The New York Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1858, Page 4

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The evidence as to the presence of arsenic being un- mistakeable, the jury rendered a verdict against the prisoner, charging him with the murder of his wife. Upon the rendition of the verdict Stephens was examined in the usual manner prescribed by law, and then committed to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury. ewhere will be found afull report of the proceed relating this most extraordinary case. Th ham, will t lorous, Captain Ald for Central America, to Sir William Gore Ouse- am frigate V w to-nic touch at Jamaica ev sa ey proceeds in her on his mission to Nicaragua and the other Centra! American Stat While the Valorou nin port her gentlemanly oificers have been f shore, and have been kindly received at entertained A me quent), g in Tamim ting nominations. It meetings at th Old Wigwam tame and spiritless. Van Buren, Jo! A. Dix, John Kelly, Wm. W Serugham aud Conrad Swackhamer. See our re port. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last evening a communication was received from | ' NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER A vumber of other vessels with cargoes of fruit from the Mediterranean are now due. We shall probably have a good supply this year for the holi- days. The British schooner Lavinia arrived at this port on Saturday last from Port George, N.8., with a cargo of pig iron, which is the first importation of the kind from the Provinces. It is said to be supe- rior to the Scotch iron. The second annual festival of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, for the benefit of the poor, begins to-day at the City Assembly Rooms, and will ex- tend over five day: The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 860 bales closing withont change of moment in prices, Flour was «rather easior for the common grades, while extra were unchanged, The transactions were to a fair chiefly to the home trade, Wheat was irregular hor lower, especially for common qualities, while sales were more freely made at the concession, Corn was lower, but active, the sales having reached about 78,000 bushels, chiefly Western mixed, at @4c. 2 660. Pork was quite active and firmer, with sales of mess at $1650 a $16 76, old prime at $14 16, and new do, at $14 50. Sugars were in better demand; and closed at an advance of about tye, per Ib., with sales of about 1,900 hhds, Whiskey was easier, but more active, closing at 220, Freights were firmer, while engagements were moderate; so many vessels having left for the cotton ports of the South, room for Liverpoe! for the present has become scarce. The Donglas Conspiracy and its Tammany Affiliations--More Testimony. In the instructive and interesting letter upon Mlinois polities, from our Chicago correspondent, which we publish this morning, our readers will find some very curious developements concerning the intimate sympathies existing between the Douglas faction in Minois and the scheming leaders of our Tammany Hull democracy. Thus we are told that the Nlinois Douglas men “open- ly avow their reliance on the sympathy, comfort and assistance of Daniel E. Sickles, Isase V. Fow- ler, Messrs. Tart, Rynders «nd Butterworth, of New York, and Mr. Israel T. Hatch, of Buifialo.” Our correspondent might very properly have added Mr. Dean Richmond, Peter Cagger and Erastus Corning, of Albany, and our Central Railroad junta, withont distinction of party. But what is the meaning of this wide spread Douglas defection in the democratic camp, ex- tending from Ilinois to Georgia, from Georgia to Washington, and from Washington to the Tammany leaders of this city, of Albany and at Syracuse? The meaning, we are told, is * popu- lar sovercignty’—the right of the people of Kansas “to regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the coastiiu- tion of the United States.” Was there ever a shallower pretext or a more impudent dodge than this? Have not the people of Kansas ex ercised their “popular sovereignty” with the largest liberty in the rejection of the Lecomp- ton constitution? Are they not now at per- feet liberty to “regulate their domestic instita- tions in their ewn way?” And is it not conceded, on all hands, that thoy will be admitted asa sovereign State with their first regularly adopted constilution, without the slightest regard to the population restriction of the English bill? No man regardful of the truth can answer any oue of these questions in the negative. ‘The hue and ery, therefore, of this Douglas conspiracy, for “popular sovereigaty,”’ is a hum- lug, acheat and a dodge. The general object of the conspiracy is to break down the present federal administration, in order to pave the way for the spoils and plunder of the next. The re- bellion of Douglas was a foregone conclusion some months betore the Lecompton constitution } ting the Croton | Mayor, vetoir olution dir Aqueduct Board to increase the wages of cartmen employed in paving streets to the rate paid prior | to the Ist of July last. The President of the Hudson River Railroad sevt in a comm ation stating that the company would put city cars on their road as soon as the Common Council will give them per. mission to do so. A re on was offered stating that the exterior line of the city established by the Harbor Commissioners deviates so far from the line formerly