The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1858, Page 4

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The New Yora Wea.ty Hxrarp—California edition— containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will bo published at eleven o'clock in the morning Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents. Agents will please send in their orders as early as pos sible. ‘The News. ‘The steamship Quaker City has arrived at New Orleans from Minatitlan, and reports the Tehuante- pec route across the Isthmus as clear of all obstruc- tions. She brought no news from California, the steamer from San Francisco not having stopped at the Pacific terminus of the route. One of the com- pany’s vessels, which left Minatitlan on the 18th ult., has also arrived at New Orleans. Her captain furnishes an interesting account of the progress of operations along the route, which is given in an- other column. Accounta from St. Johns, Porto Rico, to the 16th ult., report sugar and molasses scarce, and a num- ber of foreign vessels in port waiting cargoes. It waa the general opinion that the sugar crop would be a short one, owing to the drought that had pre- vailed for a long period. The island was healthy and perfectly quiet ‘The European mails to the 23d ult., bronght by the steamship America, reached this city by the New Haven train at an early hour this morning. Our files contain nothing of importance that was not included in the telegraphic summary’ of the news published in yesterday's Henatn, We publish in to-day's paper a report of the pro- ceedings of a convention of slaveholders of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, held at Cambridge, in that State, on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The slavebolders complain that the free ne- groes among them sre an idle and worthless set, and recommend the holding of a general State Convention in Baltimore in June next, for the pur- pose of devising some means of remedying the evils under which they labor, and the passage of laws to render the free negroes 4 producing class, In the Supreme Court general term yesterday, before Judges Davies, Ingraham and Sutherland, the case of Michael Cancemi, convicted of the mur- der of policeman Anderson, was brought up. The prisoner's counsel produced the remitter and judgment of the Court of Appeals, and on motion of the District Attorney the sentence of execution was reversed, and the trial set down for the first Monday in December, at the Circuit Court. Messrs. Wilson G. Hunt and John B. Corlies, the commis-ioners for building the new City Hall, were duly qualified yesterday by the Mayor at his office. ‘The lamentable condition of the unfortunate and distressed mariners of the British bark Claude, who were recently rescued from death after shipwreck by the captain and crew of the ship Isaac Bell, and brought to this port—a full account of which has appeared in the Henatn—has attracted considera- ble attention, and eubscriptions for their relief are now being taken up. For the information of those benevolent persons who may be willing to particit pate in the charitable movement, it may be stated that subscriptions will be received at the British Consulate in this city, or by Messrs. Duncan, Sher- man & Co.; and it ix sincerely to be hoped that a sum of money adequate to the immediate necessi- ties of the suflerers may be realized. ‘The Exaise Commissioners held a meeting yes. terday to grant licenses, but as there were no ap- plications presented they adjourned until this after- noon. After they have held four more meetings they will have finished their business for the year. There was not much business transacted in the Court of General Sessions yesterday. Thomas Lewis was tried for an assault with a dangerous weapon on Elijah R. Pendleton, but as the com- plainant was proven to be the aggressor the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. The case of Nan- cy Hood, charged with arson in the first degree, was postponed for a week in consequence of the absence of an important witness for the defence. The City Judge issned a bench warrant for the ar reat of Amor J. Williamson, editor of the Sunday Dispatch, on a complaint of Charles J. Warren, charging him with a violation of the lottery law, in advertising @ Georgia lottery in his paper. Mr. Williamson appeared in court, and gave bail in the of $500 to answer the charge. Wm. C. Conner vecame his surety nm of cotton yesterday embraced about 3.500 baler, 2,500 of which were fn transita. The market was beayy and somewhat irreguiar, without established change im prives. We cont vote middling uplands at and fair to good do. at Ie. Flour was in fair de 11% from the bome trade, but dull for common grades and Western, while the higher and extra brands te steady, Wheat was steady, with moderate rates given in another place. Corn was firm, sales of Western mixed at 68¢. for poor, 700. a fait to good, and 78e. for choice ed id at 800., White do. at 89e. a S6c., and yellow de "ork was firmer, with moderate sales includ Straw we at $17 0917 10, and prime at O75. Sagare and closed at an advance on the sales of the a Yo. per Ib, The sales yesterday embraced Cuba, 90 do. molado, with smal! xe#, at rates given in anoth ro column rm but quiet, The stock of Rio was nearly s Was in good supply amd dull; small iat lOc. Freight were ateady, with a Liverpool and London, Grain to the aged at Gd io ship's bags, aad dour at : NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 185 ‘The Central American Imbroglio—Its Attend= ant Difficulties and Approaching Solution. Central