The New York Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1856, Page 4

2 4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1856. EW YORK HERALD. |=" Stee —— SS Cede AAT. .......---neoeerere scoe sere Ge HS —_—_—_——— AMUSEMENT? THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, reurteeath st,~\rattaw Oras Be tovstons. Lay--- | @aRDEF, Broadway—Nicop' uvs—Ticur Bore mid THEATRE Gowery--Buoapway 1xp Bowsxt ‘Teavesrin—sarsey BaguR. BUSTON’S NEW THEATRE, Broadway. opposiie “on — a? Count—La Masa oi Savnita—Two @WaLLaAOK'® THEATER. Hroadway—Wire—Lsvsren. GHAMBERS ATREBT THEATRE, (aie Surion's)—Tus ym Bews—fsznsn's Vow—Husnand ar Sigur, SABNUM'S 4MGRICAN MUSEUM. Srosaway—After peen—Tow Tavuy—Hackwon s Conments—tveniaz—Dump, BROAUWAS VA KIRTYES, 67? Srusaway—Tan MismR oF Mansanics—fussino rae Tinie. NIBLO’S SALOON, ‘Beondway—TuaLserc’s Finest Com- maT LF AMERICA, Utauert « WOOO MINSTRELS, 444 Broneway Blmaruin Pexronassoneiiarry Max. BUCKLEY’: JERKNAOERN 886 Hrondway—BYMOPLAn Serer —De war or tae Dae Swine, Sew York, Monday, November 10, 1886. Og nd The News. The steamship Baltic, from Liverpool fer this port, is now in-her twelfth dey out. On the first page we publish a letter from our eorrespondext at London upon the new policy of Bogiand io Ceutrs! America, together wita the text of the convention between Great Britain and Hon- @uras providing for the extinction of the sovereign y of he sable King of Mosquito in that portion of Central America over which Hovdures claims ja wisdiction. This document completes the series of acts required for the settlement of those vexed qmestions which but recently threatened to disturb ‘the peace of the world, and opens the way for a.new order of things with reference to that portion ef the American continent. Upon this interesting tepic we have commented at some length in the editorial eolumns. We publish today a very full and interesting resumé of the affairs of Mexico for the laet four years. It shows the policy and measures of Santa Anna and all the governments which have euc- eeeded him. As Comonfort has adopted a line of policy in -reference to the threatened invasioz of Spain avd England which ia sure to involve the United States, the history of events, public and private, which we publish, is very important and deserving the consideration of all politicians aed iplomats. Read, and file away for referen:e. We have advices from Great Salt Lake City @eseret) to the Istalt. The smallpox had made its appearance, and was spreading rapidly, causing serious apprehensions of @ panic and consequest stampede among the inhabitants. With the excep. tion of this news the intelligence from the Territory is devoid of interest. We have received files of Halifax pepers to the 5th inst. The Sun says the telecraph line connect” img Newfoundland with. the american continent is mow completed and im operation. The distance from St. Jonns to the point where it connects with the Nova Scotia line is about six hundred m!’»s— from sspy Bay, Cape Breton, to Cape Ray ove, XN. F., being eighty-five miles. The tariff from Yat- month 10 Port-au-Basque is Ss. 11jd.; 10s. 841. to Bt. Johne; Trepasey, Harwor Grace, Carbenear, Xo , Ws. 4jd. A severe gale was recently experienced at Pictou, uring which maay vessels were wrecked, and othere driven ashore, with more or less da. 5 Another case of forgery has come to light; ei-vea checks om che Corn Exchange Bank, amoant ing altogether to $4510 78, amd purporting to have baeu signed by Mr. Kdwasd BM, have been proncunced-corgeries. Two cierke of Mr. Bill, named John. and Charles King, and a mao named S. D. Farmer, have been arrested, charged with sommitting tho offence. Fanner makes afiiavit that he reosived the checks from John M. King, pro- cured the cask for them, and handed it over to said King, who.<dmitted they were not genuine, but forged checks. .The prisoners, etter a preliminary examination on faturday, a report of which we give -eleewhere,.were aammitted to the Tembs to awaits durther investigation of the case. Eariy on Sanday morning a very disastrous fire ecourred at No. 39 -Narren street, occupied by Havi- land, Herra! & Risicy, wholesale druggists. The flames «pread with intense tary throughout the | building, and in a sbert time extended to the ad- _joming gtore, No. 37 Warren street, occupied by James WeCrury & Co, dry goods dealers. From thes: two. stores the fire extended to the stores Nox 37.en4 39 Murray street, cecupied on the first floor by Bopkaw & Co. These four fine buildings were ‘wtally destroyed, together with their contents; ether duilcings adjoining were more or leas dama- god. The total loss is essimated at upwards of five ‘hundred thousand dollar, A fall account of the tire willbe found eisewhore. Our correspondent at Torks Islands, writing on the 284) ult., states that recent storms kad done mach injozy to the salt works, bat that the dsmage nad been vepaired, and there was a plentiful supply ef salt for shipment at all the islands. Ameri- ean provisians were in request, as were also spirits and all kigtis of groceries. The weather was ase, and tbe islands very healthy. On Seturday the sales of coton embraced about 1,500 bales, closing with the tura of the market io favor of the-buyer, the prices still being considered too high in chic market