The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1855, Page 4

4 WEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVOMBER 30. 1855. WEW YORK HERALD. JaM ED GORDON BESNEPT, PROPRIETOR AND SD{TOR. MOTTE MN. W. CORRE OF NASSAU AND FULTON OFS. AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. ROADWAY THRATRE, Breadway—Wavoren's Davas- mi —Lavy oy THE LAKE. WESLO'B GARDEN, Broa¢way—Jocno—Karry—Asrno- a BOWERY THEATRE, Sowery—Tur FuxaLe Gimoren— Porras. BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Sanious Fawy es Topi, WALLACK’) THEATRE, Srosdwey-Tus Dowsces— lawne Teeascne—My BeveND FLOOR. wooun’s 444 Sroadway—-Brmoriuun Pus- py MINSTRELS, , BUCKLEY'S BURLESQUE OF¥RA HOUSER, 099 Broad mp Buuineavs Oracs axy Necro Mivareeisy. THE ALLEGHANIANS, Mechanics’ Hall, 4/2 Breedway— Gencuxr. The Atlantic, now in her thirteenth day from Liver- pool for this port, with one week’s jater news, had not been heard from when our paper went to press. Thanksgiving was very generally observed in this tity yesterday; the courts and public establishments were closed, and al] classes of our citizeus paid the day due respect, by abstaining from business and attending to their religious duties. The weather was fine, and the charches, as a general thing, wely attended. The Five Points attracted a considerable attendance to witness the children at that place go through their exercises. A bountiful dinner was previded for nearly a thousand persons. The chil- dren at Randall’s Island were also feasted. An ac- eeunt of the observance of the day, together with ‘We military parade, will be found elsewhere. Yes- terday closed the Thanksgivings in the United States fer this year. The following table shows the dayson which it was observed in the different States:— Worth Carolina, New Hampshir. Massachusetts, bed Connecticut Belawaro |... “© 92 New Jersey: p Our despatches from Washington inform us that the Know Nothings held a caucus yesterday, in parsuance of the call issued by Thomas R. Whitney and Bayard Clarke, of this State, but no business was transacted. Messrs. Broome, of Penn., and Gampbell, of Ohio, were present ond active in look- ing after their chances for the Speakerrhip. The democrats held a caucus last evening, preliminary to the one to be held to-morrow. The administra tien, it is said, will take Orr, of 8. C., as their can- @idate for Clerk, and the oppesition, in case of a @iecagrecment, will fall back upen Humphrey Mar- shall, of Kentucky. Forney is said to have lost all hopes of re-election, but desires to retain the coi dence of the democratic members, to give him a helping hand in his designs on the Senatorship in Pennsylvania. The black republicans were stitl working to concentrate all the opponents of the ad- ministration in 9 general caucus for the nomination ef officers of the House, and much excitement pro- vailed throughout the city, at the hotels, &c.,in regard to the organization. The President's message will be put in the hands of the printer on Saturday. The uncertainty in regard to the organization of the House was the only difficulty in the way of sending % to the Postmasters of the different cities in ad- ‘vance of its delivery. There was a rumor in Washington yesterday of the death of Judge Douglas, bat which could be traced to no reliable source. The last heard from Judge D. he was at Terre Haute, Ind., where he had Deen sick, but was rapidly improving. Our correspondents at Havana, writing on the ‘4th of November, allude to the great dearth of poli- tical news which prevailed. Quiet appeared to reign all over the island. Some lucky drawings had been made by newly arrived strangers in the royal lottery. The “backing out” of England from her late war alarm position regarding the Dnited States, had acted beneficially on trade, whilst it humbled the political advocates of a Spanish Crimean contingent. The British wreckers who had possession of the American bark Tribune, ashore at Neuvitas, were driven off by a Spanish war brig, and ‘one of them killed. H. B.M. frigate Kurydice had touched at Havana en route for Bermuda, Trade ‘was good. Segars had advanced in price. News from Australia is dated at Melbourne on 25th and Sydney on the 29th August. Flour had again declined in both places, but the market was Jess feverish. It was thought if a further supply @id not soon arrive, that the markets would im- prove. Lola Montes had appeared at the Royal Victoria theatre, Sydney, in a piece entitled “ Lola Montes in Bavaria,” which was loudly applaaded. There is no political intelligence. Our correspondent at San Juan del Norte gives seme further particulars in regard to the Kinney @olony, the organization of the government, and the eorrespondence between Colonel Kinney and the Britich Vice-Consul in regard to the establishment of the colony on the Mosquito shore. Our Nebraska correspondence contains some in- Yeresting details in regard to the census of that Ter- ritory, and the result of the recent election held there. It also speaks of a battle having taken plave between the United States troops under General Barney and the Sioux Indians, in which the latter were defeated. We publish this morning the opinions of some of the French press in regard to the question between ‘this country and Denmark in relation to the payment of the Sound dues, and the convocation hy Denmark of the different countries interested in the question. A perusal of the erticles will give