American affairs are rapidly drawing toa head, To-day the steamship Washington leaves for San Juan del Norte with the first re- mittance of passengers to cross the Nicaragua Isthmus under the auspicies of the new company. Gen. Walker is preparing to start from Mobile at an early day, and is reported to be on his way to Washington to lay his views and intentions open to any of the authorities that may in disposed to listen to him. The President has issued his proclamation against illegal ex- peditions, An American flect has gathered in the Atlantic and Pacific ports of Nicaragua to enforce the demands of Gen. Lamar, and to pro- tect the opening of the Transit route. Lord Napier has communicated to Gen. Caas the in- tention of the British government to stop Walker and his followers if we do not. Senor Yrisarri has come out with a pro- clamation against unauthorized emigrants to Nicaragua. Senor Jerez bas issued his mani- festo against the new Transit route company, and sends his secretary, Senor Perez, home to- day by the Aspinwall steamer, to obtain from President Martinez a ratification of the Cass- Yrisarri treaty and his own new Transit route grant, both of which he hopes to have back here by the end of December, Sir William Gore Ouseley has departed some days since to be present on the scene of action, and to enforce certain British demands upon Presi- dent ‘Martinez, And the diplomatic corps at Washington are all intent upon the course of our government and the developement of events. This is a very complicated state of affairs, and any unforeseen event may bring us into a colli- sion with Nicaragua, or with England, or with the Anglo-French alliance, But the course of Mr. Buchanan has been laid down with a deter- mined adbesion to the highest principles of jus- tice, and it will be carried out to the end. The first and most important point is, that the transit across the American isthmus by the San Juan river and Lake Nicaragna shall be opened to the commerce and travel of the world, without fa- yor to any one nation, or the imposition of onerous and unjust taxes by the petty rulers of the territory, and that it shall be kept inviolate by the factions of the country. To such a deter- mination Nicaraguan Presidents and envoys, as well as steamship commodores and rival routes, must bow. The fact that our government has determined on th's point has been long since communicated to Lord Napier and Count Sar- tiges, together with the stipulations of the Cass- Yrisarri treaty; and their governments were un- derstood to have expressed their acquiescence therein, It waseven further stated that they were determined to make similar treaties with the Isthmus powers as soon as the Cass-Yrisarri treaty should be ratified. The second point in these questions is: that our own government must prevent the carrying out of any unwise and illegal expeditions from this country. Private enterprises against Nica- Tagua are a very different thing from active sympathy on the part of our people in favor of any party or people that is endeavoring to establish free principles and the right of self government. Theyare destructive of the very rights and interests which they assume to sup- port, and for this reason, as well as from State policy, should be prevented. But they must be prevented by our own government. Should England undertake to do it, and assume a Quixotic championship of Nicaragua and Mons. Belly, as it is said she has intimated her inten- tion to do, this very fuct would place the Walker movement in a very different light before the American people, and arouse in his favor ana- tional sympathy that would materially increase his chances of success. In this, as well as in the question of opening the Transit route, the United States must take the active lead, and establish an American policy. In doing this much will be done toward re- storing to those countries the benefits of peace and order. But the question naturally arises, what is Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley going to do in Central America? An article from the London Herald, the organ of Lord Derby, which we re- print elsewhere, in some measure answers that question. He is to endeavor to carry out Lord Malmesbury’s plan for settling all the dixputed questions between England and the United States and the Central American republics. This, it is supposed, can be done by making new treaties with Costa Rica and Nicaragua, some- thing after the fashion of the Bay Islands treaty with Honduras, in which the Mosquito protecto- rate can be given up, and the honor of England preserved by making certain reservations in fa- vor of the few remaining vagabond Indians and securing the adjustment of the Manning claim against Nicaragua. What terms Mr. Ouseley may be instructed to demand, or Nicaragua may be brought to consent to, in the present precarious state of our relations with that republic, time will tell. In view of the recent developements in regard to Mons. Belly, and other nenvres in this Central American imbroglio, are not prepared to put implicit reliance in the profes- sions of Lord Derby's organ, though we have a deep conviction that the true interest of England lies in waiting our action in opening this inter- oceanic route, and following our lead in restor- ing order to the anarchical communitics of Cen- tral America. We have every confidence in the wisdom and energy of the President in these questions, and doubt not that he will conduct them toa proper solution. In carrying with a firm hand the two points we have enumerated in this Cen- tral American imbroglio, all the others will sub- side of themselves. Our influence will be para- mount, as it should be, on the American isthmus, a policy just to the whole world will be establish- ed, and the Nicaragua route opened to com- meree. If England and France wish to press any new views upon the Central American im- broglio they had better send them to Washington for ventilation. The gathering of their commo- dores and agents in Central America, should have no effect upon our determination to carry these questions to @ practical and final issue. The Transit route must be opened, filibustering stopped, and Nicaragua recognise and respect the just claims of American citizens. Marermar, Am ror Mexico.