The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BE LERMS, cash in EP Pi oe Ore car bpd ‘Beropean h ‘win conta per nbn con, pr ana Sr oe er ar or $3 10 ang port a7 the Continent, both i ory or Volume XXII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Y trip Broad jor 4 Bap Jupae ang lan—Tux ConsucaL % MIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Jxanxetre axp JEAxxor eecnee ‘Texpus—Pantomins oF Bormas, BOWERY THRATEBR, Bowery—Vincimigs—Ouiver Twist Tue Sea. HEATRE. a Bond street— paouTinwoopresrontd Cando Naw Yous Diancroat. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Maipen Wire—Tas Inviuz Busse. LAURA KERNE'S THEATER, Broadway—Tas Sea or Tox, ou 4 Motuxe’s Paares. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Itattam Ormea —Ricoerta. NAGLE'S JUVENILE COMEDIANS, 444 Broadway—Ban Boir—Cuanooal SKETCHES. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—After- ‘noon and Bvening—Roap or Lire. WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 563 Ouaurr & Wooo's BLS—PETER MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Barant's Mixsresis —Lire Aono Tux ALabama Corton Haaps. EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—Paimtines [LLvsTRative or Tax Kawe Exrepition, £0. mitt HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per per anmers, ++. No. 318 Broadway.—Guorce m Parree Poros. “Wew York, Wednesday, November 18, 1857, ‘The News. The War Department received yesterday impor- tant despatches from the army for Utah, including Brigham Young's declaration of martial law in the ‘Ten 4+), letter from Young to the commander of the advanee ©» © United States troops, Colonel Alexander's rena, &88 4 letter from Colonel Jobnston relative to the position of affairs. These important documents are given under the tele- graphic head. Brigham Young expressly forbids the troops from entering Utah. The language of the proclamation is emphatically hostile to the United States, and must be regarded as an unquali- fied declaration of war. Senor Yrissarri was formally received at the White House yesterday as Minister from Nicaragua, and shortly after the presentation ceremony the treaty between that republic and the United States was signed by the new Envoy and the Secretary of State. ‘The treaty provides for a free port at each end of the transit route; the United States guarantees the pro- tection and neutrality of the route; the Transit is to be free to all nations; the United States reserves the right to transport the mails across the Isthmus. ‘The usual stipulations of good will, commerce and na- vigation are appended to the instrument. None of the Transit companies are mentioned in the treaty. ‘The Wall street committee have nominated Daniel F. Tiemann for Mayor, in opposition to Fernando Wood. Mr. Tiemann was a sort of hybrid native American during the régime of Mayor Harper, but has latterly been identified with the democratic party. At present he holds the office of Almshouse Governor. He formerly represented the Twelfth ward in the Board of Aldermen, but is now, we believe, a resident of Manhattanville. Mr. Tiemann is by occupation a dealer in paints. The banks of New Orleans have all resumed specie payments. When will our banks, now almost burst- ing with a plethora of coin, follow suit? The Executive Committee of the workingmen were in sessson yesterday morning, for the purpose of receiving the reports of the various delegates from the several wards, and of completing their list of the unemployed. They subsequently waited on the Central Park Commissioners, but were refused ad- mission to the meeting of the Board. Mr. Beeler, on behalf of the committee, accordingly made a lengthy verbal report to the delegates, denouncing in un- measured terms the commissioners, and wound up by proposing that the workingmen assemble in their respective wards at seven o'clock this morning, and proceed to the Central Park en masse and demand work, and in case of their not being at once employ- ed to set themselves at work on the ground. Much excitement was created among the delegates by Mr. Beeler’s speech. We learn that the Park Commissioners have arranged to employ one thousand hands. The men have been selected, and no more will be required. The Board of Ten Governors met yesterday, and on motion of Mr. Gunther unanimously resolved to ask the city for an extra appropriation of $50,000 to alleviate the distresses of the outdoor poor during the coming winter. At the present time there are 7.312 persons in the city charitable and criminal in- Stitutions, an increase of 1,391 as compared with the report of this time last year. A man named Vincent, who kept a drinking saloon at Nos. 15 and 17 North William street, was killed last night in 9 scuffle which took place between him and three foreigners, who assaulted him with the ia- tention of getting possession of some money which he had on his person. He was stabbed three times in the breast and died soon after. The murderers escaped with the money and not one of them has yet been arrested. Sailor Dan, one of the young men charged with the murder of the old Swixe woman in Greenwich street, was yesterday arrested by the police. He ‘was taken on board the Liverpool packet ship Emer- ald Isle, while she was lying in the stream waiting & change of tide to proceed on her voyage. All the parties implicated in the murder are now in custody. A large meeting of the German Society took place last night at St. Matthew's church. The new bye