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

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She arrived at Gloucester, Mase., on the 4th instaut, with loss of bow-spci:, forward bal- warks, Xe. @ur correspandente and diles from the city of Mexico are to the 20th of October, and contain » ome very interesting news. General Morena repor. that the revointionists at Puebla had been vanquished. Phe sale of charch property progressed daily. Comonfort was still popular. Hon. Mr. Forsyth, United States Minister, had been presente? to the President, and some flattering official addresses were exchavged on the o-casion. The prospec’ of drain- feg the Valley of Mexico was still encoaraged by the government 3 scientific exploring expedition was also sent to the eame quarter. Political agita- tion was rife all over the land. The Italian Opera bas been encouraged. Late accounts from Tampic» eontradict the report that Canales had gone over to ‘Videorr. We have news from Buenos Ayres ap to the 27th of September, Much uneasiness prevailed bo\y on tbe Northern and Southern frontiers. The Indique bad retired from the North with large booty, and auether incursion was locked for. A body of vegular troops had marched for Azul, ia the Soath, unéer command of Ceneral Escalada. The Senate had authorized the creaticn of public funds to the amount of ten millions of dollars, in order to supply a deficiency fm the Treasury, and Senor Gregorio Le- gama offered to take it all at 50 percent. Government swas also authorized to sell one hundred leagues of Jand cn the Salado. Juan Lopez had been elected Governer of Santa Fe. Geoerais Lagos and Bustos, foiled in a plan for the invasion of Buenos Ayres, had retreated to Entre Rios; but it was feared that Flores would act with the Northern Indians. Rosario had been visited by a dreadful hurricane. George Ford, an American, was fonnd dead near Buenoe Ayres, and it was thought he had beea murdered. ‘The Indians had defeated the government army near Portin de Mercedes. We have files from Rio Janeiro to the 34 alt., bot they contain nothing of importance, Our files from Bermuda ace to the Sth inst. Tae Bermudion of that day says:—We regret that we have to report several new cases of fever, which bave shown themre!ves within the last flve days. Gndeed, it would seem toa® this dread malady hed taken a fresh start in the central parishes. Pem- tenke, Devonshire, Paget and Southampton are badly scourged. St. Georges, Somerset and War wick parishes are «'most free from disease. The British sbip « it Vestal, after obtaining a supply of provisions and water, and receiving on board some invalids, had sailed for England. The Board of Connty Canvassers met yesterday, a@ttweire o'clock, pursacat to agjourameat--Alder- man Ely in the chair. There were but four mem- hers present, and efter canvassing the Third and Bleventh wards they adjourned. This leaves thir- teen wards to be canvassed, which will ccoupy a meek or ten days. The Central Republicen Association of Brooklyn, E.D., met last n at the Odeon, Thomas W. Field, Esq, in the chair. There wasa very respect able attendance. A report of the operations of the Association dor'ng the late campaign was pre mented and accepted, and the continaance of the or- ganization resolved upon. There was more activity in cotton yesterday while prices were quite steady. The sales reached about 3,000 bales, inclading parcel for export, Flonr was heavy, and closed at a decline of about 5 | cents per barrel. Wheat fell off abou: 2s. Jc. per washel, and was quite active at the deline, with cou siderable purchases for export. The receipts of corn were light and the eales moderate, at firmer prices. Western mixed brought 6%. a 70¢, and Boathern yellow Tic. Rye sold at S40. Pork was dall, and closed at about $15 50 for mess, and at $17 50 for prime. Drested hogs sold at 7jc. Su gars Were quite steady, with sales of 350 hhde, and 600 boxes No. 9) at prices given in another column. Coffee was stewly, with sales of 1,000 bags of Rio. Rates of freighte for Noglish ports were firm, with flour to Liverpool at 2s. and grain ot 9)d.a 10d. and some lots were reported in the forenoon as high #8 1094. in chip's bags. To London and Giasgow rates were firm, with fair engagements at fuil rates, ‘We hawe some particalars of the conflagration at ‘Three Rivers, Canada East, on Saturday night. About one-half of the business portion of the town wan conmmed, The amount of property destroyed {e catimated at one hundred thousand pounds sver- lng The Board of Aldermen bad 9 lithlg skirmish last NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1856. 