our readers an idea of how the subject is viewed in France. The speech of General Calhoun, delivered at an evening session of the Kansas Pro-Slavery Conven- tion, which we copy from a St. Louis paper, will be found spicy, and the entire report interesting. ‘The steamer Metropolis, of the Fall River line, yesterday morning, about 5 o'clock, ran into the ferry boat Louisa, plying on the Catherine ferry, while the latter was near the slip on the Brooklyn side. The M. struck the ferry boat with such force ng to breek in her hall and shatter her ma¢hinery. A number of passengers were on the ferry boat, all of whom escaped withont injury. One deck hand was injured, but not seriously. Jn consequence of the strong northerly winds, no attempt waa made to raise the wreck of the Eudora, at City Lend, yesterday. A full report of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Revolution of Poland, which was celebrated at the Chinese Assembly Rooms in this city, last eveoing, is given in our paper this morning. Gov. Reeder addressed a meeting at Trenton, N, J., lest evening, on the wrongs of freeménin Kansas, and the advantages of that country for agricultural purpores. A gold medal, intended for presentation to Capt. Ingraham, by direction of Congress, has been struck at the Philadelphia mint, and was yesterday sent to the President. Much excitement prevailed in Philadelphia yes terday, among the parties interested, in consequence of a number of registered letters being missed from the Post Office in that city. Rexewen Assenances or Peace-—Good old Zachary Taylor said in one of his messages to Congrees, “We are at peace with all the world and seek to extend our relations of amity to the rest of mankind.” From all thet we can learn there are « few more messages of the same sort Jeft, and that the annual message of Mr. Pierce will be particularly pacific and oily. Wall vtrect never liad such @ public benefactor. Engitsh Inerventien tn Spanish Amertean The attitude ot England towards Spain; their strong protest against the appointment of Don Domingo Moostich as Governer of Fernando Po, on account of his alleged connection here- tofore with the alave trade; their intervention in Porto Rico; their abrogation of the Clayton- Bulwer treaty, their great projects of daminion in China; the success of Gen. Walker in Cen- tral Amefjca; the anarchy of the Mexican Re- public; in fact their offensive assumption of authority over Spanish American affairs, and their known hostility to the United States, have served to give pecuatiar sigaiticance to the re- lations between us and the Queen’s govera- ment. In fact no question concealed in the future of American progress is more important than hat which invoives the relations between the United States, England, Spain, Mexico, and Central America; and it is doubtfal if there is one that the history of the past is more likely faithfully to interpret. The differences which have risen up between the North and he South, having their origin in the io- rigues of potiticians and place-huaters, apd exposing our system to periodical fevers and hysterical spasms at each recurring elec- tion, amount to nothing compared to the great question of annexation imposed upon us alike by the porition, population and resources of the Union; its enterprise, its peouliar industry and advancement, aud its contiguity to the neigh- boring republic of Mexico, and ita relationship to the island of Cuba and Central America, There are those who deride the popular dogma of manifest destiny; but ia trath it oaly expresses the inevitable progress of oar indus- try, the action of the superior upen inferior races, ihe actual conquests of American labor and enterprise. To set limits to these conquests signifies nothing less than that they shall be put in subjection to some pewor competent aad able to govern them. Such 9 power certainly docs not exist inthis country, and if exercised at all, it must be by the governments of Spain and Mexico, or by the direct intervention of the great States of Europe, with a view of main- taining existing territorial sovereigaties on this continent. Is is enough to refer to the past and to the obvious condition of Spanish Ame- rican and Mexican affairs, to show that neither of these sources ofler any substantial resistance to the tide of population which flows onward in its resistless course. It is then to Barope—to England, in fact— that we must look for active interference ia our internal affaira. The London Times nas just now pompously avowed the purpose of its go- vernment promptly to suppress auy further movement of our people; and that paper tells us that the Palmerston Cabinet had determined to anchor ita navy in mid-ocean to intercept the buccaneering spirit of the country, This is all very well. Mid-ocean is a safe distance from the scene of active operations on the fron- tiers of Mexico, where, if anywhere, offensive aggression is going on. It will require some- thing more than the Baltic fleet to stay the hang of frontier industry; to strengthen the crumbling Spanish monarchy, or intensify “the dissolving views” of Mexican nationality. A bolder policy and a more direct action on the part of the London Cabinet will be fouad ne- cessary to stop the progress of this couatry, and especially to prevent its early conquest of Cuba, Central America and Mexico, That is the issue, and we warn our transatlantic cousins that it is the tendency of the existing