The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1856, Page 4

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Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, addressed a ‘very jarge andience in the Broadway Tabernacle last evening, on the question of Free labor. He did so in compliance with the request of the Mechanics’ and Workingmen’s Union of this city. He review- ed ably, in s-jocose style, the recent history ef politics in the country, paid his respects to Gov. Wise, ex-Gov. Floyd, Mr. Keitt, Senator Toombs, Senator Benjamin, Mr. Herbert, &c., and laid down the doctrine broadly and unreservedly that in the territory now belonging to, or that may hereafter be ebtained by the United States, the institution of slavery shal! never be permitted to exist. We give 2 condensed report of his speech. After the meet ing a procession was formed, whith marched up to the residence of Col. Fremont. A letter has been received in St. Louis from Kansas, dated 24th ult., which states that the free State privoners had been examined before Judge Cato, and committed for trial at the April term of the Court. The election for delegates to Congress and members of the Territorial Legislature takes piace to-morrow. Governor Geary has, it is said, stationed United States troops at various points where troubles are anticipated on election day, in or- der to ensnre a fair expression of the popular will. We publish in another part of today's paper a description oi the ceremonies and pageants on the oecas!on of the coronation of Alexander, Emperor of All the Russias. It is from the brilliant and graphic pen of the Crimean correspondent of the Lon don Times—an announcement which will ensure its eager perusal. Erastue Corning is the demozratic nominee for Congress in the Albany district. We understand that a warrant from the govern- ment has been received by the French Consul, au- thorizing the arrest of Auguste Perat, Louis Grelet and Engene Grelet, charged with defrauding the Rothschilds of some millions of francs. The war- rant directa that they be brought before the federal autborities of this city for an examination. The above named parties are already in the custody of the Sheriff, but will be transferred on Monday to the charge of the United States Marshal. The warrant also includes the mame of Charles Carpentier, not yet arrested. nde Anderson, of the Fifth District Court, yes terday ordered a non-suit to be entered in an action against the Corporation and Chief Engineer Carson, for damages done to the stoop of house 257 Henry street by fire engine companies, while running their apparatas om the sidewalk during the deep snows of last winter. The decision is important, as re- garde the liability of the city in snch cases. City Inspector Morton's report for the past week sa very acceptable docament. It shows a decrease of 42 in she mertality of the city during that period, as compared with the figures of the week previous, There has been a large falling off in diseases of the brain and nerves, and of disorders of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs. One death from yellow fever is reported. We observe by the re- porte from {the Health Officer that two vessels from West India porta, having yellow fever on board, ar- rived below this port on the 3d inst. They were promptly placed in Quarantine, where they will remain until the appearance of a “black frost.” The following shows the mortality of last week and of the week previous: — Mon. Women. Boys. Girls, Teta, Wook ending Sept. 4 70) 8B Oe SBI Week ending Oct. 4....68 86 138 127 380 The following were among the principal causes of death the past week, as compared with those of the week preceding:— Week — Week ending & a Oe ee rrerane pt Comsempuor . Choiere .n/ontum a 19 9 4 6 ‘ 2 2 oh 46 » There were also 5 deaths of bronchitis, 7 of con- gestion ofthe brain, 10 of croup, 14 of dropay in the head, § of hooping cough, 5 of inflammation of the brain, 4 of smallpox, 5 of teething, 5 prematare birthe, 29 stillborn, and 13 deaths from violent causes. Of the whole number, 257 were of ten years of age and under, and 34 were inmates ot the va- rious pubjic institutions. The folowing table gives the classification of dis eases, and the total number of deaths caused by each disease, during the two weeks ending— Sept Bt. Oct. 4 . 3 6 “ ‘58 3 5 7 7 80 89 kin, ko |, and eruptive fever “ 13 Stillborn and premature birtl Of 4 Stomach, vowew and other ve Uncertain goat and general fevers Pa 39 Unknown... “ 8 1 Urinary organs. 4 8 ee et rT) The following is a comparison of the number of deaths lest week with those of corresponding weeks in 1864 and a ae Week ending Oct. 7, 5 Ort. 6, 1866. ‘The annexed table shows temperature of atmoephere drring the psst week, the range of the barometer, the wariatione of the wind carrente, and the ctate of jhe westber at three periods furing NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1856. each day, viz:—-at 9 A.M., and 3 and o'clock The French Rallway Robbery. P.M. Accounts from Europe represent the French Ps capital in a state of extreme excitement, owing Sle) to the arrest of some of the persons implicated es in the late robbery of the Railway du Nord. ! 