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4 NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BENNETES, EDITOR AND PROPRIKTOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THRATRE. Broadway—Bacurior oF ARTS Coot 48 4 CUCTMBER—CONIUGAL LESSON. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brosdway—Coupe Texnvg—Itaian Buicanve— Bacar Diventissenent—BoReas. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery—Rexr Day—tis Last Lasge—Wart or tus Wisn-tor-Wiss—Tom anv Jann. BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadwa: petite Boul street Tams asp Bes nal eh Pantoun 2 .ADIES BEWARE. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Mupax Wor—Tas Inve Hospanp. LAUBA KEENES THRATRE, Broadway—Tas Sua oF Tos, ok A Mornen's Prayer. NAGLRE'S JUVENILE COMEDIANS, 444 Broadway—Baw Bour—CuaRcoal SKETCHES. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdway—After moon and Bvening—Roap or Lire. ‘WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 563 Broadway—Gro. Canis- er & Woon's Minstnzis—Prtex Pirse Purrer Popes. MRCHANICS' HALL. 472 Broadway Brrant's Munsreeis —Lirs Among THe ALapama Corton fleaps. way—PainTixes ILLUSTRATIVE ON, AC. EMPIRE HALL. 596 or tas Kar "The New York Herala—Ealtion for Europe. ‘The Collins mai! steamship Adriatic, Captain West, will loave this port to-day, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘The Furopean mails will close in this city at half past ten o'clock this morning. ‘The European edition of the Hxraup, printed in French ‘and English, will be published at ten o’clock in the morn ing. Single copies, in wrappers, six cents. subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Youk Hxnaw will be received at the following places in Europe:— Lonpox... Samson Low, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate hill Am.-European Express Co. King William st. Tarr Am. European Express Co ce de la Bourse. Livmnroot. Am. Evropean Express Ce apel street. Stuart, 10 Exchange street, ast TAVRE Am. -Eurepean Express Co. Rue Corneille. ‘The contents of the Puropean edition of the Hgratp will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous wetk and up to the hour of pub- Lecaiion. ‘The News. ‘The question of the location of the proposed new Post Office in New York may be regarded as at last set- tled definitively. The Postmaster General has yielded to the representations of the committee of the Com- mon Council, and selected the ground at the south end of the City Hall park, commencing opposite Park place and running through to Park row. The matter was referred to the President yesterday, and there is no doubt but that he will approve the choice of the Postmaster General. A large and influential meeting of citizens was held yesterday afternoon in front of the Merchants’ Exchange, to receive the report of the committee appointed at the meeting last Saturday in reference to the nomination of a candidate for the Mayoralty in opposition to Mr. Wood. The name of Daniel F. ‘Tiemann was presented as such candidate, and the nomination was unanimously ratified. Mr. Cooley, who had received the nomination of the American party, presided on the occasion, and announced the withdrawal of his name. Speeches were made by Mr. Cooley, Recorder Smith, Joe Hoxie and Mr. Montgomery. A further ratification meeting is to be held at the Academy of Music next Tuesday evening, at 74 o'clock. ‘A meeting of the American Mayoralty Convention | has been called by Mr. James W. Barker for this evening, at 187 Bowery, to take into consideration the fact of the withdrawal of their candidate from | he contest. A meeting of the Young Men's Republican Com- mittee was called last night at their rooms, Stuyve- was a witness against him, and they wished to pre- vent the Doctor's attendance at court by assassi nating him in cold blood. Owen Kiernan was con- victed of manslaughter in the fourth degree, in caus- ing the death of James McDermott on the 20th of October. John Carroll and Wm. Brown, two “Dead Rabbits,” guilty of highway robbery, were each sent to the State prison for fourteen years and five months, Strong southwesterly winds have prevailed here for the past two days, and yesterday was the coldest day of the season. The thermometer in the afternoon reached twenty-five degrees, and in the evening it indicated a still lower temperature. Along the en- tire chain of lakes a severe snow storm has prevailed during the past two days, and much apprehension is entertained for the safety of the shipping in those waters. It would not be a bad plan to place the Fourth ward of this city under martial law. In addition to the murders in William and Water streets on Tues- day and Wednesday nights, last evening two per- sons were stabbed in that ward. The first was a man named John Burns, who, while standing at the corner of Pearl and Vandewater streets, was asault- ed by three ruffians, and stabbed in the face in three places. One of the gang was arrested, but the others escaped. Burns’s wounds are not of a serious nature. About nine o'clock a dispute occurred in Water street between a Welsh sailor, named Thomas Price,and a woman named Kate Burns, about an apple, which the former refused to pay for. During the altercation Price whipped out his sheath knife and plunged it into the left breast of a girl named Mary Ann Thompson, inflicting a severe wound. Fortunately a policeman happened to be in the neighborhood, who knocked Price down with his club, and then conveyed him to the station house, The investigation of the Water street murder was continued yesterday. We give a report of the evi- dence elsewhere. Susan Dempsey, who was stabbed in the affray, died yesterday morning, making the second victim, and Barrett is not expected to survive his injuries. The police are actively engaged in searching for the perpetrators of this diabolical crime. Several persons have been arrested, and among them a man