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8 “THE COMMERCIAL REVULSION. Ne Oe aed ‘CONNECTICUT. the Hartford Times, Nov. 7.) THE 'PANK CONVENTION IN HARTFORD. Reassembicu in this city yesterday afterno i, aud was galled to orter at 24 o'clock by Keadriek. The former secr tary, Mr. Armsbury, was absent and Wm. L. Brewor, of Norwich, was chosen to fill his place CHAIRWAN announced that the Business Committee ‘were vn session in the United States Hotel, and would very gor be in attendance and make their report. ‘The Mechanics’ Bank, and the New Haven Bank, of the y of New Haven, communicated to the Convention that ey would not be bound by the action of the Convention, or would they suspend redemy at Suffolk. ALrrep Sart, Esq. , delegate from the Connecticut River Banking Co., explained his views in regard to the action of the Convention, which were, that the meeting being a voluntary one, no individual bank would be bound by its ‘|acuon Mr. Goonsxi, of the Phoenix Rank, offered a resolution Uhat if vote be taken on the question of Suffolk redemp: tuon, it be by calling the roll, and that each bank be al. Towed but one vote for each $100,000 of its capital Gen, Wiuiams moved an amendment, that each bank have but one vote, eremmeeniee of the amountof its capital Mr. Kixcsncry want to know how many votes his (Waterbury) Bank could give on its capital of $192,600. Gen. Wn1aMs’ amendment was carried, and the reso- Iution as amended was adopted. Mr. Haxrweit, of Bridgeport, and chairman of the Busi ness Committee, offered a report to the effect that the Rad not been able to agree upon any plan for establishing & Clearing House in Connecticut, and would offer the fol- Jowing resolution for the consideration of the Convention: Resolved, That the banks of this State make arrange- ments to redeem their notes in the city of New York during the suspension of specie payments, at a rate of dis- pount not exceeding one-half of one per cent. Mr. SeRaNToN, of New Haven, said that the committee were unanimous in their report, and were of opinion that & redemption in New York at one half per cent. would ex- tend the circulation of the banks at least two millions; still they were not prepared to say that it was advisable to adopt the resolution. It was difficult to devise any new plan of redemption that was not open to serious ob- 4 Mr. BUCKINGHAM said the committee was not particular ‘whether the Convention adopted or rejected the resolu- tian, for they doubted if it would afford ‘the relief needed. Mr. Canown, of Bridgeport, asked if there was not a ‘ent under the meal—if it was not intended by this report ‘bo cut off Suffolk redemption? ‘Mr. Harrweit said if any banks preferred to redeem at Baffolk, they could do so. Gen, Wiuams, of Norwich, spoke forcibly against re- @emption in New York, and in favor of continuing the Suffolk system of redemption. — It is more convenient, he aid, to redeem at the Suffolk, and we can sometimes get credit there, if we need it. It is dangerous to dabble with eur currency, for fear we may debase it. Let us con tinue as we are, and be satistied with well enough; and Jet every bank do its best to furnish credit to its’ cus Qomers, and we shall end right. There is even now an easing up” of the pressure in the money market. The debts at the West are being gradually paid; and what money we get this way we can keep at home for discount f our customers. Letus be cautious and see to it that ‘we do nothing to injuriously affect our currency, which 3 now good—vspecially at the West, where our banks sus- tain a high character. Let us never tarnish that charac- ter. There is no system of banking betier than our Con- @ecticut system, Mr. Ronxrts, of the Phoenix Bank, took a firm position against the new movement, as calculated to debase and depreeiate the currency of Connecticut, without afferding ‘the relief sought. He asked, are those banks in Hartford which do not redeem at the Suffolk any better off than ‘Qhore which do? Are the banks in Rhode Island, with ‘their depreciated and irredeemable currency, any better off by suspending their redemptions at the Suffolk; or are ‘they better able to afford relief to the business commun than our own banks? Not at all; nor should we be any ‘Detter off by adopting the new movement. On the cou trary, we should be involved, if it were possible, in even ‘worse difficulties than those under which we now labor. ‘The theory of a debased and depreciated currency we ut werly discarde e sec no advantage to be gained by adopting the resolution reported by the committee, and ‘there can be no object in adopting it, unless we mean by 0 doing to cut loose from the Suffolk system. ‘A Deixcare from New Haven offered a substitute to the pesolution reported by the Committee, viz:-— Resolved, That this Convention deem it inexpedient to @iscontinue redemption at the Suffolk Bank. Romniws Barret, of Norfolk, opposed this. He supposed ‘the Convention met for the purpose of devising some me hod of relief to the banks. Their circulation is coming home uncomfortably fast, and they must have relief, But folk ey he would not after all discontinue the Sui less we could redeem at par in y have the strong banks help ’ @ught to—and then they coud get along pretty comforta. dy. ‘Do the best we can, and let it go at that,” was his theory Mr. Sur, of the Connecticut River Banking Company, a against the new plan. The idea of the banks of ecticut deliberately voting their bills a large per cent below par, was the most undesirable of all other me- thods of getting over the pressure. He spoke of Gov. Holiey’s idea of threatening the banks with dire ven geance if they did not extend relief to the people. Why, Said be, you might as well threaten to kill a man who had but one leg if he did not run a race. It would do Bo good & threaten the life of the man, for he could not Fun. It was so with the banks. He then put forth the ab- urd statement that the banks of this State are not vio- Jating any law of this St heir charters, by turpending specie pay w did not contemplate that whey should play out specie for their notes, but that they should in their vaults a sufficient quantity of specie to redeem their currency, which was tifteen’ per cent. He believed the banks were all doing that Mr. BUCKINGHAM said the committee did not know what else w report. They doubted the expediency of adopt img & clearing house system, and doubted also if the reso- Iuon offered would aiford the remedy desired Mr. Cuarman, of Norwich, was afraid they were not doing what the people expected of them, viz, preparing to give them money. He did mot think New York “pic: tures’ (bank bills) were any better than Connecticat “pictures.” He would cut off from the Suffolk system, and be independent of Boston and New York, and let the Bank Commusioners take care of our banks. Mr. Kixosseey, of Waterbury, made a speech in favor @f the new movement, although’ he at urst attempted to @rect the attention of the Convention from the real ob: ject be had in view, by an allusion to the philosophy of ‘the Greeks, and theri depicting the distress among the ta. Doring classes in consequence of the deranged state of the finances of the couutry—the cry for bread by the hungry millions in the land—and the consequences that would fol low (o the community if the cry of the hungry was not Deeded. Hix speech was very ingeniously arranged, and well calculated to produce a feeling in the Convention fa. vorable to the new movement contemplated by the reso. Jution offered \y the committee. He seconded the views entertained by Mr. Smith that the banks had only nomi anally suspended specie payment, but the other idea that the bank» were not violating their charters by oven a no: minal suspension, he m to appear ridiculous by in. @tancing the case of an Indiana bank, where an individual Presented a bill for redemption in specie. “Why,” said the cashier, ‘we can't give you specie for that bill “Why not,” said the biliholder? “Because,” said the cashier, “the law requires us to keep five per cent in spe cie in our vaults, and we have got just about that now.’ ‘Me finally moved that the banks resume specie payment fmetvead of cutting of the Suffolk syetem, but afterwards withdrew hue mouon. Mr. Sart atternpted to explain hie views in regard to fhe banks keeping specie in r vaulte Mr. Chap man, of Norwich, said he understood the ge n right. The banks were to keep 15 per cent in specie in their vaults, and if there was a run they must buy more specie to pay with he Convention then voted to take the vote om the reso- Ration by banks, and not etna reer. ‘A DEéGate then moved that they all go home every bank take care of iteelf. Another Druecate said if they did so, they had better get Feady for the day of judgment, and be prepared to give Up their account, for. said he, the people are starving Mr. Brooks, of Meriden, reiterated the same sentiment Hie said all the people want is money; and he urged the Convention to look upon the question ‘in the light of huma- and nit Severs) gentlemen then spoke briefy for and against the Feechation and the substitute: when, after a considerable lamer, & motion was made to lay the whole matter on the table. ‘It was carried unanimously, and the Convention Mdyourned sine die MISSOURI. ‘THE MIFFOTRI BANE SUEPENSION LAW. ‘The following is the bill just passed by the Legislature of Missouri for the relief of the banks — Whereas, by a general and unexpected demand for gold and silver coin, unprecedented in the history of the coun try, and entirely beyond all the wants of commerce, the Bank of the State of Missouri, in common with the oldest and strongest banks of the Union, has been compelied to furpend specie payment, therefore, Hie it enacted by the Gomeral Assembly @f the State of Mireour!, as follows: Section 1. All provisions of an aat entitled an act to rego Mat banks and banking institutions, and to create the office Of Rank Com approved Maren 2, 1857, which Bubjects the any penalty, by way of for Seiture of oh ot failure to pay the liabilities Of said b % presentation; and all provisions of raid act Which authorise er direct amy pro- Certing to be oommenced and prosecuted agaimet Sabi bank. or which authorise or direct any pro Geedings by any officer against said bank, banwuse Of the suspension of specie payments by the same, be and the wame are hereby suspended until the fret of Novem- Der, 1866, of until euch time within said period a, in the Judgment of the Board of Mrectors of eaid bank, with the Consent and concurrence of the Bank Commissioner, it may be prudent and tafe to resume, and if, on or before the Gay named as aforesaid, the said bank shall fully resum the payment of all ite debte and liabilities with gold and Silver coin, then the said bank shail have all the rights benefits and advantages granted by ite charter, and may ceed to exercine the franchises and privileges granted yy the said act, and ehall be exempt from the penalty of forfeiture, as if no suspension of specie payments had lave ¢ No person receiving of taking from the bank aber Bey of this act, any note or Bil! of said bank Jarned for circulation, ehall be entitled to receive thereon the ammunt of interest prescribed by the ninth section of ay) act, or any interest whatever, i Cousequence of the @uipenson herein named. Sec 3. So much of the thirty-seventh section of the first a@ruicke of said act as requires that ye amour of gold and @fiver oo hand of said bank shall got be less than thirty hires and « third per cont of her mptes in circulation, and fe much of said eection as directs the commence of Procesdinge against said bank because of a failu unt of com on hand, be and the same is hereby sunpended ia ite operations until the Ist day of Novem r, 1808 Se. 4. The forty third seetion of the first article of anid Get it hereby so modified in ite operation, until ghe Ist aay A November. in the year 1858, as to permit ™all the bank« charters for eaid act, in thie State, during the Period aforesud, to take in payment of debte, or receive w debtors, ball repew oF cavoud Whe lame of peymenl of debig i NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 said debtors of Sa ae ee or extension: —Provi' 7 fully secure the ultimate paymen! ‘upon all future discounts of the bank it shall of the Board to require in payment at least of the same in coin, which shall be kept as 8 reserve to secure the early resumption of specie payment. Bec: 6. The Bank Commissioners are hereby oe not to countersign, register or deliver to additional eaneent'ch notes for circulation, beyond those already delivered, until the said bank shall fully resume ments. Sec. 7. So much of the 25th section of the first arti le of said act as requires payment of the whole amount of stock subscribed to said bank, to be paid within twelve months from the time of subscribing, is hereby suspended in its ‘operation untilthe Ist day of November, 1858, ‘Sec. 8. The provisions of this act shail’ in every respect apply to the Southern Bank of St. Louis, and also to the jerchants’ Bank of St. Louis, the Farmer’s Bank of Mis: souri, and the Mechanics’ Rank of St. Louis, should it sus- pend before the lst of November, 1868. s Sec, 9. The Bank Commissioner is hereby required to cause the notes paid out after the passage of this act, to be stamped in such a manner as he may direct, 80 as to distinguish them from the notes now outatanding. Sec. 10. No person who shall be under protest in an) bank of this State, shall, at any time whilst so protested, be eligible to hold the place of director in any bank char- tered by this State; and if any director shall, whilst hold- ing such office, suffer his name to remain under protest for the space of ten days, that act shall vacate his office, and a successor shall be appointed to fill his place, as now pro- vided by law in cases of vacancy in the board. And the aggregate amount of discounts granted to the directors of any bank that shall accept the provisions of this act, either as payers, endorsers, or drawers, shall at no time exceed the amount of one-tenth of the paid up capital stock of the State Bank, or one-fifth of the paid up capital of all other banks. ‘This act to be in force from and after its passage. OHIO. {From the Cincinnati Gazette, Nov. 6.) THE TRUST COMPANY PAY OVER A LARGE SUM OF MONEY TO CREDITORS. Immediately after the suspension of the Obio Life and Trust Company, some ten or twelve different suits were commenced by creditors of the company, and money iu ‘the possession of various banks m Kentucky was attached. None of the suits have come to trial, but we understand that a compromise has been effected between the present managers of the Trust Company affairs and the attorneys for the attaching parties, Messrs. Cambron & Fiske, of Covington, and that the money claimed by the creditors, amounting to about $30,000, was paid over on Wednesda: by the Northern Bank of Kentucky. The demand of creditor was adjusted in full, less the expenses of lawyers’ services. The suits were originally commenced the same evening on witch the announcement of the suspension was made, by Thompson & Nesmith, of this city, and transferred to the Covington lawyers for further prosecu- tion. The result must be entirely satisfactory to those who to-day jingle in their pockets money obtained from the Ohio Life and Trust Company. If all the creditors of the Trust Company are equally fortunate in securing the full amount of their claims, they will have good reason to congratulate themselves. VIRGINIA. NORTHERN EXCHANGE. [From the Richmond Examiner, Nov. 6. The dry goods merchants of this city are enduring at thie time a species of torture as excruciating as that which eels are supposed to undergo in the process of being skinned alive. They purchase goods at the North and re-sell them here at anet average profit, it may be sup- posed, of ten or twelve per cent. They collect their ac- counts here in that delectable sort of money put out by our banks, denominated “current funds.’” With this “currency” they purchase from our banks and brokers their checks on the North, with which they pay their debts in that quarter, and the difference of exchange which they are paying for these checks has ruled at 123, per cent for some time past; that is to say, our Richmond merchants (as are, indeed, the merchants of every Vir- ginia city) taking to our banks notes of their own issue, and exchanging them with these concerns for checks on New York, paying at the rate of $112 in bank notes for $100 of bank checks on New York. Thus the merchants are losing more, in this single form of ex. change, than the profits on ‘their business—are making money, in other words, ‘over the left shoulder,’ and throwing in their labor and wear and tear of brain and feeling , to boot. TEXAS. SALE OF UNITED STATES BONDS. ‘The Comptroller of the State of Texas advertises that Proposals will be received by him, at Austin, until the Sth of December, for the sale of two hundred thousand dol- lars