4 They had not yet heard of the capture of Grelet a iz and his companion here; but the absconding su- = = ~ perintendent, Guerin, had been caught in London, Sun. [>| 48] and a lady “who had had most intimate rela- Pees: [30 aH tions with the defaulters,” had been apprehended Teed 3 ea at Brussels, M. de Rothschild is represented as we at) racing over the continent from place to place, in és REMARKS, connection with the measures taken for the arrest Betanday--Clear and cool. of the criminals. Altogether, everybody seems to Konda! may ey. stormy; breeze 8. E. be excited, and not a few alarmed and uneasy. Tuescay—, rain; 2’. M., cloudy. This nervous condition isnot wholly due, we Wednesday—Ciear and pleasant; P: M,, clear and cold. Thureday—C} apprehend, to the theft of 300,000 railway shares. Other persons, besides the sharebolders in the Chemin du Nord, are said to be laboring under anxiety. We do not doubt the fact. Nor have we any hesitation in etating our conviction that this anxiety and this nervousness are due to the fact that many other enterprises are in the same condition as the Northern Railway, and that Grelet, Guerin & Company are only the least adroit of a large band of unscrupulous specula- tors A French cotemporary of ours may object to this view, ashe did the last time it was ex- pressed; but something more than rhetoric will be needed to refute it, For eight years at least, France has been im an unsound financial _ condition. Even under Louis Philippe, the annual public deficit was much larger than a mercantile nation would consider safe: after his expulsion things from bad got worse, the debt was increased, the revenue fell off, makeshifts were eagerly re- sorted to by the ministries of the day, and when Louis Napoleon assumed the direction of affairs, the kingdom was on the verge of bankruptcy. Has he done anything toward a wholesome reme- dy? In plain truth, he has done nothing but spend money and stimulate speculation. He and his creatures founded the Credit Mobilier, that fraudulent version of the United States Bank, helped it to declare dividends not earned, suffer- ed its managers to knock its stock up and down for purposes of stockjobbing, encouraged it to embark in all sorts of wild speculations, hardly any of which have ever proved really remunera- tive, and crowned it the leading financial institu- tion of France. In the way of economy Louis Napoleon has set up the most expensive court seen in France since the days of the old empire, has plunged into a war which must have cost him 400,000,000, the whole thrown away without hope of return, has kept the people from revolu- tion by sustaining the price of bread below that of flour, has dispensed with productive items in the customs duties, has spent millions upon millions in improving Paris. Not in a single act of his reign can we discover any intelligent purpoee to retrench orto save money. On the other hand, be has not increased the productive power of the country. In none of the branches of French industry has the increase been larger than usuel since he became Emperor, and one of the most extensive producing interests—the wine interest has enormously fallen off. Add to this that, while setting the example of extravagance him- self, and imposing the same conduct on his court, he has tried to help it along with the people by fostering their natural proclivity to gambling, and has given his sanction to more joint stock companies than ever existed under the old re- gency—and cause enough will be seen to tremble for the financial stability of France. We believe simply that the kingdom and most of the corporate financial institutions within it are at this moment insolvent, and that the period is not far distant when their condition will he dis- covered. For the Emperor, who is a master of the arts of politics and war, is a mere child in finance, and has never been able either to suggest any scheme of economy, or even to appreciate the danger which threatens him. He can spend money; but he can do nothing else with it. There- fore, we assume that when the evil day does come, the shock will be more sudden than that which the skill of Necker and the nerve of Man- pertins and Calone availed in moderating seven- ty years ago; and we are prepared to find, on that startling occasion, that very few concerns have been allowed by their managers to break without first affording opportunities to Schuylers and Grelets to exhibit their astonishing financial abilities. ‘lear and pleasant. Abont forty of the two hundred engineers em- ployed upon the Erie Railroad ‘'struck” yesterday, in consequence of the refusal of the company to rescind or modify a rule, adopted by the Board of