The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1858, Page 4

\ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1858. NEW YORK HERALD. | va $ GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFCOE +. ©. CORNER OF FULTO! TERME, cast tm adoance. Money sont by mail will be at the TIA Of Che wonder, Postage stamps nat received as subscription f DAILY ITERALD, troo cents por copy, $7 per annum. SHB WEEKDY ARBALD, every Susrdoh, at siz cents per empy, or any ropear, Edition, $4 per annum, ‘part of Great Britain. ‘or $5 to an; part of the Continent, bath THE FAMILY HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents por oF 82 per anniwn PO LUN FART CORRESPONDENCE. containing émportant fewws, solicited from any quarter oy the world ; of wsed. will he for, BaP OUR FORRIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE ARTIOULARLY REQUESTED TO Seat alc Lurteus anv Pack jas Sext vs. ACNO NOTICE taken of anonymous correeponience. We do nol Weiner renertadd communications, : ADVERTISEMENTS renewed day ; advertisements én- fm the Weekiy Hekatp, Famicy WeRap, and im te aerted 0 ond Buropaan Bait WOm PULNTING cancuded with monincas, cheapness and dee AND NASSAT OTS AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING ACAD SHY OF MUSIC, arwents etreet.—Itatiam Orga tu TRovaTons. BROADWAY THEATRE, Groaaway—Tontesa, tue Usor- ER—Husnany a¢ Signt—H eRoULAS. FUBLG'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Pore or Rome. RY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Lost Taeascre, on ren Onanrion or Cavritg—New Youre anp Brooxirn. WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway—W agar anv Cuarr— Druve rou Lors. LAGRA KEENRP’S THEATRE, No. 6% Broadway.—Ovr Americar COUSIN—OnsTINATE FAMILLY. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Rrosdway.—Afernoon fad Yvepiug—TwrovoN’s Mimio Wouun-—Du, VaLeNine, £0. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUTLDING 561 and 563 Broadway— Erwmortan bones, Dances, Ac.—Scameisi. S HALL, 497 Broadway.—Bry anss! MinstRers G3 ano BuRLesques— Hor or Fastion. enth street and Sixth avenue.— Sto ENTERTAINMENTS, Rew York, Sunday, October 31, 1958. The News. A meeting of the friends and political supporters Daniel BE. Sickles, the Tammany Hall candidate pr the Third Congressional district, was held last vening at the Bowling Green. The principal peech was that made by Mr. Sickles himself, a re- port of which will appear in to-morrow’s Henat There was also a meeting of the adhere General Walbridge, opposite No. 36 Greenwich treet, where a platform was erected, and where the people's candidate for the Third Congressional district addressed the meeting. We shall publish a report in tomorrow's HsRa.p. vg of the friends and supporters of Mr. John Cochrane, the democratic nominee for Con- gress in the Sixth district, was held in Tompkins aquare last evening. Notwithstanding the incle- mency of the w ner, the meeting was numerously attended, and was very enthusiastic. We have files from Buenos Ayres dated on the 27th of August. The news is not so late as that to hand by way of England (September 5), but the papers contain some very interesting matter with regard to the official relations then existing between Buenos Ayres and Paraguay, and Paraguay and Great Britain. The Panama papers received by the §t. Louis reported that the official difficulty between Buenos Ayres and Paraguay had been settled, but our exchanges from the former republic show that it existed when the papers were published. Presi- dent Lopez cherished a rather angry feeling towards Engiand, in consequence of the severe lesson in offi- cial decorum which Mr. Christie read to him lately. The steamship Ariel sailed from this port yester- day for Southampton, Havre and Bremen, with one hundred and sixty passengers and $183,000 in @pecie. The Edinburg also sailed for Glasgow, with two hundred passengers. There was an arrival at this port yesterday of a decidediv nove! claracter. It was a new bark called the Pamelia Flood, Capt. Adams, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, via Quebec, with a cargo of spars, timber, fish, &c. She is about three hundred tons burthen, and is consigned to Benner & Deake, of this city. She sailed from Green Bay on the 11th ult, and was fifteen days in making the passage from Quebec, She was built at Green Bay, and hails from Howard, Wisconsin. The Grand Jury of the United States District Court yesterday brought in four bills of indictment 8 charged with revolt and counter feiting Mr. 1. T. Valentine, Clerk of the Common Coun cil of New York, was served with a copy of an in junction granted by Judge Lott, of Brooklyn, res- authorities of this city from interfering » of steam on the Fourth avenue, below Forty-second street. “According to the report of the City Inspector there were 348 deaths in the city during the past week, a decrease of 12 as compared with the mor- tality of the week previous, and 53 less than ac- curred during the corresponding week last year. The report presents no feature of special interest. Of the total number of deaths 182 were of ten years of age and under, and 46 inmates of the va- rious public institutions. The following table shows the nomber of deaths for the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguishing the sexes:— Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total Week ending Ort. 23..70 7 106 86105 = 360 Week ending Oct. 90..75 8% 100 $9, 348 Among the principal causes of death were the following | —— Week ode Drwass Oa B Ot WO. Brovchit. . 