The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1856, Page 4

| | } | 4 NEW YORK HERALD. ee JAMES GORDON SENNETT, EDITOR AND FROPR ETOR. @/r108 N. W. CORNEB OF NASSAU AND FULTON BTS seneeecess NOs 29 Potume XXI.............. ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS KVENING, #3B10'S GABDEN, Broadway—Gunmam Orsga—Unvine. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Reruisurion—An ALanu- emo SACRIFICR—-LOVS AND Lazinnss, BUBTON’S NEW THEA‘ street —Hanier—DANciNG—AN qeausces THEATRE, Broadway—Tas Live ov 4x Broadway, opposite Bond sumer oF INTEREST. Axpy BLAKE. GHAMBERS STREET THEATRE, (ate Burwon’s— Wat wace—WiiLiad TELI—SKOKEN SWORD—FoRusT Rost BARNUM'S AMEKICAN MUSEUM, Srosaway~afer- neo and Gvening—Dsep. BROAPWAY VARIETIES, 472 Sroadway—Tus Inviow ermizo—Tue [its BROOM MAKER. @£O. CHRISTY & WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway— Busiorias PexroRwances-—Warr0 BUOKLEY’S SERENAD: MxeTAxisy— Ait Movnsuine. EMPIRE HALL, 9% sroadway-—Nwono Mevovins, Daxomp ao BOOBNTHICITIES BY THE CAMPDFLLS. 585 Broadway —Brmoruan _———$———————————— Mew York, Saturday, Ocvober 15, 1856, Mails for Lurope. NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR BUKOPR. ‘Me mail steamship Arago, Capt. Lines, will leave this port to-day, at noon, for Southampton and Havre. ‘She Buropean mails will close in this city at hali-pasy en o'clock in the morning. ‘YRe Hmnsln (printed in Engiish and Freach) wilt ve published a: ten o'clock in the morning, Single copies, 4@ wrappers, aixpence. Babscriptions and advertiwementa for any euttion uf tbe @ew Yous Hasty will be received mt tho foliowing pinces in Europe:— do. 9 Chapel street. Bevemrcoi— Joba Hunter, 13 Exchange street, East. ‘Mee contents of the Baropean edition of the Hmmarp (Will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at @e ofice during the previous week, and to tho hour of pebboaucn. ‘The News. We have returns from all the counties in Penn- eylvania. They give 613 majority for the deme erate. There are, doubtless, some inaccuracies in the figures which it will be impossible to correct matil the official returns are received. Whether the errors will tell in favor of the democrats er the opposition it is of course useless to eonjecture. The Board of Canvassers met in Philadelphia yesterday, and a number of protests against the returns were entered. The vote in that sity is large beyond all expectation. There were eleven thousand more votes cast on Tuesday than were given in the election in May last. Already proceedings have been commenced in the courts to imvestigate the alleged frauds. The State Committees of the organizations com- posing the Union party in Pennsylvanix, met ia Philadelphia last evening, and agreed to an electoral ticket upon the basis proposed by the Union State Commitiee, in their call for a Union State @Oonvention, to be held at Harrisvarg, on the 21st instant, to wit.:—Twenty-six names im common, the twenty-seventh name to be different on the tickets voted for by the Fill- more aid Fremont men respectively; the vote of the electors if chosen to be cast pro rata according to the vote given for the twenty-seventh name respe>- tively. It was also agreed that the electoral ticket to be voted for by the Fremont men should be head- ed by the name of Joba C. Fremont, and that to be voted for by the Fillmore men by the name of Millard Fillmore. Live Oak George made his début on the boards of the Academy of Music last evening, before a large and fashionable audience, as the orator of the North American wing of the Know Nothing party. He achieved a complete success. Our reporters have carefully preserved a record of his speech, the style of its delivery, the attitudes of the speaker, and the manner of i's reception by a delighted aa- dience. We know of no better way to resuscitate the drooping fortunes of the Academy than for Mr. Phalen to make am engagement with this new star. We refer our readers to the report of this brillisnt opening. The steamships Ericsson, Lyonnais and Borussia, respectively from Liverpool, Havre and Hamburg en the Ist instant, arrived at this port daring the early part of yesterday morning. The advices Brought by these steamers were anticipated Ly the Persia, which arrived on Tuesday morning, with Liverpool dates to the 4th of this month. On the 16th instant, while more than two hundred miles from port, the Borussia was discovered to be leak- img badly, in consequence of some defect of the socket in which the screw works. Happily the ves- sel is built wit h water tight compartments, ard the steam and hand pumps on board kept the leak an der. The Jeak caused some trifling damage to the mails and passengers’ baggage, but the cargo is not By the arrival of the Quaker City at Mobile on the Lith inst. we have later advices from Havana. ‘They report that a formidable Spanish fleet was fitting ont to enforce the claims of that country against Mexico, the previous report of the adjust ment of this difficulty being erroneous. Spain was * glso about to send an army from Havana to St. Domingo for the purpose of operating against the movements for the freedom of the Do- minicans