fixed as to reqaire a change of grade of the streets which intersect the same. The iat ter, which is of considerable importance, was re- ferred to the Committee on Roads for in The Boord of Councilmen met last evening and transacted a large amount of routine business. M Crom presented a resolution directing the Clerk to send all the papers received from the Aldermen re lative to the Fifty-second street contract to the joint Committee on Accounts, which was referred. Are port in favor of concurring with the other Board to advertise for proposals for 25,900 feet of hove was laid over. Mr. Brady offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Comptroller to adver tise for proposals for a lot to build a house for Bn gine Company No. 21. The Greenpoint Ferry Com pany were instructed to ran three boats on their ferry between one and seven o'clock P.M. Ar solution appropriating $15,000 to defray the ex- penses incurred in celebrating the successful laying of the Atlantic Telegraph wee lost, and, un motion, was laid on A motion appropriating $50,000 for repa City Holl was adopted. A n favor the sale of the Grand | Thue, too, we find all these party con or the Lecompton Convention had an existence. That letter of Mr. Douglas to the I tent, last summer s office at Washington, substantially said to Mr. Buchanan, “Mind, now, what 1 say, or you will be punished for your disobedience.” That letter compre- hends the first significant warning of a premedi- tated bolt, and Lecompton, affording the con- venient pretext, was appropriated, in a formal declaration of war, with the reading of the Presi- dent's firet annual message. Lut when the Lecompton bill had been defeat- cd, and a substitute passed which practically settled the Kansas issue in behalf of popular sove- reignty, and when it was supposed that Mr. Douglas would consent to bury the hatchet upon this compromise, what was his course? He re- turned to Iinois, and in his first speech to hi conetituents he declared war to the vinst ihe administration and the majority of Congress whieh passed the English bill. Had he consent- ed, like Mr. English and other supporters of the Dill, to recognise the restriction of said bill in favor of a slave State and against a free State as a nollity—worth nothing and binding nohbody— there would have been an end to the rupture be- iween Mr. Douglas and the administration. But | the Lecompton belt of Mr. Douglas had removed him out of the regular line of democratic avail- wubles for the next Presidency, and so he resolved to fight the battle through against the admiuistra- tion. reckless of the consequences to the demo- cratic party. Thins he hos pursued the old Van Buren idea vnury movement, through which he of a rey | may compass a balance of power sufficient to break down the adwinietration and to command the ter of coalition either with or against the den And thus it appears that upon thie exploded Kansas humbug he has se- cured the «ympathics of office holders and office seekers, Northern doughfaces and Southern fi dential and Presi- ates of the democratic party, in Donglas balance of power, of the C1 ton Convention, and the spofle and plunder of the next Presidency. lerates of eratic purty. cliques ther Corther sireet and Peck slip ferry was adog A resolu tion in favor of donating $500 to the Presidents of each of the Boards for services as Health Commis joners was lost. Au lopted direet ing the dive of hackney wches to wear | The Senatorial & ‘y Commit have |b n| gaged for son 1 investigating the canses which rend tality in New York #9 much greater than that of other large cities in this country and Europe. They held their third meet ing yesterday, and received the testimony of Dre Francis and Batche who stated that among th | great causes of the evil in question, the i | system of sewerage and the number of underground | tew nts wh e t he together with th x tensive use of «will milk, «will beef and had must be prominently considered The first annual jon of the Law Department of the Univerity of the City of New York commenced ast evening in the large chap f the University The opening address was del I hy Rev. Isan Ferris, D.D., LALD., Chancellor of University and President of the Faculty. The learned Doctor gave # graphic sketch of the history of the y, showing the difficulti ] the successes it had « abored in The treductory lecture of the course was then y the Hon. Thomas W. Clerke, senior p ror, apon the subject of “Legal Education and Method of Rendering it Effective e was apposite to the o¢ appre jon by the andience A number of vessels have arrived wince Friday last from Spain and Sicily, briuging corgoes of raisias and almonds of the ne ) wit at New York Ww or Douglas, North and South, East and West, open- ly orsceretly co-operating, first, to break down Mr. Buchanan's administration and get it out of the way: and, secondly, to regulate the Charleston Convention or the Seward coalition for the ene- Forney has publicly declared that «if veraey desire snecess in 1860 they must inistration;” and all the other here and elsewhere, are cting upon tals opinion as a common for conspirators donbrle + Tammany Hall intriguers, lippery pretences and professions w fd administration at Syracuse and in the Old Wigwam.) are secretly but deeply im- plicated. Thee adeoit devices for securing the m of Clark and Haskin, and other Con- vel cnemice of the administration, and