to adfuré @ margin for ship- pers. Flour wus firmer and more active, with au advance im sowe cases an common grades of 5c. per Darrel higher. There was no tows in down the Hadeon river vnday or yesterday, hence the sales of grain wese very limited. Low grades of wheat were dull and easier, while prime to choice qu ulities were unchanged. Sales of corn were also light at Tite. tor Beutkem yellow, while Western mixed was at 70¢.a Tic. Prime North river rye sold at Abc. Pork was sold moderately at £20 per barrel for meas, Sagar ond coffee were quiet and witueat change of moment in prices. The catgo of ¢ffee offered at suction was moctly withdrawn, and the portion sold was rather common, and affoeded no correct eriten ion of the ve of the market. Flour fr-grhts +0 Liverpool were higher, with free engagementa Grain ranged from #4. a alk aud bags Gronck Peanopr ww T Mr. George Peabody, the gt the St, Nicholas Hotel on ~otury hax heen daly chronicled, and we proewme tut ine distin- galebed financier will Mave to go the with a severe course of dinner CT . Mr Peobudy baa improved # great dea! » ace he ar- rived in the United Staies, aud bur vealig bo- come quite a censible man, He was a good desl spaced in London by hie peachar! for no- bility, but{ais short tour im the United States Las rabted off,a good deal of thie neneense and robbed in some common sever. Now that the election ie af over, why wouldn't it be a good idea \o take upthe former proposition for a grand banquet to Mr.,cabody, in which all the great men of tie city should participate? Av tuere may be rome apprebeasion in Barope that the incoming adiministestion will cacry out the doc- trines of the Gatend Circular and che Cineienatt resoludions, @ danqnet afer the senbody style, with grea speeches from him and come of the Wall street magnates, might strengthen public confidence o@ both sides of ghe Atlantic, and per- j Pregreaame. Had Wiltiam H. Seward ‘joined Martin Van Buren im behalf of the election of Buchanan, Pennsylvaniamight have been carried by Fremont in spite of Fillmore. Even as it is, Mr. Bachacan hasnarrewbyescaped adefeat, But strongand swift asthe youngrace horseof the Rocky Mowntaias has shown himseli to be, the dead weight of both Fill- more and Seward was toomuch for him. All the world is wet aware of the fact that both Seward and Fillmore commenced their career as politicians with the humbug of anti- masonry, over the dead body of « counterfeit Morgan. For many years, after lapsing from anti-mesonry into anti-slavery, they both travel- led together, until Fillmore made the happy dis- covery that the same wagon was not large enough to hoki both Seward and Fillmore ; whereupoa the latter, as accidental President, like Captaia Tyler resolved to setup for himself, He accord- ingly sbandoned his early attachment to niggers, and took what maybe called “the Kentucky -boet” as an India rubber conservative upon the slavery question, Mr. Seward, meantime, thus left in occupation ef the field in New York, has kept on “the even tevor of his way” as the great anti-savery leader-of the North; but thoagh he has thus far contrived to hold fast to his seat ia the United States Senate, he has always been a draw- back to the Presidential candidate opposed to the democracy. In 1852 he defeated General Scott; in 1856 he has done all that he could do to divert the campaign from its real issues, to awar upon the South and its peculiar institutions, and upon the »lavehoiders, as a despotic class which it is the duty of a Northern majority to put down. The Philadelphia Republican Cenventioa, in setting aside Mr. Seward and all the candidates of his peeuliar seheol, did a good thing; in nomi- nating Fremont—a young, heroic and popular candidate, fresh from the ranks of the people— they did a beiter thing; but in failing to conduct the campaign, as in.1840, upon the exact issues of hostility to @ corrupt administration an party, they threw away the victory within their grasp. The campaign was diverted from the legitimate isaue of bostility to the extension of slavery into free Territory by bellot stuiting, Missouri inva- sions, and United Stetes troops, to. a general on- slaught upon Southern slavery, and Soatheru slaveholders as 2 class. In this work, the cam- paigning speeches ef Mr. Seward and his pecu- liar anti-slavery diseiples were about ae service- able to Fremont as were the Southern Bully Brooks festivals to Buchanan. The people of the North are still a coss:rva- tive people—they still consider the Seuth an important part of ear common country, and Sonthern slaveholdere-2 part of the same gom- mon political family. They cannot be drawn into a war against the-South as a.hostile section, nor against the sleveholders as a hostile class. But, on the other hand, the cooserrative people of the North understand the distiaction between Southern rights and the despotic ag- gressions of a corrupt «sdministration —betveen the South as a section and the democracy asa cocrupt party—between sleveholders as a part of our. common political family, and plotting seees- siowists as the leaders of a gang of reckless rule or ruin spoilsmen. But these nice distinctions have been covered up by Mr. Sewaid and his pe- culiar disciples, and in the late campaign they: have done a world of mischief in