The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. | Ceres JaMES GORDON BENNETT, DITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OP Gr veer a pend | OFFICE M. W. CORNER OF FUTON AND NASSAU STP. TERMS, advance Money send by wait wil he at the pi teonde ‘Postage stamps ne Se as calaartgtion | 44 DAILY HERALD. two cents rhe WEEKLY ranleney oy al every the European Edition, $4 per annuin oper ‘Great Britain, or $510 any part {Xi 4 "Tas eis HERALD, every W four cents per “Potente Gok CORRESPOND! IEICE, containing importont iy pal Fa ae “Ga oun con Foun (A, ARE | = ‘ii ‘als Lerrens axp Pack Verame ¥X111.. ..No, 309 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUBIC, Fourteenth street.—ItaLtam OreRa —Don Giovanni BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Kixe Hewny IV— Kine’s GakDENBR- SECRETS OF STATS. WIBLO'S GARDEN, Hrosdway.—Tas Paarrom—Youne ActxEss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—I:parne, Tun DrstRovas —Tua Kwionts or Tae Mist. .CK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—GEnTLeMaN FROM Tatkb Liev or tue bap Owanouu-Narrone's Daven. LAURA KEENK'S THEATEE, He. 6% Broadway.—Oun Aupnicax Covsin—New Footman, Ba. pure + AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Atternoon and Evening—Tuivpox's Mimic Wortp—Lepian Grant. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, hank ie Seetwey— Sruortan Sones, Danors, &0.—Scami MECHANIC'S BALL, 427 Broadway.—Ravants’ Minsrue Neco Bosgs anv Bokiesques—Usep Ur. CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.— iro Flaw $84 MACTERIBTICS, SONGS, &0.—PONGO. PALACK GAXKDEN, Fourteenth street and Sixir avenue.— EQURsTRLAN 1SM—G YUN ASTICS—SPUCTACLE OF CIN: BRELLA. NEW HALL, Broadway, next Bleecker s.reet—MecuaNicat, Painting oF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSA YM, &c. New York, Sunday, November 7, 1558, The News. ‘The steamship Circassian, of the Galway and New York line, arrived at St. Johns, N.P., yester- day, bringing advices from Liverpool to the 26th ult., three days later than those received by the ‘America. American produce of all descriptions was dull, and cotton is reported slightly lower. Consols in London on the 26th were quoted at 984 a $8} for both money and account. The steam frigate Gorgon, which had been engaged in taking soundings for a telegraph line from the Banks of Newfoundland to the British Channel, via Fayal, had arrived at Plymouth. The British steamship Glasgow, Captain Thomp. son, from Glasgow, 25d ult., has arrived. Her dates have been anticipated by the America, at Boston. By the arrival of the California overland mail we have accounts from San Francisco to the 8th ult— three days later than those brought by the steamer via the Isthmus route. The news is unimportant. The rainy season had just commenced, and its usual effects upon business were experienced. We give in another column some extracts from the latest papers. A terrible catastrophe happened in the harbor about noon yesterday. The propeller Petrel, built for a pleasure yacht, but lately employed as a tug on the Northriver, when off the foot of Jay street suddenly burst her boiler. There were on board at the time four persons, namely, Henry Brink, en- gineer; Edward Downey, fireman; and a pilot and deck hand, whose names could not be ascertained. Downey escaped with only a severe wound in the bead, but the others were killed instantaneously. The engineer wasthrown by the force of the ex- plosion high into the air, and came down upon the hurricane deck of the steamer Broadway, which gave way, precipitating him to the main deck be- neath. When the body was taken up it was minus an arm anda leg. The bodies of the pilot and deck hand were torn into fragments. The boat was of course a total wreck. The northeasterly storm which commenced on Tuesday last had not abated up to a late hour last night. The storm has been accompanied by consi- derable rain, causing no little damage to property about the docks, and in all probability we shall short- ly hear of disastrous freshets in the rivers of the in- terior of the country. The wind was blowing heavily from the northeast last night, while the rain fell in torrents. There isa large fleet of vessels outward bound in the North river, all waiting for a change of weather. The steamship Vigo, which left port yesterday for Liverpool, came to anchor at the Southwest Spit; and the Suwannee, for New Or- leans; Star of the South, for Savannah; and the Jamestown, for Norfolk, anchored at the Quaran- tine ground. The steamships Illinois and Washing- ton—the former for Panama and the latter for San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua—left their docks yes- terday, and will proceed to sea as soon as the weatber permits. Both take out fair complements of passengers and freight. In the Court of Gencral Sessions yesterday, coun- sel for Richard Barry, a School Commissioner, sen- tenced to the Penitentiary for four months, on a plea of guilty of assault and battery, moved for anew trial on the gr nnd of informality. Judge Russell will render his vn on Saturday. Counsel for Charles Devi arles Turner and others, indicted for consy defraud the public treasury, moved to quash the indictments on the ground of contrariety to the rules of pleading. The City Judge reserved his decision. We learn from the report of the City Inspector that there were 361 deaths in the city during the past week—an increase of 13 as compared with the mor tality of the week previous, and 12 more than oc curred during the corresponding week last year. The following table shows the number of deaths for the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguishing the sexes:— Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total Week ending Oct. 30..75 85 109 9 aus Werk ending Nov. 6..72 7 116 102 361 Among the principal causes of death were the following awe _— apm Ort, 30. or % on . 