3 1 Coosumpiion ob 52 Convulsions (infantile) 21 15 Caoicra infantum i9 8 Tharrhora. ee 4 ‘ Dysentery ° 5 6 Dropsy im the head... 2 12 Infan mation of the bowels 10 7 fofammation of the lungs 1b is Inflammation of the brain 6 5 Marasinus (infantile) 32 »” Scarlet ‘ 4 There were also 5 deaths of apoplexy, 11 of con- gestion of the brain, 7 of croup, 5 of typhus fever, 6 of remittent fever, 5 of disease of the heart, 5 of hooping cough, § of intemperance, 5 of old age, 4 of smallpox, 16 premature births, 19 stillborn, and 12 deaths from violent causes, including 2 suicides, aod / deaths from burns or js The annexed table shows what portions of the human system have been most affected Drsvases Oct 2. Oct. 90. Bones, jotots, Aer 3 2 Brain and nerves 0 63 General ¢ orgaue % 3 Hicart and biood veescls ot) 9 Lang, throat, & 106 ” ee cee 2 5 Skin, &c , and eruptive fevers 10 13 | Stillborn and prematere births. a4 36 Stomach, bowels@ad other digest! organs 93 6 Uncertain seat and geueral fevers . 82 a Urioary organs ° . i 5 Tow! 360 ons The number of deaths, compared with the cor Fesponding weeks in 1856 and 1857, was as fol lows: - Week euding Nov 1, 1856, ‘Week euding Oct. 31, 1867 ‘Week ending Oct. 23, 1858 Week ending Oct. 90, 1858 The nativity table gives 231 natives of the United Btates, 75 of Ireland, 25 of Germany, 7 of England 6 of Seotiand, 2 of France, 1 of Poland, and 2 un known ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 2,00 buses Jing 260 in transitu. The market for parcels tar as some easier, while for lots on the spot there wa ge to notice. The inclemency of the weathor int omewhat with transactions in breadetuffe ri nchanged, while sales were moderate and ch home trade. Wheat was quiet, sales being me white Southern at 81 46481 50, and ky do. at $1.60. Corn was heavy, the sales yut 18,000 bushels at 67c. a 68c. and 690 , the Gare » for small lots of choice. Pork was heavy mory rroqular, gales of moss were made at $16 75 @od 816%, aod prime af $18 60 a $18 76 Gr new and O10 fogars wore firm, and clowed at gc. advance The stock # oweaona Pm omy AOU By/FL0, of wUgh ) Wa Were afterwards sold, leaving a stock on hand of only 24,384 | The Free Labor System tn the Kast—Progress Dogeheads. Coffee was firm, but quiet. Freight engage. | ments were moderate, and rates unchanged. W. H. Seward on his Travels—Alarm in the Republican Camp. Some of our black republican organs, alarmed at the effect upon the public mind which has been produced by the late startling revolution- ary manifesto of W. H. Seward, at Rochester, are endeavoring to soften this popular indignation by constitutional qualifications. We are thus told that Mr. Seward “does not expect” to ac- complish the abolition of slavery in the Southern States in any other than a strictly constitutional way; in answer to which it will suffice to say that, give Mr. Seward and his peculiar partisans the power in the federal government to carry out their designs, and they will not hesitate to twist the federal constitution into a convenient aboli- tion machine. Thus, he may find it a constitutional duty to uphold the “freedom of speech” in the South with federal bayonets, whatever insurrectionary mischiefs may arise from the freedom thus se- cured to abolition emissaries; and thus, wader the “power to regulate commerce,” a Seward Con- gress, with Seward as their executive chief, may undertake to “regulate” the commerce in slaves among the several slave States. But who does not perceive that proceedings such as these, under the cover of constitutional authority, would be as fatal to the Union, and the peace of the two sections, as a deliberate act of Congress cutting off the slave States and casting them out of the Union? Meantime, we perceive that Mr. Seward has king another speech in behalf of the repniticun cause, at Rome, in which he tells us that “the way of the battle has entirely ged:” that “heretofore the battle had been with the slaveholders of the South bonestly con- tending for rights which they deemed essential to their interests, and the extension of which they believed to be practicable;” but that “they have now given over the contest as hopeless,” and that accordingly the battle is now limited to “their retainers’’—*the democrats of the North” — who will not give up the contest “for fear of con- fiscation and punishment.” “It is they, and not the slaveholders, that now continue the contest.” Now, as we understand this presentation of the subject, it means that the last remaining bulwark of the institution of the South against the abolition movements of the North is that balance of power which the South “retains” in the Northern demo- cracy, and that with this balance of power ex- tinguished there will be no other alternative remaining to the South than absolute submission to the consolidated and overwhelming anti- slavery sentiment and power of the North. Mr. Seward next assures us that these Northern demo- cratic “retainers” of the slaveholders are “insig- nificant in numbers, and will speedily be arrest- ed.” What then? Why, then we shall have the fulfilment of his ambition in the solid organiza- tion of the North against the South, and in view of the active extinguishment of slavery from Delaware to Texas. That a Presidential campaign thus organized, and successful in 1860, will be the end of the federal Union in 1861, there is every reason most seriously to believe; for there isa faction of reck- less and active conspirators in South, whose desire, above all things, is a sible pretext for the spoHs and plunder of dissolution, revolu- tion, and a Southern confederacy. To this end this Southern faction beguiled to its destruction the administration of poor Pierce; and to this end, failing to rule it, this same fac- tion has basely betrayed, and is meanly conspiring to destroy, the administration of Mr. Buchanan. A solid foothold, then, among the conservative masses of the North, is the only security for the conservative Union policy of Mr. Buchanan, against the imperial anti-slavery programme of Seward and his partizans on the one hand, and the treacherous disunion fire-eaters of the South on the other. In this view these late significant decrees of Seward from Rochester and Rome give an en- tirely new aspect to our gubernatorial election, for