foliowing the lead of Fillmore, Wise, the. Chcvalier Brooks and. others of the democratic disunion school, in making the election a contest between Southera fire-eaters and Northern abalitioniste, The sound antecedents, the impregnable netioaal principles of Fremont, and his wonderful persozal populari- ty, have afl but wou the day, in spite of these drawbacks of bis Sewardite supporters. It is still a nice questioa, however, whether the pecu- liar support of Seward or the peculiar hostility of Fillmore has done most to arrest an over- whelming triumph by the republican nominee. In this view of the subject, we must confess to some little surprise at the objections of our Wall street cotemporary—the Courier and Enquirer—to the nomination of Fremont for 1460. It is sur- prising to us that the emphatic lessons suggested in the results of this late election should fail to teach even the oldest old fogy the true policy of the republican party for the next great battle. How else are the anti-deiocratic forces of the North to be consolidated in 1860, exeept upon the platform of hostilty to the bad measures of a demoeratic dynasty and the corrupt and deimo- ralizing eohemes of the democratic party? And what other candidate so available for this policy os Fremont, whose speed and bottom have asto- nished bie ds no less than his enemies? We know that Colonel Fremont was permitted to be brought forward in 1856 merely az a snow plough to clear the track for Seward ; but, like Jackson in 1824, or like Harrison in 1536, Fremont las done so well on bis first trial that he deserves in another trial to reap himself the full benefits of the work which he has achieved. We kaow that the Seward faction did not count upon elect- ing Fremont in 56. His defeat answers their purpose, if they can supplant him in 1860: but this must not be allowed. Under Fillmore via election in the South has gone by default. Un- der Fremont in 1460, the opposition may put the democracy to their trumps, even in the Old Do- miaion. Lt Fillmore and Seward retire. Pouca, Sacacrry.—When the New York Herat firet took up the cause of Fremont, the movement was considered a hoax: It was one of Bennett's emusing and funny caprices to at- tract attention, The idea of the Iixrann going for Fremont, without a party, and against two vuch old campaigners ss Fillmore and Bachanan, was so very ridiculous that the democracy chuckled over it as the best joke of the season. The joke waa particularly refreshing, after the Titraty had taken 60 much trouble to prove to the democracy that Mr. Buchanan was their only mon that could possibly carry Pennsylvania. A week or two after Fremont’s nomination it began to be visible to the naked eye that the Henarp was in earnest; and then it was discovered that Maripora had done the business, and that Ben- nett had been bonght up, at various prices, rang- ing from one hnndred thousaad to five hundred thousand dollars in California gold. With the Maine election, the democracy made the further discovery that Fremont was running like a whirl- wind, and that if they did not look particularly ebarp, and bring all their batteries to bear, he | would certainly be elected. Now that the elec- tion is over, they discover, after the most prodi- gious efforte were made by a desperate and un- scrupulous party, and with all the aid afforded by Fillmore, that Mr. Bachanan is saved by about # dozen electoral votes, Our democratic politi- hape send etocke up. Bo it would be « paying | ciane are pow astonished at our political saga- operation all zouzd. Wall street could rave the } city, ae old fogies generally are at an indepen- conptry und pyt @ baudeome penny in jts poole! | dent common sense view of the political field, BA ile cal Le, | ud of the signa in the pylition hosiaga, Affaire of Mextco—The Spantesh ‘Movement Against that Republic and ‘the Counter Movement on Cuba. We publish to-day a complete, intelligible and highly interesting condensation of the great po- litical and eoeial events that have taken plece in our sister republic of Mexioo since the overthrow of President Arista’s government in the begianing of 1853; and 'the consequent re-eccession te power of Santa Anna. This r’swm/ of history act only applies to the past three or four years, but it isa perfect type and sample of the conrse of Mexiean events for the last thirty years—since it severed its connection with the mother . country and became an independent nation. Changes, few-or none for the better, have succeeded each other as rapidly as the different scenes of a pau- omme, and ouly serve to impress the attentive beerver with a sense of the pucrility aad incapa- city-of a people who cannot maintain 2 settled government for more than a few moaths at a time. Casting a glance backward as far as January, 1853, we confese to being unable, without some consideration, to say ‘how many rulers Mexico bas had between that and the present time We-can recapitulate them, however. There was President Arista, against whose government a suocessful revolution was carried on. Ele abdi cated, depositing the reins cf government in the hands of Ceballos. Ina few months Santa Ana cumes along, and is hailed as the President of the people’s choice. By and bye he developes impe- cial aspirations, and assumes the powersof a dic- tator. But