The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YJRK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ER SAU AND FULTON sts, + ceeeNQy 371 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. CADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth st.—Itauan Orena— W'Bsoie pv Noxp. TBLO’ ARDEN, Broadway—Fouk Lovers—BLancns, Oa rae Rivas Famins. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Daev, OR Tee Disman Bwamr—Warounixe Minstax. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond et, Saw Wrren-Wrre—swiss 5 Brae Trace Kuttase WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Muty—Lexpox Assunaxce, OHAMBERS STREET THEATRE, (ate Burton’s)}—Tas ‘Winow’s Vicrin—saxianp as lt L~—Bus THe Boatswain. AMERICAN MU! SEUM, Broadway— Afer- eon ANCE UNDER Durriceneess— a. King 1x tae Dana. JEssiz—JOUN Pa tle VARIRTIES, 472 Breadway—Faint Heart fox Fark LaDy—Tae LNViNciBLEs. @EO. CHRISTY 4 WOOD's ram, 444 Broadwe —Brmorux Pruronaxces—Wi - BUCKLEY'S SERENADE! Broadway—Ererortay Masraxisy—Man-it ana. scsi EMPIRE BALL, 596 Sembeee names Mucopies, Dances Boemsmiierries Y Tae Cari Wew York, ¥ Monday, September 29, 1 1856. ‘The News. ‘The steamship Baltic, from Liverpool 17th inst., ‘ts now fully due at this port, with four days la‘er Rews. ‘We publish elsewhere an interesting letter from our @orrespondert at San Francisco, detailing the pro. (grees of events in California, together with the ad- @reas of the Executive Committee of the Vigilance Committce.en the disbanding of that body. This Fast named document sums up the good effected by ‘te action of the Committee, and also the contin- gencies which may hereafter call for the re-assem- bling of the general body. Our news from the South Pacific and Central American States is somewhat important. The suc- eess of Gen. Walker in Nicaragua has filled the minds of many of the public men of those countries with apprehension. Mauifestoes and revolutions are the order of the day. Several members of the Chilean Legislature propose a consolidation of the Bpanish American States against the encroach- ments of the North American confederacy, A revo- ation broke out in Pera in the latter part of August. ‘The insurgents, however, were speedily defeated ‘by President Castillo. Gen. Echinique was at Val- paraiso with the war vessels and large supplies of ammunition. It was believed he would soon attempt ‘to seize upon the government. Our Minister, Mr. Clay, probably accustomed to the peculiar popular tommotions of the country, was quietly awaiting further developements. From New Granada, we are informed by a gen- fleman who came passenger in the Illinois, which arrived at this port on Saturday, that a despatch had been received at Aspinwall from Panama, just previous to the departure of the steamer, to the ef- fect that the “blacks,” who opposed Gen. Calvo’s inauguration, bad broken ont in riot, and thata pamber of persons were killed in the affray,and one member of the Legislature shot. It is reported that commissioners have been sent to France to nego- fiate a loan to pay off the liabilities arising from the Panama riot of last April. Fever is reported as Wery prevalent at Aspinwall. ‘The additional details of the news from Nica- yagua which we publish this morning will be Sound quite interesting. A report prevailed at Pa- Rama to the ¢flect that a treaty of peace had been agreed to netween Gen. Walker and the President of Costa Rice. Considering that this information isin all probability derived from Costa Rican au- thorities, some reliance may be placed in its authen- ticity. On tte other band, there is a report that One thousand mn of the allied forces were on the March for Granada. Col. Schlessinger has turned Bp tomewhere in the interior. Having openly joined the enemies of Walker, he has been basily engaged $n circulating an address to the Americans in the Nicaragusn service, urging them to desert their eolors, and denouncing Walker as a traitor and Plunderer of the people. Hon. Pierre Soule, our late fire eating, filibustering Minister to Bpain, has, it is reported, purchased a fine estate, called El Merced, for the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to which he will shortly Fetire. Arother expedition to the gold mines ef Cho s has been organized. Rev. Mr. Wheeler of the American Rible Sosiety, was actively ing his duties. The decrees of Preside reference to the confiscated pro} of the y are given in oar umn. The on the 2 with { eharart prov mumble 8 eruiti from A Rroes we ral £ island. ihe ¢ City of Ph on the wm tae co Transit Cow with the steamer Havana for New York h, in a slightly disabled atate, but ber ¢ ‘apt. McGowan, expected to make the port of New York by Tuesday next. Bugars were dull, and the crop would be slightly gkort. Fre'ghts had improved. Late advices from Hayti state that the Emperor Goulouque had commenced the trial of the prisoners engaged in the late rebellion at Aux Cayes. Jt had been determined to punish the