The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1858. bales, cloeing dull, without quotable change in prices. Flour wasim moderate demand, and for common and me- dium grades prices were easier. The chief demand was worn RIKTOR from the home trade. Wheat was firmer, especially rod ten shen toe Pp Western, while sales were moderate. Corn was heavy OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FOLTON AND NASSAU STS | and rathor easier, while sal@s embraced about 40,000 nano bushels, chiefly Western mixed,"at 660, a 700. Pork was TERMS, advance. Money be at the » chiefly 5 TEN, ate edomnce,, Money sent Wy set ss‘nubscreption | more froely in dealt, with sales of mess at $16 76 0n the tre : am. ‘spot, and $16 60 for future delivery, sellers’ option to Ist Foe RATT PARAED, recom Re ete: SPecacents por | May’ 1850, Prime sold at $13 60. $18 75 for new and old. epy, or BS per anwum: the European Biinon $4 per annem, to | ks seo another column, Sugars were quiet and @ the Continent, both | For stocks seo s a a aaeore steady. Coffee was quiet and firm, For stocks see an- “Nore NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, I HERALD, every Woineniiny, ai four conte per | oi tamnn, Freights were steady, while engagements con ARK CORRESPONDENCE, | gran fonen were light. mains, eolectied from quarter, cote aos ee a Prergalincy Wagtneons 79 Saat a Turrens 48D Pace | The Election To-Day=Its Real Issucs—Se- acme Us. ward and His Bloody Programme. Velume XXII Ne, 30a | The election that takes place today in this Olt tte © © |) Serres ne aeeeeeee State docs not, on its face, present any tangible issue. There is apparently no principle of na- tional or State policy involved in the contost, Toall appearances it matters little, save to the candidates themselves, who are elected to office or who are defvated. Not one man ina thou- sand can give a plausible or practical reason why, on political grounds, he prefers the suc- cess of the democratic or of the republican State ticket. The cry of anti-Lecomptonism that has been resorted to is one of the most contemptible shams that it was possible to conceive. The question of the Lecompton constitution «as de- cided months ago, when the people of Kansas placed the unmistakeable seal of their condemna- tion upon it. Noone has ever dreamed of re- viving the subject; and no one will ever dream of such a thing. The question of admitting Kansas under a uew constitution, to be framed by her citizens ina regular and legal manner, will come before Congress at its next session, and will be then and there decided by the ad- mission of Kansas asa free State. Therefore, in no sense can the question be aflicted by the results of the election to-day. By ise time that the representatives to be to-~lay chosen take their seats in Congress, the controversy in regard to Kansas will have been long set at rest: and the most ingenious and unblushing politician cannot point ont how or in what manner the destinies of that Territory are to be affected by the choice of this, that, or the other candidate for Sheriff, or County Clerk, or Canal Commissioner, or State Prison Inspector, or Supervisor, or Constable, in BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Lors's Sacnirice— Te Last Lags—ligRouLes. SIBLO’S GARDEN, Broa¢way.—Tax Pors or Roun. WERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Lost TREASURE, OR eon OuAnrton oF Casrie—New Youre ap Buoox crs, WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Waxat any Cuarr— Dine vor Love. ioe LAURA ERENE’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Oon Ammewan Covaun—Osstinats FaMiiny, NUM'S MERIOAN MUSEUM, Bros4way.— Aeron eRe taropos's Mimic Wosip—De. Vacentine, &c. woo! NSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 568 Brondway— eee pias, Dasces, £0.—Scaurin. MECH ANTO'S HALL, 427 Broadway.—Brvants’ Minsracis —DisaRo Sones ano Kowixsquas—Hor or Pasion, CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, Oxakacteuistios, Sonas, &0.—' 444 Broadway.—-Ermiortan Poxgo. ely PALACK GARDEN, Fourteenth strest and Sixth avenue.— Rusgant RQuasteias anv Grunastio ENTER tain MeEnTs. New York, Tuesday, November 2, 1958, MAILS FOR EUROPE, ‘The New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Keropa, Captain Leitch, will Jeave Boaton on Wednesday for Liverpool, Tho Furopean mails will close in this city this af. Yernoon at one o'clock to go by railroad,and at three p'clock to go by steamboat ‘The European edition of tho Herat, printed in French nud Eogtieh, will be published at ten o'clock in the morn ing. Single copies, in wrappers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yors Timnaio will be received at the following places in Europe— Lonvon., .. Sampson Low, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill this State. Therefore, the attempt to carry on the Pans oe Ballwin & Ne ye pen canvass on such an issue is most supremely ridi- \ Starr & Co., No. 9 Chapel street rt, 10 Exchange street, bast. Baldwin & Co., 21 Rue Corneille. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hanan will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the bour of publication. entous, and only shows to what desperate straits ihe republican party were reduced for a griev- ance. LivRRPoot And yet, although there is not to the ordinary and superficial observer the faintest shadow of a principle involved in the issue of the State elee- tion to-day, it is nevertheless pregnant with re- sults affecting the destinies of the whole country. And why? Because it has been authoritatively The News. The steamship Indian arrived in the river St. t vawrence yesterday, bringing Liverpool dates to the 20th ult., two days later than the accounts re- ceived by the Bornsaia. The news is unimportant. announced by the leader and apostle of black The Atlantic Telegraph Company had noti- | "epublicanism, William H. Seward, in his speech fied their employs at Valentia that, unless | at Rochester, that the political calm is treache- some favorable turn occurred in reference to the | rous; that it is but the prelude to the gathering cable their serv would shortly be dispensed | tempest, aud beneath the placid surface with. ndon Zimes animadverts upon the | of things lie concealed the elements of a course 0 ed, our Minister to China, assert- | fearful conflict. That conflict, he i ing that in negotiating the treaty with the Chinese he has fai tages acco: don mone ed to secure certain important advan- ed to the allied Powers. The Lon- market continued very easy, two per t m rate of discount. Con- Ra OS} for money, and %8 for » Liverpool market cotton closed quiet, the last quotations being barely maintained. ‘There was a slight decline in all descriptions of goods at Menchester. Flour was dull of sale in pool, but prices were steady. There was considerable excitement in and around the City Hall yesterday, as it was expected that in- victments against certain members of the city go- the Grand Jury. the of a rence te ma t and delivered a number nts, which were handed over to the a strict injunction from Judge Balcom not to divolge the names of the parties implicated, ‘The Grand Jury had not concluded their labors, bat vd that vo indictments had been found nembers of the on Council. It ocour it ia und ourt of but the District At » the trials until Wed- ner day The stated should have been held last evening, but at the usual hour of ossembling only two members of the Board noeting of the Common Council of Alderwre were pres joarned nd the ( sane how The steamboat Alice Price, ranning between New and three of the Board of Councilmen Both Boards were conseqnently ad- the Aldermen till Thursday at five o'clock, yancilmew till Wednesday next at the York and i Bank, N. J, exploded her steom cbimney y day forenoon, just as she was leaving e Ocean House, Shrewsbury. The engineer, Mr. Weeks, was badly scalded, and two fi four pascnge The Gouldy family, we improving, and b covery of all. Mr. Gouldy w The servant girls are also Johanna Murphy was yesterday with her friends for @ shor 1 The President of the Howard Assoviatiou of New Orleans annonnees officially that the yellow fever i no longer mic in that city menced there on the 27th of date till the 24th of October sustained slight injuries, are happy to state rtained of the yesterday are « are res qu much improv able to converse cusy. i. The fever com- je, and from that 0 persons died of the disease The Qu City, the pioneer steamer of the ‘Teuhant mpany, left New Orleans for Ming. tutlan on Wednewlny laxt There case of the what our repc will not be. Tt is on not sufficient ere gory of slave vessels Sunday morning, not Depaty Marshal De An has not been A any exa nation inte the aver Madison, and from rtained on inquiry, there understood that there are placing her in the cate We may state that it was on om Saturday evening, that et out in pursuit of elis the Madison in the Supreme Coart general term yrster tue District Attorney announced that a rem had been ree ved from the Court of Appt case of Michaol Cancemi, convicted of the murder of Bugene Anderson. ‘The November terim of the Court of General sions commenced yesterday. The Grand Jury yr alled, and (hose answering to their names were discha till Thursday, Jodge Russell ob serving that as the Grand y of the Oyer and Terminer were still in session he did not deem i Sdviewile to organize thix body until they were dis chares(. A number of petit jurors were each fined for non-attendance. Simon Reimier. alias Dore: alias Harry Howard, indicted for bigamy on moron Of the Assistant District Attorney was disct +d, the witnesses for the prosecntion hav ing 0 appear at several terms of the court q viag election day, no law business will be treues (od im the civil courts of onr city tiotment of the Josses by marine disaste;< onth of October past will be found eve. «heen compiled with mach care, and ‘ ean be made from estimates. The the month amount to $1,536,350, and for 4 past six months to $8,338,050. Da tom yesterday embraced about 1,000 oe oles of ent would be presented in the Court of Oyer A special meet- pard of Aldermon was held with refe- but no action was taken, as haracter had transpired. The is an irrepressible one, and the inevitable issu: of it he declares to be, that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become entirely a slaveholding nation or entirely a free labor na- tion: iat the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations of Louisiana, must be uliimately tilled by free labor, or else the rye ticldy and wheat ficlds of Massachusetts and New York must be surrendered to slave cul- ture: that Charleston and New Orleans must be- come marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or Boston and New York become once more a mar- ket for trade in the bodies and souls of men. as boldly put forth in his Rochester manifesto and on which the clection in this State is to be lost or won. However much we jaight be dis- posed to contemn the menacer and despise the threat, we cannot, recollecting the influence which he exercises over bis party in this and the other Northern