he sooa—that is, in two and a half years—reached the end of his dictatorial tenure of office, and, once more an exile, left pewer in thebands of a triumvirate. They believed, how- ever, in the principle of the “ one man power,” and elevated Carrera to the Presidency. Carrera remained in his high position just one month, and then, sickened, disgusted and disheartened, he too signed the act of abdication, and left the management of affairs to De la Vega. De la Vega. governing the district and city of Mexice until the wishes of Alvarez and the leaders of the re- volution. should be manifested, got into a conflict with a subordinate officer and resigned his post. The garrison supported De ke Vege, and induced him to resume hie high command. Alvarez appointed a successor to him; but he declined to recognise that appoint- meat, and chose rather to surrender his office into the bends of another officer, Gen. Conde. This was an interregnum—for De la Vega and the others did not affect the Presidency, but merely the government of the department. Then the’ revolutionary chiefs met at Cuernavaca snd elected Alvarez tothe Presidency. Alvarez held the post for a couple of months, and surrendered. it to Comonfort as President substitute. In Comonfort’s hands power still remains, if he has not been overthrown by a new revolution since the date of our last intelligence from Mexico. So much for the shiftings on the Presi- dential stage of Mexico within the last four years, The principal feature of Comonfort’s ad- ministration has been the passage and partial execution of a law known as the church peoperty, or desamoertization law. This law was formulated by the Minister of Fi- nance, Senor Lerdo de Tejada—an able statistical writer of Messico—and was passed by a very large majority in Gongress. The effeet.of it is to di- vest the churah and other civil corporations of be fee simple in rea] estate—covering something ike one-third of the republic—and invest itin the enante, occupants or other purchasers. The the- ory of it we have explained in the article referred 0. It is identical, we believe, witk .a similar movement made in Spain, but whick has been here put a stop te-since the accession io power of the Narvaez Ministry and the Christina clique. This law does not,.as too many suppose, preju- dice the moral ané religious interest of the church. It was not.eonceived in that light. On the contrary, it hae received the tacit, if not express, sanction of the real active working clergy—because it is a law which in its operation must have a_ highly beneficial influencé on the whole commuuity. The necossity for it arése frem the fact thet so long as geal estate, particularly in the cities, re- mained in the hands of church corporations, no improvement was or could be made on it. They rented it ata Jow rate, but would not improve it, as it would be improved if in the hands of pri- vate parties. We have an iMastration of thie in the city of New York, where we find that the property of the Trinity chuseh corporation is the most backward of any in point of improv: ment.! They give long leases at cheap rents, bu: will not sell or dispose of the title. It was pre- cisely to mect this diffeulty in Mexico—a serious one there, for the church owned mere than half the buildings in the capital—that the law w passed to force the sale of property. The g> verpment only derives from the movement fiv: per cent on the sales ; the remainder of the pur- chase goes, as we understand it, to the treasuries of the proprietary communities, who are prohibited from investing it in real estate. The law has proved to be very popular. We think, however, that the measure was by far too moderate, and that the government should have confiscated the whole or half of the church pro perty to the good of the nation, and with the proceeds discharged the national debt and estab- lished the government on a solid, enduring basis While this social movement has been exciting the attention of Mexicans, they have also been kept in hot water by revolutionists in various parts of the country. It appears to us that Mex- ico, like the United States, suffers under « ple thora of distinguished men. The only ditference is that while here they strive to attract notice by spouting at mase meetings and in legislative as- eemblies, there they collect a handful of men apd make what they call a pronunciamento, These gentlemen have kept Comonfort's hands quite full; but for so far he has been able to keep them down. The only serious difficulty he has is with Videurri, a gentleman who has long fostered the idea of a Sierra Madre republic. Bat now that Mexico is menaced by external foes, now that Spain is meditating a descent on Vera Orvz, and England is murmuring threats abont satiefaction for outrage to one of her citizens, it isto be euppoeed that all these revolutionary chiefs will shake hands all round, forget for the while their partioular grievances, and unite their hands for the common protection of the natton. After the danger is averted they can renew their pronunciamentos and go te work cutting each other's throate again. As we mentioned in an article last week, there are at preeent a number of distinguished Mexicans in this city—moetly exiled by Comonfort’s gov- ernment. At first they plotted and operated