The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1858, Page 4

4 — NEW YORK HERALD. ! JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ‘OPFION WN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS eee cash in advance. Money sent be at the PB yo ~ fomey sent by mail will be at amps not received as cubseription annien. mR six cents per annum; the ope Trent Britain, oF W fo seein 3 te a aes "ALD, every Wednesday, at four cents por 'ARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing important ’ any quarter of the world ; f used, will he for, Ba- OOR FORRIGN CORNESPONDENTS ARE ¥ REQUESTED TO 4GRs Sant vs. 01 ‘Seat alt Lerrens axp Pack- correspondencs, We do not ‘return communications. ADVERTISEMENTS renewed svery day ; ‘Peried im the Weexiy Henatn, Famity Henaip, and in the Onlfornia ond Editions. B PRINT! executed with neatness, cheapness and des- | advertisements én- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tas Duke's Wa- Ork—Satan uw Panis. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Pore or Row. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—New York axp Baoox LyN—Rosx or Suanox—Tom CRINGLE. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Manmiace a Lor- reur—Dring rox Love—Nerrune’s Derear. LAURA KFENF'S THEATRE, No, 6% Broadway.—Ovr Auxnioan Covsin—A Day ut Panis, BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdway.—Afternoon aad Eveniug—Turovoy’s Mimic Woxtp—Da. VALENTINE, &c WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— Ermiortan Sons, Dances, &0.—In AND Ovt oF PLACE. MECTIANIC’S HALL, 427 Broadway.—Bryawrs’ Mrvstrers —Neacao Sones any BuRLEsques—Seize oF LucK-Now. CAMPBELL, MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Ermorian Can aoTsaistics, SONGS, 40.—K NIGHT OF THE Razor. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.— EixGant EQuastkian anv Gymnastic ENTERTAINMENTS. New York, Thursday, October 28, 1858. The News. An appalling tragedy occurred at the residence /Mr. Francis Gouldy, a retired merchant, residing No. 217 West Thirtieth street, on Tuesday night. “he eldest son, Frank, a young man, nineteen years _}4, returned home about ten o'clock, after all the family had retired. His father chided him for keep- ‘ing such late hours and spoke to him about his ex- travagant course of living, when the youth retired to his room, vowing vengeance on the whole house- hold. Arming himself with a hatchet, knife and pistol, he soon afterwards proceeded to execute his hellish intention. Descending to the bedroom where his father was sitting, he struck him in the head with the axe until he was insensible; then turning upon his mother, he attacked her with the same weapon; then his brothers, Nathaniel and Charles, aged fourteen and six years, who ran to the assistance of their father, were assailed. The attention of the fiend was then called to the two servant girls, Joanna Murphy and Elizabeth Carr, and they in turn were also horribly butchered; and finally the wretched young man wound up the night's attrocities by blowing his brains out with a pistol. Out of the six persons injured, probably four will die from the effects of their wounds. Two of the sufferers are already at the point of death, namely, Mr. Gouldy and Joanna Murphy. Altogether, the affair was one of the most horrible butcheries ever perpetrated in a Christian community. Elsewhere will be found full details of the shocking affair. The California overland mail which left San Francisco on the Ist inst. arrived at St. Louis on Tuesday evening. A despatch under the tele- graphic head contains a brief synopsis of the news, which is one week later than the accounts received by the Panama route. The most important feature of the intelligence is the report of a battle in Ore- fon between a body of three hundred troops, under command of Col. Wright, and five hundred Indians, in which the latter were completely defeated. The troops sustained no loss whatever. The steamer Bt. Louis is now due at this port from Aspinwall, with the semi-monthly Pacific mails and treasure shipment, and details of news to the 5th inst. The steamer Pacific arrived an hour and thirty- five minutes after midnight yesterday morning, from Galway via St. Johns, N. F., with three han dred and thirty-seven passengers and a full cargo. Among them were Lord Bury and lady and private secretary, and Arthur Napoleon, a pianist of Euro- pean celebrity. The former gentleman is at the St. Nicholas, and will remain in town until Monday next, when he proceeds to Canada to negotiute a union of the Provinces. He has also full powers to conclnde mail contracts with our government. A dinner was given the day preceding the departure of the Pacific, at which Arthur Roebuck, Mr. Lever, Mr. Grimston, Mr. Ennis and his lordship made speeches highly laudatory of the new bonds of commerce uniting Ireland with North America. ‘The present line is greatly to be enlarged in conse- quence of the pressure of business, one hundred passengers having been left behind for want of ac- commodations. The Pacific was delayed for two days at St. Johns to enable the noble Viscount to meet the Legislative Council of Newfoundland to rettle the terms of a subsidy, which we believe was figned and perfected daring his lordship's stay there. The British steam frigate Valorons, Capt. Sir W. ©. Aldham, K.C. B., left this port yesterday for Greytown, with Sir Gore Onseley and family and ecretary of Legation. Sir Gore Ouseley goes out as British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary on a special mission to Central America. Our correspondent in Tampico, Mexico, dating on the 19th and 30th of September, furnishes some very interesting facts concerning the late raids made on foreign traders by different generals of the contending armies. Under the pretext of fore- ing a repayment of what are called government duties, the most daring violations of the personal liberties of traders have been effected. Foreign in dervention was loudly called for. We understand