their demoralization of the rank and file of the pariy here, are all but parts of the same pro- first, the rain of the administration, regardless of the democratic par and, recond- ly. « reorganization for the succession which will control or defeat the Charleston Conventic We appretend, however, that an aduinistra- w which, notwithstanding the factions leaders, cliques and divisions in ite own party camp, has accomplished during one session of Congress the proctiea! settlement of the Kaasas issue, the ! ro-oh gramine: Mormon rebellion, the Central American filibus- ters, and the question of the right of search—so fur ae admicsible of a practical solution—is an administration which will prove too strong for this Douglas conspiracy, though the conspiracy may prove too strong for the democratic party. In this view, while we anticipate an over- whelming defeat of the democracy of New York in our November election, demoralized and weakened as they are by the treacherous Douglas managers of Tammany Hall, we have no fear concerning the stability and the continued suc- cence of Mr. Buchanan’s administration. Farwrrs or Justice Turoven Orrtciat Iy- comreTeNcE—Caset or Dr. Garmtanper.—Dr. Gaillardet’s counsel are, it is stated, preparing a bill of exceptions on which to found a motion for a new trial. His case will, therefore, probably pass through the same phases as that of Cancemi, contributing in their turn to illustrate the glo- rious uncertainty of the law. We presume that there is but one opinion as to the character of the offence committed by Dr. Gaillardet. Taking the time, the place and the circumstances into consideration, our readers will agree with us that A more unjustifiable outrage never was 20m- mitted. The provocation alleged in behalf cf the defendant furnished no rational grounds for such an act of violence. Mr. Cranston was only exer- cising a right and a duty in protecting tbe in- mates of his establishment against what h: con- sidered an attempt on the part of the Doctor to deceive him in regard to the character of an in- fectious case. The circumstances were too pressing, the responsibilities of the case too great, for a landlord to be expected to measure over nicely his tone and language towards a man whom he believed to have been guilty of so dangerous a want of candor. Most other medical practitioners situated like Dr. Gaillar- det would have recognized these grounds for the display of a little temper, and for their own sakes would have udopted some quiet means of setting the matter right. The Doctor, unfortu- nately for himself, took a different course, and hence the painful position in which he now finds himself. It is evident that the punishment which the defendant bas already suffered, in the publicity attending his offence and the distress inflicted by it on bis family, will be the only vindication which the law will receive. Motions for arrest of judgment, new trials, and a final appeal to the Governor, will no doubt enable him to escape the legal penalty due to his offence. He has money, and friends without number, and what Cancemi could effect without these aids it is not to be presumed he will fail in. It is curious how the whole machinery of our courts adapts itself to these issues and loopholes of escape for a de- fendant. Indictments and judges’ charges seem to be framed specially with a view to enable bills of exceptions and motions for new trials to be founded upon them. We know not the precise points on which Dr. Gaillardet’s counsel mean to rely, but there is one in the indictment which will serve as an illustration of the loose way ia which criminal prosecutions are conducted here. One of the counts charges the defendant with com- mitting the assault with intent to kill. Now this is a manifest absurdity, If he had any idea of this sort he would have armed himself with some more effective weapon than a champagne bottle, and would have chosen a different situa- tion for the premeditated tragedy than the pub- lie dining room of a hotel. We can see no earthly object in these legal exaggerations, unless it be to furnish subjects for the lngenuity of taw- yers and opportunities of escape for offenders. In the case of a poor and friendless prisoner they have another and equally bad effvct—that of creating against him a stronger prejudice than bis case warrants. The same observations apply generally to the charges of our Judges. They are wanting in the clear discrimination, the unswerving impar- tiality, and the calmness of temper, which should always characterize judicial statements. But what is worse, they are but too frequently de- ficient in a knowledge, not merely of legal preee- denis, but of the commonest principles of law, The elective judiciary cleuse has done this for us, and until it is repealed we must be resigned to see the authority of our courts sink into con- tempt and criminals daily escaping the punish- ment of their offences. That our city is not abandoned entirely to the mercy of the lawless and predatory is owing merely to the exertions of a single magistrate—the only one of our Judges, in fact, who has a competent knowledge of criminal law and conscientiousness enough to exercise it for the public protection. Mesterrat, Connrertiox.The indictment of half a dozen Corporation officials by the Grand Jury, on Saturday, bas caused quite a flatter in the dovecots about the City Ifall. There are so many