The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BEVVETT, PROPKIELOK AND IRDIDOR, FULTON ere. SPrICD WN. B. CORNER OF NASSAU A¥D STS THIS EVENING. — DROABWAY THRATHE, Broadwas—ADRIRNNE TRE AG- wresas— PXAONT NTHBORR TUSLANS GARDEN. Broadway—le Mownan o% Lasom— Peotone—R curt. 2 AMmues. BOWERY THEATRE, Rewery—Rv Ke’s Prownrss-—S amas. Urol. BURTON'S THEATRE, Charbere street—Vurnikixs anv Lis Din ak—Birsacn oF PROMise-—P eMC, pre wee WALLACK'S THEATRE, Hrowlway-- Tuc Dowacun—A @ermmsasn ioM Inreewp—Loax oF 4 Loven, WOOD'S MINSTRELS. 444 Prondway—Ermoman Paa- PORMANCES. BUCKLEY'S BURDESQUE @PERA HOUSE, 530 Broat- way—Bore esque Orera aND'Nwcao MINeTABLSY, MBCHS NICS’ HAUL, 472 Brocdway—Puor. Macauastee’s ‘Bowmnrs Kaciurs. ACADIMY HADL, 664 Breadway—Barmx or Bowsan EMPCRE FALL, <096 Broadtvay—Tour or Eororn—Sinor ‘or Sem..srorot. “Wew York, Saturday, November 19, 1885, The New York Weekly Herald. ‘HE TRIAL OF JUDGE STUART—NEWS FROM EUROPE, @* LIFORNIA, SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA, CUBA, AUSTRALIA, BEC. ‘Tho New York WEEKLY “H2natp will be published ai ten @clock this morning. Among its contents will be found the tert news from Burope, California, South and Central Ame rea, Australia, Cuba, £c.; speech of Mr. Cutting, and evidence ef Mrs, Connely,'in the triale? Judge Stuart; financial, com- mercial, religions, theatrical nnd sporting intelligence ; edito- ‘wials, latest news’ by telegraph, and a variety of miscellaneous ene local matier. Singie-copins, in wrappers, ready for mall: ing, can be bed. connter. Price sixpence. The News. ‘The story which obtained curfency in England and France rogerding “ke fitting out of a Russian privateer in New York,referred to the bark Maury, which was seized by the British Consul on the plea of having on board artieles contraband of war, and which was subsequently discharged and known to de no privateer xt all. The English and French press do not seem to have been properly posted on the subject of privateering. It is a settled and re- cognized law of wations that imless two-thirds of the crew of a vessel fitted ont for a privateer are natives or subjects of the belligerent party uuder whose flag she sails; ‘hat s he is not legally a privateer, but a pirate, ani may be treated accord- ingly. Hence, when we commenced the war with Mexico, we gave public notice th at all privateers #ailing under the Mexican flag, un! ess two-thirds of the persons on board were ¢iticens of Mexico, would be treated as pirates. Under this v few of the case itwill be seen that, even were the Americans dis- posed to fit out privateers under the . Russian flag, it would. de impossible to man them with Russian sailors. {n all New York, indeed in the whole coun- tay,, it ig believed that not.encngh R wssian sailors could be found to man asingle yoarel, Yad the fing- ‘lish papers fully comprehended the nature of the cage they would not have exposed tiemselves to ridi- cule by giving currency to such an absurd rumor. By our despatch from Washington we learn that the Cabinet were in session Yesterday, and that despatches from our Minister to Eegland, Mr. Bu- chanan, were vead and considered. The tenor of these despatches are said to be of the most friendly and peaceful character; our government is assured that there was no threat intended by. sending a fleet to the West Indies, and not the slightest cause for the exciisinent-and panic created by the English papers. is said that the administration feuls greatly velioved by the news, as it saves them from the nec ty of baoking out from the exforeement of the Monroe doctrine or fighting. The rumor of the recall of Gen. Almonte, the Mexican Minister, created considerable excitement in Washington. A Tumor was afleat that there had been e flare-up among the politicians in the Union office, end that Forney was about to leqve the concern. Havana dates to the i3th inst. have been re- ceived at New Orleans. Ve learn that a party of wreckers who were taking out the cargo of a ®pan- ish brig on the Bahama Banks, were fired into bya Spanieh launch, two of them killed, five or six wounded, and the balance imprisoned. No particu- lars given by telegraph. Molasses had advanced in price at Havana, anda good business was doing. ‘The stock of sugar on hand was about 30,000 boxes. Our correspondent at Rio Janeixo, writing on 29th of September, informs us of the melancholy spread of cholera both in that city and at Bahia. The negroes and soldiers furnished most of the victims Very little coffee was sent into market. The new crop was very light, and the quality a shade in ferior. The price of the article has advanced. Oar files from Bermuda are dated to November 7 ‘The British fleet from Halifax, with the Admiral in command, and a portion of the Baltic flect, were daily expected. Goy. Murray had prorogued the Legislature. The mail steamer Curlew, from Hali- fax, had nearly foundered during a late passage. Mrs. Tatem, a young woman of Paget's parish, had been burned to death by the explosion of a cam phene lamp. It will be seen by the money article in this day's paper that Bank of England post notes, payable sixty days after sight, have been sent to this coun- try toa large amount. It is supposed they are in- tended for the purchase of breadstuffs for shipment to Great Britain, and to prevent or postpone the ex- portation of specie from London for that purpose. The fifth day's proceedings in the trial of City Judge Stuart were, if possible, more interesting aud more anxiously watched than the proceedings of the previous days. We givea full report. The case stands over till Monday, the cross-examination of Mrs. @onnolly being still unterminated. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1855. lives by the incautious use of camphene and other dangerous fluids ? Another railroad accident ocenrred on the Lehigh Valley road, rear Allentown, Pa., yesterday after- neon. A var, containing thirty ngers, was thrown off the track, but fortunat none of them were killed. A freight car was demolished, and a, brakeman fatally injured. The'City Marshal of Bangor, Me., who was de- poved from that and four other offices which he held, fer alleged official corruption, iv reported to have absconded, after having disposed of all his realestate and ether property. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday reached about 760 2800 bales; the market continued firm, at about Ofc.for middling aplands. Flour was firmer, and closed for good oemmon to extra State at about 12}c, advance, with free sales, inctuding parcels for the Hast and for export. Wheat was quite firm, and more active at full prices. Indian corn was again firmer, with free sales at 98c. from store, aud $l efloat. Pork was in good demand at andhanged prices. Beef wes dull and lard firm. The excite- ment, noticed ‘in yesterday’s paper, in sugars was continued. Aout 400 hhds. were sold end 2,000 boxes. Refined sugars advanced from je..to lc. per Ib., and 3,000 bbls. crushed were sold at prices ranging from-9c. to jc. Freights were firmer, with eed pe beth for Liverpool and Londen, while to the Continent they were steady at unchanged rates. ‘The War With England—Hlow the Bubbie was Inflated—A Mass of Evidience—Joha Bull Frightened at His Own Scarecrow. We surrender a large portion ef our availa. ble space this morniug to a very interesting compilation of documentary evidence, histori- cal and circumstantial, touching the present warlike-imbroglio between Esgland and the United States. From this mass of chronologi- cal papers and newspaper commentaries, the reader will readily detect the sources from which the raw materials were collected for. the building of this terrible Chinese dragon, intended to frighten Brother Jonathan and his “ outside barbarians” into a reasonable humili- ty; but which nobody except John Ball him- self believes to be anything more than a mon- ster made of rags and stufied with husks and straw—e veritable scare crow. From the articles which we have published from the British press, in connection with our present batch of papers, it is clearly manifest that the real provocation of this hue and cry of war from England, is the detection and sus- pension of Mr. Crampton’s criminal recruit- ing operations in this country ; and that the object-of all this fuss, flammery and parade of British indignation and British fleets, is simply te divert public attention from these dis- creditable acts of Mr. Crampton and his superiors and subordinates against our neatrality laws, and our honor and dig- nity as a neutral and independent power. In ail this agitation we have something of apology, much of explanation, and various protestations and excuses of ignorance and in- smocence; but the offender, like a rogue with a b ele of goods under his arm, spoils his case, by se thing off-at full speed round the corner, cry- ing* “Stop thief,’ as he rans. The alleged fitti ag out ef Russian privateers in this port-- the , culpable winking and blinkiog of our go- vernr wntat the organization of a formidable Trish g na Know Nothing conspiracy among us, for son, e midnight descent npon the defence less coa %#-0f poor old Ireland—and the alleged suspicion. ‘8 Affiliations between our Kitchea Cabinet , wd the Cuban filibusteros, are all humbug, a ud ‘uch humbug as Barnum would despise ing ‘etting up a Fecjee mermaid. This irresistible Wet India British squadron was no more intend: ‘@:te intercept the Irish American evolutionary edition, or the Cuban filibus- ters,or that in ‘eginary Russian privateer, than it was detailed forthe chastisement of the pi- rates of Loo Ch @0,-or the search for Sir John Franklin. The Whole plot and purpose of all this belligerent giowling and show of teeth, and all this pawii wand scratching of the ridi- culous and wheezy ‘«idBritish lion, was to raise afalse alarm anda oudof dust, behind which Mr. Crampton, and. Uords Palmerston and Cla- rendon might escape *tom-the public odium of their lawless and des} Weable recruiting dodges in this country. Here, too, the faci; $n this business come in to vindicate the New “York Henan against the charge of some of on ©ontemporarics, that we ofthis journal, origina ted thisexisting paper war with England. It i, ‘ 20t so. Upon this head it appears that Mr.1 ‘wchanan, our regu- lar Minister, and the Chey, Wier General James Watson Webb, our irregular ‘Volunteer amateur minister at London, are ma: ‘Bly responsible— the first in his strong assura eos of American sympathy for England again ®% Russia in the outset of the war, and the sec, m4 in his decla- ration that twenty thousand rif, ‘emen could rea- dily be raised in the United State for the Allied cause, It is confessed that upon } these inviting assurances, and upon the presum ‘péion that the government of, Mr. Pierce was “ @ weak one,” like that of the Clayton Cabinet of Gen. Tay- lor, the Crampton enlisting busine, 18 was boldly undertaken among us, and withou + the slight- est apprehension of the consequence % that have ensued. Too late have the Lond, journals The Board of County Canvassers held their fourth session yesterday, and heard the further arguments of counsel on the questions as to the admissibility of the protests, and whether the Board has the power to go behind the returus of the Inspectors of Elec- tion. Several specific charges of fraud, not pre- sented in the protests were made by one of the counsel for the contestants in the course of his ar- gument. The Board adjourned to 11 o'clock this morning, when a vote will probably be taken on the questions argued. The Board of Councilmen last night passed a resolution directing the Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies to report to the Board the amount of money expended since January last for opening streets. This looks like an investigation of some kind. The Board was