The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. GQFVIOR N. W. CORNER RMB, cash om NASSAU AND FULTON 8T8. a A1LY HERALD, two cents ), ST per annum. q EXKLY HERALD, every at via conte per or annem: eivion, H mn to so Erp. gu Soa Bran, or $8 tomy port of the Contant, bth THR cau T HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per OLUMakY. CORRESPONDENCE, . Shauna ominaaeal tems paid for, gg Ous Fonarcx Connesronpasts ane Par. «RLY Regveeren to nt US NC NOTRE taken of anonymous correspondence. We de not JOR PRI erended with naainen, chaaprres and der + advertisements in- ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every Ooind i the Waaxty Herat, Fauice and én the Calvornia and Euras-can Eiitwone. +.Mo, 313 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. © BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Furtarion—Pir- Azxo—Usen Ur. 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The contents of the European edition of the HeRraip will ombine the news received by mail and telegraph at the fice during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication. ‘The News. ‘The steamship St. Louis, from Aspinwall, left Ha- ‘Wana on the 10th inst. for this port. She brings the Pacific mails to the 20th ult., and # million in trea- Bure. General Walker, the renowned filibuster, left New (Orleans on Wednesday in the Mobile packet. At the Balize, or somewhere in the neighborhood, he was fransferred to the steamer Fashion, and is now on Bhe way to the field of his former exploits. He is accompanied by about four hundred mea, and has provisions for three or four months and abundance of war materiel. The steamer Fashion was formerly ® government vessel and employed as a transport. Bbhe was recently advertived for sale by the United States Marshal at New Orleans. A correspondent at San Juan del Norte, writing Bander date of the 6th ult., gives a gloomy description Of the condition of Nicaragua under its present rulers. Freedom of speech, much less of action, is €ntirely unknown. A word, almost a thought, is vi- Bited with imprisonment or exile. Several natives who fayored the government of Gen. Walker have Deen shot, some are in prison, some are working in the wilds of Madagalpa, and many who were merely fuspected of being friendly to the Americans, have Beeen banished the country. The people, he says, are @reauing under heavy forced coutributions to main- Quin an insolent soldiery in their peaceful villages, Sud everywhere a sentiment of hostility, silent but Gcep, ix felt by the people against their oppressors. Thousands are offering up prayers for the return of Walker, and it is the writer's conviction that the American cause has more friends in Nicaragua at Present than it had during the most prosperous pe- riod of its rule. Both in Leon and Granada some of the wealthiest and most influential citizens partici- pated in this feeling, being satisfied that the restora- ion of Walker's government is the only thing that bolds out a guarantee for the security of life and Property in Nicaragua, We may sbortly look for stirring news from the Isthmus. The steamship Black Warrior arrived at New Or- Teans from Havana on the Sth inet., with dates to the Ist, and $85,000 in specie. The Granada had so arrived with half a million in specie. Prepara- tions were being made for a grand military cncamp- Went, in which it was said the troops destined to act Beainst Mexico would be mancuvred. The bark ‘Vesta, of Boston, had becn seized asasiaver. It Was thought that General Concha would be retained in office. A Walker filibuster movement against Cuba was dreaded. There were one hundred and Dinetythree thousand boxes of sugar on hand in Biavana and at Matanzas. Some of the joint stock €peculation concerns in Havana had been wound up Quder executive order. Trade had improved, the Weather was fine, and money scarce. By the arrival of the schooner City Belle, at this port, we have news from Port au Plata, San Domin @o, to the 29th ult. The liberty party were fast Organizing a new form of government. Elections for National Deputies were to be held on the 10th {o-t., and the constituent body would meet on the Ist ©f December. Santana had still a force of eight Bhoussnd men before the city of San Domingo, and Yany of Baez's friends had left him. The revolu- Lionists wanted to buy two good cligper schooners God « large mortar for war purposes. A few hun Gred foreign fighting men would be well received by tse Santana party. The case of the American Schooner Charles Hill (seized by Baez) is again Pressed on the notice of the cabinet in Washington. Trade was very fair at Port au Plata. Advices from the Rio Grande to the 30th ult. re- Port # destructive fire as having occurred in Browns- Ville, Property valued st $200,000 waa destroyed, Gnd four persons were killed by an explosion of gunpowder and the falling of buildings. We have files from Turks Island to the 24th of October. The Royal Gazette of that day says :— Alout 47,516 bushels of salt have been exported from this island eince our last report, besides 39,000 from Balt Cay and East Harbor. We have now on hand Bout 