laws were discussed, amended, and generally ac- cepted. A long and interesting debate ensued on the President's salary, ($2,500,) which it was resolved to abolieh, and divide among the poor. This, with the revision of the constitution, will, it is expected, make the association mach more popular. We have advices from Vera Cruz to the 7th inat. ‘The bark Flash bad sailed for New York with $3,000 in apecie. Large shipments of specie to Europe were being made. All decisions of ecclesiastical courts in civil and criminal cases had been declared void. Gen. Cortez had been arrested on his arrival tt Vera Cruz in the steamer Tegnessee, on board which veasel he was a passenger. ‘We have news from Sierra Leone, Africa, to the ‘Dist of September. The emigration schemes of the French on the coast had led to a suspicion that the Emperor Napoleon was attempting to revive the slave trade. The British cruisers were unusually vigilant, fand s number of vewels sailing under Spanish and American color had been captured, among them the American brigs Eliza Jane and William Clark. ‘The crops of the colony promised an abundant yield. ‘The Liberia Herald bad been discontinued for want Of adequate patronage. There had been @ great Gen! of sickness at Accra. ‘The fifty-third anniversary of the New York His forical Society was held last evening. Dr. Francis delivered the usual address, which was devoted to reminiscences of persons prominent in the history of ‘the empire City. A large audience was in attend ance. ‘The steamships Glasgow and Hammonia, from Glasgow and Bremen respectively on 31st of October ‘and Ist of November, arrived yesterday. The pas- fengers by both vessels numbered five kmndred and fourteen, and the Hammonia brought $63,300 in fpecie. The steamship Ariel arrived at a late hour (est night. She brings one hundred and eighty-four pawn gers ‘The trial of Michael Cancemi, charged with the forder of officer Anderson, ix progressing rapidly before Judge Davies. The prosecution closed their Case about five o'clock last evening, having examined eighteen witnesses, among whom were two who ere not brought forward on the first trial. They NEW xORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1857, confirmed those persons who saw the shot fired and the accused run from the scene of the murder. The counsel for the prisoner did not make a formal open- ing, but proceeded with the testimony, which, up to the hour of adjournment, was the same as was given on the first trial. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Judge Russell rendered his decision on a motion to appoint a special District Attorney to prosecute an indict- ment against Lippincott and Roberts for an alleged overiasue of stock. The City Judge commended the course which District Attorney Hall had taken, and sent papers, chargipg counsel for the complain- ant with attempting to compound a felony, to the present Grand Jury. John B. Holmes was tried and convicted of forgery in the first degree in having signed his wife’s name to a deed involving property in Albany. He will be sentenced on Saturday. ‘The cotton market was quiet yesterday. The lightness of stock tended to check sales, which were confined to 100 ‘8 200 bales, in lots, while prices were unsettled. The de- crease in receipts at all the Southern ports since the first of September last, is now ascertained to be about 286,000 bales, compared with the same period last year. The exports to Great Britain have incroased 41,000 bales, and to France they have decreastd 29,000, and to other foreign ports 1,000 bales, compared with the same period last year. Flour opened quite steady, but closed rather dull at about the previous day’s quotations, and with tolerably free sales, chiefly for the eastward, with some sales for export. Wheat was less buoyant, with fair sales, chiefly Western grades, at prices given elsewhere. Corn sold at 80c. a Sle. for Western mixed, with small sales reported at 8l%c. The market, however, closed rather heavy. Pork was heavy and sales moderate at $19 50 a $19 62. Sugars were in fair demand, with gales of about 500 a 600 bhds. and 200 boxes at rates given in another column; the stock in this market was estimated at between 25,000 a 27,000 hhds. The Messrs, Stuart have reduced the prices for their refined sugars about ec. per Ib. Coffee was steady, with limited sales. Freights were in fair request, and engagements were made to a moderate oxtent at un changed rates, with a charter for Bristol and another for Trieste on terms stated in another place. Kansas in a New Shape—Sweeping Coup @Etat of the Lecompton Convention, The Kansas Pro-slavery Constitutional Con- vention, in the work which they have achieved, have exceeded all expectations and all conjec- tures. The prevailing opinion was that this Convention would frame a pro-slavery consti- tution and hurry it up to Congress, dispensing with a popular ratification. This proceeding, however, is but an incidental trifle in the pro- gramme which has been adopted; for this afore- said Convention has completely superseded the regular federal and territorial authorities by a dictatorship of its own choosing. This is a coup d’état which nobody outside of the secret affiliations of this Convention could have anticipated. It is, in fact, a revolutionary movement, which puts the local affairs of Kansas in a more critical shape than any of the many other phases through which they have passed. It appears that the Solons of this aforesaid Con- vention have decreed:— 1. A strong pro-slavery State constitution, which is not to be referred to the people. 