guilty consciences in that delectable lo- cality that hardly any one felt secure when the intelligence was bruited around. The indicted parties, we learn, will be bronght to-day before the Recorder, and all doubt as to who they are will be set at rest, #0 that the unindicted can breathe freely for a while. We have heard some names mentioned which bave become familiar as household words to the public ear in connection with sundry alleged frauds in the Street Depart- ment. An ex-Street Commissioner, who enjoyed a brief and stormy reign, a late Deputy Street Commissioner, and two ¢ Surveyors, we be- lieve, are among the number to he arraigned to anewer charges of fraud committed in the dis charge of their public duties. But the prosecuting officer chould not stop with this batch. There is no doubt that indiet- ments could be readily found against a whole army of fellows in all the public offices of the city government, as well as against many mem- bere of both Boards of the Common Council. The department of the Street Commissioner, with its horde of attendant contractors, surveyors, inspec- tors, and #0 forth, has figured conspicuously under its former heads in most of the frauds which have recently come to light, and many of the above classes are no doubt amenable to the law. We learn, however, that under its present management there has been a change effected in the eyetem of the Street Department, and that not only have no frauds occurred in any of its transactions since the present Commissioner and hie aesietants, Captains Smith and Lovell, have taken it in hand, but the indictments recently found have been mainly based upon information supplied by them. Tl is but just to the yery few honest officials we can boast of that they should not be included in the catelogue of criminals who deserve, if they do not receive, the special attention of the Grand Jury. ‘The only way to stop the tide of corruption is to indiet about half the members of the Corpo- ration sand supply their places at the December election by honest, incorruptible men; and we hope to see both of these things accomplished. { The State of ‘xleo--What our Government Can and Should do in the Matter. We learn by our advices from Mexico that | the defeat of Vidaurri has thrown the constitu- | tionalists there, including President Juarez and his Cabinet, into consternation, and that just now great doubts are entertained of the result of the | present contest. At the same time, our Washing- ton correspondent writes that Senor Mata, the agent of President Juarez, has lett Washington for Vera Cruz, hoping to return before the close of the session of Congress in a shape that will warrant his recognition as Minister, and with authority to negotiate a treaty involving a rail- roud route to the Gulf of California, commercial reciprocity for the northern frontier, and the neutrality of the Tehuantepeo isthmus. These are the dreams of men who insist upon looking on Mexico as she was, and not as she is. But the republic that once counted on a revenue of sixteen millions of dollars from ber customs alone, and found no great trouble in keeping an army of one hundred thousand men in the field, has ceased to exist. Mexico knows those things no more. Her revenue has dwindled down to a few hundred thousands, which are grasped in transitu by factious local leaders long before they come into the coffers of the State, and is fast coming to the point of nothing. Nei- ther of the contending Presidents that now con- tend for the government of the country can bring into the field more than three or four thousand men, and these are kept together by a regular system of pillage, forced loans, and the capacity of a Mexican soldier to live ona hand- ful of cornmeal a day. Whichever party obtains @ triumph now will obtain it by the utter ex- haustion of its opponent, and it will come into power in such a state of destitution that it will be seriously threatened with death from the loss of the counter-irritant which it now receives from its antagonist. For the last five or eight years no administration that has existed in Mexico has possessed any real power beyond a radius of six- ty leagues from the capital, and future adminis- trations there will not possess any beyond six leagues, unless a radical change takes place. Mexico is disintegrated, and she is now rapidly approaching a state of absolute anarchy. A sem- blance of order may be kept up by Zamora in Vera Cruz, Alvarez in Guerrero, Yanez in Sinaloa, Pesqueira in Sonora, and Vi- daurri in New Leon; but everywhere else, and beyond the immediate presence of the reduced forces of these leaders, the men who live by plunder will rule and destroy the country. The working of the mines must stop, the guard- ing of the haciendas cannot be kept up, and their cattle and products will be swept off by hordes of Indian and half-breed maurauders. Commerce is completely destroyed and indus- try paralyzed, so that even the springs for its re- euscitation are dricd up. Nowhere has the go- vernment the power to give order and peace to the country, or even to protect the highways. Six months ago we sent a Special Agent to Mexico to look into the state of the country, ond his report to us demonstrated the existence of all this weakness, and pointed out the fact that Mexico needs something more than paper treaties, moral influences and a few dollars to re- suscitate her. She must