The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1857. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPBIBTOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 8TS. pee HE DAILY HERALD, too ), ST per annum. OFS ain 6 Sang pate etn ope Fs HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per PPL UAELAT CnnrsroxDENOR, emeiniy tnpertent Pally patd for. sore FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ane Par- eS Requrstep ro Saat ai. Lerrezs ann Packages mT US. ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every A verted im the Waexty Hanae, Famiry Dah/o-nia and Bwropean Edstions én- and in the AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. GBROADWAY BHEATRE, Broad: Patter v8, CLATTER—WAnDERing NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Gopsxsxi—Conps Tsx- Due—Pantomime OF Boreas. — BOWERY THEATRE, Nastio Paats—MOnKEY OF BURTON'S MHIRATRE, Broad Panis axp LONDON—BuRTON's NEW WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Bacutiosg or Ants —Tus (xvumis HussaxD. —Bacmaror or Ants LNSTREL. Bowery—Equestaian anp Gru Mapnip. A oatte Bond street— ‘onK Directory. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tug Sea oF Tos, on 4 Moturn's Paaren. NAGLE’S JUVENILE COMEDIANS, 444 Broadway—At. Pures Maio—Day Arres tae Fain—Sinaine, Dancing, ac. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, noon—Lvox’s IN 4 NaME—Famiy JARs. Countar’s Suxews. ‘WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 563 Broadway.—Grorce Caxuwrr & Woov's Minstaxnis—Docs ix tux Doe Dars. MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Brvant's MinsTREia —Etpiorian SonGs—OoLorey Picture GalieRy, 4c. Broadway—After- Evening, Our NATIONAL CIRCUS, 84 Bowery—Kquxsraian Frats— Gymnastic EXERCISES, &0. EMPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway—ParntinGs ILLUSTRATIVE or tue kaye E: TION, £0. ~~ New York, Sunday, November 22, 1857. ‘The News, The United States mail steamship Adriatic was unavoidably detained yesterday, but it is announced that she will sail for Liverpool at seven o'clock this morning. Horrors continue to accumulate. Scarcely is the ink dry that records one bloody deed before intelli- gence of another more appalling than the first bursts uponus. The tragedies of the past week were yes- terday morning brought to a fearful climax by the perpetration of a double murder and the suicide of the wretched homicide. The events to which we re- fer occurred at the village of Port Jefferson, Long Island. The circumstances are detailed elsewhere fn our columns. It appears that Mr. Waters, a resi- dent of Port Jefferson, entered his dwelling, where his wife, her daughter, and her daughter's husband, Mr. Sturdevant, were partaking of breakfast. Armed ‘with a heavy bar of iron, Waters attacked the party, Killing his wife and Mr. Sturdevant almost instantly, ‘and wounding Mrs. Sturdevant so seriously as to ren- der her recovery very doubtful. Having accomplish- ed this horrid deed, Waters proceeded to his barn and hanged himself. No reasonable cause can be conjectured for Waters’ conduct, save that he was laboring under a fit of insanity. Mrs. Waters was formerly the wife of Mr. Darling, a shipbuilder of re- pute at Port Jefferson. The investigation of the murder in Water street on Thursday morning was continued by Coroner Connery yesterday. One of the assassins, named Francis Vardel, has been recognized by a witness. He was arrested on the previous night lounging about the neighborhood, was identified by the sailor, Arnold James, as the smaller of the two Spaniards who were in the house on the night of the murder, and asthe man wo stabbed both him and the de. ceasedgMcManus. He was committed by the Coro- ner at the sugge@on of the jury. The keeper of the dance house and the female occupants, though they all declare that he is acompanion of the murderers, say he is not one of them. They are, naturally enough, unwilling to provoke the vengeance of this desperate gang by telling all they know about the matter. The prisoner is one of the Spaniards who arrived here on the Spanish bark Emilie on the 23d of September, from Havana, and served as a marine in the Spanish navy. ‘The inquest in the case of the William street as- sassination was continued yesterday before Coroner Connery. Several witnesses corroborated the state- ment of Mr. Montag that Joseph Ceragolia had been heard to say that he could recognise the murderers. Mr. Hilton and private watchman Cohen were ex- amined at some length, but nothing of consequence was elicited. Ceragolia and Cohen were admitted to bail. A third prisoner was arrested on suspicion, but none of the witnesses could identify him as having been in the saloon. The prisoners De Lorenzo and White were detained in custody, the jury preferring that they should not be admitted to bail. ‘The inquedt in the case of Henry T. Hamilton, the young man who was killed in the oyster and drink- ing saloon No. 388 Canal street a few nights ago, was concluded yesterday by Coroner Hills. The evidence against the prisoner, John Moroney, was conclusive, and the jury rendered a verdict accordingly. The prisoner, on his examination, said that he acted in self-defence. He was committed to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury. The proceedings of the Court of General Sessions yesterday were important. James Rodgers, con- victed of the murder of John Swanston, in Tenth avenue, was sentenced to be executed on the 15th of January. The prisoner did not appear to be much affected by the awful sentence which