500,000 bushels. Price 9$c.a 10c. The quan Lity of salt exported during the year 1856 was 674,940 bushels. The government revenue report for the Beptember quarter was very favorable. The Pxpenditure amounted to £1,633 10s. 14d. Imports, $1049 3s. 44.; exports, £529 Ids. 3d. Light, £ 1%. Od. Hamburg ship Gattenberg, Capt. Meyer, ar ' terday morning from Hamburg, has on board ie h and crew, of ship Howadji, of Nebury ' be Horton, bound to Liverpool, which was wet ) (-e wt sea on the 4th inst. Capt. Balch ted from Boston on the 30th of Oo- 20 of cotton, oil cake, &c., bound to noc and thet on the Sd inst.,in lat, 42 50, J 10, was struck by lightning, which set the + in the lower hold. Capt. B. and crew Maks Grocy Cupra Wo Gatlogulel it, ud Gud. . n t NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1857. ing it gaining so rapidly they were compelled to leave her, when they were received on board the Guttenberg. The ship being burned to the water's edge, sunk. Capt. B, succeeded in saving all his pa- pers. There was insurance on the vessel and cargo toa considerable amount in Boston offices. Accounts from Kansas state that Messrs. Moore, Calhoun and others propose to submit to the people of the Territory a sort of double-headed constitution, one with and one without slavery. Other accounts state that the pro-slavery clause, which received only four dissentient votes, would alone be submitted for ratification, so that no chance would be given to re- ject the constitution. It was expected the Con- vention would adjourn on the 7th instant. The State Temperance Society held their an- nual meeting at Albany yesterday. Mr. Delavan delivered bis valedictory,and announced that he would pay all claims against the socicty, amounting to some $8,000. This will be good news to the credi- tors of the concern in these tight times. Mr. Joseph S. Smith was chosen President for the ensuing year, together with the usual number of subordinate of- ficers. Resolutions expressing strong faith in the ultimate triumph of the temperance cause, and sug- gesting means for attaining an end so long and hope- lessly sought for were adopted. Mr. Peletiah Perit has written a letter to the Police Commissioners, which will be foumd in an- other column, accepting the seat in the Board made vacant by Mr. Draper, to which he was recently elected. As President of the Chamber of Com- merce, and as a merchsnt, Mr. Perit has achieved a high reputation for business capacity, and it is to be hoped that by the accession of his valuble services the Commision will now be enabled to perfect the organization of the police force. The ward politicians are as busy as beavers making their nominations for municipal offices. In another column we give a list of the candidates already in the field. The workingmen assembled in large numbers at Tompkins square again yesterday morning, where they were addressed by Madame Ranke, Patrick Monahan, J. H. Paul, and others, when various pro- positions were submitted for their relief. None of the committee, however, appeared on the ground during the day, in consequence of which many very hard things were said of them. Madame Ranke exhibited her plan for # grand temple of harmony, and wished to find a customer for the patent at the moderate sum of $500,000, half of which she would appro- priate to the poor. A large number of workingmen were also present at Central Park during the day,a few of the most needy of whom were set to work. It is hoped by next Monday to set about 1,000 to work. At the Park the crowd was quite small during the day. No speechifying or excitement was visible here dur- ing the day. Comptroller Flagg has placed thirty thousand dol- lars at the disposal of the Central Park Commis- sioners in order to enable them to go on with the improvements and employ laborers without any un- necessary delay. One of the Street Commissioners last night laid before the Board of Aldermen a communi- cation setting forth a plan by which a large force of the unemployed may be set at work with advantage both to thefnselves and the Corporation. No action was taken on the document. In the Board of Aldermen last evening the report on the frauds and corruptions of the Finance Depart- ment was called up and made the special order for Monday next. A report granting a contract for cleaning streets for five years, at $345,000 per an- num, to Forbes, Holbrook & Waterbury, was, after much opposition, adopted by a vote of seventeen to three. The session of the Board of Councilmen was occu- pied last evening in passing @ number of routine papers, which were devoid of the slightest public in- terest. A motion to concur with the Aldermen in paying Stephen H. Branch $2,000, for his expenses in ascertaining the vativity of the late Chief of Police, was lost for want of a constitutional vote, and subse- quently reconsidered and laid on the table. The Committee on Lands and Places of the Board of Councilmen were to have held their third meeting yesterday to investigate into the affairs of the Cen- tral Park Commissioners, but a quorum of the com- mittee was not present. The chairman, Councilman Wangh, said