with the monks against Oomonfort; now they are co- op rating with Comontort against the common twp The progrowmmne is 19 got wp, by the aid of New York capitalists and others, a strong filibes- tering army of observation on the Rio Grande, and the moment that Spain makes a descent on Mexico carry the war into Africa, and with this Rio Grande army make a-descont on Cuba. Kt is a well conceived stroke of policy, and promises success, As it would inevitably involve this country and make us the allies of Mexico, we are vitally intere-ted at this moment in all that con- cerns that repoblic, and therefore the history which we give our readers to-day comes very opportune, Stirring times are approaching. Look out for Mexico! , The Convention Between Great Britain and Honduras Relative to-the Mosquito ‘{ndi- ans, &e. We sometime ago laid before our readers a copy of the convention - entered into between Great Britain and Honduras for the restoration of the Bay Islands, in the ‘Bay of Honduras, to the latter republic. As, previously, Great Bri- tain had conceded to the inhabitants of those islands certain rights and privileges, she could not do Jess than stipulate ‘that they should coo- tinue to enjoy them under their new relationship She nevertheless fully and fairly divested hersel! of all the powers which had been reserved to the crown, in favor of Hondaras ; thus removing the first great and the most serious difficulty in the Central American complication. So long as sie held those islands, the Clayton and Bulwer tr was reduced to anullity, both in letter and spirit, and it was idle to talk of afree and undominated route of transit between the oceans. Having, however tardily, made up her mind to respect that treaty and conform to its provisions. the logical consequence of the rendition of ber sovereignty over the Bay Isiands would be to di- vest herself of the assumed protectorate over the savages on the Mosquito shore—a consequence from which the English Cabinet has not shruak, as will be seen by the terms of a second conven- tion between Great Britain and Honduras, which we print in another column. It was of course beyond the competence of Lord Clarendon and the Honduras Minister to enter into stipulations affecting the Indians falling within the territo- rial limits of Nicaragua. Bat there can be no doubt that Great Britain is equally ready to treat with that State on the same principle embodied in her convention with Honduras. It will be seen that Great Britain recognises the territorial limits of Honduras, in their fullest ex- tent, to the frontier formed by the Rio Wanx or Segovia, as against any Mosquito pretensions to severeignty. She merely stipulates that a mixed commission ehall determine if any Mos quito Indians fall within the recognised limits of Honduras; and if so, that this commission shall fix upon some reasonable annuity, for a limited period, to be paid to them ia extinguishment of their possessory righta, These stipulations are only in the interest of humanity, and conform to the principles which the United States has always adopted in treating with the Indian tribes falling within its territories. The convention has also some provisions for the adjustment of whatever claims British sub- jects may have on Honduras by arbitration; but these have no interest except to tue parties themeelvee. It need only be said of them that they seem fair and just, and evince a liberal and friendly policy on the part of Great Britain towards2 State which, hitherto, has beer spe- cially worried and abused by the Chatfields and McDonalde, and such like “small deer” offi- cials, No doubt this change of policy will serve o revive English influence both in Honduras end the adjacent States, as well as to promote the in- terests of English trade. Altogether these conventions evince a notable change in the policy of Great Britain in Central America. The idea of obtaining control of the Isthmus, and consequent command of the transi: between the seas, which, at one time, lay at the bottom of English policy, has now been aban- doned. It bas been found that Nicaragua is one only of a number of practicable routes of com- munication, and that ite possession would not give that exclusive contrel which alone would be worth baving, in a political and commercial sense, Hence it is alike to the interest of Gre Britain and the world to have all the routes opened on terme of the largest liberality, so that it shall not be in the power of any single nation to poesess itself of the key of the continen', or shut up the inter-oceanic highway. To this end, we are not surprised in finding Great Britain get- ting rid, as rapidly as possible, of the embarass- ments entailed by her former policy. Nor are we surprised to find her extending to the proposed Honduras railway her guarantee of protection and the influence of ber government. She evi- dently believes, in common with many of the best informed authorities on the subject, that Honduras offers the greatest facilities for an ade- quate and permanent inter-oceanic communica- tion. It ie, therefore, clearly to her interest to have it placed under such auspices and guaran- tees a6 shall prevent it coming under the control of adventurers, national or individual, whereby its freedom might be interrupted or its safety