The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1858, Page 4

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Subecriptions and advertisements for any edition of the ‘Wew Yorx Hanatp will be received at the following places in Europe:— ae Lonvow.. om len, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate Hil a arr’ & Co. 74 King William street. pee Boaete & Go., 8 Place do la Bourse. al a. wey hat No. —— Biavar... Be inaldein pees ose 2 sy Corneille. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Herat will ®ombine the news received by mail and telegraph at the Office during the previous week and up to the hour of publication. The News. It was rumored in this city yesterday afternoon that Dr. Watson and tho other four members of the Castleton Board of Health who voted for the reso- tution declaring Quarantine a public nuisance, had een arrested on civil suits, brought on behalf of the Commissioners of Emigration, for the value of the Quarantine buildings destroyed by fire, and had been field to bail in the sum of three hundred thousand Gollars each, or a million anda half for all. The rumor, bowever, appears to have had no other foundation than this—that it was intimated some Gays ago that as soon as the investigation pending before Justice Metcalf was disposed of, as it was ex- pected it would be by the discharge of the accused, civil actions would be brought against the Board of Health. The counsel who appeared for the de- fence on the criminal charge of riot and arson had No notification yesterday of any such proceedings having been actually commenced, and did not attach any credit to the statement, although there is no doubt of the intention of the Commissioners of Emigration to proceed in such way. That section of the metropolitan democracy known aa the People’s and Regulars’ organization, beld their primary elections last evening to chose Candidates to the various conventions upon which will devolve the duty of selecting nominees for Charter officers, to be voted for next month. The election, so far as we know, passed off quietly, ex- cept in the Fourteenth ward. There the “Dead Rabbits” and another party of bruisers indulged in ® free fight, in which one indiyjdaal was shot and Snother stabbed in half a dozen places. This isa Pretty fair beginning of the political contest. It is understood that District Attorney Blunt has fssued executions against several liquor dealers for Selling spirituous liquors on Sundays, in violation of the Metropolitan Police act, which imposes a penalty of fifty dollars for each offence. If Mr. Bluat should succeed be will have a large fund to band over to the city treasury. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday and granted one storekeeper’s license, The examination in the case of Robert L. Willis, Of No. S81 Rroadway, who was arrested some time wince on charge of murder, was concluded yester- @ay before Justice Connolly, who decided to com- mit the accused to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury. Subsequently, however, Willis ‘was brought before Judge Russell, on writs of habeas corpus and certiorari, who dismixsed the case and discharged the prisoner. The Coroner's investigation of the case of William &. Tompkins, the young man who was killed ina rencontre at No. 497 Broadway on Setarday night last, was commenced yesterday at the residence of the deceased, No. 89 Third street. Nothing new or important was elicited. The deceased was for some psident of Marysville, California, where his father held the position of Mayor. ‘The explosion of the steamtug Petrel, by which three men lost their lives, is now under investiga- tion before Coroner Hills. Thus far no develope- ments have been made other then those already published in the Hena.p of Sunday last. The con- dition of James Downey, the only survivor of the Catastrophe, has not improved, but hopos are en- tertained for his ultimate recovery. The Board of County Canvassera, composed of the Supervisors, will convene to-day at the City Hall to scrutinize the returns made of the votes polled for the several candidates for State and county offices at the recent election. In the Board of Aldermen last evening reports For and against concurring with the Councilmen in | Fepealing the ordinance providing for the exten ion of Albany street through Trinity churchyard Were presented and laid over. A report authoriz- fing the purchase of four new police station houses Qnd repairs to those now in nse, involving an cx Pense of $116,000, was debated, and rejected for want of & constitutional vote, only thirteen mem rm voting —nine for and four against the proposi- The Board of Councilmen met last evening. Mr. Genet presented a preamble and an ordinance in elation to the compensation of Collectors and De puty Collectors of Assesaments, which was laid over. A large number of reports of committees ‘were also laid over for future action. The Fire De- partment Committee reported tn favor of providing ® new engine for Engine Company No. 31. At this Stage of the proceedings, no quorum being pre- pent, the Board adjourned. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Michael Hickey, James Molony and David Tavey were tried for a felonious assault upon David Har- ington, but the evidence against them was very © ntradictory and onreliable, and the jury rendered © verdict of not guilty. On motion of counsel frveral cases on the calendar were postponed, tery having furnished the necessary legal excuses. NEW YORK HERALD, TUBSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1858. | the Grand Jury presented a large batch of indict- ments for forgery, burglary, and other offences, to which the prisoners pleaded not guilty, and were remanded for trial. A letter from Porto Cabello, Venezuela, dated 24th ult., says:—The Convention in a few days will present the new constitution to the executive power for its signature. The return of General Paez to the country is looked upon by all the poli- tical parties as the inauguration and establishment of perpetual peace. It is the general impression that he will not hold any public office, but will coa- tribute, with his good offices aiid counsels, to unite the various parties and bring to power the most respectable men in the country. The crops this year are very good, and prices have an upward tendency. Coffee, first quality, is 13c, per Ib.; se- cond do., 1e.; third do., 9c. Hides, lsc, Indigo, $1. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, writing on the 2ist ult., says:—There is no sugar or molasses for export, and barely sufficient for local wants. The crops have suffered severely from drought, notwithstanding recent rains have fallen, but too late to have the desired effect. The heat within the last two weeks has greatly increased, and is still very oppressive, and the consequences are indifferent crops and the the public health much impaired, but no fatal disease has broken out. ‘The arrivals of flour, bread, fish and lumber have been very large for the last two weeks, causing the markets to assume a strong downward tendency. The water works in the interior are drawing rapidiy owards completion for supplying this city with wa- ter, which will be a great boon to the citizens and masters of vessels. The immigration of coolies is not pressed with much earnestness, owing to the depressed spirits of the planters, occasioned by the gloomy prospects of the growing crops. We have advices from Demerara to the 11th ult. The Colonist of the 8th, in its résumé of events, says:—The weather during the past fortnight has been generally dry and hot. The canes are daily improving, and their saccharine properties are be- coming developed. Manufacturing operations are going on generally throughout the country, and great activity prevails on all the estates, which are busfly occupied in the ingathering of the crop. The imports of American stuffs have been unusually large, and the market is very dail. The arrivals of codfish have been two cargoes from Newfoundland of last year’s cure (after long passages), four car goes of the new catch direct, and 160 casks from Barbadoes. The supply is now ample, and the price has given way. Mackerel and herring are wanted. Yellow rice in good demand, but little in- quiry for white. Exports continue in very brisk demand, chiefly for the home markets, speculation being stimulated by very low freights; the supply coming to market is not adequate to the demand. Accounts from the Bahamas to the 28th ult. men- tion the prevalence of heavy gales, during which the brig Flora and schooner Fashion, both Ameri- can vessels, laden respectively with coffee and lumber and shingles, were driven ashore near Nas- sau. The tide had risen to an unusual height at Nassau, causing much damage to buildings on the shore. Mr. Cunard’s project of running a twelve hundred ton steamer between New York, Nassau and Havana, was highly commended by the press of Nassau. A private telegraphic despatch was received from New Orleans yesterday (of the same date) which announced, under advices from Galveston of the Sth inst., that the yellow fever had ceased there, and that the weather had become cold. Aaron Jones, the celebrated English boxer, had a “benefit” last evening at Hoym’s theatre, in the Bowery. The affair terminated with his having a “set to” with John C. Heenan, and the latter chal- lenging again John Morrissey to another fight. Morrissey announces his “benefit” for Friday even- ing in the same place. The funeral services of the Rev. Frederick Crowe, whose sufferings in Spanish America have already been detailed in the columns of the Humaxp, and who died in this city on Saturday last, took place yesterday, in the First Baptist Church, Broome street. There was a crowded attendance, and the utmost sympathy was evinced. Mra. Crowe and the brother of deceased occupied seats near the re- mains. An eloquent address was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Nott, a sketch of which appears in our co- Jumns this morning. The police have discovered a bogus banking con- cern, called the “New England Bank of Fairmount, Maine.” The bills were freely circulated in this city and the West, and it is supposed no less than $50,000 worth of the trash has been pushed into market. One of the guests at the International Hotel, in this city, was arrested with about $400 worth of the stuff in his possession. Captain Doane’s account of the loss of the bark Clara, and Captain Russell's statement of the effect produced by the storm in which the Clara was wrecked on his own vessel, the Cultivator, will be found in our columns to-day. The cotton’ market was heavy and