The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. @FFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 8TS. 4 BRMR, cash én advance gue DAILY “HERALD, theo cents ie WERE ¥ Pate ay Moet I , BT per "iin “conte per ives larva Briain, or $6 totang part of the Continent, both THE FAMILY HERALD, evory Wednesday, at four cents per ues annum. "ARY po pvp venting 6 save pantera th erie nd wl te eats Fone Foamer Conmameenenss me Requastep to ALL LETTSAs 4D ‘faceages yi NOTICE taken "orice Ff anonymous correspondence We denot 4D¥1 eory worted in the © Hesse, Faury Onkiforntc and Burapean Editions AMUBEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATR: Brosdway—Nor 4 Bap Joven ~Tus Paacricar Mantes Coen Comsvo. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brostway—Foom Lovens—Tiget Bors Faare—Parvouan oF BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Lovs Cusse—Avorrsp Cuna—Tus Prexcu Srv. BURTON'S THEATRE, Brondws Broadway, Bond MP Son Diana Actuess OF Ala Woax-Yourr Wixxs. WALLACK’S: eeeAren, Broadway—Lowpox AssvRaNcE ‘Tae invauis Bi LAURA KEENP’S 1S Taner, Brosdway—Tas Sra ov Tou, o8 4 MoTue's AOADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Iratian Orama —Loonesia Borgia. NAGLE’S JUVENILE COMEDIANS, 444 Broadway—Bax Bour—Cuarcoar Sxetcnss. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUS toon, Yours wHo Navan Saw a Bvening, Roap or Lars. WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 861 and 563 Broadway.—Gaonos Cunurtr & Woon's Minsraris—Peres Pier Perea Popes MECHANICS’ HALL, 612 Brondway—Burant's Mixereats —Prmorux HCITIRO—LIFR AMONG THE ALABAMA |. Brondway—After- (—BioomErs ix Love. RMPIRE HALL. 596 Broadway—Parsrives Liiverearive or tum Kane Rxvepition, &c. THIS EVENING ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street—Guano Cias BICAL AND SACKED CONCERT. ~~ New ¥ junday, November 15, 1857. ‘The News. The news yacht of the Associated Press boarded, on Friday night off Cape Race the Vanderbilt steamship Ariel, from Bremen,and Southampton 4th inst., enabling us to lay before our readers this morning four days later European news three days in advance of the arrival of the steamer at this port, and affording a tangible proof that this expensive enterprise of the New York press in behalf of the public has been completely successful. The political intelligence from Europe is unim- portant, and there is nothing later from India. The Gnancial and commercial news is interesting. At London consols, in the face of a depressed money market, were quoted at 89j a 89 for money. The cotton market exhibited a declining tendency, but no change in prices is reported since the sailing of the Arabia. Breadstuffs were dull, and some authorities quote flour sixpence lower. The attempt to launch the monster steamer Great Eastern on the 3d inst. proved a failure. Another trial will be made early in December. A full account of the preparations made for this event is given in another part of to- @ay's paper. The Ariel has on board 184 passen- gers and $400,000 in specie. She will be due at this port on Tuesday next. By way of New Orleans we have a brief tele- graphic summary of news from California to the ‘20th ult. The San Francisco markets were quiet, while the product of the gold mines continued to be satisfac- tory. There had been no arrivals from Atlantic ports ¢ previous advices. The banished Californians will, perhaps, be glad to learn that the Vigilance Com- mitte have revoked the penalties attached to their fentences. The previously reported massacre of one hundred emigrants by Lndians on the plains is con- firmed, and it was generally believed that the sava &es were instigated by the Mormons to commit the outeage. A vessel had arrived at San Francisco from & port in China, with intelligence that the European residents at Ningpo were banished the city on the 4th of Angust. Accounts from Shanghae and Hong Kong to the Ist and 10th of September respectively, received by way of Europe, make no allusion to such an event. We have news from Cape Haytien to the lst inst. The market quotations on that day were:—Coffee $124; logwood $52 a $4; doubloons $240; drafts 9220 6 $224. Captain Mayo, of Boston, was in good health, and # favorable result of his trial was ex- pected. Avery numerously attended meeting was held yesterday afternoon in front of the Merchants’ Ex- Change for the purpose of adopting measures to de- feat the re-election of Mr. Wood as Mayor. A com: mittee was appointed to confer with the committees of the various political parties in the city, that they might agree upon a candidate, Mr. Havemeyer wus nominated as a candidate, but the committee had al- ready had a letter from him declining the nomina- tion. Mr. James E. Cooley, the Know Nothing can- Gidate, was put forward by one of his friends, but his name was received with no sort of favor. There ‘was a great dearth of speakers, but the proceeding» were nevertheless amusing. ‘The new steamship Adriatic, which left this city on Friday morning on & trial trip, returned to Sandy Hook yesterday morning for the purpose of forwarding to town one of the gentlemen interested in her. He states that her performances were entirely satisfactory. She headed off shore again to continue the trial, and will return to the city to-morrow morning. She will then take her place in the Collins line, and sail for Liverpool on the Qist inat. From the report of the City Inspector we learn that there were 382 deaths in the city last week, an increase of 9 as compared with the mortality of the week previous. The