state of things in the United States, under the simple laws of population, to produce this result. Diplomatic protests and remonstrances will have no earthly influence upon those laws. Their action has been steady and uniform since the first adventurers, fifty years ago, pene trated the great forests of central and western New York, when the lakes of Cayuga and Sea- eca were given to the dominion ot our people, and “the white woman’s tract” was the object of cager conquest, down to the day when Texas and California became States of the American Union. Nothing short of the interposition of a power capable of controlling these lawa, ov pable in fact of overthrowing this government —will be sufficient to check the onward move- ment of our industry and enterprise. Those, in truth, are the great weapons of our aggression. They are the expressions of our system. To admit that they can be controlled is an admission not only of our dependence upon some other power, but that that power is capable of producing an overthrow of the federal constitution. That constitution, as the organic law of our people, secures to us all absolute freedom of industry and trade amongst all the inhabitants of the Union. It is, in fact, to this wreat principle of our system, to this free covenant of our polity, that we are M@- debted for the marvellous progress of our la- bor and its endless conquests over the aborigi- nees, and over every other inferior race with which we have been brought in contact. Suc- cessful intervention to prevent the operation of these laws signifies revolution and the down- fall of the republic, It is not strange, perhaps, that the politicians of England should mistake the rapid move ments of oar population for a lawless spirit of adventure and aggression; but it is marvellons- ly strange, in the face of the great results we have laid before them, in the extension of our commerce and manufactures, in the vastness of our agricultural productions, in the un- rivalled system of our education, in the ad- vancement of our literature, in the utility of our inventions, in the extent of our newspaper issues, in the stability of our government, and in the increase of our popa- lation, that they should dream of successful in- tervention with such a people. Nothing short of coming here and resisting by physical force will answer the purpose; and we would say that England has no right to disturb the peace- ful operations of trade by threatening that which the least intelligent and the most self- conceited of her people must know is but vain presumption, Her recent bluster has not created a ripple upon the broad waters of American sentiment. She might as well have proclaimed her purpose to draw off the waters of the Pacific into the Atlantic, or to inundate the peninsula of Michigan by raising the great lakes on either side of that State, as thus to proclaim her purpose of regulating the labor and industry of this conatry by her ships-of- war stationed in mid-ocean. If she would give effect to her hostility to the United States, and execute her threats to put our progroes in subjection to her fdeas of propriety, she has but cne possible way of ac- complishing it, and that is to measare her ut- most ability on sea_and land to conaner tho spirit which she deems so offenzive to her ideas of civilization, and so subversive of the righty of nations. There is no other way to reach her object. Protests she has found to be un- availing; remonstrances have only exacted ri- dicule and laughter; intrigues hive been in- sufficient to secure her purposes; bluster has failed; she has been unable to impede our pro- gress, and bas done little more thin to make herself @ successful aspirant for the honors of that species of distinction herelofore exclu- sively enjoyed by our grandiloqtent Mexican neighbors, Meantime, the position of the Spanish mo- narchy forewaros us that the Cubs gem must soon fal) from that crown. In the movement of nations a few years more or less are no- thing. Time is rapidly closing the sccounts of Spain as an independent nationality. Cuba and Puerto Rico are her American assets, The destiny of the former has been fixed by its con- tiguity with the United Statea The existence of the republic assures its absorption into this country. Nothing but our overihrow ean re- Jease it from our grasp; politicians may dis- avow this conclusion; crazy abolitionists may rail at it; European governments may de- nounce it; war may be threatened and precipi- tated to prevent it, but the laws of population, the conquests of enterprise, the organized re- cults of past labor and the necessities of the future demand it and will have it, Its uses for the human family demand it; benefits to all the world demand it; humanity demands it; equality demands it; and justice to the people of Cuba demands it, From the decrepitude of Spain and her con- sequent inability to retain the island without great exertions and expense, it will soon be found neccesary to relinquish it, Even now her military establishment required to keep it in subjection has reduced it to @ mere instru- ment for recuperating the fortunes of a few poverty stricken officials at home, It is no longer a source of independent revenue to the Madrid exchequer. The influence of this state of things, with no prospect of relief, but a cer- tainty of increased embarrasementa, will soon be found to loosen ihe boads which bind it to the Spanich crown. is Fngland prepared to prevent its absorp- tion in such a contingency by the United States? We say here, in advance, that we are prepared to receive it and will have it. Itis well to look such questions in the fece—to be prepared to meet them. In this state of things, itis well that the British government, even now, should undertake its work of interven- tion, She will never be stronger—we ehall never be weaker. Try it on now, then. Tue Nicaraaua Drawa.