Judge Russell pronounced upon him. MoGibney and Cunningham, the youths who were with Rodgers when he etab- bed Mr. Swanston, and who were detained as wit- nesses, were discharged. John B. Holmes, convicted of forgery in the first degree, was sent to the State prison for fifteen years and six months. Owen Kiernan, convicted of manslaughter in the fourth degree, was sent to the penitentiary for one year. ‘The four youths who have been indicted for the @mo- cious murder of Teresa Spitzlen, in Greenwich street, were arraigned and plead not guilty. The Grand Jury made a presentment, in which they re- commend the appointment of an increased police jorce to protect our citizens from the midnight as- fassin. They condemn the practice of carrying concealed weapons, and give the result of their visit to the various institutions, Donnelly, the murderer of Moses, at the Sea View House last summer, has been refused a new trial by the New Jersey « sand he will therefore suffer the extreme penalty of the law on the 8th of Janu- ary, in accordance with the sentence passed apon him From the report of the City Inspector it appears that there were $20 deaths in the city last week—a decrease of 62 as compared with the mortality of the week previous. The following table exhibits the number of deaths during the last two weeks amoug adults and children, distinguishing the sexes :— Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total ‘Wook ending Nov. 14 % 63) 1m 103 oad ‘Week ending Nov. 21.......73 G6 104 87 ga9 Among the principal causes of death were the fol- Jowing :— = Work ending Now 4 Now. 21 61 6) Consumption Conwninone (infantile) Po Jnfiammation of the lungs 16 Tofiammation of brain LJ Bearlet fever... . 10 Marasmus (infantile) 16 Dropay in the bead 15 Momalon ‘a 4 Croup Ms 10 Bronenitia., 7 There were also 4 deaths of apoplexy, 9 of conges- tion of the brain, 10 of debility (infantile), 10 of Cinarbon, 7 of dysentery, 7 of inflammation of the bowels, 6 of hooping cough, 3 of smallpox, 4 of pal- fy, 26 stillborn, and 10 of violent causes. Not @ case of prematare birth is recorded in the report—e very @nusual circumstance, Tue following is & classification of thé digonses and | the number of deaths in each class of disease during the week:— Now. 14. Nov. 20. 4 3 7 3 6 wl 1 28 ire bi \ Stomach, Bena her eg 55 Uncertain seat and general fe 2 Unknown,,.. 1 Urinary organs. & Total... rercccessoeeee 320 ‘The number of deaths, compared with the corres- ponding weeks in 1855 and 1856, was as follows :— Wook ending Nov. 24, 1855... Week ending Nov. 22, 1856 Week ending Nov. 14, 1857 Week ending Nov. 21, 1857.. x The nativity tables gives 227 natives of the United States, 55 of Ireland, 20 of Germany, 7 of England, 4of France, 2 of Scotland, 2of Italy,1 each of British America and the West Indies, and 1 unknown. The politicians are busily at work perfecting their arrangements for the coming municipal election. A list of the candidates already nominated is published in another column. An adjourned meeting of the People’s Union Convention was held at No. 18 Fourth avenue last evening—August F. Dow in the chair and Judge Lothrop officiating as Secretary. A series of resolutions endorsing the nomination of Daniel F. Tiemann for Mayor, was passed unani- mously; after which the Convention adjourned, to meet at the call of the Chairman. The American Mayoralty Convention met last evening, and after considerable debate adopted Mr. Tiemann as their candidate for Mayor. A meeting of the Republican General Committee was advertised to take place at Stuyvesant Institute last evening; but in consequence of the non-attendance of members, the Chairman adjourned the meeting until] Wednesday evening next. A meeting of the unemployed workingmen was called yesterday afternoon at Tompkins square, which turned out to be a failure. About one hundred and fifty assembled, and after shivering in a keen northwester for fifteen minutes, thought it best to go to their cheerless houses. With the exception of Mr. Maguire, who could not tell who called the meet- ing, none of the leaders were on hand. The Eagle Bank and Commercial Bank blocks at Rochester, were destroyed by fire yesterday morn- ing. Loss estimated at abont $150,000. A fire occurred in Commerce street, Mobile, on Friday, by which property to the amount of $150,000 was destroyed. The sales of cotton yesterday were quite limited, and prices depressed and unsettled. The stock continued to be very light. Owing to the high wind on the river, no tow was in, and the receipts of fiour were confined to about 11,400 bbis. There continued to be a good local and export demand for the article, and prices closed at an advance of 5 to 10 cents per barrel, especially on shipping brands. Sales were made to a fair extent. The [receipts of wheat embraced only 1,600 bushels, whilst the sales em- braced about 30,000 bushels, considerable portions of which embraced Western spring cargoes, at $1, with Milwaukie club at $1 08, and white Canadian at $1 25. No receipts of corn by canal and river were reported, while light sales of Western mixed were made at 80c. a 82c., from store and delivered. Pork was inactive, with mo- derate sales of mess at $19 37 a $19 50, and prime at $17. Beef was dull for country and repacked Western, while a considerable sale of Chicago prime mess was reported at $22 50. Sugars wore in fair demand at the recent decline, with sales of about 830 hhds. Cuba muscovados, part in bond for export and part for refining, and the. balance grocery goods, at pretty much