The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1856, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1856. NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDON SENN v, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, GPFION 5. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STs, re R Mi dn advance, a cents per copy, $l per annum sy or $8 7 annum; the Bas S diene nerds Great s fa ‘Britain, or $8 to any part the Cont ion, - Ne, 296 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Scnoow asten—Tigur ‘Reve Pears— New Diyonriseaeyt—Vou-au-Vent. BOWERY THEATRE Sowery—Dewon Loven—Vineinia ‘Muxmy—WuLock oF THE GLEN. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE. Froadway, opposite Bond sirect—* CHOCL YOR ScANDAL—THE WHiTRS AND THE BROWNS. @ALLACK'S THEATR&, Broa¢way—iamiet—Awayr wrre MELaNcHoty. SHAMBERS &TREPT THEATRE, (late Burton’s)}—Massa- oun OF CLEXCOR —CROrs oF DEATE—JoCKo. WBARNUWS AMERIOAN Wi Broadway—After- 00. —To« Tuvs—My Nacuson's Wire. Svening—DueD. NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway—Panopr’s Gua sp Con CERT. BROADWAY VARIETIES, 4? Broadway—Twe Firine Pas laws BRoow- maken, "4 SBRENADERS, 585 broa¢way—rmrorua —l. Trovato: =. CHRISTY & WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway Paavormaxcne- Wxevo, airenss "ew York, Friday, October 24, 1856. Te ‘The News. By the arrival of the Arabia at Halifax we have ‘Maree days later intelligence from Europe. It pre- wents but few features of interest. The withdrawal of nearly a million of pounds sterling in the course of a week from the coffers of the Bank of England, and a decrease of two and a half million pounds sterling in the stock of bullion in the Bank of Brance, are facts which will afford subject for anx ious speculation in commercial circles. As regards the Bank of Engiand, the sum mentioned is the largest in amount, we believe, that has ever been withdrawn from the vaults of that establishment in that brie! space of time. Lhe iafluence of sucha circumsiacce alone on the trading community is sufficient to create a panic,and we fear that we shall bear of a good many mercantile disasters in Great Britvin before the close of the year. The affairs of Naples still remain in the same unsettled state. The King con'inues obstinate, and there is mo probability of his being bronght to reason so long as be thinks he can count upon the fidelity of his army. The appearance of the Anglo-French fieet in the Bay of Naples will, how- ever, teat the grounds of this reliauce on his part. ‘There is little doubt but that it will be followed by @ popular movement, and if the troops sympathize wish i), as is not improbable, there will be an end to the Bourbon sway in that kingdom, aud possibly a revival of the Murat aynasty. A grand banquet had been given to Professor Moree by the Eaglish telegraph companies. Mr. Cyrus W. Pield, of this city, was one of the guests. Professor Morse had successiul)y demonstrated the practicability of com- mounicating by magnetic telegraph across the Atlan tic. The cotton market was quite buoyant, and iaferior and middling qualities had advanced oae- sixteenth to one-eighth of a penny. By the Arabia we have news from Australia. Business had been dail ip consequeace of continued wet weather, out a speedy revival was looked for. The news published yesterday from Nicaragua was believed in some quarters and douted in others. ‘The following despatch from Harris, Morgan & Co., of New Orleans, to Charles Morgan & Sons, of this eity, seems to be more probable than that first re- ceived: — Sew Onitavs, Oo, 22, 1854. ‘ee wrimer Tennersce arrived today. The steamer @rwade wae ct San Jaan dei Sud, in fifty Ways from New York. Walker bad bad two severe battles with the enemy, in bord of which be was successful, the enemy being routed Doub at Granada and Manxgua, with loss, kuled and wounded, 700. ‘The Texas, which was to have left this port yes- terday for Nicaragua, will not leave till tomorrow. Is another column wit! be foand two iateresting official documents connected with the affairs of Ni e@arogua—the report of Father Vijal on the results of his diplomatic mission to the United States, and the protest of the government of Peru against the re eognition of Walker by our government. The for- mer is just what might have been expected from the simple minded and credulous old Padre He + ports to bis government that the enthusiasm ex.s. im this country for the caare of Walker is unboand- ed, and bints that it isin no small degree owing to the reported mineral wea'th of Nicsragaa. There inno doub’ that the Padre found the evidences of this enthusiasm amoagst the speculators of New York and WasWingtou, by whom be was regalarly beset during his mission here. The protest of Pera shows that that government is very much alarmed at the new order of things in Nicaragua, and fears ‘Bhat it is only the precursor of an invasion of ita own territory. We have dates trom Buenos Ayres to the 15th of Augost. It anticipated that the coming season, fn a business joint of view, would be the most fa vorable ever koowa. The rev tution in the proviace @! Santa Fe had been attended with so important vesnits. Gen. Orono had heea arrested aad impri- med at Rovario. At Montevideo political afsirs were in uneettiod state. Cul. Battle had beea appointed Minister of Fiasnce ia place