Morgan is thus made the test question of tht projected Northern crusade against slavery in the slave States, Thus it is that, at the eleventh hour of the day, every man in this State who believes that the Union is the basis of our gene- ral and individual prosperity, happiness and safety, and that non-interference in the domestic institutions of our slaveholding brethren of the South is indispensable to the peace and the very existence of the Union, is called upon to reject Morgan on account of the traitorous and incendi- ary principles and designs of his master. If Seward has dismounted the worn out hobby of © bleeding Kansas,” and has litted up the black flag of total abolitionism in order to steal away the abolition vote of Gerrit Smith, so be it; but let Seward and bis Morgan State ticket be re- pudiated accordingly by every honest voter in the State who regards with horror and disgust the bloody instructions of that Rochester mani- festo. Men of New York! let this be remembered on Tuesday, in reference to the test question of Governor, whatever may be your opinions or divi- sions upon minor issues, “Men may cry peace, peace; but henceforward we shall have no peace, until this agent of discord, revolution and terror, this unscrupulous disorganizer, Seward, shall have been silenced and put down. been « d Tue Canpipates ror Assempiy.—Among the candidates to be elected on Tuesday are seven- teen members of the State Legislature, who should not be overlooked by the people in their anxiety to elect men to other offices which may be more lucrative and may seem more impor- tant. The fact should not be lost sight of that the members of Assembly havea great deal to do with our local government—in voting the tax levy, for instance, and many other matters of vital moment to this city. The Metropolitan Police bill, and other odious enactments of last session, as well as the mass of corruption deve- loped by the lobby, stand out as a warning which it is not safe to despise. We publish to-day the tickets nominated for Assemblymen by all the political parties, with the occupation and standing of each, as well as whether they are taxpayers. We invite earnest attention to that significant catalogue, and would ask how it is possible for the voters of this county to accept such a set of men as their representatives in the Legislature? With the exception of afew worthy men, there isnot one on that list fit to legislate for a village corporation—not one, with the above exception, whose capabilities, position, or responsibility qualify bim for the high and important duties which will fall to the lot of the successful candi- dates, The taxpayers must reform these tickets al- together, if they expect to effect any satisfactory change in the municipal government; in fact, if they are not prepared to see the city pluaged jaty a dgepet well of corruption than ver. of the New Social Experiment. ‘The new system ofe ntracted free labor, which is being largely deve’: ped with East India coo- lies in the Lritish island of Mauritius, and with negroes in the French i-land of Reunion, situated near each other in the Indian ocean, is one of the most interesting :ocial problems of the age. We have watched its developement with much interest, because it is destined to have an impor- tant hearing upon the moral convictions of the European communities and the future status of our own system of slave labor; and we have, on several prcvious occasions, presented in our co- Jumns « concise view of the working of the new system in the sugar colonies of the East. To- day we give elsewhere another compilation from the files of the Mauritius Gazette, which contains matter of much interest to the statesman, the politician and the philosophic inquirer. The true question to be solved by the social exper ments uow being made by England and France in the islands of the Mauritius group. is whether contract or bond labor for « series of years, or involuntary servitude for life, is the system best adapted for the permanent good of the individual and the community. Those countries having abolished lavery in their colonies, encountered the neces- sity of providing a substitute for it. Ragland has resorted to the contract system with coolies from India, and France has adopted the plan of freeing negroes by purchase on the coast of Africa, and binding them to service for a term of years in her coloaics, The experiments thus involve also a determination of the physical ca- pacity for tropical labor by two distinct races of men under similar conditions of climate and soil. All of the questions involved come directly home to the people of the United States; for if it can be proved that there is a substitute for slave labor superior to our system of slavery, then the fate of that system is decided. If, on the con- trary, the experiments in Mauritius and Reunioa fail, or are found to involve greater moral and social difficulties than slavery itself, then the result will give a stability to the social system of our Southern States such as it has never before possessed. One of the fallacies of the humanitarians has been completely exploded by the social experi- ments made in Jamaica and Spanish America. It is proved that unequal and dissonant races of men cannot live in social communion with equal political rights. For this reason a political sta- tus has not been conferred upon the bond labor- ers under the new system. They have no vote, they cannot sit upon juries, and they cannot pur- sue aclaim at law except in certain prescribed forms and courts. Thus far the experiments have not determined what is the precise position of these members of the community after their term of bond service has expired. They constitute an anomally not considered in the European constitution of society, which, though strict in its enforcement of class, has no recognition of caste In Mauritius the experiment is still too