from the rale of the Haytien black govero- ment. Five thousacd muskets were ready to be sent to the Spanish Consul at St. Domingo. We are indebted to the Pacific Express Company for the information that the steamer Texas, from Aspinwall for this port, with seven hundred and fifty passengers, has put in at Norfolk, leaking badly and short of provisions. On Tuesday night, in Chesupeake Bay, the steam- er Monmouth ran into the brig Windward, bound from Baitimore to New Orleans. The brig escaped with slight injory, but the Monmouth sprung aleak, and ina short time sunk. Nine persons, principally belonging to the crew, were lost. Fifteen others escaped on a raft, and were subsequently picked up, Our correspondent in the Chincha Islands, dating on 24th of Angust, fornishes a most interesting let- ter on the guano trade, and its statistics both of yield and export vaiue. An account is also given of how 4 merican *hipmasters are treated by corrupt Pe- ruvian officials. The condition of the Chinese labor- ers bad been ameliorate’. In society on the Islands = good supply of the “snob” class was to be met with. Some American mercantile settiers afforded mnoch aid to their countrymen when travelling inland ‘or trading on the coast. Both boards of the Common Council were in session last night, but néthing of general interest came up before either of them. The subject of the new City Hali was made the special order for Wednesday evening next. The summing op in the case of the Accessory Transit Company was concluded yesterday. Deci- sion of the court reserved. The cotton market yesterday continned firm, with gales of 500.2600 bales at full prices. The flour market *as firm with « fair amount of sales at about the previous day's quotations. Wheat was lc. ‘a 2c. dearer for choice lota, red having sold as high as $1 60 a $1 62, and choice white Canadian as bigh as 2174. Indian corn was in good demand at 4c. ‘a Toc., with the chief sales at the intte fieure. Pork again advanced, with sales of mess at $22 50 and prime at 918 75 a $19. Sogars were Sem, with sales of 1,100 a 1,200 hogsheads at fall prices. Cof foe was sold toa fair extent at fall prices. Owing to (be advance in breadstafis and the increase in ship voom, freighte for grain gave wey trday for Liverp.%1, and engagements were made ia ‘uik and bags at (4d. 0 8d. Flour was taken at 2s, and cot- on at 6-224, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1856. ‘The Recent Elections—Unmistakeable Popa, lar Sentiment. ‘The Cause of Fimancial Revulsions. ‘The disclosures brought out by the examina The recent State elections prove that there } tion of Huntington, the broker, for alleged for- exists an overwheiming majority of the American people against the continuance of the infamous and disorganizing policy, foreign and domestic, of this Pierce administration, We doubt not that upon a fair and square issue between the great constitutional and law and order Fremont move- ment, and the disunion, disorganizing and de- bauched democracy, North and South, that Mr. Buchanan would be left in a minority in Novem- ber of at least five hundred thousand votes. Take the opposition vote cast in the late elec- tions in Iowa, Vermont, Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, and we dare say it will show an opposition majority exceeding one hundred thousand. The whole of this opposition vote, is, however, but a feeble expression of the universal eaction in the public mind against the contin- uance of this wretched and condemned democratic dynasty of Pierce, Jeff. Davis, Atchison, String- ellow, Forney, and Bully Brooks. The popular entiment in favor of a sweeping and wholesome revolution has been crippled and weakened by trafficing hucksters and scheming politicians; and yet, in six States, in mere preliminary skir- mishes, we have an aggregate majority against Pierce, Buchanan and the spoils democracy, of at least one hundred thousand votes, The only representative ef the popular senti- ment thus expressed in these six States, is Colonel Fremont; and the principles of which he is the standard bearer, form the only basis of a practi- cal and efficient party for the overwhelming de- feat of Mr. Buchanan. Never was the prospect more encouraging for a clean Fremont electoral ticket in every State in the Union, North and South. It is due to those independent, thinking men of the South, thousands of them, slavehold- ers and non-slaveholders, who have been denied the liberty of speech, the liberty of the press, and the liberty of public discussion by the ruffian disunion democracy—it is, we say, due to the conservative Fremont Southern men that they should be provided at least the means of casting a vote against this party despotism under which they have fallen. We understand, too, that what has been done in Maryland, Kentucky and Vir- ginia, to wit: the appointment of a Fremont electoral ticket, will be followed up in other Southern States as fast as possible,so that on clec- tion day, even in the far South, we may havea hitherto suppressed popular sentiment coming out for Fremont to an extent which will astonish, a= Mr. Pickwick would say, the