have new blood and new brains. Not that strong men, wise men and honest men, do not exist there; but they have lost the power of awakening the public confidence and drawing out the hidden resources of the land. The rob- bers can command more physical force than they, and thus come into the high places. In this both of the present contendants are very much alike. Osollos and Miramon sprang at once from the command of half a dozen highwaymen to the command of the armies of the church, Huerta and Garza are alike robbers. Cobos, a Zuloaga general, and Pueblita, holding the same rank under the constitutionalists, are both high- waymen by profession. In the loug list of ex- isting Mexican generals few of the old names of commanders are found, and none in active ser- vice. These men must be superseded in Mexico, and the honest men existing there must bave the support of bone, sinew and mind from this eoun- try. But this cannot be given before it is asked for by them, and it cannot be asked for by them until they are ¢erlain that they will receive tt on asking. Should they ask and not receive, the robbers whe now command the physical power there would sacrifice every man of them, orcom- pel them to fice for their lives, These are facts that suould be taken into con- sideration by our government. It may wait till doomsday for something to succeed in Mexico that shall be entitled to its moral influence and physical aid, and it will then be disappointed. Nothing entitled to euch aid can succeed, and if it could euceced it would not want the assist- ance. The government should determine its policy toward Mexico at an early day, and then sead acapable Commissioner down there to find the means of having that policy carried ont. Such means do exist, and a man of the right stamp can find them. If some such course is not taken, Mexico will never again know the bless ings of internal peace, and our citizens and those of other countries now there will be plundered and ruined, and the Mexicans themselves will then prey upon each other to the bitter end. Strate Porrrics.-While the political cauldron of the metropolis is seething with its multifa- rious elements, 1oore antagonistic than the bell- broth that the \ ches made for Msebeth, the Albany cliques ar sily engaged in work- ing the rural districts so a to procure the return of a plietle Legislature. The men who are to be sent to Albany this year must be as carefully selected, wiped and polished, as Newtown pip- pins for exportation. The Albany clique and its agents here is composed of lobby journalists, railway speculators and jobbing politicians, It has two grand objects in view. The first is po- litical. It is desired that the Legislature shall be deeply dyed with Seward’s colors, in order to improve his chances for the republican nomi- nation in 1860. Without the countenance of this State Seward would be laid owt flatter than Weed's Morgan—we mean the old Morgan now. The second motive for the strenuous efforts that are being made to secure the next Legislature is a financial one, and looks forward to the purchase of the canals at about one-third or one-fourth of their original cost, to ray nothing of the immense sums that have been spent npon them since. It is now designed to buy them in for ten or fifteen millions, in place of the forty millions which they cost, and work them together with the railway interest, as ia Penneylvania and New Jersey. The job will net from the first great fortunes for the clique that carries it through, and will enrich all the railway men, who can then control the entire carrying trade of the State, and fix whatever rate of tariff, both for railway and canal freight, they | may please, That game can be played by having 26, 1858, a Legislature which the lobby olique call “all right,” but which the people will be very likely to call “all wrong” after the mischier has boen done. Female Pepesrrians.—It seems, from re- cent demonstrations in this city, that some of the strong-ninded women have become strong limbed as well, and that two Yankee females have chosen the metropolis as the scene of their feats with their feet. The cheerful announce- ments of these Amazons communicate to the public the interesting fact that they will walk upon a “plank continuously until one or the other stops, falls off, or goes to sleep.” The nominal stake for which they contend is the sum of one hundred dollars, and from all ac- counts they are attired in 8 manner at once vul- gar and indecent. To debase the particular women engaged in this occupation still further they are given slang names, such as are applied to pugilists by their admirers. The fact that these contestants came from a part of the coun- try which claims superior intelligence, more common schools, greater scvans, @ more moral, refined, religious and cultivated population, is one to which we would call the especial attention of the New England pulpit, which has long ago consigned New York to the fate of Sodom, and to the New England journalists, who may find in it a subject fora homily upon the atrocious and infernally vicious character of a metropolis which could +0 soon degrade woman to walking a plank—a species of exercise but a very little more elevated than walking the street. We do hope that they will omit all allusion to the fact that the women were brought here especially to give their pedal exhibition, as the fact might damage the