poor culprits with @reat reverty. We have 3 from Kingston, Jamaica, ap to the Tith inst. The news is unimportant. During the severe gale of the 15th ult. a number of vessels were @ameged. The weather was fine. The lady of Col. Cole had been accidentaliy poisoned, by a dose of Strychnine administered to her in mistake by two gilitary medical men. St. Thomas advices to the 12th ult. have been re- @eived. The health of the island was good. Sugar and ram were scarce, as both commodities had been parchased by French ond Pnvtish agents at a higher Price than hed been pod for years before. At St. Croix severs) cases of cholera curred, but they ‘Were of a mild type, and read ielded to proper treatme teers, the celebrated ship bufider, whose th we aanous st Thy y at Greenwood Cemetery, ne Nearly five thousa peequies, and many not on the occasion. Todsy after sunset the let day of the month Tisri om men:« 6617. The advent of the new year will be solemnly celebrated by our fellow citizens of the Jewish persuasion by a strict i business and labor on Tuesday and These days are also celebrated as the first of the ten penitential days, which will wend with the day of atsuement on the 10th day of FTisri. The latter will be observed by a strict absti- mence of food from sunset until ew The United States steam frigate Wabash has an- whored in the North river. ‘The total value of foreign goods imported at the port of Boston during the week exding 26th instant amounted fo $575,418. On Satutdey the cotton Mintket continued quite firm, with"mlerof 500 a 1000 bales, based chiefly upon middlitgmpland:, at 124. 12f¢. Our figares in yesterdsy’s edition regarding sales should have eed la the Jewish year fread 800 jyales, and not‘ The private ad vices the ¢ a were for breadetuffs atd imper eat Wy sport aud home ment, but practically to lef advance: bec test NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, use at an advance of 1c. a 20c. per bbl. The sales reached the amount of 25,000 a 30,000 bbls. Wheat was firm, with free sales at higher prices for choice prime to choice lots. Corn sold largely, both on the spot and to arrive, and chiefly at 66c. a 67c. for sound mixed. Mess pork sold at $20 124 a $2025, Sa- gars were active and firm, with saies of about 1,100 bbds. at full prices. Coffee was unchanged, while sales were to a moderate extent. Freights to Eng- lish ports were easier for grain, while to the Conti- Bent they were unchanged. The Dangers ef the Country—Nullification of the Constitution tn Fifteen States. During our long experience in the discusston of public affairs there have been several crises of danger to the institutions of the country, of which we have not hesitated to warn the Ameri- can people, without reference to men, to cliques, parties or sections. But since the origin of this government there never has been a orisis of such open, widely extended, and flagrant defiance- of the rights of @ free people, guaranteed by the federal constitution, as the momentexs crisis that is now upon ‘us. Not only in the Territory of Kansas is freespeech, free opinion, and freedom of the press trampled under foot, but in fifteen States of the Union these “inalienable rights” of the con- stitution are suppressed by the despotism of an irresponsible mob. Practical nullification—anullification of the constitution of the United States—exists, we say, in the most barbarous, despotic and dangerous form, in fifteen States of this Union. The funda- mental principles of American liberty, upon which our Revolution was fought, and which lie at the foundations of our popular institutions, have no real existence now, except in the sixteen Northern States of the confederacy. In the South | the constitution is a dead letter—it is practically extinct—it has been superseded by a despotic es- pionage over the public press and the private indi- vidual, as stealthy, omnipresent and deadly as that of the Council of Ten of ancient Venice, and in- finitely more odious than the existing censorships, either of France, Austria, Italy or Russia. Among the liberals and among the despots of Europe this may read like an extravagant exaggeration; and yet itis the simple truth, A Reign of Terror has arisen in our Southern States—the terror of the mob—compared with which the well-defined limitations of popular privileges. even in Russia, are better adapted to the security of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happine: Within a few months past we have had a num- ber of striking illustrations of the prevalence and virulence of this supreme law of the mob throughout the South. The savage assault by Bully Brooks, of South Carolina, upon Mr. Sum- ner, in the Senate chamber, and the lion which the Southern democratic oligarchy have made of their hero of that frightful spectacle, indicate, in the outset, a condition of the Southern governing sentiment deplorably demoralized. Such a condition of the public mind can only exist where constitutions