States, afford to overlook or be blind to the dangers which his speech indicates. More especially should the warning not be lost sight of when we recollect that there are South- crn fanatics, firebrands and desperate politicians ready to catch at the chance thas throw in their hands by this Northern fanatic, and to join bands with him in his diabolical scheme to apply the torch of the incendiary to the temple of our Union. ‘The brutal and bloody programme indicated at Rochester we might afford to treat with con- tempt were it not for the existence of hostile ele- ments in the South, as expressed in the eqnally treasonalle manif issued by the redoubtalle Keitt from the rostrum on Whippy Swamp, and were it not for the conviction that there are fools and firebrands in either section ready todo what they can to give practical efeet to the ravings of these ambitious demagogues. In that lies the danger. Seward would barter body and soul for the Presidency of the Union, or of the Northern section of it, if disintegrated. Keitt is in his clement when talking fuss and bravado, though when it comes to hard knocks. as in the fiunous | gluliatorial conflict in the House last session, his | prowess is not remarkable. Bat these ore pre- | cisely the kind of men from whom, in the present | critical condition of political affairs, there is | most to be dreaded. The ane ix cunning, jesuiti- cal and anscrupulous: the other headstrong, pompous and overbearing. The gauntlet flung | down by the one is sure to be instantly accepted by the other. If the State of New York should, | by its voice in the election to-day, endorse the | challenge given by Seward, and declare its ap- | proval of his atroc) ‘ous doet we must not be surprised to see the South prepare to aceept the | challenge and to nm vet the iene. at then is the ¢ ‘ourse whieh pradence, which jem, and whiei 5 honorable feeling dictate the people of Ni \w York? Is it net to de- | nonnee, by its vote te -day against the ticket of the republican party, of whom Wm. H. Seward | is the aceepted mouth; dece, the base, brutal and | bloody doctrines which he has had the reckless ness to avow’ Is it not to say, in contradiction of his aseumption, that; he United States ie not to become either entire; y a slavebolding nation or entirely 9 free labor 1 tation that the cotton and rice fields of South © arolina, and the gar plantations of Louisiana , we not to be tilled by free labor, nor the rye fie, ‘ds and wheat fields of Maesachusetts and New Y\ ork to be again eurren- dered to slave culture am 4 that Charleston and New Orleans, and Boston a 1d New York, are to continne to be what they ow are—marts for legitimate commerce alone? Let New York, dy its vote today, mark its abh »rrence of the disor- ganiving doctrines of Wm, FH. Seward, and ve eure that the South will, in | ‘ts torn, know how to deal with the firebrands of — that section. The existence or non-exia tence of domestic elavery is not, and never shoul (@ have been mate, ® political question. It is eas ontially and in ite very nature a social and iz dustrial quevlva, which cach community should determine for it- self, unmolested and uninfluenced by avy other community. Ifslavery has the effect of retarding or preventing the growth of manufactures or com- merce in the Southern States, so much the worse for them, and so much the better for the Northern States that have then the monopoly of these great elements of prosperity. Cannot the South be left free to find out for itself the disadvantages of slavery, if there be any? Why will we be ob- truding our opinions upon them in an officious and impertinent manner, and, like bullies and braggarts, telling them that either we or they are to havo the upper hand—that our object is to abolish their domestic institutions and substi- tate ours for them? It is no wonder that, with such inexcusable and offensive intermeddling with our Southern brethren—with such declara- tions of war against them as the Rochester cartel of William H. Seward—they shou!d have come to the point of regarding without concern the con- tingency of a dissolution of the federa! Union. Ave the merchants and mechanics of this commer- cial metropolis, the manufacturers, farmers and working men of this Empire State, ready and willing to meet this contingency? If so, let them vote for the republican State ticket, involy- ing, a8 it does, the election of William H. Sew- ard to the Prezidency in 1860 and the conse- quent breaking up of this federal republic. But if patriotism, traternal feeling and the princi- ples of right and justice still find a lodgement in their hearts, they will to-day so cast their votes as to rebuke Seward and all like fanatics and firebrands, North and South, and convince the people of the Southern States that no attack upon their sovereignty and independence will ever be sanctioned by the men of New York. “Suai..tuyrg re A Conventioy 70 REVISE ue Constrrerion AND To AMEND THE Samm ?”