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M., ‘team boat ne HeRaup, printed in Freneh ‘ 4 nt half-past nino o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six cents Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New York Heratp will be received at the following places in Europe:— Lonpor.. ..Samson Low, Son & Co. , 47 Ludgate hill ‘Am.-Furopean Express Co. ,51 King William st PARis ..... Am. -European Express Co. , 8 Place de la Bourse. Livxaroot. Aim.-European Express Co., 9 Chapel street. R. Stuart, 10 Exchange street, Kast. Havrr.,,,.Atn. European Express Go. , 21 Rue Corneille. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hxraxp will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the fice during the previous week and up to the hour of pub- lication. ‘The News. The first election for city officers under the new charter will take place today. From every indica- tion, it will be a most spirited contest, as seven Civil and eight Police Justices, a Mayor, two Governors of the Almshouse, Aldermen for all the wards, six Councilmen for each Senstorial district, one Com- missioner and two Trustees of Schools for each | ward, and twelve Supervisors are to be voted for. | ‘The names of the candidates, the places of polling &c., will be found elsewhere. Our correspondent at Washington intimate: that the French and English Ministers have protested | against the expedition of General Walker, and say that his escape from the United States was owing to the weakness and inefficiency of the government. ‘The message of the President is finished, and will be read to the Cabinet today. It is said to be a Jong and elaborate document, discusses at length the leading issues of the day, and sustains the action of the Kansas Convention. The Naval Courts were in seasion, and some testimony heard in the cases of Lieut. Boyle, Commander Gedney and Captain Levy. Several decisions were rendered in the Court of Claims. An adverse decision was rendered in the case of the Illinois Central Railroad. Chief Justice Gilchrist was seized with a fainting fit while reading an opinion, and was compelled to leave the court room. Governor Hammond has been chosen to rep- resent South Carolina in the United States Senate. Ex-President Pierce and lady left Baltimore yester- day, on their way to Madeira. A Delegate Convention of the free State party at Kansas has been called to meet at Lawrence tomorrow, to deliberate on the course to be pur sued with regard to the new constitution, and on the political position of the Territory. We have advices from Havana dated on the 25th of November, bronght by the Quaker City, which arrived yesterday evening, with $30,000 in specie on freight. There was nothing of interest transpiring, and the city was healthy. Sugars were declining, with one hundred and forty-two thousand boxes on hand. Freights for large vessels were not in any de- mand. Exchange on New York (short sight) was at 6 per cent premium, and for sixty days 2} a 3 per cent. General Walker's movements formed the suby- Ject for very anxious surmises amongst all classes. It is said that the exequatur of the United States Consul General has been granted in an unusual form, and in violation of official precedent with respect to his powers. The National Convention of Peru has passed a law regulating the divisions and standard of the coinage for that republic. The standard for both gold and silver coins is to be 900 fine, and the several pieces | as follows:—The sol, $20 gold piece, to weigh 569 grains: half sol, $10 gold piece, to weigh 284) grains; | the doblon, $5 gold piece, 1424 grains; the eseudo, $2 gold p 56910 grains; the half escudo, $1 frold piece, 28 45-100 grains; the grains to be 4608 to the mark of gold. The silver coinage will be—The peso puerto, $1, weighing 475 grains; medio peso, 50 cents, weighing 237} grains; the peseta, 20 cents, | weighing grains; the dinero, 10 cents, weighing | 474 grains; the medio dinero, 5 cents, weighing 234 | grains. A copper coin, of the intrinsic value of one | cent, will be made without alloy. We have advices from the West Indies, dated at | Kingston, Jamacia, on 9thof November. The lative Assembly vas to meet next day, when a pet tion would be it in, asking for an annual grant to have steam communication with the United States established. Her British Majesty's gun boate Jasper and Jason, five guns each, and eighty horse power, had left for Cuba to watch the movements of steam ers on the coast. There Was no news of interest ‘The sugar crop for the year will be good. The cop: per mines still prospered The town of Mayaguez, Porto Rico, was visited by asevere shock ofan earthquake on the 12th of November. ‘The St. Andrew's Society of New York celebrated yesterday ite 10ist anniversary by a dinner at the Metropolitan Hotel. The finances of the society were represented as in a flourishing condition; #peeches were made by Mr. Norrie, the President, Mr Archibald, 1. B. M.'s Consul at New York, and the Presidents of several of the other charitable societies. Mr. Charles Mackay was present as a guest, made a #peech and recited a somg. A letter from Lard Na- pier conveyed his sekmowledgments at being elected fn honorary member of the society, and regretting his being prevented by official duties from being Present. The twenty-seventh amniversary of the Polish evolution of 1830 was celebrated last night at Richter Hall, Forsyth street. A very interesting ad Prem was Goliyered 9a the cecasion by Mr. Juliag NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1857. Allen... We give an account of the meeting in our columns this Sentence on Michael Cancemi, for the murder of Eugene Anderson, which was to have been pro- nounced yesterday in the Supreme Court, was still further postponed, on account of some legal objec: tions. Judge Mitchell ordered the prisoner to be re- manded, and to appear on Monday next, when an opinion as to the jurisdiction of the Court would be rendered. Francis Vardel, the Spaniard accused of the mur- der of Andrew McManus and Susan Dempsey in Water street, was examined yesterday by the Coro- ner. Subsequent to his examination he stated that one of the witnesses on the inquest, named Michael Angelari, now in the Tombs, was with him at the dance house on the night of the murder. Vardel was fully committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. The Police Commissioners were yesterday engaged in swearing in special policemen, making the total number nearly two thousand. About one hundred and twenty-five of the regular force from Brooklyn will do duty in this city, and the Seventh and Seventy- first regiments will be under arms all day. With these arrangements the Commissioners have felt war- ranted in issuing a notice that all citizens desiring to vote will be protected at the polls. ’ The steamship Adriatic, Captain West, hence for Liverpool on the 23d instant, left the city at 12 o'clock M., discharged her pilot outside the bar at 34 o'clock P. M., was seen by Captain Pratt, of the Southampton, arrived yesterday from London, on the 24th instant, in longitude 68 deg. 25 min., at 2 o'clock P. M., having made 336 miles easting from Sandy Hook in twenty-two hours and thirty mi- nutes. This is a pretty good beginning. William T. Tuckerman, formerly treasurer of the Eastern Railroad, was arrested at New Haven on Sunday evening, for mail robbery. His depreda- tions are said to have been very extensive, and the evidence of his guilt conclusive. Elsewhere will be found an interesting article on the Mormon rebellion and a sketch of Heber C. Kimball, one of the Mormon Presidency, t@gether with a communication from Elder Hyde on the same subject. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 600 bales, based upon middling uplands at 11%¢c., and good mid dling do. at 12. The foreign news by the Fulton and the favorable prospects of re-opening the Erie canal, in whole or in good part, ombined to depress the market for flour and wie ot, The receipts for forty-eight hours ending yes terday forenoon were as follows: — BY THE HUDSON RIVER. PA, WOM oa sneaes ee wes Wheat, bus Corn... « 28,790 21,900 4,600 BY SOUTHERN STEAMERS. BY ERIE RAILROAD, Flour, bbis,.... ‘The market for flour was heavy, and prices declined 6,087 from le, a 16e. per barrel, while sales were moderate and chiefly confined to the local and eastern trade. Wheat was from 3c. a 5c. per bushel lower, and sales light. Corn was scarce and firm at 9c, for Western mixed; sales of Southern white at 92c.a94c. Pork was heavy and prices tended downward, while sales were moderate. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 400 a 500 hhds. The stock embraced about 18,340 hhds., 8,000do. Molada, 15,348 boxes and 7,500 bags. Coffee was quict. The stock embraced about 111,697 bags and 8,345 mats. Freights were dull and engagements light, To Liverpool 10,000 bushels grain, in bulk, were engaged at Sd.; four at 1s. 9d.; cotton at §32d., and tobacco at 25a. The Mayoralty Election To-Day. We give, apropos of the Mayoralty election which comes off this day, an article from the Hartford Times, and another from the Pennsyl- vanian on Mayor Wood, as some of the expres- sions of rural opinion which are finding their | way to light in the country newspapers. The views presented by the Hartford and Philadel- phia journalists will strike the readers of the black republican journals as something very new; yet it is hard to discover any flaw in them, or to state wherein, or in what particular they vary from the fact. It is undeniable that soon after Mayor Wood had been first elected to the office he now holds, the papers of all parties were warm and ardent in his support: none more so than the very black republican organs which now cover him with abuse. The city was congratulated on all hands on having found at last a Mayor who was capable and not afraid of performing his duty. Under such auspices he began his ca- reer. He began a series of reforms in the city government which, had they been carried out, would have entirely changed the aspect of mu- nicipal affairs, and rendered the city a very dif- ferent place to live in. He infused new energy into the various executive departments of the city government. Every one remembers how vigorously he assailed the small abuses and grievances which are the great annoyances of city life, how popular an institution his Com- plaint Book became, and how promptly and thoroughly the evils complained of used to be remedied Of the reforms projected by Mayor Wood on his first entrance into the mayoralty, some were carried out. New vigor was infused into cer- tain of the executive bureaus. A new simpli- city of administration was tried in several de- The police were rendered more partments. efficient than they had ever been, and crime be gan to diminish. But before many weeks, the usual difficulties sprang upin the path of the reforming Mayor. Jealous fellow officials of the Mayor's began to throw obstacles in the way