of the five per cent United States coupon stock, issued to the State ag an indemnity for the sale and surrender <. portion ,of her northern and western boundary, as follows: — Said proposals should be—First. For the purchase of said bonds, to be delivered at Austin, and the proceeds to be paid at said place. Second. The bonds to be delivered at the city of Washington, the proceeds deliverable at the same place. Third. The bonds to be delivered at the city of New Orleans, the proceeds deliverable at the same place. Proposals are also invited for the delivery of the bonds at the city of New York and at the city of Gulves-, ton, and the proceeds thereof deliverable at each of said points. PiStie stork beare an tnterent of Sve per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and is redeemable in fourtwen ears from the Ist of January, 1861. Six years and a if interest has been already paid on said bonds, leaving seven years and a balf for which interest has to run be- fore maturity No bid accepted for a larger sum than one hundred thousand dollars of the bonds; but the same individual can make one or more bids. Bids should be made exclustve of the interest which may have accrued on the bonds prior to their delivery Parties should specify bow long before the funds will be available to the State after receiving notice of the ac- | ceptance of their bids. ITEMS TOUCHING THE TIMES. ‘The Union Manufacturing Company, of Norwalk, Conn., and Lounsbury, Bisseb & Co., whose works have been sus” ended several weeks, have recommenced operations. ey employ a great Bumber of hands. The tool factory in Greenfield, Mass., which has been closed for some weeks, has again been opened and com- menced work. One of the large manufacturing establishments in New Haven is about to increase its business one The Iron Works Company in Fall River, Mass., started their rolling mill and nail factory on Monday, and the American Linen Works will start in @ short time. General Walker's Letter to Cana, The following is a letter addressed by General Walker to the Secretary of State, dated Sept, 29. 1867:-— Sin—It is currently reported that the Ministers of Costa Riga and emala have asked for the active interposi- ton of the United States for the purpore of preventing me and my companions from returning to Nicaragua. This re- queet, it i® further said, i based op the assumption that T have violated, or intend to violate, the neutrality laws of the ited States. The want of all official intercourse be- tween the government of the United States and that ot Nicaragua, will, | hope, be a sufficient excuse for my ad- Gressing you on the faith of a public report. But the Tumor comes in #uch a form that | am satiefied the Mima. ters of Guatemala and Costa Rica have attempted te die. honor the republic of Nicaragua in es of the United States, and | am further convinced of this fact by a decree of President Mora, dated at San Jose on the 7th of August last, and ordered to be communicated to the diplomafie corpe generally. The Ministers of Costa Rica and Guate- mala attempt to humiliate Nicaragua by presenting them. selves to the United States as ber protectors and guardians In behalf of the republic of whieh I claim to be the right fol and lawful executive, I protest most earnestly against this assumption on the part of Costa Rica and Guate: mala, and ask that the government of the United States will not permit itself to be influenced by such pretensions on the part of these two Central American powers. the contrary, it i to be hoped that the United States will, by ite ict, assert and vindicate the mdependence of itk sister republic—the sovereign State of Nicaragua. It je my duty further to say, that the people of Nicaragua have not consented to the military authority at present exercised over them by the agents of Costa Rica and Guatemala; and that they therefore cannot be held re sponsible for any interference of thewe latter States the administration of the municipal affairs of your govern ment. Conceiving thatthe ministers of Costa Rica and Guatemala cannot jurtify anysuggestion they make to the United States concerning the execution of its own acta of Congress, I desire to reheve Nicaragua from any respon: sibility for such officious intermeddling. So far ax any violation on my part is concerned, I deny the charge with scorn and indignation. Having been received in the United States, when forced for a time to leave Nicaragua, Thave, in all respects, been obedient to its laws. And permit me t assure you that I shall not so far forget my duty as an officer of Nicaragua, a# to violate the laws of the United States while enjoying the rites of hospitality within its limite. WILLIAM WALKER. Hon. Lewm Cass, Secretary of State for the United Stawe of North America. Affairs in Kansas, OPERATIONS OF THE FREE STATR PARTY FORRSHA- DOWED. [Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette ] Quixpano, Kansas, Oct. 90, 1857 Now that the free State men have, for the first time in the history of Kansas, the power to act, by having secured not only a preponderance in the Legislatare, but an actual mi of two-thirds, perhaps you people in the States would Nke to know what they are going to do, I will tell you what i proposed — It peopemed that when the new Legislature meete it shall organize am! imrmediately repeal all bogus laws and enactments of every kin! whateoever—throwing the Territory back on the organic act—leaving Kansae with no law but the Kansas Nebraska bill and its provisions—that he Legisiature shall then petition Congress for admission ‘under the Topeka constitution, and without taking any fur ther action adjourn sine diz. The Topeka Legislature will then meet, and goon mak- ing all needful regulations for the people of Kansas. ‘This i* the plan proposed by the decided, outand.out free State men; but there is here, as everywhere, a large body of timid ‘(called by way of complitttent, conserva. ive) politicians who don't want to doanything so decided and so utterly without precedent. They may control the action, but I don’t believe they will ‘With ite two-thirds, the Kansas Lagislature is like Par- liatnent. omnipotent, independent of Governor Walker's veto and everything else. Lecomptos, Kansas, Oct. 29 The Constitutional Convention is now in session in this Place but it nothing Out of the 60 elected only 32 members are present, and they are hesitating what to At a recret caucur held by these 33 members last even hg, it war resolved by a majority to go om and frame @ Constitution with two separate clauges—one for and one — tlavery—and to submit the whole to a vote of the he more mitra members, however, protested against enbmitting it to a vote of the people, and even threatened if thie resolution ia perei n, to go home and leave the ighly probable that jhe um it ome it ie hh Convention will cuurely Azzy out, The Seeret History of the Mexican War. GENERAL QUITMAN ON THE STAND—THE COUNCIL OF PURBLA. Thave just read in the New Orleans Delta, the reply of General Pillow, to the letter of General Scott, written in answer to some charges against him, contained in General Pillow’s recent address to the people of Tennessee. Tn the controversies between ag well as that between Generals x desire to take no part. Although my statement in relation to the Puebla has, upon weveral occasions, been called for, Uhave abstained from appearihg bafote thie public heretofore, and would not do so now, but ‘vat Gane- ral Pillow in his ‘late reply to General Scott’, Baer, has thought proper to introduce a mere abst” eke from’ the statement submitted by me to the War ment in 1848, on the call of President Polk, ta’ ema exception to the course adopted by General Pillow gin this particular. He had a right to publish a part or * pe whole of my Cvi- dence; but, since Thave been bro' pon the witness peg Wand it due 2 Taner, Be 4 the whole correspond- ence between myself an subject should be published. an Unpartant, 00 tie ¢ reader will perceive Wt this correspondence re fers alone to the proceeding gate meeting of officers at Puebla, | In this communi sttion 1 do not feel called on to go beyond the matters th grein referred to, except to Say, that, Fyne 4 to ‘the meeting, General Pillow, in- formed Genera} Shie\“,¢an¢ myself that he had changed his opinion in reVaqin to. the subject submitted to the ong Ee tal we ‘onposed tothe sasneare. As to say mulations, outside of the proposition ‘Beneeat Scott to” presented by, to the council or meeting, I never