that several English gentlemen, representing parties in England who have invested in a railroad scheme in money and iron, have come out in the Persia to examine into the matter. The appearance of these financiers has created some stir in Wall street and elsewhere, and may lead to some interesting developements. The National Horse Exhibition yesterday ® most brilliant and spirited affir. The attend of spectators was greater than on the previo days, and the proceedings elicited universal app’ bation. So far it is a decided success, and angurs well for the future. Among the visiters present was Governor King, who was on the judges’ stand the greater part of the afternoon, and manifested a lively interest in the proceedings. The Rev. Henry Bleby delivered a lecture last evening at Dr. Cheever's church toa large andience on the results of West India emancipation. Hy presented a considerable amount of statistical in formation to prove that it had been attended with the most beneficial effects, both in a material and moral point of view. Our report ix crowded out by the pressure of other matter The Commissioners of Emigration held thei rsaal weekly meeting yesterday A communica tion from the Health Officer at Quarantine, urging the necessity for providing, in view of the ap- proaching cold weather, better accommodation for the sick and the Quarantine employ(s, was re ceived, read and appropriately referred. The num. ber of emigrants arrived at thie port this year to the 27th inst. is 68,789, 0 falling off 89,620 as com pared with the arrivals during the corresponding time in 1857. There are 1,102 persons in the insti tutions under the charge of the Commissioners. The balance of the commutation fund at present amounts tot he Supreme Court yesterday two suits for “NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1858. Company were decided. The first was the case of Mr. Weldon, who was knocked down by horses be- longing to the company, at the Thirty-first atreet de- pot; and the second was a mit brought by the wife of Mr. Weldon, who was with her husband at the time of the accident. Both the plaintiffs received personal injuries in consequence of the alleged neg- ligence of the driver of the horses, who was an em- ploy of the company. Excessive damages were not claimed, and the jwy gave verdicts for the plaintifs of $500 and $1,0¢0, in the cases respect- ively. ‘The trial of Dr. Cobel, charged with causing the death of Mrs. Amelia Weber, a married woman, by producing abortion, was concluded yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and resulted in the acquittal of the accused. At the business meeting of the Aasociation of the Alumni of Columbia College held yesterday at Hope Chapel, Henry J. Anderson, M. D., was chosen President for the ensuing year. The public meeting was held in the evening, at which Theo- dore Sedgwick delivered an address on “National Education,” and John McMullin a poem on the history of young Captain Nathan Hale, who, coming from the American army into New York city as a spy upon the English army, then quarter- ed here, was caught and hanged in Chambers street. The Board of Education held a special meeting last evening. A communication was received from the school officers of the Fourth ward, announcing that they had awarded the contract for the mason and carpenter work on the new schoolhouse to be erected in Oliver street to two contractors, who had agreed to do the work for $25,900, and asking the Board to confirm their action. Two protests were submitted from other contractors against the ac- tion of the school officers, on the ground that the contracts were not awarded to the lowest bidders hy the school officers of the Fourth ward. After a good deal of debate the matter was referred to the Finance Committee. A resolution appropriating $16,000 for the purchase of lots in Fourteenth street, in the Seventeenth ward, whereon it is pro- posed to erect school buildings, was adopted. Con- siderable debate arose out of a resolution to pay contractors for printing a bill which the President of the Board had refused to sign, on the ground that the description of paper used was not speci- fied in the bill in question. A resolution was at length adopted, however, authorizing the President to sign the bill. The Chairman of the Finance Committee submitted a resolution directing the City Chamberlain to place $100,000 at the disposal of the Board for the payment of teachers’ salaries, and the resolution passed. Some minor matters were also taken up and disposed of, and the Board adjourned. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales, based upon middling uplands at 124%¢. The in- crease in the receipts at the Southern ports amounts to about 237,000 bales compared with those at the same time last year, and the total increase in exports to foreign ports, over and above those for the same time last year, nmounts to abeut 40,000 bales. The supplies from British India this year are expected to be light, and far below the usual average. The eflects of the late rebellion had no doubt interfered more or less with production, while peace having been restored with China, would create a de- mand for shipments from India to her ports. ‘The me dium and better grades of flour were rather firmer, with more doing. There was a speculative inquiry for wheat, and prices were sustained, with more doing. Corn was decidedly firmer at the close, with larger sales. Pork opened firm, but closed with less animation. Sales of mess were made at $17 a $17 1233, but closed dail at $ Prime ranged from $14 25 to $14 50. Sugars steady, with sales of about 1,000 hhds. and 140 boxes at rates given in another place. Coffee was firm, but quiet. The stock of Rio and Santos in this market embraces about 7,000 bags, and a total of all kinds of about 82,250 do. Freights were steady, with moderate engagements. 