who is known to be an associate of the murderers. From certain circumstances it is Spanish soldiers and convicts which arrived here in Sepjember on board a French bark bound from Spain for Cuba, and which put in at this port in dis- tress. ‘The inquest in the case of Mr. Vincent was also resumed yesterday, when several witnesses were ex- amined. Mr. Justar Montag testified that on Wed- nesday evening he heard Joseph Ceragalio, one of the witnesses, sayin a lager bier saloon that he bad “witnessed the whole affair through the shutters, and that he could recognise the men a hundred years hence, but that his heart would not let him say so.” Ceragalio was thereupon brought before the jury and examined at much length. He denied hay- ing witnessed the affair or having used the remarks imputed to him, but explained that he did say to Mr- supposed that the murderers belong to the party of ; Press and the home organ of Senator Douglas are as wide of the mark as the Washington Umion. Granted that the Lecompton Convention should have submitted their whole constitution bodily to the vote of the people, will it not suf- fice that they have submitted the only question upon which there can be any serious controver- sy to the popular vote? Can anything, in the form of a State constitution, or in the forms of its ratification, be expected of the managing politicians of either party in Kansas, which will be satisfactory to the opposite party ? And con- sidering the violent feelings of hostility existing between the no-slavery and pro-slavery parties of Kansas, is it not best to seize upon the first chance for a compromise, and make the most of it? Suppose, for instance, that this Lecompton stipulation for a popular test of “slave- ry” or “no slavery” should be honestly met by both parties in Kansas, can there be any doubt of the result? The decision would certainly be “no slavery,” and thus Kansas would certainly come into the Union as a freeState. And once a State, all these constitutional restrictions against a modification of the State charter would amount to nothing; for within six months the people of Kansas could adopt a new consti- tution out and out. We contend, therefore, that the true policy of he conservative democratic press is to make the most of the first practical opening for the fair admiseion of Kansas, without stopping to chaffer upon secondary issues and non-essentials. The treaty of peace which Mr. Trist made in Mexico was a considerable stretch of authority on his part, and yet it served the great purpose of putting an end to the war. And ©, open as it is to various objec.ions and suspicions of trickery, this Lecompton programme may be made the basis of peace in Kansas; and the ob- ject of the peacemakers should be to encourage a spirit of conciliation and an honest election upon the single great iseue of “slavery” or “ng slavery,” for all the rest is “leather and pru- nella.” But with the Northern nigger worshippers and the Southern nigger drivers the great ob- ject is not peace. It is excitement, agitation, sectional strife, and) a sectional organiza- | tion of parties. Kansas is their stock in trade, and they are not disposed to let it slip through their fingers if they can prevent it. Accordingly, while these Lecompton constitution finkers have been framing a programme calculated to excite the wrath of the free State party, the nigger worshipping politicians and journals of that party have seized upon the bait as a godsend Montag on that evening that on the evening of the murder he had, when standing on the opposite side of the street, seen men sitting in Mr. Vincent's sa- loon, between 9 and 10 o'clock, whom he could iden- tify a hundred years hence. The jury deemed the statement of the boy contradictory, or, at all events, important, and upon their request he was arrested, The Coroner said he would admit him to bail in the sum of of $3,000. The private watchman, Cohen, was also arrested at the request of the jury. Michael Cancemi, convicted of the murder of Eugene Anderson, was not sentenced yesterday, a4 was expected. As sentence of death can only be passed at the general term, Judge Davies, before whom Cancemi was tried in the Circuit Court, said he would sentence him on Monday, the 30th inst. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday, and re- solved # meet the counsel of the Liquor Dealers’ | Association on the 26th instant, to hear them in re- gard to the institution of suits against liquor dealers. In the Supreme Court yesterday counsel for Mayor sant Institute; but after waiting an hour, owing to the want of a quorum, the business of the committee was laid over until the next regular meeting. The European mails to the 7th inst., brought by the Niagara, reached this city from Boston yester- day morning. Our telegraphic advices from Halifax contained all the news having a political interest. We publish to-day interesting extracts from our files, showing the progress of the financial pressure both in England and on the Continent, with the t returns of the Bank of England, made up to the Slat of October and the 4th of November, according to the new rule. The telegraphic summary embraced the list of all the recent failures. From Glasgow it is announced that a meeting of influential merchants and mill owners had been held there, and a deputa- tion of six gentlemen appointed to proceed to Lon- don to wait upon government to urge the necessity of immediate measures for commercial relief. We also give a full report of the grounding of the steam- #hip Vanderbilt off Cowes on her last passage out- ward. We have news from San Domingo to the 22d nit. There had up to that date been no change in the attitude of the belligerent forces. Baez still held the capital against the besieging army of Santana, but it was impossible that the besieged could hold out much longer. Throughout the republic, except at the capital, the government