The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1856, Page 4

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BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, 585 Brea¢way—Zrmroriuan SRwemrisr—Ii Thovators. =. —eeeeeeq"q@$Qo Rew York, Thursday, October 23, 1656. ‘The News. ‘We have very important news from Nicaragua. nx the 12th inst., General Walker, eat the head of me thousand men, attacked the allies, four thou- wand strong, near Massaya, repulsed them, drove fem into the town, where the battle raged till mid- might. Meantime, a large body of Guatemalians Desieged Granada. Receiving intelligence of the attack, Walker immediately marched to the relief of ‘the capital. He reached the heights surrounding he city at ten o'clock in the forenvon, charged up- nu the enemy, drove them from their posts, cap- faring their commanders and their cannon, and pouting them ccmpletely. The allies lost eleven hundred nen. Walker’s logs was sixteen killed and thirty wounded. By the arrival of the City of Baltimore at Phil- adelphia, and of the screw steamehip North Ameri- ean at Quebec, we have five days later advices from Burope. Ina financial point of view their contents are important. The Bank of England has raised ite rate of interest to six percent in consequence ef the drain on its coffers caused by the large exports of gold to India end other quarters, and simultaneously with thie pradential measure fhe Bank of France bas resolved to grant ne dis- eounts on paper baving more than sixty days to run. ‘The idea that the la‘ter will suspend cash payments without first resorting to the otuer alternatives left to itis simply absurd. It has only to carry still higher the rate of interest to protect itself in a degree against this abstraction of its metallic basis. Thero would be nothing extraordinary in ite raising euc- eessively the rate of interest, in the course of the next twelve months, from six to eight, ten and twelve per cent, and, inconvenient and embarrass- img as such stepe would prove, they would be pro a@active of infinitely jess mischief than the suspen- gion of its specie paymenta. We have an ex- ample of similar high rates of interest ex- ‘sting in another continental State, without ‘the preseure on the mercantile commonity being found too great for endorance. However this may be, it is certain that the reaction of these measures wil! make our own money market stringen* for some time to come—that it will drain off our su- perfiuous gold, check :mportations and throw back m ourhands large amount of Awerican stocks, It will require the utmost prudence and caution on the part of our merchants to steer their way clear ‘through the difficulties to wisicn these combined in- fluences are lusery w give rise. As they have been ‘apparent to all well informed people for months past, it isto be hoped that the trading community im general have not only been forewarned but fore- armed. The news received via Quebec and Philadelphia from Liverpool yesterdey, was pablished at too late a period in the day for its effects to be developed on ur markets. The cotton market was irregular, with sales (before the publicity of the news) of about 700 a 900 bales. Flour fell off about 5 cents per barrel, especially on the lower and medium There being no tow in, the supply of wheat was light, and sales mcderate, at about the previous @ay’s quotations. The market closed firm. Corn was stiff, with limited sales of Western mixed, at 68c.a.69. Rye was firm, with sales at 90c. Pork wold moderately, at $21 50 for mess. Sugars con- tinced firm, with sales ot about 800 a 1,000 hhds., ‘at fall prices. Coffee was quiet, with sales of 600 Dags Rio, at Llo.a 12s, The light transactions in grain checked freight engagements, which ranged at 0d. a 94d. for Liverpool, with one bin engaged bead at 4/d. Rates otherwise were quite steady. Last evening the Academy of Music was crowd ed by one of the most respectable audiences ever convened within that magnificent structure, to hear ‘an address from Gov. Robinson, of Kansas, a report of which will be found in another part of today's The democrats had a meeting at Tammany Hall Jas) night, to ratify the ci:y and county tick». ‘There was, as usual, a bit of a row, which was soon quelled, and the whole ticket headed by Fernando ‘Wood was endorsed. Edward C. West was nomisa- ted by acclamation for the seat on the bench of the Supreme Court, made vacant by the resignation of James R. Whiting. Our correspondent at Belize, Honduras, writing on 26th of September, states that the popular feeling against Americans from the United States had ob- tained such a height in Omoa and Truxillo that many of onr citizens had left the mines and other fields of labor, in order to return home. Some of them died at Belize. The reports from the gold mines are diecoursging. Only a fine sand could be found fm the interior, and that was scarce. Pare gold had been discovered on the