The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1855, Page 4

4 Se EEE EE EEE REET NEW YORK HERALD. JaMES GORDOV RENNVETT, PROPRIEYOR AND EDITOR. Wy ice NX. W. CORNBR OF NAGSAU AND FULTON STB. TERMS cash in advance. PUE DAILY HERALD, 2 conte per copy, $7 per EBKLY HERALD, rocry Saluray, 0€ 634 conia por ‘amauia; the European aiition, _ bocoenke r rs Great Hiruata, ov $6 t0 any part of the Continent, Lath tite puaye, SSLUATARY CORRESPONDENOB compuimng 6 eeus snc gog. quarter of the, sortbe'? used he Jerreity paid for. Kk FOREION CORRESPONDENTS ARB RUCCLeTED TO BRAL ALL LETTSUS AND PACKAGED annum, bs PasmGeasLr NO NOLICE trie of anonymous communications. We donot ree NS TRTING eneculed with neatness, cheapness and deo oe vER TISEMENTS renewed evory day. SROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Lucaxria Borata— Bo Panis aNd BACK. SOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Nirrap in tam Bop-Tur Warre Woir~Foxtuny's Faoue. YORTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Sru Waren Bons Dexr—Viix ins aND mis Diwan, ALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—DowsGrr—Mamirest eA Toux oF 4 LoVe, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, “ Broadway—Eraioriun Per- NCES, CKLEY’S BURLESQUE OPSRA HOUSK, 539 Broad- war Buatssacy Orta axD Neato Ieinsenensy, MECHANIOS) HALL, 472 Broadway~Pror, Macariasran’s femars MAciours. AGADEMY HALL, 663 Broadway—Barriz or Busxer ou. HALI—ToUR or HOROPR—£1eGE oF Beaastoron. lew York, Monday, November 19, 1855. The News. The Cahawba arrived here yesterday morning with news from Havana to the 13th instant. Our correspondents unite in saying that the health of the island was excellent, and all political excitement veemed at an end. The Captain-General had is- sued a decree defining the course to be pursued by captains of mail steamers seeking to enter the port after sundown. Winn and Chauncey, the American sailors, had been condemned to serve three years in the chain gang, without a form of trial. A new ar- rangement had been made respecting the importa- tion and apprenticeship of African negroes, caleu- lated to pleare the hypocritical philanthropy of England. Severe! crimes bad been committed in the city. From Buenos Ayres we have news to the 8th of September. It was found that there would be a de- ficit in the revenue amounting to $5,600,000, and the government had veen authorized to draw a sum from the deposits in the bank sufficient to cover it The interest on the English loan had been doubled. A property tax was about to be raised. The Indians had made two successful inroads on the southern frontier. The market for dry goods had improved. Later news from Montevideo, to evening of 5th of September, is important. A cannonade had been heard in the direction of that city, and it was thought that General lores and his opponents had engaged The Commercial Commission was again about to visit Flores’ camp, with a view to mediation. Active preparations were being made for the de- fence of the capital. The Brasilians observed an equivocal sort of neutrality, and a delegation was about to start for Rio in order to question the Im- perial government as to its exact position. A war With Brazil wonid be popular. , From Washington we learn that the rumor rela- tive to the di:miseal of Mr. Crampton, the British Minister, is without foundation,.and that the difti- culty between the two governments will be amicably adjusted. Our correspondent states, however, that it may be necessary for the British government to yeca]] Mr. Crampton, who, it is understood, has manifested a desire to that effect, even should he be entirely exonerated from blame or complicity in the matter of enlisting men forthe Crimea. The Union is out with a long article, denouncing Gardner, Sumner, Seward, &c. It also avers that the dele- gates from New York who adhere to the Buffalo platform of 1848, will find no admission into the Ciucinnati Convention. Our Baltimore correspondent states that seven persons lost their lives bythe recent condagration at Alexandria. Five of them were members of the Star Fire Company, one of the Relief Company, and the other a colored man. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, as candles, sa- torated with camphene, and trains of gunpowder were found. The store was insured for twenty thou- sand dollars, whilst its valne is said to have been about five thousand. Two persons had been arrest- ed, charged with being the incendiaries. Quite an affecting scene was witnessed yesterday afternoon in the Second District Police Court. It seems that a young woman, about seventeen years of age, a domestic in the house of a Mr. Campbell, was met by her mother as she was about entering a Sabbath school, who endeavored to detain her and imduce her to go home with her. This the girl re- feed to do, and the parties eventually found their way to the police court, where the Justice decided the girl was at liberty to do as she liked. The mother was so much affected by the decision, that she swooned in court. Read the account in another column. In ancther column will be found quite an interest- img eccount of the proceedings of the Kansas Free State Convention, in session at Topeka. A chal- Jenge bad passed between one of the members of the convention, Mr J. H. Lane, and Mr. G. P. Lowry ; bat the meeting, which was to have come off immediately, had been postponed until a future day. We give, in another part of this day’s paper, some very useful political information, and a comparison of the vote of New York and Philadelphia, the