not very full last night, and but little enthusiasm existed among the members present—all in consequence of election being over. A stay of execution has been granted by the Su preme Court in the case of Wm. Scarffenburgh, who was to have been hung in this city yesterday for the sourder of Helefia Meyers, of which offence he was convicted in September last. An argament in the case before the Supreme Court is set down for next month, when the fate of the condemned man will be decided. The defenders of the country in the war of 1812 will hold another National Convention in Washing. ton City on the sth of January next. ‘The corner stone of a monument in honor of Gen, Zachary Taylor, is to be laid at Easton, Pa., on Tues- day next. Gen, Scott, Com. Stockton and other notabilities are invited, and twenty military com- panies are expected to be present on the occa- sion. . The dwelling of the Hon. H. Van Renssalaer at Ogdensvurg, in this State, with most of its con- tents, was (lestroyed by fire yesterday morning. Another creadful accident, resulting from on attempt to fill a lighted lamp with camphene, occurred to a wownan residing in Second street, in ‘bia city, on Thursday evening. She was fearfully ned, and it is thonght her inj 1 ‘. How long will people continue » risk their discovered that it is dangerous to ta ™per even with a weak administration at W thington upon the eve of a Presidential electio % Lord Palmerston should have known this bei ‘ore, and Mr. Crampton, from his long reside mee at Washington, ought certainly to have | ‘eown, before entering into the unlawful €Xpe- riment here of recruiting for the Cr ‘mica, that he would be watched and caught in *he act; that if Marey spared bim, Cush fag wouldn't ; and that every British recruiti “& agent caught and convicted would be punish € according to law. Admit that from Mr. Pierce down to Mr. Cushing, every member of our administration is sadly in need of a little active democratic capital for the succession, and the folly of Palmerston, Clarendon and Crampton, is only the more apparent in these recruiting trans- actions. Mr. Crampton may console himself with the reflection that his cool impudence has been equal to his folly and credulity; but my Lord Palmerston has made his position iafiaite- ly more ridiculous and contemptible by attempt- ing to play the cuttle-fish. He has excited a general war panic in England, very much, no doubt, to his astonishment and disgust; and a broad grin on every face, this side the At- lentic, which will probably relieve him of any further anxiety for the present concerning an Irish-American filibustering expedition to Dublin. Considering the dangerons extremity to which the British government has ventured in its general plan of retaliation against Caleb Cushing, Mr. President Pierce’s head lawyer, a grave responsibility is thrown upon Mr. Bu- chanan and the Chevalier Webb, Mr. Bachanan, we dare say, has exerted, and will exert himself, in favor of peace; but in the absence of General Webb from London, our regular Minister will need come ether first rate voluo- teer diplomatic assistant. In view of this ne- cessity, we are happy to state that the Chevalier Wikoff fs at Wand in London, according to our last advicer,, having postponed his projected mission ty St. Petersburg, because of some alarming rumors while he was yet in Paris ia regard to the purposes of this aforesaid British West india squadron, Very likely his retura to the British capital isdue to the sagacious advice of Louis Napoleon, who knows very well, from his personal experience as special constable in London, among twenty-five thou- sand other special constables, at the opening of the great Crystal Palace of 1851, the dangers of a war panic among the solid masses of the English people. The New York Heratp was somewhat instrumental in, exciting that awful London panic of 1851, we confess; but in this case of 1855, pleading not guilty, we throw the responsibility upon Lord Palmers- ton and the Chevalier Webb, and rest our hopes of peace upon the prudent couusels of Mr. Buchanan and the pacific diplomacy of the Chevalier Wikof. Astounding Telegraphic Improvements—A New Telegraph Company. Several weeks ago, in an article relative to the high rates of toll charged by two of the Southern telegraphic companies, we casually hinted at the probability of new telegraphic inventions, and the formation of new telegra- phic companies which would grow out of the increased profits of telegraphic lines. Although at that time we had some slight foundation for the remark, yet we had not the most distant idea that the projects which were then but just begun to be thought of would so soon be brought to maturity.” We now learn, however, that since that article was written, there has been formed in this city a new telegraphic company, composed of some of the stanchest business men of the country, who propose to themselves the task of entirely revolutionizing the whole telegraphic business of this conti- nent. To perform this Herculean feat, it has several advantages which many of the existing companies have not, namely, ample cash means, Jarge enterprise, an appreciation of the wants of the public, and the sole ownership of the patent for this country of the most wonderful instrument for telegraphic purposes ever in- veated. We allude to the Electro-Magnetic Printing Telegraph, invented by David E. Hughes, of Kentucky. Most of our readers will, perhaps, recollect the description given in the Hexaup, a few months ago, of the Hughesinstrument. Since that description was published, one of these instruments has been in New York, where its capabilities were fully tested, in presence of numerous competent judges. We should hard- ly dare to give publicity to the statements of the wonderful powers of this machine, as manifested in their presence, did we not know that the persons making them are entitled to the fullest