5 evening, on the minority repert of Alderman McConkey, reapecting the alleged corruption in the Contrad &meortoan Affairs. It is not eazy to discover the truth about Cen- Department ¢f Repairs and Supplies, and the Beau- | tral America, amid the stories which reach u* reaa of Public Buildings. A desperate effort was | from thence; but it scems probable, in general made to stave eff the whole matter until January | next, which, after a debate, proved successful, and wnlees the Grand Jury take cogmizance of the charges, as was suggested; the subject will probably romain ia statu quo until 1857. In the Board of Councilmen a communication was reeeived from the Union Ferry Company, pro- pesing to bid for the lease of the Gouverneur stroet ferry if the city will appropriate the whole of the slip at the foot of that street tor ferry purposes, and permit the company to withdrew their boats from the Roosevelt street ferry. The subject was referred to the appropriate committee. Inthe Court of General Sessions, yesterday, Mr. Samuel Jackson was tried upon a charge of grand” larceny, in stealing a box of satins from Mr. Joseph Scheuer. The jury, after a brief consultation, rendered a verdict of guilty. Semteace was de- ferred, The case has created comsiderable interest in comeequence of the high respectability of the family and social connections of the accused. Mr. Wilson, Alderman elect for the First ward, was yesterday put under three thousand dollars bouds ta answer the charge of participating in the disturbances on election day. There is a very important case now pending be- fore the United States Circuit Coart--or rather two motione to the same effect, namely: for an injunction to restrain the corporation of the proposed bridge across the Hudson river at Albany from proceeding with the work. A number of interestiag state- ments of the capacity of the river for navigation by large vessels, the amount of tonnage and the trans- portation of buats between Albany, Troy and other cities, have been laid before the Court, te sustain the arguments of the applicanta for the injuaction. Poor Pierce’s Last Message to Congress the Laat Card of the Nalittiers Our Southern democratic nullifiers, under the lead of Jefferson Davis, have hit upon a happy expedient for reducing Mr. Buchauan to a capi- talation. According to our special despatch from Washington, in another columa, the last.2a- nual message ef poor Pierce to Congress is to be the manifesto of these Southern nullifiers, of peace or war. Our correspondent in the premises informe u- that, under the direction of Jefferson Davis and his. good man Friday—Caleb Cushing—poor Pierce is preparing bis last annual message with two special objects in view—first, a vindication of the foreign and domestic policyof poor Pierce, especially hie policy of fering slave y upon Kansas by fire and sword; and, seoondly, 2 la- bored argument to show that in the election of @r. Buchanan the American people have decreed that the Kansas policy of poor Pierce shall bt Kaneas policy of his successor. In thus tall- ing the inangnra) of Mr. Buchanan, it seems that Jefferson Davis and his disunion confederates confidently count upon heading off the President elect, as Mr. Botts once upon atime attempted tohead off Captain Tyler. Mr. Davis ne doubs expects that the democracy of the two houses of Congress will show 2 pro- per sense of respect and genevosity to the last annual Message of poor Pierce; and that in this way the peculiar views of Mr. Davis, thrust into Pierce's last will and testameat, may receive such a democratic endorsement as will at cace frighten Mr. Buchanan into submission. We camot promise, however, that this last card of our Southern nullifiers will win the game. There are some very serious obstructions in the track of these pul first place, Mc. Pierce, elected by an upprecedented electoral and popular majority, has reduced the democra- tic party to a sickly minority party, upon its last lege. Never basa party fought more with the energy and recklessness of despair than the terri- fied democracy in this late election; and its suc- cess is, after all, not the result of its own strength . In the or unity, but in consequence of the ridiculoas outside Fillmore movement of the opposition forces. It was not the democracy—it was Mr. Fillmore, that defeated the election of Fremont. Otherwise, had Fillmore been oxt of the way, as is truly suggested by the Charleston Mercury, every Northern State would have been carried by Fremont. As it is, notwithstanding the weak. ness of Fillmore in the South, and his weake ing influence upon the Fremont movement in se- vera) States of the North, Mr. Buchanan is elect- ed with a popular majority of the whole Union egainst him of upwards of three hundred thoa- sand votes—a thing unparalleled in the history of the country. It is idle, then, for Mr, Jefferson Davis to pleal, through poor Pierce's last annual message, that the American people have endorsed the spoils and the foreign and domestic policy of Me. Pierce. The Pierce administration, ont and out, stands condemned by a popular majority against it of upwards of three hundred thousand votes. It is idle and falee, we say, in the teeth of this fined fact, to plead the ridiculous plea that, in Mr. Buchanan's accidental minority election, the border ruffian and filibnstering features of Pierce's administration