—It appears quite certain that General Walker is determined not to allow himself to be over set by any treachery en the part of the Nicaraguans. The example of General Corral, who was detected in a traitorous correspondence with | one of the officers of the old legitimist army, was tried by court martial and shot, will undoubtedly have its influence on his fel- low countrymen. There is probably somc thing to be said on Corral’s behalf. A man in his station cannot be shot at the present day without loud outcries from his friends; we may soon hear Walker branded as an assassin, and Corral canonized as a martyr. At the same time, it is beyond doubt that the fatal fault of the Spanish Americans has been their want of truthfulness. It is their fatal facility for mak- ing oaths and breaking them—for setting up governments and conspiring against them— which has been their own ruin and that of their country. They inherited the quality from their forefathers, and each generation has improved upon it. Clearly, when it is known that indulgence in this national sin will be followed by condiga pupishment, and that the highest rank will not shield the traitor, restless men will pause to reflect before they plot. And this should be taken into account when it is proposed to cen- sure Walker for deviating from that excellent principle of modern policy—that political of- fences do not merit death. As to the rest, General Walker appears a wonderfully successful man. When he left for Nicaragua, only a few weeks ago, he was a hunted filibuster, despised by the public and anathematised by government officials. He now appears to be at the head of a party in Nicaragua strong enongh to establish order and keep down its enemies. Friends are ftock- ing to him from all sides Several of Colonel Kinney’s party have joined him, and Ameri- cans from California and the Atlantic ports have cast their lots with him; believing no doubt that the time is close at hand when the Americanization of Central America shall com- mence, and the Anglo-Saxons shall supersede the mongrel race of Spanish Indians, When the means which Walker had at his disposal, the character he bore, and the temper of the foreigners among whom he went are called to mind, this result will appear so startling as to be almost unparalleled. The subject will engage the attention of Congress at an early day. It is to be hoped that when it comes up it will be treated sober- ly and sensibly; that members will not be frightened by foreign taunts of fili- busterivm on the one side, or blinded by the smoke of Walker's victories on the other. The policy of the State is clear. With Central America it has no concern, and if any man within the limits of this country presumes to fit out expeditions to invade it, he must be stopped. Further than this, it does aot appear that the government can go. To as- sume thet it is anewerable for the conduct of every American citizen who voluntarily exiles himeelf, and so behaves as to be chosen the leader of « foreign people, is to display entire ignorance of its duties, and of the sovereign rights of private individuals. —A Vaiwanie OnoanmaTion OF Conc. Hist.—Our Albany journals are very much concerned in respect to the organization of Congress, particularly the Seward central or- gan. Father Weed, or bis factotum, says that— Byery one anticipates a protracted airuggle in the or- ganizaflon of the House of Representatives; and yut “every one’? may be disappointed. In 1849 there ware 69 ballota for Speaker, consuming three weeks, whon a resolution waa adopted that on the 75d ballot 9 should elect. Under thix role Howell Cobb wa { Now, o similar role way be sooner adopted; but umloxs the game of ‘donghtacing’’ rhall be more rife than we believe it to be, no choice will be easily or apeedily effect ed without such a rule. Here is a precious hint thrown out to the democracy. Uf they can unite they ean com- mand a plarality of the House; and who knows but that @ motion that a plurality shall elect the Speaker will be supported by the ultra Seward men, in order to defeat the conserva tive Know Nothings. This is the hint, we sus- pect, of the Albany Journal, We base only ent it inte a li ‘Venaliry OF Tiz Panes in THEATRICAL AND ARTISTICAL MaTrens,—The American press has somehow got a bad came amongst foreign ar- tiste, who nine cases out of ten have them- elves to blame for the grievances of which they have to complain. They suffer them selves to be victimized on their arrival here by a set of literary loafers and outsidera who have only a sort of guerilla connection with the newspapers. The money which artists mis- takingly pay te “gentlemen who manage the press,” is, in the great majority of cases, ea- tirely thrown away, for no one can now pre- tend that it is possible to influence aug reapect- able journal here by such means. The hungry tribe of jackalls who live by the false promises of literary support which they hold out to strangers, are so well known, and are 80 care- fally