The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1857, Page 4

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A correspondent of a St. Paul, Minnesota, paper, writing from Payutzac on the 26th ult., states that 8 report had reached there that a party of United Btates soldiers, numbering five hundred men, sup- posed to be a detachment of the Utah military expe- dition, had been attacked and killed by a large body of Teelowan Indians. The correspondent alluded to believed the report to be true. ‘The recent rains have swollen the streams in the interior of this State to an alarming extent. The tracks of the Central gpd Erie railroads have been inundated, and in some places entirely washed away, and travel temporarily suspended. Many bridges, dams and buildings on the Genesee and Basquehanna rivers have also been swept away by the flood. Two bad breaks in the Erie canal, near Palmyra ‘and Newark, are reported, sand at least five daya will be required to repair the damage. This is par- ticularly unfortunate just at this time. The $500,000 State joan, to supply a deficiency in the Sinking Fund, was taken yesterday at an average premium of five and a half per cent. It will be seen that a portion of it went as high as #108 13. ‘The unemployed workingmen of the city held mass meetings yesterday morning in Tompkins square and in the Park. There were not more than six or eight hundred persons preeent in Tompkins square at any one time, and among these the most peace- able and good tempered disposition prevailed. The Jong delayed appropriation of a quarter million of dollars to enable the Central Park Commissioners to afford employment on that work seemed to be gene- rally regarded as an act of especial grace on the part of the Common Council, and to be principally due to the menacing attitude assumed by the workingmen. It would be wrong to permit this impression to go uncontradicted. The appropriation was a mere mat- terof-course act, which the Common Council could not well avoid performing, and which partisan mo- tives alone had hitherto stood in the way of. It ix intended, not for the purpose of affording mere tem- porary employment, but to supply the Commission- ers with funds for the fiscal year. Of course, the ap- propriation now will do good, and if the other autho- rized public works could be at once put in hand it would be so mach the better. The meeting in the Park was composed of several thousand persons. In the early part of the day the crowd conducted themselves very creditably, but in the afternoon a number of speakers delivered violent harangues, urging an attack on the banks and ware- houses. Proper precautions had, however, been taken to prevent a breach of the peace. A large body of armed police was stationed in and about the City Hall, and their presence, without doubt, pre- vented the multitude from adopting the advice of the injadicious spokesmen who endeavored to excite the workingmen to open insurrection. A force of one hundred soldiers and marines was stationed yesterday in the basement of the Custom House to protect the property. Gen. Scott during the day, visited Wail street, and found the arrange ments there quite satisfactory. The Central Park Commissioners held a special meeting yesterday, and adopted resolutions that will enable them to set a large force of laborers at work ‘with as little delay as possible. It is proposed to employ one thousand men as soon as the ‘Srrangements with regard to the funds can be per- fected. A eras Sedeprlanbcmemardrntien saan the [poor was at Hope Chapel last , but no- Ghing practical grew out of it. ne ‘The Board of Teo Govamors met yestegtay, when the estimated expenditure of the Almshouse depagt- ment for the year 1468 was decided upon. The total ‘mount asked for by the Governors is $625,000. From the report of the wardens it seems there are now 7,346 persons on the island, being an increase of 97 as compared with the report of last week, and 1,560 as compared with the census of this time laut year. A correspondent suggests that it would be a great inducement to capitalists to invest in new buildings, ‘and thereby employ the large number of artizans who fre at preseat without work, if the corporation would exempt from five years taxes of every kind every new building which will be commenced immediately , or whose height will have attained the first story beams before the lst of May, 1858. Frederick de Cueva, the young Spaniard who #tands convicted of manslaughter in having cansed the death of Oscar de Granval, at Hoboken, on the Bith of July last, was to have been sentenced at the Hodson county (N. J.) Court of Oyer and Terminer yeterday. His counsel made energetic addreases to the Court, asking the mitigation of his sentence to 8 fine, and presented petitions from ten of the jury and « large number of citizens to the same effect. ‘The District Attorney opposed the application, and the Court decided to pronounce the sentence to-day. in the Court of Special easions yesterddy John Doiley pleaded guilty to voting illegally in the Ffth | as SUSUR eee een oe he een SoS eS | column. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNES election district of the Bixth ward, at the late gene nul election, and was sent to the penitentiary for six months, Capt. Leet, of the brig A. G. Washburn, arrived in this city on Monday last from Port au Prince, Hayti. He leit there on the 23d ult., and furnishes us with the particulars of his imprisonment, trial and sen- tence for an alleged assault on a man whom he found engaged in tampering with the fidelity of his crew. After lying for nine days in « loathsome prison the captain was fined $800 (Haytien curren- cy) and set free. His health was impaired from con- finement in a close room swarming with vermin and criminal negroes. Trade was dull when he left Hayti. Captain Mayo, of the brig R. W. Packer, of Boston, was still in jail at Port au Prince on charges connected with the introduction of counterfeit money. From San Domingo we have official reports to the effect that General Palmentier, commanding the government troops, had routed the Celayan revolu- tionists at Savanah-la-Mar, with great loss to the lat- ter and very few casualties to his own command. The government fictilla on the north coast had fired on a group of men assembled near Matanzas. The country was a prey to anarchy, and confusion cxist- ed everywhere. ‘The American settlers on the Sa- mana peninsula were about to leave in consequence, ‘Tt was thought that in the end the Dominican re public would fall under the rule of the Haytiens. Advices from Yucatan to the 14th ult. state that he government troops had dislodged the revolution- sts from the northern coast, but that they stil! held all the line on the south side as far as Laguna. Campeachy was in a manner beseiged. A great many men were killed on both sides there in an engagement on the morning of the 6th. Fighting continued on the 8th, 9th and 10th, when the revo- lutionists were driven into Campeachy with great slaughter. Governor Barrera still looked at the re- sult of the struggle as doubfful, and had hinted in a proclamation at his assuming dictatorial powers. Taking advantage of tho times the Indians were committing ravages on all sides, and they had just sacked the town of Chickinconot and murdered all its inhabitants. We have news from the West Indies. The gold mines of Guiana were about to be explored by a sci- entific commission, which had already started for Yu- ruari. About three hundred thousand bushels of salt would be raked at Inagua this season. Barbadoes was healthy. Owing to the advance in the price of sugar this year the crop of the island would, it was thought, be largely in excess of that of last season. At St. Lucia affairs were very unsettled, but there were hopes of fine crops. At St. Salvador there was a large yield of bananas and plantains. Trade was dull at Demarara. No gold mines could be found on the Demarara river by the parties prospecting. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, writing on the 22d ultimo, says:—American bread- stuffy continue in good demand at remunerative prices, but provisions are dull, owing to the heavy stock on hand. Red oak staves, shingles and long wood hoops, with pitch pine lumber and oil meal are much wanted. Native produce is in good supply, but |. there is no demand for sugar, and molasses is in poor yequest even at 20 cents per gallon. The island has been visited with heavy rain and thunder within the last few days, which have caused some little dam- age in the country. The heat is intense, but the health of the island good. No order has yet been received from England for the embarkation of our troops for India, though ready and willing to serve. The Court of General Sessions was crowded yes terday, principally by the unemployed workingmen, as it was expected that James Rodgers would be put on trial for the marder of John Swanston; but for some reason or other the case was not called on. The Grand Jury found a number of indictments against parties, the majority of which were charges of robbery and grand larceny. The prisoners were arraigned for plea and remanded for trial. Michael Marrin, a youth indicted for highway robbery, pleaded guilty to an assault with intent to rob, the Assistant District Attorney accepting it. Judge Russell, in passing sentence, observed that the papers showed a very clear case of guilt. He was sent to the State prison for three years and six months. The physician of the city prison, in a letter to the Clerk, stated that John Mead, acquitted on Monday of the murder of H.C. R. Wagner, in the New York Hos- pital, on the ground of insanity, is sane while sober, but hasan uncontrollable murderous propensity while laboring under delirium tremens. It is said that the physicians of the State Lunatic Asylum will pro- nounce him an improper inmate, and the law will not permit the authorities to keep Mead in custody. Itis highly probable that Judge Russell will dis charge him on Saturday. About 11 o'clock last night a fire broke out on board the packet slip Jeremiah Thompson, lying at the foot of Market street. The fire was first seen between decks, amongst bales of cotton. Shortly before 1 o'clock this morning, by the united efforts of the firemen, the vessel filled with water and set- tled in the mud. A member of a hook and ladder