is about the liveliest partisan por- trait of the canvass. Bring the General and Prince John together, and give them each an hour, and we dare say that both the soft shells and Sewardites will be utterly demolished. Can't the hards arrange such a meeting at the Metropolitan theatre or Tammany Hall before Tuesday next? Mr. Thackeray has made a request that the newspapers Will not report his lectures. We have not reported him, but we do not accede to'his request. ‘We do not report Mr. Thacke- yay’s lectures simply because they are not worth reporting, and our space is too valuable to be filled up with speculations upon the anatomy of dead men’s bones. At the same time we desire it to be distinctly understood that we hold to the doctrine that the moment a‘lecturer’s words are -out of his mouth they become the property of the public. If they are worth printing, we always interd to give them. There isno more reszarch or Jabor required to get up a lecture like that of Mr. Thackeray on George I. than to prepare many of the articles which appear in the Heratp. Yet we give them freely, and never stop the exehange when the country papers steal them--a not unfrequent occurrence. Again : Mr..Everett, Mr. Choate, Mr. Bancroft, and other gentlemen, whose words are -really worth preserving, are happy to give them freely so that all classes, from the highest to the lowest, may profit by them. If aman has genius, it is.a gift of Heaven, and it belongs toall. It isthe especial duty of the press to give a record of the triumphs of erators and lecturers for the enlightenment of the people. The lecturer speaks to hundreds —the audience of the popular newspaper is counted by hundreds.of thousands. So, if we thought Mr. Thackeray’s views on the Georges were better than Goldsmith’s—which ony one can consult, free, et the Astor Library—we should report them. ‘As it is, we may review tke lec- tures at some. future time. “Can Sucu Turvas Br ?”’—“Is there no balm in Gilead ?” fs there no hope for the Webster and Fillmore silver grays? According te the article which we copy to-day from the Tribune, built upon the testimony of a quasi American party organ, the.straight whigs had a croeked meeting in this city last Saturday, at which they resolved to.fuse and form an amalgam with the soft shell Pierce Van Buren Buffalo democracy, anti-slavery resolutions, Patrick H. Agan, the Jexry .rescuer, and all! We are further told that this fusion was the result of a recommendation from ex-Governor Hunt to goit.. Our Seward organ speaks as by the card; it knows “from the best authority,” that Governor Hunt had declared before Saturday last in favor of this artful dodge, and that Soturday’s meeting was called together to carry out his wishes, “Can such things be?” We an’t believe it. We suspect that this is one of those barefaced Roorbacks peculiar to desperate and reckless political tricksters upon the hocls of every important election—a trick, a weak invention of of the enemy to blacken the fair fame of the rebellious silver grays. But if we are mistaken—if these grays have gone over to the Van Buren browns, to defeat the Seward blacks--there may be something in John Van Buren’s prediction of fifty thousand plurality for the soft shells, after ali. Per- haps the Prince was in this secret when he went to Washington the other day; and this may be the reason why he carried his head so high against the thunders of the Kitchen Cabi- net. Whig silver grays and Van Buren softs fusing! Well, if it is so, it is too late to helo it. We can only exclaim with Ophelia, «We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.” Seward and Preston King—Goy- ernor Hunt and John Van Buren! Who goes there ? A Quvrer Cox ~They are having an editors’ convention in’ Richmond, Virginia Our reporter sends us an account of the first day’s proceedings, which we publish elsewhere. It is very funny. It appears that after the editors got together they stood looking at each other