The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. + OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Awn Iurcpent Pur ~ Twantt Minvres WiTn \ Frosa—Comsvean ‘Ligsson, NIRLO'R GARDEN, Broadway—Tas MiiiwERs—Coype Texvve—Tux Consceirt. BOWERY THEATRE. mast Frate—Muitia TRAINING. BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway, oppostte Bond siree\— Sarre Fase—Benron Wonnump oy ‘Buovomam—A Dar ix aw York. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—A Lapy tx Dipri- covirims—Fouty axp Firry—Ixvmisix Hussann, LAUBA KRENE’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Tas Sas oF Kon, on A Mornan’s Puaran. AGADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Irattan Ora- Ra—Rosenr is Disaix. BARNUME AMERICAN MUBEUM. Broadway—After- Wawpgainc Kors. Evening, Tims Taiss Au—Lavan anv Gnow Fat. WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 661 & 563 Broadway—Guo. Cunistr (& Woon's Minsraxie—Maxnizp any Buniap. MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Brranr’s MinstReLs —Ermiorian Songe—Smaxsrergan READINGS. NATIONAL CIRCUS, 8&4 Bowery—EquestRiaN Fuats— Orumaxtic Kxencises, &c. EMPIRE HALL, 696 Broadway—Paurrings Li.osteativs @r tas Kane Axcric Exrgpition, &0. ~ Wew York, Monday, November 30, 1857. MAILS FOR EVROPE. he New York Herald—Edition for Europe, The Cunard steamship Niagara, Capt. Wickman, will Jeave Boston on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘Tho Furopean mails will close in this city at noon to- tnorrow, to go by railroad, and at balf-past two o'clock P.M, te go by steamboat. The European edition of the Herat, printed in French fad English, will be published at half-past nino o'clock in the morniry .° Single copies, ix wrappers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Youn Hxraiy will be received at the following places in Eurupe:— Loxvos.. ..Samson Low, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate hill. annie ay European Express Co., 21 Rue Corneille. The contenty, of the Furopean edition of the Heraup will ‘eombine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of pub- fication, ‘The News. Further details of European news by the Fulton, which passed Cape Race on the evening of the 27th instant, are at hand. No later news from India had been received in London. There is no political news of consequence, but that relating to financial affairs is very important. The Bank of France had an- nounced its intention to extend its issues, and the rate of interest had receded at Hamburg. A better tate of feeling prevailed throughout England im re- lation to financial matters since the suspension of the Bank act. Consols had advanced, and the money market waa firmer. Notwithstanding the improve- ‘ment in the money market many failures had occur- red, and several iron firms had been obliged to call mectings of their creditors to make arrangements to avoid suspension. There had been no material change in the value of foreign stocks, and transac- tions were limited. No quotations for American cotton are given; the rates current for other descrip- tions are about one farthing above those prevailing at the sailing of the Africa on the 14th. The mar- ket closed flat, with sules of 1,500 to 2,000 bales, and quotations were nominal. A heavy decline had oc- curred in breadstuffs at London and Liverpool, and the market was heavy and dull at both points. Wheat was two to three shillings cheaper at London on thbetter qualities. At Liverpool flour had de- clined from one and sixpence to two shillings, and wheat four to six pence. Indian corn was nominal, with but little inquiry. Anadvance of four shillings per hundred weight had taken place in sugar. A slight improvement was noticeable in the woollen trade at Leeds, and cotton goods were unaltered in price at Manchester. By the arrival of the Northern Light we were put in possession of interesting and highly important news from California, the Sandwich Islands, Japan, Central America, the South Pacific coast, New Granada and the west coast of Mexico, with files of papers from Australia. The dates are as follows:— eos ++ Oct, 18. Hiakodadi, Japan , Panama Cojutepeque, San Salvador Granada, Nicaragua. . San Jose, Costa Rica Sandwich Islands........ Managua, Nicaragua Comayagua A card had been published in the San Francisco papers stating that travel would be resumed on the Nicaragua route, and that upon the arrival of the mail of the 20th of October the sailing day would be announced. The failure of Messrs. Sather & Church show an indebtedness of nearly half a million, and had created much excitement. According to a flatement put forth by the firm their assets are equivalent to the amount of indebtedness. The difficulty with Palmer, Cook & Co. had been set- tled, they surrendering property valued at $250,000 to the State. The news from the Plains relative to the late massacres is very important, and strongly implicates the Mormons. Brigham Young had de clared the independence of Utah, and stated that henceforth Utah owed no allegiance or obe dience to any laws but those of their own enact ment. A project was on foot in California to reate a new Territory out of the great basin be- tween the Goose Creek mountains on the east, the la on the west, and between the Oregon and Utah line on the north, and the Colorado river On the south The advices from Central America are important, ander the present circumstances. War had been officially declared between Nicaragaa and Costa Rica, and President Martinez, of the former repab- Hic, was preparing to place himeelf at the head of the army. His proclamation announces the deter mination to maintain the right of the republic to the territory