easier yesterday, with saleg of about 1,800 bales. Prices were irregular. Middling uplands sold at 11 tc. a 11 %c., and fair to good ditto at 1140. a 11%. Flour was more active, undor the influence of the better weather and a good home demand, while the prices of the past week were sustained. Wheat was steady, with fair sales, including prime to choice lots, at full prices. Corn was firmer, and in fair activity, clos- ng with » hardening tendency in prices. Pork was firm, with more doing in mesa, which sold at $17 1254 a $17 25, and prime at $15 75. New lard was firm, with fair sales. Ba- cou and cut meats were dull. Sagar were firm and closed at an advance, with sales of about 1,500 hhds. and 600 boxes. The stock of Rio coffee, it was said, embraced only 3,800 bag, while 1,000 bags were sold at 9X¢¢. @ 12c., and small ote of Maracaibo at p.t. There was a rumor of large sales of Java, but we could not trace it. Freights were quite moderate, and rates, though dull, were without quo- table change. The Late Elections—Seward, Douglas and the Next Presidency. While some of our shallow-pated Seward co- temporaries are proclaiming the successes of the republicans in our late New York election as equivalent to the nomination of Mr. Seward as the candidate of that party for the next Presi- dency, we perceive that the little Douglas fao- tion of the demoralized democracy are rejoicing over the late Ilinois election as an event which makes the nomination of Mr. Douglas by the Charleston Convention of 1860 as fixed and positive as the inevitable necessities of the party for a Northern balance of power. So far, how- ever, from sharing in the opinions thus enter- tained on either side, we believe that they are among the most transparent delusions of the day, and that at this moment the prospects of Sew- ard and of Douglas for the Presidency are darker and more remote than at any other crisis in their history. First, with regard to Mr. Douglas, After a State campaign, involving an unprecedented amount of hard labor, and an expenditure in money, perhaps, of two or three hundred thou- sand dollars on his part and in his behalf, he has secured, it is said, a majority in both branches of the Legislature which is to pass upon the question of his re-election to the Sonate, It is claimed that he has thas made good the endorsement of his State as a champion of democratic principles, over both his black republican competitor and a democratic administration. The great feature of this alleged triumph, the featare which, it is as- sumed, makes Mr. Douglas henceforth the arbi- ter of the democratic party, is embodied, it ap- Pears, in ‘ie defeat of the administration, and an administration, too, which is recognized aa the representative and executive head of the princi- ples and policy of the democratic party. Now, if the administration and the bulk of the democratic party supporting it were annihilated by this Minois election there would be sone de” gree of plausibility in these Douglas rojoicings. But, in point of fact, all that Mr. Douglas hos gained (if he has gained even this) is his re-elec- tion to the Senate. The important issue whether he or the administration is the head of the democratic party of the Union remains as be- fore—on the side of the administration. Nor can we imagine how a factious rebellion, which has given every Northern State to the opposition, including even Ulinois upon her State ticket a rebellion which has hopelessly distracted the democratic party in the North, and a'most hope- lessly demoralized its leaders in the South—can be considered as involving, in the re-election of Douglas to the Senate, the union of the democra- cy upon this man—the head of this rebellioa— as their inevitable and only available candidate for the next Presidency. The idea that the individaul success of Mr Douglas in a local election atones for the univer- eal divisions and disasters which his factious course has brought upon his party is hot more absurd upon its face than the opinion that the prime agent of all these discords and disasters is the only man who can restore peace ia the family. No man who has thus divided, dis- tracted and damaged his party can ever expect to be made the basis of its reunion and reorgani- zation. Mr. Douglas may be competent to com- mand the vote of his own State, but we would admonish him that while Me. Calhoun was all powerful in South Carolina, he was utterly powerless against the administration of General Jackson. Martin Van Buren, too, in assuming to control the vote of New York to his own per- ronal ends, regardless of party discipline, was politically prostrated, never to rise again, And thus we apprehend that the defeat of Douglas in Mlinois would have been better for him, as a democrat, than his success. His suc- cess encourages the rebellion and the discords which he has created in the party camp; but not until his prominent followers, such as Walker, Stanton, Forney, Clark and Haskin shall have risen to the position of leaders of the harmonized democracy, will Douglas be restored to the posi- tion which he has lost. He is further off from the Presidency than ever before, and all attempts to thrust him forward for the succession, instead of healing, will only aggravate the dissensions in the camp which he has already produced. The same may be said