of Santana was acknowledged. The captain of the American schooner Charles Hill had been sentenced to pay a fine of three thousand dollars and suffer imprison- ment for one year and two days for running into one of Baez's yeasels of war some time since, and dama ging ber to the trifling amount of one hundred dollars. The schooner had also been seized and used 4a man-of-war by Baez. Mr. Elliott, the American Consul, had been subjected to much annoyance in consequence of his opposition to the naturalization schemes of Segovia, the Spanish Consul. Crowds of people had been instigated to assemble before the ence of Mr. Elliott and insult himself and fomily. This conduct induced the French Admiral to interpose, and after much expostulation and a at of using force, Baez reluctantly gave orders th lispersed. sip Mack Warrior arrived from Havana to the 15th inst * had declined, with at Matanzas and Havana. Exchange on New res te mot with adv Sug ad fallen ork war w 4 premium. United States gold coin was at t er cent nifim. The Maretzek Opera tr h brilliant prospects We have South America dated at Bue of October. The y were dull. There was nothing dc tuenios Ayres The United States steam frigate Niagara, Captaitt Hudson, from Plymouth (fi and), arrived at this port yesterday morning—al! well. She left Plymouth on the Sth instant, thus making the passage in 14 4 bourse, She has had to contend against y westerly 4 nearly the whole voyage rt of General Sessions yesterday Jam York eglan, twenty years old, born in Ne and by occupation @ gas fitter, was arraigned for borglary in the first degree—he having brokea into the dwelling honse of Mr. H. Herold, 196 ave ve A,onthe Oth of July. The Adssistant District Attorney accepted a plea of guilty of the second de gree of that offence, and he was sent to the State won for nine yea six months. In passing wentence Jodge Russell observed that the papers wed a very clear case, and had Beglan been con- ted he ¢ have been sent to the State prison for life was another indictment found by the Crand Jory against bim for an assaalt with intent to Kill, The ¢ showed that when Mr. Herold heard Begian in the house he fired at him, and when the burglar got outside he deliberately fired at him in retorn, bat fortunately the contents of the revolver cid pot take effect. It is supposed that the two re tacked Dr. A. BM Frida £ , mM ald vidence } colvmn. Wood put in the answer of the latter to the com- plaint of James Horner with reference to the glass ballot-box business. Judge Davies assigned Saturday next as the time for the plaintiff to show cause why the injunction granted in the case should not be vacated as regards the Mayor. After twenty years of service Judge Ingraham is about to retire from the Court of Common Pleas, To mark their appreciation of the Judge's judiciay labors during this long period, the members of the bar of this city have asked permission to place his portrait in the court room, and the Judge has com- plied with their request. 5 A fire occurred last night, between 7 and 8 o'clock, in the premises of John Deraismes & Co., fancy goods dealers, No, 88 William street, destroying the whole of the stock, together with the upper stories, The stock of the adjoining buildings was damaged by water. The total loss is estimated at about $40,000. The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to small Jots at unchanged rates. The receipts of flour per canal | and river were confined to about 12,900 barrela, while stocks were light, which, combined with a good local and export demand, caused it to advance about five cents per barrel, with tolerably free salce. The receipta of wheat embraced 38,229 bushels. The demand continued good for both milling and export, while sales were moderate at firmer figures. No arrivals of corn were reported, while the market was quite firm, with limited sales of Western mixed at 80c. a Sle. from store, and at 82ig0. a Ro, , de- livered. Pork was sold to a moderate extent, at $19 37 @ $19 50 for mene, and at $17 for prime. Sugars on the week's sales showed @ decline of about ‘ec. per Ib. for refining and common grades, and fully Xe. on prime grocery grades. The stock was estimated at about 27,000 bhds., which was not much in excess of the usual amount at this se the year, the salps yesterday embraced about 800 his Cuba muscovados and Porto Ricos, with 2400 bags of Singapore, the latter for refining, on terms given in another Coffee was steady, while sales were limited. | gements were m: e,and rates without | change of moment, to Liverpe F Was engaged at 2s.; | 2s. 6d.; flour to London at 4, 6d by steamer to Liverpool tierce be The New K Diticu Democratic Organs Off the Track. We have shown from the present alarming | condition of things in Kaneas that the exulta- | tions of the Washington Union over the | colution of this Territorial imbroglio are pren ture, delusive and absurd. But while the Un is crying “peace, peace, when there is no peace,” Freight rosin there are other democratic organs that are pur- | suing a course which must operate to defeat the | ends of peace. Prominent among this class is Col. Forney’s Philadelphia Press. In a late ar- ticle on the doings of the Lecompton Constita- nal Convention, that paper substantially de- res that, in defiance of the law, the President's promis pledges, and democratic principles, | sas organic » Gov, Walker's “the Con- vention has refused to submit ite work fairly to and that “there is no honest submission of the new constitution to the f the people,” inasmuch as the only jon submitted is the detached issue of the citizens of Kansas,” slavery “no slavery. In the same key the Chicago Tinws, t We has One he home think it the is organ of Senator Douglas, says to very little what action of the Convention certain—the constitution has not been sub mitted to the people, and that constitution ia not worth the paper it disfigures, It has no