hear’y‘of teem while I remained in the army. J. A. QUITMAN. MoNM som, October 25, 1857. “Wb SECKETARY OF WAR TO GENERAL QUITMAN. War DEPARTMENT, ‘Wasmcron, Dec. 24, 1847. ‘ —1 invite attention to the article herein en- Hosed, from the Baltimore Sun, (first published in a ‘Western paper,) pretending to give an account of the pro- ceertings of a council of war, and representing that it was held at the head-quarters of the Commanding General in July last, and that you were present, in which it was pro- d to give General Santa Anna or some other Mexican, for the purpose of purchasing a peace, a portion of the three millions appropriated by Congress. Nothing could have appeared more improbable to the government here, which is fully aware that not the slightest authority for any such proceeding has in any ‘way emanated from it, than this story, yet I am pained to be obliged to say that suspicions do to some extent prevail, and appear to be gaining ground, that there is some foundation for the rumor. You will, I trust, with me in regarding it of the greatest importance to ‘alleged to have been pres- ent on that occasion, as well as to the government, that this rumor, assumed to be unfounded, should be met ; an authoritative denial; but should it be that anything has taken place which could have afforded even a colorable pretext for putting forth the statement herewith sent to you—if any such proposition as is therein mention, has been offered, or entertained—if any has been acceded to, and any steps taken to carry it into effect—the President directs that you communicate to this department all that you know, and all that you can ascertain in relation to the whole matter. W.L.M. Secretary of War. Major Gen. Qurmmay, U. 8. Army, Washington City. GENERAL QUITMAN TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR. Wasnineron Crry, Jan. 10, 1848, Sir :—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 24th ultimo, inviting my atten- tion to an article from the Baltimore Sun enclosed, pur- porting to give an account of the proceedings of a council of war held at General Scott's headquarters in Puebla, Mexico, in July last. In your note you advise me, that the President directe, that if anything has taken place which could afford even a colorable pretext for putting forth the statements alluded to, or if any sueh proposition as is therein mentioned has been offered or entertained &c., that I should communicate to the Department of War all that 1 know, and all that I can ascertain in relation to the whole matter. Were Talone personally concerned, T should not have a | moment's hesitation in making known whatever may have come within my knowledge connected at any time with the public service: but itseems to me, without wishing to be understood as admitting or denying the statements of the anonymous writer of the article alluded to, that your letier involves a very delicate question, in r gard to my duty, as a subordinate officer. It is th whether I can with propriety divulge matters which Curred in a council of war,of which 1 was member, expose the opinions of officers, communicated at eu meeting under the implied obligation of secrecy, which taches to their deliberations on such occasion’. 1am at present inclined to think that this obligation re- mains unimpaired, upon the subordinate officer, until he is relieved from it’ by the consent of the party or parties concerned, or until he is required by legal process to tes- tify in relation to the matter. Entertaining these opinions, I feel it my duty most re- spectfully to declme answering the questions propounded in your letter, and I request that my objections may be laid before the President for his consideration, Should he, after considering them, still insist upon a full answer, Takk leave to be permitted again to deliberate upon the matter, before making up a final conclusion upon the subject. J. A. QUITMAN, Maj. Gen. U.S. A. ‘The Hon. W. L. Maxcy, Secretary of War. THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO GENERAL QUITMAN. Wan DEPARTMENT, Wasmyorox, March 2, 1848, SiR—I have received your letter of the 10th of January, in reply to one from me of the 24th of December. Your reply has been laid before the President. He has duly considered the reasons which you have offered as an ex- cuse for not responding to the inquiries submitted to you by his direction in my former letter, He considers it im- portant that he should have full and accurate information on the matters presented to you in my letter. and in bis view of the subject, he feels itto be his duty to again invite your attention to these inquiries, and to ask a full disclosure of what you may know ‘in regard to them. The character of the replies received from Major Gene- rals Scott and Pillow to letters similar to the one address ed to you, renders it, in his opinion, the more important that he should be made acquainted with what is within your knowledge relative to the matters alluded to in my former communication. The President appreciates the embarrassment which has induced a hesitation on your part to comply with the request which he directed me to make, yet he does not doubt that you will, on further reflection, view the matter as he does, and regard it as your duty to the government to make a full statement of what you may know of the transactions embraced in the inquiries contained in my letter of the 24th December. The official acts of officers in the public service should not, as he conceives, be with- held from the Executive branch of the government. W. L. MARCY, Secretary of War. Major General J. A. Qurrway, U. 8. Army. GENERAL QUITMAN TO THE SECKETARY OF WAR. Usrrep States Horst. Wasmseron, March 9, 1848. Sim:—I have received your note of the 2d inst., in which you inform me that the President, after duly considering iy objections to make a full disclosure in answer to the inquiries submitted to me, by hie direction, in your letter of the 24th December, still requires that I should state fully whatever may be within my knowledge in relation to the transactions embraced within those inquiries. While my opinions, in the abstract, remain the same as those announced in my former letter, the fact, si certained, that Generals Scott, Pillow and Twiggs have an- ewered similar inquiries, has removed the objections that 1 should otherwise have had, to disclosing matters, which, though connected with the public service, came to my | knowledge confidentially. However reluctant I may be to make the disclosures, it would be presum in me longer to refuse a com pliance with the demands of the President. 1 therefore submit herewith a statement of the material facts within my knowledge, which occurred at the meeting of officers supposed to be alluded to in the publications to which you h Ned my attention. About the middle of July last, 1 was summoned to at- tend a meeting of officers at General Scott's headquarters in Puebla, Mexico. I there met the General-in-Chief, Generals Pillow, Twiges, Shields and Cadwallader, and 1 think Colonel Hitchcock, Inspector General. General Worth was not present, amd General Smith's absence accounted for by General Scott's remarking that he, General Smith, had been consulted on the matter. The General-in Chief first dwelt upon the great import- ance of peace to our country, and the anxious desire of our government to bring about. He said, that influ- enced chiefly by there important considerations, and bie Delief that a movement upon the capital would cut off all Treepects of an amicable adjustment of difficulties, he had ‘ited thus long at Puebla. That General Pierce, with a considerable body of ti under his command, waa shortly ted to arrive. numbers were now weak for the formidabledent before us, and that the expected. reinforcements won of great importance, He therefore requested the opinionof the office: present Fee the propriety of awaiting ‘arrival of General Pierce He desired to conenit them upon another subject of 1 delicacy and much importance. That the prospects for peace were now slight, but that he was informed by some foreign residents in Mexico that this desirable re: sult could certainly be attained by the application of a considerable sum of money, that the Mexican leaders ex pected the negotiations to be attended by a dow ceur; that they were not in the habit of mov- ing without it; that the use of money fer such pur- poses was justified by the practine of other na- tions, and that, considering the great good it would in this instance