The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1857, Page 4

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CREISTY & WOUD's MINSTRELS, 444 Broad way ‘Brarortan Minst MECHANTIO® AALL, 472 Broad —Neceo MELODIEs— ‘Tux Ficutmg Ponies—By Bavanr’s Muvsteis Sew York, Monday, September 14, 1857. whe sews, The Baltic, with four days later news from Ea- rope; the Oentral America, with two weeks later advices from California, the South Pacific and Cen- tral America, and the Empire City, with later intel- ligence from Havana, are now due at this port. ‘They are probably off Sandy Hook detained by the dense fog, and may be expected as soon as the ‘weather will permit them to enter pert. The letter of our correspondent at Curacao, pnb- fished in another column, contains some important news with reference to the revolution in San Do- mingo, and the progress of the strife now going on between the partizans of ex-President Santana and the government of President Baez. The recall of Santana, who is in exile at St. Thomas, and his return to power, are demandec bv his triends. The Baez party, being bard pressed, had formed an alliance with the Haytien Emperor, Soulouque, who bad despatched assistance to he aly. Toe war raged with much fury and bloodshed. At Cura- cao on the 26th ult., the weather had moderated, atter an oppressive heated term, by refreshing sho #- ersof rain. The islend was very heultiy. Planters were sustaining beavy losses bya wholesale running off of slaves, who escaped the vigilance of the fort sentinels by swimming along a line, under water, to & boat, to which the end of it was fastened. News of the approaching abolition of slavery by the Datch government had been received, but it was thought that no great snock would be suffered by the trading community in consequence of the change. By an arrival at this port yesterday we have files of Rio Janeiro papers to the 8th ult. They contain very little news of general interest. It was pro- posed to lay down a line of snbmarine telegraph to connect all the important points on the coast of Brazil. At Rio large sales of coffee, at firm prices, had been made, and freights had improved some- what. We have news from Havana to the 3d inst. One | of the journals reports an improvement in financial | affairs, while on the other hand it is stated that busi- | ness had not recovered from its late prostration, | and the worst bad not yet been realized. The crops throughout Cuba promise an abundant yield. In the interior the general health wus considered as quite } satisfactory, and no more sickness prevailed at the ports than is usual at this season, | Our files from Burmuda are to the 2d instant. | There was no local event requiring notice. The weather was exceeedingly mild, with cool northeast breezes. The country was rejoicing on account of abundant rains. The bark Evadne, which arrived at this port yes- | terday from the Chincha Islands, reports that on the | Cth alt., in latitade 6 47 south, longitude 34 west, she spoke the United States steam frigate Minnesota, | from Norfolk bound for China. The Minnesota sup- plied the Evadne with provisions. The Metropolitan Police Commissioners are to convene this morning, pursuant to their last adjourn- ment, doubtless much refreshed with their long va- cation. Many rumors are afioat as to the probability of an early selection of a Commissioner to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Dra- per. It is stated that the three republicans will vote together as heretofore, and that a member of the op- position will unite with them in electing a somewhat prominent lawyer, supposed to have considerable influence with the Insh Catholics. It is to be hoved that some amicable arrangement can be efiected expeditiously, that the requisite quota of pstroimen for this city may be immediately se cured. Our city churches are re-opening with the gradual retarn of our church going citizens from their sam. mer rambles. There were on the list yesterday the Fifta avenue Baptist church, corner of Thirty-fifth street, Rev. Sidney A. Corey, pastor; the Church of the Locarnation, corner of Twenty-eighth street and Madison avenue, H. C. Montgomery, rector, and the Grand street church, Rev. Dr. Thompson. Archbishop Hughes dedicated yesterday afternoon the Roman Catholic charch at Tarrytown, which has been partially rebuilt, owing to its having been biowa down during a severe storm some time since. ‘The new building is a very nea! structure, and was crowded atan early hour. The Archbishop perform- @d the dedicatory services, dressed, of course, in fuli canonicals, and afterwards delivered a sermon of an hour's length, giving them much religions advice, and particularly enforcing the necessity of their ob- terviug & proper degree of decorum and reverence in and about the church. He also took occasion, as many Protestants were present, to epeak at some Yength upon many of the controverted points of their religious belief. ‘Toe annexed table shows the temperature of the ‘atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind Currents, and the stave of the weather, at three pe- iods during each day, viz: at 9 A. M.,and 3 and 9 ad Paturday—Morning clear, fmm, clear night cloar Banday—Clear and coo! all day; “lent, c’e.r ant cont Monday—Worning, clear; aftern on, car and warm wig bt, clear and col. Tuesday —Morning, clear, sfvernoon, clear and picaran\ ht. ok ar ednesday —Morning, clear; afternoon, clear and plea war! night, Clewr Thoreday — Morning , clear, afternoon, clear