guarded against by the newspapers that they have no chance of carrying out their un- dertakings, The process by which money is extracted under this pretence trom the pockets of artists, cannot therefore, be designated by any milder term than that of swindling. If, however, people will bring their foreign habits and prejudices te this country they must expect to pay the penalty of them. The idea that what obtains abroad necessarily obtains here cannot be drummed ont of the heads of strangers. It is especially difficult to convince artists who have been accustomed to purchase “the sweet voices” of the crities abroad, that they cannot buy them by whole- eale in this country. They are but too ready to pay their money to these rogues, and have not the good sense to hold their tongues when they find themselves duped. To add to their mortification they sometimes find that the very course which they have taken to shorten the read to fame, leads people to eet them down as pretenders in their art, and creates for them greater obstacles than if they had trusted solely to their own merits, Thas the system works, but we are not to blame for it, It was first introduced here by foreign ar- tists themselves, who did all they could to corrupt our press and to degrade the standard of public judgment in theatrical matters. It is to the continental, and more especially the Paris prees, that we are indebted for the source of the evil. Owing to the system of placing the theatrical feutlldon of newspapers in the hands of a particular critic—generally ® men of some literary reputation—a wide field has been opened to corruption. As all these theatrical articles are signed by the writer on artist has no difficulty in ascer- taining where the bait is to be offered. The open and shameless manuer in which this sys- tem of bribery is carried on would astonish any one not acquainted with the working of the social machinery of France. Some of these critics, with only nominal salaries from the Paris newspapers, make princely incomes, and live in the most elegant and luxurious etyle. It is no wonder that they should be enablefl to do this, seeing the enormous sums which they levy off the profession. They have got aregu- lar tariff of black mail to which an artist must submit, or resign himself to be written down. The amount of praise is graduated, in regular Grub street style, to a certain scale of fees, and even negative criticism has its price. The tyro who would not be unmercifully cut up is compelled to pay a good round sum to purchase the silence of the fashionable censor. In short, a viler system of tyranny and cor- ruption was never before known in the annals of the press, And yet it is in the face of facts like these that foreign artists complain of the venality of the American journals. They first try to introduce amongst us their own corrupt habits, and they then abuse us for our acquired profli- gacy. The real sting of their complaints, we suspect, lies in the fact that, like the judgments of Lord Chancellor Bacon, the accessibility to a bribe of these pretended critics is rare- ly followed by any published indication of the temptation, There is, in fact, no press in the world that is more independent in these respects than ours. We may have our par- tialities and our favoritisms in the arts, but we do not, like the French critics, sell onrselves bodily to candidates for public favor. Be- sides, owing to our policy of devolving the duties of criticism upon several persons, in- stead of one, and giving to no individual o monopoly of this department, we render it difficult, if not impossible, for artists to offer temptation in a quarter where it would be likely to be successful, We trust that they will for the future act upon the information and spare their money, Jusr ox Trp.—Vespasian Ellis has resumed the helm of the American Organ, at Wash- ington, in view of the printing of the House of Representatives. We thought he had returned to the sarsaparilla busi- ness of the Oronoco, He says that all sorts of efforts are being made to disparage the claims of his Organ, and that “some men- dacious scribblers (hard language that) for the New York Herarp charge him with an attempt to carry water on both shoulders,” and that ultra Southern men say he is “not sound on the slave question.” This, we think, is rather too much. We beg leave- to say that it is our decided opinion, from the reading of the Organ’s editorials of the last three days, that it will be a sound abolitionist, a sound free soiler, a sound Whitficld man, a sound Reeder man, sound on the slave question, “¥ sound on every other question, in exchange the printing of the House. The House print- ing is its platform, and like all the other party organs in Washington, without the great prin- ciple of the pap all its other principles are moonshine and green cheese. Tux Missourr SenatortaL Questioy—Buxe ton vs. Atcuison.—The letter which we pub- lich in another part of this paper, indicates a feasible plan for the triumph of Benton and the defeat of Atchison in their struggle for the United States Senate. The place of Atchi- son is vacant, and that of Senator Geyer, whig, will be vacant in 1857. The Benton men propose, therefore, to elect two Senators by a fusion with the whigs—one a whig and the other Benton—and all that is required todo this thing is the agreement of the whigs to the bargain. There can be no difficulty about electing a» United States Senator two years ia advance ofa vacancy. It is frequently done, and has juet been done in the case of the ro- election of Senator Rusk from Texas. There is, then, yet a ehance for Benton. It woald be very interesting and somewhat exciting should Old Bullion and Senator Foote come together again on the iloor of the Senate, after all the wonderfal events of the last five years, “ Let i tire) A Musso oy Mey Taz Fuswo.