62 59 Convuleions (infantile) 15 28 Cholera infantum 8 4 Diarrbera 4 i Dysentery 6 3 Dropey in the head 12 12 Inflammation of the bowes ee | 4 Inflammation of the lungs . 8 20 Inflammation of the brain 5 10 Marastnos (infantile) 30 6 Seariet fever. avsevs i There were e also 4 de aths of apoplexy,7 of con gestion of the brain, 4 of congestion of the lungs 17 of croup, 4 of delirium tremens, 5 of disease of the heart, 15 of hooping cough, 2 of teething, 10 premature births, 24 stillborn, and 4 from violen causes. The annexed table shows what portions o the human system have been most affected:— Ot. 80. Nov. . 2 63 " 3 3 9 « a] 1% oe 2 - 1 35 8 . 6 6 42 3 » 6 5 eS 361 The number of deaths, compared with the cor- responding weeks in 1856 and 1557, was as follows: Week ending Nov. 8, 1856, et 858 Week ending Nov. 7) 1867 ‘Week ending Oct. 80, 1868 Week ending Nov. 6, 1868 The nativity table gives 246 natives of the States, 73 of Ireland, 22 of Germany, 8 of England, 5 of Scotland, 2 each of France and Poland, and 1 each of Italy, Sweden and the West Indies. By the arrival of the brig Sea Lark, Capt. Allen, from St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, we have advices from Seat place to the 12th ult. The weather had been very dry, but the health of the island was good. eae NEW YORK HERALD, The extreme inclemency of the weather yester Tay ia | terfered more or lees with outtoor business, aml ten Jo4.to check transactions in many articles of trade, Tue sales of cotton were restricted to 200 a 300 bales, without change in prices, There was rather a better demand for flour from the home trade, and the recent depression of | common and medium grades of State and Western at- | | tracted buyers, while sales were fe to a fair extent | without material change in prices. Wheat was firin for good to prime qualities; choice Western winter red gold at $1 22, und Kentucky white at $150. Corn was in im proved demand, and closed at a decited advance; sales were pretty freely made, embracing Western common to prime mixed at 78¢. a 750. Pork was firm, with moderate sales at $17 12 on the spot for mess, and at $17 25 for de: livery, seller’s option, between the Ist of January and Ist of April; new prime at $13 75. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 750 bhds, at rates given in another column, Coffee was firm, but quiet. Freight engagements were light, and rates were unchanged. Emancipation in Russia and Slavery in America=The Results of the Rule of Commerce, In another column will be found the decrees of the Emperor of Russia granting certain civil and social rights to the serfs of that empire, and directing the mode in which they can pass from the servile condition to that of the mercantile and property-holding classes. It isa curious social anomaly, and one well worthy of study by thinking men, that precisely the same cause is operating to free the serfs in Russia and to perpetaate the slavery of the ve- groes in America. This cause is the extension of the sway of commerce, and of the rule of the commercial idea; by it men are measured ac- cording to the profit they can bring to the com- munity; and wherever the commercial idea pre- vails they are classed accordingly. The move- ment inay be said to have commenced with the Hanse Towns, about the twelfth century, and to have gone on increasing from that time. These cities protected their citizens against the exac- tions of the feudal lords, ond as commerce grew, feeling the want of men, they extended their jiro- tection to serfs, who, taking refuge in them, re- mained there a year and a day. In this way commerce attacked the feudal system, and every- where throughout Europe the cities made war on the social organization of the Northera na- tions, which were the ones that classed men as military vassals and lords. Kings soon learned the value of the commer- cial idea, and brought it to bear in repressing the insolence of the feudal lords, and con- solidating in the crown the representative charac- ter of the nation. It was found that the Euro- pean man produced more in every way when left to employ his labor at his own discretion, and the employer found it cheaper to hire labor when he required it than to own the laborer. In this way the promptings of interest have over- thrown serfdom or villainage in all the countries of central and western Europe, and it is the same power which is attacking the existing feudal system of Russia. The present interests of afew nobles may seem to be opposed to it, but the true interests of the community, and even of the nobles themselves, lie in its ultimate triumph. Philanthropy and the pfevalence of moral right are adjunct arguments in favor of the movement, but they have not now, and neyer have had, any preponderating influence in bringing about the emancipation of the serfs in Europe. The operation of emancipation in Europe has proved vastly beneficial to the community as a social organization, and to the State as a politi- cal one. By extending to every one the stimu- lus of personal profit from his labor, exertion both mental and physical has been vastly in- creased. The increase of individual production and