logic of the thundering articles which the provincial press is fond of hurling upon our heads. They must also keep out of sight the fact that all such shows, whether of strong limbed women, or of muscular men, or of female equestrianism, receive no countenance from the respectable portion of the New York public or the New York preas; that we, in common with others, do not hesitate to condemn, as the most contemptible sophistry, the argument that such exhibitions tend to any good compared with the evil which they work; that where they may develope one set of muscles, they ruin an hundred ets of characters; and that all the trash that is urged in favor of these exhibitions is too flimsy for the trouble of annihilation; that they are usually gotten up by fellows who are too lazy to work, and who are mean enough to degrade women and pick the pockets of the public at the same time. It is unpleasant to say these things, but much more unpleasant to see them. They should be crushed out by the scorn and contempt of an intelligent community. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despateh. VIDAURRI'S DEFEAT IN MEXICO AND ITS CONSE- QUENCES—-NEGOTIATIONS OF THE JUAREZ REPRE- SENTATIVE—RKETURN OF OUR MINISTER TO CHINA, ETC, ETC. Wasminaton, Oct. 25, 1858. Advices from Monterey state that on the receipt of the news there of Vidaurri’s defeat at San Luis Potosi quite a panic took possession of the citizens, and particularly the foreign residents, who had been lending Vidaurri the money which enabled bim to move on the centre. It was Supposed that the central forces would march at ounce on the frontier, and that all the foreigners would be com- pelled to leave for the United States. Our Consul at Mou- terey was involved in these speculative loans, and it is supposed he may have involved in some degree the non- terference policy of the government. Senor Mata, the representative of President Juarez and the constitutionalists, bas left for Vera Cruz. Before leav- ing he was admitted to a private interview with the Presi- dent, and another with Gen. Case. The chief point of de- sire on the part of President Juarez is to obtain some pecuniary aid from our government, and Senor Mata was given to understand that our goveru- tment could take no part in the present contest in Mexico; but should the constitutionalists succeed, and evince a disposition to arrange the pending questions be- tween the two countries and the claims of American citi- zens in an amicable and just spirit, they would find on the part of this government every disposition to afford them Such moral and material aid as was in its power. The pointe on which such a negotiation might tarn are:—A railroad route to some port on the Gulf of Cali fornia; a Liberal commercial treaty, including reciprocity in certa‘a articles on the northern and California frontier ; anda treaty guarantying the neutrality of the Tehuan tepec route, Senor Mata will return here before the close vr fie session, s0.a8 to give the President ap opporjuaity to request Congress to act before spring. Some of the foreigu ministers have been in communica- tion with the State Department regarding Mexico. It appears that not ouly Spaniards, but foreyners generally, were subject to severe proscription at San Luis Potwsi avd other places. Mr. Reed will return home from China leisarely, by the route of the Brith mai! steamers. It is rumored bere that be wiil obtain the mission to England, as au acknow- ledgment of bis success in the East. Governor Winslow, ot North Carolina, to whom the Pre sident offered the migsion to Sardinia, does not accept. He is in Washington. Mr. Daniel, our preseut Minister, teu dered his resignation, but it is supposed, Mr. Winslow having declined, that Mr. Daniel's resignation will not bo accepted at present. ‘The offer of the Society Islands to thie country by cer tain native chiefs, through our Consul at Tahiti, has not yet been noticed by the administration. Tho State De partment has received a communication from other chicis of parties objecting to the cession of the iwlands. The pro position is not regarded as of much importance. Besites, with their almost barbarous population, to subject the islands to our government is considered deo}tful p ‘The statement made in certain newspapers th liam Gore Ouseley had submitted drats of @ tre he intended to propose to Nicaragua to our gove and that they were entirely satisfactory, has no founds tion. No draftwf treaty bas been submitted, nor has the government expressed itself upon the subject If Mr. Wright, our Miuister at Berlin, has taken the extreme ground attributed to him, with regard to natu faliged citizens returning te their native country and being required to perform military doty, it is not lkoly he will be enstained. While the Unitea States will protect to the fullest extent ite citizens im what i right, it can. not take Upon itself to relieve paturalized citizens of the debts oF obligations they owe Lefore coming to this coun try. At the time of the difeuity with Britich cruisers and our vessels on the coast of Cuba, this government officially expressed to Spain ite gratification at the friendly conduct of the Spanish efficials, The Spanish government bas, ia the same friendly manner, formally acknowledged having received the communication. The War Department has received information of the death of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Frank