and laws have ceased to be morally binding, and where brutal terrorism is the order of the day. In rapid succession, after this bloody scene in the Senate, we have had a brutal dispersion of popular meetings at Wheeling, Va., Baltimore, Md., and various other places in the Southern States; the lawless ex- patriation of Southern citizens from their homes and their families, for the astounding crime of speaking their own opinions upon the political questions of the day, and an interdict— a perfect Chinese law of exclusiona—established throughout the South, in defiance of the constitu- tion, against all Northern men, suspected even, of doubting the infallible blessings of Southern slavery. The latest Southern outrages attempted, in this connection, have not been limited to North- ern invaders of Southern territory. They have been addrested to Southern born men, and by the leading organs of the Democratic Jacobin Club in the capital of Virginia. Mr. Botts—a native born and distinguished citizen of Virginia—ven- tured, the other day, to utter the opinion in Rich- mond, that the South would submit to the election salt Fremont and remain in the Union; and for auds nals of t no stone unturned in order to tie Governor or a de- mocratic¢ » forcible expulsion of A man of Jess influe Buchanan will v nounce the app to speak to the Burlingame is the gentleman of Bully Brooks ; but Iet bim not show his in Richmond, if he desires to escape the ven- gence of the Virginia Buchanan democracy with a whole ekin. And such is the existing eupreme law of the South!—the law of practical nullification!—the law of a democratic jacobin club !—the law of brate force!—the law of spies, informers, outlaws and as sareins !—the law of a general and remorseless ter- rorism! In fifteen States the Union we of the North are thus denied the liberty of speech, the liberty of opinion, and even those social privi leges which barbsrians concede to stranger arising from the universal rights of hospitalit We dare say that in no region of the civili ment ¢ people of cut the ¢ face I to thi sm which ertheless, infamous, fre nerally overlooked, i at work t » make I am AW O' Favag ies the responsibility for things? It rests with this adn with the ratic Pierce on mane nistration, with party, and the pledged to perpetuate ite policy. It rests, first. with that plotting and deliberate se- cessionist, Jefferson Davis, the the whole conspirac eouri, and poor Pierce its disun candidate *phistophiles of Atchison of Mis- active confede- ati Convention nd wit and hi ; secondly, with the C and the democrati thirdly, with Mr. Fillmore and their traitorous South of a diseolation of the Union mont be elected. Thus itis that th Jacobins Senate at and Mr. recommendat H should Fre- democratic Southern only to threaten d tain th and their pe un spoil the fifteen Southern States are alr aly out of the Union, and the Union is practical duced to the sixteen States of the North. Where, then, is the remedy? Not in the elec tion of Buebanan; for in the hands of Davis Atchison and that secession crew, he will be but as clay in the hands of the potter; not in voting for Mr. Fillmore, for he is bat the lighter attend- ing Buchanan to lift him over the shoala. Our safety is in the election of Fremont, who is the only candidate for restoring the constitution and the law to Kansas, and the South to the constitu- tion and the Union, The fifteen Southern States, practically, are now out of the Union. Let us elect Fremont and bring them back into the family. Important from Califomia. The news from California rectived by the Winois, although it Jacks the extiting interest which has of late characterized our advices from that quarter, is not the less pregnart with matter for serious reflection. The issuesraised by the Vigilance Committee, and apparenily settled by their voluntary abandonment of their functions, after they had accomplished the dbjects which they had in view, are about to be rivived in ano- ther and more dangerous form The indis- cretion of a few men, whose interests have been affected by the action @ the Com- mittee, threatens to resuscitate the expir- ing embers of civil dissension, md to plunge fan Francisco into a worse stat of anarchy than that through which it has just passed. Since the conduct of the Vigilance Committee demonstrated their intention of keeping within the strict tine of the duties announced in their programme, their. opponents have been on the lookout for some imprudence which might justify their calling in the intervention of the federal authorities. To bring about a collisien between the two executives Ins been, with the law and order men, an objec: of continual effort. The seizure of the govenment arms on board a steamer in the bay, while on her way to San Francisco, a few weeks ago, furnished them with just such an opportunity as they desired. They insisted that this proceeding was an act of piracy. The people of San Francisco were in open