2. A separate reference of the slavery ques- tion to a vote of the people, which will not affect the slavery provisions of the constitution in the slightest degree neither one way nor the other. 3. That Gov. Walker is deposed. 4, That the regular Territorial Legislature is superseded. 5. That a regency or provisional government is established, with dictatorial powers, of which Mr. John Calhoun is the chief, under the title of Governor, and that this regency is to go into operation immediately. Now, this beats the Topeka government of Generals Lane and Robinson all hollow. It surpasses anything that we have seen of the political pretensions of Brigham Young; for, with all his assumptions of divine right and squatter sovereignty, he has never so flatly re- pudiated the supreme authority of the general government as these Lecompton constitution makers. Their proceedings are without a pa- rallel, and there is nothing like a precedent for them in the case of any other Territory of the Union, past or present. On the contrary, the federal constitution, the organic law of Kansas, all popular rights, and Territorial forms and usages, are boldly set at defiance by these Kan- sas disorganizers, The proceedings in question would amount to nothing more than a contemptible farce, did we not know that they are intended for mischief, and that the mischief-makers are dispersed over a much larger area than that of Kansas Territory. It is thought that the design of this Lecompton Regency is to stifle the Legislature and the popular voice of Kansas upon the main iseue, in exciting a general squabble among all parties in the Territory upon the local question of jurisdiction. It is further supposed that this regency, through this cloud of smoke and dust, will push off to Washington and attempt to hurry through the admission of Kansas upon the basis of their pro-slavery constitution, in advance of the meeting of the Territorial Legislature. We are glad to learn, however, that Governor Walker bas been appealed to, to convene an extra session of the Legislature to meet this contingency; and, for the sake of peace in Kan- sas, we hope that the next news will be that an extra session has been ordered. Otherwise these Lecompton philosophers might be permit- ted freely to run to the end of their rope, inas- much as the admission of Kansas into the Union as 4 State is a thing which cannot be done, except hy act of Congress, But, for the sake of law and order in the Territory, it is desirable that this Lecompton regency should be dealt with promptly and efficiently by the regular authori- ties, federal and local. The party of the Topeka constitution some time ago, in an irregular attempt to set up their peculiar government, were dispersed by the United States troops, and if a milder process ehould prove inadequate against any overt act of this Lecompton regency, the dragoons should be again called into requisition. In the mean- time, we have no fears of the result at Washing- ton. We have a eagacious and reliable Presi- dent atthe head of affairs, and his just and honest Kansas policy will command a majority in both branches of Congress, which no faction of sectional disorganizers can shake. We have no apprehensions, therefore, that Kansas will be admitted into the Union upon the basis of any constitution which shall not have received the endorsement of the people of Kansas. We have no fears of the ultimate issue of this Lecompton movement. It will fail. The parties interested in it cannot entertain a serious hope of its suc cess, We presume that their objects are agitation, sectional discord, and a Southern ultra seetional rebellion, We believe that their immediate purpose is to cast the firebrand into Congress upon which our Southern fire-eaters have resolved to cut loose from the administration, and to set up a sec- tional party on their own account for the next Presidency. It is impossible to believe that these Lecomp- ton proceedings are solely the fruits of a reck- less determination of the members of the Con- vention to secure the spoils and plunder of the new State, at all hazards, They are, undoubt- edly, in hot pursuit of the spoils; but the wire- workers, we fear, are behind the scenes in Vir- ginia, South Carolina and Mississippi. Mr. Calhoun and bis regency, we dare say, are as much the instruments employed by the Southern fire-eaters in this Kansas game for the succes- sion, as Messrs. Lane and Robinson have been the tools of the Seward anti-slavery party. The Lecompton Convention has done its work. It cannot be ratified; but it may still accomplish its ends in working out the secession of the fire- eaters from the administration and the conser- vative democracy. Very well. Our only fears are that there may be serious trouble in Kansas from this Lecompton regency; for we have no doubt that very short work will be made at Washington of this unratified Lecompton con- stitution, Let them send it along. ‘The Foreign Policy and the Foreign Ministers. We notice paragraphs going the rounds of certain journals, to the effect that such and such changes have been made in the foreign repre- sentation of the country; that Mr. So and So has received the appointment to Paris, and Mr. So and So to Madrid; that this or that post in the diplomatic service of the United States has at length been filled up, &c., &., dc. What- ever