labor constitutes the increased power and wealth of the community; and in this way the columns of the merchant's ledger, presenting the aggregates of that labor, have been the most powerful advocates of human freedom. It is by the same process that the institution of domestic slavery for the African on this con- tinent has been rendered more stable within the last thirty years than ever it was before. When the Revolution conferred the right of self-go- vernment upon the States of this Union, those of the North abolished slavery, because society being mainly constituted upon the European plan, it was found more profitable to hire labor than to own it, and the white man would labor under the stimulus of wages. Then came the French revolution, with its fanaticism of moral rights and immoral results. The warm hearted, the enthusiastic and the generous spirits of the world were carried away with the idea of uni- versal freedom and equality, without reference to the question of profit and loss, Washington, Jefferson, and many others of the patriotic spirits of the time, bowed before the tendencies of the age, and advocated the emancipation of the slaves. They believed that such a course would redound to the advantage of the State. Here the experiment has not been tried in any com- munity containing a large proportion of Africans in its population. The actual contact with the negroes awakened the sense of social danger. But the European governments, reasoning upon the subject from the practical knowledge of the effects of European emancipation only, applied its laws to their colonies in tropical America, and the practical results have been the reverse of what was anticipated. It was found that the negro, unlike the white man, would not work under the stimulus of wages. He was satisfied with obtaining sufficient for his present physical wants, and consequently an increase of wages diminished, instead of in- creased, the amount of labor he would perform. | The result was an immediate decay of the wealth and power of those communities where society was constituted by the union of the white and black races. The ledger of the merchant showed at once, in its diminished aggregates, that emancipation of the blacks was a failure. Even the moralist has been compelled to admit the fact; for it is found that the material inte- | rests of man must be developed before his moral interests can be improved. Hunger for bread must be satisfied before the thirst for knowledge can be awakened. But with the African race it has been found that a desire for moral dovelopement does not exist, simply be- cause he does not possess the capacity for it. Hayti has now seen two generations of men since she became free, and in every way her condition is worse than it was under the rule of those who had been brought up in the service and with the example of whites. Thus the extension of the reign of commerce is freeing the white serfs in Russia, and perpetaat- ing the slavery of the black serfe in America; because it is enabled to prove, by the columns of the ledger, that under the fespective conditions of race, soil and climate, each is most profitable in its respective spher@. The civilized world must have cotton and sugar, and these can be grown only in the tropical fields where the fever- gifted brain of the white race cannot labor, but where the stagnant brain of the negro finds a genial influence in the burning rays of the sun. Tux Lars Treaties wird Cutya—Cuaaaes Acarst Tu AuEricas Mrvtgrer.—From articles \hich we publish elsewhere, copied from two of | , the Lonéon journals, it will be seen that the con- duct of our Minister to China continues to form the theme of unmeasured criticismand abuse in | England. Mr. Reed is represented as not only heving allowed himself to be the mere catspaw of Count Putiatine, the Russian Minister, but as hoving negotiated a treaty less adrantagcous to ihe commerce of the United States than that which hud been negotiated by Lord Elgin and Jaron de Gros on behalf of the gevernments of Figland and France. If the statements of the Englicb press are to be relicd upon, then Mr. Reed stands in no very creditable position, for it is asserted that, in the interest of Russia and against the interests of the United States and very other commercial pation, he endeavored to defeat the objects of the French aad English ne- otiators co far as to prevent the opening of ad- ditional porte, the securing of theright of transit into the intcrior, and the residence of foreign ninisters at the capital. If Mr. Reed be not grossly maligned and misrepresented in regard to this matter, he will find it very dificult, we chould think, to convince the government or people of the United States that his course was dictated by a wise or prudent policy, ov that it was likely, if successful, tc have redoun- ded to the honor or benefit of this country. But in the absence of any statement frem Mr. Reed, aud as we cannot compare the American with the English treaty, we must forbear giving eredit to such grave charges as those which the English ‘ress makes against our Minister in China. It is somewbat remarkable, besides, that while Mr. Recd’s diplomacy is sneered at in the most contemptuous terms, the Russian Minister comes infor a large share of commenéation, as having negotiated a treaty advantageous in every point of view to his government, and which, while se- curing to Russia the full benefit of all the stipu- lations made in the other treaties, confers special advantages, in which Russia will be