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4 a NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNET?, EDITOK AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 6T3° TERMS, cash én advonce Wy sent by mail wilt he at the Whek of the sender, Postage stamps not received as subscription Fe p. P, 7 FUE WERELY WRKALD, coors Reman alta cone ew HERALD, every ¥: ver sory. or ‘annum the Buropers Biilion $4 por annum, fay art of Great Brissin, or $5. any part of the Continent, ooh THE FAMILY HERALD, every Wednesday, ct fowr cents per oF $2 per anmern 7 DENCE, mdmine «1 red “Motu tax Y CORRESPONT ENCE, containing important news, 90 NO NOTICE taken of cnonymous correspondence. We do nw jaations. TISEM EN wood every Gay ; ad. ertisoments in fm the Warwiy Hexaln, Pawtcy Menace, and ix the mre and Buropern £djcions Volume XX . Ne, 30% AMUSEMENTS TIS EVENING. AQADEMY OF BUSIC, Foartesnth street —Itautay Orens —La TRAVIATA. BROADWAY THEATKE, Lrosdway—Apnienne Trcou- VREU—Lt TOUR BE Nesi.b 81478 SRORRTS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, broadway —Tax Pore or Rome, BOWERY THEATEE. Bow New Yorz axp Baoox- ErN—Rose OF Siakoy—1. y—JomBo Jom. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadwsy—Warart ano Cuarr— Dine row Love. LAURA KEEN®’S THEATRE, No, 624 Broatway.—Ovx Axmenican Covsin—A Day ts Pans, BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Afe aon and Freniug—Tmopor's Mito WokLD—Dk. Valentine, &O WOOD'S MINSTREL RUIL! G, 861 and 563 Broadway— Ermiorian Songs, Dances, 40. AND OUT OF PLave MECHANIC'S HALL, 42) Broadway. —Brvanre’ Mivsteers @ SONGS AND BURLESQUES—Selze OF LOCK NOW. CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 444 Rroadway.—Prmoriay Osrtacrsaistics, Sonus, Yo —K nian ov tue Razor PALAOK GARDEN, Yourteenth street and Sixth arenue.— Fuxcaxt BQUESTRIAN OND JY Mx STO ENTERTAINMENTS. Rew York, Saturday, October 30, 1858. 'The News. A letter from an officer of the army operating wainst the Indians in Washington Territory, tived by the steamer St. Louis—the substance of rhich is given under the telegrap 1 in to- fiy’s paper—contains important inteiligenc la- fveto the Indian war in that region. The army had had a conflict of two days’ duration with the Spo- kan and Peluse tribes, which ended in the complete defeat of the savages and the capture of nine han. dred horses and the recovery ofthe property taken from Colonel Steptoe’s command. The Indians were effectually subdued, and the writer is of opi- nion that the war is at an end, so far as these tribes are concerned. Our special despatch from Washington states that General Paez and the members of the Venezucian commission visited General Cass yesterday at the State Department, aud were subsequently by him formally introduced to the President. It is stated that the governmeat will tender to ( Paez and his friends a national vessel to y them to Venezuela, and that the istinguisnedarty will delay their departure, in order to avail them- telves of the proferred compliment At democratic ratification held in kers last evening. Mr. ohn Van Buren made a h, in which he wed Senator Seward’s re- speech at Rochester. We give # report Orders have been issued directing General Hall tall a detachment of one hundred and twenty tes of the 55th regiment, an- ylonel De Gai, to proceed to Staten Island on lay neat, to relieve 6oth regiment, now on t Quarantive. In all probability an armed will be kert at Quarantine until after the g of the Leg victims of the th street were Gouldy wos part nd spoke at times to those around him. rervant girl, Johanne sinking fast, while ra remained about the same asthe day p The Board of Supervisors met yesterd Mayor sent ia another communication, nom Henry J. Andrews, Semnel Bangs and on as Commissioners far buik re- meeting to five off der ¢ Mou duty ers and pr ture recent horrible tragedy in 1. alive up to last evening mscious @ portion of the The the vious. was Wm City Hall. The communication, which is fifth or sixth sont in by the Mayor, was re The bill of City In of birthy from Jan June %, was $826 20 In the wonth e births were 1.314; in February, 1,016; in March, 1425: in April, 1,1 May, 1,080, and te the Ytn of June 560, A num- ber of t we or aid, and other ne business transacted the Board ad- 4 to Thursday next ary Comanttee of the Senate held another yeeterday, and received the evidence of men. Dr. Reid testified that he was of opinion that among other meaus which muight be effectively used to check disease and ren- der the city a healthy one, th minds to a consciousness of the advantages cerived trom cleanlit and ventilation should be reckoned, end that baving this imparted to them as an clementary part of their education would doult- lew Lave a salutary effect in cheaging the city frow its pre condition. The rest of the evi given yesterday presented po featare that ha Leen previously given The alee of cotton y 11,200 a 1,40 Wale out change in prices. Flour was expecially for better class of Drands, white prices were without change of importance Wheat exhibited po change of moment, while sales were to a fair extont. Among the transactions a choice lot of Soutbera white sold at 61 45, and a lot of red do. ot $1 15 8 $1 20. Corn was in fair Gemand, with nales of Western muned at 66c. a 000. Pork was irregular and lees active the sales embraced mess at $16 65 a $16 ¥0, aud prime at 214 75 8 814 Bb. Sugars were quite steady, with sales of about 1,000 bhde. at rates given in another place. Coffee was frm, with sales of 1.700 bage Santos on private term, 600 Ric at 11 and 160 do, Maracaibo at 11 yc. Freighta were steady moderate engagements The ten wale held ycsterday went off with fair spirit, so farm the green: wor The oolongs, however, were beayy, and many lote wore withdrawn goed with coucerned The Brutal end Bloody Mant festy of Seward— ‘The True Issue in 1860, Politicians b been cavilling and groping and parties quarreliing and breaking up. because there was no great question before the country under which to draw the broad and dis- tinet lines of party organization, and upon which ibe popular verdict shal! be