and the Cincinnati plat- form stand approved by the people, and recom- mended by the people as the proper policy of Mr. Buchanan. No such thing. Above all, upon the Kansas iseue the ruffian policy of poor Pierce has been repudiated by the people in a coirs of thunder. ple, the democratic party, from a clear majority in New York State in 1852, over Scott and Hale combined, are now reduced to a minority in th» popular vote of the State, of 104,702, What is the meaning of this awful declioe? He ti | runs may read it. Mr. Buchanan, we suspect, will derive from the teachings of this Presidential election a lesson widely different from that of Mr. Davis and his busy clique of Southern nullifiers. He will be a) to see as plainly as we perceive it, that the Pierce administration, ita foreign and domestic and spoils | policy, have been condemned in all our popular elections, from 1853 to 1856, and most empha | tically in 1856; and that bis border ruffian Kaas 9 policy has been most emphatically branded as odious, revolting and demoralizing. Mr. BY | chanan, in a cool and searching analysis of the results of the late election, state by State, and of the chapter of accidents which have slipped him in over the heads of a large majority of the peo- ple, will eee that the way of safety is not the way of Davie, Atchison, Pierce and their clique of agitating nullifers. On the contrary, we be- lieve that he will also resolve, March next, if he has not now resolved, that the peace and success of bis administration will ro- quire, firet of all, that he shall dismiss theee ge. cession and nigger driving nullifere, downfall of poor Pierce. We have some evidence of the sagacity of Mr. Buchanan as a politician; we have some know- ledge of his inclinations as a statesman; and we are inclined to believe most seriously that he will not be caughtin the nullifier’s trap of poor Pierce's last annual Let us await the solation of the game, says nullifigation ? Upon this distinct issue, for exam- | # men about bim and keep them there? before the 4th of | and turn | them adrift, or suffer, inevitably, the ignominious | terme, that General Walker’s position is streag in Nicaragua, and that he is badly in waat of re- cruite from the United States, This latter infe- rence may be fairly drawn frem the magailoquent style in which the progress ef the Americaus ia Nicaragua is recorded, and the enthusiasm with which all Central American writers refer to Gen. Walker. If the Central American governments had pos- sessed the power of overthrowing Gen. Walker, we appr ebend that they weuld have done it al- ready. Seemingly, he has gone through the worst possible phase of his fortune. He hae Jacked men, food, money, arme. Yet he is in Nicaragua still, bolding his own. At all events, if the Central American governments had been able to overthrow General Walker they would already have formed .an alliance against hiw. We should have heard of simultaneous move- | ments in Guatemala on the one side aud Coste | Rica end Honduras on the other, for the expul- sion of the Northern invader. For it was evidea: ivom the first that no single State could hope to succeed against him, and the only hope of the natives wasto make the question oae of race. Bat, after a}l sorts of rumors of leagues and coa- litions, we find that the Central Americans are incapable of fusion, and that no sub- stantial league against Walker has yet been formed. Now, Walker is gaining strength the longer he holds the cities of Nicaragua, aad possesses the power to seize and sell the cocoa and coffee estates : the prospects therefore for a successful coalition against him diminish daily. As to his domestic enemies, we epprebend that they are not seriously to be feared. No chief of apy nerve need be afraid of a race like the Span- ich Americans of Central America ; certainly the executioner of Corral can afford to despise them. In the letters which we publish from Granado and other Nicaraguan cities, every battle is rep- resented a2 having been fought with demoniac fury on both sides; the Central Americans are perfect heroee. But there is reason to fear that the writers of these letters have an eye to the re- patation of their own friends, where victory would sound less glorious if it were won over peltroons and blockheads: at all events, no former writer gives the natives credit for the skill and the con- rage and the unexampled heroism which Walker's friends assure us they are now displaying. Passing from considerations of perils at home, and among his neighbors, what are General Walker's positive prospects of success? Evi- dently they depend upon the aid he may receive from hence. Nicaragua is for the most part a barren, sickly country, where the white man can- not, and the hal breed will not always work : it is obvious that without some change, or collateral advantages, even the sovereignty and dominion of such acountry might prove a loss. In order to combat the disadvantagea of the country, and to provide himself with