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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. Peceee ease naaaEES JAMES GORDON BENNETT, BF1TOR AND PROPRIETOR, SEINE, errick N. W, OORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS oVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Pourteente st.—Itauan Orene— Ih fRovaroms, TBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway—Ticut Rors Fea Marny -Foneo. al Pf THEATRE, “Bowery.—Tun Dros or Duatu— BURTON'S NEW THEATRE. Broadway, op) cen. aera On ran Resse co Taanon—To LAURA KEENE’S THRATRE, 62 Broadway—Younc Bw Yorx—iuzers erggere= ld QUAMBERS STREET THRATRE, (late Berton's)—Pare Pawn Joves—sunczann's Wire panvuwe AMERICAN MUSEUM, pam econ—Tou Tewe—Cammae Evening—Cauiris, paoapway vanes 472 Broadway.—Buacz Brep GkO. CHRISTY & WOODS DOD'S MINSTRELS, ¢ a Broad way—Drm.criaN PexvormaNcus— BUCKLEY'S bye 885 Broadway.—Ernioman Mery nisy—Bourway Gra OBEWESE HALL, 539 Broadwav.—Wonpsurci Tricn: =. sy Doxsra’s Dogs ssp MoxKEYS.—Alteruoon New York, Monday, November 24, 1956. ‘The News. Eisewhere we give a communication from Mr. ®ornelins Vanderbilt, in relation to a statement ‘made by Major Heiss a few days since. In that ‘statement the Major said that Mr. Vanderbilt had ‘told him in his office that General Goicouria was his agent, &c. This, Mr. Vanderbilt sffirms, was @ great mistake on the part ef Major Heiss, and that he bad misunderstood him, as General Goicouria was p01 bis agent nor that of the Nicaragua Company. ‘We also give the manifesto of General Goiceuria, in reply to Major Heiss and Genere! Walker, on Nicara- guen affairs. The anticipated duel betwen Gen. Goicouria and Mr. Edmund Randolph was the town talk yester- @ay; but it seems probable that it will not take place this morning, as announced, owing to the publicity given to it, and also from the fact that Mr. Randolph is an invalid, and unable even to walk without assistance. Should he fight, his friends will ‘be compelled to carry him to the ground, and hold bim up during the combat. It is, therefore, more than probable that the fight will be postponed to a more convenient season. The police made no effort to arrest the parties, and Gea. Goicouria was in the barroom of the St. Nicholas Hotel at a late hour Jast night, while Mr. Randolph still remains at the Washington House, No. 1 Broadway. The cearch for the steamer Le Lyonnais, which was run into by the ship Adriatic, has thus far proved unsuccessful. Captain Ward, of the ship Jobn Wills, at Boston on Saturday, from Calcutta, veports having spoken, November 20, in latitade 40 20 N., longitude 69%, steamship Marion, from New York, in search of the missing steamer. Capt. Fester, of the Marion, reported that he had met with no success thus far. The Hanover Guzette contradicts the news tuat America intends to demand the abolition of the @ues on the Elbe, which Hanover receives at Stade. On Saturday the Surrogate gave a decision in th: matter of the estate of John McComt, deceased, which, as usual, was characterized by research and eminent legal ability. The testator, in his will, di- reeted his executors to pay nis widow an annuity of five hundred dollars per annum, and to set apart and imvest a sufficient amount of his property to make said payment. They did so, by investing ten thou- and dollars. The residuary legatees considered that the taxes upon the investment should be paid eut of the annuity, and carried the case before the Surrogate for his decision. The Surrogate present- ed all the points of law upon the subject, and de- cided that the taxes should not be deducted from the annuity, and that the annuity paid could not be Jeas than five hundred dollars. The decision will be found in another column. Inquests on unknown persons found drowned are of almost daily occurrence, as may be seen by our veports of the business done at the Coroner's office. Whether any ciue to the identity of these persons is ever arrived at we have no means of ascertaining. There is reason, however, to suppose that in the majority of cases the bodies are buried withoat being recognized, and their families and friends re- main forever in ignorance of the casualty that has befalien thea. Mr. Abraham 1. Whipple, a note broker, doing bosiness in William street, was srrested on Saturday evening on the complaint of Mr. George ©. Burst, who preferred a charge of fale pretences and em- bezzlement against him. The amount charged as embezzled is about $700. The particulars will be Sound ucder the police head. A Mrs. Duffy and her daughter, residing in Eleventh avenue, were suffocated by a fire which took place in their appartment on Saturday eveo- img. while they were asieep in bed, and which was Rot discovered in time to save their lives. Advices from Rio de Janeiro to October 6, state that the markets at that port were dull. Coffee con- tinued to come in freely, and was immediately en- gaged for European account. No news of any imterest—nothing having occurred save a slight suspension of good feeling between the French Min- ister and the government, arising out of a point of etiquette at the Court of St. Clond, of which the Brazilion Minister complained. The matter was, bowever, amicably adjusted. In our columns this morning will be found a num- wer of extracts from late foreign journals of a