dogs who hold the marrow bones and the dog in the manger. ‘There is, we repeat, a tremendous majority in the country against the spoils and disunion demo- cracy—a majority not only in the North, but in the South, upon a fair trial, between the Pierce and Jeff. Davis policy, of which Mr. Buehanan is the anointed heir, and the policy of the great Fremont movement. It is enough to know, how- ever, that in the free North, where the constitu tion is st{ll the supreme law, that there is a solid majority, ascertained by ihe'late elections, sufti- cient to do the work of a thorough-going consti- tutional triumph in the election of Fremont. The materials exist, and there is plenty of time yet for the work. Let the Fremont party put up a clean electoral Fremont ticket in every North- erm State, and fight the battle again t the con- tinuance of this infamous Pierce administration: against the debauched party representing it; against the Cincinnati platform and the Cin- cinnati candidate, under which Kansas is to be made a slave State at the point of the bayonet, sod Cuba another slave State by highway rob- bery; againat all the plots and plans which have ignalized this administration for fleecing the public treasury and the public lands; and against this last and meanest expedient of extorting money by threats from the poor officeholders for purposes of bribery and corruption in the elections. Let the Fremont party do this, and fight the battle upon these iseues, unmixed with the petty trifies of the hour, and the day is their owa. Too much time has been frittered away, and too much attention bas been paid by the Fremont journals to the contemptible little side issues of Fremont’s religion, Fremont’s crosses and prayer books, Fremont’s pareotage, aud the education of Millard Fillmore’s daughter at a Catholic con- vent. There things are but the petty side issues with which a Toombs’ lawyer operates to divert the argument from the real merits of the case before the court. This democratic dynasty at Washington is on trial before the people. Shall it be approved and continued under Mr. Buchanan as the anointed sueceseor of Mr. Pierce; or ehall it be turned out of power, and anew and em- stitutional administration put in its place? That is the exact isene before the public; and it reste between Fremont and Buchanan. Upon this issue we have no doubt that there is at this moment a majority, North and South, of the American people, of at least five han- dred thousand against the continuance of this Pierce administration. Grant that the constitu tion is a dead letter in the South—that a system of democratic terroriem there established has suppressed free speech, and stifled the freedom of the press; grant that under this irresponsible party despotism there is but little hope of doing anything effective against thie disunion Buchanan democracy of the South, there are yet sufficient materials in the North for the overwhelming de- feat of Buchanan, with a clean Fftmont ticket, and an unmixed Fremont fight in every State against the spoils democracy. What has been done in the democratic States of Towa and Maine can be as well done in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mr. BucwanaN ann THE Herato.—We notice that Alderman Libby's oyster house organ makes a great cackling over some old articles of oursia which we speak well of Mr. Buchanan's appoint ment to England, and enlogize his talente. Why not? We have always considered Mr. Buchanan 4 very respectable man anda statesman of fair average attainments; and at the time he wassent to England we entertained a still higher opinioa of him than his Ostend manifesto aud his failure to settle the difficulties which Mr. Dallas has set- tled in three months, now permit as to bold. But there ie a world of difference between approving his appointment as Minister to a foreign court, and supporting him on his present platform with his present affiliations and under present cirenm- stances, for President of the United States, We will put the case in sucha shape that Alderman Libby shall understand it. He might have a cook, for instance, so excellent an artist in the kitchen of hie hotel, that be could not speak of him without praise; yet would he therefore ayroe to make him eashier of the establishment, or Mayor of the city? We think not: and jast so, we could speak well of Mr. Buchanan when he was gent abroad as foreign Minister, and yet deem him a most ineligible eandidate for the Presiden cy, on the platform of secession, blood, murder and military despotiem in Kansas, and with John W. Forney ae bie bigh priest, and Maire du Palas, geries, are throwing @ great deal of light on the operations of the men of money in Wall street and the neighborhood. It now comes out that Huntington was a man of fashion and mark; that he kept his eight horses and costly carriages; gave his dinners and fies, and led so princely a life that he was one of the lions of watering places, and the most envied of all the patrons of the race course. Two years ago, they say, he was so poor that he could hardly pay his board ; afew weeks since, a friend of his regretted be- ing an invalid