The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1857, Page 4

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Mawes —PanToMine OF BORmas. POWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Mrsreaims or Panis— raz or tHE Was Rose Cumron, . BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond street— Bener tux phe Bosuanee. “WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Tae Invisteie Hos- Bawo—Warren, 4 Wivow wiru imurpiate Possessiox— Unscrx Foorus. LAURA KEBNES THEATRE, Broadway—Mr Sox Diana —Huseaxp or ax Hove. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Itantan Oreea L. Trovaroxe. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Afier- noon, Crossing THe Lins—Inish Harmaxen. Evening, Boss or Pax WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 568 Broadway—Gro. Crnis- wer & Woop’s Minstaeis—Parex Pirex Parrex Povar. OLYMPIC, 585 Broadway—PRENpERGast’s MINSTRELS— Rivar Daxxies piace MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Bntant's Minstng.s —Eruiortan EcckNTRICITIES—COLOKED FU IBUSTERS, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘The News. One of the most fiendish and brutal acts of violence that ever disgraced a Christian community was per- petrated in the basement of No. 32 Greenwich street on Friday night. A party of four or five young rowdies then and there forcibly violated the person of an aged and industrious woman named Teresa fipitzlin, and while endeavoring to stifle her cries for assistance, choked her to death. One of the perpe- trators was arrested by the First ward police, but Subsequently, through gross carelessness, was per- mitted to escape. Coroner Connery held an inquest upon the body of the deceased, when a verdict against four men, named Morris O'Connell, James Tool, William Hagan, and a seaman called “Sailor Dan,” was rendered by the jury. Warrants have were issued for the apprehension of the fugitives, and at a late hour last night Tool was arrested by the police as he was leaving house No. 52 Greenwich street in disguise. The other villains are stil] at large. The murdered woman was a native of Switz- erland, and was about fifty-five years of age. Mr. George A. Clark, son of ex-Mayor Clark, and paying teller of the Grocers’ Bank, is discovered to be a defaulter to that institution to the amount of nearly $70,000, and has escaped as yet all the efforts ‘of the officers to capture him. Fall particulars of the defalcation will Le found in another column. The Metropolitan Police Commissioners yesterday accepted the declension by Mr. Draper of the proffer- ed seat in the Board, and upon the nomination of | Mayor Wood, elected Peletiah Perit, President of the | Chamber of Commerce, to fill the vacancy. After a Jong discussion, the Board refused to take any fur- | ther action with reference to the Harlem and New Haven Railroad Company's use of steam below ‘Thirty-first street and ranning the large cars down town. Mayor Wood spoke strenuously in favor of carrying out the ordinance. The General Superin- tendent sent in a communication setting forth the necessity of immediately increasing the force. Legal proceedings were commenced in Philadel- phia yesterday to attach the property of Mr. Thomas Allibone, late President of the Bank of Pennsylva- nia, who recently went abroad under the plea of ill health. The suit is brought by the President and Directors of the bank, who depose that the defendant is indebted to the institution upwards of two hun- dred thousand dollars. The affidavit also states that Mr. Allibone has absconded to foreign parts with a design to defraud his creditors. A letter from our correspondent at Philadelphia, published in another column, gives full particulars of this alleged financial delinquency. The People’s Union Convention met last evening, but took no action with reference to nominations for city officers, preferring to await the movements of the republican and American parties. From the report of the City Inspector we learn that there were 373 deaths in the city during the past week, a decrease of 37 as compared with the mortality of the week previous. The following table exhibits the number of deaths during the last two ‘weeks among adults and children, distinguisling the Bbexes:— Men. Women BY Girls, Total. ‘Week ending Oct. 31.......85 73 142 101 410 Week ending Nov.7.......87 Tl 108 106 873 Among the principal causes of death were the fol- Jowing:— (Convulsions (infantile) Tnflammation of the lungs gestion of the brain, 16 of congestion of the lungs, © of dysentery, 6 of typhus fever, 6 of hooping cough, 7 of inflammation of the bowels, 3 of small pox, 6 premature births, 29 stillborn, and 13 from violent causes, including 3 suicides. ‘The following is a classification of the diseases and the number of deaths in each class of disease during the week:— Bones, joints, tee Brain and ne Gonerative on Heart and blood vessels Langr, throat, &e Old AGC. as | fikin Ae, and eruptive fevers Stillborn and premature births rite: HH Btomach,, bowels and other digestive organs, 99 85 Tocertain seat and general fevers » 3 Urinary organs... 