vitality now; yet it has as much as it will ever have;” and 80 on to the end of the chapter. These opinions are strongly sustained by the warlike proclamation of the free State Kansas Executive Committee, which we publish this morning. And yet we believe that in a com wf the sebject, Col, Forny amounts been thing Eee for renewed agitation and sectional excitement. Thus, too, the Philadelphia Press and the Chica- go Times, instead of pouring oil upon the troubled waters, are playing into the hands of the black republican agitators and weakening the hands of the administration. In his Silliman letter Mr. Buchanan fully recognises the validity. of the Lecompton Con- vention, and concedes to it a large discretionary power in the work of a State organization. Has Colonel Forney forgotten this, and has Judge Douglas discovered “the errgr of his ways” and resolved to take the back track? We expect to know very shortly after the read- ing of the President's Message to the two houses of Congress. We perceive, from a late speech of Jefferson Davis in Mississippi, that “should Kansas be denied admission because of a pro-slavery constitution,” the direct issue of secession will be presented, and that “he, for one, will be in favor of stern resistance.”’ Thisis the card of the Southern nigger drivers—the old scarecrow of secession; but in this instance it means secession, right or wrong, from the ad- ministration camp. Between these Southern nigger drivers and the Northern nigger wor- shippers stands the President; but, unfortunate- | ly, in the very crisis of the battle the Northern conservative democratic press abandon him, and thus encourage the anti-slavery politicians of Kansas in their threats of an armed rebellion. From any point of view the affairs of Kansas now present themselves in a truly alarming shape. The free State party will probably havo nothing to do with this Lecompton constitution; it will thus, perhaps, go up to Congress with the one-sided vote of the pro-slavery party, while the Topeka form of government, in a se- parate parcel, bearing the ratification of the free State party, will, perhaps, meet the Le- comptonites at the threshhold. In this event the only safe alternative will be to send both par- ties back to Kansas for a new trial before the people. As matters now stand we can hope for nothing better. We hope there may be nothing worse, Tie Anpaxy Parers axp tue New York Banas.—We notice among the papers of Boston and Albany a perpetual whining about the New York banks, and a desire to make them the scapegoats of the late revulsion. Whatever part the banks of this city may have had in pre- cipitating the crisis by expanding when they ought to have contracted, and contracting when they might have expanded, it i¢ well to give | every one—even a bank director—his due; and | the truth should be told about these paltry country papers, The Boston papers are evidently stirred up hy their old village jealousy of the metropolis ; they remember too, perhaps, with some mortifi- cation the sarcastic hit at “all the specie in Maseacuretts,”’ contained in Mr. Stevens’ other- wire silly letter to Nathan Appleton. But the Albany papers have a much better reason for their in reference to the honks. These attacks must be regarded asa species of warwhoops hy which the Mohawks of the Albany lobby notify the banks that they intend to bleed them this winter. It is the pre- vailing opinion among the lobby members at Albany thet the New York city banks will want some special legislation for their benefit course | this winter ; and these lobby vultures, who sel- dom get #0 fat a fowl asa bank to pluck, have resolved to make a good meal off them. The seurrillons paragraphs which appear in the Albany Argus, and the other Albany papers— all of which are mere organs of the lobby, without difference or choice worth mentioning, among them—are the premonitory signals of the swoop of the hawks. We shall see whether the banks will pay up, resignedly, or hold out; the tone of the Albany papers will soon make that clear enough. Movements oF THE Fuinvstens—Whar's tv Tne Winn? —Among the passengers by the steam- chip Tennessee, which left New Orleans for Vera Craz on the 14th instant, we notice the names of Capt. Mansfield Lovell and Don Por- firio Valiente. Capt. L. was a distinguished officer in the American army during the war in Mexico, and resigned his commission for the purpose of acting as confidential agent for Gen. Qeitinan ja preparing the great expeditiva againat Cuba three years since. Senor Valiente was Secretary of the Cuban Junta in this city at the same period, and arrived quite recently from Paris. We learn that about the time of his arrival here Capt. G. W. Smith, formerly Professor of Engineering at West Point, and who also resigned his commission in the army, where he had a high reputation, to take part in Quitman’s expedition, returned quite suddenly from the West, and that eoon after his arrival here Messrs, Lovell and Valiente left for Mexi- co. It is probable that these gentlemen had a conference with Gen. Quitman, who is in the South, before leaving for Vera Cruz. What has stirred up the old Cuban Junta and their ullies so suddenly? Is the descent upon Cuba from Mexico already underway? ‘The Financial News from England. ‘The financial news from England, details of which reavhed the city in the Niagara’s mails yesterday morning, adds little to what we knew previously. A portion of the commercial com- munity, with a few journals, were actively pressing on the government the necessity of re- laxing the provisions of the Bank act, so as, in fact, to remove all restrictions on the issue of Bank of England notes; these were opposed by other authorities who, through their organ the London 7'imes, took the ground that so long as the public retained fortitude and common sense, the bank could protect itself by progressive changes in the rate of