basis these statements may rest on, our in- formation leads us to disbelieve that any changes have yet been effected or agreed upon in the diplomatic service, or that any politician has received an offer of any foreign embassy which is now filled. Mr. Pierce made awift haste to fill up the list of his foreign appointments; sent abroad his representatives in a hurry, and had very little but discomfort from his foreign policy from that time out. Mr. Buchanan resolved to pursue a more deliberate course. As the interests of the country did not seem imperatively to demand any immediate change in our foreign represen- tation, he determined to leave our representa- tives where they are for the first year of his ad- ministration. At the close of the year, or rather, at the meeting of Congress, he will be prepared with a new list of ministers, whose names will be submitted to the Senate as soon as they are selected. By that time, it is confidently presumed, all of Mr. Pierce’s nominees will have placed their resignations in the hands of the President, and thus relieved him from the ungracious portion of his task By that time, too, the government will have had ample leisure to take a deliberate and com- prehensive view of the relations between the United States and the foreign world, and to decide upon a line of foreign policy which shall be worthy of the nation and of its President. This cautious plan will thus enable Mr. Bu- chanan to fill the foreign legations without dis- courtesy to their present occupants; to subject no one to the humiliation of a rejection by the Senate after departure; and to send abroad every man with full and well considered in- structions, and a political travelling map, so to speak, from which he need never deviate. It need hardly be said that the policy on which the administration have resolved, so far as our foreign affairs are concerned, has cost much anxious thought and severe study. Happily, the two magistrates on whom it de- volved to determine the many delicate questions which presented themselves—Mr. Buchanan, and Mr. Cass—are both, by their age, their ex- tensive experience, and their thorough acquaint- ance with Europe, both in a social and political point of view, well adapted to grapple with such problems. They were not left, as Mr. Marcy was, to deal with the most intricate questions of diplomacy with the unaided light of native shrewdness; they could bring to bear the ripe results of more than a quarter of a century's schooling among the most astute politicians of Europe. And it is saying little in their favor when it is added that the policy which will be matured when the foreign ministers are ap- pointed will be of a bolder, firmer, and more consistent character than any that we have known since the days of General Jackson. It will compare very favorably with the vacil- lating foreign policy of Mr. Pierce, the imbecili- ty of Mr. Fillmore and the inert course of other recent Presidents, As might have been expected, the germ of the foreign policy of the new administration may be found in the now famous document known as the Ostend Manifesto. An error has prevailed in many minds with regard to this document, which, by a singular perversion of its spirit has been set down as a warlike performance; while, in point of fact, it is expressly designed to ob- viate the necessity of a future recurrence to hostilities. The error arose through the insidi- ous contrivance of the late Mr. Marcy, who, seeing in the manifesto an opportunity of kill- ing off his most formidable rival for the Presi- dency, gave to the world a document which was intended and ought to have been reserved for the most secret pigeon-hole of the Department of State; and, not content with this, accompa- nied it by « despatch tending to create the im- preseion—which Mr. Marcy knew better than to share--that it was calculated, if acted upon, to embroil this country in hostilities with foreign nations. The trick succeeded well enough to frighten a good many people; there are some, no doubt, who will still feel a thrill of alarm on being told that the sentiments and doctrines of the Ostend manifesto are likely to be the leading principles of the foreign policy of Mr. Buchanan's administration. There is, however, no ground for alarm. Those princi- ples are susceptible of a very peaceful vindica- tion; to plunge this country into hostilities, on any other ground than the absolute defence of our territory, would not be a likely act for men of the experience of the President and Foreign Secretary, and the very timidest may rest as- eured that they will not. Pursuing, however, a truly American policy, and pursuing it consistently throughout his administration, Mr. Buchanan is likely to make the country more esteemed and respected abroad than has been the case since the time of Gen. Jackson, and to win for himself the same credit which that official won from his adminis- tration of our foreign affairs. Want. Street Ative Acain.