The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1858, NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIFTUR, OPTICE M. W. CORNER OF PULTON AND NASSAU STS eee eee ere fn advance. neotenic hala LY BP, toe as Sayre Byer ari te cB ern Fite bo '¥ HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per containing 4 bee Ad TART CO (a apactheghey Hg en) sone, en te quarter of B9~ OUR FOREIGN CORMESPONDENTS ARE /“Seauerra 10 ‘Seat ali Larrgus axp Pack: AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broad Broadway—Pirango— BELLE OF rus Favpourc—Kiss in Tax Dar NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Jassiz Brown. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Uncis Tom's Casin—Pav- Vastre—Macw Tavmrer. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Marniace A Lor. fexr—Dring ror Love Nerruns’s Dersat. LAURA KEENE’ THRATRE, RE, No. 624 Broadway.—Ovr axtuoan Comins Dav Pann é ARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Afternoon qe Minto Woat>—Ds. VALaRTLNE, £0. ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 Coe iim Brmorian Sonos, Dances, &0.—In AnD Our oF PLace. MECHANIC'S HALL, 427 Broadway. Ss rig ‘MINSTRELS —Nacro Sones and Buriesques—Ricnary No. CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Ermoriuy Cuanactenistics, 80NGS, A0.—DaRker’s Dean. Now York, Saturday, October 23, 1858. ‘The News. We publish to-day some interesting matter, trans- lated from our files of Buenos Ayres and Rio Ja- meiro papers, relative to the affairs of Paraguay. ‘The intended demonstrativu of the United States government against President Lopez attracted ‘yooh attention in Buenos Ayres, but hopes were ‘ntertained that the peace of the republic would se preserved, notwithstanding our heavy money tmands. Mr. Christie, the new special Minister m England, presented his credentials to Presi- ‘nt Lopez in a moderate and sensible speech, urging him to a still further extension of the privileges of river navigation, and a continuance of friendly re- lations with Brazil and Great Britain. His Excel- lency replied, expressing a desire to perpetuate the good feeling, political and commercial, which existed in the republic towards England. When Mr. Christie alluded to Brazil, Lopez pointed signifi- cantly to a division of infantry then under drill near at hand. By the arrival of the Europa’s mail we have been fornished with a complete list of the ill-fated Aus- tria’s passengers. This painfully interesting record will be found in to-day’s issue. Of the 452 passengers 6) names are marked as known to be saved. The list of officers and crew has not been received. The agent thinks it not unlikely that a duplicate ‘was not preserved. Those of the officers and crew saved have already been published. Our Tucson (Arizona Territory) correspondent, writing under date of September 22, gives a bad account of the condition of that Territory. He says that owing to the want of authority within, as well as to the want of protection against the In- diana without its limits, emigrants can neither be induced to settle, or even to come there in any numbers. Silver mining still goes on, but not so successfully as it would under different auspices. ‘The six mines in operation are all rich, and the dis- tance intervening between the most remote of them does not exceed sixty miles. They all bor- der on the valley of the Santa Cruz river. Mr. Syl- vester Mowry has been re-elected delegate to Con- Accounts have been received from Martinique pnd Guadaloupe to the 12th of September. The Mnitary state of the two colonies was satisfactory. Rear Admiral Gueydon had returned to Guadaloupe With his squadron from Venezuela. At Singapore, E. 1, on the 4th of August, gold flust rated thus:—Malayan, &c., $28 50 a $29, and Australian $31 per bunkal. It is asserted that the description of the man al- eged to have been seen floating in the cistern in the rear of No. 581 Broadway, on the morning of the 20th ultimo, corresponds in more ways than one with that of » gentleman named P. R. Middleton, of Goshen, Orange county, N. Y., who came to this city about the Ist ult. to draw a check for $2,700, since which time nothing has beev heard concern- ing his whereabouts. The Mayor's squad of police have recently been making a tour pro’ jonally among the tellers of the city. An account of their exper! and exploits is given in to-day’s paper. At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes terday a communication was received from the Mayor nominating Michael Ulshoeffer, Wm. H, Appleton and George W. Blunt, as Commissioners for building the new City Hall. A report was pre- sented by the Committee on Police, showing that the expenditures of the Police Commissioners for 1859 are $154,649 in excess of the expenses of 1858, and this increase does not include the interest on the cost or rents of station houses, repairs, furni ture, fuel or lights, or police telegraph. The Police Commissioners were requested to inform the Board Bs to the disposition to be made of certain sums of money which, it is alleged, the Commissioners have raised by assessing the policemen, and which it is suspected are designed to pay for that brick house, with the modern improvements, which some rela tive of General Nye has been indaced to accept as ® free will offering. The examination of the parties cherged with trafficing in slaves on board the ship Haidee waa to have been resumed yesterday bet “ommis- wioner White, bat was postponed without date. ‘The defendant Macomber, the mate, has been in- dicted by the Grand Jury, who have the accusa tions against the other parties still pending before | them. Deputy Marshal Theodore Rynders will leave in