the Central Park Commissioners had been twice subpeenaed to attend before the commit- tee, and both times had disregarded the notification. He adjourned the committee to meet at the call of the Chair. The Councilman Committee on Railroads met at 2 P.M. yesterday to hear parties in regard to stop- ping steam on the Eleventh avenue. No persons appearing before them, they adjourned sine die. The trial of James Rodgers, charged with the mur- der of John Swanston, by stabbing him with a knife, in the Tenth avenue, on Saturday, October 17, was commenced yesterday in the Court of General Ses- sions. Five witnesses, among whom was the wife of the deceased, were examined for the prosecution; and at the adjournment of the Court the District Attorney notified Messrs. Andrews and Kellogg, as signed counsel for the prisoner, that bis testimony would be exhausted at noon to-day. ‘The cotton market was quict yesterday, and the salos confined to emall lots at unchanged prices. Dealers wore still disposed to await the receipt of later foreign news due by the Arabia, Flour was again firmer, and the market closed at an advance of about Se. a 10c. per bbI., chiefly on superfine and medium grades of State and Western, while sales were tmade toa fair extent for shipment cast ward and for export. Towards the close of "Change a re- port prevailed that the Arabia was below, which inter. fered comewhat with further sales, aud especially for ex. port. The wheat market was firm, and sales were made toe fair extent, confined chiefly to Western grades, in cluding 0 epring at 96c. a $1, the latter Gigure for prime, Illinois winter red at $112; Ohio do. at $1140 $1 18; common Canada white at $1 26,and prime Michigan do, at $1 50. Southern and Tennessee red and white were scarce and firmly held at full previous prices. Corn was ecarce and sales moderate, including Western mixed at Tac. a 7H... closing at 78c. bid and 80c. asked. Pork was without change in prices, with sales of mess at $19 75. Sugare were in fair demand, with ales of 600 a 700 hhds and 1,100 boxes at rates given in another column. Coffee was quiet and prices unchanged. la freights rates were firm, while engagements were light, shippers being in- clined to await later intelligence due by the Arabia, Tur Wasnisotos Lossy my THe Aconncate. — There are five or six starving journals in the city of Washington which live entirely out of the spoils of Congress and the departments. Each of these starving journals has a little cote- rie living in an atmosphere of its own, and forming a sort of sub-lobby; all these sub-lob- bies united together form the grand lobby of Washington, which undertakes to direct the legislation of the country and to extract jobs from Congress, or, in other words, to live on the treasury and suck the blood from Uncle Sam. All these sheets are just now extremely busy, backing and filling, tacking this way and tack- ing that, in order to make preparations for extracting out of the new Congress one or two millions of printing spoils, with which they hope to eke out an existence for the next two years. These journals are not the organs of any administration or of any party. They are merely the organs of the lobby, or the scavengers of the rumps of the factions. Fortunately the present administration Trepu- diates all newspaper organs, and plants iteelf on ite own acts and merits, without reference to the jobbing press of the country. “Sir,” sald a politician recently, on the Potomac, “the ad- ministration of Mr. Buchanan has no newepa- per organ, unless the Richmond Enquirer or the New York Heraiv can be considered in that light. What say yout’ We replied—The Henan scorns the imputation of its being the organ of any party, fagtion or administration. Tt is true that the administration may be the } organ of the Henaxp, but the Heranp the or- gan of an administration, never!” Our New Legtslature—The Lobby Organs and the Dangers of the Lobby. With every political revolution in our State affairs, a new set of men are sent to Albany, who are generally disposed to be strictly honest themselves, and scrupulously exact in regard to the expenditure of the people’s money. Such men would render a good account of their stew- ardship, if allowed to perform their legislative duties uninfluenced by the temptations and cor- ruptions of a reckless and swindling lobby. But, unfortunately, these lobby influences stand in the way, and are brought to bear upon the members of the two houses at every point and in every possible shape and form. And itis a remarkable fact that, since the discovery and developement of the gold mines of California, the forces, the combinations and the plundering devices of the lobby at Albany and at Washing- ton have increased and kept pace, pari passu, with all those other kite-flying, paper bubble, stockjobbing, speculative and swindling trans actions which have hurried us into this sweep- ing financial revulsion. Thus, within the last ten years, the Albany and Washington lobbies, from a few compara- tively obscure and harmless scavengers and chiffoniers, have each grown up to the monstrous proportions of a third