for a long time, like a party of big schoolboys who had heen fighting, and who “ didn’t want to make np,” and that noi one of them knew for what purpose they had come together, and they finally adjourned till the next day without doing anything. Recently, in Boston, during the great liorse convention, some of the Boston editors tried to get up a dinner for the journalists from abroad; bat there was a split on the liquor question, and the affair fell through. There does not appear to be much fraternity among editors anywhere, and the idea of making rules about prices of advertising and so forth, to apply to all, is absurd, The rates must dependon the enter- prise of the journal, its size, circulation, popu larity, &c. The dry goods merchaats and grocer® might as well have a convention to settle upon how much they should charge for a yard of muslin or a pound of sugar. The editors in old Virginia may have a good din- ner, with a glass of wine, and then go home, and each manage his business on the old rale of get all you can and keep what you get. Tue Vote or tHe State.—The popular vote of the Empire State was at— ‘The Presidential election, 1852 coe 922,208 State election, 1854.......... {869431 ce. ee ee eee 52,903 The soft shell Albany organ says that the vote for Clark and Ullman combined only ex- ceeded by 45,204 the vote for Gen. Scott, and that this number of bard shells voted for Ull- man. The same sagacious organ informs us that the 52,000 voters who stayed at home on election day last year, will come up and vote this time the soft shell ticket, and that the re- sult will probably be twenty, thirty or fifty thousand soft shell majority. This beats Prince John all hollow, who aspires only to fifty thousand plurality. “When the sky falls ‘The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Vermont ‘Central Railroad was held ‘hore last evening. The peni- ing suit between the Central and Canada roads, an} other matters affecting the corporation, were considered and discussed, A committee of three was appointed to investigate the accounte and transactions of the past two years, and the choive of directors was postponed until such committee report. A committee was also appointea to apply to the Legislature for an ast authorizing the consolidation o* the various interests of the company. The Pacitic Railroad. Sr. Loma, Nov. 1, 1855. ‘Bhe opening of the Pacific Railread to Jeflersos City was appropriately celebrated to-day. ‘MeAblen’s trisi for killing Depuy Marshal Brand, last February, commenced here yesterday. Maryland Agricultural Exhibition. Barimore, Nov. 1, 1855. Immense throngs visited the Agricaltural Fair grounds to-day. Among the visitera were Secretaries Davis, Guthrie and McClelland. The Flying Artillery, from Fort McHenry, also gttended the fair, and went through with their drill, They were inspected by the Secretary of War. During the firing s premature explosion took place, and mortally wounded enc man. Lowa of the Brig R. F. Loper. PaapEtrmia, Nov. 1, 1855. ‘The brig R. F. Loper, Capt. Williams, of and for Phila- delphia, with a cargo of logwood and coffee, from Port au Prince, was totally Jost on the Hogsties om the Sth ult. ‘Two hundred bags of coffee and sixty tons of legwood were saved, and taken to Nassau, N. P. The Lancaster, Pa., Savings Bank. Lavcaéren, Pa., Nov. 1, 1855. Charles Baughter, the defaulting treasurer of the Lan- caster-Savings Institution, was admitted to bail to-day in the sum of $100,000 to answer the charge at the next meeting of the court. Markets. PHILADELFEIA STOCK BOARD. 