and pleasant mig bt, clear Friday—Morning, clear; afternoon, clear and picasant, ight, clear Hate Freight engagements of grain on Ratarday to Liverpoo! were large, and comprined ab vet 120,000 bi la of wheat, fe bulk, ab 64 a 64d, and wt Od. in abip’s bags. Flour (Ore Rinotresly taken, about 6,000 bia havling been en ered wt Le 64 per bbi , and about 800 bales of cotton a Fe4 © 6094. perDb., which wee an adyance, Within the ’ pant eight Cays, ending yerterday, the ehipments of wnea beve not deem less than about 60,000 bushels, besides consisersble lots of flour and sugar. The light revetpte ®nd diminisbed stooks of common grades of Siete and Wertern flour caused @ sligtt improvement in «ricer, while other desc iptions were unchanged che sales were rather larger than for severs! previous dave. Wheat was beavy for all graces, and lover, except god to prime ebipping lois, of which sales were freely made st prices quoted elsewhere. Oorn was firmer, with ealsn of Weetern mixed at 710 a 720 Pork was firm, with «alos of mews af $26 «6 Bagars were steady, with rales in bond, for export and refining, and to the grocery trade, without cnarge tp prices, Ths trapsactions embraced a yout 808 bi de, Cubs musoovado at rates given in snoiher columa Coffee was steady, and alos were moderate. Whe Democracy at Syraucuse—New Schooi Polltictans We bave given in another place a letter from our special correspondent at Syracuse. This let- ter closes up the record of one of tae most inte- resting political bodies that has ever assembled in this State. We are fully aware that to the superficial ob- server the Democratic State Convention which met at Syracuse on Thureday of last week, and diseolved on Friday, presents only a picture of “union and harmony,” somewhat varied by per- sonal quarrels, and somewhat impaired by the want of unanimity in the nomination of Judge Denio. Our correspondent raises the curtain and gives us a peep behind the ecenes, and we trust that the democracy of the city and State will read and ponder well what we have to say to them to-day. The Convention ostensibly met to transact the u-val routine business—to nominate a ticket, and to adopt a platform—but the body was really transformed into a debating society for the discussion of the pereonal quarrels of city politicians, The Wood and the Sickles men went to Syracuse with the same ohject in yiew—namely, to procure an en- dorsement from the rural districts, Now, it has always happened that the country democracy has entertained the most profound contempt for their brethren of the metropolis. The specimess of leading democrats who have been sent from this city as members of the Legislature and dele- putes, have not been calculated to give gentlemen in the rural districts a very elevated idea of the qual:fications required to hold office in this city. They have come very fresh and very dirty from the people, while their leaders, not lacking poli- tical alvlity have always been found wanting in common honesty. The country politicians have nothing to gain from the city leaders, and, there- fore, they have thrown them overboard witbout the slightest ceremony. Thus we see Mayor Wood and Mr. Sickles both at Syra- cuse last week leading opposite factions, and esch working for am endorsement at the hands of the democracy of the State. The country del- egates kpowiog full well the feeling of their conttiwents, declined to take any sides in the matter. Sickles was beaten at every point, and the Mayor received a severe blow in the nomina- tion of Judge Denio, which, as we shall show, was made not to rebuke the city democracy, but to further the ends of certain country politicians | who are greater at the stock board than upon the forum. Whoever shall read the records of this Conven- tion carefully, will not fail to see that its result will be to injure rather than to benefit the demo- cracy in this State, and to weaken rather than to strengtben the administration of Mr. Buchanan, The ticket is made up of those very respectable | persons who are always set up to be knocked down. Thesingle exception to this statement isthe nomination of Judge Denio, to effect which certain very strong influences were brought to bear. The resolutions are like those which pave the way to perdition, and they form a direct contradiction to the previous action of the Convention. The ground taken by the democratic press of the State bas been that the November election was purely @ local matter, and that there was one iseue only to be made—i. ¢. that of opposition to the infamous acts of the last Legislature. Had this ireue been put directly to the people, with a ticket on which every man was pledged to op- pose these acts in every possible way, there was a possibility of carrying the State, or at least of making eo marked a gain upon the vote for Mr, Buchanan as to teach the party in power that there was a step beyond which they could not go. But we find the Syracuse proceedings full of contradictions, the most fatal of which is that while condemning by resolution the acts of the Legislature relative to the city of New York as being opposed in every way to the theory and practice of the party, one half the whole number of delegates voted to re-nominate the very man by whom these acts were legally affirmed in the court of lastresort. Mr. Seymour indulged in much epecial pleading as to the inde- pendence of the Judiciary; but the truth of the | matter is that this nomination affords the beet proof of ite degradation, as we shall see. In