of W. H. Seward. The election of Morgan is a delusion, if accepted as an infallible test of Seward’s popularity. The popular vote of the State is against him, and his late bratal and bloody abolition manifesto cuts off from his support the balance of power in al- most every other Northern State. Ie has, like Douglas, permitted his ambition to overleap it- self, and is as clearly out of the line of availa- bles for the next Presidency. Otherwise, noth- ing is certain now, and nothing is fixed in the political world except the existing administra- tion, which is a fixed and established fact for two years to come. Outside of that all is dis- cord, dissolution and chaos, both in the demo- cratic and opposition camps, North and South. We know, however, that the democracy are in a popular minority in the country, and that even if united they can only succeed through the di- visions of the opposition, as in every election in which they have succeeded since the time of Gen. Jackson. We know, too, that asin 1840, 80 in 1860, the opposition, upon a practical national policy and candidate, may sweep the country, and we be lieve that some such great and popular name as that of Gen, Scott, identified with the patriotism and Union sentiment of the republic, will do the work from Maine to California. On the other hand, when Seward shall have succeeded in rallying to his Rochester abolition platform the rank and file of the various oppo- sition factions, and when Douglas shall have ac- complished the teunion of the demoralized and scattered democracy upon the merits of his late rebellion against the administration, we shall be prepared to listen to the probabilities of the Presidential nomination of the one and the other; but in default of these preliminary necessities, Mr. Seward and Mr. Douglas will remain as high and dry as Captain Tyler or Martin Van Buren. Eprrors ARRESTED For Vio.ative THe Law.— During the last few days two editors have been arrested for violating the law against publishing lotteries. The one is Lasalle, of the French Courrier, and the other Williamson, of the Sun- day Dispatch. Lasalle offered for bail M. De Trobriand, one of the fevilleoniste of the order of the French noblesse; but as he could not swear to the possession of any property he was set aside, and some vulgar American took his place. Williamson gave bail. Both these cases will be consigned to the Grand Jury, and, of course, both will be indicted for a violation of the law. There is something peculiar, however, in the arrest of these two individuals, Lasalle, a French editor, for many years past has been supplying, through his journal, the French press and the French people across the water with all the rowdyism and violations of law, and fights, and quarrels and emeutes, and riots, as specimens of a government under the rule of democra- cy, in order to preserve intact, we suppose, the imperial system now prevailing in France. In the present instance, American institu- tions will teach him that there is law in this country, notwithstanding all the examples of lawleseness that he has presented to his compa- triots abroad. The case of Williamson is also peculiar. Mr. Williamson was a candidate for Congress, and came very near being elected. He is now a can- didate for the penitentiary; but that should not disturb his equanimity. Of late years the moral condition of the members of Congress, by the affiliations of the lobby, has been so low that it is a question among philosophers whether it is not rather under than over that of the inhabi- tants of the penitentiary. The only difference, on strict scientific principles, is that under the influence of the lobby at Washington members of Congress commit grand larceny, while the inmates of the penitentiary are mostly sent there for petty larceny. The ambition of Mr. William- son in seeking to go to Congress may, therefore, be perfectly satisfied if a trial and the action of Dereat or Hasktx.—According to the best information we can obtain, Haskin, for Congress, is defeated by twenty-three plurality in favor of Kemble. We apprehend, too, that this result it will be difficult to reverse, except by some such convenient processes as those which have ren- dered Oxford and Kickapoo, in Kansas, so noto- rious. But we shall see, Probably the issue would have been defimitely settled two days after the election had the Westchester county majori- ties been furnished as promptly as those of Put- nam and Rogklaad. ‘The Blucnose Filibusters of the North-%ow Projects of Dixunion, While Walker and his fire-eaters are wild for “extending the area of freedom” southward, aa active movement is now on foot among our Northern filibusters for a similar operation in another direction. The plan of the Northern filibusters comprises nothing less than the separation from the British Crown of all the British possessions in North America, These are to be erected into a grand federal union, and then annexed to this couatry, in order to overawe and overpower the South; or, failing in that, to sever the Union and annex the New England and Northern States to the Ca- nadian federation, just as the Southern fire-eaters propose to split us up, and annex the Southern States to Cuba, Mexico and all other contiguous territory. This scheme has been a long time on foot, and we have frequently