vote of the State and the complexion of the State govern- ment. The Grand Council of the American party of Senth Carolina has recommended the subordinate lodges in that State to disband, and absolve the members from their obligations. The olla podrida of correspondence which we poblich to-day on foreign, domestic, political, reli- gioue and personal matters, will prove to be in- teresting and perhaps instructive to our readers. The mai) bag which was made up at the Philadel- phia Post Office for Buffalo, was discovered near the Kensington depot on Sunday morning. When fonnd t bad been cut open and robbed of its moet valuable of foreign goods imported into Boston ig on Saturday, November i7, wae t Including tome lots, not previously reported, the rales of cotton Saturday reached about 1,000 bales, the market closed fm without further change in prices. Flour, for good common to extra State brands, again advanced from €}°.a 12L¢. per bbL, with toleratly free sales, both to the Comostis trade ane for export. Good to prime lots of wheat we 2e, to Se. higher. Indian corn closed at ag) Pork was steady withont change in prices. are were firm, but some less active, as holders stuck out for prices above the views of buyers. Freigits were steady, with a fair amount of engagements. Owing to a rumor that England had prohibited the #xportation of caltpetre, both from England and Caleutta, the article became buoyant in this mir Ret, and sales of both ernde and refined have been made at improved prices. Business in the cotton market at New Orleans op Satwday was somewhat checked in consequence of the light supply. The sales were 5,500 bales, at firm prices. The woo) market at Providence for the last week Sg represented to have been steady, with very light wales, amounting to only 27,000 lbs. Printing clothe had been more active, the sales reaching 17, #0 pieces. Cotton had advanced one quarter of a cent, and 2,00 bales bad foand purchasers. gw YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 18655. The Presidential Question —Dem yacic Movements North and South—P gonenan or Wise—The Casting Vote W! on martin Van Ruren. For the information of ou, yeade.sof all parties, we lay before thera in this reper an interesting chapter of ey.cracts in reference to the policy and the ticket of the democratic party for the approaching grand campaign of 1856, At the head of this chapter we place the cali for the meeting by the National Executive Committee at Washington, on the eighth of January next, for the purpose of appointing the day for the opening of the National Con- vention at Cincipnati. We give this prece- dence to this call because of the time and place selected for the consultation of this Executive Committee. One would think that Baltimore, Philadelphia, or New York, or Albany, or Harrisburg, or any other place would answer well crough for the mere settle- ment of the day for the meeting of the Cincin- nati assemblage ; and that it could be as well determined upon at once as on the eighth of January. But upon a little reflection, it will be seen that there is something more in this call than the last Thursday in May or the first Monday in June. This Executive Committee at Washington will have the benefit of the counsels of the democratic members of Con- gress from all sections of the Union, (to say notbing of the Kitchen Cabinet,) and thus they will not only be perfectly posted up as to the best time for the grand pow-wow at Cincinnati; but they will be enabled to lay their plans for packing the convention, and for cutting out and drying all the work of the ticket and platform of the party. In this light, the meeting of this Executive Committee will probably be more important to #e hope. ful democracy than their Natioual Conven- tion itself, which, very likely, may have no thing more to do than to ratify the ticket and the resolutions by those twenty or thirty pa- triotic committeemen at Washington, Next, we give a powerful blast from a Vir- ginia Gemocrat, through the medium of the Richmond Enquirer, in favor of Henry A. Wise for the succession, against the field. Accord- ing to the plea of this earnest writer, it is ma- nifest that Mr. Pierce is utterly unavailable, and Cass, Donglas, Marey and Buchanan— that, in fact, even Daniel S. Dickinson himself is out of the question, because, considering the present exigencies of the South, no Northern man whatever will suit. The reason, too, is honestly given. The Know Nothings, it is supposed, will run a candidate in both sec- tions, and will take care that their Southern wan is a thorough-going fire-eater on the slavery question, which is to be the absorbing and solitary issue in the South. If, then, the democratic nominee shall be a Northera man, how could the party hope to carry him in the South against a Southern slaveholder, pledged in his nearest and dearest interests and social relations, to Southern rights and Southern in- stitutions even to seceasion, if necessary? Ac- cordingly, the democratic candidate must be from the South, to hedge off the Southern Know Notbing ticket, and Henry A. Wise as great a fire-eater as the best of them, is the man of all men for the crisis. Thus much for the significant appeal and argument adopted and promulgated by the Richmond Enquirer, the central organ of the Virginia democracy. Virginia gave the North their candidate in 1852— picked him ont and secured his nomina- tion— and cen the North deny her demand in 1856 A nice question. From another extract in our miscellaneous chapter aforesaid, it will be scen that the