former times, within our remembrance, poli- ticians worked for political ends only. They labored solely as politicians, with certain mearures and principles as thetr eharta, and cer- tain men as their standard bearers. Each party had ite distinct leaders, who fought openly, honest- ly and faithfully. How is it now? We find the leaders of all the parties in this State working eecretly together for stock gambling purposes, and using thrir political influence to advance or deprers railway securities, without regard to the consequences to the public at large. Our Legis lature is small and very easily Jed. It has been of Jate years a ready tool in the hands of the managers of the Central Railroad, all of whom are leading politicians of different parties. They inflate or depress the stock at their pleasure. At present they have some heavy work on hand. They have succeeded in “bearing” the canals so that inetead of being @ revenue to the State they are a cource of taxation; and they hope to find a Legislature pliant enough to sell the ca- nals to the railroad company. They have also to carry through the consolidation of the Hudson River Railrosd with ‘the Central, and to swamp and tinker up the act authorizing the construc tion of a bridge across the Hudson river at Albany. They bave lately made a financial panic in order to depress theit stock and buy itin. We fey made a panic, because all these financial crises are made by the financiers themselves, Who but they would know of their failures, or defalcations, or over-iesues, if they did not cause it to leak out to advance their own ends? When the Albany financiers have finished their work with the Legisiature they will proceed to inflate the stock, which will go up like @ balloon. The politicians will sell out—then bear it down again then bay—then inflate again by some new legielative grante, and s0 on ad libitum. To make this plan perfect it is necessary to keep the Court of Appeals in their hands, and as they reason that a Judge who could decide in favor of the late acts of the last Legislature must be equal to anything, they reeolved to keep him on the bench. It is probable, therefore, that he will recerve the republican as well as the democratic vomipation. Now we want the masses of the voters of all parties to understand that there is a perfect mu- tue! uoderstanding between their leaders—the men that they follow like sheep. That this ua- derstanding is eolely for stockjobbing and other financia} porpores—that the leadere care nothing about any of the principles involved in theselec- tions, or the ques ions which agitate the people. What are Dred Scott decisions, municipal police laws or Kaneas affairs to them? They care no- thing about the administration of Mr. Buchanan. All their efforte tend toward their personal ag- grandiz ment by means of their speculations io Central Railway stocks. The success of the State ticket is a matter of no great importance to them; their influence in the rural districts is overwhelm- ing. It is the influence made by wealth, social and political position—the strongest power in our country. They cover their plans with a sort of bonhommie impossible to reaist, aud they carry the Legislature—no matter what its political complexion may be—in their breeches pockets. The alliance of ‘hese men is perfect; apd for their purposes it is of no sort of conse- quence whether the party loses or wins. Per- baps they can make more by defeat than by vic- tory, for the Assembly, usually very ductile, was last year as soft and pliant as clay in the hands of the potter. It was a beautiful body for these stock gambling, kite flying financiers. They had only to ask, and their wildest dreams were rea- lized. One more such Legislature as that of 1856-7 and the Albany politicians would all amaes great fortunes; but what would become of the good vame and fame of the State? Let no one be simple enough to believe that they care anything about that. To them “Excelsior” refers only to the stock list when they are in the mar- Ket to sell, News rrom Uran—Terrire ExcrremMent AMONG THE Mormons.—The copious details of the news which we publish from our latest files of the Mormon newspaper organ at the Great Salt Lake, will attract this morning the special atten- tion of our readers. Brigham Young, fully ap- prised of the intentions of the administration, has stirred up the Saints to an awful pitch of ex- citement. They threaten the extermination of the United States army and the destruction of the government. The “army in Flanders” never swore more “terribly” than does the Mormon prophet and his apostles. He says :— “T declared in Nauvoo, when my enemies looked me in the face, that I would send them to hell acroes lots, and I ask no more odds of all hell to- day ;” and if this is from @ speech, as printed in his official organ at Salt Lake, we may conclude that he is in earnest, and boldly throws down the gauntlet of treason and rebellion. But with all their blasphemy, all their cursing. swearing, threats and calculations, we can assure the Mormon prophet, his apostles and his de- luded followers, that a detachment of the United States army is on its march to Utah, competent to enforce submission to the laws, should any resistance be attempted. There is no help for it. The Mormons must make up their minds for the abolition of their infamous institution of polygamy or prepare to quit the couastry. It will not be the business of Colonel Johnson to reduce, by the bayonet, the prophet, his apostles and elders