interest, while doing its duty to the nation by discounting all eligible paper at that rate. Pending the controvery a few of the large houses connected with Ameri- can trade had gone hy the board, while others were known to he grievously straitened. As was to be expected, general business was great- ly embarrassed by the high price of money, and the absence of private accommodation from capitalists, who, as they did here, had with- drawn almost entirely from the money lending market, OF Course, in no point of view can this news be regarded as cheerful. —_ It is without mitiga- tion unfavorable. But, for all this, it is doubt- ful whether it can have an injurious effect on our’people here. Our position is so very singu- lar and abnormal, indeed, that one can hardly conceive anything which could operate serious- | ly to our injury at present. Certainly, it can- not be asserted that failures of British houses would react upon us fatally. For our trouble has been gone through. Onr merchants have broken, our banks have sus- pended, our rotten railways have gone to the wall: Disaster can find no field for employment among us. And since the worst took place, we have been steadily improving. Our banks have been gaining specie so rapidly that they hold more gold now than they ever did, and have just, to all practical intents and purposes, re- sumed specie payments. Those among our broken merchants who were really solid have obtained extensions or are doing so, and are going on; the utterly rotten ones have been weeded out of the circle, and their places taken by new men. Even many of the railways have picked up, and promise really to prove good property. There never was a time when the prospect of » general inflation seemed more promising. All the rotten parts of our commercial frame have been cut out; all the solid parts remain. Our debt to the foreign world isin a fair way of being wiped out by the insolvency of the in- dividual debtors; but while the British and French manufacturer must lose part and may lose all pf his claim, the goods will remain here, The stockholders in the broken down railways have suffered, and are by this time re- signed to their loss; but the railways none the less remain to us, engines of commerce and progress, And, to add to all, while our pre- sent liabilities are being vastly reduced by in- | solvency and our future ones curtailed by the tendency to contraction and liquidation now universal in the business world, our resources have not been in the least impaired, our crops | Were never more abundant, nor the demand for them abroad more generally satisfactory. The general deduction from these premises is that whatever news may come from Europe during the next few weeks, the tendency of things here must be toward inflation. And con- sidering the point from which we start, and the probable contingencies that may befall us, it seems not unlikely but that such inflation may be carried to a point unprecedented even before the panic. Of course it will be followed by a reaction, not less severe than the inflation will have been sudden and extensive. But when that reaction may come, or how long the inflation may last, no man can tell. If we keep all our own riches, throw overboard our rotten companies and commercial firms, and don’t pay our debts, the inflation may last » very long time indeed. City Intelligence. ‘Tun Finer ov Wixten.—According to the almanac win ter should not visit this latitude for ten daya to come, but @* usual he has been a little abead Of time. ‘Daring Thursday night the thermometer fell suddenly to 30 degrees, while a cold wind from the northwest prevailed; yesterday the mercury stood at 24 degrees, and Inst night it was lower stil. Although every one wae expecting cold, weather, t, as usual, took ail by surprise. Overcoats, haw i¢ and all m: At @ premium, and the clothing stores did at least one good day's bukineas, their customers being mostly those parties whioare ¢ither too indolent or too poor to provide themselves with clothing early in the season. Winter is usually | hailed in this city with delight. It is the beginning of the gay season, when balls, parties and routes are diversified by sleighing frolies and other winter sports. but this year it opens under very different auspices. Many of those who bad money are comparatively poor and are compelled by a tern necessity to economise, while (he great bulk of the producing classes find themselves on tue verge of the ter’ season, without work and without their famil balls «of the necessaries of iy. Tet neelves as far ax git beart and wear n afford. and Jast two winters li’ The y severe, May we not reasonably coming season will be mild? Let us hope so, for the sake of the poor. ' 7 and 8 o'clock last night a fire broke out in the five story brick Duilding known as No, 8% William stroet, occupied on the upper floors by Jobn Deraiemes & Co., importers of fancy good. The first floor was cecupied by Mallory & But terfield, paper dealers. The first alarm was given by the Post Office bell, and the City Hall followed, whieh soon brought 4 large attendance of firemen. ft was on the rapid progress, towether with explosions— posed, by Sreworks or percussion cape firemen from eheeking it until it reached the r whole of the upper stories are entirely destro: the stock of po hasement will Lona said to be covered by insurance No. 86 William street, orenpied on the first tloor by Mr. James 8. Maxw upper stories by k and on the firet floor and f, importers of fancy goods— their stock is demney by water, Probably Mr. Max well's stock will be waged to the amount of $1,000 or $1,500; fully covered by insurance, Kellor & Ling’s lows may be estimated at about the same amount. Keller & Ling have an insurance on stock of $81,000, divided in the Metropolitan, Harmony, National, North American, Colum Dia, Hope, Excelsior and North Western Insuranee Com- panics. The loss of Mr. Deraismes is said to be about 20,000. and is fully covered by insurance—the compa nies could not be ascertained: “The building = damaged to the amount of about $4090, Building No. 86 is also demared tothe amount of 8250. The origin of the fire is ot present unknown A Freewix Rex Ov asp fevenen.