the first re- quisite—labor—General Walker has repealed the decree abolishing slavery, and talks of restoring the slave trade. Now, when we attempt to judge of the effect of these measures we must be care- fol not to run away with the sentiments of th. anti-slavery portion of the North. To that part of ovr society Walker's policy in this particular will of course seem odious, But it must be re- membered that there was no part of his policy— from hig landing in Nicaragua to the present time —which did not seem odious to these persons: by forfeiting their good opinion, therefore, General Walker forfeits that which he never had, and loses really nothing. Whereas, on the other hand. tbe South will rather be drawn toward Walker by bis avowal of a preference for their peculiar system of labor. Nicaragua, thrown open to slave labor, would of course provide Vir- ginia and other breeding States a new and large market for their live produce. And in the evens of a movement on Cuba, Nicaragua, assimilated to the South by her institutions and forms of la- | bor, wonld be the natural stepping stone for | the Southern filibusters. This last reason will | operate as effectively with the loose portion of | the population of the North—the only portion from which Walker had any expectation of aid —as with the men of the South. It seems, therefore, that the late policy of | Walker with reference to slavery, is rather likely | to help him than to burt him in the United States, It coste him no friends on whom he hed ever counted, and {t rallies to his side, from motives of interest, many who bad regarded him with in- Even allowing all this—that bis chances « holding his own against the Spanish Americans, and of getting due help from this country, were never 80 good as they are now—a great deal is yet wanting to realize the Anglo-Saxon republic which Genera] Walker promises to construct o.* of the remains of the Guatemalan kingdor | Nor do we plainly see that Walker is even tal- | ing all the steps which he might to hasten that | realization. For instance, the steam comamuni- cation with Nicaragua was iriterrupted many | months ago by the folly of Walker, and the | | worse than folly of Vanderbilt; why has it not been regularly resumed—if not with one set of | men, with some other? Ayain, why, if Walker and his men are such Homeric heroes, do they not clear a smal) patch of land somewhere in Nica- regua, and leave it for the peaceable citizens who | don't want to fight? fo far as we can learn, the country has gone back ten years since Walker landed, for want of labor. Finally, why does | not General Walker try to get the right sort of | The habit | of changing and quarrelling incessantly with hia | confidants keeps a constant supply of traitors, | always ready to betray him at a moment's no- tice. This is not politic. When we see some change in these respects we shail begin to believe in the great Central American republic. cnn Sovrneny } s--We spread Views or tar Sovrnery P: before our readers this morning a chapter of fn- teresting extracts from the Southern press of all parties, ou the prospects of Mr. Bachanan’s elec- | tion. These extracts are strongly suggestive of | | “a hard road to travel.’ It will be seen that the Southern ultras of the secession school will be eatisficd with nothing less than the subjugation of the North, and to this end they fix their hopes | and their fears upon Mr. Buchanan and the de- mocratic Congress elected to sustain him. This, however, ie the point where the shoe pinches. Many of the Northern de- mocrats to the next Congress hav | been returned upon the idea that Kansas is | to be a free State, and that they and Mr. Bu- chanan are to make it so. We have reason to | declare that Mr. Buchanan's inclinations lie in that direction; but be has yet to pass the ordeal of the clique of secessioviste who are resolved to rule him or to cruchhim. Will he have the wie dow apd the figmness which the crisis requiroe? Will he be-taved, or will he be fost? Like WORK HERALD. | <rutt co te minty vepet of Alderman | _ Cmentimwertonm amuire. | wan he beqaved; on will be belost? Like oar| ®®d io PUiladelphin TB. Morgan in this city, | orgaaiaing conspirator, wo take the liberty of EB. Morgan in this city, Southern secessionists, though from a totally different point-of view, we bave our bopes; but ‘we must-stand firm by the Union, come whet may, seceesion or no secession~—Buchanan or no Bu- chanan—demecratic party or no democratic party; and even though Kanaas should come in 8a thee State over the bowie knives ef the bor- der ruffians. Tne Case or tae Frexcn Ratreap Deraci- ‘rens.