Directors, discharging any engineer who allows his train to run off a switch while entering @ station. The engineers also demanded an increase of wages, and the privilege of a free passage for the employes of other railroad companies over the road, both of which propositions were likewise rejected. The strike, however, did not cause the slightest embar- rassment tothe company. The trains made their trips with the usual regularity, the situations va- cated by the discontented engineers having been immediately filled. The sales of cotton yesterday reached about 1,200 21,500 bales, the market closing firm. Middling cottons were scarce, and were dearer in proportion than the higher grades, haying been sold at 12jc. The new cotton arriving is generally above the middling grades. The lightness of the stock also tends to check operations. The chief purchases are made by spinners. Flour was from 5c. @ l0c. per barrel lower. Wheat was also lower. Red sold at $l 45a $1 52, and white at $1 60a $1 62. We learn of the suspension of a highly respectable firm engaged in the flour and corn trade. Corn sold at 67c. a 68c. Pork was dull, with sales of mess at #19 933 a $20. Sales of sugar were confined to 509 a 600 bhds. Caba muscovado, at steady prices. Cof- fee was quiet, and prices unchanged. Freights were steady, and rates continued about the same. The Crisis of Disunion at Last—Threats In Pennsylvania. When it became obvious that the great battle of the Presidential campaign was to be fought on the question of slavery extension by force of arms, we sent a reporter to Virginia and a cor- respondent to Pennsylvania to let us know how the land lay. We have thus had from time to time the earliest intelligence of the disunionist opera- tion by which Gov. Cobb and other Southern nota- bilities are endeavoring to bully the Penn»yl- vanians into the support of Buchanan. But ‘he letter we publish from Pennsylvania this morning is by far the most important that we have re- ceived. The country has been alternately con- vulsed with laughter and roused to indignation by the fanfaronade of Keitt and Brooks; but their performance sinks into insignificance by the side of that of the notorious Colonel John W. For- ney, Chairman of the Buchanan State Executive Committee, and confidant and right hand man of the democratic candidate for President. On Saturday before last, John W. Forney ad- dressed @ mass meeting at Reading, Pennsylvania. He did not take any roundabout course: he went tothe point directly: he told the people of Reading—who are mostly going to vote for Fre- mont—that if they did not vote for Buchanan, the party which he (Forney) represented would break up the Union, He would be fair with them: they would have their choice, either to let Forney choose a President for them, or to sub- mit to the loss of their nationality. One thing or the other. Either Forney or death. No other alternative. Perhaps some sturdy citizen of Reading ob- jected to being forced to accept this dilemma. Perbaps Forney saw, among the lowering faces and knit brows before him, evidence that the Pennsylvanians would not submit to be treated like cattle. Forhe felt it tobe policy to aid that the Pennsylvanians must not think of making Kansas a free State. They must give up the idea once and forever, and say no more about it; for the South would not submit to that any more than to the election of Fremont, and if the North tried it on, they would get well thrashed for their pains, “ The South,’ he repeated, “ would wade knee deep in biood—ould ride in blood up to their horses’ bellies, sooner than not carry the point.” In fine, the only course for the Pennsylvanians to pursue, if they cared for their own safety and their national existence, was to let the South make Kansas a slave State by military coercion, and to vote for Mr. Buchanan. We are not surprised to find that our corres- pondent reporte a large increase of Fremont voters in consequence of this speech. This is not the firet—though we trust it may be the last—time in the history of this country in which a Presidential candidate relies on the fears, not on the wishes; on the cowardice, not on the px triotism; on the baseness, not on the manhood of the people for suffrages. Mr. Fillmore set the example; but Forney has given the idea a practical illustration, which places it in a far stronger light. We have seen a good deal of electioneering, and are acquainted with Tue Derrorr Srexcu or W. H. Sewann.