leading democratic organ of South Carolina, the Charleston Mercury, is dead set against the representation of that State among thy spoils- men at Cincinnati. The Palmetto chivalry must keep clear of that mercenary horde, and stand aloof, free to act as exigencies may re- quire. This is certainly the true policy of South Carolina; for her absence from the Cin- cinnati Sanhedrim will do more to bring our Northern soft shell spoils democracy to the line than would the presence and influence of all ber General Commanders and General Quattlebums put together. Next it appears, from the Philadelphia Penn- sylvanian; that with a few exceptions for Dallas, the Keystone democracy are universally and enthusiastically devoted to Mr. Buchanan, and will not take “no” for an answer. At the convention at Baltimore of 52, when Penn- sylvania was called upon from morning till night, and from day to day, until that memo- rable Saturday afternoon when Virginia led off in the stampede for Franklin Pierce, the inevitable response to the call for the vote of Pennsylvania was “James Buchanan, twenty- seven votes!” But what could Pennsylvania do, when there was a rush, all of a sudden be- tween Cass men and Douglas men, Marcy men and Dickinson men, to see which could be first after Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, in throwing up their caps for Franklin Pierce? So now, we apprehend, that if Virginia insists upon it, as a sine qua non, Pennsylvania must go for Wise, and leave Mr. Buchanan to culti- vate his health and his hopes for four years longer. The Kasiern (Maine) Argus is good enough to inform the democracy that Mr. Pierce is not engaged in mancuvring or pipe-laying for the succession; but says that if the convention cannot do better, he is ready to accept its suf- frages and serve another term. An old demo- cratic Senator, on the occasion of the veto of Mr, Clay's bank bills, was asked bya colleague, “What sball we do with Captain Tyler?” “Recognize him, and do the best we can for him till we meet in comvention.” “And what then?’ “What them, do you ask; why, then we must Jet him go, and nominate e else.” We think this will apply at Cinetnoat in 1°56. But our Maine coatem; us that no such mistake as tion of Con. Cass in 1848, ic perty in New York, and los! ‘hem the election, will he committed ag: If this be so, then Mr. Pioree, Gea. Cass, Judge Douglas, Dickin- on and Marcy, are all out of the available talocue, for the New York democracy cannot be united upon any of these; aud the contesting list of the prominent aspirants is reduced to Bnchenan Wire. Should Virginia consent to a compromise with Penurylvania, the ticket may possioly be Buchanan for Presideut and Wise for Vice President ; but aoless come understanding of that sort shall have heen arranged in advance of the Cincinnati Convention, its ticket will probably be an unexpected and hap-hazard concern, like that of 144 or that of 1852, It will be part of the business, then, of the Na. tional Executive Democratic Committee at ‘Washington, on or hefore the eighth of Janu- ary, to consult with the friends of Mr. Wise and Mr. Buchanan upon this question of a compromise ; for what with soft shells and hard shells, and the blunders of Mr. Pierce, and the Nebraska bill, and various old sores, all the other outstanding candidates are per- haps too much crippled to run the gauntlet at Cincinnati, do what we may for them. We may be mistaken, bnt from all the lights at present before us, the living chances of the democratic nomination seem to be narrowed down to a choice between Buchanan and Wise. Will our venerable ex-President Martin Van Buren accept Mr. Wise? That doubt settled satis- factorily, Virginia has the game in her hands. Would it not be well, in this view of the mat- ter, for some one of the Democratic National Executive Committee to call by at Linden- wald on his way to Washington? It may save a world of trouble, for nothing can be done towards a reunion of the New York Democra- cy, without the consent of Martin Van Buren. The Organization of the House of Represen- tativeA Best Question. The next Congress will be composed of what is termed the hard and soft democrats, the Know Nothings or Americans, the whigs, the abolitionists or republicans, and perhaps a few impraticables or vagrants, Its organization will be a test which will show the assimilation of the respective members to the two radical extremes of these various parties, Those ex- tremes are, on the one side, the strict non- interventionists—tbose who look upon the slavery question as having, in fact, been settled by the constitution—those who advocate popu- lar sovereignty, who believe that the people directly interested in slavery are the only pro- per parties to decide the question of its e: istence or non-existence in the States and iv the Territories——those, in truth, who look upon the agitation of the subject as a mere trick of trading, gambling politicians. On the other side are the black republican abolitionists, who enter the field as bitter enemies of that institution, as revilers of those who sustain it, and in avowed hostility to all laws and consti- tions throngh whose instrumentalities it is per- petuated. They make an issue—they form a party, they declare war upon the question of American slavery, with a single purpose of destroying it. They declare it to be “deroga- tory from the rights of human nature; and that nohuman power can subvert those rights.” This is the soul of the black republican league» as announced by Mr. Seward at Buffalo. Now it is obvious that