The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON SENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIGN H. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. eee eash tn advance. Money sent by mail will be at the the eonder. Postage stamps not pe Rave as subecription ¥ HERALD, two cents 5 per annum. run = Yr HERALD, every Keun ad six conte per o' ennum; roped 5 my bart ef Grom Britain, o 8310 any part of the TSS: menan, wn Wadnesday, at four cents per (7,3 per emma OTMCUNFANT CORRESPONDENCE, containing {portant ed om One, Cee ten Counsaron ants 458 ae oon alg A SN oc Teall os. im, ta Continent, both amp Pack- -No. 310 Velume XXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ADADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Iratian Orena —Dow Giovannt. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Kinc Hexny [V— Kino's Gskpsnee- Stoners oF Stars. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broatway.—Tuz Paaxtou—Youne Acresss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—I.aine, 108 Drst2oreR —Tus Kxtonts or tam Mist. Broad .— GENTLEMAN FROM tancanoLapy or run Hao Ouannan-NarvOns's DBVEAT. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, No. 62% Broadway.—Oon Awxnicas Coosin—New Foorman. RNUM'S AMERICAN MUREUM, Broadway.— Afternoon aut ivening Tiopow's Minto Woat>—Invia® Giant. OOS MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— neous Boxes, Danons. &0.—Soamrint. MEOHANTO'S HALL. 427 Broadway.—Brvants’ MinstRe.s —Neaao Somes any Bukixsqoes—Usep Ur. OAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Ersrorian mal , SONGS, 40.—Ponco. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue,— RQUSSTRIADISM—GYMN ASTICS—SPRCTACLE OF CINDERELLA, NEW HALL, Broadway, next Bleecker stree\—Macmanicat Pamtiune or tae Destevotien oF JERUSA! ne New York, Monday, November 8, 1858. The News. The steamship Circassian, from Galway 27th ult., arrived at St. Johns, N. F., on Friday evening last, bringing London and Liverpool advices down to noon of the 26th. The most important feature of the news is the reported depressed condition of American produce in the Liverpool markets. Our readers are referred to the telegraphic summary of the intelligence, published in another column, for particulars. The affair between the French and Portuguese, growing out of the case of the ship Charies and Georges, and which it was appre- hended at one time would lead to something serious, had been settled by the Portuguese surrendering the vessel to the French. The United Atates frigate Wabash arrived at Constantinople on the llth ult. By the treaty of Paris vessels of her armanent are not permitted to pass the Dardanelles. This impediment was, however, surmounted by taking a number of guns out of the ship, and by deciding that the United States was not a party to the treaty, and therefore not bound by its condi- tions, at least, so far as the Wabash was concerned. ‘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 Payal, had arrived at Plymouth. The steamship New York, Captain Von Santen, arrived yesterday morning from Bremen, having sailed on the 25d ult. She experienced very heavy weather on the passage. Her advices have been anticipated. Important news from Northern Mexico has reached us by way of New Orleans. Gen. Vidaarri, it seems, after his defeat by Miramon—which is said to have been accomplished by treachery, his artillery having been spiked previous to the b: te—endeavored to raise $150,000 from the mer chants along the Rio Grande frontier, bot failing in the attempt, resigned his post as commander-in- chief of the constitutionalist forces, and left for parts unknown. Col. Zaragosa had taken com mand, and was actively engaged re-organizing the troops. To accomplish this a forced loan had been resorted to at Monterey, and already two thousand men had been equipped. By the arrival of the California overland mail a‘ St. Louis we have news from San Francisco to the ith ult., three days later than the accounts pub lished in yesterday's Heracp. The first overland mail from the East, via St. Louis, reached San Fran cisco on the 10th ult., in twenty-four days. The event was to be appropriately celebrated. The emigration to the Fraser river gold fields had almost entirely ceased. A fire occurred at Jamestown on the 6th ult.. which destroyed twenty-seven build- ings, involving a loss estimated at a quarter of a million of dollars. In commercial affairs nothing of importance had transpired subsequent to the de- partare of the steamer on the 5th ult. We are informed by Captain West, of the schooner California, which arrived at this port yesterday, that business at Port au Platte when he left (22d ult.) was very dull, provisions plenty, and prices rating very low. Hard money was very scarce, the government having fixed the exchange 200 for one, although the merchants are paying from 250 to 900 for the hard dollar. The country was quiet. The politicians will be very busy during the pre went week in preparing for the December charter election. To-night the anti‘Tammany democracy hold their primary elections for delegates to the City, Aldermanic, and Councilmanic Conventions. The City Convention will meet at Mozart Hall on Thursday evening next. The Aldermanic Conven- tions will meet in the several ward headquarters on the 10th inst.,and the Councilmanic Conventions on the 12th inst. The Know Nothing General Committee have is sued a call to Ward Councils to elect delegates to a City Convention, which will meet at the corner of Broadway and Lispenard street next Friday even- ing The Know Nothing Convention, for nominating Councilmen, will meet on the inst. The time for holding the Aldermanic Convention has not yet been agreed upon. The Republican Central Committee met on Satar. day night last, and after felicitating themselves on the result of the recent election, a call was issued for primary elections to be held during the coming week. It is evident, from the feeling displayed that the Know Nothings will have to take back seats this time. The heavy gales of the past fortnight have cansed the loss of a number of vessels. In our maritime columns will be found the particulars of the aban donment of the bark Clara, of New York, and the loss of three of her crew. The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in thie city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind cur- rents, and the state of the weather at three periods during each day, viz.: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock i} FI? HP Hy HF yo RE 8 F008 Be is Baste i IN. W.