following table exhibits the umber of deaths during the last two weeks among fdults and children, distinguishing the sexes:— Mon. Women. Boys Girls. Tetat Week coding Nov. 7.87 71108108878 Week ending Nov. 14.06 63 «122 «(108 BRB Among the principal causes of death were the fol- Jowing:— — Week Now. 1. Now lt. Consumption eee soeee él Convuimions (infantile) m ——_ of the lungs iy of brain 6 foaries tover 12 Maractnns (infantile) a Dropey in the bead 6 — 8 Croup ° n Bronchitis... ° ‘ ‘There were also 4 deaths of apoplexy, 7 of conges tion of the brain, 7 of congestion of the Innga, & of iarrhera, 6 of dysentery ,6 of puerperal fever, 8 of in- fiammation of the bowelx,5 of smallpox, 9 prema- tore births, $1 stillborn, and 13 from violent cansea. ‘The following ia & classification of the diseases and the number of deaths in each cla of disease during the week:— Monee, jointa, fee rain And nerves. Not. None om a fan be aud eruptive fevers » Pudborn and premature births. . “ ftomach, bowels and other digestive organs 55 73 ae w 2 ‘4 TA evenness none ne ot seo 3a2 ‘The number of deaths compared with the corres Ponding weeks in 1865 and 1866, was as follows;— The nativity table gives 261 ‘natives of the United Fates, 72 of Ireland, 29 of Germany, 9 of England, 2 Of France, 1 each of Scotland, Spain, Wales and the ‘West Indies, and 6 unknown. The new trial of Cancemi, for the murder of po- foemae Anderson, will take place to-morrow (Mon- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1857, day), at 11 A. M., in the same court room as before, namely, the Supreme Court Circuit. Additional accounts confirmatory of the news of the destruction of the provision trains by the Mor- mons have reached Washington. It is stated that Col. Johnston was determined to winter in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, and the route of the expedi- tion had been changed in order to reach that point by @ road less obstructed by snow than the one originally adopted. The Mormons were assembling in large force to oppose the advance of tho troops. ‘There is still, however, some doubt as to the truth of the reports that have been received with regard to the action of the Mormons, and official despatches from Col. Johnston to the Commander-in-Chief, now daily expected, are se ee looked for. Orders were sent from Washington to New Orleans yesterday for the immediate despatch of revenue cutters in pursuit of Gen. Walker. The authorities confidently expect to overhaul the enterprising fili- buster before he effects a landing in Central America. We have interesting accounts from Kansas. The Constitutional Convention adjourned on the 7th inst., having previously set up a provisional government, with Surveyor General Calhoun at its head. The Convention ‘adopted a separate clause sanctioning slavery, and this point only will be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection. The Metropolitan Police Commissioners met yester- day afternoon. All the members were present, Mr. Pe- atiah Perit, the new member, appearing and taking his seat. Mr. Bowen announced that the Directors of the Seamen’s Savings Bank had donated to the Police Insurance Fund the sum of $100, in testimony of their appreciation of the services of the police- men on duty at the bank during the late crisis. A resolution offered by Mayor Wood was passed di- recting the General Superintendent to protect per- sons arriving in the city, by railroad or steamboat, from the annecessary annoyance of hackmen, run- ners and baggage masters. <A long and interesting discussion took place on a proposition of Mayor Wood to reinstate a number of the old force in. view of the present urgent demand for an increase of the force. Mayor Wood defended the claims of the old force with great earnestness and ability. Mr. Perit expressed his earnest desire for the im- mediate filling up of the force, and opposed several motions to adjourn, saying that he came prepared to devote several hours to the business of the Board. He favored an immediate discussion and decision on the question of the eligibility of the old policemen, whether formally or informally dismissed, but did not express his opinion. A proposition to refer the whole matter to counsel was laid over until Thurs- day, when the whole subject will come up and doubtless be acted upon finally. Nothing was said about electing a permanent chairman. Judge Russell passed sentences in the General Ses- sions yesterday. John Mead, tried for the murder of Wagner, at the New York Hospital, and acquitted on the ground of insanity, was discharged. The City Judge said that at the time he struck the blow he was not in his right mind, caused by the excessive use of ardent spirits, but since that time he had re- covered. His Honor hoped that this would operate as a warning, for if he ever committed another crime in those phrenzied fits he would probably have to pay the penalty with his life. “So it will, my lord,” said Mead, as he left the bar. He lives in Third avenue. Charles King, guilty of stealing valuable portraits, was sent to the State prison for two years. George Atwood, an old offender, pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degree, and was also sent to Sing Sing for two years. He has served ono term in the State prison, and Judge Russell said he was a notorions character. Constant Blase, con- vieted of a violent assault and battery, was sentenced to only two months imprisonment in the city prison, in consequence of having been incarcerated some time already. James Ware, indicted