2 PuiLavEwrnia, Nov. 1, 1855. Stocks were heavy at our first board this morning, the. fol owing rates:—Pennsylvania State fives, Reading Railroad, 4234; Long Inland Railroad, 12;' Morris Canal, 13; Pennsylvania Railroad, 425. BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. Bartrwore, Nov. 1, 1858. $5227, 2600" head of beeves were driven eastward, 200 Ta’ lnge nopMiy, and. prlote’ declined. Sales St were in large supply, prices declined. al 3715 0 88 2b. s Our Philadelphia Correspondence. Pmaperma, Oct. 31, 1855. Interesting Political Intelligence—Dallas in the Fic Gammon for Pierce. ‘The Presidential campaign has fairly opened in this quarter, as you will see by the following notice:— en seovoreocee sees: FRIENDS OF GEORGE M. DALLAS ‘i FOR THE PRESIDENCY. A prelishinary. meeting of the democratis citizens of the city and county of Philadelphia, friends of Geo, M, Dallas. for the Presidency, will be beld at the FALSTAR¥ HOTEL, (HYNEMAN? Sixth and Carpenter streets, between Market anc Chestnut, ‘On Friday evening, November 2, 1885, AtT o'clock, when and where you are requested to attend. 5 Cooke Loncemmau2 iN H- DORNER’, Chatruan, J. Cooke Lonestn e § Boner at ter AE: § Secretaries Philadelphia, Oct. 27, 1955, Qrevacesreeseervoee reeeneeedeeeneeneee ne re enee Mr. Dellas is undoubtedly the favoriveamong the masses, but, ashe don’t seem to have the politicians with him, the.chances are that he will be juggled out of the State vote, even if his friends bave a clear majority. Mr. Ba- chanan kas written to several of bis friends—Mr. Sickels, of your.aity, among the rest—that he will not in any event be a candidate ; but notwithstandiag this he is at present the candidate in whose name the canvass is geingon, and who will probaly obtain the vote of Penn- sylvanta in the Cincinnati Couvention of June next. Mr. Buchanan is but another name for President Pisree, t betng generally'understood that Mr. Buchanin’s votes ave to be transferred, in the national convention, to Gen, Pierce. Torney was lately here. scouring the State; openly declared himself in favor of Pierce's re-election, saying that be would be the worst of ingrates if he dik Hin tip through the State showed him the true ate of aftairs, and cn his return to Washington it. wis Inown that neither the State, nor any one county in it, could be carried for Pierce, and hence this new dodge—to hunsbug Fieree—of carryirg the State for Mr, Bachansn nominally, though in reality for Mr. Pierce. This thing is getting pretty well known, and may produce such a reaction as willearry the State in a different direction from any it has heretofore taken. There is fun abead, and you shall hear it in time. HAMLET, at Atour cattle market, were offered, of which left over, and the remainder Naval Intelligence. Commodore Greeoty, late in command of the Navy yard at Charleston, has reseived preparatory orders to take command of the new stounship Merrimac, om her trial trip. Loves Pyse’s Bese st Nusto’s.—We trust that our readers will bear in mind that this charming v. takes her torewel! benefit to-night. After this. weck will be many months before we ehall again have an op- portunity of hearing those delictous strains which have so long ministosed to ou? enjoyment Le! the result of to-night's performances evince the high appreciation which we entertain both of the artist and the woman. The programme of the entertainments comprises Doni- vetti’s comle opera of “The Love §; nd a musical intermezzo Letween the acts, in which Mrs. Galton, Mies Pyne’s sister, @ pianist of ieputation, will perform several favorite i ist it Mili Newe rrow Loxpox.—The Lon- ‘Toe Latest Texrnicat don Eva of Fept. 16, says:— It is with much pleasure we Jeara that Mr. Barry, the popular Boston manager aad ac od Mr. GH. MeVieker, the Yankee comedian, liaye determined to give the Buitishers a taste of that’ excellence which has cained them auch celebrity in their own country. The latter named gentleman {is possessor of all the Ya of the late Dan Marblo, aad intends going’ through a series of thore peculiar parts, the delineatin of which have stamped him with the Americans aso first class artist. The other gentleman is not a whit the less renowned In iis peculiar line, and the pieces in which they have jeintly grined their fame dram:s portraying life, wild sof civilize’, of the inhabitants of ‘America. Tht