estate in the government, State and federal. This isthe danger which confronts our new Legis- lature, and which threatens, in the very outset, to undermine and revolutionize the moral vic- tory of the late election. Let the members of the new Legislature beware lest the public con- demnation which has fallen so heavily upon the lobby abominations of the Seward oligarchy should be visited, next November, upon the parties who have been accepted, for the time, upon their promises of retrenchment and re- form. The headquarters, respectively, of the three ex. isting divisions of the Albany lobby are the lobby centres of the Statesman, the Evening Journal, and the Argus-Atas—the first, the central organ of the rump of the Know Nothing party; the second, the principal mouthpiece of the Seward oli- garchy; and the third, the special trumpeter of the spoils democracy, black and white. Eachof these newspapers is the property of a lobby clique, and each has lived and expects to live and fatten upon the spoils and plunder of the lobby. When the Know Nothings a few years ago, like a thief with a dark lantern, slipped into power in this State, they sent up quite a number of honest and respectable men to Albany. But there were wolves in sheep’s clothing who soon came in among them, and they gave the party, without loss of time, the benefits of a central organ. The party lobby established it and used it to cover up their dirty echemes and to throw dust into the eyes of the people. The subscribers to the concern, we suppose, expected heavy dividends from the drippings of unclean legislation; for how else could they expect to make their paper pay? That this organ has lived and continues to live with a mere handful of subscribers is a fact which affords the strongest presumptive evi- dence that it has secured some of the rich drippings of the lobby, or has incurred a heavy indebtedness upon expectations of “a good time coming.” We dare say, at all events, that the Staterman clique entertain very large ideas of the lobby influences which may be wielded with their corporal’s guard in the new Legis- lature, inasmuch as in each house, upon a pinch, this corporal’s guard may hold the balance of power. The Albany Journal is an old lobby cam- paigner, and the clique who control it are vete- rans in the service. Defeated and thrown out of power over and over again, this clique have never been utterly vanquished. On the contrary, under the speculating and stock- jobbing mania of the last half dozen years, they have extended their sphere of operations so as to include both Albany and Washington and every possible trick for the spoils, from a Street Inspector for this metropolis to the stupendous lobby com- bination scheme of a Pacific Railroad and its hundreds of millions of the public domain and the public money. But lobbyjobbers, like kingly usurpers, sometimes overdo the thing. Thus, upon Fremont’s popularity last year our Seward oligarchy were inflated with the delu- sive idea of unbounded power; and hence their gigantic lobby conspiracies at Washington, and their reckless schemes of spoils and spoliation at Albany: and thus they have been expelled from power in disgrace, both from Washington and Albany. The people of New York, dis- gusted and indignant on account of these abominations of Sewardism, have given them a rebuke which it would be well for all parties hereafter to remember. But while it thus appears that the control- ling spirits, influences and purposes of the Know Nothings and black republican Albany organs are utterly corrupt and demoralizing, can there be any confidence reposed in the mock heroics and windy patriotism of that hybrid democratic organ, the Argus-Atlas? If called upon to answer, we should say no. Gen. Alvarez, in Mexico, has some very curious volunteers under his command, called Pintos, They are a vagabond, hybrid race, and from some hereditary leprous disease, their skins often present the motley appearance of a patch of white and a patch of black. A few years since Barnum somehow got hold of one of these revolting monsters, and had him exhibited in his museum as ‘‘the negro turning white.” His hide presented the appearance of a field ofa rich black soil, from which a dirty snow had mostly melted, leaving a flake bere and there undisso| In a political sense thie Albany Argus- Alls ie a Pinto, It isan smalgamation of a white and a nigger democratic organ turn- ing white. They were two separate organs, uo- til they hed worried each other with their lob- by cros+purpoves to the verge of bankruptey, when they were compelled to join their re- sources and their fortunes against the powerful lobby league of Thurlow Weed and Company. But as the old Argus was nothing but a apoils organ from first to last, and as the A”das was but the little black jackal that hung upon the flanks of the Van Buren nigger worshippers, there can be no reliance and very little honesty im the junction of such pair, They may ory their wares with all the persuasive eloquence of ® mock auctioneer, but let the legislative mem- bers from the rural districts of the democratic faith beware of the Peter