10,000 bushels of corn were engaged for Liverpool at 54d. in bulk. ‘ ‘The Gathering Events in Central America. Departure of the British Minister to Nic: ragua Sir William Gore Ouseley, the British Minister to Central America, left yesterday, with his family and suite, for San Juan del Norte, on board the British steam frigate Valorous. We are advised that he will find at San Juan a large portion of the | British West India fleet to back up his demands or intentions in that quarter, whatever they may be. It is a little curious that so many marked events are gathering around the port of San Juan at this time. Mr. Ouseley and the British fleet are on their way there ; several American vessels have already collected in that port, and General Lamar is expected to go down from San José, the capital of Costa Rica, to confer with the Commodore ; the Atlantic and Pacific Canal Company despatch their first steamship with transit passengers on the 6th of next month : and General Walker has announced “to his friends and the public generally” that he will depart as a peaceful emigrant on the 10th of November. All these things indicate that we may have a pretty lively time on the Nicaraguan isthmus during the coming winter. There has been no hint given of what are the intentions of Mr. Ouseley and his government; but he has passed about eleven months at Washington, during which time, if he has employed bis time well, he has found out pretty thoroughly what the intentions of our government are in that quarter. It is supposed that he had something to do with the non-abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty last winter; and the documents and comments upon them which we re-published yesterday from the French journals, indicate that the com- bined cabinets take a deeper interest in Central , American questions than has hitherto been ad mitted. The Petrie assumes that the European interests, as opposed to American interests in Nicaragua, are those of civilization; and jn the assertion that “England and France are united for the sustainment of good laws,” it gives usa rebash of Lord Clarendon's celebrated declara- tion in Parliament, that the policy of the entente cordiole is to rule the policy of the whole world. In these recent publications in Europe there | have been a good deal of misrepresentation and gratuitous abuse of the United States and ite * | policy, chiefly on the part of the enslaved | French journals, which would seem to indicate a disposition on the part of the speculating statesmen of Paris take a hand in the Belly contract. They take the ground that all the grants by Nicaragua to American citizens | have lapsed or expired, and that the Belly grant | is now the only valid one. Here may be seen the true cause of the gathering of forces and diplomatists at San Juan del Norte. It is well | known that on the 6th of November the first re- mission of passengers under the Stebbins contract will go from New York, aud that about the 15th of that month they will arrive at San Juan, for the purpose of crossing the Isthmus. Onr go- vernment has made known to that of Nicaragua its determination to have that route open to the commerce of the world, and to protect our citi- zens in their just and legal attempts tg open it. Martinez and Mora have led to Enttope for protection in their efforts to keep the route closed, and Mr, Ouseley no dowbt-represents the eotente cordiale on the scene of action. We do not believe that any serious interference with the American enterprise is intended, but the desire is to have a negotiator on the ground to take ad- vontage of any new complications (hat may to sentative then® and the Nicaraguan authorities. In these calculations of the European diplo- mativts @ new element will enter from the advent of Walker, ih? intends to depart from this country as a peacefur migrant; and it is not at all unlikely, if his plans ay‘e well laid, that he may get off with several hundred meu. With these, if not stopped, he will no doubt attempt to go up the river; and how fur such a proceeding will succeed must b judged by the success of the last expedition. Should he be stopped by an English force at San Juan, or in the river, it will probably be just what he is seeking, for it would create a sympathy for him in this country which he does not now possess, and be produe- tive, in the end, of most important results, lead- ing, perhaps, even to serious complications with Great Britain. All of these things combine to set forth in strong and objectionable lights the refusal of Congress to grant authority to the President to use such force as was proper in the settlement of our pending Central American questions. Had this been granted during the last session there would not now have been left a reason for a fili- buster to stand upon. The Transit route would have been opened long ago, the Belly contract would never have come into existence, and we should have seen no gathering now of diplomatic clouds, British fleets, and filibuster expeditions at San Juan. In this, and in not abrogating the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, Congress made two great mistakes, which it may have tocorrect during the coming session, W. H. Seward and His Impudent and Hide< ous Revolutionary Doctrines. We have received a report of the late speech of Senator Seward at Rochester, and according to the leading points thus communicated it ap- pears that the political ultimatum of this arch agitator is the absolute extinguishment of sla- very within the limits of the United States, at all hazards and reckless of consequences, The late disastrous defeats of the Northern democracy have emboldened him to throw off the mask, and he now stands boldly before us a more repulsive abolitionist, because a more dangerous one, than Beecher, Garrison or the Rey. Dr. Parker. On the subject of slavery, Mr. Seward contrasts the intentions of the framers of the constitution with the subsequent tendencies of the govern- ment under the control of “the aristocracy of slavery.” Upon this point we think that “ the intentions of the framers of the constitution” are 80 very clearly