—-The stock-job- bers of Wall street are getting crazy again. Stocks are going up like rockets, and specula- tors are muking money like dirt. It is said that half a dozen of these adventurers have each made $100,000 in differences in the last week. The good time is coming again. Satan, the great gambler from the “lower deep,” never forsakes his . Tux Herowr or Ansvrprry—The New York banks remaining in « state of dishonor and suspension with nearly $20,000,000 of specie in their vaults. ‘Tux Newsrarers anp THe CHarTER ELECTION. -—The daily journals of this city are as so many separate institutions, and the position which they take on any approaching event sometimes indi- cates, though not always, the state of the vote on anelection. After a good deal of trouble we have made out a table containing the city circulation of the various daily journals, arranged according to their political leanings, either for or against Fernando Wood, in the approaching election for Mayor. Here they are:— CITY CIRCULATION OF THE DAILY JOURNALS OPPOSED TO ‘Tribune, republican, Ppa ac ee Daily ‘Dises, ropabilean stock Jobbing, ‘an; Courier and Roquirer, any Commercial Advertiser, old fog; Evening Post, nigger worshipper , Aggregate circulation against Wood.............46,100 CIRCULATION OF THE DAILY JOURNALS RATHER LN YAYOR OF New York Herald, ndepondont.. iow lerald, independent Journal of Commerce, do. News, democratic, Mirror. Aggregate in favor of Wood.. By this statement it would appear that those journals which are in favor of Fernando Wood have’ nearly double the city circula- tion of the journals opposed to him. There is a great difference, however, in the tone of the two classes of papers. The four or five that are favorable to Mr. Wood conduct the con- test with great propriety, decency and decorum, with the exception of one, which is a little noisy and dirty in the chops; we mean the News, and perhaps the Day Book, which is so fond of the nigger that it is always publishing long philosophical articles on his origin, his race, his blood, the form of his brain, the shape of his foot, and the vigor of his limbs. The other five or six journals which are opposed to Wood, with the exception of one or two old fogies, are ex- ceedingly violent, incoherent, vindictive, vul- gar, ungentlemanly, savage, malicious, per- sonal, vituperative—calling every one that differs with*them liar and scoundrel. If the variation in the circulation of these two classes of journals indicates that this metropolis will sustain Wood for the Mayoralty, we are more disposed to think that the tone of both tends still stronger to the same result. None but short boys, ruffians, pugilists, live rabbits, rowdies and Bowery boys can read the violent language and vindictive ruffianism of the 7ii- bune, Times, Express and Courier without being disgusted to the innermost recesses of the soul. Such journalism is probably the principal ele- ment in sustaining Fernando Wood among the decent and respectable portions of the city. Tue City Vote.—By the census of 1855 there were found to be about 86,000 legal voters in this metropolis, and since that time they have probably increased to 90,000. In the last Presidential election a vote of about 80,000 was taken; but the State election last month exhibited a falling off of a little over 20,000, the returns showing a vote of but 59,000. A good deal of conjecture is formed as to what the vote may be in the approaching charter election. We don’t think it will fall below 60,000; but if the opposition should stir up an excitement next week, it may reach 70,000, or at least 65,000. Of this vote, according to all appearances, Fernando Wood will probably poll 40,000, if not more. Among the great mass of the democracy there is less antagonism to him now than there ever was, and we believe he is stronger among the mercantile class. Some of the leaders of the democracy indicate opposition, but we don’t think it will amount to much. Grorce Sanpers 1s Kansas.—It appears that George Sanders is out in Kansas, stirring up the boiling pot of the nigger agitation there, when he should be attending to the duties of his office of Navy Agent here. For the last ten years, in or out of office, at home or abroad, the absorbing business of Sanders has been to concoct red republican revolutions and filibus- tering forays, and to make new Presidents. His red republican caucuses and festivals with Kossuth, Ledru Rollin and such, at London, while holding the office there of United States Consul, had more to do with his rejection by the Senate than his Presidential philippics against “the old fogies,” though he may not believe it, We admonish him, therefore, to stick to bis navy agency, at least until the Senate shall have acted upon his case, for if, when they reach it, they find him off in Kansas or Minnesota they may black ball him again. That's all. A Hoytine Excursion Roun Town.—It seems that A. Oakey Hall has been hunting round town for the last three weeks for an available candidate for the Mayoralty. He has hada shot at several birds of democratic plumage, but they escaped him on the wing, without the ruffle of a feather. Now, we understand that, with his setters and pointers, he is beating about the old hen roost of Tammany Hall to see if he can’t pick off some old rooster from his perch. Very well. Let him persevere. We have no doubt that there are plenty of loose materials around the purlieus of the Old Wigwam and the Pewter Mug from which he may find “a good enough Morgan till after the election.” But why stick at one candidate? Why not try two or three, or half a dozen? The more the merrier, and the result will be all the same. Stavive at Homn.