0 c8se0ee0 le 6 DOU ss 000000 ceeees . siiisesisil na ‘The number of deaths compared with the corres. ponding weeks in 1855 and 1856, was as follows ;— wok ending Nov. 5 ieee. ‘Work ending Oct. 81; 1867 . Week ending Nov. 7, Y96T.... occ cscesceecseensses ‘The nativity table gives 259 natives of the United Btates, 63 of Ireland, 30 of Germany, 9 of England, 4 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign Countries, ‘There were no jory trials in the General Sessions yesterday, Judge Russell having appointed Satur Gay for hearing motions and sentencing prisoners. On motion of the prosecuting officer, and in com Pliance with the wishes of the complainant, a nolle prosequi was entered in the case of Gilbert G. Sew- ell, indicted for false pretences. Thomas Ragan, convicted of forgery, in having a large quantity of Counterfeit money in his possession, with intent to Otter it, was sent to the State prison for five years find four months. At the request of the Spanish Consul, the Jodge suspended judgment on William Oliver, guilty of an stiempt at grand larceny, he NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1857. promising to ship Oliver and his wife on a vessel about to sail fora foreign port. Morris Lunnigan, convicted of an assault on Capt. Stone, of the steam- boat Plymouth Rock, was fined six cents, Judge Russell said that the defendant, who was a hack- man, was discharging his duty when wantonly at- tacked by Capt. Stone. Counsel for Jobn B. Holmes, arrested yesterday, charged with forging his wife’s name to a deed, moved for his admission to bail. The Assistant District Attorney observed that the evidence against the accused was over- whelming, and in view of the magnitude of the offence, he opposed the motion. The Judge took the papers and promised to give his decision on Monday. The prisoners who were to have been sentenced by Recorder Smith were remanded, he having sent a message that he would not preside till the close of the term. Capt. Clarke, of the schooner Pilot's Bride, which arrived at this port yesterday, reports that on the 15th ult., while in the harbor of Porto Cabello, Joseph Silve, a seaman of the schooner, stabbed Thecdore Miller, mate of the vessel, from the effects of which he died. Miller was a native of Elizabeth City. Despatches from Malaga to the 2lst ult., received by the Canada, report the stock of raisins as very much reduced, owing to a large demand for Europe having sprung up. Prices had advanced generally, and were still going up. ‘There was more doing in cotton yesterday. There were several English orders in the market, ready to be filled as fast as supplies come to hand, and arrivals are commonly sold afloat, having but little to go into store to be added © our limited stock. The sales made were based upon good middling Guif cottons, at about 133, cents, and mid- dling uplands at 1234 cents. There was more flour on the market, with increased supplies, which caused prices to fal! off from 6 to 10 cents per barrel. The sales, however, were pretty freely made at the reduction, including par- cels for export. Wheat was also lower for Western grades of red, with increased receipts, while the demand was ac- tive and the sales large for export, at rates given in an- other column. Corn was scarce, with moderate sales of Western mixed at 75c. Pork was quite active, at the decline previously noticed; closing at $15 50a $16 for prime, and at $1975 for mess. Sugars were in fair de- mand, but somewhat less active, while prices were with- out change of moment. Molasses were selling more freely, and at rather better prices. Coffee was steady and quiet. Grain freights to Liverpool were higher, and wheat was freely taken, chiefly in ships’ bags, at 9d, with some in bulk at 8. Flour was taken at 2s. a 28, Sd., and cotton to the extent of about 600 bales, at 5-324. Progress of the Financial Struggle. The week which commences this day must be, in some respects, the most important of the financial crisis. We shall hear before the week is out what effect the news of the suspension of specie payments by the banks of this city has had in England and on the continent of Europe; and we shall be able to calculate with some cer- tainty on the course which the current of spe- cie is likely to take during the next quarter. We are already apprised that the enormous disorganization of the foreign exchanges which brought trade to a dead-lock some time ago is now partially corrected. Exchange on London rose to the legal par—109—during the past week; and though but a few sales are reported as high as this, and the bulk of the business done on Friday was done at 108 or thereabouts, certain bankers held out as high as 110. In confirmation of this, near a quarter of a million of dollars was shipped, in specie, per Baltic; and it is generally understood that over a mil- lion will be sent out in the Persia, on Wednes- day. If we could chronicle, conjointly with this, a restoration of the tidal current in the domestic exchanges, one might reasonably count on at least a prospective recovery for trade, and restoration of confidence. But for the present, we note but few symptoms of a rational movement toward the equaliza- tion of domestic exchangea. The general dislocation which took place a few weeks since seems to have been too radical to admit of rapid recovery; the most exorbitant and absurd rates of exchange are still charged for the transmis- sion of money between places where funds ought to be current at both. We hear for in- stance of a short railway connecting two lead- ing cities of the Union: at either end of this line the funds which are current at the other end are liable