endangered. Indeed, it appears that throughout the pro- pored railway has been the basis of the recent ne- gotiations, “ Taking into consideration the pecu- liar topographical position of Honduras, and in order to secure the neutrality of the islands adja- cent thereto, with reference to a railway, etc, which may be constructed across her territories,” therefore Great Britain withdrew from the Buy Islands. The act was a tribute to the principle of a free transit for all the world, undominated | 9 any Power and secure from internal disturbance and exterior aggression. In this policy Eagland bas been followed by France, and sooner or later will be supported by every other commercial na- tion. The importance of the adoption of this policy, in which England has taken the lead, may well be enforced by the condition of things ac Panema and Nicaragua. Had it been adopted by the leading commercial Powers at an earlier period, it is probable that the Nicaragua Transit Company would have been obliged to pursue a course entirely the reverse of that which ended, and justly, in its destruction. Affairs at Panama would never have taken that unfogtunate tarn which has reeulted in one dreadful massacre, and which every day threatens another ggore tearible, We hail, therefore, with satisfactiou, the new line of conduct which England has marked out in Central America. The moral sense of nations will no longer be shocked by her insisting on pre- tensions as ridiculous as criminal ; nor will they longer attribute to ber designs which, if carcid out, must interfere with the freedom of transit and of trade. On the contrary, they will now look to ber as a leader in putting the question of inter-oceanic communication on that broad and liberal basis which alone cau give permanence and seeurity to the great interests which are in- yolved--a reev.t as honorable to ber ae fortunate for the world. © Joun;M. Borrs ayn rae Kina ov rae Kit- 12r8—A notorious political character in Phila- de)pbia named Bill McMullen, but more generally known by his soubriquet of “ King of the Killers,” assisted on the day before the last election in getting up astory of an attempt to bribe that incorruptible -patriot—himself—by a gift of $1,000 in hand, a deposit of $5,000 in bank, apd 2 place under the Fremont administration. The persons whom he charged with having at- tempted to corrupt him were Mr. Plumley, a reepectable Quaker merchant of that city, and Mr. Butler, a copperplate printer. The bargain was only carried out to the extent of Mr. Plumley giving Mr. McMullen $475, whereupon the last named individual proceeded to the District At- torney, gave him the money, minus $50, and had measures taken to punish Plumley and Butler or a conspiracy. Our correspondent, in tele- graphing us the facts of the case, mentioned that t involved Truman Smith, of Connecticut; Col. Ford, of Ohio, and a Mr. Botts—supposed to be Jobn M. From this latter gentleman we have re- ceived the following card :— Ricumoxn, Nov. 6, 1858, lo Jawms Gorpoy Buwrerr, Eeq., EpmoR oF Tite New 'Youk’ HERALD: — ip the Hexarp of the 4th I bave seeu that your Phila ¢). Dia correspondent turaishes an account of a rather wecre*)table transaction, charged by one Billy MoMutten, as having occurred beiween biroself oo the tirst part, apo B certain Wiliam Ruch Plumley or Piumdey, « re rpectable Quaker merebant, and Jobn M. Butler, cop: perplate prinier, on the second part, relative 10 the pur- chare Of yous fir Mr, Fremont, jor wach the sum of $000 was to de advanced und & Port Offlee xeourea to we sforesaid Billy Moilalien; ond your correspoadent covcludes vy fraying, * fhe cake involves Truman Smivh, of Convectieut; Cot Ford of Obio: and a Mr. Botts-—eup pored to be John 4”? Now, as I have pct been in Phila celphis, orp to pass through, on my way to New | York, tince the memorable Taylor Convention, in 181», +o a8 I have had no correspondevoe with any one fu re vation to thw audject. and as I never before beard of the raiaMr. Billy MeN a, nor of the respectable Quaker merebant, Mr. Pluuley, or Prundey, (for it ia xpelt one woy ip the letter and’ the other in the appended card, ) ror of the copperplate printer, Mr. Butler, { hope your correrpondeat will gratify the laudabie and natural curiosity of my friends avd myself by sisting in what mapper, by whal povees, and under what circumstauces © has been connected with this interesting and dabie: transaction, ever noen or heard of apy of the parties before, pasion in the affair would only have been, by ig the supplies, and if that is established, or strongly susp cled, as the bargain has pot been carried out in good taith by the contumacious Billy, I shal! look for a speedy retarn of the funds. If nuy testimony should be wanted, I dere say there are democrats witbin lees than a thousand miles of tnis place, who would be ready to make oa:h that! was the regularly isbed and authorize 1 agent of the olican party to negotiate for votes, cither with private or public offices, as might be most expecient. But, to be more serious, Mr. Editor, whilst I do not care beudee for this outrage upon my name, which is 100 ridiculous perbaps even to notice, yet I shail be per. tectly content to overlook the indigeretion of your corr. s- popdent in associating the names ot any gentlemen with fucb aD affair, upon no better authorisy Ban coud ve existed in this case, if be will only inform the public, in bis next letter, what the circumstances were fed to the statement. 