company received some bodily injury by the spring- ing of a ladder. Proceedings in the case of Miss Anne Baasett Smith, the young lady who bas been kept in the Insane Asylum at Flashing for the past seven years, were commenced yesterday at the private residence of Judge Davies. We give in another column a re- port of all that has been permitted to transpire with regard to this affair. The Police Commissioners did not meet yesterday. They will meet today at 2 P.M. Mr. Pelatiah Perit bas not yet made any communication with reference to his recent election to fill the vacancy in the Board. He has been for several days sick at his residence in Bloomingdale. It was reported yesterday that he had positively declined. The committee appointed at the recent meeting of Erie railroad stockholders at Jersey City, to con- fer with the citizens for the purpose of raising money to aid in completing the terminus of the road at Jersey City, met on Monday, when the subject was thoroughly discussed. Measures were proposed to secure $250,000 for the prosecution of the work, and the committee adjourned to meet again to- morrow evening. The cotton market yosterday was firmor, with sales of About 600 a 600 bales, based upon middling uplands, at 12Mc. w 1de., and strict middling do. at 130. a 13\0. A telegraph despatch received from New Orleans, dated the ‘Mh inet., quoted middling cotton at 12)¢c., exchange at Mand freight at ‘gd. Flour was steady, with « good demand from the domestic trade and for export, while prices were unchanged. Wheat was in moderate supply, and the market steady with fair sales, including pur. chases for export. Corn was scarce and firmer, with sales of Western mixed at 76c.aT7c. Rye sold at The. for Northern. Pork was steady, with sales of moss at $19 75, and prime at $1575 4 $16, Sugars were steady, with sales of about 1,000 bhds. and 160 boxes at rates given elsewhere. Coffee was quiet, in view of an auction sale to come off to-day. For stocks and prices we refer to another Freight engagements were modorate, while rates were unchanged. Tun News sy TH Anapta—The Arabia, from Liverpool on the 3st ult., is fully due to- doy. She will bring us the most important news that we have received from England for a long time. She will bring us accounts of three or four days endurance of the newsof our bank suspension of specie payments; she will, for in- stance, be able to tell ux precisely what effect our suspension had upon the Bank of England, and whether a suspension of specie payments is likely to occur there. She will not, of course, bring we the final intellig¥nce in reference to the Anglo-American merchants, whose fate may Jong hang in the balance; but she will afford room for good hope, if she bring no tidings of disaster respecting them. Furthermore, she will bring a fortnight's later news from India, It is possible that she may nnn nn bving news of the fall of Delhi, though this is not likely; the chances are that she wili bring accounts that will render the crushing out of the mutiny a mere question of a few weeks. No such important news will have reached here by a singie steamer since the fall of Sebas- topol. Phe New Congress and the New Schemes and Combinations of the Lobby. Our special Washington advices of this morn- ing reveal to us the important fact that this financial revulsion, which has worked so disas- trously to the railroad land jobs and fat con- tract schemes of the lobby of Congress, has also operated to create 9 new harvest for the lobby vultures upon all the great questions touching the federal re-orgauization of our financial and commercial affair, Under the adm{inistration of Gen. Taylor's Cabinet and Mr. Fillmore, the Galphins and the Gardners, with their stupendous and infamous Indian and Mexican indemnities, extracted the specie from the Treasury by the quarter million and the half million at a haul; but underthe dles- sed lobby dispensation of poor Pierce, the jobbers and speculators in Western lands and railroads appropriated the public domains to the extent of millions, tens of millioag, yea, hundreds of millions of dollars. Hundreds of other mil- lions would also have*been secured in great patent monopolies but for the timely and reso- lute intervention of the independent press and some of the independent and unpurchasable members of Congress. But the disclosures of the Investigating Committee of the last House of Repre- sentatives, imperfect as they were, de- veloped a lobby combination, and a catalogue of lobby schemes of spoils and plunder, in com- parison with which all the spoils corruptions of the last half century at Washington were thrown into the shade. The consummation of these schemes was, through this investigation, (oa great extent arrested; and with the in- auguration of Mr. Buchanan it began to be pretty well understood that the day for lobby land jobbing and land robbing, patent monopo- lies, moonshine indemnities, spoils and plunder contracts, &e., had passed away. If there were any doubts remaining as to the purpose and the power of Mr. Buchanan to stop these great leaks of public spoliation and private corrup- tion, these doubts have since been dissipated by the inevitable