for burglary, but convicted of petit larceny only, was sent to the Penitentiary for six months. A number of prison- ers who have been indicted by the present Grand Jury were arraigned for plea, and their cases set down for trial. ‘The calendar of the Court of Special Sessions was very large yesterday, embracing charges of larceny and assault and battery, the latter predominating. Henry Donnelly was fined $50 for assaulting Wm. Dick, of 36 Barclay street, who remonstrated with Donnelly for ranning his vehicle over a female. Some of our distinguished citizens wrote letters to Justice Osborne, giving the defendant an excellent character, which induced him to let Donnelly off by paying a fine. The cotton market continued quiet yesterday, and in the absence of sales of moment quotations were nominal ‘The stock continued quite light, and holders manifosted no disposition to prese sales. Flour was heavy, with mode- rate sales, and the market, especially for superfine and extra State and Western, declined wbout Se. per barrel ‘Whoat was in light stock and sales moderate, while prices were without change of moment. Among the transactions were prime Chicago spring at 86., Milwaukie club Ab #1 06, Tonnesace red nnd good Canada white at $) %. Corn was scarce and firm, with limited sales of Western tnixed at The. 2 79¢., with sume sales reported at 0c. Pork was dull, with aales of mess at $14 02, Sugars wero sol6 to a fair extent, confined chiefly to low ‘and common grades. The transactions embraced about 360 bhds. and 800 boxes, at rates given in another column. Freight engagements were interfered with at the Mer- chante’ Exchange by the political assemblage convened there during the usual business houre, Engagements were consequently light. To Liverpool about 2,000 a 3,000 bbls. four were engaged at 2+., and $90 bales of colton at 432d, ‘The Aspect of the British Money Market. The more closely the British financial news is studied, the more clear does it appear that the worst of the battle bas yet to come for the Eng- lish. The Times and most of the other journals are g# intimately connected with the bankers and financial operators of London as some of our presses here are with the brokers and bankers of Wall «treet; they are putting such a face upon matters as will enable their friends to get out of the scrape, and will mitigate the severity of the preseure, We have seen here how the thing can be done, and are familiar with the methods by which presses published in the interest of operators on one side or the other can suppress the truth aud suggest false- hood. That our suspension of specie payments should be a relief to England is natural enough. Suspension here meant that the drain of gold from Great Britain need not be continued; it was thus, evidently, that the English understood it. They viewed it a» an indication that the drain might cease; and that, however the mer- chants wound up their estates, the Bank of Eng- land stood in no danger of being in a dilemma between suspension or an isue of treasury notes. In this view, of course, it was natural that they should hall the news by the Arabia, ae hopeful, not depressing Intelligence. Practically, a suspension of specle payments helps nothing. It has not helped us here, and cannot help our friends in England. Their trouble grows out of our Incapacity to pay them what we owe. Our dry goods dealers do hot pay the bankers who gave them credits, and these do not pay the houses in London on which they draw; this ix in one sentence the history of the financial revulsion so far as England is concerned. Now « hitch of thie kind cannot be helped by any amount of bank suspensions The only direct effect of a suspension of specie payments hy the banks of a country is to impair confidence, distress commerce, and im- pede new enterprises. The effect of our bank suspension was to protract the ruin of the mer- chante who were unduly expanded, to give them a little more rope, #0 to epeak, and to pro- AA at pe ae LOD TL LR A A LIE LET OE IL I LE oe een yc EN AT Ie ee ee TES EIR claim to the world that these were not times for new operations of any kind. How such a mea- sure as this could help our creditors in England it would puzzle an C2dipus to discover. The appearance of things now indicates that the month of November, which had just begun when our latest advices from England left Liverpool, will be the severe portion of the crisis there, During that month no re- mittances of any consequence will be received from this country, Bankers and others re- quiring aid from the Bank of Eagland will find that that institution will not consider American securities or claims on merchants in this country as any security at all, and will re- fuse to carry through those who have nothing but this to offer. Unless the Anglo-American houses have immense independent means or strong friends, there is reason to fear that the month of November, which is so easy and pleasant here, may try them severely, and that some of them may not live to sce a new year. It must be well remembered that every re- vulsion partakes of tho features of all others, and that no two such periods fail to be marked by the same characteristics, When the banks suspended in 1837, months elapsed before the full effect of the blow was felt in Europe; the people who felt it most, and whose deathblow it proved, resiating and struggling manfully to avert the effect it produced. That is the strug- gle now in progress in England. The London houses, with the aid of the London Times, are contending for bare