Funke of the lobby clique of the Argue-Allas, Like the little but hungry lobby squad of the Sateeman, or the more formidable gang of the Jowrnal, the Argue Ades glique live upon and live for those seven democratic principles described by John Randolph as the five loaves and the two fishes, and for no other principles whatsoever. The moral influences of this late State elec- tion will most probably give to the democracy the substantial control of our new Legislature. Let them, therefore, beware of those lobby cor- ruptions and affiliations which have broken down the Know Nothings and the black republi- cans, and let them especially beware of the +poilsmen and plunder-mongers of the clique of the Argus-Atlas. The Argus has a hundred eyes for the spoils, and the Adas can bear a world of plunder upon ita shoulders, Let the demo- erates of the Canal Board and of both houses of the Legislature, if they would profit from their late victory, follow the wise example of Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet, and cut loose from the lobby and its corruptions, and, first of all, from that expensive and worse than useless luxury, a central party organ—for the King’s fool is invariably a rascally knave, and as often as foreign potentates gets his master into trouble. In the meantime we admonish ali parties, and all the lobby cliques and organs concerned, that with the assembling of the Legislature at Al- bany we shall have our correspondents among them, to post us up from day to day with their proceedings and their manwuvres. Let us see if we cannot separate our State legislation, State expenditures and State taxes from the party newspaper lobby cliques at Albany and their schemes and combinations against the State treasury. Providence permitting, we shall make these fellows howl before the winter is over. ‘The Charter Election. Mr. Oakey Hall, our famous District Attor- ney, has put forth a manifesto on the charter election, apparently intended to crugh out Mayor Wood, and secure the victory to some hitherto un- known chief of the opposition. Mr. Oakey Hall’s manifesto is like his plays; it isan olla podrida of indifferent quips and quotations from foreign sources. Alison is called into the ser- vice, and so is Elijah Purdy; Robespierre is made to do duty side by side with the pro- phet Ezekiel and Lord Brougham. The docu- ment recalls the old story of the author who al- ways kept his quotations in a snuff box by ‘his side, and pulled out the first one he laid hands on, whenever his ideas flagged. As to the style of the document, it is very funny. If Oakey Hall were a lad of fifteen at a college, he would be told by his professor to get off his stilts and talk plain sense. But just fancy a District At- torney speaking of a Mayor of New York in a public document as “the chess player who moves only for the scholar’s mate,” “as pallid with fear as the head of the French tyrant,” “one quaking in his office at the tornado,” “one who has played with sporting men as the angler takes the trout,” &., &c.; exhorting the voters to “cry aloud and spare not, for the hour of our city’s deliverance is nigh;” and winding up with the grand apostrophe—“ The hour! But where is the man?’ Where, indeed? We should like to see any sane man of years of dis- cretion who could afford to let his arrival upon the stage be heralded after this circus fashion. Such trash would make boys at any good board- ing school split their sides. One was prepared to witness some contortions on the part of the politicians of whom Mr. Oakey Hall isa leader. Hardly ten days have elapsed since the republicans saw a majority of eighty thousand disappear like smoke, and the control of the State, on which they had counted with a good deal of confidence, pass into the hands of their opponents, Under such circum- stances perfect calmness and deliberateness of action could hardly be anticipated from them. Under the pressure of disappointment and ruin, the republican leaders were expected to do and to say foolish things, It was natural they should. But we don’t know that any one, even of the largest capacity for prognostication, foresaw that they would stultify themselves in the ridiculous and laughable manner in which they have done on the subject of the Mayoralty. Here was a city known to be intensely de- mocratic, and quite certain to give the demo- crats around majority at the charter election; especially after the State triumph, And here was Fernando Wood who had obtained the regular nomination on the democratic ticket. The question for the republicans and Know Nothings was on these postulates, how to defeat Wood? They calmly decided—in their organs, that the thing must be done by putting forward a hard democrat, of good standing in the party. It never seems to have occurred to any of them that no democrat of any standing, character and prospects, could possibly lend himself to the republicans and other fac- tious opponents of the democracy to defeat the democratic ticket, Even when Mr. Havemeyer mildly intimated that he did not propose to be made « cat's-paw of, or to be sacrificed for the party he had always