coast, near Traxillo, but the men had only made one dollar o day as yet. Our @estitute sailors and land travellers suffered greatly ‘at Belize, and a call is made on the Cabinet to pro- vide an aid fund The merchants of Gaatemala, Honduras, and San Salvador are represented as be ing mach incensed against Walker for his assump- tion of the Presidency of Nicaragua, and vow bis overthrow, with the aid of Chite and Pera. A very uneasy state of public feeling prevailed in Helire. On the Rio Hondo—north—the Indians had com menced to interfere with the mahogany cutters, and a chief, named Lucianno Zne, had seized on ail the ‘wood cut on thet river, and demanded a payment of four dollars per log for it. The timber had been previously bonght on British account, from the Yu- eaten people, with the consent of the Mexican go- vernment: and if Zve did not give way some trouble was expected. The weather was very hot. ‘There was a alight ckirmish in the Board of Sa pervisors last evening between the Mayor and some of the members, on the question of improvidence in payments made to officials by that body. The sub- ject came up on an application of Justice Pearsen for fifteen hundred dollars compensation for extra services. See our report. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday. From the statements of their agents throaghont the country, it appears there iro great demand for ser- vant girls in the country towns; a fact of consi- derable importance to thet numerous class of “help” in this city. Emigration seems to be ra pidly on the increase; 114,662 have already landed at this port thie year, and they now arrive at the rate of 3,500 per week. The supply of beef cattle on :Warket yesterday was very limited—2,708 bead agntgst 4,262 the week Seni aek setae remained about the same es last week, the average being %c. per pound. ‘The quality of the ‘cattle, however, was generally very poor. Some few lots of prime brought Lic., ‘and im one instance ¢ trifle over that sum was con- ceded. Cows and-ceives were in good supply, and "prices declined $2-0 $3 per head as compared with last week’s quotations. Sheep and lambs were dull, at€2 a $5 per head—a decline of 374c. a 50c. Swine “went off steadily, at 64c. a Gjc. per pound. ‘Our Manictpal Poll tics—Ratification of the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1856. Two of Mr. Bleccker’s organs have settled | party, both in the State and in the Providientint | election, Had the harde or softe of the New York democracy adopted the policy of the George Law faction, and demanded the lion's snevertheless the demand was County Ticket a¢ Summany Hall—The In~ trigues fez the Epgumaity. , The democrats of this city held a meeting at Tammany Hall last evening to ratify the regular county ticket of the party. The meeting was one of the largest and most enthusiastic that ever assembled under the wing of the Sachems. The ticket headed by Mayor Wood was ratified with that enthusiasm which is a forerunner of success, There was a bit of a row, but a distarb- ance in Old Tammany is always a sure sign of the success of the party. It clears up the atmos- phere. The chief struggle in the municipal election is for the Mayoralty, for which there are six can- didates in the field, to wit :—Fernando Wood, regular democrat; James S. Libby, oyster house democrat; Anthony J. Bleecker, republican; Isaac O. Barker, American or Knew Nothing; Stephen H. Branch, independent <Anti-Matsell Know Nothing; and James'R. Whiting, reform. Among all these patriotic individuals we have already expressed a preference fer the present in- cumbent of the office, Fernando Wood. He has been faithful and efficient, so far as he has had power. He has so administered the duties of his office as to make the people know that there was a Mayor at the City Hall, and thereby he has been superior to his immediate predecessors, In many of his plans of reform he has been cramped by the present absurd charter, by the provisions of which no one has any power to do anything, and no one is responsible for anything that has been done. Mayor Wood has been bit- terly assailed by our philosophic cotemporaries of the Tribune, but their strictures have chiefly been confined to attacks upon his personal cha- racter. They have alleged ut one thing against his official career. That is the appointment of Mr. A. V. Stout, President of the Shoe and Lea- ther Dealers’ Bank, as City Chamberlain. Mayor Wood has been severely censured by the Tribune for this appointment, and we saw it stated recent- ley. Now this contest for the Mayoralty has al- ready brought out several rich developements in politics and literature, and this Greeley affair, which we have ascertained te be entirely true, not the least interesting of them by any means. Mark the faconsistency! The editor of a leading journal recommends @ Bank President as a proper custodian for the city funds. The Mayor appoints the Bank President; whereupon