— Mr. Seward bas been making, at Detroit, one of his characteristic speeches against the slave- holders of the South as the governing class of the country. He gives us a heavy poetical effu- sion on this theme, better fitted for the columns of some dull politico-literary magazine than for the practical exigencies of this crisis on the stump. He is one of those old fogy politicians, who, like the Bourbons, “ never forget anything, and never learn anything.” He preaches the merits of this campaign upon false issues. He is fighting the slaveholders as a class, while the great Fremont party are devoted to the practical common cause of putting down this infamous democratic dynasty at Washington, and of putting up a constitutional administration in its place. We have nothing more to do with & good many political and oratorical de- | slaveholders, as a class, than with any other class vices; bat this is the first time that we | of our fellow-citizens. We are dealing with a ever beard @ stump speaker tell his | debased administration, and the corrupt party audience that if they did not vote for his man, he would have them ruined, and if they be- haved in a way he did not like, thrashed into the bargain. Highway robbers, as our corres. pondent suggests, use this argument. They say frankly to their victim—“Your money or your life!’ But it is new for a stamp speaker to adopt the same form of appeal in addressing an audience of several thousands of intelligent freemen. We shall know, in the course of a fortnight, what the effect of this original kind of oratory has had among the sturdy people of the Keystone State: we shall see how many of them Forney and the other bullies have scared into voting for Bu- chanan for fear of the South. In the meantime, we will only add that, though Forney, as the in- timate, familiar, oler ego, and guardian of James Buchanan, is perhaps entitled to more attention, and his speeches to more authority, than other members of the party like Cobb, Floyd and Brooke, we are satisfied that the difference be- tween him and them is one of degree only. He is more candid than they; but they all think alike. From Mr. Bachanan himself to the Post- masters and Custom House officers throughout the country, the whole of this demoralized, un- principled, shameless ruling party goes for dis- wnien in the event of their defeat, and for war in Kansas to keep up the price of slaves. They have already nullified the constitution in one half the Union hy destroying freedom of speech, of assemblage, of the pres, and enbstituting for the law mob violence: if Bachanan {« elected they will deetrey 1, altogether in Kansas, and the corrupt spoilsmen and disunion politi- cians and fire-eaters that control the Buchanan democracy. The political evile of the day were brought upon us by this Pierce administration and the party controlling it. When Mr. Pierce was inaugurated there was peace on the nigger ques- tion-- it had been settled—all sides had acquiesced, and peace was expected to continue. But this peace was broken, not necessarily, in the repeal of the Missouri compromise and the substitution of the principle of popular sovereignty; but it was broken by that desperate expedient for Southern votes at Cincinnati-that base expedicnt of making “Kansas a slave State by ballot stuffing and byt of arms. It is Pierce, Soff. Davie, Atchisow & Co., and the democratic party that are responsible for this, and not the slaveholders, as a clase, Fire-eating Southern democratic dema- gogues and disorganizers, however, have mis- represented the slaveholding class as much as Seward. The mase of the Southern slaveholdere are a conservative class, and seck to avoid agita- tion and unconstitutional issues and aggressions, Not so with such Southern demagogues and dis turbers as Wise, Brooks, Keitt, Floyd, Cobb, Benjamin, Johnson and Slidell—not so with such trafficing politicians as Pierce, Fillmore and Bachanan—not so with each old party fossils as W. H. Seward. The difference hetween the speeches, proclama- tione, silly bombast and idle threats of euch agi- tatore and disorganizers and the true men of the day. is very bron’. Compare, for example, tho raving madness of Wise with the practical com. mon sense of Botts in Virginia—the calm, solid reasoning of Banks with the empty declamation of Floyd in Wall street, and the home thrusts of Gen. Wilson upon the main question with the labored twaddle of Seward upon @ fictitious side issue; and the difference between practical men and foolish politicians and agitators will be seen at a glance, Martin Van Buren, although an old par- ty fossil of the Saurian epoch, has yet, while en- dorsing Buchanan and the nigger policy of the democratic party, had sense enough to keep in the shade. Seward ehould follow his example, for he isequally befogged as to the real drift, merits and issues of this great movement for Fremont and a new administration, MvsicaL Crisis my THE MetRoPoLis.