claimed by and now in posession of Costa Rica. Col. Canty had possession of the river and juke steamers. No important operations have yet Deen undertaken by either party. In the other Cen tral American republics there was no news of im portance. The survey of the Honduras interoceanic yallroad was agvancing favorably. The South PReific mail steamer had arrived at Janama with $127,740 in specie, and advices dated as above. If Chile the new Cabinet was popular, and y ical agitation had in a great measure subsided. tion. Mr. Bigler, United States Minister, was cordially yee: ved by the President. The government estimates for} were to be submitted to Congress in extra- « es#ion. The account of the directors of ' n Railroad had been presented, and was Capital was being invested in trade mor y; but food was very high, partica- laely ith, Gold and silver coins were v ree, and it was said that government would ® borrow seven millions of dollars abrond. de was dull in Valparaiso. % Peru the r lad not ended, nor had it made mach proces. Ariquipa City was still besieged by Cas Cilla aud we have reports of severe Gghting there. ° NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1857. The guano trade was much impaired, owing to the revolutionary efforts in Bolivia. Doctor Lindsey, the revolutionary leader in the last name i republic, was pressing President Cordova sorely and had been fa- vored with a pronunciamiento from the citizens of Sucre. Cordova was in retreat. The Indians were committing many outrages amidst the general con- fusion. The news from the west coast of Mexico is im- portant. The operations of the united force of the Generals Alvarez, father and son, had been success” ful, and the revolutionary troops under Generals Vicario and Juan Antonio were utterly routed at Chelapa after most severe fighting, which endured for about four days. The elder Alvarez had pre- viously driven Vicario from the city of Chilpanzingo with a small force of artillery. When Chelapa was “taken Alvarez ordered it to be sacked after the most approved fashion of vengeful soldiers. He was well obeyed, for the most frightful excesses were commit- ted by his men. Neither age nor sex was spared. General Antonio died after his defeat, and Vicario was at Yguata in prosecution of his plans of revolt. Cuarnavaca city had declared for him. From the Sandwich Islands we learn that business was very brisk, and general prosperity prevailed. The whaling fleet had just begun to arrive from the Arctic, Kodiac and Ochostk grounds, and report uccess equal to last season. There were thirteen American whalers at Honolulu on fhe 5th of October. The bark Newton, of New Bedford, was lost in May. She had had only one whale. Her captain (Sher- man) was ill. Trade was very lively at Honolulu. The King had been initiated as a Free Mason. A report to the effect that the Russian government had ordered Americans to quit fishing in the Russian waters was not credited. By way of Callao we have Australian news dated at Sydney on the 5th of September, but it has been anj, ipated by our advices received by the Eastern ax*}European routes, brought by the Vanderbilt n are to the 17th of that month. e wreck of the English ship Dunbar, already reported, had caused great excitement in Sydney, as sharks could be seen devouring the dead bodies daily. The floods inthe Hunter and other districts had resulted in heavy losses to the farmers. The news from Japan is very interesting. Several American whalers had touched at Hakodadi, and the masters were well pleased with the port and their reception. The governor had had a sailing vessel built after an American model, and had con- tracted for a steamer. No preference in trade was shown to the Dutch or Chinese, but there was a large native trade with Hong Kong. The sale of ardent spirits on shore to sailors was forbidden by by law. Our correspondent at St. Thomas, writing on the 14th instant, says that the French demand for sugar and rum had nearly exhausted the stock in that market, and that a large contract balance had still to be supplied. Business was very dull. General good health prevailed at St. Thomas and St. Croix. George R. Gliddon, Esq., formerly United States Consul at Cairo, in Egypt, and distinguished for his contributions to antiquarian science, died at Panama on the 16th inst. Mr. Gliddon had been on a visit to Honduras, as agent of the Honduras Interoceanic Railway Company, and was on his way to the United States when overtaken by death. Our correspondent at Washington intimates the probability of M. Felix Belly going to Central Ame- rica and not visiting Washington at all. The Count de Sartiges is entirely ignorant of the nature of his mission, his government not having communicated with him on the subject. General Lamar will go to Costa Rica and Nicaragua instead of the Argentine republic. General Henderson, of Texas, is lying very ill, and it is somewhat doubtful whether he will be able to take his place in the Senate this winter. A letter has been received from a friend of Judge Douglas in Chicago, denying that the Chicago Times speaks the sen@@nents of the Judge on the Kansas question. It was rumored that the administration intended to remove John McKeon from the post of United States District Attorney. Judge Davies, in the Supreme Conrt on Satarday, in the case of McDermott, a member of the old police, who was dismissed without formal notice to appear for trial, decided that the plaintiff was still a member of the police and entitled to pay and duty. The Judge gave it as his opinion that all the old po- lice who were not personally served with written notices of charges against them, and afforded