the City of Baltimore to-day, having in charge Jacob Egbert, arrested under the extradition treaty for committing forgeries in Bavaria. Edward Perry, second mate of the ship Chak lenge, charged by the captata of that vessel with an endeavor to make a revolt while at one of the gruano islands, was examined before Commissioner Morton yesterday, and the comp! Fire Marshal Baker, it apy ting a Baspicious case of alleged on before Justice ‘Welsh. Capt. Weed, of the Second ward, yesterday ‘Srrested Simon Galinger, of the firm of 5. Galinger & Son, dealers in ribbons and millinery goods, No nt dismissed. investig: 40 John street, on suspicion of setting fire to goods in his «tore, with intent to prejudice the interest of the insurers, A report of the case will be found tleewhere ‘The fair being held at Montagne Hall, in Court Btreet, Brooklyn, in connection with and for the benefit of the Society of * of the Visitation will be unusually attractive this evening, inasmach as the exhibition is expected be brought toa close. The articles of every kind to be seen at the fair are of the mostselect and beantifal de tion; and as these well-deserving leties are eavoring to raise means to aid them in [yuidating B large mortgage, it is to be hoped that t!... friends of their cause will not fail to give their attendance. Martha Sullivan was tried yesiorday in the Court of General Bessions for an assault with intent to rob, and convicted of an assault and battery on Peter Brown. John Lane and Thomas Smith, who ‘Wore jointlg indicted with Suilivan, pleaded guilty 20 .neweolt and battery. All the prisoners wl i Hteced this morning. Kdward Vanorde ’ icf @® attempt at grand larceny, and pt We becoe judgment was suspended on condition that he would leave the State fora term of years, which he promised to do. Maria Brennar was tried for shoot- ing Ennil Goldsmith with a gun on the 16th of May, at 189 Chambers street. Three witnesses for, the prosecution testified that the accused fired the gun, and two witnesses for the defence swore posi- tively that a man, went into Mr. Goldsmith's room and fired it. The jury preferred to believe the two witnesses, and acquitted Mra. Brennar, Thomas O'Brien was placed on trial charged with assault- ing Wm. Hennessy with a slung shot, but the prose- cution abandoned the case, and a formal verdict of not guilty was rendered, It is understood that Dr. Gaillardet will not be senters-) Gy cms morning, hs 5) Gounset intends to file a bil of of exceptions. Ira Stout, who murdered his brother-in-law, suffered the extreme penalty of the law at Roches ter yesterday. He met his fate with firmness. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales, closing without change in prices. A private de. spatch from Mobile, received yesterday, quoted middling cotton at 112, and freights at 15-324. Flour was in good Supply, and prices under foreign advices per Europa were heavy, and common grades were easier, while the higher class of brands were unchanged, Sales were made to a fair extent, Wheat was heavy and lower, but with more inquiry at the decline. Corn was heavy and cheaper. The sales embraced Western mixed at about 6530. a 664;c., and prime yellow do. at Tle. Pork was leas buoy ant and active, with sales of mess at $16 35 a $16 40, and prime at $1410, Beef was steady. Sugars were without change of moment, with sales of about 400 hhds. Cuba at rates given in another column. Coffee was steady, but quiet. Tho firmness of freights to Liverpool was main. tained, with rather mare offering. Our Demoralized Democracy—The Mystery aa Its Solution. The terrible @sasters which the democracy have suffered in the late Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana elections, will naturally draw the atten- tion of our readers throughout the Union to New York and Mlinois, an@ to the forlorn hopes of the demoralized party in thes¢ytwo important States. The Mlinois imbroglio is well understood; but the causes and instruments which have reduced the New York democratic party toa disorderly camp of wrangling leaders, cliques and factions, have been a riddle and a mystery to the keenest politicians of other States. Satisfied, however, that the deep, extensive and extraordinary rami- fications here of the Douglas conspiracy against the administration will furnish the “open sesame” to the den of the Forty Thieves, it has become our duty and our purpose to bring to light and expose the guilty parties, and the inevitable con- sequences of their treachery. In Pennsylvania the Douglas movement has possessed at least the merit of an open and un- disguised rebellion; in Illinois it wears the same comparatively honest complexion; but the Douglas movement in New York degenerates into a secret conspiracy—treacherous, double- dealing, cunning and unscrupulous. The insidi- ous Douglas resolutions which were passed by the Tammany majority at Syracuse, the anti- Douglas resolutions which were smothered in Tammany Hall, and the private dinner to Col. Forney in this city, in honor of his malignant and venomous speech against Mr. Buchanan at Tarrytown, are but some of the incidents of this dark conspiracy which have come to light. The parties here concerned in this desperate plot for the spoils of the next administration have had too deep an interest in the fat offices and fat con- tracts of the present to show their hands. They have played the more convenient game of de- ceiving the administration with false professions, while using its patronage to undermine it and supplant it. But their underhanded intrigues will be none the less efficient in securing the election of our opposition Morgan State ticket and a Northern opposition