=tn going to the hove fire, George Tencyck, a member of Fngine No. 13, " eu Kooekel down and pan aver, nyaring au de Rie Ae well gcd asthe by lass seegtiden second floor where the fire was first discovered, and its | damaged by water. | alo druggists, and the four | ner of comfort giving garments were | EW yORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1857. THE LATEST NEWS. Selcotion of a Site for a Post Office in New York. Wassmotow, Nov. 20, 1867. ‘The New York Common Coancil Committee called on the gostmaster General to-day in reference to xing the site for the Now York Post Office. ‘The Postmaster General acceded to their proposition in the location of the site, Instead of locating it on Chambers street the site is to be at the point below Park place, run- ning through to Park row. ‘Tho Postmaster General referred the matter to the Pre- sident to-day, and the committee are to have an answer to-morrow. There is no doubt but that the President will confirm the selection. In from Washington. ‘THE MORMON WAR—RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PRA- SIDENT—LIST OF OFFICERS IN THE UTAH BXPEDI- TION—PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN JEWS IN SWIT- ZERLAND—CLUE TO THE POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN MEXICO—COMONFORT SAID TO BE NEGOTIATING WITH SANTA ANNA FOR THE RETURN OF THB EX- DICTATOR—THR CENTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION, BTO., ETC. Wasnrnoton, Noy. 20, 1857. ‘The administration are considering the Mormon rebel- lion and the steps to be taken with regard to it It is pro- posed to capture some two thousand Saints now iocated in California, as well as Dr. Bernheisel, Brigham Young's delegate to Congress, and hold them as hostages until it ig ascertained what the Prophet designs doing. General Cass seems to think this cannot be done under the cnsti tution, but the President thinks differently. A state of rebellion, he says, actually exists, and martial law must prevail. Isend you a correct list of the offlcers composing the Utah expedition: — LIST OF OFFICERS WITH THR ARMY FOR UTAH. Col. A. 8. Johnston, 2d Cavalry, Commanding. Major Fitzjobn Porter, Assistant Adjutant General. Captain J. H. Dickerson, Assistant Quartermaster. Captain H. F. Clarke, Commissary of Subsistence. Dr. Madison Mills, St Dr. A. T. Ridgoly, Aasistant Surgeon. Dr. J. Moore, Assistant ree Dr. J. C. Bailey, Acting Assistant Surgeon. Dr. R. Barthelow, Assistant Surgeon. Dr. F. J. Bailey, Assistant Surgeon. Major T. E. Hunt, Paymaster. ARTILLERY. Captain J. W. Phelps, 4th Artillery, Commanding Light Fivtd Battery. Lieut. R. ¥. W. Howard, Fourth Artillery. Lieut. G. Tallmadge, Fourth Artillery Lieut. J. A. Kensel, Fourth Artillery Corps, Commanding in J. 1 Reno, Ordinance tery. DRAGON (ricer coupantes.) Jiout. Col. P. St. George Cooke, Commanding Regiment. Major M. & Howe. Lieut. J. Pegram, Adjutant. Lieut. J. Buford, Regimental Quartermaster. Major H. H. Sible; Capt. J. M. Haw: Lieutenant W. D. Smith Lieutanant C. H. Tyler. Lieutenant J. P. Holliday. Lieutenant T. Hi Si Lieutenant J. B. Lieutenant G. A. Gor Lieutenant J. Mullins. Lieutenant F. C. Armstrong. Lieutenant H. B. Livington. Licutenant J. . Lieutenant E. Gay. Lieutenant Jackson. Lieutenant Ferguson. FIVTH INVANTRY. Lieutenant Colonel C. A. Waite, Commanding. Lieutenant A. Chambers, Adjutant. Lieutenant W. Captain Lieutenant 8. Archer. Lieutenant W. H. Lewis. Lieutevant H.C. Bankhead. Lieutenant . J. Lynde. Lieutenant A. T. A. Torbert. Lieutenant R. C. Hill. Lieutenant J. F. Ritter. Lieutenant H. B Bristol. Lieutenant A. W. Shipley. Licutenant L. J. Rich. TENTH INPANTRY. Colonel F. B. Alexander, commanding. Lieutenant Colonel C. F. Smith, Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel BE. R. 8. Canby. Lieutenant H. FE. Maynadier, Adjutant. Lieutenant P. T. Swaine, Regimental Quartermaster. Captain F. Gardner, Captain A. Tracy. Captain J. A. Gore. Captain J. Dunovant. J. L. Tidball and Captain B. E. Bee. Lieutenant C. Grover. Lieutenant W. Clinton. Lieutenant N. A. M. Dudley. Lientenant J. H. Forney, Lieutenant L. A. Williams. Licutenant J. Deshler. Lieutenant W. Kearney. Lieutenant J. H. Hill. Lieutenant C. EF. Bennett. Lieutenant J. L. Thompson. Lieutenant F. 8. Armistead. paternend 7 iM — deutensnt A. 8. Cun: ma. Lieutenant H. B ce Lieutenant J. McNab. Lieutenant A. Murry. Lieutenant T. J. Lee. There are four a the army, viz. = . Governor . Mrs. Colonel = Mrs. Lieutenant Tyler. Mrs. Lieutenant Burns. Mr. Buchanan was waited on today by a number of Israelites, and he requested Captain Jonas P. Levy to fur- nish him with the localities in Switzerland where Amori- can citizens of the Jewish persuasion had been deprived of their religious privileges, as he had the documents all ready for transmission to remedy the evil. Private letters received here from Mexico afford a sort of clue to the political movements at prosent agitating that republic. Of onw thing these letters assure us, and that is, that Comonfort will not be able to sustain himself. Only the men in office are paid, whilst all other claims ppon the administration are allowed to go unsatisfied. A state of things like this cannot long continue. There were some hopes that Comonfort would succeed in making a treaty with Mr. Forsyth, by which the trea- sury of the United States would aid Mexico; but, undor ex- isting circumstances, the arrangement is not likely to be made, and the Congress, you will perceive, while giving extraordinary powers to Comonfort, withhold sanction to the aliewation of Mexican territory. Left alone, Mexico must necessarily fall into the hands