life; perhaps they may in- duce wealthy friends and joint stock banks to come to their rescue and ferry them over the difficulty; but even if they should not, it must not be expected that they will succumb before they have fought a good battle and held their ground for a few weeks at least. ‘When New Year is over, and all is serene, it will be quite time enough to throw our hats in the air, and make up our minds that the trouble is over. The Fall of Delhi. The fall of Delhi may be considered the turning point of British reverses in Hindostan. As an English writer pithily expresses it, it has broken the back of the revolt; and, although here and there the sepoys may be able for a time to maintain themselves, it is evident that the rebellion will soon be crushed out. Even the desperate circumstances to which the muti- neers may consider themselves reduced by the reported determination of the British to grant no quarter will fail in protracting the struggle. The terror inspired by the examples that will have been made in the captured stronghold of the insurgents will spread to every other point held by them, and, coupled with the fact, now clearly demonstrated, that Anglo-Saxon valor can make up for almost any disparijy of num- ber in conflict with them, will c3yvince the mutineers that no alternatives are left them but unconditional submission or flight. In view of the wide extent of British power and influence they will probably adopt the former, preferring to trust to their clemency to incurring the risks of a fugitive life amonget uncertain allies. They know well that, notwithstanding the powerful motives of vengeance with which they have furnished the British, the creed and prin- ciples of the lutter forbid them from indulging in sanguinary reprisals upon a wholesale scale. That their leaders will incur all the penalties of their treachery and wanton bloodthirstiness the sepoys are well assured, but they are also too well acquainted with the principles which guide civilized nations in their warfare to doubt the certainty of their securing the cle- meney of their conquerors by a timely submis sion. It was the expectation of these results which rendered the capture of Delhi an event of such vital importance to the British arms, and now that we have reasonable assurance that its fall is complete we are inclined to place faith in the anticipations expressed by the English journals that this crucl and savage war is approaching its end. The struggle once over, Great Britain will be left leisure to reform the abuses that led to it, to pave the way by mild and conciliatory mea- sures for the wider diffusion of christianity, and to extend her political and social influence over the vast regions that ehe has appropriated. Thiv, .with the maintenance of her political position in Europe, and a more careful government of her colonies, will give her sufficient occupation for the future. In the meanwhile the other two great European Powers—France and Russia— are both working out their destinies France is actively pushing the influence of her present political system, and diffusing the tone of her ideas throughout the European continent; and she has succeeded to the extent of making her policy the pivot on which the political arrange- ments of the Continental Courts turn. Russia, forced back from the approaches which she had made in the same direction, is directing all her efforts to the extension of her dominion over Central and Southern Asia. These—the three great living nationalities of Europe—are, therefore, each occupied in the task which their importance, their geographical position and their political destiny seem to have allotted to them. Of the other nations, such as Austria, Prussia and the German and Scandinavian Kingdoms, we need say nothing. Their influence is but secondary, and they are liable, at any moment, to be dismembered by the throes of revolution, or by the collisions and political necessities of the larger Powers. Whilst Great Britain, France and Russia are working out uncontrolled their reapective des tinies, and giving fall developement to their in- finence in the channels which Providence seems to have assigned to them, it is not too much to expect that the United States—the only first rate Power on this continent—shall be allowed to accomplieh, without interruption, its national duty of extending the benefits of civilization and good government throughout every portion of it. If Great Britain in Hindostan, France in Africa, and Russia in Central and Southern Asia Jay claim to a sort of divine authority for their proceedings in those regions, may we not, with equal reason, allege the humanity and the necessity of putting an end to the anarchy, con- fusion and bloodshed which constitute the nor- mal condition of the Central and South Ameri- can States? We will venture to say that no powerful nation placed in our position ever ex- hibited half the forbearance that we have done in regard to these latter. A time may arrive when we shall have reason to repent of this for- bearance, and when we shall regret not having pursued the unhesitating and decided conrse of the great European Powers in their relations with their turbulent neighbors Thus far we have erred on the elde of moderation; let us not push our squeamishness to the point of sa- crificing to it not only our own interests but those of humanity. Condition of the Labower North and South. - The contrast presented at the present time between the condition of the laboring popula- tion in the North and in the South is a most