|30.58)82)N we iN. BE SIN. F. NE Slaal E60 NE lmosole|. ial” Lio Satarday—Morning, overcast with rain; afternoon, over cast, night, overcart Sunday —Clear and pleasant all day Monday —" Tuesday —( ast and blowing fresh. Woedoesiay—Morving, overcast, afternoon, rain, night rein Thorsday—Morning. rain, afternoon, overcast; might, forey Friday—Overcast all day pata; day —Ka o Accounts from Galveston state that the yellow NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, *NOVEMBER 8, 1858. fever was prevailing with much virulence at that place about a week since, and absentees are cautioned not (o return: until the Lat of December. An affiay occurred at the saloon and concert room No. 497 Broadway on Saturday night, in which « young man named William §. Tompkins lost his life. An account of the fight, together with other interesting cases before the Coroners, will be found in another column. The Gouldy family yet survive the effects of their injuries. The condition of the father, son and domestic is critical, yet they have lived a week longer than the most sanguine physicians could ¢x- pect. Mrs. Gouldy is, we are happy to say, rapidly recovering, a8 also her sou Charles. ‘The examination in the case of Robert L. Willis, on suspicion of murder, will be continued this morning before Justice Connolly, at the lower Po lice Court. It is expected that the investigation will be closed to-day or to-morrow. The decision of the magistrate will be looked for with much in- terest. ‘The extreme inclemency of the weather ou Saturday in- terfered more or Ices with outdoor business, and tended to check transactions in many articles of trade. The sales of cotton were restricted to 200 a 300 bales, without change in prices. There was rather a betier demand for flour from the home trade, and the recent depression of common and medium grades of Stato and Western at tracted buyers, while sales were made to a fair extent without material change in prices. Wheat was firm for good to prime qualities; choice Western winter red sold at $1 22, and Kentucky white at $150, Corn was in im- proved demand, and closed at a decided advance; sales were pretty Seely made, embracing Westera common to prime mixed at 73c. a 7c. Pork was firm, with moderate salee 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 76. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 750 bhds. at rates given in another column, Coffee was firm, but quict. Freight engagements were hight,"and rates were unchanged. W. H. Seward for 1860—The Drawbacks of His Rochester Platform. We submit to our political readers this morn- i interesting chapter of newspaper extracts in reference to the late Rochester abolition pro- munciomiento of W. H. Seward, the late elections, and the next Presidency. Virst of all it will be observed that the Che- valier Webb emphatically assures us, in regard to our late State election, that “so far as New York is concerned, this contest has determined who shall be our standard bearer in 1860,” and that “ William H. Seward now stands pre-emi- nent among those worthy of ¢his great trust.” And again, “Seward and republicanism have now become one and inseparable, and the voice of the Empire State has been proclaimed in a manner and under circumstances which leave no doubt of what she desires, and where she will be found in the great struggle of 1860.” Next, the National Anti-Slavery Standard, (radical abolition organ,) in noticing its publication of this Roches- ter speech, says, “We believe this address was intended to strike the key note of the coming contest, We have reason to believe, moreover, that it was designed to arrest and counteract the movements of those members of the republican party who are cunningly attempting to allay the anti-slavery agitation, and revive in some form the dead issues of the past.” Next, on the same side of the question, the Cincinnati Gazette, while admitting that Seward’s chances for the Presidential nomination may “have been improved by the late republican triumph in his own State,” nevertheless declares that “had Douglas been defeated in Illinois, Seward’s prospects would have been more bril- liant than they appear to us at present.” We presume that the meaning of this declaration is that the success of Douglas in IMlinois will enable him to steal a good share of Seward’santi-slavery thunder in 1860, cither as a democratic candi- date, or as an independent one, a 72 Van Buren Unquestionably the success of Douglas some- what complicates fhe issue on all sides; bat it will be impossible to estimate the weight of the « Little Giant” on any side, until he shall have defined his position, either within or without the lines of the regular national democracy. From the south side of Mason and Dixon we have as yet received only a few scattering shots in response to Mr. Seward’s new anti- slavery platform. Of these we make an extract each from the leading