majority in the next Congress. The r6le of Douglas of 1858, though more complicated, is substantially the same as that of Van Buren of 1845—the destruction of the de- mocratic party. It is a singular fact, too, that the democratic leaders of the Van Buren faction in this State of "48 are now among the most active of the secret managers of this Douglas conspiracy. There can be no doubt that when Mr. Douglas resolved upon his Kansas rebellioa he resolved to push it to the extremity of a co- alition with the great anti-slavery movement of the North for the next Presidency. It was his only alternative. The Fremont vote of 1856 left but a small margin in the North to the dis- mantled democracy, which a mall democratic defection would wipe away. Mr. Douglas has produced that defection; he inherits the glory; and who shall say that an accommodation with the republicans is beyond his reach, comprehend- ing Mr. Seward as the joint stock candidate for 1860, and Mr. Douglas for 1864? The readiness of our Seward managers to enter into this arrangement can hardly be questioned. To this end they are now using Douglas, and he is serving them to the best possible advantage in Illinois; for whether he is successful or defeated, the result there will still facilitate the dissolution of the national democracy. Let Banks, Chase, Trumbull, and other republican aspirants, then, stand aside; let our Northern Know Nothings take their own course, for with an understanding between Seward and Douglas there will be a Northern coalition which may defy all hostile combinations, and laugh at the impotency ef the Charleston Convention. In this view of the subject, we cease to won- der at the coolness with which the Seward party at Syracuse declined the proffered assistance of the Know Nothings upon a half-and-half State ticket. Master Weed was content with the more effective support of Tammany Hall. In this con- nection, while we recognise Mr. Cobb as a dili- gent Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Schell as a competent Collector of the Customs, it is evi- dent that the conniving Douglas sachems of Tam- | many, and their office holders and office seekers, have been duping, in the matter of the treasury patronage, both the Secretary and his Collector to their heart's content. Thus Mr. Cobb, who aspires himeelf to the cast off shoes of Mr. Buchanan, and Mr. Schell, who dutifully obeys the orders of his superior, have both been playing into the hands of the Douglas-Seward conspirators. Since December last this New York Douglas conspiracy has thus been using the patronage and singethe confidence of the administration, to the prejudice of the party and for the benefit of Douglas and Seward. But these late elections have lifted the curtain, and tl me here has been carried too far to be covered up with the milk and water resolutions of Tammany Hall, extorted ot the eleventh hour. B ning at Sy- . every movemcut of the democratic lead- eve of the New York democracy betrove » de Aiberate scheme to supplant the admin!:tratior to break up the democratic party, and to bring about an overwhelming Northern Seward and rac Dongias cowlition for tie spoils and plander of the suocession, And whatever may be th tate issue, the November isene in New York | nd Jilinois, from all the developements, move- vindation of tho District Attoraey ! the and indications of the day, will disposeess branch of Congress, and leave them without o foothold for 1860 in a solitary Northern State. To this end the implacable and treacherous fire-eaters of the South, whose bread of life is ‘agitation, secession, disunion and civil war, are actively working in behalf of Douglas; for with them nothing is more desirable than a purely sectional organization of parties, and that politi- eal chaos and revolutionary confusion from which reckless and worthless filibusters and loafers are .aa likely to rise to the surface ag honest men. In this dowawsg wendeacy of parties and factléns to sectional discords and civil strife, the only remaining bulwark of safety is the federal administration; and we dare say it will rise in the confidence of the country as the party leaders and cliques which have betrayed it will sink into public contempt. ‘Trade, Tariffs and Money—The Causes which Stimulate and Depress the Republic of Commerce. Whenever the times are good, business brisk, speculation prosperous, values advancing, and every one is impressed with the belief that ho is doing well or getting rich, the public mind is perfectly satisfied with the existing legislation affecting public economy, and every advocacy of a change is exceedingly unpopular. But no sooner does the aspect of affairs change, and times become hard, business curtailed, the bub- bles of speculation broken, values shrunk from their inflation, and every one impressed with a vague fear that he is getting poorer, or likely to do so, than immediately all kinds of protective projects are started, and a vague impression is produced that everybody would be a great deal better off for a little special legislation in favor of his particular branch of business. Men be- come dissatisfied with ‘existing legislation, and without any regard for its consistency or incon- sistency with the principles that are the corner stones of public as well as private prosperity, are willing to lend an ear to the hope that some change in the tariff or currency laws of the country can be made to improve the remunera- tion of their own particular occupation. This is the kay to the present twaddle in re- gard to a protective tariff, as well as to that of former times. Ambitious demagogues endeavor to impress people with the belief that they