remarkable and striking thing. In the Northern States capital is for time divorced from its union with labor, and the cotton mills of New England and the branches of manufacturing industry and mining in the Middle and Western States are paralyzed through the want of confidence in the result of mercantile and mechanical enterprises. As & necessary consequence, the laborers, mechanics and females that have been so largely employed in the various operations of our establish- ments are thrown out of employment; and while the capitalist retires for a while to live upon the accumulations of past years, the poor men are perambulating the streets with incen- diary placards, and holding threatening meet- ingsin the public squares for want of work, and the workwomen and girls are driven to the most unhappy resources to procure where- withal to keep soul and body together. In the South, how different is the state of things in the social organization! Though the same causes press upon the community there as here, capital cannot divorce itself from labor, but becomes, in times like these, its slave. The master must feed and clothe the slave portion of the population, whether he finds employment for them or not; consequently, we do not wit- ness there the same paralyzation of industry as in the North. The slave is busy as usual, and rollicking and happy over his corncake and bacon—while the very continuance of his labors calls for the continuance of those of the white mechanic, whose skilled labor is neces- sary to perfect the rude operations of the negro ; and of the merchant and sailor, whose science and capital carry the products of his toil to market. This is the contrast presented now by the South and the North. In the one, labor is idle and the laborer unfed and turbulent; in the other he is busy himself, and his industry gives emplsyment to many others, while he sleeps easy at night, and never troubles his head whether the mill or the workshop is going to stop or not. These are the different operations of different social systems. It is this contrast; itis times like these through which we are passing, bringing the contrast home to the commonest mind, that destroys the senseless agitation of the abolitionists and Gar- risonites of the day, and kills all their isms for at least one generation. Philanthropy ceases to have confidence in the infallibility of its ab- stractions or the empiricism of ite preachers, when Betty, a slave girl, standing in the midst of the unemployed laborers of Lawrence, and contemplating their unfortunate condition, vo- luntarily prefers to return to Tennessee and slavery, rather than to accept the doubtful con- dition of a free laborer of the North. Politi- cians and preachers will all do well to reflect little upon the social results that are now at- tending the condition of the laborer, North and South, and in the contrast they may find some monition to entertain a little more charity for society at the South, and a little less reliance upon the infaHibility of their own social nos- truma Crume ws New York —Yoururun Rowpyism.— The conviction of Rodgers, for the murder of Mr. Swanston, is a fortunate vindication of our outraged laws against the imputations to which the escape of other and more daring criminals had subjected them. When we sec crimes of the deepest magnitude avoiding the penalties attaching to them through the moral obliquity or cowardice of juries, or the weakness of magistrates, we have reason to rejoice that in one instance, at least, justice has been done. The example is the more important from the fact that the criminal belongs to a class of offenders who are daily becoming more auda- cious and reckless, and whose deeds, if un- checked, will soon find a crowd of imitators. ‘The unfortunate young man who will shortly have to pay the penalty of bis life for the ex- cesses of a drunken frolic is but the type of the fast youths of this fast metropolitan city of ours. Brought up without a due regard to the principles on which education should be con- ducted, emancipated from the paternal control at an age when the boys of other countries wre still in leading strings, and abandoned to the instincts of their own un- governable passions, it is no wonder that the youths of our city should pre-eminently distin- guish themselves in the walks of vice. It is not overstating the fact to say that a large propor- tion—say two-thirds—of the offences brought within the cognizance of our tribunals are com- mitted by persons under age. Could the statis tics of the bar rooms, grog shops and houses of ill-fame be arrived at with anything like ac- curacy, we believe it would be found that their chief patrons are individuals scarcely arrived at maturity, It is youth like these that throng the drinking saloons during the daypthat furnish the chief objects of employment to the police during the night, and that are the chief con- tributors to the formidable catalogue of crimes and outrages which have daily to be disposed of by our criminal tribunals The rowdy- iem and blackguardism which render our streets almost impassable for reapectable females have been mainly supplied from this source, In view of these facta the community bas reason to congratulate itself that the law has for once been triumphant, Any feeling of commiseration that might have | been excited by the youth of the prisoner will be neutralized by the recollection that although young in years he is old in vice, and that it is better that his career should be at once out | thort than that he should be allowed