revolu- tion against the government of the State. They had exere‘ved a right inherent in them, in resuming the powers which ‘he latter had shownitself either unwilling or incompetent to put in force; and if that right be conceded, all acts committed by them in its vindication of course fall within the same measure of constitutional immunity. Such, however, is not the view taken by the men who regard the revolution as a crime against their own offices and privileges. Acting upon their impulses, rather than on what their duty to the State demanded, they procured the ar- rest, by the United States Marshal, of Messrs. Durkee and Rand, two of the members of the Vigilance Committee, who were engag- ed in the seizure of the arms. On examina- tion before Judge Hoffman, the prisoners were admitted to bail—the Judge seeing no ground for dealing with them as the law of piracy di- rects. This decision did not suit the views of the persons who instigated the prosecution. A grand jury having been empannelled in the United States Court, a bill of indictment was found by them against Durkee and Rand on the original charge, and they were again arrested, and are now in the custody of the United States Marshal. Every ef- fort is being made by the leading citizens of San Francisco to heve them admitted to bail by Judge McAllister; but as piracy is not a bailable offence, it is probable that they will have to lie in prison until the 9th of next month, when the trial is to take place. Whether by cccident or design it is not stated, they are confined in the same cel! in the county jail which was occupied by the unfortunate Casey when the building was captured by the Vigilantes. ‘These arrests have, as might be expected, cre- ated a strong feeling of excitement and indigna- tion amongst the citizens who side with the Com- mittee. It was suggested that another attack should be made on the jail, with a view to reseue the prisoners: but this idea seems to have given place to more prudent resoluti It is now de- cidcd that the Committee will allow the trial to place under but if it oe resolved, take na protest; they a the to let orders al com all the process iseuin » give ‘ from the United nees, it seems to © parties can of the jury and ido mm of the chi be fore whom the case is e tried. they take an extreme view of it, we fear that San Francisco will present the dreadin) spectacle of an internecine conflict be- tween its citizens, ending in all probability in more wide-spread calamiti In the meantime, while we are anxionsly await- ing the decision of this question in the courts of San Francisco, we shall have an opportunity Af exemining its merits nearer home. Amongst the passengers of the Illinois are two members of the Vigilance Committee, who no doubt ave by this time made parties to the suit brought by Moloney egainst its Pre at present thie city. Thus, pari ; in the d States Courts both here ¢ San Fran- cieco. we shall have the validity late revo- tested, a lution sul ) exami- na vate judges a its the de cooler and more dir, punecd a ¥ ' th charce of our wishes being realized The political news hy this arrival takes its character in & great measure from the eventa upon which we have just dwelt. According to the accounts which reach us. there does not seom to & the least @oubt of Fremont’s carrying the State. result is dus to two powerful and irresietible influences, which have only to be stated to carry conviction with them. Ia the first place, the determined opposition offered hy party to the procecdings of the lauce Committee, from their commencement and the rigorous proscription emoeratic y have since proc ved against euch of dherents as seek admission to their clube, are themeelves elements of strength to the Fremont ¢. The sympathizers with the Com tice number bel nm thi he ourand and erty thou of the respec citizens of the votes will hb ‘Adie’ to the J athfinder, we have the | large proportion-—ray th eee-fi vote, whioh, in the ip spor —of the Fillmore y wh party finds of getting Up an organization, will also go for Fremont. Pat a still more cogent motive for the univer) support which the republican candidate wi meet with in the Golden State is the hostity of the democratic party and the demoe atic nominee to the project with whieh its frture prosperity and welfare are identified. The question of the Pacific Railroad, if there were no other, would decide the contest in Cali- fornia, That question is with its people para- monnt to all other issues, whether of a local or general character, and they will give their sup- port to the candidate whose views sympathise with their own. Under these circumstances we ere pot far astray in calculating that out of the 90,000 votes—the usual average of California— Fremont is likely to get 50,000. So much for the Predictions of those who foretold his defeat on the soil which his courage and energy conquered from barberism, and whose people are especially bound to do him honor. Important