to a discount of five per cent. Is not this ridiculous? Much of the trouble arises from the desire of merchants, bankers and brokers to keep out of business, and their reluctance to purchase paper at any rate, how- ever good apd reliable. This of course will soon disappear; as soon, in all probability, as we have news from England of the way they stand our suspension there. Amore pregnant cause of the disorganiza- tion of the domestic exchanges is the foolish and selfish refusal of many of the producers of the South and West to send their grain and cotton to market at present prices. We have seen it denied in some Western papers that there is any holding back for higher prices among the grain and wheat growers. The ab- surdity of this denial can be best established by asimple comparison of the market prices at Chicago and the other producing ports with those of New York; from which it will be seen that it is only in rare instances that flour or grain can be shipped hither at a profit. The same thing is true of the Southern cotton. ‘The planters, like the farmers, reason that the war in India, which will cut England off from & supply from thence, must tend to enhance prices, and hence they hold on to their supplies. It is very significant that we have already sent South more gold than they can use in forward- ing their crop. Both classes of producers pro- pose to make a trifle of money by ruining the merchants of New York. This is the true main cause of the disorgani- zation of domestic exchanges. There was noth- ing to prevent large purchases of grain by our Western debtors, and their shipment to their creditors here in liew of bills or gold; and such payments would in every instance have proved satisfactory. But our rural friends did not want to pay at all. This difficulty must be got over—the people in the West must pay up, a* far as they can; their high priced lands, and grand stores, and costly city lots must be sacrifieed under the auctioneer’s hammer, and real estate depreciate toone half or less its value, before permanent r e- lief can be had by commerce and the country at large. So long as the country owes us and doesn’t pay—bolding meanwhile millions of acres of land at fabulous fancy prices; so long as wo owe Europe and don’t pay—hanging on to our high priced goods, and costly houses and sus- pended paper, so long will trade fail in every effort to recover from the revulsion. Liquida- tion—thorough, universal liquidation—as under the operation ofa bankruptcy act—ie an essential preliminary to the restoration of confidence and the revivification of sound commercial inter- course. Until this takes place, trade will lan- guieh, merchants fail, and rich men will use their money to gamble in the yet surviving stocks in Wall sireet—the only article of com- merce which ie likely to be benefitted by the situation. Some of the Minor but Remarkable Effocts of the Finanelal Revalsion. It must not be supposed that the effects of the money panic will be or are confined to the sus- pension of banks, the insolvency of railroad companies and commercial firms, the depre- ciation of paper securities, the withdrawal of work from the industrial classes, and the gene- ral paralyzation of trade. It has brought about, and will bring about, changes which, though they may not be immediately noticed, will exercise a considerable influence on our habits. In fact, it may be said that the mone- tary crisis has metamorphosed our whole social and business existence. Whether the metamor- phosis is to be a mere temporary affair, or whether it is to be of long duration, is a mat- ter of speculation into Which we do not care to enter, and which may be safely left for time and circumstances to determine. Some few of the more striking features of the change, how- ever, may be profitably noticed at this time, as they will form texts on which to base argu- ments and conclusions. In the first place, it must be apparent to the most superficial observer that the policy recent- ly adopted by several of the largest importing houses in throwing open their warehouses to retail purchasers at wholesale prices, is destined to have the effect of changing the whole course of trade as between importers, jobbers, re- tailers and purchasers. The last three weeks have opened the eyes of the New York ladies to a new channel to rich and rare goods. They find that in the importing houses, opened on the retail principle, they can buy for twenty dollars what some months ago they would have had to pay forty for; while, at the same time, they have unlimited assortments to select from. And while they can thus buy at fifty per cent under former prices, it is not pretended that the importers are selling at a very great sacrifice. They may be selling at less than the jobbing prices; but that they can afford to do, inasmuch as now they sell for cash, while they themselves buy on credit and would have to sell to the job- bers on credit. . With the insight thus acquired by the ladies as to the real value of silks and dry goods generally, it is not to be supposed that they will readily consent to a re- turn to the old system. It seems impos- sible, indeed, that that trade can, for along time to come, get back into its old channels. It was no wonder, therefore, that the retail dealers protested against this revolutionary course of the importers. It has ruined them for the