of the plishment of his reforms. Unfortu- nately, the aid, countenance and active support of the: to the ac complishment, and the realization of the plans which th For instance, he could not houses less the District Attorney would agree to prosecute to judgment the indictsnents that were framed aga@&t gamblers by the Grand Juries; and this that official could not be per- suaded to He could not suppress street walking or rowdyism eo long as jealous fellow magistrates set partées free who were arrested uC very officials was essential Mayor had in view. suppress gambling un- do. by the police, and took a pleasure in frustrating the law, as was the case with more than one magistrate of the early period of Fernando Wood's career as Mayor. Thwarted and his efforts neutralized by the iH-concealed jealousy and spite of the very parties whose co-operation was essential to his success, Mayor Wood pursued bis offi. cial career with the same energy as ever in those mattess where his unaided exertions could achieve a useful purpose. His presence at the head of the police department was still signally noticeable; parties who had lived under former Mayors knew how to appreciate the difference. But even within the narrow limigs left to him, he was soon assailed; a grasping republican majority in the Legislature wrested from the city authorities the control of the most important branch of the administra- tion of the city government—the police—and timultancously, legislated the Mayor, eo to speak, out of office. The usurpation: of the Legislaturo—the Metropolitan Police act, the City Hall act, the Central Park act, and the other acts which completed the great enterprise of spoliation—were met by the Mayor in the spirit of munfeipal pluck which occasionally distingnished a French or an English Mayor, in tr days wien English and French gittes were fighting their battles against aggression, He | Tux Stave Trape w Cvsa.—The slave trade resisted them from first to last—when they were before the House, after they had passed both houses, and until they had received the final seal of authentic legislation, the sanction of the Court of, Appeals, Never till that moment, when further resistance was impossible, did the Mayor flinch in the duty which his sta- tion devolved upon him. This contest has engrossed so much of the attention that is usually bestowed on municipal matters that people have not noticed, as much as they used to do, the manner in which the city government works of late. Had they done s0, they would have perceived the same evidences as ever of energy and superior administration in those departments in which the Mayor’s authority is still undisturbed; while confusion, anarchy, corruption, and inefficiency mark the departments which have been taken out of his hands or rendered independent of his control. It will be found on inquiry that every evil of which the public so justly complain might and would have been corrected some time ago, had not Mayor Wood been thwarted by his colleagues or overridden by the State govern- ment. Itis just as reasonable to charge him with the defects of the police, which has just been wrested out of his hands, es to lay on him the blame of the enormous increase in the city expenditure, which is wholly the work of the corrupt black republican Legislature at Al- bany. The fact is, Wood is the best administrator, and the most efficient Mayor that we have had for a quarter of a century; and the question to be submitted to the people to-day is simply whether they will continue to have an efficient experienced administrator in the important office of Mayor, or whether, in obedience to Thurlow Weed, they will throw the experienced man overboard, and submit to have a raw hand chosen for them by the stockjobbers of Wall street. The French Journals and the Filibusters— Napoleon the First and Walker the First. The French journals, and particularly the organ of Louis Napoleon, Le Constitutionnel, are greatly alarmed at the events which are trans- piring on this side of the ocean. They think that the United State: ought to be satisfi “creating disorder in the financial wor! ing private fortunes and bringing destruction on the two continents of Europe and America,” and not go into filibusterism and the extension of the area of freedom at all. Hereupon the Constitutionnel proceeds to read the United States in general, and the New Yorke Heracp in particular, a homily on inter- national law and the duties of nations. Now, we have studied that mass of wise laws known as the international law of Europe, quite as much as all the writers of the French journals together; and whenever we have held it up to the light of European history we have found that it is an excellent text for its kings and priests to preach upon, but not at all adapted to their practice. We need go no further back than the present century, nor beyond the history of France itself, to show that filibusterism has been, not only the rule, but the best rule for that nation of half men half monkeys that call themselves Frenchmen. The best rule they have had in the nineteenth century was that of the Corsican filibuster, Napoleon I. He reduced them to or- der, gave them wise laws and any quantity of glory, and finally got over very ingeniously the fact of his being a foreign filibuster by perfect- ing the annexation of Corsica to France, After his defeat, the country bandied about some time between idiots and intriguers, con- tented with none, till finally a new