from Central and South America, We publish to-day several documents of a sig- nificant and important character, in relation to affairs in Central America. By the arrival of the Ilinois from Aspinwall, on Saturday, we learn that the position of Walker in Nicaragua is daily becoming more and more precarious. According to these advices, coming, however, from sources inimical to Walker, desertions from his banner were numerous Insnbordination had made great progress among his troops; and if rumor is to be cre- dited, no less than forty of his men, com- prising several officers, had been executed for that military offence. Leon, one of the principal cities of the republic, was occupied by a garrison of Guatemalan and San Salvadorean troops, op- posed to the rule of Walker; and throughout Central and South America projects were on foot and preparations being made for a grand united effort for the extermination of American rule in Nicaragua, and for the repression of American filibusterism there and over the whole South American continent. The documents to which we refer will enlighten our readers on those points, and suggest the ex- tensive feeling of alarm which pervades—and justly pervades—the whole Spanish American race on the subject of the encroachments of the filibusters of the North. The whole people and government of the @/nited States seem, in the opinion of our Spanish American neighbors, to live for little else than the extension of their sway over the whole hemisphere. Well founded as that opinion may be in regard to a portion of our present administration, and to a few madcaps among us, it is not true in its general application. But the alarmed denizens of those Southern re- publics appear to act upon the Latin maxim—er uno disce cxmes—and to think that Walker, Kinney, Jeff. Davis, Caleb Cushing, and all that class of filibustering individuals, are a fair type and true representatives of public opinion in this country. That, however, is an error which even they will not be long in discovering. One of the documents which we publish in connection with the subject is a report of two speeches delivered in Bogota—the capital of New Granada—at a banquet given to the Ecua- dorian Minister to that republic, on the occasion of surrendering his functions. The aim and ob- Ject of those’speeches were to awaken the Latin race in Central and South America to the dan- gers by which they were menaced by the absorb- ing spirit of our people and institutions, and to organize a united effort in opposition thereto. The proposition is to reorganize the Colombian republic, a confederation of which New Gra- nada, Ecuador and Venezuela are to be—as they have been—the constituent parts. But this pro- ject the speakers themselves half admit to be un- feasible. It was tried before, and failed signally. It is more than ever difficult now. Republican institutions are not comprehended or appreciated by the descendants of the Castilians. Military adventurers and cunning priests will in times to come—as they have done in times past, and do at prevent -rule those imbecile people more des- ; even, than they were gover by the and capta’ o "tis a pity; p for the people of the I t such is the an republics wei ch that A regret t) eh Americ cane 1 their » ne y ever should good government and develog 1 resources—in the possi bility of which we have not the slightest faith no nation would hail their progress with more sincere joy than that of “the filibusters of the North, they flatteringly call us. In the meantime, let them try what they can do in re- integrating the Republic of Colombia. Returning to Walker and Nicaragua, we find that the Vice Governor of Panama, in his last message to the Chamber of Deputies, directs their attention to, and asks their action upon, the affairs of that repnblic. So, too, we find that a number of the deputies of the republic of Chile have addressed a com- munication to that Congress, soliciting them to in- tervene in behalf of their brethern of Nicaragua, how opppresed by a usurper. No action had been taken on this communication at the time of our latest intelligence thence. Of both these docu- ments we present our readers with translations. In view of all the circumstances, it is more than that the rigime of President Walker in Nicaragua is drawing to» close—a denouement in us probable whieh the interference of the British and French authoritice is not to be overlooked. There nor of another serious riot in Panama, time it #a political, not an anti-American d ration. It appears that Panama enjoys one of those blessings for which our own aboli yearn—the equality of white and black races. An election for Governor has just come off. Senor Calvo wes reported to have been elected by a moejority of five thousand votes, The black party ¢ at he was elected by fraud, and anmovnerd that they would disperse the Chamber of Deputics, who were to assemble to give official force to the reseed will of the people. The