pre- sent, and its effects will continue to be disas- trous to them, even after the new plan shall have been discontinued, if, indeed, it ever be discon- tinued. This system has been carried out for years by Stewart & Co., and with great profit to all concerned. It has now been, under the pres- sure of the financial crisis, resorted to by other importing houses, and they find it to work well. It has enabled them to realize hundreds of thou- sands of dollars for goods which otherwise would have lain on their shelves for many a month, or which would have been re-shipped to the manufacturer. Instead, however, of its being a mere temporary expedient, we have no doubt it will be the regular practice for importing houses in this city to have a re- tail department at which goods can be sold di- rect to consumers at a profit of from fifteen to twenty per cent. Importers will find this much safer and more profitable than credit transac- tions with retailers, and consumers will effect a saving, as compared with former prices, of fully twenty per cent. It is quite usual in Paris and other Continental cities. Even manufacturers there do not refuse to sell goods at retail. To be sure, the general adoption of such a course of business would prove ruinous to many of the retail dealers. But it seems now to be inevitable. Should the old retail prices be put up again, there would be no purchasers, Ladies have rendered a successful recurrence to the old plan impossible, at least for years to come, as they have taken advantage of present circumstances to lay in large stocks of goods. The breaking up of retail business in this way will necessarily cause large numbers of stores in Broadway, the Bowery, Canal stroet, and other business localities, to be left vacant, and will thus operate in causing a great reduction of rents. There will not be many complaints if this latter prediction should be verified, for the rents of business houses aap held at ridicu- lously high figures. Dwelling houses will be also affected in the same way, but not to the same extent. A corresponding advantage will probably be found in the increased number of strangers who will be induced to come here from all parts of the Union to make family purchases, Thus, the good will, as usual, counterbalance the evil. Another very important alteration in the course of the trade will be effected by the short credit system, which is being everywhere advo- cated and adopted. There is no good reason why country dealers should have goods on six or nine months credit. It is not necessary for them, if they cannot afford to pay, to lay in more than a month’s or two months’ stock at a time. The telegraph and the rail- road remove all difficulty on that score. The excuse that farmers will only pay for their goods once or twice a year is frivolous, be- cause, asa clase, the farmers can afford to pay as they go better than any other class in the com- nity. There is no season of the year at which the farmer has not some especies of stock or produce to dispose of; and he should not have facilities extended him so as to enable him to speculate on a rise. Viewed in this light, alone, the system of short credits will be found highly advantageous. Another remarkable developement of the present epoch is the immense amount of specie which it has brought into active circulation. Railroad conductors and others notice the fuct. They get less bills offered them than ever be- fore. There seems to be no scarcity of coin, even although the money market is stringent. Small bills are disappearing, and the attempts to revive shinplasters have utterly failed. This is a good occasion for our imitating many of the other States in excluding all bills smaller than five dollars; and we hope that a move- ment will be made in that direction. It would ensure a continued circulation of coin. It has been also remarked that few people think of paying their debts now-a-days. From the small retailer up to the importer whose business averages twelve millions a year, every one is in debt; and therefore—all being similarly situated—there is no pressure of cre- ditor upon debtor. In fact, you could not aston- ich a man more, just now, than by going to him, if you are his debtor, and paying him your debt in full. Not only is coin more plenty in the hands of the million, but the bank voults are also mose flush than usual. The amount of specie in the vaults of the banks of this city last week was $12,000,000—an increase over the preceding week of $2,000,000. Since then the Canada arrived from England with a million in epecie and the Star of the West from California with a million and ahalf. And all this time there has been very little drain on the country for specie. We were never so rich in all repre- sentatives of wealth as we now are. We can export products to the amount of hundreds of millions of dollars; and we need import com- paratively nothing. What an anomalous posi- tion when taken in connection with the panic! But the most striking feature of the times is the economy everywhere exhibited. It has be- come the order of the day, and is one of the good effects of the pressure. It is fash- ionable to wear old dresses and old bon- nets, All branches of business feel that econo- my has displaced extravagance. The tailors say they never had such a flood of old clothes to repair, and such a dearth in the demand for new garments. The conductors of the city rail- road cars observe that hundreds of their old cus- tomers have become impressed with the pleasures of pedestrian exercise. The daguerreotypists have experienced a falling off in business of pro- bably one-half; and even the barbers find that many of their customers either shave themselves or cultivate their beard, and get their wives to cut and dress their hair. ‘These are some of the minor, though by no means unimportant consequences of the revul- sion. We hope that when its more serious effects are forgotten, the beneficial changes that it will have effected in our social and business habits will not be allowed to pass away. Iuportant Movements RELATIVE TO THE Crepir System.