—During the recent State elections nearly 400,000 voters who came out in 1856 have remained at home in 1867. The revulsion and other causes have diminished sad- ly political excitement. Naval Intelligence. ‘The United States steamer Water Witch, Lieut. W. 8. Lovell commanding, arrived here yesterday from Ports- mouth, N. H., and will sail for Washington via Norfolk on Thursday next. ‘The United States steam frigate Susquehanna, Comman- der Sands, was at Spezzia Oct. 24, and would sail in a few days to coal at Genoa, and thence proceed to her destina- ‘ion at Key Weat. The United States frigate Constellation Commander Ball, was at Genoa in fine trim—officers and crew all well. ‘The marine guard of the United States frigate fr . dence and likewise the sailors that came by the mail steamer St. Louis from Aspinwall op the 16th inst. were conducted nto the Rrooklyn avy yard on the morning of the arrival ‘of the steamer. The vailore were taken op board the U.S. receiving ship North Carolina, but were afterwards allowed to roturn on ehore until they are paid off. The marines were quartered atthe marine barracks, in the avy yard, The terms of service of noarly all the wm vo expired, and they will be paid off few days. ‘They scom to manifest a vory n Ji feoling towards the captain of the steamer St. Louis, who, they say, treated them very badly in rogard to “<grob,"’ not giving them the usual government allowance of “salt borse’'—ss they so significantly term our navy ration of salt beef—petatoes rotten, and not Bt Loe THE LATEST NEWS. THE MORMON WAR. Important Despatches from the Army for Utah—Brigham Young’s Declaration of ‘War and his Reasons Therefor. Wasmaton, Nov. 17, 1867. Col. Johnston's letter, together with Col. Alexander's, was received at the War Department to-day, confirming the destruction of the supply trains ; alao a letter and pro- clamation from Brigham Young, which I herewith send you, and Col. Alexander's reply. Col. Aloxander was within thirty miles of Fort Bridger, which place is occupied by Mormon troops, when he re- ceived the following letter from Brigham Young, through the commander of the ‘Nauvoo Legion:”’— , Governor’s Orvics, Ura Tarxrrony, Great Sarr Lawe Crrr, Sept. 29, 187. To mam Orne Conneanving Tus Fouces sow Lyvapuva Ura ‘Tamnrrory :— Su—By reference to the act of Congress passed Sept. 9, 1850, organizing the Territory of Utab, you will find the following :— ‘So. 2. And be it further enacted, that the executive power and authority in and ovor said Torritory of Utah shall be vested in a Governor, who shall hold his office for four orig: ‘and until his suecessor shall be appointed and quali , unless sooner removed by the President of the United States. The Governor shall reside within said ‘Territory! shall be Commander-in-chief of the militia thereof, &c., &c. Tam still tho Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory, no successor having been ap- pointed and qualified, as provided by law, nor have! been removed by the President of the United States. By virtue of the authority thus vested in me,I have issued and forwarded to you a copy of my proclamation forbidding the entrance of armed forces into the Territory. ‘This you have disregarded, I now further direct that you retire forthwith from the Territory, by the same route you en- tered. Should you deem this impracticable, and prefer to remain until spring in tho vicinity of your present ou- campment—Black Fork on Green River—you can do so in peace and unmolested, on condition that you deposit your arms and ammunition with Lewis Robinson, Quartermas- ter General of the Territory, and leave in the spring as soon as the condition of the roads will permit you to march; and should you fall short of provisions, they cam be furnished you upon making the proper application therefor. Gen. D. H. Wells will forward this and receive any com- munication you may have to make. Very respectfully, BRIGHAM YOUNG, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, ‘The following is the proolamation referred to by Brig- ham Young:— PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. Crmzxns or Uran—We are invaded by a hostile force, who are evidently assailing us to accomplish our over- throw and destruction. For the last twenty-five years we have trusted officials of the government, from constables and justices, to judges, Governors and Presidents, only to be scorned, held in derision, insulted and betrayed. Our houses have been plundered and then burned, our fields laid waste, our principal men butchered while under the pledged faith of the government for their safety, and our families driven from their homes to find that shelter in the barren wilderness and that protection among hostile savages which were denied them in the boasted abodes of Christianity and civilization. ‘The constitution of our common country guarantees unto us all that we do now or bave ever claimed. If the constitutional rights which pertain unto us as American citizens were extended to Utab according to the spirit and meaning thereof, and fairly and impartially administered, it is all that we could ask—all that we have ever asked. Our opponents havo availed themselves of prejudice existing against us, because of our religious faith, to send outa formidable bost to accomplish our destruction. We have bad no privilege nor opportunity of defending owr- selves from the false, foul and unjust aspersions against us before the nation. The government has not conde- scended to cause an investigating committee or other person to be sent to inquire into and ascertain the trutl®, as is customary in such cases. We know those aspersions to be false; but that avails us nothing. We are condemned unheard, and forced to an issue with an armed merce- nary