—We learn that Dr. E. S. Billings, who has been for some weeks in this country as the agent of Gen. Alvarez, making arrangements for sending material aid to the constitutionalists in Mexico, leaves here to- day in the steamer for Aspinwall, on his return to Acapuleo. He has been quite succcssfal in his operations, and arrangements have been made with Mr. James R. Morgan, of this city, under which General Alvarez will soon receive « large supply of minnie rifles, muskets, powder and lead, and other little arrangements of an ef. fective charaater. With these, General Alvarez calculates to be in the City of Mexico in January | Ove New Courrrouire.—Comp Toller Flagg’s next, and to checkmate his old antagonist, Santa Anna, in his new plans for plundering the republic. Federal Politics and the Slavery Question— Another Great Speech from Senator Ham- mond. One of the most refreshing, comprehensive, conservative, suggestive and instructive speeches on federal politics, in connection with the slavery question, that we have ever published or ever read, we spread before our readers th's morning. We refer to the speech of Senator Hammond, delivered to his constituents at Barnwell Court House, South Carolina, the other day. Con- trasted with the late abolition harangues of W.H. Seward at Rochester and Rome, it pre- sents us,in the boldest relief, the difference be- tween the viewsof a calm and inquiring states- man and the desperate electioneering tricks of an ambitious and unscrupulous demagogue. Tn the one case, the ripening influences of time and experience have changed the South Carolina nullifier into the most powerful advocate of union, peace and harmony; in the other case, the Kansas agitation appears to have transformed the coolest and shrewdest of our anti-slavery leadersinto the most foolish excesses of fanati- cism. Leaving the views of Senator Hammond upon Kansas to speak for themselves, we turn to the broader political issues of the future which he a0 ably discusses. He believes that the South can still maintain herself within the Union, and under the constitution “control its action in all reat affairs;” and yet he concedes, substantially, that the extension of slavery within our present territorial limits has reached its terminus; that Mexico and Central America are wholly unavail- able for slave States, and “cannot be touched without contamination,” and that Cuba itself is “forbidden fruit.” Nor is this all; for while he fully recognises the continually increasing pres- sure of Northern free labor, from our constant accessions from Europe, he utterly opposes the retaliatory scheme of the revival of the African slave trade, as impracticable and visionary. He is satisfied with the self-sustaining resources of the South as she stands, and looks with distrust upon Cuba as a graveyard of negroes, the de- mand for which upon the Southern States would be more prejudicial than profitable. But the most conspicuous view in which Mr. Hammond presents the success and security of slavery in the South isin connection with the practical results which have followed the aboli- tion excitements and experiments of England and France, and the thirty years of our North- ern abolition agitation. These results are, that England and France have confessed their abolition blunders, and that while the former has been driven to the coolie system of slavery, the latter has openly returned to the African sys- tem and traffic. Within the same interval our political Northern agitation has not only resulted in doubling the value of Southern slaves, but has brought about a union of the South in defence of the institution, which renders it, in connection with the necessities of commerce, perfectly safe and impregnable for the future, and entirely competent to protect itself within or without our existing confederacy. Best of all, no doubt, to the mind of Mr. Hammond, is the conviction which he entertains that there can be no anti-slavery issue in the future upon which “the #olitionists of this coun- try can ever muster their legions as they did in 1856." We incline to a concurrence in this opi- nion, and to believe that henceforward, to 1860, the practical issues of the government and the practical exigencies of the country will come more and more prominently into the foreground, until niggers and the nigger agitation are entirely superseded in the reconstruction of parties and party questions for the Presidency. That Kan- sas-Nebraska box of Pandora has done its work of mischief, North and South, and the conservative people of both sections, with “the sober second thought,” will repent and atone for their late debasing carousals of sectional ex- citement and folly over this miserable experi- ment of Presidential intriguers. The only remaining obstructions of any mo- ment to a pacification upon the elavery question are W. H. Seward, his new abolition platform, and the sectional Presidential clique