new to determine this. Of those laborers whose first term of service has expired, many were re-en- gaged, and a few have saved money and return- ed to their old homes. Some of those who were physically able to serve another term have re- contracted. Others remained in Mauritius, where they found occupation or a liveli- hood in the lowest labors of society, a» domestic servants, vendors of firewood, coal, vegetables, &c. In the French island of Reunion this ques- tion was postponed by arbitrarily extending the term of service from five to ten years. It is not at all evident as yet that this new social system is founded upon philosophic laws or the principles necessary to permanent social organization. Communities cannot everywhere, either in the tropics or out of it, be filled with population until labor can be obtained at starva- tion prices, as is the case in the little island of Barbadoes. Neither is it wisdom to endeavor to keep the price of labor at a low poimt. The true aim of every society is so to increase the pro- ductive power of the individual, that he may ob- tain a high remuneration for his labor without increasing the cost of his product to the con- sumer. This is not the philosophy of the Coolie and African contract labor systems. Their only aim is to diminish the price of unskilled labor. Such a system, it would seem, can only end in the creation of a large mass of wornout pau- pers, which eventually must weigh beavily upon the community. If we do not mistake the indi- cations in Mauritius, such a result seems to be developing itself there. Tur Last Mystery Ciraniva cr.—We pub lished last week a memorandum of the mi- nute chemical analysis made by Professor Dore- mus of the body of Mrs. Sophia Stephens, who died over thirteen months ago. The case is a singular one. It will be remembered that the husband of the deceased woman has been in cus- tody during several weeks, awaiting the result of the Coroner's inquisition, which depended en- tirely upon medical evidence. It was charged hy two young women, of the name of Bell, rela- tives of Mrs. Stephens, and domiciled with her when she died, that Stephens had poisened his wife in order to get her out of the way, and to eatisfy a guilty passion for one of the Bells. The evidence was purely cuppositious, and would not have justified the Coroner in holding Stephens in bonds, But the scientific tests applied to the flesh of the woman thirteen months after death proves, according to the chemist’s report, that arsenic was administered to her in sufficient quantities to cause death. Of course there is yet wanting direct proof of the identity of the poi- soner; but the marvel is in the patient and elabo- rate experimentalization which demonstrated the existence of poieon at 0 long a period after death. It seems like the finger of Providence guiding the hand of science. The great Palmer case, in England, turned upon medical testimo- ny, deduced from chemical analyses, which were considered as scientific triumphs, although made within a short time after death. There have been, too, in France, recently, some remarkable instances of the detection of crime through scien- tific means. These examples will work great good in preventing crime. Only let the poisonor know that his secret is sleepless—that though the flesh may decompore and the bones resolve into dust, yet the tests of chemistry will bring out the fatal drug—and the fact will be more effective in restraining the murderer's hand than a banging every week. SPECULATING IN THE Gosrr Spurgeon, the sensation English preacher, has heen offered ten thousand dollars and his travel- ling expenses to make a six months’ tour in the United States. Why not? He drew crowds to the Surrey Gardens at a sliding scale of prices from one up to five shillings, after Jullien failed, and he would be a capital star for the United States. We have Piggolomiai for our prevent ex: citement; then we are promised Charles Kean and the African Roscius. Why not wind up the season with Spurgeon. He would draw capitally, and be just the thing for Barnum. The quantity of Gospel “teruth” which Spurgeon would give for ten thousand dollars is worth double the money in Wall street ang day. Tux Powrricat, Roves anv Tumate Ficatr— The election contest in whieh the people of this State are now engaged presents the best idea of a political rough and tumble fight that oan be well imagined. The different factions into which all the parties are disintegrated have joined in the mélée without the slightest regard to princi- ples or rules of action. They have “sailed in,” to borrow an elegant expression from a political rowdy, and are kicking and mauling and gouging each other in disregard of all the recognized modes of procedure in politics or in “the ring.’ Apart from the question of the Governorship, in which the taxpayers of the city and State are really interested, there is not a single principle of national, State or city policy involved in the issue of the present contest It is simply and merely a tussle as to who will get’ into this, that or the other office, and it is almost a certain thing that the greatest political rowdies will be the winners. But, no matter who wins, the decent, honest citizens, are sure to be the losers in the long run, Some ridiculous attempts have, indeed, been mide to cover up the real character of the con- test, by getting up sham issues, such as Lecomp- tonism and anti-Lecomptonism. But the people are not to be gulled by any such transparent humbug as that. Kansas shriekers exhausted that subject in the last Presidential campaign. It is dead and buried, and cannot possibly be resur- rected. But yet “that is the only inscription on the banners under which the voters of the oppo- sition are asked to rally. The candidate for Sheriff, or Coroner, or County Clerk, or some other subordinate office, is put forward as an anti- Lecomptonite—just as if the levying