rendered in 1560, Kut there is now no wore room for cavil. A Senator—one who has had along expe- abou rience, who is looked upon by his followers as a calm, sedate and profound thinker, who is held to be the I f the republican party —ha announced the principles under which that party coming political conflict, and In a recent «peech Mr. Seward rallies his politice! frieuds aud partisans to go jute the conflict and decide whejher the cotton, rice and sugar fielde of the South, shall be ultimately tilled by free whether wheat fields of New York and New Bagland must be surreadered to slave eultur and to the production of slaves. The United States. saye Mr. Seward, “met and will, sooner or later, be- ther entirely a elaveholding natiou, or y 8 free labor vation.” Such is the vratal and bloody programme laid down by Senator Seward «* the platform of the republi cao party, and which that party accepm. Pe- fore such as thie ali other iseces fink into ineignificance. The Kansas hum- bug, the squatter sovereignty fallacy, the petty quarrels between the adberents of the administration aud those of Douglas, the cries will go into the ends it hopes to attain. we publich which wewhere rye and an inene ee ee NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1858. sclieaasiaiisiee deleted ee ol a protective tariff, of a new naturalization law and the thousand other petty party ques- tions of the day, are all ephemeral in their na- ture, and will disappear be!ore the great social and political confliet which this programme inau- gurates. We call it a brutal and bloody programme, for it is nothing more than the announcement of a fierce war that is to be made upon the social and political organization of the Southern States, The pretended alternative, that the North must give up its rye and wheat fields to slave culture if those of the South are not given up to free ne- groes, is aH humbug. Such an alternative caa never by any possibility occur. We have all the life, all the energy, and all the intelligence that belong to anunmixed race and a homogeneous population, Ina national point of view we have all the activity, all the trade, all the education, all the wealth, and the greatest part of the ras- cality of the country, The idea, therefore, of the South ever forcing its institutions or its niggers upen us is perfectly preposterous. But we can miake a war upon the South; and if the North is united in so doing it must succeed, And this is what Mr. Seward wishes to attain, We must not only retain the rigat of solf-zo- vernment for ourselves, but we muet insist upon attaining the right of governing the South sc- cording to our ideas, and not permitting them to govern themselves according to their At our behest the entire organization of society in the Southern States must be changed. I( must be made homogeneous, like our own, or like that of Saint Domingo and Jamaica. At present they have no defence against our forcing thern to effeet this, if we have the will to do so, other than the Constitution, But the Constiiu- tion ean be chonged by two-thirds vote, suys Mr. Seward; and if we Northernersdo not change it and make it a free Constitution, the South will goon annexing territory, and will eventually make a slave Constitution of it. We must, there- fore, make a savage war upon the South, aud win the victory in 1860, Such is the programme of the republican party; and they will endeavor to carry it out. It, therefore, behooves our merchants and our manufacturers, our farmers and our mechanics, our men of weelth and our laborers, to consider well what would be the result upon themselves and their own interests if this brutal and bloody programme should succeed. The interests of the orth and the South are bound together by in- dissoluble ties of sympathy. What injures the one must perniciously affect the other. Our com- merce, Cur manufactures. our railroads and great ways of intercommunication, depend in a large degree upon the untrammelled markets of sup- ply and copsuinption in the South; and upon those depend the value of our labor, our lands ami possessions, all our material interests, and the developement of our moral powers. No great injury cau be done to the organization of own. preduction and cousumption, The social organi- zation of the South may be compared t of cloth composed of equal parts of linen and cotton. Abstract reasoners may say that such a mixed cloth is not so good as one composed en- tively of linen, which is a stronger and more valuable material, and that we should meke the texture all linen, in order to increase its value. But « mixture of linen and cotton is better for certain purposes than all linen would be. Be- tiles, if we draw out or destroy the woof, which is composed of colton, we leave only « tangled web, which can serve no purpose until it is again woven into cloth. So it is with the South Tie social organization of black labor. directed hy white intelligence, is better for the material and moral interests of itself and the whole workd, its conditious of climate and soil, than would be a society composed entirely of the white race. Aud if that ¢ destroyed, the whole web of society there must under nization is once be reconstructed before it can serve any useful purpe » civilization This 15 the new issue thet is tung oat by the repub nh party, and upon which the first voi will be mien next Tuesday, in the straggle be- tween Parker and Morgan for the Governorship of the Empire State of New York. Every vote cast for Morgan will be a vote for Seward’s brutal and bioody programme. If Morgan is elected, even by a hare plurality, New York will take the lead in inaugurating the social war that will be made an iseue everywhere in 1860, Is New York prepered todo this? Will she take the vanguard ina fight which, if ® succeeds, mus destroy more than one-balf of the commerce of her metropolis, and diminish to a great extent the value of every dollar's worth of property throughout the State and ber sister States? Men of New York! you are called upon to decide these questions, The issue Las been sprung upon you at the lost hour of the canvas, and whea there is little or no time to discuss it ; but every vote on Tuesday next for Morgan as Governor will be claimed as a vote for Seward’s bloody mauifeeto, whether it be given so understand- ingly or not. For this bas the manifesto been t back until the last moment. Coexty ayy Assemeiy Tiekets.