indicated in the constitution itself that no man, except a fanatic, a fool or a demagogue, can misunderstand them. Thus the continuation of the African slave trade for a term of years, the clause relating to fugitive slaves, and the clause counting in three-fifths of the slave population of the slave States in pre- ference to their Congressional representation, are clauses which not only recognize but encourage and protect the institution of slavery. Bold, therefore, as Mr. Seward lias become in the cha- racter of the great anti-slavery champion of the North, he yet falls short of the frankness of Gar- rison, who flatly repudiates the constitution of the United States, the teachings of the Bible, the laws of the State and of society, and everything else which may stand in the way of the political equalization of all races, colors, sexes and condi- tions of the human family But the time bas come when Mr. Seward thinks he may safely declare that “this country must eventually be wholly free or altogether slave territory."’ Upon this assumption he argues that the Southern “slave power” and “its great ally,” the democratic party, must be pushed to the wall, or they will not stop short in their aggres- sions until African slavery shall be fastened upon the free States themselves. To this cad the next move of “the slave power” will be the revival of the African slave trade, and the next the nulliti- cation of all State laws which may interfere with the negro traffic among the several States. This isa frightful picture; but mark how plain a tale will suffice to put down the brazeu-faced impu- dence of this political charlatan. The movement set on foot in the South some time ago, by a pack of section: itators of the same grade as Master Seward, has been effeetu- ally extinguished by this very administration which our unscrupulous Senator can only recog: nize as a tool of the “slave power.” The strin- gent laws of Congress against this African traflic were brought forward as the unanswerable argu- ment upon the subject; and there the movement in question ended. The traffic can only be re- vived through repeal of the existing laws, which make it piracy. And how are they to be repealed? The great mass of the Southern peo- ple are against the repeal; but if they were united for the repeal, what could they accomplish against the present overwhelming preponderance of the North in both branches of Congress? The free + . as against the slave States, now stand as 17 to 15. By the year 1860. they will probably stand as 21 to 15, including the pre- sent embryo free States of Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and Washington. And thea Delaware and Missouri are in a rapid transition from slave labor to free labor, under the same fundamental law of political economy which bas changed from slave States to free St ll the old Northern States. It is neither to “Southera aggressions,’ nor to the “slave oligarchy,” nor to the democratic party, on the one hand, that we can charge the extension of slavery; nor ix it to the anti-slavery movements of the North that we must look for the suppression or the limitation of slavery. The institution is regulated by the universal law of compensation. Ii did not pay in the old North- ern States, and it was abolished: it would not pay in the new Northern States, and it was ex- cluded; it does pay in the tobacco, cotton, rice and sugar producing States of the South, and there it has been continued and extended. And thus, under the federal constitution. the laws regulating the abolition and the extension of slavery are the fundamental laws of labor, eli- mate, products and compensation Under the compacts of the constitution, and under these fundamental laws, free labor and slave labor will quietly and peaceably regulate their own metes and bounds; but under the doc- trine of Mr. Seward, that all the States of the Union myst be converted into free States to pre- vent them all from becoming slave States, all existing laws upon the subject, human and di- vine, are disregarded and defied, and the pro- gramme of a bloody revolution between sections and races is pronounced. His “equality of all men before human tribunals” is a mecessary feature of this gene- ral programme; but to bring it about the existing constitution of the Union must be superseded by the active agencies of sectional coercion, a coercion which we all know can never be attempted without hazarding the imme- diate contingencies of disunion and civil war. This is thy cnigriaiameut to which Mr, Syyrard a great an& izportant achievements of Mr, mu chanan’s adminia. tion in behalf of law aad order, and peace and mlurity, at home and abrosa, tase Casts Gray tt 2 interests of our people, financial and commercial, $0 keep alive the slavery agitation for his own benefit a8 a sectional agitating demagogue intent upon « revolutionary nomination for the next Presi- dency. But a seditious and mischievous speech, such as this of Mr. Seward at Rochester, puts a new face upon the general isssue of our Novem- ber election, which cannot be safely disregarded by any man devoted to the harmony of the Union, or to the prosperity of our State and its commercial and industrial pursuits in all their extensive ramifications. In this view of the subject, a vote for Morgan ceases to be a vote for the Kansas humbug of “popular sovereignty” and against the adminis- tration, and it becomes, or will be considered, a vote for Seward and his pretensions as a New York candidate for the Presidency, and involy- ing the endorsement by his State of his platform, which requires the extermination of slavery from the Southern States to prevent the estab- lishment of slavery in the North. Our mer- chants, our farmers, our mechanics, our manu- facturers, our banking and railroad men, and our industrial people of all classes, should thus con- sider the consequences which are likely to follow the nomination of Seward for the Presidency, before they cast a vote next Tuesday which may contribute to bring him and his hideous revolutionary principles into the field. Tur Last Horr ie Tragepy—Socian Du- MORALIZATION OF OUR Peorte.