opposed, they continued deaf and dumb to the absurdity of their position, and went on—aye, and go on still—hunting up first clase democrats, and catching such very sorry gudgeons as we have heard latterly named for the Mayoralty. Of course no demo- crat could venture to ran on the opposition to the democracy, without committing political suicide, and losing the esteem of all his old as- sociates; and no one but a democrat could car- ry this city, This is the dead lock. But while the editors of some of our cotem- poraries and a few other children may have been deluded into the notion that a first class democrat would have been sent from heaven to relieve them from their embarrassment, and the defeat of Mayor Wood, we are inclined to think that politicians of Oakey Hall's experience must have seen long ago how hopeless it was to try to beat Wood, and have gone into this contest not for the purpose of electing a Mayor, but in order to carry a majority of the Common Coun- cil. Under the present charter the Mayor has very little to do with the expenditure of the city moneys; even his veto may be overruled by © two-thirds vote; and the whole business of appropriating, expending, and—practically— embezzling money, now devolves upon the Common Council. If the republicans can, by any hocus poous, succeed in obtaining the control of a majority of this body, they will have won a triumph bette# than the election of a Mayor. They will have completed the work which was begun at Albany last year, and will have pro- vided themselves with a municipal entrench- ment to protect them against the democratic fire they must expect from the State capitol this winter. This, we imagine, is the design of the party of which Mr. Oakey Hall now offici- ates as the ornate, learned, poetical aud bom- hastic chairman, It is not likely to be supecssfal. The repub- licans have by their grasping policy Inst win- ter alienated the good will of all partics ip thie city. They are everywhere denounced as ut- terly corrupt and debauched. Men who voted for Fremont declare that they cannot support a party which robbed this city of its franchises in order to obtain material of war for its party political purposes. Probably the democratic majority in the city will never have been 80 enormous as at this election. The abuse of Mayor Wood in the Tribune and other republi- can papers has for some time been advanta- geous to that functionary from its excessive, brutal, and extravagant character. It will frighten no voter from his side; it will gain none for the republicans. Nor can the republican leaders expect to find either the old and respect- able democrats or any really strong man among the Americans to consent to be their instru- ment; much less can they anticipate that the rank and file of these parties will desert their party organizatien for the purpose of support- ing a wretched cabal of tricksters, whose only aim is money, and whose antecedents stink in our nostrils, ‘Whe Necessities of Mexico—War with Spain— Seizure of Cuba and its Transfer to the United States. The accession of President Comonfort to dic- tatorial power in Mexico is an event remarka- ble from the juncture at which it oocurs, and particularly remarkable from the immense field of action which it opens to him, and which may yet confer upon him the title of the Napoleon DL. of America. With a republic crumbling to pieces beneath his feet from rottenness and domestic dissension, threatened with devastation on one side by the implacable savages, which the triumphant march of our civilization is impelling south- ward, and a hostile invasion on the other by the Spanish power in Cuba, combined with Santa Anna and his minions; with an empty treasury, @ disheartened and mistrusting peo- ple, an unreliable army, a hostile clergy and an utter want of administrative talent and energy in those around him, he is expected to recon- struct the republic, reinvigorate the national spirit, reorganize the government, repress dis- sension, repel invasion, refill the public coffers, and restore Mexico to an honorable position among the nations. This is a truthful expotition of the ground he stands upon, and the task before him, which he vir- tually accepts to perform in accepting the Dictatorship. It seems almost a hopeless task, and yet if he has the right grit in him we shall not be surprised to see him come triumphantly out of his enterprise, for to our view the ele- ments of success exist within his reach. Before entering upon a discussion of these we must say a few words of the man. Succeed- ing to the post of Substitute President of the republic by the withdrawal of General Alvarez from that post very shortly after the last flight of Santa Anna, he found himself surrounded with difficulties and the government exhausted of resources, The Convention called under the stipulations of the Plan of Ayutla, for the pur- pose of forming ® constitution, was under the necessity of conferring upon him extraordinary powers, in order that the government might be carried on. He adopted a liberal policy, and took some of the preliminary steps necessary to break up the vast