— Another step in the progress ef thie highly interesting cree was made inthe Supreme Gourt on Saturday Jaet. The matter came up in its civil aspect, on an order of Judge Davies, made 17th-October, requiring the counsel for the plain- tiffs to show cause why the order of arrest should not be set aside, or the amoant of bail reduced, on the ground shat the complaiat and affidavit of ‘Tessandier did not show the existence of a cause of.action, nor that the alleged cause .of action came witbin the 179th eection of theCede of Pro- cedure. The plaintiffs’ counse) was also required to show why the complaint should not ve made more definite and certain. The matter was fully argued on both sides before Judge Davies. ‘Pie defendants’ counsel made and argued the following points, among others: that the alleged taking of stock by the prisoners being a felonious act, it gave no right to a civil action; that this being. fortcommitted in France by and agains: aliens, no action for it could be maintained io the courts of New York; and that the taking stock of the company from the company did net cor- stitute a case of action. We do not stop now to diseuss the authoritice cited for and against these several points, further than to say tha’ as to the latter point we believe it has deen virtually so held by the Court of Appeals in the remarkable Schayler fraud cases. In the action brought by the Mechanics’ Baak of New York, against the New Haven Railroad Company for the value of epurious shares of the road parchaeed from Schuyler, their authorized agent, the Court unanimously decided againet the right to recover. The Judges declared in that case that stocke were not, like bank bills, the representative of money, and were not se- curities for money io any sense, but simply evi- dence of the bolder’s title to given shares in the property of the corporation. Well, in this case such evidence existe, independently of the stock. Mr, Rothechild, the real owner, has hie right to the dividends and profits coming to him from the stock abstracted, juet as much as if it were still in his burean. The company had no interes: whatever in it. If any lose be sustained io consequence of the alleged acts of Carpentier and Grelet, that los falls not on Rothschild or the Northern Railroad Company, but on the purchasers or present holders. It would foliow, therefore, that neither Rothschild nor the com pany has a valid cause of civil action against these defaulters, At least, that to us, unlearned in the law, seems a common sense view of the matter. Whether the Judge will look at it ia the eame light which we do, we neither know nor care. His decision is reserved, and may not be rendered for a week or two. In coanection with the argument on Saturday, a fragment of a letter was exhibited, which Me- lin, the plaintiffs’ agent here, swore he found in & book in the house where Carpentier had resided in this city, and which the latter admitted to have been written by bim. That interesting do- cument we publish today, with a report of the arguments. It was addressed to his sister in France, and is couched in most affecting terms— deploring his unfortunate position, which he at- tributes to his acquaintance with Grelet, and uis connection with that “accursed bureau.’ In an- other sentence he speaks of Parot as “that hor- rid Parot.” The letter was unfinished and un- signed, and it was evidently the intention of the writer to send with it a history of the whole transaction for publication in one of the Paris papers. That history has not come to light, aud we believe it has been destroyed. The whole party is still in Eldridge street pri- son, and may remain therefor mauy a month. ‘The decision on the argument of Saturday will not affect their condition as prisoners under the criminal charge. This civil suit was got up wit no other object apparently than to gain time, so as to allow a more complete criminal case to be made out against the prisoners, If it were once disposed of, the point would then turn on the interpretation of the convention be- tween France and the United States for the sar- render of criminals. We have hitherto express- ed our opinion as to how far that convention applies to this case. One of our Washington correspondents, however, intimates that there are discrepancies between the French and the American copies of this treaty, and that under a clause in one of those copies the President will be inclined to order the extradition of these men. We doubt, however, the accuracy of our | correspondent’s information on that point, be- | cause a treaty in such a case to be binding must be reciprocal. Thus: the United States would not bind themselves to surrender French crimi- nals charged with a crime lesser in grade than that for which they could call on the French government to surrender fugitives from this country, and vice vert. Still, there is no caleu- lating on the shiftings and intricacies of legal questions, or on the decisions which may be made thereon; and notwithstanding our own convic- tion that these men are not amenable under the extradition treaty, it would not at all surprise us if our correspondent’s assurance should turn ou‘ true. There is no use, however, in anticipating events, as the case may at any moment—judging from Carpenticr's letter—aseume a new phase We await further developementa. See Waat we Have Dowe.