as i¢ was a hindrance to the par- ticipation of “his wealth.” It seems that all the while that Huntington was leading this grand lite, his friends and customers must have known be was not in affluent circumstances, Some of them had some knowledge of his business, and knew how much, or near about how much it ought to yield. Yet until the man was brough' up for forgery not one of them ever thought of inquiring into his habits, or ascertaining how much he spent. The more one studies the history of financial sevulsions, the clearer it appears that nine out of en of them spring from accumulations of cases of individual extravagance. There arecollateral and incidental aids, of course; unsound commer- cial legislation, overtrading, unsatisfactory principles of exchange, are such aids ; but the main cause, nine times out of ten. is the wastefulness and prodigality of individual members of society. In our own history, the crisis of 1817, that of 1829, that of 1837, and that of 1853, may all be traced plainly to the extravagance of society in the period immediately preceding the crash. It was not the sole cause. The reaction from the war, the unsound currency system, the wild over-importations, and over- speculations in railways were concurrent agen- cies operating to hasten and aggravate the re- sult, and these must certainly be taken into account in a study of these commercial periods ; but they*must always be regarded as subordinate and inferior to the main agent of the trouble— the reckless mcde of living adopted by society. Nor does the proposition rest on experience alone. There exists no ciearer doctrine of poli- tical economy than that which teaches that when a man spends that which belongs to another, and, others following the example, the practice be- comes common, if not general, a general bank- ruptcy cannot be avoided. Throughout Europe, for the last three years at least, the most unbounded extravagance has had full sway. Until a year ago, the profuse expen- diture of money for the war seems to have sup- plied the needed safety valve; since the peace, the old private channels have been re-opened. Men are living in Paris, London, St. Petersburg and Vienna at a cost which would support a regiment. The money is spent not in useful works that remain, but in dress, liveries, wines, eating, gimerack buildings, equipages, horses, and the like. Men like De Morny, who had afew years since barely enough to pay their board bill, now give suppers which cost thou- sands of francs. The Emperor sets the example, spends ten thousand francs for a pen, half a mil- lion for a cradle, and will not have a Senator who cannot keep a carriage and two servants in livery. Same thing elsewhere. In Russia, the coronation has cost as much as the capital repre- sented by the whole revenue of Denmark; rich men at Vienna spend in frivolous amusements in ayearas much money as the last Emperor of Austria got for bis soul when he had occasion to take it to market. The Londoners effervesce in their way—into big ships worth a million ster- ling, great railroads over impassable tracts of land, and other colossal enterprises that never can pay for the cost of working them. But how- ever the money-spending propensity is exercised, it exists alweys the same; in the same character, with the rame causes, and leading to the same re- sult—namely, ruin and revulsion. a We have supposed that it was a benefit to us to be clear of the war. So it was,no doubt; but our exemption has done less for our good than our porticipation in the general European expansion is likely todo us harm. We have great reason to fear that the same causes which give anima- tion to the Credit Mobilier, and occasion such affairs as the late defaleation in the Northern Railway, are in full operation here, and that the case of Huntington is only the first of a series of similar disasters. We have not the wightest doult but that several millions of frauds and Sorgeries exist in Wall treet and ite dependencies yet undiscovered by the police. In one respect, perhaps, thie country is more expored to similar mishaps ##an any other. Wo nation contains so many fraudulent corporations as the United Stateer. Abroad, they are chartered with diffi- eulty, and when chartered, are supervised by public officers in the interest of the public with which they will have to deal; here anybody starts a company who pleases, gets a charter from Pennsylvania or Tennessee, issues stock. and owes no account of his proceedings to any- body, not even to his shareholders. Hence gross gratuitous frauds are an every day matter in the history of our railroad and industrial com- panies. And hence, the young men who have dealings with them, learn from their very em ployers their first lesson in fraud. The case of Huntington ought we think to lead bank directors, and other responsible officers of public institutions, to exercise a closer euper- vision than heretofore over the private life of their employe. A bank President should know how and where his tellers spend their leisure time; a little foresight and a little inquiry may save not only the bank, but a young man of promise. And every prudent person should stendfastly refuse to have any dealiags with men who, having uncertified incomes, lead fast lives keep etude, and teach their wives to make a show at watering places. Ur Town Restpexces.