received information of the proceedings and movements of the contrivers and plotters. But they have made little progress until during the past year, when a large number of our Northern politicians have been drawn into it, and the hopes of the Northera filibusters have revived. Several active agents in the scheme are now in our city, where they have been for some time, consulting with and impressing their views upon certain political wirepullers. One of the most prominent of these, and who represents the American portiba of the plot, is Mr. Andrews, the contriver of the ex- isting Canadian Reciprocity treaty, and sup- posed writer of Mr. Webster’s well known despatch on the fishery question. On the other side, the most active partisans of the affair are the Blnenoses of Nova Scotia. Mr. Howe, of Halifax, is the representative of the Bluenose interest, and is now here engaged in the prepara- tory labors. if we may believe the outgivings ot Lord Der- by's organ, the London Herald, the British govern- ment is well aware of what is going on, and has been induced to give its sanction to the plan in the hope of creating a counterpoise to the grow- ing ascendancy of the United States. This crea- tion of a counterpoise to this country is a dream which every British statesman, from Palmerston to Roebuck, indulges in more or less, The British officials had the same sort of dream in 1812, when Henry humbugged Madison out of $50,000. It has been a mania of long standing with the foxy old plotter of Broadlands, but all his schemes to that end have thus far proved complete failures. Thompson and other abolitionists, as propagandists in the North, who correspond with the Governor of South Carolina about free Britisn niggers in Charleston, emancipation in the Wesi Indies, cotton in India, and finally the coolie slave trade all over the world, have each been invoked for this purpose. Now comes the new scheme of the Bluenose filibusters of Nova Scotia. They will find an abundance of disappointed and broken down politicians in the North with whom to concoct their disunion schemes, just as Walker finds them in the South for the purpose of assisting him in his plans. Their mode of operating, however, is very different from that of the fire-eating Southern filibusters. While the latter can do nothing unless there is a well founded hope of a fight, the Bluenose filibuster does not want any fight atall. Diplomacy and political wire pulling comprise his style of ope- ration, These schemers for disunion, both North and South, present some very curious and amusing characteristics to the philosophic ob- server of their movements, and those of the North and the South both present in one respect the same distinguishing trait. While they are out of public employment they are fierce dis- unionists, but no sooner do they get a fat place at the public crib than they become the strong- est kind of Union men. There are two notable examples of this which will illustrate the whole tribe: Sam Houston was for a long time a fili- buster and an anti-Union leader; when Texas came into the Union he became a Senator, and from that time was a strong anti-filibuster, until he found he could hold his seat no longer; then he went back to the filibuster faith,and now advocates the regeneration of Mexico. So, too, with Jeff. Da- vis. For years he was one of the most ferocious of the disunioniste, until he got into the Cabinet, and then into the Senate, and now he sings an- other tune. So it will be with the broken down politicians of the North who go into this Blue- nose filibuster scheme of a Northern confedera- tion. The moral of all this is, that there isa deep seated love of the Union in the hearts of the Ame- rican people which can never be overthrown by British intriguers, fire-eating filibusters, or Blue Nose plotters. It is a feeling founded on loyalty to the constitution under which we have become a great people, and which, as long as it is res- pected, will continue to enhance our power and importance in the affairs of the world. Tue Apvinistration AND THE Receyt New Yor« Exxctions.—What does the national ad- ministration say now at the result of the recent elections? We told them some ten or fourteen days before the elections in this city and State, that in consequence of the wide-spread treachery of the federal officers in this region, the democ- racy would be completely smashed to pieces, and with few exceptions all the opposition tickets would succeed. From local causes, the county officers in this city have been elected, and four or five members of Congress have maintained their position at vast cost. The complete rout of the democracy in this State is owing entirely to the feeblenese, vacillation, treachery and corruption of the federal officers of this city and through- out the State. If there is any pluck in the ad- ministration of Mr. Buchanan, they should at once act in the matter, and the only action advi- sable would be the total and complete removal of every federal officer in this region—Collector, Postmaster, and every one down to the lowest man. Have they the courage at Washington to consider this? Has the Cabinet any courage or capacity to think of such a thing? Can the Presi- dent tolerate such vindictive and violent foes as Forney and his associates going among his fede- ral officers arm-in-arm, drinking, and wining, and eating, and fighting, and counselling, and advising with them in every posalible way! Tur ‘Bronra Wonpen oF tun Wontn.