within these extremes is to be found the other parties. The organi- zation of the Houee of Representatives will bring them out. It will be the crucible to try their metal, the chemical analysis of their con- stituent parts. The Americans, the softs and the whigs, thus surrounded by the national men in one direction and by the abolitionists in tke other, each striving for the mastery, will be compelled to choose between them. The Know Nothings, who at Philadelphia, ad- hered to the twelfth section, it is clearly un- derstood, will promptly take ground against the republicans ; and it is not easy to see what ground they can take except the one occu- pied by those who are strictly non-interven- tionists. We give the bases in extenso, upon which the adherents of the twelfth section intend to be guided in the organization of the House of Representatives. It is a clear and explicit de- claration, and coming as it does from the great hody of the class of Americans who constitute in fact the soul of that party, we see no reason to doubt its adoption by their representatives in Congress and by the national men of all parties, PLAN FOR ORGANIZING THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- ‘TIVES--THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. To call a meeting of ail members of the Ameiican Order who support tke resolutions adoptel by the National Council at Philadelphia, 12th June, 1855. This meeting shail prescribe obedience io those resolu- tions as the test of eligibility to any office or appointment within the power of the House of Repiesentatives. If a sufficient nomber of national Americans cannot be assembled to effect an organization upon the above basis, a conference shall be invited with all members favorable to an crgonization upon the basis of maintaining the ex- isting laws upon the subject of slavery as a floal and con- clurive setth ment of that subje:t. J, tat this conference shall refuse to support any no- winee for any office within the eppointment of the House, who will not take and rudseribe the tollowing declaration cf principle and action :— 1. shat he will obey and enforce. when called on so to do, all laws enacted by the Federal and State Govern- ments, as paramount to any other auihority within their respective and appropriate jurisdictions. %. That he will abide by and maintain the existing laws upon the subject of slavery aso final ant conclusive set- tlement of that subject in spirit and in substance, &. That be will abstain from and ourage the agita. tion of the slavery question 4. That he will confer no subordinate appointment upon any one who will not make and subscribe the foreg ing Ceelaration. I, That the organization (hus effected shall be regard ed asa patriotic truce for tle purpose of preventing le- anarchy, for carrying on the government in ac- cance with the forms ot the constitution, and fr the Nenance of the pub ie peace und dignity aguins! sec- ‘itation. Y at every member who unites in this plaa of organization shall be free to resume his po. ica! relations and waintain his pclitical opinions ay heretofore; nor shall he be bound to any alliance beyond the act of putting the House of Representatives into logisla tive motion. IV. That a committee be appointed to report a lisket in conformity with the principles of this plan of orguniza- tien, presenting ihe names of 5 itable nomihees for the various offices within the appointment of the House of Representatives, It is fortunate that at so carly a day the va- rious political interests so recently developed by the peculiar circumstances of our country, are to be compelled to show their hands. This plan, which is so obviously in the trae spirit of the constitution—which so well harmonizes with the Union sentiment of the country— which drives the agitators and demagognes into Kansas and Nebraska, if they would effect their purposes, even partially—which secures non-intervention, maintains popular rights, the integrity of the States and the peace of the republic, is sure to meet the cordial support of the national democrats and whigs. It is the only conceivable basis upon which the House can be organized. Ayorier Prece or Navan Tyrayyy.--We publish elsewhere the letter of Uriah P. Levy, Feq., late Captain in the United States Navy. Mr. Levy was dropped from the list by the late examining Board, and his letter proves that a grors wrong was done him. Charges preferred against bim before he was promoted to be captain, and settled at that time, previous to his confirmation by a committee of inquiry, who reported in his favor, have been raked up again, and upon them he is condemned. Thisis fully proved by Secretary Dobbin’s letter, who also says that Captain Levy frequently ap- plied for duty, but was always refused. Capt. Levy served the country well in the war of 1812-15, and deserves common justice at least. We have scores of complaints from the ofi- cers maseacred and their friends. There are some very bard cases, and if the executive does not’ret them right, there will be euch an out- side pressure on Congress that the law will be repealed. The sessions of ‘he Board should have beon public. * Awfal Decline of American Diplomacy Causes and Consequences=Polt- vical Jeremy Diddlers and #ast Women. In the letters which we have published with- in the last fortnight from our correspondents in the principal European capitals, a strik- ing coincidence of sentiment has been manifested on one point—namely, the low estimate entertained abroad of Ame- rican diplomacy and” its representatives. This is not