—We are again compelled to perform one of the most painful duties of the public journalist, and to lay before our readers the particulars of one of the most shocking murders that has ever stained the crimi- nal calendar. On Tuesday evening, a boy of nineteen years attempted the killing of his whole family, and subsequently committed suicide. The father, who was the first object of the mur- derer’s fury, is a man of wealth and good social position, and it cannot be pleaded in mitigation of the crime that the fratricide had not had pro- per opportunities for mental and moral discipline. It may be truly said that no one can contem- plate such a tragedy as that above alluded to without a shudder; but that is not enough. We wonder and grow sick at heart on reading about the results of our own criminal negligence. Within the past few years crimes against the person and property of respectable citi- zens have multiplied in a fur greater ra- tio than that of the increase of popu- ation, and yet no efforts are made to stay the crimson flood. The courts of justice are paralyzed. Murderers receive the great- est consideration, and are entitled, appa- rently, to any number of trials they may ask for. If a jury cannot agree, the criminal is generally allowed to go free, in order to save trouble; or if he is convicted, supplementary proceedings are resorted to in order to weary out the prosecuting officers. The lower order of offenders are thus taught to look upon the criminal law as a broad avenue through which a clever attorney ean easily drive a coach and four, and there is no stay to the hand that draws the knife or shoots the pistol. If a magistrate—and there is one— has the courage to do his duty, and the intelli- gence to understand it, his efforts are neu- tralized by the intrigues of politicians or the inefficiency of the code. The truth is, that all these horrible atrocities spring from the rapid political and social demoralization of our people. They see the rulers of the land, men whom they have been taught to look up to as the wisest and the best, sheltering and defending the most atrocious blackguards and the blackest criminals. They see high federal and Stute officers consort- ing with thieves, bullies, pimps and pickpockets, which latter gentry are well aware that through the argument of the fist, revolver or bowie knife, they hold in their hands the tenure of office for their patrons. So long as they can pack primary meetings and brow beat timid voters they enjoy an inviolable sanctuary and run no risk of being punished their crimes, howsoever flagrant they may be. The political bullies may have their fights unmolested, and if they happen to kill some one there is always a power behind the law stronger than the law itself. Neither are their employers a bit better than the tools with which they work. We see leading poli- ticians selling out Congressional districis as coolly as the butcher divides an ox, bargaining for so many thousands of voters as if they were slaves on the auction block. Again, in (he nomina- tion of Herrick for Congress we see a man placed before the people as a candidate to represent them in the national councils after having been indicted for bribery, and the price of his vote as an Alderman fixed on the records of the Court of Sessions at one hundred dollars, He will be a worthy suecessor in the sliding seale of Matteson, whose price. aceord- ing to all accounts, was one thousand dollars. A balf score of officials are called upon to plead in the Sessions to indictments charging them with wholesale robbery of the city funds, and public confidence in our elected rulers is entirely demolished. The pulpit itself shares in the general demoralization. and the parsons preach the worship of the almighty dol- Jar rather than that of the Almighty God. When the shepherds go astray, what can be expected of the sheep! In the reply to this per- tinent inquiry can be found the canses of the rapid social demoralization which brings about euch shocking tragedies as that which we this day record Ongastwation or tHe Taxpayers’ Panry— A New Fearcre os rie Caarren Exections.— The tax paying interests are at length waking up. To a sense of oppression are succeeding practical measures of relief It was all very well to strive indireetly to check the mal-admin- istration of city affairs, but the evil was of too great magnitude to be arrested by palliatives: The remedy, to be effective, should be radical, and this (ruth the tax payers have at last recognized. We were the firet to point out the quarter from whence this remedy was to be applied. We en- deavored to impress upon the general body of tax payers the fact that there was no special providence for their relief, and that if they de- sired to lighten their burdens they must. in the words of the proverb, help themselves. Up to Monday last we observed no practical recognition of the value of this advi too well content to admit the tax payers of New York are at last in a fair way to attain the position which we have always contended for, namely, that those who contribute to the city revennes have a right to control the city expenditure. The grounds for this hopeful prospect are these:—In the first place, the taxpayers declare themselves resolyed to agt in thy approaghiag that demages brought against the Harlem Railroad { arise in case oF # Collision between our rapree | has at length invited ua, He groves all the charter election as an independent party; and ia the next, they are prepared to supply the sinews ot wt? for any contingency to which this deter- ininayiom ty lead. Such are the conclusions of the repor.! agreed to by the Committee of Ar ~ 1s appointed by the taxpayers, and rangements . which was prose, ‘°4 at the meeting on M londay night. Time press™,>> the sub-committee were only able to present « orton of their report on that