the editor turns around and pitches into the Mayor for doing precisely what be was recom- mended to do by his present essailant. Could anything be more {nconsistent, more absurd, more foolish, more Greeley-ish? now seems a foregone conclusion. successful. Allowing that Mayor Wood could not command a majority of the eleetors, the retiring candidates could not transfer their strength to any one man. The rank and file of the voters and not to be bought and sold at the pleasure of a few small potato politicians Should the candidates opposed to Mayor Wood retire and request their friends to unite upon some one man, they-—the candidates aforesaid— would only sueceed in digging their own political graves. Let us see how the opposition stands. The last candidate in the field is James R. Whiting, who has received the nomination of fifteen highly respectable old fogies, who bave consti- «tuted themselves a committee to reform the city government. They make up a good omnibus load—the regular number—twelve inside, two with the driver to keep the team straight, and one on the steps to collect the fare. This omnibus load of old fogyism has succeeded in increasing the city taxes from three to seven millions of dollars per annum, and in inflieting upon us acity charter which is the moet abeurd, contemptible, inefficient affair of the kind that ever was thought of, and to the action of which we must charge all the misrule and corruption under which this metropolis has groaned for the last three years. Well, these old fellows turn up at every election. Nobody ap- points or elects them. They have set themselves up as a sort of council to regulate our municipal affairs, and anice mess they have made of it. They held a meeting in an out-of-the-way corner of the University, and sent us a cirenlar request- ing our attendance. We sent a reporter, but in that dread hour, big with the fate of Cesar and of Rome, he was excluded. Now, they have no- minated Mr. Whiting, who has resigned his seat on the Supreme Bench to take the stump against Wood. The omnibus party, with a degree of effron- tery altogether unparalleled, even in New York politics, ask all the other opposition candidates to withdraw and transfer their friends to Whi- ting. It is the coolest thing of the season. Mr. Whiting is literally the weakest candidate in the field. He is the nominee of no party—he is sim- ply set up by an omnibus clique of fifteen. But the other candidates will not withdraw. It is true that strenuous efforts have been made to concentrate the opposition upon one candidate, Immediately after the nomination of Mr. Whiting, by the omnibus clique, a meeting was held at the Union Place Hotel, of twenty individuals, who labored under the pleasing delusion that they carried the politics of the city in their pockets, Fach candidate, except Branch, who stands alone, the admiration of two worlds, was represented by five trusty followers, The omnitne load wae represented by Mr. Eben, who, we hope, builds organs better than he constructs parties, and the Know Nothing candidate by Mr. Street Commis- sioner Taylor. who is not quite so successful as Joxeph of old, in leading his brethren out of woree than Egyptian darkness. The oyster house democracy was represented by five patriote, head- ed by John R. Briggs, and Mr. Bleecker’s friends were also on hand. There wae a free discussion, but the great assemly broke up, having done exactly nothing. This might have been anticipated. Mr. Isaac O. Barker, the American candidate, with poll the strength of his party vote. He thinks that he will be elected, and it is very certain that he will not back out. Mr. Bleecker is enthuriastic, and it is plain that neither he nor his friends have any intention of leaving the flela this matter, and at the same time told Mr. Whiting some wholesome truths, which he should read, mark and inwardly digest. In the case of Mr. Libby, he was nominated out of personal spite against Mayor Wood. He was selected chietly because it was believed that he would never give up the ship, but go dowa with droms beating and colors flying. If his friends ‘desert him he will undoubtedly adhere to him- self, and probably vote for himself. Asto Branch, ‘his perseverance against the fat Chief of Police, to cay nothing of the blood of his Revolutionary sires, is sufficient proof that he will never disap- ly that Mr. Stout had been recommended by the head philosopher of that journal, Horace Gree- We opine, however, that all the assaults on Mayor Wood will not defeat his election, which The most strenuous efforts are now being made to unite the opposition against him; but even if such a coali- tion conld be formed—which is exceedingly im- probable, not to say impossible—it could not be point himself by relinquishing the nomination he has tendered to himself, and which he has accept- edwith that charming modesty which distin- guishes his brilliant public life. On the whole, we