credence. Its most prominent points of excellence are: re- liability, economy, speed and accuracy. In these respects it is so far ahead of ony machine now in use, that a comparison with them is out of the question. It will print, as we are told, from three to five hundred letters, or from fifty to one hundred words, in a minute, with- out the possibility of error, It will send two messages simultaneously, in opposite direc- tions, over the same wire. It works with the most perfect secresy—that is, it will send a communication from the point of departure direct to its destination, without the possivili- ty of avy way office on the route receiving a copy, excepting at the will of the sender. This is a feat which no other instrument now in use can perform; and one, the advantages of which must be apparent to every individual who is at all conversant with telegraphic mat- ters. It is very simple in its operation, Any person who knows a letter of the alphabet when he sees it can write as correctly with this instrument as the most experienced opera- tor; all that is requisite to insure absolute cor- rectnees being that the copy shall in the first instance be written plainly and correctly. The machine verifies itself—that is, at each revolu- tion the operator can tell, by means of an un- erring test in his instrument, whether it is in unison or not with the instrument with which it is communicating in a distant city. But its most wonderful feat, and that which will test the reader’s credulity the severest, is its power to start into operation a similar machine in a distant office, without the help or even pre- sence of an operator, and compel it to write out whatever messages it chooses to send in the same perfect manner in which they first started on their transit. Thus, for instance, an operator at Wash- ington may, at any time, lock up his office and go to his meals, or his bed if he chooses, and on his return he may find on his desk a messag» perhaps*from New York or New Orleans, all fairly printed out, and ready to be enveloped and cent to its address, These are some of the most prominent characteristics of Mr. Hughes’ instrument. There are others, such as its eco. nomy in the use of working material, its capa- bility of operating in all possible states of the aimogphere, and its admirable compactness and simplicity of construction, to which we have only epace to allude, The new company to which we have called attention, as the first step in their operations. have secured the absolute patent of the Hughes machine for the whole United States, at a cost of between ou and two hundred thousand dollare. A number of these machines are now being manufactured by an ingenious mechanic, and some of them, we understand, will soon be weady to be put in operation. Their next step, wee are told, will be the leasing of all the direct , ‘bees between New York and Nova Scotia. N Gaotiations én this direction are, we are ay sn, “6d, already eearly completed, and the now con any will probably assume the manage- men t of those lines about the first of January ensu, bg. When the epring opens, new lines of ibe m ost substantial end perfect construction will, ¥'e have reason to believe, be built to the South a td West, 60 that eveninaliy the owners of the Hughes patent will have a network of wires raliating in all directions fram Now York to every prominent Susiness place ia ine Unien. When all the plans of the coutpany are fully perfected, the pubiie will witaess a revolution in the telegraphic busines Celerity, reliability, cheapness, will, we hope, be the motto under the new dispensation With thege there will, of course, ve a very raz pid increase in the amount of tsiegraphic busi- ners; and, if the reduction in tolls ever reaches the potnt now in contemplation by the new company, Uncle Sam’s mail bags will eventa- ally be left entirely to the newspapers, and to such tender or gdwidentie! correspondence as will not admit of the supervision of a third person, Then the correspondents of the New York Henaxp, scattered over the Union, will receive instructions to drop their letters into | the telegraph office for transmission instead of the Post offices. Then we shall expect to have the whole of our paper, excepting, of course, ihe city news, editorial, and advertisements, made up with telegraphic despatzhes from all parts of this continent—indeed from all parts of the world. Morse, House, and Hughes! what @ wonderful revolution you have pro- duced in a generation ! Caves Cusuine orF THs Track—Strone Ap- vick FroM A Marcy OraaN.—The late instruc- tions of Caleb Cushing, Attorney-General of the United States, to the District Attorneys and other legat officers of the general govern- ment, touching their special duties in refe- rence to all violators of our neutrality laws, do not please our free soil, anti-Cushing poets of the Evening Post. That paper says:— We wish, for our part, that Mr. Cushing would contne himgelf to the duties of his office—for which, we would observe by the way, he has not toomuch capacity. Lately be has been jing the functions of the Legisla. tire sod the Courts-—be bes been legislating and deat ing on the subject of the equality of the States, on the pre- text of a case supposed to be got up for the occasion. Cushing ix Mr. Pierce’s Congress and Supreme Overt, all iv one. The newspapers already talk of his decisions, whereas the Attorney-General decides nothing—he m-re, ly gives opinions in important cases referred to him, Which have the same authority with those of any other lawyer, and no more. In the present case, he haa over- flowed into the oflice of the Secretary of State, and thrust himself into our foreign relations. We must tell. Mr Cushing that he has not the proper qualifications for a Secretary of State, and that he will gain more credit, by letting our foreign relations ulone than by undertaking their wanggement. fhe countzy will prefer to leave them with M-, Marey. Tn other words, who is Mr. Cushing, a demo- crat of yesterday, a Tylerite the day before, and a whig Jast week, that he should usurp the functions of Mr. Marcy? Is not Marey a vete- ran legitimate Van Buren democrat of the Albany Regency? and shall such interlopers as Cushing presume to speak the law for him?. ‘This is the meaning of our free soil democratic cotemporary, but what is Marcy about that he should permit Cushing to “overflow” into his office? Is our Premier asleep? And has Gen. Jeff. Davis nothing to say against Cushing be- ing “Mr. Pierce’s Congress and Supreme Court, allin one?” Mr. Cushing must be taken down a peg or two. He is evidently getting too large for his breeches. “THe Earty Binp.”’