varied and interesting ¢baracter. The President of the Georgia Central Railroad bas written a Jetter to the London Times, denying the riaiculou® stories promulgated by Mr. Arrowsmith, and published in that journal, relative to duelling in the South. He says that he was in Savannah on the ‘28th of Angust, and knows that ne such occurrenees took place, as related by that gentleman. ‘The sales of cotton at New Orleans on Friday reached &,000 bales, with a slight decline in the value ef inferior qualities. The sales of the week amount- ed to 61,500 bales. The quantity received so far at that port thie season is greater by 26,000 bales than at the same time last year. The sales of coffee for the week amounten to 9,000 bage, and the receipts to 22,000. The stock on hand was 75,000 bags. Jadae Larne, formerly editor of the Crescent, aid at New Orleans on the 15th ihst. The annexed table shows the temperatare of the atmoepbere during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variatiecs of the wind currents, and the state of the weather at three periods doring each day, Viz:—at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock ! ASPs Daring the past week the wea ther has been clear end pleasant. Last evening, however, a storm set in, which promises to be of some continuance. Very little rain hae falle #0 far this fall, and springs in many of the pure) d +triets have been extremely low. ‘The cotton market was activeon Saturday, with scloe of abopt 4,00) bales; fhe market cloring firm \ NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1850. The private advices received by the Niagara were \ eonsidered quite as satistastory and as favorable 23 | the telegraphic revorta, The flour market was easier for common grades, while extra bramd: were ‘nchanged, and sales moderate. Wheat was firmer, and quite active; white Western and Canadian sold at $165 a $1 70: red winter Western at $1520 $1 56.9157; spring do., $135 a $136, and Mil waukie at $1 40 a $1 42. Corn was prices firmer; Western mixed was sold at 7 and from store held at Y4c.; Southern yellow sold af 740. a 75c. A cargo of new North Carolina white corn, the first of the season, 4 little out of order, was sold, as re- ported by the purehaser, at€lc. Pork was in mo- derate demand at.$17 75. Sugars were steacy, with sales of about 600 bhds., et prices which are given elsewhere. Coffee was quiet. Freights were less active, and rather easier to English ports. ‘The Approaching Session of Congress. The second session of this, the Thirty-fourth Congress, opens next’Monday, the tirst of Decem- ber. 1t promises to be, if not a very important, at Jeast an interesting seecion. It will be sure to give a foreshadowing of the policy of the admi- nistration which is to come into power on the fourth of March next. The republican party, which had a majority in the last House of Repre- sentatives, will, on account of its defeat in the Presidential contest, appear in the character of the opposition rather than in that of the domi- nant party. The democrats, on the contrary, although still in the minority, will in fact as sume the direction of legislation, and will be, to a large extent, responsible therefor. The twenty- five or thirty Southern Know Nothing members of the House will, as they have hitherto done on all important questions, side with the adminis- tration party, and so give it a small majority. The acts of the next session will therefore be, to all intents and purposes, those of the democratic party, notwithstanding the fact that the repub- licans have the Speakership and organization of the committees in their own hands, We published some ten days ago a communi- cation from our Washington correspondent, set- ting forth the important questions that are to come before the next session. It is not necessary now to recapitulate them all. The principal of them are the settlement of the Kansas question, the tariff, and the several Pacific Railroad schemes. We think it quite problematical, however, whether all or any of these measures will be dis- posed of during the approaching session. The republicans had .not the pluck, energy or Con- gressional experience, during the eight months of the long session, to effect any practical legisla- tion for the relief of the oppressed citizens of Kansas, It is not likely that now, depressed by their defeat before the country, and with some three or four additions to the ranks of their ad- versaries, they will, within the short space of three months—to which the session is restricted — be able to pass apy such meascure. The demo- crates and the Southern Know Nothings will be, of course, opposed to any legislation on the sub- ject: the latter, because it would be adverse to the sentiments of slavery propagandism—the for- mer, because it weuld be a tacit if not an open condemnation of the policy of the Pierce admi- nistration. And poor Pierce looks piteously for the consolation of not baving his acts condemned by the country. As for the tariff question, a voluminous bill on the subject was prepared at the last session by Mr. Campbell of Ohio, the republican chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in the House, but we thiak it rather unlikely that he will have the chance of pluming himself on its passage —not, perhaps, that the majority of the Hous have