do not see the slightest chance for Mr. Whiting, Mr. Bleecker, Mr. Bar- ker, Mr. Libby or Mr. Branch. We believe that the people have already resolved to try Mayor Wood for another two years, under a new char- ter and a new organization of our municipal sys- tem. With Wood and a new charter we have a fair chance for reform. With any of the others matters will only be made worse. Altogether, the regular democratic county ticket is in the field with the finest prospects. It will sweep everything before it. It is the best ticket before the people, and will be voted by many independent men who will not support Mr. Buchanan. Mr. A. D. Russell, the candidate for City Judge, is admirably fitted for that post. He is a well read lawyer, and twenty years’ constant practice in his profession in this city has made him more competent for the bench than any of his opponents, Mr. Busteed, the candidate for Counsel to the Corporation, is an energetic, able lawyer, and will be elected without doubt. The democracy have shown their superior sagacity in their strong State and county ticket, and they are bound to win. The Three Parties in Pennsylvania—Dificul- ties and Prospects of the Opposition Al- Mance. The policy of the anti-democratic forecs in Pennsylvania, for the Presidential struggle, has been reduced to this principle :—‘ When you can’t do the thing as it should be done, do the best you can.” In other words, according to the wise old maxim that “half a loaf is better than no bread at all,” the Fremont forces have agreed to unite with the Fillmore faction in or- der to secure a part of the Pennsylvania loaf, all of which they conclude will otherwise be lost. A common electoral ticket has been adopted in behalf of Fremont and Fillmore, the vote for the twenty-seventh elector, Fremont or Fillmore, to determine the division of the electoral vote, should this Union ticket carry the State. This plan of operations seems to have been adopted in the joint State Convention at Harris- burg, in a spirit of unanimity amounting to en- thusiaem; but what does this alliance amount to? It is a sacrifice of their principles on the part of the Fremont men to secure the support of the Fill- more faction. A fusion between the Fremont republicans and the Buchanan democracy would be about as homogeneous as this Fremont and Fillmore coalition. The policy of the Fremont party is to prevent the establishment of slavery in Kaneas by fire and sword—to secure the people of Kansas their coustitutional righte—te prevent the practical enforcement of the Ostend manifesto; and to restore the harmony of the Union, and the constitutional rights of the States and the people in all parts of the country. Fill- more has no interest in this policy. He is the Know Nothing and do nothing candidate, and the policy of his faction is simply to carry the election to the House of Representatives, where they may sell out at a high price to the highest bidder. Suppose this Pennsylvania union ticket should succeed. It may defeat Buchanan before the people ; but will it elect Fremont? Not from present appearances. On the contrary, the best that it can do will be to throw the election into Congress, and what chance will Fremont stand there, between intriguing democrats and plotting Know Nothings in the market for sale? None in the world. We may have a crisis of excite- ment and confusion without a parallel in our national history ; but in the end Fremoat will be cheated and the democracy will triumph through the support of Know Nothing bankrupts and democratic pawnbrokers, Had the fusion of the George Law North Ame- rican faction with the Fremont movement last June been a cordia) and Lona fide operation, there. would have been litfle or no difficulty in orga- nizing a Fremont party and a Fremont electoral ticket in Pennsylvania fully competent to carry the State by a large majority. A popular anti-democratic majority had already been se- cured in the State of forty thousand; and al) that was required to consolidate it was a hearty co- operation, in June last, of the George Law North Americans with the great Fremont movement. But mark what was done. The republicans at Philadelphia nominated Fremont and Dayton. Simultaneously, the George Law North Ameri- cane, in convention in New York, nominated Banks and Johnston. Mr. Banks rather per- emptorily declining, they next nominated Fre- mont and Johnston of Pennsylvania, and ad- journed. Why Fremont and Johnston? Why not Fremont and Dayton? Simply because these North Americans did not intend to serve as volun- teers, but as mercenaries. They were up for pay, and they wanted some assurances of pay in ad- vance. Hence they held on, through the sum- mer, to the outside ticket of Fremont and John- ston, negotiating all the time for promices of cabinet appointments and spoils as the condition of their coming into line. Prominent among these negotiators were George Law, Horace H. Day (the India