—There is an old pro- verb, held in high esteem in the “rural dis- tricts,”’ which says that “the early bird catches the worm.” We learn that, impressed with this idea, the outsiders, or the lobbymen and ex- pectants of small favors of the American party, have been holding several caucuses for the division of the offices of the Honse of Rep- resentatives, amounting in all to about fifty. We hope the parties concerned “will arrange the business to their satisfaction, but we can- not guarantee a ratification of their proceed- ings by the House. Sorry to say it, buj it isa fact that all the subordinate places in the House will depend upon the election of Speaker, Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms and Post- master, and they will not be chosen till the meeting of Congress. it 1s hurd, but it is ac- cording to the constitation. A Gratiryinc Assurance.—While our Eng- lish and domestic exchanges are filled with wars aid rumors of wars between Great Britain and the United States, we are assured most posi- tively, by a Washington correspondent of one of our Seward organs, tbat there will be no war while Marcy isat the helm, The bulls of Wall street may come out again. THE LATEST NEWS. BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. CABINET SESSION—DESPATCHES FROM MR. BUCHAN- AN—EXPLANATIONS IN REGARD TO THE BRITISH WEST INDIA FLBET—NO PROSPECT OF A WAR BE- TWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND—COURT OF CLAIM3—FLARE-UP IN THE UNION NEWSPAPER, ETO. Wastnxatox, Nov. 16, 1855. Tho Qebinet were in session again to-day, and the despatdls by the Pacific, from our Minister, Mr. Bu- chanan, were received at the State Department and con- sidered in Cabinet council, The tenor of these despatches are, I am iaformed by good authority, of the most friendly character, assuring our government that there ‘was no sguificancy in their sending the fleet to the West Indies, and that there was not the slightest cause for the panic created by the English Journals. This news has quieted those excftable individuals in the Cabinet who have been anticipatinga rupture between the two govern. ments. Joan has thus been frustrated, and only one vessel of the Home Squadron will proceed to Nicaragua, The administration is greatly relieved by the news that England does not intend her fleet for a Central American Cemonstration, as it relieves them from the danger of having to back out from the Monroe dvctrine or fight. The intelligence received here that General Almonte, the Mexican Minister, has been superseded, has caused considerable excitement. The case of the United States aguinst Mr. Scott, formerly Navy Agent, for alleged de- Jaleations, 1s now on trial before the United States Court in this city. It is rumored here this evening that there fs a flare up among the Union newspaper folks, and that Forney is going out of the establishment. Commodore Nicholson and Colonel Jack Hays arrived here this evening, and are stopping at Willard’s. In the Court of Claims to-day the argument in the case of Springer, who claims a commission of five per cent upon the gross cost of coal while acting as agent to pur- chase and inspect coal for the Navy Department, wascon- cluded. Mr. Blair, for the United States, contended that the claim of the petitioner was untenable, because the Secretary of the Navy had no legal power to appoint an agent to purchase and inspect coal. Mr. Stanton, re- plying, argued that such appointment was as necessary as was the cxoployment of a shipmaster to carry the coal to the foreign stations where needed, and that if the Se cxetary had no legal power to employ one of these agents he had none to employ the other, Decision reserved. Mr. O’Conor did not «peak on the Gen. Armstrong case to-day, He will commence his argument on Monday. Sod Craualty at a Know Nothing Cele- bration. Lockront, Nov. 16, 1855. At an American celebration in this city last evening, a cannon was prematurely discharged, fatally injuring L. J. Wicks, and seriously wounding Geo. Filictt. Mr. Wicks is still alive, but is horribly mangled, and canaot long survive. Taylor Monument Dedication. Easton, Pa., Nov. 16, 1355. ‘The monuwent in honor of Zachary Taylor is to pe dedicated here on Tuesday next, and a great time is an- ticipated. Invitations have been extended to Generals Scott, Cadwallader, Patterson and Foster, and Commo- dore Stockton, and it is hoped that most, if not all of tuem, will be present, Twenty different miliary compa- ries are expected. An Absconding Officer. Bacon, November 16, 1855. City Marshal Weaver, whe was deposed from that office, leo from four other offices which he heli under our municipal government, on charges of official eor- ruption, has absconded. He had a few days before dis. pored of all his real estate and other property, and his abaconding has caused much sensation here. Fatal Accident to an Actor. Unica, N. ¥., Nov, 14, 1355, George P. Evans, an actor, was suddenly kilt while walking dows? Genesee street this morning, hy th» fli ing of a Indder npon him. Frans was wathing a! 1. time with My. Foster, manager of our theatre Commodore Paulding’s expected mission to San * Later from