mob, which bas been sent against us at the instiga- tion of anonymous letter writers, ashamed to father the base, slanderous falsehoods which they have given to the public—of corrupt officials, who have brought falso accusations against us to screen themselves in their own infamy, and of hircling priests and howling editors, who prostitute the truth for filthy lucre’s sake. ‘The issue which has thus been forced upon us compels us to resort to the great first law of self preservation, and stand io our own defence—aright guaranteed unto us by the genius of the institutions of our couatry, and upon which the government is based. Our duty to ourselves, to our families, requires us not to tamely submit to be driven ‘and slain without an attempt to preserve onrselves. Our duty to our country, our boly religion, our God, to free- dom and liberty, requires that we should not quietly stand till and seo those fetters forging around us which are cal- culated to enslave and bring us in subjection to an unlaw- ful military despotism, such as can only emanate, ina country of constitutional law, from usurpation, tyranny and oppression. Therefore 1, Brigham Young, Governor and Superinten- dent of Indian Affairs for the Territory of Utah, in the name of the people of the United Stated States, in the Ter- ritory of Utah, forbid, First—all armed forces of evory description from coming into this Territory, under any pretence whatever. Second—That all the forces in said Territory hold them. selves in readiness to march at a moment's notice to repel any and all such invasion, Third—Martial law ia hereby declared to exist in this Territory from and after the publication of this proclama- tion, and no person shall be allowed to pasa or repasa into or through or from this Territory without # permit from the proper officer. Given under my haud and seal, at great Salt Lake City, Territory of Utah, this fifteenth day of September, A. D., cighteen hundred and dfty-seven, and of the Indepon dence of the United States of America the eighty second. BRIGHAM YOUNG. The following is Colone! Alexander's reply to Brigham Young :— Heangcarters Teyta Recrcxet oF tds Camr Wixriny, on Ham's Fork, October 2, 1857. Bamonam Youre, Fag., Govenvon or Uran Trxarront— ‘Sim:—1 bave the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your communication of Sept. 29, 1867, with two copies of ‘4 proclamation and one of the laws of Utab, and have giv- en it an attentive consideration. [am at present the se- ior and commanding officer of the troops of the United States at this point, and I will submit your letter to the General commanding as soon as he arrives here. In the meantime, I have only to say that these troops are here by the order of the President of the United States, and their further movements and operations will depend entirely upon orders issued by competent military authority. Very reapectfully, E. B. ALEXANDER. Among the documents ts a letter from Col. Johnston, dated from the camp on the Three Wings of the Sweet Water, addressed to Adjutant General McDowell, New York, in which he confirms the burning of the contractor's trains by the Mormons. He says the Governor's eacort is four days march behind him, with two companies of dra- goons. He knows of no reason why Col. Alexander should attempt to reach Salt Lake by Bear River, excopt- ing from the fear that the Mormons have burned the grass on the shorter route. He adde—‘‘ If I could com- municate with Col. Alexander I would direct him to take up ® good position for the winter at Ham’s Fork. The Toad is beset between this and Ham's Fork with companies of Mormons, so it is doubtful if I shall be able to commu- nicate with Col. A.” It is supposed at the War Department that the troops are all in good condition, as nothing to the contrary is said in the despatches. On the receipt of the above despatches a epecial meet ing of the Cabinet was immediately called, b@® galing hae transpired with reference to their doliberationa. a Resumption of Specie Payment in New Or- leans, New Onteans, Nov. 17, 1867. All our banks have resumed specie payment in full. ——— Death of Andrew White, of Albany. Aunany, Nov. 17, 1867, Andrew White, Require, Vice President of the Commer. cial Bank, and one of the original proprietors of the Evrning Journal, died here thix morning ‘The Augusta at Savannah. Savanwam, Nov. 17, 1867. The United States mail steamship Augusta, from New York, arrived hore this morning. THE TREATY WITH NICARAGYA, Formal Reception of Senor Polnts of the Treaty. Wasurnotow, Nov. 17, 1897. Mr. Yeissarri was formally prosonted to the President of the United States at one o'clock to-day, and received ag Minister from Nicaragua, after which tho treaty nego. tiated was signed by himself and Secretary Cass. The treaty provides— First—¥or the maintenance of two free ports, one af each end of the Transit line. Seoonlly—The United States guarantees the protection and neutrality of the Transit, but names no particular company. ‘Thirdly—Tho,Transit is to be open to all nations om equal terms. Fourthly—The United States reserve the right to trame- port the mails in their own vessels when they find it oom- venient 80 to do. Fifthly—Provides, in the usual terfns, for friendship, commerce and navigation between the two countries. The above is the substance of the treaty, as prooered from a reliable source. No one was prosont at the presentation of Mr. Yriasarré but the Secretary of State and the President. Affairs