any objection to the provisions of the bill per se, but that they would deprive the republicans of the privilege of boasting that in the Congress in which they were in the ascendency they had achieved a single national measure or had soared apy higher in the walks of legislavion than the donation of several millions of acres of the public domain to railroad and stockjobbing corporations, schemers and lobby agents. There- fore it is that we deem it quite improbable that Mr. Campbell's tariff bill will have a chance of being passed; and as that gentieman’s seat in the next Congress will be contested by a demo- crat, who will probably oust him, we regard bis measure as shelved, per secula seculorum. The third great question to come up in the next session is the Pacific Railroad scheme. It will overshadow all other measures of legislation. Judging from the tremendous exertions made— and aj] but successfully—to shove it through in its jejune and unconsidered condition, at the closing scenes of the last session, we should not be at all surprised to see that monstrous plan of peculation enacted into a law within the next three months. From thirty to fifty thousand acres of land along the route is openly announced on the lobby as the reward for @ vote in its favor; and we are sorry to say that we do not place a sufficiently high estimate on the honesty and public virtue of our representatives to believe they will be proof against these infla- ences. It will be, therefore, rather a matter of surprise than otherwise, if the bill, in some form, do not pass during the approaching session. If it be defeated at all, or if it be even staved off for a time, so as to let ite provisions be properly considered and matured, it will only be, we opine, through the firmness, honesty and parlia- mentary knowledge of such men as Letcher of Virginia and Jones of Tennessee, who are worth to the country many millions a year in saving the treasury from spoliation and fraud. Outside of these three suhjects—or, perhaps, through them—the legislation of the next session will probably be shaped with a view to futare political operations. The republicans will en deavor #0 to shape their course as to allow Mr. Pierce to carry out his ultra pro-slavery views, that they may thus obtain more capital at the North. The democrats will try to avoid playing ibus into the bands of their adversaries, and wil rather try to moderate and smooth down the measures which the President would like to have carried through, so that we Wickily need not ex- pect any more high handed measures in favor of slavery propagandism. ‘The democratic party in Congress will endeavor to shape ite conduct in euch a way ae to be able to exercise a control over Mr. Buchanan in the selection of his Cabinet, and in the general course of policy to be adopted by bis administration. We may expect to learn of a grand system of intriguing with a view to these effects. Congress will probably be vhj i ce of three or four cliques of the demo- wie party. Two of them will be from the South tLe ultra-seceesion Brooks-and-Keitt n and the hectoring, blustering, spoile-seeking seo- tion under the leadership of Quattlebum Wise. he other two will be from the North—-the one striving to sheer off from mitra measures in refe- rence to Kansas and slavery extension, and the other—like the Virginia eection--knowing nothing ere will be @ considerable oi a ted during the next three monthe to the | muddle in Congress, and that parties will be in a stew all round. The President’s Message, which will be sent in to | | both houses next Monday, will be a very curious document, In it poor Pieree will undoubtedly strive to make it appear that the election of Mr. Buchanan is tantamount to an approval by the country of all the measures of the existing ad- ministration, We advise him not to lay that flattering unction to his soul. Ic was by the disavowal and disapproval of his ultra pro- slavery and ridiculous measures in respect to Kansas that Mr. Buehanan’s friends were able to operate successfully on the minds of the men of the central States—particularly Penngy}vania, Indiana, and Illinois. if it had not been for such disavowals, skilfully made, the probabilities are that Mr. Buchanan would not have got the electoral votes of apy one of those States. As it was, he got them, in the language of Job, “ by the skin of his teeth.” As to the foreign policy of the Pierce adminis- tration, it is scoffed and leughed at on all sides. The approaching session will, therefore, from every point of view, be scrutinized with much interest and anxiety. Neither a bill for the re- lief of Kansas nor for a moditication of the ta- riff, nor for the construction of the Pacific Rail- road, may be passed. But whether or not, we will have systematized efforts, on the one side, to shape and fashion in some way the policy of Mr. Buchanan’s administration, and on the other to mould events so as to make them useful in the Presidential canvases of 1860. Besides this, all the lobby members and the corrupt members of Congress will be busy in getting up and promot- ing aM sorte of spoliation measures and schemes to possess themselves of the money and lands of the people. And so the session will be an excit- ing one, though it may not be either profitable or creditable to the nation. Never mind, we are used to that now, and can regard it with Chris tian forbearance. Tue CentraL American Wak IN New York.