of an exe cution, the holding of an inquest, or the pocket- ing of fees, were to be affected in auy way by the position of the official on the Kansas question. And so every frothy ward orator spouts nonsense by the yard on the subject of the Lecomptou constitution, and defends or abuses the ad- ministration just he happens to belong to the “pros” or the “antis,”’ The truth is, as we have said before, that there is absolutely no principle of policy entering into the present contest. The only question is whether one set of knaves or incompetents will get the fat offices and be chosen to represent us in the national or State councils, or whether the choice will fall on another set, not a whit better or worse. The people have little choice between them. To use a homely phrase, “it is six of one and half « dozen of another.” Unfortunately, we are well used to having the best offices filled by the worst men. It is no new thing to have the man who was a candidate for the State prison yesterday put forward to-morrow as a candi- date tor Congress or the Assembly, Such things seem to come in regular course in po- litics. Let us only hope that the selections to be made next Tuesday will not be much worse in the average than those that have been made hitherto. Besides, Grand Juries have got into a dangerous habit of indicting officials, and we may thus get rid of some of those that will be chosen in advance of the regular expira- tion of their term. Let it be understood, how- ever, that the present is a free fight all round, and that, n0 matter who wins or loses, the public generally need not expend much sympathy on the defeated, or much congratulation ou the winners. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despatch. Wascunorom, Oct. 30, 1868 The President, the members of the Cabinet, and Gea Herran, the New Granadian Minister, wore at the diane given by Gen, Cass to Gen. Paez and the Venezelan Commissioners. After dinner, the Secretary of the Navy informed Gen. Paez that be was authorized to olfer a nationa! vessel to convey him to Veneauela. The New Granadian legation bas received informa tion to the effect that the best state of feeling pre vails on the Isthmus of Panama regarding the election of Obaldia as Governor. He had not, at last accounts, as sumed the government. Lieut. Governor Munoz was act ing in his place. Delazon Smith, United States Senator eiect (rom Oregou now on his way to Washington, is detained io Panama by illness. The Attorney General has decided that, in cases arsing under extradition treaties, arrests ean be made and pro ceedings carried on without the sanction of District Attor neys of the United States. The Opera term of three nights, with Madame De Wil borat as prima donna, closed tooybt. The Opera hus been well patronized, the touse beiog crowded every night. TUR CRNERAL NEWSPAPER DABPATCH Wassuworon, Oot. 90, 1858. The President has prepared, and will forthwith ‘erue, a Proclamation, in the usual form, for the preveulton of ali bustering expeditions to Central America Mr. Butterfield arrived here to-day, with a view to pro. cure protection to the California Overland Mail, whirb he says could be reudered at a comparatively smal! expense, and which would enable bim to shorten the time of tran Bit to twenty two days. Gen. Jerez to-day delivered to the Secretary of State a letter from President Martines, making an apology for the Offensive allegations against the United States tn the ma nifesto on the occasion of the contract formed with M Belly. Our goverament has no complaint to make with regard to France, iu connection with ber movements in Central America Anew contract has been entered ints by Gen. Jerez And a Philadelphia company, represented by Mr J.C Van Dyke, for a Nicaragua transit line. The administra tion knows nothing officiaily of this transaction The report that George N. Sanders, has gone to Kan sas on business for the President, and is like!y to succeed to the Governorship, has no truthful foundation The Attorney General bas given an opimon in reference to the proper construction of the act of June last, which provides that the titie to a land warrant issued after the death of a person who bas applied for it according to the Prescribed forms shall vest in the widow, if there be one, and if there be no widow, in the heirs and legatees of the claimants. He draws the following conclusions First, ‘hat a warrant issued after the death of a claimant who has left a widow aud children enures to the widow's benefit alone; second, when the deceased claimant leaves a widow, with two sets of children, the warrant eaures to the benefit of ber heirs and legatees, and third, the keira are those who are 89 declared by the law of the cla mant's domicit The War Department has received oMeial accounta of two late battles in Washington Territory. Gen. Clarke presumes the success narrated therein is a surety of peace with the Indians encountered on the Spokan plains, the red men having been soundly beaten, and some frightened into earnest overtures of peace. The contents of Lieut Tyler's letter are all thus confirmed ‘The Union this morning, speaking by authority, tay the policy of the United States is not to acquire Central America or any part of it, but to open the isthmus routes, and have them free to all the world, meanwhile, that it is but fair to claim that the covenants made with our people shai! be enforced Not only has Costa Rica made ample apology to our ao. vernment, but received Gen. Lamar with great cordiatity ple will attend the Convention of the Central American ‘Btates, about to be held with a viow to eifeet the oonfe Geran Wor got Speech of Senator Seward at Rome. Roun, N. ¥., Oct. 29, 1898. Mr. Seward spoke to a very large audience here to day. He began with an allusion to the nomination for member of Congress in the Oneida district, and paased a high culo- gium on Mr. Conkiiug, urging his election. Passing