to the Gentile arrangement of one wife for each man; but it will be the duty of the army to enforce the supremacy of the laws of the United States in Ucah over all other laws. And where these federal laws may conflict with the local arrangements for the protection of poly- gamy, the latter will have to be abandoned—that is all for the present. It will, however, become the duty of Congress to look a little more deeply into this disgraceful excrescence of saintly polygamy, and to provide a little more directly for its abolition or its ex- puleion than heretofore. Mormondom is, in fact, a public nuisance, which cannot eafely be permitted much longer to disgrace our liberal institutions in the eyes of the world. It is true that the Mor- mons haveeuffered much from lawless persecutions and border ruffian spoliations—that they have not received many special favors from the govern- ment; and that, through habits of industry and perseverance without a parallel in the history of any race or sect of people, they have reclaimed the deserts of Utah and made them blossom like the rose. It is true that their labors in the settlement of those almost inaccessible de- serts, in the irrigation of their fields, and in the erection of their various home manufactures, have been wonderful, and the results almost mi- raculous; but it is also true that their filthy insti- tation of polygamy has rednced this otherwise useful community to a public nuisance, which must, sooner or later, be abated or expelled. Let the Mormons abolish it themselves—re~ form their dirty religion, reduce cach man to one wife, and provide liberally for the re-marriage and eubsistence of their surplus wives and for their children; and having done this, let them conform to the general social laws of the Ameri- can people, and to the laws of the Union, and they will have nothing to fear. On the contra- ry, the government will liberally aid them and protect them, and secure them in the country they occupy against all disturbing introders. Otherwise, if the Mormon community prefer poly- gamy and ite consequences to the countenance of the government and its generous protection, they must prepare for an exodus to some island or islands in the sea where their religious orgies will not interfere with the laws and usages of their neighbors. In the meantime let them not attempt the expulsion of tue United States army: for the immediate result of such a fanatical piece of folly would be the extermination of the rebels, the dispersion of the women and children to the charity of the Gentiles, and the restoration of Utah to the wild Indians, A Francia. Reverstox, Bor No Paxto—To many people it doubtless appears very surprising that while rotten trust compauies, extensive brokers, bankrupt railroad corporations, million- aire stockjobbers and little outside banks are tumbling to the ground among the broken ctockery of a financial revulsion, there should be no panic in this community, But the reason of thie is very simple. Our baoks, established upon the eolid basis of State securities, are sound, The reform, which is pow working so beautitul- ly, is ove of the good things derived from the ex- perience of the tremendous emash up of the rot- ten banking and ehinplaster system of 1837. Our banks bave thus been placed upon a sure footing against all probable contingencies of a monetary revulsion—depositors and bill holders feel eecure and there is no run upon the banks, because there is no necessity for it. Thus, too, this revulsion may go on, weeding out rotten outside banks, insolvent merchants, reckless stockjobbers, rick- etty railroads and all sorts of gambling specula- tore, not only without breaking down the honest busipess interests and industrial classes of the country, but to their positive and eubstantial be- nefit. The working masses of the people have nothing to fear from the quiet reduction of real estate, rents and commodities of all kinds to their true values, for this is exactly what they want, Revulsions in Trade—1837 Compared with 1857, We print to-day a series of extracts from the files of the Herp, published twenty-one years ago, which exhibit a faithfal picture of the condi- tion of the monetary and fioancial affairs im mediately preceding the great revulsion of 1837. At that time we foresaw clearly the crisis that was coming upon the community, like a thief in the night, and we warned the public, day after day, and week after week, to be upon its guard, and to prepare for the coming storm. Not only were our admonitions unheeded, but we were abused without stint and beyond all measure The Jazy speculators, whose interest it was to keep up prices of stocks and provisions, so that they might draw the life-blood from the honest aboring classes of the community, howled at us ike wolves disturbed in their lair. Tae sti- pendiary press of the stockjovbers took up the cry, and day after day they made Wall street hideous with their clamor. The hounds of justice were set upon us, and no effort was left untried to hunt us down even to a Shortly after we had the unheard of audacity to give a daily report of the money market and transactions in Wall street, which as that time no jourval thought of giving, we commenced the publication oF a list of failares, as we fouad them reported on Change and among tbe morcaatile community. We supposed that in eo doing we were performing @ service to the commercial public, and we knew that we were doing a favor to all honest men; for, by giving publicity to the names of