bring to our own country, he regarded the moans fas moral and proper, and did not perceive how any renei. ble man could think otherwise, further added that Mr. Trist had no power or instructions to use the three millions voted by Congress, or any part of it, to euch « purpose: that sum must be accounted for on ‘the face of the treaty. That, however, if it should be considered ad visable, he, General Scott, had eredit, upon the assent or request of Mr. Triet, to raise a million or a million and a half of dollars, to arp y to thie purpose im sufficient to p it insure the e negotiations. That he had already expended ten or t garded as bread throw: preeented and read a note from Mr. Trist on this subject, assenting to. if not requesting, that the scheme should oe’ adopted. He concluded by inviting the opinions of the officere present upon the measure. After some panse General Pillow expressed his opinion in favor of awaiting the arrival of General Pierce, and proceeded to express in detail hie conenrrence with the views of the General-in Chief on the propriety of raising and applying the money as propored, pledging hie influence as an offleer and a citi- zen to sustain the measure 1 followed. Alluding to the importance of commencing our march upon the capital during the partial sus of the rainy season, I still concurred in opinion, that we should wait the arrival of General Pierce’s command, if it could be expected in a few days. On the other quee tion, I declared my decided opposition to the secret use of mopey for the purpose of procuring a treaty of WMhout undertaking to discuss the morality of euch « meneure, | held that all our dealings with other countries should be high toned and above board, not requiring con- cealment from our own people, nor from the world. That such @ traneaction, involving the payment of a large sum of money, however secretly it might be conducted neither conld nor should be concealed from the people of the United States. That whatever might be the views of casuiste upon the subject, there wae among the people of the United States a bigh:tone, and nice renee of public mo rality, which would lead them to denounce and condemn a treaty obtained by corrupting the rulers of a sister ro public, &e., ke Geugral Twiggs exprested hig consurrencg im the prox as | priety of awaiting t subject he penn BE Tt was, in , and he ee our country in war for ten years, than resort to this modwef purchasing a peace. Not doubting the ‘otic: iatezitions of the commanding General, he thought it his duty, asa friend, to caution him against the assumption ened Ling apeies i ke. General Cadwallader being called upon, finally, said he agreed with General Shields and myself. Colonel Hitchoock’s opinion was not asked nor given. Thad no knowledge or intimation, before the meeting, of its objects, nor do I know, nor have I ever heard, that y posed it was entirely dropped not by what means or from what source this matter became public. 1 took no notes of the transaction at the time, and have made this report of it entirely from memory, and of course may have stated the language tnaccurately. The occurrence made an impression on my mind at the time, and J think the substance is above correctly stated. J. A. QUITMAN, ral U. S. Army. Hon. W. L. Mancy, Secretary of War. Another Letter from Lad Hunter, of in! ARRIGONBURG, Oct. 21, 1857. Hoy. R. M. T. Honrer:—The Levee yi have been appointed a committe, by a meeting the democratic citizens of Rockingham county, held in this place on Mon- day last, to forward to you the resobutions ad meeting, and request a response from you to the same at Your earliest convenience. Rnclosed ou wal find copy ‘of the proceed meeting, embody! resolu- tions, and ‘twill eiord us pleasure to be the medium of making public your opinions in relation to the questions need Wi —_ of regard and esteem, we remain. ‘ emain, yours respecMUEL 7. WALKER, SENATOR HUNTER’S REPLY. Liovp's, Exsex county, Va., Oct. 28, 1857. Grxriemrs—I have received your letter, onc! me ‘the resolutions ad by a democratic meeting in a ingham, on the 19th October, with a request that I would respond to them. The subject matter of these resolutions is so fully covered by my letter of the 16th of this month, to the Hon, Shelton F. Leake, which was not published at the time of your meeting, that any other answer on my part is perhaps unnecessary. But as there seems to be @ difference of opinion between us with regard to your fifth resolution, a farther explanation may be proper. If I understand your resolutions, we agree in the principle that the people of Kansas alone have'the right to form their State institutions according to their own pleasure, provided they be republican in their character. Textend, too, the limitation upon the power of Congresas in regard to the rejection of a State applying for admission, even far- ther than you do; for I maintain that upon this issue it can raise no qnestion in regard to the constitation, should it be republican in its character, if the people of the new State, acting through their convention, have made and adopted it in the manner provided by these, their authorised representatives. But from your fifth resolution I dissent entirely. That the people of Kansas have the same rights with the people of any other State in the Union, with regard to the formation of their State constitution, we must all admit; that they can dele- gate to a convention, called for this purpose, the same powers which may be delegated by the people of any other State, is also clear. That they might limit the power confided in such a convention by allowing them only to form a constitution to be submitted to the people afterwards, for ratification or rejection, or that they might elect a convention with a general authority over the sub- ject, can hardly be denied. It is for the people of the Territory about to become a State, to say in which of these ways they will constitute their convention. Such I | understand to be the intent and purport of your third resolution, in which, with that understanding, I cordially concur. If, then, the people of Kansas have these rights, the question arises as to what they intended by electing convention with general powers, and without any linti- tation imposed by themselves. The practice of the States, and the reason of the case, doth prove that it is to be treated as a general delegation of their sovereignty, under which the Convention may submit the constitution or not, for a popular vote, accord- ing to its own views of propriety. If the people of Kansas, acting as an inchoate State, imposed no limitation on the trust, it is not for any third party, outside the Territory, to undertake to affix it. If they can in one case, they might in all, and Congress, as it seems to me, might exer- cise the very power which you so properly deny to it in your fourth resolution. As has been well said by a dis- Unguished statesman of Pennsylvania, “ either this con- vention is clothed with sovereign power, or it isanullity.”” If it be a legitimate constitution, it is the people who speak through it; and it is for them to say what action is to be final in regard to the convention which it forms. To say otherwise, in my opinion, is to limit the power of the peo- ple of Kansas, whose plenary juridiction over this sub- ject we all admit. But this fifth resolution does not stop with requiring the application of Kansas for admission as a State to be rejected, because the convention did not sub- mit the constitution for ratification by the people—it goes much farther, and claims for Congress the power of pre- scribing who are Lag ye the Yr Siomr e when the people pass upon the question of ratifying their own Biate constieation, Here it is in totidem verbis:— * Resolved, That Kansas, in forming ber constitution, ought to submit the same to the bona fide inhabitants thereof for adoption or rejection, and the failure to do so is in violation of the spirit and letter of the act creating her Territorial government, and ought to be returned by Congress to the residents of Kansas for endorsement." Congress thus undertakes to say not only that the con- stitution shall be submitted for afurther vote, but to whom. If, then, the Convention of Kansas should submit its constitution to a popular vote, but establish @ qualifica- cation for the right of suffrage different from that which you say Congress must require, the State must be re jected, and the constitution, although thus ratified, is to be returned to the ‘residents of Kansas for endorsement.’” The most significant act of sovereign power is, perhaps, the regulation of the right of euffrage, and the power over this subject must be exclasive, weer it resides. If Congress possesses it, then the peo the inchoate State eannot have it; and if the people of the new State cannot say who are to pass upon its own constitution, | then its equality with the other States is dis- | paraged and destroyed. But this is not all: | ite right to equal powers and privileges the other States be denied, and if can regulate the highest of its political rights, I mean that of suffrage, | what is to prevent it from regulating all the other political rights and relations of its people, slavery included’ If | Congress may exercise this right of sovereignty over a | people m the very act of forming its State constitution, ‘what is to be the limit to ite power? When we have ad- | Mitted so much, by what arguments, so far as constitu. | tional power is Concerned, can We resist an attempt to re- | impose the Missouri restriction over those torritories?