to intlict further mischief upon the community. ‘The facts disclosed on the trial, in reference to the capture of the culprit, add another to the many proofs already before us of the miserable nefficiency of the new police. Here was o neighborhood notoriously infested by rowdles left entirely unprotected and abandoned to the operations of midnight assassins and thieves. A respectable and uanoffending citizen is de- prived of life without there being @ policeman at hand to arrest the murderer. Even after the in- formation of the event is conveyed to the nearest station house, #o little exertion is made to follow up his track that he is allowed to re- turn quietly to bis home, to pass the night undisturbed there, and to go next morning to New Jersey, where he was ultimately appre- hended. Had he been so disposed, ample time was left him to make his escape; and it Is only to hie own apathy, and not to the activity of the police, that his trial and conviction are owing. [ no other city that we know of could euch gros negligence and indifference on the part of the police, in the case of so wanton a murder, have occurred. It is well for the se gurity of the city that in the present energetic Judge of the Court of Sessions we have a func- tionary who takes a somewhat different view of his responsibilities, Tae Heratp on Stavery—A Dracren- MENT AMONG THE DocToRS.—We recently pub- lished an editorial article on “Slave Labor and Free,” in which we remarked that at thie crisis of suffering among the free laborers of the North there is among the slave laborers at the South “no lack of the necessaries of life, pe starvation, no perceptible want,” &c. We now find the pith of the said article co- pied into the Charleston Courier (pro-lavery), and into the Washington National Era (abolition organ), with 8 most remarkable disagreement between these wise doctors concerning the par- ty to which the New Yorx Hexaup belongs on this everlasting nigger question. The Charles- ton Courier saya, “As the Hrravp is an abolition organ, and net likely, therefore, to admit the superiority of slave Isbor without good reason, the acknowledgment here made possesses more than ordinary signifi- cance.” The Washington ra, on the other hand, says, “Perhaps the most zealous missionary of slavery at the North is the New Yorn Heraup;” and then, after copying our article aforesaid, this abolition organ ob- serves that “the fuir inference is that the Herat is in favor of introducing the slave system in New-York,” but “ whether the eub- jects of it should be white or black it does not explicitly state.” Here we are, then, according to one cotempo- rary, “an abolitionist journal,” and, according to another, “the most zealous missionary of slavery at the North.” Who shall decide when such doctors disagree? The simple fact is that we support the political institutions of the Union and the constitutional rights of the North and the South as we find them, while we exercise the right freely to discuss the practical workings of the social institutions of each sec- tion according to the tests of experience and the developements of the times, regardless of politi- cal nigger drivers or nigger worshippers. We cannot endorse the secession tomfooleries of the Southern fire-eaters, nor can we abstain from denouncing the follies and hypocrisies and mock philanthropy of our abolition demagogues and fanatics. Hence, with the fire-eaters the Hr- RaLp is “an abolitionist journal,” while with the nigger worshippers it is “a zealous mis- sionary of slavery.” Who comes next? Mirary Matrers.—Col. Van Buren has tendered the resignation of his command as Colonel of the Tenth Regiment to Brigadier General Ewen. The announcement of the fact was received with a general expression of re- gret by all the officers who served under him, among whom he was deservedly popular. It is doubtful, however, whether his resignation will be accepted, as the officers of the regiment are getting up a petition against it. Tre New York Stats Censvsor 1855.—Will the Secretary of State of New York inform the public why the State census for 1855 has not been published? Two years and more have elapsed since it was taken, and it has not yet made its appearance. Tur Ovens wy Day Ligtt.—An operatic matings was given yesterday at the Academy of Music, commencing at one o'clock in the afternoon. Some fifteen hundred pervons were present, chiedy ladiea and children. The performance included selections from several operas, and ‘was in every way so succesaful that the matinées will bo- come 4 fixed institution here. The chief novelty yester- day was the début in opera here of Mile. Carioli. Sho fang tho scena and cavatina in the mad scene of Lucia’? capitally. Her voice is slightly deficient in the lower notes, but she is au admirable chanteuse and will become a favorite. Another of the popular Snnday concerts is announced for this evening, and “Luerezia Borgia” is to be sung on Monday. Broanway Tiamat. —Mr. Buchanan closed his engage- ment at this house last evening, when ho played Edgar Ravenswood, in the “Bride of Lammermoor,” and Da mon, in “Damon and Pythias.”” The audience was largo and apparently quite satistied with Mr. Buchanan's efforts. He appears to more advantage in characters which are purely melo-dramatic, and Damon is one of these. The same radical faults were, however, perceptible in this Performance as in those which havo been heretofore re- viewed in these columns. Mr. Buchanan's repose ia too tame; his ation too violont, With him there i# no middle ground, and it i# in this quality of artistic perception and graduation that he is deficient. In Damon Mr. Buchanan's figure and good stage presence are material aida to him, ‘and he does not lack a certain dignity which is traditioual with all such characters. These, however, are at present Almost bis only recommendations. His faulta are patent, ‘and have been too often analyzed to render the repetiion of such 4 process at all interesting. Mr. Buchanan has been quite well supported, all the circumstances consider: ed will be succeeded on Monday by Mr. Charles Mathews, who returns to the metropolis with pleury of provincial laurels, Political Stave Quemon sx VeRwoNT.