last nawed gentleman has, we seo, been secured by the Surrey monagement, and makes his début on Monday, ae Sam Pateh. It iv almost unnecessary for us to say that Mr. Thomas Parry is still managing the Boston theatre. The Mr. Farry who is in London is a western acter. We should like to seo MeVicker “ going through’? his parts, and Mr. Barry portraying ‘the life, wild and eivilzed, of the in- habitants of America.” The Turf, CENTREVILLE COURSE, L. I~—TROTTING. A trotting match for $10,000, between Lady franklin and Miller's Demse}, was announce! to come off yester. day afternoon, which ended, ae most of such astonishers do, inafixle, When the time had arrived for the «tart ing of the horses, the mountain of money melted down to a mole bill—the ten thousand dellars were reduced to five hundred, and even for that amount there was no race. Lady Franklin did not appear on the track, and Miller's Damsel claimed forfeit. Tuvrspay, Nov. 1.—Trotting match, $10,090, mile best three in five. ‘ar named 8. m. Miller's Damse), in har- . grizerescres s, FOOD forfel t vodvuff named r.'m. Lady Pranklio, to Wagons... eves patd forfeit, Williamsburg City News. Farse Revon.—Yesterday a rumor was in circulation in the Eastern district, to the effect that late on the night previous about 500 persons gathered around St. Mary's Catholic Church, corner of Leonard and Remson streets, with an avowed intention of burning it down. As for as could be a the rumor was without foundation, A New O7npr.—A new order, under the title of tie’ American Legion, was formed Ia the Thirteenth ward of Rrooklyn about six weeks since, and up to the presen) time over 600 members have been enrolled. American born citizens, Protestant or Catholic, are eligible ty membership or office. Anti-tlavery men are proseris st, Riptmnican Nemrvations.—The Republican Genera Committee of tho Thirteenth ward of Brooklyn, have made the following nominations :—Por Supervisor, ex we shall catch larks;” and if it falls on Tu+s- day, Miller, John Van Buren and the Albany Aas will be enrolled among the prophets. distillery of Mesare. Mather, Robinson & Co. ia peony, "hla, was destroyed by fire om the Bist de". Loss $25,000. ‘Wm. Wall; Alderman, Cornelias Woglom: Con ta- Me James T. Marsh; Ascesor, Joba Tenny ‘ Sac witzcious.—Considerable indignation is expressed citizens of the Fastern district at the manner in wh ch emaing are exhnmed from Freestone’s burying gro in Union avenve. Sometimes the contents of several coffine are emptied into one bex and ca-ted off fir inter: ment. Bauleb opened the door, and the fire was almost instantly extinguishes. After the fire was out, Avsistunt Engineer Bauleb. the- Fire Marshal and Captain Litchett, made a exemine- tion of the premires, as the appearance of the fire whea burning, and the very quick manner it was said to have started, eansed some considerab'e suspicion as to its. origip. Two liquor casks were found to have burnt trou the inside, frem which the dames bad spread to the wood partition. Mr. Gaffney has an insurance of $50 om stock, and $100 cn fixtures, in the Harmony Insurance Company, There was but listle stork in the store. The upper part of the premises was occupied by police wan Bartley and family; but luckily al! escaped witho xt injury, notwithstanding the smoke «extended considera bly through the upper et of the house. e house belongs to Mr. George Driscoll, aad is damagud by the fire probs bly to the amoun' 40, Mr. Gainey’ logs will probably amount to about #100. Fire iN Cuampers Sprest.—Tux Work or an Ixcny- pisRY.