those who becams# bankrupt, we put the public on its guard against dishonerty and rascality, and prevented ther getiing new credits aud cheating a new set of creditors. But they bought up the poverty-strickea presses of that day, and succeeded in seducing many honest men to believe that in exposing the ra-cals we were injuring the real business men of the city, in precisely the same manner that the Liverpool press is now persuading that community that the London Times is injuring the trade of Liverpool by exposing the fraud and forgery that comes to light there. It was supposed to be the duty of every man to hunt us down, and a circums‘ance soon occurred of which they gladly availed them- selves, In publishing our list of failures we ac- cidentally misprinted a name. Though the error was amply corrected the next day, and every suitable reparation made by usin our columas, a criminal suit was brought against us, and every effort was made to send us to Blackwell’s Island. But we have assiduously continued our daily and nightly labors as an honest editor since that time; and thanks to our exertions and oar integ- rity of purpose, a new generation of merchants has grown up around us in New York, with other ideas of commercial integrity and commercial honesty. To-day areligious newspaper makesa feature of its weekly list of failures, and every merchant knows that in giving it information of new bankrupts he is doing his fellow merchants good service. If a similar mistake occu’s in the list, as happened in a recent instance, instead of instituting criminal euits and endeavoring to thrust the editor into prison, as was done with us, the parties concerned merely call upon him and some of the leading journals and reqaest a correction of the error. This speaks well for the present race of New York merchants, and it is this regard for integrity and determinatioa to ex- pose fraud or dishonesty that gives them their true hold upon the trade of the country, and con:titutes one of the living fountains of the prosperity of our city. ‘The series of extracts from the history of the past, which we publish to-day, will be read with profit by hundreds of thousands all over the country. They will be struck with the similarity that exista between the state of affairs imme- diately previous to the great commercial revul- sion of 1837 and that which exists now. The same wild inflation and vacillation in fancy stocks; the same spirit of speculation in some of the great staples of trade; the same mania for operation in Western lands; the same paralysation of our shipping interest; the tame exorbitant prices of food and the necessaries of life; and the same gradual tightening of the money market. Only one element is wanting to make the pic- ture complete, and that is, the same ignorant tampering by the government with monetary affairs, Happily, the absence of this clement and the great influx of gold from California and Australia, deprives the coming revalsion of the most terrible feature that characterized that of 1837; but the revulsion is not the less certain to come, though we may hope that it will not leave the same wide spread desolation. Fancy stocks that are mere tools for specula- tive gamblers must disappear, and the worthless railroads, canals, coal companies and banks of the present day must take their place alongside of the dead United States Bank, Utica, Mohawk, Morris and other fan- cies of 1836. The exhorbitant prices that have ruled for cotton, flour, sugar, and others of the first staples of commerce and consumption, placing them above the ability of the great mass of consumers, must come down; and the stocks that have been held so long in store by specula- tors must again enter the channels of trade, and give profitable employment to our ships and sailors in spreading them over the earth. It was the attempt of moneyed speculators to monopolize to themselves all the chain of profits that should have been divided between producer, merchant, carrier and retailer, that has paralysed the dis- tributive operations of trade, that has tied up our shipping and left them to rot at our wharves. The revulsion of all this must and will come, and trade in money and products will resume its healtoy condition after it has been cleared of the elements of speculation thatnow dam up the currents of ite life. Thanks to the teachings of the Henan, the connection between the healthy trader and banker, and the epeculator and stockjobber is much less intimate now than it was twenty years ago. More correct principles in flaance and the true theory of trade have been inculcated by our labors upon the younger generation of merchants and finan- ciers, and our warnings are received now in a very different spirit from what they were twenty years ago. It is now well understood that our motives are pure and honest; that we make no war upon individuals or particular corporations, but only upon erroneous principles of trade and finance, false systems of political economy and rasoality in every shape and disguise which it may assume. In doing this we are performing a service to every honest man, and securing the foundation and continuance of a healthy system in trade, Read to-day the teachings of the past, and profit by them, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1857. ee Tue Prosrecr ror ovr Novempar anp De- cemper City Exxcrions.