— At the last accounts from Nicaragua Walker gained several victories over bis enemies, and the war in Central America was supposed to be pretty near its end—that is, if wars in Centra) America ever do have any end During the tem- porary suspension of hostilities in Nicaragua the war bas broken out in New York, commencing with a furious newspaper battle betwen Mesars. Heiss, Goicouria and Edmund Randolph, with a few outsiders firing small arms, just to keep up the excitement. From letter writing to duelling seems a natural transition, and a hostile meeting between Goicouria and Randolph is on the ‘apis. Another hero anxious for renown and pistol practice at ten paces, sends us the following plea- sant little note :— TO THE RDITOR OF THE HERA! Naw Youk, Nov. Pa, 1856. Toe gentleman that wrote the article sigaed ‘Lo ‘Mismo”’ im this morning’s issve is « liar and a coward, and dare pot ecknow! big name. UIS &. LATTH Lieut. First Rifles, N. A., Balumore, Md. = B.—Wiil be in New York at any time to refute such Of course “Lo Mismo” will come out and re- spend to this gentle invitation, and then there wil} be another duel; so the war may last until all the parties on both sides have eaten each other up. This small business, however, is disgusting; and we would propose to all the disputants to arrange a day for a grand row, engage a splendid steamboat—one of those they are quarreling about—and go up the North river for a grand set-to all around, and thus do up all the business at once, in the wholesale way. Apropos of Central America—We publish two more bulletins in this morning’s paper: one from General Goicouria in reply to Major Hiess, and one from Commodore Vanderbilt. Commodore V. is brief, and simply denies that General Goi couria was his agent; but the General’s letter is a sharp one, and a very extraordinary document. It will be seen that General Walker first made a contract in which be agreed to embrace Cuba in his plan of operations, but that he afterwards concluded to form a splendid Southern confede- racy in opposition to the North, he having a very poor opinion of “psalm singing Yankees”—mean- ing, we suppose, the inhabitants of the country a little this side of Mason and Dixon’s line. After a few more publications such as have appeared in our columns during the last few days, the public will be somewhat enlightened on Nicaragua af- fairs. Dirvicutties with New Granapa.—Our Wash- ington correspondent informs us that the plan or course of action to be pursued in reference to the claim of our government on the republic of New Granada, arising out of the massacre of United States citizens at Panama in April last, will be agreed upon this week. The Hon. Isaac E. Morse, of Louisiana, who is to be sent to Bogota as Envoy Extraordinary, to negotiate a settlement of the pending difficulties, is now at Washington await- ing his commission and instructions, which ue wil) probably receive in a few days. It seefs that the settlement to be effected with New Granada is not confiaed exclusively to this matter of the Panama outrage. It also embraces the matter of postal arrangements between the two republics. As the regulation of thie ques- tion will have more or less connection with the railroad across the Isthmus, a good deal of im- portance attaches to it. The New Granadian government proposes to settle both matters in the one convention ; but this proposition doss not meet the approbation of the administration at Washington. The idea there is, that as the two questions have no connection with one ano- ther, they should be kept totally distinct, We agree with our correspondent in thinking that the administration is correct in this view. We trust no more time wil) be ianecessarily wasted in procuring a settlement of these questions, Tur Brooxiys Fernies.—We have notas yet heard whether any legal steps have been taken to try the question of the commutation right with the directors of the Union Ferry Company. We go in tor practical remedies for practical avievances. If the law is with the residents of Brooklyn. why do they not avail themselves of its provisions? The silence of the Ferry Company | shows that they do not feel themselves very strong on this point. The continued inaction of the Brooklyn people will only go to prove that the grievance of which they have been complain- ing is po grievance at all, otherwise they would resort to the measures we have indicated. We believe that the mere menace of a suit would im- mediately bring the company to terms. Is there no Brooklyn Curtius ready to throw himself into | the gap to defend the rights of his fellow citi- | and caring for nothing but spoils And so we | ‘expect that th zene? If they wait for the action of our Corpo- ration, we fear that they will sacrifice any quan- ty of their bard earned cents, The matter was referred to a committee of the Common Council for report, but as yet no action has been taken upen it. The Brooklynitee must do their own Lusiogen, Aide (or a Le ciel Cardera, Lectores and Lecturers—Col. Benton and Mr. Gilmore Simms. ‘The loafers of society are generally said to live by their wits, but the term 1s an inappropri- ate one, seeing how small an amount of intellec- tuel