—We have before us the annual message of the Governor of Georgia—honest Joseph E. Brown— to the two houses of the State Legislature, and in this message of eight closely printed newspa- per columns we can find nothing on the subject of niggers. The federal government and ad- ministration, Kansas (yes, Kansas), Lecompton and the English bill, Douglas, Seward and the black republicans, slavery and the extension of slavery, slaves, free niggers and all, are crowded out by such humdrum subjects as the State finances, banks, railroads, education, schools, asylums, &e., do, If there is any parallel to be aiid found for this ini the annual message of any Southern or Norther Governor of the last twenty-five years, we ehoutd like to know it. Only think of it—a Georgia Governor, in the year 1858, writing a message of cight newspaper columns without a single paragraph on slavery or niggers in any shape or form! Itis the eighth wonder of the world. Well done, Governor Brown. Who speaks next? "The Cpera in the United States. The remarkable success of the Italian Opera during the last year or two, and the great tri- umphs which the artista of the Academy are nightly winning from immense audiences, natu- rally lead us to an examination of the causes which have led to 80 rapid a developement of operatic taste in this community. We presume that, with the experience of the present season, no one will question the accuracy of the state- ment that the Opera now fills the public mind to the comparative exclusion of the theatres and other amusements of the same character. This is to some extent owing to the superior energy, activity and liberality of the manager, who, in addition to the most popular singers that he can obtain in Europe, gives us fine scenery, splendid costumes, a ballet led by Soto, a first class dan- seuse, and all other matters required to make up a perfect ensemble. Mr. Ullman has borrowed from the theatres some of their greatest attrac. tions, improved upon them, and made the Opera as interesting to the mere theatre-goer as to the musical connoisseur. But this is a supplemen- tary, rather than a principal cause of the success of the Opera. The public bas been brought to a proper appreciation of this refined and refining amusement by a sure and natural process, as we shall explain. The history of Italian Opera in the United States may be fairly commenced from the twenty- ninth day of November, eightcen hundred and twenty-five, when Maria Felicia Garcia, known subsequently as Madame Malibran, made her début in New York as Rosina in the “Barber of Seville.” It would be idle to say that the au- dience which greeted the young artist was capa- ble of understanding the music of Rossini, or of appreciating its fair and gifted exponent. In that day there was hardly anything like musical criticism in the journals or in society. The number of connoisseurs was very limited, and included only a few gentlemen like Dominick Lynch and others who had made the tour of Europe, and had there picked up some information upon art mat- ters. The fact is, however, that Madame Mali- bran was the greatest artist that has ever visited us, and in many respects the finest that has ever sung anywhere. She was a thoroughly skilled musician, possessed of a wonderful fa- cility for the acquisition of languages, and could sing in almost every modern tongue; she was gifted with a wonderful voice both in quantity and quality, and was enabled by her great and versatile histrionic powers to move her audience to tears at one moment and to arouse their hilarity at the next. Yet this great woman returned to Europe under the pressure of pecuniary embar- rassments, and would have failed altogether here had it not been for her rare faculty of sing- ing English and Irish ballads, ix which speciality she has had no rivals. Although the pecuniary result of Malibran’s visit was not satisfactory to the artist, her Ame- rican tour was still productive of great good to the public in the foundation of musical taste, In the twenty years succeeding her visit the city made wonderful progress in wealth and refine- ment. The musical education of young women in fashionable circles became a speciality in the boarding schools, seminaries and convents which sprung up inthe aristocratic quarters of the city and in the suburbs. the young ladies in society were taught to play or to sing, sometimes before they had learned to spell correctly, and many of them at this day understand French and Italian better than their mother tongue. Conse- quently, when the Astor Place Opera House was erected there was an audience already grown up for it, and this audience has been receiving mul- titudes of recruits as the finishing schools tarn out their cohorts year by year, until now, when we have a public—-at least so far as the feminine part of it is concerned—perfectly capable to weigh truly the merits of any music, however difficult, or any artist, however great or small. As the music classes in the schools be- came larger, soirées were given semi-monthly through the season, and the amateur prime donne who sing at these reunions would in many in- stances do honor to the boards of any opera