the first occasion on which com- plaints of this kind bave been made through the same channel. The niggardly scale on which our diplomatic and consular officers are remunerated, has‘of necessity laid the founda- tion for such statements. Amongst nations, where moral {afluence and position are based almost entirely upon appearances, and where literally no man is esteemed an honest one, unless he has a good coat to his back, it can- not be expected that republican simplicity should find much appreciation. In the person of Franklin, the remarkable genius and cha- racter of the man were only placed in more striking relief by the modesty of his habits and the plainness of his attire. But unfortunately since his time we have had but few diplomatists who could pretend to anything like the same intellectual considera- tion. Tn but too many cases the poverty of official talent bas been on a par with the poverty of official remuneration. Owing to the awkward working of our diplomatic system, our repre- sentatives at the European courts have, in fact, generally speaking, been men who could nei- ther impress by their mental gifts nor by their official splendor, one or other; and indeed amore commonly both of which conditions are, amongst the over refined and luxurious nations of Europe, considered essential to diplomatic efficiency. In a measure, according to the honesty and respectability of the administra- tion of the day, these deficiencies have been more or less manifest, A cabinet having re- gard to the interest of the country abroad usually selected for diplomatic posts men who were possessed either of the qualifications of talent ¢ the additional private resources ne- cersary to sustain such a position. Under ad- ministrations where these offices were the reward of mere partisan services and political subserviency, the persons chosen to fill them were not, of course, those who were exactly calculated to remedy the defects of a system, which, although apparently consistently re publican in theory, became inconvenient and absurd in practice. To the rectification of the anomalies thus created our efforts have been always steadily directed. It did not require the evidence afforded by the injndicious character of the appointments made by any particular administration to direct our no- tice to them. An attentive observation of their results abroad had long since convinced us that the salaries appropriated to our diplo- matic agents were insufficient to enable them to fulfil their functions with that degree of dignity and efficiency which are expected from the representatives of a great nation like this. It is not exactly in character with our preten- sions in other respects that our diplomatists should be reduced to the meanest and most dis- graceful shifts to keep up the appearances which their position entails upon them. The inconvenient necessity of dodging a bailiff or keeping out of the way of a dun, is somewhat calculated to interfere with the coolness, self- possession, and clearness of perception, to say nothing of the social condition, which the dis- charge of such important political duties re- quires. And yet at this climax of personal and official misery, if we are to credit the state- ments of our correspondents, American diplo- macy in Europe has very generally arrived. Owing to the extraordinary character of the appointments made by the administration of General Pierce, the evils already resulting from a confessedly bad system have been ten- fold aggravated. Not contented with select- ing, with some few creditable exceptions, men without talent or political reputation, it has thrust into these diplomatic posts adventurers entirely without means, and, in some instances, deeply in debt. The consequence is, that we have had the honor of furnishing European diplomacy with a class of unfortunates, whose consideration in the capitals to which they have been accredited is on a level with that of the Jeremy Diddlers of the stage. Lamentable as is such a state of things, we have not as yet touched upon its worst and most degrading feature. T'rom circumstances which have recently come to our knowledge, it appears that not only have the interests of the country abroad been recklessly sacrificed to the necessities of political partisanship, but that its honor bas been prostituted to the lust and wantonness of official depravity. It will hardly be credited, but it is not the less a fast, that either the State Department at Washing- ton, or some of its diplomatic agents in Europe, gave, last summer, passports under false names to several kept and disreputable women of this and other cities, furnished by certain corrupt politicians, In some half-dozen of these false passports were assumed the names not only of some of the best kuown and most respectable families of this city, but of other parts of the Union. Under the protection of these documents these women, having plenty of money to spend, made the tour of Europe in the most agreeable and distingu’ manner pos sible, receiving the ready attentions of \me ean diplomats on their way; visiting in th best European families in conseque leaving, no doubt, wherever they went, a impression of the refinement and moval purity of our fair countrywomen. These startling facts were first brought under the notice of the French and English governments in course of some curious discoveries made by the Paris police; but nefarious as they ure, Louis Napo- Jeon and Lerd Palmerston only laughed at them, feeling satisfied that nothing could be more calculated to throw