capacity is required to support men in idleness, A moderate share of impudence pears to us the only quality needed in cases. There is, for instance, a class of persons who make out a very good living by the exercise of this gift alone, and who fatten upon the fraits of other men’s Jabors, witbout having either the honesty or the gratitude to acknowledge the sources whence they borrow their means. We allude to the large body of itinerant lecturers who periodically lay our cities and towns under contribution, giving buv little in retarn for thy harvests which they make. During the summer these persons lie by in the enjoyment of inglorious ease, their whole amount of exertion consisting in the preparation of the two or three lectures whieh are to form their stock in trade for the remainder of the year. These precious productions are compiled from elementary scientific treatises, the reviews of new publica- tions in the periodicals, or the reports of lectarea before foreign societies—all of which furnish the ready groundwork of a pretentious but euperficial superstructure, In vain we look for an original idea ora little novelty in the language of these compila- tions. Both ideas and forms of expression are plundered by wholesale; the only thing which the lecturer thinks it necessary to contribute being an occasional local or ad capiandum allu- sion by way of lubrication to the crude and ill- digested mass which he crams down the throats of his gaping audiences, These literary Swiss have a nervous horror of anything like extended publicity. They like well the puff preliminary or the puff after the fact, and for these they are always prepared to pay handsomely; but let an enterprising journal, accustomed to hold this mir- ror up to charlataniem, attempt to report one of their lectures in full, and they will make piteous appeals against what by others would be con- sidered a compliment. They pretend that the publication of their lectures renders them stale and unprofitable ia other places; and where they find that they cannot control the action of the press they resort to the expedient of reading them in so burried and indistinct a manner that neither reporters nor audience can make any- thing out of them. Now, it is obvious from all this that the system of written lectures is a bad one, and holds out a temptation to adventurers to impose upon the ig- norance and credulity of uninformed people. In the first place, a lecturer must be but imperfectly acquainted with his subject when he doubts his ability to impart to it variety and novelty in re- petition. In the next, his repugnance to have it reproduced in the press is tolerably clear evi- dence that he dreads a too critical examination ot its merits. How is it that an extempore poli- tica) speaker will address any number of audien- ces on the same topics, and that too in the face of the published reports of previous speeches, without wearying his hearers, or having occasion to claim silence on the part of the newspapers ? It is that the ideas and language that he makes use of are his own, that his mind is fresh and vigorous, and that for these reasons he does not ‘ear his being able to give fresh variety and at- traction to his subject as often ashe may be called upon to repeat it. A properly trained lec- turer, capable of conveying instruction to his hearers, ehould be above, and not below, the stand- ard of our stump speakers. Unfortunately it but too frequently happens that he is beneath them in a!l the most ordinary requirements of his art. Sutb are obviously the reasons why lectures bave become a drug in this country, and why thoee who have taken to their delivery as a pro- fession have fallen into disrepute. Almost all our public lecturers, with some few brilliant ex- ceptions, are not only incompetent to their duties, but have adopted expedients to cover their in- competency which prove that they are con- scious of the fact. It is with surprise that we find @ man of high position and talents, like Colonel Benton, falling into the mistakes of these people, and lending the sanction of his examp'e to their practices. We see it stated that he is about to deliver a lecture in Boston and other cities of the Northeast, “on the state of the Union, its condition and danger,” and that be has taken the necessary legal steps to secure a copyright in it. The object of this lecture, as claimed in its title, is “to avert the danger by showing the reality of it”—a patriotic and highly laudible purpose, and in every way consistent with Colonel Benton’s character and antecedents. If he were a professional lecturer, however, the steps that he has taken to limit the usefulness of his political warnings would tempt us to ask if he proposed to himself to make a livelihood out of the dangers by which we are menaced; but being a political magnate, we must content ourselves with inquir- ing if he is only going to save the Union for the exclusive few who have a quarter to spare. The principle, to say the least of it, is not a demo- cratic one. Whilst on this subject, we must not omit a pasting allusion to the lecture lately delivered in this city by Mr. Gilmore Simms. Its object was professedly to bolster up the much injured chi- valry of South Carolina, and to palliate some of their recent exploite. Nothing can show more