the sole beneficiary. Asto the trade of China, which by these se- veral treaties is opened up to the commerce of the world, itis impossible to form anything like a justestimate of its magnitude in the future. A remarkable instance of the efect of opening trade and breaking up monopoly, in increasing the productions of a country, it exhibited in re- gard to the article of raw silk. From 2,000 bales of silk which used tobe the anntal export from China before the monopoly of trade was broken up there, and which was thought to be the largest quantity that could be produced in the country, the trade has increased to’such an ex- tent that the export of silk last year from China reached 94,800 bales, showing that in less than half a century—since 1810—the supply had in- creased over fortyfold. When the policy inaugurated by these recent treaties with China is in full blast; when all restrictions on trade and commerce are actually— pot in name merely—removed; when the Yang- tse-Kiang and all the other navigable rivers of China are traversed by steamboats, and the great cities connected by railroads ard telegraphs, then will the world realize the imm«nse advan- tages resulting from the demolition of the hoary barriers that have shut out, from the remotest past, the rest of the world from contact with the people of the great Flowery Kingdom. The first steps have been taken towards,that end, and in less than a quarter of a century the intercom- munication between the United Siates and China will probably be as great as tha now existing between the United States and Europe. Let us hope that our Minister to Clina, instead of thwarting, bas contributed to this result. Tue Mcrver 1x Bavriwore—Rowpyism anv AssasstnaTion.—It is the habit of country news- papers to indulge in jeremiads ove the profligacy rowdyism and crime of New York; but from re- cent indications it would appearthat Baltimore and Philadelphia quite outrun ths metropolis in the daring character of their crininals and the bold nature of their crimes. Bakimore certainly can claim the unenviable reputafon of the most rowdy city inthe Union. Respectable people have long ago abandoned the idea of exercising their right of franchise; for evenmen who would face a battery without blanching might well sbrink back from the gang of asassins and row- dies who “protected” the polk. Baltimore is afflicted by several organized bands of ruffiians, whose appellations too well attest their character and purposes. A short time ago one of this class was convicted of incendiarism, and the officer who proved to be the principal witness against him was shot by the brother of the prisoner. The murderer was placed on trial on Friday and convicted. The principal witness in this case also happened to bea policeman, and on the conclusion of the trial one of the murderer's confederates deliberately proceeded to the house of the officer of the law, and, in the presence of his Wife and children, shot him dead. We are not surprised to learn that the citizens evinced a disposition to lynch this second murderer. If this system of intimidation of witnesses and re- taliation goes on, the courts of justice might as well be closed up, and the city left to the tender mercies of rufianly assassins, But we opine that the strong hand of the people will be compelled to assume the duties of the weakened arm of the law, and Baltimore will have to full back, in self defence, like other cities, upon that terror of rowdyiem—a vigilance committee. Poor Fonwny. —The Chevalier Forney, with all his glorifications over the late electio that “the country is Shot saved;” that “its inte- rests are not regarded;” that “its policy is kept at war with its welfare,” and that “its true friends are to be held as rebels or revolutionists, as the issue of their struggle shall determine;” and then, in a paroxysm of despair, he asks, “Is it insanity which possesses the federal coun- cile?” From this it would appear that Forney is impatient in his desire to get back into the kitchen. The coolness of the President concern- ing these late elections is called infatuation, and still louder Forney exclaims, “Is this infatuation to continue for two years more!” In reply, we really apprehend that for at least “two years more” Forney will be kept out of the kitchen. Sewann’s Exporsewext or Marreson.—Ac- cording to Mr. Seward’s late vindication of Mat- teson at Rome, this notorious lobby financier was expelled from the last Congress by “the slave power.” According to the record, however, the debate and the vote upon Matteson’s expulsion rested entirely upon his lobby operations; and his misdemeanors in the premises were proved so conclusively against him that the possession on his part of all the niggers in Kansas could not have saved him. But Matteson was a great loss to Seward, and Seward must be allowed to grumble. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1858. Musicat \. vemznrs—New Orera Houses.