—It is very evident, from the singular stuitification of the Syracuse Convention, that the harmony of the democracy of this metropolis, in our approaching State and city elections, will be only “confasion worse eon- founded” than ever before, Spoils and the new spirit of stock gambling rule the roast, in fact, among all parties and all factions, of high and low degree. Instead of two or three party divi- sions in the field here in November, we shall have perbaps balf a dozen or more, and no end of split tickete and mongrel combinations, But this will be the mere overture to the grand ex- travaganza of ground and lofty tumbling of our December city election, for in that some eight or ten millions of Corporation spoils and plunder wilt be at stake We may, therefore, prepare for such a scrub race upon the Albany oligarchy, the police question, Judge Denio and the Syra- cuse Convention—upon “bleeding Kansas,” ‘bleeding New York.” the Corporation epoils, the Custom Hous¢ spoils, the Tammany equabbles, rum, niggers and lager bier in our city elections —and for such wrangling, plotting, trading and fighting among the mixed and heterogeneous fac- tions of our December canvass—such an outbreak of Bedlam, in fact, as will astonish all parties concerned, and disgust the community. From the late transactions bere, and from the developements at Syracuse, it is manifest that while Mayor Wood in this city contest will have the sympathies of a heavy majority of our peo- ple to back him, we may expect the most extra- ordinary combinations of rival politicians and scheming factions to crush him. Nor should we be surprised if the result of this year’s New York elections were to be substantially the same as that of last November—the success of the ‘Wood movement, as the only remnant still saved from the wreck of the New York democracy. Tae Trung ox Gamprinc.—Our benevoleat cotemporary of the Tribune proposes to us to gamble, for sweet charity’s sake. But we have no taith in this business of gambling, in any dis- guise, or for any purpose. And we had supposed that the 7ribune firm bad seen enough, and suffer- ed enough, from various gambling experiments, to last them for the rest of their lives. One of the fraternity, very recently drawn into the gambling operations of the Washington lobby, had a thousand dollars passed into his pocket and out of his pocket in the most mysterious manner. Another of them, going very largely into railroad and other stock gambling opera- tions, broke down, and has waddled off from the philosophers’ sanctum of the 7ribune, to find such comfort as he can among the lame ducks of Wall street. With such examples as these before us, we are in no mood for gambling, even for the uses of cbarity. When we wish to do a work of bene- volence we do not find it necessary to make it a matter of speculation or gambling, but we per- form the act directly to the point and the pur- pose. We have had no experience, and have no desire to be initiated into such roundabout cha- ritable movements as the Irish Directory col- lections, the Kossuth contributions, or the “Tribune fund” for “bleeding Kansas.” Bat if our Tribune philosophers are really anxious to know the exact extent of the business opera- tions of the New York Heratp establishment they can be satisfied. Our office is open to their inspection, and they may detail a committee of two, three, or a half dozen individuals to exa- mine our books, papers, documents, vouchers, &c., ‘as e00n as it may suit the convenience of Master Greeley. The result will be the discovery that the aggregate issues from this establishment are nearly haif a million of printed sheets per week, argely exceeding. we dare say, the weekly ag- gregate of any other two of the largest newspa- per establishments in the United States. THE LATEST NEWS. The Persia Due at New York on Tuesday. Sr. Jonws, N. F., Sept. 12, 1887. A large steamship, bound west, passed Trepassey at 5 o'clock this morning. It was doubtless the Cunard sieam- ship Poreia, from Liverpool on the Sth instant, if so she is due at New York on Tuceday morning. ‘The ecrow steamer Antelope, which lef Liverpool on the samo day with tho Persia, is oxpeoted at this port to mor. row or Monday, Whe Expected Mews from California and Havana, New Onteaws, Sept. 12, 1857. The steamsbip Philadelpia, from New York on the 24 inst. via Havana, crossed the bar this morning. The stoamehip Central America, from Aspinwall, with qhe Californian mails, aod the Empire City, from New Orleans, left Havana at 9 o'clock A.M. on the Sih inst, for New York. M1ness of Colonel Benton. Wasninctom, Sept 18, 1867. Colonel Benton ta tying here (a a critical condition, with Constipation of the bowels. He is aitonded by Doctors ‘Hall and May, Fire in Roxbury, Mass, Roxaver, Mass., Sept. 13, 1857. A Gre in thie place thie morning destroyed some twelve or thirteen old dwelling houses, ocoupted by Irish fa- milics; alsom very largo unfinished building. The total joas js about $10,000. Markets, New Oatmans, Sept. 12, 1967, Cottom more notive, Sales to day 1,200 halos at 15 Ko. @ 18M for middling, Corn dali and declining Lm | oxonenge 9 per cent premium. Exchange on Now Y: Lalis per cont. Cincago, Sept 13—6 P.M. Flour firm. Wheat closed with an Lp bey ; wales at 680. Corn snoyan:; rales 10, ols A Oats doll. Sbipmonte to Biffaio—28¢ bbis flour, 90,000 Dusbela wheat, 18,000 onehele corn. Shipments to Dawago ~ No flour or wheat, 47,000 bushels corn = Receipte—1,40) dbis. flour, €6 000 bushels wheat 35,000 bushels corn. Onwaco, Sept 126 P.M. Floor quiet and lower. Whost steady. Sales of 18,000 busbels Chicago spring at 0c. Corn inactive Canal freighte—Flouy Sto and whee 100. to New York. Lake Imports to ‘ay—13,000 busbele weet, 7.000 bushels bar- Jey, 1,600 buabete rye. Canal ex porte—-2,300 bbls. floar, 7,060 Bushels whoat, 1,000 bushels barley. extra Iilino * . 