evening, and this ¢whodied the two recom- mendations specified. Both were enthusias- tically adopted, and it wi agreed to raise a fund of $100,000 to fee lawy*ers to prosecute ev case of delinquency that ay occur for the next ten years in the city expeaditure, It was resolved, in addition, that no man’s name should be placed on the taxpayers’ ticket which should be taken from amongst active politicians, or men whose claims should. be pressed upon them. The committee next went to work and summed up the amount of capital which they had authority to represent in this movement. At the lowest estimate they calculated it at $75,000,000; but if we take the large body of taxpayers who sympathize with them into ac- count, this sum forms but a small proportion of the aggregate. Now that the taxpayers’ party is fairly inangu- rated, it only remains for us to impress upon them the importance of the resolution agreed to by the committee, not merely to disregard the claims of politicians, but to consider the pressing of all such claims as a sufficient ground of dis- qualification in candidates, The taxpayers have nothing whatever to do with political questions or interests; for however much Kansas may bleed, that or other political issues will not help to arrest the hemorrhage in their own pockets. They must steer clear of the Tammany Hall men and the ward politicians, for the one will compro- mise them in movements having no affinity with their objects, whilst the others will join them only to squander for their own benefit the funds which are to be raised to protect the revenues of the city against peculation and jobbing. If they pursue this course the taxpayers’ party will ex- ercise an important influence over if they do not entirely sway the charter eclections—a result which we contend is easily within their reach. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despatch, (HE GATHERING AT SAN JUAN DEL NOKTE— OF VENTOSA BAY-—THE AUXILIARY VESS PARAGUAY EXPEDITION ES OF DISTRI NEYS, ETC. ATTOR- Wastincron, Oct, 27, 1858. It is feared in diplomatic circles that the appearance of the British West Indian fleet, and General Walker's emi grants at the same time, at San Juan del Norte, will lead to serious complications between England and the United States. The Walker men are to go as emigrants; and if the British, at the request of the Nicaraguan government, mo. Jest them, that act will most likely involve England with this country. Much will depend upon Sir William Gore Ouseley ‘The steam frigate Saranac, now at Panama, proceeds to Veatosa, the Pacific terminus of the Tehuantepec ronte, te take the soundings of that harbor, to ascertain its adapta bility to embark passengers and freight. It is said here that Viscount Bury, who is a passenger by the Galway steamer Pacific, is to visit Washington to effect some arrangement with Postmaster General Brown for the carrying of a portion of the Kauropean mails, It is more likely that he is going to Canada to make some such arrangement there, and also to see what prospects there are for a connection of the new overland route to Fraser river with the Galway line. There is no truth in the reports of Mr. Preston having declined the mission to Spain which he so recently ac cepted, nor truth in the rumors of changes to place in the Cabinet. The United States steamer Arctic will take the officers and crew of the steamer Mettacomet, of the Paraguay fleet, from here to Pensacola, Part of the erew will be shipped in Baltimore and part bh Th» officers aud crew of the Memphis, one of the chartered steamers for the Paraguay expedition, will be transferred to the Canada, one of the inst chartered. The Memphis is pronounced unseaworthy, It is said that the Secretary of War has conclited a con traet for Burnside’s breech loading carbine to th apt of twenty-five thousand dollars. This arm was m mended by the Board of Examiners, at West Point, in July last. The Attorney General bas decided that District Attor neys, according to the act of Congress of 1858, can only receive pay at 80 much a day—five dollars for service—in examination of persons charged w no matter how many © ases are eXamined in a ach day's THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH Wasiixerow, Get, 27. 1858 There is no dovbt but that Adrairal Kellett has instruc tions from the British government to prevemt iilibustering expeditions into Central America. The indications are that the President will shortly iesue a proclamation with a view to prevent the violation of the neutrality laws ‘The Secretary of War has received a despatch from Gen. Twiggs, confirming the heretofore pablished accounts: of a fight with the Indians in Texas, and will take imme diate measures for increasing the military force ja that State. The California maila via Tehuantepec wore to have left New Orleans today. The company expect wo deliver them in San Francisco in sixteen days. ‘The General Superintendent of the Pacific wagon roads says the entire road from El Paso to Fort Yuma has beon greatly improved and shortened during the past season that the road through Nebraska ie probably completed, and that the Fort Kearney, South lass and Honey Lake road ie finished from the South Pars to City Rooke Arrival of the Pacific Overland Mail—One Week Later from San Franciso, INDIAN WAR IN ORRGON-—BATTLE AT Pour LAKES AND DEFEAT OF THE SAVAGES, BTC. Sr. Lown, Oct, 27, 1868. ‘The overland mail, which arrived last night, brough! letters to October 1, but no San Francisco papers The Los Angeles Vineyard, of the 2d inst. is, however, to hand. It contains an account of a battle at Pour Lakes, Oregon, on the Ist of September, between three hundred troope, ander Colonel! Wright. and five hundred Indians, in which the Indians were completely rooted, with the lors of seventeen killed and many wounded. The troops ustained no lose whatever The Oregon State Legislature met at Salem on the 13th of September, and adjourned sine dir, thus giving up the State organization wntil the regular admission