— We have frequently referred to the progress © musical taste in this » ntry since the buildia.” of the Astor Place Opera House, only » little more than ten years ago. In the metropolis the improvement is remarkable. Where once ® maneger shrunk from an expense of six or seven thousand dollars per month, unless guaranteed by subscription, we find a director who boldly stakes four or five times that amount, and trusta, un- aideded, to the public, which responds in the most liberal way. The fact that the Opera is a fixed institution is indubitable. Since Septem- ber operatic performances have been given either at the Academy or at Burton’s theatre ou almost every night in the weck, and the number of rep- resentations which have already taken place would have made a“ season” in other times, The Academy is now a well appointed first class opera house, with good artists, excellent scencry, superb costumes, and everything in the most complete style. Itis the favorite resort of the fashionable, refined and cultivated classes of the , says, community, as well as of those who love the art for itself, and who do not pretend to take any interest in the gossip of the day which floats about from the grand tier boxes. As the Opera exists with us it is perfectly democratic, the prices being arranged upon a sliding scale, and the nonsense of requiring full dress being unknown. Still, as far as the ladies are concerned, a great night at the Academy presents as brilliant an array as any of the first European houses, Witness the Piccolomini nights and the rentrée of Mme. Gazzaniga. The Piccolomini furore, rising to a higher pitch than ever, with the Don Giovanni to-morrow, exceeds anything in the operatic way that we have ever had before, not ecoerting the Grisi and Mario campaign. While the Opera is is the chief amusement of the metropolis, the people of the other cities, taking their cue, as usual, from New York, have not been idle. They have fine opera houses at Philadelphia and Boston, and if the provincial public could only divest itself of the idea that every one ought to go to the opera for nothing, because their prices are higher than at the theatre, their seasons would be more frequent and much longer. However, they are getting on. Across the river, and just at our feet, there has been what our religious friends would call an “awakening” in musical matters, The Brook- lyn people—chiefly emigrants from Manhattan— ure very fond of the Opera, but they complain of the distance to the Academy as being so great, and the means of conveyance so uncertain, that when they make the journcy they can only expect to be at home in season for an early breakfast on the morning subsequent to the performance. So they have resolved, like plucky people, as they are, to build an opera house for themselves, and to call it the “Academy of Music.” There seems to be but little doubt that the project, which is in responsible hands, will be sucessfully car- ried out. Meantime the experiment of a single operatic performance—the first ever given in Brooklyn—is to be tried by Mr. Ullman with the Academy company. Phila- delphia and Boston will have to look sharp, or the subburbs of New York will keep operatic luxuries from them. At Cincin- nati, also, a first class opera house is rapidly ap- proaching completion, and in less than ten years Chicago, St. Louis, Mobile and the other important cities, inland and seaboard, will have their academies of music. Itis well that this should be. In itself the Opera is the first of public amusements; and by attracting a higher class of auditors than that which generally frequents the theatre, it will be kept free from all degrading surroundings, and improve the manners of the present and the rising generation. There must be some refining, soothing and agreeable amusement in a country where the intellectual and physical man are constantly overworked; and the problem as to exactly what this amusement should be has, we believe, been solved by the permanent establishment of the Italian Opera in this country. . A Fixe Prospect ror 4 Snort Sesstoy.—A report from Washington is in circulation that, with the opening of the approaching session of Congress, a bill will be introduced for the repeal of the population restriction of the English Kansas compromise. Practically, it matters very little whether this restriction be repealed or left standing, for it is essentially a nullity; but as the proposition for a repeal, if introduced, will doubtless give rise to a discussion which will absorb, perhaps, at least two-thirds of the ses- sion, we have no objection to the experiment. And why? Because the time thus taken up in the ventilation of the Kansas nuisance will be co much time stolen from the hungry harpies of the lobby, and the remaining month will be all re- quired for the consideration of the regular an- nual appropriations. If there were any chances of any good thing from the closing three months session of this demoralized and factious Congress, we might deplore the re-opening of the Kansas cant and clamor; but as the best that we can expect of the fag end of this Congress is limited to the appropriation bills, a month or two ex- pended upon Kansas will at least be less expen- sive to the Treasury than if devoted to the jobs and plundering schemes of the lobby. We sub- mit this view of the case to Mr. Secretary Cobb, Doveras ror THE Presipency.—Before the actual results of the Illinois election are defi- nitely known, our republican and Douglas news- paper cotemporaries are trotting out “the Little Giant,” aa the inevitable democratic nominee of the Charleston Convention in 1860. But alas! there lies between this day and that convention an interval of nearly two years, comprehending the Inst session of the present Congress and the first session of the next, which may bring about such changes upon the political chess board as to leave Douglas, Wise, Seward, Banks, Chase, and all the outstanding candidates among the unavailables of a new order of parties and party issues. It is said that Mr. Douglas lost the Baltimore nomination of 1852 because he had been “a little too fast.” His fast friends, who are now so confidently thrusting him forward, will probably realise the same treatment in 1860; from the same cause. Sraren Isnanp Improvine.