whose ob- ject is to thrust him forward as the anti-slavery candidate of the North against a pro-slavery can- didate in the South. Upon such an organization of parties in 1860, all the pleasing anticipations of such conservative men as Mr. Hammond may be borne down in the fierce war between sections and sentiments, North and South, upon slavery. We believe, however, that unless this arch-agita- tor, Seward, shall be cast out by his party, he and his party will in the end be overwhelmed with something of those divisions and disasters which they would bring upon the Union. The curtain is lifting upon the great dramaof the future. For good or for evil, we are upon the threshold of a mighty revolution. Srwarn’s Asonrrion Srencu Ing Frorr Stavenonpens’ Convention my MARYLAND. The natural and inevitable result of the brutal and bloody programme laid down by Wm. I. Seward in his Rochester speech, has already commenced to be made apparent. For the past three days there has been in session a conven- tion of slaveholders of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in which five counties.Talbot, Caro- line, Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester —were represented. The aggregate «lave population of these five counties, as given in the census of 1850, is 18,256, or a little over one-fifth of the slave population of the whole State. Some of the most prominent public men of that portion of Maryland have taken part in the proceedings of the convention, the tone and object of which may be gathered from the spirit of the resolutions reported. They declare that free negroism and slavery are incompatible #ith each other, and should not be permitted longer to exist in their present relations, and recommend the calling of a general convention of the State, to meet in Baltimore in June next, to devise some system to be presented to the Legislature for the better regulation of the negro population of the State. Without undertaking to «ay how far the action and object of this convention meet the approval of the people of Maryland generally, we cannot disguise from ourselves the provocation which all the elaveholding States of the Union have received from the abolitionists of the North, and particularly from the leader of the abolition movement in this State. Seward’s manifesto could not have failed to produce this effect; and we nay expect to see the iseue which he has laid down met by the people of the Southern States in the same manner as it has been met in Mary- land. Such are the natural resulta of en- couraging abolition and disunion agitators at the North. term of office, happily for the city, en ireson 12 last day of December, and the voters Will be called upon to elect his successor on thé frst Tueeday of that month. It is hardly necessary to remind our readers, after all we have written and published concerning the management of the Finance Department for the past four years, that the incapacity of the Comptroller has been one of the chief causes of all the abominable frauds and peculations under which this misgoverned me- tropolis has been laboring, which have swelled the taxation to an unendurable amount, and which, if repeated in the new incumbent, will most certainly result ina perpetuation of these grievances, What kind of a man do we want for Comptroller? One not only of unimpeachable character for honesty himself, but possessed of intelligence and firmness enough to compel honesty in others; one who will not permit his confidential clerk to bamboozle him and cheat the public; who will not employ in his office par- ties who know nothing of keeping accounts, and entrust the best interest of the citizens to indi- viduals either so incompetent or so corrupt that every thieving rascal in the community can help himself out of the city treasury. On the con- trary, what we need is some active man who understands his business, whose honesty can be relied upon, and whose vigilance in the performance of his high trust may be a guarantee against the successful practice of knavery, which, in its Protean shapes, hovers around the Finance Department. There are such men to be had, and we trust they will be put forward, and one of them be supported by the people, without regard to political parties or affinities. It matters little whether the Comp- troller is for or against Lecompton; whether he hails from Tammany (though that might be a blot on his escutcheon) or from a republican con- vention; but it matters much to every one in this city, and to property owners especially, whether he be honest or dishonest, capable or incompe- tent. There is no political issue in the charter election. It is a simple question, shall we have faithful servants in office or dishonest ones— officials who, at the close of their term, can ren- der a good account of their stewardship, or officials who will have to stand at the bar to an- swer the indidfments of a Grand Jury? Tue Tenvanterec Rovrr Oren.