—The hardware dealers of New York, Boston and some of the principal cities throughout the country, as well as the members of other trades, have held important meetings recently in regard to the propriety and expe- diency of shortening the time of credits. The necessity of such a movement has been exhibited in a striking manner by the panic under which business of all kinds is now laboring, and which is to a great extent attributable to the excessive expansion of the system. Ata meeting of the hardware trade, which was held in this city on Friday last, a report was adopted in which ‘not a little share of the blame” is laid “upon some of our city journals” for pursuing “a course calculated to produce a panic by creating a feeling of distrust toward many of our solvent corpora- tions.” Now the hardware people are entirely mistaken in the views they have taken regarding the press, for they should know that the press has no power to injure any insti- tution or corporation that conducts its business on sound principles of trade. It is only by ex- posing their mismanagement, their fraudu- lent operations, or their unsoundness, that such institutions and corporations are brought to the ground; and in doing this it isconferring a benefit on the business community. The press is, in fact, the great conservator of the com- mercial and mercantile interests, as well as of the political and social well being of the coun- try; and it is as the conservator of these inte- rests that it possesses so much power and influ- ence. It is in the undue expansion of the credit system, causing over importations, and extrava- gance both in business and living, that we are to find the true causes of the present financial revulsion. Against all this the Heraup has warned the people; and if any of the newspapers have at all aided in bringing about the crisis, it has only been by being faithful recorders of the effects of this system and the faults of the business community. While, however, the hardware dealers have thus taken the press to task for the course it has considered its duty to pursue, they have admitted that it is to the ex- tent to which the credit system has been carried in their own business, as in others, that the pre- sent depressed condition of trade is owing, and they now seek a remedy for the evil in a reduc- tion of the time of credits from six to four months. They have endeavored by their ac- tion on Friday last, to bring their business as near as practicable to the cash system, and in this way to place it upon a firm and healthy basis. The example which the hardware trade of this city, and the tobacco dealers of Boston, have thus set, should be followed up by all the other trades, if they would prevent the periodical re- currence of revulsions like that now upon the country. There is another consideration suggested by the reading of the report already referred to, and which the meeting have entirely overlook- ed. While censuring the press, they appear to have forgotten that they are indebted to it for the facilities it has sfforded them of making their action known to their customers and the members of the trade generally throughout the country. —EEE, Avxoruen Crash Com~o—The Richmond South, in the course of one of its characteristic Jeremiads on Kansas, black republicanism, and the demoralization of the national democracy, Bays — But if the South shall be convinced that Walker has transcended bis authority, and thereby given Kansas to the free soilers—if it aball be convinced that a «chool, calling itself the ‘national’? democracy, has endeavored to close the mouths of those who contend for a practical participation in the common Territory—if it shall believe that ‘national ’? ‘mean nothing but unscrupulous of the government, and except the distribution of the xpoils, we fear it will be impossible to prevent a close and deadly struggle, which will test the strength of our politi cal structure beyond say former example. If this contro versy sball unbapp'ly be re-opened by the counsels of treachery or timidity, there cam be neither makers nor neutrals. Compromise and concession will be thrown Away, and no man can foresee any end but strife, anarchy and disunion, ‘The meaning of all this is that the Southern fire-eaters have resolved upon @ desperate at- tempt to break down the administration in the South upon the Kansas question. The game will be actively commenced with the meeting of Congress—it may be protracted for several months—but the end, we predict, will be the se- cession, not of the Southern States from the Union, but of these Southern ultras from the democratic party of the administration, and heir organization into a little noisy sectional faction by themselves; but they will be as mpotent for mischief as the South Carolina nullifiers of 1832-'33, or as the Georgia and Mississippi secessionisia of 1850, Let them go on, Tue Lrrrix Vin.ats gang of stock gamblers who broke down in Wall street last month, and now are breaking down the sickly Times newspaper, are casting about for ways and means to defeat Mr. Wood’s election for Mayor next month, on the ground that there may be riots next winter. This isthe best reason fox electing Wood, for he is the very man to manage and control these dangerous classes without danger to the city. ‘Tux Wasurnoron Organs anv Tar Conaress Pumtinc.