—The Central Re publican Committee at Washington boasis of having circulated four millions @ documents in favor of Fremont during the recent campaign, and claims on this ground the right to protest against any nomination at present of a candi- date for the campaign of 1860, with the view, probably, of reserving that position for Wm. IT. | Seward or some other demagogue of his kidney. Now, if the issuing of documents gives any right to dictate as to a matter of that king, we cer tainly have @ better claim than the Central Com- mittee. We iseued during the campaign ten mil- lions of sheets, each one of which was better than ten of the bulky, clumey, dull, stupid, absurd and ridiculous documents from headquarters. We ix | sued omethird of the total thirty millions of sheets sent out from the New York pres | during the Inte contest. We shall continue | to iseae this number, and even increase upon it, | for owing to recent political excitement and the general prosperity of the country, our circula- | tion has been and is far greater than during any our existence. these iseues, Colonel Fre. former year of Yet, in spite of all mont lost his election owing to the mi ismanage- ment of gertein political managery in this city and Mesers, Fry and Gibbons in Philadelphia, were the leading managers, and lost the battle by their blunders, The Philadelphians gave to Gov. Ford, of Ohio, twenty thousand dollars as a sub- vention for the country papers in Pennsylvania to support Fremont, and that amount was actual- dy given to Fillmore journals, and used to forward the Fillmore interest. In looking over the secret operations of these men, we cannot resist the conclusion that Thur- Jow Weed and bis compeers actually undertook to defeat the election of Col. Fremont, hoping thereby to benefit Seward in relation to the cam- paign of 1860, Tus News From yom MExico—SuccEssRs or THE Govsrxment.—The color of the last accounts from Mexico is more favorable to the prospects of Comonfort’s administration than we nad been prepared to expect. We had been led to believe that'there was more strength in the hostile ele- «mente which were said to be accumulating against his government at home than recent events would seem to demonstrate, The outbreaks which, under the rallying ery of “Religion y JSucros,” bad been simuitaneourly organized at various points of the republic, have turned out to be contemptible failures, In fact, but that we know that the clergy and the privileged classes were at the bottom of these movements, we should have said that there wes nothing in them that was calculated to inspire the least alarm on the part of the government. From the tone of the Mexican papers, however, it ™ evident that the latter entertained serious apprehensions on the subject; and that the appeal made to the bigotry of the lower orders should have met with such a feeble response, is a proot that the Presi- dent had not fully appreciated the firmness of his position when he shrank from carrying ont to their full extent the reforms inaugu- rated by the law of the 25th of June. Had he bokily taken his stand on the principle of religious toleration, instead of adopting half measures with the church, he would have inspired his friends with greater confidence, and effectually disarmed those from whom he has most to fear. It isto his timidity in dealing with this question that he owes most of the domestic troubles by which his administration has been beset. The result of the recent abortive movements will, we hope, convince him of this fact and” encourage him to persevere in the consummation of those vital measures of reform which can alone restore to Mexico the tranquillity and unity of national sentiment of which she stands in need. We see by the Mexican papers that on the 234 ult. Mr. Forsyth, our new minister, pre- sented his credentiels to President Comonfort. The epeeches made on the occasion present no very salient feature, being for the most part con- fined to the common-places usually uttered at di- plomatic receptions. The reply of the President, however, breathes the most cordial and friendly feelings towards this republic. We are disposed to believe in their sincerity, for General Comon- fort well knows that as long as his administra- tion is carried on on principles favorable to the cause of progress and of general liberty, he can count upon the sympathy and support of this country. It is only when we see him halting on the path of progress and hesitating before the grandeur and importance of the measures which he must feel can alone insure the salvation of his country, that we are disposed to lose faith in his fortunes. If he only proves true to Mexi- co and true to himself neither he nor the people over whom he rules will have to apprehend such, acontingency as that predicated in the article which we copy to-day from one of our Mexican contemporaries, Mexico, as a homogeneous and well-regulated republic, would, for years to |. come, be more valuable to us as a political ally than as a member of the Union. It is only in a state of disorganization, inviting the encroachments of other Powers, that she is likely to prove dangerous to us. It would, of course, be impossible for us to stand by and witness her dismemberment without taking such steps as would be necessary to the protection of our own interesta) The Mexican people will do well to reflect upon these facts, and to give such support to the government of President Co- monfort as will avert all chance of reducing us to such an alternative. Tue PeNxsYLvaNIAN Iv Trovsix.