within the range of the previous day’s quotations. In coffee the chief movement eonsisted of the sale of the cargo of the Sprite, embracing 2.750 bags of Rio,’on speculation and on private terms. Freight engagements to English ports were moderate and rates without change of moment; to Bremen, 200 hhds. sugar wore engaged at 268. and 200 tierces rice at 308.; to Rotterdam, 200 hhds. molasses, at $3<c. per gallon, and 1,000 barrels rosin at 3s. 6d. Rates to Havre wore with- out alteration. "The Municipal Contest—Degradation of Public Oratory. The political speakers and the political press have been latterly sinking deeper in degra- dation to an extraordinary degree; “liar,” “scoundrel,” “ruffian,” “villain,” and the vilest epithets are heaped by both presses and speak- ers upon each other: the Tribune, Times, Courier, Express, and other journals of this character, seem to have abandoned all pretensions to decency, and todream of nothing but frantic abuse. This habit has now descended to the public meetings, and to persons in respectable stations of life. At least such is the plain inference from the reports of the anti-Wood meeting held on Friday in Wall street. That was a meeting called by certain defeat- ed factions to ratify the nomination of a com- posite candidate for the Mayoralty in opposi- tion to the candidate of the democracy, Thera, was no necessity, on the face of the movement, that there should be any heat or excitement about it; much less that any of the parties con- cerned should be thé object of low or scurrilous abuse. Even had such cause existed, the site of the meeting and the character of the persons who were presumed to be in majority there ought to have been a guarantee that the busi- ness before it would have been conducted with common decency if not with gentlemanly de- corum. But what do the reports say? ‘The meeting is opened with an announcement that the government of New York consists of “despicable creatures in deague with thieves, burglars, pickpockets and assassins,” and the head of that government “a treacherous, coward- ly, and most unmitigated demagogue, capable of every conceivable enormity in the catalogue of crime.” Business further proceeded with allu- tions to ¥the villany which conspicuously pol- lutes and defiles” the city government; and one of the speakers dilated upon the “villain” al- luded to, meaning Mayor Wood, as “an ingrate, a traitor, a robber, a forger, a thief, and a scoundrel.” He went on to “thank God that we have a police that is not under the control of that ruffian;” and gracefully referred to the “hired bullies and ruffians who form the guard of Fernando Wood.” He called Wood “a bold, bad man,” “ the choice of thieves and ruffians,” “a man steeped in infamy,” anda “liar.” Ano- ther speaker knew of no worse company in the city in which to leave the Mayor than to leave him alone; and even the most moderate of the orators considered it proper to say that he had never known any one possessed of common sense who suspected Fernando Wood of honesty. The speakers who made use of these expres sions were not men living on the Five Points, or denizens of Water street; one of them was once State Senator, the other occupies a respon- sible and respectable position in the city magis- tracy. It was out of these mouthe that the ex- pressions we have quoted came, And under whose auspices was this meeting held, and this scurrilous abuse uttered? The President of the meeting, after Mr. Cooley left the chair, was Peter Cooper; and among the list of vice presidents we see the names of Wm. F. Have- meyer, Stophen Whitney, Robert B. Minturn, A. OKingsland, Henry Grinnell, Thomas Tiles ton, &., &e. Do these gentlemen know that their names have been used to screen such coarse and bratal abuse of the chief magistrate of the city? Are they content that such degra dation of face speech shall be justified by their seeming sanction? Surely they must have been unaware of the liberty that has been taken with their names, and will hasten to my that the: are not partios to the furious bleckguardisin with which the opponents of the democracy are as- sailing its regular nominee. As for the Wall street meeting, it was unique and sui generis. We do not think that there has ever been such @ meeting held in this city as this anti-Wood meeting since the same mer- chants met on the same spot near a quarter of acentury since to denounce General Jackson asa murderer and an adulterer because he would insist on removing the government de- posits from the rotten banks in which these merchants were interested. —————__—_____ ‘The Poor of the City—Work for the Coming ‘Winter ‘The temporary excitement which was created by the mass meetings held recently in Tomp- kins square and the Park, and by the processions of bodies of unemployed workingmen through our streets, has died out, and the city has set- tled down into its former peaceful condition. We hear no more of those denunciations of the wealthy and incitements to acts of violence which formed the staple of some of the harangues to which the unemployed poor of the city were treated by those who professed to be their friends, but who were really the worst enemies they could have. Now, however, that the excitement is over, the public are enabled to perceive, as we have often stated, that there is really nothing to fear from the honest, industrious work- ingmen, and that it is to those only who took advantage of the opportunity presented by the peculiar nature of the times to associate with them, and to disseminate