government necessities result- ing from this financial and commercial col- lapee. iCranted, however, that the stringency of the timer and the straitened condition of a hitherto plethoric treasury preclude the possibility, in this new Congress, of any valuable dividends to the lobby from railroad grants, swamp lands, Indian indemnities, contracts and frauds, patent jobs, private claims, steamship combinations and moonshine government contracts, we are assured that a new field for the lobby will be opened in the public necessities of the crisis, and that democrats, black republicans, Know Nothings, fire-eatera and old line whigs will be found, as occasion may require, insiders and outsiders, cheek by jowl, working like beavers to shape the legislation of Congress, and to fleece the victims concerned. The measures upon which this new programme of the lobby will be founded will comprehend every expe- dient for the relief of the treasury and the country, against broken banks, broken mer- chants, suspended factories and prostrated credit and industry. Our Washington correspondent says that the game will begin upon the Congress printing; and as this business comprehends net profits ranging from several hundred thousand dollars toa millions year, and as the administration has cut loose from the entangling alliances of all sorts of official organs, we have a hope that the squabbles of the conflicting cliques for this public printing will result in the defeat of the ‘whole batch of spoilamen concerned, and in the positive gain to the treasury itself of the profits of the government printing, in the establish- ment of a government office for the execu- tion of the work. But there will be a call for a bankrupt law, and, as in 1840-"41, the candidates now for the benefits of such an act will find the lobby ready to aid them and bleed them to any extent desired. So in regard to any Congressional measure for the better regulation of the banks and the currency and credit system of the country, the banks and the financiers and stockjobbers inte- rested must pay their tribute to the lobby for positive aid, for promised assistance, and for a convenient silence. So, too, upon any movement for the modificatiqgn of the tariff, producers of raw materials and manufacturers must look well to the ins and outs, and go- betweens, and black mail agents, and gamblers of the lobby; for a decisive vote, yea or nay, may possibly be controlled by a wink from the lobby or a nod from the gallery. ‘Thus, between the various measures which may be agitated in the coming Congress in re- ference to the revenues, the tariff, the credits and currency, the banks and bankrupts of the country, a field of enterprise will be opened in which a well disciplined lobby may calculate to glean its thousands and millions in fees, perqui- sites, presents nd black mail extortions. But there will be a serious drawback to any very extensive lobby operations in the vigi- lant and careful administration of Mr. Bu- cbanan, and in the example of a cabiact every member of which is an honest man, and beyond the corrupting temptations of spoils and plun- der in bis position of pecuniary independence. Above all, we aaticipate that the administration party in both Houses will be so harmonious and reliable as to be entirely beyond the reach of lobby influences upon all great financial and commercial issues. We apprehend that thie party will be guided by the counsels and policy of the administration, and that the approaching session will be wasted by the lobby in its vain attempts to detach a majority of either House from the reform and retrenchment policy of an honest, sagacious and discriminating adminis- tration. i We shall, however, await the preliminary fight of the lobby upon the public printing with considerable interest; for this contest will not only, in an important degree, develope the means, appliances and resources of the lobby, but the moral calibre and strength of both branches of the new Congress, Tax Crxante Hover Transactions. Tables of the transactions at the Clearing-House for pe- riods of years are being constantly published, showing with admirable accuracy the actual amount of business transactions in this city at any given period. A more perfect mirror or index to the trade of the port conld not well be imagined. With euch a guide kept constantly in view, it seems that it onght to he the easiest thing in the world to detect and check any un- | due expansion or contraction and thus counter- act the possibility of revulsions. This clearing house system, with its rapid liquidations and unrestricted publicity, ought to be applied to the whole country and to every branch of trade. Were the merchants of the United States to settle up their mutual balances once a week, they could never get so deep into each other’s debt as to be forced to free them- selves by a bankruptey. They could never ex- pand beyond the power of recovery. And, whatever they did, the public eye would be on them the whole time, and no sudden, unfore- seen, or unprovided calamity could overtake them or the country. The clearing house system should be mado a feature of every branch of trade; and if all