—It is worthy of note that while a whole regiment of soldiers were considered necessary to keep Staten Island in order a few weeks ago, a hundred and twenty- five men, thirty-three of whom are harmless mu- siciane, are all that are stationed there now. Staten Ieland is improving. But while this may be a very pleasant reflection for us, it is a great hardship to the servant girls and children of the feland to diminish the force whose presence en- livened the dull monotony of their insular exist- ence. The nurseries should petition for a whole regiment, ——_ _ Gueetey Backina Down.—Greeley _is evident- ly frightened in view of the probable ©28 quences in the South, in reference to the nex ' Con- grees, from the late abolition harangues of W- Hi. Seward. Accordingly, we are told, in sub- stance, by our cautious philosopher of the old white hat and leather breeches, that Seward is not balf so black as he has been painted; that his Rochester speech is very materially softened down by his subsequent speech at Rome, and that from both speeches it is apparent that the anti-slavery policy of Mr. Seward is as harmless as genuine Orange county milk, fresh from the cow. Unfortunately, however, that Rochester manifesto is upon record, as approved and pub- lished from the hands of the orator himself; and the record will thus stand agaiast him. We ad- mit that the speech was intended partly to cut under the abolition platform of Gerrit Smith; but the prime object in view was an anti-slavery bid for the Presidency, which would cast Gover- nor Banks, Governor Chase, Senator Hale, and all other republican aspirants in the shade. In this light, if the opposition to the democracy in the South can, in co-operation with their North- ern republican allies, elect a single member to Congress fromany Southern State, the result will be a victory worth recording. THE LATEST NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE CIRCASSIAN 4 AT ST. JOHNS. FOUR DAYS LATER tee EUROPE. AMERICAN PRODUCE DEPRESSED, CONSOLS 98 1-4 a 98 3-8, &e., &e., ke. Sr. Jouys, N. F., Nov. 6, 1858, The screw steamship Circassian, from Galway on the morning of Wednesday, the 27th ult., arrived at this port last evening, with Liverpool and London advices to noon of the 26th October. ‘The Circassian had stormy weather during the first part of her voyage. She has three hundred passengers for New York. ‘The steamship Arabia, from New York, arrived at Liverpool on the 24th, The screw steamship Hudson, from New York for Bremen, put into Southampton on the 23d for coal. ‘The British war steamer Gorgon arrived at Plymouth ‘on the 224, from Halifax and Fayal. She took soundings for another line of Atlantic telegraph, from the Banks of Newfoundland to the British Channel, via Fayal. The Liverpool cotton market was dull, and prices were slightly lower. The Liverpoo! breadstuffs market was dull. The Liverpoo! provision market was also dull. Consols closed on the 26h at 981¢c. a 989%c. for money and account. Our Special Washington Despatch. ARRIVAL OF GEN. WALKER AT THE CAPITAL—THE OPENING OF THE TEHUANTEPEC ROUTE, ETC. Wastuxeron, Noy. 6, 1858. General William Walker arrived in Washington by the Southern boat to-night. His return to the North just at the time it was supposed he would be on his way to Nica- ragua has obfuscated the Argus-eyed men of tho press. There are some extraordinary movements being made that will probably astonish real “natives” very soon, ‘The despatch of the Tehauntepec Company, published in the newspapers this morning, about the opening of their transit route, is considered here very muddy and unsatisfactory, They seem to profess having done a great deal without having really done anything. Is it going to be a stock jobbing operation? A few men of wealth in Washington have united their means and efforts to build a handsome theatre here. The Post (Office Department has been informed that the mail steamer Cahawba will make an extra trip from Charleston to Havana, leaving on the 13th and returning on the 20th inst. On Monday Governor Denver will resume the duties of Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Mr. Mix, the present Commissioner, will take office again as Chief Clerk: News from Texas and Mextco, Wasuinatos, Nov. 6, 1858. New Orleans papers of Monday last are received. The ship Constitution, from New York, arrived at Gal- veston on the 26th ult., with the heaviest cargo of iron ever brought to the latter port. Chibuabua, Mexico, is represented as being without any government. The people were divided into several par- ties, without support from either the constitutional or ‘Guloaga government. The Wisconsin Election. Mitwarkim, Nov. 6, 1858. In the Third Congressional district Charles Larrabee, democrat, has 1,130 majority, with Oconto and Shawaun counties to bear from, It is considered that he is elected. Chess Tournament at Philadelphia. Parapenrma, Nov. 6, 1858, This evening's Bulletin announces the prospect of a very interesting chess match between the New York Club ‘and the Atheneum players of this city. The match is to be played by telegraph, the American Telegraph Com pany having placed the wires at the disposal of the clubs for the pur The contest will probably come off next week. Yellow Fever at New Oleans. New Onuaase, Nov. 6, 1858, ‘The deaths in this city by yellow fever yesterday wore twenty