can devise a scheme of legislation which shall put money in everybody's pocket. And the greatest wonder they profess to be able to perform is, that they can do this remarkable feat without taking the money they are going to bestow so lavishly out of the pockets of anybody else. It is only at atime when men generally feel that almost any change would be an improvement that such nonsense will go down with the public. The entire country is suffering from the re-action consequent upon the fever of speculation which held possession of it for several years, and which broke with such fearful results a year ago. The money value of almost everything has fallen greatly; but the truth is, that relative values re- main very nearly where they were before. Yet trade is dull, manufactures depressed, agricul- tural and mining productions in languid demand, and the exchanges of products of all kinds are carried on with apathy. There is one great fact consequent upon this state of things. Abstract and moral questions are completely thrust aside, and the public mind will entertain only such as have a practical and material bearing. Kansas and popular sovereignty, Dred Scott and aboli- tionism, with all their kindred issues, are con- signed to oblivion. It is this state of the public mind that will press upon Congress, during the coming session, the consideration of questions of a purely econo- mical character, With the decline in values, and the accompanying decline in the quantity of exchanges, the ad valorem system of our tariff has proved a complete failure, and its cumbersome machinery and unequal operation have come to press sorely upon commerce. Its petty exac- tions of forms and certificates, and its nice dis- criminations of values, fluctuating with the daily rise and full of a thousand markets, are now secn to be sore burthens, when during a prosperous era they passed unnoticed. The ta- riff must undergo a revision, both in its charac- ter for producing revenue and for the equal dis- tribution of the burthen of taxation. But it is fallacious to suppose that it can be in any way made an instrument to produce a general revi- val of business, Such a result can only be brought about by some great external cause, which shall open new channels for trade, and new markets, both for the supply and the con- sumption of products, If, for instance, Cuba were brought into the Union, there would be an immediate annihilation of that ad balance of trade which for the last few years has accumulated to twenty or twenty-five millions of dollars yearly against us. She would take from us—in return for the sugar we receive from her—flour, meats and cotton goods to that amount, which she is now prevented from taking by special legislation. This alone would bring about a great activity in the production and exchange of those great staples, which would have an immediate effect upon every branch of business in the country, and produce a reciprocal action upon each com- munity that would be highly beneficial. So, too, with Mexico. If the now unproductive mines and fields of that republic were open to Ameri- can enterprise under an American guarantee of public order, there would be a vast field of em- ployment for capital and labor that would operate like magic upon both countries. Not only would business revive with us, but so great is our in- fluence and sympathetic action upon the com- meree of the world that it would revive every- where, The reign of commerce is but just begun in the world. Vast regions and countless millions of men are still kept out of the sphere of its benefits by protective tariff, exclusive systems, and the intolerance of the Dark Ages. The four living nations are each pressing its onward march in parate directions, and with every new conquest of commerce the trade of the world takes a fresh leap, opens new employments for labor, con- structs new ways for the conveyance of man and his products everywhere, and by extending the field of its usefulness gives a greater value to every man’s labor and every man’s wealth. ‘These are the true views that should rule in the discussion of the revision of our tariff, and of the question of the revival of business. Whether England open new fields for the employment of labor and capital in India or Australia, France in Northern Africa, Russia in Manchooria, we in Cuba and Mexico, or all in China, the result is alike beneficial (0 all, for all participate in the new life that is given to trade, The history of the relapses and revivals of commerce fu the laet halfeentury conclusively demonstrates th: jut ot each relapse was due to some mad r of speculation, and each revival followed 2 the admission of some new territor; rtf and Tk may be Be. up re lemoralized democracy of the popular | nation to the republic of wade. ewid | that the madness of speculation followed each revival of trade; but even the speculative fever was beneficial, for it has left us great material creations which never would have been under- taken but for its stimulus. Individuals have been impelled by it to the performance of im- mense labors, which, though they did not reap the fruita, remain for the benefit of their fellow men. In this way every new territorial conquest which commerce has made from the rule of bigotry and exclusivism has resulted to the ma- terial benefit of the whole world. In taking up the tariff question, it should be looked upon merely as the means of pro- viding for the government a stable revenue with the least burthen to the people and the greatest simplicity of form. In connection with it there is the all important question of cttea- cy. The true office ‘of this is to afford to the