in W: NEWS FROM KANSAS ANXIOUSLY LOOKED FOR—PRO CEEDINGS IN THE NAVAL COUBTS—SHOCKING HOMI- c1bs. Wasnrnaton, Nov. 17, 186%. ‘The administration is greatly annoyed, if not alarmod, at ‘the turn things have taken in Kansas. A confirmation er contradiction of the news is anxiously looked for. In Naval Court No. 1 to-day the case of Lieut. Barney was postponed, on account of the absence of witnesses, Mr. West's case was taken up, and Dr. Bell testified im hia favor. In Court No. 2 the case of Lieut. Lynch was com- menced, and Commodore Boorman, Captain Page, Purser Todd and Lieut. Walker were examined in his behalf. In Court No, 8 the protest of Captain Levy was overruled, and the records of former courts martial ordered to be read. The counsel for Captain Levy contended that facta considered by former Courts, if pertinent to the issue, may be considered now, but that the Ondings of those Courts are not evidence. The Court ruled otherwise. Commodore Perry was introduced as a witness by the government, but was objected to on the ground that events which transpired twenty-four years ago could not affeot Captain Levy's present efficiency for naval service. Seve- ral other protests were entered, aud the Court adjourned without considering them. Eugene Lanahan was shot on Pennsylvania avenue this morning, supposed by 8 man named Burch, who is now ia jail. The ball entered the right breast and lodged im the lungs. Lanaban is rapidly sinking. The caugo of the as- sault is not known, ‘TUM GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasuinoton, Nov. 17, 1861. The Indian Bureau has received advices, stating that the Indians of Oregon and Washington Territories are ia comfortable condition; but that considerable confusion has arisen in consequence of the contracts for supplies, owing principally to the credit system. The war debt amounts to about five millions of dollars. The administration hag received the schedule and out- line of the constitution of Kansas, and will sustain the ac- tion of the Convention with regard to the mode proposed for its adoption, conceiving that the people will thus have an opportunity of deciding the question in their own way. Rumored Movements of General Walker. Bautimorx, Nov. 17, 1867. A private letter from a gentleman at the South, whe is believed to be well posted m regard to General Walker's intention, intimates that in case he is headed off from land- ing in Nicaragua, he will next be hoard of from Haytt The information is not considered strictly reliable, but there may be some ground for the assertion. Non-Arrival of the Haurax, Nov. 17—10:30 P.M. ‘The night is cloudy, and there are no signs of the Cunard steamship Niagara, now in her eleventh day from Liverpool, with three days later nows. Rain has beca falling in torrents during the evening, and it is quite thick outside. There is very little chance of the stoamor ar- riving before morning. News from Mexico, Wasnnaron, Nov. 17, 1867. By the Southern mail we have news froui Vora Cruz te ‘the 7th inst. ‘The bark Flash sailed from Vera Cruz for New York om the 24th ult. with $3,000 in silver coin. Large shipments of specie were also being made to Europe. Gen. Cortez was arrested at Vora Cruz on tho arrival of the Tennesseo thero. ‘The Minister of Justice had issued a circular declaring all ecclesiastical decisions in civil and criminal cases void. The rumor of a restoration of the export duty on tobacee was not generally credited. Waseasaron, Nov. 17, 186. By the arrival of the mail we have Galveston dates te the 7th inst, The ship Nebraska had bilged on the bar there, and the ship Fannin was also aground there and in a critical cum- dition. The receipta of cotton at Galveston for the week ending the 7th inst. had been 3,400 bales, of which 2,300 were exported direct to Liverpool. The determination to ship direct to Rurope was increasing, and several vessols wore loading for Liverpool. ‘Sugar boiling in Toxas had commenced in good oarnest, Sr. Looms, Nov. 17, 1864. ‘The bill restricting the issue of State bonds to two mil- lions, and providing for the prompt paymeut of the im- terest of those already iswned, paasod the House thin afternoon, The same bill passed the Senate on Saturday last. A@airs in Prntapaurma, Nov. 1744 P. M. ‘The new Post Office, formerly the Pennsylvania Beak, ia being enlarged at the end. Over one hundred laborers are employed who work for fifty-five ceats por day, and are apparently satisfied and thankful. Orders have been received here from Washington to ‘out with all possible despatch the sloop-of war Jamostowm. Stocks were very buoyant today, with a gonoral ad- vance in prices of all descriptions. Monetary matters look easier. —__. Navigation of the Welland Canal Stopped. Sr. Cariommuvas, ©. W., Nov. 17, 1861. ‘The lock of the Welland Canal at this place was brokem to-day by the propelior Prairie State, and im consequence the navigation of the canal is entirely stopped. two per cent discount. pe Cotton.—Sales to-day 3,600 bales. nLesto, Nov. 16, 1857. The market has near ered ine. neal the decline. vannam, Nov. 16, 1800. Cotton.—Nothing doing. Buyers and sellers inharme- tira Avavwta, Nov. 16, 1897, Cotton.—Sales to day 900 bales, at 120. a 120. for mid- _ Borvato, Nov. 17—1 P.M. Flour is quiet and steady. Sales to-day 600 bbis., at $& for superfine Wisconsin, $4 O48 $6 for extra Ohio Wheat firmer. Sales to-day 40,000 bushels, at 770. for Chicago ,and 826. for Milwaukie club.’ Gorn firm. Sales 10, 8