house. They are, in fact, well cultivated artists, and in more than one instance have found their account in their musical education when re- verses of fortune hate obliged them to carn their own bread. It should not be forgotten, also, that within a few years vocal music hae been taught in all the free schools of the city, which have turned out many creditable pupils. From the soirée at Mme. Chogary's, or the ex- hibition of the Ward school, the step to the Academy is facile enough. The young lady must hear the Opera, and her father, brother, husband or fiancé, though he may secretly consider it a bore, is bound to how to the rule of crinoline, which sways despotically in matters of public amusement, if nowhere else. And this is the whole secret of the success of the Opera. The ladies of our moneyed aristocracy, from fourteen to forty years of age, are better educated ma- sically, as a rule, than the class which makes up the London and Paris audiences; and oar native amateur artists go to the Opera as much to hear the music as to show their new clothes or criti- cise those of others, which shows a devotion to art that is wonderful in the extreme. It may be urged that the course of education pursued in our fashionable schools docs not tend to develope the domestic virtues, but rather exalts clegant accomplishments over them—clevating the mu- sical album over the cookery hook—but the ladies will, of course, frown down all such ar- guments, and declare for the Opera over all. What, we should like to know, can the men do but submit? Tne Taxravens’ Panty anp Ixpmecr Tax- ravens.—If the respectability and high stand- ing of the leaders of a party be any guarantee of their disinterestedness, the taxpayers’ party, now watching the events pending the charter eleo- tion, may claim that qualification at least, for the men who are most active in the movement com- prise some of the wealthiest of our citizens—men of high social position, who have an immense stake in the community, and about whose hones- ty of purpose there can be no doubt or hesita- tion, A fund to the amount of $100,000 is al- ready nearly subscribed for the purpose of car- rying out the designs of the party, the first and chief one Cn Oe ee dar w government at the Decem oof den, Bowe ity poopie pretend to Gish that a party composed of direct taxpayers wontd be an aristocracy, an oligarchy in our widst, and gon- Se Saas aa tend that fr is 4 misnomer, because the tenant, as well as the landlord, is indirectly a taxpayer. Now, as far as au aristocracy means, or is intend- cd to mean, @ gover.""ment by the best, such a party might lay claim to the title, and as our present goverment is oue'ecidedly of the worst in the community, a change, @Y4 to something which is discordant to repubHeax’ ears, may not be so bad. The Corporation of New York is not a political institution. It is a domewh ¢, ® muni- cipal institution. Cleaming the stects ie not a political question; there are no pelitios in lighting the streets well at a chéap rate; there is no political issue involved, we pre- sume, in supplying the city with good water, and plenty of it. It is absurd to give a potitical complexion to the election of corporation offi- cers. The small and hungry politicians, of course, keep up the cry; and they are endenver- ing now, with the aid of some corrup! aews- papers, to misrepresent the positon of (he tax- payers’ party, and to throw obstacles im ite path. The Corporation is, iu fact, as much a de- mestic institution as a railrosd or a bank; and does any one believe that if the stockholders of ailroed have the electien of directors in their own hands they will not have a better board than if they were elected by Tom, Dick and Harry, throughout the community? We are ia favor of the persons who have the most direct and immediate interest in the proper disburse- ment of the public money, to which they contri- bute so largely, having the most to say in the election of those who are to disburse it, rather than pothouse politicians and ward bullies; and if the indirect taxpayers, who do not belong te either of the two latter classes, are wise, they will entrust their interests more freely to the hands of men whose positions and character are some guarantee for their honesty, than to the set of fellows who haye for many years so cruelly plundered them. A taxpayers’ nomination and a taxpayers’ ticket, for corporation offices, is the only remedy for the grievances of this over burdened and miserably governed city, the howls of hungry political hacks to the contrary notwithstanding. —_—— THE LATEST NEWS. INTERESTING FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, Our Special Washington Despatch. ANXIETY RESPECTING AFFAIRS IN CENTRAL AME- RICA—GATHERING OF FILIBUSTER CHIEFS—THE OBJECT OF THE ALLIRD FLEKTS ON THE COAST OF NICARAGUA—OFFICERS DETAILED FOR THE SLOOP- OF-WAR 8T. MARYS—A NEW CUBAN REVOLUTIONABY JUNTA, BTC., ETC. ‘Wasminaton, Nov. 8, 1858. ‘There seems to be a sort of apprehension that some im- portant, but most secret mevoment, is under way wih reference to the Central American question. The groatost anxiety is manifested by our own and foreign officials re- garding Nicaraguan affairs, and Lord Napier has been om the qué vive all day, ‘The movements of the European Powors in the tropica waters of this continent are