—We pub- lish to-day a list of the candidates for the dif- ferent county offices to be filled at the approach- ing election, and of those who are seeking to represent this city in the Assembly at Albany, We have endeavared to make this interesting catalogue as valuable and instructive as possible, Ly appending to the name of each candidate his occupation, and the fact of whether he pays taxes or not, which may be taken as an indics- tion of the stake he has in the community he aspires to govern. It will be seen that out of the entire number of sixty-one candidates only nineteen pay taxes—the remeining forty-two pay none ; alse, that out of the forty-five gentlemen who want to go to Albany, there to control the ‘ocal affairs of this city and help their friends io rome fat jobs, only twelve pay taxes ; and it is not too much, perhaps, to assume that most of the other thirty-three have a sinister motive for their ambition. This ix eustained by the fact that «ome of them bave no local habvitation—they are halitués of porter houses and engine houses ; their names are not to be found in the Directory; and no one knows them except their own cliques who put them in nomination. With the exception of a few names, the candi- dates for Assembly are wholly unfitted for the position of legislators , a more miserable selec- tion of ex-office holders, porter house men, sual lawyers, evgine ranners and nobodies, could not have been selected to represent the city ; and if there ar. no better men to be chosen than the majority of these, we shall have as infamous a tine in Albany next winter as we had last, Our delegation to the Aseembly exercises more infvence upon the city government than mort people imagine. The country members know nothing of our affairs, and the city dele- gation. therefore, rales the roost at Albany. Tax Preconoum Perone—A Novevry 41 Lasr. History is fall of contradictions, Rules jong established, canons sanctified by the dust of ages, are swept away in a moment by the force of iudivideal power, Sixty years ago, when all Earope was in a ferment, when great armies were myrshalled under the banners of illustrious veterans, a young Italian, a soldier who had sought in vain for his sword’s employment, ap- peared npon the scene, and changed the desti- nies of the nation. The Little Corporal cerried terror and devastation into the ranks of ofd fogyism, and annibilated at once all the old tystems brought down from Turenne and Marl- borough and Charles the Twelfth. He thrashed the Austrians out of Italy, whipped the allied Powers on every ficld, and carried bis eagles in triumph from the Tuileries to the Pyramids. He defied the old rules of fighting, and, according to the art of war, he should have lost ali his battles. The imouldy strategists were lost in wonder, while the masses of the people worshipped the sew Ccesar as a god. His laurels are as green to-day as when he wrote to Talma, “Come to Olmutz, and you shall play before a pit full of kings.” As with war or with politics, so it is with art. .\nd now we see in our midst a jolky, piquant cn@adiere, also a native of bright Italia—a little corporal in crinoline, a petite Napoleon in petti- couts—in the person of Piccolomini, walking boldly up to the canvon’s mouth, and carrying the popular affections by storm, in spite of the oppo- cvion of all the oyster house critics. They say, Ike the old Generals who pooh-poohed at Napo- icon the First, that she knows little of her art— at she has not much voice, and does not always g correctly, and that, altogether, she has been exceeded by artists who bave not gained great us., These pundits argue and storm and split hairs upon the merits of the new singer, and make the saloons resound with their denunciations, while the public, which has a will of its own, crowds the house every night. Pic- colomini has in fact routed the critics as the Littie Corporal thrashed the Ausirians and the Prassians. She has fought her campaign upon entirely novel principles; and by a combination of qualities, personal and artistic, rarely seen, she has carried away the defences of the oyster houre erities by storm, and, so far as the opinion of the publie is concerned, has routed their forces, horse. foot and dragoons. The triumph of Piccolomini contains a lesson which the presumed framers of public opinion would do well to mark, learn and inwardly r We have bad here Grisi, who came flushed with a thousand victories, won upon hotly contested fickds: and she failed with us, Sontag and Alboni were great artists, with first class European reputations; but they only achieved a moderate degree of success in the United States. The only parallel to the triumph of Piccolomini was that of Jenny d, who was also out of favor with the critics; she was called a bad artist, who relied on veutriloquial tricks to tickle the ears of the groundlings. Bosio end La Grange, both perfect artists, and both crowned with laurel by the critics, failed to awaken any great amount of public enthusiasm, while this little Piccolomini walks upon the stage of the Academy and conquers the people with a look. She cannot sing—so the critics say; and yet the theatre is filled nightly as it has never been filled before. Decidedly, somebody is in the wrong; and us in all democratic commu- nities the majority rules, it follows that the public must be right. At any rate, Piccolomini has beateu the critics out of the field. They have found their Waterloo, and she has gaiaed her Ansterlitz. Vive! Piecolomini! Poems axp Potuies.