property monopoly of the clergy, which has always weighed like an incu- bus upon the State. In this measure his cau- tion was too great to please the liberals, who wished everything done by sweeping decrees, and his action aroused the Church to open war against him. But as he has been sufliciently cautious in his course not to arouse the fears of the people for the safety of all property under his government, they have not sided with the priests, and he has been able to triumph in a great measure over them. The constitution was formed by the Convention, but every one saw that it was an impracticable one. Comonfort was elected President by an over- whelming majority, and has often been urged by those around him to seize the dictatorial power, which he could have done at any time. This he would not do, and now it has been con- ferred upon him by the voice of the nation legally and constitutionally expressed. Mexico calls upon him to regenerate her. There is but one way for him to do this, and that is by a popular foreign war. He must be- gin at once by a war with Spain, which has given him abundant reason heretofore, and now is secretly preparing to invade his territories. A declaration of a war with Spain would re- arouse all the old national spirit of the repub- lic, which Santa Anna so often tried to arouse by the cry of war against us, It would enlist for Mexico to ® remarkable extent the sympathies of this country, and thus give to her people a confidence of strong moral support which they have never before had. Such a war would do more than any other measure to repress domestic rebellion, for whoever op- posed the government that was fighting the popular enemy would at once incur the popular hatred. t may be said that Mexico has not the means to undertake such a war, but the undertaking it would create the very means for carrying it on. We have repeatedly offered to purchase Cuba from Spain, giving her one hundred mil- lions of dollars for it, and she has treated our offers with contumely. We shoyld not have the slightest objection to entertain an offer from Comonfort for the sale of that island, and would willingly pay him the same price for it. Besides that, there is an abundance of men and material in this country to perform the whole operation for Comonfort, by contract, at a much less price, We estimate the cost of this matter as follows:— artery Transportal lags eleamabip=. ‘Three steamships, armed with 13 inch colum- biads, for convoy Contingent fund, Troiit w contractor There is an abundance of able and competent military leaders who will undertake to perform thia service, under the flag of Mexico and by the authority of President Comonfort, by con- tract for the above sum of twenty millions of dollars; and they will do it efficiently an! thoroughly, The men can be armed with the most improved arms of the day, and all know how to use them. Ten thousand can be on- listed in one week at the following centres Boston—Excellent mechanics of all kinds New York—Dyiled and able-bodied Fulledetphie= lardy and willing. Louisville—Best Kentucky rifleme Rashville—Paually good riflemen 1,000 5| 380088 We merely point to these places as centres, for men would flow in,great abundance from all parts, and the leaders could have their pick of the bone and sinew of this country. By this operation Comonfort gould plage ia the treasury of Mexico eighty millions of dol- lars, being the amount we would pay him for Cuba, with twenty per cent off for taking it, This sum would relieve his treasury, give him time to organize a revenue system, and afford him the means of satisfying his English creditors, he chooses to do this, we have not the slightest doubt that he could negotiate the loan of twen- ty million of dollars necessary to pay the con- tractors, either here or in England, on the faith of a subsequent sale of the island to this coun- try; and perhaps our own government might advance it to him on some other ground, buat with a secret understanding how it was to be applied. He need have no fear of any European inter- vention; England is tied up with India, and is too fearful of any quarrel with us; Louis Na- poleon will have as much as he can do to pre- serve his own, amid the coming revulsion in Europe; and in any event the United States would at once oppose any intervention by those Powers, and see fair play in a war in the Gulf of Mexico. Should Spain declare war against us we could step in and consummate the whole thing, These are matters to be thought of. At the present time—when Spain is threatening to invade Mexico, that republic to declare war against Spain, the hearts of our people set upom the admission of Cuba into the Union, and the filibusters tendering again and again their ser- vices to Comonfort—the very tendency of all things seems to be the carrying out of just such @ plan as we have eketched. Tox Aprowrments iN Tax Disrrict.