discredit on repub. lican institutions and advance their own poli- tical objects There can be no doubt that the circulation of bese scandals—for they are now common)y talked of in European circles—has contributed more than any other cause to bring about the state of things described by our cor- respondents, How can we oct that foreign- ers should entertain a very high opiaion of in- stitutions which send abroad ench represen- tatives as we have de = — General Webb only made a call on the republicans—he had no idea at all of remaining with them for any length of time. After paying his respects in the most civil and diplomatic manner to the ties of political intercourse requiring that he should say a few very pretty things about the juvenile republic ans, and there was no harm while he was with them in aiding them to get up a sham fight, just for the amusement of the country. Sometnine Anovt tua Funp.—We have made several inquiries during the past seven years as to the disposition of the fund of thirty thou- sand dollars raised to aid the Irish revolution which did’nt come off. The directory here, Greeley, O’Conor, Emmet, and several others, said they intended to keep the fund intact in order to help another set of patriots in their herculean efforts to “ free Ireland.” That was vague, but that was all we could get. Now it is stated that some of this fund (it is now forty thousand dollars) has been used for the or- ganization and arming of the secret Irish libera- ting clubs, which have caused such a tremen- dous panic in Downing street. They caused the sending out of the West India squadron and the bombast of the London Times, We should be glad to know how much it all cost. The Times wrote its articles to frighten Young America. The contrary was the effect. Young America seemed perfectly delighted with the remote probability of a war with Eng- land, and the English were terribly frightened, The Irish Directory’s money, they say, gave us this pull upon Mr. Bull, and perhaps Greeley will favor the anxious subscribers with some account of the expense of the farce, and tell us how the rehearsals progress. There has been something very queer about the directory from the first, but its last attempt is the queer- est of all. THE LATEST NEWS. BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPES. News from Washington. MR. CRAMPTON AND THE PRESIDENT—REPORT OF HIS DISMISSAL UNFOUNDFD— THE UNION ON GARD NER, SUMNER, SEWARD AND THE BUFFALO PLAT- RM. a Wasmxcros, Nov. 18, 1855, All the reports in circulation in reference to the dis- miseal of Mr. Crampton by the President are “bosh.”” I have it from gentlemen high in authority that the Presi- dent never contemplated any such idea. It is understood by the administration that the difficul- ty will be amicably arranged, and that it may perhaps be necessary for the British government to withdraw Mr. Crampton, I understand he has manifested a desire to be recalled, even though it may be settled in a manner that will entirely exonerate him from blame or com- plieity. The news by the next steamer is anxiously looked for here in diplomatic circles, as it is believed upon that hinges important matters. To-Cay’s Union contains another lengthy and prosy article, written by Cushing, in which he takes occasion to give Sumner and Gardner, of Massachusetts, a few back- handed raps, and Seward and company particular ‘‘Josse.”” ‘The Union also contains an article on the result in New York, in which it says,'that ic is idle to suppose that delegates avowing their adherence to the Buffalo platform of 48—meaning softs—can find admission into the Cin- cinz ati Convention, ‘The Know-Nothings of South Carolina. Caarumeron, Nov. 17, 1855. The Grand Council of the American party in this State recommends the subordinate lodges to disband and ab- tolve their members from their obligations. The Fire at Alexandria—Seven Lives Lost. Barmors, Nov. 18, 1855. The fire at Alexandria caused the death of seven per- sons, Five of them were members of the Star Fire Com- pany ; one of the Relief Company, and one a colored man. The fire was deliberate incendiarixm. Candles, saturated with camphene, and trains of gunpow‘er Jeadirg to the crockery crates, were found. Mr. Dowell and two of his clerks have been arrested, and are charged with being the incendiaries. Mr. Dowell had his stock insured for twenty thousand dollars, while its valueis taid to be but five thousand. Mail Robbery. Pmapmtrma, Nov. 18, 1855. The bag containing the mail which was made up at the Post Office for Buffalo, was found this morning near the Kensington depot, cut, and rifled of the most valua- Vie portion of its contents. A Snow Storm in Boston. Boston, Nov, 18, 1855. About one inch of snow fell here last night, but soon disappeared. The weather has been clear and cool to-day. Importations at Boston. Bostoy, Noy. 17, 1865. The following is 4 statement of the yalue of f goods imported here for the week ending yesterday: Dry good... 098 Iron and steel 185,723 30,594 Total...... Markets. New Onueans, Noy. 17, 1855, 4. Busiaess is Fair sugar sells Cotton fim. Sales torday. 