Taylor, at Brownsville, Texas, on the 11th inst., of yellow fever. THE ORNHRAL SHWSPANER DREW ATOR. Wasanotow, Oct. 25, 1953, The State Depas tincnt bas neither received officially, nor written anything reerntiy concerning Walker's move ments. The orders, however, heretofore issued to the federal officers for the prevention of the violation of the neutrality laws, retain in full force. Hon. J. Glancy Jones leaves fur Austria in November. By bis retiracy from Congress, Mr. Pheipe, of Missouri, a fron trade democrat, is Gret on the lst of the Committees of Ways and Means, and if partiomentary usage be fol lowed, will be its chairman at the next session. New York Polities. Aunany, Oct, 25, 1865. Mr. Shear, the Atocrican vorinee for Congress, is un derstood to have written a letter declining in favor of John H. Reynolds, indepentent demoorat, thas aniting {he opposition to Prastos Corning Yellow Fever ot Charleston. CHansmerox, Oot. 24, 1858, The deaths by yellow fever for the week euding yoster- day were twenty two. Hidnepping Case in Indiana. e Loursvnan, Ky., Oct. 26, 199%. Horace Bell, who released his father and brother frou Bradenburg jan last July, comunitted on the charge of running off negroes, was taken ov Saturday from the fair Grounds at New Albany, Indiana, without a warrant, an brought into Kentucky, by Louisville officers. The New Albenians became tremendously excited; the fire bells were rung, and a large movting was hold on Saturday evening. A hundred people have chartered the ferry, ‘boat Empire, and taik of going to Bradeuburg to-day to rescue Bell. An express has been sent from Louisvilie to Bradenburg t place the citizens on thoir guard ugainst the hostile expedition. Governor Willard, of Indiana, has promised a requisition on the Governor of Kentucky for the men who captured Bell. A meeting has been called here to denounce the proceedings of tho officers in cap turing Bell. Opening of the United States Agricultura Fal Ricumonn, Va, Oct. 25, 1868. The United States Agricultural Fair will be opened te the public to-morrow. The display is fine, particularly a horses. There are many visiters from other States, and the crowd is augmenting. Burning of Flour Mills at Dover, Ky. Caxcisnany, Oct. 25, 1858. The flour mills of Tapp & Co, at Dover, Ky., wore de- Btroyed by fire on Friday night, together with eighteen ‘thousand bushols of wheat and oight hundred barrels of four. The loas is estimated at forty thousand dollars, ou which there is sixteen thousand dollars insurance, Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Stocks very firm. Peuneytvania State 5 Railroad, 2614; Morris Canal, 46; Long Island 117%; Pennsylvania Rallroad, '324. RW ORLEANS, Oct. 26, 1858. Cotton—Sales to-day 6,000 bales at suilur, but not quotably higher prices, ‘the market closing with more Duyers than sellers, Sugar slightly cheaper for fair we ly fair. Molasses advanced Ic.: sales at 32c. full Sides, Moun, Oct. 25, 1853, Cotton—Sales to-day 2,000 bales at 115c., the markot closing firm. Savannan, Oct. 26, 1853. Cotton—Sales to-day 900 bales at 10346. a 1134 ¢. Savanau, Oct. 23, 1863. Cotton unchanged: sales iggy fiend bales. \LITMORK, Oct, 25, 1858. Flour dull; Ohio and Howard street $6 25. Wheat steady: red $1 16 4 $1 20; white $! 33a $1 48. Corn— white, 78c.; yellow, 78¢. a 80c. Whiskey 2u340. a 280. PHILADBLPHZA, Oct. 25, 1858. Flour firm at $6 124. at dectined 2c.:'suies of 2,000 bushels red at $1 1 23; white, $1 Bi 30. Corn declined: sales 2,500 bushels yellow at 80c.; now G8e. Coffee steady ; Rio, 1c, a 11Kc, Whiskey steady; Ohio, 22c, ALBANY, Oct, 26—1 P. M. Barley dull and receipts good: sales 2,700 busaela Canada West at 97c. ‘There is very little doing in the mar- ket. Burvaro, Oct. 246 P. M. Flour continues dulland heavy. There was a disposi tion on the purt of some holders to meet buyers at iowor ices, Sales 800 bbis,, at $4 5734 a $4 6244 for modivm fo choice superfine, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana; a $6 1234 for good to choice extras; $5 50 for double ex- tras, Wheat in fair demand, aad market for red winter firm, for spring dull and heavy: sales €0,000 bushels st 67c. for No, 2 Chieago spring, #0c. for Canadian club, 84C. for Milwaukie club, $1 15 for prime white Canadian, #2 for white Illinois, 9544¢. a 97¢. for red winter Ohio and Indiana. Corn dull and heavy: sales 10,000 bushels Ohio afd Tilinois at S6c. Barley dull and mominal at 7c. a 2c. Rye dull at 5c, Oats steady at 46c. a die. Whiskey quiet: sales 75 bbis. at 20340. Cunal freights 43c. on tlour, 12c. op wheat, 1c. on corn, to New York Receipts tor the last forty-eight hours—16,701 bb's. flour, 44,185 bushels wheat, 47,000 bushels corn, 6,767 busizels barley, 1,886 busheis oats. Shipments by canal the sau time—18,968 bbis. flour, 243,016 bushels whoat, 28,550 bushels corn, 6,518 bushels barley, 6,000 bushels oats. _ OsweGo, Oct. 25—3 P.M. Flour unchanged. Wheat in fair milling demand, but boiders generally firm and above the views of buyers: for Chicago spring. Corn dull aud drooping: uowalez.” Barley steady : sales 5,000 bushels Canarian at 9c. Oats quiet sud nom: nally at 420. Canal freights dull; four B2e., wheat 10c., corn 94¢. to New York. Lake imporis— 2,000 bbis. flour, 22,100 busheis wheat, 12,500 do. corm, 2,500 do. barley, 11,700 do. oats. ‘Caual exporus— 3,200 bbls. flour,’ 5,000 bushels wheat, 9,800 do. corn, 16,400 