—We have had gradu- ally growing up @ new city above Fourteenth ttreet, and there is as much difference between New York above this line, and New York down town, as there is between a splendid maasion in the Fifth avenue and a squalid hovel in Little Water street. Thousands of our merchants and professional men reside between Fourteenth and Sixtieth etreets, and find there pure, fresh air, clean streets, and other similar laxuries altogether ) mknown down town. The broad streets running from river to river—the magnificent avenues, stretching away to Harlem, give free circulation to the air, which by constant agitation is kept 4 pure and highly rarified. The people up town generally clean the streets themselves, ‘They are convinced that reliance upon any official ia de- pending upon a reed shaking in the wind. Then the houses are nearly all new, end most of them are built with careful attention to light, clean- lines, ventilation and other sanitary aide, The utter absurdity of going out of town, shutting up these republican palaces for three months in the year, and enduring close quarters, bad din- ners, and an endless array 0: annoyances at a «mobbish watering place, is apparent; but it isde- manded by the iron rule of fashion, and many otherwise sensible people submit. But, really, with a comfortable residence up town one is much happier than in apy country residence, however convenient. If every one lived up town our bills of mortality would be astonish- ingly reduced. Tue Frsion Movement IN PENNSYLVANIA— Fusion 4 Frava.—We publish eleewhere’in this paper the proceedings at Philadelphia yesterday of the committees concerned in reference to a fusion Fremont and Fillmore Presidential ticket in Pennsylvania. It will be seen that some of the Fillmoreites are very modest in their de- mands, claiming the whole or none. Their game is very desperate one to coerce the Fremont party into a vote sufficient to carry Mr. Fillmore up to the House, or to hazard Buchanan’s elec- ‘tion by the people. A very hopeful Fillmoreite, Mr. Sanderson, counts upon the Southern States of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky going for the Buffalo candidate, which will carry the election into the House, so that the Fillmoreites can afford to be independent and throw away the vote of Pennsylvania. Perhaps Mr. Sanderson may believe that this moonshine is green cheese; for there is no sounding the delusion of some of the silly disciples of Fillmore. There is not the ghost of a chance for him should the election go to the House, and not the ghost of a chance of carrying the election to the House by running a separate Fillmore ticket, forthe benefit of Buchanan, in every Northern State. On the other hand, the policy, the true policy of the Fremont party in Pennsylvania and every other Northern State where any fusion is pro- posed for the benefit of Fillmore, is to make the issue a clear and simple issue between Fremont and Buchanan. By this process the hucksters and trading spoilamen of the Fillmore party will be compelled to show their hand, and they wil! doubtless go over to Buchanan; but the bulk of the party will relieve themselves of their Know Nothing obligations, and vote their honest senti- ments as between the nullification democracy and the Fremont movement for a new and con- stitutional administration. We see what fusion has done in Pennsylvania and Indiana,‘and we see what a clear Fremont operation has done in Ohio, Iowa, Maine, Vermont and Connecticut. We are sorry to see several of our Fremont cotemporaries of this city timidly advocating or acquiescing in the policy of a fusion Fremont and Fillmore Presidential ticket in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. There should be no such thing. Know Nothingism is dead—dead as old line whiggery—and “let the dead bury their dead.” This whole Fillmore movement has de- generated into a bogus Buchanan movemeut—a Buchanan bargain,and sale on the part of the Fillmore leadere, Mr. Fillmore himself holding the position of the principal Peter Funk behind , the counter at a mock auction, He simply per- mits himself to be used as the catspaw of Forney to rake the chestnuts from the fre into the hands of Buchanan. The Fremont party should wash their hands of this whole Fillmore Know Nothing game. By doiug thie, Buchanan may gain some Know Nothing votes, but the accessions thereby of adopted citizens and honest aoti-Buchanan Americans will make up, tenfold, all deficiencies. The Fusion Pennsylvania State Convention, for the formation of a union electoral ticket, mects at Harrisburg on the 21st, and then we shall see what we shall see. In the meantime, we do see that there is a prospect of some astounding de- velopements in reference to this late Pennsylvania election. Cyevauier Were anv Orner Siupterons.