threat was enough, in view of the weakness of the government, to cause terrible alarm in the city and pov ce, Great numbers of the citi- or » on board the and on the requi zer of-war * American sloop fifty k hod taken place—the mat of force. Prev'o a, no onthre SEPTEMBER 29, 1856. inwall, on the 19th, one of the passengers was formed by Colonel Totten, chief engineer of the railroad, that he had that morning received a de- spatch announcing that a terrible riot had brokee out; that some fourteen to eighteen persons had been killed—including one of the deputies--and great numbers wounded. Of course details are wanting. Everything shows that these Spanish American people are in a deplorable state of disintegration and disorder; and it is becoming a serious ques. tion whether, in mercy to the people of the isth- mus especially, and in justice to ourselves, we should not, as Mr. Corwine recommends, take mili- tary occupation of Panama. It is a question which demands a prompt solution. A New Canpmate FoR THe Mayoraury— Braxcn TuRNED ur Aars.—Some of our cotem- poraries, who are particularly fond of silly ro- mances, have been making a great fuss over the alleged disappearance of the mighty Stephen H. Branch, who, after amusing all the gossips of the city for several months, modestly withdrew from the public gaze. The brother of Mr. Branch aid- ed in this mystery, by solemnly predicting that Stephen bad met with foul play, and publishing an advertisement, in which he minutely described the appearance of the lost one—his stature, the color of his eyes, his dress, and the patriarchal character of his beard. For a day or two this attracted some attention, but it soon was forgut- ten. We are happy to say that Branch has neither been murdered nor robbed, but has turned uf, safe and sound, as will be seen by the following letter, under his own hand and seal:— Cincixsany, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1856. TO THE EDITOR OF = ERALD, T have been tothe mountaina, av w return to pro- claim mygelf the anti-Matsell candidate for Mayor of Now York; and if I’m elected, farewell to little Georgy, of Brandon, England. STEPHEN 8. BRANCH. So Branch returns to the city full of vigor, like a young war horse, and is prepared to take the field as the original anti-Matsell candidate. All the disappointed politicians are talking about a candidate to beat Wood—and Branch is decided- ly the man. He must take a position superior to that of Libby, or Whiting, or Genin, or Barker, or any of the other patriots who are ambitious to be Mayor of this great city. Branch is in the field. Let him have a fair chance. Branch is a strong candidate. Tue Asrovnpinc Ramway Fravps France. We gave yesterday, and continue to- day, a history of the remarkable railway frauds which have recently come to light in France, and the capture here of the parties said to have been concerned therein. By a series of bold operations the Northern Railway Company has been defrauded to the extent of five millions of franes by its own officers, who, having escaped to the United States, have been captured in this city, and now await examination. In some respects these French transactions are similar to those which lately transpired in this country. There is, however, this difference: the French government pursues and arrests the runaways on our coil, while our police allow persons engaged in similar transactions to escape and live in Eu- rope unmolested, enjoying the fruits of their dishonesty—as in the case of Schuyler. Of late years several immense frauds have been dis- covered here; but we are persueded that those which have already been brought to light are nothing to those the particulars of which have not transpired. These immense corporations, with their thirty or fifty millions of capital, are full of corruption and roguery of all kinds. We expect soon to hear of some grand railway explo- ions which will astonish the community. Is New York vor Fremont?—The old gran- nies of the Richmond Whig are continually screaming about the prospects of Fremont in New York. The Whig bas got an idea that the oppo- sition feeling in this State against John A. King may defeat the Fremont ticket. The truth is that our opposition to King and support of Judge Parker will give the Fremont ticket from fifty to sixty thousand votes over and above what it would otherwise have received, in this State alone, The Buchanan men are frightened and disorganized, and there will be an attempt to get from them some support for Erastus Brooks—the Know Nothing candidate—in o James Buchanan a eh ‘The political calculations are very much at fault, w more of the votes, Rieh been con- 1 for a speech from ex-Gov Merchants’ We ho , on the occasion, Mr. Lov . (now in the city), and that Mr. Slidell will explain to us how the work of Southern dis- union is to begin should Fremont be elected— by robbing the treasury at washington, as recom- mended by Mr. Brooks, or by another Nashville Convention? Mr. Slidell says there will be dis- union unless we elect Buchanan; and we want to know how it is to be done. Let Mr. Slidell come down to the Exchange with Gov. Floyd, and on- lighten the lame ducks of Wall street. They want light. nia, at ihe , on Thurs Pourtictans Not Statesmex.