—a restriction which, it must be remembered, goes much farther than the Wilmot proviso; for the latter applies only to the people in a Territorial condition, whilstthe other is extended over them when they are acting as the people of the State. And what sort of suffrage is Congress here juired to preecribe for the good —. of Kansas? It is tobe returned “to the residents of Kansas for endorse- Who are the “residents of Kansas’ May not aliens, Indians and ne; be included in that denomina- tion? ‘How, too, can this resolution be consistent with the third, which preceded it in the series? If Congress may prescribe the right of suffrage for a people acting in their highest capacity of sovereignty, that of forming a State constitution, and say who shall pass upon it, how can “we recognise the right of the people of a Territory, in forming a constitution for admission into the Union, to establish euch local policy as to them may seem right and proper?” Surely, we do not confoand the power of Con- gress to prescribe the right of suffrage for a people acting in a Territorial capacity, with the power of Congress to | proseribe that right for those who are acting as the peo- ple of a State, in the formation of a constitution. ‘Congres# can make the organic act for the people of « Territory, but it has no such power in regard to the poo- ple of a new or inchoate State. It Sr the qualifications of the electors of the Territorial Legislature which calls the Convention to form a State constitution; ment.” but when that Convention is assembled, havi as a nullity. We must take the one horn or the other of this dilemma, as it reems to me. Tt may be aid that no such conclusions are intended as those which I have drawn from the fifth resolution. I have no idea that there was any such design, but in my opinion theae inferences are to be drawn from it, not only fairly, butnecesearily. That it was the opinion of your mee that the people of Kaneae ought them- kelves to do the things recommended in that resolution, T do not doubt; but there is a wide difference between what the people of a State, new or old, should do, and what Congress can constrain them todo. The people of Virginia, doubtless, ought to do many thinge which Con. force them to do. gress cannot But even if the fifth resolution had been confined to a recommendation to Congress to reject the application of the State for admis. sion on the ground that Convention had not submitted the Constitution for ratification to the people, the matter would not have been much helped ; for, after all, the two resolutions would have been nearly identical in principle, Suppose that the people of Kansas had elected a conven tion with the authority expressly delegated to them to form and adopt a constitution. Suppose, farther, that Congress, ‘hn Whe spirit of these resolutions, had rejected pplication for admission, and sent back the constitu- tion because itebad net been ratified by a final vote of the people, might not the people Kansas well say,‘ You have rejected our constitution because it waa not ratified, as you affirm, by the people. Now, as you claim to be the judges in thie matter, you must desi hom you mean by the people, whore ratification, by a rther vote ie to be the condition of our admission.’ Bat if Congress undertook to prescribe who should vote it ‘would claim thie very power of regulating the right of suffrage for that people of anew State, of which I have been speaking, and as # seems to me all the uncer Would flow from the assumption of power which 7 nave already depicted. If we permit Congress to control the Convention in the exercise of ite delegated powers in. one respect, it will be hard to resist its interference in another. It is far safer to leave the whole matter, as your third Teeolution eeeme to design, to Me people of the new or inchoate State themselves, for otherwise we shall be embarrassed by difficulties at every step that we take. If we begin to make such Tetr le movements as these, met we not prepare our minds to lore all that has been gained for the constitution and the South by the Kansas ebraska act? T have given you my opinions, in this letter and that adf daresped to the Hon Shelton F. Leake, upon the subjects o- Your resolutions, because they were asked. and I fag freely, but with great for thore who may differ from me. But it seems to be the sentiment of the democratic party of the State, if I may judge by the gene. Tal tone of its prese, that they ought not to divide upon there recent Kaneas ieenes, as they probably will be tem. porary, and jt ie uncertain whether they will ever become practical in their ¢ er, In thie, as it appears to mo, they were wise. When the democratic party established the principle of the Kansas Nebraska act, abd obtaingd : i 7 H H it ; : E i : i i ie i i i HH ive ‘I s | fa ait HG apie Eaee a q | fe late to myself per . To win Susan the highest none other which I place their trust and confidence, If I have not the first, 1 do not unless it is bestowed in that spirit, can have for me, Entertaining these sentiments, I have been reluctant to appear befere the public in any communica- tion which might wear the air of solicitation, or place me in the apparent position of advocating my own claims and interests, I hold no such position—I prefer no claims—I make no solicitations. my past course has failed to sow the seeds of confidence in the public mind of Virginia, itis by 4 misfor Bo ee people to be blamed cis ir w (aon wha they place their trust. Assuredly they will not be disturbed by me, either with solicitations before their decision is made, or by complaints to be uttered afterwards because of’ the manner in which they may have exercised their powers, according to their own sense of duty. Neither do I propose to trouble them farther by any public communication in regard to my senti- ments and opinions, as I have answered, as fully as 1 am capable of doing, upon all the various subjects of inquiry. I will not conclude, however, without ven- turing prediction that if any serious attempt should be made in to reject the application of Kansag, for admission as a State into the Union, because the convention did not submitthe constitution for a farther 2? sy < 2 oe eer ratification by the people, it will only occur in the event | of the adoption of a pro-slavery organic law. Is Virginia, then, prepared to reject the a] Se aie te rematved lication of a sister slave te to into the Union, merely because its convention has exercised its undoubt ers: in the same manner with many other States, which have acted similarly, without prejudice to their claims for ad- mission into the confederancy? Ido not believe it for a moment, and Iam sure in such a contingency the gallant democracy of the time-honored Tenth Legion, which has never yet hung fire, nor asked even for time to “peck the flint and try it again,”’ will be amongst the first tocry out, ‘Never! no, never!” With great respect, I have the honor to be your obedient servant, R. M. T. HUNTER. Our Vera Cruz Correspondence. ‘Vera Cavz, Oct. 21, 1857. Affairs in Mezico—Change of Ministry—The Revolution in Yucatan—Wholesale Smuggling from Brownsville—Re- monstrance of the Merchants of Vera Orus—Reply of Co- monfort thereto—An Old Landmark Gone, de. President Comonfort still rules the roast (as well as the Doiled, stewed and fried) in this land of God and Liberty. How long he will preside over