26,000 buabels wt 850 for ub‘oago spring, 900 for Mil #n: ie club, $1 10 for common fe Micha red Indiana Corn firmor; sales 16,000 57340, Cloring at tne to borhels at 860 Whiskey e0— 160. for wheat to twenty four hours ending at wheat, 10,000 bushele sor, 12,000 bashels ovis. Canal expcria 61,C00 baahele wheat, 1 Provinawom, Sept 12, 1887, cloths. The Journal rte the market the work 16,600 pieces 60 ‘At Bo 260. Cotton Ie coll, with #mall pales for the week at onobi d prices. Wool —Tno troasies in the money market ‘@ Dearly stagnated ‘rado, and we have consequently falon to report, with a moderate demand wt tho close of the week. daion of the week, €2,100 pounds Tan Fins at Awsnicvs, Ga.—A slip from the office of the Sumter Hepubiionn of Americus, Ga , informa 18 of & destructive conflagration on the 6th fost , which had involved Io rvine « large portion of thatclty H.W ‘Shaw reported lee aout $7,000° Inanrod, Office of the of Planters’ Bank owned by J J Granberry; low out $6C0 The dry goods store of 9. 8 Kendrick, lors aboot $4,000; full Fred, Vi , cones , * ineured , a about $1) \ wned by J. P. Grifin, low of el mated loas between x mI, Lr 000, of which but about we ingured. Joharon & Eveha’ cotton wareh vise and sheds, lowe avout $1,200; not ineured Mr. Johnson's lone ie & potent Cet FO commenced recetving his goods for ti and winter , Of hoavy bagging, rope, and sali, of which anda of bags were in sore, Dramauc ad Musical Satters, ‘The ‘season’ tes now fairly commenced. It was in Gugurated last week with series of performances i which all tbe theatres put forth their ‘best edorts, whten wore duly appreciated by the pablo, ‘At the Academy of Musio we bave bad the “Sonmam ‘bola’ twice, and op Friday “ Lucresia Borgia.” The Past. an repatation of Madame Frezzolin! has been endorsed by the public of New York, and we presume that is sufficient for the purposes of the management, and equal to her own hopes; for New York now siands,in & musical poles of view, next to the great capitals—Paris, London and Vieans, Baving achieved so much, Madame Frezzolini essays to night Leonera in the “ Trovatore,” a réle whieh is familiar to every one, and where she will be gubject to the test of a comparison between Stet mone and LaGrange, ber predecessors in the part {be performance is made atill more inveresting by the fact that Vestvall assumes the rdle of Azacena, which ane origizally performed at the Academy, and in which she hus never been surreared here, The maragement bring forward still another, Signor Maccaferri, who has never yet sang in New York, but who bas been quite successfal im the South The baritone, Vier, is from Havana, whare fhe was muob (iked. He bas lately surg in Phitseighin, and was entirely satisfactory to the people of thas quiet Fural retreat. Frexzoiin! bas a great re. tation im «.v “Tro ‘vatore,’’ and her performance of the lesta.s is sald te be something grand. Mr Thalberg will make his entrée before the public of New York at Nibio’s Saloon, on to-morrow He bas with w an established fame. No artist wears #0 well with the public as Mr. Thalberg, and he deserves all his succoss, At this concert, in addition to Mr. Thalberg, we have Vieuxtemps, who makes his appearence here after an absence of over fen years. Mr Vieuxtemps came to this country at the Commencement of his artistic career. He returned to Europe, and he now comes back to us wiih a first rese reputaiion and tem years additional practice and study. Thus the concert on Tuesday wili be ome of the moat at trective ever given in this ofy. In the dramatic world the most interesting ovent of the week is the re opening of the Broadway theatre this even: fog, with Mr, Char es Mathews. Mr. Mathews is pretty well known here, and we need do no more than to cal) attention tofthe fact that he appears to night in two playe— * Married for Money’’ and “Patter vs. Olatter’’—both of which, we believe, are new to the New York puplis. F om the programme we shovld believe that quite # good Company has been collected to support Mr Mathews, while the stage manager, Mr. FB Conway, himself a thoroughly good artist, will doubtless take care that Mr. Mathews bas every poesibie facility for putting hie plays Properly before the public—somothing absolutely necse- sary in the class of pleoes wherein Mr. Mathews shines to the best advantage. In addition to Mr, Mathews’ pieces, the Broadway gives to night “The Maid cf Croissy,” t= which Mr. James Browne and Mrs. F, R. Conway play the prino'pal parts, At Burton’s theatre Mr. Murdoch hag played during the week to the satisfaction of excellent audiences. Tonight he plays Vepid, !p “The Drama‘ist,” » play which oom- Dines the bitterest satire and tho mort farcical situations A new farce, “A Foartui Murcer Down Town,” will be Procuced here this evening. At Laura Keono’s theatre, Taylor’s comedy, The Vie~ {ims,’’ bas bad » surprising success ~ a sacceas which is due more to the excellent manner in which it was acted and placed upon the stage than to any great mori of the play iteelf, It is, however, a pleasant play, wisn some amusing ske'ches of character, agrecable dislogae, and = moral which is pointed without being above, which morals (o8 the stage) freqnently are. The dill of last wook—Vie tims”? and “A Conjugal Lesson’’—is up for to-night, a suf- ficient guarantee of the