an op- portunity to defend themselves, were not legally dis- charged, and that such being the case, the proof be- fore him was that the police was now full, and that appointments made by the Board must be invalid. The decision was given orally, but the Judge pro- mised a written opinion on Monday. Elsewhere will be found an interesting and impor- tant report of the committee to whom was intrusted the investigation of the causes which led to the appalling disaster that befel the steamship Central America. The report sheds a flood of light on this melancholy affair, and states clearly and succinctly what, in the opinion of the committee, caused this sad disaster. Negligence —unaccountable negli- gence—and want of proper organization of the crew, together with the independence of the several de- partments of each other, and lack of a proper head over all, were at the bottom of a calamity which re- sulted in the loss of the steamer and the sacrifice of so many lives. There appears to have been no ma- terial defect in the vessel or machinery—the leakage being ascribed to other causes. The deck pumps were not in working order, and those connected with the donkey engine were in a questionable con- dition. A heavy robbery was committed on board the bark Pentucket on Saturday evening, whilst lying in the stream. While the captain was absent on shore the cabin was entered, and two casks of doubloons, of the value of $10,000, were stolen. The value of imports of foreign goods at Boston for the week ending on Friday last was $797,527 showing a decrease of $555,578 as compared with the corresponding week in 1856. The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 409 bales, based upon middling uplands, at 11X¥¢.,and good middling do,, at 12e The market continued firm. The mild wea: ther leading to the apprehension of the possible partial reopening of the Erie canal, and consequent increased supplies, tenaed to depress flour, the demand for which was moderate. The market for flour declined Sc. a 10c. per bbl., especially on shipping grades of State and Western, while sales were toa moderate extent. Wheat was steady, with a good milling demand, The sales were confined to Canadian white and Western grades, at prices given in another column. Corn was searce and firmer, with sales of Western mixed at 90c., and some lots of Jersey new old at 70c. a The. Provisions of all kinds were heavy d dull, Sales of pork were light, at $19 for old and $18 50 for new, Albany inspection. Sugars were tolerably active, with sales of about 1,024 bhds.,at rates which were indicative of no important change. Among the sales ‘of molasses were 300 bbls, New Orl new crop to ar. rive, at 86c, Coffee was in moderate request, with light sales. Freighta were dull and engagements light. To Liverpool 5,000 bushels wheat were taken, im, bulk, at 6d., and flour at 18. @d., and to London some flour*was engaged at 2x, 34., and cotton, by steamer, te Liverpool St 344., while sailing vessels demanded 3-164, Trovere is tHe New York Centrat Rau noap Compaxy.—It will be perceived by a re- port in another column that the New York stockholders of this company have begun to wake up. It is now discovered that they are not properly represented in the Board of Di- rectors; that the Albany regency of the road control everything, notwithstanding that the New York stockholders own more than half the stock ; and that the President and Directors have too long cut, dried and elected their own ticket every year, without opposition. Now it is proposed to demand a proper representation; to take seme action in the Mections, and to try by come means to revivify the depreciating stock. It looks very much like locking the bara door after the borse has been stolen, ‘The Municipal Election To-Morrow—Re- | Tix Evvect of THE’ BANK SusPENSION—The markable Intelligence from Washington. We give elsewhere in eur columns a very significant article from the Washington Union, commenting upon the position of parties in this city as respects the municipal election which takes place to-morrow, and declaring emphatically in favor of the re-election of Mayor Wood. This re- election is viewed in the article from Washing- ton referred to as being one of the most neces- sary of all the efforts now remaining to be taken for the democracy to attain the triumph in the present disorganized situation of politi- cal affairs, r The several journals which are engaged in putting forward the Wall street stockjobbers’ nominee, in opposition to Mayor Wood, have been anxious to gain credit to the opinion that Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet are opposed to the election of Mr. Wood, and labor to make it appear that the officeholders connected with the administration in this city are working hard against his re-election, apparently in obe- dience to intimations from Washington. These efforts and assertions are, it is easy to see, no- thing but a mere trick of these politicians in the straits in which they are, 4 The contest in relation to the Mayoralty of this city is of such a character and quality as to have assumed the form and proportions of a contest in which the existence of the democratic party of the North is at stake, in this, its strongest citadel. At the last State election the republicans and Know Nothings were com- pletely prostrated, and therefore, as a last re- source they have taken a new platform and a new name, combining and coalescing with all the odds and ends of parties in this city, in order to put down the democracy here, as the first step towards its future defeat throughout the Northern States, This is the exact and strict view of this con- test, and it seems to