fre. ‘The Weather at the Eastward. Bostox, Nov. 6, 1858. The northeasterly rain storm, which commenced here Tuesday morning last, has checked outdoor business, and caused the detention of numerous outward bound y sels, ready to put to sea, To-day the storm has increased in severity, rain falling heavily, with « strong gale. The tides are unusually high. ‘The Ship Barbara Waterlogged. Livenroot, N. 8, Nov. 6, 1868 The ship Barbara, from Qnebee for London, was water logged in a gale on the Banks of Newfoundland October 26. The steward was drowned. The captein and crew were taken off the wreck on the 31st, by the brig Mary Morton, which brought them here yesterday. Loss of the Schooner R. J. Mercer. Lose Baascu, Nov. 6, 1858. ‘The schooner R. J. Mercer came on shore this morning at six o'clock, one mile south of Shark river. The crew ‘were all saved, but the vessel will be a total lows, A very severe storm has been raging all day, and is likely to do much damage on the coast, The Black Warrior at New Orleans. New Onunane, Now, 6, 1868, ‘The etoamship Black Warrior has arrived here from Havana, and brings $800,060 in specie. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pmtapenenta, Nov. 6, 1858. Stocks steady. Pennsylvania State 5's, O48, iarreed: Railroad, 25%; Morris Canal, Long isiand Rail 11%; Pennsylvania Railroad, 42% Mownn, Nov 6, 1 The sales of cotton today were 8,000 bales, at tie. for middling. The sales of the week foot up 16,500 bales, and the receipts of the week 23,000 bales, against 4,700 in the same week of last year. e receipts at this “4 79,000 bales ahead of same time last year. port 86,500 bales. Cranuaston, Nov. x The sales of cotton to-day were 8,000 ‘bates, at showing a downward tendency. ‘eseatmat, Wor. 0, 100% ‘Tee cotton searhet i deprentet Nor. 6, 1868, Flour—Ohio, $6 25. Whent—ied, $1 16, white, $1264 $140, Corn—Old white, TOe.; iz Slo. a 820. Whis key, 21140. a 220. Provisions Pmtaveuema, Nov. 6, 1858. Floer firm, at $6.2 $6 for superfine to extra. Wheat 118 2 $1.22. Corn quiet: old, 78. a BOe.: new, ‘6&c. Barley, for shipment to New York, §0c. Whisk y firm at 240. - ‘The Mormons—Caitle on the Plains. Sr. Lotta, Nov. 6, 1858, ‘The Republican publishes a communication from a lead ing Mormon, stating that they have been traduced and slancered, and demanding a full and impartial investiqu. tion of all the ecbarges againss them, with the view of ecunteract.ng and overcoming the existing prejudices ngatust the sect. Mr. Wallase, recently from California via Salt Lake, re- ports having sora op the Plains Gfteen humdred and sixty- five vehicles, eigh’ shousand and sixty-one yoke of oxen, seven hundred and four mutes, forty-six horses, aad twelve hundred and thirty head of joose cattle, Salling of the Anglo.Saxon, Quxnec, Noy. 6, 1858, The steamer Anglo-Saxon sailed from here at 10 o'clock this morning wit’) 195 passengers for L verpool. The Opera Matinee. Any forcigner entering the Academy at two o'clock yesterday would take our citizens to be the idlest or the most musically ‘anatical of any of the great me- tropolitan communities. To see a theatre like this filled with close upon four thousand poogla, in the busiest time of the day, and during a pelting rain, would paturally lead him to one or other of those conclusions. in I ondon, Paris or any of the other great cities of the continént, no suc =pectacle is to be witacssed, not that the attractions are wanting there to draw people together. The reason we are to presuime is that the im hubitants of those capitals have neither the taste nor the means to support day entertainments on such a gigantic scale, It is only the aristocracy who sustain the Opera, abroad, whilst here ail classes take delight in it and fad means to indulge their inclinations. Popular as these matinegs have become amongst us, it was reserved tor the combined attractions of those two peerless artists—Piccolomini and Gazzaniga—to draw the house as it was yesterday afternoon, lo overflowing. In the passages and entries were to be seen files of ladies *] standing for hours without the chance of getting a seat, but content, nevertLeless, to submit to this purgatory, in order that they might have an opportunity of contrasting ther merits. But comparison between such artists is out of the question, The walk of each is us widely different as the poles are asunder. One is great in Ligot, the other in eerious opera. One charms and captivat s, the other stirs ‘one’s soul to its very depths and moves to trars. To soe both, therefore, following close upon each other, is to pass from che class of sensations to another of a tolaily ditfor- ent, but not the less absorbing, character. ‘This it was, we suppose, that put the comble to Mr. Ul!