—From the police re- cords of the city, and the despatches which reach us from the interior of the State, it does not ap- pear that the fighting which commenced last week at Baffulo, was continued in Canada, and then scattered in skirmishes all aloug the Central rail- way, is over yet. The principal bruisers have their retinues of hangers-on as fierce, as san- guinary and ae numerous as the followers of the chiefs of feudal times. One of these henchmen has already recrived his death wound in a com- bat at Albany, the quarrel growing out of a dispute as to the relative “merits” of the cham- piens at Long Point, and this rencontre is only the beginning. There came near being another Poole affair in Broadway on Thursday night also, relative to the merits of one of the parties in the same gladiatorial encounter. It will be remembered that after the famous fight of Hyer and Sullivas, nine years ago, there was a sucecssion of guerilla wars as fierce as the strect fights of the Guelphs and the Ghibbelines. Sullivan was an Irishman and « devotee of Saint Tammany. Hyer was « whig, and pinned his political faith upon the Broadway Hoase clique. The followers of these mighty muscle men ar- rayed themselves under separate banners, and when inflamed with bad liquor made their head- quarters fow with blood. Sullivan emigrated to California, and died from too much Vigilance Committee; while Hyer, it is said, retired from the ring. But neither the disappearance of Sul- livan, nor the good intentions of his old foe, could quiet the rowdy epirit which they had invoked. ‘The old professors of the black art claimed that ii was comparatively easy to raise the devil, but very dificult to exorcise him. So with the pugilists, New champions arose in the persons of Poole and Mprrisey; the first was attached to the Know Nothing order, anc the second the deal- er of apostotic knocks for the Celtic democracy. The influx of thieves, pallies and murderers from Sydney via California familiarized the local Dlackguards with the uve of the knife and the re- volver. Homicide took the place of assault, and the criminal calendar bristled with capital of fences, The Poole and Cunviocham affairs are cases in point, while a recapitulation of emaller matters—cutting, airing, shooting, biting and gouging--that bave taken plac: here within the past few years, would fill at least « page of this journal. The recent contest between Morrissey and Tlecnan will lead to «till jorther exhibitions of rowdyiem. The rival gladiators are attached to separate cliques of the same party—the harmo- hions democracy--and, as a matter of course, their quarrels will be even more bitter than if they were employed by separate parties. When we read that at Caunda “knives and pistols bristled round the ring’ we have every reason to believe that they will not ouly briatle bat will be used in the city barvooms. These men regulate the municipal elections to a great ex- tent, and oceasionally interest themselves in the contests for Congress. They may, therefore, ap- peur in the State election; but they confine their grand coups to the municipal canvass, Their business is to work in the wards, and control the primary meeting for the nomination of corpo- ration and county officers, where the spoils are worth having. Of course they are not con- tented to work always fur the elevation of otters, but they demand sometimes that th civic robes shall grace their own brawny shoul- ders. Several of them have been elevated to Aldermanic chairs by a gratefully bullied con- stituency, and as they increase in strength we may reasonably expect that the Manual of the Corporetion will be revised, in order to harmo- nize it with the rales of the prize ring, and that divisions in the Board will be settled by a series of fights instead of by calling the roll. At any rate, the fight at Canada will give onr Judges and policemen plenty of work for some time to come, The rowdy spirit, always rampant, is roused to fever heat by the excitement attendant upon the last bloody struggle, and we may look for a plentiful crop of murders between this time and New Year's da; Canvipates For Conoress.—There is a con- siderable batch of candidates for Congress now placed before the’ people, to be voted for next Tuesday. It consists of various articles, from the man who estimates his vote at one hundred dollars a bill up to the candidate of honor, inde- pendence, truth and eloquence, which we con- sider to be as much embodied in John Cochrane as in any of the others. Horace F. Clark, about whom there has been so much trouble, and fuss, and spouting, and swearing, and grog drinking, is not worth the headaches and hoarse throats he has caused. He never knows on which side in politics he is, and is just as ready to speak in one direction and vote in the other as the weather- cock is to follow the next impulse of the wind. Waltwidge and Sickles are about well matched, and are both trying to sell the same beef ia the same market. Whether Walbridge whips Sickles or Sickles whips Walbridge, “our withers are unwrung,” and the Union is very probably safe for the nexd six months. George Taylor, in Brooklyn, is worth voting for, for he has set himself, like an honest man, against the rascally printing jobs in Washington, while his opponent, Litchfield, has been up to his eyes in railroad jobbing all over the country, and even beyond seas in England. He wants rail- roads and plunder, while Taylor by his past con- duct shows that he wishes to reduce the extrava- gance of Congress. Let him be voted for. Who are the other Congressional candidates? Are they not worth noticing? Echo replies, “not worth noticing.” THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despatch. DESPATCHES FROM MINISTER LAMAR—COSTA RICA DISCLAIMS THE FAMOUS PROTECTORATE MANI- FESTO—THE WRECK OF THE SHIP WILD WAVE-—THE SOCIETY ISLANDS ANNEXATION PROJECT—RRCEP- TION OF GEN. PAKZ BY THR PRESIDENT—THE G ENB- RAL TO BE CONVEYED TO VENEZUBLA IN A NATION- AL VESSEL, ETC. Waamneton, Oct. 29, 1858. The State Department has received important despatches from Minister Lamar. The government of Costa Rica bas, like that of Nicaragua, disclaimed any jutention in the Belly manifesto of insulting the United States, and apolo- gizes for the language used. Monsieur Belly'’s grand humbug is extinguished. The transit route may undoubtedly now be opened, and the contract rights of American