be thoroughly understood in Washington. On this account the Washing- ton Union has put forth the strong and able article we refer to, denouncing all deserters of the democratic party, whether they be John Van Burens or John McKeons, or any others of less importance and consideration. We see, by the efforts and by the bitter violence with which the candidate of the democracy is assailed, what is the estimate which Seward and Weed put upon the victory which they hope to obtain. So far, then, there is no doubt whatever of the sentiments of Mr. Buchanan in relation to this contest, nor of his desire to support Mr. Wood. But what is to be said of those who are la- boring with every effort against the candidate of the democracy, and doing all they can to blacken his character, under the mantle of de- mocracy, and with the pretence of being sup- porters of the administration? It is very evi- dent that if they should be able to defeat Mayor Wood in this contest, the combined opposition would raise a loud shout of triumph throughout the whole Union, and would be ready to march onward to other and similar triumphs. In such a condition of things the officers of the Custom House and ofthe Post Office would do well to consider their future position. If the democra- cy should be defeated to-morrow in this city, ‘there is no more chance of their names passing the Senate than there was for G. N. Sanders the day before he was rejected as the American Consul for London, Mr. Butterworth, remem- ber that. Neoro Revivat or tHe Days or Curvanry. —In his imperial palace of his good city of Port au Prince, his Imperial Majesty Faustin I, by the grace of God and the constitution of the empire Emperor of Hayti, has been recently pondering over the degeneracy of the present day and the decline of chivalry, and like agreat and wise king, as he is, has taken measures to redeem the evil. By some of the latest issues of his government organ—the Moniteur Haitien— that have reached us, we find that if the sapply of barons and chevaliers be not equal to the de- mand, it will be no fault of Faustin’s. He has established in his empire the Order of the Legion of Honor and the imperial and military Order of St. Faustin; and in some recent ordonnances—one of which we translate for the admiration of our readers—he has created barons of the one and knights of the other a large majority of the ju- dicial and government functionaries of Hayti, and probably half the captains of his military companies. By this well-timed liberality and generosity on his part, there will be no lack, for some time to come, of sooty visages in the ranks of chivalry. Faustin Soulouque, like other great minds, does not, in attending to the weighty affairs of his empire, overlook or underestimate the more trivial; and so we find him, in one of the same issues of the Moniteur, ordaining what shall be the armorial bearings of the house of his “dear and well-beloved daughter,” the Princess Im- perial, Marie Francoise Faustin. The coat of arms is a gold cross on an azure field. The quarterings are a silver dove flying in a golden cloud, and a golden lyre. The shield is sur- rounded by ermined and golden fringed gules, and surmounted by the princely coronet. The supporters are angels, and the device “gentle- ness, courtesy.”, We do not know whether he has established a college of heraldry in his do- minions, but presume that, if he hasnot, that in- stitution will follow in good time. Altogether, we do not suppose fhat there is anywhere else in the world a field where titles and decorations can be had so cheap and plen- tifully asin Hayti. Some of our codfish aris- tocracy who have a weakness for titles, and to whom association with the colored race is not objectionable, could not do better to gratify their vanity than try a sojourn in Port au Prince. Own rim Wrone Sioe or tie Hovse.—At the recent Congressional election in Louisiana there were in one district three candidates. The fire- eating secessionist candidate, one Sigur, re- ceived but a fifth part of the votes polled. This is a good sign of the Union feeling of Louisiana. We believe that it is a sign also of the general fecling in the Southwest. We have no doubt that the strongest Union men in the country may be found in the three hundred thousand slaveholders of the Southern States. The dis- union fire-eaters are a lot of scurvy politicians, who never owned a slave nor an acre of land, and could not even get credit from a tailor for a decent pair of breeches, Tue Wasnrnotoy Lonsy.—We hear from the capital that the members of the third house are rapidly pouring into Washington to lay their plans for the division of the spoils of the next Congress: Their first stetke is for the printing, and we hear that some parties in this city in- tend to put in bids for it. It will not be of much use, however. How can a poor devil of a printer, who can hardly raise money enough to pay his passage to Washington, expect to con- tend against Wendell and his money bags? public will find elsewhere a despatch from Cape Race, in addition to the one we gave yesterday morning, epitomizing the news by the Fulton, which left Havre on 19th instant. It will be seen that, as was expected, the suspension of the charter of the Bank of England has had the same effect as the suspension of specie pay- ments by our banks here. Things were instant- ly improved; busin@ss revived; consols rose; confidence received a start; and the danger of the great Anglo-American houses ceased to absorb attention. The relief, it must be remembered, will in many cases be only temporary. It is only a reprieve for houses which are radically unsound. For them, whether the day