rubber man), Lieutenant Governor Ford of Ohio, Mr. Allen of Maseochusette, Mr. Johnston of Pennsyl- vania, and others. These wisehends of the North American phalanx were resolved to have their pay, and #0 they persisted in their negotia- tions for cabinet offices, foreign missions and what not, (should Fremont be clected,) until the popular enthusiasm for the Fremont cause in Pennsylvania and New Jersey was paralyzed by their paltry game for the spoils. At length, all efforts to secure a pre-emption claim to the best offices in the government having failed, these self- sacrificing North Americans concluded to take Fremont upon trust, and Mr. Johnston, their ap- pointed representative on the Presidential ticket, withdrew his name and turned over his good will in behalf of Mr. Dayton. ‘Thus was the Fremont canse in Penneylrania and New Jersey embarrassed and paralyzed by these disinterested North American patrieta. Had they promptly and cordially joined in the Fremont movement in Pennsylvania, they might have secured the absorption of all the opposition forget in a clean, unmixed Fremont opposition share of the spoils as the price of the't support of Mr. Buchanan, they would, probutly, have been kicked out of the party; but “ey knew bet- ter. The policy of the democracy is first to unite to gain the plunder, and to quarrel over it only when they really come to divide it. Such hucksters in politica, however, as George Law, Horace H. Day, the India rubber man, and all of that school, have yet to learn the first rudiments of the ecience of conducting a new party to suc- cess in a great contest like this of 1856. The late election in Pennsylvania shows what might have been done had the opposition forces heartily united. But they were confused, dis- tracted and rendered indifferent by huckstering politicians, intriguing and treacherous dema- gogues, and by a sort of confession of strength given to Fillmore in the State, which, had it been put to the test in the outset, as in Ohio, New York and the New England States, would have as speedily melted away. Instead of thie, while Forney and Sanderson were plotting in Philadel- phia, the leaders of the North American Law fac- tion were negotiating and huckstering for cabi- net offices and plunder as the price of their sup- port of their own principles in reference to Kan- eas and the Ostend manifesto. The fourth day of November is close at hand. The margin for huckstering and intriguing poli- ticians is rapidly diminishing. Perhaps the new coalition of the opposition forces in Pennsylvania may be equal to the two or three thousand votes required to win the State, perhaps not. A reac- tion in the tide has been turned against them by disorganizing cliques and would-be leaders, and nothing now but the most cordial co-operation of the opposition can change the fortynes of the fight. Tae Great Oreratic Coxriicr—NaPoLzonic DesratcH From Fietp MarsHa MareT2ex.— We have received from Field Marshal, the late Max Maretzek, a counterblast in reply to the attack made upon him by an “Opera Goer” in last Saturday’s Heratp. The Field Marshal’s des- patch is terse, pointed, piquant and personal, and better than all, brief. Maretzek affirms that it is no affair of any of the Opera goers from the Fifth avenue or elsewhere, whether or not he has made any quantity of money, or whether his property consists in large numbers of plantations in Ken- tucky, marine villas at Staten Island, or nume- rous rows of brown stone front houses up town. Meanwhile, the war goes on brevely, and it be- gins to assume the proportions of a tremendous Presidentia! conflict. It may be, too, quite as near a decisive settlement, and the final result is equally dubious. As in all controversies, religious, literary, po- litical or artistical, the combatants have drifted into the chronic stage, and now commence to pitch into each other’s characters and antecedents. Herein we notice a remarkable resemblance to the manner in which some foolish politicians have mismanaged the Presidential campaign. We all remember how Mr. Buchanan’s own friends went back several centuries to tell the history of his early love, and how his warm, gushing, sensitive, impulsive, out-gushing heart was lacerated by a faithless fair one. The stories of Pyramus, Leander, Joan, and all other examples of long suffering constancy, fade into insignificance when compared with the touching tale of Mr. Buchanan’s love, abandonment, des- pair and consequent celibacy. It brought tears to the eyes of every spinster in the land. Then we had a critical examination into the personal history of Colonel Fremont, originated by poets and philosophers, who attempted to take his life ~and euceeeded. The old ladies were regaled with some touching genealogical revelations ap- pertaining to the private history of his great grandfather ; the young ladies were entertained with a romance about his marriage, and every one of them wished