from this subject, he said the election was close at hand, It was too late for argument. He would speak first of the Stage at which the contest for freedom in the United States had arrived. That stage was the effective organization of the republican party, now complete throughout all the free States, and soon to be extended throughout the slave States. He showed how the party was organized in Maine, under the direction of Hamlin and Fessenden; in Massa- chusetts, under the guidance of Wilson ana Adams; in New York, under the lead of Horace beter go Preston King; in Pennsylvania, under the lead of eron and Campbell; in Obio, under the lead of Chase and Wade; in New Hampshire, under the conduct of Hale and Clark and in Vermont under the management of Foote an Collamer, But (he said) as yet the republicans labored under the disadvantage of baving a portion equal to twenty of their members of Congress balanced by the three-ifths representation of the slaves in the slave States, He then proceeded to speak secondly of the ob- Jects first to be obtained. ‘The adm'ssion of Kansas, the overthrow of the Dred Scott decision, and the restoration of freedoi in the ,Territovtes, were distant and witimate objects. First of ail, and parauount to all, was the at- taipment of fair play in the contest. That fair play was all remained jor the administration of James Bu chanan. Ail the other interests of freedom had been be- trayed and surrendered before. Bot Mr. Buchanan bad promised in his inaugural fair play, and even this pledge had been broken. A republican Con- gress was necessary to give a voice in favor of freedom when ‘expressed in their elections. In the third place, Mr. Seward said, tho way of the battle had entirely changed. Heretofore the battie had been with the slaveholders of the United States, honestly contending for rights which they deemed essential to slavery, which they deemed essential to their interests, and for the extension which they believed practicable, But they had now given over the contest as hopeless. In the course of the contest, however, they had enlisted the democrats of the North as retainers, and these latter would not give up the contest for fear of confiscation aud punishment. It was they, and not the slayeholders, that now continued the contest. Our war henceforth was with them. ‘They are easily found—in the post offices and cus- tom houses, in foreign missions and in territorial employ ments. They are insignificant in numbers, and will be speedily arrcsted, aud the question is how to ais) them humanely, to prevent their doing further 1 He suggested ‘that they be sent to Brazil, or to Russia, or t Turkey, where the agitation of slavery was pending under alarming circumstances, and where thoy might employ their skill in saving the Uuion im these émpires, y, out’ of public employment, al profound conviction that it'wa essary orter to he cause of freedom. They the cavae of freedom and become the re y, under the conviction that this iast sa necessary to serve at once their places and the Federal Union Mr. Seward concluded bis speech, which was about an hour iu length, with assurances that the election would Nt in the compiete route af the democratic retainera of ‘¥ i the State of New York and throughout the free The Polittcal Campaign tm Albany. Atnany, Oct. 30, 1858. Intense excitement prevails here in relation to the Congressional contest. Last evening a bet of oue thou sand dollars on Reynolds against Corning was made, and twenty thousand were offered, The odds seem tm favor of Reynolds. ‘A meting of German republicans was held at the Ca. pitol to-night. It was largely attended. The Statesman this evening declares itself in favor of Mr. Reynolds, the republican and Lard democratic candidate for Congress. The Meeker WU Case, Newars, Oct. 30, 1858. Judge Haines delivered the charge to the jury in the Meeker will case, ia the Supreme Court, Circuit, at nine o'clock this morning, occupying av hour and a half, in which he eulogized the ability aud fairness displayed by the counsel on both sides. By permission of the Bench the counsel im the case submitted tothe jury a number of exhibits, which they took with them in retiring. The general impression ia that the jury will fail to agree. ‘Though this is supposed to be a final action, it is thought that in the event of a verdict for either side, a new trial may be gained by taking exceptions to certain proceedings iu the cause. Falling of a Rooft—Five Men Wounded. St. Lovurs, Oct 30, 1858 Yesterday afternoon the roof and upper walle of a brick house im course of erection in Washington avenue, fell, severely injuring five workmeu, oue of whom, uamed ‘Thomas Gagan, has since diod. The Montreal Telegraph Company. Burraro, Oct. 30, 1858 The Montrea! Teiegraph Company lo day successfully laid acable across the Niagara river, to connect at this point the Canada lines with the tines in the States The cable is 2,500 feet long, and bas three couductors. The tome occupied in laying it was eight minutes Yellow Fe at New Orleans. New Onuxans, Oot, 30, 1868 The deaths by yellow fever in this city yesterday were octoro Markets, POLLADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pmitapeioma, Oct 30, 1858 Stovks are steady. Pennsylvania 6's, 93 bid; Reading Railroad, 26%, Morris Canal, 46; Long Usiand {ta'irowd, 12, Peonsyivania Railroad, 435 1898 Momus, Oct 29, Cotton —Baies to-day of 2,000 bales, at Lite. a lLige. The receipts of the week sum up 16,000 bales, against 3, bales im the same week Inet = Receipts ahead last year, 57,000 bales. Stock 69,000 bales CHARLRsTON, Oct 28, 1855. Cotton —The sales of the week foot up 12,000 bales, and the reewipts 21,500 bales The market closes with « down wart tendenes Sterling exchange—Holders are pressing on the market at 1084 a 108% Freights—Uotton to Liverpool, 40. a 7-16d., and to Havre %¢ Cuarteto, Oot. 20, 1868 Cotto slightly cheaper: sales