filibuster came upon the stage—one who is a cross of the Dutchman with the Creole. His first attempt at filibustering was at Strasbourg, where he fail- ed; his second was at Boulogne, and that, too, failed; but his third succeeded, and now Napo- Jeon III. has shown himself as great, if not a greater man than the first of his name. He has kept up the profession with a little by-prac- tice in Algeria, where he trained a St. Arnaud and a Pellissier, and has again given order, and the only government they can live under, to the people of France, who #0 closely resemble, in their moral aspects, the hybrid races of Central America. We have a large respect and admi- ration for this successful filibuster, who has been a blessing to France and to Europe, though not exactly through the process of or a respect for European international law, so solemnly enunciated at Vienna in 1815, But the French journals do not understand the vast difference that exists between filibuster- ism in Europe and in America. There it is the plottings of kings and priests; here it is the de- velopement of freedom, order, and good go- vernment by the elevation of the people, and the exercise of the will of the majority for the great good of all. In Europe the people have no voice in the highest and noblest attributes that concern them. If we wish to know what France will do, or say, or think, under any given circumstances, we goto the great man that lives at St. Cloud and he can tell us in a breath. But if we wish to know how a great and free people will act under similar circum- stances, we go to an independent press, and its utterances are the utterances of the majesty of the people. Filibusterism here differs radically from filibusterism in Europe, because here it is the extension of the right of self-government, while there it is simply the extension of the power of crowned heads, of men booted and spurred to ride the ignorant masses, That is what Walker is carrying to Central America, where a few ambitious leaders are fighting each other and eating out the substance of the people. Perhaps as filibusteriem established a Napoleon the First in France, it may also establish a Walker the First in Central America; and if the Constitutionnel still doubts the judgment of the New York Henatn in this matter, let it ponder over the news that bas already gone to Europe since the expression of our views thereon, and watch the current of great events that are fast developing in this hemisphere. Senator Doveias tx Towx.—We understand that Senator Douglas has been passing a day or two in this city; but it is very remarkable that, although present among us on the eve of an im- portant election, there was no democratic de- monstration of any sort in his behalf. What does this mg? We fear it means that Mr. Douglas is about to cut loose from the adminis- tration, and join the nigger-worshippers of the North on the Kansas issue. We understand that he is very costive and very mysterious on this issue; but it may be that he is revolving the matter over in his mind,and holding himself subject to a fuller examination of the case after , his arrival at Wachington. We await a definite solution of his position, but we think he has crossed the Rubicon. in Cuba does not present any signs of decadence as yet, but rather, if we may rely upon private advices from Havana, which have been shown to us, isin & prosperous state. Hitherto, sail- ing vessels only have been used, but now it is proposed to introduce steam into the trade. It seems that the steamship Pajaro del Oceano, (Ocean Bird,) which was built in this city seve- ral years since, and was intended to make the run to Liverpool in six or seven days—only the parties failed, and could not purchase the re- quisite machinery-—will soon make a voyage from Havana to the coast of Africa. This ship was sold for Cuba about a year ago, and she has rE bey transferred to a joint stock com- pany, if = ye informed, with a capi- tal of $300,000. me-half of this amount is to be paid for the steamship, $50,000 for “gratifications” in Cuba, $40,000 to secure a celebrated slave captain, $30,000 for the crew, and the remainder for the purchase of 2,000 negroes, and contingent expenses. It is supposed that from the quick run she will make, every one of the negroes will be landed in good health.and sell readily for $750 each, thus stocking $1,500,000 for the original investment. If Louis Napoleon’s nigger specu- lation for Martinique turns out well, we may see more slave steamers running between Ha- vana and the Gulf of Guinea than now run be- tween New York and Liverpool. The French Emperor was the first to go into the trade with steamships, and the French steamer Stella is now on the Coast making up a cargo of 1,200 blacks. There is little difference between his apprentice system and Cuban slavery. Ten years on a West India sugar plantation effectu- ally uses up a nigger, whether he be apprentice or slave. With these facts before us, what is the use of agitating at the South the question of re-opening the African slave trade? Pourtica Lyixa Futty Deverorep.—Our municipal contest has developed to the fullest extent the clement of political lying. The fol- lowing note furnishes one specimen of the many false statements and accusations afloat to dam- age the position of Mayor Wood, and to immo- late him at the shrine of the peint manufacturer set up in opposition to the choice of the demo- eratie party by the Wall street stockjobbers New York, Nov. 39, 1857. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. The statement published in the Daily Times of this day, purporting to be made by Stephen Kelly, to the effect that Thad declared ou Friday morning that “Mayor Wood was a scoundrel,” &¢.,and that ‘would not vote for bim under any circumstan is entirely without foundation. 1 do not know this Mr. Kelly, nor have I ever entertained any but feelings of respect for Mr. Wood, and intended from the first to give him my support. His statement is false in all respects. Very respectfully yours, RICHARD F. CARMAN, This is only one specimen of the desperate in- ventions and tricks of the odds and ends of the Tiemann alliance. Among others it is reported that a vote has been taken of the Hrraxp office, and that its whole force is opposed to Wood and in favor of Tiemann. This is an impudent trick. No such vote has been taken. No one knows anything of the party divisions among the at- tachés and employés of this establishment. Every man in it is free to go his own way in po- litical affairs, and no questions are asked con- cerning his opinions. But the Heravo is an in- stitution, and takes its own course without re- ference to individuals, That's all. Tae Erouta Nationat Cexsvs.—The imper- fect and unsatisfactory manuer in which the census statistics of the United States have hither to been taken, is deserving of notice at this particular time. Contrasted with the fuller 4nd more complete returns made recently by the Census Department of the State of New York, they are very deficient and unreliable. This is mainly attributable to the want of pro- per preparation by those who are entrusted with the work, and to the fact that the inqui- ries of the census marshals are entirely too limited. Previous to the year 1840 they took simply an enumeration of the population; and although since then they have collected more statistical information, the details are not so ex- tended as they should be, and are exceedingly meagre and inaccurate, compared with those furnished in the published volume of the State census. In England, the most difficult and complicated part of the work—that is, the pre- paration of the official tables, the arrangement of documents, and the organization of the cen- sus takers—is accomplished before the specified time, and the collection of all the statistics is performed in one day. There is no reason why the preparations for taking the census here should not be as perfect, and certainly none why they should not be in time for the proper performance of the work. We trust that in the arrangements for taking the census in 1860 the tables will be made out so as to present not only the number of persons engaged in each occupation, but that the sex will also be men- tioned, as there are many branches of labor in which both males and females are employed. So, for instance, in giving an enumeration of horses, it would add considerably to the impor- tange of the information if the particular kind of work in which they are engaged is given There are many other details of interest which will naturally suggest themselves to those who are entrusted with the task, and which would greatly enhance the value of the national census returns. Errects or Aupaxy Lereis.ation ror THE Crry.—We give elsewhere an exposé of the plots and plans of Weed, Matteson & Co., and their confederates in this city, to still further increase our taxes and despoil our city treasury. This article proves beyond all cavil what we have so often proved before, and what we desire to impress upon the mind of every voter to-day— that it is the Albany lobby alone which is re- sponsible for the great increase in the taxation of the city. And farther, it will be well enough to remember that if the regular democratic candidate is defeated to-day there are to be more plundering commissioners quartered upon usnext spring. The duty of every man, under such circumstances, is to record his negative against the odds and ends organization which represent the Albany lobby. Tne Apsinistration Resvxep ny tHe Bri mish AND Frexcu Mixisrens.—We publish among our telegraphic advices a despatch from Washington stating that the British and French Ministers there have addressed to the Secretary of State a remonstrance concerning the Walker filibusters, and intimating that the escape of the late mysterious Walker expedition may be at- tributed more or less to the weakness or inefi- ciency of our government. Our correspondent also suggests that this insinuation should not be lightly passed over by General Cass, but that he should demand its retraction or the recall of the offending parties by the governments of England and France. We concur in this opinion, and trust that po such jmputations against the administration, as that of a con- nivance with the Walker filibusters, will be allowed to be made with impunity from any responsible source. THE LATEST NEWS. Important from W1 GENERAL WALKER AND THE FILIBUSTERS—IMPRO- PER INTERFERENCE OF THE FRENCH AND BRITI! MINISTKRS—THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE—THE KAN- 8A8 QUESTION—NAVAL COURTS, BTC. Wasmiaton, Nov. 30, 1857. T understand that the French and British Ministers here have entered a protest against the present filibustering ex- pedition of General Walker, intimating rather broadly that the responsibility for the eecape of Walker from our shores lies in the weakness and inefficiency of our government. ‘This is considered here as trespassing a little on the bounds of