of Oregon into the Union by Congress Delazon Smith and L. F. Grover, who have been elected to represent the State in the United States Senate, were about leaving Portland for Washington Several attempts had been made to set fire to Holland There ir no California news of interest in the Los Ange les paper rue The Minnesota Election. CmeaGo, Oot. 27, 1858 ‘The St. Pant (Minnesota) Pioneer, of the 25th inst. , states that definite returns from every part of the State, except ing one district, indicate that the Legislature will stand thn —Hovee, democrats, thirty nine, republicans, forty Senate, republicans, fifteen; democrats, twenty one. ALBANY, ( ‘The American General Committee have ne 1D, Livingston, of Albany, for Congress, inp Shear, withdrawn Death of Lieut. Geo. Wheeler, SATANNAR, Oct. 27, 1858. Lieut. Geo. L. Wheeler, formerly of the Japan kxpedi tion, and recently attached to the revenne cutter Arken, died here yesterday. He was a native of Pennsyly Yellow Fever at New Orleaw New Oni mana, Oot The deaths in this city yesterday by yellow fever were thirty-one The Yellow Fever tn Savannah. Bavannam, Oot. 27, 1868 The deaths in this city today were three, two of which were from yellow fever Markets. . . STOCK ROARD. PHILADELPHIA ndet. 9, i858 Stocks steady. Ponnayivania Pres, 9234; Reading Rai road, 2635; Morrin Cann, 40; Long Isiand Railroad, 12% ; Pennéyivania Ratirond, 49%. ee Oct. 7, 1068 A advanced igc.: sales to-day 13,500 for middling, Molasses B21¢c Raunimore, Oct, 27, 1858 Flour is very dull; Olio aud Howard street, 6 Adie @ Cotton active, bales at 11Ae. a LL ye. 7 eee ee —$—$—__. Mite, $475.485 Wheat steady. The. Whiskey 23,0. Provisions quit . Cuatiussron, Oct. " Cotton declined Ye, sales today 2,800 hae me pols ; Vaanant, Oct. 27, 1858 reals hoc 1,000 bales at 10%e. a LXe., the A, Oct. 27, 1858 Pmt averay, Flour quict at $5 1214. wi firm at ac en unsettled. Corn scarce. Civaxwatt, Oct. 27-6 Ps . Flour unchanged. Whiskey firm at'18\<e. Provis um, Hogs—tales unimportant; 86 48 for huture dolisens® Cmcaco, Oct. a Flour firm. Wheat buoyant and advanted fo kate at 6c, Corn active at 62c. Oats firm. Shipments to Buffs To—18,000 bushels wheat, 32,000 bushels corn. Shi ts to Oswego—28,000 bushels wheat. Reoaipts—800. bois, Hour; £8,000 bushels wheat, 19,590 bushels cora, Bervato, Oct. 27—P. M. Flour iri fair demand and market steady; sales 1,000 | $5 25: City old white 7 bis. al $3 85 for common superfine Ilinois, $4 50 a $4 GE for good to Cvolee superfine Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Canadian, $6 a 85 60 for the range of extr: id double extras. Wheat in moderate demand and market steady: sales 11,000 bushes at 8lc. for Club, 90c. for No. 2 red winter Illinois, 98c. for red winter Ohio, 85c. for Canad: club. in good demand and market better : sales 30,000 bushels at 57c. a 58e., in part to arrive, marke closing very firm. Barley quiet and dull; no sales; nom Mal at 75c. a 8c. Rye quiet at 65. Outs steady at 46c. 4460. Whiskey steady at 204¢c. Canal freights—43c. on flour, 12. on wi , and Lic. on corn to New York, Rr- ceipts for the last twenty-four hours—lour, 12,108 bbls ; Wheat, 2,704 bushels; corn, 5,000 bushels. ' Shipments— Flour, 7,125 vbls. ; wae, 49,211 bushels; corn, 25,26 18; oats, 7,020 bushel Burrato, Oct. 27—6 P. M. Flour—Demand fair; quotations steady ; sales 1,500 bbs. at $3 55 for common superfine Nlinois; $4 40 a 6234 for good to choice superfine Indiana and Wisconsin; $4 874m $5 for good tochoice extra; $5 50 for double extra. Whert aan Sees mire hai mcg neg genre . for common to extra Milwaukie club; 90c. for twa feel ener linois; $1 for white Michigua, 986, a 91? red Ohio. Corn active; demand better ; sales 60,000 bushels at Sic. a Ho. portly toarrive; market closing firm; sellers asking 0c. No sales of other grain. Whiskey firm at 203¢c. Canal freights unc! |. Receipts in the last24 hours—3,600 bbls. flour, 1,100 bushels wheat, 50,00 bushels corn. Shipments by canal—6,900 bbls, four, 48,000 bushels wheat, 36,600 bushels corn. Osweco, Oct, 27~6 P. M. Flour dull. Wheat held above the views of buyers asd market quiet; Chics spring nominal at 70c.; red win- ter Illinois at 95c.; white Indiana at $1. Corn opened at featentay's rates, but closed firmer; sales 6,600 bushels linois, not strictly prime at 57c.’ Barley nominally at 87340. a 90c. Rye quiet. Oats dull at 44c. a 46c. Canal freights a shade weaker, though not quotably lowor. Very little shipping aud’ no imports. Canal expors— 5,900 bbls. flour, 1,800 bushels wheat, 16,800 bushels cern, 12,400 bushels barley, 3,000 bushels rye, 17,20 bushels oats. Academy of Music. ‘There was another crush at the Opera last night. Yrom ceiling to parterre every available inch of space was eccu - pied, and vast numbers were glad to find even standing room, The ‘‘Figlia di Reggimento,” always a favorite, was, in this instance, doubly attractive, from its kiown adaptability to Mile. Piccolomini’s powers. Owing its popularity rather to its action and sprightliness tham to the scientific merits of its music, it is admirably sued to Dring out all the pretty little coquetries and minauderies of which her style is made up. One must see her Maria to fully comprehend how she has taken such a hold of the public favor, It is different in its expression from that of Jenny Lind, Sontag, Thillon, or any of the singers who have preceded her im it. ‘They rendered the action subordinate to the vocalization. Piccolomini suborcinates: the vocalization to the action. It is impossible to describe | thousand little artifices of manner, all soapparently aatura) in their character, of which her impersonation of tais rile is composed. With all her inimitable. grace she still con- vers the tue version of the part—that of a young girl, roughly brought up, but yet full of exquisite tenderness and feeling. Of a performance made up of so many minute shades it is, of course, diffientt to give any correct idea. The usual standards of comparison and criticism will not apply