to have some colonel of ca- valry carry them off at once—the gentlemen who have no particular religious views, but unite in the opinion that the Pope ought to be suppressed, Archbishop Hughes burned at the stake in front of the City Hall, and his entire flock put to death by some expeditious mode—were told that he was once in communion with the Church of Rome—and the adherents to the proprieties were horrified at the announcement that he wore a beard and parted his bair in the middle! Mr. Fillmore was also overhauled in the same man- ner. With that charming delicacy which so emi- nently distinguishes some of our political lead ers the personal history of the late Miss Fillmore was dog up. It was further alleged that if Mr. Fillmore bad been a good American he would not bave been so sweet upon Queen Victoria, or have lunched féte-a-téte with the Pope, or have en- joyed all the foreign luxuries during bis memo- morable Italian campaign. Following out these tactics, the parties in the operatic war have commenced to pitch into each other, and give the world some insight into the hidden springs by which all these matters are worked. We hope they will keep it up. Fire away. Our columns are open. Let us know all about everybody. If any member of the Execn- tive Committee has an ancestral tree which runs back to a washerwoman, a cooper, a tailor, or a shoemaker, or any other useful but vulgar calling, let the dreadful fact be known. If anybody has made a fortune by lotteries, or grain speculations, or the slave trade, or the dry goods trade, or the boot and shoe trade, or by note shaving, or by omnibus driving, or by rag picking, or any other of the exact sciences, pray let us know it. Don’t keep anything back. Make a clean breast of it. Then we shall have s purer moral atmosphere, and we hope, the establishment of the Italian Opera on a permanent basis, In addition to the bulletin from Field Marshal Maretzek we bave a touching letter from a lone widow, with four smal) children and four boarders. ‘The boarders were lately employed at the Opera House, but are now without employment—con- sequently without funds, and consequently eating the widow's substance, without money and with- out price. The widow don’t like to tarn them out, and can’t afford to keep them. This is a sad case; but we stated several weeks ago that the closing of the Academy would bring about just euch @ tremendow: financial crash among the people who feed and clothe the artists, But the idea of sacrificing four small children on the shrine of the mad ambition of First Consul Phalen, or Field Marshal Maretzek, is awful to think of. Why, “ Norma’s” children—only two in number—always excite the liveliest interest ; bat here are four little cherubs, absolutely in danger of starving, to support some bungry Druid out of an engagement. As to the inquiry of our correspondent, “ When are we to have Italian Opera?” we reply in the only Spanish phrase that our army in Mexico ever learned— Quien sabe ? THE LATEST NEWS ——— BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ee From Washington. Wasninotow, Oct. 22, 1866, Judge Mazon bas not contemplated resigning his position at the head of the Patent Office, but Judge Minot, the Commissioner of Pensions asked to be relieved, ‘and the eter chiet clerk, ars. Cole, will succeed hima; Judge Minet will leave immediately for his home in New Hampshire. Forty three patents were issued last week from the Pa< tent Office, at a cost to the patentees of thirteen hundred dollars, This is less than an average weekly iasue. Secretary Dobbin resumes his duties on the fret Proximo. Tmmpesisat from Nicaragua. ‘The rews received last night by telegraph from Nicaragua, by the way of New Orleans, is important. It appears that Walker carried out the programme indicated in the Henao of last Tuerday, by marching out of Granada and giv- ing battle to the Central Americans at Massaya; but this time both parties were better prepared for each other. The forces of the Central Ame- rican States had combined in considerable strength, and while Walker was fighting despe- rately with four thousand of the enemy near Maseaya, fourteen hundred Guatemaleans be- sieged Granada, where Walker had left a small force. This movement compelled him to aban- don Massaya and return to Granada, where he succeeded in routing the Guatemaleans. See the telegraphic despatch for further particulars. This intelligence indicates that the whole of Central America is aroused against the North Americans. It shows that Walker, notwithstand- ing his successes in these two battles, is in a very critical position, and nothing but extraordinary skill and good luck will save him from annibila- tion. The military combinations and tactics of the Central Americans, as exhibited in these fights, mark a decided improvement in skill and courage in the forces now brought into the field. We apprehend that Walker must be getting uncommonly near the