Virginian and the leading South Carolinian organ of the fire- caters. The former treats this new movement of Seward asa case of “roguery overreaching it- self;” while the latter promptly accepts it as a sectional issue from which there is no escape, in- asmuch as henceforth “the two sections will have to face each other in the Union, and the South will have to leave it, or be overmastered and pro- vincialized by the superior power of the North.” With our text thas furnished in the several points enumerated, the intelligent reader will at once comprehend something of the difficulties of Mr. Seward’s new position, and of the confused, unsettled and revolutionary state of things pre- vailing in the campe of both the democracy and the opposition, North and South. First, it ap- pears that henceforward ward and republi- caniem are one and inseparable ;” and if this be so, we shall, perhaps, before the expiration of another year, witness the concentration of the Northern anti-Seward wing of the opposition forces upon a man whose name and principles will serve to reorganize the present disorganized but abundant anti-democratic materials of the South in a national opposition movement. Other- wise all the political spoils of every Southern State will be carried off by the democracy, in- volving losses to which the opposition leaders of the South will never submit so long as they can be averted. We anticipate, however, that the firet result in the South of Seward’s new repub- lican policy will be aclean sweep of every South- ern State by their democracy in the elections yet to come off for the next Congress; and that the next result will be a reaction among the con- servative men of the opposition camps of the North, which will cast Mr. Seward overboard and re-organize the whole of the opposition forces for 1860 upon @ national man and upon national and practical iseues, leaving slavery in the back- ground, after the fashion of the brilliant and overwhelming opposition campaign of 1840. The adhesion of the republican party to Seward and hfs pestilential anti-slavery heresies must result either in the defeat and dispersion of that party or in the practical experiment of a South- ern confederacy within a year from Mr. Seward's election, peace or war. With the exhaustion of the slavery agitation in the Territories he pro- poses to carry it into the very heart of the slave States. Can he be elected, or even nominated, by the republicans upon this programme? We think not. We believe that he has spoken too soon, and has said too much, and has defeated bimeelf We are approaching the closing scenes of the existing Congress. Its term of life, from the first Monday in December, is limited to the morning of the 4th of March. Not much time is thus afforded for electioneering debates; but still, we apprehend that at least two-thirds of the session will thus be absorbed. The shak ing up which parties and party issues have un dergone in the late elections will have to be dis- | The Four Treaties with China—Ventilation cussed. . Notes will be compared on all sides, and noses will be counted, and plans will bs con- cocted, and bills and projects will be introduced, | discussed and voted upon, more in reference to the Presidency than to the necessities of the country; and thus, by the 4th of March, the party leaders and President makers of Congress and the lobby may present us a democratic and an opposition schedule for 1860 which will put Seward and his Rochester anti-slavery manifesto upon the same shelf with the abolition firebrands and fanatics of Massachusetts. The late elections do not settle the question in behalf either of Seward or Dougias. They oaly dieclose the disorganized, incongruous and revolutionary condition of political leaders, cliques, factions, sections and parties. The issues and the leaders of 1856 are passing into the back- ground, and the new order of things and of men for 1860 has not yet appeared. Tue Caarrsr Etxcrioyx—Primary Me&t- tyas.—This will be a busy week with the poli- ticians. Nearly all the conventions for the nomination of candidates at the charter election wilt be held during the week. One branch of the democratic party—the people's and regu- lars’—holds its primary elections this qreuing, for the choice of delegates tothe nominating conventions. The Tammany section has not moved yet; but doubtless that faction, as well as the republicans and Americans, will make their nominations in a few days. The taxpayers would do well to hold back until all the tickets are out, and then will be the time to select the best men out of the whole, and wherever there is not a good man for any office name one for themselves, and vote for him without reference to party politics. Heretofore the officials be- longing to all the parties have been about equally corrupt; there is nothing left but for those who desire to see public plunder arrested in its course to support an honest man wherever he can be found, no matter what party he may be attached to. There is no political issue involved in the coming election; that fact should not be overlooked; and it is only knaves who raise a party cry to deceive the people, and then grab the spoils. The questions at issue area good or a bad government for the city—an increase or a reduction of taxation—honesty or thieving in public office. Keep these fucts in view, and vote for the men who are most likely to solve the questions satisfactorily. The officers to be elected on the first Tuesday in December are:—-A Comptroller, two Gover-. nors of the Almshouse, nine Aldermen, twenty- two Councilmen, (the whole Board), twenty-two School Commissioners, and School Trustees and Inspectors for the wards. These are all impor- tant offices—the Comptroller, the members of the two Boards of the Common Council, and the School Commissioners, particularly; and no voter who neglects to participate in their election, and exercise some discrimination in s0 doing, will have perfermed his whole duty as a citizen. AMERICANIZATION OF THE Barris Provinces.