— ‘The folly that is being committed in this canvass by the political partizans of Fremont is only equalled by the ehameleseness and infamy that are illustrated in the course of the friends of Fillmore. Here we have bad, for some weeks, a parcel of twopenny politicians and editors writing letters and articles by the yard to prove that Col. Fremont is not a Catholic, when the least reflection ought to have satisfied them that they were pursuing the very course best calcu- lated to encourage their opponents, and injure their candidate. The least common sense should have told them--what we all see now plainly enough—that to deny such charges as this was absolute waste of time; faleely imagined in the origin, they were certain to be falsely persevered in, and falsely repeated, in the teeth of any and every proof of their falsehood, #0 long as they could serve the purpose of their utterers. For instance, there is now on record a mass of evi- dence to which there can be no answer, in sup- port of Col. Fremont’s Protestantism—certificates from the clergy, letters from old acquaintainces, records of the church, positive, direct, emphatic and reiterated statements from Col. Fremont himself, and from every one connected with him: yet is there any cessation to the charges of Catholicism in the Expres and such journals? Quite the contrary. The Brookses are lying harder than ever; and even if a revelation from heaven were to as sure them of Fremont’s Protestantism, they would still continue to lie till the end of the can- vase. To notice such creatures is to feed them ; they should be let severely alone, allowed to lie* in silence—in contempt—in their own mire; they should not even be kicked. Another piece of folly on the part of the Fre- mont managers is the conduct of some of the leading men. There is Chevalier Webb, for in- stance: could'nt he be got to keep quiet, by pro- mises, or coaxing, or somehow, till after the elec- tion? The idea of such a simpleton as that wortby old gentleman being allowed to go loose over the country, firing off tremendous speeches, and telling everybody what he said to Jessie, and what Jemie said to him—ns though that were of the slightest consequence to him or any one, or of the Igast pertinency at the present time—is very alarming to sincere friends of Fremont. ‘The fact is, Col. Fremont wants more discipline in his canvass; the democrats order these matters better. But for this difference, the victories in Penneylvania, Ohio and Indiana would have been far more overwhelming. «A Rat--A Rat.” —We publish elsewhere in theee columns the circular of the Executive Com- mittee of the protective society of the working printers of this city against Exastus Brooks, the Know Nothing candidate for Governor. They prove him a rat, a reducer of workingmen’s wages, an employer with the stigma of a grind- ing oppressor upon his name—a bogus American _a tkinflint—a dirty and contemptible rat, Let this printers’ manifesto be circulated—let it be «iffused among the workingmen of all avocation: threughout the State, and we have no doabt their verdiet will be that of Hamlet against the spy hehir d the vereen--"'A ratl—a rati—dead, for a deat, dead!” Avnoruen Forgery Natzp 10 THE CousTer. counter or retracted. Among the latest of these inventions just started from the mint, is the fol- lowing concerning Fremont’s birthplace:— Fort Covinaton, Oct. 3, 1866. wad bah aan tad concerning the oreo . John ©. Fremont’s place of , perhaps the ne ey Se oe ey to Mon! ‘the last I of wavelng S with my L, H. Masson, member of the Canada, who, in the course of con’ uae ed 2 tH Fd i 38 Ha) i . known upon the Northern frontier, and bie statements are in entitled to credit, Your very obadi ent, H. B. NS. Now, read the following letter from Mr. Mas- son, the member of the “ Provincial Parliament of Canada,” referred to:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. my astonishment that such an be allowed room ina dient servart, N. B.—You will please excuse my English, as accustomed to write in that language. L. H. MASSON, M. P. P. Thus at a single blow is this fictitious coin of Mr. Means nailed to the counter. We have no doubt “that Mr. Masson is well known upon the Northern frontier, and that his statements are in all respects entitled to credit,” as the Fort Co- vington gentleman declares. Mr. Masson, how- ever, scorns the compliment, considering its source, and here we are quite content to leave the gentleman of Fort Covington, or the News or Express office, or wherever he may belong. More Revourixa Prrsonauities.