—A provincial paper of limited circulation, pub- liched at Philadelphia, states that there is “not a word of truth in the telegraphic report, pub- lished in the New York Heratp of Saturday last, that the President had made the appoint- ments for the District of Columbia.” The truth of the matter is that the appointments have been agreed upon but not announced. Our correspondent, who writes from the best authority, says:— Tatate what I know to be true when I say that they have all been agreed upon, Quite a number of diplomatic and consular appointments have also been settled. The reason why the President has adopted this course im making the —— referred to is that he may avoid the importunities of Senators and mombors of when they arrive here in bebalf of gentlemen who are desirous of Lolding over for four years longer. Mr. Buchanan has shown his usual prudence in making these appointments before the meet- ing of Congress. He will thereby avoid being pestered to death by members, lobbymen, party editors and other camp followers, who are always worrying the executive and grind- ing great numbers of axes in the government mills. Dox’t Make a Juvy or Yovrsetr.—Our dirty faced cotemporary, the News, represents Mayor Wood as almost rivalling the celebrated William Pitt, of England, or Alexander Hamil- ton, of the American Revolution. Mayor Wood is doing very well, and will be elected Mayor of this city by a large majority; but if his worshippers begin to crack him up as a Hamil- ton or a Pitt, they will only make themselves ridiculous in the eyes of all men of sense, and injure their own cause. Information WantEep.—The public bursts with a desire to know more about the lady who took the workmen under her wings at the Tompkins square meeting, and offered to sing for them, “like Miss .Nightingale in the Crimea,” only pocketing half the proceeds, Who is she? First, what is her name? Is it Rank, or Ronk, or Runk? Can there be an “ce” at the end of it ora “D” at the beginning? Is she any re- lative to our Dutch ancestor, Mynheer Von Dunk, who is celebrated in the household songt If Runk be her maiden name, why has she never changed it? If Runk is her husband, how came she to marry a man with such a name, and where is Mynheer Runk? We re- peat, we have a right to demand, in view of the enormous responsibilities just assumed by the lady, who aud where is Mynheer Runk, or Von Runk, or just plain Runk, without buncombe? Then, what does Madame Runk want to do? To give concerts. Beloved Madame Runk, if you were ten timea more lovely than you are, and if your voice was as melodious as Jenny Lind’s, you wouldn’t be able to get fifty people to go to your con- certs, and if their half share of the profite in- volved the poor workmen in a responsibility for half the loss, you would soon take what they have left. Sweet Madame Runk, good Madame Runk, there is a beautiful and ingenious art which hath been practised by princesses and peasant girls from the highest antiquity, and yet, we fear, which escaped the notice of your teachers in early youth, and is therefore unknown to you to-day. We advise you to learn it; it is better than addressing public meetings. It will do you and others good. The art we mean is called knitting; by it you may be able to knit a warm muffler for some little Runk against the cold winter, ——— THE LATEST NEWS. Arrival of the St. Louts at Havana—§1,000,000 on the Way to New York, New Onunaye, Nov, 12, 1867. ‘The steamship Granada, from New York via Havana, is coming wp the river. She brings over half a million im specie. ‘The steamship St. Louis, with the mails and over $1,000,000, left Havana for Now York on the 10th inst. The Granada brings the California mails of the 20us ult. It is rumored that the Granada is dotainod at Quaran- tine. New Onunaxs, Nov. 11, 1857. General Walker is off for Nicaragua. Ho appeared in the United States District Court this morning and gave bail to appear for examination on the 17th, This afer- noon himself, staf and over 300 mon embarked on board the Mobile mail boat, The stoamer Fashion, Capt. Caugh- lin, with @ portion of bis mon and a large quantity of arms, ammunition and provisions, got off at 2 o'clock this morning, haying first submitted to a search by tho United States Marshal, She cleared for Mobile and will ‘the mail boat outalde, when the whole party will embark: in the Fashion for Nicaragua, Captain Faysoux remaing here. General Menningsen is expected this wook. The United States steamer Fulton, in the Mississippi, is out. witled, New Onrxaws, Nov. 12, 1867, Seneral Walker and his men were transferred from the Mobile Mail beat to a steamer in waiting in Mobile Bay, with anothes’ Supply of arms and ammunition. The fii. buster stoamer 12Mediately steamed down the bay, and ‘Walker is consideréa fairly off. Nothing has yet boon heard of the Fashion, Some think she goes for the Texas regiment. The stoamer Dick Keys, which took Goncral Walker from the mail boat in Mobile, hae returned to Mobilo, hay. ing placed the Olibuaters aboard Walker's steamer, Faah- jon, which has sailed for Nicaragua, His whole force oon- tists of about 400 men, Hf has a large%quantity of munt- tions and provisions, enough to Inet for three to four mnffths, and a thousand stand of arms. ——— Now-Arrival of the Arabia, Saxpt Hoo, Nov, 12-11 P. M. ‘Tue Cuuard steamabip Arabia, from Liverpool Gust