commercial nations became members of a clear- ing house where the debt of each country to all others was liquidated and paid off at stated intervals, trade would be safer and sounder than it fa, ‘The advices froin Mauritius, which we publish in another column, exhibiting the prosperous state of that colony, end the causes which have Jed to the large increase of the suger culture there, are worthy of careful attention and study, fov many reasons. Cotton and sugar are the two great staple products of tropical and semi-tropical fields that the European world is now deeply concerned about the supply of. Their cultivation and pro- duction is much more intimately connected than is apparent at first glance. Both are the product of burning regions, where the fever-brained white man is incompetent to toil; both demand large combinations of capital, mechanical skill, and rude labor, under a harmonious organiza- tion ; and consequently the supply of both de- pends upon a social combination of the superior and inferior races of men different from what exists in the homogeneous communities of Europe. The capital and skilled labor necessary for their production will not be expended upon the lands of the tropics, un- less the requisite rude labor can be impli- citly counted on to gather the harvest and minister with regularity to its operations. It is this constantly operating cause which re- quires that for the production of cotton and sugar the negro or the coolie shall be bound for a fixed term of involuntary servitude. These are the general truths which the history of the production of these two great staples of food and clothing teach us; and it is their recogni- tion that is sb rapidly overturning the erro- neous humanitarian theories of Exeter Hull. But the example of Mauritius comes to us with a peculiar significance at this time, when passing events are revolutionizing the minds and overturning the cherished theories of two generations of men. The financial revulsion has destroyed for long years, perhaps forever, the agitation of the slavery question in this country. The same operation which is now going on in Europe will produce somewhat similar effects there; and, combining with the war in India, which has swept from the British mind its maudlin sympathy with the colored races, and the startling increase in the con- sumption of cotton everywhere, will produce a like effect upon the European mind in regard to its social theories for tropical communi- ties. In fact, the tendeucy of Europe in this direction was already visible in the return to a system of involuntary labor in the Coolie and African apprentice plan. It is at this juncture that the eminently successful career of the little island of Mauri- tius is before us, pointing to the future that is soon to come in the crowded East from these causes, In the accounts before us we perceive several facts of great import. First, that the capital and mechanical skill necessary to be invested in the sugar culture require that the rude la- borers shall be bound irrevocably for a term of three years of service, in order to make their reward secfire. More than one hundred thou- sand laborers have been imported into Mauri- tius under these conditions in the short space of fourteen years. Second, that the best and highest priced manures can be profitably em- ployed on sugar lands. This is something to startle the sugar planters of America, who have pursued the practice of working the rich new lands to exhaustion, and then abandoning them. Under the combination of these two stimulants the production of sugar in Mauritius rose from 55,000 tons in 1851 to 127,000 tons in 1856, and the entire colony prospered wondrous- ly. The state of the public mind in England at this time is such, from the cause we have cited, as to consent most willingly to the establishment of a system of legislation organizing the servitude of the Hindoo and ne- gro race; and so soon as that is done the exam- ple of Mauritius will be repeated in Ceylon, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and throughout the Malaysian islands. The supply of labor from India and China is inexhaustible. Millious may be apprenticed, and doubtless will. In Europe the demand for cotton and sugar is great and increasing, and the supply of capital and enter- prise abundant. The law of involuntary labor once permamently established in the East, will bring out immense quantities of sugar and ‘otton. ' There is another significant fact in the ad- vices from Mauritius. The Indian laborers gain high wages and are regularly paid, and yet their consumption of goods does not increase; the greater part of these people prefer hoarding their money to spending it. We have long be- lieved that this trait of the Hindoo and Chi- nese people lies at the bottom of the great drain of specie from Europe to the East; and if this is 90, the increased employment of these millions of laborers will call for an increased supply of coin from the civilized world. How this in- creased flemand will affect the money centres of the world cannot yet be determined. That it is already beginning to affect England is well known. We have thus cureorily presented the