—At about 11 o’clock last night a fire was disco. vered in the premises No. 92.Chambers street, ocrnptord by Martin Beir, importer of silks, ribbons, &e, The tlre men were very quickly at werk, and in the space of about an hour it was all extinguishes, befure spreadtus: beyond the building in which it originated. Cpon open~ ing the door fire was found to have been kindled in n> less than three places on the second floor Th |. burnt a large space through the floor into the stc Bureher & Co,, wine and liquor dealers, The thi d fourth floors is occu ty Mr, Charles Daylor, as a dwelhrg, associated with Mr. Joseph Harvey ait Francis Phillips. Their property is faily insured ‘in the Merchants’ Insurance Comp ‘The damage -will pro- bably amount to upwards o! The two femaie yer vants were the only persons in tho building at the time the fire was discovered. They were in bed in one of the front attic bedrooms. The alarm of fire called i . Street awoke them, and they escaped down stairs with~ out injury. The property of Martin Bier no @oubt is fully insured; but as no one was present belonging fo the- store, the amount we could not learn. The damage done to Mr. Bunker’s proporty will proba- e di bly amount to about $2,000, fully covered by insurance. mage done to the building will amount to aboat: 2500, also fully insured. The loss on Mr. Beir’s stool: will amount brobably to several thousand dollars. ‘THe FRENCH BENEVOLENT SOCIBIY—FIN ANCIAL StaTRanNt—— The President of this body presented his annual report on the 80th of October. The roceipts of cash amounted to $4,321 80, and the balance on hand, after paying dis- burgements, amounted to $001 26. The receipts woe made up of subscriptions of members, interest ov nxort- gages, donations, including Madame Rachel's of $100. and fines. The payments were made in purchase of bread, covl and cash relief, with incidentals. The tota? capital of the society iz $18,360 46. The administration committee for the ensuing year is composed of A. Hogugt, A. G. Elleau, J. Chatellier, A. Roux, ?. A. Gerdy. Amenicay IvsritvTe Fain.—The fair at the Crystal Palree ‘Was anuounced to close on Bouember Ist. We under~ stand that in consequence of the gonorally expressed wish of the exbobitors and visiters, the termination of the fair will be delayed for a week, Abie oxhibition has oven « Lee wn oat and has netted alarge sum to the American. institute. Personal Intelligence. ARHIVALS. Houso—M. Cie Florida; N. L. From J.C, Raymond, Utieas Dr. 5 Rev. W. B, Powon, Tenn,; Maj. Eaton, ent. V. B 8.A.; Hon’ A. Pike, . 0.2 bihop Re * Fron Liverpool io ehip James be HosertDastd Lams ship James 1 Nogert— Dav! - From Babin in Br brig Talboc—Mr Mavs Mr Youre. snguan, Honan, Dre rm, Boston; Dr. Me Charleston, 8, Vs Espencheld’s Hats are the Cynosure of nt eyes—the very acme of perfection. Though unavproachable for myle, taste and beauty, ho sells them for but $4 50. They are supérior to any hat sold m Broadway for $4. Give him » call, at 118 Nassau street, A Hat Retarned.—An Entry Thiet Return- ed a hat which he had stolen last weok ‘rom @ house tc Bleecker street, because it was nota KNOX hac. He evident ly knew what & good hat was. Gentlemen who cap ayprn- ciate beauty, durablilty ond elegance should call at No. 22 Broadway, corner of Fuiton street. 120 Falton Street, Ficst Floor.—The Piace has heen enlarged, and will accommodate 3.000 persons. Wonders will never cease. ‘The proprietors, DRUMGULD & PROCH, are reaping a fortune, Light India Rubber Conta, Cloaks, é&c.— Gapdoamrauing, enone, eh due een spect some oA atthe GOODYEAR rubber depot, 200 roadway. or hing = te Ney sWeli Made Coats, overcost ‘al Ss, pante and vests, ay be yey tanks EVANS’ extensive clothing warehouse, 66 ands, Falton sre oe ai 80 per cent below the market price. Stop!—Rend the Prices.—Overconts of cloth, tion skin, beaver, dc. Norweyian coating, ke | $5 $0 $00: new style, from $3 to $10, pania and rich vivet and Tee's, $2 (0 #10. Hoya clothing equally low a Ose Halt © DE GROUT & BON, #4 wud $5 Fulton siveet. What is the Test of Truc Philosophy t— Ifyou want to know whether aman be a perfest sols, pro mise bim an aricle he needs to-day, and send it hone next week. Few phliosophers ever can bear such an ordeui, and knowing this, GR No. 1 Astor Uouse, never neglects ‘0 mae home his ful fitting shirts ai the hour pro A Notortous Fact, and You Know It.