—The Charleston Mercury is not far wrong when it says there are no statesmen north of Mason and Dixon’s line. The sesertion is too true with regard to both sides of the Ji Where is there a man in old Vir- ginia or in New York who can be compared to Jefferson or Madison, or Clay, or Calhoun, or Webster? Not one. Our public men are all mere partisans—mere small politicians, All the states- manship is confined to the leading newspapers. They alone diseuss properly the groat questions before ‘*e country. Journalism is the only real stateen.cship. The Charleston Mercury is right n this matter. Disiaees or Tim Beenaxan Panty. —Tho Bu- chanan organ in New Orleans—the Delo—mourns bitterly over the prospects of the Presidential in the North, and calls loudly for seces rd disunion. The Delta further bogs that Tr xas will lead off in the secession movement. “Let her,” says the Delia, “plant on her Capitol at Austin once more the flag of the “Lone Star,’ and a million of men will soon rally around it. The tirse for action has arrived.” This ie the Jast and worst resort. ——___. Mr. Brewaxan mw Cantronsta—We under- stand (uat the last arrival from California brings a letter to James Buchanan, the democratic can- didate for President of the United States, in- quiring whether he intends to address that State o letter endorsing the Pacifie railroad scheme, tis further efated that he intends to send sach a citer by the eteamer of the Sth of October fully the proposed Pacific railway whit time, contes endorsing at the same he will give the Sou a mina jeter taking directly opposite grou « But while the Southern letter will do his work in that section within the next ‘ nree weeks, the let- ter to California w aM only arrive two or three days before the 1, and the triek cannot, of . course, be discovered in time to prevent its effect, in both quarters, THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, wenn ‘ Preparations for the President’s Departure-. Wasurnaton, Sept, 27, 1866. On Tuesday morning next the President’s mounted guard will escort General Pierce from the Whtte House to the railway depot, where he will be recetved by the staff'and a company of officers of the District Volunteer Regiment, who will accompany him as far as Baltimorey At that place he will be received by the entire brigade 08 the Maryland militia. The Empire City at New Orleans. New Oxxeans, Sept. 27, 1886. J ‘The steamship Empire City, from New York, has ai rived at this port. ‘Naw Oxieays, Sept. 27, 1868. Cotton sales to-day, 6,600 bales, at firm prices, Freight are again better, 271-6 P. M. Wheat—Sales 14,000 buabon oat at $1 apie white, Capadian. Corn ip good demand, sales 17, part, at 59c, Canal freights steady; lake immports to to-day, 74,900 bushels wheat, 23,120 busbels corn. ports, 43,41 bushels wheat, 23,160 bushels ae Cuicaco, Sept. 27—6 P. M. 7 ‘Wheat firm with an upward tendency; shipments Buffalo, 68,600 bushels, and to Oswego, Prices are a trifle higher: sales at 40360. @ 4tc.; vetipmenia to Buffalo, 41,000 bushels, and to Oswego, 15,000. Proviogncer, Sept. 27, 1856. Cotton—Demand steady and prices firm, aud upwi ‘Wool—Market firm at the advance; rales of tho week, 55,500 Ibs. Printing clot’ »—Prices firm; eal during the week, 69,000 pieces. THE GREAT FRENCH RAILWAY FRAUD. Interesting Interview with the French + tives—How the Bulls and Bears Operate in Paris—The Fraudulent System of the C: Mobilier—How the Large Fish Swallow the Small Fry—Wall Street in the d How the Embezzlement was Effected— Prisoners Desire to Remain in the Unite States—Their Appearance Yesterda: ther Particulars, Ke., &. ‘The great rai'way fraud in France, and the full account Of the transaction as publisbed in yesterday’s Herat, the all absorbing topic of ccnversation, not only amon the financiers of Wall street, but among all the tntelligent Clagses of the community. The large amount involved and the ease with which the work of embezzlement performed, gives the transaction a color of Schuylerisa not soon to be forgotten. Hudson, Schuyler, Saddlier ang Messrs. Carpentier and Greletare names that will b fresh in the memories of the people, when those of em Rent statesmen will sink into oblivion, ‘The French railway scheme is quite differeut from thi transactions of Schuyler, Hudson and Saddlier in many respects. In the former case the actors merely swind James Rothechild, and deprived him of the princip part of his shares in a railway company, while the latt robbed the people and ihose who placed confidence their integrity. In this case the richest man in the wor! is elightly unfortunate, while in the cases of Hudso Schvyler and Saddlier many thousand families have b made suflerers, and desolation has been spread far wide. But it is unnecessary to dwell upon this point forther, s0 we will carry our readers to the prison Messrs. Grelet and Parot, and detail the result of a conversation had with them by meang of a faithful int preter. The prisoners are extremely affable, and seemed q willing to enter into copversation upon the subject uj which we are now treating. 