—The pree| PFE LATEST RZEWSi sent struggle between Russia and her enemies has, we dare say, drawn off » million of men from the avoeations or pastimes of peace, who are now in the field, in the bloody business of war, to say nothing of the thousands sacrificed already to this insatiable Moloch. A circular, printed at Vienna, estimates the Turkish and Allied forces at 309,000 men, without includ- ing the Turkish army of 24,000 men on the banks of the Danube. The enumeration is thus made up:— ‘Under Omer Pusha, 000 20,000 In the Crimea, on the Tchr 95,000 Kupatoria . ease 60,000 Kertsch, 16,060; Kinburn, 12,000 28:00 On their way tu the Dnieper.... 2.000 Sebastopol, 8,000; Maslak, 10,000. 18,000 Total.....-esevesrs 309,000 Add Turks en the Danube.. 24,000 And we haves grand total of., 388,000 And this does not include the Allied naval forces of the Baltic and Black Seas, and the Sea of Azoff, which will probably foot up ano- ther item of at least Gfty thousand men, On the other side, Russia has about 200,000 mea in the Crimea, perbaps 50,000 about the Caspian, Kars and Turkey on the south shore of the Black Sea, 100,000 at and about Niko- laiaff, 20,000 at Odessa, and perhaps 200,000 at St. Petersburg, Cronstadt, Sweaborg, Helsing- fors and the Baltic coasta generally, with re- serves in Poland, and detgehed squads scatter- ed around her wast frontiers, equal to 200,000 more. These figures, if summed up and added to the forces of the Allies, will give us over & million of men appropriated to the humane occupation of cutting each other's throats, and destroying by fire, sword and bomb- shells the homes, the hopes and the happiness of millions of helpless women and children And all apparently resulting from a puerile quarrel concerning the Holy Places of Jeru- salem. We can now believe that the thirty years wor in Germany originated from a dispute about a wel) bucket, that the first French re- volution was precipitated by a diamond neck- lace, and that the British fleet lately detailed to this side the Atlantic was for the express purpose of arresting Russian privateers and the Irish-American revolutionary expedition destined for Dublin. “ What a great fire a small spark kindleth|”’ Tar Menrine ov Concress—Tue Orcasiza- TION OF THE Hovse—Views or THE Press. — We transfer to another part of this paper a number of extracis from our newspaper ex- changes in reference to the organization of Congress. Nothing very clear or definite in the way of a fixed conclusion can be derived from these extracts; but still they throw some glimmerings of light on the otherwise inex- plicable confusion of parties and factions of our new House of Representatives. The latest report is that the Northern Know Nothings and black republicans will unite, and divide the plunder of the House offices, leaving the matter of principles an open question, We have yet aday or two intervening before the aseembling of the two houses; and in the in- terval there may be some joint stock caucus- ing that will settle the difficulty, at least upon the Speaker, though it is more likely that the Touse will meet without any effective pre- concerted arrangement for a speedy organiza- tion, While awaiting further developements from Washington we turn over our chapter of extracts to the consideration of all parties concerned. One thing is very certain—we shall have a most exciting, turbulent, wrang- ling, pungent and extraordinary session, and the fun and the trouble will commence on Monday. Tracking THE Harps. We find it stated by asoft shell cotemporary that the aggregate democratic vote of 1853 was as follows:— 95,755 95,976 + 182,731 The democratic vote this year is as follows:— Soft Har Total democratic voto this fall Decrease of democratic votes since 1853 ........ 43,200 Forty thousand bards missing—carricd off, perhaps, by the dark lantern. At this rate, unless something is done to harmonize the party very soon, there will be nothing of it left worth harmonizing. What says Mr. John Cochrane? Gorn ww CaxtrorniA.—Our neighbors on the Pacific seem to be more fortunate than their rivals in Australia. Our last accounts from Melbourne were that gold had become £0 scarce there that it was quoted at £1 the ounce, In California, on the contrary, new gold fields have been discovered which promise wonders. A reliable journal positively states that the new placers just opened in Tuolumne county promise a larger yield than any yet opened. It arrives well: never was gold move wanted either here or in Europe. TrLRORAPING ON A Long Cuncurt.