— When the legal voters of this State go to the polls to-day, the question which has been made the caption of this article will be presented to them for their voices, either in the affirmative or the negative. The matter is placed before the people pursuant to an act of the Legislature founded upon the second section of the thir- tecnth article of the constitution of the State, which article we quote :— Section 2. At the general election, to bo held in the year eighteen hundred aud sixty-six, and in each twen lieth yeur thereafter, and also at sucti time a& the Legisia- ture may, by law, provide, the qnestion, “Shall there be nto revise the constitution, and amend the lectors qualifiel to vote 1g at such election, shal! decide in favor of a convention, the Legislature, at its ucxt session, shall provide by law for the election of delegates to such convention, We trust that no elector will fail to vote in favor of a Convention, Itis « matter of prin- ciple, not of men. The State, County, Congres- sional and Assembly tickets are all important, as a matter of course; but it does seem to us that the question of the proposed Constitutional Convention overshadows them all. It is quite clear that the revised constitution of 1848 does not answer the purposes which were designed by its framers. In the first place, it provides for the popular election of too many officials, particular- ly Judges. We have seen men of no character or reputation at the bar elevated to seats on the bench throngh the workings of party machinery, and they have been obliged to protect the secoua- drels by whore aid they have achieved the judi- cial ermine. The truth is, that the Judiciary should be removed far above temptation of this kind, and be placed beyond the intrigues and turmoils inseparable from political life. An- other point wherein the constitution should be revised is in the Quarantine laws: and the very best way to avoid the disorders which have dis- graced the county of Richmond would be to place the regulation of the lazarctto in the hands of the general government. We desire, also, some limitation to the despotic and anti-republican concentration of the central power at Albany —a power which legislates oly for private interests, and takes from the people of the cities, towns and villages all of their most valued franchises, We fail to see any good reason why Mr. Smith, of Oncida, or Mr. Brown, of Chemung, should decide how the money that is levied as taxes on the citizens of New York should be expended. it strikes us very forcibly that we should have something to say about the tax levy, wheo the money comes out of our own pockets, When we complain of these things we are told that the fault lies in the organic law of the State. If that is the case (and the Court of Ap- peals has generally decided in favor of the con- stitutionality of the odious legislative acts ap- plying tothe metropolis), it is quite time the constitution had a thorough overhauling; and we again request every voter not to forget to record to-day his affirmation in favor of a Con- stitutional Convention. Tur Liqvon Lyeicesce is Te-Day's Exne. tions. Amongst the various influences which will be brought to bear on the elections to-day, that of the Liquor Dealers’ Association will not be the least important. Thix body numbers from twelve to fifteen thousand in the city of New York, and from the peculiar character of their business they may be oseumed to sway more than double that amount of votes. The liquor stores and the grog ehops are the nuclei of the small politicians, and the political leanings and convictions of many are acquired there. It was therefore a great mistake on the part of any political organizations to segregate this large and influential class into a distinct political inte- rest, by the advoe of the measures which tended to annihilate their means of livelihood, whilst at the same time they invaded the private rights of the citizen. It might fairly be as sumed that net only the votes of the liquor dealers, but all those whom they could influence, would be used for the purposes of self-defence, irrespective of the political issues which form the ordinary test questions between parties. The ignoring of this fact will lead to some curious results during the present elections. The Liquor Dealers’ Association have been active in informing themselves as to the sentiments of the different candidates on the legislation affect ing their interests. Where they have found them adverse to them they will throw all politi- cal considerations overboard, and yote only for those who are prepared to go entirely with them. They can hardly be blamed for this, considering the amount of unfair prejudice that has been evoked againet them. If legislators suffer them- selves to be carried away by a spirit of fanati- cism, and are induced to pass measures which will not stand the test of a philosophical inves- tigation, they must expect that the common sense of the community wil! visit upon them in- dividually the mietakes into which their bigotry and narrow-mindedness have betrayed them. The candidates who have sided with the liquor law advocates will therefore, we think, be thrown somewhat out of their reckoning today. If their past offences against this interest have not been latterly dwelt upon, they are not the less keenly remembered. Those who regard politi- cal considerations as being the all predominating influences 0 to-day’s votes, ma find thems:|ves egregiously mistaken. As in ish electioncer- ing oot:teets, they will probably discover that in many localities liquor will carry the day. State Elections Next Congress— W. H. Seward and His Bloody Instructions. State elections, involving in each case the eloc- tion of a full delegation to the next Congress, come off today in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Michigan, Hlinois and Wisconsin, including in ali sixty-eight members of the House of Representatives, In all proba- bility, therefore, considering the results of the October schedule of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, the grand result of this day’s elections will be a decisive settlement concerning the next Congress, In the present Congress the strength respect- ively of the democracy and the opposition forces of the House is thus set down Democrats... ........... 