people a stable representative of valuo, for the purpose of faoilitating the exchange of the products of labor. It has nothing to do with en- hancing or decreasing prices, and any effort to attain such an end by tinkering our currency laws must prove fallacious. But our present system of banking forces upon us a most anoma- lous system of currency, which is a. burtben upon trade, and cubjects the merchant to constant pil- lage, in the shape of discount upon the bills which are current only in limited sections of the country. We needa simple tariff for revenue, and a general banking law which shall make the bills of every bank worth their face all over the country. These will give a comparative stability to trade and to the currency. Then let us bring Cuba and Mexico within the sphere of the re- public of commerce, and we shall have a revival of business and another advance in the value of the labor of man and its products throughout the commercial nations of the globe. InTernationaL Reciprocity oF ADVENTUR_ eRs.—The trite remark, that one-half the world does not know how the other half lives, has been generally applied to the lower order of vaga- bonds—Bohemians, who burrow in cellars, and who are always in the mazes of doubt when they rise in the morning as to where they shall find food for the day. Just above them comes the curious type which the French call chevadiers d’in- dustrie, probably because they are never indus- trious by any possible chance. Still higher in the scale, there are people who would not pick pockets, nor descend to a small swindle, but who contrive to live upon the credulity of that re- spectable portion of the public popularly known as people with more money than brains. The in- creased facilities for communication with Europe, and the idea which prevails there, to a certain extent, that all Americans have plenty of money, have brought about akind of international ex- change of swindlers of the higher order. They call themselves gentlemen, and are received as such in good society, which, exclusive as it is, is very often taken in. The operators who go from this side are chicfly cadets of good fumi- lies with limited means. The young gentleman, having exhausted his cash and his credit, mana- ges, in some mysterious way, to raise a little money, and then sets off on his travels, generally as the agent for the sale of some new inven- tion—a patent mouse trap, a churning machine, or quick medicine, or some other of the ten thousand humbugs of the day. He is to be found early in the spring at London, consorting with some shaking peer or soft young man about town. The favor with which Americans are re- ceived in England is used by these chevaliers to help along their financial operations; and they often find that the British people are the most gullible in the world. After the London season is over our heroes may be met upon the Boule- vards, or at Homburg, or Baden Baden. In the winter they honor Rome or Florence with their agreeable society. They general- ly have a female accomplice—a sham South- ern heiress, or a humbug countess. While the lady fascinates the victim, the gentleman re- lieves him of his loose change in the most refined and elegant way. Some of them have served, they say, in the Crimea, holding commands in the Turkish Contingent or the Foreign Legion, or assisted Todleben to fortify Sebastopol. Like the redoubtable Captain Dalgetty, of glorious memory, their swords have always been at the service of the side that paid the highest price. Their grand patent rights for a churn or some such utensil afford a convenient cloak for their financial operations, and they never fail to obtain their purple and fine linen aod to fare sumptuously every day. Not a few of these fine gentlemen find Europe so enchanting that they tarry there altogether. Some ill-natured people say that they have left certain souvenirs in their ‘native land which make expatriation a matter of uecessity; but that is all sheer envy and spite, a a matter of course. On the other hand, we import a large number of European counts, chevaliers, militaires, and Slaneurs, some of whom have broken down at the Bourse, or have been cleaned out at Baden, or have got into an ugly scrape, which necessitates a change of scene and a journey to some country where liberal opinions upon financial, political and social matters obtain currency. They are generally heavy gamblers, and invariably have a “system” which will inevitably break all the banks. We refer to the banks that are lo- cated up town, not the illiberal and old fogyish institutions in Wall street. Whether the impor- tations succeed in their assaults upon the gentle- men of the green cloth we cannot say. Rumor hath it that their “systems” do not work with that surety that might be anticipated from the high reputation which they bear. It can’t be possible that the uptown bankers have fallen into the vices of the Wall street sharpers, and that they cheat their customers. That would be an awful state of things. Nearly all these chevaliers, American and foreign, belong properly to the demi-monde; they are like Mahomet’s coffin, half way between heaven and earth. They are clever and well educated, of course. They generally have a good manner, and pass in ordinary society for well bred people. Their game is generally the new rich man, who, having spent nearly all his life time in learning the tricks of trade, fancies that he is too clever to be taken in by a loung- ing, soft spoken fellow, who seem no higher object than to say pretty things to Madame, or to attend Mademoiselle at the Opera. And it is a remarkable phase in society on both sides of the Atlantic that these fellows, although they are often known to he what they are rother than what they sec, manage to work their way into good houses and carry out all their plans, whether flaan- cjal or matrimonial, or both—flnuuee being the basis of all their operations. It is not of the slightest use to warn people against them. So there is a new fool horn every day they him, and flgvrish like a forest of long « will gat) green bay trees, The last steamers have brought a large lot of these adventurers to this side for the winter—some from Paris, some from London, some from Baden, some from Florence, some from Rome. They will visit Washington during the next seasion of Congress. Evrect or THs Taxpayers’ Movement—In- picrment or Corporation Orricta1s.