—We learn by the telegraph that the steamship Quaker City arrived at New Orleans to-day from Mina- titlan, on the return from her first trip, carrying the mails and passengers for California by the Tehuantepec Isthmus. She brings no news from California, as the San Francisco steamer of the 20th did not stop at Ventosa on her way down to Panama. Should the connection be made with the up steamer of the Ist instant from Panama, which there is no reason to doubt, as she reports the transit clear, news to the 27th of October, from the Atlantic States, will reach San Francisco on the same day with advices to the 20th by the way of Aspinwall. It is antici- pated that this route will carry the mails from New Orleans to San Francisco, and vice versa, in fourteen days, thus shortening the time of con- veying intelligence by one week. Assoon as the railroad connections through Tennessee and Mis- sissippi are established, which will be in a few months, there will be « continuous railroad route from New York to New Orleans, over which passengers and mails will be car- ried in four days between the two cities This will shorten the time of pas sage from New York to San Fran- cisco to seventeen or eighteen days, which now occupies twenty-two or twenty-four days. There are three mail routes now open to California— the overland route, the Tehuantepec route, and that via the Isthmus of Panama. To- day the steamship Washington sails to open the fourth route, by way of Nicaragua. The active operation of all these routes will give an immense stimulus to the growth of our Pacific empire, and produce a very beneficial result in business affairs on this side of the continent. What New York must now have is a bee-line connection with the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, by way of Florida and Cedar Keys, which shall cut down still further the time of transit from here to the Tehuantepec Isthmus. Caxpipates vor Common Councn. at run Cuanten Execrios.—The Common Council ex- ercise a large control over the expenditures of the public money. In the execution of their legislative duties they have to pass ordinances authorising every improvement in the Street De- partment, and they can, if they are honest, pre- vent much of the frauds and jobs which dis- grace the city and increase the taxes to the amount of two or three millions a year more than is required for the maintenance of the municipal government. At the charter election next month the whole of the Board of Council- men and nine members of the Board of Alder- men are to be elected. There will be a host of names presented to the people for these offices, and we hope that voters will exercise all their intelligence in deciding upon the men they will support. Let none of the members of the present or former corporations upon whom rests the sus- picion of complicity in any of the many frauds by which the taxpayers have been fleeced, either by aiding the criminals in the act, or shielding them when discovered, receive any consideration at the hands of the people. Avoid party hacks and juggling politicians with that intensity of fear with which it is said the dark instigator of evil shuns all holy things; vote only for men of integrity and good standing. This is the most available mode of reforming the abuses now prevalent in the Corporation and reducing the taxes to a proper level. Taxpayers of all clusses—the tenant as well as the property owner—are deeply interested in the election of the Common Council. Remember that reform, to be effectual, must extend to the halls of the Aldermen and Councilmen, as well as to the other departments and bureaus of the municipal government. In fact it should begin there. Tur New Boanp or Evvcatios.. Among the officials to be voted for at the charter election on the first Tuesday of December are twenty-two School Commissioners, who will comprise one half of the Board of Education. Heretofore voters have been somewhat carcless in the selec- tion of men to fill these positions ; but it should not be forgotten that not only is the Board of Education entrusted with the expenditure of over a million of dollars, but that the moral and in- tellectual training of the youth of our city is placed under their control. It is not too much to say, then, that the office of School Commissioner is one of the most important and responsible in the gift of the people, and that the highest quali- fications are required for the faithful discharge of its duties, The conduct of our common schools, though the system in the main is excellent, is still not without its faults—feults which, it may be fuirly assumed, arise from the incompeteacy or indifference of some members of the Board of Education. For example, considerable ext:2¥8 gance is manifested in the erection of school buildings. It is true they are very fine struc- tures; but the question is, could they not be con- structed with a better view to economy. A few years ago an outlay of ten or twelve thousand dol'ars procured a suitable building for school purposes, while now it is no uncommon thing to expend forty or fifty thousand. The fact is, that there is jobbing in this as well ae in all other public works, which a vigi- lant Board might correct. Again, the system of regulating the books used in the common schools is imperfect, irregular, and must be confusing to the pupila. There are toomany books and too many changes, and, as is the case in the Brook- lyn echools, where the pupils have to pay for them, the expense is sometimes onerous to the poor. The utmost care should be exercised in the seleetion of the School Commissioners to be chosen at the coming election. They should be men not only of intelligence, but of good moral character, if we are not prepared again to wit- ness the disgraceful spectacle which was pre- sented a few days ago, ofa School Commissioner, who was entrusted with (> education of our youths, and part of whose duty was the selection of female teachers, sent to the Penitentiary for an aseault committed in a house of prostitution. Look well, then, to the character of the indi- viduals presented as candidates for School Com- missioners, and vote for none but honorable, intelligent men. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despatch. THE BRITISH DESIGNS IN NICARAGUA—OKN, HERRAN AND OUK DIFFICULTIES WITH NEW GRANADA—CON- VEYANCE OF GEN. PAEZ TO VENEZUELA, ETC. Wasinnaton, Nov. 5, 1858. No despatch has been sent or communication mado lately by Lord Napier to our government regarding Nica- ragua and the filibuaters. There is, therefore, no founda- tion for the despatch of the Associated Press sent to the newspapers yesterday. Lord Napier has been in Wash- ington but lite lately, and has not had any important official communication with the State Department for some time past. The most friendly relations exist between the two Powers with reapect to Nicaragua, and Great Britain will not attempt to exercise such a power of police as this country could not allow. General Herran, the New Granadian Miniater, and Senor Bombo, Secretary of Legation, leave Washington for New York tomorrow. Nothing has been settled with our go- vernment about tonnage dues and other matters relating to the Isthmus of Panama, though it was believed General Herran returned to Washington for the purpose of adjust- ing the difficulties. The Minister stfll hopes to succeed at some future time, The fact is, all he can hope to do is to stave off the day of reckoning. He has the best inten- tions, but not power—that rests with the Congress of New Granada. It is said that General Paez will return to Venezuela either in the steamer Canada or America, whichever is ready first G. T. Pierce, of Wisconsin, has been sppointed a purser in the navy. ‘The Genera! Land Office is engaged in adjusting the lands along the routes of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad, and Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, select- ing United States lands from those of said railroad and private lands. The balance in the treasury on the first of November ‘was $7,543,000. The receipts of the week were $782,500. The amount of the drafta paid was $1,521,000, and the dralts issued, $1,129,000—a reduction of $347,000. ‘The New York and Galway Steamship Line. Sr. Jouns, N. F., Nov. 4, 1868, The governmeat of this Province has ‘agreed to pay to the New York and Galway Steamship Company $42,500, in addition to the grant of $23,000 by the Imperial govern’ ment, in consideration of the company's ‘ing this port a port of call for their steamers, s¢mi-monthiy, to and from New York and Galway. The company are bound to make the passage between Galway and St. Jobns within seven days. With a view to afford the public every ac- commodation in their power, the steamship company will nm © here tolegraphic despatches to the latest moment, and forward the same to Gal where they will be delivered, as they may be direct ers arrive at that port. The telegraph compneies AR80- ciated with the American Company (No. 21 Wall street) have also agreed to receive all despatches which may be offered, and transmit the same through to this place to intercept the steamer, or failing to do so, no charge will be made for tolls, Thus the public of the United States will be placed within seven days of Galway and London, and vice versa. ext steamer from (his port for Gal way will leave on or about the 12th inst The Beston, Concord and Montreal Ratiroad. CosoorD, N. H., Nov. 5, 1858. Ahearing before referees of the suit of Warren H. Smith against the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad, out of the construction by pe oe yg por. said road, is now going on in this city. The ad of the writ is $800,600, and the balance claimed be recovered by the plaintiff iv about $200,000. Both are represented by a strong array of legal Marine Disasters. Waanxerox, Nov. 5, 1858. Ry an arrival at New Orieans on Saturday, it is ascer- tained that a Swedish brig was lost on the 15th ult. close at the mouth of the river; also an English brig from St. ‘Thomas to Minatilan, The names of the vessels are not given. No lives were lost. ‘The Fever Disappeared from Charleston. Cuaniaron, Nov. 4, 1868. The health of the city has greatly improved. There have been only three deaths from fever since Saturday, ‘and they were confined to the upper wards. Physicians consider it safe for citizens to return to the city. Yellow Fever at New Orleans. New Oniaws, Nov. 5, 1858. ‘The deaths m this city by yellow fever yesterday were eighteen. ‘The Europa Outward Bound. Hattrax, Nov. 6, 1858. The «team:bip Europa arrived bere from Boston at 2:30 A.M.,and sailed again at 4:30 for Liverpool. Weather calm And raining. iB i Markets. POMADELPHIA STOCK ROAKD. weLrAta, Nov 5, 1868. Stocks heavy. Pennsylvania fives, 04%; Reading Rail- road, 255; ie Canal, 47%; Long id Railroad, 11! Pennsylvania Railroad, 43 New Ontgane, Nov. 6, 1858. The America’s advices has caused a decline in the Reet cotton of yc. a I4e.: sales to-day 9,500 bales at 12. for middling. The sales of the week add up 40,000 bales, the receipts 66,000 and tho ex 44,000. Re- ceipts at thie port abead of last year 149,000 bales; ditto atall Southern ports 987 00 bales. Stock 213,500 against 141,500 last year. coffee—ales of the week 9,250 bags at prices rangi from 10%0. 