128 Opposition—Rep. and K. ++ 106 Democratic majority. ..........6... 0.006 22 In the late October elections, counting in as democratic members those anti-Lecompton dem- ocrats who were taken up by the opposition and elected over the regular administration can- didates, we find that the democracy have suffer- ed a dead loss by the clear gain of 14 members tothe opposition. The actual result, then, of the Congressional elections thus tar reduces the de- mocracy to this critical position in the Heuse :— Democrats, (anti-Lecomptonites and all). ...114 MU UUNINN 8 dios nh des 00 45:5 02 o'0 04's 120 Opposition majority. Ee ee Bui this exhibit rests upon the presumption that in the States yet to elect, including this day's catalogue, the relative strength of parties will be the same as in the present Congress. The opposition, however, expect some important ac- cessiens to-day in this State and in New Jersey and Illinois, and appearances, we must confess, in exch of these States (from the demoralizations which factions and rebellious leaders have brought upon the democracy) are strongly in favor of this presumption. With regard to Mlinois, we think there can hardly be a doubt. In that State, in 1856, the united Fremont and Fillmore vote exceeded by 28,000 the vote of Mr. Buchanan. Now, as we undersiand it, there is a cordial fusion between the Illinois republicans and Americans, while the democrats are divided into two factions, each with separate candidates for State officers, for the Legislature and for Congress, The chances, thus, are decidedly in favor of a complete op- position victory in Iinois over the divided de- mocracy, including the election of the entire delegation of nine members to Congress, with one exception, which will be a gain in Iinois alone of four members to the opposition side. Without going any further, this will give the op- position 124 members in the next Congress, or a clear majority of twelve in a full House, including Minnesota, assuming that they will hold their own in the other States which elect their mem- bers this day or hereafter. We anticipate, therefore, that this day's elec- tions will settle the question of the next House of Representatives against the democracy, and still more decisively against the administration democracy, on account of the Douglas-Lecomp- ton democrats elected here and there by the combined weight of the opposition and the Douglas deserters, from New York, to Indiana, In the next Congress, then, as at the late seasion, the administration will have to depend upon the opposition for the success of those great mea- sures, foreign and domestic, which M®. Buchanan may deem essential to the interests of the Ameri- can people. But, as we have seen from the | results of the last session, that Mr. Buchanan’s | administration can prosper without the demo- cratic party, the question recurs, what will the perty do, or what can it attempt to do, when re- | duced to an actual minority in the House, with- out the cordial support of the administration’ Leaving this question to be answered by the Donglas conspirators here and elsewhere, North and South, we are next led to inquire what is to be expected from a republican House of Represen- tatives if it should be backed up to-day by the endorsement of Seward and his new and bloody abolition programme, in the election of Morgan as Governor of New York: We shall be in- stantly thrown into an agitation of the slavery question, which, by the year 1860, will assume the form of a sectional contest—pro-slavery and anti-slavery-—the most fearful and the most dis- ustrona, politically, financially and commercially, with which this country has ever been af flicted. More important, therefore, than all other issnes before the people, do we regard the defeat of Morgan. His defeat will be the defeat of Seward and the repudiation of his bloody in- structions; but his election will throw us at once into a new and most terrible agitation of slavery, North and South, the inevitable consequences of which no man can contemplate without a sbud- der. Whatever else, then, may be done to-«lay, let every lover of the peace of the Union, and every friend of onr commercial prosperity and con- stitutional safeguards, fail not to cast his vote and his influence against Seward and hie bloody instructions, and in behalf of the conservative State ticket headed by Judge Parker. Tus Acwewety Tieker.—Remember that there are twenty-one candidates on the different Ac sembly tickets to be voted for to-day who pay taxes, and twenty-seven who pay none. There are seventeen members to be chosen. V the taxpaying candidates only, without rege party politics. Remember that the Assembly- men will have @ powerful voice in the local go vernment of this city--in fixing the tax levy, regulating our comimeree, controlling corpora- tions. They will be either the agents or the enemies of corruption, according to their honesty and capability. Elect, then, only such men as have a stake in the community - who are intelli gent, faithful, and competent to legislate for this great city and State. Sewanp tx Favor or MArtesos. It appears that, in his late speech at Rome, Mr. Seward de- livered « very pathetic funeral eulogium over his great lobby captain, O. B. Matteson, regret- ting the loss of his valuable services in Congress. Now, as Matteson has been cast off by the re- publicans of his district, and bas taken the field against the republican nominated to supersede him, thie «peech of Seward may secure at least one democratic member of Congress. Who knows? Sexy Taxrayvens To Anmaxy, Voters at the polls to-day should not forget that the infamous Metropolitan Police law was imposed upon us at Albany, and that the city now suffers under the corrupt and mischievous interference of the Le- eic’ature with our local affairs last ewion. The election of candidates for seats in the Assembly is just as important a duty as that of the county officers, Scrutinize the tickets, and vote only for respectable men, who have a local habitation, a respectable occupation, and pay taxc« Tut Presivent’s PxocnamMaTion AND TIE Niw Raw on Nicaraqua.