of judgment come in November or in January, it cannot be perpetu- ally postponed; and the protracted struggle will only aggravate the ultimate agony. We hear little of financial affairs on the Continent. There is a disturbing element there which must sooner or later make itself felt. We allude to the immense taxes which the governments are forced to levy for the main- tenance of their huge .standing armies and their lyxurious courts, England, which pays ray one-fourth of the aggregate taxation of Europe, say $300,000,000 out of $1,200,000,000 annually, can far better afford to do 80 than France, Spain or Austria can afford to pay their respective shares, because she is a much richer nation, more industrious, and a far more successful trader andemore bountiful producer than they. The Continental goverp- ments have been living from hand to mouth for many years. In 1848, France and Austria were on the verge of bankruptcy, and were only saved by financial shifts which at best merely postponed the day of reckoning. France has latterly made a good financial show, because of the sudden and feverish developement of trade under the empire. Just so, in the last years of the reign of Louis the Sixteenth France was more active and her trade more prosperous than it had ever been. ‘The Continental nations, plunging into finan- ciai revulsions with their huge debts, are like men thrown suddenly into the water with mill- stones round their necks. A nation that is free from encumbrance like the United States may swim to shore; but these overladen European States may find it easier to reach the bottom. Tue Menicirat, Erection To-Morrow.—The election which comes off to-morrow is not mere- ly, as the organs of the black republicans and the Wall street stockjobbers try to make it out, an election of a Mayor for the city of New York. It is a deliberate effort of Thurlow Weed and the republicans of Albany to wrest out of the hands of the democracy their great stronghold in the North. They know that were they to try, in a straightforward way, to beat the democracy, they would fail as they have always done; but they hope to achieve the same end under cover of a fire of personal abuse of Mayor Wood, and under the cloak of 8 weak-minded and superannuated candidate who was once a democrat. If Mr. Tiemann is elected this city is lost to the democracy. Tiemann may have been once a democrat; but the victory, if he be elected, will be Thurlow Weed’s. We shall see to-morrow whether the democracy will tame- ly let their Northern stronghold out of their hands, Tur First Iurorrant Question ror Con- Gress.—We hear a great deal said about the Kansas question, and the currency question and the mriff question as likely to occupy the ear- liest attention of Congress. We do not quite share this opinion. No doubt, considering the late news from Kansas, the questions involved in the organization and admission of the new State are of very great importance, and must lead to contests of signal consequence to both political parties, It is obvious, too, that the questions growing out of the financial revul- sion which is spreading over the whole civilized world must engage the whole attention of Con- gress at an early period; and it is also quite likely that the suffering manufacturers may strive once more to reyive the much debated question of the tariff. But there is another question of far more im- mediate consequence—to members of Congress— than these, and this question will take prece- dence of Kansas, the currency and the tariff. For it is the disposal of the Congressional print- ing; and the sum of no less than three millions of dollars—judging according to the last re- turns, which showed the item to cost two mil- lions for the last Congress—is at stake. This is a question of spoils; a question of dollars; a question of epoliation; a question of robbery; a question of sudden and dishonest wealth. Such questions invariably take precedence of those in which nothing is involved but the bagatelle of the public good. We see from the Congressional retarns that there was paid for paper alone for the printing of the last Congress over half a million of dol- lars, for printing $362,128, and for drawing and engraving $363,359. Nice little sums these to dispose of and divide among the Congress printers and editors of Washington who subsist by the plunder growing out of this item of the national expenses, Fine-Eatens np Diet-Eaters.—The fire-eat- ers of the South were the first to come out against the administration of Mr. Buchanan, be- cause, they said, he was too favorable to the anti-elavery feeling of the North. We have now a similar demonstration from an opposite quarter. It appears that the dirt-eaters of the North, headed by Governor Walker of Kansas and Forney’s Philadelphia Press, are also coming out against Mr. Buchanan, on the ground that be goes too far to favor the pro-slavery senti- ment of the South. Mr. Buchanan's administra- tion, and the democracy that support it, must be in a bad way when both the fire-eaters of the South and the dirt-eaters of the North are pitching into itat the same time. There will be a lively time in Congress, Socrery at Wasntnotoy—We observe that the more fashionable members of Congress from this State and elsewhere, who have marriagea- ble daughters or pretty wives, are taking houses at Washington for the winter. They intend to give balls, soirées, parties, levees, matinées, receptions, dinners, &c., &c., and have & good time of it generally. The season will be very gay in élite circles, and all the fashiona- ble women who have from twenty to forty dresses, and are not shut up in private asylums, will do well to pack their Saratoga trunks and be off by the firet train. We see that soveral foreign aristocrats are going in the same direction. Lord Noodle, Lord Spindle- shanks, the Count of Empty Pockets and the Baron Burrow Sixpeuce are already on the ground, end wi’! :ormaio dering the winter, Important Frvancuat DiaLoave.