markedly the different temperament and feelings which actuate the North than the manner in which Mr. Simms’ Quixotical undertaking was ro- ceived. To his first lecture about one hundred pereons were attracted by curiosity; aod althoug' but little eympatby was manifested in the views of the speaker, nothing could have been fairer than the manner in which he was treated both by his audience and the city prese. The second lec ture was not delivered, for the simple reason thot only thirteen persons could be mustered to listeu to it. How different would be the conduct of a South Carolina audience, if any one were to go down there and lecture upon the intellectual pre- eminence of Massachusetts and the wrongs of Charles Sumner ! We recommend the lesson to the consideration of our South Carolina frienus, It will convince them, we hope, that there is mors to be gained by treating their assailants with temper and equanimity than by insensate appeals to brute force. Backix6 Down —The Richmond Enquirer, since the late visit of Gov. Wise to Wheatland, is backing down; and we should not wonder if the spoils democracy of Richmond were to consent to give up the expected increase in the price of nig- gere, for the sake of the spoils. The dejection of the Virginia faction under Gov. Wise, from the Jeff. Davie disunion democracy of the South, will make a ead hole in the secessionist pro- gremme; and the leanings of Gov. Wise’s organ amount to an invitation to Mr. Buchanan to go ahead, niggers or no niggers, so that the Virginia brethren get their share of the spoils. Thus the Union is secure under “the cohesive power of the public plunder.” Bobadil Wise has sheathed his sword and dismounted his ‘horse, and Davis, Rhett and company must do without him. He takes his chances for the niggers and goes for the spoila An Honest Conression at Last—Gzn. Cass ow 1H¥ Stanp.—We publish in another part of this paper, a very suggestive article from the Detroit Free Press, (the confidential home organ of Gen. Cass,) on “the cause of the large Fre- mont mojorities in the North.” As Gen. Cass bas been made to feel the whole dead weight of these “Fremont majorities,” the “cause,” as con- fessed by his home organ, will hardly be disput- ed by Mr. Pierce’s organ at Washington, now that the election is over, and that the practical issues of the day will have to be looked at square- dy and fairy jn the face. This homg organ of Gen. Cass charges these “heavy Fremont majorities in the North” “solely to the mal-administration of affairs in Kansas.” It confesses substantially that while the Northern demecracy thought themeelves voting for a yreat principle in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, they were the dupes of an unprincipled Southern conspiracy. It tells its Southern fellow democrats that “the first election in Kansas was carried by an irrup- tion of Missourians,” that ‘the Legislature thus chosen went on to legalize slavery and to enact acode of laws fitly characterized by Gen. Cass, in the Senate of the Unjted States, as disgraceful to the civilization of the age;” that “this legis lation was followed by scenes in Kansas which bave furnished the black republicans with just the cort of capital they wanted;” that “a nation- al administration (poor Pierce) for months sat still, and permitted these scenes to transpire,” and that (mark this) “had the Southern demo- cratic press, and had Southern democratic states- men, condemned the Missouri irruption in lan- guage not to be misunderstood, and had they de- nounced the attempts then and since made to in- troduce slavery into Kansas by force and fraud, the Fremont majorities would have been very much less in the Northern States.” This is excellent as far as it goes; but had General Cass and other democratic leaders in Congress contrived to secure the admission of Kaneas into the Union under the Topeka Consti- tution asa free State, the Fremont majorities in the North would have entirely disappeared, and General Cass would have secured a certain re- ‘election to the United States Senate. We are gratified, however, to learn, as from the mouth of General Cass himself, that he “wants no assur- ance with respect to Mr. Buchanan’s Kansas poli- cy,” that “he will preserve order and crush out ruffianism—Southern ruffianism and Northern ruffianism”—and that “he will secure to the bona Jide inhabitants of the Territory their unquestion- able rights under the organic law.” This is also what we expect; and should this be done in good faith, we feel entirely satisfied that the destiny of Kaneas will be her admission into the Union as a free State, and that this solution will do much to crush out the present formidable Northern anti- Atchison organization, and much to restore the democratic party to a solid and respectable foot- ing in the North, which it cannot otherwise re- cover. In this we cannot be mistaken. Inpictments wiTt 4 VeNGeance.