—NeW York never can get on without a crisis. Some- times it is political, sometimes it is literary, eome- times it is theatrical, but there always must be a crisis of some kind or other. New York lives on excitements, and cannot do without them. Just now the crisis is operatic. Just now there is an operatic war carried on between the indomitable Maretzek, the imperturbable Phalen, the diplo- matic Chevalier Wikoff, with all the young ladies and old ladies in the Fifth avenue and elsewhere —all the fashionable young men—all the blusé old beaux—all the aristocratic humbugs, old and young, animated spectators of the fight. The Surore awakened by Maretzek’s coup d'état at the Academy has proved almast a counter excite- ment to the tremendous political contest new go- ing on, and it may affect the result of the Presi- dential election, though in what way we do not see just at present. We shall give that branch of the delicate subject our most profound considera- tion hereafter. The tremendous struggles to establish the Italian Opera in New York during the past eight years form an interesting epoch in the history of the city. It would seem that it is as difficult to in- troduce the Opera in New York as it is to ferce negro slavery upon Kansas. We have no border ruffians to be sure, but there Lave been refrac- tory tenors, rebellious prime donne and share- holders, who, in the opinion of the director, wanted altogether too much for their investment. A fearfully large amount of money has also been lost. By reference to the entertaining volume published by Max Maretzek last year, we find that he has sunk, at various times, about fifty thousand dollars, and that the entire losses of the Opera here for the past seven years have amount- ed to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The number of estimable people not engaged in artis- tic pursuits, but who turn their attention to the exact sciences, such as getting up boots, hats, clothes, bijouterie and King Charles’ spaniels for the artists, who Rave suffered by the spasmodic opening and shuttingJof the opera houses must be very large. For it follows, as a natural con- sequence, that if the artists have nothing to do they will have no money, and if they have no money they cannot pay. Now your artist of the Opera is a superior being. He mnst be dressed much better than Solomon in all his glory: he must have his dinner of four courses, with his Chateau Margaux or Clos Vougeot, and his petit verre. That ‘dispensa- tion of Divine Providence which shuts up the Opera is distressing to him in a mental point of view—it severely wounds his tender susceptibili- ties, and it makes him despair for art and his salary; but the pecuniary misfortene falle upon his botiier, his costumier, his restaurateur, or his hair- dresser who arranges his raven curls, and then stands in the corner of the parquette to applaud his chef d’auvre. Those ladies and gentlemen must have suffered to the extent of fifty thousand dollars at least, while the unpaid salaries of ar- tists, chorus singers, musicians, and so forth, can- not fall short of another hundred thousand. The wealthy gentlemen, also, who are continually of- fering up their portemonnaies on the shrine of Saint Cecilia, out of pure love of high art, are also entitled to our sympathy. For it does not follow that because one has got a great deal of money one should throw itaway. That doctrine may find advocates in Icaria or the Faubourg Saint Antoine, but it is not received in Wall street or the Fifth avenue. The patri- otic gentlemen who pay one thousand dollars per share for stock, which depreciates in three years ninety per cent, certainly suffer. For example : Mr. Phalen says that twenty-four thousand dol- lars per annum barely pays the insurance, inte- reat, taxes, &c., &., on the Academy, Conse- quently, as the house has been unoccupied for at least half the time that has elapsed, the owners must have lost forty thousand dollars. So the bill would stand thus :— po Both yt Ag tra That is doing pretty well for the first decade, and as salaries, rents, &., are going up, we may increase it to half a million during the next ten years. The practical man aske, what have we got for all this money? Nothing in particular, except the souvenirs of the splendid artists and the recollec- tion of a good deal of amusement for the outside public from managerial squabbles and artists’ quarrels, Nevertheless, expensive as it may be, New York will have the Opera. We are an Opera going and Opera loving people, as the sum —nearly twenty thousand dollare—taken for the last thirteen representations at the Academy fully proves. There is a bad state of feeling in the in- side circles. The executive committee are fu- rious against Maretzek, whom they charge with ingratitude, according to the copy-book, the black- est of crimes. They say that he shall never have the Academy again, and that they will mako some arrangement to place the Opera on a per- manent basis. We think we have heard that re- mark, in substance, before. We are afraid that there will be no more Opera at the Academy for some time to come. But while all is so dark in our musical sky, a light breaks out in a new quarter of the horizon, The last European steamer brought us a precious freight in the person of Sigie- mund Thelberg, the greatest of living pianiste, Thalberg is among the few European artists who have an extended American reputation. Hardly a lady in