beginning to excite a marked: degree of interest bere. A large ficet of British and French vessels now exists in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexicompart of which acted together in the recent operations against Veneatiela, and another part is detailed apparently as a fleet of observation on our movements im ‘Nicaragua, and to belp Mr. Ouseiey and Monsieur Bolly. The British, however, will not presumo to interfere with Americans or American vessels on the high seas. They have had enough of that; and as to interfering on the soil of Central America with Americans, the Clayton- Bulwer treaty, if it has no other good quality, does not permit that. It is believed, however, that the true object of these forces, on tho part of England and France, is to protect Spain against the contingencies to which her intended ex- Pedition against Mexico might expose her at our hands, Spain will not enter upon a war in this hemisphere with- out a secret understanding with England and France to be protected in her possession of Cuba. Some arrangement to this purport is supposed to have been made as a recom- sense for her contiagent from Manila to the expedition against Cochin China. In view of a possible complication of affairs in the Gull of Mexico, a new Cuban Kevolutionary Junta has been formed at New Orleans, and is preparing its plans in con- Junction with parties in Cuba. They will commence the publication of ® new paper at New Orleans on the 16th inst. , devoted to the cause of Cuban independence. General Henningsen was expected here to-night. Such a gathering of filibuster chiefs at Washington is looked ‘upon as extremely mysterious. General Walker ie not bere,'as bas beon absurdly roported, to remonstrate against the President's proclamation. ‘The administration appreciates the advantages to the Public of opening the Nicaragua Transit route, as it shown that the rates of passage by the steamers which sailed for California on Saturday last have reduced tho pasaage money nearly to one half what the Panama monopoly have been in the habit of charging. ‘Tho Commissioner of the Land Office, on the 4th inst., transmitted to the Governor of Arkansas patent No. 6 of swamp and overflowed lands in Helena district, containing 431.519 acres. Governor Denver resumed his dutice this morning as Commissioncr of Indian Affairs, and reviewed the business of the office, which has boen gatisfactorily conducted by Mr. Mix during hie absence. The Post Office Department received a despateh this morning from Mansiicld, Ohio, stating that the mail train had been stopped by the Sheriff, and the locomotive and cars levied on for debt, which delayed the train. The Department immediately directed the Distrist Attorney to deal with the Sheriff according to law. ‘The following is a list of the officers ordered to the sloop- of-war St. Marys. They are to eail from New York on the ‘20th inst.,to join her at Panama —Commander—R. D, Thoraburn; Lieutenants—W. EF. Boudinot, J. H. Moore, 0. i. Wells, and 3. L. Phelps; Surgeon—James J. Magee; Purser—G. H. Ritchie; Boatewain—Wm. Winchester; Gunner—T. P. Venable; Carpenter—J. T. Rustic; Sail- nakor—B. B. Blagdenburgh. Tt ie said that the list of Lieutenants has now beem exhausted, every offcer of that tank having been as- signed to some duty. ‘THE GRNSRAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH Wasmivoron, Nov. 8, 1868. General Walker's visit hore is not directly with the go- vornment—it is, in part, to ascertain the extent of the Proposed British interference. Ie is satiefied there wit be no hindrance to lawful emigration to Nicaragua, and denies the truth of the statement that there has been any sale of bonds or of the Transit route. Henee he de- clares that part of the I'resident's proclamation must have ‘been founded on incorrect information, and furthor, that passengers leaving Mobile are expected to pay their own expenses and act upon their own respousibility. The emi- ration is under the auspices of the Southern Emigration Company, which has been in existence six months, and which hag branches in Alabama, Missiesippi, Louisiana and Georgia, Thero is no clashing of interests betwoon it ond the Canal Company. General Walker will, probably, ‘eave for Mobile to-morrow, though it i# not certain that he will go out with the first party to Nicaragua. —— a ey Se oe INTELLIGENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON—FILIBUSTER PROJECT AGAINST SONORA—INDIAN TROUBLES IN UTAH, RTC. St. Lovm, Nov. 8, 1868. ‘When the St. Louis overland mail of the 16th of Sep.) tember reached San Francisco the mail via the Isthmus o ' the 20th had not arrived. Oregon dates of the 224 of September mention a cro- dited rumor that two noted hostile Indian chiet*—Qual- chion and Outil=had been captured and shot, A mensonger had arrived at Shasta with despatches from Fort Vancouver for Fort Reading. It was thought tho despatches would change the destination of the troops en route for Oregon and Washington, the forces now there feeling able to keep the Indians in subjection without ad- ditional aid. ‘The Sacramento Mercury publishes a communication re. veating the existence of a project to make a filibuster im cursion into Sonora. The Sonora correspondent of the Republican gives an ac. count of outrages committed ou the persons of Mr, Mar. EE” ~~ EEE