of Leroq, woo had been compelled to re ‘re. In another part of to-day's paper we padlish a letter from Hon. N. P. Banks, Jr., in answer to the strictores of Mr. Aamuel B. Ruggies upon the st» tistica! statements of the first named gentleman introduced in the able speech delivered by bim a the Merchants’ Exchange some weeks since. Mr. Basks completely demolishes Mr. Raggles’ arga- ments, and proves conclasively that Mr. Ragg knew very little of the susject he andertook to dis onee. The weetiog wh ld last evening ia Tompkins eqnare te on of Hon. Jobn Cochrane, as democ ndidate for the Sixth Cong) essional district. wa taret srecemaful affair The candidate made an able and elaborate address to the voters, of whom there were bet veen twelve and fifteen thousand on the grownd. A full report will be found elee where. By reference to our telegraphic deswar Washington it will be seen that Attorney Cushing has rendered several opinions of impor tance to masters of vessels trading to foreign ports ‘The will of #nson G. Phelps, involviag property to the amount of over two millions of dollars, ix row before the Supreme Court, ina friendly suit for the proper construction of its many complicated and contingent provisions We are assured that the plans of the proposed City Hall, adopted last night by the Board of Coun ciimen, will cost this city not leas than eight millions of dollars. Charmiag prospects for tax payers. The British Arctic discovery ship Resolute is now ready for sea, and will leave as soun as orders are received from Washincton for her sailing. The steamer Hero, the opposition boat between Providence and New York, strack on a rock in Providence river on Wednesday might and sunk. ‘The passengers were taken off in safety There was o mee! of skirt weavers leet nivht« ‘Phese men made o “ strike” about threo weeks ago. ‘They state that they only received eighty-coven cents a day, and that their employers wanted to re duce that to seventy-four cen's. A report of their proceedings will be found in another colomn. The cotton market was unsettled yesterday and qu tations irregular. The sales were confined to about 500 bales. The European new: had a favorable infinence on breadstaffs. Flour advanced about 10. with large sales, closing at about 3c. per bushel | The News by the Arabla—Appreach of the \igher; and in some cases about 5c. higher. Indian corn was also firmer, having sold at 68c. a 69M, with a cargo, delivered, at 70c. for Western mixed. Rye was firm, at 90c. Pork was steady, with sales of mess at #21 25 a $2150, closing at the latter figure. Sugars continued in good demand, and prices were firm. The sales embraced about 1,600 hhds., including two cargoes, in bond, for export to Canada. The whole brought stiff prices. The ad- vance in grain rather tended to check freight en- gegements. To Liverpool, moderae engagements were made of grain, mostly at 9d. a 9}d., in bulk and bags; flour at 2s. and cotton at 6-324. The Presidential Election—Symptoms of a Close and Desperate 5 Frem certain developements resulting from the Jate elections in Pennsylvania and Indiana, we have reason to suspect that the impending Presi- dential election will be a close and desperate struggle, and that the victory will rest with that party which best employs the ten days interven- ing to the day of battle. The issue before the people, in the first place, still hinges upon Pennsylvania, The union Fre- mont and Fillmore ticket may carry the State. It is the last chance of defeating the election of Bu- chanan by the people. There is but little hope re- maining, since the October electiorfs, for Mr. Fill- morein the South. The game which he has played in the North— to weaken Fremontas the most popu- lar candidate—is played out. Mr. Fillmore cannot fail to perceive now that his darling object of carrying the election to the House, can only be achieved by a reaction against the Northern democracy. Since these October elections, we dare say that whatever prospect he may have previously bad to carry Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee, his chances now, in any one of those States, are scarcely worth more than ten cents on the dollar. He may still carry Maryland. The late Baltimore election clearly indicates as much. But the probabilities are that every other Southern State, and California to boot, will go for Buchanan, because in Cali- fornia there are two opposition tickets against the democracy. With less than half the popular vote of the State, therefore, the democrats may carry California by a handsome plurality, the Know Nothing organization there being comparatively new and intact as a third party. To prevent the election of Buchanan, then, by the people, the vote of Pennsylvania to the op- position is indispensable ; because, should the democrats Jose Maryland, they still claim an equivalent for it in New Jersey—a State which, from the present division of the opposition forces, may be set down as most likely to vote for Buchanan. Not only is Peansylvania neces- sary, then, to the opposition to defeat Buchanan before the People, but they can no longer afford to hezard a doubdledesling game in Indiana, INi- nois and New Hampshire. We say nothing of New York, because it seems to be generally con- ceded that the populer sentiment for the Fre- mont cause in this State isso strong as to