Havana. Naw Oxtxaxs, Noy. 16, 1855. The steamship Crescent City bas arrived at this port, with Havens dates to the 18th inst. ‘The Culiforois mazls for this city had not arrive! there when the C, C. left. Sugars were entered nominal. ‘The stock on hand was about 30,000 boxes, Molastes had advanzed, and an active business was dowg. While a party of wreckers were taking out the cargo of @ Spanish brig on Bahama Bank; they were fired into by a Spanish launch, tw> of them killed, and five or six wounded. The remainder were imprisoned at Cienfuegos. Railroad Accident. Mavcu Cuunx, Pa., Nov. 16, 1855. A passenger train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad was thrown off the track this afternoon, this side of Allen- town. One freight car was demolished, and a car con- taining thirty passengers thrown off the track. All the passengers escaped unhurt, but a brakeman was fatally injured. Fire at Ogdensburg. Oapenssvea, Nov. 16 1855, The mansion of the Hon. H. Van Renssellaer, in this place, with most of its contents, was destroyed by fire early this morning. Marine Ditasters. LOSS OF THE BRIG JOSEPH BALCH. ‘New Orusans, Nov. 16, 1855. ‘The brig Joseph Balch, of Boston, from Havana for New Orleons, was mare | lost on Chandelier Island, on the 7th inst. The Captain and crew have arrived here, COLLISIONS AT SEA. Boston, November 16, 1855. _Zhe British ship Robert Parker, arrived at this port £°6% Liverpool, was in contact on the night of November 8th, in lat. 45 40, long, 54 90, with the British ship Da- vid Brown, Vaughan, from Quebes for Bristol, nd, and damaged her badly. The R. P. lay by her until day” light anc took off the captain and crew, twenty-one, all told, who stated that two men had at ‘the time of the collision, The Robert Parker lost her jib- boom and cutwster. . Arrived ship Euphrasia, of New York, Marshall, from New Orleans, was in contact at 1A. M.’ to off Cape Cod with the ship Pleaides, from Boston for 2, S.C, and had her bow badly stove, lost bowsprit, &c. The Tleaides lost jibboom, &c., but kept on her voyage. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Puitapevpaia, Nov. 16, 1855. spitets frm, Pennsylvania Sea Tires BN, ¢; Reading, 342 Long Island, 13%; Morr %; Pennsylva- nia Yiailroad, 42%. PHILADELPHIA IRON MARKET. PHILADELPHIA, tov. 16, 1855. The transactions in iron during the past week have been limited, the sales amounting ‘to about 1,800 tons. We quote No.1 pig, at $28.8 2, at $26 a $27; forge, at $22 a $24; American bare, at $70.’ Kails firmer, at $65, cash. New Or1eAns, Nov. 15, 1855. ‘The Pacific's news came to hand yesterday, but did not transpire until after business hours; consequently its effect has not yet been developed. Cotton was firm to- day, with sales of 5,000 bales. Sterling exchange is at 6 1 per cent premium. Klour has slightly advanced, and now sellg at $885 a $890, Barrelled lard is quoted at We. CitARLESTON, Noy. 15, 1855. Cotion Salen of the week, 12,00) bales, ‘receipts 12,000 bales; stock on hand, 13,000 bales. The market advanced 3,¢. to-day. In rice there has been no change. ‘ALnany, Nov. 16, 1855. A fair business has been done in flour at previous rates, Wheat—sales 7,000 bushels Canadian at $221. Barley— 18,000 bushels four rowed sold at $1 26, from store, on time; $1 2744 afloat, for cash; and $1 28 aftoat, on time. Gats'48c. Rye—eales of 5,800 bushels at $1 18, in lots, and $120 a $1203 afloat. Whiskey is at 39c. Cana seceipit—Flour, 4,470 bbls.; harley, 27,140 bushels; oats, 19,100 do.; rye, 5,800 do.; whent, 15.520 do. : Burvato, Nov. 16—6:30 P. M. There has been a moderate demand for flour to- unchanged prices. of 2,700 bbls. at $7 87 for com: mon Michigan: $8 SY 8 $8 873¢ for the whole range of common to extra Ohio, ineluding Wisconson, and $9 50 for choice extra Canadian. Wheat closes at 5c. advance, with a good demand. Sales cf 9,000 bushels at $1 70 for Dlivois spring; $1 73 a $1 76 for Wisconsin do.; $175 a $1 80 for red’ Indiana and Kentucky; $1 95 for white Indiana, and $2 05 for Canadian, closing at the outside ures.” Corn firmer. Sales of 13,000 bushels at 830.5 closing with the holders at 1c. Outs held at 420., with= out buyers, Rye nominal, at about $105. Barloy— State selling at about $1 30 a $1 32. Canal freights— Wheat, 18c. to Albany aud 22c. 10 New York. Lake imports for the twenty-four hours ending noon to-day :— Flour, 4,643 bbls.; wheat, 154,043 bushels; corn, 25,387 do.; onta, 27,035 do. Canal exports, same time :—Klour, 1,€61 bbis.:'wheat, 108,000 bushels; corn, 45,690 do.; oats, 12,400 do. WAttack’s Trrarne—‘Tae Dowascer.””—The audience at Wallack’s theatro last evening was ainused with a neat little comedy called “The Dowager,” writ- ten by Charles Maithews, originally in one act, but arranged here, for convenience, in two. Mr. Matthews and Mme. Vestris in 1843, when the piece was first done at the Haymarket, played the parts whish were acted last night by Mr. Walcot and Mrs. Hoey. The piece is found- ed on a single incidert, very well handled. The Dowager, Countess of Tresilian, has sent word to her nieces, Lady Bloomer and Margaret, that she purposes spending a few days with them in the country, Thoy have never sean the Countess, but supposing her to be ‘a conventional dowa- ger,” “a formal trump, full of ridiculous provinetal prejudi- ces,” they think her visit will put an end to their private theatricals and other jollities in which they intend to in- dulge. There are several young men about the premises who are in love with the ladies, and one of them, Sir Frederick Chasemore, sends to London for a celebrated actress to do the Dowager at short notice, and hoax the girls. These Jast named intividuals hear of Master Fre- derick’s intentions, and resolve to punish him. At the Inst moment, unknown to them, he counter- mands his order, and the real dowager arrives. The girls supposing her to be the actress, tell Lord Aified Lyndsay, a fast young nobleman, to receive her. The Dowager who turns out to be a tramp, pretty and under thirty, takes all Lyndsay’s brusquerie in good pact, and allows ihem ii to think her an actress. Sir Frederick endeavors to explain, but sho fairly Inughs him off and plays the joke cut. It ends with her marriage to Lynd- say, and with the happiness of the whole party. Mr. Matthews does up the thing in a charming cff hand man. ries all. When one is arranging marriagss, be for elght as for two. “wa Hoey) was very good, and so was her friend Lyndsay (Waledt), The ploce went olf very nicely to » fall how Acapeny or 3 JRANGE’S BuNEWIT.