our destinies and play the Amphitryon of our feasts, time will soon show. We have had another ministerial change, though not precisely a “crisis.” The new Cabinet is composed as follows:—Mi nister of Foreign Affairs, J. A. de la Fuente; Justice, Ruiz; . Government, Jaurez; War, General Garcia-Conde; Trea- sury, Payno; Public Works, 8. Flores. This batch accept- ed their portfolios yesterday—at least so says my tele- graphic correspondent. The revolution in Yucatan has assumed quite a formida- ble shape, and as it is combined with a war of castes, we are not surprised at the atrocities being committed there. It was, after all, nota bad policy of old Santa Anna to sell all the wild Indians he could catch there into Cuban cap- tivity. It was the only way in which to begin to civilize em. ‘The most interesting topic here is the loud outery being made by the regular merchants—foreign and native—at this place, against the wholesale smuggling now being carried on’ across the frontier of the Rio Grande by the connivance of government officers. These merchants have made a representation of the facts to President Comonfort, which is too long to republish entire; but the pate are of interest, showing as they do the state of the cal system of this country. They set forth that a great part of the trade of the re- public has been carried on by Vera Cruz, and that the merchants here have always come forward to assist the government with loans in times of financial crises; and they now foresee commercial disaster and ruin to the city if some measures are not taken. They complain that while the merchants of: this city and the capital are bur thened with heavy stocks of goods which they cannot sell, there are other places in the interior enjoying an ani- mated trade. This fact, they say, is owing to the want of equilibrium in the taxation by the tariff, which is thus stated:— It is well known that throughout the extended line of the frontier large cargoes are introduced to points in the inte- rior without paying duties according to the general tariff; it is known that in Tampico and Tamaulipas foreign goods have been introduced under the stipulation to pay 60 per cent of the duties in money, and the remaining 40 per cent in bonds of the interior (home or domestic) debt, the regu lar value of which is from 7 to 10 per cent; it is positively known that agents at Brownsville have offered to Kuropean: houses to import goods into this republic, charging onl 50 per cent of the duties, and that others have made still more favorable proporitions. All these facts authorise us to calculate that, if an article pays 100 per cent import duty at Vera Cruz, besides the additional duties, consisting of 20 per cent for material improvement, 2% per cent liquidation of the public debt, 10 per cent inter- national, 20 per cent consumption, and 6 per cent municipal, ft will amount to 1584¢ per cent on arrival at Mexico; whilst the same article introduced through the frontier will pay 50 per cent import duty, according to the propositions made by the agents at Brownsville, and 50 per cent more, which is the most at which the remain ing duties can be estimated ; for in many cases it happens that they only pay a simple gratification. It follows con ant ee ea atey aT ont @ cost in duties, cost only through the ‘porihern front. Acknowledging the difficulty of suddenly changing the present unwise fiscal system of the country, and the in. efficiency of the only repressive measures the & yernment can employ, our merchants ask that the government shall not authorize the existing inequality at the different ports of the republic, and that “if it be impos- sible to prevent smuggling and to re-establish uprightness in commercial business, at least let the taxes imposed on the merchants of this city be the same as those established or tolerated on the frontier and other places alluded to. They have already calculated the rtion of duties on cargoes introduced at those Custom Houses and on thoso cargoes introduced at Vera Cruz, and from the justice of your Excellency, they hope that a proportionate reduction of the duties imposed by the present tariff will be granted to the merchants of this place.’ 1 am told that the reception of the committee who pre- sented this memorial to the President was not very cor- dial, and that be as much as told them that if they did not like the laws of the country they had better leave it. I must not fail to advise you that the tower of the church of 1a Merced, which has jong braved the battle and the breeze, as well as earthquakes, pronunciamientos, &c. &e., has at length caved in. It was erected in 1609, and ‘as it was a well-known landmark for vessels bound to this port, shipmasters should make a note of the fact. IwrorTant Breach or Promise Case—Srrnrr- vauisa.—The Penn Yan Democrat says that one of those touching actions, the nature of which is well understood when embraced within this definition, was tried at the ‘Circuit Court in that village last week, Judge Wells pre. siding. The plaintiff was Miss Elizabeth Baskin, aged thirty.two years, and the defendant Mr. George L. Jones, aged thirty-one years, both of Milo. That he had courted and won the lady was an undeniable fact, for both having been sworn in the cause, both so testified. The defence set up was, that while in that state of relations towards each which precedes matrimony, that lady became a con- vert to spiritualiem, and herself an fang ge | “me- dium,” and the gentleman not fancying idea of a crowd of unseen spectators to hit marital endearments and domestic felicity, declined to interchange those ratifica- tions, without which no treaty is binding. There was proof on the other hand that the wooer had introduced his intended first to the ‘cirele,”’ and there side by side had courted the presence of the rs which set tables to moving, and frightened said articles of fumniure out of their wits. The jury thonght that Joner should pay nine hundred dollars for the violation of his plighted after ‘80 long a courtship. RarLRoaD FOR Satx—The Alexandria Gazette states that the Alexandria and Washi railroad, with ita locomotives and cars, will be at public sale on the Ist December next. Personal Intelligence. Jone eta has been jimed by the President te Consul of Mexico at San Mr. John Inglas, Dean of Faculty of Advocates, of Scot jefence of Masleleine Smith, was haw been His predecessor was the late Far! Ellesmere, General Codrington, lately appointed to the ‘command’ of the Prince of Wales, bas offered the govenorship of Malta, and bas refused the appoint ‘The physicians are not agreed as to the nature of the King ‘f Proseta’s disorder. The King’s intellects are stat- ed to be as sound as before, but his memory is represent. ed as having given way under the influence of cerebral congestions. ‘The Emperor of the French is busy at Compiegne, hunt- ing stags by day and seeing them cut up by torchlight, ARRIVALS. From Amoy, in ship Ino—James T Wileon, of New York, od Mobiie, in the meat ak vane ile, in the steamel er Clty—Der Weta yA Pecan Mine Peters, Mert McPherson: Mee f kine, Pedro, Paoble Dingo, Mra 8 zm coma ak eae tes viene jandervilie « ’ ne. ant friond.” Men, Beacon nnd Web Mary Lew Khuttleworth and son, USN; A Johnson, Indy and child, Antonio Pader, nervant om and 1, Francisco G Isaac Smith, John Foster, Robert Woodside, M A mat MPL Dusensehen, Me 2 Leon, Dir Yenacio CMenbany Me Thos & Hates, Mr Schmidt, Mise F Calystein, Mra Ow. irs Bartlett, Mre Armstrong, Yer Rerrwell,‘danemer ant, Mrs Hunt, Mr 8t Jon, Hunt, Mr and Mre child and servant, Antoine Garcia and Indy, J Irs Mian Brown, George Kobbe, Mr Fles lame K de Erant, Mre Mitchell, DR Parmly, Mr 8 A Lackentette, Daniel Hughes, John MeDougal, Monaghan, Lewie R ir Sherwood, J P Nel sai ghia. Mr. Hunt, Joseph lier, Osear Probst, W Strong and servant, Samuel B Barton, George Current Telia, Jose de Armas, JP Shourds, Rartholemy Jone Gowan, Jean Ruan, Charles Coste, Vict ‘ar, Raron, Hermann Muller, Henry Hanton, Joby er, Limn srend Elsings, Gvdtried Leeman, F Diago,—Specie, #2i0,00, row! FOR CALIFORNIA, &0. » New York....Nov. 12..Havana&N.O STEAMERS TO AND FROM HAVANA. Pmiaprurna—From New York 24, arriving at Havana Siz and New Orleans I1th. From New Orleans 20th, Havana 2d, arriving at New York 28th. QvaKrR Crry—From New York 7th of each month, arriving Mobile 23d, Havana at Havana 12th, and Mobile ith, From ‘Uth, arriving at New York 2th. Canawna—From New York 12h, arriving at Havana 17th, and New