—A Dill was recently in troduced into the Legislature of Vermont, which was in- tended to disfranchise any person who should assist in the capture of a fugitive slave. On the 7th inst., it was thrown out of the House by a vote of 121 to 66. Revivar ov nim Wie Pasety.—A number of papers aro making attempts to galvanize and bring again into exis tence the old carcase of the defunct whig party. The fol- lowing is the platform upon which they propose to ope- rate — 1. A United States Bank, as the safest and only constitu tional bank. 2. A protective tariff, to foster home industry and secure commercial independence. 3. A judierows and equal system of tnternal improve wents by the general government. 4. A distribution the proceeds of the public lands among the several States, in proportion to the popula tien. 6. A stern opporition # sectionallem, and a rigid ac- pom agents mes officers. conntability oral An economical administration of the general © as artis, and meat, anda liberal and magnanimous foreign Ras ‘The maintenance of law and order at all yielding opposition to Allibusteriam.’ The Union ohn tot the sake of liberty, and the old con servation of the whig party as the best means of per- petuating both. Gov, Cuasx, or Omo, A Bonner Revviax.—Among tho names copied into the poll books of the Oxford precinct, Kansas, from Williams’ Cincinnati Direoléry, at the late ‘Territorial election, is the name of Salmon P. Chase, who is thus mado responsible for a pro-slavery ballot. INAUGURATION OF THK NEW GovERWOR OF Tax ran —Tlon, Isham G. Harria, the nowly elected democratic Governor of Tennessee, was doly inaugurated into the executive chair on the 34 inst. Hon. Andrew Johnson is the rotir- ing Governor. A Vacanct ix Maseuctuserm.—Tho election of Hon, N. P. Ranks to the executive chair of Mamachusetts, will leave @ vacancy in the Congressional delegation Mr, Danks was chosen tp the Seventh district The Turf. UNION COURSE, L. 1—TROTTING. A trotting match for $1,000, mile heats, best in five, har nese, was announced W come off ou Friday afternoon, be tween b. g. dake Oakloy, andr. g. Tacony. On reach ing the course, our reporter ascertained that the owners of Jake Oakley had paid forfeit, and on inquiry of Wm. Whelan, the trainer, aa to the reason of their paying for feit, he was told by that gentioman that the horse had hoon jalaped. Subsequently, however, @ match waa made for $600, same conditions as the previons one, which was won by Jake any 3 in threo straight heats, notwith standing the jaiap. — The betting was in favor of Tacony, at about six to ton, previous to the start, but after the first heat it waa “wine to "om the result. Inthe two firet heate of the race, © Onley was never headed. In the third he broke on the first Ly by and lost ton lengtha, and it seemed almost a A) Tacony would win the heat, Jake went ups time before Feaching the half mile pole, joing more ground; yet, notwithstanding ‘the breaks, he managed to land at the score ahead, following is a summary — Fupar, Nov. 13.—Trotting match, $500, mile heats, best three in five, in harness , Jake Oakley, (Bashaw)..2 1 1 > a os 222 THE LATEST NEWS. A Provisional Gentiinaas Organized in Kansas. Additional Particulars of the Mormow Attack on the Government Trains. Col. Johnston's Determination to Winter at Great Salt Lake. Pursuit of Gen. Walker's Filibuster Bxpedition, dee. cn dc. ONE WEEK LATER FROM CALIFORNIA, New Onizans, Nov. 13—9 P. Ms ‘The mails per steamship Granada have just arrived, ‘Sho is still detained at Quarantine, having the yellow fever on board. ‘The advices from California aro gonerally unimportant. ‘The news from the mines is of an encouraging desanip- on. The Vigilance Committee have revoked the penaltiog attached (o the sentences of banishment pronounced by them. ‘The San Francisco markets were quict. ‘There had been no arrivals from Atlantic ports. An arrival from the Plains confirms the statement here- tofore made, that on the 10th or 12th of September a traén, consisting of one hundred persons, were all slain by the Indians, except a few children, who wore sold to the Mor- mons. It was generally believed that tho Mormons were at the bottom of the affair. An arrival at San Francisco from Chima brings informa- tion that all the European residonta at Ningpo were ben- ished on the 4th of August. [Our advices by the way af England are from Shanghae to Sept. 1, and from Hong Kong to Sept 10, and they make no mention of this affair. Ed. Herat. } INTERESTING FROM KANSAS. eee Adjournment of the Constitutional Convee- ton—Formation of a Provisional Govern ment, d&o., de. Sr. Lovrs, Nov. 14, 1867. The Lecompton correspondent of the Republican saya that the Kansas Constitutional Convention adjourned om the 7th inst. A provisional government with General Calhoun as Governor was formed, to go into operation ina- mediately, The Convention passed a separate clause