be able to withstand all plots and combinations to defeat it. Yet it is quite possible that some of the misguided partizans of Mr. Fillmore, in a desperate effort for Mr. Brooks, will do what they can to turn this State over to Backanan. The third party policy of the Fillmore faction in the North bas defeated itself. They have been laboring to keep up a nice adjustment of power between Fremont and Bucbauaa, but they bave overdone the thing. They have only to play the rame game iv November which some of their managers aud leaders have played in these October elections to secure the success of Bu chanan by a large electoral majority. Reduced, however, to the simple issue of elect ing or defeating Buchanan, the policy of the Fill- more party assumes a new phase. They must either be for him or against him. They are for bim in playing off Mr. Fillmore avy longer as an independent go-between. But what have they to gain or to hope for with the election of Mr. Bu- cbananan? Nothing. There will be neither an office to give to a Know Nothing, nor a place in the democratic party, for offices and places are all occupied or engage’. But what have the Fillmore party to lore with the defeat of Bu- chanan ? Nothing. Kaow Nothingism is dead; and after this election there will be a more per- fect organization of the opposition forces against the democracy. an organization whieh will un- questionably sweep the country in the next general battle, should they in this be defeated. In 1896, bad the opposition united upon a single ticket, they might have defeated Van Buren. They did unite in 1540, and be was swept away as by a tornado. ‘These considerations, we have reason to beliers have already taken hold of that Northern bala. of power beld by the Fillmore party, They sx that the politicians of the South are merely using Mr. Fillmore in the North, asa foil, while they intend that the South shall go ina solid body for Buchanan. They see this, and are discover bh that the game of carrying » the House, by assisting. directly the democracy in the North se- cures the election of Buchanan by the people; ly alternative now to prevent this result is to wn n defeating him in every State where a peration with the Fremont party may effect that object. Mr. Bachanan, iv or der to be elected, has only to hold what he tas gained from the divisionsof the opposition forces. To recover what they bave lost, it ie indispensa- bie that the opposition should unite; and where the mountain will not go to Mabomet, as it has gone in Pennsylvania, why Mabomet must go to the mountain, as we understand he will do in Indiana. Under the preesure of euch matter-of-fact phi- losophy as this, we are assured that the union ticket in Pennsylvania is a bona fide and enthusi- astic union; and that in Indiana, Illinois and all the West the Fillmore Know Nothings have dis- covered their late mistakes, and are anxious to repair their dieasters, They have been used by the common enemy, but in November they will unite against him. Information to this end leads us to believe that the great battle will be a close and desperate one, and that it may yet be deter- mised by a small balance, here and there, of a few hundred votes. Gov. Reeder bas said that ten thousand men and a million of dollars will be necessary to save Kansas to free white labor and make it a free State: but much less than a million judiciously appropriated, and fol- lowed up by a well directed activity among the people, will effect the liberation of Kansas from the deepotiem of Atchison. and the whole South from the iron tyranny of the nullifiers, ia the defeat of Buebanan. The election is not yot 4 foregone conclusion; but during the next ten days the Northern opposition forces must com- bine, co-operate, and work with tact. diseretion energy and liberality, or all fs lost. They have the materials. All that is wanted is that they ction etly and that the ¢ per bbl. Wheat was in active demand for export, 4 shall not throw them away Financial Crash in Eurepe. The mail which was telegraphed yesterday from Halifax, confirms in the most striking man- ner the views we expressed some days since in refgrence to the course of the Bank of France. It is now quite apparent that the Emperor of the French has resolved to sacrifice the speculators rather than alarm the people at large by a mea- sure which could not t ave failed to remind every one of the days of the old assignats and the Reign of Terror. He has authorized the bank to protect itself, which it is doing most effectually. First class paper, with less than sixty days to run, it discounts at six per cent; but that only in small quantity; paper at a longer date it will not touch at all; it requires a margin of eighty per cent over the market value to cover its ad- vunces on railroad stocks, and a margin of sixty per cent on government stocks. These measures may be said to have declared Paris financially in a state of siege. Very few of the operators at the Bourse can command short first rate paper; they operate mainly with railroad securities, some classes of government stocks, and second, third, and fourth rate paper. An idea may be ormed of the alarming character of the crisis from the reflection that under the new bank régime, these men will not be able to get money at al], on any terms, We see how hard they are struggling