— We publish to-day a significant article from the London Herald, the organ of Lord Derby, rela- tive to the proposed establishment of a federal government in the British Provinces of America on the same principle and plan as that of the United States. The Canadians have already taken hold of the idea, and, if we can judge from the tone of the Premier's organ, it seems pretty certain that it is not received unfavorably in England. The British government is beginning to see that if prosperity is to attend its dominion in the vast tracts extending west to the Pacific shore, the institutions of the Provinces must not remain antagonistic to those of this country. The founding of British Columbia on the Pacific started the question of assimilating the institu- tions of British America to our own, and the evident intention of the Canadian government to open a railroad to the Pacific through their west- ern wilds, with the certainty of an increasing population which will follow it, has strengthened the desire to bring about that object, and has tended much to impress its necessity upon the minds of Canadian statesmen. It appears that the government of Canada has caused surveys to be made of the territory lying between Lake Superior and the Red River set- tlement, which is represented as being a beau- teous and fertile region; and the Canadians al- ready pride themselves with the notion that they will bave the first railroad to the Pacific, with which object a company has been formed, called the “Northwest Transportation Com- pany.” It is designed to make Halifax the eastern and Vancouver the western terminus of the road. A bold idea, but not impracticable, and one, moreover, which may be realized before our government secures a Pacific Railroad through its own territory, unless the present dila- tory mode of proceeding be changed It is probable that the Canadian idea is to di- vert the commerce of the Pacific Ocean, throagh Minnesota and along the Canada line, to the St. Lawrence: and in thisevent New York and Port- land may come in for a share of the transit; for, if the products of China, Japan and British India find their way into our territories in the North- west, it is natural to suppose that a portion of them will take @ course to the Atlantic shore by some of the routes which we now off» This design of uniting the Br American Provinces under a single federal government is pregnant with change for the destinies of thiw continent. If it is carried owt successfully, the dividing line between British America and the United States will be obliterated in a quarter of a century hence, and we shall bave an undivided nation, under federal institutions, existing from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson's Straits, without annexation or conquest. Great Prcosiany Scocess ov rae Oprna— Although election day brought the inevitable November storm, which raged during four days with pitiless violence, yet all the efforts of the pluvial god could not extinguish the operatic fires raised by Piccolomini, Gazzaniga, and the other artists of the Academy. The gross receipts for the four operatic performances and the con- cert at Brooklyn amounted, on dit, to something like fifteen thousand dollars, which would have been thought a good month's receipt a short time ago. Who says “ hard times” after that? New York Ciranen Ovr.—According to all accounta, New York is the worst city in the world, aud should long since have met the terrible fate of the ancient Cities of the Plain. But it would seem as if it was yet to be punished; for while its streets and corporation offices are full of dirt and filth and corruption, instead of fire and brimstone the heavens have been showering upon us for the last few days the beat of cool fresh water. It is to be regretted that this act of Provi- dence did not clean out the offices as well as the gutters. of the Documents. In order that the American people may fully comprehend and appreciate the concessions ob- tained from China in the several treaties nego- tinted with her by the representatives of England, France, Russia and the United States, respec- tively, we publish to-day clear and intelligible condensations of these treaties, three of them being given article by article. As all of them contain the usual clause securing to the one government whatever is granted to the other, it follows that the four governments represented at Tien-tein, where the negotiations were carried on, mutually obtain whatever advantages were secured for any one of them. There is, however, an exception to the rule in regard to the Russian treaty, which secures to that government certain advantages that must necessarily be peculiar to itself, such as the establishing of a monthly mail between Pekin and Kiathka, a city on the fron- tier, northwest from Pekin and in a line between the Chinese and Russian capitals, and the pro- viding for a convention to settle the contermi- nous frontiers of the two empires. With these exceptions, the concessions obtained by the rep- resentative of the one government are secured for all the other governments—Ruasia, however, gaining the additional point of being priviteged to trade to the open ports, a privilege from which she had been heretofore excluded. What, then, are the principal concessions which by these treaties, as a whole, China makes to the four great Powers? They are the opening of ad- ditional ports on the seaboad, the right of transit