—The smbrotypes taken by Tt. A. LEWIS. at 142 Chaths Gxcel Any ting of the kind in New York, Puplis instruvie e art, Be m juerreoty pes, larye size, for Mitty senis.- Colored and in a uice case twice the size others make for fifty cents, and equal to those made elsewhere for $4.2 u s0n’s, 689 Broadway, opposite Metropoliizn Holel, Pianoturtes «nd Melodcons—Manufectares. ty JOHN P. WAKE & CO., No. 167 Onnai street, peor Varick, ‘ay warranted for tone and workmanship equa! i any Wh ze city, and 2) per cent less than Broadway prices, N. B.- Sood band Plauos at creat bargains. Seventy-flve Thousand. Very Large Ex- {ya edition of the Sunday Courier will be published on Suu ‘the 4th inst, for city circulation, expressly icr eiectioa wwe Advertisers who wish to avail themslves of thls sple did op portunity of reaching the public eye, can be accommodated at & very reasonabie rate. PRY, corly. JAMES L. SMITH & CO., 15 Spruce «rvet. Poe or a Lot oc Rich Sikes m auction will be opened day; also, 5 cases printed de- taines, from Is. (0 48, worth double the pice aiked. 1k. H. LEADBEATER & 00, S41 Broadway. —_ on von ete Gloves at 50 Cents. 100 zen ‘adies’ super kid gloves will be opened this day, »° 4s.- 40 dozen gents do., at The ore stightly ap: au teard of We sbip, ahd are worth 7s. ond 8s. per pair. ) H. LEADBRATER & C0, 38 Brostway, Embrolderics, from Auction, ata Freat 8 .c~ rifee FE, H. LEADBEATER & O., {47 Broadway, wilt offer ‘his day alarge stock of rich embroidered collars, s!eeves, sends, &¢., at hall their real value. Ladies of New York.=Fancy furs, of « dor style and finish, are seiling, in Brooklyn, at J.D. Wit LIAMD', 219 Ful on street, (corner sore ) al prices that wi cepay you for the trouble ofa visi, Children’s bats and in great vertery. Ladies’ New York and Brookiyn Trini jum.—JOSEPN LOOKITT, SON & ¢ and importers of Indies’ dress and cloak {ri antique cord and 1a8 els, Ac, 40. Urders aud promptly exeented, 285i Fuiton street, Olty Ladica and Ladies Visiting the City can find gaiter and bnton boots, trom 12s, 19 2us.: slippers tyes ond toliet slips, Gs, fo 10s. Indian rubber beats end dosacs ap great variety, with boys’, misses’ and chiidven'y boos and shoes of all kinds and prices, at t) ER & CO.'S, 124 Canal s:rvot, Millinery.— went of milnery, « Lowers, ladies’ dre 80 of which will be Blankets.—€uglisa Blankets (Large Stze,) 4% per pair. PETERSON & HUMPURSY, No, S79 firoud way, corner of White street, Blankets! Bieankets!! Blankets!!!—fleavy Bagh biankets ot $460 per pate, ARTHUR DUNSELLY'S, 96 Bowory. New Goods! Rich Carpets Great Bargatyns iw tapestry, velvel, Brussels, three-ply avd ‘avain, w . ARTHUR DONNY LY", $8 Lowery. Ce Heavy English Sapertice, Os. pew wd. All other Goods at wratty low prices, Teteesos MPUREY, ‘No. 319 Broadway. " Carpets! Carpets! Carpetsitiasuperh Mesal- tion velvet carpets from the Parts exhibition, sp endid tapeury Kruse's fm the celebrated menufactory of Cros 7 & som=- b—" England, just received, HIRAM ANDERSUS, ¥* wery. Bargains ting.—Good Brasseix 0% BEARS HATE All other Goods as eqnaly iow prices. +S RSON & HUMPAREY, No. 5]9 Brond «ay, Who Wants to Save sixpence Beven Lin. of sugar, and that same twenty per cent on other articurs taining to our trede, that we wore blowing abort, f acy Te det Why, AL'RO & O'S, 105 Bowery, tthe pinor, amt , Where thal very enme thing cau be ace mnpiiahed, mn Carpet no ‘Whilson’s Dandelion Coffee, a Truly Va'aa~ bie remedy in ail cases of dsxpepsia, hs ache, and al! bilious ond Iver complains, «fd by Mogrm sn, Clark & Co, F. ¥. Rushton, and a! respectable druegivs, Rich Bronze Clocks, Candciabras, Dinner red this da ship S wizerlaad, ver * wih sigreat'variaty of Prenchianey tools, of ontreiy mew Yor Alto & and deat mort com. eater, 131 and 5d3 Broadway, Sliver Pinted Tea Sets, Cake Baskets, Tah! casters, de: a)k@- French pla‘e mirrors, ‘or ot} tings, hatr mattresses, TeRis MURRELL. Anedomecr. wits cfeloek. st No, 61 Nasean stront, the a