1 aa, reapmctfully JOuN (OHN M. BOTTS. Our correspondent feels much pleasure in gra- tifying the laudable curiosity of Mr. Botts and his triends a8 to the manner in which his mame hap- pened to be copnected with this story about Bill McMullen and the respectable Quaker. On ar- riving in Philadelphia late on the evening of the 3d, one of the first pieces of intelligence that met bis ears was that of the discovery of “black re- publican frauds” and of a “wholesale attempt to corrupt the free and independent vote of Penn- sylvania.”” He immediately proceeded to the office of the Pennsylvanian, where he understood he could ascertain all the facts, and was there furnished very kindly with slips of the affidavits and depo- sitions of MeMullen and the principal witnesses. The story of the former was that while he wasin negotiation with Plumley, Plumley was in cor- respondence with the Republican Committee, and particularly—as he “understood—with Truman Smith, Colonel Ford and Mr. Botta. The whole story appeared to our correspondent to be so bung- lingly got up and so full of glaring improbabili- ties that he gave no credence to it, but still did not feel at liberty to suppress the statement. We hope Mr. Botts is satisfied with the explanation. Mis-sent Lerrers—Apvice to Commercrat Mey.—Fer the last six months we have been in the habit of publishing lists of the postal waifs, which, through carelessness on the part of the persons addressing them, have found their way into that epistolary bourne—the Dead Letter Office. For a while we remarked that this prac- tice appeared to have diminished their number. The long list which we publish to-day shows that we were mistaken in the hope that it would have the effect of inducing greater attention om the part of commercial correspondents, This is the more inexcusable, seeing the inconveniences and perplexities to which negligence in such matters occasionally give riae. A case which came to our knowledge a short time since will serve to illustrate the annoyances which may be occasioned by these casualties, ‘The corresponding clerk of a large Philadelphia house had occasion to direct to a firm in this city a letter containing an enclosure to the amount of about two thousand dollars, In the hurry of business he inadvertently addressed it to New Orleane, intended for New York. The letter not coming to hand, the young man was of course placed in a very awkward predicament, and, being of a highly honorable and sensitive nature, he resigned bis situation sooner than contiaue to live under the idea that the sus picions of his employers were fixed upon him. It is needless for us to add that the abandonment of his position did not bring peace to his mind, and that he was rendered most un- happy by the mystery attending the loss of the money. At the expiration of about twelve months his late employers received a communi- cation from the Philadelphia Postmaster, inform- ing them that the letter, with its valuable enclo- sure, were lying in the Dead Letter Office, and that they could have them on signing the usual receipt. Thus through an error in the prescrip- tion, which would have been avoided by a little care, the money had travelled to New Orleans, where it had lain for some time, had thence been transferred to the general Post Office in Washing- ton, and from there had found its way back into the hands of the parties by whom it had beea origineliy sent. The consequences of all this were first a failure in the fulfilment of a money engagement—than which nothing can be more apnoying or dangerous to a commercial house— tecondly, disappointment and inconvenience to he parties for whom the money was destined, snd thirdly the loss of his character and situation to a young man on whose integrity there never had previously been the slightest blemish. ‘These facts should operate as @ caution to cor- espondents—but more especially to those who have weighty interests entrusted to their care, No burry or pressure of business can excuse care- lesencee in a matter of this sort. By having an address book lying beside him, properly posted up, a clerk will spare hinaself and his employers tbe consequenees of errors occasioned by the dislike of trouble or a defective memory. There is nothing, in fact, in which @ man’s memory should be so much distrusted as in this matter of addresses, There are but few commercial corres- pondents who are able to convey correctly in theit minds the names and directions of the mul- titade of pereons with whom they are daily called upon to commpupigate, By attention to the sim- ple preeantion we have suggested they will save" themselves, their employers and the Post Office a world of trouble. i ai Re-orentné or THE Orena.