into the interior by all the rivers and highways of the empire, and of trading at all points of the same; the right of purchasing produce in the lo- calities where it is raised, and of transporting it to any of the open ports for exportation, thereby avoiding the expense and annoyance of interme- diary dealings with the native merchants; the right of foreign subjects residing and holding landed property anywhere in the empire; the per- manent establishment of foreign embassies at Pekin, and of consular agents at all the open ports, with the privilege of direet communication with Pekin; stipulations for a revision of the tariff, a reduction of the tonnage dues and the suppression of piracy; the right of ships of war, when not engaged in any hostile purpose, to visit all the ports of the empire, whether open to foreiga trade or not, and to receive every facili- ty for procuring necessaries or making repairs; and, finally, the utmost toleration in religious matters. In fact, no more ample concessions could be graated by one civilized Power to another than those which have been granted by the jea- lous empire of China to the great commercial Powers of the world. So far as we can at pre- sent see, the treaties cover every point, and leave nothing further to be desired. The only question is the faith with which they will be observed on the part of the Chinese, famous as they are repre- sensed t) be for treachery and double dealing. It is carious to observe the natidnal character- istics of the four nations, as displayed in the treaties sespectively negotiated for them. The main object of the American and English treaties is the obiaining of commercial facilities; that of the French is the promotion of religion and civili- zation, through missionary enterprise; and that of Russic is the procurement of territorial and political sdvantages. The Russian treaty, how- ever, does not exhibit all the concessions lately made to Russia by China, for it was but just pre- vious to its date that another convention between the same Powers was concluded at St. Petersburg, by the terms of which China ceded back to Russia the territory lying north of the Amoor river, with a fine harbor at the mouth of the river, and a passage thereby with the Chinese waters. The publication of these several treaties is important and interesting at this epoch for another reason. It enables our people to judge whether the attacks recently made on our Minister to China by the English press were or were not justifiable. That judgment could be better made up if we had the complete text of the American treaty before us, But while it can be had in England, it cannot be had here. So much for the absurd system of secresy maintained by our government in regard to such matters. It must be assumed, on the threshold of the inquiry, that it was the duty of Mr. Reed to have secured for the United States all the commercial facilities that it was possible for him to exact from China. Our diplomacy is not tor- tuous nor deceptive, as European diplomacy is, and the simple statement of that proposition is all that is needed. It carries conviction with it. Such, then, being the main object that Mr. Reed was bound to stady in his negotiations with China, the question arises as to whether the stipulations that he secured were as valuable to commerce as those secured in the British treaty. Our readers can easily, even with the lights now before them, solve that question for themselves; but in doing so it must be recollected that Lord Elgin had a force at hand to coerce submission to his de- mands, while Mr. Reed's instructions were to pursue a pacific policy. Mr. Reed stipulated for the establishment of a permanent American Legation at Shanghae, with aright on the part of our Minister to make annual visits to Pekin, and to make a temporary sojourn there. Lord Elgin stipulated for the establishment of a resident British mission at Pekin itself, and of a Chinese resident mission at London. Count Putiatine obtained an additional advantage, in securing to coneuls residing at any of the open por's a right of direct communication with Pekin, and a provision for the passage of couriers, by any route they might select, from the ports to the capite!. The American treaty did not se- cure the right of Americans to travel through China for business or for pleasure. The French and Englieh treaties did. The American treaty obtained for citizens of the United States the privilege of leasing property without any inter vention of officials. The British treaty obtained for British subjects the right of residence and of holding landed property. The American treaty is eilent as to a revision of the tariff, a reduction of the tonnage dues, and the sappression of piracy The French and English treaties secure all these pointe. A comparison of the treaties in regard to these matters lends some color of corroboration to the charge made by the London Times against our Minister in China, to the effect that he, in collu- sion with the Russian Minister, whose in- terest it was to restrain a too liberal grant of privileges to other nations, endeavored to dissuade Baron de Gros from insisting on the right of free transit through the country and of a resident embassy at Pekin, representing these as concessions which it was impossible for the Chinese negotiators to make. He had not obtained them himself, for his treaty had been made at this time, and hence it is na- toral to suppose that he waa not very anxious that they should be obtained by others. Never- theless, such a personal consideratiga as that ‘ should not have been alowed to weigh against Mr. Keed’s duty to his country. ‘We must make allowances, however, in estima- ting the degree of reliability with