from the astonishing drain upon the specie reserve of the Bavk of England, equal to a million ster- ling in a week, and requiring the imme- diate increase of the rate of interest to six and seven per cent, But it is not to be expected that they will obtain any permanent relief from this source. The Bank of England, acting freely and without government control, will simply shut down the door upon borrowers, if, to do so, she is compelled to raise the rate of interest to ten per cent or even higher. And after a struggle, the length and character of which must depend upon the financial strength of the operatars involved, all these Frenchmen mest inevitably be strangled. At least, we can see at present no other issue. Of course it is hard to say how far a crash of this kind would extend. The Credit Mobilier going, probably some of the roads in France would go, and other enterprises in which British capital isinvolved. No doubt a vast number of commercial houses wou!d be unnecessarily sucked into the vortex and submerged. For a time the distress in monetary circles throughout the Eu- ropean continent, and therefore also in London and here, would undoubtedly be severe; but af- ter the first crisis, the suffering might perhaps be small in comparison to the extent of suriace cleared. Our ultimate injury would be in exact proportion to the concealed rottenness of our corporate financial institutions; for, commercially epeaking, our direct interest in a French convul- sion would be slender; but our hazard, arising from analogies between our position and theirs, would certainly be great. More Breas. Lerrers rrom Master McMas- Ter.—Master McMaster, of the Freeman's Jowr- nal and Catholic church, will require another re- primand from his superior, the Rev. Archbishop. Itappears that he is inundating the whole coun- try with private missiles, couched in the most brutal, vulgar and ungentlemanly language which a man pretending to decency could use. Several of his letters have already appeared, but the Jatest of them we find in the Lockport Courier, addressed to come neophyte there, and couched in the following strain:— ‘nai tbat Col. geod Catholic. He proteasea for many years to be a Os. pve asf avon wad bis own most a ee riends—amovg groomaman at bis wi Oupg. spd the indy at whose house be was married—who are both Catholies. Ihave known this for years past oa uncorbted evidence, ong 4 of the Freeman toe the article you . 8 altogetber exbausted. regular subscriber to the F'reeman, bave bad many more articles of great 1 way of Cathohe principles, as relating to political matters, which no other paper in the country has treated of * * * © Asto fremont, he i¢ in the same caso ‘wih abe Soapers in Ireland. fe \« playing Protestant for ‘worldly motives, and is therefore a hypoorite, aod in fay ing that he never was a Catholic he is a fiagrast lar. ‘Yours, &e., i. A. McMASTER. We bave no doubt but that Tetzel, the famous monk in Germany, sent there by Leo X, to sell indulgences, would have denounced Luther in that day asa flagrant liar and miserable bypo- crite, in the came way in which Master McMaster in this day, and in the same vein, denounces Fre- mont. Mean, dirty, contemptible, preposterous. Religious fanatics, whether Catholics or Protes tants, always present the same characteristics. McMaster, however, in his missives comes nearer to the evidence on which he relies, and speaks of the groumsman at Col. Fremont's wedding, and of the lady at whose house he was married, as being both of them Catholics. Now, it happens that thet lady is living in this city, and is the mother of Mr. Cummings, a Catholic priest. She kept a boarding boure on Capitol Hill, at Wasb- ington, where it is said the Colonel boarded whea be wos married. Mr. McMaster has been tugging at the apron strings of that respectable woman for several weeks, until he has brought oat all he wanted for witness to his gross charges; bat we have not yet heard what she says upon the suv ject. We bave every reason to believe that both the groomeman and lady wi)l repudiate in a pro- per way the impertinence and insolence of the man who thus parades them be ue public, W. H. Sewarv Ovr wrra Axornen Srerca.— Mr. Seward bas just delivered himself, at An- burn, of another of his peculiar speeches, in the form of a magazine essay from the stump. It ix a labored and heavy argument on the party of freedom and the party of slavery. We are in formed in the outset that our political parties are in a transition state; bu’ this is old news, because since the foundation of the government our politi cal parties have always been in a transition state, more or less, always changing, always assuming new phases, new iseues, and new divisions and subdivisions, The text and the argument of Mr. Seward, however, are, as usual, limited to his peculiar views of slavery. The democracy of Gov. Fleyd in Virginia was one thing, and in New York it was another thing; but W. H. Seward remains at least consistent to bimeelf and his own programme. Like Gov. Floyd, however, and Gov. Wise, and all of that genus of nullifiers, Mr. Seward sticks to his nig- gers to the exclusion of everything elee. He will probably learn, when the battle is over, that the real issue before the people was, shall this Pierce administration and its demoralizing and disorranizing foreign and domestic policy, be continued or superseded? Directed against the democratic party, this Aubarn speech of Mr. Seward was an improvement upon his Detroit speech, which was levelled against all the slave- holders of the South as a class, But still, as the peculiar views of Mr. Sewerd upon niggers are enff'ciently well known to our readers, we aro in- duced to portpone the publication of thie « h at Auburn, from the pressure of more available matter upon our columne Hountmeron, tHE Frvancrer.