—We had thought that Brooks—not Bully Brooks, but Booby Brooks, alias Brooks the Rat—was the first man in this country in the way of personal defamation and scurrility. But we find that he has a rival and a formidable one inthe Richmond Whig, a paper which somehow had acquired a sort of character for decency. In a late number of that journal we find a letter printed, which was written many years ago by Colonel Fre- mont’s mother to her sister, describing, how under circumstances of extraordinary brutality, her first husband, Prior, drove her out of his house. The letter was filed in court in the divorce case which ensued ; and it is from the records of the court that some miserable wretch has had the indecency to steal and print it. We need take no pains to thow how utterly foreign the whole circumstance to which it relates is to the present canvass. It cannot affect the canvass by one vote. It is only published in order to wound Colonel Fremont and to gratify the spite of one of the meanest wretches on God’s earth. We are bound to add that, in giving publicity ‘o this letter the Richmond Whig is consistent with the uniform course of the Fillmore press. Since the canvass began, they have dealt in no- thing but personal abuse ; we have yet to see the first article in any of their recognized organs in which it is attempted to show why Mr. Fillmore is suited for the Presidency. The miserable po- sition the Fi&more party occupy—dodging here, and dodging there—slavery men at the South, anti-slavery men in the North—their whole bndget nothing but trick, evasion, quirk and quibble—they have never yet been able to grap- ple with any of the living issues of the contest, or to discuss a single one of the political ques- tions now submitted to the arbitrament of the people, In this dearth of material, their presses bave fallen back on the only field that was safe— that of personal abuse of their opponents. It is but justice to them to add that in this‘field they are without a superior. Avese or tHe Franxive Paivitser.—The franking privilege extended to members of Con- gress is an unmitigated humbug at all times, but about the time of a Presidential election it de- generates to something worse. We notice that Mr. Solomon G. Havens, of Buffalo, the law partner of Mr. Fillmore, is distributing under his own frank three pleasant docu- ments. The first is speech by Ed- ward C. Delavan, at a meeting of the friends of Mr. Fillmore. Mr. Delavan is well known as a Maine law apostle, and his speech is expected to have weight with the temperance men. Next, is a somewhat different document, being a speech by Mr. Erastus Brooks. Next, for the original Simon Pure Know Nothings, who wish to abolish the Pope and hang all the Roman Catholics in the United States, Mr. Havens franks tremendous bombshell :— Fremont’s Roman- ism established ; acknowledged by Archbishop Hughes.” The moral effect of this last named brochure will be somewhat damaged by Arch- bishop Hughes’ late letter, wherein he states that Fremont is o heretic, and takes Master McMasters to task for his statement to the con- trary. Mr. Havens, however, will do well to make the most of his franking privilege. The people of his district will be careful to seo that he does not enjoy the luxury of making them pay his electioneering expenses longer than thirty days after the 4th of March next, Uxsiticatep Trasn—A political pamphlet, signed by “Publius,” and written by J. Depeyster Ogden, on the Presidential question and the issuce now before the people. Coroner's Inquest. Fara, Accineyt.—An inquest was held at the Third ‘ward station house yesterday, by Coroner Hills, upoa the body of an unknown man, supposed to be John Hughes, who was killed by the falling of a bale of hay upon him ‘The deceased received & fracture of the vertebra of the neck, can almost instact death. Deceased was about 53 years of age, was light complexioned, bad light sundy bair, bed a core on hie right hand, while the nati of one of the fingers was gone. The jury in this case rendered ‘8 verdiot in tovordance with the above facts. The Public Health, FORT HAMILTON ae soorerr's REPORT. Dr. Rovhe reports all tbe sick under nie charge as bar. ing -ecovered, excepting Hannah Weeke, who is improv- ing slowiy. New o@—Surannah Gowdy, takon ick in ths house of Mr. Bullock, s 4 pase yo . cases in the ry ta er PRANCLS fr eRtER, Fort Hamaiton, Oot. 17, 1866, )¢ past 9 A.M. 4 Political Gossip. Famvont iv 4 Save Srare.—The preferences of the Presidential question were asked of all the visiters at the St, Louis theatre on the 10th inst., and it was ascertained that twenty-one were in favor of Fremont. Caowme Buroxs THEY WERE OUT OF THE Woope,—Tha following telegraphic despatch was sent to all the demo~ cratic journals in the country :— thousand; at least sixtocn democrats to Congress, "i telat again often, We have the Leg! are ys Tum Vawcn oF raz Usiow.—The Daily Picayune of Ootes ber 8 remarks, among other things:— At the South we have a of disunionists, w! that the Union is Lad benefits to this section: of the country, who assert their and make ridicu- lous attempts to prove, that the South would be more Prosperous out of than in the Union. It also charges that at the North the republicans ar@ making the commercial value of the Union a subject of Je Let this error be corrected at once. Tha body of the Northern supporters of Fremont in the Nortly ‘re thorough friends of the Union. Abolitionism is ao= where among their masses. The same paper adds, hows ever:— In behalf of the fe ee eee whe we eae 16 pole, we the right of any party tostake hy atiossacs crinte Union in a sectional contest. The Union is the heritage of the people, and whenever, by any cause, it is endangered, the conservative masses, repudiating the suggestions or Smears peteamner anes is a all assaults, como from what quatver they may. “ SEWARD ON THE SrUMP.