of the United States. The conclusion is a self-evident one. There has been frequent allusion from time to time to the feturn of General Santa Anna, but that disinterested and incorruptible patriot will not como to the aid of his country again unless strongly invited. The letters to which I refer do not hesitate to insinuate that General Cortez, detained at the national capital, is actually nego- tinting with Comonfort terms for the return of General Santa Anna to Mexico, and his own rendition of the ofice of President into the hands of the constituted authorities ‘The new constitution being abrogated by tho act of Comgress, which cancels its guaran the elec: tion of Comonfort ix, according to the letters, nul Nifled, i @ new election of President will bo had: and, with the friendly sanction of Comonfort, Santa Anna, it Is said, will become a prominent candidate for the peaceable settlomerit of all the calamitice which at present a Mict that unfortunate country. I learn from Capt. Meigs that the new hall would be in readiness at the opening of Congress. But 1 understand that jt is the intention of the Clerk of the House to organize in the old hall, and that accordingly it has been fitted up and is now ready for occupancy. It is alleged that the new ball will be too damp, add that it would be very im proccnt on the part of the members to oceupy tt until it ts thoroughly dry and all the dampness has disappeared, Hability is that it will not be used before spring, as pining rooms, the clerk's office, post office, &c., | which are necessary, are entirely unfinished 9 Witttam Srrmer—Low anerr $40,000. Between | be Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley called upon the Secretary of State He expresses himself as hgbly pleased with his on. He is of opinion that the pending questions n the two governments relative to affairs in Central His to day recep botwe Amorica willbe adjusted amicably and satisfactorily. instriy tions will probably arrive inthe next steamer. W. W. Pierce has been appointed naval storekeeper at Boston Navy Yard, view Wilde, resig: Collector Schell arrived here this evening, and is stop | ping at Willard’s The Treasury receipts for the past week amounted to five hundred and seventy «even thousand dollars, In Naval Court No. 1 today Lieut, Noland’s case was resumed, Mr. Forbes, of Maryland, was examined, and the deposition of Commander Tilton read in his bebalf, In the second Court Commander Gerlney's case was taken up, and depositions of Commander Tilton and Surgeon Terrell were read in his behalf; Commander Page testified on be- half of the government, In the Third Court Commodores Lavallette and Mervine testified on behalf of government in Capt. Levy THE ORNERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasnivetos, Nov. 20, 1857. According to the present intention ex-President Lamar, of Toxas, will be appointed Minister to Nicaragua. The Maire of Utah ovcupy the attention of the adminia wn has vet heen taken in view A sate DOLLY State of the Weather, TERRIBLE SNOW STORMS ON THK LAKHS, The following telegraphic despatch was received yem terday by Elwood Waiter, Eaq:— CuRveELAND, Nov. 20, 1867, A terrible snow rtorm prevailed along the whole chade of lakes yest rday and to-day. The propeller Jorsey City, bound down with a cargo of beef and flour, streck going into Dunkirk. She got off safely with four feet of water in her bold. THE WEATHER AT NEWFOUNDLAND, St. Jonxs, N. F., Nov. 20, 185%. Since yesterday afternoon the weather here and off Cape Race has been quite mild and calm, but foggy along the coast. FROST AT AUGUSTA. Avavsta, Ga., Nov. 20, 1867. We have been visited with a killing frost hore, and it is believed to have generally extended to other parts of the State. Ice has formod hero from half an inch to am inch in thiclfhees. THE OHIO RIVER—SNOW AT CENNOINATI. Crvcinwani, Nov. 20, 1867. ‘There is fifteen fect of wator in tho channol of the river at tbis point, and it is falling. Weather to-day has been cloudy and we have had a light snow storm. The mercury this evening is standing at 17 deg. above zero. CLOSING OF NAVIGATION ON THR MISSISSIPPL. Cmicaco, Nov. 20, 1857. ‘The Mississippi river is full of ice, and navigation aerth: of Dubuque is now closed for the scason. Detention of Railroad Trains. Bosrox, Nov. 20, 1867. ‘The railroad train for New York via Fall River got off the track at Bridgewater last night, causing a detention of five hours. The train was not much damaged. ‘The Stonington and Norwich trains reached Boston. tha morning about 6 o'clock. The Full River train arrived here at 7. ‘The Collision between the Steamers Galveston and Opelousas, New Onrxans, Nov. 20, 1857. ‘There was a meeting hero last night of the passongers of the steamers Galveston and Opelousas. Resolutions were passed strongly condemning the lack of discipline om both boata, which was asserted was the cause of the un- pardonable accident. Steam Boller Explosion at Montreal, ONE MAN KILLED AND RIGHT INJURRD Mowrrrat, Nov. 20, 1867. Asteam boiler in Paige's foundry at Griffentown, ox. ploded this afternoon, killing ne man and severely in- juring eight others. The building was blown into ruins. Shocking Steamboat Accident. FIVE PERSONS KILLED AND FIFTEEN INJURED. Sr. Loum, Nov. 20, 1857, Tho steamboat Cataract burst hor boiler at Lisbon, om the Missouri river, on the 17th, killing flye persons and scalding fifteen others. Among the killed is Williaua Bruce, of Hartford. News from Rio Janeiro. Baxrimorg, Nov. 20, 1867. The bark Antelope, from Rio Janeiro on the 17th Octe- ber, arrived here last evening. Sho loft tho Grey Eagle for Philadolphia, and the Juniper for New York, loading at Rio. The bark Margaret Ridley sailed on the 13th Oc- tober from Rio for New York. Coffee was scarce, and the receipts light and mostly olf and of an inferior quality. Holders were firm, making moderate sales at B}200 to 54250 for inferior, and 