—The last Grand Jury indicted a late Collector of Assess- ments and two of his deputies, in consequence of large defalcations discovered in their ac- counts, and the present Grand Jury, we believe, will indict in aday or two a half-dozen more offi- cials on the same grounds. They should include in their billa ef indictment half the Corporation and two-thirds of the Street Commissioner's de- partment—the fellows who put the money in their pockets and don’t keep the streets clean— and then they would have about all the rogues in the right place. There is very little doubt that these indiot- ment are the result of the taxpayers’ movement, and even if no other good comes out of it, some- -thing useful will have been accomplished. The taxpayers held a meeting a few nights ago, in whioh @ number of gentlemen participated, who represented in their own persons nearly fifteen millions worth of real estate. These are the kind of men who can reform the government, and they should pursue the good cause in which they are engaged without flinching. They de- sign holding another meeting next week, at which it is probable some progress will be made towards nominating parties fer some of the most responsible offices under the Corporation. In making nominations they should not forget the candidates for Assembly and the te Senate, Our representatives at Albany exercise no small influence on our local government, and it is im- portant that we should send the right men there. The property holders represented at the late taxpayers’ meeting could furnish, without inconvenience to themselves, two or three hun- dred thousand dollars towards the expenses of the election, and that sum would be abundant for the purpose. The disposition to carry out the views we have so repeatedly urged in this question of municipal reform is evidently uni- versal with the taxpayers, and has been for some time; but the difficulty was to start the movement. That has now been done, and the next thing in order is to find the proper men to manage it. Men of business are usually no match for your professional politicians; and the leading men in this movement, being of the former class, may feel timid at entering the arena with them. Nevertheless, they must not falter: there is time enough between this and the elec- tions to put the organization in a position which may command success. In times of agitation good men come to the surface. Tar Vesrzcenans’ Drsvern to THe Corpora- Tion.—This evening the Venezuelan Commis- sioners who came to this city for the purpose of inviting General Paez to return to his native country, will entertain the Corporation at a grand banquet at the Metropolitan Hotel, as an acknowledgment of the kindness which the dis- tinguished ex-President of their nation and other exiles from Venezuela have received at the hands of our citizens. It will undoubt- edly be a very fine affair, well becoming the oc- casion. In accordance with the suggestion made in the Heratp, that General Paez should be of- fered a national vessel to convey him and his suite to his country, measures have been taken with a view to that end. A strong memorial, signed by the Mayor, the principal Judges, the Chamber of Commerce, and many influential merchants, bas been forwarded to the President, requesting him to place a war steamer at Gen. Paez’s disposal—a request which we trust will be gracefully acceded to od to by Mr. Buchanan. Too mvcH Ture FOR @ Samasxa—We advise Judge Parker, who is now stumping the State, toomit, in his speeches, all discussions of the Kansas question. They can do him no earthly good, but, on the contrary, work a great deal of harm, by giving material to the opposition, and re-opening an ugly issue. General Scott lost his election by making too many speeches, and Judge Parker will do well to profit by so notable an example. A Go Asus Nawsraren.—The venerable National Intelligencer of Washington regales its readers, as a piece of early news, with the speech of Senator Trumbull on Kansas, delivered last March. No wonder that the Washington jour- nals require aid from Congress to eke Out their sickly existence. A Van Swar—-The nomination of Anson Llerrick for Congress in the up town district will be, from the candidate's enlarged experience in the Corporation lobby, « fair exchange tor the wiping out of the redoubtable Matteson. Tie Orrxa—Secoxp Nicitt or Piccovomisi.