8 106. Stock 21,500 bags, against 120, last year. Freighte—Cotton to Liverpool 15-32d. and to Havre 15-16c. Sterling exchange 108 5. Ciwerswart, Nov. 6, 1858, Flour—More demand for new. Wheat steady: red, M6e.; white, $1 05. Corn, SOc. for white. Oats drm at Sie. a Shc, ‘Whiskey dull at 17e. Hogs active at $5 75 for future delivery. Lard 10c. Cimcaco, Nov. 56 P.M. Flour quiet. Wheat firm. Corn advanced 2c. ; sales at 620. Oates firm. Shipments to Buflalo—16,500° bushels wheat. Shipments to Orwego—4,000 bbis. flour, 17,000 bushels wheat, Receipts—600 bbls. dour, 9,000 bushels wheat, 2,600 bushels corn Rorrato, Nov. 6—6 P. M. Flour—In general demand from the jatorior, and some inquiry for through shipment, market firm, ahd rates un- chan, sales, 2,000 bbls. at $4 12) a $4.25 for common to choice superfine; $4373¢ a $4.50 for good to choice ree $4 90 a $5 1245 for to choice extras; $5 26 a $5.50 for double extra, Wheat in fair demand, and market very firm: sales, 20,000 bushels at 80¢. for Chicago spring, $1 08 for red Ohio, $112\% for white Michigan, $120 jor prime white Canadian. Corn active, in part for Canadian account, and market better: gales, 40,000 bushels, opening at 60c., and closing firm at 6250, "No sales of other grains. Whiskey steady at 20c, Canal to wheat, 224,770 bushels corn, 17,044 bushels barley, 5,319 bushels oate, Shipments—7,788 barrels flour, 19, bushels wheat, 24,800 bushels corn, 4,712 bushels barley. Osweoo, Nov. 6—6 P. M. Flour steady. Wheat without material change, demand chiefly for shipment: sales of 26,000 bushels, at $1 04 for red Thdiana, and $1 14 a $1 15 for white Cana- dian. 2. t males of jour, 83,000 bushels wheat, 11,700 Flour continues dull; rece! heavy; only sale 1,000 bushe! Sorghum a : nae ; pales » 48 800n as the steam. -| ss The Tehuantepec Route Open. ARRIVAL OF THE QUAKER CITY—NO CALIFORNIA NEWS. Naw Organs, Mov. 5, 1858. The steamship Quaker City, Capt. Shufeldt, from Mina- tithainaabrgig! ht o'clock on the morning of the 2d inst., ar- yived here at two o'clock this afernoon, and brings the wexcome intelligence of the opening of the Tehuantepec route, She made the outward passage in seventy hours. The {ren steamer Suchil arrived out ou the 26th ult. She mot thé Quaker City at the Coatzacovloos bar, and ac- companied her bo Minatitlan, where there was great re- joicing. ‘The passengers and mails of the Quaker City were trans- ferred to the irom steamer at Minatitlan, at noon on the ‘80th ult., when she started up the river in fine style om the picnedr trip. ‘The facilitios for navigation and the scenery and beaa- ties of the Coatzacoalcos river are unsurpassed. Im evicence of the excellent nawigation, the Suchil’s passea- gera arrived alongside the company's wharf in the Suchil carly on the morning of tho Slat ultimo, two! hours after the passengers, mails and baggage had started for Almoya, where stages were in readineas te convey them. The road was in excellent condition, ae rain baving fallen for a week; and as all the needful ar- rangements had been made, no apprehensions were felt of the success of crossing the Isthmus. Mr. Murphy, the Superintendent of the road, who ac- companied the mails, bad made arrangemonts for thoir transit from Suchil to Ventosa, which was accomplished in thirty hours or lesa, Mr. La Sere, the Prosident of tho Tehuantepec Company, also accompanied the mails to the Pacific, to make a thorough survey of the road, Tt was not contemplated to receive the mails from Cabi- fornia this trip. ‘The Quaker City, on her return, left at Minatitlan the Suchil. ‘The Suchil brought the following despatch:— Vewrosa, Oct. 29, 1858, Coi, Salindas, with 400 troops irom Oaxaca,’ entered ‘Tehuantepec on the 20th, having dispersed the forces & Zu.caga, Who bas bow no bold en the Isthmus. ‘The country is unusually healthy, and the people aro im fine epirits on account of the opening of the route, the success of which was absorbing all questions of a political or warlike character, Aroad will be open to coaches between Almoya and Ventosa in a sbort time, when the transit will be made entirely by vehicles. The Quaker City encountered strong northorly winds the entire passage up the Gulf. Among her passengers are so man aud Mr. Boardman, who went out in the {From tho New Orleans Picayune, Oct. 30. By the arrival this morning of the schooner Captain Wilson, from Minatitlan, we have news from that portto the 18th inst., and from tbe mouth of the Coatza- coalcos to the 26th. She went there from Pensacola with acargo of bridge lumber for the Tehuantepec Company. Captain Wilson informs us that everything connected with the Aeron 4 Sapen's amare on the Isthmus was progressing favorably. Every preparation was made to take the mails by the Quaker City over without loss of time. The few passengers she took would crows on horseback. Enough lumber had been received from Pensacola to build about two-thirds of the mumber of bridges required to cross the numerous small mountaia streams that intersect the route The company had about five buadred men actively engaged on the road aud bridges, under the supervision of the company’s su " tendent, Mr. John McLeod Murpby; and who, one and determined, by Captain Wilson's account, would seom to bave effected a complete change for the better in the company’s affairs, be having introduced a strict aystem of accountability and discipline, and discharged the super- fuous employ és. The baiance of the lumber to complete the bridges waa dally exp cted from Pensacola. The com of these bridges will make the route transitable at all times and under all circumstances. ‘Captain Wilson reporte that the company’s iron steamer Suchil bad not yet arrived from New York, but waa dady expected. The company’s steamer Jasper was running regularly, and had made already many trips, conveying paseengers, laborers and material. ‘The bark Flush, from New York, entered the river at the moment of the Victoria’s departure, having on board a full cargo of materials for the company, comprising soma, twenty stages with harness, coal, hay, &., and about thirty stage drivers and teamsters. The schooners Conquest and Louisa, chartered by the company, bad