—The preparations of Walker for a new invasion of Nicaragua have called out a proclamation from the President, warning citizens from being deluded inio vio- lation of the laws of the country, and cnjoining upon all officers of the government to be vigilant and active in their respective spheres in repressing these illegal enterprises. There is a good taste in the present proclama- tion of President Buchanan which has not cha- racterised those of some of his predecessors. He does not misquote and misapply the law, as did Mr. Fillmore in denouncing the Cuban expedi- tion of General Lopez as piracy; nor does he de Scena to personal abuse, as did poor Pierce ia stigmatizing General Quitman and bis associates as bad citizens. He invokes the law truthfully, and warns all persons from being deluded as peaceful emigrants into a scheme which can only sucoeed by an overpowering force, in a country where their leader has never received any substantial native assistance. The mild tone of the proclamation is calculated to give far greater efficacy to the laws than could be obtained by personal abuse of misguided or mis- taken men, which would only awaken a feeling of resentment. This act of the President, coupled as it is with the announcement of Senor Yrisarri, Minister for ppt regular tran- sit passengers will be admitted into that republic without passports from the Nicaraguan legation, and the presence of several American ships of war at San Juan del Norte to prevent our citi- zens from wilfully violating the laws of the land, render the possibility of a successful landing by Walker and his followers out of the question. ‘They will undoubtedly be stopped either before entering the port of San Juan or immediately after, and Nicaragua will thus owe, for a third time, to the government of the United States a We Nicaragua, that no persons ex cessation of civil war within her bordvrs. say for a third time, because it is now placed beyond a doubt, by the admission of the highest authority in Costa Rica, that had Captain Davis not interfered at the time he did in the siege of Rivas, the besieging forces would have broken up in « few days for want of resources; and it was only the illegal act of Commodore Paulding in seizing Walker within the territory of Nicaragua, when his forces already had possession of the river, that saved that republic a second time. The fact that Walker has been able again to gather men and resources for his illegal opera- tions against Nicaragua, notwithstanding his de- monstrated incapacity as a leader, is a pregnant one, and should lead our statesmen to aualyze the causes of such an anomaly. We believe they will be found to lie in the unwise and absurd character of our present neutrality laws. Under these, no citizen of the United States within the territory of the United States, is allowed to en- ter “the service of any foreign prince, State, co- lony, district or people, as a soldier, or as a ma- rine or seaman,” under penalty of fine and im- prisonment. In thus confounding and punishiag one of the natural rights of the citizen with other acts of a manifestly improper and bellige- rent character, which no other nations do, we place the right and the wrong in the same cate- gory, and elevate the wrong; for no citizen is disposed to admit the wisdom or justice of a law which in any of its parts violates the com- mon sense of right. It is this fact that predis- poses so many of our citizens to hold our ueutra- lity laws in such light regard, and endows such lenders as Walker with a popular sympathy in their ilegal expeditions. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special W: Despateh. THE NEW ISTHMUS TRANSIT PROJECT AND THE WAY THE ADMINISTRATION REGARDS IT—APPOUNTMEN Ps TO THE PARAGUAY EXPEDITION—PROBABLE tb i SION OF THY TARIFF, ¥TC., ETC. Wastuxerox, Nov. 1, 1858. \t i@ not true that our government favors tho new specu lation of Jerez and Messrs. Van Dyke and Wallace, with reference to the Transit route of Nicaragua. Doubtless dere and bis goverument would sell tue Transit route many times over raise money, if they could find men simple enough to pay them; but with such trading ihe administration will have nothing to do. The ground tho administration bas taken all along, a often statod ia the Henawp, is, that the route shall be open, and whatever rights American citizens may have acquired shal! be pro tected. This new war and misrepresentation throagh the presa,at the moment the Nicaragua ronte ix about being opened, is the old game, renewed by powerfal rival inte rests, acting im conjunction with the wily and trading ministers apd officials of Central Amer Tho following officers have been ordered to the -teamer America, at the Brooklyn Yard, for service in the Para guay expedition —Commander—J. ¥. Groen: Licutenants— B. M. Cuyler,G. BE. Belknap, M. i. Jones, aod HA Adama; Firat Assistant Engineer—F. 4. De | uce, Third As Sittant Engineers—H. Snyder, J. Whittaker, ©. Devalin and ¥. £. Brown; Acting Boatswain—I’. A. Chason The following officers have been ordered to the « barter 4 steamer Metacomet, at the Pensacola Navy Yard They are to go im the United States steamer Arctic. now undergoing repairs at the Washington Yard —Liew tenant Commanding—Wm. H. Macomb, Lieutenant-—J. H. Moore, R. Fairfax, and ©. Gilley. The Metocomet is alee attached to the Paraguay expedition The Post Office Department hus inded to send the Kuropean mails by the steamer Vigo which will «ail from New York for Liverpool on the 6th inst The admimiatration is actively engaged preparing for Congress. It is not yet decided what course will be re commended regarding the toriff. It ts believed, however. that some change of the tariff, for sake of revonae, will be required, and it is probable specific duties m certain casce may be recommended. Senor Perez, secretary of Goneral Jeres—not Jerer himself about t0 proceed to Nicaragua. Gosia Rica and Nicaragua may be assured any effort to wheedle @eneral Lamar, or humbug the admimetration through agents here, will be understood and nentralized. Senator Mgler, of Pennaylvania, lef Washington this evening to attend the marriage of Governor Gus with Mrs. Henderson, at Philadelphia, to. morrow THE GRSER AL SRWAPAPIE OW ATCN Wasmsoroy, Nov. 1, 1858 Mr. Butterfield, President of the California Overland Mail Company, made application today for protoction tbrongh the country traversed by their stages (rom Indian invw sions. The Secretary of War gave him a most cordial ro ception, congratulated him on his success, and assured him that military protection should be afforded al as variy a day aa possible. Troops will probably be concentrated at Fort Sunith fo considerable numbers, and be moved ia suitable detachments to the exposed points. This impor tant movement of the government will open all Texas and Arizona to sottioment. The forces so successfully fighting the Comanches are to be promptly reinforced by © regiment from Fort Leavenworth, with the view to com. pel them to ste for peace. Improved arms, similar to those whieh were so effective in Washington and Oregon, will be forwarded to Fort Smith. Tho President favors the protection of the mail and emigrant route from Indian attacks, Mr. Butterfield left for home this after hoon, greatly pleased with the comprehensive plans of the Seeretary of War. He will goon start for Memphis, Little Rock and Fort Smith, to eee whether that ronte cannot be greatly improved. The Postmaster General is satiefied the mails can bg carried to Califoraia in twenty eee eee LS to twenty two days, a8 soon a the War Departorent shad Lring the Indians along the route under coatrot, The Pension Office in October issued six hundred amd ‘fifty nine land warrants under the act of March, 1865, to Satisfy which about 100,000 acres are necessary, Bir, Isaac Holland, duor-keeper of the United States se- pate, died to-day, J. 1, Rathbua bes been appointed Second Licutenant im the Marine Corps, vice Payne, dismissed. Icoutenant Mailit has been ordored to the Coast Survey. Jicutonaut Livingston, of the Navy, bas resigned, to take cfloct ov the 25th ult, Nows from Mexico, Wastunaton, Nov. 1, 1868, Now Orlesoe papers of Wednesday last, containing Vera Cruz dates to the 22d of October, are received. A rumor was current in Vera Cruz that Cabos, the com- ‘ mander of Zuloaga’s forces near Orizaba, had received orders from the City of Mexico to join Echoagaray as Jalapa. Jt was reported that Ceneral Degallado, commander of tho conatitutionaliets, eatered Guadalajara on the 6th ef Octobor. ‘The Boletin (official), of Zacaetcas, announces the towm of Lagos taken by the constitutionalists from Zacatecas and Neuvo Leon, Wastuweron, Nov. 1, 1858. New Orleans papers of Wednesday last announce that the steamship Quaker City left New Oricans on the 21th ult., for Minatitlan, to open the Tehuantepec route, Mang applications were made for through passage to Sao Free. cisco, but ouly a few were accommodated, Arrival of the Californian Overland Mail. Sr. Loves, Oct. 30, 1868, ‘The overland mail from California, with dates to the 4th of October, has arrived here. The dates are anticipated via the Isthmug. The mail arrived within the schedule time. Three passengers from California came on the train. The Yellow Fever at Epidemic Ceased. New Oxukans, Nov. 1, 1858, ‘The Howard Association cloge their labors this day, the fevor being no longer epidemic. E. F. SCHMIDT, President. Yellow Fever at Charleston, CHARLRSTON, Noy. 1, 1856. ‘The deaths by yellow fevor in this city for the wook ending on Saturday were twenty-four. Yellow Fever at Savannah, Savannau, Nov. 1, 1868. ‘The number of deaths in this city yesterday waa sevua, of which four were from yellow fever. Politics in Albany. Acuany, Nov. 1, 1858. The excitement on the Congressional fight here is in- tense. Close figuring shows an anticipated majority cither way of only one or two hundred. Largo bets aro being made on the result. A bet of $1,000 was made to-day. Johnny Morrissey, who supports Mr. Corning, also made ‘@ bet of $1,000 ov Saturday that he would be elected. A large number of inquiries having been received to- day, asking if Mr. Burrows had declined running for Goy ernor, it is deemed proper to authoritatively deny from him that there is any foundation whatever for tho rumor. Conviction of a Female Poltsoner. Roux, N. ¥., Nov. 1, 1868. Mrs. Jourdon, who bas