—The organ of Col, Forney at Philadelphia, in a stupid lead. er on “the war of the New York press upon Mr. Buchanan,” says, “we accept all the hostilities of the New York Henao, and of its abolition and infidel ally, the New York Tribune; we ask the country to behold the new plot they are concoct- ing,” with much more of the same sort of fustian and twaddle. A word or two, however, upon this ridiculous stuff while it is before us. The New York Henap and Tribune are neither allies nor confiderates. Upon one single point they have both advocated the election of Fre- mont—the important point that his election would put an end to the despotic, unconstitutional, dis- graceful and raffian Pierce policy of forcing sla- very into Kansas by fire and sword, and substitute in lieu of this ruffian policy that other and tafer policy of the constitution and the law. With the defeat of Fremont by Fillmore the New York Henao still pursues its own course, and the 7ribune does the same thing. It will not do, therefore, for Mr. Forney to say that we, together with the Tribune, are “con- cocting anew plot’ against Mr. Buchanan. We dare say that the policy of the 7hiune is war to the knife from the start. Our policy, however, is the policy of fair trial, and the policy of good advice—advice that can’t he had of demo- cratic spoilemen, but which may Leusefal coming from an independent and popular journal like the Henan, which has nothing to ask of Presi- dents, or partics, cr spoilemen, and nothing to fear, We fre), therefore, perfectly free to say hat there > “a new plot concocting against Mr. Buchanen,” and that ite ramifications extend from New (orleans to Washington, from Wash- ingtes te Philadelphia, and from Philadelphia to New York: and that among the scheming spoils- mot who ore the most active conspirators in this plot are each mon os Jefferson Davis, John Sli- dell, Robert Toomba, R. Barnwell Rhett, Henry A. Wise, Senator Mason, David R. Atchison, Joba W. Forney, Robert J. Walker and George San- ders, a curious joint stock company of secession- iste, dieunionists, filibusters and speculators upon the treseury, all committed to the common policy of rule or rain with Mr. Buchanan, This policy comprebends the “ wresting of Cuba from Spain, if we have the power,” the fulfilment of Atchieon’s echeme of making Kansas a slave State by force of arms, and other filibustering and ruffian devices of the same kidney in Mex- ico, Central America and the West India Islands, the whole to be completed with the bankruptoy of the federal treasury in Mr. Robert J. Wal- yy Railroad. Against this comprehensive plot and these dis- kind.” He may thus destroy not only this disor- and to a “decent respect for the opinions of man- ganizing disunion faction of Southern nullifiers and their Northern confederates for the plunder, but he may also demolish this formidable repub- lican perty, and rebuild upon its ruins the demo- cratic party in the North. Thus much for Mr. Forney and his organ and the New York Herarp. Let the future decide between us. We claim that our advice to. Mr. Buchanan is good and bona fide, Let the future settle the question. We shall know which is which by the evening of the fourth of March. I{ Mr. Buchanan is to be the tool of the Davis clique of secessionists, his fate will be the fate of Pierce, and his party will be swept away. He may save it and restore it. We are pointing him out the breakers and the safe channel. Nothing more. Practicat Benevovexce mw 4 New Licur. Our philosophic cotemporaries of the Tri/une are “nothing if not critical.” Having labored for some years with « view of reforming the entire human race, and having met, to say the least, with oply partial success, they have now turned their attention to us, and fire away unceasingly because we do not think precisely as they do on a)l matters. The last broad- side is a criticism upon our views in relation to the new Corporation. The 7ribune states that we eupported scamps for office in order to give them a chance to reform, and that this shows our kindness of heart, amiability and benevolence. It is not true that we supported any of the per- sons on the ward tickets. But the philosophers of the 7ridune have no such word as truth in their vocabulary; and as certain persons are to be an- swered according to their folly, we will ask our friends whether or not our philanthropic enter- prises are not attended with more success than their own. We remember that the