—There aremany people in this great metropolis who live in fine houses, wear purple and fine linen, drink Bur- gundy every day, and make their wives walking advertisements for jewellers and dry goods deal- ers, These persons have no property—*“ they toil not, neither do they spin”—bat in the magnifi- cence of their surroundings and the extravagance of their establishments they rival the famous robber of the Arabian Nights, who had two or three acres of diamonds and precious metals at his disposal, Everybody wonders where the magnificent Mr. Snob and the splendid Mrs, Saob get the money to pay for all their luxuries; but once in a while there comes a grand crash—some of the lights of Wall street are let in for half a million, and the finale of Snob, who has not saved enough to clog the wheels of justice, is a tour to Sing Sing. Sach seems to have been the case with the note broker Huntizgton, who now lies in the Tombs, awaiting trial for forging notes of hand to the amcunt of over half a million of dollars Huntington was undoubtedly a man of conside- rable ability, which he used for bad ends. He had the implicit confidence of many men in the mercantile world, and put his nearest friends in for large amounts. Perfectly familiar with the manner of conducting business in Wall street, he ascertained what notes good houses had out, and duplicated them without fear of discovery. A single relapse into the carelessness which, on the part of others had caused the success of his ex- ploits, ruined him ina moment. It is a solid proof of the truth of the maxim that honesty is the best policy, that all great rascals,no matter how able they may be, always do have their re- lapses, and are always discovered. The career of Huntington has been like a dis- play of fireworks, brilliant but evanescent. For alittle while he spent money like water. He had six or eight horses—two pairs for carriages for himself and wife, and several fast trotters— his sideboard was brilliant with massive plate. He was a great man at Saratoga, Niagara and Rockaway, where his wife had more trunks and more diamonds than any one else; and in town he kept up two matrimonial estab- lisbments, one regular and the other irregular —one a Christian home, the other a Mahomme- dan seraglio—one according to the laws of New York and the other according to the customs of the Mormons—within a few doors of each other. He was a prince for an hour. People ate his din- ners, drove hishorses, drank his wine, borrowed his money, and wondered how he got it‘all. But the crash came at last, and what are all his for- mer splendors compared with his present posi- tion? He bought his luxuries at a tremendously high price. ‘The case of this man is peculiarly illustrative of the slap-dash style of doing business which has become quite too common in New York. Our merchants make their money easily and throw it away foolishly. In old times trade was a voca- tion which was pursued by men of honor. Fifty years ago the first requisites for mer- cantile life were unsullied integrity and unremitting attention to business, Then merchants met each other with perfect confi- dence; they knew the men they were dealing with; the word of one of their fellows wag as good as his bond. In such a time fraud was un- known, because it was impossible. Now, most of our merchants, though generous, liberal and be- nevolent as their sires, seem enervated by suc- cess. They trust all their affairs to confident!al clerks, agents, factors, brokers, and it is no wonder that these men, dazzled by the display of their employers, should yicld to temptation. The merchants give them every facility by their lax way of conducting business, and the mer- chants are morally responsible for the result. That this Huntington should have raised five bundred thousand dollars on forged paper is monstrous, and is clearly the result of careless- nees on the part of the victims. The great financial centre of the republic is full of Huntingtons and Schuylers. Every two or three weeks someof the frauds come to light. If it is a large affvir, like the achieve- ments of the men we have just mentioned, it creates a panic for a week or two; but if it is a small piece of rascality, it is hushed up, the victims submitting quietly rather than be ridiculed by a public exposure, by which they would not get their money back, but reccive « public verdict of “served them right.” We have reason to believe that the frauds which have been made known to the public are insiguifi- cant compared with those whieh are undiscovered or kept secret. Wall street is fall of burry- skurry, slap-dash, bead-over-heels financiers, who never know how they stand on any one else's books, or how any one elec stands on their owa. The opening for Schuylerisms and Huntington isms ix, consequently, magnificent, and it is improved to the fullest extent. Mn. Wantack ox a Sourwern Towr.