—Moist weather, after the London fashion, did not detract from the attractive qualities of the new prima donna last night. The Academy presented an array of auditors nearly equal in numbers to the great crush of Monday, while the world of fashion was out in full force. It is not often that a pretty prima donna isa favorite with ber own sex, but La Piccolomini seems to have captivated the women as well as the men, The ladies are all in raptares with what they call ber pretty ways; while as for the men, the most blag opera goer is obliged to acknowledge that Piccolomini) bas given him a fresh sensation. The opera of Monday, the “Traviata,” was repeated last evening, with an unaltered distribution of the prin. cipal characters. Piccolomini was received with unbound. ed enthusiasm; and in all the strong pointe of the opera renew repeated the triumphs of her débae. Piccolomini displayed more facility of exeention in sing ing the musie, and acted with even greater effect than on the Grst night. The other artists were earier in their rolés, and the performance was altogether highly merito- rious. The splendid ball seene of the third act (as arranged here the long second act is divided) was heartily ap plauded, and the premiere dancewse, Senorita Soto, won fresh Iaprele Piccolomini reorived a second ovation from an enthusi astic andionce. Her success with our public seems to be assured. “La Traviata’ will be given for the third time on Monday, and many places for that night have already been taken Beveron’s THRATRR—CLOSE OF THE OPERA SkaAsON AT BR ToN's.—The final Opera performance, for the present, at thi hone, was given on Thursday, when Madame Colson sanz Violetta in the “Traviata,” to a full house. ‘The perform ce is altogether admirable, as we can assure our readers jo tie cure! distriets where the artists are going. The season was one of four nights only, two being devoted to the débit of Mime. De Wilhorst, who sung the “Poritani’’ charmingly, and achieved a deserved success. ‘The com. pany, which ineludes De Wilhorst, Parodi, Colson, Mme, Strakoseh, Brignoli, Amodio and Junea, sing in Baltimore and Washington, commencing to-morrow night, and open ot the Phadelphia Academy on the first of November Having two good companies, we can spare one to the Philadelphians, and it isto be hoped that they will be truly grateful Prone Reanie oF Loxareutow's New Porw —Mies Vir ginia Vaugho, a young lady of this city, whe has ox hibited marked dramatic talent, will read ©). ( p of Miles Stand Dodworth's Rooms. aT day be meen ew > freaboas wc of tao tse? Powe poe by any THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despateh. THE CENTPAL AMERICAN STATES AND THE MORA- MARTINEZ MANIFESTO—MORE FILIBUSTBRING Ont FOOT—VESSELS FOR PARAGUAY, ETO. Wasteron, Oct. 22, 1856. It is understood bere that the President of San Salvader has written a lett | vcthe effect that neither that republie nor Honduras ang”Guatemala have aay connection wit the stupid manifesto of Mora and Martinea, asking Kuro- pean aid against the United States. It is believed in cer- tain circles here that five hundred to a thousand emi- grants, armed ¢@ la Kansas, will be in Nicaragua before the Ist of December. We have already one exiled Nioa- raguan Minister in this country, Don Fermin Ferrer. ia two months there will be another, General Maximo Jerez. The Secretary of the Navy seems resolved to make the Paraguay expedition efficient. Agreement has been made with Captain Templeton, of New Orleans, for the steamer Metacomet, of 396 tons, for six months service, the owner to bear the risk of los from Pensacola to Buonos Ayres, and from tho latter to New Orleans. Besides, it is under- Stood other parties are here for the purpose of contracting for several other steamers. George N. Sandors is here, it is said, to bave a finger in that pie. The President has reapited for a fortnight Barrett, wae was t0 have been executed to-day, ‘THE GNWERAL NEWSPAPER DMSPATCH. Wasammoron, Oct. 22, 1866. Hon. J. Glancey Jones arrived here this evening. He was recerved by his political friends and made a specdh. ‘The assemblage was also addressed by ex-Govornors Lane and Stevens, and by Messrs, Ratcliffe and Berret. ‘Tho President gubsequently was seronaded. Vice President Breckinridge tn Favor of Dougias. Srrmvormip, Oct. 22, 1866. ‘The Domocratic Central Committee of Mlinois received this morning a letter from Vice President Breckinridge, urging the re-clection of Mr. Douglas to the United States | Sonate. The letter will appear in the State Register e- morrow. Vice President Breckinridge writes to Hon. John Moore, Chairman of the Illinois Democratic State Committee, im reply to an invitation to visit Illinois and address the pee- plo, that the information of the committee that he desired to do so is incorrect, but that he will not decline to an- swer their courteous letter. He says that he cannot ea- dorse the course of Mr. Douglas in the late seasion of Com- gress upon the Kansas question, but that the question be- ing practically settled, and Mr. Douglas being the leader of the democracy of Illinois in their present fight againat black republicanism, he sympathizes with him; desires his success and trusts that the democracy of that State, which has never given a sectional vote, will not be found now laggard in duty so the constitution and the Union. W. Le Roy, the administration candidate for Congroas in the Third district, made a speech at Bloomington last night, withdrawing his name as candidate, and advising his friends to support the regular democratic nominees for Congress, State offices and representatives, who will vote for Douglas for United States Senator. . Very Late from Utah. Sr. Louns, Oct. 22, 1868. The Salt Lake mail, with dates of the 25th of September, reached St. Josoph onthe 16th. Sixty trains had passed Fort Bridger up to the 22d ult., twenty were met on tho Sweetwater, and eight more north of the crossing of the Platte. Snow was encountered east of Fort Laramie. Two companies of cavalry, returning via /’ike’s Peak, were passed on the Big Blue. Judge Eckels was moet on the Big Sandy, Colonel Wilson was at O’Fallon’s Bluff, progress ing finely. Tho Indians were numerous, but peaceable. It was thought