—The feat of telegraph- ing direct, ina single circuit, between Now York and New Orleans, was witnessed last evening at the office of the New York, Washington avd Now Orleans line, Messrs, Cure, of New York, and Bardarin, of New (r. Ileana, officiating as operators. This was effected by the aid of six repeaters—a very simple arrangement—by which the aid of way batieries at intervals of several han- dred miles is seeured. Telegraphing in very long circuits, by the Morse Mstem, is practically, day after day, quite impossible; but it ix believed by those competent to form a eorrect judgment in such matters, that tho newly invented and wonderful machine of Mr. Hughes will render it eaxy to telegraph at all times, when the wires are not actually parted, in cireuits of even five thousand miles. We understand tbat several of the Hughes ma- chines are nearly completed, and that they have been secured by ® company who propose to open new line to the Houth in the courge of a fow weeks, the most am- ple arrangements for this purpose having bees already completed. The Eudora Trauedy. THE VESSEL NOT RAISED YET. OUR SPROUL CORRIXPONDENCE, Cry Isayp, L. 1. Sound, Noy. 20, 1866. In consequence of the strong northerly wind, the wrecking sehoonert were unable to come alongside the wreck to-day. The owners of the Eudora are in waiting anxigusly for a moderation of the weather, ©0 as to per mit of the schooner being raived this week. From pre- went appearances, there is not much probability of the work being completed tor at least two days. ‘The scene of the tragedy wasyvirited by hundreds you terday, who came from tar and wide trom the surround. ing country in order to see the operation of raising the sehooner, but they were doomed to diveppointment, as the wina continued to blow with much vicience througi- oni the entire day until sundown. Last night Captain Arpold, Mr. Dennistown and others proceeded to the in a small boat, and dragged the spot surrounding the wreek with irons preparac fer the purpose, With the hope of finding some of the bodies, ¥ many suppose had been cast overboard by the n They report haying struck nud hooked something be to their minds, felt soft ant might probably have boty After several in unl attenpts to draw the rurface, thes were compelled, from the rising of the tide, ¢ The clothing, vail give up the tark and come achore, bles and other articles found with the negro, and which go to implicate hia in the transac: tion, together with the blood-#tained evidences of violence, still remain at the house of Mr. mielothes and other Charles MeClennon, where they have hourly been inapoet- ed by the crowds of visiter# who flock to the aor. BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From W: THE KNOW NOTHING CAUCUS—MOVEMENTS FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP—WHITFIELD, OF KANSAS, VERSUS TRUMBULL, OF ILLINOIS, ETO. Wasainaton, Nov. 29, 1855. Political wire-working at the national capital has come menced in earnest. The Kuow Nothings met in caucus. to-day at noon, in obedience to the following call, whicls appeared in the Henaxp in the early part of this month: New ¥ Noy. 2, 1856. Sm—As it is now clearly known that the American re tatives to the coming Congress will constitute a Loe plasty in the House, it is eminently desirable ‘that a conference be bad prior to the the session. In this view, the undersigned solicit the of inviting, through the medfim of your tho several members of Congress who have been chosen a3 the representatives of the American policy, to meet for conference at the Hali of Kepreseniatives, on Thursday, the 29h day of November inst., at the hour of noon. ving this iavitwtion an insertion in your widely circulated columns, you will confer # favor on your very obedien: servants, THOS. R. WHITNEY, Fifth N. Y. district. BAYAR) CLARK#, Ninta N, Y, district, ‘There being only fifteen members present, no business was transacted, Campbell, of Ohio, and Broome, of Pennsylvania, were present, superintending their reapec- tive chances for the Speakership, Of those in cauens' to» day, Broome was the favorite, Fuller, of Pennsylvania, # expected to-night, and until his arrival his friends are unwilling to make any move, Their next meeting will be to-morrow evening. Callom, of Tennesee, considers himself safe for the- Clerkship. The democrats hold a caucus to-night at the residencd of Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, of Virginis, preliminary to. the caucus advertived for Saturday, All the democratic members now in the city have been specially invited to attend. Gen, Whitfield, of Kansas, has just received an anony+ mous reply to his letter to Governor Reeder, of the most seurrilous character. Unless Governor Reeder endorseg the communication, it will not be noticed by General. Whitfield, Judge Trumbull, of Iinoia, is here as United States Senator, but without any certificate of election. Should the free oilers of the House exclude Whitfield, the Senate will reject Trumbull. EB THE CLERKSHIP—TACTICS OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND OF THK OPFOSITION—RETREAT OF FORNEY, AND HIS ASPIKATIONS—A NEW CANDIDATE FOR PUBLIC PRINTER—THE AMERICAN MEBTING, ETC. ‘Wasnixaton, Nov, 29, 1855. The intimtaion which I threw out in regard to electing the Clerk beforethey do the Speaker to the House, is gain« ing ground, and will eventually be adopted. The adminise tration will undoubtedly rally upoa Orr, of South Caro- lina, as their candidate. On the part of the opposition,. Fuller of Pennsylvania, Campbell of Ohio, Meacham of Vermont, and Penningion of New Jersey, will each ba insisted upon; and in case neither of them can succeed, Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, It is thought, will be elected. His name is not to be mentioned until the four above named are satisfied neither one of them eam suce ceed ; then his name will be introduced as compromise candidate. Forney, I