Tribune has attempted to reform ecamps by making them live upon bran bread and vegetables, but man being carniverous, stole the money to buy beef steaks. We remember that the 7'rribune desired to prevent crime by breaking down all social distinctions— by returning to first principles, modernized by Fourier and Saint Simon—by division of pro- perty—by so facilitating divorce that marriage would be a nullity, and by prohibitory laws against the eale of liquors. How have the 7ri- bune’s pupils tarned out? They are gaunt, rag- ged fellows, with seedy clothes, great shaggy bearde, wild eyes and a lout ensemble strongly re- minding one of the incurables in a lunatic asylum. Now, look at our fine fellows who are put in good position by a magnanimous and a confiding people. They are perfect gentlemen. They dis- play financial abilities which would do cre- dit to Colbert himself. On salaries of fifteen hundred a year they live splendidly, dress mag- nificently, drive fast horses, have country seats and interminable corner lots and rows of brown stone front houses in good streets up town. When they die they shall have great funerals, nice notices in the papers, and little cherubs shall drop on their urns their marble tears. Now, we put it to the people, is not our bene- volence truly practical, benefitting the objects of our paternal solicitude, instead of ruining them, physically, mentally and pecuniarily, with fine- spun theories after the fashion of our philoso- phical cotemporaries of Spruce street? What says the Tribune? Loss or Tae Frencu Steamer Lroxnats—Fur- THER Expianations Necessany.—The Henan of this day week announced in its marine list the arrival at Gloucester, Maas., on the 4th of No- vember, instant, of the bark Adriatic, Capt. Dur- ham, of Belfast, Maine, bound to Savannab, which had put in for repairs. She proves to be the iden- tical vessel which ran into the French steamer Lyonnais, whose loss was not known in this city till late in the evening of the 13th, and that from the arrival in port of some of the survivors of the wreck. Thus it appears that for nine days a profound silence prevailed on the subject of the collision, although Captain Durham could have made it known on the 4th, in a much more satis- factory manner than merely writing to his owners at Belfast. A most distressing loss of time was the consequence, and prevented an early effort on the part of the agents in New York to rescue the steamer, its passengers and crew. Let us hear what Captain Durham has to say for not lying to, after the collision, to see how much damage he had done, and what amistance was required by the unfortunate passengers and crew of the Lyonnais. Tae Next Untrep States Senator rrom New Yorx.—There are some very ominous sigos in the political atmosphere, in relation to the choice of a Senator of the United States, which is to be made by the Legislature elect. Notwithstanding the pretended withdrawal of Thurlow Weed and the “little villain,” we are eatisfied that they are working night and day to encompass the place. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Arrival of the Steamship City of Washington. Care Mar, N. J., Telegraph office, Nov. 17, 1886. ‘The new tcrew steamahip Chy of Washington, of the Liverpool and Philadelphia line, is now (434 P. M.) in sight from Cape Island, She doudtlem brings Liverpoot dates of the Gtn inst., four days inter thea the Earopa a New York. She will not probably arrive at Philadelphia before 8 oF 10 o'el0sk to-morrow. Very Interesting from Washington. MR. PIRRCR'S CLOSING MPSSAGE TO CONGRESS—A DRFRNCE OF HIS ADMINISTRATION AND BIS KANSAS DESPERATE EFFORT TO HEAD OTP Wasnrotos, Nov. 17, 1866. Mr. President Pierce, under the direction of Jeiferson Davis, Cushing, and other lights of the Southern seces- sion clique of the democratic party, is preparing his closing annual message to Congress. ‘This mesrage will be a isbored vindication of poor Pleroe’s administration, foreign and domestic policy, and expecially of his bordor ruffien policy for making Kansas a slave State, In this connection poor Pierce wii! be used to bead of Mr. Buchanan in reference to avy other policy for Kanens, by an ingenious attempt to show that the people, in the election of Mr. Bu- chanan, have, in the lump, endorsed all those nots of military ¢eapotiem and roflenism under which Davis, Atchison and Stringfellow have thus far controlied the government affairs of the Territory. ‘The Inst message of Mr. Pierce, therefore, is to be mado by the Davis secession ciiqnes sort of ultra Southers manifesto for the gaidsace of Mr. Buchanan. It will is- ‘volve the Southern fire eaters’ terms of peace with the \pooming administration, or their conditions of war, The expectation in that Mr. Pierce, by presenting hie Kanres policy and the Ciocinnat! piatform as one and the same thing, by showing that Mr. Buchanan is pledged to thie pottoy, amd that to thie Pierce platform and thie pledge he owen bis election, Mr, Buchanan will be frightened into a ee