54350 0 5450 for better lots. Higher prices weré anticipated. ‘hmond flour 225500 to 23}500. The stock of sugar waa 500 cases white, selling at 44800 to 5], and 200 cases brown at 44400 to 44300. ‘The Canada at Halifax. ‘The royal mail steamship caneda ts th |, arrived hore this morning at ten o'clock. Re Oy than usual in steaming down from Boston. ‘The Steamer Henry B. Beach on Fire. Bartoworn, The steamer B. Beach, of Cromwoil’s line, caught fire in the fire room last night and narrowly ee- caped destruction. The firemen extinguished tho fre, steamer was damaged to the extent of $10,000 o¢ $15,000 and her machinery considerably injured. Damage to Ship John Howell. Arrived here to-day ship John Howell, Appleby” froua ve y ship well, Bristol, England, with a cargo of railway oc tone lost her topmast, spars, Sentence of a Murderer. Sr. Jouns, N. F., Nov. 20, 1857. Slavin, Jr., implicated in the murder ‘of the McKenzie — was to-day sentenced to be hung on the 4th of March next; but the sentence will probably be commuted ‘0 imprisonment for life. Hoston. Bostow, Nov. 20, 1857. The public reception of Neal Dow last evening filled Tremont Temple, and hundreds were unable to get in ‘The audience was mainly composed of ladies and Sons of Temperance in regalia. The addresses wero made by Hon. Henry Wilson, Rev. Mr. McCurdy, Neal Dow, and ——_—_—_—_ Condition of the Rhode Island Banka, he not mae pot nome —"s 20, 1857. © following 10 statement ot Rhode banks, not including this city, to ber I = wee ‘Circulation 68,920 8,043 996 130,008 Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pintapenema, Nov. 20, 1867. Stocks dull. Pennsylvania 6’, 8554; Reading Railroad, 23% ; Morris Canal, 60; Long Island Railroad, 10; Pennayl- vauia Railroad, 39. New Onteans, Nov. 20, 1857. Cotton.—Prices have advanced 4c. The sales to-day add up 4,000 bales,at 1140. a 126. for middling. Sales of the week, 46,600 bales. Stock, 159,000 bales. Receipts at this Tyo up to the it time, as compared with those of last year, fall short 166,500 bales; ditto at all Southern ports, 312,600, r dull at 4\¢. @ 5c. Mo- laskes, 23450, ‘Flour dull at $6 60. Mess pork, $15. Ster- ling exchange, 103. Exchange on New York, 99 a 99%. Crnersnati, Nov. 20, 1857. Hogs.—Sales at $5 60 a $6 60; receipts light ‘and de- mand limited. Bervato, Nov. 20—6 P, M. Flour favors bayers; sajes 1,000 bbls. at $450 a $47 for superfine upper lake and Ohio, and $487 a $6 12 for extra do, and Indiana. Wheat firmer; sales 50,000 bush. at 77 Je. @ 78c. for Chicago spring, and 0c. for Milwaukie club.” Corn firmer, and nominal at 4c. & Gbc. Oats no- minal at 4c. a 3éc. Whiskey firm at 20c. Freights quiet. Nothing shipping through. Owing to the awful snow storm and gale to-day no vessels have arrived. Osweao, Nov. 20, 1867, Flour is steady. Wheat is dull and unchanged; sales to-day 3,000 bushels Chicago «pring at 8c. Corn is quiet. Freights—Flour 38, and wheat 13 sc. to New York; flour ‘86c. to Albany and Troy, by railroad. Lake importa to- day—28,000 bushels wheat. Canal exports to-day—23,000 bbls. flour and 45,000 bushels wheat. —__. ‘The Opera at the Academy —C! of the Came paign—Proposals for a New Season. The Opera season closed last evening with tho porform- ance of the “ Sonnambula,” which was admirably sung by La Grange, Labocetta and Gassier. ‘The cause of this suspension of operations at the Aca- demy was fully detailed in the Hexato of yosterday and Tharsday. The managers found themselves obliged to reduce the expenses or close the house, They did not desire to discharge any of their employés—the company being quite perfect in every reapect. They therefore pro- posed to carry on the Opera for two months longer, pro- vided artiste and members of the orchestra would: t to a reduction of their salaries, This reduction Was offered by Mme. de la Grange, whore devotion to the Recently sha has sung five times in one week, even when laboring under evere indisposition. Mmo. D’Angrt has evinced the same spirit. The other artists, Gassier, Labocetta and others will undoubtedly do everything that is agg oo and right in the matter, If terms are made, the house may be re opened in a week or ten days, when some grand operag will be brought forward. 1b f difliculty at the Opera ie, however, with the nd orcheetra—the members of both departments ed, their serv ‘The orchestra, thanks to the pers, and rarely be cone public and her managers is praiseworthy ypowe a reduction of er, in such times shontd not ta a little less, rather th of them have a little money or give ing themselves independent of the Opera, ind are really dependent to refuse to assent to the reduction. But these men will give nothing to assist their poorer comrades if they are brought to want. We are quite con- fident that the chorns and orchestra, after duo doliberas tion, will see that their best course is to accept the ve liberal propositions of the management, which will give th iployment at the worst season of the year, Thete ac we hw also secure employment for more than one hundred other persons employed in vari ew at the Acaiemy : ro peat pane Tn common with the musical public we mach rey cloning of the Academy , juat pis the eve of me Sonne Formes, the finest basso that has over appeared in the United States, He has hoon in a crisis before a Londew where, rather than that the Opera ehould stop, hesang and gave bi foes as stage director gratuitously. He hag come among us to do something if he can for art, and will ho doubt make some sacrifices for the attainmont of hie chiect, | The com pany how at the Academy is too good to ye disbanded, and there are 0 tiatio, and otherwise. ok teneeen’ a i but tise present, they: why it should not be separated, ° W, quite confident that the artiste end employee ‘wil make terms with the management, and the w ite Wert to make the next geneon otticely « # Leopouw

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