refleo- tions that the state of affairs in Mauritius gives rise to, and they will not fail to strike every mind interested in the production of our great American staples—sugar and cotton. That the preseht revulsion in Europe and the war in India are destined to produce great changes in the social organization and legislation in the East is evident, The prosperous example of Mauritius is too convincing not to produce a great effect. Our planters must not be too con- fident of maintaining their superiority. Where labor and soil are abundant, and the climate fa- vorable—as they all are in the East Indies—we may rest assured that the suogess of Mauritius will be largely imitated, and that Europe will concede the necessary legislation to establish some kind of igvoluntary servitude. In fact, the experimen of negro apprentices for the West Ludies is now being tried. DAY, NOVEMBER ll, 1857. Ovcr Crrr Arvams—Mayor Woop anp THH Prormye Pourricians.—It is reported that our United States District Attorney and United States Marebal have been communicating the most alarming information to Washington ocon- cerning their fears of a sort of red republican revolution in this metropolis, and that there has been, in consequence, a formidable muster- ing of marines to protect our Custom House and other government property here against the possible contingencies of mob law. It also appears that the Cabinct have held a solemn council upon the revolutionary aspects of our idle men’s processions and meetings, and that the administration is not altogether pleased with the late official proclamations of Mayor Wood. But what is the truth concerning these work- ingmen’s demonstrations? They have been harmless in their conduct, and by no means alarming in numbers, Nor have they been the gatherings of Mayor Wood, but of the scheming politicians who are ambitious of a ehare in the spoils and plunder of our approach- ing charter election. Mr. Wood is the only de- mocratic candidate for Mayor. He hes, by his firmness and energy of character in his office, tion ® moral certainty. Hence the malignant hostility of his enemies drives them to the most desperate devices for his defeat, and among these enemies there are, no doubt,a few misguided and a few ambitious but disappointed demo- cratic politicians. The spoils involved in the approaching charter election amount to sonie seven or eight millions a year, so that to all our city spoilsmen of all parties our city election is of infinitely greater importance than any State election. But Mayor Wood has the inside track, and we fear that it is personal hostility on this account, less than a dread of a bloody revolution, that has had the most to do with these foolish reports to Washington. As for any real danger of a bread riot, there is none to be feared; nor has there been upon this sub- ject of work a popular demonstration which, if required, the Mayor could not have dispersed with a hundred policemen. We can assure the Cabinet thatthe public property in this city may be safely entrusted to the guardianship of our city authorities—that all these outcries of revolutions are silly exag- gerations and humbugging devices for political effect, and that the peace of the city can be maintained without difficulty. We believe, too, that better times are coming—the banks are enlarging their accommodations, and soon, from present appearances, the fear of starving thousands upon us through the winter will have vanished. Let the Cabinet adjourn, and let Gen. Scott hang up his sword. Toe MeeTinG at Tompxiny Square.—The reader will find elsewhere an account of this amusing affair, which may perhaps close the season of this class of performances. These workmen’s meetings are utter nonsense; they do not intend to do any mischief, and could not, if they did. The pretended organization and assemblages are got up by small politicians whom the late election has left out of employ- ment; they mean nothing and only deserve to be laughed at. It was the most ridiculous thing in the world to alarm the general govern- ment, and disturb the marines in their snug quarters; nobody intended either them or the property the least injury. As to supposing that the clamor and alarm created by these meetings will help the opposi- tion to elect Mayor Wood’s opponent for the Mayoralty, this will be found to be a mistake. The democracy, who are in great spirits in con- sequence of their great triumph in this State, cannot afford to lose the city; and with the standing democratic majority here, with the Custom House, Post Office, and Corporation, they need not bese it unless they please. The outcry and tricks of the opposition cannot even endanger Mayor Wood's re-election. Tur Frvancian Distress at THe THEATRES.