cit'zens will not be inter” fered with. When the company staris its steamer, on the €th proximo, the question of transit will be virtually set- tied, While the administration receives with characteris- tic magnanimity these assurances from weak, vacillating governments, it wil not neglect the necessary precautions tw prevent future difficulties. Letters have been received at the Navy Department from the home squadron at San Juan They contin uo immportant new Despatches have also been received from the Vandalia, Commanier Sinclair, at Tahiti, August 10. She had on board three distressed seamen, left sick from a whaleship fut Nuka Hiva, While there @ boat arrived from Pitcairn & Teland, Laving in her the captain, chief mate and two sea. tnen of the Anverican clipper ship Wild Wave, of Boston, wreeked on the 4th of March last, onan isiand in latitude 24 degrees, longitude 130, 0n ber passage to Valparaiso from San Francisco (mentioned in the Heat ycsterday } ‘ommander Sinclair immediately sailed im search of the remainder of the crew, thirty-eight in number, whom the captain had left. Commander Sinclair says nothing about the cession of the Hoowty Islands to the United States, lately spoken of 80 much. Generai Paez, Senor Rojas, President of the Commission from Venezue and Senors Mujica acd Manuel Pae Commissioners, were presented this morning by General Herran to General Case. After expressions of courtesy and regard, it was arranged by General Case to introduce the distinguehed visters to the President at one o'clock. At that time they proceeded to the White Hoos, in com pany with Ceneral Herran, and were introduced. General Case bes \avited General Paez and party to dinc -mor- row with the Cabinet. it is understood the President will extend the same bospitality. An offer will be made to General Paca to couvey him to Veneauela in a govern. Ment veswe!. and it i# probable be will stay a week louger than intended to accept thie honor, He will retain in Wasiongton some daye. Conmmise.oner Campbell, of the Joint Boundary Com. mission for defining the northwest boundary, repor the Department that no initio! point bat been decid upon, aod that he did not expect to accomplish much befure peat year. TUE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DREPATCH Wasmiyaroy, Oct. 20, 1858, General Paez, accompanied by P. J. Rojas anc two other members of the Venezuclan delegation, and Mr. Herran, the new Granadian Minister, and Mr. Pombo, Lis Secretary , proceeded to the Executive mansion today and were there introduced to the President by Mr. Case, ia pur euance of @ previous arrangement. General Paez said be came to bid farewell to thie nation through ite President; that he considered the United Sates his second home, and exproseed the hope that the sympathies bestowed upon him in his exile would be ox tended to Venezuela, The high respect and gratitode be feit for the United States would daily increase at hiv fire fide, and when justice or the guod name of the United States required it bis friendship would de abundantly Manifested as a tribute which he owed to this peopie, whose illustrions chici now received bir adiea, ‘The President, iu reoly, said he was bappy to see the man who bad won so great a name in the Colombiae war of independence, and who had made so many sacrifices for his country. General Paez being known at the de. fender of constitutioual liberty, it wae gratifyingto the President that he had received the nation’s ey mpathy With all bis heart he wished him triumphant success on bir return, and that Veneructa may consolidate her Uber ties wuder such an eminent leader, Entertaining the warmest feeling for the prosperity 01 Venezuela, be de sired that the two countries would maintain the most friendly rotations, Uf any difeculty should arive beiweon them, Le entertained no doubt that it could be amicably adjusted. ‘The interview, ne General Paes eubsequently remarked, was of a bighly gratifying choracter Genera! Paez will dine with (he President and also with Mr. Case before bis departure; and as a further evidcnee of the friendship of our governmont, he will return to Veneznela in about three weeks in a nation’! vesse), ten orca lim for that pnrpose The ftate Department having reason to seppose that some irresponsible persons in Maglend, and others there writing under sesumed nanies, bave induced parties in this country to forward remittances thither for the reco very of cstater to which they are led to believe they are entitled, cautions persons to whom such represeniations are made to be satiefied as to the identity ond charactor of their correspondents Emery 2. Potter has been appointed Coll cir of Cas tome for the “iatriet of Miami, Obie, in place of Wiliam Coghtin, removed. ‘The Navy Department advertises for propor.is for fur. ishing steam machinery W the screw propelier sloop ot wor at the Gosport Navy Yard. Phitaveh + in arms, tm 1858 it of AL pormug forty ive hundred dollars Vea Ua Tray iota” Halian Opers : Pe ‘The splendid opera troupe. onder the management Maurice Strakoseh, have ercater a perfect furor bere. fn fale of tickets were takeu to leur Important News from Oregon and Wash, ington Territorics. OTAL DEFEAT OF THR SPOKAN AND PKIUSE IN- DIANS——-RECOVSRY OF THE PROPERTY TAKEN FROM COL. STEPTOE'S COMMAND—THE WAR VILTUALLY AT AN END. ‘Tees Ormice, Hanrrorp, Oct. 29,1858. We have a letter from Lieut, Tyler, of the United States Oregon army, dated at Cour d’Alue Mission, Washington Territory, Sept. 15, with Lfteen days later news than any other account from there. ‘The Spokan and Peluse Indians had been defeated after two days Oghting. The Spokan Chief was held by the United States forces, and nine hundred horses:had been taken from the Peluse tribe, All of the plunder which the Indians took from Col, Septoe’scommand had been re- covered, Col, Steptoc’s pistol was found upon an Indian who was shot down in tis saddle. The army did not lose aman, The Indians were beg- ging for peace, and complying wilh o!! of the demands of the United States officers. Licut. Tyler considers the war in that quarter as ended, His letter was