the land is without Thalberg’s exquisite piano music. His social position is the highest; he ia the son of 2 Grand Duke, and connected with the highest circles in Germany, both in lineage, literature and art. His arrival is a ma- cal event, and 20 will be that of Madame Angri, the contralio, who is daily expected. Now, why should not Thalberg take the Academy for his concerts? He has often given concerts in the largest European opera houses—La Scala and the San Carlos, for example. The Academy is cortainly as well fitted for concerts as the opera honss of Milan or Noeples. We would snggest to M. Thallerg thay be should come be- Connectiont State Fair. New Havan, Oct. 4, 1866. ‘The arrangements arc nearly completed for the State Fair grounds, and entries of horses and blood stock are already very numerous. The best exhibition the Stata has afforded is looked for. fore the New York public in their theatre erect- ed specially for the advancement of the art of music. Thie will be giving a new turn to the crisis, and will satisfy everybody. Tur Mexican Bonps.—The last news in re- ference to these bonds is that the British govern- ment has forwarded a strong remonstrance to the government of Mexico, insisting that the customs duties appropriated as collateral security for the payment of the interest shall not be applied to other uses, but shall be collected under the authority of a Mr. Whitehead as the agent of the bondholders. So far as this goes there is no harm done. England has a right to say what she likes, and no doubt her government will feel inclined to speak plainly to a nation which has shown such very bad faith as Mexico, As to the appoint- ment of Mr. Whitehead as co-treasurer of Mexico, we doubt it very much. President Comonfort could hardly consent to such an arrangement with- out a serious sacrifice of real power and apparent dignity ; and the chances are that this will occur to him directly. We should not be surprised to hear that he has answered that he will have nothing to do with Mr. Whitehead otherwise than to pay bim his interest; that he will do what in him lies to make these payments regularly—as the confiscation of the church property will enable him to do; but that, for the rest, if Eng- land be not satisfied, he cannot help it. An answer of this kind would place the British in a dilemma: they would either have to back down, or to threaten. The latter course would rouse thie country, which, of course, will never allow an European Power to interfere with the inde- pendence of Mexico; and in the end, John Bull would probably find the former plan the most sensible. It is a pity, of course, that people who borrow money should not always repay it at the right time: but public sympathy should not always be on the side of the injured creditor. The English- men who lent their money to Mexico were not compelled to do so by law, or by force, or by any other reason than the uncommonly fine chance they thought they saw of making money; they pur- chased the risk with the bonds. Why should they how) so much about it now? They made their bed ; let them sleep on it. The Erie Canal. Avaany, Oct. 4, 1866. ‘There were no arrivais here by canal to-day, the deten~ tion being in consequence of bringing the new lock into work. ARD. PuLapstraia, Oct. 4, 1856. Stocks steady. Penpaylvania 5’s, 833¢; Rail- road, 412; Long Island Railroad, 12%;' Morris Ul Railroad, 4934 1394; Pennsylvania 4 a ‘New Onceans, Oct. 3, 1866. ne Alvich’s news wae promptly recetved Sle : ge yy | evening edition of eos - 16 cotton to-ray were Atiffer prices, but without any actual advance, idling 1X0. The’ sales of the week ‘oot up 31,000 bale, and the receipts, di the same period, have been 35,000,. The receipts, thus far, are 46.(0 bales below those of the last season. stock on hand, 41,000 bales. upward, an advance of 10c, having been es- tablished to-day, corn, 656, Tard, i igs, Mae Cotlee, ee 11%c.; sales of the week, 15, H stock, 65 Tee bear Cotton is taken for New York asd 5 xchange. ir cent premium. fo freights to Liverpool, So * Avrvavo, Oct. 4—1 P. M. Flour and wheat quiet and dull. Corn H sales, 12,000 bushels, at Sic. Canal 1s to New ‘York dull, at 18c, for corn and 2234c, for wheat. The Charleston Mercury, of the 29th, contains the con clusion of a series of articles signed ‘A Nullifier,’? ade dressed to Judge Magrath, which are supposed to bave been the cause of the duel in which Mr. Tabor, one of the editors of that paper, lost his lie. Among other things it charged Judge Magrath with naving falsely broken hig word toa friend to whom he promised his support as @ Congressional candidate for the same district where the Judge is now running in bis place. ‘The Savannah Daily Republican, of the 20th ult., aske, “Who are the demooratic leaders in Georgia to day ?’