success of both picoes. “The Copjagal Lesson,” thanks to Miss Keene and Mr. Jeffer- eon, is destined to approach ite Londo run—eomething over one hundred nights, At Wallack’s theaire “La Fiammina’”’ has been with- drawn from the bills, aud Miss Heron bas returned to ber first love, “Camille.” Is is this character which she plays tonight, and as @ forther attraction, the soldiers of the Mexican war from Philadelphia and New York, with the Governor of Pennsylvania avd the Mayor ef this city, are ‘anpounced to visit the theatre The cast of “Camille” ts & very good one, including Mr. Sothern, Mr. Dyott, Mr 4. H. Davenport, Miss Heron, Mrs. Vernon and Mrs Allen. At Niblo’s Garden, the new ballot “ Acalista’” has proved an entire success. M’lle Rolla’s performance im this ballet is the boat thing in its way which we have had ora long time. “ Aoslista’” to-right, with the Ravels tn The Magic Trumpet.” At the Olympic theatre, Broadway, Mrs. Charles Howard the reigning star. Sho p'ays on thie evewing, Paaline, im “ Delicate Ground,”’ and Don Leander, in “ Tho Lavia- ble Pr.nce.”” At tte Bowery theatre, Mr. Eddy gives s grand dramatic festival in hewor of the Beroes of the Mexican war. The Dill Includes “ Don Cesar de Basan," “Cherry and Fair Star,’’ and “ Is be Joalous?”’ At Barnum’s Musoum, Miss @. L. Williams, called “Tae Welsh Nightingale, evening. Miss Williams appears in @ “ Mono-va.doville” (® Dew word) ent ainment, written by Sam. Lover, and she sustains troive characters and sings seventeen songs, ‘Mise Williams bas an exsvlient repatation in Londua, and ts, no doubt, a good artist. 4 The african Opera—Wood’s and Bryant’s—are still doing an cxcelictt business. Their weekly programmes abound tn tempting varieties of their spesialities. Polttical telligence. A Pamcwrrvove Raquew.—A litle knot of digunion Southern ultras congrogated recently at Baton Rouge, La., and called themselves the Demooratic Congrorsional Uon- ‘vention of the Third district. After passing « series of dis- union and ant! administration resolutions, they nominated Laurent J. Sgurges a candidate for Congress. They also appointed & committee to reques! Mr. Thomas G. Davidson, the regular pominee of a domocraido convention compoved of delegates from every county im the district, to withdraw: The committee performed the duty assigned them; and har. Davideon, in answer to their preeumptaous request, polltely informs them in a letier thes he shail not comply With tho tnvitation, So Mr. Lacrent J. Sigur, if be rune, will Bave to depend upon the strength of his own faction. Fiacrow iy Mana —The annual State election in Maize will take place to day, The only State office to be fliled te that of Governor, for which the repablicans bave somi- pated Lot M. Morrill, a brother ef Anson P. Morrill. My. Morrill was formerly a democrat. Menassoh H. Smith tp the candidate of the demooracy. Cappipats ror GoveRwor or Murvmsora —Hon. Alexaa- der H Ramsay, Governor of Minnesota under Taylor amd Fillmore, is the republican candidate for Governor of the new State. He was President of the Constitutional Com- ‘vention. Crimes and Casuaities i» tne 5 KILLED B18 CHILD WHILE BEATING HIB WiPR Patrick Treston, an Irish plasterer, residing at No. 198 that on Thoreday evening Traston was beating bie ‘moet cruelly, when the neighbors interfered and fer « ime eucceeded tn keeping him quiet, but no they left than Traston recommen*ed the woman, and finally tumbled her sown a tome stairs. She waa mach bruised, but the infant who was in her arma bas since diea from the effeote of the injuries received Ooroner held ap ipquent of tbe a tho child yeatercay. It ls yet to be soon what will be made of the father. ORARGRD WITH KILLING HI8 WIFR ‘The police of the Twenty-first precinct rendered # fam. ing report to the Deputy Superintendent on Saturday, charging one Mathew Bannan wih killing hie wife. Ooro- ner Perry proceeded to No. 168 Kast Twenty-sevonth treet, where the body was Inying, to investigate the afatr, and found the report was pot tras, the woman having died of dineaso, and not Ill treat ae charged. No marks of violence were —S body, Te Wiliza, who made the post mortem examination opinion that Mrv. Bannan died of polmonliis. The Jury rendered « verdict to that FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRULEVOR HOSPITAL. ja an inquest at Bollevoe Hosptial, ow ota, Inte an ordorly at that inetiia. tion, who fell, daring Friday night, from the fourth sory window of the hospital, while In ® tate of intoxtostion, and was of courre fortan’ Barly on Satorday ‘morning one of the pa lente discovered the body lying on by ment, and gave the alarm, when, non investiga tion tsa discovers! to be quite’ cold, and the scolded must have bappened early in the night.’ A\ nine o’togk on the previons evenitg Hanniilin had been helped to hie room, while im @ state of grams intoxication. Th is gap. Foved that ‘hile staggering abont the room he foll oat Sr the window. DRATH BY BURMA, Catharine Connell,» young Irish girl, in the omploy ¢ A. G, Rohardeon, of No. 66 Kast Thirty cighth sureet wae darned to death inet woek by her clothes taking dire fh seome that Catharine was engaged to go ont tom party ‘and retired to her room to dress herself, While thers ker clothes took fire, and before assistance conld be rendered gifl wae so droadfolly burned that she has since of ber injertes. Coroner Perry held the inquest, and (he jury retarned a yordict oC ‘Dom by burns,’ eee ee re ee ee fay oem SOR BE On see BH ee ema A ee Hw eT Re sacs e