to day of 2,000 bales. Bavradonm, Oot 90, 1868 y. Oho and Howard stroct Wheat iv fair demand, at unchanged prices ‘TRE. a B00 Flour dull aad very he $ 12h Corn steady, old while, 72, a 76; yel Whiskey dull Provisious quict and unchanged Purmapmrma, Oct. 90, 1858. Flour Gull, and declined 12556 Wheat dull. Gorn dull Whiskey firm at 2le a Que Borraco, Oct. 30, 1858 Fiour quiet and demand | cited: sales $00 bbis ‘at $4 25 Wisconsin 86 a 86 60 for the range of extra ecta Todiana, Micha, Canada and Ohio. Wheat in good demand and market firmer sales 42,000 bushels at 750. for No. 2 Chicago spring, $1 01 for white Wiscous'n, 81.02% for common white and Michigan, $1 for No. 1 red winter [ilinow Included in the sales wore 20,000 bushels red Olio on private terms. Corn in good demand and market steady: salon 20,000 bushels at 0c . in part to arrive. Nothing domg in other grains Whis key quiet and nominal at 29¢. Canal freights unchanged flour 43¢., wheat 120., corn Ie. to New York Recripts by lake dering the last twenty-four bours—2,832 bbls four, 48,252 bushels wheat, 24,612 bushels corn, 1,628 bushels oats. Shipments by canal—6,802 bbls. dour, 59,501 trustola wheat, 26,341 bushels corn Tie Panaocat Exraprmow.—The United States ship Release will sat from the Navy Yerd on Monday, at 10 A. M., for Buenos Ayres. Letters aud papers wil! be re ceived on board upto that time List of officers — Wm. A. Parker, Lieutenant Commanding Lieutenaota—T. &. Fillebrown, B. B. Taylor Acting Master—Geo TH Perkins Captain's Clerc —Barent H. Lane The Academy of Muste. Notwithstanding the inclement state of the weather aad the horrible condition of the streets last night, another exeelicat house greeted the eharming Piccoiomini in the reproduction of La Traviata." The sympathy between this enchanting artist and her New York audience exhi bitea marked and Constant augmentation as acquaint ince tnereases, and every oecasion of her appearance only brings new triuinphs for ber, The exquisite grace and charming piquancy that mark every movement of hers upon the stage, gives a new gest to the music and anew delight to the thrilling passages of the plot. tm the touching duct with Germont—Ditte Alla Giovanne— he drew repeated applanse from the howse, and the whole scene wan rendered in the most muching manner. Her enthusiastic reception on being called out at the end of each act showed how firmly seated she is upon her throne inthe hearts of young New York, and could leave her nothing to desire Stetan!, the tenor, bas brought his naturally fine organ under better control, and has greatly improved eine bis first appearance this sexson. Florenza has established himeesf ints high place in the appreciation of our dilettanti, vod hfs reception laet ht was a perfect triumph. red in the aria “De Provenga tl ought down the house by his fine passages. The beautiful Senorita Soto intercalated a charming pas and balict in the third act, which was received with great applause This charming daneouse holds & high position With our public, and her fascinating beauty and ro never pall with them. To-morrow will ap- pear for the first time as Leonora in the ‘Trovatore,’” with D'Angri as Azucena. The public is longing to seo her in this favorite réle, and we prognosticate for her as warm a reception as she bas reee'ved in the ‘Traviata’ and ia”? rendering of other a . og ——benoral Fase, inister of the United States im Bel gium, has arrived at Paris. He will be abouta month absent from Brussels fe are not acquainted with such ® gcatiounan aa General Fag, Lie | Religtous Intelligence. Ory CHURCHES. The new brick chureh, corner of Fifth avenue and Thir ty seventh street, ia to be dedicated to-day, ‘The vene rable pastor, Rev. Dr, Spring, will preach the sermon im the morning. In the Orchard street Universalist church, the Rey. D Skinner, of Ithaca, will preach this morning and cvening at the usual hours. The Rey. Sydney A. Corey will preach in the Eighteenth street Baptist church, one door west of Fifth avenue, this morning and evening. ' Rey. Robert G. Dickson, pastor of the Protestant Episce pal Mission church, Clinton Hall, Astor place, will doliver two sermons to-day—morning and evening. Divine service will be held, as usual, in the North Dutem church, corner of Fulton and William streets, this morning and afternoon Public worship will be heid this morning in the New Jerusalem church (Swedenorgian), at Lyrique Hall, 766 Broadway. Rev. R. P. Peet will preach this evening in the Meme- rial church, corner of Hammond street and Waverley place. In the Bleecker street Universalist church, corner of Bleecker and Downing streets, Rev. Moses Ballou, of Phi {adelphia, will preach morning and evening. An anniversary will be held in John street First Metho- dist Episcopal church to-day, of the dedication of this first Methodist church im the United’ States, in 1768; in the morning, preaching by the Rey. J. P. Newman; in the af- ternoon, addresses by the Rev. Dr. Bangs, J.B. Wakeley, Dr. J. 8, Mitchell, Prof. H. Mattison, B. M. Adams and | others; in the evening, preaching by the pastor, the Rey Chas. E. Harris. Subject—‘“Methodism, or Christianity ia | Earnest.” ; ‘The twentieth anniversary of the Youth's Missionary Association, connected with the Spring street Presbyterian, church, will take place this evening. The annual report will be presented and addrogses delivered by the Rev. A A. Wood and the Rey. Peter Stryker, ‘The services will be Holdin the churehagg engi ol eRe, ae ra A.C. Osborn, of Madison Universiy, was ordained im | the Jefferson street Baptist church, Louisville, Ky., on the ‘2st ii Re} State a — corge I. Walter was ordained as pastor of the et chureb, Portland, on the 13th inst. INVITATIONS. The membership of Mount Olivet church, (Baptist,} worshipping temporarily at No. 689 Sixth avenue, in this city, bave unapimousiy extended a cal! to Rev. J. W. Hol man W become the permanent pastor of that