at their meetings the most atrocious principles of French socialism, that we are indebted for the threatening appearance of these movements. The only disturbances that took place were caused by those and by the gangs of rowdies who are always predisposed to ruf- anism and acts of violence, and who, un- fortunately for the workingmen, combined with the free lovers and Fourierites, of the Tribune school, to bring odium and discredit upon their meetings. It is with these—the Fourierites, the socialists, the free lovers, the “short boys,” and rowdies of every kind—that those ridiculous and insane exhibitions which we have witnessed from day to day in our public places, and which seemed to threaten the peace of the city, originated. It is but natural that men of such kindred character should associate for a common purpose, and should endeavor, at this particular time, to carry out their schemes of violence and plunder. These were the men who coun- selled an attack on the Custom House, with the view of getting at the United States money deposited there, and at whose instiga- tion that absurd display was made some days ago before the Merchants’ Exchange. The politicians, too, attempted by an exhibi- tion of sympathy to curry favor with the un- employed, and the Central Committee of Tam- many Hall passed a series of resolutions with that view at their meeting last Friday evening. Now this isa matter with wh@h politicians have nothing to do, and if the workingmen have a due regard for their own interests they will keep clear of them. The resolutions of this committee were similar in style and character with those absurd and silly declama- tions pronounced at the meetings in Tomp- kins square and the Park, and which cannot resultin any good to the unemployed. The workingmen are now sensible of this themselves, and no longer assemble in those places, satisfied that while they did so they were but injuring their claims upon the sympathy, good wishes and active be- nevolence of the public. They have learned by experience that they have nothing to expect either from corrupt political adventurers, Fourierites and free lovers, or from association with the gangs of ruffians and rowdies who en- deavored on several occasions—though we are glad to say without success—to bring them Tito conflict with our city authorities. Their con- duct in this particular has entitled them to the active sympathy of the public; and to this, after all, they must look for relief in their present necessity. There are, we have no doubt, large numbers of persons out of work all over the city, and these are not confined to laborers and such as are looking for employment on the Central Park. There are besides thousands of deserving, honest, respectable men and women upon whom the hard times have fallen with crushing effect, but who are prevented by a feeling of pride and self-respect from parading their poverty and destitution before the public gaze. They are the deserving poor, and there is no man or wo- man with the common instincts of humanity who does not heartily and sincerely sympathize with them in their want and distress, Some- thing should be done for these, in view of the hardships which they must otherwise suffer during the approaching winter; and to render assistance effectual it should be done at once. Let the benevolent who have the means and the time, form ward associations throughout thecity, and through the means of good, active, vigilant committees seek out those who are actually in want, and furnish them with such employment as they can procure. Those who are willing to work will refuse anything that will afford them and their families subsistence till the re- turn of better times, and the committee will, we think, have no difficulty in distinguishing be- tween the idle and the industrious. Associations of this kind are preferable to charitable societies, for the simple reason that the recipients of the aid which they give, in- stead of being degraded into mere paupers, are still kept in that feeling of independence which it should be the desire of the truly benevolent to preserve in the humblest and poorest classes of our people. Toe Meerivo ww Wait, Sreeet.—The last attempted demonstration in Wall street was comparatively a failure, It was not nearly so large as the preceding one; and if they were to attempt another in the same place the falling off would be still greater. The operators at these Wall street meetings are a mixture of the odds and ends of all factions in the city. They are generally well known as played-out, broken- down politicians, and their career as such is ended. That explains their extreme personality and violence and hostility and bitterness to the regular candidate for Mayor nominated at Tam- many Hall. They do not oppose him as the candidate of the democracy, although he re- ceived his nomination at the same time that the State Senators and other demo- cratic officers who were elected at the last election received theira. They oppose him on personal grounds, and aseault him in the most violent way possible, calling him thief, forger, scoundrel, villain, and such other hard names, Meetings of such acharaoter are an utter de- gradation of the public voice. Brionam Youno’s Next Move.