been on trial here fur the past week for poisoning her husband in Ava, in August, 1857, was found guilty to-day of murder. The jury recom. mended that the eentence be imprisoument for life. Sea tence suspended until the next term of the court. The Mecker Will Case. Newank, N. J., Nov. 1, 1858. At the opening of the Court this morning, Hon. A. C. M. Pennington, counsel for defence in the Meeker wil! case, asked the Court to be allowed time to prepare the bill of exceptions which he had taken, and move for a now trial. Thirty days were granted by the court. The Court of Oyer and Terminer is now in session. Madame Colson in Philadelphia, Puapaurma, Nov, 1, 1858 Madame Colson made her debut at the Acadomy of Afa sic in this city this evening to an immense and brilliant sadicnce. She was most enthusiastioally received. ‘Thanksgiving in Missourt. Sr. Louis, Nov. 1, 1858. Governor Stewart, of this State, has appoiated Thurs- day, the 25th of November, as a day of thanksgiving Military Parade in Newark. Nuwant, Nov. 1, 1858. The full parade of the Independent Essex Brigato, Gen. Theodore Runyon, took place this morning. This brigade is composed of the First Regiment of Infantry and Ar tillery, Col, Trawin, and the Second Regiment Rites, Cot Peckwell. About six hundred men were under arms. At two o'clock this afternoon the brigade was reviewed ou the Military Park by Governor Newell and staff, aftor which a geueral inspection of arms tok place. The dis play was brilliant, and attracted a large number of spec tater The Alabama at Savannah, Savanwan, Nov, 1, 1868. ‘The United states mail steamship Alabama arrived be jow at ten o'clock last might. All well. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PatADKLIMA, 1 . Stocks dull. Pennsylvania 5's, 94 Did; Reodleg nas Toul, 2654; Morris nae Long Railroad, 12, for tniddling. r Nov. 1, 1868. Cotton—Sales to-day 1,000 bales; middilag, Itc! Chanussron , Oct, 30, 1858. Cottion—Sales to-day 4,600 bales at easier prices. Canniesros, Nov. 1, 1858, Cotton—Sales today 1,800 beles: middling and lower qualites a sbade casur Bactimonn, Nov. 1, 1858. Flour dull and drooping; Ohio and Howard sircet $5. Wheat firm for pritae; low grades dull: sales of red at 31 1) 8 $1 20, ancl white at $1254 $156. Corn—Old white @Se. a Te. , yellow 80c. Whiskey dail. Provisions quiet. Pimtanmeua, Nov. 1, 1868. Flour doll, at #59 $6.25. Wheat—Pritne scarce, with sales at $125.4 $1 00; red, $1 1508120. Corn, active: old yellow Sle. Provisions quict: moss pork, $17 60. Hacon—Sidcs, 0'4c.; shoulders, 7 \c. Whiskey~Obio, 2c. Coffee, active aad drm: sales, 5,000 bags Rw at lige. o Wwe Fi terwors trocty. ‘Beosiphe tatgo, tease jour comes forw: ee) eer rales un changed. Wheat—Littie do wa ouety oe "Balcs: Gauads club at 97¢. Corn quite dull, at 67e. a 68e%s., im small parcels. Barley quite flat and duil; sunali salck coatinne to be made at Ste. for State four rowed, B70. a 88¢. for Canada; sales about 16,000 bushels.” Shi 24,000 boshels wheat , 30,000 bushels corn, 4,000 bushels barley. &.P. whiekey—aales 186 Dbis_ at 21 4e. Borraw, Nov. 11 P.M. Thero is only a ‘united demaud for flour, and the mar het heavy: sales bis. at $497Jg a 84 60 for good , b5 00 for the range of canes Wheat in fair demand; market frm, held above the views of buyers: «ales . for choice Canadian club, and $1 24 white Canadian. Corn dull: sales 10,000 for ensound, and SS ige. for sowed Ohio of other grams. Whiskey lowor: sales Canal freights steady: 4%c. on four, s. at 194e. 12e. ou wheat, and Lic. om corn to New York by lake for the last forty-cight hovrs—19,002 in ae 5488 bushels wheat, 2 bushes v 10 bashels corn, 13,500 Y, aod 3400 bushols oats. Shipments by canal— bbis. flour, 32,346 bushels wheat, 4,562 bushels aud 3,420 hnahels barley Bere ©, Nov. 16 P.M. Flour quiet and easier: sales 1,000 bia. at $4 375; 0 $4.50 for good 10. choWwe supertine, $4 8734 a $9 for the range of extra todoubie extra Indiaua, Michigan, Ohio and Canadian. Wheat in moderate demand and sales 6,000 bushels prime white Tlinois at $1 1 bushels choice white Canadian at $1 24, 3.000 prime Canada clab at @@e., and 4,000 boshels Milwaukie chib om private terms. Corn duil and held above the views of buyers: sales 6,000 bushels unsound at 56 \e. and 4.600 bushels sound Ohio at 8c., afloat. No sales of other gre es 200 bbls. at 194. Canal tree .o8 Wheat, 1c. on corm, to New York. for the inst forty « ls wheat, 0810 houme-—17,182 bbls, four, 6 bushela corn, 14,795 bushels barley canals 637 bdIS. fone, SLO bushels wheat, 10,% bnshels corn, 10,566 bushels barley Amount of pra in store here tins Morning (official) 109,181 bushel wheat, 328,923 bushels ourn, “M4811 bushels oats, 58,506 bushels Darley, 2,920 bushel rye Cimeauo, Nov, 1, 1868. Flour active. Wheat firm, and advanced 1¢. Gorn steady, at S60. Oats steady. Shipments to Buffalo—1,300 bbls. hour: 61,000 bushels wheat, 6,000 bushels corn. Shipments to Orwoco—0.500 bushels corn. Keceipt-—t,100 bbis. flour, 20,000 bushels wheat; 6,600 bushole corn Guxannatt, Nov. 1, 1868. Whiskey 18. Hoge in fair demand, at Flour det $5 75, for futare delivery. Provisions quiet, but firm. Naval Inte Commedore Lawrence Kearny, Commandant of tha Brooklyn Navy Yard, was yesterday rolieved by Commo- dore Samuel b. Breese, who hos entered upon the datics . Captain Thomar R. Rootes was also re. lieved, and Captain A. F. Foote assumed (he position which he lately occupied as Commander, At the request of Commodore Breese, there was no formal demonstration Made on bis arrival, and everything passed off quietly. See elle