—It is officially announced that the Academy will open this. evening, under the La Grange management, for an operatic season of six weeks, It is further stated that Max Maretzek—the quarrel with the stockholders not having been compromised— will not conduct the orchestra, but that the place: he bas eo long and so well filled will be tempora- rily oceupied by Mr. Kreutzer. This affair is the result of some lively skirmishing in the papers and eleewhere, in whieh Maretzek and the Diree- tors have made some jokes about each other, much to the amusement of the public. This fun was all very well during the recess of the Opera, but now that it will apparently be a very serious deprivation to the public, it becomes a matter of grave consequence. There can be no question that the proper course to pursue uuder such cir cumstances would be to cast all these old matters aside—to leave joking and poking fun—and go to: work at romething more practical and business like, Sensible men always do so, but nincompoops generally pick up such jokes, twist then, and turn them, and re-hash them, drawing inferences and deducing conclusions never dreamed of before, until the result of a light word or .wo, is importaxt and disastrous to all parties, The coup d’état of Max Maretaek in securing a lease of the Academy of Music, and then, for sundry weighty reasons, throwing it back upon the owners in his celebrated speech before the curtain, has reached this point in its natural history. The farce at which the town laughed, has become a serious drama, over which the town is sad. Sensible peoplejwant the Opera with all its excellencies—with its ableet expo- nents in every department. and without any of the humbug quarrels engendered behind the scenes, and fostered by fabitues of the oyster cellars. In the progress of the ridiculous imbro- glio between Max Maretzck and the stockholders we have reached the point where the public de- mands a good Opera in every sense of the word, with no further nonsense about negotiations, quarrels, apologies, speeches and personal allu- sions, on either side. Mr. Phalen is a very sensi- ble, discreet business man, but he made a mis take when he condescended to reply to the im- pertinent nonsense of a number of small musical critice. If Maretzek is a man of sense, and has also made a mistake, he will not decline to make a suitable acknowledgment of hiserror. If the proprietors and managers of the Academy of Music are men of sense, they never will ask for apy apology for a hasty remark made under ex- citing circumstances. Both Maretzek and the: managers may rest assured that no one cares for their personal quarrels; and as such matters are only of consequence when they excite public in- terest or win public sympathy for one side or- the other, we presume that the present matter will be settled. At any rate, all that we desire is a good Opera, without any more nonsense from anybody, and we hope that all parties will come to the conclusion to bury the hatchet, and work together for the consummation of this desirable result. The man who has been the greatest sufferer by the whole affair is poor Mr. Ullman, who has been assailed and beaten by some cowardly fiend, who should be at once caged and punished to the full extent of the law. Wuo Saati se Our Usiren States Sena- ToR?—No doubt a good many of our old fogy caucus and convention politicians consider the naming of the editors of the five principal daily Fremont journals of New York city for the ap- proaching New York vacancy in the United States Senate, as a very good joke. But why should not Horace Greeley, James Watson Webb, William C. Bryant, Henry J. Raymond, or James . Gordon Bennett be considered as available for the United States Senate as any professional caucus-monger in the State? We dare say that the five daily journals under the editorial manage- ment of there five men have done more for the cause of Fremont than any five hundred stampers and caucus managers in the country. It has been too much the custom in the United States, as in England, to consider newspaper editors ag the mere slaves—the “hewers of wood and. drawers of water”—of managing and trading politicians, But of late we have discovered some symptoms of a change in this respect; and before long our political managers, like those of France, will begin to recognize the influence and the rights of the editorial profession. Politi- cians among us are beginning to acknowledge our independent newspaper press as the third- estate in the government, and their next step should be to admit the editorial corps to some: share in the honors and emoluments resulting from their labora, In this view we nominate Mesers. Greeley, Bryant, Raymond, Webb and- Bennett for the United States Senate, and leave the issue with the Fremont Legislatare at Albany. We should not object to a tilt with: Seward at Washington on the nigger question, THE LATEST NEWS... BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ‘The Southern Mail. Bartiaons, Nov, 9, 1856. ‘The New Orleans mail of Sunday last is received, leav- ing one mail still due, ‘The Governors of ‘and South Caroline ba: pouted the Sou tan. tor teaanagiving. ay os Sudden Death uf a Bostonian. Borrox, Nov. 9, 1856. George H. Briggs, a prominest book publisher of the as" bis store last evening, from hemorrbage of Movements of Southern Steamers. THE ENOXVILLE AT SAVANNAH. Savanman, Nov. 8, 1866, ‘The United Mates mail rteamahip Knoxville arriv > here this morning, from New York. _ ‘HE MARION AT CHARLESTON. Foster, from New York, arrived here this (caturtay) morning at 8 o'clock. ie 5 ‘Wool—The market is with fully sustained j; sales 78,900 pounds, Printing clothe—Prices Hi i ##3 Py ty gs f {