5 To various questions put to Mr. Grelet he stated that ¥ and bis companions were unwilling to go back to Franc and were desirous of spending the remainder of th days in the United States, All the money they vrougt bere with them was honestly obtained, they said, was given them by their friends and relatives previous: their departure from Paris. “If we are compelied to back to France,” said Grelet, “I will disclose sev: ‘matters that will compromise the very mes who persecute me, and even great financiers who now ho their heads so bigh on the Bourse.’’ In the year 18 when the railwsy company was first chartered, M Grelet and Carpentier were employed as casbiers ta concern, ‘My first speculations,’ says Grelet, always entered into with cash, and it was not until 1 that I borrowed the shares of the company. I hoped be able to replace them by lucky ventures, but beil without any ready cash, Carpentier and myself were ways unfortunate in our speculations. Mr, Rothsc ‘who was President of the c: mpany, had every confi im our Integrity, and in 1848 he entrusted to our sixty thourand shares of the railway company, valued| fifty million francs, with orders if the insurrection in Pi was not quelled, to proceed to England with the valual Package. We proceeded as far as Amiens, and inten to crores the Channel, when we received orders to rea in France. Theee shares were the private property| Mr. Rothschild, and tney remained in our possessi until 1853, when Mr ild claimed them, ‘were delivered up to him, and all was found to bec rect, The property was retained in Mr. Rotheohil¢ pomeetion for #ix month alter that, when ti was agi placed in our bands, At that thne Br. Robert cavbier and right band man of Mr. Rothsenild, When died, tn the month of Carpentior was a day bee pese ot i pehiting the amount with Mr. Lambert, (Rot child's ogeut in Brussels). If we were disposed to dishonest at that time, we could have lof country with the large amount, and not co| here, as we did, without any money, © 4 small sum given us by our friends. We never took cath from the establishment, (none bas been m but merely borrowed shares of the company, with hope of being able to replace them. Our reporter wishing to know how the robberies w efiected during the lifetime of Mr. Robert, (Rothehil head cashier,) he proceeded to put aseries of questi to Mr. Grelet, which were answered as followa:— Q. How did you manage to get at the shares when Robert was head cashier, and was entrusted with custody of the property’ A. When he was alive, be to pay to ue, ‘There is the key of the bureau contalt the valuables of the company; if you want anythis my absence, you can procure it. Mr, Robert was an old man, and did not exert himself much, He every contidence in our integrity, and showed us the whore be bid the key of the bureau, Q. Had any others access to the bureau tn qi on? A, A man named Guerin, a porter in the tablishment, who weed to sleep in the r where the bureau wae deposited, bad p of the key for nearly = month, Gu opened the top cover of the piece of cabinet ware, wi was fastened down with nails, and thus had access to bureau, even when the key was not in his possoasto stole 1,000 ebares, ard that thoft in now charged to ulf Q. Whet kind of epeculations did you emter into? We chiefly epeculeted in French funda, Q. How mary shores did you take on any one A. Well, I cor red was the highest ‘wo bundred at a time Q. Were you and Carpentier engaged tn th tions jointly, and did you agree to divide th A. 1k was uncerstood that we should thet eer, exact , but Tt wo generally took f+ . How was the deficiency discovered, and when? is way: Rothechild was known to have a cor es in the company, and was in the h dividends without presentin, bie stock Ty one know bis claim to be correc bad ‘bought the eheres taken from Rothec leo eatle divh dividends were thus paid twice on the ame stoc was not ontil we Jett France that the directors of ihe pary could find ort bow the mistake occurred: R chil received bis dividends regularly apom 4,000 eh which were not in bis posse bot we of other partics, who nla same; it was not until Mr. Rotnsenild found out that property bad been carried off that the mistake wae. covered; be bad not counted the number of shar years, supposing that it was alt r Gividends regvlarly epon 900 shares, without asked to present the same; Kothechiid haa after all litle, for the dividends be received on the namb olen would, if added together, equal, if me { the What wae the eapital of the company? + 600,000,000 france whea it frst was chartorod, Presi