—We per- ceive that the Grand Jury, under the direction of the Recorder, has proceeded to indict fifty or six- ty Inspectors of Election for delaying their re- turns beyond the limit of time allowed by law, and twenty or thirty policemen have also been indicted for alleged dereliction of duty in failing to make arrests on election day. Of course we have no means of knowing the evidence upon which the Grand Inquest has made its presentment in these cases, but it really ap- pears to us that these indictments are only poli- tical indictments, caused by the reaction of bitter political feeling, which, burning and fyming be- fore the election, now seeks vengeance upon something or other after it. According to the best of our information, the question between the Grand Jury and the Inspec- tors of Election is a dispute as to the construc- tion of the law, which has arisen before, and that the Inspectors claim that their construction is the correct one ; 80 that the indictment is merely one for construing the law differently from the Grand Inquest. The indictments against the policemen are still more absurd. The policeman is an execu- tive officer, acting under orders of a superior power. When he is directed by his superior officer to make an arrest, and neglects or re- fuses to obey the order, he may be punished by the source whence he derives his power— cashiered, suspended, or deprived of pay. When a policeman is on duty, the law allows him wo use his own judgment as to what it is right for him to do. Jf he abstains from making arrests, under thore circumstances he may be guilty of an error of judgment; but it cannot be construed on its face as a crime by any Grand Jury in the work. Thus the Grand Jury, under the direction of the Recorder, has travelled beyond the limits of its power in these indictments of the Inspectors for a misconstruction of the law of which they may be guilty, instead of a criminal act of which they are not guilty. With regard to the policemen, the Grand Jury has no power over them more than over any private citizen. With policemen, as such, the Grand Inquest has nothing to do. When a policeman has been guilty of a breach of duty, his tribunal is the Board of Commissioners of Po- lice, which commission was established for the purpose. Warttxe vor tae Inavovrar.—It is the eus- tom with the Ohio democracy to meet in State convention, and nominate their candidates for State officers, on the 8th day of January; bat on the next occasion the day will most probably be put off till after the inauguration. There are two democratic factions in Ohio, as in New York, and the difficulty isa fusion until they know apon what they are to fuse. They are, therefore, dis- cussing the expediency of awaiting the inaugural and the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, and we seri- ously recommend them to wait; for that one fac- tion or the other will be compelled to surrender or declare war, we regard as certain as that Mr. Buchanan is elected. It won’t do to trust to the filibastering claptrep of the Cincinnati platform, nor to the Ostend manifesto. They have served their purpose, and the democracy must now wait tosee where Mr. Buchanan will bring them up. The inangural may be cloudy; but the Cabinet will pretty clearly show which way the wind is blowing. Mr. Pierce’s inaugural was cent—it would have floated a ship of the line— but his Cabinet reduced him to a piratical craft, which was foundered with the launebing. The Ohio democracy are welcome to the inaugaral. er the Cabinet. “ Acts speak louder than W Bustiz AMone THe PoLitcraNs,—There is a great bustle just now among all the and committees of the democracy. There isa great bustle about the election of the General Com- mittee for the ensuing year, which committee is to be chosen next week. There isa great bustle in the Tammany Society, which venerable body admitted thirty new members the other night. All this bustle about the General Committee and the Tammany Society has direct reference to the division of the spoils of the incoming administra- tion. The Tammany Society and the General Committee are the regular organs of the de- mocracy of the city, and under these circum- stances claim to have something to say as to the distribution of the fat things;. but there ig still another outside clique of spoils-seeking politicians, headed by certain persons who claim influence with the powers at Washington, and desire to regulate matters their own way. This is a very important matter ; and accordingly they have been actively engaged in organizing their forces in a certain room at the , New York Hotel. This organization is headed | by Daniel E. Sickles, a member of Congress elect; Isaac V. Fowler, the Postmaster; Robert J. Walk- er, the defunct Secretary of the Treasury, with the head and tail of the Libby party. ‘They de- sire to control the New York appointments, take the appointment of Collector, Surveyor, and so op, to prevent Mr. Buchanan from falling into the eame difficulties which ruined poor Pierce. If we are not very much mistaken, they are weav,, ing a web for Mr. Buchanan which wi)] entangle him in troubles equally as disastrous as those by which poor Pierce was broken down. Now that weare in the spot, we shall explain all these mat- ters, and endeavor to fuse all the hard shells, soft shells, and Rochelles, into one harmonious mass, so that the new administration may not be pros- trated by the same influences which destroyed poor Pierce. Mr. Buchanan is worth saving from the trap which caught poor, pitiful, insignificant Pierce. A Saupe or THE Lor.