end of his rope; for he has fallen into such bad company that he allows that hair-brained adventurer, Monsieur Pierre Soul¢, to go to Granada and make laws for him—even such laws as the revival of negro slavery in Nicaragua. Mr. William Walker once enjoyed the good will and sympathy of the public of the United States. It was supposed that he would inaugu- rate a regime of law and order in a country where there had been nothing but bloodshed, butchery and rapine for a couple of generations; that he would be a wise ruler in Nicaragua, and a re- generator of that most unhappy, though most blessed country which lies between the two con- tinents. These expectations—to which the hope- ful have clung through all kind of evil report— moust now be abandoned; for Mr. Walker, after a series of inexplicable blunders, has now capped the climax by an actin which it is hard to say whether wickedness or folly preponderates. We can now safely leave him to the fate which seems impending. He may win a few filibusters from the South; but he may rest assured that through- out the North people will henceforth feel the most utter indifference to his fate. “Miu, Me at-rae Curton Hovuss.”’—Niagara will be unusually interesting during the next week or two, on account of the large number of distinguished strangers who are now en route to the Falla, M. Thalberg, the king of pianists, af- ter a crack at the snipe over in the Jerseys, will take his departure for Niagara Falls to-day, with quite a large party, including M. Tisandier, who is here as the agent’ of the Northern Railway Company of France; Mr. Delane, the immense potentate of the journalistic world in England— managing editor of the London Times; Mr. Fill- more, the correspondent of the same paper; George Peabody, the great London banker; and probably Mr. Lowe, Vice President of the Eng- lish Board of Trade, and formerly one of the Times’ writers, will also be at Niagara during this week, and we sincerely hope they will all have a good time. Every intelligent foreigner on ar- riving in this country turns his steps in- stantly towards the Falls of Niagara; and it is well that he should do so, ‘The greatness and the glory and the prosperity of the republic are appropriately typified by the magnificent works of nature—the stupendous falls, the great lakes, the primeval forests, the splendid rivers, the snow clad mountains, the broad, open rolling prairies. All these such men as Thalberg, Delane, Lowe, Fillmore, Tisandier and Peabody should see, enjoy and fully appre- ciate. Mr. Thalberg’s genius will be inspired by the rush and roar of the mighty waters, and we shall expect seme splendid souvenirs de Niagara from his grand piano. Mr. Delane can ascertain what a “thunderer” is in reality, and see how much mightier is the flood of Niagara than the reverberationa from Printing House square. Mr. Lowe will of course be statistical, and calculate exactly how many gallons of water go over the falls every second; Mr. Fillmore can get up a eplendid puff for the institution generally, and Mr. Peabody, being a great financier, will doubt- less mature some plan by which the falle could be made to pay five per cent, and by which he can get a puff for his dinner in the London Times. Then, after doing up the falls properly, the dis- tinguished party can take a good look at the place where the Chevalier Breoks was to meet the Chevalier Burlingame, but didn’t. This will recall some charming political reminiscences and afford an opportunity for some good jokes about the enemy’s country, Altogether, it will be a grand excursion. Tar Next Conoress—Ixptaxa—The gains to the pro-slavery democracy in the late Con- grersional elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, as compared with the last Congress, set- tles the question as to the party which will have the control of the next House of Representatives, ci aseaseliateatiieniatiaiae The Result in Pennsylvania, Harmussura, Oct. 22, 1866. Official returns received at the office of the Secretary of State from all the counties except Elk and McKea, show & democratic majority of 2,876. In the Legislatuse there ‘Will be a democratic majority of three on joint ballot. The Political Revelations in Philadephia. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22, 1856, ‘Washington Reed is coming out to-morrow in wnswer to Henry D. Moore’s public defence of himself and San- erson, He defends his own conduct, denounces Sander- son, and sketches his bistory, winding up with fresh advocacy of the Union electora! tickot. ‘Mr Gibbons is preparing a fresh bombsbell for Sander- son and his accomplices. Several of the leading Know Nothings are implicated in thelr own letters, and the proofs of delinquency are more astounding than ever. Election of a United States Senator from Vermont. Mowrrnume, Vt., Oot. 22, 1856. Hon, Solomon Foot, of Rutiand, was this morning re- elected United States Senator from this State, for six years from the 4th of March next. The Great Boston Horse Exhibition. Boston, Oot, 22, 1856. ‘The Grand Horse Exhibition opened to-day im a brilliant manner. Over four hundred entries were made, com- prising much valuable stock. This forenoon there was & grand cavalcade upon the track for the exhibition of the Gifferent classes of horses. This afternoon there were two vaces for premiums of the society. Trial No. 1 ‘was for green horses, under five years. The first, Premium, of $100, was taken by Lady Light- foot, owned by R. S. Flandews, of Roxbury;| the second, of $50, by Lady Stewast, belonging to J. b. Brown, of Canaan, Vt.; the third, of $26, by Young St. Lawrence, of Georgetown, Mass. In the race of trotting geldings and mares, mile heats, best three in five, in har- ness, 8. McLaughlin’s Lady Moscow took the first pre- mium, of $150; D. Mace’s Meddlesome the second pre- mium, of $75, and A. Carpenter’s Telomachus the third premium, of $60, Time—2:40, 2:41 and 2:303,. ‘The exhibition, notwithstanding a damp, disagrosmbie fog, was attended by about twenty-five thousand peopi¢, including a great many ladies. In the forenoon there’ ‘was an exhibition of stallions, A fine display was made. ‘Then followed a trot of green horses, not over five years. Nine were entered. After four heats, Tom Carpenter of) Boston, took the first prize, of $100; Bellaire of Lawrence, ‘the second, of $50; and Nat. Baker the third, of $26. ‘The grand attraction was the trot between the stalions, Ethan Allen and Hiram Drew. Ethan Allen won ewily in three straight heats. The following isa summary:— ‘The Drew horse behaved badly on each beat, breating| other scrub race for $25, won by Know Nothing. To-| morrow the great trot between Lancet and Flera comes off. Army Movements—Yellow Fever in ton. Barrons, Oct. 23, 1856. Company H, United States troops, left Fort Moultrie, Charleston, on Sunday for Florida. ‘There were ten deaths by yellow fever at Charleston on Saturday and Sunday last. mated at $80,000. Insured for $40,000. hundred hands are thrown out of employment by fire. ——______. ‘Wrecked Vessel Picked Up. train was slightly injured, but nobody else was hurt. ‘The Foreign Trade of Boston. Bowrox, Oot. 22, 1866, ‘The imaports of foreign goods at the port of Boston, for the quarter ending Sept. 39, 1866, wore as follows:— Departure of the Niagara. Bostom, Oct, 22, 1856. ‘The steamer Niagara sailed about 2 o'clock this afer - noon, with seventeen passengers for Halifax ana forty- ine for Liverpool. She took out $276,000 in specie. ‘The Alabama at Savannah. Savannan, Oct. 21, 1866. Including their Southern gains, past and to Mark come, the democrats will have it by a handsome PRILADELPHIA STOCK majority. Pritapmirma, Oct, 23, 1866. The treachery of the Fillmoreites has done | tong island ‘Railroads idy¢; Morrie Gola ainen this thing. They have carried over to the de- Ox. Saw Cansem, Git, mocracy, or thrown away upon a separate Know | Cotton market dopromeed. Sales to-day, 6, Nothing candidate, here and there, their emall | Preghitaan, "OTe Gull—mese $21 26 Oct. 22—7 P.M. vote, which, though powerless to do anything in- dependently, has been sufficiently strong as a balance of power to defeat the republican candi- dates in many districts, and to give success to the Buchanan democracy. ‘This was especially the case in Indiana. In i ree iF Hi Flour i 200° that State, in ‘54, the united opposition forces | st 9632 for made almost a clean sweep of the State, Thi | $ 70/er food ext ied year the democrats have carried it, Including J same; saige of 2 1a tone large gain of members of Congres. We account | freights—To New cork, and 330. for wheat. for it upon this theory-—that the Fillmore Know Nothings, in order to give a show for Mr. Fill- more in November, voted the democratic ticke = 38 gx Ca Hd 3 of October, under the idea that should all the oe Fase veie., Northern October elections go for Fremont, there iy for do ome would be no chance of getting Fillmore up to the 60 Buchele, ob Houre. We have also heard that certain land dete berate interested in preventing the admis- sion of Kansas as a free State, (on account of the vast area of new public lands it would bring into demand among Western emigrants,) have also done their best for the democracy in Indiana. ‘This element, however, we suppose, has had buat ‘a limited influence upon the result. Fillmoreism has been fusing with democracy to prevent the election of Fremont by the people, and to carry the election to the House. In November there may be eome curious modifications of these late elections. 28. 5 # 2 3 ts America to-night, in the German opera ‘Der Freiechuts, at Niblo’s Garden. Johannsen is « soprano of renown. ———_—____.. City Intelligence, Tar Keverowe O.vn.—Thie club return home to day. 4 Panoms's Concuet.—Parodi, Tiberini, Paul Julien, Stra- Koveh, Bernard! and Morino gave e concert last night, at Nibio’s Galeon. It was very weil attended,