sanctioning sanctioning slavery, which is the only section that will be submitted to the people. It is thought to be the design te get the constitution accepted by Congress prior to the as- sembling of the Territorial Legislature. Gov. Walker has been appealed to, to convene an extra seaaion to meet this contingency. The apportionment of the State provides for forty;five Representatives and fiftesm Senators. The Mormon Attack on the Government ‘Trains. Wasutwoton, Nov. 14, 1868. Despatches corroborative of Judge Echols were re ceived this afternoon. They say:—The Mormons hace opened the ball by burning three supply trains—twe on Green river and oneon the Big Sandy—the centre traims—consisting in ail of seventy-cight wagons. There ‘was @ council among the officers, and it was determined, after hearing the opinions of al! the guides, in relation te the country, to go around by Soda Springs, whero the road forks for Oregon and California, and enter the Salt Lake valloy through an extensive valley where the snow will not be an impediment. This determination, the ea- Pressman says, was approved of by Col. Johnston, whe told him to say to everybody “that he intended to winter in the valley or not at all.” ‘The Mormons are congregated in large numbers, evenom this side of the mountain, burning tho grass; and are de- termined, it seems, to prevent the entrance of the troops into the valley any how. They are regularly enrolled im thousands, and if Col. Johnston enters tho valley be cam act only on the defensive with his handful of men. The War Department is expecting dopatches from Ooi. Johnston himself, sont through General Scott, at head- quarters. Should these not arrive here to-morrow or by Monday morning the whole roport will be discredited by the Department. Col. Johnston certainly never permitted an express to come back without sending official despatcbes by hin. Revenue Cutters Ordered to Pursue General: Walker. Wasiuxoto, Nov. 14, 186%. At an early hour this morning Secretaries Cass, Floyd, and Attorney Gencral Toucey hold a hurried consultation, and determined to telegraph the United States Marshal af New Orleans to send the revenue cutters in pursuit af General Walker. It is believed at the State Department that the revenue cuttors will overhaul him. Affairs at Washington. THR BLOCKADE OF CANTON RIVEK—ITS RPYHOT OM AMERICAN INTERKSTS—DKSPATCHRS FROM THE SQUADRONS IN THE CHINA AND MEDITERRANEAN BRAS, BTC. Wasuiwatow, Nov. 14, 1898. Commodore Armstrong writes from Shanghao under date of September 1, and reporta a blockade of Cantom by the English authorities. The Admiral gave Commodore A. formal notice of the blockade, but at the same time im- ‘timated that American commercial interests should not be interrupted. ‘Tho stoam frigate Minnesota arrived at St. Holena from St. Vincent's September 7, with Commissioner Reed om board. Tho Mississippi had not reached there September 24. Tho Portsmouth bad sailed some days before tor ‘Sunoda, Japan. The steam frigate Susquehanna was at Sperzia October 24, and would sail in a fow days t coal at Genoa, an@ thence proceed to hor destination at Key West. Tho fri- gate Constellation was at Genoa in fine trim—oficers and crew well. A private letter says the steam frigate Niagara hae landed the telegraph cable and will proceed immediasaigy home. ‘The caso of Licutonant Barney was postponed till Mon- day, and the caso of Nathaniel Weat, late passed miduhip- man, was commenced to-day in Naval CourtgNo. 1; Com- modore Perry and Lieutenant Maury were cxamined. la Court No. 2 Surgeon Whelan testified in the case of Com mandet Ringgold, ‘TUS GENERA! SEWSPAIER DErATCH. Wasitworon, Nov. 14, 186% Tt haa been ascertained that Great Britain har never re- cognized the jurisdiction of Costa Rica over the river Sam Juan of the Transit route. All she deeires i that Coste Rica should have the right of navigation for the export ot her produce by the river, and the frontier to be setled by free negotiation between the two governments. None of the contracts or grants made by Costa Rica respecting the Transit are sanctioned or approved by Great Britain. Jord Napier has advised the government of Costa Rho hot to Make any grants or concessions pending the arrival in Central America of Sir William Gore Ouscley, who ta expected immeriately at Washington. Explosion of « Steamtug—EKight Lives Lost and Others Injured. Derrorr, Nov. 14, 1869, The steamtug Noah P. Sprague, of Bulfalo, exploded while in the river opposite this city this afternove and instantly sunk. The crew consisted of ten porsons, and eight of them were instantly killed. ‘Tho captain and firs, engineer cecaped with severe but not fatal injuries. The bark Sunshine, which ahe had slongside of her, was com. pletely riddled in the rigging, but no one on board of har was injured, The causo of the oxplosion has not yet boom ascertained. ‘The Financial Credit of Missourt, St. Lovin, Nov, 14, 1809. The bill to legaliao a mill tax to sustain the credit of the State waa defeated in the House yesterday, by a majority of thirty, 7 _—___. ‘The Methodist Church of the North and Weete Cixewswan, Nov. 14, 1968. A special Comvention of the delegates from the vartoms Annual Conferences of the Mothodist Protestant Church af ‘be North and West has beon In session here Cor several days. No important action war taken unt yostordag when the follow ing report was adopted:— 5 4 Whoreas, we have received aatiafactor y information thas oatire freedom of discussion on tha tabjects savery Cannot be enjoyed in Lynchburg ;ayd wheroas#s do nm