expressed to Fort Taylor,on the Snake river, near Walla-Walla, by Indian runners, It was di- rected to his father, who resides in this city, and is pro- bably the only ietter that came through by the last Cali fornia steamer from the seat of the Oregon war, New York State Politics. Atnayy, Oct. 29, 1858. The American General Committee met to-day, and after @ protracted session, nominated Perry H.Rwing for Coun- y Clerk, and J. H. Snyder for Justice, in place of the can didates nominated by the County Convention, who have resigned. Much dissatisfaction exists in the party, the straight out Americans declaring in favor of the straight American ticket, and the anti-Corning men for the Union icket. Roxnovr, Oct. 20, 1858. ©. V. Barnett, the straight Amorican candidate for Con erces io the Eleventh district, co and Greene coun tier,) has withdrawn in favor of W. 8. Kenyon, tue repub- lican apd American unwn candicate, Democratic Ratification Meeting in Boston, Boston, Oct. 29, 1858. Fanouil Hall was densely crowded last night by the de: mocrats of the #ifth Congressional district, in which Joba 1. Heard is their nominee. whes were made by ox Governor Henry J, Gardner, Chas, Theodore Russell and others, and a letter from Rufus Choate read, fayoring the clection of Mr Heard w Congress over Anson Burlingame, the present member and republican nominee. Democratic Meeting at Newark, N. Newark, Oct. 29, 1858. rand raily of the democracy took place in this city he at € ert Hall, The spacious building, notwith- -y of the Weather, was filled « over great entiusiasta prevailed. The firet speaker 1). Brhop, of Connecticut, who announced ative of Newark, He was warinly received 2 able and cloquent address, which was yehe ded throughout. The Mecker Wil Case. Newark, Oct. 20, 1 ker will case, which hag oceupied the ottention preme Court, Cireuit, and excited the interest of our citizens curing the whole of the present term of the above court, iv drawing toa close. F. T. Frelinghuysen, sq , made the concluding speech on the part of the plain- ifs ‘today, having taken six hours in its delivery. Its regarded as one of the most able aud. brilliant speeches ever madeat the Fascx county bar. The other counsel, Courtland: Varker, Esq., Hon A. C. M. Pennington and Governor Pennington, each spoke from six to eight hours. ‘The charge of Judge Haines to the will delivered to-morrow. Property to the value in the suit. A verdict for the pi garded otherwise than as a conviction in the minds of the Jorors that the iustrament purporting to be the last willof Jonathan M. Mecker,uuder which J. K. Boy!an, the prin- cipal deposee, has possession of ¢ , is a forgery, and the subseribing witnesses have sworn falsely. The Jury is composed of picked n r, the Polson: Bostox, Ort, 29, 1858, Mrs, Gardner, convicted of murder in’ the second de- gree, for poitouing her husband, late Postmaster at Hing- ham, has been seutenced to the House of Correction for iife. Sentence of Mrs. Gard: ‘Trial of « Murderer. Newark, N. J., Oct 29, 1858. ‘The day for the trial of James MeMauon, charged with the murder of bis sister-tu-law, bas been changed to the Sth proximo, owing tothe necessary absence of Judge Tiaines to attend the Sepreme Court at Trenton the comme week. Gen. T. Ronyon avd Amzi Dodd, Fsq., bave been asoigned as counsel for the prisoner by’ the Court. The prisoner is in excelient spirits aud says be will be able to prove his entire innocence. Morvace Bell Released, New Avnany, 1a. Forace Beil was released on bait’ today, a rivee bere from Brandenberg. He was reve! thestre to night with tremendous appla fy d at the Yellow Fever at New Orleans, New Outmans, Oct. 20, 1858. The deaths in this city yesterday by yellow fever were tweaty five. Stoking of ue storks ¢ unto Maayan and Loss or lee Care Istanp, Oct, 29, 1868. The bark Corlo Movran, from New York for Aspinwall wmnk yesterday, «bout twenty mules southeast of the Five Fathom bank. Thecrew we landed here, after much ja boats, exceptin, 2 of a bout hightsbip. one, who was’ lost hy the he cook died after reaching the Deporture of the Inétan Empire from Hatt- tax. TharsPax, Oct. 29, 185 for Galway, w kK this evening Tue steamer Indian Em| from this port untti #t for Furope, frou New York, it leftaseoon a at the ofice of the Amer’ Telegraph Company. No. 21 Wal! street, may reach here in season to go oul in her Markets. ‘2 sew Onumans, Oct. 29, 1858 Cotton—Saiet to-day 8,000 bales al middling. The cles of the woek ad the receipts £6,600. Receiyta at this. port ahend of Inst oe: 119,000 bales: do. at ali Southern ports, 307,000 les Stock, 195,000 bales agniust 130,000 bales last year. Sugar dechued Ke. Moiasses deciined 2c, Corn closed With an advanemg tendency: pales at 70c. Meas pork heli 0 317 25. Lard Grm at loiye, Coffee—The sales of the week ta ep 760 bags at TOKe. » 10%0. for fair to good fair, Stock. 21,500 bags, agaimet 117,250 inst year, Freights slightly dechned. Bavanwan, Oct 28, 1968 Cotton—Bales to-day 2,000 bales ab Lidge. for middlj fair. The sales of the week add up 8,000 bales, and te receipts 18,260, Receipts abead of last year 67.000 bales Stock £5,000 bales, against 8,050 last year. Freights— Cotten to Liverpool 3¢4., and to Havre Jt. In port—a30 ships, 8 barks, and § beige Banmmtonn, Oct, 20, 1668, Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat steady; red $1 18 a $1 £2, white $1 2081 42 Corn—White The. 0 Tée. for old, and €5¢. # 67¢, for pew. Whiskey dull aud heavy. Provisions steady, Pomanecema, Oct 20, 1865. Flour active at % 374 a $5 75. Wheat dull.’ Corn— An advancing tendency sales at 800.9 Sie. for old yel low, and 63c. for new. Whiskey declined. Crvcissatt, Oct. 20, 1859. Flour dull and unchanged. Whiskey duil at 18%. ‘Hogs quiet, and a good many offering Wheat dull Creace, Oct 29, 1858. Flour steady. Wheat dull, and declined de.: ‘sales at 65c. Corn active, and advanced Ye.: salee at hdc. Oats firm. Shipments to Paffalo—t 600 bbis. flour, 17,000 bust els corn. Shipments to Okwego—11,500 bushels wheat, Keceypts—1,400 bbie, floar, 20,000 Lushols wheat, 4,800 ‘Dusbew corn. Brrvaro, Ort. %—1 1. M. There was a good demand for tour thie morning, inainly for through shipment, and prices without materiat change: sales of 2.200 bbie., at $425 a $4 50 for con mon to choice supertine; $4 875 a $5 60 for the range of extra and double extra.’ Wheat quist and im limited ¢e ound: market firm: sales of 12,000 bushels unsound Chierge hoe y 02460. ; 2,400 do. 90r , for extra Miiwan- kie club, $1 20 for choice white Uiimow, at $1 16 for co. Michigan. Corn in fair demand and market firm: sales of 42,000 bushels, at 68. for No. 2, and 600. for prime, Bar. Icy duit, wud held at The, to 8be. Rye 650, Oats at de. a 460, ‘Whiskey vomoal at 20, Canal freight: un changed. Rece ite for the last twenty four hours 12,600 bis, Noor, 19,977 bushels wheat, 20,356 bushels corn. Shipments ‘by ‘canal—8,277 bbls.‘ flour, 16,277 bushels wheat, 2,500 bushels corn. Berrano, Oct 296 P.M. A good demand for floar, but maily for through ship ment: sales 2,000 bb's. ai $4 26 a $4 50 for common to choice superiine, $4 87 a $5 60 for extra to double extra, Wheat quiet aod in moderate demand, saies 26,000 bushels at The, for common Wisconsin club, 900. for extra do., O24g¢. for unsound Chicago spring, $1'20 for choice winter Southera Ttinois, $1 16 for prime white Michican Corn in fair demand and steady: sales 40,000 bushely at 58. for Ne. 2aud GOe for prime. Whiskey nominal at 2c. Freighte—tde. on tour, 12e. on wheat, Mc, on corn to New York. Receipts in the ast 24 houre=#,00 bole flour, 38,160 bushels wheat, 89,600 bushels corn, 8 buehe's bar Cana! sh pments—6,900 bbis | 4. 52,500 hushets whent, 26,400 bushels corn, 6,000 bas wiey Osawa, Oot. 206 P.M. Four dull and unchanged. Whent beld above the views of buyers, and market quiet, Corn steady: sales 6,700 bnehel: Indians at 60°. Rarley without roateria’ change: saies 2,000 bushels Canatian ai 89¢, Onte firm: eater 2.800 Wuebele Canada at de. Rye quiet. Canal fre igs dul), at $2e. ou flour, 106, ov wheat, #ige. on corn to New York. Lake iriporte<45,700 boshels wheat, 14,000 bush. ele corn, 5.20 do. rye, 10,800 do. barley, 2400 do. onts. nal exports<1.200 bbls flour, 6,200’ bushels wheat, 6.900 ¢ 100 do. rye, 2,200 do. barley. ALWANy, Oot, 20-6 P.M. Flour in bolter supply and fair demand: antes 2,000 bbis, Wheat quiet aud #tonay: wales 4,000 bushels white In- dina At SL IZ Harley unstendy and lose nective: fale Canada boot at &Be. and Can an ‘oat, a fair argicie, BT MgC Ehipmie nt £2,000 hushels corn, 26K burhole barley, and 18,000 Trughole wheat, F histertood of Mount de Bales Academy of the fy Baltumore, died oma the 25d inst. Of Consumption, Leeoased wa ev. Wm. T. Clarke, President of Loyola Colege, aad took the veil sateen years ugo. Sister May Peay The y Expedition. TUR LAKE BTRAMERS CLARTEKED BY GOVERNMANT— DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY OF THEM. % ‘The names of the new lake steamers juat chartered by government for the Paraguay expedition ave America and Canada, They were built at Niagara, on the Canada eile, in 1854, by the Great Western Railroad, and are said te have cost $300,000 cach. They were constructed to run op Lake Ontario between Humulton, Ogdensbi ‘Kingston and other towns, When the Great Truk Railroad weut into operation they were no longer required on Lake On- tario; they were sold by tho Great Western road to N. P. Stewart, of Detroit, who still owns them. The steamers left Hamilton for Montreal about the first of May lass, ‘They Jaid up at the latter place until the Grat of September, when they sailed for this port, coming round through the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Captain West, son of Capt, James West, of the Atlantic, brought the Amerioa round, ‘fhe boats were out on the sox dur ing @ fearful storm, and Captain Wost said be never saw ships ride the sea more beautifully than they did. They reached this port in December, and have since been Inying up at Hunter's Point, till Tuce- day, when (he Canada was taken down to Mr. Sneydea's yard to have her guards cut away. ‘The model of the stcamers is very like that of the Sound boats: they are 300 feet Iong on deck, 88 feet beam, 16 feet bold, will carry 1,800 tons, and accommodate 608 passengers. They draw between cight and nine feet of water, The Parana and Paraguay rivers have nine foot in their channels up to Assumption, The boats have the guarde built up before and aft of the wheels into splendid staterooms, bath rooms, barber saloons, water closote and thejike, These are all going to be cut away to within two fest of the hull, leaving the Wheels standing out prominen!!y like an ocean steamer. The guards are cut ‘away in order that the boats may the better stand the sea in going down to Paraguay. The staterooms on board these two steamers are larger, better filted up and more coa- venient than on any of the Sound steamers; water is con- veyed through pipes into every stateroom, whore there ie ® washetand aud a basin, like rooms ina hotel. The bods have curtains of the finest lace. The ladics’ staterooms in particular deserve commendation for their ca- pacity, convenience and elegance of furniture. The furniture of the saloons will compare fa- vorably with that of the Sound steamers. Tho windows ip the upper Saloom are stained aud painted with taste and art ‘The scenery around Niagara Falls, im particular, is well developed and presented, All the eut- lory, plates, &e., used on the boat was made expressiy for thei in Glaegow, each article having the name of one of the steamers printed on it. They have commenced work on the America at Hunter's Poist, where she is laying on the ways. They are going to sheath her in 234 inch plank, and truanel and copper ber, tale off her guards within two fect of the hull, and place iron wheels upon her instead of tho prosent ones. When the work on the America is completed the Canada will take her place, and when both ace prepared for sea they will be delivered into the hands of the government at Brooklyn Navy Yard, which will probably not be ‘or five or six wocks yet. When government gets through with the boats their owner proposes to run them betweea Valparaiso end Panama. The government