—By many good natured people it is supposed that the Washington Union is the officially recognized central organ of the ad- ministration. But this is a mistake. Mr. Bu- chanan abandoned the idea of a Washington organ with the transfer of Mr. Appleton to the State Department. Since that day the Union has simply been a candidate, upon its own ac- count, including the various parties interested, for the printing of the next Congress, Hence its course, as between the national democracy and the Southern ultras, has been marked by the greatest caution and circumspection. It does not wish to lose the Northern democratic mem- bers of the new House, and it has a mortal fear of giving the slightest offence to the touchy and irrascible Southern fire-eaters. Of course, such @ journal as the organ of the administration amounts to nothing. The ad- ministration is under no necessity of supporting ite claims for the Congress printing, and will have nothing to do with it. It is evident, too, from the presence of another democratic organ in Washington of the reform, rotation and revolutionary school, that there will be a tre- mendous fight in both houses upon this Congress printing among ‘the: ‘numerous and hungry contestants for these rich spoils. And thus we entestain. a lively hope that the solution of this squabble for this enormous haul of the public plund:r will be the establish- ment of a government printing office, in the form ofa public printing bureau, under the gene- ral supervision of the Department of the Inte- rior. The profits of the printing of Congress have become too enormous to be allowed any longer to any one man or firm, or company of spoilemen, and from the wrangling of the differ- ent claimants for a share, the only safe alterna- tive will be to send them all adrift, and thus save to the public treasury from a half million to a million a year. As Mr. Cobb will probably be pinched for funds for his next year’s expenditures, we sub- mit to his consideration the expediency of stop- ping this Congress printing leak of corruption, and of saving the money thus wasted upon party hacks, in order that it may be expended for gov- ernment uses. Governor Wisk anp His Musgets.—It is known that Governor Wise, of Virginia, on an application from the Governor of Maryland, sent him a lot of Virginia muskets, with which to maintain the freedom of the ballot-box in the late Baltimore election. But as the Mayor of Baltimore agreed to undertake the duty in ques- tion, Governor Wise’s muskets were not used, and the Plug Uglies had the election all their own way. But the ques tion which has been raised by some of the Virginia opposition newspapers is, what legal authority had Gov. Wise to send the Vir- ginia State arms out of the State to protect the democracy against the Plug Uglies, in the Balti- more election? This is a knotty question, and will probably involve as much of party contro- versy in the next Virginia Legislature as the doings of Gov. Walker in Kansas, or the politics of Senator Hunter. We predict, how- ever, that Wise will come off victorious upon the Hunter question, the Kansas question, the Walker question, and in the matter of the mus- kets, In the meantime the Governor may con- gratulate himself that his muskets have been returned to Virginia unstained with the blood of the Baltimore rioters, and that Gov. Ligon is not a military chieftain. Tue How. Boony Brooxs is trying daily to get up ariot of the working men against the property of the rich and well-to-do. The Hon. Booby having played his last cards in politics and finance, turns over to do his best in destroy- ing the city and inflaming the different classes against each other. The Booby is hungry after more office—or failing in that, he would take a loan—or failing in that, he would not refuse anew pair of breeches. Anything in a pinch. Tux Hon. Boony Brooks is working day after day to get up a riot on the Baltimore Plag Ugly plan—to excite the native and naturalized citi- zens against each other—to dixgrace New York as Baltimore has diagraced herself; but thus far his emissaries do not seem to succeed, Vorers ms tHe Crry.—By the census of 1855 there are 86,000 voters in this metropolis, of which 43,500 are naturalized and the rest native citizens. Any man, editor, politician, clergy- man, saint or sinner, who in these times tries to set one class against the other isan enemy of human nature, and ought to be ostracised and kicked out of all society, Peace or Tue Crry.