to it, and it must accordingly be witnessed to be appreciated Of Mile, Piccolomini's execution of the ciasewn lo dice there was not much to be said apart from her by-play. ‘The couvien partir was charmingly given, the sentiment being as truly expressed as inthe gayer morceaue. Jeuny Lind and Sontag: bave sung it better, but they cor tainly could not have pleased more, so perfect is the man. ner of this admirab! in the second act rendered with the and the whole por formance conveyed the idea of something sparkling and brilliant, without ever being able to realize the manner in which the efforts were produced. Signor Tamaro, the new tenor, bas a pleasing rather than a powerful voice. It Nightly aifected by hoarse ness, and we were not th e in & position to judge fairly of bis capabilities. We arc of opinion, however, that the nervousness of his débit over and his cold removed he will grow in the favor of the public, The Sulpizio of Formes was, as may be imagined, marked by all the breadth and vigor which usually «distinguish his petformances. In his hearty enjoyment of the part he created a fresh incident by badly tearing Mlle. Piccolo- mini’s robe and then improvising a scene euable her a et it adjusted. ‘The choral and orchestral arrangements were excellent, ind the mise en scene loft nothing to be desired. At the ‘lose of the opera, as indeed at the end of the first act, Mile, Piccolomini was called before the curtain to receive he enthusiastic tributes of the audience, Tim Orers at BArriMon®.—An error of the tolegrapt caused the announcement in yesterday's Hskaup that the Strakoseh Italian Opera Company was perforining at the Philadelphia Academy. The director of that troupe com meneed a series of performances at Baltimore, (Holliday 4 Street Theatre,) on Saturday, with Parodi, Reignoli and a | . de Wilhorst was artists go to Wash. with the “Tra Re Orexive oy Bexrox’s Taxater.—This bouse will be opened for the winter season next Monday. Rumor says that Miss Vandenhof, daughter of the eviebrated tra geaian, will be the first Reavine ov ae Courtanr oF Mites STAND —Pro exsor Longfellow’s freshest poem will be read this evening at Dodworth’s rooms, by Miss Virginia Vaughn, of whoee clocutionary abilities we hear good avcounts. Miss Vangha, it ie said, makes the reading desk a first step towards the and intends soon to make ber debt peu the Doctor Cobel Acquitted of the Charge of Man- and Malpractice. COURT OF OYER AND TERMINE. Before Hon. Judge Balcomb. Oct. 2.—The People ve. Charles Cobel.—The translation of the letters sent by the defendant to Mr. Webor, respecty ing his wife’s illness, were read by the District Attorney, which were published at the time of the inquest. For the defence Drs. Alexander B. Mott, Alanson 8. Jonea and other physicians were called, and testified What, from the testimony of the medical men adduced on the part of the prosecution. they considered that the symptoms could arise from other causes than that with whieh the accused was charged: that those symptoms frequently arise from natural canges, and that the deceased lady might not have been pregnant, but may have ed from disarrange- ments to whieh the sex is subjert Counse! having summed up, the Judge charged the jury clearly upon the law, but cautiously leaving the facts for them to decide upon. When the jury were ip deliberation about two hours they came inte Court, and asked the Judge what the oa ture of the offence would be if they found that there was an abortion, and that the child was uot quick at the time? The Judge replied—Manslaughter in the fourth degree. The jury again retired, and aiter # brief alsence brought in a verdict of not guilty. Upon the rendition of the verdict a very affecting scene took place between the defendant and his young wife, (a lady apparently about thirty years of age—he is t,) and be exclaimed “Oh, God!” with a grateful heart. In the carly pert of the day the Grand Jury presented ® number of indictments. The District Attorney said there was still @ large amount of business to be sent be fore them, and the Grand Jury again retired. Letter from Mr. Anson Herrick. 7O THE RPITOR OF THE HRRALD. New York, Oot. 27, 1858. You do mean injustice in stating that any charge is pending against me growing out of an indictment found by the Grand Jury. In 1855, in the midst of # great re- form excitement, when the community seemed to demand « municipal victim, a Grand Jury was formed, whieh, by a bare majority, was induced to find bills of indictment against me and seven oF eight other members of the Common Council. I was put upon trial upon a charge of bribery, and the case was before the Cost of Oyor and Terminer for a fall week. Judge Roosevelt presided James T. Brady and James R. Whiting were my counsu ‘The District Attorney exerted his utmost powers to ob tain a conviction, but failed, notwithstanding the strong prejudice of the Court against me. This failure to es tablieh the © against me induced the District Attor ney to enter a nolle proseqi, and there the matter termi nated, The circumstances of that trial are well known tothe community, and Tam perfectly willing they shall all be re-stated in your columos, if my enemies believe they can profit by their reproduction in the canvass for member of © in the Fighth distriet. 1 believe that T maintain as good a social standing in this city— where T have been an active business man and politician’ § for twenty two years—ae any candidate now before the people for Congress and I only write this that you may | enabled to correct the misstatement that any charge is pending againet me, of a Tae kind, in our eonrts. not think you intend to misropresent me, and ttrost you * Will not hesitate to do me justice. ANSON HERRICK Naval Intelligence. ‘The United States sloop of war Plymouth, Captain Doligren, eailed (rom Tampi inst. Ofeers and erew all weil ‘The sloop-of war Marion, Commander Thos, W. Brent, sailed from Loando Avgust 81, bouad North, Oillgers aut ere all yi for Fora Cenz oa the 6th