- man’s good fortune of the week, in a Saturday receipt of nearly four thousand dollars. If his star continues thas in the ascendant, our popular impresario will soon be in a Position to retire to a palace inthe Fifth avenue anda country house on the Hudson. However this may be, there ‘s one thing certain, that # season 80 uninterrupted- ly lucky and prosperous has never before boon made by any operatic mnanager. The programme of the performances yesterday con. sisted of the “ Figlia di Reggimento’’ (entire) and the fourth act of the ‘ Fayorita.” Having devoted an elabo- rate Criticism to cach of these pieces within the last few days, it i6 unnecessary for us again to notice the points made by the two artists who were the principal objecta of attraction. It is sufficient to state that both were in ad- mirable voice, aud that they exerted themselves to the utmost to gratify the encouragement bestowed upon their efforts. The promised selections from the “ Semiramide’”’ were omitted, owing to the indisposition of Madame d’Angri, for whom an apology was made in characteristic English by Signor Dubreuil. The production of “Don Giovanni” on Monday night, with Mile. Piccolomini, Madamo Gazzaniga and Mile. Ghioni in the ‘emale réles, will be the crowning event of this unusually brilliant season. ‘The Brooklyn Academy of Music. The plan end title of the new musical hall in Brooklyn have at length been decided upon. At a meeting of the Board of Directors, held at the Polytechnic on Friday last, it was resolved that the building should be styled “the Brooklyn Academy of Music,’’ and that notice of an appli- cation to the Legislature for a charter of incorporation should be forthwith published in the Brooklyn and Albany papers. It was further agreed that the capital of the association should not exceed $200,000 nor be less thaa $150,000, and that the shares should be $50 cach. A re- port from the sub commitice on location was Presented, and a site in the immediate vicinity of the City Hall was recommended as being the most eligible. The report was referred back to the committee for further consideration, with « direction to bring it up again at the next meeting. ‘The subscription books were then opencd, and betwoen the amounts contributed by the members of the commit. tee then present and lists sent in from outside, a total of from thirty-five to forty thousand dollars were set down as already available. This business-like commencement and the harmonious feeling which has marked the couduct of the promoters of the enterprise since their first mecting, augur favorably for the speedy and prosperous realization of the project. If they carry out the idea of a first class building, like that of the Academy of Music in Fourteonth street, there is no doubt that they will find all the co-operation and support which they require. Thore is a very strong and earnest fecling prevailing amongst the Brooklya peupie oa this subject, and we are certain that they will de satistied with nothing less than a house which will render them ia- dependent of New York for their musical entertainments: ‘This they think they can support by their own exclusive Patronage, and, as they are ready to find the money for its erection, they have a right to gratify the natural am- bition of giving their city something of an individual standing and character. Viewed in connection with the interests of art, this move- ment bas given great satisfaction to all who are interested in the cultivation of a musical taste amongat our peopic. It is another evidence of the immense progress which we bave made in this respect within the last quarter of a century. There is a second consideration, which renders it important to musical directors and the musical profession generally. The existence of another Opera house of a first class character in the sister city Will enable the lessees of the Academy in Fourteenth street to reach a humerous but remote population, which bas hitherto been in a measure inaccessible to them, and through their aid to make artistical arrangements of a much more complete and comprehensive character than Shey have hitherto been able to do, In other words, it is hot improbable that the lesece of the ove will, in time, be- come the lessee of both, and thos be able to alternate the performances of his troupe in the two cities. There is but one recommendation which we will ven ture to offer to the directors of the Brooklyn Academy, and that is that they shall not give free entrances or pre ferred seats to their stockholders. Nothing has contri- buted more to depreciate the stock of the Fourteenth street hotise than theve obnoxious privileges, and we should be sorry to see another promising enterprise of this character subjected to the same prejudicial influence. Assistant Posrmasten.—Mr. William Caldwell, for a long time the cashier of our City Post Office, has been appoint ed Assistant Postmaster in place of Mr. Nelson J. Water. bury, just elected District Attorney. Mr. Caldwell has large practical experience in post affice affairs, and the appointment ts, therefore, a good one—the right man in the right p'ace. Personal Intelligence, A lettor from Munich, in the Gazette de Cologne, states that © courier arrived in that city on the Tth, with a tria, for the Prince Royal the marriage ba mag] riage is expected January next, The Princess is seventeen years of ago. Ali W. Butler, also called the Rive Man, was arrested in Antwerp, on Ung Bist of October, for vagrancy. He re jaced at the di 1 of the United States Cons nssels, to be sent to this country. Tt wns atated 4 lord pete gt Oh ‘went out to America wena Cina to conclude ‘mall 3 Firecte wish the ore Gal contracts wi fovermmenta ot the United States and the several British waren registered nt the Banking, oftee ner cea No. . Prices “ Eee savers f il le ii be i a ire. W. eP i Reem ae Prgncer nds ewe he Pose e484 st, James Waldron, ‘Dr. i enkann, aa Martin date wife, J few York 5 eA em a akan! ‘rire fi ie ig i, Mara wile: “Alling, ©. Hep: hen, Ca root Hep Hl and wife, Florida. ; nea " 8.5. Rogers, a i aos ry = e; a 3a, a = es = a i New Yors Hosrrrat.—The following {a the weekly ro. port of the above institution to November 4, 1858:—Re. Guceiaed, oovehcer Ll <i November 4, 4; cured, or relieved died, 4; remaining at date, + Males, 179; femaigs, 90, oa