is said to have chartered them as $4,000 0 month They are to carry arullery and stores te Paraguay , but no troops. The other etoreships of the expedition—the Release and nother which i# being fitted out at Boston— will very soon be ready to sail for their destination. The Supply bas received all her stores, and will leave this port lo morrow at 12 0’clook. She is under the command of Licuteuant William A. Parker, and her officers are Lieutenants J, 8. Fillebrown, J. G. Maxwell, and Midslup- man G. 8. Perkins. ‘The steamer Weesternport bas already received ber ma. rine guard, composed of twelve non-commissioned offices and privates, under the command of Lieutevant Cohen. The Metacomet, another of the vessels, was built ia New York in 1854, and is $95 tons burthen. She is a side wheel steamer, and has a vertical engine with one cylia der thirty six inches in diameter and ten fect stroke. The boll 1s butt of oak and chestnut, and fastened with copper aud tron. She is schooner rigged, aud her draught is five feet. ‘The steamer M. W. Chapin was be!tt in Philadelphia in 1856, and is 280 tons burthen. Sbe hus « vertical engine, with one twenty four inch cylinder and two feet stroke. ‘The hull built of oak, and is fastened with iron and cop- per. She bas one deck, and draws six feet of water. The following are the names of the vessels composing be squadron :— Officere. Men. Gune. 600 b on 600 60 erry... 80 6 Rainuridge, 100 10 « Dolphin 80 6 Sloop.of-war Folmout! Nw ee Prebh to we Steamer-of-war Fulton 180 6 bs Water lio 4 Steamer Harriet Lane 80 2 Memphi o 3 «Atta 60 2 “ Caledont oo 2 « — Westernport. oO 2 © Southern Star. Oo 2 “« Metacomet . 30 1 «MW. Chapin. ve 30 1 America vee 10 60 2 © Canada . . 0 oo 2 Storeship Supply. vee 50 1 . Release at 40 1 “ eee oo i Total.. sereeetereeececee S83 2,790 199 The Navy Department has rejected the Memphis, one of the Cromwell eteamers, which was amoag the char- tered vessels, and has transferred Commander Michaud and the officer: placed on board «fLer to the Cauada, ‘There cau be no greater proof of the intensity of the Ticeclomini furore than ibe appearance which the Acade- my presented last night. Wet weather usually causes « marked (ailing offin the nomber and character of the audieaces, no matter Low popular the leading singers may be. such, however, was not the case last evening. Every reat was Glied, and the only vacancies observabie were in the passages, which were uncotafortah'y throaged during the previous nights. Young New York, of course, came cut as enthusiasweally ae usual, fur there is no dis Guising the fact that they bave enthroned Piccolomini as their Casta Diva. Her youth, bewuty and freshness, bot of voice and manser, have enchained the hearts of all our sympathetic youths and maidens, and they will not listen to the siightest depreciation of the merite of their new idol. The critics may therefore lay down their pens avd abandon for a while their ungracious tasks, for even sup Posing there was room for criticism, the public do not seem “ & temper to stand it. Our cannot wonder at thie when it is admitted that no vocalist that bas ever | ne on the Htatian stage in this bas vaited her pereon euch # variety of charm and attractions ae this brilhant Little creature. The “Figha” went off even sili better than on the first performance, Mile Meeolomini throwing her whole soul intober réle, and bewitching her audience by the and fascination of ber manner, The new tenor, Signor Tamaro, exiibited ® marked improvement over the pre- vious evening, bie increased confidence apd the disap. pearance of lie Woarseness enabling uim to bring out a the pleasing qualitics of bis vowe. ‘Ty night, in order to gratify the general desire oxpre-sed for @ repetition of the “Traviata,” that opera will be again performed with the same si ong cast as belore. Senorite Soto will aleo Lr in the ball scene, with a namerous de ballet. On Monday will be given the “Trovatore,”” with Piecoiomint as Leonora, and D Angri as Azacena, and oo Go uasenen Garzarige, one of the finest dramatic artists: has ever appeared on our stage, will sing im one of her most popular réles. The week mis sa brilliant round of entertainment vo attract all the most distinguished of the namerous vi Store at present stopping in the city dience vast evening we noticed ex President Fiimore way, who formed the centre of quite acrowd of fashions ‘The Heytiens in Parts. TO THE EDITOK OF THE WERKALD. In an article ip your paper of the 28d instant, (which, from my abeonce, {read but to-day), copied from the Port su Prince Feuille du Commerce, giving @ tarrative of the honors conferred on three Haytien young men fn Franoe for their literary attainments, you conclude with: “They do not inform us, however, whetber these students were of the pure ebony or mmiatte tints.” Tt may be satiofactory to ethnologis® to be made ac. qnainted with the physical conformation of those young Haytiens, bat may perhaps subdue the exu'tation of the uitra abolitionist Alexander Delve @ ibe on ef General Deiva, arather dark. mulatto man of intelligence, now holding a ‘hizh pot: position under the Haytiew Emperor, © Bon IS OF color of the father. €, Dopuy t@ the gon of Alexé Dupuy, a leht mulatta, formerly Seeretary of State under President Ricté. The ron is oF the same color. Fenelon Faubut on whom the excess of the honore were conferred by the Freuch Emperor, the Minister of Pu'nig Tuetrnetion and the Prince Napoleon, is the qrandeon of the late Pre ident Fetion, whe was a mulatto. Tho motion of Fenclon aight pues for a white motman, | highly ao complished and very rich, and her husband, the father of Fenelon, i a white Frenebman; and the younp Faubut, being a handsome man, itis not BUFPrISiNg (vat les dass de ta halle ebowld honor him with & mammoth bouquet To What literary atlanments @ purely Weck man may reach fe note matter of consideration in the present. re. marks, but more to show that the young Faabui, Alex. Dumas, originated im Wy has also at tained literary distinction, and, like is all bata white Wan, and mas,

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