diplomatic decorum. No one is surprised at anything of the sort from the French Minister, for he has pretty freely, on several occasions heretofore* betrayed his prejudices against this country; but it is somewhat surprising that the amiable and high minded Lord Napier should have permitted himself to be drawn into anything of the character of this aforesaid discourteous remon- strance. As for Monsieur Sartiges, it is well known that he bul- lied poor Pierce into the removal of a translator of the State Department, Mr. Fitzgerald Tasistro, for the offence of writing a letter to a Baltimore paper, communicating some of the violent language of the French Minister against our government and our institutions. It is uncertain what General Cass will do in the present matter, but he could not do a better thing than to address himself to the Cabinets of Paris and London, requiring an explanation of this aforesaid remonstrance, or the recall of the offending Ministers. ‘The President has completed his message, and will read it for the first time to the Cabinet to-morrow. It is un- usually lengthy, for he discusses in an elaborate manner the currency, our foreign relations, Utah affuirs and the the Kansas difficulties. Upon Kansas affairs the President tukes betd ground. He sustains the action of the Kansas Convention clear up to the hub. Aprivate despatch received here this evening from Charleston states that General Hammond has been elected Senator from South Carolina. F. B. Streeter, Esq., Solicitor of the United States Trea- sury, has resigned, and Junius Hillyer, of Georgia, has been appointed in his place. There has been nochange in the Kansas programme since my despatch of yesterday. Every one here is watching with anxiety the course of the HxRat. The government employés were paid off to-day in silver coin. Three hundred thousand dollars were distributed among them. Hoos. Samuel Smith, T. L. Harris, of Illinois, and J. Giancy Jones ure at Kirkwood’s. Hon. C. C. Clay, of ‘Alabama, bas arrived and is at the National. Before Court No. 1 the case of Passed Midshipman Samuel Pearce, furloughed, was up on documentary. tes- timony. Before Court No. 2, in the case of Lieutenant J. J. Boyle, Lieutenant Rochetled and Mr. William Rose were examined in the applicaut’s behalf. A letter was also read from the late Commodore Morgan on the same side. The defeace of Commander Thomas R. Gedney was read before the Court. Before Court No. 3, in the case of ex-Captain Levy, Richard S. Coxe, Esq., Colonel Abert, U. 8. A., Purser Slamm, B. 0. Taylor, Faq., and John Etheridge and George 8. Watkins, of the Navy Department, were examined on the applicant's behalf. ‘The Court of Claims delivered several opinions to-day. While reading an opinion Chief Justice Gilchrist was sud- denly attacked with a faintness, and had to retire from the Court room. Election of a United States Senator from South Carolina. Coucanta, 8. C., Nov. 30,@857. The Legislature to-day elected ex-Governor Hammond United Stat es Senator from South Carolina. Captain Geddis, of the Navy, died to-night at Charles- ton. Arrest of Tuckerman, ex-Treasurer of the Eastern Railroad, for Mali Robbery. Sraiwarte.p, Nov, 30, 1857. W.S. Tuckerman, formerly Treasurer of the Eastern Railroad at Boston, was arrested last night at New Haven for mail robbery. He is now in jail and confesses bis — Bostox, Nov. 30, 1857. ‘The arrest of Wm. S. Tuckerman it is thought will ex. plain the robbery of the Havana mail for the State of Maine, missing about the 21st of November; also the mail from Portland for New York, and the mail from Boston for New York, all missing on the New Haven land route about the same time. The missing Ha- vana mail contained about 500 letters, 100 of which were for merchants of Portland, and doubtless contained many remittances. The evidence against Tuckerman is deemed conclusive, and itis understood he confesses bis guilt. His opera tions were mainly on Sunday nighttrains. He would take passage at New York with a large trunk, in which was a carpet bag, containing clock weights to make it heavy, and during the temporary absence of the baggage master, he would steal a mail bag and deposit it in his trunk. He acknowledges having $800 worth of stolen postage stamps, Five hundred dollars in bills on the Lee Bank of Massachusetts were found upon him. The Philade|phia mail for Boston with others being missed, the several railroad superintendents on the New York and Boston route, the postmasters and special agent Holbrook, have been for several weeks on the alert, and have now probably captured the robber. The amount of the rob beries is supposed to be large. Tuckerman will be ex- amined at New Haven to-morrow. ‘The Weather and Navigation of the Erle Canal, Ataany, Nov. 30, 1857. The weather continues to be very mild, and the favor- able accounts received from the West inspire us with a hope that all the produce now afloat upon the canal will get through to tidewater, and that navigation may be en tirely resumed. A despatch to the Auditor, received from Newark this morning, says that the weather is mild there, and the ice broken, and boats moving. A boat loaded with flour reached Albany to day from Port Jackson on Friday This is quick time. A fleet of twenty boats reached Water” ford yesterday, were immediately locked into the river, and are now on their way to New York with 75,000 bush- els corn and wheat, The Hudson is all clear yet. Locronr, N. ¥., Nov. 30, 1867 Tt has thawed here for