—We have the opinion, from the present rebel- lious attitude of the Mormons, coupled with the Northern exploring tour last summer of Brig- ham Young, that he has made up his mind to maintain his dictatorship over Utah this winter, if possible, and, with the return of favorable weather, to be off to the British possessions north of Oregon. It has, however, been sug- gested to us that a southern movement would be more expedient, and that Sonora, in Mexico, will probably be the seat of the next encamp- ment of the Salt Lake Saints, Sonora is thinly inhabited. The Mexicans could offer no resistance to the forces of Brig- ham Young; and instead of repelling them, it would be, perhaps, the best policy of Mexico to invite the Mormons into Sonora, as a pretty sure defence against the savage Apache In- dians and the California filibusters. Sonora, too, affords a very inviting field for a people combining the industrious and luxurious habits of the Mormons. No country possesses a finer or more genial climate—it has a vast area eminently suitable for cattle and sheep |’ ranges, and its gold and silver mines are by many explorers supposed to be filled with fabulous riches. It is cut off from the rest of the world by intervening deserts, and yet it affords a practical emigrant and commer- cial communication via the great Gulf of Cali- fornia: An extensive desert region of six or seven hundred miles lies between the present camps of Mormondom and the province of So. nora; but over this desert they may readily pass, without suffering from the want of water, by moving for the Colorado river and descending along the banks of that stream, or within striking distance, to the head of the Gulf. With the advantages indicated, we should not be surprised if the next exodus of the Mormons were to be in the direction of Sonora. Brigham has cut the Gordian knot. He must evacuate Utah—he has, doubtless, resolved upon an early evacuation. He cannot get away by water—he must go by land. His most feasible route in- vites him into Sonora, and that country is full of resources which, in the hands of the Mormons, would pay a handsome dividend to Mexico. We hope that our government, forthwith, and the Mexican government, when they get one, will encourage the Mormons to settle in Sonora. Jvpee By His Acts.—The opponents of Wood, the regular democratic nominee for Mayor, make a great many vague charges against him in reference to his action during the three years of his tenure of office and after his being twice elected. These charges are all vague, personal and absurd. There is not a single positive charge against his official conduct that is tangible, or capable of being turned to his dis- advantage. We ask the guerilla press of the odds-and-ends of all parties to name any official act of Wood’s, during the three years that he has been Mayor, which betrays the excessive turpitude that they attribute to him, or shows him to deserveas they think he does—being sent to the State prison, or being hanged or guillotined. ‘ctilieeatamateass Wuere Has Gen. Watker Gove ?—It is known that Gen. Walker has left our shores in a ewift steamer, accompanied by a well equipped and provisioned filibustering army of some four hundred men; but the question is, whither has he gone? Some suppose that his destination is the peninsula of Yucatan, from which rendez- vous, on some fine moonlight; night he may pos- sibly descend upon “the ever faithful island of Cuba.” Others think it probable that he may slip into Mexico, cut out Comonfort, and undertake to regulate the affairs of that repub- lic upon Anglo-Saxon principles. There are others, again, who conjecture that his present mission is the Dominican end of the island of Hayti, and the overthrow of the black empire of Faustin Soulouque. We have every reason to be- lieve, however, that Nicaragua is the real desti- nation of Walker, and that his purpose is, first to reconquer there all that he has lost; and se- condly to reduce the surrounding States to sub- mission. We must wait to see how he gets in, and how he gets out. Tur Grass Bator Boxes.—For some days there has been a good deal said about the glass ballot boxes used at the late election, in accord- ance with a clause in the Metropolitan Police bill of April last. How the contract was given out and who was the real contractor have been subjects of much discussion; and a docu- ment has been published for political purposes pending the coming charter election, setting forth one side of the question, and alleging that the contract for the manufacture of these boxes was fraudulently made—that the price charged was more than three times the actual cost—that the number ordered was considera- bly more than is required ; and furthermore— which is the gist of the whole affair—that Fer- nando Wood is interested pecuniarily in the transaction, through the medium of his brother Benjamin. This document is a part of the pro- ceedings in a suit in the Supreme Court, asking for an injunction restraining the Mayor and other officials from paying for the glass ballot boxes. We publish to-day all the papers in the case, showing both sides of the question, and putting the boot on the right leg. They are very interesting, as indications of the shifts to which politicians will resort in time of need. Rueroric in Hien Piaces.—Recorder Smith occupies the distinguished post of Criminal Judge of this city. It is a respectable and ele- vated station. At the recent odds-and-ends as- semblage in Wall street, he picked up and used the choice epithets of philosopher Greeley—such as forger, scoundrel, villain, thief, and so on. If it was Recorder Smith that made the speech in Wall street, which is attributed to him, he must have mistaken the place and the occasion, and must have supposed be was sentencing some criminals convicted in his Court, and not ad- dressing an assemblage of gentlemen relative to the fitness or capacity of a candidate nominated almost ananimously by the same party that put himself in the office he fills. New Fisiixo Grovnps ror tie Losny.