unaerstand, has no idea of being re-elected Clerk of the Hoyge, but merély wishes an endersement by the democratic members that he stil retains their confidence, aud in hopes that it will give him.a boost for United States Senator from Penusylvania, that being the great question with him now. Ihave just beard of another Richmond in the field for public printer, viz,:—Hugh R. Pleasants, of the.A meri» can Democrat, at Baltimore. He will be strongly pressed. by the Maryland delegation. ; The Know Nothing meeting in the hall of the House to- day was very slimly attended, there not being more than a dozen or fifteen members present. The object of tho meeting, I understané, was merely an interchange of sentiment, It is deemed advisable by some not to have acaucus, as it may widen the breach which now exists between the twelfth section men South and the Northern wing of the party. They may, however, have a caucus on Saturday, which will indicate what course they wil} pursue, DON, HE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE— EXCITEMENT IN REGARD TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE—FFFORTS OF THY REPUBLICANS—RUMOR OF THE DEATH OF JUDGE DOUGLAS, ETC., ETC Wasmratox, Noy; 29, 1855. The President’s message will be put in the hands of the printer on Saturday. Tho only difficulty with the President about #¢nding it in advance to the Post Masters of the principal cities, for delivery to the press as soon as the telegraph shall announce its presentation to Congress, is the anticipated delay in the organization of the House, and the possibility of its leaking out before ib is presented to Congress. The agent of the Associated Press had an interview with the President to-day, and suggested that the copies to be sent to the principal cities be directed \o the Postmaster General, which would prevent the seals being broken until authority is given by adespatch from the Postmaster General to do so. The President holds the suggestion under consideration. Intense excitement exists here in regard to the organi- zation of the House, The democrats give up all hopes of electing any officers, Mr. Fo:ney will be the candidate of the democrats for Clerk, and Mr. Richardson for Speaker. veneral Culiom, of Tennessee, it ia considered sure will be elected Cierk of the House. It is understood that the democrats have resolved to vote flist and last for the caucus nominees, refusing all coalitions with other par- ties. The Americans and whigs calcalate also in gaining some recruits from those democrats who are on tho anxious bench, About twenty of the American party held an informal meeting this afternoon, for consultation as to the course to be pursued in the election of officers of tho House, The democrats and the Ohio delegation, severally, are holding private meetings to-night, interchanging views on the same subject. The republicans are still working: to concentrate all the opponents of the administration in a general caucus for the nomination of officers, Seve- ral caucuses will be held on Saturday. The National Howl is the scene of considerable excite- ment, Upwards of a hundred members of Congres bave arrived there, and intermirgling with them are numberless politicians of every stripe, many of whom are office secking. ‘There is @ rumor that Senator Donglas is dead, but it cannot be traced to any reliable source. Gov. Reeder at Trenton. ‘Truston, N. J., Nov. 22, 1955. Gov. Reeder addressed a large meeting here this even- ing, on the advantages of Kansas as an agrisultural coun- try; of the wrongs of freemen in Kansas, and of the prospects of the future of Kansas under fair and proper legislation. From Philadelphia. ROBBERY OF REGISTERED LETTERS AT THE POST OF+ VICE—MEDAL FOR OAPT. INGRAHAM, BTC. Punaveema, Nov, 20, 1855, A number of registered letters in the Philadelphia Post Ofiicé are missing, and there is quite an excitement among the parties interested, and the elorks. Among the jetter® missing are two mailed by Thomas Biddle & Co., containing a $12,000 coupon of the Pennsylvania Sisto Bonds and $4 600 worth of the bonds of the Westehester railroad. Messrs. Gaw and Mneallister have also loxt $2,000 in bonds of the latter description, ‘The remains of Baron de St. Andre, late French Consul in this elty, who was killed in the Burlington entastro- phe, were yesterday removed to the Cathedral Cemetery in the presence of the brotlier of the deceased, who ré- cently arrived from France. A gold medal has been struck at the Philadelphia mins, after a design furnished by Cupt, Eastman, of the army, under the direction of @ resolntion by Congress, for pre sentation to Capt, Ingraham, and wae sent to the Presi- dent to-day. It weighs twenty-seven ounces, costing £000, The face reprevents the American snd Austrian veasels at anchor before Smyrna, and the obverse has the following iuscription on i{:—''Presented by the President of the United Statos to Commander Ingrabam, as a testi- menial ot the high sense entertained by Congress of his gallant ond judicious conduct om the 2d of July, 1863,’” The Reperts of the Weather. AT ALBANY. Arnaxy, Nov. 20—P. M. There bne been n slight full of snow here to-day. Tho weather is colder, the thermometer standing at 23 deg., and falling. AT NEW ORLEANS. New Onursxa, Nov. 209 P.M, The weather bere i not quite cold enong Markeths Cusnteston, Nov. 29, 1885. The salés to-day’ foot up New Ouneass, Nov, 96, 1855, Cotton has declined jy 2,000 bales.