—At the clore of a dramatic career of something like a quarter of a century—it is perhaps more, but we dare not say so—Mr. Wallack proceeds in a few days to make a theatrical tour through the South. They ace used there to receive Presidents and politiciams, and know how to do it; let them extend the same hospitality to Mr. Wallack, who is in his way quite as great a man as Governor Wire or Chevalier Brooks or Louis Napoleon or General Quattlebum. He will come upon them like the leaves in autumn, when the storm is over: they will not like him the less because the battles he fighis are stage battles, and the only trearon he mouths is that “rank, damnable stuft’’ which comes in at the end of the third act, asd makes the gallery's blood curdle. Tre Grewax Oreeka—A New Prius Dowsa —Der Fretscbvts and the new prima donna, Johannsen, drew 8 good house to Niblo’s Garden last night. M’lleJohat fen has a full, clear, true soprano yoice and « good dra- matic method. She made quite a furore in the cavatina im the secon act, was called out frequently in the wrong place, and ctherwise honored with the attributes of a feDe be success, In appearance she in prepossessing, if mot strikingly beautiful, and is evidently a practiced sotrers. She js not without some faults, engendered by & bad echool, but it & great improvement upon any singer that we bare yet heard at the German Opera. ‘We understand thai the new prima doona will shortly sing in revera! operas altogether > this latitade, ————_—_—— Tanoni's Scop Coxcent—and inst one in this city for the present—will be given to-night at Niblo’s Saloon, Tiverini, Paul Julten, Sirakosch, Bernardi and Morino Will aesiat, The programme includes “La Mareeiliaies,”* by fared. —_—__ Mre. B. |. Davasvort has a benefit to-night at Bar tom's. ‘The Betoo! for Scandal’ ig up for this occasion, with « fine cast ‘Ton Wrateem.—There war acold ating in the air Inet night, that was in marked contrast to the mild, pleasant we bave bad for some time pact; dowbtiess it isa expect from thia time forth. in the season for colde and cveh I'ke npieneent viet id be well for the wenk and the awed rd and be warmly clad, a & con thon, to the by 4na by. time for en or momcter marked (orty ex tepreee at 10 P.M. vostercay a ee THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPH, PARTMENTS—POWERS OF FOREIGN CONSULS IN THE CASE OF INTESTATE PERSONS—THE CONTEST BETWEEN SICKLES AND WALBRID@E—INTIMATION FROM HEADQUARTERS THAT SICKLES MUST QUIT ‘THE FIELD, ETC. ‘Wasnincton, Oct, 23, 1866, Bince the Pennsylvania clection quite s large number of leading democrats have been here {rom the Old Key stone and from New York. The object of their pil- grimage here just now is to incite the various committees to renewed exertion; that they must not jeave one stoae unturned, and that they must bleed freely, Another as- sessment has been made upon the clerks in the various departments, and they come up to the scratch without a Particle of wincing, which was not the case previous to the elections in Pennsylvania and Indisna. A few of the leaders of the National Democratic Committee are also here, and are sending documents and money into the Northwest amd middle States at a tremendous rate, Attorney General Cushing hes recently given an opinion relative to the powers of foreign consuls, in cases where foreigners have died in this country intestate. Like all opinions emanating from his pen, {t displays learning, comprehension and abitity. 4s it is of general {mportance, and as it has been called for by a number of legal gontlomen, I trust it will make its eppeararce. The Attorney General has not been absent from his post for upwards of « year; and I am informed he intonds paying @ abort visit to his Bative State immediately after election. Attorney General Cushing has also rendered decisions ‘upon the fol owing important poizts:— 1. Sbhipmasters in foreign ports are subject to the re quisition of the Congul to take on board and carry to the United States distrersed mariners, but no: seamen or otber 8 accused of crimes and to be iransported to the United States for prosecution. 2. Officers ard crews of the public ships of the United ‘States are not entitled to salvage, civil or military, as of complete legal right. The allowance of salvage, civil or wmihtary, in such cases, like the allowance of prize money on candies, is against public policy, end ought to be abolis! ed im the sea service, a8 it was long ago in the land service. 3. District ene ho got lyin Rites are power to provide specifical! confinement of persons cou victed by federal zoarts, if refused admittance into tur jails of the State. In such cases the persons may be con- fined in ibe Penitentiery ot the District of Columbia. 4, There is punishment by statute for the act of a ship. master in unlawfully putting a seaman on shore in a foreign port, but not for av assault on a seaman on board sbip or otherwise in a foreign port. ‘Its a matter of complete astonishment to the friends of Sickles here that he is runnitg in opposition to the regular rominee of the democratic party, thereby hazard- ing the election of that sterling democrat and tried states- man, Gen. Walbridge. Iam informed he has been writ- ten to by the friends of Mr. Buchanan to leave the field, as he stands no chance of an election, and is only dividing and distracting the party, and may thereby cause the election of a black republican. 