do. barley,,"3,000 do. oats. Cmicaoo, Oct. 25, 1858. Flour dull. Wheat quiet, and declined 1c. Corn firea at Sc, Oats quiet, Ship to Bufflo—2,000 bbis. flour, 15,000 bushels wheat, Shipments to Oswego—18,000 bushels corn. Receipts: 1,800 bbls. dour, 13,500 b wheat, 6,000 bushels corn. CrncmnwaTi, Oct. 25, 1868. Flour dull, Whiskey firm at i8tse. Bacon in good de- — at 6c. for shoulders, an advance. Sides, 8c. Wheat ull. Academy of Music. The Academy last night presented another brilliant spectacle, The house, aithough not overflowing, as on the first night, was much larger than the secoud, proving the increasing interest folt in the performances of Me. Piccolomini. There is no greater test of the success of an artist than the sustained popularity of the representation ef single réle. None but genias of the highest order can attain such a result. There is another point of view from which the triumphs «f the present season are to be regarded. They illustrate, in the most marked manner, the progress which our peo ple have made in the cultivation of music. Let us take the scene of last night, and consider it in connection with the early history of the Opera in this country We can best do this by supposing an Aabitue of Hor Majesty's theatre, the Ialiens or La Scala, dropped suddenly into the auditorium of our Acatemy. How Grest would be bis surprise on being toll that the taste which had crented that magnificent building, and drawn together such an unrivalled display of artistic talent, was the result of only twenty years tutelage, whilst the eame cetabbehimenta in the Earopean capitals are Lin guishing from the went of appreciation and encourage- ment atnongtt What is culled abrowt the mirtdic classes, its greatest supporters Lere. And sul! more would he be astonished to observe thé fingtlar correctness of judg- ment and nicety of d.scernment which mark the contuce of our audiences, unlike the tadiseriminating and {lt timed demoustrations of Eoglish opera gocrs, who ap- plaud not ouly out of place but. out of res. son; of of the organize? enthusiasm of the / Paris claque, producing results equally inopportme and ri- diculous. Could the #aine spectator be u ted fifteen years back, to Paimo’s humble beginning rable fy Terentations, be would bo compellot by admit that ia art, ae well ai industrial and commercial enterprise, the Atwericans have shown UWemseives progressive beyond all 7 nations. ‘The fears entertained by some of Wilke Piccolomin's a@mirer®, that 2 merits would not be appre- cuted by the New York audioneor, have thus fer utterly groundless. She coutinucs to win more inore on them, according as they ace enabled to analyze the effects which she produces. Dietaining more tricks uf Vocalization, this grout artist relies solely apom her dra- matic conecptions and her powers of expression for sne- com. Tt ts abeurd to say that the jopressions whieh she creates are not the results of profound study and skill, No singer bas ever risen to the eminence which she has reachod without straining al hor intellectual fe culties to the utmost. It ie the art of concealing her art which bas placed her at the very heat of hor professou. She may net be a8 Pasta, as sutensely parsion- ate a8 Grisi, oF Hy winn'n, Katag, bat eh of all thoee, combined im a torm the most agile, tise aottlh and the most loveable, that it is poerible to cone It 1a thie vory cocloetict of style which A twanaly se her mer ite, whilst all the w tne artiat ever brought tot Fe the ow of thi chart of Me looked. the meed of praike which & justly his complished avd elegant vocaust has ne A moro as £ yot appearod on onr board, and in some respects we qucstion if be hus ever had his equal. Ty a meet finished style he unites feeling and a perfect appreciation of all the meer chades of his parts, Ina word, lin sings from the heart and pot from the Ftomach, ae moet of our portly baritones vo. Signer Stefan! was heard to groater ac'vautage inet might than on the two former occasions. He ie a singer who will grow in the estimotion of the publy ‘On Weinesday the “bigha di Reggmento” will be pro. duced , with Mile. lice wrt Forme and the new a From present ap. he row for seate will be pearaners it it proba greater than on the ope Concent at Nino's Sanouw.—The musical world is called apoo to-night to judge of the morits of a now American prima donna. The lady it Miss Kato Doan, a native of this State, who bas aever yot sung in the motra- ia, and who gives a concert tought at Niblo’s, assiated by ite Wii é (tenor), Mr. Motionhauer ‘and Me Schreiber, artists who are Wel: known bo the public. Personal Intelligence. C. L. Rodier, Mayor of Montreal, Canela, who is on a visit to this city, paid @ visit to Mayor Tiemann yesterday at the City Half, Hon. H. 8. Clark, of North Carolina, Hon, A. Rust, of States Con- Arkanens; and Mrs. Chase, lady of the United sul at Tampico, Mexico, are in Washington Daniel MeCiure, of Indianapolis, pointed » paymastor in the army. R. W. Wooley, heq., of Kentucky pat of Secretary ot Leg jeciined it Spanish mission, ARRIVALS. From Richmond, ae, in the Corh.a? Reanoke—Mra M Bow - ore, Misses Kull and Wareling, 1) W Lassiter, Js ‘Hany Mise Thornton, 5. Warehing, ¢ Corbett, © Adama, N Cocke, J Mack! D Brown, A Ferris—and 19 ster rage. From Liverpool, by the ship Columbin—Rew Mr Frissetl, of South America; AC Langley, of Boston. From Padang, tn the ship Raven—J 1 Kegheston, JR Caraly