— The throngs of people who nightly visit the eleven theatres now open in this city seem happy enough, and no one would imagine, from the receipts of the places of public amusement, that there was any severe stringency in the money market. During the past two weeks we have published statements of the number of visiters at each theatre, with the sums received. Fron these it appears that on Monday, the 2d of November, fifteen thousand eight hundred (15,800) people visited the theatres, paying five thousand eight hundred dollars ($5,800), On the evening of the 9th, the number of visiters rose to sixteen thousand (16,000), paying six thousand three hundred and sixty dollars ($6,360). From the last statement the German theatres are omitted. They take, altogether, about five hundred dollars ($500) per night. If we leave the average, however, at six thou- sand dollars per night—and that is quite within bounds—we shall have a weekly expenditure for theatres, in this city alone, of thirty thou- sand dollars, which is doing very well for hard times. At about the time of the bank suspen- sion, last month, several of the theatres were in a bad way, and even now they are not doing quite so well as usual at this season, which should be the best of the year. The managers have generally reduced their ex- penses, and are now playing to more than paying houses. The Opera season has com- menced well; the management has stopped the system of distributing tickets to barbers, boot- blacks, and other useful members of society who came to talk loudly in the lobbies and get in everybody's way; and the effect of this and several other reforms is seen ina great improve- ment, both in the number and character of the audience. It is, likewise, a curious fact that while the journals are filled with reports of distress among the working classes, the theatres and saloons on the easterly side of the city—which places of amusement are supported almost en- tirely by mechanics—are quite full every night. There is no doubt that great distress exists among the poor, but the poor do not march about the streets with banners and cries for bread or death. The poor do not make speeches in the Park or in Wall street, or frighten the federal authorities into detailing marines to protect Uncle Samuel's cash on hand. The de- monstrations in Tompkins square are as purely theatrical as any stage play. They are made by idle fellows, who grow fuddled over beer and preach chartism or red republicanism by the yard. The really poor shrink from the light of day, and are only found by the benevo- Jent after strict search. These supernumeraries of Tompkins square are getting up a little play of their own. Pretty soon they will pase | around the hat, ‘ Rorren Banas.—We have during the pas year frequently called the attention of the public to the suspicious condition of several of our banks, Recent developements have proved the veracity of our statements, First, we had the Ohio Life and Trust Company, which broke down while its stock was selling at par; then the Mechanics’ Banking Association, with « story about a defaulting teller, which was soon hushed up; third, within the past few days the respectable part of the community has beeam shocked with accounts of the defalcation of two bank officers, of the highest (presumed) integ- rity, in the Grocers’ Bank of this city and the Bank of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. In ad- dition to this, the sccounts of the olty banks which have gone into liquidation show that their officers have been very great knaves, or very great fools, In the case of the Bowery Bank, it appears that the directors bor- rowed pretty nearly all its available funda, and gave securities which may or may rot turm out to be worth something one of thew daya The Island City Bank was doing a first class business with about five hundred dollars worth of assets, and go with several others, ‘There were developements similar to these ia the tough times of 1836-'37, and the banking jaws were made more stringent in consequence of them. It would appear, however, that the bankers are more ingenious than the legisla- tors, for-the financiers manage to evade all'the provisions of the law except that which obliges them to give security for their circulation. As for the stockholders and deposltdrs, they have no protection. With such examples as those of the Bank of Pennsylvania, the Grocers’, and the others, what confidence can any one have in any of the banks? All these rotten concerns stood as well a month ago as the banks which now have the public confidence. They were as sound, as pure and as free from any sus- picion as the best bank in Wall street is to-day. ‘Their officers held high places in the communi- ty—were bright and shining lights religiously, politically, financially and socially, When one had stolen as much as he could from the bank‘ he took an European trip for his health, and the directors thanked him for his services. The fact is, there is more rascality in banking insti- tutions than is shut up in Sing Sing, and every- body concerned had better keep a sharp look- out for their money. THE LATEST NEWS. Reported Massacre of Five Hundred Troops by the Teelowan Indians. ‘Curcago, Nov. 10, 1857. Mr. Williamson, correspondent of the St. Paul Times, writing from Payutgac on the 26th ult., says that a report. had reached there that five hundred United States troops, supposed to be a detachment of the Utah expedition, had been attacked and killed by a large party of Teslowan Indians, near Missouri river. Mr. Williamson believes the report. The Arabie’s News from Europe. Boston, Nov. 