which thisebarge is to be received, from the fact that Mr. Reed’s position in China was not by any means pleasing to Great Britain. Our government had been ap- plied to to act in harmony with the British and French governments in coercing China into the making of these treaties, but in view of its policy of avoiding entangling alliances, it had declined the invitation. This course of ours may have given offence, particularly as it hap- pened to coincide with the course of Russia on the same question, and it may have given rise to suspicion that our sympathies still, ae in the case of the Crimean war, leaned rather to the side of the Muscovite than of the Briton or Frank. It was suspected, besides, that we might have been making some profitable arrangements with Russia in regard to the future trade of the territory of the Amoor river. This may have ex- cited the hostility of the English press, and led to the aspersions that have been go liberally cast on the conduct of our representative at Tien- tsin. The encominms bestowed from the same source on the Russian Minister may have been attributable to the effort to lower Mr. Reed in the cutimation of his coutitrymen by contrasting the American and Russian diplomacy. We do not mean to be understood as defend- ing the action which Mr. Reed is said to have taken. If, to cover up the bad bargain which he made himself, he endeavored to prevent the Eng- lish and French representatives from making a better bargain, in the advantages of which his own countrymen were to participate, it argues a mean and contemptible spirit, and the diplomat who would be guilty of such meanness deserves the severest censure of his government. We trust that the administration at Washington will have the matter fully investigated, and will either approve or disavow the conduct ofits rep- resentative in China, as the facts may warrant. Ocrogenartan Lecrurers—OuD MEN oN THE Rostrem.—Elsewhere will be found a report of the interesting lecture delivered last week by ex-President Tyler before the Richmond Me- chanics’ Institute. This is the second effort of the same sort made by the venerable ex-Pre- sident, and is, we understand, to be followed by others on subjects connected with his personal experiences. It seems to be a necessity with men who have occupied high official positions to keep up their relations with the public through thisor other channels. The sweets of political influence and magisterial functions once tasted, it is impossible for the majority of public men to imitate the example of the patriotic Roman who returned contentedly to his plough after having filled the highest offices in the State. It would appear as if the mental and physical qualities which elevate them to posts of dignity and power leave them no taste for the retirement and repose which others seek after long lives of labor. The conclusion is that their organization must differ from the generality of mankind, and that they must be endowed with a vitality greater than that of ordinary mortals. Asan evidence of this assumption, we have only to point to the recent remarka- ble lecture delivered by the octogenarian Lord Brougham, on the occasion of the erection of a statue to Sir Isaac Newton in his native town. Taking into account the wear and tear through which this remarkable man has passed, we believe there is no record of so extraordinary an effort at his advanced age. Lord Lyndhurst, to be sure, occasionally astonishes the House of Lords by the vigor of his understanding and his wonderful powers of memory; but though the ages of the two men are about the same, there is a great difference in their capacity for work. Lord Brougham is not only a great talker but a great writer, and snatches only brief intervals of repose from his labors. Lord Lyndhurst’s in- dustry is spasmodic, and is confined to important political questions and the occasional decision of the judicial appeals brought before the Lords. The lives of our retired statesmen are not wanting in examples of this distaste for repose and revived thirst for occupation. Amongst many we may cite John Quincy Adams, Colonel Benton, Mr. Everett, and several other distin- guished statesmen, who had filled up the measure of ordinary lives of industry, and who might, therefore, have been supposed glad to avail themselves of the indulgence and quiet usually deemed indispensable to their age. In the Ame- rican character this spirit of restless activity, from the cradle to the grave, is more observable than in that of any other people. It is a condi- tion of climate, as well as of education; and we must not, therefore, plume ourselves upon any deduction of intellectual superiority to which it might lead. The man who, in this country, ceases to work while there is work in him, can only count on a short lease of his life. We do not possess an atmosphere in which social enjoy- ments can be cultivated with impunity, and to old men there remains no alternative but regular occupation or death. We know no way in which the surplus energy of veteran politicians can be more profitably em- ployed than in the lecture room. There they can instruct and amuse the rising youth of the coun- try by their experiences, and at the same time gratify that tendency towards self-laudation which is natural to old people. In this way they may form useful links between the past and the present generation, and serve as landmarks to the progress we are making. Williamsburg City News. Deretartmm at RaveNswooo.