that several trains would be overtaken by snow in the mountains, and much suffering was antici pated. Business was very brisk at Salt Lake. Trains were constantly arriving from California with goods and provisions. There was good feeling between the Mormons and Gentiles. The former speak in high terms of Gover nor Cumming. General Johnston's command consists of 7,000 to 8,000 men, including troops and employées, all of whom were consolidated in one graud encampment, and woula remain together during the winter. Thero were about 4,000 troops at Fort Bridger under Colonel Cambrey. Colonel Morrison, of the Seveuth infantry tad arrived at Camp Floyd. News from the Kansas Gold Fields. St. Lours, Oot, 22, 1868. We have Leavenworth dates of the 20th instant. A Portion of the Lawrence company had returned from the South Platte mines, bringing news to Sept. 20. Their ac counts fully authenticate the existeuce of gold all along the South Platte, having prospected everywhere with fair ‘success. Most of the miners were seeking winter quar ters at Bent's and St. Vrain's forts. The retorned party designed wintering at Lawrence, where they were tea dered a public reception. They will return to the mines in the spring with a large outfit. Numbers cont.aue to leave here with the intention of wintering along the road Major Sibley arrived yesterday from Utab, accom panied by Lieut, Bell, who was lost from bis detachment in the Cheyenne country. Lieut. Cunningham, with a detachment of infantry, left yesterday for the Pawnee nation, to superintead the payment of the annuities to that tribe. ‘The Execution of Ira Stout. Rocumsran, Oct. 22, 1858 At fifteen minutes past two o'clock the provession headed by Deputy Sherif Warner reached the jail. The military were drawn up in line so as to open & passage to the jail. As soon as they had arrived and takon tho Places assigned them by the officers, the prisonor, Ira Stout, was brought down from his reom to the gallows. He was supported by Deputy Sheriffs Pond and Marrit!, and followed by bis spiritual advisers, Moasrs. Holchicus, Cutting, Boardmann and others. ‘The prisoner was arrayed in a suit of black, and wort on his head a white cap, His step was tolerably firm, considering the fact that he had a spell of fainting about noon, On reaching the gallows be took a seat while jp A Sheriff Warren read the death warrant in a dis- Unet and forcible manner. At the conclusion of the reading Mr. Warren told the prisoner that the time had arrived to put the warrant into execution, and og if he had anything to say he had now an Stout — rise, bot while seated inacieranad yowe said — Gextiewes—T am of the opinion that the: siderable vindictivenees in this matier, and bere there la vty dicnenem i dict peak Thave left may oracle, whieh | my feelings dying maa, that contains wil I have to say =e — Rev. Mr. Hotchkiss, then standit right, said he would read the whole Ist Corinthiaas, at the request of the it, the Meanwhile seated at the prisoner's the 15th chapter of r, and he read ot the prisoner. ‘The prayer concluded, Mr. Hotchkise conversed a ment inaudibly with Stont, and then said that ae him to say that be did nen net th to pray, b tly. scored the prayer had The Sheriffs, officers and friends thee iy ve the Caz. and depoty Sherif Warner the rope about his neck and drew the cap over bis While the officers were pinioning his arma, Stout ite ereet and remained in that attitude till the Hie wae quite firm im his come complacent emile to all in bidding adieu, ‘ead fave mt a times, ‘bis arrest face. = Rabeeck pulled the fatal line, and Ira Stout was suapended three feet from the floor. Not a sound was Lg lh 4 direction, save the heay the fatal work. The deat! sudden as could be desired ton minutes were sevore and caused turn away in disgust, Tlis neck wag probably not dislocated and he died by a slow pens of Mrangulation. ‘Drs. Hall, Avery, James iller stood near, and in cight minutes after the drop fell, they said his pulse wae Toll as im rife. At the end of half an bour bis body was eut down and placed in the coffin, preparatory to being taken to the residence of his mother, in Exchange street. The following is the petition for @ commutation of th sentence of death, presented to Governor Kir 1 th handwriting of Ira Stout — To His Excenuevey Jon A. Kiva, Governor of the State o New York — nndersigned, citit>ns of the county of Monroe and city of Rochester, Feapecttuliy reqnest that your Exceller cy. walt te pleased tg commute th sentence of Ira Stout, now ia coo finement in Monroe Coun y jail, (0 tmprisonment 0. the State ptjgon for the period of b's hatiral life. ‘The grounds of thie app ation are agYollows -— 1. the guilt ot the prisoner of murdes, tho w'ols cave shred he had 9 rrible provocation in the deairo to, ater, the wife of ive deceased, of a h sand who united in bis persom all the but quit" = whieh © “coder & curse. He Wasa ty nt, wm owui cor 8 debauchoo Aushand of the vilest character, Preece was the guilt of the prisoner it ts evident from al! the evidenee in ihe cage that Ira Stout and B xc "ates hares in be erin: ond are eqnally guilt wed ie the prosecution that Mra, Litt 4 Plan to decoy Littles to the a pe ond ‘and there bil this very eame ev Hence, Tra Stout wan murder, and is under sentence to be hung 00 tober, Mog. Litt 9 wae only convietad of manslaugn second cegree and seaienced tothe State prism rinimiy jrustion demands that the one who meni to ali ate assiat Se sister shold not comet a ‘be principal escapes wita | mdaratively Stont & OC the homichte te Bayon at { ¢ My froyy tine et thas, met eare, Ticeewient arenas. (hrente, aud ao Ibveceucot Mi wil, will, OL, ——————— —— o