the last two days, and rained heavily all this morning. The snow is molting quickly, and the ice in the canal, though six inches thick, is break ing up. Superintendent Foster came from Medina last evening with an ice breaker, drawn by fourteen horses, and proceeded to Sulphur Springs, where he expects to meet a steam tug from Buffalo, with forty to fifty boats following her. Appearances now indicate that navigation of the canal will resume this evening Proceedings in the Court of Claims, &e. Wasutserox, Nov. 90, 1867 The government employés were on Saturday and to. day paid nearly altogether in silver, which is a deprecia tion compared with gold Bela H. Colgrove, of New York, has been appointed, by the Secretary of the Interior, Agent for the Indians in that State. The Court of Claims resjimed its session to-day, and an adverse decision was delivered in the ease of the Llinois Central Railroad Company. The Southern M: Waasitixetox, Nov, 90, 1867. The mail from all points South as late as due is to hand, but it brings no news of any importance. An arrival from the Bahamas, at Charleston, reports several wrecks there; also that two large vessels, names unknown, were at Nassau, dismasted Captain Greer, of the ship Osaippee, Charleston, had arrived at ‘The Weather, AT ST. JOHNS, N. F. Sr. Jouna, N.F., Nov. 30, 1857, The weather here this morning is hoavy and thick, and a storm is prevailing at Cape Race. AT BOSTON, Bostox, Nov. 90, 1857 An easterly wind prevails here this evqping, accompa nied with with rain AT NRW ORLEANS. New Onvnans, Novy. 28, 1857. The weather here is very wet and warm, ‘The Well ‘anal, St. Carman’ wala), Nov. 30, 1857. The ice in the Welland casal is breaking up, and there is & prospect of the vessels in it getting through t the lakes, Another Convention im Kansas, Sr. Louis, Nov. 30, 1857. A Delegate Convention of the free State party of Kan hag been called to meet at Lawrence on the 24 Decemb to take into consideration the present political position the Territory, as well as the course to be pursued by tl party relative to the new constitution about to be su! mitted for approval. Departure of Ex-President Pierce and Lad for Madetra, Barrimors, Nov. 30, 1857. Ex-President Pierce and lady left here this afternoon, the Norfolk boat, to embark for Madeira. The ex-1 dent was escorted to the boat by the City Guards. Pierce received great attention from the Baltimo He rode in an open carriage, accompanied by May Swann. The throng at the Norfolk boat cheered h warmly. Governor Lignon has issued commissions to all the cently elected officers of the State. New Lucy. Burning of Sr. Louis, Mo., Nov. 30, 1867. Tne steamer New Lucy was totally destroyed by fire a ‘Wednesday last, while ice-bound, at Detroit, on the souri river. No lives were lost. The loss on the veeat amounts to $18,000, and the insurance to $12,000. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Nov. 30, 1857. PHILADELPAIA, Stocks heavy; Pennsylvania fives, 85:8 Reading Railroa 26%; Morris Caual, 4034; Long Island Railroad, 19%; sylvania Railroad, 39%. Onrxans, Nov. 28, 1857. New Cotton market dull; prices irregular, and declined %o sales to-day 3,51 00 bales. at le. a 11XK6. for middits Flour cei ah os og Mess pork $18, aud market b Gunnies 11}¢c. a 12c. Mon, Noy. 80, 1857. Ein viens of cotton here have declined 3¥c. since S 'y: turda; Savawnan, Nov. 30, 1857. lepressed; we quote middling At Augusta prices are rather easier. Curcaco, Nov. 30—6 P. M. Flour firm. Wheat steady at 54c. Corn quiet. O dull. Receipts to- w-day= 2,000 bbls. flour, 14,500 buahe wheat, 1,000 do. oats. Osweao, Nov. 30, 1857. Flour is steady at 4 50 a $4 80 for common to State. Wheat is unchanged; sales to-day 3,000 e Chicago spring at 87c. Corn ts quiet. Flour to Alb be by railroad. Lake imports yesterday, 6,000 bush ley. The weather here is mild, with some rain. Lake ag canal navigation is uninterrupted. Our cotton market is d Ke. a 11Ke. Our Washington Correspondence. Wasuineton, Nov. 29, 1857. ‘Ihe Kansas Dificrilty—No Chance of a Compromise Bet the President and Governor Walker—Judge Dougie pected to Cut the Knot of the Complications —C-»-al Am| rican Affairs—The Cuban Question, dc. The conferences between the President and Goyorn¢ Walker continue, but without apparent result. The Pre: dent will not give way, and Gov. Waiker will not recetl Besides, that part of the President's message whicb refo to Kansas is al) written, and will not be altered, coir] what may. There is no mezto-lermine at which both cou mect, and I shrewdly suspect that neither party is dec rous of thus compromising the question. The President and his Cabinet are a unit. There is 1} member of the Cabinet who approves of the articles of tH Philadelphia Press, and none that is not opposed to tt] view of the question taken by the Chicago Times. Everybody is waiting for the arrival of Judge Dougla| which, it is hoped, he will not delay. From his prominei position, his known ability, and his courage, he cannot b' play an important part in the settlement of the Kans: Rape and as Chairman of the Committee on Territéri« the Senate, his is the post of honor and danger. It note sagt Here that the Chicago Times speaks the sen' of the ‘Little Giant,” nor is it believed thag Ge | Tons oun cuntrcl tha Detroe iiee Pros Gen. Cass has n, once differed from the President, and I venture to se never will. The Nicaragua treaty gives reat concern to France ar! pees mr orn uanecemariy oT. Those Powers lo Be ane bays 8 as justifying ** military occupatior of Saran by United States ceogt, similar to the oce by the French or Boulogne by the Au Eau, and hence the effort to give a new turn to Centr American affairs. The Cuban question is likely to be urged by both win) of the Kansas parties—the opponents to the Convent and its advocates urging the acquisition of that importa island. The administration alone has the powor 10 act the premises, Wasmivaron, Nov. 30, 1858. Sir W. Gore Ouseley's Mission '0 Central America—Motir, of his Syjourn in Washington—Proposed Abrogation | the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty—The President Resolved Cut Clear from all Entangling Alliances. Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley's mission seems to be general misunderstood, not only by the newspaper press, but t correspondents. It is alleged by some that he is accred ed to Washington, and by others to Central America. TT ruth of the matter—and I have it from high and undout ed authority—is simply this: He was appointed as Min) ter to Central America, and left England with the futl ¢ termination to proceed to that country, and on his way 0 to stop a short time in Washington, in order to thorough post himself up as to the condition of affairs in that di tracted country. He was fully empowered by his gover ment to arrange,so far as England was concerned, « the differences and difficulties that existed in those repu lics. On his arrival in this country, or rather, after b arrival in this city, the British Minister, Lord Napier, his interview with Sir William informed him that t! United States had just completed and signed a treaty wi Nicaragua, the points of which he communicated him, and which points he obtained through newspapers—probably the Henan, for he had never se: a copy of it—and that said treaty had changed the who. aspect of affairs in Central America, Thus was Sir W liam’s mission partially blocked, for he had special i structions with reference to Nicaragua and the Tr route. What was to be done? After a long consult: and comparing of notes between these two dipiomats, was determined to communicate what had transp.red the English government, and wait for her reply. Tt fnet was communicated by Lord Napier to his governme. that Niearagua was ready and willing to make the sar treaty with England that had been made with our gover ment, and it is believed here that England will authori: Lord Napier and Sir William to enter into the same © a with Nicaragua as those with the United State nis will in some degree settle the question—the vex: qeostion relative to Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley's mission, ar oa it is that be bas taken a house in Washington. F will remain bere until he learns something from bis go ernment. It may bea month, it may be two or thr months. In fact, he knows as little about when be going to leave or what he is going to do, until he gets b instructions, as T do. His family arrived last evenin and he will move into the house that he has rented durw the coming week. While he is here, and having not! assist Lord Napier in patching up tite to the Clayton Bulwer treaty President had detern net agrees with him. ation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty: and T don't belie: ¢ has changed his mind upon that sabject. Gen. Cx has favored its abrogation ever since the controversy ar relative to it; for he alleged that England had virtua! abrogated it by her construction of it. That Ragland against its abrogation by our government, and is anxiv and desirous to hold us to this bungling contract, is e: dent from the communications which Lord Napier has r cently made to the State Department. and which commu cations bear the ear marks of Clarendon and Palmersto But notwithstanding these protests of England, the Pr else to do, he ms me arrangement re: Two months ago ‘t! y member of the Cal, ongress the abr dent will recommend, with good and sufficient reason backed up by strong and convincing arguments, its mm diate abrogation. The President is opposed to ali enta gling alliances with foreign Powers, and his message w clearly indicate what course he intends to pursive Custom House Appointments. The following additional appointments have been maf by the Collector: — DEPUTY COLLECTOR Samuel 8. Bowne. cumR Adrian Hageman. INSPROTORA James McCluskey . -Brookiyn. Peter Masterson. . New York William 8. Williston, y 2 Theodore Perry. «Sing Sing Alexander Russe! Catskill New York John McCluskey . York Rdward M. Morr New York Samuel W. Morton Rome William H. Fredinburgh.. Kingsiou. NIGHT INSPRCTORS. Jobn Laurits, seeeeeeeeeees Now York William Cook... . John J. Sherwood «New York — Ovrretan Frartocrr.—The Mayor of Covington, Ky, a the President of the Board of Council of that city had ar gular set-to in the Council Chamber on the 26th wi! caused by an overheated debate. They both got the be of it, and were each fned $2 60 next day by a Justice, ‘an adequate punishtent for disturbing the peace and qu: of the good city of Covington _ Annivat oF PROVINCIAL Pronvcr —The British brig ® ver's Bride, from Prince Edward Island, arrived yeste day morning, has on board, on freight, 14,884 bushe and 481 barrols potatoes, 481 bushels turnips, 1,026 4 barley, 2,567 do. oats, 43 bags oatmeal, and 2 barrels cv peor ; —————— Mosie tw BRooKiry.—Mr. Dempster, the popular a: | Pleasing ballad singer, will give a concert this evening the Brooklyn Institute for the bemedit of (be Youth's F Library of Want city