—On the 29th of October, Mr Robert Burdon, residing in Ravenswood, on returning to his home abont eleven o'clock, found one of the back windows open, and upon search detected a burglar in one of the rooms. Mr. Burdon arrested him and he was com mitted for trial at the county jail at Hempstead. Last Saturday morning, about three o'clock, Mr. Burdon was awakened by his wife, who told him that some one was in the house. He got up, and on going to the staircase saw a hght below, and also two men. He seized a cluo and went down stairs, when he encountered one of the mon. whom be hit over the bead with the club. The two mou ‘an out of the house, and one of them drew a pistol, with which be threatened to fire at Mr. Burdon. Mr. Burdon being without wenpons, retreated, and the thieves escaped. On going up the stoop of the house he found a hat and a dark blue pilot cloth raglan. In the pockets of the raglan was a quantity of silver ware; also a chisel, with which the entrance into the house was effected. The silver ware was identified a8 belonging to Captain Furber, who re sides at Ravenswood. Nothing was taken from Mr, Bur don’s house, and the thieves evidently left the hat and coat in their fight. The citizens of Ravonswood and As toria are about to organize a private watch to guard their ines from the depredations of the thieves who have ely infested the piace, A Steam Fine Exoive.—The President of the Williams borg City Fire Insurance Company ts engaged in cirew- lating a hay sg! ae list for the parchase of a steam fire engine for the rn district. A ‘amount has already been subscribed. Berctany.—The house of Dr. Thomas M. Clark, 100 South Ninth street, was burglarjously entered on Satur front hasement window A Deseeten Crrv.—The city of Tampa, Florida, has been almost depopulated by tlie ravages of the vellow fever and by the fhght of alarmed citizens. The Peninew Jar anys the town wears the appearance of a guurchysrd THE LATEST NEWS. eee aed Our Spectal Washington Despatch. THE CASK OF THK NICARAGUAN MINISTER AND THER TRANSIT COMPANY—SECRETARIAS COBB AND GUTR- RIK AND THE CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY, RTO. ‘Wasusnaron, Nov. 7, 1868. ‘he conduct of the Nicaraguan Minister, General Jores, in publishing a card in the newspapers for the purpose, apparently, of damaging the company who are opening the Transit route, ia under the consideration of govern. ment. Representations have been made to tho State De- partanent to show thut Jeres's publication, on the eve of the sailing of their steamship from New York, bad the effect of alarming passengers and preventing m*ny from taking passage; and that the statement he made, that the route was not in condition for travellers to cross, is not true. It is not yet decided what will be done, but Jeren's dismissal is uged, ‘The Union this morning bas an article correcting the Statement reported to have been made by Mr. Guthrie, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of New York on the 4th inat., with refe- rence to duty on flour imported into the United States manufactured in Canada from wheat produced in the United States. Mr. Guthrie is reported Lo differ with Mr Cobb in deciaring such flour ia exempt from duty under the Reciprocity treaty. The Union quotes the language Mr. Guthrie used when Secretary to show that he held the game position as Mr. Cobb, who doctares such dour ix subject to duty. It is rumored that Mr. Pryor, of the Richmond Sowh, is. about to connect his paper with the Washington states. ‘The tase gummerset of the South in favor of Dougias would’ seem to favor this rumor. It is rather carig, however, for the printing plunder of Congress, Perhaps Douglas, since he has succeeded in [Mmois, may be able to raise funds for the enterprise on the strength of his future Position. ‘The contractors havo notitied the Post Office Depart. ment that they will despatch their steamer Catawba from Charleston on an extra trip to Havana on the 13th inat., carrying the mail, She will leave Havana oa her return on the 20th. ‘The Epidemic tn Texas, ‘Wasuaron, Nov. 7, 1858. The Now Orteans papors contain private letters from Galveston, dated on the 29th of October, stating that the yellow fever is making fearful ravages. Six physicians had died. The writer advises abseatees uot to retura until the Ist of December. There had been no frost, and with a change to warm weather the fatality is tnereased. ‘The fever had abated at Brownsvillo; 43 had died owt of the garrison at Fort Brown, being fifty per cent. The fever was still raging at Matamoros, there having beea 370 interments up to noon on the 28th; among the deaths we notice that of Mr. Thos. Hale, of Matamoros. ‘The deaths at Brazos were 11, out of a popuiation of 25. Deaths at Point Isabel, 15. The Baltimore Murder. Baurmmors, Nov. 7, 1658, The funeral of Officer Rigdon, who was murdered oe Friday night, took place this afternoon. ‘The Mayor and a large body of police and numerous citizens attended. The streets were densely crowded, but no disturbance occurred. His murderers have been indicted, and will be brought to trial during the present week. News from the South. Wasuincron, Nov. 7, 1858. The ship Cornelia Lawrence, burned in “Mobile bay, is supposed to have been fred by her own crew. Only a small portion of her cargo was saved. On the 28th, Pedro Liosas, a citizen of Browusville, shot ‘and killed his wife and escaped into Mexico. The Weather at the Eastward. Boston, Nov. 7, 1858. ‘The weather cleared up this forenoon, and the steam. boat train Via Stoningtoa arrived about cieven o'ctock, and the Fall river aad Norwich trains during the fore- noon. Nuw Oxuaans, Nov. 6—6 P. M. Cotton—Sales to-day of 10,500 bales at L13;c. for mid- dling. Molasses, 2634c. Cotton freights to ‘Havre, lc. ; to Liverpool, }yc.; and to Boston, yc, Auany, Nov. 6—6 P.M. Weather stormy, and the rain interrupts operations. Flonr continues to come in freely, and business is dull. No sales of wheat. Corn still advances, sales being