— From various indications shadowed forth through the newspapers concerning the lobby at Washington and Albany, it is evident that these marauders upon the public plunder are beginning to look upon the broken and crippled banks as the principal victims for this winter's lobby operations, State and national. From Washington we are informed that several mem- bers of Congress have already intimated their intentions of opening the war upon the banks in schemes for winding them up or regulating them. In connection with these schemes the business of the lobby gangs will be to regulate their tolls and black mail subsidies; for the banks have still some aswets in specie, stocks, bonds, dc. As for rail road jdbe, patent monopoly jobs, steamship jobs, Navy Yard jobs and such, they were pretty well used up by the Mattesons of both houses of Con- gress last session; but such delvers in the mines of the lobby as Matteson, Gilbert, Greeley, Si- monton and Company will be sure to find some- thing to work upon, and the crippled banks may look out for a variety of expedients of re- lief from the lobby, including the contingent expenses. At Albany, the broad flints of that old Van Buren nigger worshipper’s organ the Argus- Ajias concerning the banks, are, we have no doubt, full of the estimates of the lobby. Our city banks must prepare to pass through the mill of liquidation, wiiless they are disposed to shell out liberally to meet the demands of the clearing house of the Albany lobby. “It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good,” and the Jeremy Diddlers of the lobby keep a sharp eyé upon the changes of the wind. At the federal capital and at eyery State capital the bleeding banks will, in due time, take the place of “bleed- ing Kansas.” Incomreency in Nominations.—Mr. Tiemann, the nominee of the odds and ends of all parties, is a man without education, force of character or intellect to qualify him for the post of Mayor of this city. He isa respectable paint manufac- turer in Manhattanville, and is competent to buy and sell materials in his business; but he is utterly without capacity to fill the important position of Mayor of this great metropolis. On the other hand, his antagonist has had years of experience in Congress and in his present post ; and notwithstanding all the difficulties of his position and the violent personal assaults made upon him, he has been the most competent Mayor that we have had in many years. Symproms or 4 Row i Tue Caup.—At last Col. Forney’s old Philadelphia organ, the Penn- sylvanian, and his new organ, the Press, are be- ginning to square off at each other with the de- liberation of two professional pugilists. The new Kansas constitution is the nut to be cracked. Upon this tremendous issue Mr. Rice, of the Pennsylvanian, takes the side of the Southern nigger drivers, while Col. Forney, of the Press, plants himself in the front rank of the Northern nigger worshigpers. We advise these two de- mocratic champions, however, to put up their cutlasses until we shall have had the upshot of the fight among the Kansas border-ruffians. It will be early enough to come to blows in Phila- delphia with the opening of the row in Con- gress. Let us wait a week or two. Joe Hoxte’s Last Sona anp Speecu.—Our friend Joe Hoxie made his first great début in politics seventeen years ago in the “hard cider” campaign. He there exhausted himself in speak- ing and singing all over the country. It was the only campaign in which his voice and his oratory were in tune, and the only one in which he was successful. Ever since that time his vo- cal accompaniments have resembled a cracked organ, and his success in the political field has been generally commensurate with them. Joe, in going into this contest, mereJy intends to sing a requiem over the odds and ends of all the half dozen political factions with which he has been connected during the last twenty years. We hope he will have a good time of it. Tue Boos on Opps-anv-Enps Parry.—Thie new party, that has nominated Mr. Tiemann—a very capable paint manufacturer, but utterly unfit for the position of Mayor—is composed of broken down politicians from every party in the city—black republicans, Know Nothings, bogus democrats, and every shred and patch of past political organizations. They are them- selves without any organization at all, and boast without the slightest ability to put their finger on any capital. THE LATEST NEWS. News from Washington, THE NEW YORK POST OFFICE SITE—THE TREASURY SHORT OF FUNDS—ANTICIPATED FLIGHT O® THE MORMONS TO SONORA—NEW TERRITORIAL GOVERN- MENTS, BTC., BTC. Wasnmvoroy, Noy. 21, 1857. The New York Common Council Committee left this af- ternoon, having arranged their part of the business rela- tive to the New York Post Office site, Seeretary Cobb is doubtful whether he has the money to spare to commence the work immediately, The Postmaster General will, on Tuesday next, inform the Committee of the conclusion ar- rived at. Solomon McCulloch bas been appointed Superintendent of the Washington Aqueduct. The impression of the administration is that the Mor- mons will vacate Utah io the spring and take possession of Senora. Senator Gwin is preparing bills for the organization of tho Territories of Arizona and Sierra Nevada, which will be presented on the first day of the session of Congress. In Nayal Court No. 1 to-day, Lieutenant Brownell’s case ‘was continued. Com. Gregory and Captain Champlain were examined for the applicant, and sundry documents were read. In Court No. 2 Dr. Ruschenberger testified in behalf of the government against Commander Gedney. In Court No. 3 Commodore Stewart testifled in behalf of Captain Levy. Arrangements for Paying Interest on the New York State Debt. Aupayy, Nov. 21, 1867. Comptroller Burrows and Auditor Burrows bave con- cluded arrangements by which the interest on the State debt, due in January next, will be paid at the Manhattan ‘Bank in coin. —_____. Sentence of the Murderer Donnelly. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 21, 1867, A decision was rendered in the Supreme Court this afternoon, in the case of Donnelly, who murdered the bar- keeper of the Seaview House, at the Highlands, some time ago, None of the exceptions taken below were allowed, and consequently the motion to reverse judgment and have a new trial was refused. Donnelly will be executed on the 8th of January next. Vessels Ashore at Goderich, C. W. Gopxnien, C. W., Nov. 21, 1857. The gale bas continued with unabated violeace through- out the day A large vessel, supposed to be the Gamecock, of Buffalo, is ashore six miles south of this place. The crew were in the rigging all of yesterday but were subsequently res cued- The gale was very severe. The schooner lieutenant Barney, bound ap with a car. go of iron, is ashore sixteen miles south of this place. Her crew were saved. ‘The steamtug Uncle Ben, from Detroit, is ashore at Ket tle Point, and will become a total wreck. ‘The schooner Joseph Wilson, of Goderich, is ashore at Stony Island. Her crew were saved. Arrest of the Officers of the Steamships Gal. veston and Opelousas, d&e. de. New Onumaws, Nov. 21, 1857, The officers of the mamships Galveston and Opelousas were arrested to-day, it being held that it was the neglect of their duties and want of proper’management that caused the late ead disaster. The ship Enoch Train, for Liverpool with a cargo of cotton , is aground. We were visited with a whito frost this morning. There arei6 feet of water on the bar at thd mouth of the Missiasi pp. ‘The steamship Cahawba, from New York via Havana, bas just arrived up. ‘The Colambta at Chirteston. Cuantmerom, Noy. 21, 1867, The Unked States mail steamship Columbia, Captain Berry, fom New York, arrived tere at eight q’olock this morning. Destructive Confilagration at Rochester, TWO BLOCKS OF BUILDINGS $150,000—FIREMEN KILLED, ETO. Roonmsren, Nov. 21, 1867. At 4 o'clock thig morning fire broke out in the Eagte Bank block. The block was owned by James Chappell, aad occupied by the printing establishiment of the Democrat, the Eagle Bank, 0. A. Hyde & Co., Palmer & Co., jewelers, J. Disbrow, tobacconist, United States express office, a bar- ber shop, and numerous law and other offices. The entire block was burnt to the ground with all ite contents, and the fire communicating to the Commercial Bank block adjoining, that was also destroyed. ‘The latter block was occupied by the Commercial Bank, the bank- ing office of Husband & Shurstiff, besides numerous other offices. Annexed ig a list of the losses:—J. Chappell, owner Eagle Block, $30,000—insured $22,600; Eagle Bank, $2,000—no insurance; A. Strong & Oo., Democrat establish- ment, $20,000—insured $5,000; Commercial Bank, $4,000—no insurance; 0. A. Hyde & Co., $10,000—insured. $5,000; J. Disbrow, $25,000—insured $4,600. Asmall building owned by Thomas H. Rochester was smashed by a falling wall. Lous $1,000—insured $800. ‘Two firemen were killed by the falling of the walls, and several were severely wounded. The fire was first dis- covered in the Eagle Bank. ———————_ Extensive Fire at Mobile. ‘Wasuinaton, Nov. 21, 186%. We learn from Mobile that a fire there on Friday night destroyed the stores of L. Merchant & Co., Charies Brow- er, and Savage & Co., on Commorce street, and that three’ dwellings on Canal street were also simultaneously burnt, ‘Loss $150,000, Fire at Columbus, Ohio, : Corvanvs, Ohio, Nov, 21, 1867.%3 A fire broke out here at two o'clock this afternoon, tm the upper story of Deshler’s block, occupied as follows>— Franklin Branch Bank, 8. Buck, jeweller, Mr. Devoe, dey goods, Mr. Stanley, hatter, and the Columbus Athensaum, ‘The contents of the building were saved, but the building itself was destroyed. Partially insured. —_—_____.. Fire in Léulsville, Ky. Loumvite, Now, 21, 186T. The stores of G. H. Cutler, liquor dealer, and K. Buckner, feed merchant, together with two or three other small stores on Second street, in this city, were destroyed by fire this morning. The amount of the loss is $30,000, The Storm at the West and the Weather ‘Throughout the Country. Burrato, Nov. 21, 185%. The storm yesterday and last night was very sevore. ‘The amount of snow which fell was not large, but it drift- ed badly. The track of the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad between Buffalo and Black Rock was so washed by the waves from the Lake that trains cannot pass. Seven wires of the Morse and Montreal telegraph lines om the above road have been completely swept away. The tracks of the New York Central and Lake Shore Railroads are not obstructed by snow, and the trains are running regularly. St. Carmmnines, C. W., Nov. 21, 1867. Snow fell here last night to the depth of eighteen inches. The passenger trains of the Great Western Railway get through, but only ata very late hour. The freight trains stuck in the drifts. Aunany, Nov. 21, 185%. ‘The