—AS every- body anticipated, the announcement of a benefit to Mme. La Grange ativacted @ full audience to this house last evening. The attractions of the night were an act of “Athalie,”’ with Rachel, and two acts of I Puritani,”’ with the det of Signor Caspani, the new basso. Of the merits of the latter artist we cannot fully judge from a single performance, but we are inclined to predict for him great popularity. Although his part (Sir George Walton) brought him frequently before the audience, it afforded him but little opportunity to display his voice. The opera Was well done, and in Athalie M’lle Rachel added another laurel to the wreath already acquired here, The performance of M’lle Lia Felix, also, was re- ceived with marks of approbation. Aside from a few im- perfections in the choruses of the “Puritani,”’ the entire performance was unexceptionable. After the opera there was any number of bouquets, andan enthusiastic habitué let off a pair of white doves at Mme, La Grange. Tue Pysv xp Harrisox Troure 1x Brooxtyy.—The farewell concvrt of this popular troupe at Boston, on Thurrday evening, was crowded, They perform this evening in Browklyn for the benefit of Mr. Brough. After that they start on their Southern tour. Marine Affairs. Desrarcti —The clipper schooner North Point, Capt. A. R, Swain, belonging to Messrs. Johnson & Lowden, which arrived at thiy port yesterday from Rio de Janeiro, has made one of the quickest voyages on record. She eft the Caper on the 18th of August last, and arrived off the Hook on the 12th inst., and was blown off for three days, thus actuully accomplishing the voyage In eighty- ix days Ing laid at Rio twelve ays. Het onal sailing consequently, was only seventy-four days, The North Point this, her first voyage, has doae by creiit mit only to her builders, Moist Lawrence & Fouiks, of Williamsburg, but also to her wosthy Captain, A. Riker wain. Late reom Conacoa.—The bark Venus, Capt. Atkinson, arrived )« sy morning from Curacoa, Oetober 25, re- porte ne it at that plice. At Bonaire, about 3,000 barrels. te, The cholera was spreading all along the sea coms of Veneane Heart or Nowvoux.—The reports that the fever bad returne 4 Vortemouth are entirely without fonndation. tors may th out of five to six thousand in! who have returned within the past four weeks, cniy about twelve cases of fever have oc- curred, and ‘hose wore instances where peopla went int houwes whic been ventilated after having bean shut up for three months, RVATOR AT CHARLOTTE.—The the mouth of the Geno ie River, r gave Way 02 Sumtay, and nadian wheat then in store about 10,000 beshels of go to Pars, leaving him a clear feld. ance in New York SCs tog pumas, Mite second eppearante ar Hee yee Me aaa ge ca Pe y ev loi, for ths drs cated Ae OVE AND REVENGE eae ° OR, A TALK OF THE SOUTH, ‘Atler which will be Knowles’ play of ibe ‘WIFE ; Julien St. Pierre: indi; tation, PRICES OF ADMISSION :—P% circle, and second circle, 80 cents. Secured seals In balcony and otches tra, 50 cents ‘Third its. Private boxes, $1¢ ‘Tickets for sale at Hall & Sous musle ‘and at tho bot an ee te i gg onnners Open at 6 o’c'ock, Performance to commence at 734. It might be held that as most of the persons engaged. in this representation do not act for a livelihood, a close criticism upon their efforts would be out of place. But it will be noticed that money was taken for admission, and that therefore they should be used according to their deserts. The audience included about a thousand persons, mostly quid nuncs and friends of the amateurs. But they were not treated with any leniensy on this ac- count, It is so pleasant to see one’s friend make himself ridiculous, and to quiz him that you dined with the day before yes'erday, ‘The new American tragedy is one of the most remark- able pieces of dramatic writing that we have ever seen. It is truly, like the celebrated play, “Pyramus and This- be,” most tragical mirth. We endeavored conscienti- ously to find out what it was about, but failed. We saw two maidens, neither of them remarkable: for personal beauty—a desperate tyrant with a passion for murdering whole families—a hero in a most remarka- ble pair of trowsers, who dies several times in the course ot the piece, and numerous guards who always came on the stage when they were not wanted, and resolutely persisted in steying away when they were needed. The tyrant is a mysterious Mexican officer, in boots and breeches, who has murdered all the hero’s family. The hero is in love with one of the maidens, who, he says, “had a hand in it,” and he turns up suddenlysto take his revenge, some of which he gets. The play was fear- fully and wonderfully made, and was most vilely acted. Mr. Bennett, the author, should take a lesson from the terrible flasco of last night, and never attempt to act again. Part of the play transpires on board a ship. The scene represented a Gothic chamber. ‘he hero en- tered fighting a desperate combat with these queer short. basket-hilted swords, which were never used anywhere except on the stage. He has carried the vesvel by boart- ing. Ore of the maidens has hidden herself, R, H. E., No. 1, The hero finishes off his antagonist, who dies. near the prompt place. The hero then picks up & guitar, and begins to sivg—that was not so bad, ox- cept that he