8,600 ty checked in conrequence of a light s\ at 64 a 6Xe. Prov inence, Noy: 17, 1855, The sales of cotton for the week have been about 2,500 Veles, at 4. advance over last week's prices. The wool market is steady, with very light sales, amounting to 27.0€0 Ibs. Printing cloths have been more active, Sales of the week 47,9¢0 pieet Onr Washington Correspondence. Wasuixoron, Nov, 15, 1855. The Avistocracy of Democracy=. Doings at our Repub- lican Court—The Duty of Praying for our Rulers Incut- General Davis and the Army—Mr. Dotbin ana Chaos in the Pot Office——Mushiomable Pros for the Winter--Horace Greeley anil his Awovinte Female Profesiore—How the Prestlent Feels About the Navy Bill, de., de, Washington ie on t polit f expecta‘ion. nd fashion are resting on x est the good time toc bh small game her top to shoot rice birds the tald eagle the price of sugare enav mize the doings 0 4 up our hands at the gramleur of an aristocratic de- mocraty. For we have ultra-style now at court-cere- mony and retinue beyond all that has gone Lefre. Our churches have Leen well filled to day in observ of Thackegiving. have been preached, for everything here must have a dash of pall- # The very crow for offize, One « lorgy men dee jo his people this morning the duty of pray- ng firtheir rulers. Ho said. th othe rulers were he more pr were to be offi hem, aud Fever wae the neceseity of prayer sy urgent av now, when njustice stalke throzgh the fand, and our old men ant fore nem are thrust aside for foreigners, who have not bet of libecty. This is true; while ur Presi’ent site at home comnting the chances of re- tion Marcy jolls ia bigarmcbair eogitating aboot will do to England, France and Spain. Guth foning his own policy in reducing so many fem lcen peverty, because, in this count rh dared to'use the privilege for wh! ught—the privilege of thinking for con‘erds about petty pointe of military etiquette so strange is the destiny that assigns meu their Me world, bas the power to eurry bit potats mander-in-chitf of the Americac army, amor Gossips about oars’ to enjoy We ave not t our republican court; ome, anee Political sermons for up for ane position jn thi gaint Wie Cor: bn vld wan, and the grestest soldier of the » suye Favie Inoks to de Commander-In-chicf hln-eif whoo itt has aid dow bie arms, for the first time, « cea te whom all ust yield. Well, throu, ao wwoy has lost recently one of ite ms! v and dis tinguished offcers: and many other miita-y men have cedarien to vemember with whit little discrerton and eave tideratfon for them be used the brie’ authority i+w ish reened bisa up. , With his feeble health, is pressiog forw rompiste the steainers now balldine, Livery et bove thets rondy for wea invnche reserved for ton abolitionists, the gallant General returned home to the ‘snfibicane. Tt was only the comi- and they haye to hi i ve mrry and children are alive. Letters that ved are lying here or somewhere in the . Pe from the South who come to our city en. route fer the North, wait days here for letters that should ‘be waiting for them, then go to Now York, transact their business as can, come back, and remaining another twoor three days, get the ‘letters that have lair here a fortnight. Who can cisprove thie? In order t fo this letter to you, I shall go up to the office and par- icularly request it to be for at the earliest con- venience, Strangers are crowding in already, Willard’s and the lesser lights are putting up their gal'anlpooes, The new Spanith Minister and many others are making them- comfortable for the winter. Escalante does not rom the old, worn out families of Spain, from hitterto chosen their tives at foreign courts. He belongs to the new school. If he have a contemplative mind, where in the scale will he a the Fesroen ty he, 8 here?—for Presi lent Pierce a8 & swee' yr MMeestry, as many ¢f his ay int- mente for Wost Point will testify. Nor these oe as oar politi- sells well, and in anticipation ‘of « the young ladies tide with ‘Th rsini of ae Polk, Engl . health, of our citizens have been abroad this sutomer. They? ace all coming home. ip hy pene 3 banker, Mr. Corcoran, will be here soon with his daughter; they were in Paris during the a of bay ia heel poetic Rachel vd 8000 ere. Every ne} book a price, and the Freseh professors have enough to do. “the maide in Dining themselves for the season, require to be allowed time to attend to their French studies, and many of them, on being arked their names, answer Rar-charel, with & sweeping curteey. Horace Greeleyism has found its way here, too. Wo- men are lecturing on our plattorms, Oh! the doctors | the doctors ! Imust go end hear them. Do they wear gowrs? the dear professors! Do they strut and look majestic? Why not? The word fool is not always in the masculine. ye: 1 bave not told you how it is worse and worse about the navy bill—and how the army men take good long brea ‘hs (for there {s no dangar of an inquisitin about them, atter the way the country has ived this)—and now President Pierce wishes one navy officer would como to see him who was pleaced with the navy bill, and how— but my time is out, and my paper for the present, . CYRIL, Worek axp Worse. ispmecTED Lerrers.—WVe called the attention of our readers, on Thursday last, to the number of letters mis-directed to this city, belonging to firms in Boston. By an inspection of the advertised list of letters, published in the Hunaup on Friday last, it ap pears that the number mis-directed to firms only ix double that of the week previous, being sixteon in one week, In the last list will be found the following;—J A. and W. Bird & Co., J. 8. Gardner & Co., Marsh, Jor dan & Co., Burr, Brothers; Geo. W Abbott & Co., San- born, Carter & Bazin; Blake, Hare & Co. ; Simpson & Cald- well, Geo, Darling & Co., Town, Hendrick & Co.; Fiske & Noreross, G. W. Warren & Co., Geo. Griggs & Co., Whit- ney, Lane & Washburn; Chas. Griffiths & Co., Railway ‘Times, &e., &e. This, for Boston only ! Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities have their share as well. Votes or New YORK AND PHILADELPHIA.