arrived with bridge lumber from Pea- eacoin. Murder of a Policeman in Baltimore. Barrmeorr, Nov, 5, 1868. Henry Gambrill, one of the notorious of rowdies who infest the southern part of this city, and who mur- dered police officer Benton about a month since—one of the best officers i the city—because he was the chief Witness against bis brother on a charge of incendiarism, was this afternoon convicted of murder in the firet degree. ‘This evening police oflicer Rigdon, who was the principal witness 1 the trie! against Gambrill, was also dead in the western part of the city by one of the same gang. she murder was committed in the police officerss house nd in the presence of his wife and children, He was an xceedingly active and faithful officer, and his gad death & deeply regretted. The murderer's name is Corre. Great excitement prevails in regard to the affair, aad hreats are made of lynching the murderer. Academy of Music. One of the larceat audiences that has been drawn to gether this seasop was assembled last night to receive Madame Gazzaniga’s derniers adieus previous to her de- parture for Havana. The enthusiasm exhibited was only a just tribute to the merits of an artist who has won the favor of the New York public by © combination of ta lents which are rarely found united in the same person She may emphatically be styled the greatest lyrical tragé dienne that bas ever sung upon the Italian gtage in this country, for Griai was only the wreck of her former repu tation when she came amongst us. The pieces selected for this occasion were the “Lucrezia’’ and the fourth act of the “Favorita."’ In the former Mme. Gazzaniga achieved a perfect triumph, the fine dramatic passages of the part drawing forth tumultuous bursts of applause from the audience from the beginning to the ond of the opera. Writing under the influence of the impres- sion created by this splendid performance, it is diffealt to single out the passages in which she was most effective. The whole réle wos a delineation of surpassing grandeur, and produced a profound effect. The duet between Lacrezia and Alfonzo could not have been rendered with greater delicacy, or with a en timent more intensely dramatic. The sentence vot @ sorrana consorte was given with a graduation of empha sis which expressed at once pride and submission, aad this contrast of sentiment was portrayed in a manner rarely witnessed. The allegro which follows the ‘“infe- lice’ 1s also a marked feature of the score, and there are few artists who can impart to it the effect which Madame Gavzaniga did. Amongst the numerous beauties with which the réle of Lacrezia abounds, we must not omit to notice that fine prayer, Medi, ah! Modi, which, if we may use the expression, is a perfect bouquet of melodies, all difficult of execution. The voice of proud Lucre- via, alter having passed through the of hatred aod vengeance, adapts itself, throngh flexible organ of Madame Gazzanira, with @ towching pliancy, to the sup- pliant accents of a wretched mother In the fourth act of the “Favorita,”’ which for him of immortality denied to bim by scholastic clans. It i# admirable, both as a composition and orchestral combination. We may cite as an example jude, so full of eloquent harmonies, in which Racy that we hear the lamentations of Fernando and announcement of the unhappy end of Leonora. this comes that pearl of romansas—the melody com, on three notes—do-remimwhich may be comy three leaved flower of surpassing beauty. sion of this sublime work is the magnificent duo, which has become mensely to the estimation in which the talents of this great artist are held amongst us. They show that tem rary retirement is not with her, like most members of profession, an excuse for self-indulgence. In her efforts of last evening we could trace a progress which proves that she has an earnest love for her art, and that her ambition will be satisfied with —- leaw the highest crown of lyrical sucess. Ani by. ‘ifted with physical endowments rarest order, if she may not py my the fame of a Grisior « Pasta, The Gennaro of tenor, great saticfuction. As we as well as confidence since marred hardly yo say that it was an admira- Orsini, it is 0 , displaying to the greatest advantage D the. ies other ‘voice. ‘of the performances, as, indeed, after every act, Madame Gazzaniga was called before the curtain and received such tributes of applause as must have gratified: her highest ambition. Amonget numerous cadeaus sent to her on this occasion was a monster bouquet, contributed by a party of jemen from Philadelphia, who came on expressly to be present at this performance. ~ Gity Politics, — ‘Tre Proriz’s Geverat Commrrrme met last night at Mo. zart Hall, but did not succeed in doing much business. It seems that thie committee and the Regulars’ General Com) mittee have decided to call elections for next Monday sons to elect delegates to Conventions to choose: Com) ler, Al , Councilmen, school officers and the like, They intend to nominate a clean anti-Tammany: ticket throughout, and to run it ho matter who will be im the fleld. ‘The call will be published to-morrow. Supreme Court—Special Term. Bofore Judge Sutherland, MORE DOMESTIC TROUBLE AMONG THRATRICALS. Nov. 6.—Adelaide A. Nts vs. Theedore 8. Nims.—Tho partica in this cake are members of the theatrical profes. sion, though seldom appearing on the boards. Mr. Nima ‘wag at one time Librarian of the City Library. His wife now sues bim for divorce, and the matter was referred w Mr. Abraham by ae to take the testimony. Tn three cos were granted, and in two othie/ references or ordered (0 take tespimony ! j