10-9 P. M. ‘The heavy storm of last aight prostrated the wires im many places east of Bangor, and communication with Nova Scotia and Newfoundland has been suspended all day. Should the Arabia have passed near to Cape Race to-day, her news will doubtless be received at an early hour to-morrow (Wednesday) forenoon. FRESHETS ON THK GENESEK RIVKR—DAMAGE TO BRIDGES, DAMS, ETC. Rocumsren, Nov. 10, 1857. The heavy rains of the past two days have caused greag damage in this vicinity and farther up the Genesee val- ley. At and within two miles of Dansville cight dams and six bridges were carried away last night. The Genesee river is now quite as high as it was during the flood Inst spring, and the water is still rising. The Central Railroad track was last night much damaged by the flood. Numerous culverts on both roads between this place and Syracuse were washed away, and the track is yet inundated ig many places. No trains passed between this place and Syracuse to-day, FRESABTS IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER. Wissamsroxt, Nov. 10, 186. ‘The Susquehanna river at this point has raisod ton feet, and is still rising. RAILROAD TRACK AND BUILDINGS WASHED awaY. Exaura, Noy. 10, 1867. ‘The water in the river here has overflowed tho Erie Railroad bridge, and it is feared that it will be carried away. ‘The track at Corning is washed away and the place tn- undated. A number of buildings have been washed away. —_—____. Breaks in tne Erle Canal, Ausasy, Nov. 10, 1866, Two bad breaks have occurred in the canal near Pal- myra and Newark. Several feet of the bank are gone, aud it will take five days to repair the damage. Interesting from Washington, TRE NICARAGUA TRANSIT QUESTION—THE NEW CON GRESS—NEW COMBINATIONS AND SCHEMES OF THR LOBBY, TO SUIT THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS IN THE FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL WORLD—POLIOT OF THE ADMINISTRATION ON THE MORMON QURS TION—THE KEW NEW YORK POST OFFICE. Wasminaton, Nov. 10, 1867. The President received a despatch to-day from General Scott, stating that ample preparations had been made te proteet the public property. Joe White and several of his Transit associates are here, importuning the administration relative to the recognition of Nicaragua. It is labor lost, Mr. Yrisarri has had no interview with any government official since his arrival bere, nor does be ask or expect any action of the adminia- tration, until official information shall have been received of Gen. Martinez's election, which will not be yet for some weeks. Istate this upon the authority of Mr. Yrisarrt himeaclf. The impression prevails in many quarters that the pres- sure of this financial revulsion haa killed off the lobby vultarea of Congress and all their various schemes of plunder, Fetal delusion. This revulsion has simply created a necessity for e general change in the schedule of the lobby and a reorganization of ite materials, That ie all, ‘With the mooting of Congroes (mark it) the lobby will be here in great strength, and it will be organized, frst, in reference to the spoils of the public printing; secondly, in reference to a new tariff law, a bankrupt law and the policy of Congress in rogard to a goneral overhauling of the banking and credit system of the country, Here ie wide field for lobby operations. Upon this vast sche. dule you will find Southern fire eaters, black republicans and Know Nothings, hob-nobbing together as itmay be found convenient. Upon the printing thore will be rare sport, and a great dead of bargaining and selling. Upon the banks and ® bankrupt law the banks and bank- Tupts will be bied profusely, and upon the tariff question iron masters, cotton spinners and sugar growers will bo fleeced upon every amendment to overy bill affecting their interests before either House. The lobby leaders have no faith in the liberality of am administration which has bo Kitchen Cabinet, no organ— no kiteben organ—and no axes to grind for the succes sion; but which is resolved upon retrenchment and re form, regardless of cliques, factions, and lobby combina tions of all sorte; and so the whole programme of tim new lobby will be levelled exclusively at the bills and schemes before Congress, and at the weaker brethren in the two houses who may be in the market. But there ‘Will be some sentinels standing between the treasury and the lobby vultures, as they will in due semon discover, From reliable information Tam led to believe that no- thing will be done towards building a Post Office in Now York city for theyproseat, unless a proposition to build it on Chambers street in the Park, which has been some time pending before the city authorities, shall be accepted. ‘That proposition, I understand, is that the government will give $250,000 for 260 foet fronting on Chambers street, pear where the old building was that was burned down, and running back 160 fect. This proposition having been made before the dreadful revulsion of the times, might take the case out of the general rale—to stop all improvements that can be dispensed with and which have not heen commenced, There is no probability thas Pe + gvenanag [05 private property will be eatered upom