weather here is clear and cold, out considerable snow has fallen at Niagara Falls and Buffalo. There is ne obstruction yet to navigation on the canal or travel on the railroads. The canal is likely to be open for three or four weeks longer. Nive o'Croce P. M. There has been a great change in the weather hero im the last twelve hours. It is now very cold and stormy. At the Canal Department it is thought that the canal will close in about two weeks. : Borrato, Nov. 21, 1867. The weather here is very cold to-night, and the gale ia howling again. Unica, N. Y¥., Nov. 21, 1867. ‘The weather here last night and to-day was clear aad cold, but navigation is not yet obstructed. Oswxeo, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1857. A strong southwest wind is blowing here. The mercury marks 25 degrees above zero. Navigation is unobstructed. Wastunaton, Noy. 21, 1867. All last night the weather here was intensely cold, and ice of the thickness of an inch and a half was formed. Death of Hon. Horatio Seymour, of Vermont. Mippuawcry, Vr., Nov. 21, 1867. The Hon. Horatio Seymour, L.L. D., died here to-day. He was one of our most prominent and respected citizens, and for some twelve years was U. 8. Senator from Ver- mont. ‘The Schooner Flying Cloud Ashore—Seven of her Crew Lost. Cwicaco, Nov. 21, 1867. ‘The schooner Flying Cloud, bound from Chicago to Buf- falo, went ashore on Miller's Point, thirty miles below this city, to-day. Seven of her crew are lost. River Thieves in Philadelphia, Prmapeuema, Nov. 21, 1867. The sloop Mechanic, now lying above Market street, bound for Odessa, Delaware, was entered last night, the man in charge beaten till insensible, and the vessel car- ried over to Cooper's creek and robbed of groceries and freight to the value of $200 or $300. ————————____. News from the South, Wasnuverow, Nov. 21, 1857. The Mobile and Nicaragua Steamship Company, Juliwa Hease & Co,, agents, advertise in the Mobile papers that they will shortly add another steamer to the line, The schooner Leonora, from Santee, passed a hull, aup- posed to be square rigged, near St. Helen's bar. Itis supposed that there has beeu a wreck in that neighber- hood. Tho great Southern mail will be changed to the Pote- mac river route in a few days. Wheat for Oswego. Oswreo, Nov. 21, 1867, The Times this afternoon publishes a list of fifty vessels now on their way from the upper lakes for this port, with 700,000 bushels of wheat, principally from Chicago. It is estimated that baif a million bushels will be hore othe close of the canal. All the mills are in operation, ——— Markets. en STOCK BOARD. PmiLApELria, Nov. 21, 1867. Stocks firm. Pennsylvania fives, 85; Reading Railroad, 2634; Morris Canal, 60; Long Island Railroad, 8%, Ponn- sylvania Railroad, 584. Momux, Nov. 20, 1867. Coton.—Sales of the week, 9,000 bales. Receipts of the week 14,000 bales. Stock 41,000. Swles to-day 6,000. The market is buoyant, and prices have advanced ; ie ‘Cuanueeron, Nov. 20, 1857. Cotton.—Since the receipt of the Niagara’s news cotlom has declined 340. In the Savannab and Augusta cotton markete there waa nothing doing yesterday. 5 Cimaaao, Nov. 20, 1867. Flour is dull. Wheat is inactive and declined 10. Corm declined 23¢¢. Outs steady. Exports to-day 2,400 bbis. flour, and 29,000 bushels wheat, Receipts to-day, 1,000 bbis, flour, 47,000 bushels wheat, and 200 bushels corn. —_—_—__. Our Washington Correspondence. Wastixatow, Nov. 18, 1867. The New Treaty with Nicaragua—Property of the New ‘Transit Rowite Vested in the American Pacific Ship Cana Company—T he Commodores Wiped Out, de., de. One step has been taken towards the settlement of the Nicaraguan imbroglio and the settlement generally of our affairs in Central America. In order that a proper under- standing of this heretofore difficult and perplexing quee- tion may be had and understood, I propose to give & briet history of the affair. : On the 22d of September, 1849, a grant was made, to be called the American Atlantic Ship Canal Company, and on the Lith of March, 1860, it was amended. The object of that grant was the construction of a ship canal through Nicaragua within twelve years from that date. The se- cond article of that grant provided that the dimensions of the canal should be such as might be necossary for yea. sels of all sizes. That would bea canal thirty six foot ie depth. The surveys made by a corps of engineers, undor the direction of Col. Childs, of New York, proved the im- Practicability of a canal over twenty two foet in dopth, and thus it became evident that the requirements of the Grant could not be complied with. This diMoulty had been foreseon and provided against in article 34 of the grant, which declares, should the construction of the canal of any part of it become impossible by any unfore- seen event or obstacle of nature, the company shall com struct a railroad and water communication betwoon the two oceans, within the period allowed for the building of the canal, and subject to the same terms and onditions. [By 4 reference to the grant you will see that it gives the exclusive right to the company for eighty five years.) About a year since this company determined it would pro- one to construct a railroad and water communication, and oatablish @ transit between the two oceans. In view how- , ever of the recent disasters of the old ‘Transit Company, which was created by the Canal Company for a temporary Purpose, they dotormmed got to ostabliah a now line until they were assured of the proyemion of We United es a enemies ene nen eS er