* And replies, “‘The w! lc concern, body, soul an@® breeches, seem to be tied on to the coat tails of shrewd managing old whigs.”” ‘The New Orleans Delia of the 25th ult. says of th@ South'—‘We have to deal witn the question of the ba- lance of power, and nothing clse. We have to preserv@ our political satus—the only thing assailed by the Northes as we would preserve our very lives. Everything else, 80 faras the present controversy is concerned, is mer@ jeather and prunella.”” Then why charge the North witty ‘an attempt to destroy their domestic institutions? The New Orleans Deléa of the 25th ult. also propose) that laws should be generally passed in the slave States, to exompt negroes from being sold under execution. Tha object is \o distribute the black population, make them @ favorite property with poor as well as rich, raise their price, and increase the number of their defenders in casq of secessin. It concludes its article thus:— Given the general establishment of negro exem| With sch modifications as might be deemed just at wholesome, and the Souther states, by the diffused unity of interest (if we may ure the expression) thu secured, world an unbroken front to every as< sault, inside or outside of legis lauion. re be mad@ upon their rights or domestic tranquillity and security. ‘We fear there is no such unity of interest at Teak and though the South may bravely face her we doubt that se can do so wit! a serried front. . The Richmond Enquirer of Oct 1, says there is a prace tical interfersnce with slavery going on in ‘the Souths that large assemblies of negr: ce bave been secretly held! in Clarke oousty, Miss., in a1oom under a saw mil), and ft records the expulsion of ‘several pernicious scoune drels”’ from Alabama, adding :— Gey. Lane ov Kansas axp His Ternmiy Cua11eNce.—Our readers will find elsewhere in these columns a very remarkable manifesto from Gen. Lane, the free State military champion in Kansas, Itis avery interesting document, as far as it confirms the atrocities of border ruffianism as contrasted with the humane, defensive policy of the free State settlers, and it is very encour- aging to be thus assured that the administrative policy of making Kansas a slave State by force of arms has thus far been a signal failure. But the most remarkable feature in this letter is the i Yet suchthere are stalking xbroad in the community, novel proposition of Gen. Lane for the settlement BP, yang os tunigted ak of the question of slavery or no slavery in Kan- | incendiaries because th: happen to reside in Virginia. fas. Such mem tre more to be and feared, and deserva eeverer than the vilest abolitionist of tha He proposes, instead of another bor- der ruffian invasion, that they adopt the old plan of the days of chivalry—that is, a decisive fight between a limited number of champions on either side. He thinks that a bundred men of either party would do, and that they fight the de- cisive fight in the presence of twelve members of each House of Congress, “ one half of whom shail be selected by each party, with the mutual agree- ment that the blood of the parties shall settle this question, and save Kansas from further outrage.” The Horatii and the Curatii—Lane himself vo- unteering to be the first Horatius. And why should not this plan be adopted by the border ruffians? It is exactly in their line. It proposes their own policy of fighting it out, and to make short work of it by a picked com- pany of combatants and a single decisive battle. The North, we doubt not, could furnish the re- quired hundred martyrs to save their country, and the administration democracy, with such men as Brooks, Wise, Keitt, Herbert, Jeff. Davis, Atchison, Pierce, Stringfellow, Buford, Titus, Forney, Jobn Van Buren, Slidell, Floyd, Captain Scott, Toombs, Quattlebum and others, could easily make up their hundred. And suppose not @ man on either side should survive the fight? Would not their loss be the country’s gain? The fact is, if Pierce, Atchison and Stringfellow, who have already had their feathers clipped by Lane, should refuse this proposition of a picked com- pany for a decisive fight, they had better retire at once from the field. Let us hear from them. Will nobody take up the glove? North. | The re ritical pretenders, aoe clothag, venomoes vipers, who should ‘without pity. The Mobile Daily Regis‘erj of the 26th ult., is “cons strained to say that the South must look for her defenders almoet entirely within her own limits.” When Southern politicians are weak cnough, or recre- ant eno! {t matters little which, to denounce Mr, Bue chanan through the columns of Southern papers, and ir defore Southern auciences, because ke 's toa Pouthern, becatse he ie the champion of the South in this contest, and his party is, on that acsount, sectional; whem Southern men, We say, can der ounce him for this, Foecbeing By athe or7, a re * faith, that the Union is stronger than slavery? If this ‘s 20, ther the Northern democrats many Southern ones are using Mr. Buchanan Some bite were made at the Fremont theatre, in Buffalo, on Tuesday evening last, by Mr. Grover, one of the speakers. He reminded his audience that J.T. Hateb, (one of the tail of Prince John Var Buren,) who is running for Congress, was last year im favor of ‘unalterable oppr@ition to the extension of slavery over Territory now free.”’ Since then he bas gone in bodily for the Cincinnatt platform and slavery im Kan- sas! At that Convention, sald Mr. Grover, “we (nd him and Gov. Seymour engaged in a hot dispute with Dan. Dickinson and Sam. Beardsley as to which was/ the greatest doughface.” The Nashville, Tenn., Banner says:—Io our thirty years’ editorial experience we can with truth say wo never knew the leaders and organs of any party in as horrible a Sx as are the leaders and organs of the demo- cratic party at this present writing. Sinking, fast sink- ig, under the unbearable weight of Mr. Buchanan, the ‘way they squat, squirm, wriggle, and twist, and catch at straws is a caution. When the Seoretary of Wer dismissed the workmen at the United States Arsenal, in Springfield, because tha Army bi!) wae not likely to pass without the proviso, it igs fact that the balance of the army appropriations om band, and spplicable to the present year, was $6,400,- 000, Wonder if the Springfield armorers were up ta wolves im ve crushed pt this trick to scare them into voting for Buchanan, an@ THE LATEST NEWS, | Mmterne window pee Jobn Van Buren aad Horatio Seymour are now stump- BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, | "ty Cacnnau ‘Damy Burner, of ihe 26th neadeiud - aig anni: latest news from Kansas in following —“The News from Kansas. latest and moet reliable on Seats ie THE PRER STATE PRISONERS COMMITTED FOR TAIAL. be doue.”” The Exgutrer and th Seuth Side Sr. Lovia, Oct. 3, 1866. Governor Geary has issued a proclamation for the Steriffa of the diferent counties in Kansas to open the polis om Monday, Oct. 6, for the election of a delegate to Congress and members of the Legisiature. Sr. Loris, Oct. 4, 1866. A letter to the Kepullican from Gov. Geary, dated the 26th ult. says that United States troops will be stationed at points where troubles are anticipated during the coming election, and that any interference with the legitimate exercise of suffrage will be punished with the utmost se- verity. Mr. Whitiield i# the procimvery candidate for Congress. A letter to the Democrat, dated the 24th, says that the free State prisoners had been examined before Jadge Cato, aad committed for trial at the April term of the Court. Immense Fremont Mase Meeting tn Ohto- Qowrxan, Oot. 4, 1866. ing to their own openly avowed declaration, how cat The New Orleans Daily Bee of the 26th vlt., remarks: “It le po secret that the leaders of the Buchanan party bere, as well ag in most parts of she South, are disunion- ists.” “Par parenthése,”’ continues the Bee, “they had better begin at once, as old Suck is already a cead cock im the pit.” It adds the following impressive and signifl- The republican meetings beld at the Tippecanoe battic |. The people of Lauisians are not to be ned inte withstanding that the weather was inclement. It is os- merican, of democrats, are firmly attached ta timated that there were 40,000 present on the grounds, ‘Souy crow tees eoea een oe which was whitened with tents. Speeches were made by | of “digunion.” Once tet the citizens of Louisiana hd Colonel Lane, George W. Julien, Cassius M. Clay and Understand that the Buchanan leaders are in earnest, others. when they talk about @ dissolution of the Union as the in- ER OE ee] Erastus Corning Nominated for Congress. ‘we thal! bebold euch a stampede from the ranks of the SLPANT, Oot. 4, 1866. disumon democracy as has not had ite parallel since Erastus Corning was oomimated for Congress by the | 1°49 The Nattonal Intelligencer, of October 2, eaye:— At various times in the history of ment ‘here have been those who predicted sind desired its overs Miron Xen aie | ‘Mercer neta pease at ts ee a State ot. Erastus Brooks ad- ne prosen'| , nactment of the odious: and sedition yee. peace ee Business of the Western Railroad. peotiege te tbe. Penne a it was the high Omereo, Oct. 4, 1866. rates of our tariff, while at tle present day a constant The receipt of the Rock Inland Ratroad Company for | Surplus inthe treagury, theagh ‘erived from, the soaroe September were $213,858; for the same month last yoar ee wire See ae Veer convenient, even 24 they were $141,700, The receipts of the Galena Union ‘or each and al) ot there same month last year they wore $261,320, The receipts | evile thue no longer remain to haunt ‘the trou- of the Iilinois Central Railroad Company for September | bled vision of patriots or evem politicians, ‘Were $280,941; for the same month last year they were ‘The Nash: we $160,980. The sales of lands for “eptember amounted to 96,064,786. Kiernan and Kearney, charged with 1 Carrol) on Arbor bill, bie city, on browglit bere th on the warrant of the Coroner bave beretofore held searmire colveel proportions aad of gipane euength, with ebar - ; x _