—Johti Bull, looking across the big pond the other day, rais- ed bis voice:—“Hello, Brother Jonathan, how are you ?—how do you do?” Jonathan, looking up, and cocking his hat, cried out:—“Oh, pretty well, I thank you; I hold my own, I believe.” “Yes,” said John, rather grufily, “you do hold your own, and hold mine, too; you have five hundred millions of my dollars, and be hanged to you.” AGoop OLp Fasuionep Conrest.—The mu- nicipal election of To-morrow promises to be a regular old fashioned contest between the Tam- many Hall democracy and the odds and ends of the opposition—the silk stocking aristocracy against the democratic huge paws. If the regu- lar democratic candidate is defeated, the party will have hard work to regain its supremacy in the city. Unrrep States Assay OFFice on Poitics.—The action of Mr. Butterworth, the superiatendent, and of Dougherty, his foreman, in reference to the election to-morrow, was stated under affida- vit from one of the employés in our yeaterday’s paper. According to the statement in that affi- davit, Mr. Butterworth gave orders throughout his office to the workmen employed that “all who voted for Mayor Wood on Tuesday next might consider themselves discharged.” If this be so, we advise Mr. Butterworth to consider himself dismissed from office after the election. Tae New Opposrtion Game.—Seward and Weed having lost the State of New York, are now endeavoring to secure the city and accom- panying spoils by a combination of the odds and ends of all the old factions. If they suc- ceed they will organize in this city a new and fordmidable opposition to the administration of Mr. Buchanan. THE LATEST NEWS. Interesting from Washington. M. FELIX BELLY—JUDGE DOUGLAS AND THE CHICAGO TIMES—ARRIVAL OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS—RE- MOVAL OF JOHN M’KEON—THE SPEAKERSHIP— GENERAL LAMAR GOES TO COSTA RICA AND NICARA- GUA—SICKNESS OF GENERAL HENDERSON—THE KANSAS QUESTION, ETC., RTO. Wasuineton, Nov. 29, 1857. ‘The statement I sent you that the French government had appointed M. Felix Belly on a mission to Central America, it seoms, has not been communicated to the Count de Sartiges. This well-informed diplomat has stated to Gen. Cass that he has not been advised of any such ap- pointment. I did not state that M. Belly was appointed on a special mission to Washington. This distinguished friend to the United States goes to Central America—perhaps direct. He may not visit Washington at all; it is his intention to meet Sir William Gore Ouseley in Nicaragua or Costa Rica. Chance may send him this way—chance or later instructions. The French government, it appears, is not in the babit of informing M. de Sartiges of all its movo- ments on this continent, and generally withholds from the Count de 8. important intelligence affecting this hoemis- phere. Count Walewski does not communicate with the resident French Minister here when he decides to send a minister to Central America. This will explain to you why the Count de Sartiges displays so much ignorance in regard to the appointment of M. Felix Belly. A letter received here to-day from Chicago, from a friend of Judge Douglas, states that the Chicago Times does not speak the sentiments of Judge Douglas on the | Kansas question. It says tnat Mr. Douglas will take an early occasion in the Senate to make his sentiments known on that question. Some half doz members arrived this morning— Mosars. Stephens of Georgia, Phelps of Missouri, Harris of Diinois, Jones and Avery of Tennessee, Hall of Ohio, and Gregg of India. A. D. Bavks was withdrawn from the contest for the Cierkship of the House, and his friends are pressing him for House Printer. I learn this evening that the administration have deter- mined to remove John McKeon, United States District At- torney. G. W. Jones, of Tennessee, and J. Giancy Jones, of Pennsylvania, decline becoming candidates for the Speakership. Major Phelps has arrived, but Mr. Orr has the inside track. Mr. Steadman, of Ohio, is put forward by the North. wost for Public Printer. “Warm times ahead. General lamar has accepted the mission to Costa Rica and Nicaragua in lieu of the Argentine republic. His salary is thus considerably increased, which is am induce- ment, as the General is poor. I regret to learn that General J. Pinckney Henderson, successor to General Rusk, is again lying very il! in Texas, and may not be able to take his place in the Senate this winter. ‘The Kansas question is the subject of general conversa- tion among all classes of politicians here. There will be a move made in Congress to have a territorial bill passed similar to the Minnesota bill, Steamer Virginia at Charieston, Chanteton, Nov. 24, 1857, The steamer Virginia, Captain Jewett, from New York for New Orleans, put into this port to-day to repair her machinery. Markets. Cantaxrow, Nov. 28, 1857. Cotton firm at 1c. a 12c. for middling. bod Savannan, Nov. 28, 1857. = cotton market is firm. We quote middling at Le, a Courancs, Nov. 2%, 1857, Cotton firm; sales of middling at Le. M . Nov. 28, 1867. lONTOOMERY Our cotton market is firm; middling 11 \e. Crverysati, Nov. 28, 1857. Hoge have declined to $5, the market closing dull— 10,000 having arrived within the last two days. Mess pork dull at $13 504 $13 76. Green meats, 4c. a Bige. & isc. for shoulders, sides and hams. Lard declined to isc. for barrel and to 103¢c. for keg. Whiskey advanced to 17 Ke. Oswnoo, Nov. 28—6 P.M. Flour is steady, with a moderate demand. Wheat gearce and unchanged; sales to-day, 5,500 bushelt, at 87 ie. for Chicago apring and Milwaukie club, and $1 1255 for white Indiana. Corn is quict. Freights.