church. Mr Holman las dlled the pulpit of this ehurch from its cous mencement in May last ap to the present time; he bas beon a minister of the Gospel upwards of forty years. Rey. P. C. Headley, of Greenfield, Mase\ has received 1 ca'l from the South church in Pittsbeld, dle same State The Reformed Dutch church of Syracuse have called Rev. J. Elmendorf, of Saugerties, to ri Pastoral office. Rev, LC. Thatcher, of Middleboro’, Mass., has received @ unanimous call to become pastor of the Congr ational church in Binghamton, N. ¥. “og INVITATIONS ACCEPTED. Rev. James Pratt, of Portland, Me., has acco} call extended to him by the Caurch in Philadelphia over Nich te late Rev. Dudley #: Tag was recier, and he! iS sent in nation of the rectorship of St. hen ' cbureb, Portland = , sion + yp opp » Remealy of Chariestown, Mass. , as a ed a@ cal ¢ Congregational church and society at Norridgew: a, Me. " ; Rev. Elias Nason,,® watick, has accepted the cail of the ‘Mgstic church and ty at Medford, Mass. Mr. James F. Br, T has received and accepted a call from the Presbytafnaarhureh of Chester, NJ BOF ‘3TALLATIONS. Rev. A. D. French, late of Centre Lisle, N. Y., was ia stalled pastor of the Congregational church in Kddyvile, Iowa, on Friday, 8th inst. Rev. George Darling as nated, by an ecclesiastical council, pastor tional church of Ht Ohio, ob the 13th inst. os wri sa Rade gg soinns was installed as sbyterian church of Lyous, by the Presbytery of Lyone, on the 19th inst? ei Rey. E. Andrews #as installed pastor of the onal church of Niles, Sich * Sope a. ee Rey. Erastus Colton was imstalled over the Congrega tional church, at Southwick, Mass., on Tuesday, Oct. 19 Rev. Rufos Taylor bas been installed pastor of the Preebyterian church of Hightstown, N. J Rey. Henry J. Brown, M. D., of the Classis of Philade phia, was installed pastor of the Reformed Duteh church of Battle Creek, Mich., by the Classis of Michigan, on the Sth ust Rev the wrewsss ‘tor of the RESIGNATIONS. Dr. Withington bas announced his inteation of retiring from the active duties as of the Firs: Church ané Cougreyaton in Newbury, Mass., and to-day he will preach ls last sermon to that as their tor. This day will complete the foxty second year of 6 Ministry, having been ordained Oct. 31, 1816 DEATHS IN THE MINISTRY. Rey. Charles W. Whitail, rector of the Protestant Epis copa! church at Biloxi, La., died onthe 18th inst. He Was Past Grand Master and Past Grand Patriarch of the Ind .pendeut Order of Odd Fellows, and Past Grand lain of the Grand Lodge of that Order in Lousiana, was amember of the Order of Free Masons, having been Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge. 1 Rev 8 Dwight Pitkin, who was pastor of the United { Congregational church of Battle Creek, teases. from pray bef died ja Woodbridge, Middlesex county, N. J., ou the $00) Wit NEW CHURCARS. | ‘The corner stone of a new Catholic church was laid ia St Louis on the 24h inst The Swedenborgian congregation of this city are build jog 9 Dew church on Thirty-fifth street, between Fourth ve and Lexington It is alow, one story building, ted a color, and drawa into blocks to resemble stone,” The en. trance, which looks like a porter’s high. and over the main entrance ts a ‘The interior of the chapel is chaste aud beautiful toarkable degree The Pr notes the recent organization of Preshy terian churches in and its suburbs, 1 localities that need additional accommodations, and w! it thinks each one will succeed ‘The Cobocksink Methodist Episcopal church on German | town road, Philadelphia, was dedicated on the 24th inst , with appropriate ceremonies. A vew Presbyterian cbureh in county, Va, wna dedicated om Sunday last, Rev. Tv" Moore, lttchasoad, preached the dedicatory sermon MISCRLLANROTS. Rev. J. 8 Covell, of Westville, Conn., has become the rector of Trinity church, Wolcottville, Ginn Rev, Thomas L,. Randolph, of Windsor, ¥t., rector of Christ church, Franalm, Vt. ee The Rew Mr. Starkie, of St. Paul's church, Albany, Kurope saye the Knickerbocker, returned from some two notions have been so canvassed as to lead to some con sideraole feeling in the church, and he resolved to sever his connection with the church. Thi in a sud dea manner on Sunday morning. “ nouce to anybody he walked into the the congregation that he could no tor. Having dove this, he retired tion to rigid Ir Starkie promises to: pee Tweddl Purope, which will be ina of Mr. Starkie will, of course, } i A ze f fi il 74342 6: i a = z . i ' H 5 2 2 Hs Zl is i f g ' i : 3 2 i HE : 2 Mass..on the hat a it ‘burch, Comoriage street church, Cam! full deliberation it was resolved fi af z F gE #,f fi 2Fi 2 - pastoral relation should be dissolved, press undiminished confidence in the terial character of Mr. Gilman. Mr. ance with this advice, bas tendered his Rev. Albert Bigelow baying accepted a ort he Beer inst , dismisse otreet Presbyterian chureb, of Williamaburg, L. Presbytery of Nassau. A grand ts to be celebrated soon by the Russi inet on tad pocumen of the Inying of the first a Russian church ©The @ Duke Constantine is preside ‘The Rev. William Burton Crickmer, M A., of St mund-hall, Oxford, curate of St. Marylebone, has been =: missionary chaplain for the gold felds in Bri jum 2 i z 3 ? ge BSE s THE CLERGY OF NEW ORLRANS. Three o} fone and two Catholic: fallen at their Bince the appearance of the tow fo ver in this year. The Aulletin of Monday wa gage: L~ Tay A Py. erere dD. gh Preaby » has been attacked, but t= rapidly convalescing; and now we have to f We presume, neral rule ers during the of this epidemic, and the | will be ctpreaiacd' tong aner Tee soourge all ‘nave passed away City Politics. TO THE EDITOR OF Tie RRA LD, kw Yor, Oct [notice in the Himrann of to-day ny aon anlan 72 ’ yrlished list of the democratic nominecs of this city for eas. Permit me to say, that although the nomina tom was tendered, I declined ite acceptance, and Wuetiure, aot a aaaidate, w ;