did, not emg in the right key, and: was always out of time. After the song is over, the corpus is carried off But we will not attempt. to detail the incidents. Suficit, that the audiance roared with laughter, that there were thunders of ironical applause, and that Burton never did anything half so funny as this trogedy. We should be glad to find a commendable point either in the acting or the play. The stage business all went. wrong: there were some twenty varieties of costume, and the whole affair was richer than any burlesque. Mr. Bennett, who is said to be a most ertimable person, bas certainly no ‘all’ to the stage. He speaks the lines, but has no apparent iden of acting, properly speaking. In the last scene, where several people die, without betog touched, be made a long speech, (alter being stabbed and losing a button from his jacket.) referring to Cuba and other topics, political, Iccal and social, and then laid own quietly and expired, Mr. Bennett appeared after the seeond act in front of the curtain, and made an epology for the contre temps on the stage, which he sad was owing to the fact thot there had been no rehesrsals. He also said that the audiense must know he could not write such stuff as thoy had heard. This was evidently a gratuitous assumption, as many persons in the audience had never beard of him, They laughed again, of course. After the tragedy, we bad “the condensed adaptation’” of “The Wife.” We may be excused from entering into along notice of this, It was draggy, and sometimes sticky. The only persona who spoke the words or dis- played any animation in acting were Miss Clare and Mr. Smith. The others wore cnly walking sticks, and shaky: at that. ‘The performance was solemn, slow and ponder- ous, so much 0, that nearly half the audience retired alter the secondact. Miss Clare has acted several times. She is a very young woman—a mere child, in fact—with fine eyes, a profusion of flaxen hair, dressed ala Chi- noise (for a Swiss-Halian girl)—a petite, thin, and not well developed figare. Her voice is sweet, but is not anf- ficiently powerfal at present for the stage. Practice will develope it, however. Her performance of Mariana was not good—it was not up tothe mark where anolytica criticism begins, The first scene, in which she was very much frightened, was the best thing of the night. It happened that the very emotion which she really felt was thet which it was necessary for her to counterfeit. She was badly dressed, for which there is no excase, as all the books contain ike description of the proper cos- tume. Miss Clare also imitates the mannerisms of a well known American actress, whom she resembles. There peculiarities are faults, and we have no doubt that Mies Clare’s prototype would be gind to get rid of them. We thin that Mies Clare has talent, but it will be time enovgh for her to play the Julias and Marianar. in two or three years from now. We have no hesitation in predicting that ifske ix not spoiled she will eveatually be successfal on the stage. Mr, Smith was good, at {imes, In St. Pierre, He displayed considerable abitude de Ia scene, and. gave the words so that they could be under stood. Nobedy ele did that during the evening, an@ we were grateful to Mr. Smith, His chief errors were in redundancy of gesture and oceasional over- acting, ‘The performance was full of queer incidents, such as a maiden looking over a ship's side pensively and fright- ening off a mild pirate who came to seize her; scenes were cut off in the middle: Miss Clare had to prompt the: Duke of Mantua while that dignitary was seated oo tre vice-regal throne. Everyboty, we believe, was satiaded, and thought {t funny for the first two hours. The re. ceipts, we are told, exceeded the expenses to the arnount of $35. —<_______ Ninio’s Garpry—M'piie Ractret,—Duymas’ play, “Made. moiselle de Delle Isle,’” was produced here on Tharatay evening, with M’lle Rachel in the principal part. The play is in five acts, by the elder Dumas, 2nd wave first acted at the Theatre Frangais, sixteen years agu, when be was in favor with the powers, and able to get his pleces played at the official house, M’lle Mars was the original Gabrielle, and Rachel succeeded to the part in 1842 or *49, The scene is Inid in the time of Louis XV., at Chamiiily. The father of Gabrielle is in the Bastille, and her brothare have lodgings in the same interesting institution. M’le Gabrielle comes to Chantilly, where the court iv Tusticating, with the landable o%ject of gainiag » pard-o for her relatives, She is very protty, and ix closly fol- lowed by the profiigate, finical, witty, foppish, brave Due de Richelieu. ‘The Duke has been the last passfoa of the Marquise de Prie, mistross of the Premier. iced by the youth and freshness of the Belle Isle, he fatente to leave the Marquise, and while in her house wagsrs that he Will make an assignation at midnight with the rst pret'y woman he meets, That happens to be Gabrielle, who has come to visit DePrie, om account of her sapposed in- fluence with the Prime Minivter. He obtains Gabrielle's consent te an interview in the evening, after he has seen the minister, and the Marquise promises him her nutlet- ance. The Duke's bet has been taken by the Chovatter @Aubigny, who !s engage! to be married to Gabrinlle. The Marquise writes t> the Duke, and he, never heving seen her caligraphic feats, supposes the latter to come from Gabrielle, The Marquise now goes to work to oat wit bim. First, she induces Gabrielle to take lotgtngyat the cartle. Next De Prie promises the Duke that she will Instead of that, was preiplieted into the ai re a —— loss. Tue | bowever, she procures permission for Gabrielic to see her eS Sorter th nhs fo Mae tent) | futher at Paris, sende her off, and taker bor place, Gi Tike bolting, elmo tho ene mas alling i Uivlie fe only too haopy to cee the ancient ¢:p'iva, and river. readily promises secrecy a» long as the Dyke de Row