—The Philadel phia papers have published a comparative table af votes. given by New York and Philadelphia at the recent elec- tions, in order to prove that the latter ci'y is coming clote on the heels of New York in point of population. ‘The following is the table produced:— Philadelphia—total vote, 1855 New York—total vote, 1854. New York over Philadelphia. 1,556 The vote last year, when in both Sta was a. candidate for Governor to be chosen, shows quite a dif- ferent result. The vote then stood as follows:— Philadelphia—total vote, 1854 53,815 New York—total vote, 1854.. + 60,516 New York over Philadelphia......0...6......44+ 6,700 But the number of votes polled depends too much upon local circumstances to be any true guids in regerd to the population of » city. Political In mee. THE VOTE OF THE £TATE, AND THE STATE GOVERN- MENT. The vote of the State, ax tar as the official returns have: been received, and which embrace all but two countios— Steuben and Tompkins—foots up tor Secretary of State as follows:— Headley, Know Nothing. King. abolition........ Hatch, administration dem, Wayd, national dem..... «+ 54,324 85,850 «141 993. Total vote, Adwinistration dem. vote in 1854. Administration Cem, vote in 1856. , Adwinutration lows in one year..........-.... The Albany Journal givos the following as the pall.tea) complexion of the State government after the Int of January next:— The Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treavnrer, Attor- ral and State Engineer, are know nothiags, Senate 1s black repubiisan (in doubt.) The Assembly is d vided between the three parties, the: derwocrats having the most members, the black repabll cans next, and the know ovthings least, but neither party having a majority. The new Jucges of the Court of Appeals are p:obably one democrat, one know nothing. The new Juegos of the Supreme Court are thres democrats, two black repuplicans, and five know noth - ings. Fhene changes aleo produce the following COMMISSIONERS OF THE LAND OF! a The Commissioners of the 1and Office will consist. of five knew nothings, one black republican, ana one- Cemocrat. COMMISSIONERS OF THE CANAL FUND. The Commissioners of the Canal Fund will consist of” fous know nothings and one black republican. BOARD OF PRIZON INSPECTORS. The Board of Prison Inspectors will consist of two black republicans aud one know nothing. " CANAL COMMISSIONERS. The Conal Commissioners will consist of iwo black republicans and one Know Nothing. CANAL BOARD. The Canal Board will consist of six Know Nothiogs and three black republicans, : TRUSTRES OF THE CAPITOL. _ The Trustees of the Capitol will oonsist of thres Know Nothings, two black republicans and one demociat, TRUSTERS OF THE STATE HALL. The Trustees of the State Hall will consist of three Know Nothings, two black republicans and one democrat. alts sae The Albany Argus of the 17th inst. eays:—T: {4 now entirely clear that in the Senate as inthe Assembly no one political party will have a majority, The cliim put forward in some quarters that the fusieniste have a ma Jority of the Senators elected, ia withont foundation. Personal Intelligence. The Terre Haute, Ind., Journal of the 9th fns!,, suys7— Senator Stephen A. Dovilas is stil in oa ety, ab the re- ridence of Dr. Fara Real, unéer his medics! treatment. He bas een much afilicted with a wevere congt, bat we are happy to hear that he is fast improving, and will probatly be able to leave for his home in Chicago next week. Honorable J. J. Crittenden arrived in Phila Saturday alternoon, and ia the evening be was by a party of Americans, General J. W. Whitfield, the delegate elect to Congress from Kansas Territory, was in Nashville, Tean., witn nix family, on the 18th inst., en roue for Wash received a warm greeting from bis numerous tr bis native State. General Jobn A. Dix and wile feaile@.on the 1th inet for Florida, He seeks @ milder Sing the benotit of bis wife’s health, which 1» still quite lieve, ‘The following gontlemen sre tn'Albany, and have taken rooms at Congress Hali:-Honoratte | tr Boncrable Mark Spencer, Honorable A, B. ly!» rable Samuel A. Foote, Honorable James Wels Honorable Wm. Kelley. Tke Queen of Spyin had conferred the sibjon of the erder of Noble Ladies of Maia Loutsa on the Man de Turgot, French em Gos. nmd om Mes, Otway, wile of the Secretary of (he Engtish lega‘ton, on the oces Cf the tabiog of Sebaatspol ee (om OH the O2rarkon ‘The Queen Dowage 20th ult., in the par with vertigo and fe sent fer if was found fracture, however, is Jphia om serenaded ot of a dangerous kind will, it fs hoped, soon be cure). The King avd receiving intelligence of the sc ideut, immed: ceeded to Roversberg, bat returved to Drotts the following day, the siate of the Queen Mothers, no unes ines, The Rev. J. Mahe bas been appointed Romen Cathotts chaplain w the Bri ish troops ia the Orimea. See Mabe has been, for some years, Hoan Cotolie mtra-cice ee tea, where bis temperate Gerneauor and zoala:s wminbs ration among the hi nt pert Ls. pie’ Poor gained him the esteem o: persone ‘The Sultan has sent to Marshal Police’: i sabre, and conferred upon him the fitle of sinter casi Pension of 200 000f. (£8,000) annually, Cardinal Wiseman is Cefintiively « Ate th of Norarlan of the Vatiean” in the plese os cet n° cession 10, the late learned Carina! Mal.” “ Ismael Facha, who wished to Varna, is lying {i at Schumla, will proceed to Silistria, Hosge Dej, phy rived In * have met Omer Pesta at +» Upon his recovery he ofan t vi of Bers a to the Viceroy of Egypt, hav ar-