—A few days ago, we gave come rough sketches of the new Aldermen and Councilmen, by which attention they should have felt flattered; but it appears that in one in- stance the feeling was, “on the contrary, quite the reverse.” One of the dignitaries was mortal. ° ly offended, and writes us an indignant note, which we give below, without altering a single comma:— Novampen 2ist 66 Sin havin; ¢ noticed an article In your issue of tne 20th inet. in ‘whieh you bave seen fit to reflect on one of tne Council men as a dealer in old booilege, | take the iiberty of apswortpg the article in question, bDleiving as | do that. It in intended for me, whatever the Ooupation of your in- forment is or may have been | know not, therefore | cap make 50 comments upon it but this much | will say that apy buisness bowever humble if an honest one detracte nothing in my estimation from the character or bonesty of the man, tn conclusion sir—I do vg doubt but what your informants seat of hovour, at some time or other pave rote mee neaeeree, with the toe of some gentle- the legs of which may have been in my pos- pene oe in eo Jove of fairp'ay ana our willingness to do Justice when required ! ask Jeu will give thle a place ts Mell ena Mn J remain yours one of the Teencinen MICHEAL’ SITE, per Jops Lzayy Heater at cor Mulbery It will be seen that Mr. Smith has crude talent as a letter writer, and we advise him to put him- self under the tuition of Mr. Stephen H. Branch, whose talents in this line are too well known to need commendation at our hands, Mr. Branch, too, could give the new Councilman some lessons in practical stateemanship which would elevate the tone of that honorable body. Mr. Smith has an easy flow of wit and humor which will make him shine in debate, and we hope to hear him il- luminate the Council chamber with his ton mots, As to his calling, we said nothing in disparage- ment of it; we simply made the statement that one of the Councilmen was a dealer in old boot legs ; Mr. Smith comes forward to acknowledge and defend his vocation ina manner that does equal honor to his head and heart. AJ] the deal- ers in old boot legs ought to be proud of Smith, and give him a banquet 4 la Peabody. The city ought to be proud of Smith. Everybody ought to be proud of Smith. Vive Smith! THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Affairs in W: THE DIFFICULTIES WITH GRANADA—NEW SUBJECTS TO BE SETTLED—THE PANAMA MASSACRE AND POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. Wasminaton, Nov. 23, 1856, I understand there are two subjects to be arranged between the governments of Now Granade and the United States, The principal one is that of the Panama massacre. In reference to it, the United States will require that not only full indemolty and repa- ration be made for that outrage, but that, aiso, satisfac- tory provision be made to protect our citizens residing on or pasting through the Isthmus from ipsult and injury in future. The second and less important matter for settles ment is a postal treaty between the two governments; Dut as this treaty will bave more or lees bearing apon the interests of the Panama Railroad, it is not wiihout ite share of importance. The New Granadian governmend desires to have both subjects embraced within the one convention. Our government, however, objects to that Proposition. Its idea is, that as the Panama massacre. ‘was an accidental or extraordinary occurrence, \ts set~ Uement should be Kept distinct from every otuer mat ter. In this view of tho matter our government is un- doubted)y correct. Lamagervirim, N. J., Nov. 23, 1866, A colored boy, named Elijah Johnson about 12 years. old, was shot here yesterday by hie brother, while out gunning, and died ina fow hours. The brother declares it was accidental, but a white boy who witnessed the af- fair, says that the boy who fired the shot deliberately took atm and fired at his brother in a ft of anger: News by the Southern Mall, Battimona, Nov. 23, 1866) New Orleans sapere of Monday last are received. They centain returns of the election in Louisiana, mostly oft ficial, which show a majority of 1,618 for Bochanan, Judge Larvé, of New Orleans, formerly editor of tho Cracent, died suddenly on the 15th inet, ‘The Richmond Enquirer declares the rumor that Gover. nor Wise is about to call an extra ecesion of the Virginia Legislature to be without foundation. ‘The President of the Georgia Central Railroad has ad- dressed a letter to the London Times, denying the truth ov the ridiculous dueHing story sent to tha paper by a Mr, +rrowsmith. The Prosident says that he was tn Savan« nah on ihe 28th of Angust last, and knows that there is ‘not one word of truth in the statement. ——— The Knoxville at Suk Woke Savana, 22, 1866. The steamor Knoxville bas arrived here altor « passago cf fifty-seven hours, from New York, Markets. Naw Ontnaxe, Nav. 21, bog to-day 8 oco balen, At a decline of Interior quainte qualities. mee sales 01 the 61,600 baler. The Figg Fone now 26,000 bales ahead of” same eso Toe of the week 9,000 cont at tase, a "8,0 boon ; receipts Of the woek, 22,000 bags: Oswneo, Nov. 27—7 P. M. Wheat without material be anda he Vana ; ealee 7,600 barrels white Canadian at ebeut 1,600 bales, at irregn! full peidesy anlee Of the then 90,000 are stent y at former prices; rates £9,200 . Bevrat 7, 23~7 P.M. Flour declined. Prior 800 bbie. at $6 75 for exwa State abe H# 22), 0 9¢ 25101 extra Obio Double extra Canatign