—As long as eo firm and determined a Mayor is at the head of affairs as Mayor Wood, there is no danger of riot or bloodshed or trouble in New York. City Politics. MERTING OF THE PROPLE'S UNION CONVENTION. An adjourned meeting of the Peoplo's Union Convention was held at No. 18 Fourth avenue, last evening—A. F. Dow, President, im the chair. On the roll being called, forty four members answered to their names. The Convention consists of eighty-cight delegates, being four from each ward. ‘There was considerable discussion as to the propriety of @ union ticket of the Americans and republicans for the December election, but no decision was come to, the Con- vention thinking it preferable to wait and see what action would be taken by the American and Republican Conven tions. Conversation in regard to the Mayoralty occupied a large portion of the evening The name of Wm. F. Hayemeyer was mentioned with almost unanimous ap. probation in connection with the office. The Convention adjourned, to meet on Monday, the 16th instant, unioas previously called together by the Chair. Political In‘ 5 ‘Tun Stare Fuscrion.—The Albany Argus makes the de- mocratic majority, as far as heard from, 13,135, ‘RNATE. Demoorata. .. ol Republicans. 6 Know Nothings. : 2 Independent republican. 1 Democrata. ‘Tun Cumeasr or THe Unrreo States Hoven ov Rernw sentarives.—The democratic papers of Virginia are advo. cating the election of A. D. Banks, of the Potersburg De mocrat, to be the Clerk of the Uuited States House of Re- presentatives. Faxcrion ix New Jeneey.—The Legislature just chosen in New Jersey will stand as follows:—Senate—democrats, 16; opposition#®. House—demecrats, 88; opposition, 22, Owe oF THR RESULTS OF THR ELMCTION LN MAMACHVERTT.— ‘The Boston Advertiser says:— At six o'clock Inst evening, while the returns of the State election were fast coming in, indicating the sacoess of Mr, Bauks by «large plurality, workmen were busily od in elevating ® sign over the rooms No, 46 State , Which bore the inseription, “ Gardner, Walcott & ‘0., Bankers."” ‘This is one of the signs of the times, The senior mem. ber of the firm is His Excellency Henry J. Gardner, who, freed from the cares and responsibilities of State aifaira, will shortly be able to engage in the avocations of private Me. DeiecaTe rrom Dakoran Twrartony.—On the 13th ult, an election for delegate to Congress was held by tho set. tlements in Dakota Territory, and Alpheus @. Fuller, for- morly of St. Paul, was chosen by the people to represent ‘them in that capacity at Washington, — THE LATEST NEWS. News from Washington. THE FRIGATE SUSQUEHANNA AMONG THE RIFF Pt RATES—DESPATCHES FROM CAPTAIN HUDSON, OF THE NIAGARA—EFYORTS TO RECOVER THE ATLAN- TIC TELEGRAPH CABLE PROOREDINGS IN THE N&- VAL COURTS, BTC. ‘Wastrnetos, Nov. 7, 1867. ‘The Navy Department received to-day despatches frou Captain Sands, of the steam frigate Susquehanna, dated Spezzia, Oct. 14. Captain Sands states that on passing the Straita of Gibraltar he shaped his course along that part of the coast of Barbary known as the Riff Coast, for the purpose of showing his colors and letting the inhabitants, who are understood to be piratically disposed, know that any outrages or depredations upon vessels carrying @ similar flag will bo followed speedily by punishment. Be says further:—‘ On nearing @ point marked Cape Agua, I observed @ body of men and horses and some cannom, mounted on the bluff. Heving cleared the ship for action, 1 landed near the place, and brought four Arabs on board, from whom I endeavored to gain somo information as to who they were and their intentions; but I could lara mothing.’’ Despatches were also received from Captain Hudsoa, @: the steam frigate Niagara. Ho states that he is busdly: engaged, day and night, removing the telegraph cable from. the ship. Six hundred miles had already been landed, and he hoped to have the whole on shore in ten days from date of his despatch. He has been informed by the Direo- tors of the Telegraph Company that they are in troaty, » ‘and making arrangements to manufacture ‘sufficient cable to increase its length to three thousand miles. The com- pany’s engineer is now. engaged with a steamer in an‘at- tempt to recover that portion of the wire which had beea Tun Out previous to ite parting at sea, Postmaster General Brown to-day appointed Philip R Miller Postmaster at Reading, Pa., vice L. H. Wundro; also John M. Dixon, Postmaster at Jefferson City, Missourt, vice MoCracken, deceased. In Naval Court No. 1 to-c» _ Commanders McCauley and Voorhees, and Lieuts. Boyle, Watson and Carter, were ox- amined in behalf of Licut. Chase Barney. Before Qourt No. 2, in the case of Commander Ringgold, Lieut, Stevens was examin | for the government, and Lieut. Rolando for the defen The case of Lieut. Hunt was taken up im Court No. 3, but no progress was made. THY GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. . ‘Wasuincron, Nov. 7, 1857. ‘The War Department has just received despatches con- firmatory of previous reports, that the Mormons are bent on @ resistance of the United States troops. The appoint- ments of the army and general preparations are such that no fears are entertained for the result. ‘The administration has received no particularly impor- tant despatches relative to events in Central America or to Costa Rican movements. No matter what other gov- ernments may do with regard to these affairs, ours will pursue an indeperdent American policy, without entang- ing alliances. Meeting in Trenton for the Relief of the Poor. ‘Trenton, N. J., Nov. 7, 1857. Pursuant to a call in the papers, a large meeting of me- cbanics and laboring men assembled on the commons here this afternoon. Several speeches were made and resohu- tions passed, strongly urging upon the city authorities to take immediate steps to prevent from two to three thou- sand people from actual starvation, Two large bannees were displayed, on which was printed the following:— We ask not alms but work, that our wives and children may not starve. Peace and good will is out motto.’ ‘The New York Election. Aumaxy, Noy. 7, 1857. Returns received from Delaware county seem to make certain the election of Hathaway, republican, ag Senater, ‘The Journal changes none of its figures to-day, except transferring afew Assemblymen, which makes no altera- tion im the footings. The Wisconsin Election. Mitwavxix, Nov. 7, 1857. ‘The result of the State election is still in doubt, and each party claims the election of ita candidate for Gover- nor. The republicans certainly have a majority in the Legislature, The Free Democrat of this afternoon says that the vote is 0 very close that nothing but the official returns will decide bow the State has gone. Discharge of an Alleged Criminal—Conviction ofa Mall Robber. Burvato, Nov. 7. 1857. R. McGaffey, who waa under arrest here, chargod with embezzling from the Bank of Upper Canada, in Toronto, has been discharged—the Judge holding the arrest illegal under the Ashburton treaty. Samuel D. Ross, who was lately arrested in Cincinnati and taken to Toronto, charged with robbing the mails on tho cars between Montreal and Toronto, was yesterday ried for the crime and found guilty. ‘The Florida at Savannah. Savanwan, Nov. 7, 1857, The steamship Florida has arrived bere, in sixty hours from New York. Death of the Hanoverian Consul at Boston. Bostox, Nov. 7, 1857. Charles H. F. Moring, Hanoverian Consul at this port, died this morning. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Purapeurma, Nov, 7, 1867. Stocks stondy, Pennsylvania 5's, $1; Roading Railroad, 70%; Long Island Railroad, 8; Pennsylvania Railroad, 864; Pennsylvania Bank, $ bid and 10 asked—no saloa, Acapemy ov Mcsic.—The Sunday concert this evening should not be forgotten. The programme includes Bee- thoven’s symphony in © minor, and the vocal part is in the hands of the best artists—La Grange, D’Angri, Labo- cotta, Miss Milner, Mr. E. Perring and others. The prices are graduated upon @ popular standard. From the Phtiadel We learn from r0 avo having turned out to meot all that was left of one of their Most prominent and influential citimens, and who, what- ever may have been his failings, was highly esteemed in ‘Tamaqua and wherever he was known. Tue funeral wag te take place at eleven o'clock to-day, and a great turnous was expectod. A correspondent at Tamaqua writes to us to correct some of the statements made in regard to this affair. He says that Smith was never omployed by Carter, and was bably never in Tamaqua at all. also ‘says that Mra. Carter, instead of being vider than her bus! bg od oy a. :-4 denies that n in morals in his younger days. He mates that Smith had demanded % [ community more highly esteemed and eo whove sudden and awful death could have more generally deplored by the entire community Carter's, He was for many years the leading business and ae enterprise in this locality, and bis low ae not, it is wml g mag band Many years to come. was ever ready, with open id ree, to asain unfortunate and to aid in the cause of elaow ‘lence and a loss will be felt a6 @ pub- Hic calamity in this vicinit; peara S, AN ha Sanpwion ee) om Honolulu ‘merian, August 15. At firealcoes fa Tabaina, on Sunday, August 9, 1887, Mr. Joux Wire,’ native of Plymouth, Rngiand. Mr: Posed tohave been at the timo oldest foreign residents on the islands. He was 23 years old when he left Kngiand, and must have beem about 64 Years of age at the time of his decease. Hon, Cuanim Porx, ex-Governor of Delaware State, died at his residence at Milford Hundred, on the 28th ult., in the Reventicth year of bia age. Mr. CHARLES Cornaworma died suddenly in Li on the 224 ult. Mr. Cotesworth was 66 years of age; he wag one of the leading shipowners. He was the principal of the firm long known under the title of Messrs worth, pe hE who are extensively engaged in the South: 1 ‘ Gen. Bonk, died at his residence at Tishomingo count, Miss., on the 17th ult. He was ® rogular descendant of the distinguished Gen. Daniel Boone, and was said to re- semblo him not only in personal appearance, but also in hin qualities of heed and heart. Ho had diled various plicowor honor and trust in Mississippi, ‘The Rey. Mr. 8. 8. Larmor, whose name waa mado =e ed the er of some \mpropertien com. mito’ by bim on board @ steamer, ‘Aberdeen, Missiasippi, last week.” 78? *S% — Col. CHarias MErRow died at his resid in Li Va., on the Sipe ult. in the Oth year of bie mee ac ee Was a soldier of the war of 1812, and served: his country fauthtully. As sawyer, he was well known. Hi repre. sented Nelson county in the Virginia Lo paanaly y einia Logisiature for ee J.P. Willoughby, M. P.,an East Indian direator, haa addgearod his constituents at Leoministor, England, om the Tnd@™ mutinies, He passed in review All the alleged causes of that event, but only to deciare that they had no- thing to do with it. The hon. director was loot in the inn- mensity of his own meditations. In ether words, be pears ‘“‘dumfvunded”’ by the catastrophe ”