1 am just this moment in- formed yam intimate friend of (ld Buck that he (Bu- chanan) preiers Gen. Walbridge should represent the Third district of your city, This is reliable, Mr. Sickles ‘will please, therefore, Jeave the ring. George P. Whiting, of this city, late Chief Clerk of the Department of the Interior, has been appointed Commis. sioner of Pensions, vice Judge Minot resigued. His ap- pointment has created considerable talk in that bureau, Moses Kelly, of New Hampsbire, late pay clerk, suc- ceeds Mr. Whiting as chief clerk. ‘Thomas H. Smith, Clerk under the Postmas‘er General, has been appointed Marshal for the Southern disirict of Obio, in place of Hiram H. Robinson, resigned, Mr. Smith leaves immediately for his post. Colonel James Riley, of Texas, baving resigned the Consulship at St. Petersburg, has just returned to Wash- ington. He bad an interview with the President to-day. Alter # month’s sojourn in Russia he found it to cold for ‘the health of Lis family. His successor has not yet been named. A. T. Horn, of Missouri, bus declined the Marshalship of Utah. Dr. J. M. Burwell, a young pbysician of high standing im Alexandria, Va., committed suicide, by cutting his hroat, yeste: da} Owing to the pressure of public ousiness {tis probable that the Preeident will decline the invitation to attend the Maryland fair. Interesting from Kansas TRE KANSAS FREE STATE CONVENTION. Toreka, Kansas, Oct. 16, ) via Sr Lovis, Oot. 22, 1856. f A Gelegate ‘ree State Convention was held here to-day, at which it wes decided not to bold an elestion for electors of President and Vice President, on the 4th of Novem. ber, on account of the disturbance and distress prevail- ‘wg throughout the State. A mass Convention is ca'led, to be beld at Big Springs, 09 the 28th instant, for the parpose of providing tor the election of @ delegate to Congress, the election of J. W. ‘Whitfield being repudiated by the settlers as based on the fraudwient awe of the bogus Legislature, An emigrant train of pearly three hundred persone ar. Fa Nebrasica, vuder the direction of all in five conaition andepirite. Chey were all arrested by the regular troops end brought io pri soners, but dircba: ged on arrival. ‘The Grand Jury are finding indictments against the Free State pritoners charged with murder, and the trial begins to-morrow. W.F. M. Arny, from the Netiooal Kansas Committee, arrived yesterday, to ascertain the condition of the sot- tere, and effect an arrangement with the State Central Committee {or mutual co-operation. Cmcaco, Oxt. 23, 1856. Advices from Lawrence, K. T.,t> the 14th inst., state that the emigrents arrested at Plymouth bad been re- leaned, and that Governor Geary bad ordered tnem to disperce or lenve the Territory. They retired to dilfe- rent settlements and claims, The arms found io their ‘Wagons were restored. ‘The Great Horse Exhibition at Boston. Bostox, Oot. 23, 1856. The horee show today was attended by at least 20,C00 persons, » great many of whom were ladies, The exhibition of roadsters, saddle borses and matched was very fine. ‘The great attraction was the trot In the afternoon be- tween Flora Temple and Lancet for $1,000. Flora woo the purse in three straight beats. The ume was poor, and the crowd hissed loudly when the time of last heat was apnounced. The following ts a sommary — Match for a premium of one thoneand doliars, mile heats, best three in five, io harness, lars to second horee. Mr, MeMann name: b ‘The $75 purse was taken by Mystery. To.morrow Ethan Allen and Hiram Drew go again for another purse of $1,000. Pocahontas, the fast pacing mare, has been fold to Reuben 8. Denny, of Leicester, Mascachusetts. Disaster to the Steamboat Hero. Provipmsce, Oct. 23, 1956, ‘The steamboat Hero, for Now York, with one hundred parwengers and « light freight, struck on @ rock off Nayatt inet evening. In atiempting to run to the shore she struck the Dolphin, and sunk in four feet of water, The passengers were taken off by the Perry, from Newport for Providence, this morning. The freight was saved un- injored. A steam pump has been taken down to free her irom water, At the last accounts she bad not been moved American Congressional Nomination, Trov, N. ¥., Oot. 28, 1866, Jobn J. Fonda, of Greenbush, was today nominated for Congress by the American County Convention. Governor Reeder at Easton Fastow, Ost 28, 1866, Govertor Reeder made an able and eioquent speech ia favor of the republicans Inst night at Masonic Hall, io a large and respectable audience. NDariog the speech the Governor took occasion to anewer certain charges of a personal nature made by General Moore, of Maine, at a lately. rreil, of Kansas, PRitavenema, Oot, 24, 1858, Hon. Jeremiah M. Burreil, Jusge of the Sepreme Court of Kansas Territory, died at Greensburg, few days since Markets. PUILADELPBIA STOCK BOARD. PRILAbRErAtA, Ost 28, 1854, Stocks heavy. Pennsylvania 6, 84; Reading Rall roe, 954: Long Iniona, 12; Morrit Canal, 137%; Pena syleania Railroad, 40°, AUMASY, Oct, 2210 A.M. Wheat— roail { cholee white Canadian at $1 $1 0%. Co ate. ot 66. 12 a 9) 26% two rowed at $1 18a quiet and held above the views of q 3,000 bushels white Canadian at now held at $1 53. Corn inastive. Ry = 626 Dusbels Canadian at 75340. Barley—Sales 8,: Canadian at $119. Canal ‘firmer. to-day :—1,961 barrels 15,000 bushels corn. freights . Lake ~-. 