—Senator Seward, after the ine dependent press has about accomplished the work, hag concluded to take the stump in this State. He will spealg at Cooperstown on the 16th inst., at Auburn on the 2ist, and at Buffalo on the 24th. Fuimoze Dovprep.—' Richmond Enquiver, of Oot.’ 15, doubts Mr. Fillmore’s sincerity on the question of restoration of the Missouri compromise, It does not think him “sound on the hemp.’ It ssks, “If Mr. Fillmore ig against the restoration of the Missouri restriction, why not tay 80 in plain words?” Just so. BaMSUuMENT OF STRINGFELLOW—MISSOURI Sixes —The St, Louis Democrat says that it was confidently predicted im that city that, om the reception at New York of the news im relation to the expulsion of Stringfellow from Plat@ county, Missouri sixes‘would go up to95centaatonce. ‘ Hive tue Sux anp Moon !—The New Orleans Daily Delta, of Ocvober 7, adopts all Governor Wise’s revolu- tionary doctrines. It converts bim into a kind of Joshua, Ttsays:—‘As we study his warnings, his denunciations, his prophecies, we involuntarily exclaim, ‘ Beware whem God lets loose a thinker on the earth ! Hide his thoughts hide the sun and moon !’”’ This puts usin mind of the sublime expression of a crazy English dramatist, Arise, Jupiter, and snuff the moon! Thus shall he save his half extinguished light ! Morx or tux Same Sont.—The same paper asks, ‘if Fremont is elecied, what are we to do?’’ It replies, “The great Soufhern heart is with him (Wise) and beats responsive to his words; it answers him rythmically back, ‘as Octave to octave, or rhyme unto rhyme.’ There may be rhyme, but very reason. + Tux Pror Taicksns.—The Louisville Journal, of October 18, sb _ . day and hour and rankling treason fey cay tana fio loaders rine South. So monstrous and so rife a fact canpot be longer hidden by idie and hollow professions of devotion to the Union. It cannot be hidden by any device, Like mur. der, it will out. ‘The same paper quotes from a letter of A. G. Brown, Of Mississippi, one of the committee appointed to inform Mr. Buchanan of bis nomination, which contains the fob lowing treazonable language:— If, indeed, it bas come to this, that the Unio is tc By miko ea etal We Ce tes Cp ven, 1 will dedicate the rembant of’ my life to ne diesola tion. Say what you will, write wi Ep Gc ‘what you will, think wnat you will, the South eternal warfare upon such a Union. We will invoke one voice the vengeance of Leaven upon such a Union; we will prey. unceasingly to the God of our deliverance that he will send us a bolt from heaven toehiver tha chain which thus binds us to tyranny and oppression. This puts us in mind of the memorable threat of Gen, Hamilton, of South Carolina, some years ago, “We will go to death on our sugar.” Cuoate Deciiwes.—Rufus Choste declines the Congres- ‘sional nomination for the Fourth district, Massachusetts, on account of having pressing business. Not, aays the Boston Post, from any want of interest in the cause of | the country as identified with the success of Mr. Bucha- nan.”’ He may have no ‘want of interest,” but he may have a great ‘want of principle.” , SOUTHERN SLAVEHOLDERS SavpneD.—A citizen of Miss. iasippi, writing to the New Orleans Delia, Oct. 5, aays:— ‘The truth is, the great slavebolders have been the Union men. They bave always been in taver of pur- chasing peace by dishonorable Rot refi that they were thus + tren, the of an assail- — shortly both their riches and Sovrmry Rervviic.—The Chsrleston Standard, of Ost. Asornen Kick at Brackixninos rrom Tas Sours.—The Montgomery Journal, Ala., of Oct. 8, says:—~ The charge has been made for some time, against Mr. J. 0. tye by ge tn for the emancipation Uicket in Kentucky. has not, as we have of aisunion, a contingency ‘spoken of by dema- goguer, @ consummation to he would never sab- malt; would never consent Loa state of things which woald fy ortieed? a i ? ig? ihiultc ‘Tum Dissovetion oF Tux Uxiox. —The Patric, of Septem- ber 26, reviewing the political situation of the United ip that ball of tho pew continent for two great federations: to be formed; one from the slave States, the other from the free States; which would have the respectable boun- daries of 26° 90’ of northern latitede, potnted out in the. Missouri compromise as a line of demarcation between the: liberty and slavery of the black race, Tickets 1x Cuariaetor —The Charleston Courier, of Oo. tober 4, publishes the verious tickets for Congress andi State Ley jure, with varios notes and jilustrations. One, the “Brooks ticket,”’ hae ® rooster over it in full feather and ready to crow; another is surmounted by the Palmetto tree, and another with two soldiers, with their backs to the readers. The voters of St, Phillips and St. Mobael’s are told in # card, signed “Many Voters,” This election may be the most eventfal since tl td ernment bas existed. If black republicantem shaif tr. vmph, the Union will be dissolved ia substance by the Presioen'ial vows. The next two yearathen must ita formal dissolution, and the organization of a new gov- ernment. Such an event is not one of choice, but of over- ruling wegesnity. It will be the igw of self le