made at 703g. a Tic. atloat for mixed Western, with very litle coming forward, and sellers holding of further rise. Barley v bushels State sold today at The canal receipts of the fir are in advance of last year, cua’ Ke Borravo, Nov. 6—6 P. M. Flour—Market quiet. A drenching rain storm prevail throughout the day has had a tendency to checks Cesineat® No change to note in quotations. Sales 600 bbis. at 85 a $5 25 for good to choice extra Ohio, Michigan aad In. diana. Wheat in fair demand; market very firm; sales 15,000 bushels at @2c. for Racine club, at 96c. for red Ohio and Indiana, $1 20 for white Canadian. Corn in pretty good demand, market better: sales 25,000 bushels at 6c. a 64c. Barley dull. No sales; buyers offer at The. for prime, and 65c. for rye. Oats quiet at 46c. Whiskey firm; sales 500 bbis. at 20\c. Canal freights unchanged; 12e. on wheat and Ie. on corn to New York. Receipts—6 443 bbis, flour; 114,229 bushels wheat; 80,912 bushels corn; 5,550 bushels barley; 1,603 bushels rye. Onwnao, Nov. 6—6 P. M. Hap Seats ot 15000 ee Goes bafta ag yo sales bushels at 73340. for Chicago % for Ted Indiana. Corn firm: sales 3,000 bushels: fer distilling at 6c. Other grains quict. Canal froights very dull at Previous rates. Wind continues up the Lake, and receipts only 3,100 bushels rye. Canal exports—2,900 bbis. flour, w, bushels wheat, 9,000 do. corn, 10,400 do. barley. Owownant, Nov. 6—6 P.M. Flour . 8c. active, aud ad- vanced to 96, 05 delivery tm meember; baying are chiefly 1armers and drovers from the interior; at Louis. ville dealers are also buying for Eastern men, not packers, who are ; the season has opened, and several houses have commenced to sell in ns. The weathor is cool. Lard, 9%c., for delivery in vember. Mess pork, $15 69, with an active demand. Cutcado, Nov. 6—6 P. M. Flour dull. Wheat dal! at 70, Corn baoyant at an ad vance of 2e.: sales at 64c. Oats steady. Shipments to Buttaio—200 ef Sour. 19,500 bushels wheat. “Shipments by Oswego— ushels wheat. Receypts—700 bis. flour, 17,000 bushels wheat, 3,000 bushels corn. —____ Fatal Fight Broadway. A fatal affray occurred in the saloon and concert room 497 Broadway on Saturday night. William 8. Tompkins, a young man residing at No. 89 Third street, while partially intoxicated, became involved in a difficulty with some Stranger just as the proprietors of the establishment were about shutting up for the night, when he received a blow in the side of the neck, which prostrated him to the floor, The blow, although given with the hand, was se. vere enough to produce insensibility and death. The Fighth precinct police were soon on the spot, and made ‘Strengous efforts to find the assailant, bet in vain, The latter, after koocking down Tompkins, managed to make his eseape by the rear, aod bas not since been heard of, The injured man was taken to the Righth precinct station house by the police, and from thence to his residence ia ‘Third street, where he lingered in a state of unconacionsne gs ‘unti! about 2 o'clock yesterday morning, when he expired. ‘The saloon wherein the difficulty took place was formorty occupied by the Art Union Association, but at sent it is a drinking saloon and concert room. fight, which was one of sbort duration, occurred near the mage, and the assailant, after striking deceased, darted behind the scenery and made his escape through the rear yard into Mercer street, Tompkins was in company with two friends at the time, bot neither of them appear to ki anything definite about the affair. They heard some between deceased and the stranger, saw the latter deceased in the neck and then make his escay across the stage. Coroner Connery was notified of the occurrence yesterday, but in consequence of severe indus. positon be wae compelled to postpone the inquest until to- day. Meanwhile the police are making a strict search for the onknown assailant, and the supposition is that they will be suocessful in effecting bis capture. About half past ten orelock last evening Captain Turn. bull and Sergeant G! with a foree men, thade » descent on Art Union Hall, Broadway, where Win. Tomp. King was beaten to death on Saturday night, and arrested all the parties employed in the saloon, together with the keeper. There were about one hundred persons in the sa. loon at the time, witnessing the performance which haa nightly been carried on there—such as sivging and comie performances—all of whom were thrown into a great state of exeitement on finding themselves surrow by he police. wore, however, ail permitted to leave he place, with the exception of Messrs. Fox and Wnds- proprietors; James Findlater, bartender, Lewis Lewis, ticket seller: Thomas Watson , clown, and Josephine Dunn. The latter, it 8 said, was an eye witness to the brutal outrage, and saw the whole affair. They were all conveyed to the Kighth ward station house aud locked ap for the night. oe - * Finemen’s CHALtanar Deciinep.—-The challenge recently extended by Washington Engine No.3, of this city, to Kogine Company No. 1, of Whit i a has been declined, owing to inability to make satis. factory arta Ws. Roth machines were competitors: at the recent firemen’s trial at Albany, and the latter was, victorious. The former company, believing their appara. tus to be superior and that they lost their prize oal an accident, extended a challenge to the victors, whick was accepted on the condition that won eight men onty should be employed on both sides, to which No. 3 of thin city refused to agree, insisting that they should be governed by the same regulations as they wore at the recent display at Albany, which dit not proscribe aay Particular number of men It is understood that the Whitehall company refises to play upan those coadiong Srvvark Adostinr, Nov. 6