168,600 haat y K rc bushels corn, 10,006 Capi Jouy P. Hats, N. H.—This gentleman made a speech at Detroit, in his characteristic style, om the i8th instan\. speaking of the talk about cisunion, he said.— Have you read whig pspers? Then you have rayed to rescue the Union from the democrats. he men who have been your teachers—who have hel the offices while you did the voting. admit that this wash ebam all the time. They say a whig is is as good ass democrat now, This stuil of theirs is like an old thes- tre—they have played out all the old pieces, and nov they ask you to go behind the scenes, and see how thet “thing” worl Now see Richard UL. strut across tp der his 5 y strange heprre fancy you hear thunder Pshaw! I’te only some of the supes g On & tin pan. ‘Tom Marswat Recommesps 4 Fvsion.—Hon. Thomas F Marshall, of Kentucky, de!\vered a speech in Louisvillg on the 18th inst., in whic! 1c recommended a union @ The Richmond Whig wants to know. It says:— ‘When shall we have the proceedings of the great cor- vention of Sout Governors at sh? What we done—what was sai/—what was thought there? we ever know? Won’t ‘‘Gizzard Foot’’ open his = leigh? Are the z Enquirer in the secret? (2 80, out with it gentlemen, for it is obliged to come. ‘Tux Borper Rurrians ORGANIzIzG AGAIN.—At ® med¢- {pg held at Westport, Missouri, Sept. 18, » complete’c- were committees appointed for Alabama, Kentucky, Vr- ginia, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Missour!, Maw- land, Delaware, Florida, Tennessee, Arkausas, Loutsian ‘and Mississippi, to rective contributions in aid of thec- ganization, and resolutions were passed, that in defane of ** Yapkee guerillas and Lane’s banditti, they will map| claims ard occupy them.” The plan appears to be thr of military colonies, at convenient distances, “to afford mutual protection’? Tae Curvatrovs Brooxs.—The Wheeling, Virginia, J- i y » collection unpatriotic coadjutors. Let the Union men of the Sot) speak, and frown down ail snch infamous attempts: a en ee the South Carolina Mr. Bayxs w Inuxom—This gentleman has stumping it at Freeport and Mendota to large audiena, ‘with bis usual abihty. Frespox oF Orixiow —The Raleigh Standard, of Oct. (Buchavap) relates with great glee, that a Yankee bappened to be at a recent fair at Henderson, North Nima, having expressed bis political preference for mont, was threatened with « coat of ter and feathers arall. Not liking this domestic institution of the the Yakee wpmoored liko s semible man. The is getting very uncivil. Tae Rat CanpipaTe yor Goverxor.—The pri| Albany, knowing the facts set forth in the address of Printers of this city, in relation t> Erastas Brooks, of pla form, ceeds of the public lands among the States, and tern round, or their in Congress do woe a any ll of acres of the land cap give away the \bemselves | party humbug are the people of Virginia Se Seg est tare of che grees commen Send they There is certainly a good deal of humbug in South democratic abstractions. Tae Way Rnope Ietsxp m Gorvo.— An election was! im the new town of Fall River, R. 1, on the 2iet mnst., Senator, Representative to General Asvembiy, aad v officers, which resulted im the choice of all the Frea candidates. The following is the vote for Seastor. — Oliver Chace, ibiicas.... Charles T, Searle, Jr., democrat Fiuutwona's Skxricests —Mr. Yeadoa, editor of Charleston Cowrier, writes to that jourpal am accoo: ‘ap inter view with Mr. F }'more at Buialo, from whic! take the following extract. — i Fulmore’s own authority, from vhat | Agaipet repealing tbe Nebraska Kansas actor reste tbe Missouri comprom’ vine line; aod is Avy farther ‘agiation of cerion, 2047) toring barmony nnd giv that be and Buchanan atthe Non were. aghiieg other's baitle, ard were common war common enemy that were to poison Ede with the serpent and destructive element of p cal fee sotliem. How 10 Rise iy Pownes at tHe Sovtn —The South Demorrat, Of Ook. 22, thus ealogives one of the Boch: speakers ata receat meeting in Petorsourg —'Mr. 1 | gentleman entrusted with at least fine talents, acd | Will make good use of his lends and money, his cow men will do justice to him in giving bim what ist ‘han gold, the reward cf public estimation and bono: Mn. Bayks at Ciicaco —Om the evening of the Mr. Banks addressed the citizens of Chicago, aad Tiecker, the German. Twenty five thousand people present. Wirnprawat or Uxtren Statme Troors rnow Cas TOWN —Jelt. Davis baa recently been visiting the Na‘ Armory at Springfeld, to eee what its resources And now, the United States troops at Fort Mouitrid, pany H., let regiment of artillery, bare been with ‘end sent to the swamps of Florida. Stave IstcReecnion®.—The Richmond Baquiter, © 22d, has some remarks on slave ingurrections, an ‘serves There can be no dan; vecauive the Whites are more memerots tee fie ra Lay Penna ferme under the tupity for concerted action. Peesreie 5 ay The danger is least in oem, Teotion, not we. It Is cruel, then, for the South to desert ua at ov moat peed. Comors Frct.—At a recent public meeting et Mar ‘Texas, reported in the Harrison Flag of ot. 4, 5 McKay, one of the speakers, stated the fact, ant contradiction, ‘that Buchanan prosented thirty for] of the forty abolition petitions presented at the