—Flour by railroad has advanced to 420. to Albany and Troy. Lake importa yesterday, 600 bbls. flour, 11,300 bushels barley. Cmichao, Nov. 28—6 P. M. Flour closed with an advancing tendency. Wheat firm. Corn steady. Onte dull. Receipts to-day—1,200 bbls four, 9,000 bushels wheat, 1,700 do. corn. Musteal and Dramatic REVIVAL OF THE OPERA—CARL FORM DIABLE—PLAN OF THR CAMPAIGN. THE CITY THEATRES, ETC., RTC. The new Opera season at the Academy of Music will commence this evening under the best auspices. The managers will introduce to the American public Herr Carl Formes, who since the retirement of Lablache is the first livin basso, The following sketch of his caroer has been compiled from authentic sources:— Carl Formes was born on the 7th of August, 1818, in a little village situated onthe Rhing called Muchienbeim. As is apparent from his name, he descended from a Spanish family, the name of which was Formos de Varez, and it is well known that his great grandfather was secretary to the Spanish Legation at the Hague. It was there that bis grandfather was born, becoming oldier of distinction early in life, and as a captain of cavairy being e1 4 in the principal battles of that period. Subsequently ho set tled at Muchlonheim, where he died. The father of Cari Formes, too, was a soldier, and fought under the banners of Napoleon. He retired from the service with « pension ax major, and made his residence at the little village where Carl was born. Carl Formes has inhorited the ardor of bis di ition and bis executive energy from the soldierly qualities of his ancestors. Thence he derives the determination and nobility of his character, and the intense thirst for free- dot and hate of oppression which mark his character. Tie is earnest, too, as @ scbolar,a spirit which he may have derived from his ancestors, two of whom were destined for the church, from which, however, they reso: lutely broke to fight the battles of their country. Barly in life the character of Carl Formes began to display it self, and the probabilities of his musical career were fore. shadowed. jie a child he received tuition in music, and sang in the chmrch and at oratories with so mach merit that he became the idol af the inhabitants. His father did not, however, Land the talents of young Carl, and rather repressed than encouraged his ‘quali ties ne a vocalist, Not being rich, he to direct his tastes into another chanel, and transferred him to a brother that he might be trained in a usefal employment. Here his education as an agrioulturiet commenced, but the youth was restive upder such a check to bis ambition, after many exhi- bitions of dissatisfaction with his uncle's system of educa tion, openly quarretied with his hard fatg, and, summon. ing all bis self-reliance, to rid him of fis troubles ran- away, and was finally compelled by want to enlist as a common soldier in the Austrian army. This was by no means an unfortunate step, for it enabled him to arrive at Vienna, the most musical city of Germany. lente of Carl Former, and the gifts of nature in concealed. bis poraession, could not tong be |. Ho gradually attracted the attention of tbove who gocasionally had i HEE ade cle a sat ater FH H i H tagonistic position of Formes towasds the- Austrian government could not forgotten and his ex- tradition was insisted upon as due to offended majesty. Accordingly he hastened to London, and there, in 1849, formed the celebrated German Opera company Drury Lane. In that ussociation of artists were whose talents were of the highest order. Carradori Rudersdorf were the prime donne, while Reichhardt was ~ the tenor, and Anschutz the conductor. In this enter- prise the’ genius of Formes was fully developed. those who knew the labors he performed he will ever be remembered, not only for his self-sacrifices, but for his activity in every department. He saved the com; from failure, singing day after day, producing. all the operas himself—not only refusing all’ romuneration, but expending his last dollar for the sake of his fellow artiste and for the triumph of German art. It was at that time that Gye of Covent Garden and Lumley of her Majesty’s Opera were engaged in a fierce rivalry. Gye was not satisfied with the production of operas in the style theretofore current, and finally de- cided to place upon the stage Meyerbeer’s ‘ Robert Le Diable” and “ Los —,, which never before had been produced with full justice to the original designs of the librettist and composer. These two works for their capabilities in scenic display and costume have no rivals. They are the chefs d’@uures of the modern lyric Stage, and contain the most extraordinary combinations for effects upon the eye and the ear. The mi grandeur and the scenic magnificence of these composi- tions make great demandsupon all the resources of an ope- ra house; and they can ay be presented with fidelity under the auspices of establishments entirely ft and inted in every respect. Meyerbeer himself was applied to, but he could not accept the proffers made, in- si g that Formes should be engaged to supply his place, as he was fully equal to the task. Formes himself, te gratify Meyerbeer, accepted the engagement, and Lumley be ag obliged to hep Magne Ve hoc or dion wealthy composer and the great . All the mi world knows the succes of that pessoa. Never had Lon- don seen any operatic displays of equal brilliancy and grandeur, and it is due to Formes to crown