Orleans 19h. From New Orleans 27th, Havana 2%b, arriving at New York 84. Emery Cry: vane dy and New Orleans 2th. From New Orleans 5th, Havana 9th, arriving a New Tork 19th, wih eiaiscl oR—From. 21th, arrivins Ist and New Orleans %d. From New Orleans Tah Havana ‘Mth, arriving at New York 18th. From Charleston 4th and 12th, due at Havana 7th be fied From Havana 10th and 25th, due at New York 16ta and Siat, When the above dates fall on Sunday, the steam: on Monday, except from New ‘Orleane’ a ALMANAO YOR NEW YoRK—Tms 6 39] Moon RisRs. -morn — —= 49) HIGH WaTER, eve 22% ee ethene Port of New York, November 8, 1857, ARRIVED. Ship Ino, Plumer, Amoy, 28, with teas, sugar, &e, to Siffken & Tronsides) Oct 2, lat 2196 N. Jon 88 10 W, spoka Br brig G Benson, from Rermnda for West Indies; Nov 3, lat, Ag mn 67 49, spoke bark Escort, from Penang for New ‘ork. Bark Zingarella, Bunker, Rio Janeiro, Sept 24, with coffee, to Aymar & Co. Oct 10, lat 9'N, lon 46, spoke ship Minnehaha, 66 days from the Chinchas for Hampton Roads: same days spoke bark Rainbow, frow Rio Janeiro Sept 18 for Philadel phia, and was in company nine days during @ calm. The Z « from Rio fo the equator. since which time have had light baffing winds and calms: had no NE trades, Brig Chesapeake (Br), Barker, Windsor, NS, 11 days, witht Plaster, to 1 Wolf. olf, hr A Ward, Hof, Malaga. 37 day ih trait, to Howes 39, lon 64, ex ‘ieane from SW to NW; loat pie ee ji Rehr Meteor (ot Hrideeport); Marne, agua, 18 days, witht sugar and molasses. to Grinnell, Minturn & Co; vessel tO Monson Hawley, of Bridgeport. Sehr Delegate (Br), Newell, Cornwallis, NS, 8 days, witls potatoes, to Young, Bonnell & Co, Schr Buena Vista, Colling, Virginia, 2 days, Schr Yankee Boy, Risley, Philadelphia for Hartford. Schr EC Johnson, Bartlett, Boston for Richmond. th, Boston for Philadelphia, % ; Boston for Ege Harbor, Schr Adelaide, Carr, Providence for Philadelphia. Steamer Potomska, Cushman, New Redford. Steamer Pelican, Aldrich, Providence. BELOW Ship Harriet (of Bath), Bassett, from Pristol Sept 27. SAILED. fhip Agnes (Brem), Bremen. ‘Wind at sunrise SSE, with fog; sunset NE, do, Miscellaneous and Disasters. Sm Kirry Siarox—We mentioned the fact several day since that the ship Kitty Simpson, Capt G W Brown, had ar rived out at Williamstown, Australia, and that the passengerg were very much pleasod with the sailing qualities of the ship and the kindness of her gallant commander. Before leaving the ship the passengers presented the captain with the follows ing “anp—We, the undersigned pasaengers per Kitty Simpson, deem it our duty, before separating, to express cur cordial thanks to Capt GW Prown, for his unremitting kindness and attention to our comfort, during a long and perilous voyage from New Vork, and in testimony of our admiration of hi nas merous excellent qualities as’ man and officer: and, Him every happiness and prosperity, we subscribe ourselves Jas© MDonnell, Patrick Mulgreen, Morice Kirby, ‘Thos Lyndham. John Reid, Sarl Schmid! Joseph Wallace, John Shannon, Michael] Lenihan, Robert Craig, John Gelsor, ‘Williamstown, July 24, 1887. Bx Scur Agta, Paice, at Baltimore from New Bronswick; on the 26th ult, off Mount Desert Rock, lost part of deck overboard; also same time & seaman named James Peake, of Prince Edward Island. Sonn Amann, Davis, from Mayaguez for New York, of the @4th ult, experienced a gale in the Gulf Stream which care ried away foremast and one anchor. She put into Newbury+ port 6th inst for repairs Bark Jane A Falkenburg, of New Bedford, where she wag built in 1854, and 419 tons, has been purchased at San Frane ciseo (from which port she has been employed some time), b¥ Asa T Lawton, Faq, for $20,000. She will run between Sag Francisco and Honolulu as a regular packet. Lavxcnen—At Bangor 4th inst, a brig of about 275 tongs called the Anna Wellingtor - sich Anchored at Payta Sept 17, Hydaspe, Taber, NB, off a8 ha rey 23d, off and om, Gen Keott, Daggett, FH. 860 ap. 28 Wh—had discharged Mr Gifford, 24 mate, sick: 24h, off and on, William Lee, Slocum, Ne 120 ap; anchored, Virginia, Mr Sanford, sick; Courer, 480 sp; th, on, Henry, Bunker, Nant, bbis oll on board, botind on a ‘eruiae and home; Atkins Adams, Wilson, FH. 1580 bbis all told; Benj Cum ings, Jenkins,’ Dartmoinh, 1000 ep; Jaa Loper, oil not stated: Monterey, Whimpenny, Edgartown, 60 sp nivoe reported. Heard from on Gallipagos Ground middle of Sat, Anaconda, Crenner, NB, 200 sp’ Active, Wood, do, 480xp) Merlin, Deblois. do, #6 sp: Aurora, Marshall: Westport Sep Sea Queen, Haughton, do, 1000 ap.’ [Some of the above ese tels were incorrectly reported at Tombez.) red signal with a white ball in the cey , steering 8, was signalized Oct $0, lat 76. Brig Howard (of Rath), from Cienfue; NC, Nov 2, lat $2 38, lon 77 10. iets cit cd A ship showin and the letter L Foreign Ports. Hauirax, Nov 5, 10}; PM—Arr ateamshii Fr Boston, for Liverpool og i ‘and proceeded at midnight. Rio JANvino, ‘M—In port ships Jobn St ; for Cowes abt 6 w Ratlier, Farreat, for Novieass ne week: Sunny South, Stephenson, for NYork 5 daye: see, for NYork 2 days; Ellerslie, Coutts, for 3 Juniper, Lefevre, from NOrleans, just arr: barks Dean, Gage, for do few days: Merlin, Rienrd, wig frts Ainsoy Mudget, from Liverpool, do; Mary iEhizabeth,” Sieteon, (008 Buenos Ayres, do; Roanoke, Parker, for Baliimore 2 Graj Clank. wie frts Morning Star, Claae, from: tare orm Bird, Gerard, hence for kan Francisco, Vine imore 2 days: Reindeer, H Eaton, n,, Miller, for Bal im lade wig: "from. Wilmington, lof Rover, Van Bice, from Peneacole, ding: Alice ; Blue Wing, Burnham, from ‘Baltimore. ong Alberta, of Searsport, just arr: brigs Executive, wig: Tallulah, Plummer. from Walumore, ‘tag: schre Toso America, Pe Pocatoa' rowers, from Buenos Ayres. lag Buekley, and Ped Bak wie, Sid Bd hark I. Baltimore, 24th, Chevalier, Anderson, NOrlean; by Sprite, Crowell, N¥ork; previous to 234, bark Rainbor Pi delphia, Srpnry, NSW, July 27—Arr ship Elwood Walter, Méoneyy London TAWCARUANO, abt Sept 21—In port ship Sunbeam, lisboa,’ from Caldera for Boston soon, having put in to comple cargo. AZALACHIOOLA, Oot S015 ort brig Go Breve, Aw worthy, for NYork, Ide; Iph Post, C Hovding: Vietora, for Indianola, Idgy Walter M'Foeapeons for do do. LEXANDRIA, iy Ar eg Maryland, Pumber! A Chae; pg, Mg CHG) a way, 5 Me Dare tal PHL reac wery tayo Om |, Nov . Jeans: achrs A F Litinell, Pree pe Hiarien a ete hamp, Howard Norfolk. 3 ey, Whirlow, Alexandria, Bent Cid steamers City of New York. Howes, Philadedhia: Jenkins, Hallett, Baltimore: shipa Gentoo, ; Parliament, Pollard, NYork, to lond for Li oak ao oy Kal ue Tt q y 5 Sid, wind NW, barks Wild Gazelle, Osmanli, and Fontaine BALTIMORE. Nov 6—~Arr bark Brothers, Oniver, Clenfag Wa Br Lg tyre Small, St Vincent, schra: ‘indsor, NS; Adelia ( New Brunewick;E J y, Rayner, NYork Sargent, Portand. Ch “hs rer (Br). lohmaon, N: Indes, schr E way, Thompson, Alexandria, line, Key West and Havana: ship Bombay, Hl FALL RIVER, Nov 6—8id sloop LH York; at anchor in the harbor, a schr reports wey, jout, Arr Ste, schr Wave, Srague, Phile- EORGETOWN, &C, Oct 20—Arr brig Ben, Perrys Worse: Mediatcr: Mier, Newport Chl Get FT brige P ree Garver, Portland: Chimaborage, Brown, Kingwon, 3 pre Moonlight, Stuts, NYork; 4th, La ARTFORD, Rid schre Carpenter, a MORILE, Nov d—Arr oy tel) ship Arkiwrigat, Davia, Phe NEW ORLEANS, Oot 31— : Nag SR ey brig Northern Helle, from in tat Braroe Sant T Vera Crug: ei ia, mie ‘Willinmay Liverpool, barks Bui ntura (Rp), Millet, i At ta (we), Tu mkt: &p Folk, Sraith: Minatitlan ria Were Orne ‘ NORFOLK, Nov 5—Arrachra N Woosey, NYork; Belleg Covetiey, NYOrR. N IURYPORT, Now 6—Arr achrs Davie, Ma- yaguer, PR, for NYork see Mis); Mail, Veare, NYork. FRILADELEHIA, iow. in nee Fame Avante t ineiro, Thon, Dalloth, rms Arta: Sox open, tse, ee jonek; Hy Berry, Haley; te hen 1D Sawrer, Hall, NYorits eth doh 1 Dimméek, Sod Oct —Arr echrs CHeftain, Rhodes, NY : 4th, Nourmanal, mer, wi Hawes, and Louisa Gray, Salem; © W Holmes, MHL Nov 6—Arr acl Juno, Senden for NYork feld Mobile; bark Jubilee, OCKLAN! Nov 2, Corvo, Oct 31 to; i jonton. and Kr bit G—Arr echre Charles Wil eka, ‘owler, Willard, do Damon, Pitcher, Calai@ SAVANNAH, Nov 2—Arr by brig Join Freeman Haring, dn clatanny Yharwards erpook: achr W Ht Cleré’ Hethe) Nama, NP. * BION, Rov (Arr ache Monten: Breabeey hey IN low OH) « le sche re wk + 8 Everett (from South Thomaston), NYork; A PA KFORD, Nov $Sid sloop % E Wells, Baker, Calais), do and about 30 others bound ® amd We