him as the master of the triumphs of that season. Formes next was seen at Exeter Hall and the grand musical festivals of Great Britain. es It has been with a view to bring out Meyerbeer's grand operas and several oratorios Formes has been en- gaged to visit this country. This augurs well for the | agrtd art. It has been the fashion to import their names, rather than for any high purpose con. nected with the illustration of the genius of the groat composers, We think the public will appreciate this. At least they will be able to mark the extraordinary differ- ence between hearing an opera or oratorio merély gone ‘through, and the same work faithfully and artistically ut- tered in unison with the conception of the authors. Nature has bountifully showered her on Formes, and hisowa: perseverance bas added all qualities which are de- sirable to make bim the ‘basso artist of our a i E =} i Li Es ive Sy Reontate whceche the taghan peskiee rt we jumy e Taelete tenege Testes been resrea em toe ¢ F ! Helge ged and to prove it, “Martha Stradella” and the “ Wives of Windsor’ were com for him. Mi sohn delighted to honor him. composed “ Eli’? him; and, in fact, wherever he has been he has manded the admiration alike of artists and the public. is a treat of the most delightful kind to hear him the songs of Schubert, and in the ‘ Er! Konig” he @ magical effect upon his auditors. In Englush he can with wonderful effect, as will be universally when the public have an opportunity of hearing him utter the “ Bay of Biseay,”’ which to the ‘must be in effect like that of Braham forty years ago. Carl Formes has a broad field to glean in this country. With his great powers, his t voice, his skill as an artist, his musical know! , and all the concomitants which should belong to a vocalist of the highest order, what may not his visit here accomplish? May he not éngraft oratorios upon the musical taste of Athens? It is to be hoped so, and it is probable that with his advent another change is’ to take piace in the history of music in the United States. ‘This evening Formes will make his début in ‘Robert le Diable,’’ which is considered by the best critics to be the masterpiece of Meyerbeer. Formes sings Bertram, which is one of his finest réles. Tho other parts will be taken by Mmo, De la Grange, M’lle Carioli (hor début in opera), and Bignardi and Labocetta, the distribution being alto- Dna the beat ever soon bere, and quite worthy of any iret Tondon theatre, The orchestra and chorus have been strengthened, and it is rumored that the opera will be given in the he hype style in every respect. The in- cidental bailt will be performed by M’lle Rolla and a full company of coryphées from Niblo’s Garden. There Seems 10 bea very general desire among, the public to sustain the Opera, and the managers expect to be able to carry on the season with success. In addition to “Robert” the season willbe signalized by the performance of several grand oratorios in same style, and by the luction of the grand operas the ‘Creation’ and the ‘ Measiah.’’ There will be also one or two German nights, when Formes will sing. The audience to-night promises to one of the greatest ever seen in Lent pf is every prospect of a regular furore. It will be observed ~~ Loe commebees a quarter of an hour earlier usual. Mlle Graever, the Parisian pianiste, whose arrival we noted a short time since, announces her first concert at Nidlo’s Saloon on Tuesday week. The latest arrival from Havana states that the Maretzek Opera Company was taking a great many of the doubloons. Ronconi was singing Antonio in “ Linda.’ The theatrical week has not been remarkable for no- velties. At the Broadway Theatre, Mr. Charios Mathews has delighted large audiences his admirable per- formances of Charles Rocket, in © that Girl Awa: and Puff, in “The Critic.” We are giad to hear that this excelient artist does not intend to leave the metropolis for the present. This evening he commences the last week of his engagement at the Broadway Theatre, ‘ing Nestor Nimble in “An Impudent Puppy,” wing im “Twenty Minutes with a Tiger.”” At Burton’s the novelty of the week has been a local farce, A Day in New York,’? in which Mr, Burton plays two parte with his his accus tomed broad, rich humor. Mr. Brougham returns to thie theatre this evening, and er" Rawdon Crawley in his own adaptation “Vabity Fair.’ Mr. Burton and all the principal members of the company, appear is the same piece, The farces, “ Burton Worried bj Brougham,” and “A Day in New York,’ will be added. At Laura Keene's theatre the “Sea of Teo” has heer piszea during four weeks to excellent houses, and is to egiven again this evening, and we presume during the week. At Wallack’s theatre Mr. George Holland, a popa- lar and excellent actor, takes his farewell bene ing in “A Lady in Difficulties rty and Fifty,’ Invisible Husband.” At Niblo’s Garden the bill ior this evening includes two comic pantomimes, ‘‘ The Miliiners’? and © The Conscript,”” with the fascinating Zanfretta on the corde tendwe. At the Museum “Laugh and Grow Fat,’” and “Time Tries All,” are the announcements for evening. At the Bowery theatre the circus of Sands, Na- thans & Co. has beon drawing very full houses, and some new features are presented in the programme for the week. At Wood's minstrels the programme for this even- ing will be found as tempting as usual, wie Bryant brings out @ new burlesque on “The ra” Ab ‘Tryon’s National circus, among other things, © new eques- trian piece, ‘‘Montocie!,’’ is to be brought out this evening, Personal Intelligence. ARRIVALS. a From fan Frat ern Light—Col G M Totten, Horace P Russ. 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